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German submarines had sunk five English ships and one Nor wegian ship. Two of the British boats were steamships, and three trawlers. The crews of the trawl- CTS were allowed to take to their boats. Eleven members of the crew of the Seven Seas. one of the s.eamships, were drowned. The Norwegian ship was the bark Nor.
 In a story in the Seattle Times that appeared before his departure for Alaska, Jack Dalton, who was credited with being as well posted on conditions in the Territory as any other person, warned jo5less n Seattle and the States who were planning to come to Alaska to seek their fortune, to stay away.
 Former Mayor Emery Valentine announced the names on his New Council" ticket as follows: Mark E. Russell, Sam Kohn, O. J. Wick lander, J. w. McMillan, E. Valen- tine, Oliver Orange and Robert M Keeny. The old council ticket included all of the members of he old council: Mayor John Reck, J. R. Willis, c. w. Fries, William E. Britt, F. Wolland, George E. Miller and w. M. Geddes.
 Mrs L. P. Dawes, talented con- cert singer who had studied in London, was on the program to assist Miss Edith Kempthorne in her recital, to be given soon.
 Judge Robert w. Jennings ad- the oath of office to he new United States District At torney, James A. Smiser.
 Over 1000 had qualified to be voters at the coming election.
 Mrs. Robert Simpson was ex- pected home soon from a visit in California.
 Judge Thompson, of Katalla, was in Juneau.
 Weather: Maximum 45; mini mum 39 cloudy, rain.
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We imagine the Recording Angel always makes it point to be listening elsewhere when a man is making out his income tax return-(Ohio State Journal)
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Vice-President Garner makes patient presid- ing officer. He is waiting for Huey Long to run down. (Toledo Blade)
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Maurice Chevalier neglects to mention Mae West in his list of the Ten Most Complete Women. Maybe he mistook her for lounge-(Detrot News)
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Chicago continues to talk about a permanent World Fair. Looks if Sally Rand would have to think of something else to take off.-(Cleveand Plain Dealer)
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Pity the New Deal that never knows where it's next test is coming from Buffalo Courier JOlrnal)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
REAL HERO STILL UNSUNG

WHEN Viscount Byng. famous British
w wartime troop commander, died the
other day the newspapers were full of trib-
utes to "the hero of Ypres"
1t was Byng who commanded in the bloody
salient about that Belgian town when the Ger
mans trimmed it with heavy artillery, drenched
it with poison gas. and poured the flower of
their army into it in desperate, vain effort
TO smash their way to the sea.
In all its centuries of fighting the world
has seldom If ever seen any more bloody or
determined struggles than the one which ragged
about Ypres And because we like to person.
alize all combats, we speak Of how Hindenburg
tried to take the place. how Haig parted his
thrrlsts how Byng heroically beat him back;
and Byng is and always will be "the hero Of
Ypres"
Such a way of speaking is natural. We
seem to be unable to make a hero out of
whole army. And no army is ever much
stronger than the man who leads it; if he can
not diffuse some of his own fire and determi-
nation into it, it will fail, no matter how brave
and sturdy its individual members may be.
And yet there is a great deal of injustice in
this habit OF ours.
For the real hero of Ypres like the real
heroes of all the other great battles Of the
World War, was not any bemedaled general.
He was bowed, weary, dirty, nameless private
soldier; a man who lived in mud and ate his
food, when he got any, in the hideous reek of
the battlefield, and endured terror and strain
and agony greater than anything even Dante
could imagine for his inferno.
This man has never had his just dues Prob
ably he never will get them, because the only
men who can really understand what he went
through are the men who stood at his shoul-
der and suffered with him, and they do not
talk much about it. t-.
But must not forget him when we start
talking about the hero" of this battle or that
battle. His were not the mistakes of COM
mand. He never sacrificed a company or a
battalion, or whole army, because of stub
born pride. or misunderstanding of the condi-
tons of modern war, as some of the generals
did.
He never sent some one else out to 60
through a hell that he himself did not have
to enter. He was there. in the thick of it,
1t is no use trying to learn his name, for
there were millions of him. He came from
every nation and wore every uniform; he left
his bones at Ypres and Cambria, at verdun and
along the Somme. by the Masurian Lakes and
on Gallipoli Peninsula.
The glory of war passes him by. The title
and the medals go to the generals. But the
real hero Of the war was and always will be
the unsung and inglorious private soldier, who
let his superiors send him out to the most
horrible OF deaths because he had in him some
thing that was brave, loyal and deathless
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
The Book World

ONE of the most powerful books of the last
~ decade is the latest contribution to ltera-
ture By Erskine Caldwell, the man designated
by most Southerners as their No Enemy.
The book is "Kneel to the Rising Sun" (Vi-
king Press; $3.50 and it is a scorching indict-
ment of the Souths "class" system. In II deity
written stories. the author Of Gods Little Acre
and Tobacco Road" makes it apparent that no
longer is he on the verge Of literary maturity,
that he is now master of written expression
and an even more powerful crusader for re-
vision in the South's setup.
Smashing, revealing stories are these II in
"Kneel to the Rising Sum-" every one Of them
concerned with the bitter class struggle being
waged in the South. For those who shrink from
stark realism, Mr.. Caldwells book is not rec
commenced. But for readers who are seeking the
work Of master craftsman on contemporary
American life, "Kneel to the Rising Sum-" is like
an answer to prayer.
IF you are looking for a storybook detective,
i who sounds like the real Mccoy" you can
find him right in indianapolis in Murder of a
Dead Man." by Kurt Steel CBobbs-Merrill; so.
This latest thriller off the presses presents one
Henry Hyer, a rough and ready private detec-
tive who knows his business and a lot Of other
tricks besides.
Called in to solve the theft Of dog by a
breeder of pedigreed stock, Detective Hyer finds
a murder thrown into his lap. Things become
so confused that the reader who can manage to
straighten things out before the author decides
to deserves medal of some sort.
Needless to say, Detective Hyer solves the
mystery and all the mysteries surrounding the
mystery. It's pippin Of a mystery tale. Guar
anteed, too, to keep you awake until you're fin
ished.
THE savagery of Fascism (Naz-type) is amply
i disclosed in "A Nation Terrorized," by Ger
hart Seger, former Social Democratic member of
the German Reichstag and full-blooded
"Aryan" (Reilly & Lee; $1.50)
Thrown into the notorious Oranienburg con-
centration camp because of local Nazi officials
personal hatred, Herr Seger managed to escape
to England only after six months of almost I'M
believable agonies. The story at times is sc
grewsome that the readers blood turns cold, but
it does serve as a reminder to those who have
any illusions about Fascism that the paths Of
democracy, while not always smooth, are, at
least more humanitarian.
Herr Seger reveals how the prisoners are
awakened at in the morning, forced to labor
for hours (hard labor, and then put through
entirely unnecessary exercise; how they are
forced to eat what he terms revolving" food; and
how particular tortures are arranged for Com
munistS Jews, Social Democrats and plain
Brown Shirt rebels. The treatment seems to be
all equally horrible though the methods vary.
"A Nation Terrorized" is distinctly not pleas
ant reading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
THE WORLD BE DAMNED"

THERE is something terribly true and ter
- ribly tragic in Premier Mussolini's defiant
reply to Britain's warning to leave Abyssinia
alone.
we will initiate to the letter those who
have given us lesson" II Duce Numbered to
troops embarking for the Dark Continent.
They have shown us that when an en-
pire is TO be created or defended, account shall
never be taken Of the opinion of the world"
That is only too true. How else did Britain
acquire India? How else did she get the lions
share Of that same African territory, slice of
which Italy apparently is about to cut for
herself? How else did she come by the rest
Of her mighty empire?
The Babylonian, Grecian, Roman, Mon
golan. Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian,
German, French, and even our American en-
pire, we're built up by the might to take. And
they took-just as the British did, and Just
as the Italians seem bent on doing now.
The tragedy Of it is that the same doctrine
is just as much in force today as it ever was.
OF the seven principal world powers four now
happen TO be satisfied, territorially speaking.
America, Britain. France and Soviet Russia
have all the territory they need.
The other three-Italy, Germany and Japan
want more room and are out to get it. Their
attitude now is that world opinion shall not
stand in their way. Neither shall the Covenant
Of the League of Nations nor any other pact.
Today. as In the past, the only thing that can
stop them is superior force.
Many Of us hoped and believed that the
World War taught mankind lesson. We felt
that perhaps the Wilson dream Of nations,
weak and strong. living together side by side
in peace and security. was about to come true,
that disarmament was definitely in sight.
Now We begin to realize that We over-esti-
mated the worlds progress toward civilization.
Its promise TO go straight was only a sick
mans resolve Now that its wounds have healed
a little, IL is as mean as ever.
AS optimists, We are confident that some
day law and order viii reign in the worlds
community of nations Just as it does now in
or best unarmed communities Of individuals.
But. as realists, we know that time Is p = yet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
TOWARD REAL REGULATION

ATOw that the Senate has approved the
~ wheeler-Rayburn bill. the fight over
utility holding company control moves to the
House. where the measure is bottled up in
committee.
The big issue remains the same as when
President Roosevelt started his attack on
diversified utility combinations-the issue OF
public regulation of publicly granted
monOpolies.
The battle ahead promises to be long and
fierce. Utility interests proved they we're
stu powerful in Washington legislative affairs
when the Senate turned down the Dieterich
amendment by a margin OF only one vote.
This narrowly defeated amendment would
have weakened provisions designed 70 make
utility units small enough and simple enough
to Be reached by regulatory commissions.
Under the bill. as passed by the Senate.
holding company which operates an econom-
ically and geographically integrated system
Of utilities can continue TO operate But
utility operation by vast and confusing corpo-
rate structures. which center final control in
absentee hands will be abolished. That, We
believe. is imperative II real public regulation
Is TO be achieved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
INDIANA'S STATE POLICE

INDIANA at the moment is vitality interested
with the political angle being accented
over the dismissal OF Al G. Feeney as State
Safety Director and the appointment Of Don
aid F. Silver to his post.
But the political angles being discussed in
the situation are not nearly so important as
the future OF Indianss state police.
Al Feeney laid a splendid foundation for a
great state police force and Donald Silver
promises to make it Just that-a non-political.
hard-hitting police force operated on strictly
merit system lines. Director Silver is a gentle
man Of faultless reputation. a man who has
studied deeply the position he has been ap-
POINTED 20. and he shows every indication Of
carrying out his pledges to the people OF
Indiana
Gov. Paul v. McNutt is the executive re-
sponSible for the operation Of the State Safety
Department and he alone has the right 70
name the administrative officer. Gov. McNutt
apparently came 10 the decision that Mr..
Feeney's long standing feuds with members
(not member) Of the administration we're not
the best thing for the state police despite Mr..
Feeneys capabilities for the post
The Governor is responsible to the voters
FOR the operation Of the states departments
ana he must be permitted 70 run his depart
ments in the same manner in which business
executives conduct their stores and factories.
Mr.. Feeney has rendered an important
service 70 Indiana in his pioneering work for
an honest state police force. The state owes
70 him its congratulations.
Director Silver asks nothing from the citi-
zcns Of Indiana but their cooperation in
Stamping out lawleSsness and building great
police department. he deserves that co-opera-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12

running the streets. They not only
throw at dogs but also at persons. I
wonder how an ordinance to keep
children off the street for awhile
would be obeyed. In some localities
you can hardly walk along the side
walk for children. A child's place
is at home and if they were kept
there in all probability there would
be fewer mad % dog scares.
This has been an unfair and cruel
administration towards dogs. Be-
cause a few dogs bite, all must be
condemned to die. Until recently
we did not have mad dogs until July
and August, but now we can have
them any time, made to order for
a few persons who hate dogs. I like
that old saying, THE more see Of
some people, the better I like dogs"
1t seems to me that with the
crimes that are being committed
and the criminals and kidnapers
running at large, there could be
more important work for the police
than to be bounding a defenseless
dog.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12

Iete: so. on his release, the Albany baseball
team In the international League handed him
e s2O0-a-month contract.
Since every one admits that the one great
need OF the ex-convict is a decent Job that will
enable him to go straight. this would seem to
be an excellent move all around. But now a
man named w. G. Bramham president Of the
National Association Of Professional Leagues.
has ruled that Pitts can't play professional
baseball because it would lower the tone Of the
sport.
Pitts; the players want him; he wants the Job.
needs Il pathetically Is his chance to be de-
MED him because some petty bureaucrat has
baseball confused with some old maids sewing
circle?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
Visions Trouble IN Pacific

shop keepers whose historical per-
Spective is oriented (and limited
by the township in which they got
most of their haircuts? Is there
one man in Washington who will
step up to the radio this Fourth
of July to tell in an entertaining
way what history has decreed for
the United States? And will he
have the nerve to contrast that
with British imperial Intentions?
Has the Infamous Page-WilSon
cablegram of March 5, 1917, ever
been read before a joint session
of the American Congress? If it
has not been call upon the Sen
ators of Indiana to find an eX-
cuse to bring that scrap of paper
to the attention of a joint session
in impressive fashion. Of course,
all this with the written permis-
sion of Mr.. Baldwin in England.
Next to this cablegram, is any.
United States Senator able to
think of anything more danger
Gus to the political integrity of the
United States than this uneX-
planned notwithstanding of the
Hawaiian Islands?
What's the difference, gentle
men Of the American Congress,
between British diplomacy filling
our land with spies and agents
before 1917 and using our head
less. ambassadors to drag Presi-
dent Wilson into the insane wran-
gle, and, the present unseen hand
that is moving to inveigle our
United States, our country, into
trap No. 2?
To me there isn't any differ
ence!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
TOO MANY CATS, so
SHE'LL GET A DOG
BY Mrs. 7. ].

BY Mrs. T. J.
Why all the raving about dogs be-
ing kept muzzled or licensed? Why
not do some of the cats the same
way? Cats are dangerous to have
around children. They carry germs
and they kill and eat little birds
and I am a bird lover. I live in the
1000 block, Mount-st, and there's a
family living in this block with a
swarm Of cats. I've been told they
have II cats and I believe it. Every
night they coma to my back yard
and carry on until there's no sleep
for any of the family and they
scratch up my garden.
I can't see why the dog pound
doesn't pick up these cats CT
Mount-st, or make the owners keep
them penned so other people can get
some rest.
Why don't the health officials do
something about the cats? I see no
need of a family having a whole
back yard full of cats. If something
isn't done I think I shall get a dog
and make him eat every darn cat
that enters my yard. I value my
children's health and it's too un-
healthy with SO mahy cats around
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
WEDNESDAY. JUNE q. 1885.
GRASS ROOTS PRINCIPLES

THE Republican Grass Roots Convention"
has proceeded TO declare for:
ID A living wage and a saving wage; Cd
the full dinner pail; % national recognition
for agriculture with fair and proportionate
part OF the national income for the farmer;
90 economic fraternalism between farm,
workers and industry; 80 equality Of economic
opportunity for all men; 80 adjustment Of
child labor in industry; ID regulation Of en-
ployment Of women in industry in the inter-
est Of their health and welfare.
Just how all those things can be attained
With every state acting as it pleases. is not
explained in the declaration
and that is the question. II is the ques-
ton that promises to dominate the campaign
Of 1886. and other campaigns If necessary, I'M
I'll u is settled.
Child labor. for example. How. in COM
petitive system can industries survive in states
that have abolished child labor. and sell
against the products Of states that have not?
How can a living wage ard a saving wage
and the full dinner pail be assured without
minimum wage. and how can minimum wage
be maintained against the chiselers in a COM
petitive system except by national action?
How can the farmer get his prOportionate
part Of the national income unless agriculture
is treated as a national rather than a state
problem2
How can there be equality Of economic OPP
portunity for all men in an uncontrolled sys-
TEN that permits the sweatshops Of some
states to compete with industries in other
states where sweatshops have been eliminated
By state law?
The Grass Roots declaration lauds eco
nomic freedom. Are sweatshops and child
labor economic freedom2 If they are not,
and should be done away with, can they be
abolished except on a national scale?
The declaration also demands that the
American competitive system be maintained.
Can it be maintained, without change, if there
Is to be economic fraternalism between farm,
workers and industry" through the nation?
In the Grass Roots convention there was
much talk about the desirability Of home rule.
With that We can agree. But with the propo-
sition that problems such as the minimum
wage and child labor and equality Of economic
opportunity are purely local, We do not agree.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
HE SUGGESTS THREE MORE
QUESTIONS FOR BAKER

BY O. H. G.
Recently, read your article about
Judge Frank P. Baker, Mr.. Gros-
sart and families getting pay roll
of $4,000 yearly of the taxpayers
money. Why, that's not news. Go
to any factory, office or shop and
you will find relatives on every pay
roll.
And where is the youth of today?
He's migrating over the country or
showed into the backwoods with the
CCC. The government pitifully
compensates the youth to conserve
natural resources, but I really be-
lieve it's a plan to better man our
future national defense, or maybe
to make the world again safe for
democracy.
The NRA raised the laboring
mans wage to decent living levels.
But few employers, if any, will take
an unskilled, inexperienced high
school youth and pay him an NRA
wage.
Yes, that's one reason why condi-
tons exist as they do today. The
factory pay roll is the family pay
roll. There is too much selfshness
and greed in every ones heart to fill
their own family Golfers.
You ask Judge Frank P. Baker
why he doesn't answer those
nine questions? The Honorable
Frank P. Baker knows silence is
golden. Why kill the goose that lays
the golden egg, murder his own
reputation and commit political sui
eide? My suggestion is, add three
more questions and make it
Bakers Dozen"
Probably the worlds most miser-
able Job would be to ask Judge
Baker, Mr.. Grossart and their
families to subscribe to that fine
paper-The indianapolis Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
QUICK ACTION

CHERIFF OTTO RAYS prompt action in
- discharging deputy sheriff who made
clerical error that resulted in the freedom of
woman sentenced to prison, is to be COM
mended.
The move by the sheriff shows that he is
operating along the right lines; not permitting
any errors in the administration Of his post
and attempting to keep his Office and jail on
an even keel.
If more public officials would follow Sheriff
Rays policies. Indianapolis and Marion Coun-
ty would have improved justice and law en-
forcement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
LONGING
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

All year through, whenever I smell
The gray-white smoke of charred
wood burning,
How I long for blazing camp fires,
glowing tramp-fres,
With a hungry, great hearts
yearningI
And in the Spring, when the pillow
The wood-brown, rain-wet soil is
turning,
I would sing of twilit lamp-time at
carefree camp-time,
Or swim-swept waters churning.
And all year through, when laugh
ter
From girlish Threats is journeying
I can't help think Of the happy gay
days, merry play-days.
Among the trees and forming.
And oh, that with sight, sound and
smell
When the years dotted page dis
corning
T but knew that all summer lends
meant camp friends
Had helped me with LIES learn
ingl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12
UNION SEEKING TO BETTER
WORKING CONDITIONS
By Another Times Reader

By Another Times Reader.
There has been some discussion in
the Message Center about condi-
tions at the Indianapolis Bleaching
Co. To begin with, let me state
that I am not an employee of that
company, but speak merely as a
resident Of this city. I am ac-
quainted with several Of the en-
ployes and I know that the wages
paid there are below the average
even for indianapolis.
1t is true that trade union does
not offer employment. Its function
is to improve working conditions
and secure higher wages. In so
doing, it is rendering a service to
the community in which it exists;
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-12

it is helping to make better homes
Unionism should have public ap-
proval, rather than the criticism it
so often receives.
1t is to be hoped strike at the
company can be avoided, but it
seems to me that the trouble has
been the attitude taken by the man
agement, rather than by any action
of the union members, who have
been working for better conditions
for all the employees.
The right of collective bargain
ing has been legally recognized for
some time. Can we call any COM
pany fair that denies employees this
right? Can we call any city fair
that gives its approval to such prac-
tees?