Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1930 — Page 1

YOUR JOB IS IN DANGER! YOU FACE RUIN IN BUSINESS! You—and You—and You Must Act at Once, to Halt Tariff Steal That Perils Nation

JF you knew that something was going to happen which would cost you your job, you would be concerned about it. If you were in business for yourself and discovered that an event, if allowed to occur, might throw you into bankruptcy, you would act to prevent it. If you were living comfortably on a fixed income and learned that a law was about to be passed which would reduce that income greatly, you would protest. These are not hypothetical situations; in the studied opinion of this newspaper they are very real. At this very moment they menace you. This opinion has become an in-

‘BOOTLEG GAS’ FLOODS STATE, SAYS BOBBITT Cheap Grade Smuggled In, Sold at Cut Rates, Auditor Charges. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Indiana has its own oil scandal, It was admitted today by state officials. The state has been and still is being inundated by low grade gasoline, peddled by “gasoline bootleggers” and sold at a cut-rate, escaping both Inspection and taxation, according to State Auditor Archie Bobbitt. Hundreds of thousands of gallons have been sold in this manner and tens of thousands of dollars have been filched from the state by nonpayment of the gasoline tax, he said. These sums have enriched the coffers of the backers of the illicit gasoline trade. The business, investigation discloses, centers in Lake county. One of the gasoline bootleggers recently has paid the state SIO,OOO for tax-dodged gasoline sold at South Bend stations. Incorporated Company The man making the payment, Louis H. Joers, Michigan City, listed as president of the Dunes Oil ComDany in incorporation papers filed with the secretary of state. Clarence Fate, Crown Pomt, investigator for the state securities commission in the office 0.. Secretary of State Otto G. Fifie’d, conferred with the state auditor regarding the tax settlement. His son, Joseph Fate, and Malcomb Clark, Crown Point, have taken over five of the illicit stations of the company in northern Indiana and expect to take over four more, Fate said. Here is how the business has been operated, according to a confession on file with Leland K. Fishback. state gasoline tax collector in Bobbitt’s office. Low gracte gasoline, distilled from distillate or residue from oil refining, and casing head gas, was shipped by the Reliable Oil Company from Englewood, 111., to South

Bend. Bore Distillate Label The cars bore a distillate label and tlius escaped both inspection and the 4-cent-a-gallon tax. It then was sold at cut rate by the Dunes Oil Company stations. The company also operated under j the name of the Rovella Oil Company, the confession states. The SIO,OOO back tax and fine covers only the South Bend shipments made by rail from both the Reliable and the Knickerbocker Regfining Company, Hammond, has been unable to obtain records of the truck shipments and none on other stations of the company operated outside South Bend, he said. Joers contends that he didn t keep any books.” He is being permitted to continue operation on probation at the South Bend stations. Always Paid Tax Stations at Crown Point, Hobart and Michigan City now are being operated under the name of Fate & Clark. Clark ran two cut-rate gasoline stations previously and always paid the state tax. Bobbitt said. The Knickerbocker company has a plant at Hammond which makes the distillate Into gasoline. This type of product also said to be handled by the Riverside Oil Company, with several Lake county stations. They are reported to operate a 2.000-p-allon truck between Illinois and Indiana. last month tbev paid tax on $.295 gallons, Fishback’s records show. Financed In Chicago Bobbitt expressed the opinion that manufacturers and distributers of this gasoline are all being financed bv a Chicagoan. Fshback pointed out that there is a $5,000 fine per car and two years imprisonment providec" for interstate shipments of gasoline labeled distillate. Attorney-General James M. Ogden has been called into the case. Independent oil dealers of South Berd are attempting to get a ruling that a was tax dodeer is guilty of embezzlement of state fund*. Bobbitt and Fishback announced that the investigation will continue. Wabash Student Hart CFAWFORDSVTLLE Ind.. Mav IS —A cheek bone fracture was sufi sered by Lloyd Ault. Wabash co’lege freshman of Sneneer. in a collision with P. ft- Anderson, another student, *5 the two pursued the same fly ball.

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VOLUME 42— NUMBER 5

Convicted! Tony Ferracane Is Found Guilty as Child Sings 'Happy’ Song.

STRAINS of “Happy Days Are Here Again,” sung by a beautiful golden-haired girl of 4, floated against the stem walls of federal court today. The girl was Rita Catherine, daughter of Tony Ferracane. She sang to her daddy, awaiting the decision of Judge Will M. Sparks in the case in which Ferracane and Mrs. Hazel Bolin are charged with transporting liquor. After singing she climbed on her father’s lap and kissed him. He smiled. So did others in the courtroom. A few minutes later Judge Sparks returned to the bench. He had studied the law and the evidence. The little girl skipped to the rear of the courtroom and sat with friends. The judge spoke: “Five years in the penitentiary for Ferracane and SIOO fine. One year in the women’s prison at Alderson, W. Va., for Mrs. Bolin.” The government had produced witnesses who testified Mrs. Bolin and Ferracane drove up to Ferracane’s home, 6365 Washington boulevard, the night of Nov. 11, 1929, and that she entered the house while he took nineteen cases of liquor from the car. Defense objection that none of the arresting officers had search or arrest warrants, and spied the actions from an orchard 135 feet away, were overruled during the trial; Sparks held the arresting officers were “just observers and had the right to use any of their five senses in detecting a law violation.”

GAS BLAST IS FATAL Arnold Pickard Succumbs to Body Burns. Arnold Pickard, 18, Sheridan, died late this morning in Robert Long hospital from burns he suffered when gasoline exploded as he was kindling a kitchen fire in his home early today. Pickard picked up the gasoline can, mistaking its contents for kerosene oil. The flames seared his face and hands, and the upper portions of his body. THREATENED BY MOB Muncie Man Held After Girl Is Injured. Bu Timm Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., May 16.—Ray Conwell, 40, Muncie, is in the Henry county jail here, after being menaced by a mob which accused him of attempting to attack 11-year-old Elaine Burch. Blountsville, who was injured severely when thrown through the windshield of ConwelHs automobile when it went into a ditch one mile south of Blountsville. The child is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Burch. FREE 5 IN BOMBING Grand Jury Fails to Indict Marion Suspects. Bu United Press MARION, Ind., May 16.—Five persons arrested in connection with recent bombing outrages in Marion were allowed to go free today when the grand jury failed to return indictments against them after a session lasting since April 30. The five were Harry Danford. Peter Kmieciak and Joe Beckett, all of Chicago; Duke Humphrey, Elwood. and Mrs. Irma Legos. Marion.

CAST OUT PROXY LEADS

TO PETERS’ RE-ELECTION

An improperly made out proxy, cast out in balloting of ‘he Democratic state committee in the Claypool today for state officers, was responsible for re-election of R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, as state chairman. He won over Lee Bays. Sullivan. 13 to 12. The proxy was that of Mrs. Nora Short. Salem, Third district vipechairman. carried by L. A. Smallwood. Oolitic, and would have been cast for Bays, resulting in a tie. Th? vote marked the first serious

escapable conclusion, following a thorough nonpartisan study of the pending tariff bill. We believe that bill, if passed and signed by the President, instead of relieving our present business ills, will cause a nation-wide economic crisis. The coming of that crisis might not be sudden, but it would be inevitable. There might be even a temporary pick-up, just because the long-drawn-out issue had been settled. But the potentialities for evil in the bill are so great that ultimate disaster almost certainly would follow its becoming law.

MORROW BIDS FOR VOTES ON REPEALPLANK Senate Aspirant Cites Right of States to Control Rum Traffic. By United Press NEWARK, N. J., May 16.—Dwight W. Morrow faced voters of New Jersey today on the promise that if elected to th* '"nited States senate he would work for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment and seek a substitute measure leaving to each state the determination of a policy of dealing with liquor. The prohibition attitude of the noted banker and diplomat as outlined Thursday night in his opening campaign speech, is based on two premises: First, that the states should have the power to determine their own policies with the federal government giving “all possible protection and assistance.” Second, that federal enforcement funds should be used in preventing liquor importation or transportation in interstate commerce, leaving police duties to the states. Famed as Diplomat

It was the first time Morrow had stated his views and the announcement was watched with nation-wide interest, not only because he was the first partner of J. P. Morgan ever to seek elective public office, but because of his fame as a diplomat, gained as ambassador to Mexico and delegate to the London naval conference and his closeness to the Republican administration. Morrow at the outset, made it clear he was not opposed to the principle of prohibition and that he did not agree with those who held it an infringement of personal liberty. “It generally has been recognized,” said the ambassador, “that all governments have the right to protect a man against his propensities, if the injury to the community is sufficient to warrant the interference with personal liberty.” Cites Gravest Fault Then, after a brief outline of the workings of prohibition in this country, Morrow told what he believed was the outstanding fault of the present system. “In many states where it is in accord with prevailing popular sentiment, national prohibition generally is believed to be successful,” he said. “It is successful because of the active co-operation of the people and their officials. “In other states, including those with the greatest population, the system works badly because the people and their officials do not co-op-erate with the federal agents, and the federal agents alone are not able to exercise effective control. In these states there exists resentment against the attempt to impose a control which the prevailing conscience of the people does not accept. “Is it well that large portions of our people should conceive of the federal government as an alien and even a hostile power? Is it well to have as a result a lawless, unregulated liquor traffic, attended by a shocking corruption?” Fort in Race as Dry Bn United Press _ _ NEWARK. N. J., May 16.—Representative Franklin Fort. (Rep.), announced today his candidacy for the United States senate on a dry platform. He will oppose Ambassador Dwight Morrow of Englewood and Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, both of whom are running on anti-prohibi-tion platforms. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 48 10 a. m 60 7a. m 50 11 a. m 63 Ba. m 53 12 (noon).. 63 9 a. m 57 1 p. m..... 65

man of the Democratic party in Indiana. Mrs. A. P. Flynn. Logansport, was re-elected state vice-chairman, receiving fourteen votes, while Mrs. Carl E. Wood, Indianapolis, received eight, and Mrs. Inez Scholl, Connersville, three. Marshall Williams was re-elected secretary with thirteen votes, Harry Bod tne of Covington polled eight votes for the post and Orville Sampson of Morristown four votes. Evans Woollen Jr. of Indianapolis was elected treasurer, succeeding 1 Edward. Raul),

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“Every dog has his day,” and today’s the day for the Boston terrier at the annual show of the Boston Terrier Club, Inc., in the ballroom of the Denison hotel. Left—Clay Lancaster, 13. holding Prince Alert, blue ribbon winner of L. L. Zimmerman, Mt. Vernon, 111., one of the show’s entries. Center Inset—Ponce, a 4-year-old terrier, hunting the cat “meows” that come from behind the

DOWNTOWN DISTRICT IS GROWING, CENSUS SHOWS

Population Is Retreating to Outlying Sections to Permit Expansion. Population’s retreat before expanding business in downtown Indianapolis and its increase in outlying districts were shown forcefully today with the announcement of official 1930 census figures for the Seventh and Eleventh wards, downtown, and the Ninth, which includes Irvington. The figures, announced by Delbert O. Wilmeth, district census supervisor, showing comparisons with 1920 decennial census: 1930 1920 Ninth Ward 51,725 Seventh Ward 10,403 14.013 Eleventh Ward 11,076 13,821 The Ninth ward is bounded on the west by Pine street; north by Tenth street; south by Washington stret; east by Emerson avenue, and includes the territory south of Washington street to Prospect street, between the Belt railroad and Emerson. Bounded by Pennsylvania The Seventh ward is bounded on the west by Pennsylvania street; north by St. Clair street; east by Pine street and south by Washington street. The Eleventh ward is bounded on the west by Delaware street; north by Washington street; east by Shelby street and south by Prospect street. Census figures for six of the fifteen wards comprising Indianpolis within the city limits now have been announced. The three previously announced were the Second, with 19.912 as compared with 20.145 in 1920; vhe Twelfth with 6.607 as compared with 9,236 in 1920, and the Fourteenth with 15,042 as compared with 14,481 in 1920.

Real Silk Factor Factors in the diminished population of the Ninth ward have been the Real Silk Hosiery mills’ expansion and the razing of old residential structures to make way for the Sears Roebuck & Cos. store and for countless filling stations and other commercial enterprises. A similar transformation has occurred in the Eleventh ward, tending to send former inhabitants to outlying residential districts, or to suburbs outside the city limits where they will not be counted in the city’s population figures, but in the larger total for “metropolitan Indianapolis.” The population of Woodruff Place, a separate corporation inside Indianapolis’ boundaries, will not be included in the city total. Woodruff Place had a population of 1,158 in 1920. Indianapolis’ official population in 1920 was 314,194. Former Resident Buried Bn Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 16. Funeral services were held here for Mrs. Ella K. Harris, former Anderson resident, who died at Warren, O. She leaves a son, Howard H. Han is. at whose borne services were deducted.

'T'HE fate of this bill, in our opinion, intimately and directly A will affect the life and comfort of every man, woman and child in the United States. The tariff is personal—personal to you. And the penalty will be personal, too, if you continue your indifference. We believe, literally, that jobs will be lost, industries will be ruined,‘that incomes will be cut, .that further unemployment and distress will result if the Hill in anything approximating its present form is foisted on the nation. Nothing but an awakened and informed public can avert disaster. Warnings of impending unpleasantness never are

camera lense. Mrs. C. A. Barnhill, 676 East Fall Creek boulevard, owns Ponce. ’ Right—Mrs. John Lancaster Jr. of Lexington, Ky., who disproves the idea that Kentucky is noted only for its fast horses, as she shows off her entry, Fast-Step Honey. The show opened at 10 this morning and closes at 11 tonight. Alva Rosenberg, Brooklyn, N. Y., is judge.

‘RAIN BABY’ AND MOTHERUNITED Brief Visit Is Permitted Bloomington Woman. Mrs. Sally Marie Breedlove, 21, of Bloomington, gathered into her arms in the nursery at the board of children’s guardians home today the year-old baby boy she deserted on a roadside in the rain near Indianapolis several weeks ago. “Sweetheart, here’s your mamma,” she cried. Tears rolled down her face as she took up Robert Eugene, the baby she had not seen since he was found in the rain on the Bluff road. She kissed the baby on the neck and face, on his arms, his hands. “Bobby, don’t you know your mother?” she asked. Bobby merely held out his hands and his face broke into smiles as he saw Ollie Mays, deputy sheriff, who had accompanied Mrs. Breedlove and Mrs. Mary Clark, jail matron to the home. Mrs. Breedlove begged Deputy Sheriff Mays to use his influence to permit her to see the baby often. She is held at county jail in default of SI,OOO bond on charges of child neglect.

Rumblings of Trade War Resound Across Europe AS concrete evidence of what is going on in the world in relation to the pending tariff bill, read these excerpts from an article by William Philips Simms, just returned to the United States after a four-months stay abroad;

“Singly &n and in coalition the nations of Europe have declared war of selfdefense against the United States tariff. n n “If carried to its logical conclusion the battle may All American streets with unemployed. n n “I just have returned from a swing around Europe. Everywhere I saw unmistakable evidence of the coming commercial and Indus- i trial war against the United States. In England I' saw fullpage ads calling on the people not to buy any but Briv.ish-made goods. • >• “They are conducting publicity campaigns against buying American goods.

‘Joan ’ Loses Woman Leader of India Rebels Is Removed From Salt Depot.

B‘ OMBAY, India, May 16—Mrs. Sarojini Naidu, India’s selfstyled “Joan of Arc,” was removed bodily by police from her siege at the Dharasana salt works today, and her rebel Indian followers turned back later in a clash with police when a surprise raid was attempted. Mrs. Naidu, poetess successor to Mahatma Gandhi, instigator of India’s “passive resistance” campaign for freedom, started her long-threatened raid on the salt works Thursday morning, but was prevented by police from advancing. For twenty-eight hours. Mrs. Naidu had calmly sat weaving cloth while she waited, refusing to return to her own camp. In the surprise raid which followed her forcible removal today, the nationalist demonstrators were turned back, and nine were injured. Another woman leader of the Indian revolt, Mrs. Kamaladevi Chatophyaya, sister-in-law of Mrs. Naidu, was arrested today.

“In France I witnessed a parade of lace workers protesting against the new high American duty levied against their product. It would be stupid not to expect the French government to take cognizance of demonstrations of this kind when framing its own sch e and u les against America. n u “By shutting out their goods we antagonize our foreign customers, stimulate their industries and, by thus undermining our foreign trade, we undermine our own prosperity. n n “Europeans regard these things as the inevitable result of our present high tariff policy.”

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“One by one the nations of Europe are increasing the duty on American products. n n “Last year approximately $5,000,000,000 worth of American products were sold abroad. But, European leaders noware warning, the next few years will tell a different story-

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popular reading. But, in a democracy, it is the recognized function of the press to furnish the materials from which public opinion is made. Should the business depression we foresee as possible eventuate, no factor in the community will suffer more quickly than the press. We are, therefore, not sounding a warning from any haven of individual immunity. tt n * urn* VyE realize that no tariff bill can be dramatized easily or made a popular news subject. The very fact that the tariff has been a live issue since 1789 makes a breaking down of the public apathy difficult. Furthermore, general acceptance of the principle of some sort of a tariff as necessary and desirable may cause the present alarm to appear overdone. But —this is a different kind of tariff bill. Don’t accept that statement. Challenge iU Study it for yourself. Get the facts. Discuss them with the best-informed men and women you know. Knowledge and a scientific appraisal will kill that tariff bill as certainly as ignorance and political knavery have conceived it. But why is this particular bill a menace? For many reasons, but especially for one all-important reason. It is— The pending tariff no longer fits our business and industrial needs as did its predecessors, because of the complete change that has occurred in the economic machinery of this nation in consequence of America’s development of mass production. The United States, once unable to produce enough for her own needs, now is producing more than she can consume. She has become definitely dependent on the rest of the world for an outlet. Until and unless our labor can be employed, the present depression and bad times will continue and grow worse. Now what is happening? With America’s danger lying in her surplus and overproduction, the mere threat inherent in the present bill has contributed to 20 per cent reduction of our exports for the first quarter of 1930. In the light of that, what will the passage of the bill do? Already thirty nations have passed measures of reprisal. The rest of the world is arming against us. It isn’t war in the military sense, though there are germs of that kind of war in the situation, too. It is trade war. And we, because of the very plenty we are capable of producing, are the most vulnerable nation in such a conflict. # v tt u n u AND for whom is this being done? For those few selfish interests who by a process of mutual backscratching and log-rolling have been able .through "using” our politicians and playing upon their desire for re-election, to drape this measure with a schedule of increases, the very intolerable nature of which is bringing forth those angered reprisals from the rest of the world. The surge of resentment just has started. It can be checked. If checked it will recede, through just one process—defeat or veto of that tariff bill, which, as things now stand, an artful lobbyist from Pennsylvania just about has put over. Remember, the issue no longer is a partisan one. No one can be for the bill because by conviction he is a Republican. No one should be against it because by conviction he is a Democrat. Some of the most iniquitous schedules in the bill are there solely because of Democratic votes.

As it stands, the tariff hill is not what President Hoover recommended or what he asked for. Therq is good reason to believe that it is not the kind of bill he wants. Support of the bill is not per se the support of the Republican President* of the Republican party, or the Republican platform. U t$ 8 U St St THE bill docs not meet the desires of big business, of students of economics, of labor, or oJ t!'.e farmers. It meets the needs of no one but a few short-sighted congressional opportunists who have succeeded in writing into it some schedules which they believe will benefit them with small groups of their own selfish or misguided constituents. In return for support of these schedules, they have traded their votes on other schedules, the enactment of which certainly will spell disaster for the whole country. To expect an adverse vote on the bill now from a congress that has devoted a year to bungling it is to expect a thistle to bring forth, a rose. Unless the public can be aroused to a degree that seems impossible of attainment in the time remaining before a vote, the only hope of escaping the blight will lie in the President's veto. Critics of the President ha\ r e complained that he has not exercised his legitimate powers of leadership by bring ng pressure to bear on congress to secure a bill adequate to meet the needs of the present situation. This paper believes that in a situation so fraught with danger, had the President pointed the way either in a message to congress or in a public speech, he would have had the support of both big business and the public, regardless of political affiliations, because he is recognized as an authority on foreign trade matters, in consequence of his great success with the department of commerce. , nun 'nun HOWEVER, in fairness, it must be remembered that the Constitution designates the house of representatives as the place of brigin of all tariff legislation. In consequence the President’s position is not a happy one. Republicans in congress blunderingly have put him in a hole from which only a nation-wide demand for a veto can rescue him. President Hoover knows tne country wants relief from the uncertainty that will obtain so long as the tariff issue remains unsettled. Intense Republican partisans will claim that any bill is better than no bill. A dangerous doctrine. They will say that a veto will mean loss of the next congress to the Democrats. That is stupid argument, since the Democrats are as much responsible for the iniquities of the present bill as are the Republicans. Nevertheless, fairness to the President requires that we remember that he is the head of his party. He would be less than human if he did not feel his responsibility to conserve in every way the interests of the party which placed him in his present high position. But he has an even higher duty to the people, whose popular demand forced his reluctant nomination by his party But the President of the United States is far removed from the opinions and sentiments of the people. He is entitled to hear from you, either individually or by mass action of groups and communities. If you conclude, after study and investigation, that the bill is dangerous, function as a citizen. Let both your congressman and your President know your desires. Prove that the United States still is a democracy and not the plaything of a Grundy.

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, May 16.—The direct charge that Republican leaders are trying to bottle up the tariff bill and kill it by keeping it away from the White House was made in the senate today by Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.), when the Republicans abandoned their plan for a showdown on the measure now. At the opening of the session Chairman Smoot of the senate conferees admitted under questioning by the Democrats that the Republicans had changed their mind about bringing the measure before the senate for another vote on the disputed flexible and debenture provision. He declined to make a statement. It was known, however, the Republicans on the conference committee from both the house and the senate asked the Democrats to leave a conference meeting earlier in the day so they could fight out the parliamentary tangle in which the bill now 1* enmeshed. OmlAing Smoot from ha charge

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against the Republican leaders a~d saying the chairman appeared to be the only Republican now in favor of the bill, Harrison said: “Everybody knows there are certain gentlemen, leaders of the Republican party, who have heard him the country on this bill and have had a change of heart about it. “In some mysterious way they are : trying to keep it from the White House and kill it.” Harrison demanded to know why for the first time in history, Democrats were excluded from the meeting of Republican conferees. Smoot declined to reply, saying only that the bill probably would not be brought up by the Republicans at this time. Attempt to Crack Safe Fails Amateur cracksmen who knocked the combination off a safe in offices of the Federal Electric Company, 552 North Meridian street, Thursday night failed to gain entrance to the strong box. r