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The Washington times., 1932-08-03

Provisions Of the economy act
are assailed in a report Of the leg
islative committee of the Central
Labor Union. which committee an
nounces a vigorous campaign will
be waged in the coming session
of Congress to have certain pro.
visions modified.
The committee praises the
Slight foothold which the five-day
week has gained in Federal serv-
ice, and it's encouragement by Fed
eral executives. but deplores that
it has been accompanied by re-
duced pay envelopes,
Another provision deplored is
the impounding in the Treasury
of all money saved to departments
by the legislative 24-day furlough.
The report regrets that this money
thus saved by spreading employ
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
GARDEN SURVEY.
STARTS TODAY

Preliminary survey of all Of
the IS District communities which
have entered the garden contest
under direction of the District
of Columbia George Washington
Bicentennial Commission will be-
gin today, DR.. George C. Haven
ner, executive vice president of
the commission, said last night.
This preliminary work is be-
ing done in order to establish
the winners of two prizes which
will be given in September for
the best garden improvement be-
tween August / and the close
of the contest.
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
Is RADIO BOARD
WORKERS GO

The first economy move of the
Federal Radio Commission, which
recently absorbed the radio di-
vision of the Department of Com
merce, has been to dismiss Is em.
ployes, five of them being from
the original commission and 10
from the former CONNER e
branch.
These diSmissals, which will
save $4,000 of the $4,000 re-
quired to be cut from the com
bined appropriations, will be fol,
lowed by further dismissals in the
field service.
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
WRECK VICTIM
. NEAR DEATH

Victor Smith, %, a cab driver.
OF 1881 H st. n. E., is in a
serious condition at Casualty
Hospital suffering from a frac-
tured skull received in a triple
automobile crash July 2.
Following the crash Smith re-
ceived first aid treatment from
a private physician and was sent
to Emergency Hospital, where
according to police reports, he
was treated for conclusion of
the brain. He was released from
the hospital several days ago.
Monday night his mother found
him unconscious in bed and he
was removed to Casualty.
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
Infection DetdinS
Policeman at Home

Patrolman F. T. Winfield, 81,
of Clarendon, Va, attached TO
the Third precinct, is at his
home suffering from an infected
left foot. The injury was re-
ceived when Winfield stepped on
a nail while in the water at
Whitewater, Va, several days ago.
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
ASSAILS PAY SLASH

ment does not give work to un'
employed persons.
The report adds:
I'VE demand the return Of the
80 days annual leave. of which
this gesture of pseudO-ecOnOmy
has robbed the workers as a
matter of business efficiency
and as a matter of humane in.
duStrial policy"
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
OPERA POSTPONED

Owing to inclement weather
the rendition of Verdi's "Trova-
tore" which was scheduled at the
Griffith Stadium last night has
been postponed until tonight.
The Washington times., 1932-08-03
GARDEN CLUB MEETS

The Neighborhood Garde
Club of Washington Grove, Md,
is meeting this afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Herman Wilson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
Radio Entertainers Will
Present Fair Barn Dance
WIS Performers to Be AS
sisted by Artists from
WKBF.

They are the Three Little Maids.
They still are in their teens, they
really are sisters, and they began
singing in churches and religious
meetings.
Now they're singing over WIS,
Chicago radio station. They will be
one of the features of the WIS Ma
tional Barn Dance to be given
Saturday night in the Coliseum at
the state Playground.
The Barn Dance was presented at
the fair for the first time last year.
In addition to the WIS perform
ers who will take part in the dance.
WKBF, Indianapolis station, will
contribute a number of stars to the
occasion. Both stations will broad
cast the event. Entertainers will in
clude:
From WIS such stars as the Cumberland
Ridgers Runners the Maple City -Four;
the Smoky Mountain Boy and Linda Par
ker, feminine mountain ballad singer;
Ralph Waldo Emerson, organist; Bill Wick
land, lay pastor of the Little Brown
Church of the Air: Max Terhune, famous
Anderson, Ind. imitator and comic; Bill
O'Connor Irish tenor, and the Hoosler
Sod Busters are scheduled for this show
and broadcast. with Hal OHalloran as
master of ceremonies.
WKBF performers who will be heard are
Harry Bason. Vaughn Cornish. Louise Spill
man, and the DeVors sisters. Otner WLo
stars will appear on the program through
out the fair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
SERGT. ROCHE,
POLICEMAN FOR
26 YEARS, DIES
Detective Was Known for
Ability to Spot Criminals
by Faces, Actions.

Detective Sergeant Patrick "
Roche, 81, member of the Indian
apolis police department for twenty
six years and figure in solution of
many of the citys crimes, died today
at his home, $685. Broadway, after a
short illness.
Appointed to the force in May,
1906, Roche held the rank of
sergeant since 1918 after serving for
twelve years in various capacities in
the department. For years Roche,
of Irish descent, was the teammate
of Louis Fossati, detective, an
Italian.
Affectionately called Pat" by his
associates, Roche was known for
his ability to spot" criminals by
facial features and actions.
He was adept at remembering
faces. and this trait was responsible
for the apprehension of scores of
lawbreakers. He apprehended many
pickpocketS and confidence men.
Roche was a native of Iowa.
Survivors are the widow, Mar
garet; a daughter, Mrs. E. A. Moore
head, and two brothers, John and
Dan Roche, all of Indianapolis.
Although arrangements for the
funeral have not been completed,
the rites will be held at st. Joan
of Arc Catholic church. Burial will
be in Holy Cross cemetery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02

be just $3.50 an acre. And, by
the way, the taxes on that land
run around 1925 an acre.
All right, he can't pay. SO
we do the usual thing: arrange
to take two-f1fths of his crop in
stead of the rent money. So get
twelve bushels of barley per acre
-$1.8 80. Now suppose I had
mortgage on that land. Where'd
I be?
THE other night at one of our
meetings a man got up to make
a speech about the farm strike,
and he was actually in tears.
That man reclaimes 1000 acres of
swamp land and turned it into
f1rst-rate farm land.
He had faith in his agriculture,
he had faith in America. He
gave up his life for that land-got
up at in the morning and worked
until 8 at night, every day, to
turn it into a good farm. And
they're foreclosing on him to-
day"
News of the governments rec
commended siXty-day moratorium
on foreclosures was received with
pleasure here, but it brought little
real hope, since the corn belts
trouble is too deep to be cured in
sixty days.
4 SHFORD is not sure just what
4 n the farm strike is going to
lead to. In some ways it dismays
him.
But he couldn't see anything
else to do. He says neither the
state nor fedora government has
kept its promises to the farmers.
I've lived here all my life, and
/ have never seen anything border
ing on anarchy" he says. But
the other night I went down the
road and I saw 500 or so of the
best farmers in this country TAX
ing the law into their own hands.
Now, that isn't the thing to do.
But look. Suppose a man comes
into my office here and starts
abusing me and calling me a.
we'll, name no man'd stand for.
1t won't be the thing for me to
do. but I'll get up and fight him.
That's the way it is with these
farmers. They've been forced to
fight"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
STAMP FARLEY TO CITY
More Than 200 Delegates to Attend
Society's Session Here in 1888.

Indianapolis has been selected for
the 1888 four-day convention of
more than 200 members of the Ma
tional Precancel Stamp Society, it
was announced today in Berkeley,
Cal, at close of the organizations
annual meeting.
The city was selected after invi-
tations were extended by officials of
the Indiana Stamp Club, Mayor
Reginald H, Sullivan and Governor
Harry G. Leslie.
Allan Vestal, attorney and mem
Der of the Indiana club, said Indi-
ana has no branch of the national
society, but is the home of B. G..
Bushnell Sr., pioneer in the national
organizations work and author of
the first precancel stamp catalog.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
MINERS IN FARLEY
Custer of Walker Is Asked
by Illinois Workers.

By Times Special
GILLESPIE, Ill, Sept. 2.-Nearly
three hundred miner delegates,
about score from Indiana in
Guided, met again today to formu-
late a program that would induce
coal diggers to quit work as a pro-
test against the SIS basic wage scale.
Petitions asking for removal of
John W. Walker, district president,
and other Illinois district officials
of the United Mine Workers were
presented, but no action was taken.
A six-hour day and f1ve-day week
also were discussed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02

it found any reason to believe
that the farmer was being dealt
with harshly, they would recon-
mend boycott.
Then every farmer in the strike
would boycott the bank, the law
yer and every onn connected with
the bringing of the foreclosure
proceedings.
The same thing would apply to
any other creditor who got unduly
impatient.
There is no question that the
farmers are aroused. In talking
with them I heard, over and over
again, the expression, We'll, we
haven't got anything to lose, So"
Regardless of the outcome, the
strike is a symptom of a profound
unrest. The farmers have reached
the point where they want to
raise hell instead Ct corn.
A Sioux City business man the
other day remarked that the
strike was largely the work of
radicals. None of the established,
conservative, prosperous farmers
is on it," he said.
The man he was talking to, an
other Sioux City business man,
replied: The only trouble is that
there aren't any established, con-
servative, prosperous farmers left
around here"
A CLOSEUP picture of the
1 N financial problems of the
farmers was given me by George
Ashford, president of the Security
State bank in the little town of
Homer, Neb, near here.
Ashford can tell you about the
grievances of the farmers as
class. Sitting in his little Of
flee in Homer, he has been
watching a steady decline in agri-
culture for year and it has made
him profoundly discouraged.
Unless there is some sort of a
change" he says, Il don't know
where the farmers are going to
get off at all.
There's lots and lots of farm
land between here and Sioux
City that's not making enough to
pay taxes. And when, on top of
that, the farmer has his land
mortgaged-and most of them
have-it's not hard to figure out
what he's up against.
When man gets a mortgage,
it's an indication that he has no
reserve; it's just a case of what
the insurance companies decide
to do.
"The big insurance companies,
you know, hold just about all the
farm paper around here.
Eighty per cent of the farm
land around here is mortgaged.
Between so and 60 per cent of the
men whose land is mortgaged can
not meet their payments.
The loan companies, so far,
have been very fair about fore
closing on JheSe men, because
it's to their own interest. They
don't want the land at any price.
IF am a farmer, and I've
kept up my interest and tax pay
ments for twenty years, and
then fall down for two or three
years, they'll figure the land is
better in my hands than in theirs,
and they'll hold off and give me
chance.
r
DUT conditions are bad-so
- bad they could hardly be any
worse. Here's an example:
There's a man near here who
has rented some farm land from
me. He's renting it at $3.50 an
acre, and he has fifty acres of
barley. He's getting about thirty
bushels to the acre, and barley
right now is selling for Is cents
a buShel.
Figure it out. His income will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
RED CROSS is RUSHING
CLOTH TO CHAPTERS
Cotton Material viii Be Sewed by

Cotton Material Will Be Sewed by
Volunteers in Garments for Needy.
~ Seripps-HoWard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-The
Red Cross has ordered 2,729. 900
yards Of cotton cloth shipped to
Red Cross chapters in the ten days
since it began distributing cloths
received in exchange for the raw
cotton given it by congress to clothe
the needy. Orders placed with mills
total $4,000 yards.
Some Red Gross cloth has been
Ordered shipped to every state.
This cloth is being sewed into
garments by women working at
local Red Gross chapters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
POSTAL CLERKS
WILL CONVENE
800 Delegates to Attend
Regional ConcIave.

Attendance Of 300 is expected
Sunday and Monday when the In
diana branch Of the United National
Association of Postoffice Clerks will
be host to regional meeting at the
Antlers, with delegates attending
from four other states, Illinois, Ohio,
Kentucky and Michigan.
Honor guest and principal speak
err will be Thomas F. Dolsn. Boston.
Mass, president of the national or
ganization
O. NJ. Steven, Kokomo. is pres
ident of the Indiana organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
SECOND STATE COUNTY
ASKS u. S. POOR LOAN
Knox Officials Say Money Needed;
Have Request Delayed.

The second Indiana county to
seek federal aid for poor relief funds
was to appeal to Dr. John H. Hewitt,
chairman of the Governors unem-
ployment committee today.
w. H. Hill, chairman of the Knox
county emergency relief committee,
and Mayor j. w. Kimmell of Vim
cennes, were to confer with Hewitt
regarding the prospect of a loan
from the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
The request for a $1,0O0,000 loan
by the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration to Lake county was made
to Governor Harry G. Leslie early
this week, Action was delayed be-
cause of lack of information, Hewitt
announced.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
KANSAS CITY PUTS BAN
ON MARATHON CONTEST
Valuations and Dance Tits Hence
forth Under FrOwn of Law.

By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Sept. a.
Valuations, dance marathons and
like endurance contests henceforth
will be taboo in Kansas City, the
city council has ruled.
The councils action followed by
4 few weeks an unsuccessful at
tempt to stop walking endurance
contest staged in a dance hall here.
At that time the promoters OBJ
tanned court orders to permit con-
tinuance, and the contestants didn't
miss step.
Under the new ordinance all en-
durance and speed contests are
limited to twelve hours of any
Neutrality-suspicious. period, and the
city health director has the privi-
lege Of refusing any permit he
wishes, after examination of the
applicant to stage such contest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
SEEKS COLLECTION OF
$4,000 LOAN TO G. 0. P.
But Republican Chiefs Insist That
Money Was Purely a Gift


Money Was Purely a Gift
By Scrpps-Hoioard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. - The
Republican national committee is
confronted with the problem of de-
Gliding again whether $4,000 it re-
ceived from Thomas A. Johnson,
Cambridge, Mass, year ago, was
loan or a campaign contribution.
The amount already has been re-
ported to the clerk of the house as
a contribution.
Now, according to published let
tiers from Johnson and replies from
j. R. Mutt, Republican national
treasurer, Johnson is insisting the
money was only loan.
In one letter to Everett Sanders,
chairman of the national commit
tee, johnson is quoted as saying:
II am sure you will feel that
have showed remarkable forbear-
ance in holding off aggressive &C
ton until after the national con-
vention.'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
HONOR SCHOOL PAPERS
TT. Wayne and Marion High Pub
LEGATIONS Adjudged Best.
BV United Press

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Sept. a.
The Southside Times. published by
Southside high school, TT. Wayne,
today was winner of the first di-
vision of sixth annual high school
publication contest. The first di-
vision includes publications of six
or more columns.
First place in Division 2, for pa
pers of four or five columns, was
won by the Marion high school sur
yey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02

This is the last story in series of
five bv Bruce Cation. stan writer for
NEA Service and The Times. who was
sent to the midwest corn belt to fad
out what the farm strike is all about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
Robbed of $1.75 and Cab

Bandits who robbed Roscoe John
son, SCI West Norwood street, taxi
driver, of $1.75 and his cab in the
300 block Virginia avenue Thursday
night, are sought today by police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
Melon Thieves Are Fought

SEYMOUR. Ind, Sept. 2.-Raids
OF watermelon and cantaloupe
patches today had resulted in arrest
Of thirteen youths here and or
Ran'@' N Of Jackson county farm
erf into concerted drive against
4 thefts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
BY BRUCE CATION
NEA Service Writer

Copyright, 1882. NEA Service, Incl
CIOUX CITY, Ia, Sept. a.
- The business communities in
Sioux City, Omaha and other
cities in the corn belt are watch
ing the farmers strike with a
tremendous amount of interest
and, on the whole, with a good
deal of sympathy.
The prosperity of these cities,
in the first place, stands or falls
largely with the prosperity of the
farmers, and today the farmers
are anything but prosperous, But
that is not the only reason for
the interest with which they
look on.
Sioux City, like other cities in
the area, is beginning to get an
inkling of the tremendous amount
of power which lies in the farm
ers' hands-if the farmers ever
discover just how to use it.
And one or two things have
happened since the strike began
to indicate that at least few of
the farmers are glimpsing some of
the possibilities.
Recently a creditor foreclosed
a mortgage which he held on the
livestock farm of an Iowa farmer
living near here, The stock was
to be sold at auction to satisfy
the claim.
A group of blue -denimed farm
ers on one of the strike pick
ct lines got to talking things over
on the morning of the auction.
They decided that it was too bad
for George to lose his livestock.
He was a capable, business-like
farmer, overwhelmed by condi-
tions not in his control. The loss
would ruin him.
60 they took up a collection.
- Money isn't plentiful in the
picket lines. The men raised just
Sits. But they took the sum,
small as it was. and a stable
group set out for the scene Of the
auction.
Having reached it. they took up
strategic positions. They gave the
assembled buyers very definitely to
understand that it would not be
healthy for any one to bid against
the men from the picket line.
Then, as the auctioneer began
his patter, the farmers put in
their bids, They bid one at time
so cents for a good COW, a dollar
for thick-lipped draft horse, and
so on, There we're no other bids.
The auctioneer had nothing to do
but knock the animals down to
them.
The upshot was that Georges
entire herd of livestock was sold
to the group from the picket line
for exactly Sits.
And, having bought the animals,
the men calmly took George aside
and gave them all back to him.
Some of the leaders of the farm
strike have drafted for considera-
ton a plan whereby the striking
farmers not only would withhold
their produce from the market to
control the price, but under which
they also would strike hard blows
at any man or group of men who
stood out against them.
n
Under this plan boycott
II 1 cr,r,n militia nf e -, -. .......1.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02
(THE END

The Orient produces about $50 by
products from soybeans; about fifty
things are made from the beans in
the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02

Under this plan a boycott
~ committee of farmers would
be chosen to investigate all cases
Of action against striking farmers.
If, for instance, bank should
institute foreclosure proceedings
against a farmer, the committee
would look into the matter. If
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02

of things he has to buy. The heavy line indicates
the price of what the farmer SELLS the broken line
the price of what he buys. Such conditions led to
mass meetings of farmers like the one shown above
Photographed near Dakota City. Neb
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-09-02

Why the Farmers Went strike-This graphic
chart, prepared by the United States department
of agriculture, shows how the price the farmer re-
for his products has fallen far below the price
The Washington times., 1932-11-02
LEH|GH BADLY Y
HANDICAPPED

BETHLEHEM, Pa. Nov. 2.-Le-
high will face Princeton Saturday
with several stars on the side
lines. Matt Suvalsky, guard, and
Alex Robb. tackle, are both suf-
fering from injuries, and Ted
Clauss, a back, and Harold
Hirschberg. 22O-pound tackle, prob
ably won't be In action until the
Lafayette game.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 2.
Harry Robertson, former Syra-
cuse captain. today brought his
Oglethrope team here to battle
the Orange eleven on Saturday.
Joe Vara, 220-pound tackle, has
rejoined Syracuse and may be
able to play against Oglethorpe.
PRINCETON, N. j.. Nov. Am
other Princeton grid leader
went on the sidelines today. Stan
Purnell. veteran back, is still suf-
fering from injuries sustained in
the Michigan tilt and won't be
able to start against Lehigh this
Saturday. Steve Mcfarland is
being groomed to take his place.
ANNAPOLIS, Nov. 2~Coach
rip" Miller was undecided today
about the Navy's startling line
up against Columbia Ben Walk
up. halfback, injured in the Penn
game, may not be in shape! Fred
Berries will take his, place if he
is definitely benched.
The Washington times., 1932-11-02
BULLDOGSFEAR
NOHAWkS

The Brooklyn, Bulldogs who op-
pose the .ohAwks Sunday at 2:30
o'clock in Griffith Stadium, have
been. drilling nightly at their
home field in Brooklyn. N. Y, in
an effort to be in prime condition
for the clash.
Although the Hawks have drop
ped two games in a row, the Bull
dogs fear them. The New Workers
claim that the Hawks win be out
for revenge and when a team
goes into a game with that de-
termination, well, watch out,
Seldom before has washington
been offered as attractive a game
as the impending engagement.
Former grid stars from practically
every major college in the country
will be repre5e ted in the Bull
dogs lineup.