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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
Democrat Committeewoman Quits

BIZ Hited Press
WASHINGTON, May 3. - Post
master-General James A. Farley to-
day announced the formal resigna-
ton of Mrs. Nellie Donohue. Port
land, Me, as democratic national
committeewoman from that state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
VETERAN, IS, IS BURIED
Indiana Soldier Who Heard Lincoln
at Gettysburg Dead.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
MOORESVILLE, Ind, May 3. -
Funeral services were held here to-
day for Jerry Thackery, IS, Civil
war veteran, who heard Abraham
Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg ad-
dress.
Thackery enlisted in the First
Kentucky cavalry at the age of Is
and was a war prisoner at Ander-
sonville prison for three months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
u. ELECTS
Five New Members Are Added to
Board of Trustees.

81 Z hlied ffes4
VALPARAISO. Ind. May 3.-Five
new members were named to the
Valparaiso university board of
trustees in annual reorganization
meeting here late yesterday.
They are DR.. Walter A Maier, ST..
Louis; Fred Whienberg, Fl. Wayne;
the Rev. o. D. Geiseman, Oak
Park. Ill; Henry A. Dahlen, New
York. and the Rev. L. Muechterlein,
St. Joseph, Mich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03

Leading parts in THE Cradle
Song Washington high school
senior play, will be taken by Cath
crime Romer, Lucy Mae Powell,
Margaret Halfaker, Romola Ander-
son and Mary Jean Fairchild.
Performances will be presented
Thursday Afternoon and Friday
night, May 10 and II, at the
school. Mrs. Bess Sanders Wright
is director.
Other members of the cast are
Anna Lascu, Hazel Chapman,
Dorothy Schrader, Lucille Broich,
Doris Smith, Pearl Kretheotis,
Violet Powell, Clara Mae Jacobs,
Maurice Fowler, Otis Russell,
Louise Grey, Darrell Kimsey and
Phyllis Phillips.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
Sugar Expert to Speak

DR.. j. Arthur Brock, Saginaw,
Mich, secretary of the Farmers and
Manufacturers Beet Sugar Associa-
ton, will speak on Sugar" at the
luncheon of the Exchange Club to-
morrow in the Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
Oil Workers Go on Strike

By United Press
SEMINOLE, Okla, May 3.-Ap-
proXimately $50 machinists, boiler
makers and oil field workers en-
ployed by the Sinclair Prairie Oil
Company in the Greater Seminole
field went on strike today for union
recognition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
COrrine Griffith Divorced
By United Press

By blI6U PTeSS
Ell PASO, Tex, May 3.-Corrine
Griffith, motion picture actress, and
Walter Mitchell Morosco, film pro-
ducer, held a Mexican divorce de-
cree today. The screen couple were
divorced by mutual consent at Jua-
rez, Mexico, yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
Bryan Memorial Unveiled
By United Press

BIZ tNlttu TTtSS
WASHINGTON, May 3.-Notables
assembled here today to unveil a
memorial to the late William
Jennings Bryan. Josephus Daniels,
ambassador to Mexico, was Sehed-
uled to make the chief address. A
short speech by President Roosevelt
was on the program. David Har-
greave, grandson of the commoner,
will unveil the statue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
IRWIN NOMINATED TO
HIGH C. OF C. POST
Columbus Gnd) Manufacturer Is
Slated as Director of Body.

William G. Irwin, Columbus
GndD manufacturer, has been nom
mated to fill vacancy on the board
of directors of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, it was
learned here today.
The Chamber is meeting in
Washington. Balloting on candi-
dates will be tomorrow. Mr.. Irwin
is a candidate for finance depart
ment member.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
SPY CONFESSES, SAYS
FRENCH MAGISTRATE
German Agent Reported to Have
Admitted Espionage.

BY CNtteU EFeSS
PARIS, May ga complete con-
fession of espionage activities di-
rected against Frances wartime
border defenses has been obtained
from George Sybert, arrested as
German agent, examining Magis-
trate Andre Benon announced today.
Captain Albert Froge Of the
French army, who was arrested at
Belfort on suspicion of selling de-
Tense plans to German agents, has
been implicated by Sybert, Benon
said. Both will be tried at Belfort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
INCOMPLETE RETURNS
SHOW HELM DEFEAT
Ex- Senator From Alabama Fails in
Congressional Election.

By Unitcd Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, May s.
Almost complete returns from Ala
bama's Fifth congressional district
race showed today that former
United States Senator j. Thomas
Helm had been defeated in his eff
fort to return to the halls of con-
greSS.
Returns from 240 of the district
253 ballot boxes gave the incumbent.
Representative Miles Allgood, 1926;
Joe Stearnes, 1890, and Heflin,
l0,408. The remaining boxes we're
not expected to alter the lineup.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
CCC GROUPS LEAVE
FOR INDIANA CAMPS
Contingents Quit Fl. Knox in Charge
of Reserve Officers.

BIZ United Press
FIT. KNOX. KY, May 3.-The first
groups of civilian conservation corps
workers to enter summer camps in
Indiana left here late yesterday.
They included 245 assigned to
Martinsville, SO to Henryville; SO to
Winslow, 125 to Spencer, 1913 to
Boonville. 121 to Tell City and lib
to Jasper.
A reserve officer of the United
States army accompanied each
group.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
RULES TRANSMITS MAY
RECEIVE MEDICAL AID
Lutz Gives Opinion Authorizing
Trustees to Give Relief.

Transients may obtain hospitali-
cation and medical treatment from
township trustees, according to a
ruling of transient activities for the
state unemployment relief commits
sion.
Trustees may give whatever relief
is necessary, in their opinion, the
ruling held.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-03
PURDUE Al ROUNDUP
DRAWS 1900 MEMBERS
Priced Farm Products and School
HandiwOrk Are Exhibited.

LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 8. -
Priced farm products, high school
work and sewing exhibits were the
center of attraction today as the
annual Purdue All Club and in
dustrial art roundup entered its sec
ond day.
Approximately 1900 All club boys
and girls representing practically
every county in the state are at
tending the roundup. The annual
exhibit ends Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-05-05

The continued delay of the House Committee
Banking and Currency in reporting out compromise
bank depositors relief bill amply ustifies the contnu
alton of the fight to obtain signatures to the petition
to force vote this session such legislation.
IF THE SO-CALLED Headers" OF THE
HOUSE ARE SINCERE IN THEIR MOUTHINGS
OF SYMPATHY FOR THE DUPED BANK DEPOSI-
TORS THEY CAN SPEED UP THE COMMITTEE
AND PRESENT AN EARLY REPORT ON THE
STEAGALL RELIEF MEASURE.
IF THESE Headers" ARE NOT SINCERE
THE ONLY WAY TO FORCE THEIR HAND is
FOR REPRESENTATIVE MCLEOD AND HIS
VALIANT SUPPORTERS TO PUSH THE PETI-
TION.
The proposal of Representative steagau, with it's
promise of liberalization of appraisal of the assets of
closed banks has considerable merit Representative
Mcleod has pointed out.
But neither the merit of Representative Steagalps
The Washington times., 1934-05-05
By Robert Benchley
[7:Al:I. LESSON
ACTICE it, as we'll.

Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Russia, Japan,
Germany, with the Austrian
crisis and the Treaty of Ver-
sailles. That makes nine IN all.
We have not, however, taken
into consideration the influence
exerted by the establishment OF
the Third Reich on the plebes-
cite in the Saar Basin, which has
forced France, England and
Italy, with Poland, into a state
bordering on economic order,
with the Treaty of Versailles and
the Treaty of Utrecht and the
Austrian turn to FaSCiSm COM
bining to occupy the Japanese
menace in Manchukuo and
Russia's determination to main
tain the status quo, with posi-
bly, France, England, Italy and
Jugo-Slavia, and the Polish ques-
ton, operating as unit in the
economic order of Europe, with
out reference to China. No ref
erence need ever be made to
China.
Perhaps you have noticed that,
so far in this summary of the
inevitable tendencies toward the
next war, have been unable to
work in the name of America.
That is because there doesn't
The Washington times., 1934-05-05

suggestion the striking merit of the Mcleod
bill will become effective for the public unless
those bills are allowed to come before the House.
Representative Steagalls bill has been before the
banking committee for a week.
During that time the committee has not even con-
sidered the measure.
THIS HESITATION OF THE COMMITTEE
WOULD SEEM TO BEAR OUT THE FEAR WHICH
WAS EXPRESSED WHEN THE BILL WAS IN
TRODUCED-THAT THE MEASURE WAS
MERELY ANOTHER EFFORT TO SIDETRACK
ALL BANK RELIEF LEGISLATION AT THIS
SESSION OF CONGRESS-
Certainly the introduction of the bill by the power
full chairman of the committee, who heretofore had
consistently blocked action the Mcleod b had the
effect of slowing down the signing of the Mcleod bill
petition. Members believed that the Steaga bill could
be passed promptly and that it was unnecessary to
sign the petition in order to obtain action.
The Washington times., 1934-05-05
Mcleod Petition Only Weapon to Force Pay Off COnprOi

BUT THE DELAY ON THE STEAGALL BILL
HAS PROVEN THAT THE PETITION ON THE
MCLEOD BILL REMAINS THE ONLY EFFECTIVE
WEAPON.
Already that petition has been signed by more than
100 members of the House. And these signatures have
been to the petition despite the vigorous steps
which the Leadership" has taken to prevent the petit
tions being signed.
So long that petition is kept alive and few sigma
lures are added daily there is probability that the
House will be forced to act way another on some
bank relief bill.
AS SOON AS THE MEMBERS ABANDON THE
PETITION THEY ARE ABANDONING ALL
CHANCE OF OBTAINING ANY ACTION.
THAT PETITION WILL NOT BE ABANDONED.
1T CANNOT BE ABANDONED so LONG AS
THERE IS GROUP IN THE HOUSE WHICH BE-
LIEVES IN PRESERVING OUR FORM OF REP
RESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT.
The Washington times., 1934-05-05
WAR america

structure, we need really not
bother much about the title.
We might even just call it
"Over the Hill to the Poor
house." OF "Jo's Boys"
AS I see it, the situation is
as follows: The Treaty of Yer
sailles following the Treaty Of
Utrecht) left France, England
and Italy, with a small piece
of Jugo-Slavia, in a position
called "The economic order"
formerly called "the Balance cf
Power" and before that called
position No. 4. Arms ex-
tended, chest out and tip of
tongue showing" This brings
us up to 1922.
Russia, in the meantime, in
the face of the japanese Menace
and the establishment of Man
chukuo. together with the rise
of the Hitler regime in what
was formerly Germany, brings
France, England and Italy, fol-
lowing the Treaty of Versailles
and the occupation of the Saar
Valley, into position of ex-
treme economic order, with Rus.
sia and Japan in another posi-
ton entirely. The lineup so
far then, is France, England,
The Washington times., 1934-05-05
Many Urgent Tasks Await
Administration Settlement
Bv James T. Williams, Jr.

pay any price, however high, TO
win the war. When the war was
over, they wished to free them
selves, as soon as possible, from
the regimentation required to
win the war.
This situation was well de-
scribed in an address delivered
by Calvin Coolidge at Boston, on
May IA, 1920. Mr.. Coolidge was
then governor of Massachu-
sets and here is what he said:
"During the conduct Of the
uDGr, it wds necessary for the
Government to be given, and to
assume, the most arbitrary Of
powers. We had but one thing
in Uiew at that time, and that
wns the thinning Of the wGT,
and everything was sacrificed
for that particular object.
"ThGt is OUer nOw. Some Of
these arbitrary pOwers are pOw-
ers people like to use. They
like to have prices fixed for
them on something they are
going to buy, but they uOOuld
not like it and would not relish
it if prices were fixed for
things they sUere going to sell.
"WhGt we need to do is to
escape as soon as possible from
the exercise of arbitrary pOw-
ers and come back again to the
natural economic relationship of
business"
Extraordinary Powers
Speaking again, a month
later in the same year, at
Lewiston. Maine, Mr.. Coolidge
said:
"There are times when it is
necessary to fix prices, times
of distress and times of public
exigency that require that it
shall be done, but, speaking
generally it is dangerous
operation and one Which we
should pursue only in case Of
great necessity.
It was precisely upon this
theory that Congress gave to
the President, in the year that
followed his Inauguration, eX-
traordinary powers to wage
war against the depression.
How many of these powers
the President will be willing
to relinquish when the end of
the depression ends the emer-
gency, how many of these pow
ers Congress will insist upon
reclaiming-these are the queS-
tions to which the people
North, East, South and West
are beginning to ask both the
President and the Congress for
answers.
Copyright. 1884. The Washington Times
The Washington times., 1934-05-05
The Human Side of the News
Author Claims Edgar Allan Poe Was Murdered
Bu Edwin C.. Hill

Edgar Allan Poe, one OF Ine
greatest Of all American writer's,
died in Baltimore, 80 years ago,
from inflammation of the brain.
So the doctors decreed. But
now we have the strange story
of Edgar Allan Poe, author OF
"The Raven" "The Gold Bug"
"The Fall of the House OF
Usher" and so much more that
lives and throbs in American
letters, pursued to his death
murdered-by mans jealousy,
malice and hatred. Such is the
story told and the charge made
in a new book by j. A. T. Lloyd,
just published in London, and
entitled bluntly, "The Murder OF
Edgar Allan Poe.
If Author Lloyd is to be be-
lieved, Poe was not the drunk
ard tradition has accused him
of being. Poe, the man whom
George Bernard Shaw has writ
ten of as "the finest of finest
artists-this aristocrat of let
ters," was dogged from his earll-
est years to his death by cam
paign of calumny instigated by
one he thought his friend. His
every word and action was
twisted by personal enemies.
His whole life was mutllated
and every effort was made TO
crush his genius.
Sensitive Child
Poe was born in Boston in
1909. His father died the fol-
lowing year. His mother, an
actress, died a year later. Those
were the early blows that fate
dealt to a sensitive child. 1t
was at this time, while Poe was
being looked after by the art
lists of his mothers company
that good fortune came his way.
Into the boarding house came
Mrs. John Allan, the 27-year-
old childless wife of wealthy
tobacco merchant, who adopted
him, and the child lived IN the
lap of luxury instead OF abJect
poverty.
Poe was sent to school in Scot
land, in London, in America
and then went to Virginia Uni
versity. It was while he was at
the university that he made his
first personal enemieS-ot the
same type that were Afterwards
to spoil his life and mar his
fame. The man behind the cal
umny was Refus Griswold. He
hated Poe, was jealous and en-
vious of his success, yet posed
as the poets friend.
So unsuspecting was Poe that
he named GrisWold as his liter
ary executor and biographer,
and it was then that GrisWold
labelled him as a satanic Sot'
a drunkard and habltual drug
addict"
John Allan, the wealthy mer-
chant, accused Poe Of lngratl'
tude and turned him from his
home. Penniless, with nothing
to eat and nowhere to sleep,
Poe tramped the streets at
night. What the effects Of this
time were on that hyper-sensl-
tive man is impossible to assess,
but thereafter he was given to
spells of deep depression and
even had suicidal tendencies.
In his extremity, Poe turned
for comfort to charming cou'
sin, Virginia, famous as Anna.
bel Lee and also as Eleonora OF
"The Valley of Many Coloured
Grass"
Threatened with the loss OF
Virginia when her StepSlstel
proposed to take entire charge
of her, the poet Immediately
left Richmond for Baltimore
where he and Virginia were
married. At the time the poet
was 26 and his cousin-wife IA
Although earning only l0C
pounds year, barely enough tc
supply the necessities of life
Poe was for the first time ir
his life comfortably happy anc
in better health than for years
HE writings however. dis
The Washington times., 1934-05-05

With the adjournment of Con-
gress and the cruise of the Presi-
dent into the Pacific the Admin"
istration will be given it's first
real opportunity under the New
Deal to catch up with legisla-
ton.
There has been such an ava
lanche of legislation since the
Administration entered power IA
months ago that it has been diff
ficult, and in some instances i'm"
possible, to assemble the ma
chinery necessary to administer
and enforce effectively all Of the
new legislative enactments.
Repeal Of prohibition, for ex-
ample, revived problems in the
control of the liquor traffic that
are a long way from solution.
The ordering CT many of the re-
lief agencies created to combat
the depression is still seriously
embarrassed by the foisting
upon the President Of political
incompetents, who owe their
Jobs solely to the greedy manip-
ulations of pork-barrel politi-
clans.
Political Incompetents
Many of these incompetents
must be weeded out before the
new Congress comes into session
next January, if the record Of
the Administration is to be
worthy of the vigorous leader
ship which President Roosevelt
has raised up. This wedding out
process can only be accomplished
by a bold and general extension
Of the merit system.
In addition to wedding out
incompetents and extending the
merit system, the Administra-
ton faces another urgent task.
It must soon determine which
emergency easures and
agencies are to end with the
passing of the depression and
which are to be retained. Al
ready this question is forming a
line of cleavage in both houses
of Congress. Whether this line
of cleavage is to follow party
lines, or to cut across them, will
depend upon the course the
President steers after Congress
adjournS.
The situation. in which the
Roosevelt Administration finds
itself as the country emerges
from the depression and the re-
vival of confidence quickens
anew the spirit of self-reliance
among the. people, is not unlike
that which overlook the Wilson
administration at the end OF the
Great War.
While the war was on, the
American people were willing to
The Washington times., 1934-05-05

the Saar Basin, Jugo-Slavia and
Jean Nash, the best-dresed wo-
man in Europe. But no Amer
lea.
Perhaps we can work America
into the title. Then we can go
right ahead and have a really
good war like the last one, with
everybody playing.
Copyright, 1884, King Features
Syndicate. 1ncD
Articles by Robert Benchley
appear each Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
The Washington times., 1934-05-05
William H. WOOdin
He Served His Country Well

William Woodin death will be regretted by all who have
forgotten the dark days of the bank holiday and the part
played helping the people Of the United States through that
crisis.
Treasury at of serious history and
toed heroica successfully under the leadership of Pres
dent Roosevelt to avert disaster.
For this great service he earned the unanimous respect and
regard of his felowcountrymen.
He will be mourned who met crushing national
emergency and who paid for it ultimately with his fe
The Washington times., 1934-05-05

s
n Northwest Washington D. c.
j. A.. managing editor
The Washington times., 1934-05-05

Everybody but me having
written an article on 1.-The Next
War;" we might as we'll get it
over with now. The only
trouble is in finding a title.
The following titles have al
ready been used: "The Next
War;" THE Next War But
One," "The Next War to the
Right AS You Go Down the
Hail." America and the Next
Evening star., 1934-12-30

tahiti" beach costume.
The hand-bLOcked silk en-.
semble of bu.deau. smim
shorts and detachable skirt
is ,corn by Miss Peggy Bou.
tiIlier, society n,annikin. at
the Miami-Bihn,ore style
Pre-Uieu.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

For snow sports. A coIortuI
ensemble Of navy blue gabar.
dine trousers and striped fan-
mel vest, smart and practical for
skiing, shedding or hiking ouer
the snotu.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Dinner gown in dark pea.
cock-green uncrushabte UelUet.
The ankle-length skirt is uery
slim, the bodice is giuen an
attractive ne,r draping and the
top OF the sleeve is deeply
shirred.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

Striking creation in black and
Uhite. The effective use Of black
and sUhite in sleeves and shoulder !,
covering sets off this simple white
crepe evening goUn from Paris.
Evening star., 1934-12-30

For sports uear ira the Sunny
South. A smart ensemble in linen
crash Of light tan, mifh bromn and
orange scarf and hat trimmed in
the same material. Miss Betsy
Caynor, society mannikin, mcars
it in the Miami-Biltmore style
pre-Uieu at Neu York.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02

For Radio
Operators
Fight With Seamen
Against ShipOwners,
the Common Enemy

The American Radio Telegraph
lists Association is union of the
radio technieians working in the
different parts of the radis COM
munieations industry. After suf-
fering for ten years the discrimina-
ton and unjust treatment given
them by their employers, the radio
men were compelled to come to-
gether in a union to protect their
interests. Ten years of individual
efforts to fight the steady drive of
the bosses to lower wages and
worsen conditions resulted in the
inevitable lowering of all the
standards of radio operating. Wages
dropped as low as S45 a month;
men worked Is hours a day; men
were forced to assume duties that
had never been part of radio work,
such as checking cargo on steam
ships, standing gangWay watches,
and acting as night Waterman.
Formed Union
Forced at last by the rapacious
greed of their bosses, the radio men,
who had been supine for ten years,
formed new organization. From
the date of the formation of this
new association on, the radio men
have fought back at their exploiters.
1t required two years of organiza-
ton work before they were strong
enough to take strike action, al
though from the very inception of
their union, the strength of the men
had been felt. Here and there, little
gains had been won. Concessions
were granted by the bosses, who
readily saw the danger Of sue
cessful union, and who employed all
devices to break up the union.
The first strike called by the radio
men was against the passenger YES
sels Of the American Merchant
Line, a subsidiary of the Wall
Street Morgan controlled Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine. Conces-
Sions were immediately made by
Continued on Page A.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-02
100 Striking Caddies
Learn All About NRA

The strike OF 100 caddies at Bon
ME Briar Country Club. which
started on June 9, is another ex-
ample Of how the bosses use the
collective bargaining clause to end
strikes peacefully for their bene-
fit. The boys demanded 81 a round
instead of 80 cents. No sooner did
they go on strike than police and
courts began their usI2l routine of
protecting public property" and
maintaining order" arresting three
boys on 'trespasSing charges"
The boys were put on six months
probation and sent back to their
jobs for the same 80 cents. If by
any chance the boys object to ILL
treatment OF demand better wages
or shorter hours, the owners Of the
club will threaten them with jail.