Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1939 — Page 2

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yin Be 75 Per Cent of Voters

Favor Continuance of T0 BEGIN JAN. 1 Dies Committee Inquiry |

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County Treasurer's staff were an- SH By DR. GEORGE GALLUP nounced today by Treasurer-elect : Director, American Institute of Walter Boetcher. : Public Opinion Mr. Boetcher, who takes office Bn ; i PRINCETON, N. > Dee. 15.—Re- ¥ ring . in- \ a cent criticisms of the Dies investi-| Jan. 1, replacing Frank E. Me Rin eon By Gs President and Mis. ney, yesterday announced the re- 3 Roosevelt and other New Dealers | appointment of Albert L. Koesters | have caused sentiment for continuas chief deputy. JE. ling the Dies Committee to decline A | slightly, but a large majority of 5 | voters still want to see the investi- |} Today Mr. Boetcher announced N /gation go on. the following re-appointments: i { These facts are George Kirkhoff, assistant chief tional survey 2 deputy; John T. Fogarty, cashier; | completed by the James Cross, assistant cashier; | American InstiFrank Slutsky, intangible ae [tute of Public Frank Ballman, bank bookkeeper; | Opinion. AMERICAN Charles Slinger, chief clerk, Barrett Oo the present Sin Law Department, and E. V. Mann, | time, 75 per cent delinquent tax collector. i lof those who have In announcing his staff for 1940, lan opinion about the investigation Mr. Boetcher said six persons will be |think the Dies Committee should be ald off In the delinquent fax ae- ‘continued. The issue put to the partment because of new electric voters was: “Should Congress pro- ! bookkeeping machinery now being EN vide money to continue the Dies installed in the treasurer's office.; FUSER $ ‘Committee another year?” ConThe County Tax Adjustment Board | = *% |gressman Martin Dies of Texas is ! lopped salaries of six workers from | —— seeking an appropriation, when the Treasurers budget on anticipa- | ; 3 Congress convenes in January, to tion of savings through the new WEES : ‘extend the investigations into 1940. | equipment. . | : | The Institute has on two previous | The appointments Incl lude only! RB RR 5 occasions sounded the publics atone new employee, Miss Helen Man- | 3 'titude toward the Dies Committee. |: nix, who has been employed under! u |A year ago 74 per cent of voters} the Park Department. : with views on the subject favored; 41 on Staff Inquisitor Martin Dies . . . ‘continuing the Committee. : The 1040 staff in the Treasurer's: stogie and wrinkled brow are part | Six weeks ago 79 per cent with office will total 41 persons, ii of his standard equipment. { opinions on the investigation were ing Mr. Koesters. in favor of continuation. In this > study it was found that when voters

Clerks and other deputies ve-ups| gy AY : pointed by the new Treasurer fol-| (were divided into three groups— low: Josephh Rathz, Arthur Be {those in favor of continuing the |;

John O'Connor, Pauline Cook, Clar | Committee, those opposed to con-

Hilkene, Ann Petit, Jesse Settle | |tinuation, and those who had not |: Rosella Harden, Catherine Marshall, | ‘heard or read of the Committee or Alice Weaver, Alma Blum, Louise] ‘had no opinion—the group favoring

George, Nell Layden, Elizabeth | | Continuation Joined a majority, or a ib can ee cae) dust Youn M Zener, Blanche Ra S a Lohan Josephine Wade, 62 Prominent went Leaders Say completed when President Roosevelt Theodore Hurst, M. Henry Cain,| : : criticized the Committee, describing ome Evie, Suber Sper Ta QUiZ Thveatens Rights jos a Sorid movedurs is pubics ward Greene, James cGovern, : ar ! Ss 5 - Herman Bauer, William E. O'Neill, of Minorities. ent employees seized in the files Joseph Bisesi, Eugene Watson, John | S——— of the League for Peace and De-

Donnelly and George e Zimmer man. | npw YORK, Dec. 15 (U. P).--A Rh pe “front” for the

‘group of 62 educators, Solent Reactions Compared

{writers and other public figures isSteal So Kin suet a statement vesterdayv SayinR] The Institute announced at the i : time that it would conduct another

y ’ that the Bill of Rights “must apply survey to test the bode yh / s 3) st public's reaction Ww on t Sta roe to rights of all Americans or it will to the criticisms by the President

{prove a cheat to all.” ,and others. ' es | “we r ize the following blunt! A comparison of sentiment beTemes Special | y “ smi . : giv fore and after the President's reMARION. Ind. Dec. 15—One facts,” the statement said: marks follows: egg for the breakfast of five hun- | “1. That the Dies Committee is Continue the Dies Committee? rv persons talking openly of the suppression of y No g gC | dissident groups and in this has se- 1 os ANS, That's the story Marion detec l.ureq the support of influential| Six Weeks Ago.... 79% 21% tives uncovered when they inves newspapers. Today Rslennatlar ¥S 3 tigated the attempted sale of stol- Vigilantes Scored A sharp decline in the number of abelitilkih . ’s. 14 and : : _ _ | voters expressing no opinion on the en property by two boys, 14 and | «3 That open incitement to vigi- Dies Committee is noted in the sur16. {lante activity against labor, miner-|veys. A year ago 41 per cent said |!

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The boys said their father had |ity ragical groups, national and re-|they had not heard or read of the |

deserted the motherless family of |jicious groups is increasing in this four and that their aged grand- ems ps ing Committee or had no opinion on it,

{ as compared to 28 per cent today. mother had been trying to care | «3 That various discriminatory] Among those voters who think || for them. . : and repressive measures against the |the Committee should continue, the That morning, they said, the 'sorejgn.horn have been passed by|chief reason given are that “people five of them divided one egg IO {he House of Representatives and need to have their eves opened to breakfast. The boys said they {have become law in many states. things that are going on in this stole to try to get money for food | «we feel compelled to speak out country,” that the nation should for their younger brother and ‘sharply at this moment. When forces| “get to the bottom of un- -American | sister and their grandmother. |exist, as we believe they do now activities especially with war going The detectives released them |eyist whose objective effect—if not! on abroad,” and that “we should put and saw that the family had [heir secret purpose—is in the the fear of God into the Commubread, butter, beans, rolls, meat |gestruction of civil liberties, blind- nists.” and some Seda, ot Jum. A doz- |ness to facts, pious protestations of Some Charge Bungling oR EE So round iis way into | liberalism become mockery, and! voters who want to see the Com- ; failure to speak out courageously be- mittee discontinued declare that it comes criminal. | ‘hasnt accomplished anything.”

WAR, SAYS SIMS, | Bemoan Witch Hunts that the “basic kiea is good but the, Committee has bungled the job” or “The objective effect, furthermore. i ; TO ME SEEMS SIN is to create war hysteria and to Becta vteresting Ages.

incite witch hunts at a time when; > " = vision of sentiment by litical LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—John unity for peace in the face of in- parties. A large Oly Pe -

Sims, tractor driver and preacher ternational events is a condition for . ” of Ebbw Vale, appeared before the our further progress as a nation o Lawn a to) a South Wales Conscientious Objectors free men.’ ‘mittee should be continued. And,! tribunal and bolstered his claim for, Among the signers were Prof.! |despite opposition of certain New | military exemption by reading a bit Farnz Boaz, anthropologist; Prof.| peg] Jeaders to the Dies group, senti- | 3 of verse, (Gordon W. Allport of Harvard; ment among the rank and file of| It went: Theodore Dreiser, novelist, and Prof.| pemocratic voters is also strongly |}

0 r “As for war. I calls it murder. EN ey oi Nobel | (72 per cent) in favor of continuing

“There you have it, plain and flat, | the investigation. “I don’t want to go no further In order to determine whether |

“Thay my testament for that. ‘AMERICAN ELIZABETH [voters who oppose continuing the

“If you take a sword and draw it, Committee are against the whole} “Then go stick a fellow through, DONATES T0 =S TO ENGLISH idea of the investigation or are “Government won't answer for it, | merely dissatisfied with the way the]

“G " 3 : ota | Dies up has conducted it, the]: ed will sera) vie oil 0 Yi: | LONDON, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Prin- | Institute ted a second survey. | {cess Elizabeth yesterday forwarded |

R. H. THOMPSON GETS jo the Christmas Treat Fund for| Voters Given Three Alternatives : ndon’s 300,000 evacuated children This question gave the voter the | RETAILERS’ POSITION a dollar sent by 11-year-old “Eliza- choice between three alternatives— | ——————-—- et of Reading, Pa. [to put the investigation in the hands CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. Dec. about poet ot in the movies of another committee, to continue

how school children: have the Dies Committee as at present, 15 (U. P.).—Russell R. Thompson, heen moved from London to the 5s drop the whole AT Cg

secretary of the Crawfordsville country to keep them out of 3 8 Chamber of Commerce, has been ap- danger and wish you would get a: le Tasie Woided IR bis vali pointed field secretary of the As- your mother and father to let you | committee is exactly the same—75 sociated Retailers of Indiana, come over to this country where it| or cent, while the opposition vote is | SRECHvE Ya. 25: Is Safe’ the American girl wrote. divided about equally between the He will be succeeded by Glenn| “We have a big house. You coul ther t Ite we Maple, secretary of the La Porte stay with us” The American girl|® EE Cran ith onini Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Thomp- addressed her letter to Princess | 8 Voie 9 ew opinions son has been secretary here for 11 Elizabeth, care of King George VI, follows: years, while Mr. Maple has been at London, England. She did not give | “What is your opinion regarding La Porte for nine years. {her last name. | the Dies Committee?” es Congress should appoint some other committee to do the

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