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MARCH 16, 1933
SURVEY SHOWS
BIG MOVEMENT
BACK TO FARMS
Thousands of Unemployed
Living in Abandoned
Rural Homes.
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CHICAGO, March 16— Smoke
curling from the chimneys of farm
houses untenanted for years signals
a mid-western bark-to-the-iand"
movement, a United Press survey
showed today.
Boys and girls who packed '.heir
grips and set out years ago from
homes in the farm belt to find fame
and fortune in the city are trudging
back to the old homesteads.
Thousands of unemployed have
taken their families to abandoned
huts in the rural sections where gar
den plots offer the necessities of
life for the mere tilling of the soil.
With the general town-to-coun
try exodus, the survey showed that
country folk are reverting to their
former independence. Country
“> jclables” and schoolhouse “box
suppers” again are the order of the
farm family’s life instead of mov
ing pictures and dance halls in the
nearest metropolitan center.
Meek to Raise Owfi Food
State by state, the trend back to
the soil was:
Oklahoma—Harry S. Cordell,
president of the state board of
agriculture, estimates that the farm
population has increased 75,000
since the 1930 census. Most of the
new farmers aspire to raise enough
food for their own tise only.
Illinois—Many farm homes now'
are housing two or three familes,
according to W, H. McLaughlin,
director of the state department of
agriculture. The back-to-the-soil
movement accounted for 108,000 go
ing to the country in 1930, and Mc-
Laughlin estimated the number for
the succeeding years has been about
the same.
Indiana—E. J. Barker, secretary
of the state board of agriculture,
believes that there has been no
rural influx. The idea, he said, is
mostly talk.
Soldiers in Movement
Missouri—The back to the farm
movement is motivated “by the de
sire for subsistence and not for eco
nomic gain,” said Professor Conrad
H. Hammer of the Missouri college
of agriculture. Leaders expects to
have 10,000 ex-soldiers on a self
sustaining basis by fall.
Michigan—The farm population
has increased about 3 per cent in
the last three years and the state
department of agriculture estimated
that the increase is continuing. The
rural population now is 789,699 com
pared with 775,436 In 1930.
Ohio—Vacant farm dwellings
have descreased from 20 to 5 per
cent. Rural schools report sub
stantial increase in attendance
without any increase in tax rev
enue. In addition to increase in
farm population through exodus
from cities the problem is further
complicated by the hesitancy of
farm youths to leave the parental
roof.
Texas—Seventy per cent of the
unemployed questioned in Dallas
expressed the desire to go on to a
farm. J. B. MacDonald, secretary
of agriculture, described the trend
' toward farms as “greater than in
years past.”
Take Over Abandoned Villages
Wisconsin Unemployed city
workers virtually have taken over
several abandoned lumber villages
in northern Wisconsin. Most of
the influx in the rural population
is consuming all the extra produce
and hence there is no problem of
additional surplus.
Minnesota—“white collar” work
ers outnumbered industrial unem
ployed among the hundreds seeking
a farm homefi in the opinion of
George H. Bradley, tourist com
missioner. Many seek land with
timber to provide fuel so the settler
. can be entirely self-sustaining.
lowa—many retired farmers are
moving back to the land they left
several years ago intending to spend
the declining years of their life in
the city.
ROOSEVELT SALAD —3oc
New Dish of Vegetable-. Fopular in
Senate Case.
By Times Special •
WASHINGTON, March 16.
"Roosevelt salad” now appears on
the senate restaurant menu and is
much relished by both Democratic
and Republican senators.
The new dish, priced democrati
cally at 30 cents, contains red cab
'bage, white cabbage, carrots, peas
and other vegetables. It is flanked
by pickle and olive, topped by a dab
of mayonnaise.
city" pioneer dead
Mrs. Eva Tingle to Be Buried Fri
day at Crown Hill.
Funeral services for Mrs. Eva
Tingle, 74, who died Wednesday in
her home, 5702 East Tenth street,
will be held at 2 Friday in the Old
Bethel M. E. church, of which she
was a member. Burial will be in
Crown Hill cemetery.
Mrs Tingle was born in a log
• :abin on East Washington street, the
site where School 57. at 5435 East
Washington street, now stands.
Ellenberger park was named
after her father.
Quick! Stop
That COLD!
Don’t Let It Run Beyond
the First Stage!
A cold ordinarily goes through
three stages: the Dry Stage the
first 24 hours: the Watery Secretion
Stage, from 1 to 3 days: and the
Mucous Secretion Stage. To let a
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inviting danger.
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Rattlesnake Meat Dish Fit
for Kings, Says City Man
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■ Revelers of Indianapolis,
saying “Here’s how,” with
a can an empty one,
i Lower The dish fit for
j the, well, Rods, some say.
Don’t Be Surprised if the Hostess Says:
‘That Wasn’t Chicken—lt Was Snake!’
“Mister chairman, we have a novice to induct into the order!”
“Spread the toast. Give him the fork. Eat, novice, and accept the
vow of fealty.”
And, thus, new members are being enrolled daily in the city in
the Ancient and Epicurean Order of Rattling Reptile Revelers.
The charter member of the Indianapolis chapter is Albert Pfeiffer,
5120 East Walnut street.
Al, as he’s knowrn to his rattler
friends,'has given his diamond-back
rattlesnake party, and admits with
out qualification that rattlesnake
meat is better than chicken, crab
meat, shrimp, and corn-beef and
cabbage.
Al read in the paper the other
day that a Philadelphia professor
served his colleagues with Florida
snake-meat, and rises quickly to
point of order and says:
“That’s nothing. We’re getting
ready to have our second rattle
snake dinner, and here’s the empty
can to prove we held our last party.”
So Don’t Be Surprised
In other sectors of the city, where
private clubs meet over bridge
tables and ping-pong sets, the so
called delicacy of delicacies—dia
mond-back rattlesnake in supreme
sauce—has become the piece-de
resistance.
The evenings end with what ap
pears to be chicken-a-la-king lunch
only to have the host announce
after the plates are cleared away,
“You are now members of the Rat
tling Reptile Revelers. It wasn’t a
fat hen you were eating. It was rat
tlesnake.”
The tinned rattlesnake was bought
by Pfeiffer, who is a partner in
Mastny Company, commission mer
chants, from a firm at Arcadia, Fla.
Five-Ounce Can
A five-ounce can, enough to serve
eight persons, costs $1.25 and carries
with it a membership in the Reveler
order, in addition to general instruc
tions for making the pale salmon
pink meat into croquettes, canapes,
or to serve on patty shells.
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Upper—Al Pfeiffer, ex
alted ruler of the Rattler
Revelers of Indianapolis,
saying “Here’s how,” with
a can an empty one.
Lower The dish fit for
the, well, gods, some say.
And the firm, not to be outdone
by the puns they know their odd
product will bring, enclose a ditty to
Friend Wife that adds one more
deception to any she may have.
It says, “Rattlesnake makes hubby
sicken, but w’ify checks his fears;
now she calls it luscious chicken,
and hubby eats and cheers.”
Pfeiffer claims the reptile banquet
will improve your bridge game, and
make you capable of wriggling in
and out of finesses.
The night he became a charter
member of the order he invited a
group of friends and relatives to
his home.
The can of reptile was served on
toast. His daughter/ Miss Alberta
Pfeiffer, his brother Howard, and
Gregory Klein, w r ere the only ones
in the group willing to join the new
fraternal order.
“My wife wouldn’t join up. In
fact she threatened to throw the
double-boiler, in which the rattler
was cooked, out the window. But
we’re going to hold another rattler
party and you’re invited to partake.
“Ili may not be at my home but
if if is bring along your own boiling
pot,” Pfeiffer said as he took the
address of the company making the
food for epicures and decided to
write for more diamond-back.
A survey of the water supply in
sixty-six leading American cities
showed that seventeen got their
water chiefly from the Great Lakes
or large rivers, seven from wells,
and other forty-two from small
rivers, ponds and similar sources.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
PARDON HOPES
OF RUTH JUDD
APPEAR DIM
%
Openly Hostile Board All
but Stifles Clemency
Expectations.
By I nitrii Press
STATE PRISON. FLORENCE.
Ariz., March 16.—An openly hostile
state board of pardons and paroles
today all but stifled hopes of Win
nie Ruth Judd for a commutation
of her death sentence.
The board refused to hear four
witnesses summoned in her behalf
after Chairman Lin B Orme indi
cated a belief that the story she
had told them during a secret four
hour session last night differed from
her previous accounts.
Mrs. Judd sought to have Judges
J. C. Niles of Phoenix testify in her
behalf. Judge Niles, in dismissing
murder accessory charges against
J. J. Halloran. her wealthy friend,
held that Mrs. Judd had killed Ag
nes Ann Leroi in self-defense and
that murder had not been commit
ted.
Mrs. Judd was convicted of the
crime without testifying in her own
defense.
She is under sentence to hang
April 14. Good Friday, for Mrs. Le
roi’s slaying.
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DIRECTS CONCERT
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Robert Prietz
Directing an orphans benefit
concert to be given Friday night
at the Antlers by Elks lodge No.
13 will be Robert Prietz, director
of the Indiana School of Music.
Feature of the program will be
the appearance of Tom Moore,
prominent New York Irish tenor.
Others participating in the pro
gram will be Era Lee Terry and
Phillip Gutting, violinists; Erne
line Joseph and Charlotte Jones,
cellists; Charles Mcßee, saxo
phone and clarinet.
Mary Frances Hall of Shelby
ville. dancer, also will appear on
the program.
RECEIVER SUITS
CHARGING FRAUD
RULEDJLLEGAL
Unable to Represent In
dividual Rights, State
Supreme Court Decides.
Receivers are barred from suing
in behalf of stockholders to recover
money alleged to have been obtained
through fraud, in a decision handed
down Wednesday by the Indiana su
preme court in the case of the In
diana Citizens’ Building, Savings
and Loan Association.
The case originated in Marion
county circuit court in 1925 when
Charles J. Orbison, president, and
other officials were defendants in a
suit filed by the late H. H. Clair,
former receiver for the association.
In behalf of 300 stockholders,
Clair received a $29,000 judgment
and Orbison and his fellow defend
ants appealed to the appellate court.
The case was transferred to the su
preme court when appellate judges
were divided equally.
In stating its opinioh, the court
holds that a receiver “stepped into
the shoes of the corporation” and
that insofar as the rights of the in
dividual stockholders against the
corporation were concerned, the re
ceiver had no right to press action
for the benefit of the several mem
bers of the corporation.
“Such a right, if any,” the court
ruled, “is a right pertaining sever- |
ally to each of the stockholders so
defrauded, and a receiver of the j
corporation can in no way represent
such individual rights.”
U. S. Lesh, appointed receiver in
1926 when Mr. Clair died, said to
day the decision is far-reaching and j
would have the effect of prohibiting j
suits by stockholders where finan- j
cial losses involved would not war- ;
rant taking court action.
The suit brought by Mr. Clair
charged stockholders were led to
believe they were purchasing stock
in the loan association when, in j
reality, they were purchasing mem
berships which entitled them to buy
stock later.
Orbison. now- a resident of Cali
fornia, was a Marion county attor
ney and former judge.
Salt “farming" is being tried in
Egypt, by driving rows of poles into
the ground on the Mediterranean j
coast, and then letting in the sea i
water, which in time evaporates,
leaving pillars of salt formed thick
on the sticks.
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BIDDING COLLUSION
CHARGED BY M'NUTT
Cement Plans to Be
Changed, Says Governor.
Believing that there “seems to
be an understanding among cement
manufacturers” in their bids on
cement for state highway use. Gov
ernor Paul V. McNutt said today
there probably will be changes
made in the purchase of highway
material.
Under the present plan, the state
highway commission purchases ce
ment direct from manufacturers
and supplies it to contractors, de
ducting the amount from their bids.
"The contractors seem to be able
to get better prices on cement than
the highway commission,” the Gov
ernor declared.