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NATION DRINKING FAR LESS THAN WETS CONTEND, VIEW OF MABEL WILLEBRANDT Every Nip Advertised Now, Where It Merely Was a Matter of Course in Old Days, She Says. STATISTICS ARE OF LITTLE VALUE 'Best Set' Is Noisiest in Its Tippling Parties; Points Out Benefits to Business and Industry. <lti this, the third of her series, the former assistant United States attorne-r----rereral compares condition in America before and after prohibition: "cas'- drinkl"r” and “noisj drtnkine" of the present, the casual Saturday nicht drunk of satoor days, the busy cocktail-shader at Ihe country club; economic and letral rains uo loeses.) by mabel walker willebrandt fCopyright, 1229, by Current Neus Feat ures. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world.) Not long ago, a magazine of general circulation sent a writer through the length and breadth of the country with instructions to determine how wet is dry America. Apparently the writer had no difficulty in finding liquid refreshments, with alcoholic content, in almost any section of the United States. To many people this was conclusive proof that prohibition is a failure. They overlooked the fact that if the same writer had been sent, in search of alcoholic stimulant in the days before rational prohibition, he would have had a far easier task. 1 do not know of a time in the history of this or any other country, either under national or state prohibition, local or county option, governmental sale, or under rigid regulation of the open saloon, when it has not been possible to obtain intoxicating liquors at almost any hour of the day or night, either in rural districts, the smaller towns or the large cities.

Certainly it would be ridiculous for me to deny that liquor is sold in and small quantities throughout the country, and that practically any one who possesses simultaneously a thirst and as much as a quarter or a half dollar can assuage that thirst partially. That this of itself proves that prohibition has been and is a failure, I do deny. Let us briefly situation, with that which exists under prohibition. When the eighteenth amendment took effect, this country possessed 507 distilleries with an annual output of 286,000.000 gallons a.144.000.000 quarts* of distilled spirits of various kinds. There were 1.217 breweries, with an output of hundreds of millions of gallons of beer; 503 warehouses containing practically 200.000.000 gallons -<800,000,000 quarts) of intoxicating liquor; and last, but not least. 178.000 open saloons.

Thousands of Blind Figs. Tn addition, of course, there were scores of thousands of “blind pigs’’ selling liquor of every kind—good, bad. and indifferent—not only in supposedly dry towns and “local option’’ sections, but in the wettest of the wet spots. Now what is the situation? Liquor is being sold and is obtainable, as I have said, throughout the country’. But. viewing it calmly. I think it is very doubtful whether as much drinking is done as appears to be done. That seems like a contradictory, if not a senseless, statement. But it is certainly true that in the old days when a man took a drink, either in his home, in his club, or in a saloon, that fact was no novelty or ’’news." either to him. his neighbors. or the newspapers. But now let a man. woman, girl, or boy do very much drinking and the fact becomes one of almost general public comment. At country clubs they boast; in the churches they deplore: in political forums they accuse; but everywhere they talk. The inevitable result is exaggeration of the basic fact. My public experience has made me believe that a psychological maxim as accurate as an algebraic formula is that a fact plus feeling plus repetition equals great exaggeration and unreliable conclusion. And that’s about the course of most prohibition discussion today among both "wets” and “dry's." Regarded as Smart. I* is regarded as so smart and expensive in some circles that we might almost say a bell rings or a whistle blows every time drinks are passed. In the old days, a man drank a glass of beer or whisky, or several of them, all as a matter of course. Today we are like little Jack Horner pulling out cocktail shakers with, ’Oh, what a smart boy am I!” (Torn to Page 8* SHERIFF IS RECOVERING George Winkler Will Resume His Duties Soon. Sheriff George L. Winkler, who Underwent an operation for ruptured appendix a month ago. will resume his work in two weeks, physicians said today. Winkler was removed to his home Tuesday from St. Vincent’s hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..... 64 9 a. m 74 7&. m 65 10 a. m 77 Ba, m..... 71 11 a. m 79 12 (noon).. 78

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HOSPITAL AID UNDERARREST Methodist 4 Attendant Held for Assault on Helpless Patient. " Charged with assault and battery with intent to murder, MatthewStraw. 40, of 25 West Twentyfourth street, attendant at the Methodist hospital, was under arrest today following an alleged attack by him Monday on Morris Jesse 1. 50, of 2916 Central avenue, then a patient at the hospital. Straw was arrested Tuesday night after an affidavit was sworn out against him by Sam Finkelstein, 618 North Captiol avenue, son-in-law of Jessel. Straw was released on a SI,OOO bond, pending trial in municipal court three. On agreement of attorneys, Straw's case was continued today until Sept, 24, because of Jessel's illness. Straw, according to the charge, attempted to force Jessel to eat a meal Monday, provoking an altercation and scuffle. Jessel has been confined in bed since June 2 with his body in a cast, following an auto accident. Relatives of the sickjnan said he has been unable to serve himself since the accident. Dr. George M. Smith, hospital superintendent, conducted an investigation of charges brought by Jessel's relatives. “At first. I was going to dismiss Straw, but. after extensive inquiries, I have decided he shall be retained,” Dr. Smith said. “Mr. Jessel was in an excitable condition, due to his confinement in the cast, and Straw has been with us for years, with a good record.” Jessel has been removed to another local hospital since the alleged attack.

STATE BANK CLOSES Millersburg Institution to • Pay Obligations, Closing of the Millersburg State bank. Millersburg, in Elkhart county, about ten miles east of Goshen, was announced today by Luther F. Symonds, state bank commissioner. The bank will pay off all obligations. it was reported. Merger of the Provident Trust Company, capital $60,000, and the Columbia State bank, Columbia City, was also announced. The new organization, with SIOO,OOO capital, will retain the name Columbia State bank. The capitalization of the Columbia State bank was the same amount.

LAW AGAINST BARE LEGS DEMANDED BY DEFENDER OF YALE STUDENTS

Bv Vnitrd Pms \tEW HAVEN, Conn.. Aug. 7. iw "Down with the bare leg fad up with the rolled stocking." *is the battle cry of Mrs. Annabelle Young, light, stern, little Westville church worker, who has pstitioned the board of aldermen here for an ordinance against ‘•sun-tan" styles. "I love young people and I want

KANSAS JAIL BREAK PROBED BY-OFFICIALS

Two Convicts Killed in Gun Battle as Guards Cut Off Escape. BY BARRY J. HOLLOWAY United Press Staff Correspondent LANSING, Kan., Aug. 7.—Officials of the Kansas state penitentiary today were investigating the source of weapons used by six convicts in a break late Tuesday which resulted in the death of two of the conspirators and the wounding of a guard and another convict. Four prisoners, captured Tuesday night after a four-hour chase and a. gun battle .near the business section of this village, will be brought before prison 7 officials in an effort to clear the mystery. . William Webb. 39, a barber by trade, and Robert Collins, 30. a farmer, are dead. They were shot in a spectacular pistol duel when they refused to surrender to R. H. Hudspeth, deputy warden, and Arthur Graham, assistant day captain. The break occurred as the six were being btought from a mine within shadow of the prison walls. As the men reached the top of the shaft they produced weapons and forced the four gaurds on duty and four trusties to accompany them. Use Guards a; Shields Compelling the eight to act as shields from the gunfire of the guards stationed in towers nearby, the prisoners started on the run for a nearby highway. Two long blasts from the penitentiary siren brought more than a hundred armed guards and citizens to the prison walls. The convicts reached the highway, stopped a car and were in the act of boarding it when they were overtaken. Deputy Hudspeth and Captain Graham, hearing the siren's warning, anticipated the fugitives' dash for the principal road between Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kan., and were prepared to meet them there. Three of the men, John Edwards, alias Eddie Jenkins, of Oklahoma; Charles Cheatham and O. G. Schultz, escaped, while J. B. Knight, a life-termer, and Collins and Webb fought it out with the two officers. Collins, a lanky farmer from Arkansas City, furnished a bit of drama. Graham and Hudspeth each shot the man in the breast near the heart. He continued firing a minute—then turned and ran to a small knoll near the road. Turns Gun On Self “I would rather die than go back to that hole.” he shouted, and turned his own gun to his body. He was dead when officers reached him. The bullet penetrated his heart. Collins was serving his second term at Lansing. He had been sentenced from ten to fifty years for bank robbery. A bullet from Hudspeth’s pistol felled Webb. Knight was found lying at the side of the road, slightly wounded, clenching a knife under his shirt. John Heslop, one of the guards forced by the convicts to accompany them, suffered a slight wound in one leg from a stray bullet. The three remaining convicts were found several hours later, concealed in a clump of weeds less than 100 yards from where their two companions fell. The break was In no sense mutiny, Warden M. F. Amrine said today. ‘‘The psychological effect of prison outbreaks at Leavenworth and in New York undoubtedly had much to do with it,” he said. “It does not call for a general Investigation, however, as it was the plot of only a few and not mutiny. “Learning of prison outbreaks elsewhere probably gave the men courage. Those participating were daredevils. I will make a thorough investigation into the source of their weapons. I believe these were brought in by relatives or smuggled in by trusties.” In the Air Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m. 'at Indianapolis airport: East wind, eight miles an hour; temperature, 76; barometric pressure. 30.15 at sea level; ceiling unlimited; visibility, two and one-half miles, local smoke: field, good.

WOMAN STARTS HUNGER STRIKE IN COUNTY JAIL

A hunger strike was declared today by Mrs. Suzanne Krause. 3145 North Illinois street, who was found guilty in municipal court Tuesday afternoon of failure to pay a dog license and maintaining a nuisance. She is in jail serving out a $25 fine on the former charge and another of $lO on the nuisance count. She was found guilty by a jury and

to protect them against themselves." Mrs. Young declared today. “Girls and women," she added, •‘are exposing too much of themselves on the streets of our city, principally because of ignorance of innocence, while man, who is of a rougher moral nature, keeps himself covered because he is sly.”

INDIANAPOLIS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7. 1929

Lindy Unpaid fiu I nited Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 7.—C01. Charles A. Lindbergh, technical advisor to the aeronautics branch of the Commerce Department. has yet to draw a pay check from Uncle Sam. although eligible to pay at $25 a day for days actually put in. According to Major Clarence M. Young. Col. Lindbergh never has considered as work the favors he has done the department. He has given suggestions on regulations and once surveyed two emergency landing fields for the department, but never was paid for it.

VIOLENCE ENDS LIVES OF FIVE Two Are Suicides in South Bend: Muncie Farmer Kills Self. Bp Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Aug. 7. Deaths by violence cost the lives of three South Bend residents within the past twenty-four hours. Suicide claimed a man and a woman, while a youth was crushed to death beneath a cave-in of earth. Mrs. D. M. Steinhager, 37, mother of four children, committed suicide in the kitchen of her home early this morning by inhaling illuminating gas. Mrs. Steinhager’s sister-in-law, awakened by the cry of one of the children for its mother, investigated and found the body lying on the kitchen floor. A note found beside Mrs. Steinhager read: “ I can’t sleep tonight. Good-by to all. Children, dears, be good.” Her husband, an employe of the Studebaker corporation, could ascribe no motive for the suicide. She will be buried in Huntington, Ind., her birthplace. Thomas F. Pagsons, 31, a prisoner in the county jail awaiting commitment to the state hospital for the insane at Logansport. hanged himself in his cell. Standing on a chair, he twisted a handkerchief about his neck, wrapped it about a coat hook on the wall and then kicked the chair from beneath him. John Dietsch, 17. was killed when tons of earth caved over him while he was working in a local gravel pit. Steam shovels dug him out in a short time, but he was dead when brought to the surface.

Farmer Kills Self Bm Times Special MUNCIE. Ind., Aug. 7.—A searching party organized today by Mrs. John W. Dunham found the body of her husband. 46, in a vacant farmhouse in Union county. Dunham, a farmer, had kliled himself Sunday, after a bitter family quarrel. The deed climaxed a long series of arguments over a stepdaughter who had made her home with them, becoming especially voilent Sunday. A coroner’s jury returned a verdice of suicide. Pitchfork Kills Child Bv United, Press ROCKPORT, Ind.. Aug. 7.—Eleven-year-old Harold Hasenmeyer. Garfield, Okla.. was killed at the home of a playmate here when a pitchfork. suspended by a rope, penetrated the youth’s body after he had jerked the rope. The implement struck the boy’s shoulder and ranged downward. Eight Hurt in Crash Bv United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Aug. 7. Eight persons were injured, none seriously, here today when a truck driven by Clarence Sievert, Stevensville. Mich., crashed into the side of a Cincinnati to Chicago bus. Sievert said after the accident that he fell asleep at the wheel.

fined by Special Judge William Faust. Mrs. Krause refused food offered her by jail attendants Tuesday night and this morning. “You can bring me food, but you can’t make me eat,” she told them. “They’ll have to let me out if I won’t eat.” Unsympathetic attendants said it was “her stomach and her business.”

HER blue eyes grew tender as she considered the perils of unprotected Yele students. “New Haven," she explained, “has her own particular problem. Yale university, a beautiful college, erected and maintained for the good of the country, is here and a splendid body of •students comes here each year—though, of

ZEPPELIN IS GIVEN TESTS FORBIG TRIP Motors Ready for Start on World Tour at Midnight Tonight. CRUISE 21.000 MILES Dr. Eckener Expects to Be Back at Lakehurst Early in September. Bv United Pres? NAVAL, AIR STATION. LAKEHURST. N. J., Aug. 7.—The Graf Zeppelirf's motors awakened with a roar today in preliminary tests while naval aerologists assembled weather data which will determine whether the dirigible may leave at midnight on an eastward cruise around the world. The Maybach motors slung under the ship's curved envelope roared mightily and appeared ready for their greatest test. Streaky clouds moved slowly over the hangar. There was not much wind. Overnight fueling crews overcame difficulties and fully charged the Zeppelin's tanks, and there remained only a few tanks of hydrogen to be piped aboard today. Passengers, freight, baggage and mail probably will be taken aboard after nightfall unless Dr. Eckener decides to move his sailing time forward. The Graf Zeppelin’s mission is to pioneer a commercial air route from west to east. Upon the reputation for air safety which is expected to be earned on this journey. Dr. Hugo Eckener hopes to found a regular trans-Atlantic airship service which, in time, would develop connecting lines until the entire world might be threaded with air lanes. Seeks American Backing Within two years, Eckener believes, his trans-Atlantic airship service will be realized. He is starting his round-trip journey here in order to attract attention of financiers in the world's richest country. War impoverished Germany is unable to finance such magnificent projects as sickener’s. Thousands of pieces of mail matter have been received here, with postage at the rate of $3.55 per ounce. The Zeppelin’s greatest revenue comes from mail and freight. Passengers require attention, entertainment ahd food, all expensive. Even when they pay $9,000 for passage, as on this trip, Dr. Eckener would prefer other cargo. In the larger ships he envisions, Eckener plans for only twenty-four passengers so mall and freight holds may be increased to the maximum.

Voyage of 21,000 Miles The Zeppelin is undertaking a 21,000-mile flight with stops at Friedrichshafen, Germany, Tokio and Los Angeles en route back to this hangar. Between fifty and seventy hours are allotted to the flight across the Atlantic to Germany. If all goes well, Eckener expects to be back here during the first week of September. Between here and Germany, the Zeppelin will carry freight, but for the remainder of the journey her burden will be composed of passengers and mail. Fuel requirements for the longer hops will be greater than across the Atlantic. The Zeppelin's total time for the flight from Germany here was 94 hours and 20 minutes. Three hours of this time were expended in a side trip over New York. Just under 112 hours were required for her first trip in 1928. Flying eastward, the Graf will have the added push of tail winds which will reduce the time of her passage. LINER, 22 YEARS OLD, NEARS BREMEN'S TIME Manrentania Will Miss New Record by Few Hours. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 7.—The Cunard liner Mauretania is expected to arrive in New York tomorrow morning just two hours and a half shy of equalling the world record for an east-to-west Atlantic crossing made by the new north German Lloyd Liner Bremen. Captain 6. G. S. McNeil, master of the 22-year-old liner, which, for more than a score of years, held the mythical blue pennant of the Atlantic, indicative of speed supremacy, until the building of the Bremen, sent a radio message today to the London Evening Standard which read: “Our average of 27 knots an hour will probably result in a crossing time, but two and a half hours longer than the Bremen’s. Not so bad after twenty-two years!”

course, there must be good and bad. “But these young men should be protected. I believe no woman has a right to go out on the street and tempt a fellow being." Mrs. Young wants the aldermen to pass an ordinance making any girl over 12 who appears on the street with bare legs liable to arrest.

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SNOOK TAKES STAND; BARES DETAILS OF FATAL LOVE AFFAIR WITH CO-ED

Met Theora Hix Two Years Ago: Illicit .Romance Began at Once. WIFE. MOTHER TESTIFY Companionate Marriage One of First Subjects They Discussed. BY MORRIS I)E HAVEN TRACY United Presr. Stiff Correspondent COLMBUS, 0.. Aup. 7. After his wife and mother had come to the witness stand to defend him today, Dr. James Howard Snook was called as his own witness to defend himself against charges of having murdered Theory Hix. Mrs. Snook, the wife, was a pathetic figure in white as she told how her husband had changed In the last three years and had become restless and silent. The mother, a tall, slim, dignified woman of 73, told of his boyhood so aggressively the court had to stop her. She stamped him a loving and considerate son. Then the two women nearest to him having made their sacrifice Dr. Snook took up the burden himself. He stood tall and erect with military bearing as he swore to tell the truth. On the witness stand he was calm, but a little flushed. His answers were spoker. in a firm voice and were definite. Mrs. Snook listened intently. The doctor’s mother had wept on her son’s shoulder as she left the witness stand and had been escorted from the room. Dr. Snook described his education and his work as a member of the faculty of Ohio State university. His manner smacked of the class room. Champion Rifle Shot During the war, the doctor said, the army required veterinary instruction to continue so he went on teaching at the university and in addition taught marksmanship to soldiers and took a course In the aviation ground school. Q—Did 3 t ou ever go abroad? A— In 1920 I was elected a member of the American Olympic team and took part in the revolver championship at Antwerp. Q —How were the members of the team chosen? A—By competition. The American team won the championship. Q —What championships have you held? A—The revolver and pistol national championships seven or eight times, both rapid and slow fire, and the national rifle association championship three or four times. Tells of Meeting Theora Q —When was the first time you met Theora Hix? A—About two years ago. She came to the veterinary department as a stenographer,. He could not recall if he were formally introduced to her. Mrs. Snook, just as this testimony began, quietly arose and almost unnoticed, slipped out of the room. What were Miss Hix’s duties? A—Stenographer for the department. She worked 8 to 5 with an hour off at noon. Q—When did you have a conversation with Miss Hix after first meeting her. A—The first I recall was one day it was raining and I asked her to ride home. Q—Did Miss Hix then know you were a married man? A—l’m not so sure she did. Another girl accompanied him and Theora on the night in question. He had taken Miss Hix to Mack hall, a girls’ dormitory at the university and the other girl to a street car. he said. After that, he testified, they had frequent conversations. Discuss Companionate Marriage Q —What was discussed in your earliest conversation? A —We discussed why she was working. It seemed they had had financial trouble. She told me of the difficulty and how the other girls had gone home for the summer and she was almost alone on the lower floor of Mack hall. There was much said about her being alone. She said her boy friend had left also. He had left at the close of the school year. Q —What else did you say about her “boy friend.” A—l don£ recall. Q —What was said about reading matter?

“e-pHERE is too much of this fad which allows girls 15 and 16 to go prowling the city street with their legs exposed several inches above their knees.” continued the little churchwoman. “I know what present-day morals are. Any showy blonde who comes into town can tell you that a few hours after she lands hers.”

Fights for Own Life

A—ln the first two weeks of our acquaintance she was reading articles about companionate marriage. She thought it was all right. That led to discussion of books on that subject and she had read them. She said sometimes she thought she'd like to enter a companionate marriage with her boy friend and some times she didn’t. He then described taking her for an automobile ride late one afternoon. Came to Understanding As they returned to a point four blocks from her home she insisted on getting out and walking “because she. found out I was a married man.” “That ride was taken about the second week I knew her.” Q._What sort of an understanding did you reach with Miss Hix? A. —She said she wanted a companion and we talked of various phases of such things. Through several conversations we reached a sort of understanding. q,—when were you first intimate with her? A—About four weeks after I met her. He told of a conversation on that occasion in a rooming hduse where they had gone. “We talked of sex matters and she told me that she knew more than I did, and I better get some books and read up,” he said. “I got one book and told her about it, but she said she had already read it. Saw Miss Hix Often Q —After you left that room where did you go? A—l took her home to Mack hall and then went home. Q—When did you next see her? A—l can’t say. I saw her once or twice a week thereafter. Q—Where would you go? A—To wherever we could get a room, or some times outside. Q —What did you talk about? A— About her affairs. I gave, her my best advice. She knew I could shoot and I taught her to use a .22 Winchester rifle and a .22 pistol. Then, he said, he gave Miss Hix a pistol to keep in her room. “I had about thirty of them,” he said. When the morning recess had been reached Snook was making his fight alone. His wife and mother had left the courthouse and two of his three attorneys had slipped out quietly, leaving Max Seyfert who conducted the examination alone at the defense table. After the recess, the lawyers returned. Snook told of teaching Miss Hix to shoot. Taugh Her to Shoot Q—What kind of a marksman was she? A—Not so much. Q —Did she improve A—Yes, she was determined and anxious to learn. She became “very good,” he said,

Descendant of early Huguenot settlers, Mrs. Young believes America is the biblical “land of milk and honey.” But she thinks there's too much of honey on view. “If we ruin America through breaking down the old moral standards we shall have no place to go," she declared. "Remember, these fads are copied from iMirqgis*

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with the rifle as well as the pistol. The questions returned to his alleged intimacies with Miss Hix. No hesitancy in his answers were apparent. Q—What general topic of conversion were..you discussing on the automobile rides with her? A—Miss Hix was a very genial companion and very well read. We discussed her affairs and school matters and such things in addition to such subjects. Q—When did you meet Mr. Meyers (Marion T. Meyers, said to have been another suitor of Miss Hix)? A—lt was September, 1928, that I first talked with him. I had seen him in his car and with Miss Hix before that. LOCAL ENGINEERS IN RESERVE TRAINING CAMP Five Indianapolis Officers Begin Third Year. Five Indianapolis men are. among the 103 engineer reserve officers of the United States army beginning the third year of a four-year training period at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. The reserve officers came from Ohio. Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia, and are a part of the officer personnel of Fifth corps area. The camp will last fourteen days. Indianapolis officers in training are: Captains Denzil Doggett, 917 North DeQuincy street; John L. Niesse. 4555 North Delaware street; Lloyd W. Warner, Guar ant:’ building. and Lieutenants Warren E. Cleveland, 5325 North Delaware street, and P. M. Filer, 2905 Park avenue. DAY’S ARRESTS REACH 67 IN SAFETY DRIVE Four Women Among Traffic Law Violators. Arrests in the Indianapolis police traffic safety campaign increased to sixty-seven Tuesday night and today, the largest number this week. Four persons arrested were women. Sixteen persons were charged with speeding, ten with disobeying traffic signals and the remainder with miscellaneous offenses. RELEASED ON sll FINE Faflure of Assaulted to Appear Lightens Penalty. Bv Times Bvecial ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. X—Edward King, molder, who was arrested at Tipton a few weeks ago and returned to this city to face a charge of attacking Glen Sanders with a flat iron, was let off in city court with a fine of sll on a plea of guilty to a charge of assault and battery. Sanders, who suffered a fractured skull, left Anderson after he was released from St. Johns hospital and could not be found to testify againsi King. Injured by Cow’s Kick By Tlpiei Xvccial ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 7.—John Jones, 30, will be laid up at his home, five miles north of this city, for the next few weeks from injuries sustained when he was kicked by * mb

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