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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
RATTLESHIPS TO COME

A FTER a lapse of Is years, the United
IA States government is evidently about to
start construction of a new battleship
Under the Washington treaty, battleship
construction in this country has been sus-
pended. Now, however, the treaty is about
to lapse; and while naval officials do not plan
to increase the present number of battleships,
they point out that no fewer than seven Of our
dreadnaughts will be obsolete because Of age
by the end of 1935-the Arkansas, New York,
Texas, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Arizona and
Oklahoma.
What Congress may do with any replace
ment program is hard to foretell. The Cen
eral Board Of the Navy. however. believes that
construction of at least one new battleship
should start next year. with construction pro-
ceeding at the rate Of one year thereafter.
Since our last battleship cost s270OooOo,
it is evident that our naval budget will con-
tinue to be higher for years to come-if. in
deed, Congress consents to go ahead with the
replacement program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
IN PUDGY HANDS

WE have begun to doubt whether the
w House Rules Committee, even with $50
900 to spend. will shed the light the public is
entitled to have on the lobbying activities sur
rounding the utility holding company legis-
lation.
As chairman of that committee Rep John
OConner. Tammany Democrat will have
charge of the lobby investigation.
Mr. O'Connor in a speech yesterday told
House members that the open rule" under
which they considered the holding company
bill permitted them to cast record vote on
the so-called death sentence clause. whereas
every one who listened knew that the only vote
they could cast on that issue was an anony
nous teller vote. In the same speech, Mr..
OConner said he had no information that
the President had any wishes" in regard to the
death sentence" Certainly every other men,
Der of Congress knew the Presidents position
Is a man who makes such statements to be
depended on to get the facts about lobbying
or about anything else?
We repeat that We are in favor of Con-
investigation of the lobbying attributed both
to utility interests and Administration spokeS-
men. But since an investigation in the hands
Of Mr.. O'COnnor does not promise to be either
high or wide or handsome, We hope the Senate
Will go ahead with its plan for a separate in
ouiry. The cost of real investigation will be
negligible compared to the public value.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
COMMENTS ON CRIMINAL
COURT ATTACK CASE

BY a Spectator.
I have watched your paper for
many days with reference to the
manner in which Criminal Court
of Marion County is conducted.
wonder if one of your reporters
was present at the night court last
Monday and Tuesday nights?
Although five state witnesses iden-
titled a certain Negro who was &C
cused of having committed a Grim
inal attack on a white woman of
this city, he was released because
of insufficient evidence by the state
and lack Of proper Identification.
Additional state witnesses were
not allowed to testify and the trial
was suddenly brought to a finish.
The burst of applause following
Judge Bakers decision could only
have come from a certain riff-raff
element. No Sound-minded, respect
able person could possibly have felt
other than Mortified at the decision
rendered.
We need judges who will mete out
justice. If this city will permit
judge to remain on the bench who
will allow a person accused of such
crime to go free, after Identified
ton by several witnesses, then what
may we expect of his decisions in
other cases brought before him?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
POLICEMEN, NOT POLITICIANS

THE "wire-pullng" warning issued to
l. prospective state policemen yesterday by
Donald Silver, director of the force, was more
than appropriate.
we are interested" said Director Silver,
-. not how good a politician you are, but in
how good police officer you will make"
That, in the proverbial nutshell, is what
The indianapolis Times has been fighting for
in the last year-a non partisan, hard hitting
State Police force.
We hope that Director Silver meant to the
core every word he told those prospective
officers. And we hope that the policemen take
his words seriously and toss politics out the
window.
For when politics dictates public service,
the public invariably loses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
Forwards FERA Complaint

BY w. C. Gulick
AS self-appointed lobbyist for
the unemployed, I desire to thank
Fair Minded" of Crawford
County for his letter of July in
the Message Center. 1t no doubt
will please you to know that your
complaint is already on the way to
Washington, D. G..
Come on, you unemployed from
other counties, let's hear your
stories. I know you have them. I
am taking this thing seriously, for
l know it is serious with you and
am positive it is serious with
me. Above room rent, I have so
cents week on which to live.
They say that due to my past
experience as a salesman there is
no place in the FERA picture into
which I can fit, since the FERA
has nothing to SELL
Let us analyze this statement
and see if it is true. So far the
New Deal has tried out various
plans to cure the depression. Each
plan was preceded by an ample
amount of newspaper space. Right
now, we read glazing headlines,
such as $4,000 in state to get re-
lief jobs" "FIoosiers to be at work
in 10 days"
Go to any of the officials and
ask them about the new work.
There is an air of mystery as to
just when the projects will start,
but one is assured you will be
o. K. just as soon as it does
start. What is it? Doesn't
it strike you that each of these
plans is sales plan? Most as
suredly you are being sold some
thing. They are trying to sell me
the idea I can live on So week,
but I refuse to be sold. 1t can not
be done.
Since every one is being paid
pro-rata, so they say, we are all
being gypped by high pressure
salesman. The articles being sold
us do not meet the requirements.
Maybe after all, there is a place
in the picture for a salesman, a
salesman who can sell that for
which there is a crying need. 1t
is much easier, Of course, to criti-
else than to build constructively,
but there always is a right way
for thing to be done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
THANKS FRIENDS, COURT
FOR AID IN CASE
BY Dero Luster.

By DerO Luster.
I, Dero Luster, who was held in
jail four months and IA days on
false charges, was released Tuesday
night, July 2, through the help Of
the good Lord and the fair mind of
Judge Frank P. Baker.
I want to thank all the people,
white and Negro, who so patiently
stood and helped me until the end,
also the churches that helped ME
financially. I wish to congratulate
Attorneys Milton F. Siegel, Henry
L. Richardson, Howard Bates and
M. Bean. Mr.. Siegel and Mr..
Richardson worked faithfully and
promptly until this case was proved
clear.
If the Lords for you he's more
than the whole world against you.
Through constant prayer and faith
in the good Lord the case was won
without me or my witnesses having
to say a word.
You never know who your friends
are until you get in trouble and
again I wish to thank each and
every one of you who so patiently
worked for my freedom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
SUCH COOPERATION, IT'S
ALMOST MARVELLOUS

by I. r. j,
A few weeks ago Sheriff Otto Ray
complained bitterly that Chief Mike
Morrissey had his policemen out ar
resting Sheriff Rays deputies and
that seemed to him to be the height
of the law-enforcing agencies Of the
county swallowing their tail.
1t so happened that the particular
deputy arrested was dismissed in
court after Sheriff Ray said he would
have the case fixed" and after
Chief Morrissey said that Sheriff
Ray, nor nobody else, could have a
traffic case fixed"
Things went along with Sheriff
Ray hot on the Burns killing case
and Chief Morrissey "hotfoot" on
the bookie situation, which he at
various times reported to be under
control, out of bounds, and bigger
than his staff.
Then Saturday Sheriff Ray raided
two downtown ego ahead, Mr.. Edi-
tor, put in "alleged') alleged gam
bling places while Chief Morrissey
was en- route to Atlantic City to
meet lot Of other chiefs of police
and talk over with them what to do
about bookie joints that refused to
believe the chief of police when he
says they aren't operating.
This puts the tournament be-
tween Sheriff Ray and Chief Nor
riSSey at 1870, Chief MorriSsey's
serve, in the center court, and the
galleries bowling.
Adding things up one finds that
Sheriff Ray has solved two out of
three murders that attracted any
attention since he has been in office
This list of unsolved murders in the
city reads like a police record, and
Perhaps Sheriff Ray should devote
his fullest cooperation" to Mike
in the campaign to bring people to
justice for murder.
Nevertheless, Sheriff Ray, in my
opinion, is entitled TO the highest
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

praise for his efforts of Saturday.
Any one knows that the state Of
Indiana has forbidden gambling, and
any officer of the law sworn to en-
force the law should bend all eff
forts to see that there are not ha-
bitual and regular violations Of it.
Sheriff Rays spirit Of co-opera-
ton is a marvellous thing. It isn't
often that two heads of law enforc-
ing agencies are so closely in &C
cord with one another that when
one leaves the city for a well-earned
vacation the other will fill in so
vigorously ana swiftly as Sheriff
Ray did.
If and when Chief Morrissey is
notified Of the supplemental service
his forces received from Sheriff Ray
and his deputies during his absence,
there is no doubt in my mind but
that he will leave these chiefs of
police in Atlantic City, who have
their own worries, and return i'm
mediately to confer with Sheriff
Ray. who considerably has made
Chief Morrissey's problem his own
in such an effective way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

/ cry plan-that will lift us out of this
depression and put our country on
! its feet again and also will put all
unemployed back to work.
Under the Townsend plan, some
of you people surely do not envy the
old people a respectable living and
/ the comforts Of life in their old age,
do you?
This is the way it will be: The
old people at the age of 60 and
over, Will be hired to keep in circu-
lation 5000 a month each and every
month and the 2 per cent transac-
ton tax will pay each and every
$500. So I don't see how that
would be any hardship in anyway
to any one. 1t is good insurance
to all young people, for when they
reach 60 they will receive the 5000
and when your children reach go,
they will receive 5000. Don't you
think it is a good investment?
Wake up! After six long years of
this depression many of you still
are blind. I hope it will not take
machine guns and bombs to wake
you and gas you out of the coma you
are in. Let us all cooperate and
work together in this great hu-
mainly plan of DR.. F. E. Townsend.
This is a sure cure for this depres-
sion our country is in today.
Think this over and if you have
never attended any of the Townsend
Club meetings, do so without fail,
SO you will get true understand
ing of the Townsend plan. Then
you will be convinced it is the only
remedy for our country. There are
% clubs in this city, so try to make
arrangements to 60 to one or as
many as you can of the Townsend
clubs. You are welcome. Do not
be ashamed of this great plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
So They Say

I don't believe there has been a
perfect man in this country since
George Washington.-Rob Sem
pie, daughter Of Evangelist Aimee
Mcpherson.
It doesn't pay to cry defense Of
home and property" and subse-
quently be crowned with temporary
heroism and evanescent glory
Ralph Altman, New York youth
shot by holdup men he resisted
Nothing in politics is certain 16
months ahead, but the probabilities
are overwhelmingly in favor of
Roosevelts reelection. The country
does not wish to go back to the at
titudeS Of Harding, Coolidge, and
Hoover Hapgood.
The people of America are born to
overcome, not to be pampered, not
to be made secure, but to carve, to
make their own way, to conquer.
Gov. Harry Moore Of New Jersey.
IhlS IS a time OF encouragement
and disillusion in which, with a sort
Of slave psychology, men would
rather be safe than free.-Herbert
Hoover.
NRA taught many men to get to-
gether who wouldn't even speak be-
fore-Harper Sibley, president,
United States Chamber of Com
merce.
Local thinking was the basic
cause Of the Civil War and Of most
of the horrors Of reconstruction,
and local thinking today is making
worldwide reconstruction impos-
sible.-Dr. Robert McElroy, profess
sor, oxford University.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

One need not be brilliant to get
a constructive idea. Most labor
saving machinery has been in
vented by the lazy. The most
brilliant minds of the country so
far have failed to solve the de-
preston. Therefore, why isn't it
possible that some dumb guy will
stumble on to just how easily it
can be done?
Fair Minded, if my idea is right,
it can be applied and it will work.
Even the seemingly impossible
things are brought to pass if the
idea and plan is right.
AS an illustration: My younger
brother and 1, when just boys,
captured raccOon. We placed a
leather collar on him and tied him
to a tree with a wire. Food to be
given him was placed beyond his
reach and yet, when feeding time
arrived, we found the food already
eaten. To see how this impossible
feat was performed, we watched
from a hiding place and saw the
raccoon make futile efforts to
reach the food with his front feet
and then apparently deciding it
was hopeless that way reversed
the procedure, turned around and
backed up, reaching out his hind
foot, and this gave him the neces-
sary distance to reach the food.
This was a case Of dumb ami
NAL solving a problem of vital i'm
portance to him. We, too, have
been trying to solve the food prob
lem along with the rent problem,
clothing problem, and all the rest,
but we are held back by the wire
of depression.
Fair Minded says he will be cut
off from work if his identity be-
comes known. No doubt many
others are refraining from telling
their stories for the same reason.
1t mas even been suggested that
a bulletin will be used to the eff
feet that every one participating
AZ my 4Ocd Will We SuIIIIlAdI44y'
fired.
Maybe so, but we shall see what
we shall see. Perhaps We have
backed up so far that we have
reached slavery again, but I don't
believe it. At any rate, I am out
in the open fighting for you, so
come on with your troubles, criti-
cisms or praise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
PITIES HORSES AND
DOGS WITHOUT CARE

By F. H.
I have been a subscriber OF The
Times for % years and am glad to
know NJ. Wells feels the same pity
for the poor old stacks Of bones they
call horses being worked to death
when they really should be in green
pastures.
My greatest desire is to own them
all and at least enough pasture to
let them all run loose. And what
about dogs shut up in small pens
with nothing to eat and little to
drink so the owner can run them
to death after a rabbit when the
season opens for hunting? 1t seems
they must not get fat.
know Of one particular case in
town where poor little dogs are kept
in the rear Of a grocery. The
neighbors took pity on them and
watered and fed them and the own
er discovered it and told them to
stop it. But he has a few dollars
So I guess it will go on and on as
long as he wants it.
I would like to know where the
offices of the Humane Society are
located.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
SAUCE FOR THE GANDER

A MEXICAN farmers may squeeze a bit Of
! a grim humor out Of the righteous howl 60
ing UP from the professors against the AAA
Particularly they viii smile over the tears be-
ing shed by the Liberty League and similar
consumers Of the land.
American farmers have been collecting
benefits under the AAA's processing taxes for
a.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
Summer Rain
BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM
Summer Rain,
Sing your glad song once again.
Always as you 60 along
You sing such happy song,
Such a ringing, finging. swinging
In your song.
Summer Rain,
Sing for all of us again.
Sing your silver notes that jingle,
Notes that set our blood atingle,
Tingling to be singing with you,
Summer Rain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

Minnesota doctor shows that while all
asthma sufferers wheeze, all wheezes do not
reveal asthma. Some of those we've heard on
the radio suggest an acute attack of plagiar-
ism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
Daily Thought

For Thou hast girded me with
strength to battle: them that rose
up against me hast Thou subdued
under neil Samuel, 22:40.
CTRENGTH is born in the deep
- silence Of long-suffering hearts;
not amidst ioY.-Felicia Hemans.
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=
BOOSTS TOWNSEND PLAN
As DEPRESSION REMEDY
By A Times Reader

By A Times Reader.
am talking to you citizens who
call yourselves 100 per cent Amer
leans but still you are not for hu-
mainly plan-the Townsend recov-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09
The Message Center

Times readers are inrtted to cypress
their Vtea0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 40ords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names aoiH
be 4oithheld at request Of the letter
1criter.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

wholly diSapprore of nchat yon sag and will
defend to the death yor right to say it.-Voltaire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-09

Call the Humane Society at
Ri. 1883. d
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The Indianapolis Times
a COMPLEMENTARY NEwsPAPER)

Phone Rflez 5Y1
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27

HERE'S heartening advice from
4 Il the beauty experts. Milady is
advised TO stretch her mouth and 70
avoid sun-tan. for the stress this
year is to be on the feminine trends.
The sun-tan fad has ruined more
compilations than all the cold cream
on the market can restore. Peaches
and-cream skins have been convert
ed into mottled terra Gotta shades
with a kind Of parboiled tint. Leath-
ery-looking ladies. having sue
cumbed too easily to past fashions,
may as well be resigned to what
they now see in their mirrors, but,
thank heaven, the young girl COM
ing on can be saved from the name
disaster.
I am no advocate Of the sunbon-
net, but it pains me 10 see a
gorgeous complexion deliberately
scorched. roasted and baked to the
consistency Of burnt steak and the
color of Drowned biscuits.
A famous plastic surgeon also
offers encouragement with this:
Some women are afraid to smile
because it will cause wrinkles. That
is ridiculous"
Isn't it? And thrice ridiculous to
believe beauty can be attained with
out laughter, or without the willing
ness to accept all of life, its re-
sponsibilities as well as its pleas
ures, its sorroWs as well as its joys.
Women who know how to lift the
spirits of those about them do not
need their faces lifted. Women who
smile instead Of pout will carry
beautiful mouths with them to their
graves.
For the deadliest foes to feminine
loneliness are malice, envy, greed,
hatred. No beauty parlor expert can
lend attraction to a face that bears
the stamp of smallness, jealousy
and meanness upon its brow. With
out its shining lamp inside, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27
TOWNSEND PAY DISPUTE
AGAIN AIRED IN COURT
Baltzell Takes Under Amusement
Motion to Reopen Case.

Federal Judge Robert c. Baltzell
has taken under advisement a pc
tition to reopen a suit enjoiring the
state from paying the salary Of
Lieut. Gov. NJ. Clifford Townsend,
changed by the 1888 law which
made the lieutenant governor an
administrative official, and gave him
additional duties as agricultural
commissioner.
Arguments for a rehearing were
heard yesterday. Judge Baltzell
last year ruled against the petition,
but it recently was reopened when
the Supreme Court upheld an
amendment to the Constitution
which would prevent increasing the
salary of a state officer during his
term.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27
AUTHOR WINS DIVORCE
Mrs. Jack Ullmer Gets Decree From
Assessors Office Clerk.

Mrs. Edith Ann Ullmer, 349O Fall
Greek blvd author of High
Weeds" published by Stewards, Inc,
about two years ago, was granted a
divorce yesterday from Jack Ull-
mer, Center Township assessor
Office employe. The divorce was
granted by Circuit Judge Earl R.
Cox.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27
4 WOmanS Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

physical body lacks the CLEAN that
is true beauty.
It seems to me any middle-aged
woman should be ashamed to face
God and her neighbors without a
few wrinkles. for they are our hon
orable battle scars, proof we have
lived, suffered and triumphed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27

AS the thing that called itself The Maker de-
parted, Tarzan turned and questioned Rhonda
Terry. And she described to him her weird and
horrifying experiences as a captive of the strange
gorillas which spoke English and initiated the
manners of 18th Century England
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27

Tarzan smiled and turned away to examine the
room. The walls, he found, were of hewn stone.
The plank ceiling was supported by huge beams.
The far end of the room dark he could not
see the ceiling at that point; the last beams cast
heavy shadow there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-27

Then Tarzan relas ed how he had rescued Naomi
and killed her gorilla captor. Rhonda was amazed,
for she believed this man was the tinid Stanley
Obroski She shook her finger at him and chided:
You're not bad kid. Stanley; but you mustn't
tell stories"