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HIGHEST LEGION JOB PITFALL TO POLITICS HOPES Few National Commanders Made Stepping Stone Out of Post. By WALKER STONE Timm Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—National commander of the American Legion is a much sought after position. The term i limited to one year. In that year a national commander travels from coast to coast, addresses conventions and banquet.*, and receives SIO.OOO and expenses. Few, if any, national commanders have served without financial loss, due to the high scale of living, and the necessary neglect of personal business. Yet, it is one dazzling year of sweeping about the country in the glow of the national limelight, being feted and consulted by those who cherish or fear the reai or mythical political power of the legion, Aspirants regard it as a stepping stone. A flair for politics seems to be a characteristic of those who rise high in the legion organization.

Warn of Pitfall Nine known candidates already are plugging for the national commandership at, the Portland convention, Sept. 12 to 15. But if it is political promotion they are seeking, their ardor for the job should be cooled by a review of what has happened to former national commanders. The national commandership las proved a political pitfall in most cases. Here is what, has happened to former national commanders who still are living: Frank D'Ollier of Philadelphia, kept out of politics and now is vicepresident of the Prudential Insurance Company. ■John Emery of Grand Rapids, Mich., tried to come to the United States senate, but in vain. Few Fail to Rise Hanford MacNider of lowa, looked with longing eyes at the senate seat held by Smith Brookhart, but never ventured to test his strength at the polls, contenting himself, instead, with a term as assistant secretary of war and a later appointment as minister to Canada. Alvin Owsley, lawyer of Dallas, first aspired to be the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, and then lowered his sights to the governorship of Texas, and later to the United States senate, failing in all three attempts. John Quinn became a city commissioner in Las Angeles. James A. Drane of Spokane has comparatively steady employment as attorney for the government, in national bank, receiverships in his district. McNutt Is Exception Howard Savage was defeated for treasurer of Cook county, and now is dealing out script instead of pay envelopes to the school teachers of Chicago, in his appointive capacity as financial officer for the Chicago board of education. Ed Spafford, of New York, was spanked by Tammany when he tried to get Representative Sirovich s seat in congress. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana (he is the exception to the •rule), after much political tribulation has managed to capture the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, in what looks like a Democratic year. Ralph T. O’Neal of Topeka is now chairman of the ex-service mens division in the Democratic national headquarters at New York. Defeated by a Woman O. L. Bodenhamer found to his surprise a few days ago that the voters of Arkansas believed a woman, Mrs. Hattie Caraway, could better represent them in the senate. Undaunted by these examples, the following nine legionnaires are seeking the honor of being national commander next year: Frank Belgrano of California, Louis Johnson of West Virginia, Ray Fields of Oklahoma, George Malone of Elevator. Ray Murphy of lowa, Pat Cliff of Minnesota. Ed Dunlap of Georgia, Ed Hayes of Illinois and Sam Reynolds of Nebraska.

KANSAS CITY PUTS BAN ON MARATHON CONTEST Walkathons and Dance Tilts Henceforth Under Frown of Law. Sy United /Vest KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Sept. 2 Walkathons. dance marathons and like endurance contests henceforth will be taboo in Kansas City, the city council has ruled. The council's action followed by * few weeks an unsuccessful attempt to stop a walking endurance contest staged in a dance hall here. At that time the promoters obtained court orders to permit continuance. and the contestants didn't miss a step. Under the new ordinance all endurance and speed contests are limited to twelve hours of any twenty-four-hour period, and the city health director has the privilege of refusing any permit he wishes, after examination of the applicant to stage such a contest.

RED CROSS IS RUSHING CLOTH TO CHAPTERS Cotton Material Will Be Sewed by Volunteer* In Garments for Needy. By Scrippt~H award Xcictpapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 2—The Red Cross has ordered 2.729,000 yards of cotton cloth shipped to Red Cross chapters in the ten days since it began distributing cloths received in exchange for the raw cotton given it by congress to clothe the needy. Orders placed with mills total 3,210.000 yards. Some Red Cross cloth has been #rdered shipped to every state. This cloth is being sewed into Rrments by women working at ;al Red Cross chapters. | Melon Thieves Are Fought SEYMOUR, Ind., Sept. 2.—Raids f>f watermelon and cantaloupe patches today had resulted in arrest t>f thirteen youths here and orV* n< '”' "nos Jackson county farmers Into a concerted drive against m thefts.

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Why the Farmers Went on Strike —This graphic chart, prepared by the United States department of agriculture, shows how the price the farmer receives for his products has fallen far below the price

This is the last story in a series of five bv Bruce Catton. staff writer for NEA Service and The Times, who was sent to the midwest com belt to find out what the farm strike is all about. BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer (Copyright, 1932. NEA Service, Inc.) SIOUX CITY, la., Sept, 2. The business communities in Sioux City, Omaha and other cities in the corn belt are watching the farmers’ strike with a tremendous amount of interest—and, on the whole, with a good deal of sympathy. The prosperity of these cities, in the first place, stands or falls largely with the prosperity of the farmers, and today the farmers are anything but prasperous, But that is not the only reason for the interest with which they look on. Sioux City, like other cities in the area, is beginning to get an inkling of the tremendous amount of power which lies in the farmers’ hands—if the farmers ever discover just how to use it. And one or two things have happened since the strike began to indicate that at least a few of the farmers are glimpsing some of the passibilities. Recently a creditor foreclosed a mortgage which he held on the livestock farm of an lowa farmer living near here. The stock was to be sold at auction to satisfy the claim. A group of blue-denimed farmers on one of the strike picket lines got to talking things ovet; on the morning of the auction. They decided that it was too bad for George to lose his livestock. He was a capable, business-like farmer, overwhelmed by conditions not in his control. The lass would ruin him. # # n SO they took up a collection. Money isn't plentiful in the picket lines. The men raised just $11.75. But they took the sum, small as it was. and a sizable group set out for the scene of the auction. Having reached it. they took up strategic positions. They gave the assembled buyers very definitely to understand that it would not be healthy for any one to bid against the men from the picket line. Then, as the auctioneer began his patter, the farmers put in their bids. They bid one at a time —SO cents for a good cow, a dollar for a thick-lipped draft horse, and so on. There were no other bids. The auctioneer had nothing to do but knock the animals down to them. The upshot was that George's entire herd of livestock was sold to the group from the picket line for exactly $11.75. And, having bought the animals, the men calmly took George aside and gave them all back to him. Some of the leaders of the farm strike have drafted for consideration a plan whereby the striking farmers not only would withhold their produce from the market to control the price, but under which they also would strike hard blows at any man or group of men who stood out against them. n u u UNDER this plan a boycott committee of farmers would be chosen to investigate all cases of action against striking farmers. If. for instance, a bank should institute foreclasure proceedings against a farmer, the committee would look into the matter. If

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of things he has to buy. The heavy line indicates the price of what the farmer sells, the broken line the price of what he buys. Such conditions led to mass meetings of farmers like the one shown above, photographed near Dakota City, Neb.

it found any reason to believe that the farmer was being dealt with harshly, they would recommend a boycott. Then every farmer in the strike would boycott the bank, the lawyer and every on" connected with the bringing of the foreclosure proceedings. The same thing would apply to any other creditor who got unduly impatient. There is no question that the farmers are aroused. In talking with them I heard, over and over again, the expression, “Well, we haven't got anything to lose, so —” Regardless of the outcome, the strike is a symptom of a profound unrest. The farmers have reached the point where they want to raise hell instead cf corn. A Sioux City business man the other day remarked that the strike was largely the work of radicals. “None of the established, conservative, prosperous farmers is on it,” he said. The man he was talking to. another Sioux City business man, replied: ‘‘The only trouble is that there aren’t any established, conservative, prosperous farmers left around here.” u n n ACLOSEUP picture of the financial problems of the farmers was given me by George Ashford, president of the Security State bank in the little town of Homer. Neb. near here. Ashford can tell you about the grievances of the farmers as a class. Sitting in his little office in Homer, he has been watching a steady decline in agriculture for year ,and it has made him profoundly discouraged. “Unless there is some sort of a change.” he says, “I don’t know where the farmers are going to get off at all. “There’s lots and lots of farm land between here and Sioux City that's not making enough to pay taxes. And when, on top of that, the farmer has his land mortgaged—and most of them have—it's not hard to figure out what he’s up against. "When a man gets a mortgage, it's an indication that he has no reserve; it's just a case of what the insurance companies decide to do. “The big insurance companies, you know, hold just about all the farm paper around here. “Eighty per cent of the farm land around here is mortgaged. Between 50 and 60 per cent of the men whose land is mortgaged can not meet their payments. “The loan companies, so far, have been very fair about foreclosing on these men, because it's to their own interest. They don't want the land at any price. “If I am a farmer, and I’ve kept up my interest and tax payments for twenty years, and then fall down for two or three years, they’ll figure the land is better in my hands than in theirs, and they'll hold off and give me a chance. nun “T>UT conditions are bad —so -D bad they could hardly be any worse. Here's an example: “There's a man near here who has rented some farm land from me. He's renting it at $7.50 an acre, and he has fifty acres of barley. He's getting about thirty bushels to the acre, and barley right now is selling for 15 cents a bushel. “Figure it out. His income will

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be just $4.50 an acre. And. by the way, the taxes on that land run around $2.25 an acre. “All right, he can't pay. So we do the usual thing: I arrange to take two-fifths of his crop instead of the rent money. So I get twelve bushels of barley per acre —sl.Bo. Now suppose I had a mortgage on that land. Where’d I be? “The other night at one of our meetings a man got up to make a speech about the farm strike, and he was actually in tears. That man reclaimes 2,000 acres of swamp land and turned it into first-rate farm land. He had faith in his agriculture, he had faith in America. He gave up his life for that land—got up at 4 in the morning and worked until 8 at night, every day, to turn it into a good farm. And they’re foreclosing on him today.” News of the government's recommended sixty-day moratorium on foreclosures was received with pleasure here, but it brought little real hope, since the corn belt’s trouble is too deep to be cured in sixty days. n n tt A SHFORD is not sure just what the farm strike is going to lead to. In some ways it dismays him. But he couldn't see anything else to do. He says neither the state nor federa government has kept its promises to the farmers. “I’ve lived here all my life, and I have never seen anything bordering on anarchy,” he says. “But the other night I went down the road and I saw 500 or so of the best farmers in this country taking the law into their own hands. ‘ Now, that isn't the thing to do. But look. Suppose a man comes into my office here and starts abusing me and calling me a—well, a name no man’d stand for. It won't be the thing for me to do, but I’ll get up and fight him. “That's the way it is wuth these farmers. They've been forced to fight.” (THE END) The Orient produces about 250 byproducts from soybeans; about fifty things are made from the beans in the United States.

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SERGT. ROCHE, POLICEMAN FOR 26 YEARS, DIES Detective Was Known for Ability to Spot Criminals by Faces, Actions. Detective Sergeant Patrick V. Roche, 51, member of the Indianapolis police department for twentysix years and figure in‘solution of many of the city's crimes, died today at his home, 5665 Broadway, after a short illness. Appointed to the force in May, 1906, Roche held the rank of sergeant since 1918 after serving for twelve years in various capacities in the department. For years Roche, of Irish descent, was the teammate of Louis Fossati, detective, an Italian. Affectionately called “Pat” by his associates. Roche was known for his ability to “spot” criminals by facial features and actions. He was adept at remembering faces, and this trait was responsible for the apprehension of scores of lawbreakers. He apprehended many pickpockets and confidence men. Roche was a native of lowa. Survivors are the widow, Margaret; a daughter, Mrs. E. A. Moorehead. and two brothers, John and Dan Roche, all of Indianapolis. Although arrangements for the funeral have not been completed, the rites will be held at St. Joan of Arc Catholic church. Burial will be in Holy Cross cemetery.

SEEKS COLLECTION OF $25,000 LOAN TO G. 0. P. But Republican Chiefs Insist That Money Was Purely a ‘Gift.’ By Scripps-Hotcartl Keicspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The Republican national committee is confronted with the problem of deciding again whether $25,000 it received from Thomas A. Johnson, Cambridge, Mass., a year ago, was a loan or a campaign contribution. The amount already has been reported to the clerk of the house as a contribution. Now, according to published letters from Johnson and replies from J. R. Nutt, Republican national treasurer, Johnson is insisting the money was only a loan. In one letter to Everett Sanders, chairman of the national committee, Johnson is quoted as saying: “I am sure you will feel that I have showed remarkable forbearance in holding off aggressive action until after the national convention.” SECOND STATE COUNTY ASKS U. S. PQOR LOAN Knox Officials Say Money Needed; Have Request Delayed. The second Indiana county to seek federal aid for poor relief funds was to appeal to Dr. John H. Hewitt, chairman of the Governor's unemployment committee today. W. H. Hill, chairman of the Knox county emergency relief committee, and Mayor J. W. Kimmeli of Vincennes, were to confer with Hewitt regarding the prospect of a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The request for a $1,000,000 loan by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to Lake county was made to Governor Harry G. Leslie early this week. Action was delayed because of lack of information. Hewitt announced. HONOR - SCHOOL - PAPERS Ft. Wayne and Marion High Publications Adjudged Best. By United Prexx BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Sept. 2. The Southside Times, published by Southside high school, Ft. Wayne, today was winner of the first division of sixth annual high school publication contest. The first division include* publications of six or more columns. First place in Division 2, for papers of four or five columns, was won by the Marion high school survey.

Radio Entertainers Will Present Fair ‘Barn Dance’

WLS Performers to Be Assisted by Artists from WKBF. They are the Three Little Maids. They still are in their ’teens, they really are sisters, and they began singing in churches and religious meetings. Now they're singing over WLS. Chicago radio station. They will be one of the features of the WLS National Barn Dance to be given Saturday night in the Coliseum at the state fairground. The Barn Dance was presented at the fair for the first time last year. In addition to the WLS performers who will take part in the dance, WKBF, Indianapolis station, will contribute a number of stars to the occasion. Both stations will broadcast the event. Entertainers will include: From WLS such stars as the Cumberland Ridgers Runners: the Maple City Four; the Arkansas Woodchopper; Hugh Cross, the Smoky Mounta:n Key and Linda Parker feminine mountain ballad singer; Ralph Waldo Emerson, organist; Bill Vickland. lay pastor of the Little Brown Church of the Air; Max Terhune. famous Anderson, Ind.. imitator and comic; Bill O'Connor. Irish tenor, and the Hoosier Sod Busters are scheduled for this show and broadcast, with Hal O'Halloran as master of ceremonies. WKBF performers who will be heard are Harry Bason. Vaughn Cornish. Louise Spillman. and the DeVors Sisters. Other WLS stars will appear on the program throughout the fair. STAMP PARLEY TO CITY More Than 200 Delegates to Attend Society's Session Here in 1933. Indianapolis has been selected for the 1933 four-day convention of more than 200 members of the National Precancel Stamp Society, it was announced today in Berkeley. Cal., at close of the organization’s annual meeting. The city was selected after invitations were extended by officials of the Indiana Stamp Club, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Governor Harry G. Leslie. Allan Vestal, attorney and member of the Indiana club, said Indiana has no branch of the national society, but is the home of B. G. Bushnell Sr., pioneer in the national organization's work and author of the first preeancel stamp catalog. Robbed of 51.75 and Cab Bandits who robbed Roscoe Johnson, 521 West Norwood street, taxi driver, of $1.75 and his cab in the 300 block Virginia avenue Thursday night, are sought today by police.

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POSTAL CLERKS WILLSONVENE 300 Delegates to Attend Regional Conclave. Attendance of 300 is expected Sunday and Monday when the Indiana branch of the United National Association of Postofficc Clerks will be host to regional meeting at the Antlers, with delegates attending from four other states, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Michigan. Honor guest and principal speaker will be Thomas F. Dolan. Boston, Mass., president of the national organization. O. M. Steven. Kokomo, is president of the Indiana organization.

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