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MAY 6. 1933_
STRIKING FARMERS’ DEMANDS
FACING SWIFT DEFEAT IN
BOTH HOUSE AND SENATE
Congress Is Adamant, Determined to Let
Rebellion Run Course, Is Prediction of
Agriculture Committee Head.
BY HARRY FERGUSON
United Pres* Stall Correspondent s
WASHINGTON, May 6.—Congress has blocked the last
avenue of hope for lowa’s rebellious farmers.
The agricultural strike—called for May 13—will be al
lowed to run its course, according to farm leaders on Capitol
Hill. Any attempt to placate the farmers with legislation of
their own choosing is doomed to defeat, Chairman Ellison D.
Smith of the senate agricultural committee predicted today.
He referred specifically to
the Simpson amendment to
the Roosevelt farm relief bill.
Farmers insist it must be included
in the bill; Agriculture Secretary
Henry A. Wallace insists it shall
not. The amendment calls for the
federal government to guarantee to
the farmer cost of production, plus
a reasonable profit on that portion
of his crops raised for domestic con
cumption.
Predirks Quirk Defeat
Next week, the house will vote on
whether the Simpson amendment
shall be retained, and leaders expect
it to be thrown out of the bill.
Then the issue goes to the senate
where the amandment originally
was written into the bill.
“I hate to make any predictions
before the houses passes on the
amendment,” Smith said, "but I l
think it will be thrown out of the
bill and that the senate will agree
to its elimination.”
The Simpson amendment is the
only phase of the farm bill still in
dispute. Senate and house are
agreed on the domestic allotment
plan, the marginal leasing provision,
the currency inflation rider and the
cotton option program.
"The whole situation is warming
up, all right,” Smith said. "It re
minds me of the story about the
Negro church down south that de
cided to go in for an elaborate
ritual
"It Got Too Hot”
"A little Negro boy was delegated
to carry the incense pot. The
worshippers marched around the
church once. When they came
around the second time, the minister
saw the little boy didn't have the
i*°nse pot.
‘ Without interrupting the services,
the minister sidled up to the boy
and said 'what did you do with the
incense pot?’ The little Negro kept
right on singing the hymn, but
changed the words like this:
" 'Threw it out the window ‘cause
it got too hot.’”
Reno Seeks Deal’
By I itHi <1 I'ruys
DES MOINES. May 6.—President
Milo Reno of the Farmers’ Holiday
Association indicated today that’ if
congress acts to relieve the farm sit- '
nation he may lend his influence |
toward calling-off the national farm j
strike scheduled to start May 13.
Plans for the uprising were placed
in the hands of Reno and a com- |
mittee of fourteen farmers.
While Reno indicated that if con- |
gross acted on the farmers’ de- 1
mands, he might try to stop the I
strike, soldiers continued "mopping j
up” under martial law rulings in
western corn counties.
Violence flashed last week.
Governor Blyde L. Herring ex
pressed the hope that martial law
could be ended early next week.
The soldiers arrested sixteen men
Thursday at LeMars and fifteen at
Denison, bringing to a total of 146
the farmers now held. It was ex
pected that most of them will be
charged with contempt of court in j
connection with an attack upon
Judge Charles C. Bradley at Le-
Mars.
Farm Bureau Opposed
fi;i I nitrd Press
CHICAGO. May 6. President
Edward A. O’Neil of the American
Farm Bureau Federation expressed
a belief today that the "national”
farm strike scheduled to start May j
13 will result in violence. At the I
same time he expressed doubts that |
it would "assume any large pro-1
portions.”
"I am convinced,” said O'Neil. |
‘’that, the real solution of the farm
problem lies not in a temporary
strike, but in securing the establish
ment of a sound, national agri-!
cultural policy.”
ARGENTINA IDLE FEW
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BUENOS AIRES. May 6.—Un
employment in Argentina is excep
tionally low, according to a re
cently published report by the Ar
gentine department of labor, on the
basis of a census made in Septem
ber.
The situation today br approxi
mately the same. Out of a total
population of slightly less than
12,000,000, the number of idle per
sons in the republic was 333.397. of
whom 18.254 were women. This is
less than 3 per cent, and compares
with about 10 per cent in the
United States. 8 in Germany and 6
in Great Britain in the same month
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LAKE COUNTY
BEER RULING TO
BE APPEALEO
Judge Holds Measure Is
Unconstitutional; Lutz
Fights Decision.
Asserting that "Lake county would
be satisfied with draught beer,’
Philip Lutz Jr., attorney-general,
announced Friday that an imme
diate supreme court appeal will be
taken by the state on the beer law
unconstitutionality ruling made
Thursday at Hammond.
"I anticipated the unfavorable
ruling,” Lutz said. "We could have
shifted the case on a change of
venue, but the constitutionality of
the beer law will not be decided in
Lake county.
"The supreme court will make the
final decision, but if there was
draught beer at 5 cents a glass Lake
county would be satisfied.”
Judge Virgil Reister of the Lake
superior court declared the beer
control law unconstitutional in the
suit of Abe Rosen, who has been
selling beer without a license and
under protection of a temporary re
straining order against county and
state officials. Rosen claims he was
refused a sale permit because he
was a Republican.
Judge Reiter attacked the beer
law because it gave no opportunity
for a person, refused a permit, to
appeal to any court.
Paul Fry, excise director, today
predicted a drop to 10 cents a bot
tle on beer prices and sharp reduc
tion of Indiana importers’ earnings
with advent of Indiana-made 3.2
brew next month.
He said his investigators in the
state have reported several instan
ces of law violations, majority of
which were committed unwittingly.
Offenders are being given a chance
to rectify their errors, Fry said.
Included in the list of violators
was a Marion county retailer who
had pool tables in his establish
ment. After being warned by the
investigator, the dealer returned his
beer license and kept the tables.
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STANDARD GROCERIES
Two Store Managers Are Victims
of Holdups.
Two Standard groceries were
robbed of an undetermined amount
of money Friday by Negro gunmen.
A diminutive Negro ordered a jar
of peanut butter from Denver
Bundy, 1806 East Eleventh street,
manager of the Standard store at
2501 Northwestern avenue. Bundy
turned from getting it to be con
fronted by a pistol in the hand of
the Negro, who rifled the cash
register.
A few minutes later, police were
called to the Standard store at Thir
teenth street and Cornell avenue,
Russell Watson, 1812 Carrollton ave
nue. manager, said a tall, 200-
pound Negro came in and an
announced: "I want the bucks.”
He got them out of the cash reg
ister, menacing Watson and David
Granowsky, 1102 East Thirteenth
street, with an automatic pistol.
FISHERMAN HOOKS BAT
Creature Grabs Bait After Cast Into
National Park Stream.
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YELLOWSTONE PARK. Wyo..
May 6.—Catching a brown bat in
midair with a trout fly is the curious
feat reported by Ranger George
Marler of the National Park Serv
ice. He was making a cast for the
far side of a shadowy pool, he re
lates. when his fly. in the air back
of him. "suddenly became attached
to a source of struggling not at all
unlike that of a large trout.” He
reeled in his catch and found he
had hooked a large, brown bat.
The bat." Marler comments,
"was no doubt as surprised at the
nature of this particular insect he
had seized, as I in his capture.
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is scheduled for late May. The map above shows the scheduled hops
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Pinchot’s Wife Joins ‘Baby Strike *
Pickets in Sweatshop District
BY PAUL COMLY FRENCH
United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 6.—Mrs. Gifford Pinchot,
wife nt nnsylvania’s Governor, joined the "baby
strike” picket lines Friday, protesting against “out
rageous conditions” in the shirt factory sweatshops
of the Lehigh valley.
Pennsylvania's first lady appeared unexpectedly
in the lines of underfed and poorly dressed children
gathered at the D. & O. shirt factory at Northamp
ton, a neighboring borough.
As Mrs. Pinchot stepped from the state auto
mobile which had taken her to Northampton, thund
ers of cheers from the “baby strikers” greeted her.
Wearing a flaming red corduroy coat and red hat,
she walked to the head of the line outside the plant
which has been closed since the strike was called.
The picket lines have been orderly and no one has
sought to go to work for the pittance which the boys
and girls once received.
Mrs. Pinchot’s presence brought the first boister
ousness to the lines. The boys and girls, tired and
underfed, realized they had a real champion in the
nattily dressed “first lady.” *
“The people of Pennsylvania gradually are becom
ing aroused to the outrageous condition of under
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MICHIGAN BEER
Council Is Given Right to
Start Business Ahead of
Other Dealers.
By Times Special
LANSING, Mich.. May 6. —First
legal sale of 2.2 beer will be made
in Michigan Wednesday, May 10,
by the Detroit council of the Amer
ican Legion, twenty-four hours be
fore the rest of the state is given
a chance to slake its thirst. m .
This concession was made to the
legion today by the state liquor
control commission, under the laws
“picnic sale” clause, to aid charity.
WILMINGTON, Del., May 6.
Legal sale of beer began today in
Wilmington, the only place in the
state where brew may be dispensed.
The rest of Delaware is dry under
local action taken before national
prohibition became effective.
Under the new law, however, beer
can be shipped into dry territory
for private consumption.
SPRINGVILLE, la., May 6.—Pa
trols oi the local creamery now
may exchange cream for beer, at
the ratio of two pints of cream for
one pint of beer. Cream haulers
will operate under a retaining per
mit in making the exchange.
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STEPS : i t seemingly endless steps ; : : from every
room in the house to answer the cheerful call of
your telephone bell many times a day. Small wonder
that rugs suffer, to say nothing of floors and shoe*
leather.
Extension teleplmies , located conveniently about the
home, save steps and time, make the prompt answering
of calls an easy matter, and eliminate that rush for the
The Economical telephone whenever the bell rings. Extension telephones
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payment and the long hours that have been dis
covered in certain factories, shops, mills, and mines
in the state,” said Mrs. Pinchot.
"I want to help call attention to the actual
facts.”
Mrs. Pinchot’s personal investigation of the sweat
shop conditions brought her to Allentown Thursday
night to hear testimony of alleged immoral treatment
of 15-year-old girls.
Her appearance climaxed two weeks’ of investi
gation by a Governor’s committee into alleged im
moral and illegal conditions in many of the Lehigh
valley needlework factories.
After the session, from which men were barred,
and young girls told of “week-end trips to New York
with their bosses,” Mrs. Pinchot said, "What I have
heard is outrageous, and I want to show my sym
pathy with the workers.”
She questioned some 15-year-old girls, who said
they had worked six days a week, ten hours a day
for salaries of 57 cents, 98 cents, $1.25 and $2.50. They
told her of being forced to submit to advances of
their bosses for fear of losing their jobs.
The Governor’s wife said she would urge state
officials to investigate apparent violations of the
Mann act.
U. S. COMMODITY PRICE
INDEX SHOWS 1.8 GAIN
By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 6.—The la
bor department Friday announced
that its commodity price index for
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1.8 per cent over the week ending
April 22, with each group of com
modities “sharing in the advance.”
The British navy is planning a
warship entirely equipped with
Diesel engines, according to report.
BOY SLAYER
ASKS ‘DIPLOMA'
FROMJRISON
Sentenced at 16. Serves
Eleven Years: Case Heard
by State Board.
A boy tried to get a diploma to
day from the only school he's
known—the Indiana state prison—
after eleven years of tutelage.
It was in March, 1922. that John
Malik of Porter county, wearing
knee pants, stood before a judge in
Valparaiso and received a sentence
of life imprisonment for the mur
der of Mrs. Bertha Stoltz.
He was an orphan. A home for
indigent children at Plymouth fa
thered him. He took a job as hired
hand on the Stoltz f/rm. He was
16 when the crime was committed.
Miss Kate S. Mares of Chicago, an
aunt, pleaded for his parole from
the life sentence today before the
state pardon and parole board. She
said the shooting was accidental.
Prison records show the boy killed
Mrs. Stoltz, wife of his farm bess,
after a quarrel.
Plea Under Advisement
The aunt said she had provided
for the youth in the event of her
death with a S6O monthly annuity
insurance policy.
The board took the clemency plea
under advisement.
Seventeen requests for clemency
were denied by the board in its
recommendations to Governor Paul
V. McNutt today.
Seven paroles were granted and
two sentences were commuted with
one case continued.
Two Marion county men, serving
sentences at the state prison, were
before the board requesting parole.
Ashton Burnett, serving fifteen
years on robbery charge, received a
continuance in his clemency plea
pending a probe and the parole of
Charles Ashley, Marion county,
serving ten years for robbery, was
denied.
Pattie Is Denied Parole
A parole to customs agents for
deportation to Mexico was granted
Conrado Villaneuva of Lake county,
serving ten years on robbery charge.
James O. Pattie of Spencer coun
ty, serving life sentence for murder
was denied a parole from his re
cently commuted sentence of six
years to life.
Pattie’s case has received news
paper prominence in the past due
to the charges that a Ku-Klux Klan
jury was responsible for his convic
tion. Pattie declared he killed in
self-defense.
Gone, but Not Forgotten
Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
W. T Blasengvm. 2226 Shelbv street,
Ford redan, 112-637, from 200 East Mar
ket street.
Victor Pickett, 265 North Addison street
Ford coupe, 26-727, from that address
Adolph Schmidt, R. R. 17. Box 198-C
Ford roadster, 15-835, from Michigan and
Pennsylvania streets.
L. H Lewis. 512 East Fortieth street
Hupmobile sedan. 36-785, from Vermont
and Illinois streets.
BACK HOME AGAIN
Stolen automobiles recovered by police
belong to:
Lillian B. Brooks, 4675 Evergreen street,
Ford coupe, found at 530 Concord street
R. C. Holland, 2349 North Alabama
street. Ford coupe, found at Twenty
fourth and Alabama streets.
Rate Reduction Plea Dismissed
Rate reduction petition for Plain
field was dismissed by public service
commissioners Friday upon show
ing that a compromise rate agree- j
ment had' been reached between!
petitioners and tbe Public Service j
Company of Indiana.
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pointment as price administrator
in the farm relief program.
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TO SAVE LIFE
OF MESSENGER
Postoffice Employe Is Suf
fering Mystery Ail
ment.
Near death at the Methodist hos
pital, Carl Kreutzberger. a special
delivery messenger at the Indian
apolis postoffice, Friday received
one pint of blood, and the promise
of his fellow workers of any aid
that w'ill save his life.
Friends of Kreutzberger said his
condition is such that physicians
are unable to locate the cause of his
illness. He has been suffering from
internal hemorrhages.
Raymond A. Wilson, 6222 Haver
ford avenue, supplied the first of
fering. Six other offers by fellow
employes were refused because of
the type of blood.
Belmont Bank Is Closed
Belmont State bank, Belmont
avenue and Washington street, has
been closed by the state banking
department. It had been operating
under restrictions as a Class B
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WARREN PAGE
FUNERAL TODAY;
PASTORPASSES
Rites for Walter W. Martin,
42 Years’ Resident Here,
Set for Monday.
Funeral services for Warren K.
Page. 29. of 1862 Milburn street, an
embalmer for the J. W. Patterson
funeral home, were to be held at 2
this afternoon in the Patterson fu
neral home. 1615 Central avenue.
Burial will be in Memorial Park
cemetery.
Mr. Page died Wednesday in cily
hospital. Survivors are the father,
Francis L. Page, and a sister, Mrs.
Marion Little, both of Indianapolis.
Walter W. Martin Dies
Last rites for Walter W. Martin,
59. a resident of Indianapolis for
forty-two years, will be held t 2
Monday in the Merritt Place M. E.
church. California and West New
York streets. Burial will be in Crown
Hill cemetery.
Mr. Martin died Thursday in his
home. 3918 Byram avenue. He had
been an employe of the Diamond
Chain and Manufacturing Company
for fifteen years. He was a mem
ber of the Merritt Place church.
Survivors are the widow, Mrs.
Nannie Martin; tw r o sisters, Mrs.
Id? Lloyd and Mrs. Eva Phillips, all
of Indianapolis, and a brother,
Frank Martin of Philadelphia. Ind.
Former City Pastor Passes
Word w r as received here Friday
of the death of the Rev. Addison
Parker, former holder of several
Baptist pastorates in Indiana, and
a former resident of Indianapolis,
in Los Angeles, Thursday. Dr. Park
er moved to California about five
years ago to live with his daughter,
Mrs. W. O. Johnson.
Funeral services wall be held at
2 Sunday afternoon in the First
Baptist church of Richmond, Ind.
Burial will be Earlham cemetery
at Richmond.
Dr. Parker formerly held pastor
ates at Richmond. La Porte and
Delphi. The last church he served
w’as in Piqua, O. He enlisted in the
Tenth Rhode Island infantry in the
Civil war, and later was a sergeant
in the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts
regiment. He served for the dura
tion of the war.
The farm population of the United
States increased by a million per
sons last year.