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FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1946.

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Hcpublicon Beer Rocket Hit By GUP Themselves

POSTWAR DREAM FULFILLED Muncie, Ind. — The postwar dream of a former army private came true today. Gen. Edwin H. Randle returned here to visit relatives and was given a police ticket for a traffic violation. ‘Tm Gen. Randle of the United States Army,” said the officer as he appeared at the police station. “I’m Pfc. Love, formerly of the United States army,” said Desk Sergeant Fred Love. “That ticket will cost you one buck.” o BLOOMFIELD NEWS SOLD Bloomfield, Ind. — Announcement of the sale of the Bloomfield News, Greene county weekly publication, was made today by Mrs. Edith Maddock Sims, publisher... Mrs. Sims said she had sold the Republican weekly to Bryan G. Martin, an associate for 17 years. The sale was effective April 1, she said. Mrs. Sims had published the paper since 1936 when her husband, the late Paul Maddock, died. The News was established in 1876 by the Maddock family. ——o HEADS TAYLOR U. Upland, Ind.—Dr. Clyde Meredith today was named president of Taylor University and said he would begin his duties July 1. Widely known in Indiana as a pastor and educator, Meredith is a graduate of Houghton College in New York, Winona School of Theology at Winona Lake, Butler College of Religion, Indianapolis, and Denver University’s School of Theology.

CITY POWER HEADS WORRIED Muncie, Ind.—Officials of the Muncie City Power plant—supplying power to the local Chevrolet and Delco-Remy divisions of General Motors Corporation—expressed alarm today over a dwindling coal supply. ' They did not, however, predict how long the stock piles would last. General Manager E. J. Bredeson of the Chevrolet plant said “there’s no telling how long the two factories can continue to operate.” The fuel shortage was attributed to the current CIO coal miners strike, officials said. o SPANISH CHARGE VOICED Washington.—The Spanish government has charged in a note to this country that anti-Franco activities are taking place on its border, a State Department spokesman said today. . The charge was contained in a note delivered to the U. S. Embassy in Madrid two days ago. Spanish sources have revealed that the vote invited U. S. military observers to make an on-the-spot investigation of charges that Spain is massing troops on the French-Spanish order. A similar note was understood to have been delivered to the British Embassy in Madrid at the same time.

COUNCIL DIVIDED Tokyo.—The Allied four-power Council, sharply divided over a British proposal to restrict witnesses explaining Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s policies, received an American warning today “not to pry into the Supreme Commander’s armor for soft spots.” Britain, Russia and China lined up together in favor of a proposed procedural rule by which the Council would control all witnesses appearing before it, including the form and quantity of their evidence.

EXPLOSION INVESTIGATED McCoy, Va.—Agents of the Federal Bureau of Mines investigated today an explosion which killed 12 men in the mine of the Great Valley Anthracite Corp. here yesterday. Forty-six other miners were brought safely to the surface after the explosion, which was believed caused by a gas pocket. o BOYINGTON ILL San Diego. — Lt. Col. Gregory “Pappy” Boyington, Marine Air hero, today was undergoing treatment at the naval hospital for an illness he contracted while a prisoner of the Japanese. Hospital officials said Boyingon would remain there indefinitely. He has had several attacks of “polyarthritis of several joints,” physicians said.

TO CONTINUE FOOD TOUR Cairo. — Herbert Hoover announced late today after talking by telephone with President Truman that he would continue his world food tour instead of returning at once to the United States, as the President suggested yesterday.

Fred S. Sample Dies At Home Here

Death came to Fred S. Sample this morning at 6:30 at the family home 919 W. Maint street. He had been in failing health for many months. He was a member of one of Muncie’s prominent families. He was born in Piedmont, Maryland and moved to Muncie at the age of 19. Mr. Sample was married to Hallie Biddle 52 years ago. He is survived by the widow, Hallie, one daughter, Mrs. Harry Keggerries, two grandchildren, Miss Norma Neiswanger and Richard Bergdolh of the U. S. Navy. He is also survived by a brother, Warren Sample of Muncie and a sister, Mrs. Charles Carney, Cumberland, Maryland. Mr. Sample had been an invalid for the past three years having been injured in a fall. He would have been 74 years of age had he lived until Easter Sunday. The community has lost a good citizen and we have lost a kfndUy neighbor.

THIS CAPEHART IS FULL OF FURY

Man Who Said All Capeharts Are Democrats Aligned With Isolationists

Front Page Editorial In Indianapolis Paper Calls Present Set-Up “An Unholy Alliance”—Indiana Has Best Laws for Control of Liquor But Administration Doesn’t Know How *To Handle Laws—Editorial Calls James Bradford “Beer Baron of State” — Others Named in Revealing

Write-Up.

For a long time, we’ve been exposing the outrageous tie-up between Republican politicians of Indiana and the beer business. Now we are able to back up our statements with evidence furnished by the Republicans themselves, and charges hurled at Republican leaders by members of their own party.

Item 1. The Indianapolis Star ( 1

front-page editorial of Tuesday, April 16: “The unholy alliance between beer liquor and the Republic leadership has all but wrecked the party ... If we get prohibition in this state it will be due to the present Republican leadership with its close financial tie-up with beer and liquor. . “No other state has better laws for the control of beer and liquor. The trouble is in the administration of the laws. The most grievous mistake the Republican party ever made in this state was to set up the Republican County Chairman as beer czars in their respective counties. By that one act the party became a fullfledged partner with beer anfl liquor. The administration of the state and county liquor boards was hamstrung by that action. The boards are now almost figure heads and get their answers from

the political leaders.”

The editor goes on to charge that James Bradford, “the big beer baron of the state,” sits in open, unchallenged and boastful control of the Republican party in Marion county,’ in what the Star says it believes are “political activities in violation of the law,” but which go unchallenged because “the Alcoholic Beverages Commission and the prosecutor are under obligation to Jimmie.” The Star goes further: It offers as “another effective bit of evidence” the recent unlawful procedure in the case of the application of Louis Markum for renewal of his liquor license, and it ties in the governor with this case, when it states, “instead of the ABC handling the application as the law provides, a conference was held in the governor’s office at which Bradford Ostrom and Daniels were present. Jimmie was asked for his advice on the Markum application. In other words, as the Republican boss of the county he was asked to pass on the application of a competitor.” “Governor Gates,” the editorial points out, “is the only man who can take the Republican party out of beer and liquor . . . Be he has by silence and acquisence allowed the set-up to corrupt and demoralize his party.” The editorial adds, “Gates and Bradford are now political bed-

fellows.”

A Few More Items Item 2. Republican Mayor Tyndal, convinced that the Marion County Liquor Board has ho power, has publicly blamed the State Alcoholic Beverage Commission for failure to “clean up conditions in the city’s ‘trouble spot taverns’,” of which he says there are 75 to 80 — but he has expressed little hope of getting anything done to better matters, because “the ABC is full of poli-

tics.”

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BUOMSTARTEU FUR MR. TRUMAN

Michigan Democrats Favor President’s Renomination In 1948

Indiana’s Republican Senator Homer E. Capehart, who once said “all the Capeharts are good Democrats,” and who made his million as a New Dealer, has now allied himself with the worst ^element in the United States Senate, and seems to be out to make a reputation for himself as the mouthpiece of the isolationists on foreign affairs, and of the reactionaries on the home fropt. On the domestic front, he has been an outstanding foe of the worker, the householder, the ordinary low-income consumer, on price control — fighting OPA tooth and nail as the white knight of the National Manufacture Association and its allied lobbies, who are all out for inflation. Knowing that the President would vote the 65c minimum wage bill if the farm parity provision were attached, he (and Willis) cast what amounted to a vote against both farmers and labor, by hypocritically support-

ing the parity rider.

He has adopted the methods of “the great compromiser,” Taft, in trying to halve the subsidy provision of the Patman Housing bill — and on that score he himself, who might be dubbed “the great opposer” — only, from our point of view it would be a misuse of the word “great” — has come out as the opposer of the homeless veteran and other millions who so

badly need housing.

On the foreign front — not so long ago he was weeping crocodile tears for those dear Germans, who he thought might be hungry — though it has been established that they are actually better fed than are the starving peoples of our allies. Mr. Capehart, full of zeal for the German-Am- , (Continued on Page Four) STASSENAiDS G. M. STRIKERS

Startles Reactionaries By Helping Feed Families

Of Strikers

Michigan’s 83 Democratic county chairmen have gone on record as favoring the nomination of Harry S. Truman for President in 1948 and pledged their influence “to secure a Michigan delegation instructed in his behalf.” John R. Franco, Chairman of the Democratic County Chairman’s Association of Michigan, writes to The Democrat: “We are proud to be the first, or among the first, of the States to declare ourselves squarely behind the President and we shall use all our strength and influence to bring about his nomination and reelection in 1948. Confidence Expressed “We believe in him and in his ability to guide this nation successfully through this post-war period and the years to follow and we are fully confident of the many benefits, blessings and security which his administration will bring to the people of Ameri-

ca.”

The formal resolution adopted by the Michigan Democrats expressed “their sincere appreciation” for the President’s efforts and their confidence in him and his administration. The resolution said that President Truman had distinguished (Continued On Page Four)

New GOP Chairman Is Identified With Party’s

Old Guard

Selection of Brazilla Carroll Reece as chairman of the Republican National Committee drew prompt and sharp criticism from some Republicans because of Reece’s identification with the party’s ultra-conserva-tive Old Guard. Chief critics were Harold E. Stassen, aspirant for the 1948 presidential nomination, and Senator Wayne L. Morse of Oregon. “It is well known that I do not approve of Chairman Reece’s stand on many issues,” Stassen said. In deploring the selection of Reece, Senator Morse characterized the national committee dinner meeting which followed the voting as “a grand flop” where the speeches were filled with “the same old cliches and reactionar nostrums ad nauseam which have produced Republican defeats since 1932.” Reece was the choice of the isolationist I’aft-Bricker group which dominates the G. O. P. Runner-up was ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut, defeated in 1944 because of his isolationist ecord. Thus, isolationists ran away with the pow-wow. An Old Isolationist Reece’s record in Congress indicates that there will be no “me too” charges brought against him. He voted with the pre-Pearl Habor islationists against most of the measures designed to prepare the country for defense, including the neutrality revision conference report, the ship seizure bill, the repeal of the ban on arming our merchant vessels, Selective Service, and lend-lease. He voted for the cut in the numbeo of military airplanes. He joined (Continued On Page Four)

Small Farmers Want Price Control, Others Inflation

Farmers Can’t Win In Face of Inflation — OPA Has Prevented a Recurrence of What Happened After World War I — House Wrecks Program—Senate Is Only Hope of Nation To Prevent Inflation — Without Price Control Farmers Will Lose Everything When the Bubble Bursts. In the recent national Gallup poll covering all classes of people, farmers, laborers, white collar workers, etc., people of every group stated that they were for continuation of price control. The ratio was from 3 to 1, to 2 to 1, in favor of continuing OPA. Farmers — the small farmers of the country, were 2

to 1 in favor.

BY THESE MEN WE SHALL KNOW

Tenner’s Rule Shows Flagrant Use Of Beer And

Patronage

Another flagrant instance of how beer and patronage have been used by the present state administration, under the state chairmanship of William E. Jenner—beer and patronage being employed to weld a political juggernaut in which all state offices should be held by Republicans and all Republican officials and patronage recipients would be cogs and wheels—is criticized editorially by the Republican

Indianapolis News.

This is the appointment of Lisle Wallace of Sheridan as patronage secretary of the Republican state committee to succeed Mr. Springer and of Leo M. Kinman to be Jenner’s campaign manager. Through these two appointments, the octopus-tentacles of state j GOP control through patronage is shown reaching into even such governmental departments as conservation and public welfare —two divisions which should surely be free and away from politics. It is no wonder that the returning veterans are unable to get state jobs. Time and again it has happened, in the past several months, that a former state employe with an enviable record for efficiency and seniority as to term of office, has returned from the armed service expecting to (Continued on Page Four)

Harold E. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1948, has startled reactionaries by serving on the national committee to feed the families of General Motors

strikers.

It was a courageous thing for a candidate for political office to do. It undoubtedly infuriated the huge corporations who are trying to beat labor into submission. By serving on this relief committee, Mr. Stassen has injur|ed his chances for the Republican presidential nomination because so many of the convention delegates will be controlled by the anti-labor corporations. They will fight him to the end. It will be interesting to see whether they can control the Republican convention and defeat, the man who befriended labor at a time when it needed friends

so badly.

Mr. Stassen’s fearlessness on this issue is consistent with his record. When he was governor of Minnisota and his state was a hotbed of isolationist pro-German propaganda, Mr. Stassen disre(Continued On Page Four)

YDG WILL UPEN MEMBER DRIVE

Young Democratic Clubs To Start Nationwide Drive

Plans for an intensive nationwide membership campaign to attract veterans into the Young Democratic Clubs of America are announced by Sidney Acey Carraway, executive director of the YDC. Simultaneously, Mr. Carraway disclosed plans for the rejuvenating of the Clubs, under the backing of Democratic Chairman Robert E. Hannegan, to strengthen the Party in the forthcoming elections. “In those States where Clubs are dormant or where officers have failed to reactivate their organizations, new leaders will be selected through the Democratic National State Committeeman and State Central Chairman,” Mr. Carraway said. “Authority will be granted them to reorganize completely the Clubs in that particular State.” Clubs Are Reactivated Many States, Mr. Carraway pointed out, have already reactivated the Clubs and several other states have notified national headquarters that they will have their organizations in readiness for the campaigns within the next few weeks. “National headquarters will begin chartering State organizations in April, and only those States complying with the provisions of the national constitution will receive charters,“ Mr. Carraway announced. “In local communities where no Club is in existence, in(Continued on Page Four)

The so-called “Farm Bloc” lobbying against price control in Washington represents the millionaire land-holders of the country, feudal land barons who do not live on the Tand, nor operate it themselves — men who make their millions out of oil or railroads or other big interests, and so are natural allies of the National Manufacturers’ Association, the National Association of Real Estate Boards and the National Retail Dry Goods Association, and other powerful moneyed interests which are presenting a solid front against the will of the people and tjie economic welfare of the country, in this matter of price control. Farmers Can’t Win That the farmers — the real farmers, who till the soil — can’t hope to win in the face of inflation, is proved by Charles J. Coe, editor of the authoritative Facts for Farmers. “The DuPont, Mellon and Pew interests, which dominate the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), expect to profit from an inflationary spree since they can always hike their monopoly prices several notches higher than farm prices or wages,”” he says in a recent issue of his publication. “Though the NAM is trying to woo farmers in support of its inflation plans, the farmers still remember what happened after the last war . . . Inflation is now a principal threat to farmers.” Former War Food Administrator Chester Davis, now president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, in a recent article in Country Gentleman entitled “Boom and Bust Again?” says, “two million farms have been fore-closed in this country since World War I . . . Some bankers today ar financing farm purchases at higher prices than returns are likely to sustain in the years ahead . . .” Following exactly the same patterns as at the close of World War I. (Continued On Page Four)

LET THIS DAY’S SPIRIT NOT BE FORGOTTEN WHEN TOMORROW DAWNS The dove of peace flutters its wings to the rhythm of Easter hymns sung by sweet young voices; and the flowers of good will blossom abundantly about altar and household . . . and are placed “in memory of” countless thousands who sleep to wake no more. The inspiration of The Easter season is always ennobling, stirring us to good deeds and truly brotherly relationships with our fellow men. And He whose rebirth the season marks would wish it so—but He would also wish us to continue living in His spirit of love, even after our calendars tell us the Easter season is past. Enjoy this Easter with family and friends in Church and at home letting it bring forth the best that is in you to unendingly spread His spirit.

Precincts:

Where We Will Vote May 7

No. 1—Jefferson School No. 2—Central High School No. 3—Gola Danner residence, 290 Kilgore avenue No. 4—City Hall No. 5—McKinley School No. 6—Emerson School No. 7—Riley School No. 10—Washington School No. 11—Kuhner’s East End Drag Store, 1101 East Main, rear No. 12—Longfellow School No. 13—Wilson Junior High School . No. 14—Lincoln School No. 15—City Barns No. 16—Community Rooms, Munsyanna Homes, 402 East Second No. 17—Harrison School No. 18—Lionel L. Harrison private garage, rear 111 West Eighth No. 19—Garfield School No. 20—Willard Street Fire Station, No. 2 No. 21—Walter J. McCormick Home, 704 Burlington Drive No. 22—Blaine School No. 23—Forrest Park School No. 24—Alton Palmer Garage, 122 North Dill street No. 25—Bond Garage, 2603 West Jackson street No. 26—Burris School No. 27—Herbert Sheets, private garage, rear 513 Marsh street No. 29—Stevenson School No. 30—Corbin Store, 2720 South Madison street. No. 31—Roosevelt School No. 32—D. W. Bricker Garage, 615 West Twelfth street No. 33—Eugene Field School No. 34—Fred Button Garage, Andersonville No. 35—Harry Ullom’s, east side State Road 67, Morningside No. 37—Leda Mowery home, Cross Roads No. 38—Daleville School annex No. 39—Fire Station, Yorktown No. 40—Reed Implement Store, Cammack No. 41—Harrison Township School No. 42—Gaston School No. 43—John Tatman home, Wheeling No. 44—Cowan School No. 45—Royerton School No. 46—Town Hall, Eaton No. 48—Center School, Perry Township No. 49—Thies Drug Store, Selma No. 51—DeSoto School No. 52—City Hall, Albany No. 53—Oak Grove School.