Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 296, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1930 — Page 9

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NAVAL AGREEMENT IS SIGNED BY FIVE GREAT POWERS

REVOLT FIRES SMOULDER IN STATE PRISON Spark May Start Flame of Rebellion at Any Time, Leslie Fears. PEN IS OVERCROWDED Warden’s Life Ever in Peril: Escape Plot Thwarted as Board Meets. Governor Harry G. Leslie declared today that overcrowded conditions at the Indiana state prison make that Institution "a place where anything might happen.’’ He disclosed lor the first time that a well-planned prison break was thwarted by machine guns, extra goards, corralling of some sixtyfive prisoners, and “beating up" the ring leaders on the night the Indiana crime commission met there, Nov. 29-30, 1929. Fire hazard is small in the cell blocks, but is a constant menace to some 500 prisoners in overcrowded dormitories, he said, in comparing the Indiana prison with the one where the Ohio disaster occurred. “Warden Walter H. Daly is sitting on dynamite and his life is in constant danger,” the Governor declared. Tells of Escape Plot "On the night the crime commission met there a well-planned demonstration and prison delivery was hailed only by one of the hardboiied ringleaders getting cold feet and turning Informer.” Governor Leslie continued. “Sixty-five prisoner were corralled in the yard and five of the leaders were given a spanning. That is the only remedy such men can understand. "Guards took six guns, several kinves, saws and other weapons and tools away from the rioters. Officials still are investigating how the guns were smuggled in. “Thirty-five extra guards were used to thwart the break and five machine guns were brought from Chicago. One of these guns was mounted on each corner of the four walls. Fear Machine Guns “It was the fear of machine gun fire, which one of the prisoners had read about, in connection with the Oklahoma penitentiary riots, which caused the plot to be disclosed. “Several months before a break also was prevented by disclosure. An elaborate plot had been laid then to murder Warden Daly. I wouldn’t have his job for the world.” Governor Leslie feels that prohibition law's have caused part of the overcrowding, but also attributes prohibition convictions In Indiana to the statute allowing lawyers making such convictions a $25 fee. “Such statute is a bribe to cause attorneys to get convictions on liquor charges, when the crime may have been something else, to collect the fee.” he declared. Good Revenue for Drys This $25 padlocking fee has been a great source of revenue for Attorney Ethan A. Miles of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League and others. Secretary John A. Brown of the state charities board agreed heartily with the Governor’s conclusion in regard to the menace of overcrowded prisons. He pointed out that the Ohio prison, built in 1832, has a 1,500prisoner capacity and was housing some 4.000. In Indiana a 1,500 prison penitentiary houses 2,350. Brown said. “The legislature has added to the problem by increasing penalties," Brown declared. “Men sentenced to from ten to twenty-five years and up to life are sent to these crowded prisons. They become desperate and hopeless and a blow-up cn be expected at any time " Chairman John W. Moorman of the prison trustees and Michael E Foley, member of the board, conferred with Leslie today regarding conditions there. Moorman pointed out that the cell block* are fireproof, but hopelessly inadequate to take care of the prisoners. MINE CHARTERS ARE REVOKED BY LEWIS Union Chief Names Provisional Officers of Two Groups. Two additional Illinois sub-dis-trict charters were revoked today by John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America. Sub-districts affected are Belleville and Westville. Provisional officers were named to take charge of the two sub-districts, Lewis announcing the revocations were due to support alleged to have been given by sub-district officers to the “reorganized’’ United Mine Workers of America formed at a rump convention at Springfield, HI., last month. The action brings the total subdistrict charters revoked to four, the others being those of Springfield and West Frankfort. School Cost $79,000 Bu Timr* Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., April 22. The new $79,000 Greene township school building will be dedicated Friday night. It is a ten-room structure with a gymnasium, and will be used by grade, junior and senior high school pupils.

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City officials, firemen, Boy Scouts and Chamber of Commerce representatives. armed with brooms and mops, started the annual city cleanup, paintup campaign from the steps of the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument Monday. Above i left to right)—Harry M. Franklin, manager the Indianapolis Safety Council; Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell; Virgil T. Furgason, fire prevention bureau director; Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan; Harmon E. Snoke, campaign director of Chamber of Commerce; Captain Barnard Lynch of the fire prevention division,’and Wilbur H, Winship, city street commissioner. Behind the mare banked the forty city firemen who will inspectfire hazards in all sections of the city during the next two weeks. Below—A group of scouts from Troop 48 with a banner they carried in the parade.

$19,000 IS EXPENDED BY LESLIE ON HIS MANSION; NO COMMENT IN REPORT

BY BEN STERN Governor Harry G. Leslie spent more than $19,000 refurnishing the Governor’s mansion during the first year of his term, using the emergency fund and a special fund remaining from the Jackson administration to do so. At the same time, he has been drawing $833.33 a month for mansion maintenance from another fund, a report filed today by the state board of accounts sets forth. The report, made at the request of Governor Leslie, is merely an audit and makes no comment on the manner of expenditures. It sets forth no itemization of how the Governor has spent the $833.33 a month which he draws on a straight voucher for household maintenance, except the cryptic sentence: “Disbursements. Harry G. Leslie. Governor, $5,316.13.” Draws $833.33 Monthly This is the total payment of the mansion maintenance fund for a six-months period. Since that time. Leslie has been paid monthly vouchers for $833.33. There is no record with the auditor of state as to how these payments are being spent. The Governor had declared, when comment first was made on his expenditures, that he also would ask for an audit of the maintenance fund, of which there is no record. But the accounts board has received no such request. The report sets forth that when Leslie assumed office Jan. 15. 1929, there was available from a special fund for construction of anew sewer, painting, repairs, etc., for the mansion, $2,576.33. Spends All But $6.21. He spent all but $6.21 of that money for furniture, painting, electrical repairs, plumbing and new awnings. There also was left a balance of

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$60,932.55 from the Jackson emergency fund of SBO,OOO. The Governor spent SII,OOO from this fund for new carpets, furniture, oriental rugs, draperies, imperial gold incrusted tableware, dozens of ash trays, expensive cigaret boxes and other furnishings. Then when the 1929 legislature gave him a $200,000 emergency contingency fund Governor Leslie spent $5,800.17 from this fund for furniture, linen, curtains and draperies. The board of accounts report shows that of the $19,120.53 spent

TRACTION RECEIVER TAKES TWO LINES

WOMEN WILL CONVENE Mrs. Freda C. Jackson, Evanston, 111., deputy supreme musical director of the Woman's Benefit Association, will have charge of a joint

meeting of Indianapolis review's of organization Thursday. Hollister review, 52, will be hostess to Frances 8. Filedity 140, Silver Star 15 and Beech Grove review’s at Castle hall, 230 East Ohio street, at 2:30 p. m„ and Silver Star review will entertain at a meeting in the I. O. O. F. hall. Washington s t r eet and Hamilton avenue, at night.

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Following business sessions at each of the union meetings, Mrs. Jackson will present the musical work of the organization to members.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1930

INDORSERS’ RAP HITS WILL HAYS Banned Picture Not So Bad, State Group Indicates. Revolt against Will Hays, movie godfather, and his edicts, banning pictures, threatened today at the annual meeting of the Indiana. Indorsers of Photoplays in the Claypool. While the photoplay Indorsers met, a “talkie,” White Cargo, was being shown a block away under the blazoning advertising banners of “This picture banned by Will H. Hays,” and It was this talkie that drew an informal snubbing ! from the indorsers for Hays in his | iiome state. “It isn’t such a bad picture,” declared an organization officer. “I saw it and it seems to me that Hays has let worse pictures get by.” White Cargo tells a story of degradation of white men on a West African plantation and deals with miscegenation. At the morning’s session of the indorsers, Mrs. David Ross, editor of the group’s national publication, decried drinking scenes in movies Crime was taken from the door of the neighborhood movie in a talk this afternoon by Mrs. T. W. Demmerly. “You can’t blame pictures for crime,” she declared.

on the mansion by the Governor, but $1,771.26 was used for repairs to the mansion, while $17,349.27 was spent for new furnishings . No question of legality being Involved, the examiners, Ralph Hesler and W. P. Cosgrove, make no comment in their special report on whether or not the money was spent judiciously, but set out that portion of the report of Attorney General James M. Ogden regarding the Governor’s power over the emergency fund.

Properties With Combined Mileage of 105 Under New Control. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 22. Jurisdiction of Arthur W. Brady, receiver for the Union Traction Company of Indiana, has been extended in Madison circuit court here to include the Indianapolis. Newcastle & Eastern Traction Company lines, forty-two miles long, and the Muncie. Hartford <& Bluffton Electric Railway Company lines, sixty-three miles long. Both of the lines were leased by the Union company a number of years ago and have been operated under the receivership, although not by virtue of the leases. A legal question arose over the tw*o properties, and suits w'ere started by Frank C. Ball, stockholder in both companies, to have each placed in receivership. In consequence, the suits were filed and then consolidated with the Union Traction Company receivership to complete the necessary legal steps. The action in court will cause no change in operation of either of the properties. BLATZ PAINT BID LOW Louisville Firm Offers to Supply Road Group for $21,000. The Blatz Paint Company of Louisville, wts low with a bid of $21,070.60 for paint, varnish and other painting material to be used by the state highway department, in :hirty-six bids opened today. State estimates on the cost for the year were $25,000.

REPEAL LEADS IN HUGE VOTE ON DRY LAWS More Than 5,000 Ballot in Times Poll; Few for Enforcement. LAST COUPON TODAY Great Interest Shown by Women; Care Taken to Insure Fairness. Repeal of the prohibition amendment to the Constitution had piled up a huge majority in The Times city-wide poll, as the count entered its final day today, with more than 5,000 Indianapolis residents registering their views on the country’s dry laws. The count at noon today was as follows: Enforcement, 329; modification, 737; repeal, 4,502, a total of 5,568. The coupon is being printed for the last time today, on this page. Get your vote in to The Times office by mail or bring it in person before noon Wednesday, when the poll will be closed. Many Women Vote Hundreds of women have voted and an astonishingly large number of them are for repeal. All parts of the city are well represented and all walks of life in this ballot. Every precaution has been taken to prevent repeating, this being the purpose when it was required that every ballot carry the name and address of the voter. Remember, the coupon printed today gives you your last chance to vote. This poll has been conducted by all Scripps-Howard newspapers as a check on the nation-wide poll of the Literary Digest. It was undertaken at the request of the publishers of the Digest, because of the many challenges hurled at the fairness of their ballot. The Vote by Cities The vote up to nooon Monday, as compiled by The Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers, follows: Paper Ens. Mod. Rep. Tot. Akron Times Press.. 214 246 1,215 1,675 Baltimore Post 46 104 995 1,145 Buffalo Times 32 400 1,640 1,972 Cincinnati Post 72 125 1,277 1,474 Cleveland Press 259 567 3,138 3,964 Columbus Citizen ...237 276 1,401 1,914 Rocky Mountain News 395 374 2,083 2,952 El Paso Post .... 153 296 907 1,356 Evansville Press .... 56 93 1,414 1,563 Ft. Worth Press 174 136 550 860 Houston Press 230 314 1,210 1,754 Indianapolis Times..2B7 599 3,709 4,595 Knoxville NewsSentinel ~ 96 152 482 730 Memphis PressScimitar 190 241 972 1,403 New Mexico State Tribune 61 67 283 411 New York Telegram.44l 862 11,621 12,924 Oklahoma News ....926 198 638 1,132 Pittsburgh Press 434 343 3,802 4.579 San Diego Sun 80 40 239 359 San Francisco News. .141 157 1,503 1,801 Toledo News Bee ~..122 192 2,397 2,711 Washington News ...136 137 1,016 1,289 Youngstown Telegram .....290 196 764 1,250 Totals are: Enforcement. 4,759; modification, 6,394; repeal, 44,333; grand total. 55,486.

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KILLS SELF DOWNTOWN Fred W. Weber, 457 of 424 East Twenty-first street, shot and killed himself in a rear room of the Pioneer Distributing Company, 113 South Capitol avenue, of which he was proprietor, shortly before noon today. 306 Calvin Kritser, 306 North New Jersey street, clerk in the establishment, told police Weber entered the office after svral hours absence, walked into the rear room without a word, and a minute later the shot was heard. Weber fired a revolver bullet into his brain. Friends told Coroner C. H. Keever they believed business worries led to the suicide. His mother is said to be the sole survivor.

What Parley Achieved

SPIDS UNITED STATES GQEAT BRITAIN JAPAN - CRUISERS 100,000 TONS 146,800 TONS lOO,4OOTONS GUN 3P cauiSESS 143,500 TONS 192,200t0ns 100,450t0ns DKTBOYERE 150,000 TONS 150,000 TONS 10 5. SOOTONS ‘Magunes mmm 52,700 tons 52,700tdns 52„700t0ns

New tonnage classifications under the three-power naval treaty resulting from the London naval conference are shown above. The United States has more large cruisers than Britain, but fewer of the smaller class, giving the two nations parity. The new treaty does not affect battleships as these were classified at the Washington conference with fifteen of the United States and Britain and nine for Japan. Below are the heads of the three signatory delegations. Left to right: Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, United States; Premier Ramsay MacDonald, Great Britain; and Reijiro Wakatsuki, Japan.

ALIENIST DIES DURINGSPEECH Funeral to Be Thursday at Morgantown. B,y Times Special MORGANTOWN, Ind., April 22. —Funeral services will be held here Thursday for Dr. James L. Greene, 69. Hot Springs, Ark., former resident of Morgantown. He was widely known as a superintendent of hospitals for the insane, but immediately preceding his death had been engaged in private practice at Hot Springs. The doctor died at Little Rock while speaking before a meeting holding hearings in connection with building anew Arkansas state hospital for the insane. He was formerly superintendent of the state’s hospital for nervous disorders. Dr. Greene had served as assistant and superintendent of the Nebraska hospitals for the insane, and was head of an Illinois hospital at Kankakee. He also served as state alienist of Illinois. He was bora in Shelbyville.

So Very Polite; Women Like to Flirt, Comment of Japanese Visitor.

Men, you’ve all the reason in the world for wearing puff sleeves this spring. In fact, you should be as puffed up as the Graf Zeppelin in flight on hearing that a Japanese maid thinks you’re “so ver-ry nice and polite.” And the bouquet from the land of cherry blossoms comes from none other than Miss Kiyo Ogata, daughter of the president of the University of Tokio, Tokio, Japan, who is visiting in Indianapolis. As for America’s women, Miss Ogata blushed, an honest blush, not a roughed one, and succinctly remarked, “They are r.ot so ver-ry modest. They flirt. We don’t. But they are ver-ry active.” “Your men always let ‘ladies first.’ Japanese men are not like that,” she explained, while breakfasting in her kimono on soup, rice and jasmine tea at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Gurley, 237 East Fifteenth street. Monday night, Miss Ogata was hostess at the Columbia Club postEaster dinner dance. She will take a postgraduate course at De Pauw university, the American alma mater of her father, during her year’s stay in this country.

Vote —and Check Digest Poll: (Vote for One Only) (1) Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead law? (2) Do you favor a modification of the Volstead law to permit light wines and beers? (3) Do you favor a repeal of the prohibition amendment? Name Address Street City Male Female (This coupon is published for the last time today.)

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What Navy Pact Means

BY today’s signatures to the naval treaty, the British Empire and Japan agreed to abandon construction of twentysix battleships of 35,000 tons each, which normally would have been laid down before 1936. They also agreed to scrap immediately a total of nine battleships. The United States abandoned construction on ten batlteships, the British Empire on ten and Japan on six. The batleships domoed to scrapping are the United States’ Florida, Utah and Wyoming (all built between 1911 and 1912), and the British Tiger, Emperor of India, Iron Duke, Marlboro and Benbow (all built in 1914). The United States and Britain will retain one ship each—unfit for war use—as a training ship, and Japan will make the Hiyei unfit for war use, so it may be retained as a training ship. A total of 229,950 tons of capital ships will be dismantled or sent to the bottom. The eventual battleship fleets will include fifteen for the United States, fifteen for Britain, and nine for Japan, Between 300,000 and 400,000 tons of other ships will be scrapped as obsolete before 1936. Next to declaration of a battleship holiday among all five powers until 1936, and scrapping of ships by the three powers, the most important provision of the treaty, was fixing of exact tonnage of the United States, Britain and Japan in cruisers, destroyers and submarines until 1936. The table of tonnage follows: Eisrht-inch gun. cruisers 180.000 150,000 108,400 Six-inch gun cruisers 143,500 189,000 100,450 Destroyers 150.000 150,000 105,500 Submarines 52,700 52.700 52,700 DRY LAW ASSAILED Impracticable and Breeds Graft, Says Admiral, Bit United Press WASHINGTON, April 22.—Prohibition was called “impracticable” and was compared unfavorably with the “personal liberty” and absence of graft enjoyed by European countries in a statement made public by Rear Admiral William E. Moffett, chief of the navy bureau of aeronautics. Eight-room Home Bums NOBLESVTLLE, Ind., April 22. A two-story eight-room house on the Harry Revis farm, east of here, was destroyed by fire, the flatpes originating from sparks from a defective chimney. Most of the household goods were saved. The loss Is estimated at $7,000, less than half covered by insurance.

LONDON PACT SOON WILL BE GIVEN SENATE Absolute Parity Specified for Great Britain and United States. SUB WAR ‘HUMANIZED' No Limit Is Set on Italy and France; Holiday Is Ordered. Bu United Press _ WASHINGTON, April 22.—President Hoover announced today that the naval limitation agreement negotiated in London would be presented to the senate for ratification immediately upon return of the American delegation, BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent ST. JAMES, PALACE, LONDON, April 22.—The London naval treaty of 1930, in which Great Britain formally relinquished supremacy of the seas which she ruled for so long, was signed today. The treaty: Recognizes absolute parity between the navies of Britain and the United .States. Limits the navies of Britain, the United States and Japan until 1936. Imposes a battleship-building holiday on the five chief sea powers. Humanizes submarine warfare. Limits the size and armaments of submarines. The treaty was signed by Great Britain, the United States, Japan, France and Italy. The latter two, however, did not participate in the limitations sections, having been unable to agree on their quarrel over parity. Although the treaty achieves only three-power limitation, it regulates the navies of the three greatest sea powers, and is the first comprehensive naval limitation treaty in history, covering warships of every class. Began Nine-Two Days Ago It was the culmination of the fivepower conference which began with high hopes ninety-two days ago, on Jan. 21. The final plenary session of the conference and the signing of the treaty took place in the dingy magnificence of Queen Anne’s drawing room of the palace. The treaty apportions sea power until 1936 among the three chief navies. Their fighting strengths are stabilized for six years, equilibrium of sea power in the Atlantic and Pacific is established, and the foundation for Anglo-American parity laid. It was a business-like scene, with a touch of drama in the presence of J. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labor premier of England. The dream of his life was being realized, but only in part, and far short of the flaming idealism which has made him a world crusader for peace. His strong, intelligent face had taken on many lines since he sat on the banks of the Rapidan with President Hoover, and planned a five-power reduction of the world’s navies, and he plainly showed the strain of his work. Signed Portions of Pact Dwight W. Morrow, American ambassador to Mexico, to whose work the simplicity and clarity of the treaty is in large part due, watched the scene with intense interest. He and all the American delegates were in morning clothes. In addition to the failure to achieve a five-power agreement, the treaty fails in the amount of tonnage reduction hoped for by the United States and England at the start. France refused to participate in the full five-power treaty because th# British refused to guarantee French security. Italy refused full participation because France rejected the principle of Italian parity with her. They signed the portions of the treaty agreeing to a battleship holiday until 1936, humanization of submarine warfare, limitation of submarine size and armament and other minor matters, promising to continue their negotiations toward eventually joining the treaty fully, Stimson Signed First Signing of the treaty was effected with business-like precision. Secretary Stimson signed first for the United States, listed alphabetically as “America.” He affixed his name at 12:40 p. m. Ambassador Charles G. Dawes signed a minute later. Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, signed at 12:44 p. m. He was followed a minute later by MacDonald, for Great Britain, and the others in order, the chief signers being Giuseppe Siriani, for Italy; Reijiro Wakatsuki, Japan; James Fenton, Australia; Philippe Roy, Canada; Sir Atul Chandra Chatterjee, India; Timothy Smiddy, Irish Free State; T. M. Wilford, New Zealand: C. TANARUS, Water, South Africa. The signing ended at 12':54 p. irn, having lasted only fourteen minutes. It started when MacDonald announced, in a solemn voice, “We now have reached the moment for signing the treaty.” Stimson arose, walked around the table, seated himself in the highbacked, gilt and red armchair, dipped anew gold pen in the ink and signed. He smiled as he arose and walked slowly back to his place. Dawes followed immediately, tugging at his coatlapels and signing earnestly. \