Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 252, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1931 — Page 3

TEB. 28, 1931

SOVIET WORKER HAS GIVEN UP MANY RIGHTS Laborers Rule Nation But Individual Has But Little Personal Freedom. Tb* tJitb tn tb* rIM of eleven • rtlrlM bv th Untied Pre*t eorrettpondent In Moscow, fnirnr Lyons, folio* a. Lvona boa Just completed three yerV realdenre In the Soviet Union, BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW. Feb 28.—The working class has been lifted to power by the Russian revolution. The whole Bolshevik state is run in its name and deciated to its service. The very word “rabotchi”—workingman—rings in Soviet ears like a title of nobility. The power and the glory, however, largely are collective things. The worker, as an individual, has for the time being lost what is normally his fundamental right, the right to choose his own job and place of employment. He has become part of a labor army which is maneuvered by the highest organs of the Communist party, as required by the great war for industrializing this country. Must Take Job Given At this writing, for instance, mobilization of all former transport workers is under way. They are being torn out of accustomed jobs and assigned to service on the railroads. It has all the outward appearance of a military conscription, leaving the recruit no choice but to register and accept service and providing penalties for evaders. As far as possible the government eeks to give men and women the work which they desire and for which they especially are qualified. It would be stupid not to do so. But the need of the state is the oetermiuing factor always; the individual has a choice between the work assigned and starvation.

Do Not Muss Freedom The ireedom of labor enjoyed by workers under the capitalist system seems to the Communists, and to the majority of the Russian workers by now, at best a relative thing, at worst a delusion. They argue that with the exception of a small aristocracy of labor, workers everywhere in the world take what job is available. The Soviet Union considers itself in a state of civil war, fighting against enormous odds for the establishment of anew social order. The labor forces are its army and the need for its proper deployment with absolute discipline for the individual soldier—is from that point of view indisputable. It is a national duty. If labor is a conscripted army, at least it is the most pampered army ever mobilized. It lias the world’s most comprehensive social insurance, a univeral eight-hour day quickly being reduced to seven hours, tjie best of what the country possesses (although that is still small enough by outside standards), vacations with full pay, etc. Masses Approve The whole procedure has a stamp of approval by the working elements as a whole, if not by individuals, which makes it voluntary in the larger collective sense. An upwelling of enthusiasm in the ranks of the ordinary workers has made possible the industrial victories which surprised the world and raised the cry of • dumping." Wherever the five-year plan is being rushed to completion there are ‘shock brigades" setting the pace for their comrades; there is “Socialist competition," generally an intense drive to fulfill plans. A good dpal of this enthusiasm is no doubt artificially stimulated. Yet a prolonged view of these last years of straj n reveals clearly that the government has “sold" the five-year plan to its population. NEXT: Real Russian ruler the Soviet party. Bond Allowed Alleged Slayer Piy United Press SALEM. Ind., Feb. 28.—John Walfon. charged with first degree murder, was reaelsed from jail here under $7,500 bond on a writ of habeas corpus granted by Judge W. W. Hottel. Walton was arrested near Franklin two weks ago after John Hines, World war veteran, died in a Louisvilc hospital of wounds said to have ben suffered when he and Walton fought over an alleged liquor deal. Both men lived near Campbellsburg. Washington county.

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Youth Fights for Life in ‘Gin Trial

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Key figures in Indiana’ dramatic “gin orgy” murder trial at Valparaiso are shown here as they appeared in court. At the left, Virgin Kirkland, former Gary football star, accused of the death of Arlene Draves, 18.

KIDNAPERS OF 1 BANKER GIVEN 7-YEAR TERMS \ Yocum’s Abductors Are Sentenced to Illinois State Prison. By United Press CAMBRIDGE, 111., Feb. 27.—Four men who kidnaped Earl Yocum, wealthy Galva Danker, but were outwitted by his wife into freeing him without receiving a cent of ransom, today faced terms of seven years each in state prison. The men, Orville and Harry Whiskers, Lloyd Winslow, and Vernon Ahlgren pleaded guilty and were sentenced Thursday by Judge L. E. Tellen, who heard testimony by them and Mr. and Mrs. Yocum. Judge Tellen eaid he did not YOUTH SHOT BY POLICE GIVEN CHANCE TO LIVE Anderson Officers Fire on Automobile Said to Have Contained Liquor. ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 28. Youthful vitality gives Alvin Isanogle, 20, an even <'hance with death, physicians at St. John’s hospital announce. A bullet penetrated his head in a fusilade of shots fired by three policemen who barely escaped being j run down by the youth's automobile j as he attempted to escape following j an accident. Four shots struck the automobile i and one pierced the hat of the victim. A sixth shot crashed through the left side of the brain, missing the eyeball by a fraction of an inch. Police say they found three bottles of alcohol in the automobile and arrested the driver’s companion, Fred Brown, 23, on a charge of intoxication. An investigation by Alvin Riggs, police chief, has failed to disclose which of the policemen fired the shot that may prove fatal. The officers used revolvers of the same caliber. The police were inside a filling station reporting to headquarters when Isanogle’s automobile struck a curb in front of the place. WILLIAM FEENEY. CITY POLICE OFFICER, DIES Funeral Will Be Held Monday for Detective Sergeant. Funeral services for Detective Sergeant William J. Feeney, 46, of 448 North Bancroft street, who died Thursday at St. Vincent’s hospital of pneumonia, will be held at 10 a. m. Monday at Our Lady of Lourdes church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery. Mr. Feeney became ill after reporting for roll call Tuesday afternoon. He was taken to the hospital Tuesday night. He had been a member of the police force nearly eighteen years. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus, Elks, Ancient Order of Hibernians and Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church. Surviving are two brothers, MEASURETtO ENLARGE U, S. HOUSE KILLED WASHINGTON. Feb. 27—The house census committee voted today to table all measures proposing to increase the size of the house of representatives, legislation designed to save many states from losses in representation as a result of the reapportionment ct, which goes into effect March 4. The vote against attempting to pass such legislation at this session was 13 to 8.

Going Down! Bn United Press LONDON. Feb, 28.—Thousands of British government workers are facing a $15,000.000 wage cut as a result of the steadily falling cost of Using, on which their salaries are based. The deduction will be effective March 1, if the the cost of living figure drops below 53. It was 55 in December and 53 in January. Cuts in wages are made on the basis of every fall of five points in the index figure. Confronted with a large treasury deficit, cabinet officials already have warned workers of all grades, to be prepared fpr the pay slash. It is estimated there now are more than 150.000 government workers who receive less than sls a week, inclusive of their war bonus.

at a gin party, is shown with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Kirkland, who are aiding in his defense. At the right is Mrs. David T. Thompson, at whose home the fatal party was held. Her husband is one of the defendants slated for trial later.

The White House Do you know the reason we call it the White House? Do you know which President made it “officially” the White House by having that name engraved on government stationery? Do you know how the White House came to be built where it is? Do you know how many rooms it has? How many people have lived in it? How many babies have been born there? How many persons have died under its roof? How many weddings celebrated there? How many funerals from the White House? How many servants and employes it takes to run it? How much of its upkeep is paid by the government and how much by the President out of his private funds? when gas lights were first put in the White House, and when the first electric lights? When the open fireplaces were replaced by a central heating system? When the executive offices were built on to it? All these and many more interesting facts about the residence of the first citizen of the republic will be found in the new bulletin just prepared by our Washington bureau on THE WHITE HOUSE. Fill out the coupon below and send it: CLIP COUPON HERE Dept. 113, Washington Bureau Tire Indianapolis Times, 1322 New York avenue, Washington, D. C. I want a copy of the bulletin THE WHITE HOUSE, and inclose herewith 5 cents in coin or loose, uncanceled United States postage stamps to cover return postage and handling costs: NAME ' STREET AND NO CITY STATE I am a reader of The Indianapolis Times. (Code No.)

MENTALLY UNFIT WOULD SUFFER STERILIZATION Senate Favors Action to Be Carrie Out in Judicial Discretion. Sterilization bills had varying success in the Indiana senate Friday. One, a house bill, permitting juries to impose the added penalty of sterilization upon criminals convicted of a felony in commission of which human life was taken or threatened, was killed by indefinite postponement. But a short time later, the senate passed the house bill giving courts the right to prescribe sterilization for mentally unfit persons they commit to insane institutions and setting up procedure for the sterilization of idiots and feebleminded. The measure was opposed by Senator William P. Dennigan (Dem., Daviess and Knox) who said, “I question if we have a moral right to mutilate innocent people. This bill is materialistic, paganistic.” “Society the right to protect itself against propagation of the mentally unfit, hasn’t it?” countered Senator John L. Niblack (Rep., Marion). “We concede the nation’s right to demand the life of its citizens on the battle field.” “If you want to get rid of them, why not electrocute them and be done with it,” retorted. The bill passed 31 to 8 and now goes to the Governor.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Harry Lewis. Chicago. 111., Buick sedan, 1-410-324. Illinois, from Washington and Illinois streets. Fid Martin. 3262 McPherson street, Buick coupe, from garage in rear of 3262 McPherson street. BACK HOME AGAIN be automobiles recovered by police W. W. Wiles. 5015 West Fifteenth street. Marmon sedan, found in rear of 2330 North Meriaian street. Automobile stripped of two front wheels, two spare tires. WORTH FORTUNE NOW Historic Boston Common Valued at $2,000,000 an Acre. By United Press BOSTON. Feb. 27.—Historic Boston Common, where cows grazed in colonial dfiys, is now valued at something like $2,000,000 an acre. The common now is assessed at $47,051,000, but it is estimated thar, converted into business sites, it would be worth nearly $100,000,000.

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In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southeast wind, four miles an horn-; temperature, 49; barometric pressure, 30.07 at sea level; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, three miles; field, good. Through Flights Near Bj HE* l Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Direct coasta-to-coast airplane service, doing away with the overnight stop half way between New York and the Pacific coast, probably will be instituted this year’, according to Colonel Clarence M. Young, assistant secretary of commerce for aeronautics. It is expected that airways to the coast will be lighted so well by fall that night flying will be practical without risk of accidents, Eagle Wrecks Plane LAHORE, India, Feb. 28.—An eagle and a modem airplane got into a fight over the right-of-way of the air near Risalpur, and the eagle won. The bird crashed into the plane at a height of 800 feet. One of the pilots jumped, but his parachute failed to open. The other was killed when the plane crashed to the ground. The eagle measured eight feet across the wings. Sixty-Five to Graduate One Indianapolis youth, Edward Wilford Maschmeyer, 205 West Troy avenue, is among sixty-five gradu-

ates of the army air corps advanced flying school at Kelly field, Texas. He is the son of Mr. and Mi’s. Edward Maschmeyer. Formerly a Purdue university student, he entered the flying school last year. Plan Air Tour Initial plans for the third annual Indiana air tour of the Indiana Aircramt Trades Association, June 15 to 20, wsre announced today following return of Indianapolis aviators from the association’s monthly meeting in Gary. The tour again will start from an Indianapolis airport, Herbert O. Fisher, secretary, said. Most of the cities and towns having airport facilities will be visited.

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PARIS WILL SEE i FAMED BERBER DESERT DANCE - Daughters of Tribal Chiefs in Contests to Make Trip to France. By United Press ALGIERS, Feb. 28— All over the Sahara desert, the daicing girls of the Berber tribes, who perform the far-famed “dance of the hands,” are preparing for the elimination dance contests to decide which will go to Paris for the colonial exposition. Tribal dances will be a feature of the exhibition. Native dancers will be brought from all parts of France’s far-flung colonies, from Indo-China, in the east, to the Antilles, in the west. The Berber dance girls earn their living in the native cabarets in the oases villages of the Sahara. Born in the mountains, daughters of fierce tribal chiefs, they come down to the hot, sandy plains with the sole idea of earning enough money with which to buy a husband when they reach, marriageable age. y Teach Dance to Daughters • As soon as they have amassed a large enough dot, they return to the mountain fastnesses, marry and settle down. In due course, they teach their daughters the “dance of the hands.” The dance has been handed down for centuries. It is as slow’ and stately as a cotillon, yet it rouses the menfolk to wild applause, as they crouch in a circle in the open air, under the desert moon, or in the mud-walled native cabarets. The men clap their hands rythmically, while the male musicians, in a comer, play on small drums with their hands.

Invest Saving in Gold For curious women tourists, the Berber girls will dance partly nude, but thei the men musicians must turn their backs while they play, because according to tribal tradition a curse will fall upon a man who gazes upon the nude body of an unmarried girl. The Berber girls invest v all their savings in gold, sending couriers hundreds of miles from the desert villages to Algiers to buy gold coins from the money changers. They string the coins around their necks as if they were strings of beads and the chains are made up of coins from all over the world. Give Money to Husbands When they marry, they hand over their necklaces to their husbands, who use the gold to barter for sheep or camels or Arab steeds. Only after prolonged negotiations with the Berber chiefs has the French government secured consent to bring the girls from the Sahara to dance their weird dance in Paris, where it will be seen for the first time. '

PAY CHANGE ADOPTED House Would Put Prosecutor on Straight Salary. Killing a bill which would place all sheriffs in Indiana on a straight salary basis, the house reversed itself Friday and passed 75-9 a similar measure for prosecutors. These two measures contain the same stipulations and figures as the Democratic party pledge general fees and salaries bill which is still on the speaker’s desk. It is hoped to get through the senate the companion measures, if the other fails. In the meanwhile the senate passed the house bill placing Lake county officers on a salary basis effective July 1, by a voce of 41-1 with an amendment raising the salary of the recorder from $5,000 to $6,000. The house is expected to concur. DENIES POISON .CLAIM Fish and Milk Combination Don’t Give Ptomaine, Dealer Says. By United Press MEMPHIS, Feb. 27.—J. J. Carrigan, sea food dealer here, recently said there was no truth in the saying ihat eating fish and drinking milk wil 1 give one ptomaine poisoning. “My family have been doing it twenty years,” he said. QUICKRELiETFROM CONSTIPATION That is the joyful cry of thousands since Dr. Edwards produced Olive Tablets, the substitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards, a practicing physician for 20 years, and calomel's oldtime enemy, discovered the formula for Olive Tablets while treating patients for chronic constipation and torpid livers. Olive Tablets do not contain calomel, just a healing, soothing vegetable laxative safe and pleasant. No griping is the •'keynote” of these little sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets. They help cause the bowels and liver to act normally. They never force them to unna Ural action. If you have a “dark brown mouth” —bad breath—a dull, tired feeling—sick headache —torpid liver —constipation, you should find quick, sure and pleasant results from one or two of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets. Thousands take them every niglrt to keep right. Try them. 15c, 30c, 60c. — Advertisement.

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Gun Puts Deer to Sleep

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The Michigan state conservation department has retained Captain Barnett Harris, big game hunter, to help save the lives of Michigan’s wild deer. Captain Harris will shoot the deer with a gun which fires “hypodermic bullets.” invented by himself, which will put the animals to sleep temporarily, but will do them no lasting harm. The deer then can be captured and transported to regions where there is better forage. At present many Michigan deer starve in the winter. Captain Harris and some of his peculiar bullets are shown above.

GROCERY STORE PICKETERS HELD Agitators Protest Against Hiring White Clerks. Picketing of a Standard grocer}’, 1419 East Twenty-fifth street by alleged red agitators protesting employment of white clerks in the store, FTiday resulted in arrest of a man and two women by police. Forty or fifty picketers, mostly Negroes, carrying banners, sought to dissuade Negro patrons from entering the store until white clerks were displaced by Negioes, police said. Those arrested and held in city prison on vagrancy charges are James Hallahan, 27, of 033 South Senate • avenue; Mrs. Marie Hicks, 20, of 17 North Tacoma street, and Mrs. Lula Griffin, 42, of 1619 Yandes street, Negro. Hallahan rooms with Theodore Luesse, much-arrested leader of unemployed demonstrations, police said. 850,000 Case Shifted By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Feb. 28.—A suit filed in circuit court here against the Orinoco Furniture Company and the Lincoln Chair Company by Carl D. Spenser asking for $50,000 on a contract and an accounting of the assets of the defendant companies, has been sent to Decatur county on a change of cvenue asked by Spencer, former employe of the companies.

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AGE PENSIONS BILL GOES TO THIRD READING House Lets Amendments by Senate Stand: Fear Measure’s Death. Without a dissenting vote, the Indiana house of representatives Friday passed to third reading the amended senate old age pension bill which made the maximum age for qualification for pension 70 and gives counties optional right to adopt the system. The house mandatory measure with a 65-year minimum is still in senate committee. Proponents of the old age pension system in the house refused to strike off the senate amendments because' they fear conferences would result in the death of the bill. OLDEST - GRADUATE DIES Indiana University Gave Diploma to John D. Alexander in 1861 By Times Special OWENSBURG, Ind., Feb 28 John D. Alexander, 92. oldest graduate* of Indiana university, is dead. The end came Friday morning at the home of William' J. Sexson near here. He wai graduated from the university in 1861. He was bom in Bloomington Feb. 6. 1839. and came to Greene county in 1843. During the Civil war, he served as captain Company D, Ninety-seventh Indiana volunteer, infantry. Oldest Citizen Dies B.y Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 28.—Mrs. L. A. Handley, mother of Lawrence A. Hanaley, former mayor and president of the Indiana Municipal League, died at her home early this morning at the age of 99. She was Wayne county’s oldest citizen. She had lived with the hope of reaching her one hundredth birthday and iwas, until recently active.