Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 137, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1923 — Page 13

FRIDAY, OCT. 19, 1923

SURVEY INDICATES NATION IS IN GRIP OF WHISKY REBELLION

lOOoIER WELCOME TO OE ACCORDED FORMER PREMIER Plans for Tabernacle Mass Meeting in Honor of Welshman Completed, The complete program for the mass meeting at the Cadi-' 1 Tabernacle Monday night, at which David Uoyd George will speak, was announced today by the committee in charge. Charles F. Coffin will preside. The program will open with community singing by the gospel choir and the audience. As the guest of honor arrives the chorus will sing “God Save the King.” The Invocation will be pronounced by Bishop Joseph M. Francis of the Episcopal Church. The Wejsh Society Chorus will sing the Welsh national anthem, with J. G. Thomas as the soloist. Medallion to Be Given Jmv medallion will be presented to George by Oswald Ryan of Anderson, after which the former premier will speak. The meeting will be closed with the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner” by the chorus and a benediction by the Rev. Z. T. Sweeney. Doors of the tabernacle will be opened at 6:30 p. m. when holders of reserved seat tickets will be allowed to go to their seats and those who do not have tickets may occupy any re served seats not then occupied. All the reserved seat tickets have been given out to ex-service men and no mors ara available. Reception Committee ■While a large reception committee will greet the visitor at the Union Station, a committee of only three will meet him as he steps from the train on the elevated tracks. This committee will be composed of Governor McCray, Felix M. McWhirter, president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and Former Gvoernor James P. Goodrich. Ryan will go to Louisville to accompany the party to Indianapolis. John B. Reynolds, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and Miss Margaret McCulloch will board the train on the wjay to Indianapolis, probably at Seymour. F. O. Belzer, Boy Scout executive, has promised the services of 250 Scouts at the Union Station and along the line of march. • Police Details Drawn ollce details for parade, reception ana other ceremonies for Lloyd George Monday were drawn by Ora Ball, secretary to Traffic Captain Michael Glenn and presented today to Herman F. Rlkhoff, police chief. Police will be detailed from Union Station north on Meridian St., to North St.; from North to Washington St., on Pennsylvania St., and from Meridian to Pennsylvania St., on both Washington and North Sts. Patrolmen will allow no parking along any of these streets nor ia the Circle. No one will be admitted to the Circle during the ceremonies except Butler students on the southeast segment, Technical High School students on the southwest segment, and Lloyd George and United States Marine guards. Patrolmen will keep passageways clear to the Clavpool' entrance, the Chamber of Commerce entrance and Cadle Tabernacle entrance at 6 p. m. No parking wili be permitted on either side of New Jersey St., at the tabernacle, nor in nearby alleys.

ANTI-KLAN MOVE DENIEDBY COURT A motion to have the charters, and card index system of the MPLlClux Klan brought into Federal Court as evidence In the suit filed by six South Bend residents was denied by Judge A. B. Anderson today. The plaintiffs seek to have their names stricken from the Klan membership roll, according to the complaint. "I have no legal right to issue such an order,” Judge Anderson declared. Joseph R. Roach, attorney, included in his motion the Klaij organizations in Rushville, Ft. Wayne, Newcastle, Hartford City and other places which he said he was not sure possessed t ach material. "Who are the defendants in this suit?” the judge asked. “The Knights of Ku-Klux Klan,” replied Roach. A similar reply was given by L. Ert Slack, attorney for the Klan. Roach has withdrawn subpoenas for about 100 witnesses including prominent State and county officials, It was learned. Bethel Club to Meet The Bethel Club will meet Sunday, •t the Communal building, 17 W. Morris St. Plans will be made at tals meeting for a dance and a mlnstral show. There will also be an election of a delegate to attend the Council of Clubs. Dancing will follow the meeting, music to be furnished by the Jackson Trio. Sore Throat Prudence ANTour medicine shelf is not well stocked Without a bottle of TONSIUNE, for you don't know what moment it may be needed to relieve a sudden case of Sore Throat. Relieving Sore Throat is TONSHJNE’S special mission. It is made for that —advertised for that—sold for that one purpose. TONSIUNE is the National Sore Throat Remedy, It is sold in every State in the Union. You will need TONSIUNE one these days, or some night when A the drug store is closed—better Li •have a bottle ready at home /'I *hen you need it moat. 85c., Us j and 00c. Hospital Size, SI.OO. \3L

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MRS. F. F. M’CREA. Mrs. F. F. McCrea, 1425 Ashland Ave., was re-elected president of the Women’s S.vncdical Society of Home and Foreign Missions of Indiana, which closed its three-day session at the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church Thursday. , Other officers: Miss Isabel Cooper, Howe, first vice president; Mrs. W. H. Adams, Indianapolis, second vice president; Mrs. W. P. Sldwell. Frankfort, recording secretary; Mrs. Callie I). McMechen, Qinton, treasurer; Miss Jane Harris. Muncie, Westminister Guild secretary, and Mrs. J. H. Tomlin of Indianapolis, editor of Missionary News. Miss Ora Simmons. Warsaw, was named literary secretary; Miss Gertrude Brown. South Bend, secretary of missionary education, and Mrs. J. H. C sman of Terre Haute, eecretary of overseas and home sewing. MRS. MARY GELMAN DEATH RITES HEED Mrs. Mary Gelman, 63. of 2840 Ruckle St., who died at her home Thursday afternoon, was buried in the Hungarian cemetery following services, 1 p. m. today, at the rest dence. She was ill three weeks. Mrs. Gelman, who is the mother-in-law of Ernest E. Rauh, president of Rauh, Inc., was born in AustrioHungary. and came to this country when a child. She had lived in Indianapolis about thirty years and was a member of the Hungarian Hebrew Church. In addition to the husband, she is survived by four sons, Harry, Jesse. Joseph and Dannie, and three daugh ters, Julia, Minnie and Bertha, ail of Indianapolis.

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Facts Learned Strengthens Pinchot’s Charge That Prohibition Is Failure —Authorities Do Little or Are Powerless to Stop Sale. H a VKA Service Tyrl ASIIINGTON, Oct. 19.—Results of a national survey just W completed for The Indianapolis Times by NEA Service lend support to charges by Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, that enforcement of the Federal prohibition amendment has failed and that the country is in the grip of a “whisky rebellion.’’ In a number of cities, considered of strategic and typical importance, trained investigators made searching inquiry and found:

That intoxicants, including beer, whisky and gin, can still be had —for a price. That in many instances, liquor of pre-Volstead strength is being sold openly over saloon bars. That authorities directly charged with suppression of illicit liquor traffic are either doing very little or else are powerless to stop the booze flood. That deaths from moonshine concoctions are on the increase. That liquor fleets still ply their trade off the Atlantic coast. That vast quantities of wet goods continue to be smuggled in over the borders. That there is a growing psychological trend to consider it cleverness to flaunt the 18th amendment. That the present Federal prohibition enforcement machine is utterly inadequate to bring about a universal respect for the Volstead enactment. That hcme-brew distillers and manufacturers are to be found In most every community. , Up to Coolidge The above enumerations were contained by implication or direct Indictment in Governor Pinchot’s address before a meeting of the citizenship congress, held recently under auspices of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America. In his speech the Governor declared President Coolidge “is the only man who can meet the present emergency,” after referring to the failure of a politically hampered enforcement agency to take charge of suppressing the “whisky rebellion.” “Two facts stand out in the confused and troubled enforcement problem of today.” the Governor said. “One is the steadily Increasing determination of decent people to have the law enforced. The other Is the steadily increasing violation of the law by the criminal elements. The former was to be expected. The rea eon for the latter is not far to seek.” That Pinchot has a correct estimation of the country’s dry enforcement situation is substantitaed in great part by the Times’ Nation-wide search to determine the truth presented herewith: Washington Wet Here in the capital, things are politically dry but perennla.ly wet. True, saloons have disappeared and beer no longer flaws, but the pre-din-ner cocktail and the Inter course highball still flourish The punch at re-

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the Initial drink, ircant the magic phrase that the stuff is “embassy goods.” And half the liquor sold In Washington is declared by its vendors to have come in under diplomatic immunity. The night watchman in one of Washington’s office buildings says he knows of liquor supplies cached on every floor of the premises. “But my orders are not to interfere unless someone starts a disturbance.” he explains. As for Baltimore, the investigators found the city “wide open.” Maryland has no State enforcement law; police make no attempt to enforce the Volstead amendment. Their only function is to protect Federal agents from bodily harm In raids. About fifteen such officers face the task of keeping the city dry. and are occasionally aided by a “flying squad” from Washington. Whisky, beer, gin and French wines arc the main liquors sold. The beer comes mostly from Pennsylvania by rail or boat. Beer is universally 15 cents a glass and Is sold openly, even to strangers, across the bar. It la unofficially estimated that 500

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saloons are operating with stocks having a kick. There were 584 arrests for drunkenness in September. Due to the energetic action by Mayor W. E. Dever. Chicago’s beer supply has been vlrtuajly cut off. Some 2,500 saloons and soft arlnk parlors have been closed. But hard liquor still continues on sale from the hip-flask to known customers. Breweries are guarded by police. Booze still flows freely In New York. The wink and high-sign are no longer needed. Rye and Scotch retail for 60 cents in most place; a bit higher in more exclusive resorts. Beep goes for 20 cents a stein over the bar, and 60 cents by the bottle. Rum fleets continue a thriving business. f Blind Pigs Flourish Hundreds of blind pigs operate in Los Angeles, charging an average of 50 cents for a drink. Experts declare the city*s booze supply to be about 16 per cent genuine

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with the balance of spurious and dangerous character vended under tampered labels. A temporary lid has been clamped on open sale of liquor at Seattle, Wash., due to a recent roadhouse murder. % But great quantities of liquor continue making their way in from British Columbia, only ninety-miles away. Poison Booze Problem While much ado is being made by police and revenue agents in collecting evidence and turning liquor violation cases over to the courts, a great deal of difficulty is being experienced in obtaining convictions against breweries in Philadelphia. Poison liquor is the big problem here. Victims have died this year from poisonous concoctions distilled by bootleggers. Despite passage of a State enforcement act in California last November, arrests in San Francisco for driving motor vehicles while Intoxicated were 260 per cent greater than during

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1922, while liquor traffic has shown no appreciable signs of abatement. Ohio Technically Dry Ohio technically has been “dry'’ since May 1, 1919. But that doesn’t say It has been literally. In Cleveland the spigot still dribbles. Booze is sold both openly and under cover. Police do considerable raiding, as do State and Federal enforcement agents. But most the work is handled by constables and deputy marshals, working on a percentage basis out of justice courts, in the suburbs and neighboring municipalities. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) Religious Conclave Date Changed The annual State convetion of the Indiana Sunday School Council of Religious Education has been changed from October to June, it was announced today. The convention will b? held next -year at Michigan City, Ind.

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