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Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-04
This World
RESIGNATION sHoKUM.
THIS AND THAT.
SCHOLARS.
Cell Is. Newman

The biggest piece of hokum perpe-
tuated on patient readers by some
Aframerican newspapers of recent
date concerned the designations" OF
two prominent office holders. A num-
Der of Negro editors who should know
better displayed news stories retail
Ina In laudatory fashion the resisna-
tions Of N. X. Moeill, as assistant at
terney general of Illinois and the re-
siqnatien Of Hubert T. Delany as as
sistant :. District attorney.
From the manner In which the ste-
ries were written, the average reader
would be lead to believe that these
estimabie gentlemen were resIenlns of
their own free will or making Some
sort of sacrifice, as 1t were. The
cold truth, however, recognizable to
alert editors and to the more critical
readers, is that both McGill and De.
Iany resigned because 1t was neces-
sary. Both are Republicans and the
Democrats are in and the G. o. P.'s
are out. That and that alone accounts
for the well heraIded designations
of these two gentlemen.
After having digested 80 books on
the life of Lincoln at last we are
reading the most authoritative work
on the Emancipator, written and COM
piled by John G. Nicolay and John
Hay. AS we read we are reminded
that Fred Douglass's birthday ami
versary comes this month. Some
aspiring young Negro writer who is
anxious to do service to his coun
try and people might write good
book on the life of Douglass. Not
enough has been written about him,
the best thing written was his auto
biography. To A. G. B.: The best
way for busy man to keep up with
world events without digesting long
newspaper columns is to subscribe to
or buy TIME Magazine. Unlike SINH
lar publications, Negroes are news in
TIME. Searching for reason why
the so-called Moorish-American Mo
hammedan cult is so popular anon
ignorant Negroes in Detroit and Chi
cago we find that the cult permits
polygamy (more than one wife,
which leaves us with a slight suspi-
cion that this is the source of much
Of the cults popularity!
A definite sign that we are becom
ing domesticated is that the "better
half" has buIIied and inveigIed us in
to learning how to play bridge! To
make matters worse we are beginning
to like the confound camel
Even Booker T. Washington's most
severe critics now appreciate the
great wisdom of the man. The year.
ho'O OAShb1SOu L1O " OoIl6O Va " dOl'
ington and the clearness of his judg
ment. His definition for scholar,
culled from his writings is given here
Happily, wrote the great educator
"the world has at last reached the
point where it no longer feels that in
order for a person to be a great
scholar, he has got to master num-
Der of textbooks, that he has got to
read a certain number of foreign Ian
guages; but the world has come to
the conclusion that the person who
has learned to use his mind-whether
it has come about through the use of
tool or through the use of any other
implement-that the person who has
mastered something, who understands
what he is doing, who is master of
himself in the classroom, out in the
world, master of himself, everywhere,
that person is scholar"
Twin-City herald. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1940, 1933-02-04

When You do not receive your
Herald promptly call Geneva s5ss.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
NeW Legion Chief Takes
UD Duties at office Here

tant mandate of the Chicago con-
vention.
Rehabilitation is the most i'm
portant," said Hayes, but 1 also
consider national defense and the
legion's Americanization program
as relatively important.
THE stated fact that we are
for the bonus still stands. But if
this stand is going to jeopardize
the man who is disabled or Wild
ows and dependents, then We will
not force the bonus demand"
Commander Hayes will go to
Washington Friday to address the
convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. He will re-
visit Washington in about ten days
to meet President Roosevelt and
renew the campaign for veterans
disqualification where Commander
johnson left off.
THE new commander revealed
i that he plans to spend most
of his time as head of the legion
in Indianapolis and Washington.
While his four daughters will
remain in school at Decatur, H.,
their home, Mr.. Hayes revealed
that he and his wife probably
will take an apartment in In
diaaapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
RUSSIA, JAPAN
AT WARS BRINK
U. S. Alarmed by Soviet's
Determined Preparation
for Outbreak.
Copyright. 1888. by United Press,

Copyright. 1898. by United. Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-War
clouds in the far east today drew
the anxious attention of American
officials.
Soviet Russia again is challeng-
ing alleged Japanese encroach
on Russian interests and citizens in
Manchuria. Hot words are being
spoken in both Toxic and Moscow.
War appears possible.
The dispute dates back to 1881
when the Japanese war machine,
rolling indomitably north, crossed
the Chinese Eastern railroad at
Tsitsihar and invaded Russia s
sphere of influence in northern
Manchuria
Russia, with mild protests, yielded.
1t had few soldiers and small food
and munitions stocks near the Man
churian- Siberian border.
Moreover, the trans Siberian rail-
road, vital military and economic
artery between Moscow and the far
east, was being reconstructed.
But Russia has moved fast since
1881. These things have happened.
1. Double-tracking of the trans
Siberian between Moscow and the
Manchurian border is virtually
completed.
2. Vast stocks of food and NUM-
lions have been piled up at Vladi-
vostok and other points on the
Manchurian- Siberian border. Five
army divisions, numbering 100000
men, and large feet of airplanes
have been posted within striking
distance of Manchuria, which would
be the battlefield of a Russo
japanese war.
8. Russia has protected it's En-
ropean front by negotiating nom
aggression pacts with Poland,
France, Germany, Italy, the Little
Entente, and the Baltic countries.
Observers here believe that
Russia, even in it's improved posi-
ton, would prefer to avert war, but
apparently is determined to check
Japan's advance on the Asiatic
mainland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
DALE'S APPEAL
REFUSED AGAIN
u. S. Court Denies Request
of Muncie Mayor for
New Hearing.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Oct 12.-The United
States Circuit Court of Appeals to-
day denied an appeal for rehear-
ing of the liquor conspiracy case, in
which former Mayor George Dale
and Police Chief Frank Massey of
Muncie were convicted.
The high court which previously
had affirmed the sentence of the
pair, who were convicted in one of
Indiana's most sensational trials,
refused to change its stand on the
case.
However, stay of sentence was
granted Clarence Nichols, defense
attorney, to enable him to perfect
an appeal to the United States SUI
'preme court.
1t was revealed by Attorney Mich
OILS today that the court of appeals
had acted upon the case without an
nouncement Tuesday. The courts
action did not become known until
Nichols made public his plans for
an appeal to the United States SUI
preme court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
200 West Virginia Miners Chosen for
First Z. S. Back Farm Experiment

THE homes will cost about $4,000 each and will be-
Il come the property of the settler under twenty
year purchase contracts providing for small monthly
payments, low interest charges and small down pay
ments.
I'm the absence of private industry immedi-
atey available for transfer to the area" Mr. Ickes
said, lit has been arranged that factory on the
settlement shall produce special equipment required
by the postofhce department. In addition. handi-
craft industries will be developed in the commu-
nifty"
Settlers will combine subsistence farming with
industrial employment. The community will be
sef-governing, after the New England town-meeting
plan school will be established which also will
serve as a community center The factory will be
not more than two miles from any of the home
steads the 1,100-acre project
The project will be financed out of s25,OO0OO0
fund set aside in the recovery act for this purpose
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
INDIANA RECOVERY
COUNCIL IS NAMED
All but One of Members Are
City Men.

appointment of the executive COM
mite of the state recovery council
under the NRA was announced to-
day by Francis Wells, state NRA
director, who declared the group
should assure more cooperation in
handling complaints of code vio-
lation
Committee members are H. M.
Cochran, representing manufactur-
ers; Adolph Fritz, labor; Albert
Giesler, wholesalers; w H. Arnett.
chambers of commerce; c. E. Weld
mann, retailers, and w. H. Settle.
farmers. With the exception of Mr..
Weidmann, a. South Bend merchant.
all the members are Indianapolis
men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
By United Press

D 7
XXTASHINGTON, Oct. 12-Interior Secretary
y Harold Ickes today announced plans for the
governments first subsistence homestead project
1t will be demonstration of spreading out in
dustres away from congested metropolitan centers
where working can live on their own plots of
ground, and show how the government proposes to
meet the employment and relief problems of indus
tries which not absorb all of their skilled workers
even operating at peak capacities.
The first project will be for 200 unemployed coal
miners and their families Morgantown. w Va
for whom prospects of Unemployment in the mines
has vanished.
The demonstration project calls for construction
of modest homes with from four acres of land
for each family suitable for gardening, fruit trees
poultry raising and production Of other foodstufs
for home consumption.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12

A FORMER apprentice seaman
N in the United States navy
took formal command of the
American Legion here yesterday.
Seated behind a huge mahog-
any desk, banked with floral Of
ferings, at American Legion head
quarters, st. Clair and North Me-
ridian streets, Edward Hayes, new
commander of the legion'S thou
sands, went on record as uphold
ing former Commander Louis
Johnson's policy for the veterans.
And as he talked, frankly and
forcefully, it was easy to under
stand how Ed" Hayes has gained
the homage of hundreds of thou
sands of ex-service men and
others throughout the country
There is nothing commonplace
about Commander Hayes. In his
tall, spare figure. his fine frank
smile and straightforward speech
he is LincolneSque.
His answers to questions which
have embarrassed other comman-
ders were given with directness
and he invited more.
Fire away. men," he remarked.
i want to put all my cards on the
table"
A REPORTER asked him what
"A he considered the most iupor-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
ELEVATE TRACK,
CLUB DEMANDS
South Side Group Issues
UItimatum: Protest Meet
ing Planned.

An "ultimatum" for definite &C
ton on elevation OF the Belt rail-
road tracks was given Mayor Reg
inald H. Sullivan and city officials
today by south side civic organiza-
tons.
The "ultimatum" was in the form
of a vote by the central committee
of the South Side Civic Clubs that
the city administration become the
object of a gigantic protest meet
ing, if action is not taken in two
weeks"
Action of the central committee
was taken following a meeting last
night at which E. H. Wischmeyer,
Belt railroad committee chairman,
reported he had been informed by
the federal works board that eleva-
ton of the Belt tracks is included
in the boards appropriation and that
any further action must come from
Mayor Sullivan and city officials.
Wischmeyer pointed out that
elevation of the tracks on the south
side from keystone avenue to
Madison avenue would cost approx
mately 100000 and that under
the federal aid plan, the govern
ment would lend the city the entire
amount.
The city, county and railroad, in
return, Wischmeyer pointed out,
would have to repay only 10 per
cent of the money and none would
have to be repaid for five years.
Remainder of the payment could
be made over a thirty-year period.
Walter c. Rothermel, civic clubs
president, presided.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
BOMB BLASTS ROCK MINE
ZONE: RUSH MORE TROOPS
Find Kelly,
Wife Guilty.;
Life
Maximum Penalty Melted to
Pair Under Federal
Lindbergh Law.
By United Press


OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. H.
George machine Gum Kelly and
his wife, Kathryn, the last Of the
gang that kidnapped Charles F. Ur-
schel, were given life sentences to-
day-the maximum penalty under
the new Lindbergh law.
They were found guilty by jury
of small-town business men and
farmers that reported it's verdict to
Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught at
1886 a. m.
The jurors had reached the YER
dict in only an hours elaboration
last night. The fate of the swag-
gering desperate and his auburn
haired wife was sealed until court
convened today.
Goes to Pen Tomorrow
Marshal w. G. Geers said that
Kelly will be taken by airplane to
the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kan, probably tomorrow.
Geers said he had no order yet for
disposition of Mrs Kelly.
For the first time since their cap
ture on Sept. 2e in Memphis, while
Harvey j. Bailey, Albert Bates and
Mrs. Kelly's parents, the r. G. Shan
mons of Paradise, Tex, were on trial
here, the couple appeared COM
pletely subdued.
Attractive Kathryns flashing
smile was gone. She appeared wor-
ried as Judge Vaught asked the
machine gunner gangster and his
29-year-old wife to stand.
Kelly Stands Silent, Defiant
Have you anything further to
say?" the court inquired.
Kelly had said no word to the
court, offered no defense testimony
for himself throughout the trial.
Still bearing the marks of a pis-
tol whipping given him by federal
agent Monday when he became
fractions, Kelly stood, silent, defiant.
Kathryn paused moment, then
said:
mo, sir"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
FLOOD CONTROL
BUCK PASSING
|RKS HOOs|ER
Mrs. JenCkes Angered by
Handing of Issue to
Mississippi Board.
BY WALKER STONE
Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Oct. IL. - The
proposal to allot $18,O0O,ooO of pub
lie works money for fiood-control
work along the Wabash and White
rivers will be considered incidental
ly by the Mississippi drainage area
board when it meets here Monday
to discuss plans for development OF
the Mississippi basin.
Meanwhile, the patience of Mrs.
Virginia E. Jenckes, Indiana's Sixth
district congreSsWoman, is becom-
ing shorter and shorter.
Representative Jenckes does not
like the idea of the Wabash-White
food-control project having to
pass the inspection of the Missis-
sippi drainage area board.
In fact, Mrs. Jenckes does not
like anything about the way the
public works administration has
been passing the buck on her pro-
posal for improvement of the two
Indiana streams.
Gives Ham Cold shoulder
Mrs. Jenckes returned to Wash
ington early this week to renew her
demand for final action on the
flood control plan. She talked for
two hours with Colonel H. M. Waite,
deputy administrator Of public
works. But the colonel refused to
be stampeded.
1t is understood that Colonel
Waite suggested to. Mrs. Jenckes
that compromise might be worked
out whereby a small portion of the
$18,000,000 might be allotted, to be
used exclusively in building levees
to protect the cities and towns 10
Gated along the two rivers.
To this. suggestion of a COM
promise, according to reports, Mrs.
Jenckes gave a cold shoulder. 1t
is reported that she told Colonel
Waite that levees to protect the
cities alone would cause foodwaters.
during the next wet season, to over
flow even more disastrously upon
unprotected farm LANDS.
Counties Broke, She Says
Moreover, she is said to have told
Colonel Waite that it would be i'm
possible to give absolute protection
to the cities and towns unless there
is comprehensive and complete
flood-control development over the
whole course of the Wabash and the
White, that new narrow levees built
through city would only cause the
river to overflow at point farther
up the stream, with the result that
floodwaters would spread out and
rush down upon the city from an
other angle.
Mrs. Jenckes told Colonel Waite
that the counties and communities
along the Wabash and White were
almost bankrupt, and unable to sell
more bonds to get money for relief
of the poor.
COngreSSwOman Is Mad
Colonel Waite asked her to supply
him with data on the number of
persons on the relief rolls in the val
leyS of the two streams, and the
amount of money that is being spent
for relief by the localities and the
federal government.
Mrs. Jenckes, who boasts that she
has stood in the horror of stormy
nights on the top of Wabash levee
in Vigo county and helped men pile
on Sandbags to keep the f1oodwaters
from washing out their homes and
crops, doesn't much like to have to
get down on her knees and ask for
a favorable decision from group of
men who have never even laid EYES
on the Wabash, either at high or low
water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
RIVERSIDE COURSE TO
BE OPEN ALL WINTER

Park Board to Close South Grove
Links as Economy Move.
Riverside golf course will be the
north side winter links this year, it
was decided by the park board to-
day. In previous years, the board
has maintained South Grove course
and community center during the
winter.
Faced with a slashed budget, econ
omy is necessary, park board mem
bers agree, and their order results
in the saving of approximately
$4,000 in coal and maintenance
costs.
Riverside can be maintained at a
very much lower cost than South
Grove.
Pleasant Run course will be main
tanned during the winter on the east
side
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12

MY baby won't die, will hep"
she asked. That question Spurred
the nurses and doctor on to re-
newed efforts to force oxygen into
the lungs of the baby boy all
through the night. BY morning
his lusty crying told them they
had won.
1t is not an unusual battle in
st. Elizabeth's home. Often ba-
bies born there are kept alive
only through the use of the oxy-
gen tank, which was gift to the
home by an Indianapolis doctor.
DEFORE it was used, the nurses
ID breathed life into these new
born babies through bit OF
gauze, saturated with aromatic
spirits of ammonia. The oxygen
tank has a glass piece, which fits
over the baby's mouth and nose.
It's use through the first day and
night following a birth has kept
life ina number of babies at the
home.
Today the week-old baby boy
sleeps peacefully in crib in the
sunny nursery at the home. Life,
which in his first few hours was
difficult thing, has settled down
into regular routine of baths,
bottles, and sleep.
His mother, convalescing in a
wheel-chair, is planning to return
to her home and her work, that
she may support her infant son.
st. Elizabeth's Home is one of the
agencies receiving aid from the
Indianapolis Community Fund.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
DUAL MINE UNIONS
SOLUTION PROPOSED
ProgressiveS Suggest Both
Be Recognized.

BIZ nitcd Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-The
Progressive Miners Union of I'LL
nois, it was learned today, has sub
mitted to the NRA a concrete plan
which it contends would end its
long and violent conflict with the
United Mine workers of America
The proposal provides that mines
in the area of conflict would deal
with both unions. A double check
off system for collection of union
dues would be installed, with the
mine companies turning the money
over to the organization designated
by each miner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
PLANS PREPARED TO
FREE BANK DEPOSITS

WOOdin Hints Roosevelt Will Make
Statement Next Week.
By United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. IA plan
to release frozen deposits in ma
tional and state banks will be an
nounced by President Roosevelt
within a week, according to Treas
ury Secretary William Woodin.
Woodin said "verygood news" will
be announced soon. He intimated
that the administration would have
statement Monday or Tuesday on
the banking situation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
All of Sullivan County Is Declared Military
District With Strict Curfew Law
Put Into Effect.
TOWN TO BE SHUT TIGHT BY 10 P. M.
I'll Put a Camp Right on the Courthouse
Lawn, if Necessary, Asserts
Commanding Officer.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times STAFF Writer

SULLIVAN Ind. Oct. 12.-Mlitary rule was extended
today in Sullivan county, with the whole county declared
military district under drastic regulations including
few following three heavy explosions here early this MORN
ing
Regulations effective at contained in procama-
ton signed by ~Brigadier-Genera D. Wray DePrez,
handing troops in the county Major Earl Weimar and Cap
tain c. K McGaughey
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-12
STEEL FIRM REFUSES
TO GO BEFORE MIRA
Rejects Proposal to Submit De-
mands to Arbitration.


mands to Arbitration.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.-Ernest
T. Weir, president of the Weirton
wv. Va) Steel Company, today re-
fused to submit strikers demands to
arbitration by the national labor
board, as proposed by the NRA
agency.
The boards proposal that the
strike be called off and all disputed
matters be submitted to the board
had been accepted by representa-
tives of the strikers.
Weir in his telegram said nearly
5000 men had returned to work
This directly contradicted declara-
tons of strike representatives here
that the men would not return until
the company agreed to arbitration.