Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1930 — Page 5

JUNE 28, 1930

NEW THEORIES IN LINGLF CASE SENSATIONAL Both Moran and Al Capone Gangs Are Blamed in Conflicting Reports. Bn United rrr CHICAGO. June 28—Two sensational theories were advanced today to explain the gang murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter an assassination whose ramifications have extended into public officialdom and into the underworld. One of the theories was that Lingle was sacrificed by the MoranAiello north side gang of gamblers and liquor racketeers in order that the ensuing indignation would result in the ouster of William F. Russell, police commissioner, and John Stege, chief of detectives, who had been “pushing the gang around.” The other was that Lingle failed to “fix" dog racing for Scarface Al Capone and paid for the failure with his life. Lid Clamped on Gambling Neither theory had the indorsement of the "clearing house” set up by combined law enforcement agencies to investigate the murder. In working out the first theory, investigators pointed out that the police department had clamped a lid on gambling and liquor, the two chief sources of revenue for George (Bugs) Moran and Joe Aipllo, the millionaire gang leader. The Capone mob apparently was get ing oft more lightly at the hands of the police, the investigators said, and the Moranites may have blamed Lingle inasmuch as he was a personal friend of Russell. By murdering him in a public place, the gangsters believed the resulting indignation would cause the ouster of Russell and Stege, according to the theory. Explain Capone Theory The other theory—that Lingle | failed to “fix” the dog tracks for Capone—was almost opposite to the first. Scarface Al, enemy of Moran and Aiello, had about $1,000,000 invested; in dog tracks that furnished much ' revenue to his gang. Through a long series of court I actions they were forbidden to oper- j ate and the decision upheld in the > state supreme court, which decided i that pari-mutuel betting applied only to horse racing. According to the theory it was Lingle’s job to see that they ran. MARDI GRAS SCHEDULED Many Free Attractions to Be Staged at July Celebration. Minstrel shows, band concerts, acrobatic stunts, and other free attractions will be staged at the fourth annual Sherman-Emerson Civic League mardi gras July 24-26 at Tenth street and Euclid avenue. Churches, clubs and merchants will have booths, according to Roy Swartz, general chairman. BAND TO GIVE PROGRAM Arndt Concert Group to Play at Brookside Park Sunday. The Arndt concert band will give a program Sunday at 3 p. m. at Brookside park under city park board auspices. The band, directed by Herman Arndt, will give a program including “The Invincible Eagle,” “Rio Rita,” “Raymond,” “II Trovatore,” “The Fortune Teller” and “The Best Loved Southern Melodies.” FIREBUG IS SOUGHT Flames Break Out in Three Places at Home Simultaneously. Police today sought a fire bug after flames broke out simultaneously in three places Thursday afternoon at the residence of Thurman Oden, 369 West Twenty-eighth street. Mrs. Oden told firemen she discovered blazes in the attic and kitchen of her home and in a rear shed, within a few minutes. No damage was done.

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ARTICLE SIX We, the People—- “ TXTE, the people of the United W States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish—that—the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.” Stripped of nonessentials, such is the declaration of the Constitution of the United States concerning prohibition. It is, I think, the strangest and most incongruous sentence ever devised since man first began to grope for truth with words. The earnestness and clarity of *’ie liberty-loving founders of our republic have been joined in strange wedlock with the language of the Anti-Saloon League to assert the purposes of which the eighteenth amendment was adopted. In joining these two component parts together, I have done no violence to the text of the documents. However unrelated the propositions appear, they are written plainly in the Constitution for all to read. Let them stand as a sort of deformed mile-post to indicate how far we have traveled from our beginnings. The manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited in order to secure the blessings of liberty. Can you imagine the effect of such a monstrous paradox upon George Washington, who held that “the foundation of our government is laid in private morals?” Can you believe that James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, or Thomas Jefferson could have written such a sentence? Can you hear the resonance of Old Hickory Jackson's voice booming it out, just before his famous toast? Can you believe that Abraham Lincoln would have indorsed it? Lincoln, who counseled so wisely against amending the Constitution? Can you not hear the reaction, curt and vivid, of “nature-faker!” from Theodore Roosevelt, upon meeting this misshapen masquerade of logic? n tt tt IS it not a proposition to raise the lai ghter of the lusty gods of high Olympus or to rouse the indignation of every worshipper of liberty? To be appreciated in all its luxurious debauchery of reason, it must be repeated frequently. I commend it as a substitute for the cross-word puzzle; or, taken instead of the daily dozen, its use is guaranteed to undermine the strongest mentality. That we may understand how these two opposed philosophies, liberty and prohibition, have been yoked together, I quote again the glorious words of the Constitution, words that will remain immortal so long as this republic stands: We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. This language was devised after searching deliberation by the sincerest and ablest patriots ever called together to insure the establishment of a free government. It expresses the purposes for which our government was created. It is the foundation upon which the entire superstructure of organic government, including the Constitution itself, is erected. It is the vitalizing spirit without which law and government would be ineffective and inoperative. Such was the doctrine of the fathers of the republic; such was the inspiration of the Declaration of Independence; such was the object of the revolution. nun NONE better knew than the framers of the Constitution that power feeds on power; that

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authority constantly seeks its own enlargement; that the natural tendency of each mind is to impose its conclusions upon others. They sought by a division of power between the states and the federal government to limit the powers of the latter. They divided the powers of the federal government among three co-ordinate branches—each a check upon the other. Their supreme effort was to retain in the people the power to prej vent tyranny and to redress all | wrcngs. How have we kept the faith? In order to.. .establish justice .. .and secure the blessings of liberty ... the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. This miserable, snivelling, logical and moral non sequitur is the culmination of a spirit that long has been at work. ! Almost at the beginning, followI ing hard upon the heels of the | revolution, the process of enlarging j federal authority began. The | process was at first slow—then more | rapid. It received an immense | impetus when a great political party had as its slogan: “Let us have a nation with a big N.” It was asserted that when a state had failed to exercise any of its powers, they by some mysterious process were transferred to the federal government. There began the craze to enact ; every kind of federal statute which | could by any conception of the imagination be brought within the bounds of a badly stretched constitution. A saturnalia of federal law making began. It has reached its flood tide in our own day. tt tt tt EVERY legislature followed suit. When the first heat of the race was over and the legislative lords paused to take breath, the old maxim, “that people is governed best which is governed least,” had been buried beneath a mass of statutes which sought to control, regulate or coerce almost every activity of man. To enforce these innumerable laws, regulations and rules a horde of officials, tax gatherers, snoopers and spies swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt devouring the substance of the people; prying into their private affairs, regulating their habits, daily intercourse, trade and business, and even poisoning supplies of alcohol that they know will be consumed by countless victims. What wonder that the average man has come to regard the law as a sword of oppression rather than a shield of protection? Is not the crying need of the hour the disbandment of this official army of meddlers, the repeal of these restrictions upon individual liberty, the return to the states of their natural and just authority, to the end that, we may bring the federal government back to its original simplicity? Basically, these regulatory statutes are mistaken or vicious because they invade the realm of morals. We seek to do by legislative enactment that which belongs to the school, the church, the home. We fail because a constable, a prohibition spy, or a jailer can not take the place of a minister of the true Christ, neither can the coercion of a police matron or the denunciations of a female informer be substituted for the precepts of a mother. Like it or not, the cold fact is that no people will obey a law they do not respect. And no law can be enforced by officers of the law which is not in the vast majority of instances voluntarily obeyed and enforced. (Copyright,, 1930. by James A. Reed, Distributed by Current News Features. Inc.) Former Senator Reed will tell next how the founders of liberty would li've been convicted under the Volstead act. Health and Diet Writer Dies ll'j United Press LOS ANGELES. June 28.—Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters, 49, nationally known writer on diet and health topics, is dead in London, according to a radiogram received today by Mrs. H. I. Perkins, a sister.

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BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST TO BE HELO_ATPOOLS Eliminations to Be Held Sunday; Finals Slated July 4. Eliminations for the city-wide bathing beauty contest, sponsored by the American Legion and city recreation department. The Times co-operating, will be held at all city pools, except Ellenberger, at 3:30 Sunday. Three winners from each pool will compete in the final contest at EHenbexger July 4 in connection with the annual Legion picnic. Trials at Ellenberger will be held at 8:30 p. m. Thursday. Harry Perkins is in charge of the picnic program. Gets Loving Cup The girl chosen as Miss Indianapolis will receive a loving cup, valued at SSO. This and other cups will be awarded by Irving post, 38, American Legion. In conjunction with the finals at Ellenberger at 3:330 Friday, representatives from city pools, under 14, will participate in swimming and diving events. Register at Pools Registrations may be made with contest directors at city pools as follows: Rhodius, Mrs. Emma Burns: Garfield, Mrs. Lois Nelson and Miss Alma Tiefert; Willard, Miss Helene Hawkins; Ellenberger, Wililam H. Marsh and Robert Moffett; Warfleigh, Mrs. Dorothy Moore Redding and McClure beach, Wiliam Krieg. Those selected at eliminations Sunday, may have their pictures taken by appearing at The Times office between 10:30 a. m. and 1:80 p. m. Monday.

TULSA MARS HIGH Gain of Nearly 100 Per Cent Is Reported. Bii United Press WASHINGTON, June 28.—A population gain of nearly 100 per cent at Tulsa, Okla., was reported today as preliminary returns continued to pour into the census bureau. Tulsa counted 141,281 on April 1, an increase of 72,075 over 1920. Columbus, 0., the largest city reporting today, returned a count of 289,056, an increase of 52,025. Two cities reported declines, Lawrence, Mass., with 84,949, showing a decrease of 9,321, and Key West, Fla., with 12,613, a drop of 6,136. President Coolidge’s home town, Northampton, Mass., increased 2,399, reporting 24,350, while Coffeyville, Kan., where Walter Johnson came from, gained 2,736, listing 16,188 on April 1. PASTOR NAMED TO POST Martinsville Minister Heads Social Welfare Board of Christ Church. The Rev. Edward Lawrence Day of Martinsviiie, was elected president of the board of temperance and social welfare of the Disciples of Christ church at a meeting Friday in the Chamber of Commerce. Other officers are; Dean J. W. Putnam of Butler university, vicepresident; E. A. Wood, secretary, and the Rev. Bert R. Johnson, pastor of the Downey Avenue Christian church, treasurer. A GOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL Strong business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting courses: individual instruction in major subject*, large faculty of specialists in their respective lines: Free Employment Service. Fred W. Case, Prin. CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North Y, W. C. A., Indianapolis. Ind.

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CREDIT LEAGUE SETS GOAL AS MOOJJNIONS Group Votes to Put Activities on Full-Time Basis in Indiana. One thousand credit unions, designed to put the small loan business of Indiana on a co-operative basis, was the goal set for the Credit Union League which voted to put its activities on a full-time basis at a meeting Friday night. The meeting was held on the lawn at the home of Attorney Leo Kaminsky, 4111 North Illinois street. Fifty representatives of various credit unions from Indianapolis and throughout the state attended. Roy F. Bergengren, executive secretary of the Credit Union national extension bureau, address the meeting and outlined plans, already well under way, to put Afteen state leagues on a full-time basis to form the nucleus of a national organization. Bergengren, backed by Edward Filene, Boston merchant, has been developing the credit union movement throughout America for the last ten years. Under the credit union plan, employes of a concern, church members or other groups organize to take charge of systematic small savings of their members and to loan to them at modest interest rates in time of need. The plan is designed to prevent the hard pressed from falling into the hands of “loan sahrks" or paying high rates for small loans. It also teaches the co-operative idea of business management, Lergengren explained. Standardized by-laws for state organizations were adopted and plans made to choose an executive committee to carry on until a full-time secretary is chosen. Dry Official Resigns Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 28.—The treasury department has accepted the resignation of Maurice E. Campbell, veteran prohibition administrator for New York City, who did not desire to be removed to Boston under the realignment of dry officials, July 1.