Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1942 — Page 19

NON-WAR

House Pair Fires on Fancy

Agriculture Year Books, |

Pullman-Car Farming. By THOMAS L. STO | / | Times Special Writer | | WASHINGTON, March §—The use of representatives is growing conscious of the rising grumble from ‘taxpayers back home unnecessary government expenditures in non-defense agencies, "a feeling intensified by the near a; ch of income tax day. For the second successive day, Democratic leaders had to recess the house last night to check a revolt which had cut deeply into:

-. agriculture department appropria-

tions for books and pamphlets, -Which many members testified farm‘ers never read, and for ex_perts who make surveys and | draw graphs when all the farmer is asked to do is to grow all he can tp feed . the world. : _ ‘The rebellion was led two younger members, a Democrat, Rep.

| | - Monroney of Oklahoma, and ap Re-

+ > publican, Rep. Dirksen of a. |» ‘Amazed Over Budget

"It all started when Rep, [Mon- , roney improved his time at home in ‘Washington’s first all-night black-

. out by poring through the |agri- *.- culture bill and the budget cover, with amazement, that it was]

dis-

proposed to spend $16,183,959 in the next fiscal year for travel expenses of officials and employees of the agriculture department. This pullman-car farming was too much for him. He sat down and drafted amendments cut this allowance in half. It | took - more than 30 amendments, as travel pay . was authorized for different bureaus, services and bran . He sprang his|first amendment on the house Wednesday and won enough support by. his argument that, in [hese times when men, women and |children are scraping up their p es to buy defense stamps and bonds,

agriculture bureaucrats me cut

* flown on their train-riding, or send

' one man instead of two before, or even ride in.upper berths or day coacnes, : . Amendment Barely Beater The display. of revolt in the house disturbed the bulky Rep. Tarver (D. Ga), in ch of the bill, so he promptly when it met yesterday ralli Supporters to deféat the first Toney amendment, 112 to 97. ° But Mike Monroney is a ent Bentleman. He tried

the ho and d his

t+: _ another travel item, only to

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40 to 46. | ! _ "Rep. Dirksen is aiming at| the _agtituljlire - department's bulideine its pamphlets

fancy yeat-book, as well as ’ its

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" Jarid, secretary, at nual meeting for setting up th , Schedules. The 1942 racing will be approximately the “those offered last year, .

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40 and 8 Ritual Team

| INSPIRE REVOLT

o get its accepfance| |

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at-arms; Don 'T. Hoover, second

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Returns 6th Time to Home |g

The degree team of Voiture 145, the 40 and 8, will act as the ritual | team at the public initiation of Irvington Post 38 at 7:30 p. m. today" at Howe high school. Left to right are James Fortney, first vice-com-mander; Harold S. Frown, post commander; Norbert Pick, sergeant-

vicé-commander, and Ralph Klare,

commander. Henry Woehlecke, chaplain, is not in the picture. \

'P.).—Thomas J. Mooney, veteran labor figure who served 23 years in prison on charges of dynamiting the Preparedness Day parade at ‘San Francisco in 1916, died at St. Luke's hospital early today after a long illness. ; Mooney, 58, underwent a major abdominal operation Monday, +his fourth since his release from San Quentin prison on Jan, 7, 1939. He has been in the hospital most of the time since he was pardoned by Governor Culbert L. Olson, ' At his bedside were his “brother,

His wife, Rena, who took an active part in his fight for freedom, was not present. They separated soon after Mooney was freed.

Called ‘Labor Martyrs’

| His friends in the labor movement—the A. F. of L., the C. I. O. and the railroad brotherhoods—will make arrangements for the funeral, to be held within the next two or three days. Mooney and his companion, Warren K. Billings, were regarded as “labor martyrs” to millions throughout the world. They were convicted of first degree murder for allegedly throwing a bomb into the Preparedness Day parade. Ten persong were killed and 40 were hurt. First. sentenced te hang, Mooney

‘| was saved from death Dy intercession of President Woodrow Wilson.

Billings Also Freed

Billings, whose sentence was commuted by Governor Olson, was sentenced to life imprisonment, | For many years the ‘Mooney case” was before the highest courts. of the land but always his pleas were denied. Billings received less publicity and quietly served his term in Folsom Prison. when Mooney filed another pardon ‘application, James J. Walker, then mayor of New York, came to San Francisco to plead for the pair, but Governor James Rolph denied them pardons. The U. S. supreme court refused to interfere and it was not until Mr, Olsen took office that Mooney and Billings saw freedom ahead. | Five presidents of the United

By William Ferguson

John, ‘and his sister, Anna Mooney. |’

Tom Mooney, Convicted of World War |

SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (U.|-

Bombing, Dies

Tom Mooney as he left prison after 23 years.

States and five governors of California, besides the courts, were asked to intervene in the case, which produced one of the bitterest controversies ever to sweep the nation. 3 Mooney’s champions said he was a victim of “the most - colossal frame-up in United States history.” He and Billings contended they were victims of perjured evidence, that the pre-war hysteria in San Francisco forced the prosecution to find a “goat” for the affair, and that they became the victims. Mooney, born to an Irish laboring family at Chicago in 1883, began work as a labor orga in 1906, supported: Eugene V. bs of Terre Haute, Ind.,- perennial Socialist candidate for the presidency, in a swing around the nation, and, after meeting Billings in 1913, led a strike against the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. at.San Francisco. ° A militant, ready-tongued labor leader, he was arrested in 1913 (on what he called a frame-up) for possession of dynamite, but was acquitted after three trials.

WAR PLANT BLAST PROBED BY KNUDSEN

(U; P.).—Lieut. Gen. Wiliam 8 Knudsen today investigates the sec-

ordnance plant within three months while workmen who saw the broken carry on in undamaged units of the apparently claimed 20 lives,

Although work on one shell loading line was interrupted by the ex-

Consider People Versus Freight

WASHINGTON, March 6 (U. P.).—Are people more important than freight? : That was a side issue discussed at the senate investigation of the rubber situation by Price Administrator Leon Henderson. The question was raised when Mr. Henderson said taxicabs had a class B rating for tires and stood little or no chance of getting tires.

Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.), noting that trucks were in Class A, asked: ; : “Aren’t people more necessary than freight?” “People have more ingenuity than freight,” Mr, Henderson re--plied. “You mean they, have more legs than freight,” Senator Connally

TWO FORGET FAMILY * FEUD, JOIN MARINES

CHARLESTOWN, W. Va., March| 6 (U. P.).—A Hatfield and a McCoy|

|—8 couple of happy mountain boys ~—today | bordering the Tug river in southern | West Virginia and fi their fam-

came down off -the hills|:

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has a scar on his right cheek.

Once he called at the house, knocked d#hd represented himself

as a salesman.

Police reported a previous call last night to the 2600 block, Carrollton ave, where a man answering a similar description was reported

prowling.

Driver Carries

Wrong License

SOMEWHERE IN Indianapolis, a motorist is carrying another man’s license around with him although he doesn’t know it. William Douglas Bush, 840 N. Oxford st., was unable to get his license plates last Saturday so he sent his brother-in-law, George Moore, to a license branch on E. Washington st. to get them. Mr. Moore applied for ang paid for his own and Mr. Bush's license plates. He received his own, all right, but when he asked what had become of Mrs Bush’s, the clerk told him they had been given to someone else by mistake.

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In cutting off the oil supply of the Indies, the Japanese have put

cutting of the Burma

Hitler played his part, and prob-

.lably will continue to play it, by

his successful submarine forays in the Atlantic. The attacks were conspicuously directed at tankers, of which there are none too many for the. task at hand. : Japanese submarines probably soon will be operating in the Indian ocean to further the campaign.

Hitler Needs Oil Supply

Thus, while the united nations have an ample supply of oil in America and the Middle East, transportation difficulties are likely to prove a strain and a handicap. Russia’s oil problem is not acute and will not be as long as the Caucasus and other southwestern fields are held. This latter consideration brings up the question of Hitler's oil needs and the part they may play in shaping his next war moves. The oil area to which Japan now has access will be of no benefit to Hitler. His need for oil must be pressing, especially in view of the d on his resources caused by the struggle in Russia.

MRS. ROBINSON TO PRESIDE Brightwood council 2, Daughters of America, will meet at 7:30 o’clock

tonight at their hall, 17th st. and Roosevelt ave. Mrs. Elsie Robinson

is social chairman.

L.S. AYRES & CO.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, March 6 ond disastrous explosion at the Iowa) bodies of thelr fellows pulled from:

beneath pulverized ruins yesterday | : $60,000,000 factory. The second blast| :

plosion in a loading building, opera- | tions continued on the other lines.|

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WOORE ANNOUNCES FOR LEGISLATURE!

E. Louis Moore, Negro attorney here for 16 years, today announced his candidacy for state representative in the Democratic primary election. Active in party affairs for several years, he served the state and county central committees for eight years in publicity. He was ser-

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