Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1930 — Page 5

JULY 8, 1930

MAYOR URGES 5310.000 BOND AID FOR CITY •Must Go Ahead,’ Sullivan Says, in Pushing Proposed Issues. Bond issues totaling about $310.000 are contemplated in the near future to finance several city projects. Mayor Reg nald H. Sullivan said today. The contemplated bond Issues will reduce the city's bonding margin to $2,623,000. Citing the fact that the city does not have sufficient bonding credit to proceed with any major projects, Sullivan declared: "The city must ,-o ahead. We can't let things stagnate." Fire Engine Houses Needed In reviewing the coming financial outlays. Sullivan pointed out at a conference of city offic.als in the office of City Coni roller William L. Elder that the Butler-Fairview district and territory north of Irvington are badly in need of fire engine houses and several stations need to be remodeled or replaced. Such expenditures can come only from bond Issues. Creation of a separate health bonding district by the next legislature was advocated by Sullivan as a means of obtaining additional credit. “Let Major Projects Go" "As mayor of Indianapolis I m not going to let the city's bonding margin get so low that w'e can not meet a crisis,” Sullivan will be unable to do any major projects. but can take care of many little expenditures.” The city's share of cost on connecting link 'aw improvements, Sixteenth street sewer, old bills, and refund of street and fewer assessments on court appeals were among expenditures to come from bond issues. Sullivan said. TEACHERS MAY GET SOME OF BACK PAY Anticipation Warrant Sale Proposed to Relieve Chicago Crisis. B v L nited Press CHICAGO, July 8 —Thousands of Chicago school teachers today received a ray of hope that vacation time may become vacation time after all. When the schools closed two weeks ago. there were 13.000 teachers to whom the city owed back pay. Some of them left the city. Others lacking finances, remained. The school board, its treasury empty, could do nothing more than promise. Monday night Lewis E. Myers, trustee of the board, announced he would suggest to Silas H. Strawn. chairman of the city’s special ' rescue committee.” that the board aid in a plan to pay the teachers by selling 1030 school anticipation warrants.

MRS. SCRIMSHER TO BE BURIED IN CITY Aged City Resident Passes at Home; Lived Here Fifty Years. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha M. Scrimsher, 82. will be held at the Planner <fc Buchanan chapel at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday. Burial will be at Crown Hill. The Rev. William F. Rothenberger, pastor of Third Christian church, will officiate. Mrs. Scrimsher. widow of Jasper W. Scrimsher, died Monday afternoon at her home, 1417 Ashland avenue. She had been a resident of Indianapolis for fifty years and was born in Owen county, near Gosport. Surviving are a son. Charles F. Scrimsher of Indianapolis, and three daughters, Mrs. Frank E. Floyd of Scarsdale, N. Y., and Mrs. Merle Sidener and Miss Frances B. Scrimsher of Indianapolis, six grandchildren and four great-grandsons. Boy, 9. Hurt in Fall Robert Heath. 9, of 1317 Gillette street, today was recovering from head lacerations sustained w' - he tumbled from a freight car hich he was playing in the • of the Martin-Parry Corporation, 1100 West Henry street, Monday night. He was treated at city hospital. EXCURSIONS Pittsburgh $6.75 and Return . SATURDAY, JULY 12 t ear* Indianapolis 10:55 p. tn, arrive l‘lttbur*h 9:00 a. nt.; returninß. leave Plttubnrith 9:30 p. tit. Sunday, .Inly IS. Ticket* good In roachr* only. Children half fare. Cincinnati $2.75 Greensburg 1.25 Shelbyville 75 SUNDAY, JULY 13 Irate Indlanapolia *:SO a. ttt.; returning. leave Cincinnati :30 p. nt. or 10:15 p. nt. (Ea.tern Time', on me date. Tickets rood in coache* only. Children half fare. Ticket* at City Ticket Office. 112 Monomeal Circle and l nion Station. BIG FOUR ROUTE

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The Crime Against Temperance iJy JAMES A. REED, Ex-Senator from Missouri.

ARTICLE FOURTEEN Prohibition Profit* PROFITS from alcohol diversion are enormous, under the conditions created by prohibition. A 10.000-gallon tank car of alcohol, which costs the manufacturer not to exceed $3,000, Is worth $400,000 to SBOO,OOO to the bootlegger's customers, those ''lawabiding citizens,” who, you will remember, are “stimulating crime.” According to reports of the prohibition bureau, there were manufactured in 1929 exactly 200.832.051.1 gallons of industrial alcohol tn the United States. Ten thousand gallons of alcohol will make 80,000 quarts of highproof whisky or gin. The bootleggers get from $5 to $lO a quart from whisky and gin blended from alcohol. Eighty thousand quarts at $lO equals SBOO 000. The 200,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol produced in 1929 would make 1,600,000,000 quarts of whisky or gin. worth, at $lO a quart, $16,000,000,000. That is the way prohibition has removed temptation. It is a vein of liquid gold that can be tapped with a spigot. Is there anybody silly enough to believe that among 120,000,000 people there ve not some who will be tempted by these enormous possibilities or profits' Let us suppose a case. Two men enter into a conspiracy to get possession of a 10,000-gallon tank car of alcohol. They readily could afford to pay $50,000 to SIOO,OOO to a prohibition agent to turn his back for a few minutes until the car could be run of! on to a side track. Another $25,000 or $50,000 could be split between a brakeman and a switchman. The two conspirators would have enough left out of their unlawful enterprise to live in luxury the rest of thei lives. a a a IT is impossible to determine from official sources the quantity of industrial alcohol actually diverted to beverage use. Emory R. Buckner, former United States judiciary committee's subcommittee in 1926, thought then that 60,000,000 gallons a year was being diverted or renatured. Dr. Doran, now prohibition commissioi/er, estimated the amount at 10,000,000 to 15,000,000 gallons. Thirteen million gallons will make 120,000,000 quarts of whisky or gin, to be sold for $1,200,000,000, at $lO a quart. Chairman George W. Wickersham of the Hoover law r observance and enforcement commission, in recent appearance before the senate judiciary committee, said that there still was a very large diversion of industrial alcohol, and estimated that the amount is 5.000.000 to 7,000.000 gallons. Wickersham was somewhat more liberal in his figures than I have been in these calculations. He said the alcohol was split three ways now, and that 5,000.000 gallons of industrial alcohol will make 15.000,000 gallons of whisky. Let's take him at his

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own estimate, and here is what we get: Five million gallons of alcohol is the equivalent of 60,000,000 quarts of whisky, and 7.000.000 gallons is the equivalent of 84,000,000. At $lO a quart this would bring $840,000,000. a u a THE preceding figures do not take into consideration the renatured alcohol. Moonshiners have been successful In building stills that remove most of the denaturants from the alcohol. Since, however, it is cheaper and better to make alcohol from sugar, I can see no practical reason for renaturing the denatured product. However, I am not a moonshiner, and I am not on the inside of their business. There is this to say about sugar alcohol. It contains no deadly poisons that cause immediate death or blindness. And it is not deliberately poisoned by the government. Add to the profits accruing to the criminals from industrial alcohol the profits derived from the moonshine and smuggled whisky indus--11”' and you have a sum that staggers the imagination. Bloody gang wars are fought for the privilege of controlling these enormous profits. Great sums are paid for bribery and protection. The gang leaders and their more important satellites have become rich and powerful. Their political support is sought eagerly. They hold a balance of power in many cities that can control the result of local and congressional elections. They menace the lives of citizens by dashing through the streets of cities in high-powered automobiles, and sometimes engaging in running battles with the police. They are undermining the morals of the country. There still is much smuggling. The quantity is unquestionably large. A few years ago prohibition enforcement officials were estimating it at 40,000,000 gallons a year. Let us say that it is half that amount today. We can readily determine there is drinking in the United States, under prohibition, by a recapitulation: Sugar moonshine, gallons, 200,000,000; industrial alcohol whisky and gin, 20.000,000; smuggled liquors, 20,000,000; total gallons, 240,000,000; wine, gallons, 500,000,000; beer, barrels, 30,000,000. a a a IF we take into consideration the hard cider and applejack w'hich the farmers are making probably in very much larger quantities than before adoption of the prohibition law, we can reach no other conclusion than that there is more drinking under the law that was designed to stop it than before it was written into the statutes of the country. There certainly is no reason why anybody should suffer from thirst unless he happens to be away from his wn source of supply or out of touch with his own bootlegger, or “a pilgrim and a stranger,” without hope in an inhospitable land. There are numerous other sources

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of supply. A soldier friend of mine described to me the process of making pumpkin gin. This soldier cam* from Kansas, where they have had years of experience in making alcohol. The pumpkin gin process is simI pie and interesting. A ripe pumpkin is lugged, and the seeds are removed. It Is then packed with sugar. the plug reinserted, and sealed with paraffn. In thirty days both the sugar and meat of the pumpkin are transformed into high-powered gin. My soldier friend tells me that it is a delightful and very intoxicating drink. 'Copyright. 1930. bv James A. Reed; dis- | tributea by Current News Features. Ir.c.) Former Senator Reed next will discuss ‘‘Crime’s Big Brother.” GARY MAN WILL GETGAS POST Earl Kidwell Slated for Tax Auditor Job. Appeal of State Representative J. Glenn Harris, veteran Gary Republican legislator, for more state gasoline tax auditors, will result in Harris’ obtaining a job for Earl Kidwell, Gary, it was asserted today by State Auditor Archie Bobbitt. The new jobs, which Harris got the state budget committee to approve, carry a salary of S2OO a month and there is no limit to the number that may be employed and paid out of the state gasoline tax. Bobbitt has been collecting the tax with Leland K. Fishback, as chief of the gasoline tax division, and two field men. One of the latter is Bruce Cooper, Evansville, whom Harris charged with inefficiency. Harris' attack grew out of the conduct by Bobbitt of the war on gasoline bootleggers in northern Indiana. Bobbitt halted several and obtained receiverships or refunds totalling several thousands of dollars, but Harris claimed that the bootlegging of gasoline merely had gone “from the day to the night shift.” Bobbitt will give Kidwell a chance to catch them, he declared. ‘PRISON BABY’ IS BORN Young Mother, Serving Time, Taken Outside San Quentin's Walls. Rh T'pitcfl Prefix SAN RAFAEL, Cal., July B.—ln accordance with the tradition that a child shall not be born within the walls of San Quentin prison, Mrs. Mary Kavanaugh, 23, serving a term with her husband for robbery, was taken outside the penitentiary and in a cottage nearby her daughter was born iate Monday. The wife of a prison guard will remain with the young mother until she returns inside the prison walls.

HOOPLE'S GREAT MIND WORKS ON DERBYCONTEST Egad, It Reminds the Major of His Ordeal on the Isle of Wopoloosa. BY MAJOR HOOPLE Egad; brothers under the headpiece, but it pains this jolly old skull of mine to anonunce to you that the list of BROWN DERBY candidates must be whittled, sliced, chopped, and beheaded. It recalls, egad! the time I served as arbiter in a spaghetti-eating contest on the Isle of Wopoloosa. I was forced to cut out all contestants who trained on macaroni. It was a difficult task, egad! So bear with my pruning, for it’s jolly well, BROWN DERBYISTS. And on Friday Old George Washington’s hatchet shall come into play, when all contestants who have not polled 250 ballots shall fall by the wayside.

Here Are the Leaders But egad! here's the list of today’s leaders js handed me by “Jo-Jo”, the dog-faced one and my fellow judge. Peruse and vote and you'll know blooming well who owns the biggest head in town when the BROWN DERBY and the bronze plaque are awarded the winner at the staging of the ‘Siege of 1918,” at the state fairgrounds on July 19. The BROWN DERBY headmen are: George J. Marott 204 Walter T. White 185 Harry Dunn 177 Tom Quinn 158 Charlie Davis 155 Chief Jerrv Kinney’ 131 Clarence E. Sparrow 129 Mayor Sullivan ]'9 Rabbi Stelnburg 109 Wallace O. Lee 108 Names of Nominees The candidates: Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Charlie Davis. George J. Marott. Judge James A Collins. Arthur R. Baxter. Charles Jewett. Rabbi Milton Steinburg. George Vonnegut. George Winkler. Bert Gadd. Albert F Meurer. Pop Myers, Ira Holmes. Fred M. Ayres. Dick Miller. Norman Perry. Rov Wilmeth. Bowman Elder. Dr. Karl R. Ruddel. Leslie Colvin. Irving Lemaux. Michael Foley. Felix McWhirter. H. C. Atkins. Police Chief Jerrv Kinney. J. W. Esterline. Walter T. White. Monsignor Francis Gavisk. Sol S Kiser. Evans Woollen. Merle Sidener. Otto Frenzel. Walter Marmon, William Fortune. William Mooney Sr.. Clarence E. Sparrow. Harry Dunn, Tom Quinn. Robert T. Humes, J. W. Wright. Rae W. Powell. Wallace O. Lee. Jeckson K. Landers. Wai*ren B. Daily and A1 Farb. Minister Threatens to Resign Bn United Press BERLIN, July B.—Dr. Hermann Dietrich, new minister of finance, included in his maiden speech before the Reichstag Monday night a threat to resign if the Reichstag refuses to approve his plans for reducing German expenditures by 100,000,000 marks ($23,840,000.) Injuries Prove Fatal Injuries suffered in a fall June 26 proved fatal Monday afternoon to Elizabeth Birch, 66, of 319 Beauty avenue, who died in city hospital.

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