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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

TRAVELLERS GROUPS TO
MEET HERE APRIL 6. 7
30 Posts of Protective Association
to Be Represented.

Representatives from thirty posts
Of the Travellers Protective ASsocia-
ton in Indiana viii attend the
forty-fourth annual state cOnven-
ton at the Claypool hotel on April
s and Z.
The Rev. Howard E. Anderson Of
the Speedway Christian church will
give the invocation on Friday
morning to open the convention.
A banquet and dance will follow
on Friday night for delegates and
their wives.
Election of officers will be held
Saturday morning and delegates to
the national convention will be
selected. Simon Doenges, Corners
vile, is president of the state
association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
FORMER MAIL CARRIER
SENTENCED FOR THEFT
Postal Substitute Employe Given
Year and a Day.

Federal Judge Robert c. Baltzell
sentenced Stephen Byrum, former
substitute mail carrier at the In
dianapolis postoffice. to one year
and day in the federal reforma-
tory Saturday, on G charge OF mail
theft.
Byrum, it is charged, stole $3.50
from letters on routes.
DR.. Isom PhippS. Perkinsville,
was sentenced TO ninety days in Jail
on narcotics charge and Leland
Pelton was given a similar sentence
for violation of the counterfeiting
laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Let's Go Fishing
HIGH LEVEL OF
WATER SPOILS
FISHING TRIPS
Neither Cicero Nor Eagle
Creeks Give Anglers
Any Luck.
BY GEORGE DENNY
pinch Hitting for Lefty Lee)

The creeks were too high for best
results last Saturday and Sunday.
Tried Cicero creek first, then to
eagle. above townsville. Not a run
at either place, and saw no one with
fish, though a number of anglers
were making determined efforts.
It's nice to catch fish when you
go fishing but a true fisherman
won't let a fruitless trip discourage
him. 1t spurs him on, in fact
Grandfather used to tell me how, as
a boy on the old farm near Boon
vile, he could dig a few worms and
catch a nice mess Of bass at any
time. But it was for food in those
days more than for sport.
Now we travel miles and work
hard for our fish, and if they're
not hitting that day we're white
washed. Have you ever stopped to
think why we can't catch fish the
way our grandfathers could? You
don't have to think; you know. The
fish aren't there in such numbers.
Why aren't they there? First.
there's more fishing. All right, we
can't kick on that The more per-
sons fishing the less crowded our
jails will be-Ask any warden
Breeding Checked
Second, erosion. When the for
octr of T,oJ;ooo ,,,oro ;o+oo+ +haro
were no such spring floods as we
now see every year. The tree roots
held the soil, and the leaf mold
acted as a sponge, soaking up the
rain and melting snow and releaS-
ing it gradually. Now heavy rain
washes the rich top soil into the
swollen creeks, destroying the fer
tility of the land as well as ripping
up the stream beds, sitting over the
eggs of spawning fish and killing the
bottom larvae that constitute ma
jOr part of the game fishes food.
Third, pullutiOn. There's not
much we can do about erosion be-
cause land must be cleared for crops,
but pollution is our own fault. If
you've stood on the bank of a stream
and watched game fish dying by the
thousand helpless in the wave of
deadly acid, you would join the
sportsmen who are determined that
this practice must be stopped.
It's a safe bet that pollution kills
more fish in Indiana in a month
than all the anglers can take fairly
in a year Ask the candidate to the
legislature how he feels about it.
These Hurt Sport
Furth, illegal and unsportsmanlike
tactics such as dynamiting, spear
ing, SEEMING, taking spawning fish
from the nest, taking over the limit
and keeping understood fish. There
are bound to be some poor sports in
every game. selfish and unthinking
men who have to be caught and
fined before they will conform. If
you happen to know such a person,
watch him. He probably will in
dulge in unethical business prac-
tees and cheat at cards.
Conservation will become increaS-
ingly important. Working hours
are shorter. The f1ve-day week is
making for more leisure. There is
no better way to spend that time
than along the streams and on the
lakes. More fish in those streams
and lakes would add to their charm.
The waters belong to you and it's
your move.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
NJ. Y. LEGISLATURE TIC
INVESTIGATE UTILITIES
Democratic Leaders Eager to Let in
Light on Activities.

By Hfed Press
ALBANY, N. Y. April 2.rDemo-
cratic leaders arrived today for the
resumption of the legislative session,
eager to start the machinery that
will ''let in the light" on activities of
public utilities companies at the
Capitol.
Two courses of action were fore
cast. The first was the introduction
of a concurrent resolution creating
a legislative committee to carry out
the demands of Governor Herbert
H Lehman for an investigation to
determine the relationship of the
public utilities to ANY one in the
state service"
The other calls for an investiga-
ton by the senate judiciary COM
mittee of the differences drawn in
correspondence between Senator
Warren T. Thayer, Republican
whip, and officials of the Associated
Gas and Electric Company, revealed
before the federal trade commission
at a hearing in Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Use Sufficient Paint

1t is considered false economy to
attempt to save on the number of
coats of paint applied for surface
protection. 1t has been conclu-
sively demonstrated in tests by
paint experts that two coats of
paint applied every four years will
give better service than one coat
applied every two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
EQUIPMENT FAILURES
DECLINE ON PENNSY
Trains Travel Further Without Mis-
hap than in 1892.

Despite reductions in expenditures
for maintenance of locomotives and
cars last year. Pennsylvania rail-
road trains had less delays charge
able to equipment failures than in
1882.
The annual report of the motive
power department of the railroad
showed a decline from 1894 cents in
1882 per locomotive mile to 59O6
cents in 1888.
Passenger trains travelled last
year ,154 miles for each delay due
to a locomotive failure. in contrast
to 1902 miles an engine detention
in 1882. In the travel of freight
trains, last years reports show IS
886 miles for Neach locomotive fall
ure, as compared with 1908 miles
in the previous year.
A tooth is the only part of the
h0I,, +I1of 1o,, not Yo,0ai,. ifco1f
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
SPEEDWAY RACE
TICKETS SELLING.
AT RAPID RATE"
Advance Demand More
Than Double That of
Last Year.

Following close behind the whirl-
ing wheels of the 1884 pace car of
better business, the race to get front
seats for the twenty-second annual
500-mile automobile race at the In
dianapolis Motor Speedway on May
80 is well under way.
The advance mail order ticket
sale opened, as usual, four and a
half months ahead of the greatest
single day sports show in America.
Advance ticket sales over the
counter started early in January at
the Speedway office, 444 North
Capitol avenue.
The names of many old[ime rae
ing enthusiasts, absent for several
years, were again back on the list
requesting choice locations close to
the traditional bricks of the two
and a half mile oval.
Reflects Better Times
Optimism, based on the continued
improvement in general business
conditions, prevailed in the Speed
way Office as clerks racked the
newly printed pasteboards and
prepared to take care of an unusual
early sale.
I'VE are looking forward to the
heaviest early sale of tickets in the
past two or three years." said T. E.
(Pop) Myers, general manager of
the Speedway. I'VE base our OPP
timism not only on the increasing
signs of the return to better times
but upon the growing interest in
the 1884 race. The automotive in
dustry is again on the upturn after
some lean years and is coming back
with many radical changes in both
bodies and motors. Many of the
new features have been put to- the
extreme test in past races at Indi-
annapolis.
Innovations Indicated
1.-The public will be more inter-
ested in automobiles this year than
it has been for some time and will
look to the Speedway late in May
for even more innovations in racing
automobiles"
1t is expected that the new regu-
lations limiting the total gasoline
consumption to forty-fve gallons
this year will bring not only many
motor changes but may lead race
car builders to new forms of
streamlining with a view to cutting
fuel consumption.
Early reservations this year are
more than double that at this time
last year. More organized parties
are coming to the race than ever
before, and from all. parts of the
country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
APPEAL FORECAST IN
RULINGS ON CLEANERS
Defendants Retailers, Judge Kern
Finds in Tax Case.

Appeal Of ruling Saturday of
Superior Judge John w. Kern bring
ing dry cleaners under retailer pro-
visions of the gross income tax
statute was forecast today.
Judge Kern ruled in the suit of
the Clark Laundry and Dry Clean
ing Company, South Bend, which
commended that laundries and dry
cleaners come under the act as
manufacturers and pay but one
fourth of one per cent of the gross
income instead of as retailers. Judge
Kern held they were retailers. Pay
ment of per cent on gross income
is required of retailers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
DR.. Writ DECLARES
AMERICA MUST LOSE
Educators Work Published
for PaperS-Free.
BIZ United Press

bU CHlttu fTCSS
NEW YORK, April DIR. Will
liam A. Writ, Gary, educator, today
used the springboard of a sensa-
tional charge against President
Roosevelt'S Brain Trust" to pub
lish a 48-page pamphlet entitled
America Must Lose-By a Planned
Economy. a Stepping Stone to a
Regimented State"
The pamphlet was published by
The Committee for the Nation"
and offered in installments for seri-
alization in newspapers without
charge. 1t advocates further re-
Mobilization of the monetary sys-
tenn. The committee has been
actively campaigning for devalua-
ton of the dollar.
GARY, Ind, April 2-Dr Will
liam A. Writ today turned his
criticism from unnamed members of
the brain trust" to a group of in
tellectual radicals" whom he also
charged with working for revolu-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Laurel Street Home Looted

Everett Cain, 2012 Laurel street,
reported that thief entered his
house Saturday night while the
family was absent and stole a watch
valued at $50, gray suit valued at
SIS and bottle of perfume.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
HooSier Editor Dies

By United Press
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, April
2.-Arthur A. Mccain, IS. editor of
the Chariot, official publication of
the Ben-Hur Life Association, died
at his home here Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
Treat Copper Before Painting

Before attempting to paint copper
or brass, it should be properly pre-
pared to eliminate all grease. An
effective way is to scrub the surface
with gasoline.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

movement in any direction. When
not in use the reel may be lifted
from the swivel.
The device is being used by
merchants throughout the coun-
try as a business stimulator.
Judging from the apparent de-
mand, there likely will be some
delay in shipment, and the sales
volume will no doubt compare
favorably with that of other items
manufactured and distributed by
the Stringer company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
NAME PURDUE SPEAKER
DR.. Jean S. Miner Will Deliver
BaccaIaureate Address.

DR.. Jean S. Miner, Second Pres
byterian church pastor, has been
named to deliver the Baccalaureate
address at Purdue university June
10, it was announced today by
President E. c. Elliott.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

The Christian world never has
adopted one uniform Bible There
are ten different versions in use to-
day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02
JAPAN'S ARMY
RULES POLITICS
MilitariStS Threaten End of
Party Government in
Country.
Continued From Page One)

country in campaign to destroy
political parties of every shade.
Matsuoka is a fervent patriot. He
has the soul of Samurai. He is
appealing particularly to the youth
of Japan, urging the return to Spar
tan simplicity in public life and the
ways of simple honesty.
He denies he is a Japanese Mus
solini, but that is about as good a
description OF him and his program
as can be given in such short space.
Sons to Shift for Selves
Like Mussolini he is the first to
follow his own precepts. A wealthy
man, he called in his sons and told
them that all they will get of his
fortune is a university education and
500 yen-about $3.50.
Even that, he told them, is more
than most japanese boys have, and
with it they must make their own
ways in the world.
He is opposed to amassing and
holding on to vast accumulatiOns of
wealth.
Old school politicians here tell me
Matsuoka is not getting anywhere
with his campaign. From other
sources I hear that his meetings are
packed with the younger generation
and that among them he is hailed
with great enthusiasm.
Assailed on all sides as they are,
the political parties face either re-
form or extinction. They must
learn to act with courage, promptly
and for the common good if they
are to survive.
Reform Is Imperative
Parliamentary authority is show
ir.g signs of returning" former Sec
rotary of Home Affairs Takejiro
Tokonami told me, but reforms are
imperative 1t will have to cleanse
itself thoroughly before it can fully
regain its lost prestige.
This, I think, it will do. In any
event, I do not believe Japan is
headed toward any extreme-either
Fascism or Communism. She is too
firmly behind the Imperial House to
do that
At least the diet is regaining its
lest voice. 1t now dares criticise
miltarist abuses, an unheard-of
thing in its halls for nearly three
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-02

A tooth is the only part of the
body that can not repair itself.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Police Fail To
Stop McKeeSpOrt
Unity Steel Meet
Egan's Speech for Real
United Struggle
Applauded
Especial to the Daily Workerl

WILLIAMSBURG, Pa, June TO-
Even as Mike Tighe and other
Amalgamated Association of Iron,
Steel annd Tin Workers "a. r. of
Id officials were agreeing to John
sons sell out proposal in Washing
ton Friday night, in McKeeSport,
$50 steel workers, many of them
Amalgamated members, were ap-
plauding the appeal of James Egan,
S.W.WI.U. Secretary, for United
Front at a meeting which police
made every effort to suppress. A
deposit had been paid for Malta Hall
but when union member called to
close the deal he was denied the
hall by Malta officials. The police
had learned that an attempt would
be made to hold the meeting on the
lawn and when the workers ap-
peared they found the place
swarming with patrolmen. The as
semblage then moved down to the
9th Ward, where Egan spoke de-
nouncing Tighe and his maneuvers.
Afterward several A.A. members
of long standing congratulated Egan
on the United Front appeal and 81
Joined the Steel and Metal Workers
Union.
On Monday the Edgar Thompson
Works of Carnegie Steel Co., will
stage an Employees Representation
election at which candidates will
be nominated for the IL representa-
tive berths. Final elections will be
held June Is, dovetailing nicely with
Johnson's Board proposal so as to
avert the strike.
The following excerpt from steel
company article shows the kind Of
subjects on which the representative
are permitted to bargain collective
ly: recognition of employees making
suggestions for Improvements; i'm
provement in method of operating
valve on BY Product Gasline in
Stirling Boiler House, repairs to
light in buildings, etc."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
NJ E. S. A. Convention Defeats Smith on Some
Issues, But Clear-Cut Program Is Absent;

and Mack we're the ghosts at the
banquet" and fear Of them was
even carried to ridiculous extreme
when an attempt was made to re-
fuse two delegates re-admittance
to the convention on the ground
that they had talked to Anderson
between sessions.
Support Toledo
The convention went on record
in support of the Toledo strike
in a motion introduced by mill
tant from the Ternstedt plant. A
resolution demanding the release
of Ernst Thaelmann, introduced
by the militants, was also passed.
But such important questions as
unemployment relief and insurance
and the resolution on the united
front with the Auto workers Union
and the rank and file of the A. F.
of L., were sidetracked in the reso-
lutions committee and we're not
brought on the floor
The Smith machine, in line with
it's anti-strike policy, succeeded in
getting a motion adopted requiring
go per cent vote to call a strike.
This even outdoes the A. F. of L..
unions, where strike action is de-
termined by majority vote.
Convention Packed
The packed nature of the con-
vention was shown on the opening
day when members of the Smith
controlled District Committee, not
duly elected to the convention. voted
freely, and when the delegate from
the Clayton & Lambert shop, who
was regularly elected by the work.
ers in the shop, was refused adj
mission.
At the same time Bittncr. a
Smith henchman. was seated as a
delegate from Coleman's, although
he had not worked in this shop
for three months, and Hunter OF
Flint was admitted as delegate
from the Ford plant, although he
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Newspaper Guild
Convention RapS
.NRA Labor Section
Freedom Oft OmMooney
Demanded; Wages and
Hours KEYNOTE

ST, PAUL, Mimi, June l0-The
National Convention Of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Guild. representing
5000 organized newspapermen.
which convened here on last
Tuesday asssiled section IA of the
N. I. r. A., asserting that it did not
assure workers the right to organize
in unions of their own. but has
fostered the recognition Of company
unions.
Although section of the dele
gates are still laboring under the
illusion that newspapermen are not
workers and that their interests are
closely linked up with those Of the
publishers, the majority of the dele
gates by their votes and resolu-
tions showed that they are in favor
of building the guild into a power
full trade union organization to pro-
tect their economic interests.
Despite the fact that during the
first session of the convention
Roosevelt tried to WOO the delegates
for the N. R. A. with a honeyed
message Of praise, the last session
found the delegates talking about
fighting for agreements with the
publishers.
The contracts committee recon-
mended that contracts with the
publishers should cover the following
points:
Minimum wages, maximum hours,
dismissal notice, vacations with pay
time and half pay for overtime,
sick leave pay, examination Of
publishers books and no split shifts
Haywood Broun was reelected
president Jonathan Eddy, secretary,
was again chosen for the post Of
secretary.
The convention adopted a resolu-
ton demanding the freedom OF
Tom Mooney.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11

vention said that this same agree
ment was rejected by the workers
two months ago, and is backed by
the Regional Labor Board which
threatens to step in and destroy the
union completely If they don't &C
cept this practically company
union" agreement.
Many delegates originally came
to the meeting in an antagonistic
frame of mine, but by the end of
the meeting were SO utterly con-
WINGED that the Communist Party
acts as real unifying force for
labor and fights all those who would
split the ranks Of labor and weaken
labor's struggle, that at the end Of
the meeting the delegates expressed
their hope that the Communist
Party would take prominent part
in the coming strike of the hosiery
workers in Reading.
S. P. Paper Refuses to Print Free
Thaelmann Resolution
Two resolutions introduced by the
international Labor Defense into the
convention of the hosiery workers
now meeting in Reading we're sent
to the local press. The two capital
list papers in town, although not
quoting the entire resolutions, gave
a digest Of them. Raymond s. Hof-
ses, socialist and editor of the SIP.
organ the Reading Labor Advo-
cate" refused to even accept these
resolutions on the ground that they
were Communist propaganda" One
resolution called for the immediate
freedom of Ernst Thaelmann, and
the other demanding freedom for
Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro boys,
Angelo Herndon and all class-war
prisoners, as we'll as protesting
against the use of troops against
strikers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
AUTO Mechanics Meeting Clips Smiths Wings

clear-cut program on the present
situation facing the MESA, did
not deal with its tactics on the
strike field, nor with the drive of
the employers to company unionize
the industry, nor with the prob
lens Of the unemployed.
The Smith machine deliberately
avoided these issues by crowding
the convention with organizational
measures, while the Progressives,
who we're the only ones with a clear
cut program, we're unable to unite
their forces with the out-of town
delegates in time to make these the
central questions of the convention.
Progressive Must Consolidate
Opposition
The reverse to Smith is of great
significance and shows that among
the rank and file there is an earnest
desire to build the MESA. on a
militant basis. The task remains for
the Progressives to crystalline and
give leadership to this sentiment
and to continue to struggle against
Smiths policies which still WELD in
f1uence in the organization.
The Progressives cannot allow
Chapman to retain his evasive posi-
ton in respect to militant unionism,
nor decline to take a stand on the
question of the Smith machine
which, while shaken UP, still re-
mains intact, continuing its harm
full policies i'll the organization.
The ProgreSsives must consolidate
their position both in Detroit and
in other cities and carry forward
the fight around program Of mill
tant trade union tactics, the strug-
gle for unemployment relief and in
surance, against bureaucratic prac-
tees and for real trade union de-
mocracy, for unity among the work
ers, against company unions, wage
cuts and speed-up, and for uniting
the ranks CT the independent unions
outside the A. F. Of J.. into one in
dustrial auto union IS part of al
Independent Federation of Labor,
bringing together the progressive
forces in the labor movement
against the A. F, of l.. leadership,