Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1930 — Page 5

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WHITE SECRET ORDERS STIR UP RACIiyATES Black Shirts, White Band and Ku-Klux Klan Center in Atlanta. Thi* I* one of *erje* of article* on the racial problem in the old eootb. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Preaa Staff Co-respondent ATLANTA, Ga.. Aug. 27—There are at least three organizations in the south today around which racial agitation is centering. They are the American Fascisti Order of Blackshirts, the White Band r? Caucasian Crusaders and the Klan. For the moment the American Fascisti appears the most • active. The White Band perhaps is next. The Ku-Klux Klan seems but a shadow of its former self, although no one entirely is certain as to its exact strength err the definite scope of its present activity. All three of these organizations have headquarters in Atlanta. The first two undoubtedly center their main strength in that city. The American Fascisti is the youngest of the three. Its application for a charter as an organization “to inculcate and foster in the minds of its members and the public generally, white supremacy”* still is pending in the courts. Black Shirts Active It claims to have 15,000 applications for membership “which are being acted upon as rapidly as possible." Its membership is secret, its meetings secret, and the only officer whose name is known to the public is H. J. Gewinner, spokesman for the “adjutant-general” office. Membership is open to any male, white citizen over the age of 18. “All one needs,” an organizer said, “is a white skin, a white heart and a black shirt.” When the organization makes public appearances its members wear the black shirt of the Italian facists. It has begun a campaign to “get jobs for white men,” and claims to have displaced 500 Negroes in Atlanta business houses with white help. The White Band of Caucasian Crusaders is headed by William Joseph Simmons, organizer of the KuKlux Klan. He began forming it soon after Dr. Hiram W. Evans forced Simmons to relinquish to him control of the klan. Klan's Power Fades It is described by Simmons as “essentially and fundamentally an ethnic or racial movement of the white man.” The organization preaches that “the only hope remaining to the white man is for him to combine, unite, to organize himself without political and sectarian considerations for self-protection of his blood, his interest and his breed.” Work of the white band seems largely by preachment. The Ku-Klux Klan, it seems quite generally agreed, has done little of late. Tn Alabama it is a factor and probably will rally some strength around Senator Thomas Heflin in his campaign for re-election. There are reports of minor activities in Mississippi, Georgia and Tennessee. FORMER RAIL AGENT WILL BE BURIED HERE Funeral Services for Sctb Thomas Will Be Held Thursday. Seth E. Thomas, 77, general agent of the Big Four railroad in Indianapolis from 1899 to 1909, who died Tuesday at his home in Cincinnati, will be. buried here at 2 Thursday afternoon in Crown Hill cemetery, following services at the home of his son, S. H. Thomas. For the last nineteen years, Mr. Thomas had been district manager of the inspection and weighing bureau of the railroad in Cincinnati. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Elia Thomas: five sons and daughters, S. H. Thomas and Mrs. E. L. Joiner, both of Indianapolis; Mrs. A. L. Loucks and W. W. Thomas, both of Cincinnati, and M. C. Thomas of Dayton.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: C. N. Chambers. Severin hotel. Ford coupe. 477-592. stolen from the Se v erin. W. R Higgins. 1008 Odd Fellow building. Bulck sedan. 98-140. stolen from Palace theater. C. A. Himes. 2115 Bellefontaine street. Ford coupe. 737-475. stolen trom Market and Alabama streets. William Moore. 3727 West Sixteenth .street. Fontiac roadster. 77-343. stolen from St. Clair and Meridian streets.

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Automobiles reported found bv police: Chevrolet coach. 77-605. owned by Inland Davis, 2524 North Alabama street. Butck sedan. 98-140. owned bv W. R. Hieelns. 1008 Odd Fellow building. GANDHI AIDF ARRESTED Entire Indian Cong Tess Working Committee Thrown Into Jail. Bv T'nited Preee NEW DELHI. India. Aug. 27. Tba entire Indian congress working committee was arrested today as the government struck again at the leadership of the home rule mentThe congress committee, which covers the organization of the Mahatma Gandhi’s independence campaign, was taken into custody here and held in jail. HOLD 3 IN THEFT IUIZ Questioned on RecentJTheft* From Warehouses, Railroad Cars. Three men are held on vagrancy charges in city prison today for questioning in connection with a series of recent thefts from warehouses and railroad cars. The men are Robert Manning. 29. of 805 North Illinois street; Calvin Hudach. 23, of 3020 West Tenth street, and Harley Myers, 29. of 1562 West New York street. Falling Tree Kills Man Bv Timet Boeciol HENRYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 27 Charles A. Prall. 65. was killed near here when struck by a tree he was k assisting a neighbor in felling-

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SCIENTISTS DISCUSS MYTHICAL CONTINENT Academy Insists Russian Must Prove “Atlantis” Ever Existed. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 27.—The Acaderr -of Sciences gravely took up today the question of whe s her the mythical continent of Atlantis ever existed, as a preliminary to debating the date of its disappearance. The Russian emigree, Dr. Flipoff. argued that the continent with, its advanced civilization disappeared somewhere off the present European coast about 7,300 years before Christ, or about 6.000 years before the date suggested by Plato. The academy voted, however, that the speaker “must first prove Atlantis existed before deciding the date of its disappearance.”

Big Hearted Two Men, Allegedly Drunk, Offer 6-Year-Old Lad to Passersby.

“ A NYBODY want a boy?” xV After several persons are alleged to have been asked to accept a 6-year-old boy Tuesday night, police arrested Howard Hays, 225 Sanders street, and Joseph Pettit, 1926 Madison avenue. Hays is held on charges of vagrancy and dnmkenness and Pettit is slated for drunkenness. According to police, the men and Hays’ stepson. Joseph, 6. were rid ing in a taxicab. They halted the cab several times and offered the boy to passersby, it was said. Following the arrest, Mrs. Hays came to police headquarters and took her son home. COUNTY DEMOCRATS WILL HOLD MEETINGS | Scries of Organization Sessions Are Scheduled. Democratic county candidates will attend a series of organization meetings in private homes during the next two weeks, according to H. Nathan Swaim, county chairman. The first two will be tonight at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Cook. 1143 Central avenue, for Eighth ward workers: and in Woodmen's hall, 1100 Prospect street. Frldav night. Warren township workers, at the home of Mark Grav. 5621 Bpechwood avenue, in Warren township; home of Mrs. Thomas Green. 1515 East. Eighteenth street: Fourteenth ward meeting, at the home of Mrs. Lewis Shackelford. 1338 South Belmont avenue: Sundav night. at Junior Democratic Club headquarters. 442 North Senate avenue and Tuedav night, a Wavne township meeting at the headquarters at King avenue and Walnut street. PLANES BOMB PEIPING Leaders of Chinese Northern Forces Narrowly Escape. B v Vnitrd Prrts TOKIO, Aug. 27.—Leaders of the Chinese northern coalition, in revolt ! against the Nationalist government ' of General Chiang Kaishek, nar- ' rowly escaped a bombing today when the government sent airplanes to Peiping and bombed that city, advices to the Nippon Dempo News Agency said. Asthma So Bad He Couldn’t Work Now Works in Smoke and Steam. Without Cough or Wheeze. People whose asthma or bronchial cough is aggravated by smoke-filled air will be glad to read this letter from Frank Paul. 847 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind.: “I had asthma and bronchial cough for 3 years, and couldn't work for weeks ai a time. I was desperate when I started taking Xacor. It gave me prompt relief, and now I am feeling fine. I am a machinist in a roundhouse. The smoke and steam do not bother me a bit now I don’t wheeae or even breathe hard.” Hundreds of people who suffered for years from asthma and bronchial coughs, state that their trouble left and has not returned. Their letters and a booklet of vital information will be sent free by Xacor Medicine Cos., 408 State Life Bldg.. Indianapolis. Ind. Call or write for this free information, and fim? out bow thousands have found lasting,.relief.—Advertisement, t

LABOR ENTERS VOTE BATTLES IN FOURSTATES Unions Back Couzens and Harris, Boost Costigan, Fight Ransdell. By Scripps-Hotrard Sexespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. —The Hawley-Smoot tariff rates, railroad consolidation and the vote on the Parker nomination at the last session of the senate furnish the most important and bitter issues in several contests where progressive and conservative members of both parties are fighting it out for renomination and re-eiection to the senate. These contests involve Senators Couzens (Rep., Mich.), Ransdell (Dem., La.), Harris (Dem., Ga.) and a successor in Colorado to Senator - Phipps, who is retiring. Organized labor and various liberal groups in each state entered the contest with the definite purpose of re-electing Couzens and

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Harris, driving Ransdell from the Senate, and replacing Phipps with E. P. Costigan, former member of the tariff commission and a progressive Democrat. Senator Couzens faces opposition in the Sept. 9 primary from exGovernor Chase Salmon Osborne, who is said to have the backing of the conservative group. Labor is suporting Couzens because of his efforts to block railroad consolidation until the employes’ interests have been provided for, his championship of the Wagner unemployment bills, and his work for humanitarian legislation in general. Victory in the Republican nomination is tantamount to election. In Georgia, where Harris is opposed for renomination by ex-Gov-ernor John M. Slaton, the former’s vote to reject the nomination of Parker for the supreme court is the chief issue. Slaton declares he would have voted to confirm, and charges that Harris catered to the Negro elements in both parties. The latter has retaliated with charges that Slaton is spending large sums to win the nomination, which means a senate seat, and has asked the Nye committee, to investigate. Governor Huey P. Long has made Ransdell's consistent support of high Republican tariff bills one of his major issues. Ransdell voted regularly with the G. O. P. for .Haw'.ey-Smoot rates, and has lined

- ' up with the conservatives in almost every major struggle. On several occasions his vote, with that of Blease and Broussard, the other Louisiana member, have blocked success for Democrats and progressives. Senator Phipps is not running in Colorado, and four candidates are seeking his place. Phipps’ choice is William V. Hodges, former treasurer of the Republican national committee, but George H. Shaw, former G. O. P. chairman, is contesting for the nomination. Costigan. Morrison Shafroth, son of the former senator, and James A. Marsh are seeking the Democratic nomination, which is said to be more worth while this year than usually. Replacement oi Ransdell by Long and Phipps by Costigan, in the opinion of organized labor, would constitute a definite increase in progressive strength in the senate, and might mean the difference between liberal control and conservative Republican domination in the next session. Former Resident Dies By Timet Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Aug. 27. Mrs. Osa Houck, 68, former resident of Greencastle died at her home in Bradenton, Fla., where she had resided for about twenty-five years. She leaves her husband, former clerk of Putnam county, and two sons.

BRITAIN RELIES ON ‘DOLE’ TO HELP JOBLESS Unemployment Insurance Is Assailed, but Is Only Available Remedy. This is one of a series of articles dealinc with Great Britain's uocmplorment situation. BY AJtTHUR F. DEGREVE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 26.—Unemployment insurance, or “the dole,” is criticised In some quarters in Britain as inspiring idleness. Many insist a number of men have declined to accept work that would not pay them as much as the weekly benefit, handed the 2,000,000 and more unemployed men and women. This cry of the critics has been proved, in some instances. Newspapers in London, for example, :e----cently printed on the front page an account of a youth who applied for a marriage license—and when

asked what his occupation was, he replied: "I’m on the dole.” Suffering last winter was intense among the jobless. Unemployment insurance partially is paid for by the workers, who pay a certain part of their weekly wages as insurance against a day when they may not work. The employers pay a percentage and the government makes up the rest. An adult male more than 21 receives $4.25 a week: a woman adult, $3.75 a week. Unemployed youths of 15 and 16 receive $1.50; of 17, $2.25, and of 18 to 20, $3.50 a week. Idle girls of 15 and 16 get $1.25; of 17, $1.87. and 18 to 20. $3 weekly. There is a weekly allowance to a family of 50 cents a week for each invalid child and $1.75 for invalid adult dependents. Problem of a man, wife and two small children, forced to live on the mans dole, may be seen to be real when it is estimated that at least half of the amount must be paid for rent.

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EX-SENATOR IS DEAD Thomas Sterling. South Dakota, to Be Buried Today. St/ United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 27.—Funeral srevices for Thomas Sterling. 79, former senator from South Dakota, who died Tuesday of heart trouble, will be held here Friday. After serving two terms Mr. Sterling had been an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination in 1924. Since then he has practiced law. Suit Follows LEBANON. Ind., Aug. 27.—Suit* for SIO,OOO damages has been filed in Boone Circuit court here against Harold Harvey of Lebanon by Mary J. Ratti of Indianapolis, as a result of an automobile wreck in that city Dec. 31, 1929. She alleges she wa •seriously injured.