Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1942 — Page 2

Mis Son Wek = Army, His Help Into a Defense

Plant, So He May Ha

By | Charlie Sutton is ligent farmer. He sent his childr and always managed food of the soil. For him, there h He was born on the 300 flat, rich acres he tills—R. R. 4,

.. Box 611,

Naturally, he’s seen tough times in all those years. Farmers do. And he’s right in the middle of one right now. © Charlie Sutton is typical of the farmers and the problem they have today—labor shortage.

Had to Sell Cattle

With some. of them, it meant leaving the farm, letting the crops _ stand where they were and going into war industry. With Mr, Sutton, it meant the sale of a herd of 60. fine Jersey dairy cows, everyone of which ‘Mr. Sutton had raised himself. Last week, he sold them all, every one. There was no one to help tend them and there was nothing else - to do. Twenty-five years ago, Mr. Sutton’s boys got a calf—gift of their father. That was the start of the Sutton herd. ‘With the infinite patience, work and judgment ‘that it takes to build a fine dairy herd, Mr. Sutton built his.. Slowly, he made his reputation.

Always Square Dealer

Men who bought cows from him were made this proposition: If you . don’t like them, bring them back and get what you paid. The Sutton herd grew larger. Twelve years ago, Mr. Sutton and his boys started a retil milk route. It prospered. When help became shy for that, he sold the milk in bulk to Maplehurst. One check he received for two week's milk was $253. It was

a good business. apie Sutton started selling

to Maplehurst, his son, Conell, took over a route for the firm. Last May 23, Mr. Sutton’s younger Charles I, was drafted. That left Mr. Sutton and one hired hand to handle 300 acres and 60 cows. It was too much. And so he sold the fine herd that “had taken so much of his time, hope and efforts.

Others Face Same Problem ‘That .

what is happening to farmers |all over the Midwest defense area. | As an October sun warmed the fields on Mr. Sutton’s farm yesterday, he climbed down from a combine and told his story. “Yes, I sold them all,” he said. “When a man gets to be my age, he can’t do as much as he used to. “I've never seen it as hard to

get help as now. It wasn’t like this }

ast war. © y, I had a hi

in the

to college, o load his table with the bountiful

son, |

nd who left me

ad to Sell Fine Cattle Herd;

e to Curtail Planting.

FREMONT POWER 59—a strong-gripped, browned, intel-

weathered the depression

been no other life put the farm.

HARDWOOD UNIT IS REORGANIZED

Lumber Dealers Will Be Kept Informed. of Wartime

Legislation.

The North Central Hardwood association has been reorganized to keep lumber dealers infcrmed regarding wartime legislation affecting the industry. At a meeting yesterday in Hotel Severin, approximately 250 lumber dealers and processers from Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky elected J. K. Burns of Gosport president. Other officers: elected were Wil-

liam F. Franket of Louisville, K,., first vice president; R. E. Hollowell of Indianapolis, second vice president, and C. Fred Klee of Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. Principal speakers at the meeting

were C. K. McDowell of Washing-|

ton, deputy co-ordinator of lumber in the navy department; Chris Walker of Washington, administrator of conservation order M-209, WPB, and Horace Nordyke of In-

dianapolis, of the Diywood and

$40,000 0. KD FOR COUNTY EXPENSES

The county council today approved about $40,000 in additional appropriations for operating expenses of various county departments for the remainder of the year. Original requests made yesterday totaled $80,000. Forty thousand of this was for micro-filming of the county clerk’s office records. This request was withdrawn by Clerk

.| Charles Ettinger.

Mr. Ettinger also asked $4500 to take care of voters’ registration expenses and the" council allowed $400 of this. A thousand dollars was allowed for repairs at Julietta hospital. The county commissioners asked for

4 $3500 for this work.

PARIS PAPER CLAIMS DAKAR OFFICER SLAIN

VICHY, Oct. 20 (U.P.).— The

When Charlie Sutton began selling milk in bulk to a dairy, his son, Conell (above), took over a route for the

ABSENTEE VOTE COST IS PUZLLE

Secretary of State’s Office Can’t Pay for Postage Used.

The secretary of state's office today faced the problem of who is going to pay for postage on absentee war ballots sent to. men “in the armed services. Secretary of State Maurice Robinson said he already had sent out more than 2200 of the ballots, although there has been no congressional appropriation to reimburse the state for its expense. There is no budgetary provision whereby Indiana can finance the postage on its own. He said he has received “gssurances” from Washington that his office would be reimbursed. Approximately 300 of the ballots already have been returned, including that of Vice Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, commander of the Atlantic fleet, who was the first member of the armed forces to apply for a ballot in Indiana. He votes, as a resident of La Porte, in the third Indiana district. ’

IMPARTIAL COURT PLEDGED BY LEWIS

David M. Lewis, Democratic candidate for probate judge, last night pledged an honest and impartial administration of court business in the event of his election. He spoke at a series of party rallies in Wayne township. “Estates in the court,” Mr. Lewis

said, “will be administered im-

Charlie Sutton . . . his task yesterday was combining soybeans,

BY EARL RICHERT

THERE ARE TWO UNIQUE aspects to this state campaign which, if you live your full three-score and ten, you'll most likely never see

duplicated. One:

A Democrat has been in the governor's chair for nearly two

years now and the Republicans aren’t saying a single nasty word about him. Two: Democratic speakers have only praise for the nominal

head of the Republican party, Wendell Willkie, and the G P. speakers have yet to von mention his name in fs cam‘paign. Republican State Treasurer James Givens gave what might be called a G. O. P. explanation for the kid-glove treatment of Governor Schricker in an address here last night. + “Governor Schricker,” he said, is in the fortunate position of possessing the dignity of the governorship without any responsibilities.” Thus, from the Republican viewpoint there is nothing to criticize about a governor “without any responsibilities.” Democrats brand this as just so much “heg-wash.” They claim that the governor, since the state supreme court nullified‘ the G. O. P, ripper laws, has had as much or more power than any other governor in the state. They contend that the Republicans can find nothing to criticize in the governor’s administration: Regardless of reasons, writer thinks fhe G. O. P. is “playing smart” in laying off the governor, His popularity among members of both parties has grown by leaps and bounds since e took the governor’s chair ar

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Tilson Didn’t Say It

ONE OF THOSE things that happen in every campaign happened . yesterday. A copy of a speech reportedly given by A. Jack Tilson, G. O. P. candidate for county clerk, came into The Times office from county Repub--lican headquarters. The speech was devoted to ridiculing a campaign biography

of Dewey Myers, the Democratic"

mayoral nominee. I reported this speech and it was published in the paper. Later in the day, I learned that Mr. Tilson had declined to give the speech, written by H. Calkins, the G. O. P. publicity man. and it was delivered instead by Arch N. bbitt, former Republican state chairman who is active in the Tyndall mayoralty campaign. Mr. Tilson’s reason fof declining

to give the speech, it was under- | stood, was that he had a number of friends in the Democratic party

whose votes he hopes to get and

- he could see no reason for an-

tagonizing them by speaking against their mayoral candidate. So, this is to report that the speech attributed to Mr. Tilson should be credited to Mr. Bob-

. bitt.

With an assist and an error

Willis Says Senate Should

Confirm Appointment 0f Employees.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U..P.). Controversy over funds for the Florida ship canal and senatorial confirmation of better paid employe ees of Paul V. McNutt’s war mane

power commission today delayed senate action on the $15,851,196,887 supplemental war appropriation. The bill bearing funds and cons tract authorizations. for 2,100,000 : tons of combat and auxiliary ves= sels, 14,611 naval airplanes and 1000 small defense craft .ran into opposition when Senator Arthur H. Vandebrerg (R. Mich) served’ notice he would fight: ‘a# proposed change making money R7allaple for the canal project. No. appropriation was involved in the amendment, which merely makes possible the use of unexpended funds for waterway development.

|The house provided that the funds

Mrs. Charlie Sutton wipes off the bottling equipment that now

lies idle at the Sutton home.

INDIANA TTH I SCRAP PICKUP

Tonnage in Newspaper Drive Tops 138,000; Wyoming Leads.

Only six states out-ranked Indiana in the per capita amount of scrap metal collected during the newspaper = sponsored campaign which ended Saturday. The state’s tonnage was 138,370

and the per capita total 80.7]

pounds. The newspapers’ national committee said that 3,200,000 tons were collected throught the nation, but that complete reports might boost the total to more than 6,000,000 tons. The latest tabulation of collections ‘disclosed that Wyoming is the national leader on' the basis of per capita receipts with 101.2 pounds reported gathered for each citizen. Pennsylvania in second place, also went over 100 pounds per capita with a new average of 101.2 pounds. Kansas was third with 97 pounds per person.

Ohioan Is Chosen

As Gypsy Leader

#» MERIDIAN, Miss, Oct. 20 (U. P.).—M. J. Frank of Cleveland, O., ruled today as temporary chief of America’s gypsies as five days of mourning began for Emil Mitchell, their leader for 56 years. Mitchell died last Friday in Alabama and was buried here in a double service with Mike Wilson Mitohall, his year-old nephew,

NAZI SUB SUNK BY NAVY FLYING BOAT

LONDON, Oct. 20 (U. P.).—The British air ministry reported today that a U. S. navy Catalina flying boat from Iceland had bombed and sunk a U-boat. The crew, the ministry said, abandoned the submarine and boarded an Icelandic fishing ship. Later they were taken prisoner by an allied destroyer.

CONGRESS OFFICIAL DIES

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U. P.). —William Tyler Page, holder of various clerical positions in the house of representatives for more than 60 years and one-time clerk of the house, died at his home here, early today of a heart disease. He was T4 yesterday.

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be spent to enlarge the intracoastal waterway from Apalachee Bay, Fla., to Corpus Christi, Tex.

Willis Issues Warning

The senate appropriations ‘come mittee amendment would make the funds available for “navigation pro-

jects” authorized by last July's =~

pipeline-barge canal bill, one of which was the $44,000,000 high« level canal across Florida. ’ McNutt’s activities as head of the manpower commission became an issue when Senator Raymond. BE. Willis (R. Ind) warned new deal= ers that if they had any hopes of a fourth term for President Roose= velt, “such hopes would be sorely threatened by a vast McNutt-for= president army ready to spring fulle armed from the dragon’s teeth of the war manpower commission per sonnel.” The bill has an ‘amendment, ine serted by the senate appropria= tions committee, requiring WMQd appointees earning $4500 a year Of more to be confirmed by the sen ate.

REALTORS TO DINE

The property management divie sion of the Indianapolis Real Estate board will have a luncheon tomor= row noon at the Canary cottage.

Says— IT'S ONE DAY NEARER TO VICTORY