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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
ENFORCE ARMY REGULATIONS
ON PEACE OFFICERS. PLEA

By Veteran of :he 4sth F. H., NJ. D.
I have been reading your editorial
page and think some of the sugges-
items sent in by your readers are
fine. I am sending in my suggestion
hoping to see it IN print.
I don't think Dillinger's escape
was from the lack of experienced
men but just neglect Of duty. When
went in the army in 1917 I was
put in charge Of prisoners. I was
without previous experience in such
work I came in contact with de-
serters and prisoners OF all kinds and
can say that none ever escaped
from me because under one article
OF war, the laws Of which We served
under read: ANY one found guilty
Of neglecting his duty or deserving
in time Of war shall be shot or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
THE LIGHT co. OFFICIALS
SHOULD ANSWER THIS

BY Times Reader.
have been a Times reader for
twenty years. have been out of
work three years and keep my light
bill within my reach. We do not
burn much light for there is only
my wife and me. Now the light
company has instructed me to move
the meter and, above all, on my own
hook Can they force me to do this
because we are saving? This meter
has been in this house twenty years.
Please have Mr.. Minton investigate
this botched up affair. AS far as
I am concerned they can put it in
the tree or on the pole or on top
of the house. I am 70 years old
and unable to move meters for
them.
Please print this and also will
watch for answer for this in my
paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21

pletely just independence law especially on
the trade side. The other reason is that con-
ditions in the Pacific are dangerously I'M
settled, and that results Of the 1885 confer
ence at which our far eastern and naval
treaties may expire are completely in doubt.
Under the circumstances, a postponed
settlement with American and Philippine off,
Gals working harnoniously together in the in
term as they now. are, is the only practical
temporary solution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21

By P. S.
How many readers of your pa
per who read the sad story of
the misfortune that befell Ernest
Finch when his little, humble
home and his wife and three chill
dren we're all taken from him,
will stop for a few moments to
consider how that poor man must
have felt when he realized what
had happened?
Suppose it had happened to
you, dear reader! God in His
goodness and mercy, for some
reason, placed this burden upon
the shoulders of this laboring man.
Without any pain, grief or hard
ship to any of us, there is in
Indianapolis, Notwithstanding the
financial and industrial condi-
lions now, enough liberal hearted
men and women to donate to
fund to help this poor man and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
LII ARTHUR SCORED FOR
HIS TWO GREAT GAINS"

BY NJ, L. Lloyd.
I will have to take issue with "a
Reader" he calls himself in your
Message Center, as to our congress
man. He says we have too many
and they don't know what it is all
about Anyway he mentions one
who has a head Of his own who
could do the trick.
Now let's take a look at this gen.
tleman. His name is Arthur. He took
a firm stand on the invisible en-
pire and on the eighteenth amend
ment. They we're two Of the most
damnable issues this country ever
tolerated, so it very easy to see why
he has a head of his own, and not
much in it.
Publish this, if you please.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
PROGRESS LAUNDRY EMPLOYE
KNOWS NO BETTER FIRM
By An EmpIoye.

BY An Empioye.
I am proud to say that I have
been at the Progress Laundry for
many years and always have found
the company fair and square with
everybody. There is no other firm
in Indianapolis which has as many
employees who have stayed in one
place as long as the Progress.
Every knock is a boost. Our work
is picking up daily. If you are
honest and straight, you will find
that the Progress Laundry is Won
derful place After all, we should
work hand in hand as the world is
in a chaos, and each bit contributed
for the benefit Of others will re-
ward US well in this world and the
world to come. can not praise
the Progress Laundry enough for
its kindness to me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
CWA SCHOOLS COME
IN FOR ATTACK
By Grace Lawrence.

by Trace Lawrence
I wish to answer Charles S. Davis
on his article Urges Attendance at
CWA education classes"
Maybe he doesn't know that these
classes are TO be attended only by
unemployed people. I tried to join.
was working and was told I could
not attend.
Some towns are getting around
that. MY cousin, who lives in a
small town not far from here, goes
to q tipping class and she comes into
Indianapolis every day and works at
a bank. She says that the superin-
tendent of her school turned in only
the names Of the ones who were
not employed and said If an in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21

both preceding years, and when our
bills came due we could pay them.
When the MIRA was started, a
jeweler succeeded in organizing
enough Of the cleaners so they
could get this price and also a sal
airy for soaring the little cleaner out
of business.
The organization gave the rest
Of the cleaners q choice-the 75-cent
price or $500 fine for violation of
the code. The result shows that
not many cleaners have $500
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
e0holly di8approve of qvhat you say and 1OiH
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoEtaire.

whatever a court-martial shall d.
rect"
I think that if our sheriffs and
police officers were sworn in under
such laws there wouldn't be so MANY
escaped convicts running at large
today, and if the state enforced
these penalties instead of having
them resign for neglect of duty our
prisons would be a safer place to
keep conVictS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
So They Say

We do not prove the quality Of
our genius by detraction. but doing
something worthy and doing it
handsomely.-President Clarence A.
Barbour of Brown university.
ANY intelligent conception of mod
ern governmental functions must
embrace the idea of effective con-
suner protection.-Rexford @. Tug
well, assistant secretary of agri-
culture.
America has made its last billion
aire.-Joel E. Curtis, economist.
They have lot of pygmies down
at that fair. I bet no one ever
stopped to see how they were dressed.
Judge Joseph B. David of Chicago.
The good life for the multitude,
not for the superior minority living
in land of illusion of the sweat of
the "ignoble"-this is the kernel
terminating in the heart of the
concept OF progress.-Dr. Charles A.
Beard, economist.
subsistence farming is not posi-
bic unless we are willing to DESTROY
practically everything that we now
call desirable in our present civiliza-
tlon.-Leonard ]. Fletcher. engineer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
ANOTHER READER PROTESTS
RAISES IN BREAD PRICES
BY a Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
In view of the fact that wheat
prices are practically the same as
they have been for some time, if
not lowCl. why is it that the price
of bread has jumped from 10 cents
for a IL pound or 8 cents for
one-pomld loaf? Isn't there some
way to stop this?
Please print this in your Mes
sage Center and advise who would
be the proper authority to report
this for investigation.
The Times will attempt to OBJ
tain the answer to the question.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
WEDNESDAY,. MARcH q. laa4.
DILLINGER'S RECORD

He indianapolis Times has received scores
of letters from readers in connection with
John Dnlinger's break from the Crown Point
Jail, March 3.
Many of the readers have lauded Dlllinger
for this daring. Many have asserted they
think he is brave because he is "one man
against nation"
Others have expressed disgust for Dlllinger,
his gang and his activities. They see MIN as
the nations worst criminal, who should be
imprisoned for life. shot in a gun battle or
executed after trial by jerry.
- The Times takes only one stand That is,
that John Dillinger should pay for the crimes
he has committed His ability to sidestep the
law is not praiseworthy; rather it is the weak
link in the chain Of Indiana law enforcement.
For those interested in DiIinger's case, The
Times presents the outlaws record. Part of it
is from the statehouse flies which are open
to any citizen who desires to obtain frst-hand
information on the man who has proven the
terror of this state and the middle west.
John Dillinger was sentenced to the state
-reformatory in September, 1924 His sentence
was ten to twenty-one years for assault and
ted attack on a Mooresvile grocer. He also
was serving concurrent two-to-fourteen-
year sentence.
Within ninety days after DiIlinger was con-
fined to the reformatory he was caught hid
ing out" and attempting to escape.
The remainder Of his reformatory record
follows:
Jan 81, 1925-Disorderly conduct
Feb. 26, 1926-Gambling
May %. 26-CrookedneSs
Aug 16 and Dec. 27, 1926-Disorderly con-
duct.
Dec. 81, 1926-Fignting.
Oct. II, 1s2S-Destroying property.
He was transferred to the state prison on
July p, 1929.
State prison records show:
1929-Gambng, and cooking with fire
away from kitchens.
1930-Found in another inmates cell; MAX
ing a shirt for another inmate, and talking
while marching in line.
1931-Razor found in cell; found with Gig
sret papers and homemade lighter
He was paroed IN 1882.
Sept. Is, 1933-Dnlnger suspected in
S25 600 Massachusetts avenue bank robbery
October 1933-Arrested in Dayton O., after
zen convicts escaped from the Indiana state
prison. DiIlnger was believed to have been
outside man" on The escape.
Oct 12-Sherif Jess Sarber of Lima slain
when terror mob friends of Dillinger freed
him.
Dec. 14-William Stanley. police sergeant
of Chicago, slain oy members of Dillinger's
gang.
Jan. IS, 1934-Patrick CAalley, East Chi
cago policeman. killed in $4,000 bank holdup.
Dillinger was charged with murder.
Jan. 26-Dillinger, Charles Makley, Russell
Clark and Harry Pierpont captured in Tue
son. Ariz.
Several days later Dillinger was returned to
the Crown Point Gn6O jail, and held there
awaiting trial on the murder charge.
March 3-Dillinger escaped from the Crown
Point Jail, using a wooden gun to force his way
to liberty.
TODAY-Dillinger still is sought by every
law enforcement officer OF the nation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
CHARGES REGULAR WORKERS
HAVE BEEN FIRED

BY Times Reader.
Will the editor of this column or
some CWA official please explain
why some employees on the school
board and other departments, driv-
ing trucks and other equipments
have been fired and replaced by
CWA men? I thought CWA men
were to be used on special projects
and not maintenance work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

common. Great bands Of outlaws infested the
region.
For years this wilderness road was the
most dangerous segment of the whole from
tier. If there are ghosts, the old Trace must
be haunted by whole platoons.
To put a federal highway along the whole
route would open to motorists a romantic and
tradition-laden trail to Americas past.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
Dream
BY HAROLD FRENCH

BY HAROLD FRENCH
A million stars were out last night,
And so was I.
wandered where the crocus BIOS
SONS
Moved as my shadow passed by.
The night was quiet. There was no
sound
Even Of growing things.
The moon hung in the rigidity
That such silence brings.
Last night I dreamed a curious
dream
Of white wonder upon the lawn.
I dreamed that you had come 10 me
And found me gone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
HE OBJECTS TO BURDENS
PLACED ON CLEANERS

By L. NJ. Shugert.
In regard to the request Of J.
Van Sickle to hear from other peo-
pie on price raises I tell the story Of
a cleaner in this city.
Our business has dropped two
thirds from what it was this time
two years ago and last year. We
were charging IS cents or less than
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
The Message Center

(Times readers are fnvited to cypress
their Uie1os in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
Limit them to $50 cords or Iess.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21

Mrs. Roosevelt has brought the President
straw-cradled bottle of forty year-old rum
from Puerto Rico. She must want the bottle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21

Don't let the first robin fool you-he him
self. might be fooled by the Book beer signs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21

America has made its last billion
alre.-Joel E. Curtis, economist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-21
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Evening star., 1934-01-15
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Press

The position of the Treasury January 10
was: Receipts, S9.O95. .302. .Os; expendl-
lures. S15.426.4534s: balance. S1I7.21O.-
544.32: customs receipts for the month.
$40. So, ] ~. 20. 81.
Receipts for the fscal year since July !
were Sl.5S6.423. l40 40; expenditures. So
oS5 904 l3l .05 Including 81 sos. ! 81, .45:iIS1
emergency expenditures excess of expendI-
lures. II .43g 4 50. 300. 30.
Receipts for January IL. 1899 (com-
parable date last year.. 81 .63S 65O.11; ex-
pendi.dreS. Sls.445.5S6; net balance.
S430; 030..93 81 custom receipts for the
month. s.. .13O.l91.16.
Receipts for fiscal year. 81 .031 oO9 90 a.
expenditures. $3.50. 5l9, 6aa 03: excess of
expenditures over receipts. S1.23a 3ff-
12661 exclusive of S535. .652 2.33a.7S ex-
pended for the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration.
Evening star., 1934-01-15
LEAF TOBACCO SALES
DECLINE IN MARYLAND
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star. ..
BALTIMORE. January l5.-Sales OF
Maryland leaf tobacco in December
showed a sharp decline from the pre-
vious month, only 1879 hogsheads. con-
tanning 924,715 pounds, being sold, COM
pared with 3,999 hogsheads and 2,757.-
595 pounds in November.
Prices, however, showed an increase,
sales in December being made at an
Evening star., 1934-01-15

average price Of .0911 cents pound.
compared with .0644 cents pound in
November
First receipts Of the 1888 crops ar
rived here last week and consisted of
80 hogsheads, which, with sales of 164
hogsheads reported, leaves stock In
State tobacco warehouses Of 21,797
hogsheads.
Evening star., 1934-01-15
MONEY IN CIRCULATION
SHOWS SHARP DECLINE

By the Associated Press.
Money In circulation showed sharp
drop during the week ended January
10. IS the change was measured by the
Federal Reserve Board. In the table
that follows the total circulation is
given for comparable periods, as an
nounced by the board:
Week ended January TO-. S5.6S4 900. 900
fiSNiSVe WceA Sa'CoV'vveOO
lame week last year. ..... .5.5S9. 100000
Evening star., 1934-01-15
Notes in Financial District.

.
The importance of making dis
tinction between expenditure items and
appropriation items in the proposed
Federal budget is stressed by Henry H.
Heimann, executive manager of the
National Association of Credit Men in
his monthly review of business received
here today.
Cooperation in matters affecting ac-
counting procedure and the establish
ment of principles to define cost has
been offered to the National Recovery
Administration by the New York State
Society of Certified Public Accountants.
A committee on NJ r. A. has been ap-
pointed by the society.
Robert M. HaneS, president OF the
Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. at Win
ston-Salem, N. c.. was recently elected
a director of the Southern Railway Sys-
tenn.
George j. Avent has been named q
director of the Jacksonville, Fla, branch
of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
He is president IF the Flcrioa National
Bank, Jackso-lv
Evening star., 1934-01-15

63h 12N Johns-Mansvills. go.
106h' AZ Johns-Manville pf l..
81 IS Jonss&Laugh ~ pf.
Evening star., 1934-01-15
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK. January Is R.-Bar
silver firm, % higher, at As.
Evening star., 1934-01-15

24H 61i Kans City Southern. !.
34h IL Kan City Southn pf..
J. 9ss 2M kaufman D s (h2Oc) &.
TN 6h Kayssr - & Co. go.
81 X Kelly Spring Tire. ..'
31]i 6 Kelly Sp Tire 81 pr. I.
8 az Kelsey-Hayes (A)...
6& IL Kelsey-Hayes (B).
15sb 3h kelvinator (12he)..
26 t7h Ksnnecott Copper.
80 ~ Kinney &c RI Co pf.
7% ! Kresge Dept Stores. {.
161- 80 Kresge tSS)CotS6c).
IS. fEs fSro., =, '-r~~ery ~. 4.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
Deserving A Sinking Ship!

CAoRs ship by
y omen a warning
Party particularly
confidential pub
sed herewith might wen serve as warning the honest rank and
learning sailors
that a sinking ship
POLITICALLY useIess!tHs the Characterization of the Socialist Par
Guordia
prestige completely
that political disadvantage for American
connected with it,
remarked Bansbard
greatest human weakness unwiingne to nitu
Ouived usefulness that
applies
and the Socialist Party of the United States"
In short he declares the SIP politically bankrupt and proposes that
it be scrapped
pUr
ing: a camp;
he makes these statements only to cover his own berayals"
True! leaders
remain the head of the Party those who control its poic
Abe Caan for example one of the Oldest and most Social
with Roosevelt but
admitted the Socialist
Norman gave blessing strikebreakng
A going so far as characterize possible socialism,
workers that "ths not the time to strike
sighted that there
political between Bnshard and the
other leaders, those who still remain at the helm.
Banshard deserts openly into the camp de-
cng Roosevelt has taken the initiative from u.s. Norman
initiative
from u.s. but they prefer to give their support to Roosevelt in the
socialism They undertake to msead honest socialist workers
creating the illusion that this road leads
might lead to socialism
Actually the
which led to Hiers bloody terror in Germany.
playing the treacheous role
played Democratic they
pairing ground dictatorship socialism
following which Banshard admits led to the complete
ddng Social democracy and the Socialist Inter
national.
The difference between Bansard and Thomas then simply this
proposes the workers Fsm the Of social
can't be donei the workers
openly into the Fascist camp"
THE statement of Paul Bansd should help the socialist workers
social character
party them finding their
revolutionary MarXsm the socialism The road Of
the of Len the road which led
to the USSRa the road of the Communist Party
socialist carefully the resolution of the
the Communist International published elsewhere in this
believe that all honest workers after contrasting this declara
sinking Socialist fascist Blan
the revolutionary Party of the working class the Commu
Party
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
Eye-Witnesses Of Attempted ASSASSINATION of Lenin
Tell OF His Visits to Factories Workers Deuotion

protected Lenin that time with our
backs"
No particular attention had been
paid to Vera Kaplan, who, Naumoff
thinks, remained outside. In the
meeting Lenin read a telegram an
nouncing the assassination Of Urit-
ky and Volodarsky, and explained
it as the opening of a murder cam
paign by the counter-revolutionary
party, Socialist Revolutionaries," in
the interests OF the capitalists, and
warned:
"This is not the last assassina-
ton they viii carry cut"
Speaking then on the burning
questions of the hour. he delivered
one of his best speeches, rousing great
enthusiasm among the thousands of
workers present Looking at his
watch. he declared he was As minutes
late for another engagement and
asked the workers to excuse him. He
asked another comrade to answer any
questions asked by the workers, and
the crowd opened up an aisle for him
to go out. The majority of the crowd
remained in the meeting, but those
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-13
V.-FOr Revolutionary Way Out of the
Crisis-FOr a Soviet Government

fronts Of the class struggle and So
cialist construction, should, while
making allowance for the peculiar
conditions of the different countries.
show what the Soviet Power will give
them in their own country. At the
same time 1t is necessary to en-
phaSize in particular the abolition of
unemployment and the elimination of
uncertainty for the morrow under
the Soviet power; the constant i'm
provement in the conditions of labor,
and social insurance, along with the
the reduction of the working day;
the liberation of the toilers Of the
countryside from all the remnants of
feudalism and from all bondage; the
provision of land for the landless
peasants and those having little land;
the support given to the poor peas
ants and the assistance rendered to
the peasant cooperative societies
and collective farms; the throwing
open Of all the doors of cultural de-
velopment to the working class youth
and to all the totlers, etc.
The Soviet power, which is based
on the mass organization of the work
ers and senli-proletarians, offers the
possibility of the wide and real en-
ioyment Of democracy by all the
toiling masses who were formerly
oppressed by capitalism.
The Soviet power is the state form
Of the proletarian dictatorship.
This Soviet power is the state form
of the revolutionary democratic die
tatorship Of the proletariat and the
peasants, which ensures the growing
over Of the bourgeois democratic rev
olution into a socialist revolution
China, etc.,.
1t is democracy for the toilers, but
stern dictatorship against ex-
ploiterS.
Chief Slogans Soviet Power
81 1t is necessary with all insistence
to raise the question of power in the
mass work Of the Communist Parties.
The chief slogan of the Communist
International is Soviet power.
The example Of the U. S. S. R. is
the example of BolsheVism. Only this
example shows the way out, and the
way to save the exploited and OPP
pressed in all the imperialist and
colonial countries.
The example Of Bolshevism is the
example of proletarian international
ism. The victory Of the socialist rev
olution is possibly only by strength
ening the international ties of the
revolutionary proletariat. The way
of BolsheVsm is the way of uniting
the proletarian forces of all nation
alities and races, it is the way of their
joint struggle hand in hand with
the proletariat against the oppressors
and eXploiters.
The Plenum of the E. c. c. I.
obliges all Sections Of the Commu-
mist International to be on their
guard at every turn of events, and
to exert every effort without losing
a moment for the revolutionary prep
aration Of the proletariat for the i'm
pending decisive battles for power,