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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28
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BY E. O. ARNOLD.
Pictures BY Joe King:

-HE Declaration of Independence was
written and signed again with much
formality one morning nearly SO
years ago at a little settlement in
Northern Arizona, known then as
Waynes Camp. Ben Franklin was
there, more or less full Of epigrams and liquor.
Patrick Henry again voiced his challenge to
political oppression, and the romantic Paul
Revere ga1oped through the countryside shout
ing THE Red Goats are coming! To arms!
To arms!"
The occasion was a pioneer observance of
July 4, an a1l-day get-together and celebration
during which several beloved bits of American
history were re-enacted. Done, Of course, in a
simple spirit Of patriotism and fun, the days
theatricals nevertheless begat several episodes
of real drama.
Before noon that day the whole community
had been convulsed in laughter but before the
sun set these same people had witnessed a flow
of blood
Hamilcar "Sinkiller" Pool is authority for
the story Of that days celebration. Sinkiller
ought to know about it; he was there. He was
an itinerant preacher in those days, and about
the only man In the wild territory with q smat-
tering Of book education.
This, and his experience at "standin' up on
his feet and talkin' to people" predestined him
to play two major roles IN the days theatricals.
AS Patrick Henry he yelled "Give me liberty
or give me DEATH" with great dignity Of man
ner and mien: as Paul Revere he dashed around
to give warning Of an entirely unsupported
danger.
c NKnLLER POOL is 70, he thinks When he
- ran away from foster parents in Virginia
(where, by the way, he first n1emorized some
of Henrys orations) he had been preaching q
couple Of years as an apprentice pastor. He
wanted to start out for the Lord on his own
and the wild Western country lured him. He
had scarcely turned 20 when he opened his
first church and preached his first sermon to
o group Of rough miners in California
Because he publicly denounced the men who
gambled this congregation rode him out Of
town astride saplipg pole and somehow or
other he drifted into the territory of Arizona
His recent years have been spent mostly in
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m due course the young preacher, Hamilcar
! Pool, read generously the wording Of the
Declaration of Independence, placed the docu-
ment upon a barrel Serving as q table, and
each Of the Colonial representatives stepped
forward to officially Sign" It,
The third "signer' hesitated, and grew en-
barrassed as he took the goose quill. He turned
IN an agony of stage fright toward the young
preacher naster-of-cer
Sinkiller Pool was quick witted.
Just make some marks, 1t faint legal, no
how" he whispered.
And % the embarrassed actor was saved the
ignorniny Of having his inability to write pro-
claimed to the assembled spectators.
That "act' went over big, but It was as
nothing compared to the next. which featured
the Rev. Hamilcar Pool (againD playing the
immortal role Of Patrick Henry.
Henry's own voice never stirred more at
tentive audience. It was good speech-there
in the rough and iliterate mining camp-even
II more than half the listeners didn't under
stand It. One nearly deaf member Of the en-
thralled audience arose at one juncture TO shout
GLORY halleluiah!" on the mistaken assump-
ton that Sinkiner Pool. being . preacher,
naturally was preaching sermon that day!
But that wasn't all.
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In fact It was just a good prelude to the req
climactic part Of the days celebration, CO
Sinkiller Pool tells it now.
"I was the big punkins that day." he relates
land nothing would do but what must also be
Paul Revere.
II didn't mind terrible for the reason that
1t gave me one more chanel to show off before
my gal She was purity picture that day,
hot dawg she wasn't!
We'll, was young and spry, so about middle
Of the morning LshorTowed q paint horse from
one Of the boys and after explaining what Paul
Revere rode for, said would go of . ways
and gallop up. trying to act like Paul Revere
done.
IT rid of and started back, lickety-split
hell-bent fer leather. Had one of them
there cooked hats Miz Green had sewed up
and carried my own lantern with a taller
candle In It, u1lighted cause it was daytime. but
the real ride of course was in the night time.
Every time passed somebody I'd boiler
The Red Goats are coming! To arms! To
arn1s!' Folks was laughing and enjoying it.
Me, too. rid on out of town q half mile or
so, fast as the horse could 60, and all of
sudden come onto two old grizzled fellers with
rifles and packs on their shoulders. They was
late arrivals for the festivities.
II swerved my horse past them and shouted
The Red Goats er coming! To armsi To
arms!'
They started running like the old nick, and
I turned back and rid on into the gathering
again"
That was an-for the momentum. Pool
says. The people then pitched in and ate their
lunch. It was q grand picnic. Must have been
800 people so there.
The afternoon was given mostly to community
singing. Some Of the boys took part in foot
races and some Of the older men got happily
drunk. Sinkiller preached q sermon against
drunkenness and gambling about pm but
WAS a ha md nfr int Iircr
shooting Apache Indians dashed out of their
hiding places and swooped down onto the
settlement of Wayne's Camp!
THE Apaehes had killed many people in ARR
IONA, since away back in Civn War days. and
themselves had suffered many cruelties and had
est whites. They had utterly destroyed several
small communities, killing or driving or ALI
inhabitants But for months the vicinity OR
Waynes Camp had been relatively quiet.
The men ut the gathering that Fourth d
July rushed to the defense One or two were
hurt in the Indians first sally, and the Apaches:
own courage for q second rush was abetted b.
the seeming disorder of the whites
The red men began their inevitable circlin@
and at intervals groups would dash in to siaooA
at close range.
Luckily all Of the men present at the celea
braticn had brought their guns with them
People did IN that part Of the country in those
days. The Apache was an ever-present threat
and no man ever took o chance on being caughS
unprepared.
So It was that the town, although taken bR
surprise, was able to put up q good resistance
Rifles that had been left leaning against tree
trunks and boulders were hurriedly snatcheA
up; cartridge belts and pistols that had heed
n1DI M
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II said you'd 60 of q ,oays and gallop uPs
trying TO act like Paul Revere done rid
of and stersed back, lickefy-split, hell-bent fos
leather Had on one Of them cooked h0ts
and carried q lantern, and every time passed
somebody I'd boiler The Red Goats Aye
C0ningr"
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him with his bare fists. Similarly he sought
out and extracted apologies from hak q dozen
others who had abetted his indignity. strapped
on two pistols and dared them TO try 1t again.
Plans for the celebration went on apace
People eyed him askance, uncertain what to
make Of preacher who used his 6sts, but re-
spending readily to his labor Of preparing the
an-day party. The good women Of the settle
ment worked their fingers and their magma
tions to evolve costumes which, i'm some meas
ure, served as colonial.
wagon load Of lumber was hauled from
Wayne's sawmiM, II miles, and made into a
special outdoor platform. The men reasoned
that it could serve as dance floor, too. News
of the ceIebration spread everywhere and be-
came the chief topic Of conversation; social
breaks in the austere business Of living as
pioneers were cherished because Of their rarity.
It was to be an all-day gathering, o holiday,
with noon dinner on the ground. picnic style,
with singing and speeches and games and
hddling and dancing that night. By 10 o'clock
everybody seemed to have arrived and was
seated around the speakers platform.
"Old Ike Rounsevel had been talked into
playing Benjamin Franklin for u.s." Sinkiller
Pool tells.
Ike looked sort of like the pictures of
Franklin, time me and Miz Green-she helped
mc-got through with him. We had him
pTirned to repeat some of the smart sayings in
Pore Richards Almanac, but come time for
the meeting to start and old Ike was shouting
and whooping like wild Apache, drunk Is a
mule skinner on pay day!
He wanted to be the whole show. and come
durn near being It! We had learnt him three
or four Pore Richard sayings and he kept but
ting IN all morning shouting them, yelling that
he was Benjamin Franklin Rounsevel and daring
any blankety- blank man there to say he wasn't!
well, sir, we had to point special COM
9aittee to take old Ike In hand and git him so
1ikkered up that he went to sleep and didn't
disturb meeting any more. We got along right
well without Ben Franklin apvhow0
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
HOOVER, CAL TO
HONOR HARDING
Both to Be Heard on Same
Radio Program June Is.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 28.-Presi-
dent Hoover and former President
Coolidge will be heard on the same
radio program June 16 on the occa-
sion of the dedication Of the Hard
ing Memorial. at Marion, o.
The exercises, from 2 to 3:15 p. m.
eastern standard tine), will be
broadcast by the Columbia system.
Joseph T. Frelinghuysen of New
Jersey, president of the Harding
Memorial Association, will open
the program with a brief address,
Mr.. Coolidge, acting as master OF
ceremonies, then will introduce
Governor White Of Ohio.
White will turn the $4,000 struc-
ture over to Mr.. Hoover, who will
accept it in behalf of the nation
President Curtis and Senator
Davis (Rep., Pa, who served in the
Harding cabinet, are expected to
attend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Theater Robbed

By Times Special
ANDERSON. Ind, April ga
bandit operating while patrons
crowded the Rivera theater, forced
the manager, Paul S. White to open
safe and give him sack contain
ing about $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
HALF A DOLLAR MAYOR

HOOpston, Ill, Swears In Boss for
5O-Cent-a Year Salary.
By United Press
HCOPEsTON, H., April %
Emory H. Richcreek, real estate
man, served today the first day Of
a two-year term as mayor for which
he has agreed to accept a salary of
so cents a year.
Richcreek was sworn in Monday
night to succeed Fred E. Earel, who
also served for so cents a year and
was paid off, when he relinquished
the Office. Eight members of the
city council will serve for rs cents
2 year salary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
ALIENS DUTY
is TRIAL ISSUE
Claim Objections to War
No Bar to Citizenship.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 2s.-Regu-
lations OF the department of labor
requiring applicants for citizenship
to swear they will bear arms in de-
Tense Of the United States, have no
foundation in the law or the Con-
stitution, John W. Davis told the
supreme court Monday.
Arguing in behalf of Professor
Douglas G. Macintosh Of Yale uni
versity, an Englishman, who refused
to take the oath to bear arms, Davis
said a naturalized aliens first duty
was to Cod, and his second to his
adopted country. Scruples against
war should be no bar to citizenship,
he contended.
In applying for citizenship, Mac
Intosh reserved the RICH to decide
when war was declared whether or
not he would take up arms.
Denied citizenship, he appealed
to the lower. courts, which, decided
in his favor. The government then
appealed to the supreme court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
TESS, SPOUSE AT IT.
New Blasts Are Fired in Battle
Between Party Leaders.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 28.-The
Fess- Shouse cannonade was re-
sumed Monday night. Chairman
Tess of the Republican national
committee made public a personal
telegram from Jouett shouse, ex-
ecutive chairman of the Democratic
national committee, in which
Shouse demanded an apology for
Tess recent charge of falsehood.
With it he gave out statement
refusing to apologize, and suggest
ing that Shouse apologize to the
country at large "for your con-
temptible methods and your utterly
false statements"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
DEPUTIES DOWN
MINE STRIKERS
IN Gun BATTLE
InSurgent Workers Retreat
Before Blazing Fire of
Machine Guns.

HARLAN, KY, April 23.-Several
men we're reported wounded in a
clash between deputy sheriffs ans
men believed to be striking miners
at Black Mountain, near here today.
More than 1000 shots were re-
ported fired before deputies with
machine guns repulsed the attack
ers. None of the officers was
wounded, but the attackers we're
seen to remove several wounded.
Sheriff ]. H. Blair said the Of
hcers we're fired upon by the men
who sought to prevent the mine
workers entering the Black Noun
tain coal mines. The sheriff and
his deputies returned the fire, he
said.
Lasts More Than Hour
The battle lasted more than an
hour, Blair said. Telephone wires
to outside towns were cut, prevent
ing communication during the fight.
The deputies, fortified around the
mines, we're armed with hand gren-
AIDES, machine guns, rifles and a
large quantity of ammunition.
The sheriff had rushed three au-
tomobile loads of his men to Black
Mountain, thirteen miles from here,
after miners going to work on an
early shift, had reported they were
fired on from ambush.
Scene of Many Disorders
The Black Mountain coal field
has been the scene of several re-
cent disorders. Mobs Of unemployed
have broken into stores and looted
them on three occasions.
A deputy sheriff was killed and
another man wounded several days
ago not far from where today's
clash took place. A mine draft was
bombed and a mine guard shot re-
Gently. Blair blamed Communists
and I. w. w. workers and their
propaganda for the disturbances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
INDICT COP IN
LIQUOR CLEANUP
IN MINNEAPOLIS
Police Morals Squad Head
Cited; Entire Force Is
FIayed for Laxity.
By United Press

By United Press
MINNEAPOLIS, April 28.-In-
dictment Of one police officer and a
denunciation Of the Minneapolis
police department was the action
taken today by a special grand jury
after several weeks Of investiga-
ton.
The officer indicted was E. J. Gus
tafson, head of the police morals
squal He was charged with viii
ful neglect of duty in connection
with falling to take action against
vice resorts.
His indictment was said to have
resulted from testimony given be-
fore the jury by retired Lutheran
pastor, the Rev. Mons Midthun, who
has been active in attempting to
close vice resorts in the Washing
ton square district.
The minister was reported to
have testified that he made com
plants to Gustafson regarding op-
GRAFTON Of vice resorts but that no
arrests we're made. Even when he
took the matter up with Mayor
William H. Kunze, the minister was
said to have testified, no action was
taken.
The grand jury has called scores
OF witnesses in its investigation OF
alleged police protection Of gam
bling, liquor and vice
The denunciation Of the police
department waSmade by Dan Hard
ing, investigator for the jury, in
an address before the Five Fifty
Club. He declared that there are
5000 boot,eggers in Minneapolis.
Until recently. crooked gambling
was conducted on widespread
scale" Harding said.
HALF of the policemen now on
the force would be sufficient to
clean up this city. However, you
can't entirely blame the police. If
they raided the resorts, they would
be transferred out to the residential
districts"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
RADIO CHANGE is ASKED
Richmond Station Petitions More
Frequency, Shared Time.

by UNII6U 7 TtS3
WASHINGTON, April 28.-An
amendment application for new
radio station at Richmond, Ind, was
received by the federal radio COM
mission today from the Starr Piano
Company of Richmond. The appli-
cation asks a frequency Of 1900
kilocycles instead of 1920, 100 watts
instead Of 200, and shared time with
station WKBV instead Of unlimited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Asks Release on Bond

Petition for release on bail was
filed today in behalf of James Car
roll, Negro, charged with first de-
gree murder, by his attorneys, Ed
win NTcElfresh and Andrew Jacobs.
Carroll is charged with killing Mel
son williams, another Negro, March
,, during a party at 233 Geisendorf
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
RAIL LINE NEARLY DONE
300-NIile Texas Route to Be Open
Formally June /.
BIZ United Press

CHICAGO. April 28.-The Chi
cago & Rock Island railroad an
nounced today that the new line
it is building in conjunction with
the Burlington railroad from Dali
las and FIT Worth to Houston and
Galveston, Tex, will be opened for
mally on June /.
The 300-nile route gives the rail-
roads their first tide water port
and direct connection with the
worlds markets. The line cost
$20O0O,000, divided equally between
the two roads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Globe Trotter Newsie in LIZ

William Williams, the 39-year-old
newsboy, was in Indianapolis Mon
day afternoon, en- route to San
Francisco. He is travelling by train
and bus. selling papers in cities to
earn enough to reach the next city.
Since 1927 he has visited 1902 cities
in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Cousins Get Estate

by ItiNe8 SpeQto4
ANDERSON, April 28.--Heirs of
DR.. w. A. Boyden, who died April 10,
are seven first cousins, three second
cousins and four third cousins. The
entire estate, valued at $4,000, is
willed to two first cousins, third
to Myron j. Miller and two-thirds to
Lillian M. Dewitt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
BY BEN STERN.


WHY, we could run a yellow
w dog on our ticket and get
him elected" challenged a power
full Republican state leader one day,
several years ago, when a discus
sion Of candidates for various pub
lie offices was well under way.
From a cursory survey Of the re-
suits Of the 1880 election and the
public temper today, whether it be
in downtown club or in front Of
the employment agency board. the
Republicans can't count on 1892 as
yellow deg" year.
In fact, 1882 is going to be a
"darned good man year" The nomi-
nee for Governor must be a man
whom public opinion, whether it be
banker, clerk or laborer, feels will
be responsive to the public needs
and absolutely capable.
The next Governor must be able
to talk everybodys language, know
what economic changes are occur
ring over the world, bring into Of
flee a constructive tax policy, cut
public expenditures and pay atten-
ton to business" a prominent Re
publican business man here said, in
discussing various candidates.
With these requirements in mind,
G. O. P. leaders are being called
upon by those who fill the campaign
Golfers to exercise some selectivity.
Republican candidates up for con-
sideration at present include: M.
Bert Thurman, Republican national
committeeman; Frederick Lands,
Logansport editor, who was runner
up in the. 1923 convention; Fred
Purnell Ninth district congressman.
/ George NJ. Barnard, Newcastle and
Indianapolis attorney, and Lieu
tenant-fovernor Edgar D. Bush Of
Salem.
Thurman, the Watson leader in
the state, has not had much chance
to display his craftsmanship, but he
reveals a grasp Of public affcirs and
needs. He should go into the con-
vention with strong Watson support.
He resigned as internal revenue
collector to devote his time to the
senator's and the party's affairs, and
also withdrew from the 1923 pri-
mary race for the nomination to
keep his campaign from interfering
with Watson's for President.
z 4
Lands will also go into the con-
vention with much strength. Those
delegates who supported him in 1923
will be back again
The buslly headed and fiery edi-
tor has gained much strength and
is more widely known as q, result
of addresses at conventions, ban
quets and over the radio.
G. O. P. spellbinder and ardent
Watsonite, George M. Barnard def
nitely has stated he will not be q
candidate if Thurman is in the
race.
Purnell and Bush are profession
al farmers friends. The former
finds himself in the same situation
as Barnard. He is a Watson adj
herent and does not expect to be-
come a candidate if Thurman is
in the race, his friends say.
AS for Bush, he will go into the
convention with some farm support,
but there is a general feeling among
members Of the farm federation
that the show he put on in favor
Of the income tax bills was not
sincere and therefore he is not to
be fr1lsted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Polioe Chiefs Demand CONVICTIONS

Discussing the Wickershaln report
on criminal records, heads Of the
Indiana Police Chiefs Association
Monday demanded, give us some
court action and then we'll give
them plenty Of records" The an
nual convention will be held here
Oct. T. directors of the association,
in session Monday at the Lincoln,
decided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Seeks Bank Receiver

Luther f. Symons, state banking
commissioner, and Bert Walker,
deputy attorney general, went to
Covington Monday to see to the ap-
pointnent of receiver for the
Citizens State bank, closed nearly
year ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

Tri-Lakes Construction Company,
Columbia City, has been awarded q
s54,85219 contract for twenty foot
pavement on 81 miles on State
Road IA, from TT. Wayne to one
mile west of Thurman. Award was
made by the public service commits
rinra
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Hammond Band Wins

By United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind.S, April %
Winners in the northern Indiana
band contest held here were: Glass A,
Hammond; second, Hammond
Technical; class B, Hobart; Glass G,
Nappanee; class D, Valparaiso.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-14
AMERICANS DIE
IN NICARAGUA
Four Are Slain by Rebels;
800 Marines Ordered
Landed at Scene.
BIZ United Press

oY CHtt6O f-TeSS
WASHINGTON, April 14.-The
commander of the U. S. S. Asheville
reported to the navy department
today that four Americans had been
killed and three were missing at
Puerto Cabazas in Nicaragua.
The message did not indicate
whether the Americans slain were
marines or civilians.
Meanwhile, messages from. marine
officers in Nicaragua to the navy
indicated insurrectionists were
roaming the east coast area around
Puerto Cabazas. There are extern
sive American interests in lumber
and fruit growing in that part of
the country.
The state department authorized
the navy department to land 400
marines from the cruiser Asheville,
announcing the marines would re-
main only until the Guardia Ma
cianole could arrive and protect the
city.
After the troops arrive the Ameri-
cans will be given an opportunity
to evacuate the city on the Ashe-
vile or on the steamship Cefalu.
Virtually all of the Americans in the
area are employed by the Standard
Fruit and Steamship Company.
The Asheville's commander re-
ported that virtually the entire
American population of the town
either was on the docks or aboard
the Cefalu.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-14
HIS DAY is DONE!
DebOSed RnIe7" King at Birth


MADRID 14-Don resigned
A of Spain today king 1885,
his sixteenth birthday Though still of the kings
he has sovereign than his elder
colleagues
He often In the closing his reign i'll health
physicians
time ordered him to playing polo.
Physically he attractive tall He walks with
sringy steps, his skin olive his brown he has large
lantern aWca characteristics of the Hapsbug
n
he inclined eccencity although when his
the romantic
long
the fequet target Of assassns the his
poters started after him with dynamite blow
half of Madri