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Evening star., 1934-05-21

Reform Is Progressing"
This movement of reform in county
and city government has been making
prodigious progress in the United
States" he said but today it is
Evening star., 1934-05-21
SANDS. MARGUERITE MaTTISCI

Suddenly. on Sunday. May 20. 1884. at
her home, 10 Johnson ave HyattsvilIe,
Md, MARGUERITE MATTINGLY
SANDS. She is survived by her son.
Francis Murray Sands; sister, Mrs
James Charles Rogers; a brother Eu-
gene A. Mattingly. Funeral from the
above residence on Tuesday. May -. at
a m; thence TO st. Jerome's Catholic
Church. Hyattsville. Nd. where mass
Will be said at $3.50 am. 1nterment
Mount QllYet CemeterY
Evening star., 1934-05-21
NELSON. EDWARD WILLIAM. On 81

day, May 10. 1884, at Garfield Hos
pita1 EDWARD WILLIAM NELSON. for
mer chief of Biological Survey son
of william and Nancy M Nelson. Serv-
ices at the chapel of Joseph Gawler's
Sons 1855 Pa. ave. NV. On Tuesday
May % at Ii am. Friends invited to
attend Interment private
Evening star., 1934-05-21

hUbINsUN, bI.ANCHE. Departed this lie
on Sunday. May 20. 1884. at GsIineer
HospitaiA a BLANCHE ROBINSON, wife OF
the late Titzhugh Robinson and mother
OF Fltzhugh and Eugene Robinson
sister OF Eugene and Samuel Harris
She also leaves TO mourn their loss sew
ersl other relatives and friends Re
mains resting at Eugene Fords funeral
home. 1900 South Capitol ST. until 4
? m. Tuesday May %; thereafter al her
late residence. 5l4 r ST. NV. where
funeral services will be held Wednesday
May 23 at pm. Interment Payne s
Cemetery. %
Evening star., 1934-05-21
MOCK. ARTHUR WATSON. On

May 20. 1884. at o pm. at his resi-.
dence. 1901 K st. ne. ARTHUR WAT
SON MOCK beloved husband Of Mary
Louise Mock (nee Helm. Funeral from
the above residence Wednesday May
90, at 10 am. Interment Mount Olivet
Cemetery. Relatives and friends invited
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
M0NTCALM CIVIC CLUB
ELECTS HAL NJ. FAIR
New Officers to BE Installed at
Ceremony Tonight.

New officers of the Montcalm
Civic Club will be installed at $50
tonight in the community room at
Seventeenth and Rembrandt streets.
The officers include Hal NJ. Farr,
president; Louis Peltier, vice-presi-
dent; Miss Mary RoSemeyer, cor
responding secretary; Mrs. Charles
Wiebke. treasurer, and Mrs. Dean
Hazel, secretary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
.SCIENTECH HEARS
INITIATION LECTURE
Butler Man Denies Cheap
Money Is Goal.

The theory that prices can be
controlled by initiating credit with
out initiating money. is being used
by the government to defeat the de-
preston, Professor Walter L. Slifer,
Butler university, said yesterday be-
fore the Scientech Club.
The price level must be main
tanned under this program, Professor
Slifer said, adding that this could
be done with initiation or deflation
of credit.
The price level must be main
tanned under this program, Profess
sor Slifer said, adding that this could
be done with initiation or deflation
Of credit.
Arthur NJ. Hood, attorney, sug-
gested a three poii1s .aX problem
which would eliminate taxation Of
real estate His program calls for
a poll tax, tax based on the indi-
viduals ability to pay, and tax
based on the rate Of living, or a
sales tax
Daniel B. Luten, engineer, said
that the biggest danger Of initiation
is conversion of bonds into paper
money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
CHARITY FUND
CLOSES YEAR
WITH SURPLUS
$37,716.69 Remains After
Paying All Debts, Re-
port Shows.

The indianapolis Community
Fund ended its fiscal year with a
balance Of s37716.69, according to a
statement Of cash receipts and dis
bursements announced today by
Arthur v. Brown. fund president
Part Of that balance, the state
ment explains, is s18,82753 in non
liquid deposits in the Fletcher
American bank and now represent
ed by trustee certificates.
Receipts Of the Community Fund
for its fiscal year ended oct. 81.
1893. amounted to s974693.42, and
disbursements were 1882, 1887, ac-
cording to the audited report.
During the twelve months period,
receipts included $3.50 693 ~ in pay
ment on subscriptions and miscel-
laneous, and bank loans Of $4,000
Disbursements included:
To member agencies. including
Council Of Social Agencies, $685.
646.63; campaign, administration
collecting, service to agencies, etc,
SAT .49747; repayment Of bank loans,
S218 GOO, miscellaneous, $1,806.25
and advance for campaign, S18,-
548.02.
The audited report is signed by
the George S. Olive Company, Ger
titled public accountants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
PWA FUND TO
Be USED FOR
SEWAGE WORK
SIudge Plant Completion
Planned: Board Head
LaudS Van Mugs.

Money appropriated by the pub
lie works administration Saturday
to the indianapolis sanitary board
will be used to complete the acti-
waited sludge unit of the sewage
disposal plant, Maurice E. Tenant,
board president, said today.
Between $50 and 400 men will be
given employment on this project,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09

Mr.. Tenant estimated. The board
asked S395,0o0 for completion of the
sludge plant, on South Harding
street, which the city long has need
ed, and received the entire amount.
Il feel that Senator Frederick
Van Mugs has been very helpful in
obtaining this money for us" said
Mr.. Tenant. The board has been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
$4,000 Expected to Take
Advantage of U. S.
Health Plan.

Approximately $4,000 Marion coun-
ty school children will receive free
dental examination within the next
three months, DR.. E. E. Voyles,
president of the Indiana State Den
tai Association, has announced.
The work in Marion county is
part Of a nation wide fact-fnding
survey on dentaal conditions among
school children undertaken by the
United States Public Health Asso-
citation.
Dr. Voyles, in announcing full
cooperation of the state association
in the undertaking, said that plans
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
man
ELECTED CHIEF
OF BREEDERS
Clarence E. Beard Named
President of Indiana
DurOC Group.

Election of Clarence E. Beard,
Frankfort, as president, succeeding
Elmer Hutchinson, Arlington, fea-
tured the closing session of the In
diana Duroc Swine Breeders Asso-
citation yesterday at the SEVERN.
Other new officers are Harry
Caldwell, Connersville, vice-presi-
dent, and Harry T. Gooding, An
derson, secretory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
AUTHORITIES WILL BAKE
Chicago Experts TO Demonstrate
New and Old Recipes.

New and old baking recipes will
be demonstrated by Henry Dutz and
Alfred Hruby, experimental baking
department of Swift q Co., Chi
cago. at tomorrow night in the
bakery of Charles Friel, 100 West
Thirtieth street.
Mr.. Dutz learned his trade in
Paris, although native of Belgium,
and has headed the baking depart
mentS Of the Palmer House and the
Blackstone hotel, Chicago. The
demonstrators just have returned
from a 5,000-mile demonstration
tour
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
JAN. 9, 1884

contemplating this project for some
time, but we had no assurance that
it would go through"
Mr.. Tenant said that prelimin-
airy plans had been worked out by
the board. and that it is prepared
to advertise for bids just as soon
as the PWA notifies them when
they will receive the money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
HONOR MEMORY OF
DR.. ALFRED {. HENRY
Send Check to Aid Marion County
tuberculosis Work.

In memory Of DR. Alfred E
Henry. long president of the Marion
County tuberculosis Association,
the Teacher Association of
School 70 has sent a check to the
association. Announcement of the
donation was made today by DR. E.
NJ. Amos, president.
DR. Henry served as president of
the National tuberculosis AssoCia-
ton during the year prior to his
death. in 1892
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
Baritone to Present Program

Virgil H. PhemiSter, baritone SOLO
ist, will present a selected program
at 8 tomorrow in the Southport
Presbyterian church auditorium.
Miss Mabel Pruitt will accompany
Mr.. PhemiSter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
CWA SPONSORS FREE
ART LECTURE COURSE
Glasses in Sketching and Apprecia-
ton to Be Held in Settlement.

Schedules for free classes in art
instruction being given by teachers
employed under the civil works pro-
gram, were announced today by Will
liam S. Kaeser, instructor.
Glasses in sketching are held
Monday and Friday nights at the
American Settlement. One-hour art
appreciation classes are to be given
Tuesday nights.
A combined commercial and fine
arts course is given Monday,
Wednesday and Friday afternoons
at the Y. w. c. A.
At Kirshbaum Community Cen
ter, classes in interior decorating
are held Wednesday nights and
commercial and applied art classes
Thursday nights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
County Children to Have
Teeth Examined Free

are being made for examination Of
more than 100000 Indiana school
children enrolled in the public grade
schools. kindergartens and parochial
schools.
Headquarters for the survey have
been established in Dr.. Voyles' Of
flee, 808 Odd Fellow building, from
which instructions and supplies
have been sent to officers of district
and county dental socities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
FACTOR DEFIES TOUHY
THREATS; WILL TESTIFY
Jake che Barber Ready to Identify
His Kidnapers, He Says.

BU DHitfd PrFss
CHICAGO, Jan. 9. - Warnings
that John CJake the Barber) Factor
and members Of his family will be
killed if he Identifies members of
the Touhy gang charged with his
kidnapping were reported to the
states attorneys office by Mr.. Fac
tor today.
I'm going through with it any
way" NIr. FACTOR said. I'm going
to identify those men as the men
who kidnapped me-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-09
Mays Names New Treasurer

Macy'S Names New TREASURER
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Beardsley
Runnl, dean of the division of So
cial sciences of the University of
Chicago, will succeed Oswald w.
Knauth as treasurer Of R. H. Macy
& Co., it was announced today.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
Mich. Farm Organizer Kidnapped
SAILING UNDER FALSE FLAG
AN EDITORIAL

In their attempt to fool the farmers and workers of
Sheridan county and to split their votes the obedent SER
wants of Manstreet have taken the complete program of the
Communist Party and put it forward their Equipped
with Communist slogans and Communist demands the Moe
Wanke BOuds and company setting out to form their
and Workers Political Party this Saturday at the
Farmer-Labor Temple = -a----s
The program printed by the Plentywood Herald Main
streets official organ and paid for by the advertisements
OF 70 reactonary businessmen.
contains every single plank of the Communist Party
platform including cash relief cancellation of debts all local
demands, and the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill and the Farmers Emergency Relief Bill both drawn up
by the C. P.
The Mainstreet politicians have been rather clever in
engineering this affair First they bought certain elements
to steal the Communist ticket at the primaries They failed
Communist program. ~ va ~
The Communist Party of would have no obiec-
ton IT the Holiday Association members would back the CP
platform On the contrary the support of every sincere
farmer and worker for the program of his class is
and to be wished for. But here the Communist program is
USED oy few re1egades and traitors for the singular
purpose to defeat the Communist Party the party of the
workers and farmers, at the coming elections
- There only one group that may benefit b this bastard
attempt Everybody knows that the Noes and Wanels have
the slightest chance of being elected They themselves
knot only too WILL But their party has the purpose
gathering up votes here there from people thew
can foo to make the victory of the Communist Party more
the Malnstreet politicians while the farmers and workers
OF the county would be the losers.
The particular purpose of the renegade elements in
adopting the Communist platform virtually word for word ID
OF course to greatly confuse the voers They calculate that
When farmers read the slogans and demands and fail to
cover any difference between the program of fake Marty
and that of the Communist Party some farmers might as
likely as not vote for the disguised Mansreet candidates
1However;we s1reehat Mr. Polk and his friends are
throwing away their money It is not hard for farmers
catch and recognize these efforts as being dirty and under
ended Farmers know that the Communist Party and its
candidates have actually all along been fighting for the de
mands contained in the platform Right now before election
and stcertanly AFTER the election the Communist Par
y struggling to- put these demands into reality The new
on the other hand and those people who engineer
IT. are not in any struggle in the interest
of the farmers Like heIberty Party two years ago this
new fake party viii disappear after the election and it's
voters will be holding the bag.
There ishan excellent to these dirty political
f an answer that once and for all will stop the work
OF these political, charlatans and gwaggerers:
j.. VOTE COMMUNIST on Nov. 6
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
Wage Cutter Gets
$50 Per Cent
vjiIs eKa
Increase

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.-The
salary of the man who has slaShed
wages to the bone all over the
country was increased $50 per cent
on July 1, it was announced here
today. General Hugh S. Johnson,
NRA administrator, had repeatedly
stated that he could not live" on
$4,000. President Roosevelt there
fore has now increased his wages
to $4,000 because this is "mOre
nearly in line with his worth and
to enable him to meet heavy living
eXpcL Sos"
The cost of living has RISER a
gocd Geal since the general began
trt fstine o.. Mt. r ,cseva : an his
Wall Street bosses. [S seems there
fore his increase in wages is quite
necessary. az And really, he is
worth much more than a misery
SIS, 600, his job on the Frisco Gen
eral Strike alone should be worth
at least half a million. ,u,e
land why not, as long as the
numb-slulls of taxpayers are so
anxious to pay.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
TO SPEED A.AA. Is
"ONLY EFFECT" OF
.DROUTH, ROOSEVELT
Minin1izes Shortage of
Food in Country

+ WASHINGTONlAIn a confer
ence with newspapermen last week,
President Roosevelt frankly hailed
the drought as a helpful partner
to the AAA. In fact, he said. ten
drought has speeded up the A.A.A.
program so rapidly that there had
been accomplished in one year all
the New Dealers had expected to
accomplish. ir1two orr three years.
Sc Minimizes Shortage
Everything is progressing in
exact conformance with the pro-
gram started a year and a half
ago." the President told reporters.
The only effect Of the drought
was to accomplish in a single year
what the crop curtailment program
was expected to accomplish in two
or three years"
He minimized the food shortage
and insisted that there was plenty
Of food in the country. He said
that food prices had risen only six
per cent and that further rises
would not be alarming. .t,
Those reporters who took the
trouble to study the figures to
which Mr.. Roosevelt referred, how
ever, came to the conclusion that
retail prices have risen more than
II per cent since las! June and are
MORE THAN TWENTY PER
CENT HIGHER than March 1888
when Roosevelt took. office.
On top of this a further rise d
is per cent by winter was pre-,
dicted by the officials Of the De
partment of Agriculture. Secre,
tary Wallace himself stated that
the cost of living was expected tt
rise seven per cent. which means
a rise in retail food prices of al
least Is per cent.
A detailed study of the drought
released by the department, admit
ted that ga higher level Of foo
prices on the whole may be iex-
pected" and declared that supple,
in many staple. food products ar,
1.-THE lowest on record.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
Hopkins Reluctantly
Favoring Cash Relief
Signal Push HR 1898
Seventy-tWo Businessmen In County Sign Cash Relief
Resolution Initiated by United Farmers League

WASHINGTON Aug. 24--"We have got to have "a cash
benefit somewhere in the picture for persons thrown nvo
ary out of work. Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hop
Hopkins has just returned from six weeks Study
tour through Europe Press reports state that he has ere
uctanty come to the opinion that relief is
The administrator is well of the struggle of workers
and farmers in this country for cash relief and unempoy
menu insurance he recognizing the steadily growing sent
nent Tor the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill reuc
family he has to give in Now he is firmly convinced that
UNEMPLOYMENT insurance must be fitted into the New nea
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
LOCALS ENDORSE
DROUGHT RELIEF
DEMONSTRATION
Organized and UnOrganized Farmers Urged to Turn Out
in Support of Demands for Cash Relief, Feed,
Vegetables etc. on Tuesday

All locals Of the United Farmers League have endorsed
the call of the State Committee of the League for drought
Farmer Labor Temple it stated today by Hans Harder
SEN UF.L State Secretary. .ev t..
Our past demonstrations, said Hardersen especially
during this drought have always resulted in some measure
Again it is necessary for the farmers of the
country to together in powerful meeting to stand up
for their demands. For right are facing worse con-
ditons than have confronted all along,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
WALLACE H HAS new.
PLANS FOR : FOOD.
CROP DESTRUCTION.
htsi
Wheat Acreage to Be Cut
10 Per, Cent Is An
nouncement

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.-Sec-
rotary of Agr. Wallace seems to
have a. hard time making up his
mind whether to con inue the crop
destruction policies of the AAA in
the face of the lowest food supply
in a generation or whether to
abandon it. On August IL his de-
partnent announced that there will
be no reduction Of next years
wheat crop. Today he talks of
new schemes of food destruction
and officially announces a curtail-
ment Of 10 per cent in the basic
wheat acreageeof 1885, ... ... -
In a talk last week, Wallace oul-
lined a plan by which food raised
during the coming year might be
rendered unfit for human consump-
ton eff another surplus threat
ened." sFa- -tr s,t ,.e
eff farmers planted their normal
acreage (of wheat)," said Wallace,
"and it appeared during the grow
Continued on Page Four)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30

ted Sharp, crippled war
tetefan, was so mercilessly
peaten that he had to be
FAX take4 n to the hospital at Brit
~ .Sh. lie suffered three broken
. tbs ~ and an injury to the eye
q, q a result of a tear gas bullet
WI %lnch was fired directly into
,ns lace. On top of it he re-
'elVed several minor injuries.
m Attack Planned
81. mat this most vicious and brutal
. ssSs, attack had been carefully
U UE deliberately planned by the
ppuIlclans and reactionary bust
az is shown by the fact that
tr iegionaires were shipped in
unity S,Om five different counties. With
b1 OF beer supplied by the local
az nessnen, they bolstered up
sqs sr courage. The forces of the
Nv Nv and the hodlums worked in
;r V,iect harmony, the sheriff turn
over the victims to the band Of
CONTINUED On page ~
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
SCHOOL. TRUSTEES
RATHER GENEROUS
WITH PUBLIC FUNDS

People living in School District
No. 30 are of the opinion that
their school trustees are becoming
quite liberal in the distribution of
funds.
It is reported that a s72 con-
tract for rebuilding the barn at the
school house was handed out while
other offers for $40 had been re
fused A bid Of $3.75 for cleaning
the school was rejected while a bid
of SIS for the same work wac ac-
cepted. $50 -'''"7~' Z
This goes to show that it pays co
be- on the good side Of q school
beard.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30

The Women's Anti-War League
is arranging anti-war meetings all
over the county. At these meet
ings Reverend Larsen will be the
principal speaker. He has been a
soldier himself and will relate some
of the experiences they had to go
through on the Fields of honor
In France. mn
The first meeting will be held
at Outlook on Monday, Sept, 8,
at s D. m.
On Tuesday, Sept. 4, Rev. Lar
sen will speak at the Farmer
Labor Temple, PlentywOOd: the
meeting will start at 8 p. III.
He will lecture at Redstone ON
Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 6p.~ms
Other meetings are being ar
ranged as follows:
COmertOwn, Monday Sept. 10.
Westby, Tuesday, Sept. IL.
Homestead, Wednesday, Sept.
18th. -f57 ue
"Again like in 1914 the greaa
imperialist powers are preparing
for another world slaughter, -
Grace MCGOWAN, Secretary Of the
Women's Anti-War League, stated.
"Ten million men, the flower Of
humanity, lost their lives on the
battlefields Of Europe; much more
terrible viii be the results of the
war now in preparation IL we, sin
cere women and men Of all coun-
tries, are unable to stop t."
"Like the first Anti-War Con-
gress, that took place afyear ago
in New York, the second congress
CONTINUED On page 81
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30
Eascists Attack
School on Wheels
Hundreds of Drunken Legionares Led by Sheriff Raid
Dance of School, Kidnap, Torture Farmers; Crippled
War Veteran Suffers Broken Ribs and Eye
Injury; Protests are Urged

=, SlSSETON, S. D., Aug. 27:-Led by Sheriff Roehr of
marshall county, gang of several hundred drunken
OerS OF the American Legion staged vicious and nwar
W ea raid on dance sponsored by the Farm School
"neeS at Clear Lake Park BrittOn, last Saturday.
julius Wstad leader of the United Farmers League of
utn Dakota, and six other farmers were kidnapped and
o"n into the basement of Carters Millinery Shop where
gnares and their women Caxing this fascist torture
gauntlet = - - - - - -
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-08-30

From his study of European con-
ditions Hopkins has evidently
learned that the workers, farmers.
the small businessmen and profess
SIGNALS have been struggling con-
tinuously to get cash relief and
unemployment insurance. In the
face of the mounting support of
H.R. 1898, the Workers Unemploy.
ment Insurance Bill, In this coun-
try, Hopkins could not do any diff
feren'f but "reluctantly" announce
chat he is favoring cash relief and
unemployment insurance. ie0
workers and farmers all over
the country must regard this as
a signal to increase their fight to
get H.R. 1893 passed. BY Congress.
The bin has been drawn up by the
Communist Party and provides
that unemployment beheEfts be paid
CONTINUED On page y