Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1932 — Page 4

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MINER RISES TO ‘KAISER’ ESTATE FROM PIT JOB Former Union Worker Now Rules Former Pals With Iron Hand. BY DANIEI w. KIDNEY Tim** Staff Writer TAYLORVILLE. 111., Oct. 19. That industrial is the Underlying cause of this Christian county warfare constantly is charged here by members of the Progressive Miners of America. Oddly enough, they point out the Kaiser as being Wardie C. Argust, superintendent of the Peabody Coal Corporation’s mines in this district and a former miner. To any listener they unfold the tale of Argust’s rise to power, “Where they claim he has forgotten entirely the plight of former fellow miners. Argust was a miner in one of the deep pits at Nokomis, a neighboring community, they explain. Conditions were bad and the threeman pit committee of the mine often was called upon to take complaints to the superintendent. The pit committee is in common usage for carrying 6f grievances under union rules. Boss s Hard-Boiled The Nokomis pine was operated under the union agreement with the United Mine Workers of America. When the men complained, pit committee members took the matter up, but always were defeated by a hard-boiled boss, the miners declare. So one day Argust got tired of the way things were going, the miners’ cause always being lost. "Let me be a one-man pit committee. I’ll show them,” he is said to have challenged his fellow workmen. After some talk about three men being necessary under the rules, they finally agreed and Argvjst became the pjt committee. It was his first taste of power. "He got us everything we asked,” one of the Nokomis miners admitted.

Starts Toward Top That was the start of a career that has reached its peak with the Peabody superintendency. He lives in a fine brick house at Taylorville and two sons who are mine bosses at Peabody shafts. But the miners contend that, he now is as “hard boiled’’ with them as he formerly was with the bosses. The Peabody mines, they declare, are filled with informers and a word against the conduct of their overlords results in immediate dismissal. Miners constantly are fined for dirty, coal,, they charge, and at the $5 daily scale two miners paid sl6 in two weeks through such fines. Peabody has signed the $5 wage contract with the United Mine Workers of America. Troops Called In 'Fight of the Progressives to prevent the old union miners from working for Peabody has brought the state troops here to prevent picketing. While- thus engaged, they have prevented any assembly of citizens on the streets or at meetings and jailed hundreds without trial. Many contend that Argust got Sheriff C. H. Weinike to call for the soldiers, following a small street fight. There are 450 of them here and virtual martial law prevails, although the sheriff and Colonel Robert W. Davis, in command, refuse to call it that. Weeks have elapsed since the troops came. Instead of quieting down, conditions are getting worse. A miner has been killed, soldiers insulted and beaten, and so one will hazard a guess as to the outcome. Aroused by Tax Citizens circulated petitions to have the soldiers removed. When it was reported that the Christian county taxpayers would have to bear the cost of billeting them, the wealthiest were aroused greatly. Later it was learned that the state of Illinois pays the bill and some of the larger taxpayers have signed petitions to keep the troops to protect property rights. The question has arisen as to how- long the troops will be necessary and what will happen if they are removed. The answer seems to be that eventually the troops must go and then the community will be right back where it started, and once again civil authority will have to solve the local problem. PHILOSOPHERS WILL CONVENE ON FRIDAY Annual Meeting of State Association to Be Held Here. Annual meeting of the Indiana Philosophical Association will be held Friday at the Indiana university extension center building, 122 East Michigan street, in connection with the state teachers’ meeting. Dr. Velorus Martz of the Indiana university school of education will open the program at 9:30 a. m. with a talk on “Pragmetic Truth Again" Professor G. H. Enss of Goshen, college will follow Dr. Martz with a paper on "The Relation of Philosophy in Relation to Christian Theology.” Discussions will be held after both talks. Luncheons will be held, in the Y. M. C. A. cafeteria. The afternoon session will begin at 2 with Professor Thomas K. Kelly. Earlham college, speaking on ‘•The Datum of Experience According to Professors Whitehead and Lewis.” Professor Carroll D. W. Hildebrand of De Pauw university then will speak on “Ernst Troeltsch’s Notion for Aprioritat.’’ DIAMOND PRICES RISING Increase Due to Buying of Gems, Says Geographic Society. By lnited Pm* WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 —Diamonds have gone up in price, partly because some people are turning their cash into gems, the National Geographic Society said in a survey today. It estimated that if the diamond holdings of the United States were divided equally, each family “would own between $l5O and S2OO worth qf diamonds.”

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—Photo bv Brrtzman. Colonel Richard Lieber ('left) posing for E. H. Daniels during the completion of the bronze bust of Lieber which will be unveiled id Turkey Run state park Nov. 13.

Tribute will be paid to the work of Colonel Richard Lieber, director of the state department of conservation, by seven Indiana groups, Nov. 13, in a public ceremony at Turkey Run state park. A bronze bust, creation of E. H. Daniels, Indianapolis sculptor, will be unveiled in a natural setting in the park. The bust characterizes Lieber as an outdoor man. Sponsors of the tribute are the Nature Study Club. Indiana Audubon Society, the Fish, Game and Forpst League, the ten-year conservation plan committee of the Isaac Walton League, the state conservation committee of the Indiana department of the American Legion, and the Marion County Fish and Game Protective Association. Arrangements for the tribute has been in the hands of William A. Myers, president of the Indiana Nature Study Club; Earl Brooks, president of the Indiana Audubon Society, and Howard M. Meyer.

RECORD VOTE IS SEEN BY ELECTION CHIEFS Numerous Precincts Are Calling for Extra Machines to Speed Up Count. Calls from various precincts for extra voting machines caused county election commissioners today to prepare for a record turnout of voters at the November election. Commissioners had planned one machine in each the 331 precincts. However, some voting places are requesting two machines, commissioners said. Contract for hauling machines to voting places will be let by county commissioners Thursday. The county owns 345 voting machines, which have been put in order by Fletcher Meisner of Anderson, factory representative. Ballots and machine labels are in the hands of printers and soon will be off' the presses. Commissioners, aiming to provide for unexpected break downs of voting machines, have ordered 15,000 Australian ballots. Seven party tickets will appear on the ballots, although only six complete county tickets have been filed. The Socialist-Labor party did not file a county ticket. One hundred and ten hospitals in the United States closed their doors in 1931, mainly as a result of the business depression.

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ARMY ASSIGNMENT LIST ANNOUNCED Numerous Promotions in Reserve Forces Made Public. New assignments, appointments and promotions affecting the regular army and organized reserve in Indiana have been announced by the Fifth army corps area headquarters, Ft. Hayes, Columbus, O. The following second lieutenants have been promoted to first lieutenants: Murvin G. Chester of Ft. Wayn*. infantry reserves; James E. Goddard of Earmersbuna. engineer reserves, and Charles N. Moores, 27 West St. Joseph street cavalry reserves. First, lieutenants advanced to captaincies include Guv A. Owsley of Thorntown, medical reserves; Alexander H. Arbuckle of Brownsburg, field artillery reserves; Alvin W. Holmes of Muncie, field artillery, and James S. Merritt of the Howe school at Howe, infantry reserves. Sergeant Harry M. on duty with the reserve officers training corps at the high schools in Gary, has been ordered to Ft. Harrison for discharge from the army and re-enlistment Nov. 10. Appointment to the infantry reserves has been accepted by; ..Kenneth H. Bledsoe of Jeffersonville: Herbert B. Murnan of Anderson and Lloyd B. McVey of Crawfordsville as second lieutenants; Kiefer C. Ober of Gfeenup, Orville D. Cantwell of Frankfort and Gustave N. Fischer of Evansville, first lieutenants, and Richard P. Wainscott of Frankfort, captain; to the quartermaster reserves; Lee W. Godfrey of Jeffersonville, second lieutenant, and up to the field artillery reserves; Paul R. Samuelson of Bedford and Arthur E. Walters of Terre haute, both second lieutenants.

VISUAL EDUCATION COURSE IS OFFERED More Than 12,000 Slides Available to Churches and Clubs. More than twelve thousand slides and illustrations are available in the new visual education course being offered to churches, clubs and civic organizations by Butler university under direction of Alden H. Bailey of the division of evening and extension courses. The equipment, gathered by Dean Albert E. Bailey on his many trips around the world, \will illustrate courses in the Old and New Testaments, native life, archaeology, history and hymnology. Special subjects illustrated include views of the Holy Land, and hundreds of subjects of geographical and historical importance. More than four thousand slides concern the nativity of Christ. By communicating with Dean Bailey information can be received concerning the slides and availability of the various collections.

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CHINA SET TO ASK HELP IN FIGHTFOR LIFE League and U. S. to Be Urged to Take Her Under 'Combined Wing. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Srripp*-How*rd Foteirn Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—When China begins her battle for life before the League of Nations at Geneva three weeks from next Mon- j day, it is understood she will stake; everything on three cards. 1. She will accept the Lytton re- ; port as her own brief, and ask the league and the United States to act j in accordance with its findings. 2. She will ask the league and the United States to take her under their combined wing and protect her during rehabilitation along the lines laid down by the late Dr. Sun Yat-Sen. 3. If Japan refuses voluntarily to give up Manchuria—and the Chinese do not expect her to do so— China will demand sanctions lor intervention). By the first play, the Chinese feel, the league powers and the United’ States would have to repudiate their own representatives, wreck their own peace machinery and disavow their own solemn treaties to let China down. By the second, China would gain the safety of numbers. That is, she virtually would make the entire world responsible for her national security pending the perilous period of her necessary reconstruction. By the third, the Chinese believe, they will be able to recover their three eastern provinces. Without sanctions, they are convinced Japan will not give up her loot. By sanctions, the Chinese do not necessarily mean force. Moral and economic pressure, they assert, should be sufficient to bring Japan to terms in view of her present ecomic plight. By way of sanctions, the Chinese

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are expected to ask the United States, Russia and the league powers not to sell munitions to Japan. They will be asked not to lend Japan money. Since July, 1931, Japan’s gold reserve has shrunk to half, it is pointed out—from $425,000,000 to $215,000,000. TJie yen has dropped from 50 cents to less .than 24. A $300,000,000 par value loan has proved too big for domestic absorption. A foreign loan, the Chinese claim, soon will become imperative if Japan is to stay in Manchuria. The powers will be asked to withdrawn their ambassadors and ministers from Tokio to bring home to Japanese public opinion the fact of the world’s unity against their army-government’s big stick program. The Stimson doctrine of nonrecognition, in Chinese opinion, will not be enough. Japan, it is claimed, could withstand such a negative attitude. The world forgets quickly, and the demands of international trade are too insistent to permit years to- roll by without the nations, one by one, extending recognition to Manchukuo. There is a pyramid outside the City o' Mexico that in ground area exceer o any pyramid in Egypt.

NOV. 7IS SET ! AS DEADLINE TO PAY UP TAXES ! Sexton Urges Appearance Early in Order to Avoid Last-Minute Bush. Notice to taxpayers that 4 p. m. Monday, Nov. 7, is the deadline for paying fall taxes was given today by Timothy P. Scxtcn, county treasurer. Sexton urged taxpayers to pay early and avoid the rush, which will overload his office force with work on the 'final day. He estimated that payment of taxes this fall is 25 per cent slower i than former years. . Although new tax laws are to be tested in court, taxpayers, who owe delinquencies, were advised to prepare to take advantage of a “moratorium” by paying the fall installment of taxes when due. The "moratorium provision" w r ould ; enable delinquents to pay taxes in ! ten installments extending to 1938. I This applies to delinquencies on taxes for 1929. 1930 and the first inI stallment of 1931. "Taxpayers should bring tax re--1 qeipts of the spring installment : when they call to pay fall taxes as | it will facilitate matters consider- j ably,” Sexton stated. He called attention to his previous warning that taxpayers examine tax duplicates carefully. “See that all personal and poll, tax is included in the fall assessment. Be sure to procure duplicates | for these two, also Barrett law and special tax, if any exist,” he said. Books Given to College The Indiana Central college li- j brary today announced receipt of j a collection of forty books from the ■ Rev. Frank G. Browne, retired minister of the North Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference, i One volunfe printed in 1786 is ai j the list.

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of mines revealed today. The output was a gam of 39,000 tons over the previous week. For the first time in many months, the production was greater than in the corresponding period of last year. In 1931. the output for the corresponding week was 257.000 tons.