Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1941 — Page 22

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MALAN WILL SPEAK "AT BURRIS FESTIVAL

Times Special MUNCIE, Tnd., March 26. —~ Dr Clement T. Malan, new State Superintendent of Public Instruction, will be among the principal speakers at the sixth annual Elementary Education Day Aprii 5 in Burris School at | the Ball State Teachers College. More than 500 teachers and administrators in eastern and northern JAMES FE. HELBERT Indiana are expected to attend. Dr. Times Special Writer [Robert C. Scarf of Ball State will JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 26.——Did the ridge- speak on “Implications of Recent runnin’, hound-dog raisin’, tobacco-chewin’ Ozark hill- Psychological Research,” at the billies of south Missouri slip a fast one over the slick ma- luncheon meeting. chines of ex-boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City and Mayor Problems to be discussed at the

Bernard F. Dickmann of St. Louis? [SNEIOUN. witedng include priviary

Irate D ocrats are acCus-] | reading, intermediate « grammar 1 Lei . Ps | reading, child guidance, speech coring the Ozark denizens of

| rection, the a-typical child, curricujust that as the Missouri Leg- lum changes, kindergarten activities, islature starts looking at vote

elementary science, recreational acfraud charges that may set

tivities, elementary history, prob- . . els lems in teaching arithmetic, creative a new national high In political baffoonery and election

activitie: and health in the elementary schools, skullduggery-—and jerk Republican Forrest C. Donnell from the Governor's mansion.

The sccusations range from buying votes with Ozark mountain dew and giving receipts to voters so that they could collect later for voting right, to herding voters over state lines into Missouri to vote Republican. The boiling gubernatorial row in Missouri appeared settled after the State Supreme Court ordered the Demoeratic-controlled Legislature to seat Donnell-—and right now-—as the first Republican Governor since, 1933. But that was only the beginning. No sooner did Donnell ease back in the executive chair than his bulky Democratic opponent and Sunday School teacher, Lawrence McDaniel, slapped down a contest petition larger than most city telephone di-

OZARKS POLITICS AMAZE CITY FOLK:

Slick Machines of Ex-Boss Tom Pendergast Shudder at Alleged Tactics of Their “Liquor Drinkin’ Mountain Men.

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{ “Sure we're hill-billies and proud | of it and no gol-durned bunch ‘of city dudes who stole all the votes in Kansas City and plenty of ‘em in St. Louis is going to smear us with! lies and get away with it.” Down in Howell County, home of Skaggs and Republican State Chairrectories and containing some of the Tyan Charles Ferguson, the Demo- . crats charge the G. O. P. unlawmost amazing charges of ballot fully established headquarters onl pilfering ever hurled in this land of ~ "¢ : . i ATUETS Gy the free. . eet from a voting booth, es . marched voters right into the polls, Voices Demacrats’s Wrath and paid them off with cash and Equally upsetting were attempts whisky. of McDaniel, labeled the “machine Republicans there set up a superand saloon” candidate by his foes, service for apathetic voters by to pin the thievery tag upon the carrying ballots to citizens too tired Republicans of the Ozark hill coun- or too busy to get to the polls, ties—the fountain-head of most of Democrats charge. the oratorical skinning given the . then high-flying Pendergast machine | Charges Double Fraud Christian County Republicans

a couple of year ago. Democratic wrath spilled over fod would make the Kelly-Hague-Tam-two reasons. First, Donnell won by many brand of vote-counting look only 3613 votes, while the rest of as outmoded as a home brew set, the G. O. P. state and national McDaniel insists. In Christian ticket was sunk by majorities rang- County, he said, they let them vote, ing up to almost 100.000 for Presi- then let them remove the ballots dent Roosevelt. from the box and change them tos Second, it was mighty important suit the G. O. P. for the Democratic state organiza-| Douglas County didoes really set tion, and especially the branch the Democrats afire. In that strongbossed by Mayor Dickmann, of St. hold of Republicans, Democrats Louis, to keep control of the gu- charge egg crates were stacked up bernatorial gravy bowl, a matter of to be used as polling booths, that an four or five thousand jobs. officer of the law handed ballots to Dickmann 1s running for a third Voters and watched them marked, and that one Republican judge

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term as Mavor, and if the Democrats lose the St. Louis City Hall counted the ballots without benefit their state power and Bennett of a Democrat watcher as provided Champ Clark's seat in the U. S. Sen- bv law ate will be gravely menaced. Not satisfied with such unconven-Vote-stealing and ghost-voting tional activities, G. O. P. stalwarts was once a thriving sideline of the in some counties rounded up willing Pendergast political firm, but now Workers in Kansas, Oklahoma and the city slickers shout that the clod- Arkansas, marched them across the hoppers make them look like an line and voted them for Donnell, the eighth grade class in good govern- Democrats charge. ment. « What the bays in the backroom Steamed a Kansas City statesman veally want to know, however, is and pool room oracle: “Sav, the whether the fiddle-playing corn title of that McDaniel petition ought growers have developed a technique to be ‘When It's Vote-Stealing Time that will revolutionize the ancient in the Ozarks, I'll Be Paying Off to art of ballot-box stuffing in the You.” bright light districts. The G. O. P. brethren down in - those parts and in the Legislature aren't angry about the Democrats WAR CORRESPONDENT pointing the finger of shame. Angry is too gentle an adjective. They are T0 SPEAK ON APRIL 1 “madder than a wet hen.” An off-the-record talk on his exA chief spokesmen for the heated periences covering the war front hill-billies Buford Skaggs, an will be given by Robert G. Nixon, angular Republican legislator from ynpternational News Service cordeep in the Ozarks with a voice respondent, at a dinner sponsored made for hog-calling. Says Skaggs: yu the Indianapolis professional : chapter of Sigma Delta Chi at the Athenaeum April 1. i The dinner will be open to all newspapermen of the state. Mr. | Nixon, recently transferred from | war service in England to the I. N.| S. Washington bureau, will include in his talk the dramatic ev acuation | of Dunkirk. Orien Fifer, president of the Hore fessional chapter, has named Donald D. Buchard, Butler University professor of journalism, as general hanan for the event, u. S. CIVIL SERVICE TESTS SCHEDULED Civil service examinations for several government positions were announced today by C. P. Bernhart, | 522 Federal Building, secretary of the Civil Service Board. The positions include: Expediter, marine propelling and outfitting equipment, $3200 a vear. U. S. Maritime Commission; head soil scien-| tist, $6500 a vear, Bureau of Plant Industry; junior engineering drafts- | Iman, $1440 a vear; bookbinder | (hand), $1.20 an hour, Government | Printing Office, and $10.08 a day,| Bureau of Engraving and Printing; | bockbinder (machine operations), [$1.20 an hour, Government Printing WALL PAPER & PAINT CO, | Office; junior stenographer, $1440 a vear, and junior typist, $1260 a {10 S. Penn.—RI-2772 year, for filling vacancies in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

There's a Rabbit Shortage for Rabbit Week

By HARRY MORRISON

Next week is National Rabbit Dinner Week and the fact is there can't possibly be enough rabbits in Indianapolis to go around. “For years, people have thought about rabbits only when they come out of a magician’s hat or as Raster Bunnies,” said John C. Fehr, of 1302 Woodlawn Ave. president of the American Rabbit and Cavy Breeders’ Association,

Secondly, said Mr. greatest fallacy about rabbits is their breeding habits. Three litters a vear is normal, but four is not uncommon. There are about 75 rabbit breeders in the city and county, most of them fanciers who won't be able to meet any extraordinary demand brought about by National Rabbit Dinner Week, said Mr. Fehr. Despite natural and habitual handicaps, rabbit people throughout the country are determined to bring Mrs, Housewife to think about rabbits in terms of a succulent Sunday dish instead of a nosetwitching hopper that hides eggs Rabbits are all white meat and taste like chicken. One good eating

Fehr, the

'baby buck will weigh about two pounds and will feed a table of five. A rabbit leg is just about like a turkey drumstick in size. The cost runs from 35 to 40 cents a pound. As a rabbit breeder of 35 vears’ experience, Mr. Fehr is certain the rabbit is a table delicacy. His only suggestion to the housewife: Order a rabbit now from your butcher. California is great rabbit-eating

country, he said. From Nov. 1 last year, until Jan. 15, there were more

than 2,000,000 pounds of the meat

eaten in Los Angeles County alone. The industry got its impetus out there, he thinks, from the lack of other meat, “That is probably the reason why peoplé haven't started eating rabbits throughout the country before,” said Mr, Fehr. “Our nation has been blessed with so many big things, we're just starting to notice our need of taking advantage of smaller things.” He thinks the day will come when needy families will breed rabbits for food, Just as they did before the present war in Europe. “You don't even need grain for feed.” he said

“The youngsters can cut grass for! them.” Domestic rabbit enthusiasts have had one long bugaboo from consumers about tularemia, the socalled rabbit fever that most persons believe is prevalent in domestic rabbits. “As a matter of fact,” said Mr Fehr, ‘there never has been a recorded case of tularemia in domestic rabbits.” And this point, incidentally was backed by the State Conservation Department, Tularemia was first noted several

years ago by a Utah veterinarian, | lof Indianapolis will join in the 18th lannual world-wide tribute

Utah and California had been having a strong case of interstate rivalry about their wild rabbits, so

the veterinarian, according to Mr, |

Fehr, named the fever he found, “tularemia” after Tulare County across the line in California, If the campaign to popularize rabbit food slumps, the fanciers will have a strong backlog in fur demand. Between 40 and 60 million pelts were used last year in the United States, and 95 per cent of these were imported. Now the market has heen nearly cut. off and it seems to be up to

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domestic producers to furnish the skins. One of the best ones, incidentally, is the “satin” skin, developed a few vears ago by Walter Huey of Pendelton. “All these actresses you see out in Hollywood wearing those srmine coats,” said Mr, Fehr, —"most of those coats are from rabbits like this white one Tere.”

NOTRE DAME GROUP TO HEAR BROADCAST

Members of the Notre Dame Club

to the University of Notre Dame April 12. The club will tune in on a national radio program Postmaster General Frank C. Frank Leahy, Notre Dame's new athletic director, and the Rev, J. Hugh O’Donriell, C. 8. C,, president, of the university, The radio hookup will emanate from Chicago, where the Most Rev, Samuel A. Stritch, D. D.. Archbishop of Chicago, will be a special guest of the Notre Dame Club of Chicago

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941

LAW SCHOOL SENIORS ELECT NEW OFFICERS

The election of senior class officers at the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis was announced today, Dav division officers are William J. Bradford, Indianapolis, president; Robert J. Prentice, Jeffersonville, vice president; J. Frank Durham, | Greencastle, secretary, and Kenneth 'E. Speicher, Indianapolis, treasurer, Evening division officers aie Charles V. M. Livengood, Covington, president; Kenneth L. Farnest, Rushville, vice president; Carl F, Henthorn, Indianapolis, secretary, and John M. Cutsinger, Franklin, treasurer, The officers will have charge of | arrangements for the annual alumni banquet June 3 and graduation exercises the next day. Selected as speakers were Samuel BE. Beecher, | Terre Haute, valedictorian, and Mr, Durham, Greencastle, alu mn 1 | speaker, representing the day divie sion. The evening division will he represented by Winfield J. Holland ar, Indianapolis, valedictorian, and Mr. Livengood, alumni speaker,