Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1932 — Page 7

JAN. 7, 1932.

NATIVES TELL . OF TERRORISM AMONGMINERS Drunken Sheriffs Abused Families, Committee Hears. *KBs the third of a icrici on condition! in the Harlan county (Ky.) mine (trike roue, where terror condition! have nr.rail'd for month!. It 1( written by John Montour, a itaff writer of the Knnxrlll. (Tenn.) Newi-Sentlnel, a .*eritM!-Howard newananer, barred from the courtroom because of an editorial in hia newsuaner dealing with the verdict in a murder trial in the district. ZY JOHN T. MOUTOUX Tin.es Staff Correspondent FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 7.—The ‘Red raids” after the war had nothing on the reign of terror created by the law of Harlan county in the mine war there. Page after page in the report of former Governor Flem Sampson's investigating committee tells a story of raiding deputy sheriffs who terrified dozens of families. S. S. Pope, 41-year-old farmer, and owner of fifteen homes in the mining town of Catron’s Creek, told the commission a dozen of his . 3uses had been raided. ‘‘How did they search them?” he was asked. “Well, the house would be surrounded by twelve or fifteen officers and some would go inside the house, climb into the attic, and dig up the yards, claiming they were looking for union charters and communistic literature. Several peaceable men left their homes and now are gone; their families are still in the houses; the men are afraid to come back.” Drunken Deputies Beat Negro According to the testimony, most of the raids were made late at night; the deputies or officers usually had been drinking and used abusive language; and most of the incidents were told by wives, bearing out the testimony of farmer Pope that the- husbands were frightened away and have not returned. Anna Baldwin, Negro, mother of eight children, testified: “The officers came, best I can remember, 15 minutes of 12 one night. They taken my husband, McKinley, away. He was sick, but they taken him to the Virginia line and handcuffed him around a tree. Then they beat him.” She saw him about three weeks later. “He was still stiff and sore,” she said. She was asked if he could identify the officers. “Yes," she said. “Why hasn’t he?” “He was afraid.” Terrify Mother of Four Nannie Powers is the wife of Caleb Powers and the mother of four children. She said: "Six deputies came to our house. I had been canning. One said, ‘Mrs. Powers, we want to search.’ I said, •What for?’ They said, ‘By God, I. W. W. papers.’ They come in and looked around. “They found some copies of the Daily Worker and a National Miners Union card. They said, ‘By God, get your rags on, we are taking you to jail.’ My husband wasn’t there; just me and mv children. “I said, ‘I ain’t done nothing. They said, ‘You don’t have to do anything in this place; we just pick you up, by God.’ “They v.:re all drunk, 1 think. They spit and staggered and cussed They staggered so they could hardly walk to the car. I run for my mother.” Home Raided Four Times She escaped the officers, but later her husband gave himself up. “He was afraid they would kill him,” she explained. He was kept in jail thirty days, charged with banding and confederating; then the case was dropped. While he was in jail, thirteen deputies again went to the home and raided it, opening boxes of food that had born sent there by the N. M. U. for the destitute, and scattering clothes about the house. Mrs. Alta Dean said their home was raided four times. Once they came at 11 at night. “They wouldn't give us time to dress,” she said. “They bursted open the door.” Q—Did you protest against their entering vour home? A—No, sir, I knew there was no use. Q—Did you ask them if they had a search Warrant? A—No, sir. Q—Why not? A—l knew there was no use. Mrs. Dean named one of the offi-

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WASHINGTON TO BE PAIDHONOR Inauguration Anniversary to Be Observed. April 30, anniversary of Washington’s inauguration, will be stresssed in the observance of the George Washington bicentennial by Indians polls schools, it was announced Wednesday by Milo H. Stuart, member of the mayor’s bicentennial commmittee and chairman of the school committe for the celebration. Stuart said that while Feb. 22, Washington's birthday, will be recognized in the schools, emphasis would be placed on April 30. “Very little attention has been given to the date of Washington’s inauguration in the past,” Stuart asserted. “It is of utmost importance, however, for it marks the beginning of successful civil government in this country.” Other dates which will be observed as highlights in the bicentennial celebration will be July 4, Independence day, and Sept. 17, Constitution day. Members of the school committe on the celebration are: Miss Wilma Hesslon. School No. 2; Miss Laura Hanna. School No. 27: Miss Ada HUI. School No. IS; J. D. Coleman. Crispus Attucks high school: Miss Beth Wright, Washington high school; C. S. Stewart. Technical high school: J. R. H. Moore. Manual Training high school: Edgar T. Forsvth. Shortrldge high school: Brother Williams. Cathedral high school: Mia* Elisabeth Chipman. Tudor Hall, and Clifton Page. Park school. STEAK CHOKES RANCHER Sugeons Operate to Remove Piece of Meat Periling Man’s Life. By United, Prtss COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan. 7.—An. operation to remove a large piece of beefsteak that stuck in Charles Weeks’ throat was undertaken by physicians today. Weeks, a rancher, sat down to dinner Wednesday night. He was hungry after a day’s hard toil and bit off a large piece of the steak, which lodged in his throat. Two physicians were unable to remove the meat and Weeks was brought to a hospital, where it was hoped an operation would save his life. “Bomb” Is Paperweight By United Press M’ALESTER, Okla., Jan. 7.—The "bomb” mystery at the First Baptist church has been solved. A package which police thought was a bomb was only bricks tied up in paper by the Rev. A. C. Duncan who planned to use them as paperweights.

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NO. I—Our Climate Isn’t Changing; the Moon Doesn’t Regulate the Weather; Battles Don’t Cause Rain.

THE poet does not sing that "untruth crushed to earth shall rise again,” but it is a painful fact that certain popular errors bob up serenely as often as they are knocked down by the bludgeon of science. Meteorology has its share of these invincible fallacies to deal with. Here are a few of the things the man in the street knows about weather which aren’t true: 1. “The climate has changed. Especially the winters. In our childhood snow lay on the ground for months at a time. Those good old days of unlimited sleighing! “On Christmas eve, for instance. St. Nick always had plenty of snow for his sled and reindeer. Did you ever see Christmas eve depicted on a Christmas card without snow? “2. The moon regulates the weather. Why not? Doesn’t the moon cause tides in the ocean? There are dry moons and wet moons, and the

moon and the weather are likely to change together. “For a hundred years the almanacs have been printing a table, ascribed to the great Sir William Herschel, for predicting the weather from the hour of the day at which the moon changes.” (Sir John Herschel indignantly denied that his father was author of this assinine production.) 3. “Rain follows a big battle.” (It also has been known to follow a dog fight.) Think of the drenching downpours our soldiers had to endure in France during the World war—all due to the violent cannonading. (What about the rainfall records for the same region in time of peace?) Abnormal weather (anywhere on earth) during the war was caused by the discharge of explosives, if you would believe these weather seers.

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ticular date, which differs, however, from one country to another. In England and France the date is Nov. 11, St. Martin’s lay. Strange to say, when the calendar was changed from the Julian to the Gregorian, setting all dates ahead ten dajjs, this event in the weather calendar shifted with it. A funny world. Tomorrow: "Can rainmakers make rain? YOUNG MOTORIST~IELD Charged as Hit-and-Run Driver Who Killed Pedestrian. Charges of manslaughter and failure to stop after an accident were filed today against Stanley Ule, 21, of 719 North Warman avenue, as a result of the auto death Dec. 19 of John Batkin, 63, of 323 Douglass street. Detectives allege Ule’s car struck Batkin at New York and Geisendorf streets and that Ule fled from the scene. He has been identified by Marion James, 1122 West New York street, authorities said. According to officers, Ule at first admitted the fatal accident, but since has denied the charges.

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of Rushville threw her chapeau into the ring last week when she resigned as vice-chairman of the state committee. Leek served as a Terre Haute councilman-at-large for four years, and on the department of public safety for four years. He was the first Republican to be elected and re-elected Vigo county treasurer in twenty years.