Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 February 1930 — Page 9
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WOMEN WETS TURN HEARING TO NEAR RIOT Opening Stroke in House Signal for Scene of Wild Enthusiasm. EXPULSION THREATENED Four Leaders Join Demand for Referendum on Dry Repeal. gv United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Women anti-prohibitionists had their day In a noisy way at the house judiciary committee hearing today. Four women leaders, who appeared to advocate repeal of the eighteenth amendment and a national referendum, were applauded so vociferously by a crowd of women who made up most of the audience at the hearing, that Chairman Graham, himself a wet, threatened at one point to expel them from the room if they continued to manifest their enthusiasm so noisily. Mrs. Mary T. Norton, Democratic congresswoman from New Jersey, who argued for her referendum resolution, and Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, former Republican national committee woman from New York, drew such noisy applause that one committee member. Representative Yates (Rep., 111.), threatened to withdraw in protest if the hearings were allowed to 'degenerate into a town meeting.” Supported by Others Mrs. Norton’s resolution, which she argued was constitutional despite objections of constitutional lawyers, was supported by two other New York women. Miss M. Louise Gross of the National Woman's Moderation League, and Mrs. David H. Morton of the Women's committee for repeal cf the eighteenth amendment. Mrs. Sabin based her argument on the contention that many women, who formerly supported prohibition because they thought It would prevent drunkenness, have changed their opinion. As proof of this, she said 50,009 women now' belong to the organization which she has formed to fight the eighteenth amendment, and that 3,000 are joining every week. Mrs. Sabin left the Republican committee several months ago to form the anti-prohibition organization. Joining Rapidly “Women,” she said, “thought that prohibition could be made as strong as the Constitution, but they found that it made the Constitution as weak as prohibition ” Mrs. Norton challenged drys to allow a referendum on the question. "Whv should members of congress or members of the legislatures of various states, who are only servants of the people, withhold from them the right to decide this question lor themselves?” she asked. One man appeared at. the morning session, former Senator William Cabell Bruce (Dem.. Md ), who told (he committee it has not yet started “to raise the lid of the stink pot that, is prohibition ” Bruce recently advocated a national wet convention to draft a measure for modification of the prohibition laws.
SUES FOR BEATING Taxi Driver Asks $25,000 From Employers. His passengers were too tough, so Charles Caldwell, taxi driver, asked $25,000 from the Red Cab Company In a suit filed In superior court three today. His complaint charges he was sent on Oct 16 into "a dangerous neighborhood infested with notorious characters" to get two passengers. The passengers, Clarence H. Harris and John Ford, beat him up, have been convicted of assault since that time by Circuit Judge James A. Collins and now are serving sentences. the suit alleges. Caldwell's suit claims he suffered permanent injuries as a result of the beating. APPOINTED AS RECEIVER A. W. Hutchinson Takes Charge of Auto Firm’s Affairs. Superior Judge William S McMasters today appointed A. W Hutchison, auto dealer, as receiver for the Charles W. Sanders Company. Jordan auto dealers' as result of voluntary receivership proceedings brought by Sanders. Evidence given McMasters showed that creditors were threatening suits for a total of $11,600 in past due accounts of the Sanders' company. Sanders’ salesrooms are at 1033 North Meridian street. BANK RECEIVER SUES t owther Seeks to Collect Unpaid Notes Held by Wild Firm. Four suits by Richard L. Lowther. receiver for the J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank, to collect unpaid notes alleged to be outstanding by bank patrons prior to the institution's insolvency in 1927. totaling more than SI,OOO. were filed today in civil municipal courts. Defendants are Nesbit L. Searcy. Lew W. Cooper. Elizabeth C. Tlmberlake. Huldah Fritzbery, Lillian L. McCoy, and Rebecca and Richard Redd.
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The blues singers can have their “boop-oop-a-doop’s;” Miss Bertha Lammers, R. R. 1, Box 12, junior at Indiana Central college, Ls going in for “um-pah’s.” She is pianist In the college orchestra, but is pictured being tutored to toot the college band’s big bass horn.
CHECK IS URGED ON CITY UTILITY BILLS
Polar Ice Company Head Wants Municipal Curb to Be Established. Creation of a city department to inspect water, light, gas. and power meters, with the view of providing a check on utilities and protecting the public was advocated today by Henry L. Dithmer, Polar Ice and Fuel Company president, and prominent civic leader. No city supervision of utility meters Is conducted now through the weights and measures department. A city ordinance and possibly a legislatitve act would be required to give the city such department. Dithmer declares that under the present system the consumer has no means of checking reading of meters or accuracy of measures of service except by complaints to the company, and charged that, in many cases, complaints on overcharges have been ignored by utilities. Patrons usually are required to pay the bill, regardless of fairness or accuracy, if they desire continuation of service, he declared. Appeals to the public service commission by the average customer are handled by "red tape," he suggested. "The public has no protection against errors or meters out of order at present,’’ Dithmer said. "Most patrons can not read the meter and must take the utility’s statement as to accuracy of readings. There is no provision for testing meters independent of the utilities themselves.” "Our department does not have equipment or sufficient men to handle any supervision of meters by the city,” Grover C. Parr, chief inspector of city weights and measures, declared. "City officials are considering establishment of such service." BUSINESS IS ORGANIZED Real Estate Board Speaker Makes Optimistic Forecast. “American business is organized for the first time and nothing can stop its progress.’’ Harry S. Ktssell ! of the Hoover business survey committee and vice-president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, declared before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board's weekly luncheon at the Lincoln today. He declared records show the lowest ebb of business and building recession has passed and that conditions will return to normal by the latter half of 1930.
WETS JOYFUL OVER EASTERN TRIUMPH
Pu Vntted Press BOSTON, Feb. 13.—Conservative New England, which long has clung to certain traditions, appeared today to be on the threshhold of a political revolution, through which is woven the prohibition motif. Tuesday’s victory of William J Granfield, elected as the first Democratic congressman for the Second Massachusetts district, served only to intensify a situation which developed a year ago last November when Alfred E. Smith carried this normally Republican state. Granfield, a wringing wet. was obliged not only to defeat Frederick D. Griggs, a wet with dry reservarious, who had the indorsement of his party, and of Senator Frederick H. Gillett. but two other bone-dry Republicans.- Grafield had a majority of 5,252 votes.
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HELM IS MADE POLICE CAPTAIN Succeeds Patrick O’Connor; Reilly Advanced. Police Lieutenant Edward PHelm was promoted to rank of captain by the board of public safety In a special meeting this morning to take the place of Captain Patrick O’Connor, who died recently. Sergeant Francis Reilly was advanced to a lieutenancy to succeed Helm and Martin O'Connor was advanced from patrolman to sergeant to replace Reilly. Ferdinand D. Holt and Charles R. Peak were appointed patrolmen. John E. Ambuhl, secretary of the department, was reduced to rank of detective sergeant, and Arch D. Hinch was appointed as secretary to succeed him. The board also appointed Roosevelt London, James Syriner, Gilbert Jones. Chester Ridley and Grant Simpson, all Negroes as janitors. Extern Star to Meet Naomi auxiliary. Order of Eastern Star, will meet at 2:30 Friday in the Masonic temple. Mrs. Ida. Wilson will be hostess.
In the June primaries, Maine, pioneer prohibition state, will have an avowed wet seeking the Republican nomination for a seat in congress. The first time in one hundred years. Dugald B. Dewar, dealer in investment securities, who will seek the seat now held by Senator Arthur R. Gould, has pledged himself to stand with those who believe the prohibition law “is a failure and are working for its repeal or modification.” Conrad W. Crooker. executive secretary of the Liberal Civic League, has proposed Major-Gen-eral Clarence R, Edwards, a 100 per cent, wet and war-time commander of the Twenty-sixth tYankee) division. as an "all-party" candidate from Massachusetts lor the United States senate.
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FORTRESS OF PHILISTINES IS UNCOVERED Cross-Section of Eight Historical Epochs Unearthed. BEISAN SITE OF WORK Expedition Conducted by U. of Pennsylvania Meets Success. Bv United Press JERUSALEM. Feb. 13.—Alan Rowe, director of the University of Pennsylvania's archeological expedition, is convinced he has found the strongholds of the ancient Philistines—the warrior race that run through the biblical stories of Saul and David. In the mound of the fortress at Beisan, fifty-five miles north of Jerusalem, has uncovered a cross section of seven religious periods and eight historical epochs, dating back to the temples of Ashtoreth and Dagon, the Semitic tribal deity of the Philistines. As the excavators cut through the mound, they discovered, superimposed on each other, eight distinct city levels, where one civilization had crumbled and been replaced with another. Seven religious structures already have been identified. At the top were two Byzantine churches. Then came a Hellenic temple. Below that was a temple of Seti the First; then one of Amenophis 111. Deeper, lay the house of Ashtoreth, and, finally, the temple of Dagon. Links to Kings The two latter deities link the spot definitely with the history of the Israelite kings. Beisan is the “Bethshan” of the Bible. Located at the crossroads of teeming highways, connecting anicent cities from the Mediterranean to Transjordania, it w'as the key to a military road extending along the valley of Esdraelon and Jezreel. The Philistines recognized the military importance of Beisan, and used it in their strategic and commercial orepations in northern Palestine. From remote antiquity to the time of the crusades, Beisan has figured in “war news.” The Greeks knew the place as Scythopolis. And all invaders of Palestine, Egyptians, Hittites, Israelites, Persians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and European crusaders have stormed the Beisan mound in their campaigns against Jerusalem, fifty miles away. Remains of Church In the top layer of the mound, beneath recent Arab houses and tbe discarded weapons and lamps of the crusaders, were found the remains of a Bvantine Christian church, below w’hich rested a Graeco-Roman temple, probably dating from the time of Christ. In the third level, evidently belonging to the Philistine-Israelite period, were revealed two Philistine temples mentioned in the narratives of Samuel and Chronicles. The main feature of the temple lof Ashtoreth (Queen of Heaven) | was a rectangular hall about fiftyj four feet long and thirty feet wide, j Fifty feet from the top of the mound, in a layer of debris directly below the other temples, was found the earliest Canaanite sanctuary yet discovered in Palestine. Further digging into the mound’s antiquities is continuing.
DRY GAIN ALLEGED Stark Talks on Progress at W. C. T. U. Session. Cocktail glasses reflect the ugly features of machine guns, gang murders, skulking, bribery and the corruption of officials, both high and low, Prosecutor Judson L. Stark declared Wednesday night in an address before members of the W. C. T. U. at the East Tenth street M. E. church. Stark’s topic was “Progress in Respect for Law.” "Pendulum of public opinion on the prohibition law is swinging away from a general disregard, and gradually is being resolved into a national respect,” he said. “Mountains of evidence against liquor have crystallized public sentiment into a respect which can not be changed until both human nature and the effect of whisky are altered, and that never will be,” Stark declared.
SMOKE CHART CITED Veterans’ Hospital Would Not Be Affected. Despite the smoky atmosphere of Indianapolis, veterans would be safe from danger to their health in case the new government veterans' hospital is located here. This was the assurance of the United States weather bureau in an affidavit, submitted to federal authorities here today, as one of the city’s briefs in its fight to gain location of the hospital here. The weather bureau gave charts showing that prevailing winds in Indianapolis insure the fact that the site in Riverside park would not be smoke-swept. The charts show, over a period of five years, only seven-tenths of 1 per cent of the time when prevailing winds would send the city's smoke across the proposed hospital site.
Scoffs at Million in Graft; Cant Collect His $6,000 Pay
Pat Roche, Determined Foe of Gangsters, Is Out to Clean Up Chicago. In two prooedins storios, Bruce Catton. staff writer for The Times and NEA Service, described the predicament of bankrupt Chicago and the efforts of a committee of prominent citizens to rescue the city from financial chaos. Today, Catton tells of the background of crime that lies behind the city’s plight and of the man who is the nemesis of Chicago's underworld. BY BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—1f he wanted to be crooked he could make $1,000,000 a year, according to his own estimate. But he prefers to be honest—so he fete along on his annual salary of $6,000, and just now he can’t collect even that. That’s by way of introducing you to Pat Roche, chief investigator for the state’s attorney's office here and, the nemesis of Chicago's underworld. Among all the varied people who make bankrupt Chicago the incredible city that it is, Roche is one of the most interesting. Crooked politics, tax favoritism, graft and bribery lie behind Chicago’s sorry predicament which has emptied the city treasury and permitted its gangsters and racketeers to wax rich. And Roche knows a lot about graft, the bribery, the gangsters and racketeers. Escapes Murder Attempt He has been so active in investigating gang murders, bombings and the like that the underworld has attempted to assassinate him. Just the other day a man was detected in the act of trying to attach a bomb to his auto in such a manner that it would explode when Roche stepped on the starter pedal. Quite casually Roche told me that he could collect $1,000,000 a year in graft if he wanted to. The “gambling ring” alone has offered him $50,000 a week to “lay off.” But Roche, a hard-fisted Irishman, laughs at gangland’s attempts to make a crooked millionaire out of him. And he also laughs at gangland’s attempts to bomb the life out of him. And so, if he lives, he may yet turn Chicago into a relatively lawabiding town. Roche Puzzles Them Because he has shut down gambling, arrested the leaders of the local “pineapple” syndicate and proved that he can neither be scared, bought nor influenced, Roche has the underworld puzzled. “They’re desperate,” says Roche. “Their mobs will fall apart if they don’t get things opened up pretty soon. So they’re trying to blow the lid off now.” .Roche is a busy man just now. He wants, desperately, to stamp out this uprising of hoodlums—you call them “hoodlums” in Chicago, not “gangsters”—but he is handicapped by Chicago’s empty treasury. Unpaid Since December “I've got just seven men to work with and no money at all,” he says. “If this office could spend, say $500,000, and tackle the job right, we’d get somewhere. But we have too few men. and those we’ve got can’t get their pay. I can’t get mine. None of us has been paid since December.” I asked Roche how Chicago could be cleaned up. “Cleaning up Chicago!” he exploded, “Damn it, the job could be done in forty-eight hours if they really wanted to do it. These hoodlums are all known. There isn’t any deep mystery about it. Run ’em in every time you see ’em, and keep doing it—and pretty soon you’d have half of ’em in jail and the other half would be leaving town. “The one real obstacle is the fact that the ordinary man in Chicago is scared. He won’t testify against the gangsters. “Show him that you mean business, give him energetic police work, and he’ll get over that. Then the job is half done.”
TRIAL PANIC SCENE 200 Flee Prisoner Exposed to Spinal Malady. Two hundred spectators fled criminal courtroom early today as dread of cerebrospinal meningitis stalked corridors of Marion county courthouse. A jury that heard evidence in the case of George Fellows, charged with criminal assault on a 10-year-old girl this morning, signified it had reached a verdict after a night's deliberation. Fellows was confined in county jail, quarantined today after a prisoner's death from meningitis. To free the jury, Dr. William F. King, state health commission director, gave permission to take Fellows into court. Judge James A. Collins cleared the courtroom of all save attaches and jurors, threw open all windows and doors, and Fellows entered the room to hear a guilty verdict on charges of assault and battery with intent to commit a felony. Penalty for the offense is a one to ten-year prison sentence.
FEAR FOR FILM STAR Noah Beery In Grave Condition Following Operation. B i/ United Press HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 13—Condition of Noah Beery, screen actor, was considered grave here today after an operation for appendicitis. Physicians at the Hollywood hospital where Beery was taken Wednesday night, said a gangrenous condition had set in, making the operation doubly dangerous.
■k * \ * iANKROBBERY BALKED. BELIEF Cumberland Cashier Locks . Jp Door on Three Men. Jlfr Locking the doors of his bank W arly today as three men ap- lP| y jgpF J iroached, George Wiese, assistant '■^ :ashier of the Cumberland State , CP; ' lank, believed he frustrated plans . Jjgjgfc ' f if a robbery. \ Indianapolis police emergency WKt0 km ‘ ‘
BAI BOBBERY balked, belief Cumberland Cashier Locks Door on Three Men. Locking the doors of his bank early today as three men approached, George Wiese, assistant cashier of the Cumberland State bank, believed he frustrated plans of a robbery. Indianapolis police emergency squads were seeking the sedan bearing the trio, said to have been driven west from Cumberland toward this city. One of tne men entered the bank and asked for twenty nickels in change for a dollar, Wiese said. Then he joined his companions in the sedan, which bore an Ohio license. Soon the three got out of the car and walked toward the bank. With several customers in the bank, Wiese fastened the door. The men shook it, then returned to their car and drove away. CHURCH WINE IS STOLEN Janitor Sees Robber Escape With Sacramental Liquor. A quart of sacramental wine, intended for communion service at St. Philip’s Episcopal (Negro) church 702 North West street, probably was consumed in an underworld den early today. When Julius Taylor, Negro, church janitor, went to work this morning he saw a man run from the rear of the building. Investigation disclosed that the thief entered through an unlocked basement door and took the wine, intrinsic value $1 and gold-plated communion service valued at $25. JUDGE GARVIN TO TALK Banquet Will Close Convention of Threshermen’s Brotherhood. Judge Thomas E. Garvin of municipal court, Room 1, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet closing the Indiana Brotherhood of Threshermen’s annual convention at the Severin tonight. Delegates and ladies’ auxiliary members visited leading Indianapolis farm implement manufacturing plants today. Annual election of officers was the main feature on the afternoon program. Approximately 300 are attending the convention. William H. Newsom, Indianapolis, president, is presiding officer. Discover U. S. Counterfeit Bills !ia United Press WARSAW, Feb. 13.—Counterfeiting of American SIOO bills bearing Benjamin Franklin’s portrait has led to a refusal by the Polish state bank to accept any bills of that denomination.
BOWERS WILL GIVE KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Claude G. Bowers, distinguished ; historian and keynoter at the Dem- | ocratic national convention in 1928, I tonight will deliver the keynote ad- ' dress for the 1930 Democratic state campaign. His address will climax the annual midwinter meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association and will be heard between 1.000 and 1,500 party leaders of the state at the banquet in the Riley room of the Claypool. Himself a distinguished Hoosier, Bowers long has evinced a great interest in the fortune of the Democratic party in this state and his address is expected to deal with pertinent party problems. Issues of the year were discussed at a joint conference of the state committee, the advisory board and Democratic mayors this afternoon. Mayor Reginald Sullivan of Indianapolis will welcome editors and their guests at the banquet. Miller Ellingham, secretary-treas-urer of the Ft. Wavne JournalGazette and president of the Democratic Editorial Association, will be the toastmaster. A business session of the editorial association will be held Friday morning when new officers will be,
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Patrick J. Roche, chief investigator for the state’s attorney’s office, is shown above with a dynamite bomb that gangsters tried to attach to his automobile in an effort to assassinate him. Below, a closeup of the fighting young Irish detective.
STATE OFFICERS SEIZE 4 BUSSES Drivers Held for Operating Without Licenses. Four busses operated by the South Side Motor Coach Company were impounded today by state police and four drivers and the superintendent, Everett Harland, 2408 South First street, Beech Grove, were ordered to appear in municipal court three Friday to answer charges of operating busses without licenses. State Police Lieutenant Charles Bridges and Officer Nicholas Rawlings, who made the investigation, charged the bus company purchased but two sets of plates for the four busses and divided them among the coaches. They also charged a 1929 plate was attached to one bus and two drivers did not possess chauffeurs’ licenses. The drivers who must appear in court are: Edward Jennings, 2103 South Emerson avenue; Asa Bowser. 5206 Terrace avenue; Frank Stevenson, 181 South First street, Beech Grove, and Lee Allen, 408 Albany street, Beech Grove. GAS STATION WRECKED Embyro yeggmen Wednesday night badly wrecked the interior of a Standard filling station at Illinois street and the canal, but failed to open the safe. Robert Schwitzer, 5312 North New Jersey street, attendant, opened the station this morning and found that explosives had been placed on top of the safe and exploded. The blast did not open the safe as the “yeggmen” had failed to bore into the safe door.
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elected and a place selected for the midsummer meeting. Dick Heller of the Decatur Democrat. vice-presidents is expected to be the new president.
BIG BUBBLES OF TROUBLE ALARM G. 0. P. Discord Seethes Beneath Surface at ’Love Feast’ in Evansville. JUDGE'S IRE AROUSED Rowbottom and Cooper at Odds as Result of Congress Race. BY BEN STERN Bu United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 13. Three major effects of the southern Indiana Republican harmony meeting and banquet here Wednesday stand out in the clarity of today’s observation of the situation, according to politicians. They are: Announcement of Otto G. Fifield of Crown Point that he is a candidate for renomination for secretary of state; a. slighting of Supreme Court Judge Benjamin Willoughby, which may have been in a humorous vein, but which ruffled the feelings of the judge and his friends; and the open lack of harmony between Congressman Harry Rowbottom and the aspirant for his post, Bruce Cooper, First district chairman. Fifield’s announcement in Evansville is believed by his advisers to be a strategic move. Fifield Grasps Opportunity Utilizing the presence of more than 1.000 G. O. P. workers of southern Indiana, Fifield took the opportunity of impressing himself on their mind. Incidentally he paid southern Indiana compliment by making his announcement in this section rather than at home, his adherents declare. Fifield, it is known, did not take this step until he consulted Elza O. Rogers, Republican state chairman. and Philip Gould, the First district chairman. Fifield is 44. married, has two children and was elected in 1928. He served in the 1919 and 1921 sessions of the legislature, and m 1922 was elected Lake county treasurer. Before the speakers were called upon, Gould, as toastmaster, announced that all speakers except Congressman Ellis Moore of Cambridge, 0., would be limited to one minute. Willoughby Is Halted Judge Willoughby was the first state official called upon and he was asked to halt In the middle of a sentence. He angrily shook his gray head and for a moment it seemed that imprecations would be the lot of the timekeepers, but the judge sat down, amidst murmurs from his neighbors and supporters. After two other speakers kept within the time, the ban was lifted. While state officials and other speakers urged harmony and stressed the need for a united front in the fall campaign, it was apparent the audience unconsciously had divided itself into two factions, one for Cooper and the other for Rowbottom. The direct insult was made. Rowbottom’s friends charge, at the noon luncheon tendered by Cooper as First district chairman to all state and district officials. Rowbottom Slighted Cooper, whose reception room at the hotel was next to Rowbottom'3, did not invite the congressman to attend the luncheon. Democrats are frankly jubilant over the split, as it denotes the disintegration of the Klan-G. O. P. alliance which kept “the pocket” in the Republican column. Abandoning his set plans for a Lincoln address. Representative Moore swung into a vigorous defense of the administration, urged patience in waiting for tariff legislation and declared that law observance is the duty of every citizen of a republic. “When but one law is broken, wg have anarchy,” he declared.
FAY PROBE DELAYED Jurors Investigating Other Matters. Report. After hearing testimony of John E. Shearer, president of county commissioners, grand jurors probin* the alleged disappearance of a court reporters’ pav increase record today, postponed the investigation until Tuesday. Rumors that the jury is not limiting the quiz to the alleged remo' al of the salary record, but also i3 delving into other activities of commissioners. were current today. Shearer’s appearance before the jury completes the list of commissioners to testify. Two council members. Auditor Harry Dunn, Judges and court reporters have testified. Clinton H. Givan, county attorney, is the only person, whose name has been mentioned in the matter, who has not testified. NAB TWO ON DRY COUNT Man, Wife Alleged to Have Sold Whisky to U. S. Agent. James Thomas and his wife, Pearl. 209 1 2 North Belmont avenue, were held to the federal grand jury by United States Commissioner Charlea Kern today on liquor law violation charges. The two were arrested by federal agents, whc say they purchased whisky from Mrs. Thomas. The couple claimed the liquor belonged to Frank Tucker, now in jail on a liquor charge.