Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1933 — Page 2

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registration law tangle THROWS COUNTY ELECTION PREPARATIONS IN DEADLOCK Candidates Withhold Names, Fearing Court Wrangle; Party Leaders Adopt ‘Hands Off’ Policy in Row. BY JAMES A. CARVIN' Tira*s Writer While the Manon county political pot Is simmering in advance of the May primary election, one ingredient is lacking to bring the situation to the boiling point. Neither party nor prospective candidates appear to have any control over the situation created by failure of the Marion county council to provide funds for the permanent registration of voters.

Consequently, prospective condi - dates are withholding announcements of their willingness to have office thrust upon them until assured their efforts will not be in vain. None is willing to spend money to win the primary and, perhaps, the election unless certain that there will not be legal entanglements to hold them from their posts. ' Suppose that, after all the shooting is over, and officials are elected. the defeated party contests the election, on the ground that voters were not registered legally,’’ one prospective officeholder points out. “What then? Long months of litigation? Washing of a lot of political linen in the courts? "Not for mine, thanks. I’m going to wait until the situation is straightened out, - ’ concluded the candidate.

League to Bear Brunt It appears that each party is waiting for a nonpartisan group to take the first step, and the League of Women Voters has been selected to bear the brunt. Today, the Indianapolis league ■will meet to discuss the attitude to be adopted, although no indication has been given of the probable action. During recent legislatures, the league hammered away to obtain adoption of a permanent registration law, and this year secured the tacit indorsement of the McNutt administration. "No action has been taken by the state league,” Miss Florence Kirlin. executive secretary of the Indiana League of Women Voters, declared today. “The Indianapolis League, at its meeting today, will discuss a course of action, and later there i may be a unified state movement." j County Committee Mum Miss Kirlin has figures based on analysis of costs of registration in other states which are at wide va- j riance with the estimate of County Clerk Glenn B. Ralston. Registration equipment and assistance can be purchased at a cost t not greater than 15 cents a name. | the same figure advocated by William W. Spencer, state election j commissioner. The $104,000 request made by | Ralston and county commissioners ! is more than three times the league estimate. Ralston justifies his figures on the basis of selecting modern. up-to-date panel type, visible records. Card System Inefficient “We could put in an old-fash-ioned, card index system, but that would lay us open to error, mistakes in filing and a lot of trouble at election time,” Ralston said. Assurance that the Democratic, county committee would have none ■ of any argument over the registration law was given today by H. Nathan Swaim. county chairman. "There will be no official action by the county committee, either to enforce the law or resist it,” Swaim declared. Numerous political leaders and candidates, as individuals, have op- }

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posed the law on the ground that it is unnecessary in Marion county. Because of the evenly divided strength of each party, and their strenuous activities during election, party workers at the polls can be depended upon to check legality of votes, it Is said. Furthermore, it is pointed out, opposing candidates who run in elections without the registration of voters, will take the position automatically of ignoring the law, thus having little standing if they at- j tempt to raise a cry of illegality after being defeated. I Action of independent non- j political groups, which might not be I satisfied with election results, is to i be feared, the politicians admit. >

Times Vote Shows Old Traffic Sians Favored

Hick Town’ Brand Is Put on New System by Letter Writer. With scores of ballots received today by The Times from Indianapolis motorists and pedestrians who are voting on the city’s new downtown traffic system, not one vote i could be found for the new plan of traffic direction. Every vote received today was a demand for the return of the old semaphore system, instead of the j new plan in which the policemen move traffic by whistles only. Several of the voters, using the ballots printed in The Times, added letters to their votes. A typical : note read: “I enclose herewith my vote on traffic semaphores. Apropos of this | type of traffic control equipment being used only in hick towns, the use of such equipment in Washington. D. C„ provides an interesting i comparison. “In that village, on some inter- : sections traffic control officers are i supplied not only with a semaphore, but a platform with a railing and umbrella. It is evident that that town at least is more interested in efficient traffic control at certain congested intersections than the appearance or posture of the officer.” The new plan was put into effect by the safety board at the request of Traffic Captain Louis Johnson, who claimed traffic policemen were using the semaphores as leaning posts and that the system w r as a "hick town” plan away. Protests have been received all over the city, charging that the new system has slow r ed up traffic and that motorists are forced to come to a stop at every corner and to peer about for a glimpse of the policeman to learn whether to go or stop. The Times is giving every citizen a chance to vote on the question. Today’s ballot is on Page 20. Clip it out and send it to the Signal Tower. The Times. Another note accompanying a vote today said: "I certainly fail to see any advantage. Why w’e all are educated to go or stop with red and green signs and suddenly have them removed and something else foisted on a bewildered public is more than most of us can understand.

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By HE A Service NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—Frieda Hempel, famed singer, still mourns her little pet Pomeranian, “Toby,” $2,500 three-pound featherweight champ, which died this summer. He was buried in a tiny white satin coffin with forget-me-nots and roses

“This thing of having to look : about for a policeman—who may; be covered up by a car at times—is ' getting my goat.” Your vote may help change this j situation. What do you think about I it? The ballot is on Page 20.

R)VE FRANK BUCK lugged tons of rhinos, cobras, and gorillas across the Pacific to win his famous title, 111 l g-’em-back-alive Buck.” He has to keep his nerves healthy V 11l ow his strange occupation of capturing wild animals alive.’ papl,' \*: :> :v..y. : v4;:v. . • ABOVE —FRANK BUCK HAS SMOKED his way ETHER ON A'HOLIDAY,'or hard at work, around the globe with Camels. He says, “I am a steady s are the cigarettes for steady smoking.. Costlier tobaccos Camel smoker. Camels are milder, and they don’t jangla ke a difference. my nerves.” feady Smokers turn to Camels Frank BUCk ‘ - <<lt sa ob packed with thri Hs excitement, LJp ) and real danger. 1 never would have been able to populate J haI * tbe ZOOS in this cross the Pacific 20 times tons of savage live cargo, and save my own life a half 4H dozen times by quick action, if I didn’t have healthy mm picture <Brin S ’em Back Alive,’ but I can smoke all I want Camels are made from finer) because I smoke Camels. They don’t upset my nerves. I

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hand-painted on it, in Hartsdale, New York’s dog cemetery. Miss Hempel goes out there once a week to visit his grave and put fresh flowers on it. Her most-prized memento is a gold cigaret case on which Cartier’s engraved a picture of Toby.

BALLROOM WILL OPEN Indiana Roof, With Beer Bers, to Start Season Tonight. All dressed up with two new beer bars, the Indiana roof ballroom, under the management of Tom Devine, will open its season tonight at 8:30 o'clock. Frankie Trumbaeur and his orchestra will furnish the music for the opening week. Dancing tonight will continue untl 1 a. m. This season Devine announcer the table service will be free.

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Dll PONT HOPES NRA WILL WORK Doubts Wisdom, However, of Shortening Labor Hours to Great Extent. By United Preen WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 15 Pierre S. Dupont, in a letter made public today, said he was "hopeful of good results from the NRA program.” “But my personal opinion,” the head of the Dupont family wrote to

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Joseph H. Lieb of South Bend, Ind., “would not have led me to curtail the hours of labor to the extent planned. He suggested that "less political insistence” and less of a ‘ domineering attitude” on the part of those charged with the administration of the recovery act would be valuable. "Yet it is ungrateful,” he wrote, “to ask them to be a little more tolerant in view of their exasperation at delays. “The question is whether such a program can be put through without killing everyone in Washington connected with its administration.” Dupont said the physical strength of those in charge might not "survive the ordeal.”

Socialists Meet Tonight Meeting of the northwestern branch of the Socialist party will be held tonigt at 8 at Eugene street and

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