Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1930 — Page 11

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INQUIRY GROUP HEARS ATTACK ON DRY RULE Stayton Chief Witness at Session Before House j Committee. CROSS-QUIZ IS BARRED ——i Kansas Attorney-General Denied Right to Grill Magazine Writer. WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—The j privilege of cross-examining wet witnesses at the house judiciary committee’s prohibition hearings was denied to drys today in a ruling by Representative Graham (Rep.. Pa.), avowedly wet chairman of the i preponderantly dry committee. Graham made the ruling in response to the request of AttorneyGeneral W. H. Smith of Kansas that lie be allowed to cross-examine Walter Liggette, magazine writer, whc testified before the committee last week that Kansas is a “wide open” state. ‘■lnformation which 1 have received from Kansas since Mr. Liggett testified has led be to believe he did not go far enough in his description of conditions there,” Graham said today as the committee resumed hearings on resolutions to modify or repeal the eighteenth amendment. ‘I have an editorial from a Kansas newspaper which virtually admits the truth of his charges.” Smith to Testify Graham said Smith would be given an opportunity to testify, however, in the time allotted to the drys. He also permitted insertion in the record of a statement by Governor Green of Michigan, denying Liggett’s charge that a party Green attended in Detroit last November was featured by drinking and obscene dancing. Representative La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.) served notice he would submit later additional evidence bearing on Liggett’s testimony concerning Green. Graham announced that proponents of the bills under consideration by the committee would be extended beyond the two days tentatively fixed last week. He said the wets would be given all the time they need, overruling objections of drys on the committee. William H. Stayton, chairman of the board of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, was the first witness presented today by Chairman Linthicum of the house wet bloc. Stayton advocated repeal of the eighteenth amendment and return to a system of local option. Would Not Lose Power “In this repeal, w r e do not want to take from the federal government any of its old powers,” he said. "It should be left with the lull power to deal with importations, exportations, interstate transportation and taxation. “Nor do we believe a repeal of the eighteenth amendment ought to go Into effect instantly. We think the states should be given sufficient time to have sessions of their legislatures. at which suitable local regulatory liquor laws may be adopted.” Stayton criticised several congressmen who vote dry, but imbibe intoxicating liquor themselves. He also hit at the law enforcement commission, saying its recommendations seem to have as their object production of more felons. He suggested as a slogan for the commission “two felons in every family ” Under questioning by committee members. Stayton said his association did not approve the Sabath resolution providing for a government liquor dispensary system similar to Canada’s, or the Norton mcassure calling for a referendum on prohibition. He explained, however, that the (association is in sympathy with the purpose of the latter resolution, disf\p proving only the form in which t was drawn. Prohibition Assailed Stayton said what he wanted was return of liquor to the legal status It had before adoption of the eighteenth amendment. The saloon, he said, could not return if this were done, because the states have been educated to disapprove of the saloon system. Grayson M P. Murphy. New York banker and director of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, indicted prohibition on the following counts: “It is contrary to the spirit of the Constitution: it has brought unfair tactics in law enforcement such as wire tapping, undercover operations and careless murders by federal officers: crime, corruption and hypocrisy have followed in its wake."

BANK FEEDS PATRONS DURING HEAVY RUN Depositors, Waiting in Line for Money, Eat Sandwiches. By United Press FT. WORTH, Tex., Feb. 19 "Service" has been the keynote of the First National bank of this city. Tuesday night, officials of the bank served hot dogs and hot coffee to depositors who stood in long lines outside the bank wishing to withdraw their deposits. The run resulted in approximately $300,000 being withdrawn from coffers. As they dished out the hot food, officials reiterated their statement the bank was in firm condition. The bank is capitalized at $1,000,000, has a surplus of $1,000,000 and deposits of $24,139,009.37. A grand Jury was expected to reconvene today to investigate rumors ich led to heavy withdrawals.

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HUNT MURDERER OF YOUNG WIFE Body Found in Weedy Ditch Near Chicago. By l’nited Press CHICAGO. Feb. 19.— I The murder of a commuter’s wife, who missed a train at an outlying station, held the focus of interest today in the city’s struggle to rid itself of crime. Two other women were attacked and there were two shootings as police rounded up another 500 suspicious persons from the streets, but the mystery and horror of the murder of Mrs. Agnes Lavender, 35, the mother of a 2-year-old daughter, near the lonely Forest Glen station of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Sc Pacific railroad was the talk of the hour. The latest clew, involving a tall, sallow man in a torn blue overcoat with a scratch across his face, was followed vigorously by police in Chicago and all suburbs and nearby cities and towns. The clew was furnished by Harry N. Abitz, agent of the Northwestern railroad station at Jefferson Park, a mile from the spot where Mrs. Lavender’s body was found in a weed-grown ditch. WOOLLING IN RACE Seeks Democratic Vote for County Treasurer. Frank F. Woolling, realtor, 4825 Washington boulevard, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination as county treasurer. He was the party’s nominee for the treasurer's post in 1920 and led the ticket. Woolling is president of the Indianapolis Home Builders’ Association, a post president and director of the Indi. a Democratic Club chairman of the Washington township Democratic organization and member of Oriental lodge, Scottish Rite, Murat temple. Delta Tau Delta and the Indianapolis Athletic Club. He was educated in Indianapolis grade schools, Manual Training high school and Butler university. Wooling is married, has four children and resides at 4825 Washington boulevard.

TALK SAFETY STEPS Auto Service Men Discuss Need of New Laws. Legislative enactment requiring periodical examination of brakes, lights and steering gear of automobiles to Insure safety, was discussed at the meeting of service station operators affiliated with the A. A. A. today at the Claypool. No action was taken. , More than 200 service station operators met under auspices of the Hoosier State Automoble Association to discuss various problems. M. E. Noblet, secretary of the association. was permanent chairman. Otto G. Fifield. secretary of state explained the workings of the drivers’ license law and asked co-opera-tion of service men in instilling the necessity for safety in the minds of motorists. J. Cooper Props of Muncie, president of the association, gave the official welcome. GETS 90-DAY PAROLE Earl lusher of Sullivan to Take Treatments for Injuries. Ninety-day parole was granted by Governor Harry G. Leslie today to Earl Lisher of Sullivan, World war veteran, from the state prison, where he is serving a two to fourteen year sentence for assault and battery wi'h intent to kill. Lisher will take treatments at the Veterans* Bureau hospital at Chillicothe, 0., for injuries received in the war.

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NORRIS’ KNIFE IS DRAWN FOR DRYLEADERS Ouster of Doran, Lowman Is Declared Back of Probe Demand. BORAH DEFIED BY BOTH Charge Commissioner With Allowing Bootleggers to Get Alcohol. By Scripps-Hotcard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. The ousting of Prohibition Commissioner J. M. Doran and Seymour Lowman, assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition, was declared today to be the principal objective of sponsors of the Norris resolution for a nation-wide investigation of enforcement conditions. Both officials recently defied Senator Borah (Republican, Idaho) when he demanded the discharge of Colonel John F. C. Herbert, dry administrator for the MontanaIdaho district. Doran exonerated Herbert of charges which, Borah declared, “were serious enough, if true, to place him in the penitentiary.” Senator Wheeler (Democrat, Montana) then introduced his resolution for investigation, and the Norris demand is a substitute for that proposal. Lowman Political Dry On other grounds, too. Borah and Norris are said to believe the two prohibition officials ought to be severed from the service before the dry unit is transferred from the treasury to the department of justice. They regard Lowman as a “political dry” who has permitted partisan considerations to influence his regime, and charge that Doran has permitted large supplies of industrial alcohol to get into bootleggers’ hands. With administration and antisaloon representatives trying to block the proposed investigation, its fate rests in the hands of four Democratic drys on the judiciary committee. So far they are opposed to the inquiry and will vote against it unless they can be induced to change their minds. Borah may take the floor to deliver his long-heralded blast against “prohibition personnel” in an effort to force them to switch. To Floor for Debate Even if debated in committee, the resolution may be brought to the floor for debate. Insurgent drys hope to use the proposal when they renew their attack on Mellon and his associates. Administration spokesmen contend there is no need for an inquiry on the eve of the shift of enforcement activities to the department of justice, and the inauguration of other methods designed to improve conditions. Drys on the committee declare it merely would be a “duplication of the law enforcement commission’s work.” If the investigation is authorized, it is understood Norris hopes to take the committee to wet# centers like New York, Boston, Detroit and Chicago, where wide-open conditions prevail, according to testimony before the house judiciary committee by Walter Liggett, a magazine writer and investigator. King Is m With King (Democrat, Utah) 111 and absent from the city, the committee lineup now is five for the investigation and eleven against. The Republicans who want an inquiry are Norris. Borah and Blaine of Wisconsin, while the Democrats are Walsh of Montana and Caraway of Arkansas. The Democrats opposed are Overman of North Carolina, Ashurst of Arizona, Dill of Washington and Stephens of Mississippi. Republicans expected to vote In the negative are Robinson of Indiana, Deneen of Illinois, Steifer of Oregon, Waterman of Colorado, Hebert of Rhode Island, Hastings of Delaware and Gillett of Massachusetts.

DISCUSSES ACCOUNTING Meat Packers Executive to Make Address Thursday at Hotel. Problems in cost accounting will be discussed by Howard C. Greer of Chicago, Institute of American Meat Packers accounting director, at a dinner of the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants in the SpinkArms at 6:30 Thursday night. Greer is a Northwestern university graduate and author of several books on accounting, including “Chain Store Accounting” and "How to Understand Accounting.”

THREE BANDITS ROB CUMBERLAND BANK; MAKE ESCAPE IN AUTO WITH $800 LOOT

Three bandits held three persons at bay in the Cumberland State bank, Cumberland, ten miles east of Indianapolis on the National highway, this morning, and escaped with $737 in cash. At the opening of the bank today three men drove up in a green coupe and perked in front of the bank. While one remained at the wheel of the car two entered the bank with drawn revolvers and threatened E. C. Huntington, cashier; Goerge Wiese, assistant cashier, and Miss Carrie Mae Huntington, bookkeeper. Wiese did not notice the men

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1930

Vim, Vigor, and Vitality Vie in Vehicles

Irene Caresses the Cars She Loves to Touch at Auto Show. V 1* for vehicle, the motored kind: And five-dollar bills, the sale to hind. For vim, vigor and vitality on rubber wheels And the little Miss above In nifty heels. u tt That in nursery rhyme was the observation of the camera today at the Indianapolis Automobile Show at the state fairground as it caught Miss Irene Vermillion, dancer and singer at Lyric theater, visiting the myriad auto exhibits with her company. And the cars Miss Vermillion loved to touch ranged from the $14,000 class down to the black placarded “$575 delivered.” Sixteen-cylinder motors, svelte landaus and sporty roadsters at the show were as trim in lines as the dancing miss that tried out their gears. In the upper left photo Miss Vermillion is seated on a 265horse power giant, of the show. “Howdy, folk,” calls Miss Vermillion in the upper center photo, “I’m putting the V in Vermillion through a radiator." The upper right photo shows Irene taking life easy on the biggest cylinder job at the exhibition. In the lower left photo Misses Ona Crawford, Violet Triggs, Miss Marion Lynch and Irene. Her companions are members of her company. And in the lower right photo Miss Vermillion is playing Siren, not of the screaming kind, as her chum Violet shoves a mean clutch in a sport roadster. No Records Needed Here Bv United Press EVANSTON, HI., Feb. 19.—Dr. John W. H. Pollard, health commissioner, does not have to refer to his records to tell how many children v/ere born here in 1929. There were 1.929.

TRACES CRIME TO JUVENILE RECORDS

That 600 boys and girls were in juvenile court in 1928 and that the large amount of crime here is traceable to juvenile delinquency, was the declaration of Eugene T. Lies of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, to the Woman’s Department Club this afternoon. Lies recently completed a seven months’ recreational survey of the city for the Council of Social Agencies. “The average school child in Indianapolis has 2,763 hours of spare time each year,” he pointed out. “The home must assist the church,

when they entered and started to walk toward the rear of the bank. "Here, wait a minute, you're being held up," one of the bandits called. "Don't step on the button, either,” the other bandit warned, "Well kill you if you do.” While one bandit stood near the door with leveled revolver, the second leaped a railing and scooped cash from the cashier's cage. Next he forced Huntington and Wiese to enter a rear room. One bandit seized all available cash from the vault. Just before leaving the bank the bandits jerked the telephone wires

PLEDGE PURGING OF ELECTION BOARDS

No Questionable Persons to Be Tolerated, Say Polls Chiefs. “No jailbirds, felons or persons of questionable repute will be tolerated oil the Marion county primary and general election board,” new county election commission members declared today at their first meeting. George Denny, anti-Coffin leader, who was named Republican commissioner by Martin Hugg, county chairman, was elected chairman; Harry Toner, Twelfth ward committeeman, was named vice-chair-man and George O. Hutsell, county clerk, is, by virtue of his office, secretary. Albert B. Snyder, 651 Eugene street, clerk of the 1929 house of representatives and for many elections assistant to the commission again was named assistant. He will assume office Monday and will receive filings of candidates and arrange details of the election machinery. “To forestall last-minute jamming of election boards with felons, as has been done in the past, we shall require early listing of personnel of the boards and we shall scrutinize carefully each name,” Denny declared. Maps, giving the boundaries of the thew precincts in the county, will be ordered. In 1928 there were 269 precincts and this year the number has been increased to 331, Ten Die in Explosion Bv United Press ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 19.—Ten were killed and fifteen injured today in the explosion of an ammunitions store near Athens.

school and community in providing recreation for this leisure time.” Reporting on a study of 908 homes in the city, he declared too few adults have hobbies. Of the 908 families, 626 had automobiles. 497 radios, 425 pianos and 584 phonographs. A total of 841 had back yards but little in play equipment, he reported. Lies will talk before ministers of the city at Wheeler City Rescue mission Friday. He will address a “town meeting” at Caleb Mills hall Feb. 24 and the Kiwanis Club Feb. 25. The Indianapolis Council of Social Agencies is sponsoring the “town meeting.”

loose. As they left Huntington stepped on the alarm button and clanging of the bank's bandit alarm bell aroused the town. Driving west the bandits waved jovially at Arthur Oertel, filling station attendant, as they passed the station. Dr. Frank Bartlow, pursuing the bandit car, was forced to abandon the chase a short distance from Cumberland, when gasoline in his car was exhausted. Irvington resident, who did not give his name to police, said he saw an automobile resembling the bandit car parked in front of a grocery in 5400 block East Wa

Robin Hoods A “Robin Hood” bandit pair robbed a bank messenger of a money bag containing $50,000 in checks at a downtown corner Tuesday afternoon. Failing to get any actual cash in this holdup, the two held up Michael Bosma, of 301 Bethel avenue, Beech Grove, milk wagon driver, Tuesday night. “Do you work for yourself?” one bandit asked Bosma. “Is this company money?” “It’s mine, I work for myself,” Bosma said. “We don’t want it then,” one bandit replied and the two drove away.

PLANES USE AIRPORT Renew Stops After Repair of Mars Hill Field. Air mail planes on the Chicago-Indianapolis-Cincinnati line were to resume stops here this evening, after having failed to land here since Sunday because of conditions of the Mars Hill airport, it was announced today. Rising temperature and rays of the sun dissipated frost and moisture on the field sufficiently to permit rolling in of deep ruts cut in the field by wheels of the big transport planes using the field. It was these ruts that made landing and taking off difficult and even precarious, for smaller craft. Members of the armory board are to meet within a few days to consider plans for preventing recurrence of the condition, possibly by constructing hard surface runways. QUIET FLOOD FEARS Dam Break Report Found to Be Without Basis. By United press COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 19.—Fears that the Saluda dam, located on the Saluda river, eleven miles from here, had broken today were quieted when it was ascertained that a slide occurred in the downstream face of the $20,000,000 hydro-electric power development, causing the loss of water in the segregation pool. The chief engineer of the dam reported it was intact, but that it was necessary to open one of the dikes and let out sufficient water to wash away mud and determine damage to the segregation pool.

ington street a few minutes after the deputy sheriff’s emergency car sped by en route to Cumberland. In the car were two men and two women, he said. There were two shotguns in the rear seat of the four-passenger coupe, the man declared. Indianapolis police and sheriff’s squads scoured the country. What was believed to have been a holdup attempt at the bank took deputy sheriffs to Cumberland about a week ago. Huntington became suspicious of the actions of two men an the door when

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MILLIS NAMED FUND CHAIRMAN Outlines Plans to Organize Fall Campaign. With the appointment of Fred Millis, advertising man, as chairman of the board of directors of the Indianapolis Community Fund, plans were being laid today to organize group workers for a fall campaign. Millis’ appointment was announced Tuesday at a meeting of the board, inaugurating an extensive drive in which more than two thousand volunteer workers will participate. Three major ideas were set forth by Millis as fundamentals for the campaign. They are: First, a social investment; second, community pride in furthering a gettogether movement, and third, enabling every citizen to have a hand in supporting thirty-five character building organizations through one yearly campaign. “More persons are interested in the fund than any one single thing in community life,” Millis said. “It stands as the very heart of Indianapolis’ social program.” Millis served last year as chairman of the publicity committee of the Community Fund, starting a sales school plan for workers.

STEEL HEAD RETIRES Schwab Announces Decision on 68th Birthday. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Charles M. Schwab, who celebrated his sixtyeighth birthday Tuesday, announced his retirement from all business enterprises, except the Bethlehem Steel Company, which he characterized as "his child.” At his Riverside drive home, where what he described as a "quiet family dinner party” was in progress, the steel magnate said: "Looking back through the years, I will say that if I had my life to live over again there has been nothing in it that I would wish to change. "To me now, friends are more important than this so-called business success, and it is very gratifying for me to finish my long business life with the multitude of friends that I have over the country.” SPRING WEATHER DUE Temperature Around 60 to Linger Two Days, Forecast. Spring weather, with temperatures that may soar above 60 degrees, will linger in Indianapolis at least two more days, according to the United States weather bureau today. Weather generally will be fair. The mercury Tuesday ascended to 59 degrees, from 38 degrees at 7 a. m. At 7 a. m. today the thermometer stood at 46 degrees. There is no cold weather in sight, the weather bureau reported. VOTE TARIFF ON DATES By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—After an hour and twenty minutes of discussion, the senate voted, 46 to 28, today for a 7 1/2-cent a pound tariff on dates imported in packages. Senator Hayden (Dem., Ariz.), proposed the increased duty to insure sanitary American packing of dates The rate now is 35 per

FIREMEN ASK BUSINESS MEN FOR SUPPORT Delegation Solicited to Intercede With Board of Safety. ‘GOOD WORD’ IS URGED No Sign of Misconduct at Station, Assurance of Attorney. BY CHARLES CARLL Firemen solicited west side business men to appear before the safety board Tuesday nnd voice pleas for them in answer to charges made in The Times by Dick Miller that the city fire department is inefficient. This fact became know'n today when E. D Fouts, Belmont avenue and Washington street, auto distributer, one of the delegates before the board Tuesday, assert ed that Charles Graul, fireman at Engine House 18, asked him to go before the board and say “a good word” for the firemen. Apparatus from Graul’s engine house was involved in the recent fire at the American Foundry Company, 531 South Warman avenue, and, it has been revealed, engines from this company did not arrive until after firefighters from Engine House 9. on a later alarm, had reached the scene. Pinochle Player Present. John Geckler, attorney, 101 South Traub avenue, another delegate before the board, said he had not been asked to appear, but had gone because he “knew the boys at the engine house, because he often played pinochle with them.” Fouts also asserted Harry Gompf, secretary-treasurer of the Lindeman Wood-Finish Company, spokesman for the delegation, not only had called him by phone and asked his presence at the meeting, but also had a personal conference with Fouts. Geckler also admitted he had seen members of Company 18 aaswer the tower bell by running from points in the neighborhood after the alarm sounded during duty periods. “But that has been going on, I might say, from time immemorial,” Geckler asserted. “I can remember it when I used to drop in at another fire station on the south side. No Misconduct Seen “There is a tower bell at Engine House 18 and I guess that is used to call the men in case of fire. Os course, in the summer if they are not at the station, I suppose they can hop the truck as it goes by. “As I said, I know the boys there and have played pinochle with them and they razz me because I know them so well, but I’ve never seen any gross misconduct in the house.” Gompf declared before the board that Miller probably was not a property owner, but today remembered relationships with Miller and his family, and that Miller pays taxes on his home, 225 North Mount street. “I am glad to hear The Times is interested in placing the fire department and the police department, too, under civil service and in bringing about strict discipline in both departments,” Gompf said. Aim of The Times in revealing fire conditions in Indianapolis is to place the department under civil service, that there may be efficiency in operation and strict discipline, applicable to all me- 'bers of the department, and that conditions may be remedied to prevent an increase in fiie insurance rates in this city. Believes in Civil Service Wilbur Carter of the Carter-Lee Lumber Company, who appeared at the meeting, declared his belief in civil service and discipline. J. W. Stickney, insurance expert and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce fire prevention committee, who spoke at the meeting and declared there is no threat of a boost in city fire insurance rates, later admitted he had “no idea” whether the rates would be in-<j creased and “no one else did! either.” He also admitted that Miller’s as-* sertion that Company 18 was bed hind Company 9 at the foundry tmwas true and he had ascertaßW® that from “an investigation ■££ under way.” “I know and you know there a lot of ‘bobbles’ in the fire department, but the question before us is how these things can be remedied,” he declared. Roped Into Session He also admitted knowing that companies called to a fire northwest of the city went to the Speedway, miles away, while the structure burned. Stickney said he did not know of the safety board session, but that he “got roped into it.” He said Gompf called the Chamber of Commerce and asked “for help at the meeting.” Stickney said he then called Gompf. but the latter had gone to the meeting and that he followed, without knowing the purpose of the session. TAKES POISON AT HOME Robert McClintick, 65, in Seriooa Condition at HospitaL Failing in attempt to purchase poison this morning, Robert iMK Clintick, 65 of 1210 East WaahlMS ton street, took another vantoljMH poison at his home. AraH He was taken to city hospiUMH serious condition. Motive f<t£| act was uoi : >j