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HEAD OF FARM BOARD ASSAILS BUDGET SLASH Stone Says Another Cut Would Cripple Work Bureau. BY MARSHALL M'NEIL Tt rrr% M*fT Writer WASHINGTON, May 9 -Chairman .Tam*.' C. Sf-one of f h*> federal firm hoard toriav joined those cabinet officers who have protested drastic federal economies. Ho made public hi* letter to the senate appropriation* saying a further reduction of 10 p*r cent in the hoard's appropriation for the next fiscal year would cripple its co-operative work among farmers. Stone, who helped handle the hoard s wheat and cotton pricepegging efforts, that cost the fed- j cral government many millions of dollars, told Chairman Jones 'Rep., W'ash.) that, the house already had reduced his appropriations and that further cut'- of SIOO,OOO would sharply curtail the assistance being cnen farmers and result in the dismissal of 127 employes. Move failed I'nfair The budget bureau. Stone explained itad recommended appropriation of $1,880,000 for farm board operations next fiscal year. Stone had told congress his board could function o n 11,441,295. but the house approved an appropriation of $1.000.000 Now, he says, to cut this another 10 per cent, o r to $900,000. •>>mild be unfair, and the equivalent to announcing that a major part I of the help provided farmers under • the agricultural marketing act has I been withdrawn ' Stone said, and is entirely willing i to stand < its- fair share ’ in the cutting of appropriations or salaries. But we d 0 no r believe." the chair- j mans letter to Jones wo;-.t on. "It j is fair to farmers, for our work to be singled out for an extreme and j unwarranted slashing at the very ! timr they are in sore need of our continued emergency assistance." Stone detailed how the board's appropriation might be cut to $970.326. and said. Would Hamper Loans "These reductions would severely hamper our ability to consider new loans to co-operative associations. Congress has recently passed legislation to give industrial organizations the same sort of emergency ; assistance that the farm board has been giving farmers' organizations for the last two and one-half years. Crippling our work at this time would mean that, we would he unable to continue to respond to appeals for emergences’ assistance. “We would no longer be able to assist co-operative associations in the establishment of credit corporations. Our loans have been responsible for an increase of over $160,000,000 in the credit in use in this country since the middle of last year, in addition to the amount of our loans already outstanding then. I. our activities were curtailed we would have to turn from increasing credit to decreasing | credit, at the very time when congress and the national government are seeking to increase credit so as to stem the tide of falling prices and industrial depression." 'PERFECT MAN' SUICIDE Youth Shoots Self lo Death After Dinner Honoring His Mother. /?-/ I Hitcrl Pren ATLANTA, Ga . May 9.—A high school youth, weighted down with athletic honors and winner of a Y. j M. C. A "perfect man" contest, shot himself to death in his home Sunday, following a dinner in honor o,' his mother. The youth. Hartley E. Rubley, 19. atj! suffering from a nervous breakdown. his family said. He was a football and basketball player and an outstanding wrestler. Gone, but Not Forgotten VunmebU* 1 * reiyired to police stolen helone to C N Orav. Ml Flst Eleventh Mree 1 . Ford roadster, irom loon Prospect stree'. Lillian Brook; 664 North Senate avenue. Ant 4. Auburn *d*n 55-SSJ. from Senate avenue and North street. William Robinson. I*3! Totsa street. Chevrolet coupe. 6S-225. from 1309 Kapoes street Herman R Fletcher ill? North Netr .terser street Nash coup- 105-073. from in front of 1133 North New Jersey street. Harrr Loueh. 3924 North Capitol avenue Chevrolet sedan fi*l-7**. from in front of 1117 Wst Market street Msrttn J Nadine Jr . Shelbvvtlle. Ind . Chrvsler sedan, from Capitol avenue and Market atreet J G Haston. 3*59 Wiothrop avenue. Chrysler coach 50-39*. from Delaware . and Vermont streets Mrs. M J Dt-tr. 3015 North Meridian i strrt. Auburn coupe. 11-4*5. from in front ' of 3015 North M*ndian stret. Robert N Jennines. Newcastle. Ind.. > ChrvsJer four*. 337-370. from Greencastie. , Ind. West Ride Chevrolet Company. 2419 West ! W'ishlretpn street Chevrolet conne. M 1122 from in front of 2419 West Washington street. Harrr Monn;ntrer R R 17. Box 431. I Ford Tudor. 54-741. from 5000 West Washington street. O C Coneland 1933 West Washington ' stret. Buick coach. M I*oo. from 1923 West Washington street Mrs Susie Sanders. 243* Martindale aienue. Leah Schitdmeter. 126 East Vermont stree’ Oldsmobtle sedan 63-912. from garage at 220 East New York street. 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HICKS STOOD FOR NO NONSENSE So Shanghaied Sailor Killed Sloop Captain and Crew

Nail hard were the men—and women— on the New York waterfront in vea-ter-e*-, hut m;!owd with human impulses were the- Rome live tn police records otr. ;n church records and some only in folklore Then too aome skill live ;n th* flesh Joseph Mttcbell. staff writer, hat gathered aome of their • *orir. of whieh the following ta the th trd BY JOSEPH MITCHELL World-Telegram Staff Writer r JHHE barroom and dance hall of the Sink or Swim, a notorious sailors* hotel on Cherry street, was filled on the rainy nijfht of March 17. 1860, with a sinister, rowdy jrroup of seamen, beach sharks, waterfront gamblers, port ladies, and shanghai masters. Seamen, weary of the water lanes between Singapore and Liverpool and Manhattan, stood three deep against the hickory bar. A tipsy fiddler scratched out the skeleton of a dance tune. The tangled *moke from a hundred virile cigars and pipes obscured the bock signs and reward notices on the Tills. Phil "Plugugly" Boston, the prop.*?tor. sat alone at a table in the corner and looked at the shoulders of his patrons with calculating eyes. He had been asked by the captain of a dingy sloop to shanghai a strong man for a voyage to the Virginia oyster beds. Into the barroom walked Albert Hicks, a waterfront character of evil reputation, who had retired from the oceans after a profitable season on a Slave ship plying between Cuba and the west coast of Africa. Hicks tossed his Kosuth hat on a hook, roughtly pushed his wav through the men around the bar and called for a tumbler of rum. Not a glass of rum. but a tumbler of rum. Mr. Boston watched. There's my man," he decided. He left, his table and edged into the motley bar crowd.

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"Say. brother." he said to Hicks, "come up to my office, will you? I'd like to talk to you about a matter we can t discuss down here. You can have your rum there." man .

THE two men. a well-matched pair of ruffians, went to the office on the second floor. Boston suggested that before discussing the matter it would be pleasant to have a few drinks. He poured a glass of claret for himself and a glass of rum for Hicks. It was the last drink Hicks had that night. Late the next morning he woke at sea. in the forecastle of the sloop E. A. .Johnson, sailing to Depp Creek. Va., for a cargo of seed oysters. He lay in the bunk for a few minutes, moaning and trying to collect his disordered senses. Then, shouting at the top of his voice, he hurried up to the deck and found he had been shipped as a member of the crew, and was expected to go to work at once. He shook his fist at the master. Captain George Burt, who laughed heartily. "See here, sailor." said the captain. "I didn’t put laudanum in your rum. I asked for a man and they brought you aboard. Take mv advice and get work." He ordered Hicks to get, a bucket of sea water and assist the other members of the crew. Smith and Oliver Watts, two brothers, in washing down a hold for the oysters. Hicks roundly cursed the captain, the sloop, his luck, the sea. and the Watts brothers. But he settled down to work, and it was plain that he was plotting to revrnge himself. . . . a a a FIVE days later a fishing schooner, the Telegraph, found the oyster sloop drifting blindly about the lower bay, between Coney Island and Sandy Hook. She was a sorry sight. Her sails were cut down and hanging in the water. Hands from th" schooner boarded her long enough to attach a tow line. They towed her in to Fulton Market slip and called the policp who boarded the sloop. They found the bunks and floor of the cabin stained with blood. Sea trousers, with all pockets turned inside out. were lying on deck.

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The starboard rail was* bloodstained. An ax, which obviously had been put. to violent use. was found on deck, near the wheel. The ship's papers, torn to shreds, were scattered about the cabin. Boon a crowd gathered on the pier, gazing at the melodramatic ship. Oyster merchant*, friends of Captain Burr, were upset. The waterfront quickly was filled with the largest crowd it ever had seen. Outraged citizens roamed the waters of the bay in craft of all kind. Next morning suspicious tenants of a sailor's lodging house at 129 Cedar street came to the police and reported that a loud-talking | man had come to the place the night before the sloop was found. He carried a heavy bag of money, they said, and boasted that he had been shipwrecked, "but not as badly as s"ne people." • i * o | POLICE hurried to the house, but the man had packed and departed. He was traced to Providence. It was Hicks. In his duffle bag was found a heavy Scottish watch which once belonged to Captain Burr, and a portrait a young woman had given Oliver Watts the night before the sloop sailed on her tragic voyage. "I bought them things in a pawshop,” , said the forthright Hicks, “and it's none of your damned business where I got the bag of money." But the seaman agreed to return to Manhattan. Soon he was entangled in a web of circumstantial evidence. He was locked in a cell in the Tombs. A group of indignant oystermen met beneath his cell window and loudly discussed a lynching plan. Hicks appeared to be bored. He called for a cup of tea. drank it. said it was poor tea. and then went to sleep. Two months Itter he was tried before the United States circuit court. The trial was brief, but it was the most publicized proeeedj ing of the period. The jury deliberated seven min-

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A. E. Hicks, shanghied sailor, who murdered sloop's crew, and <at left) South street in the sixties.

utes and found him guilty of piracy and murder on the high seas. When he was sentenced to be hanged until death on Bedloe's island, the pirate looked at the courtroom ceiling and smiled faintly. 000 WAITING for his execution, the stanch Mr. Hicks had a good time. He composed ribald drinking song* and called the shocked warden to write them down for him. Hicks could not read or write. When his visit to the gallows was but a week in the .Uture. he called newspaper men to his cell and confessed. He walked about the cell, smoking a cigar and illustrating his confession with theatrical gestures. "They should have known better than to shanghai me,” he said. "I don't stand for no such nonsense. It outraged my self-respect to be shanghaied' aboard a dirty oyster sloop. “That night it was my turn to steer. The captain and one of them Watts brothers were asleep. The other brother was on lookout at the bow. "About midnight, when the seas were running high. I lashed the steering wheel to keep the sloop on her course. Then I got a capstan bar and tiptoed forward. Just as I got to the man on lookout, he turned and screamed. I let him have it. He didn't say no more. The other young fellow came on deck. I fixed him. Then. I got me an ax and went below to have a few words with the skipper. "He sat up in his bunk when I came in. I stood there and leaned on my ax for a moment and looked at him. Then I told him I didn't stand for no such nonsense. "I stepped' over and attended to him. Then I threw them over

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the side. They should have known better than to shanghai a good, honest sailor. “I took the captain's money and tore up things a bit. I searched them fellows before I threw them in the sea. I fixed a little snack for myself. ‘ Then I had one of the captain's cigars. It was not a good cigar, gentlemen. Then I headed the sloop for Staten island. We was about fifty miles out. I came ashore in a rowboat and let the j sea have the filthy sloop." 000 TWO days before the execution Phineas T. Barnum, the philosophical showman, paid Hicks $25 and two boxes of five-cent i cigars for the privilege of making ! a plaster cast of his head for Barnum's Famous American | Museum. After holding out for the cigars the pirate complained that he would not have time to smoke them before his execution. On July 12, 1860. he was hanged on Bedloe's Island. Just before a doctor pulled the black mask down over his scowling face, Hicks looked at the hangman, placed his thumb against his nose and made a casual gesture of contempt. While he mounted the gallows, peddlers sold hot corn and dainties and 10.000 persons watched from the decks of excursion boats. It was a gala day. He was buried in Calvary cemetery, and on the waterfront it is rumored that he was not cold in the ground before ghouls robbed the grave and sold his corpse to I medical students for $7.50. Some authorities say the ghouls received $12.50.

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G. 0. COLEMAN, EX-HOOSIER ARTIST, DIES Man Who Studied Here Gained Fame in New York. Glenn O. Coleman. 44. whd through a quirk of fate, became an artist instead of a musician, and who spent his student years in Indianapolis, died Sunday in New York where he had won his greatest fame. A native of Springfield. 0., Coleman came to Indianapolis as a young man and worked in the art department of an Indianapolis paper. He was a skilled pianist and music might well have been his. vocation. In. those years* he was pointing for a concert career and using his brush lor bread and butter. Aided by Chase He had no serious intent to become an artist when, as still a young man, he went east. Newspaper and commercial drawing was his only aim, although he had studied here under Otto Stark at the Manual Training high school and shown marked aptitude. Setting out, obscure and lairlv penniless, for the Hudson river Bagdad, he carried a letter of introduction to another Indianian well up in the world of art, William Merritt Chase. Chase and Robert Henri, under both of whom he studied, pointed to him his future in art. and the piano, except for personal pleasure, which it always remained, was abandoned. Won Many Prize* A bedraggled little street in Greenwich Village called Minetta Lane, brought Mr. Coleman his greatest fame and recognition. His painting of Minetta Lane was bought bv Paris Luxemburg gallery, and with the death of its creater it becomes eligible for hanging in the Louvre. Mr. Coleman had won many prizes and his work has been hung in the Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, the Brooklyn museum and others. His "Comenties Slip.” a waterfront study, is in the Newark. N. J., museum.

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