Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 241, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1934 — Page 3

FEB. 16, 1934

‘MACHINE-MADE' LOYALTY M'NUTT FACTION GOAL Drastic Rule Changes Are Proposed to State Committee. Discipline, similar to the ‘machine made" loyalty which marks the regime of Governor Paul V. McNutt at the statehouse, will be demanded of the entire Democratic party organization, if proposed new rules are adopted by the state committee tomorrow. The committee was called into session by Chairman Carleton B. McCulloch for the announced purpose of dealing with the election commission finding that no provision is made under the present election law for city committees. A set of proposed new rules, which deals with setting up a city committee through the county organization. was sent to each member of the state committee for study. In the prospectus were other changes, however, including the somewhat revolutionary provision of removal “for cause" of any county, district or state chairman. This could be donp after a hearing and by two-thirds vote of the party organization over w hich the chairman presides. “Causes" Are Outlined “Causes” for removal, as set out in the plans mailed to members by Keith Johns, state committee secretary, are as follows: Neglect of duty; disloyalty to the party or any of its nominees or regularly elected officials; failure to comply with the rules of the party and the election laws of the state of Indiana; failure to co-operate with other officers of the party and any or all other charges which may result from actions of such county or district chairman or other offirer against the best interests of the party. These are charges largely made by the McNutt men against R. Earl Peters. Ft. Wavne, when he was state chairman. Mr. Peters resigned, but they claim that had he not done so they would have forced him out. As to "neglect of duty,” they charged that he failed to call his committee and report on party progress. They also alleged that he was “disloyal" in that he made state headquarters a haven for critics of the McNutt administration, whom, they declare, largely were disgruntled through disappointment in trying to pick patronage plums. Greenlee. McNutt Speak Pleas Greenlee, McNutt patronage secretary, constantly charged that Mr. Peters, as chairman, failed to co-operate in patronage matters and tried to capitalize on disappointments for his own personal political advantage. Mr Peters, upon resigning, announced his candidacy for the United States senate nomination. He is reported, thus far, to be “leading the field" in rank and file popularity among those who have announced or intend to do so. At a Ninth district Democratic meeting at Batesville yesterday afternoon, Mr. Greenlee appeared to explain to the administration critics that there really were but 3.000 state jobs for the 50.000 applicants. Governor McNutt addressed a rally there last night, and again stated that he is not a senatorial candidate. Mr. Peters and other candidates and state officials present were introduced. METALS SOCIETY MEETS Drop Forging Discussed by Chicago Man at Session. Effects of overheating in drop forging formed the topic of the illustrated address given by Adam M. Steever. Chicago, technical director of the Lindberg Steel Treating Company, at the dinner of the Indianapolis chapter. American Society of Metals, in the Columbia Club last night.

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BUCK' SUMNER URUPS HAT IN MAYOR 'RING' Sheriff Puts Himself Down as Seeking Nomination of Democrats. Tacitly assuring his supporters he still is a Democrat and not a political free lance. Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner last night put himself on record as seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor. The genial sheriff's bid for office was made at a rally at the Paramount Club in old Germania park, and 1,000 to 1.200 adherents launched the Sumner political ship on a sea of foamy beer. Sheriff Sumner's assurance that he still is a Democrat was due, it was indicated, to reports that he might run for mayor as an independent and might be rewarded for this blow at party disharmony by a Republican appointment as police chief, if the Coffin-Armitage faction of the G. O. P. succeeded in putting over its candidate as a result of a Democratic split. Sheriff Sumner’s talk was short and to-the point. He said he was a candidate and that he “would be an ingrate if he did not run, in view of the many pledges of support he had received.” Pledge cards were passed out at the meeting and many of them were signed. Tom Riley, who was a safety board member under the Bell regime, presided at the rally and short talks were made by Miss Julia Landers, county safety director, and L. K. Murchie, deputy sheriff. Among those who attended, but who did not address the crowd, were Probate Judge Smiley Chambers, Gar Davis, reported candidate for sheriff; City Clerk Henry O. Goett; Joel Baker, criminal court investigator; Russell Dean, deputy prosecutor, and many precinct committeemen. CHILD LABOR MEASURE FACES FIGHT IN EAST Massachusetts Legislators Group Opposes Ratification. By United Press • BOSTON, Feb. 16.—A Massachusetts legislative committee has voted seven to three against ratification of the proposed child labor amendment to the federal Constitution, making it a practical certainty that the present legislature will refuse to ratify. VISIT EASTERN SCHOOL Dr. Dunkel and Wife See Son Embark on Tour. Dr. and Mrs. J. Ambrose Dunkel have returned from a visit to Princeton university, of which Dr. Dunkel is a trustee. While in the east, they went to New York to see their son, Wilbur Dunkel. sail for England. Mr. Dunkel will spend several months abv6ad while completing a book on Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, English dramatist. The title of the book will be “Sir Arthur Pinero and the Modern Theater.”

SWIMMERS CAN THANK CWA FOR ENLARGED MUNICIPAL POOL

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When the summer's hot sun begins to beat down on sweltering citizens, they can thank the Civil Works Administration for the new Twenty-sixth street municipal bathing beach. It is the first CA project to be completed in Marion county. Joseph H. Schneider was project superintendent. Work commenced Dec. 11 and an average of 375 men a day have been employed. The capacity of the beach has been increased from 5,000 to 25,000 bathers.

G. OF C. PLEAOS FOR AIR MAIL Directors Urge Action to Preserve Service for This Vicinity. A resolution urging every effort be made to preserve air mail and passenger traffic through Indianapolis, was adopted yesterday by directors of the Chamber of Commerce. Stating that Indianapolis has invested more than $750,000 in building an A-l-A municipal airport, and that the local Chamber of Commerce continuously has been instrumental in establishing air mail and passenger service between this and other cities, the resolution “urges that every effort be made to preserve this service without diminution or cessation.” Copies of the resolution will be sent to Washington. ALLIANCE FRANCAISE GIVES TWO COMEDIES Presentation Features Group Dinner-Meeting. Presentation of two French comedies featured the dinner-meeting of the Alliance Francaise at the Hotel Washington last night. Mrs. Jeanne Morlock, Professor C. E. Aldrich, Dr. Murray DeArmond, Edward J. Meunier, Roland Lambert and Miss Louise De Mart had the principal roles. Mrs. R. O. Papenguth was the director.

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CITY SOCIALISTS VOTE SYJPATHY Action of Austrian Party Praised Highly in Resolution. Sympathy for Austrian Socialists was expressed in a resolution adopted last night by the Marion county central committee of the Socialist party. Their resistance to the Dollfuss government was described as a “battle to maintain democracy and the cultured civilization they have built strenuously in years past, and for which Vienna and other Austrian cities long have been noted." The resolution, made public by George J. Lehnert, chairman of the local committee, urged workers everywhere to emulate their example and concluded with an appeal “to be ever alert to combat the menace of Fascism and all capitalist dictatorships.” HARVARD UNIVERSITY OFFERS 5 FELLOWSHIPS Indiana Included In Section Under Prize Requirements. Five fellowships, with maximum stipends of $1,200 annually, are being offered by Harvard university in a middle-western section of six states including Indiana, according to an announcement today by James Bryant Conant, president of the university.' These fellowships, which are open both to those entering Harvard under college board requirements and those entering under the Harvard upper seventh plan, are. the first steps toward creation of a system of “Prize Fellowships” at the Massachusetts university which, it is planned, eventually will include 15 per cent of the student body.

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COPS DYNAMITE s ' RIVER. HUNTING* MURDERED BOY Father Admits Slaying Son, Chucked Body Under ’ Ice, Police Say. By United Press k ROCKFORD. 111., Feb. 16.—Au- 5. thorities today prepared to dyna- * mite the ice of Rock river in their , search for the body of Charles ; Backus, Jr.. 8. alleged to have been slapped to death by his father. Police claimed a written confes- > sion from Backus Sr. The father, y part Indian huckster, was first ac- I cused by his two stepdaughters and ’ his wife of having killed his sickly son and disposed of the body. Backus led officers to a recently . frozen over airhole in the middle of the river lest night and sobbed "he’s down there.” The airhole was * the spot to which Backus brought * the body a week ago last Wednes- * day and "chucked" it through the ; ice. State's Attorney Robert E. Nash - said the January grand jury would . be stunmoned to hear the case, if £ the boy’s body was found today. • Backus’ purported statement told - of the boy's death as follows; ' "When Charlie came home he was . white and sick. My wife and I * quarreled with him over changing his clothes. I hit Charlie in the > face. He fell on the floor and looked pale and dizzy. He didn’t get up *• right away and we put him on the bed and gave him salts and soda and rubbed his stomach. "Then I got scared. I picked Charlie up. He was dead. I carried . , him out of the front door and ", placed him in my truck. I drove ’ down to the river, parked the truck • ! and carried him across the ice to - the middle, where I chucked him in. : “I was scared. Who wouldn't be? f He must have died from the r poisoned candy he was eating. I *g want to die in the electric r chair.” Bacbus’ reference to poisoned candy went unexplained. The 48-year-old huckster was examined by £ Dr. E. W. Fell, an alienist, who re- * ported he was sane but feebleminded. I Backus forced other members of : his family to claim that the boy - had been kidnaped, according to his I stepdaughter, Pauline, 16, and Doro- * thy, 14. PERSIAN MOHAMMEDAN i POWER SAID WANING Church Fellowship Addressed by , Cincinnati Resident. Mohammedanism as a political ; force in Persia is on the decline, as- J serted Pere S. Benjamin of Cincin- ; nati and a native of Persia, at a * fellowship dinner at the Broadway M E. church last night. The high priests of Mohammedanism had more power in Persia at * one time than did the governors, he j. said. Mr. Benjamin described de- J tails of the religion which he stated Mohammed formed from religious philosophy of both the Old and I New Testaments.