Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1930 — Page 2

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OGDEN ■SHOWDOWN' IS STATE PLEDGE IN TAX CASES ‘l’ll Smoke Out Any Bribed State Official/ Says Attorney-General. COOPER MADE TARGET Chicago Oil Man Charges Graft More Expensive Than Paying Tax. Louis H. Joers, Michigan City, alleged pay-off man in a bootleg gasoline scandal involving state officials, will be called immediately to testify before Attorney-General James M. Ogden, the latter said today. His decision to interrogate Joers, figure-head president of the Dunes Oil Company, followed conference with Poole Harrison, Chicago, alleged backer of .he bootleg gas business, whose c tory he declared coincided perfectly with that of J. D. Conner. Chicago, a partner in the business. “I am going to use every effort to get to the bottom of this thing. If at ate employes have betrayed their trust and are guilty of grafting, they must face the consequence.” This was the stand taken by At-torney-General James M. Ogden today in continuing his probe of the bootleg gasoline business and alleged corruption of or by state employes. chief of whom, it is alleged, ts former State Senator Bruce E. Cooper, Republican, of Stewartskille. "A bribe-taking public official is far worse for the whole fabric of government than business men who engage in questionable practices,” •aid Ogden. "This office never will be a party to protection of political grafters.” Backer to Talk Conner s charges are alleged to Involve Cooper as the originator of the scheme to beat the state out.of the 4 cents a gallon gasoline tax. Cooper, until last week, was field auditor in the gasoline tax division of State Auditor Archie Bobbitt’s office. He had been a primary candidate for congress and was First district Republican chariman until the reorganization after the primaries. The scheme, as explained to the attorney-general, was to ship gasoline labeled • distillate," which was passed through alleged collusion of a state gasoline inspector. Cooper charged with receiving monthly payments, ranging upward ! from more than S4OO And reaching a tota. of SII,OOO in ten months. Conner told Ogden that it would have been cheaper for his company, Knickerbocker Refining Company, to have paid the 4-cent tax than to qjeet the graft paymerits. He alleges that he really owes the state about $20,000 and wants to •ettle. it is said. Bobbitt permitted Joers io con- J tinue operating at South Bend, j through a settlement which gave; Clarence Fate, securities investigator in Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield's office, a chance to take over seven of Joers’ stations in northern Indiana for Fate’s son and Malcolm Clark. Crown Point. Probe State Connection Fate's connection with the entire deal also is being investigated by the attorney-general. Bobbitt attended the conference With Conner and afterward urged ‘that a complete investigation be made and all cards be laid on the table.” This was the first enthusiasm he tias shown for the movement. Fifield denied that he had interviewed persons with the idea of appointing a successor to Fate and -upheld Fate's action in the matter. Cooper came to Ogden’s office after the conference with Conner and entered a general denial to all charges. SOVIET PREMIER ‘QUITS’ Report From Russia on Rykoff Unconfirmed; Fought by Stalin. tv Ihtttcd Pres* BERLIN. July 'SS.-MJncopfirmed advices received here from Moscow today said that Alexis Rykoff had resigned as chairman of the council of Soviet commissars, which is equivalent to premier of the Soviet Union. Rumors that Rykoff might be removed by Joseph Stalin, virtual dictator of the Soviet government, were circulated for some months before the recent partycongress in Moscow , but when Rykoff was re-elected on July 13 to the politbureau. the highest group of ten men in the Communist party. It was believed ne would retain his premiership.

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SCHOOL OFFICIAL CHARGED DRUNK Lewis Whiteman Held After Auto Accident. Lewis E. Whiteman, 40, insurance broker and city schools commissioner, was to be arraigned in municipal court three this afternoon on drunken-driving charges preferred after an accident at Washington and Illinois streets Tuesday night. Driving his son’s auto, Whiteman Is alleged to have struck protecting barricades and run on loose boards over a deep street excavation at the downtown intersection. Traffic Officer Follie F. Shaw, on duty at the intersection, placed him under arrest, and released an unidentified companion, who, although he had been drinking, Shaw said, was able to take care of himself. Shaw said he failed to recognize Whiteman until patrolman Butram Walker, patrolling that district, had summoned a patrol wagon from police headquarters. Whiteman was released on bonds of SSOO signed by John (.Bull Moose) Walker, professional bondsman. Whiteman gave his address to police as 703 Yoke avenue, although the city telephone director lists his residence as 801 Yoke avenue. Records at the statehouse show the car's license was issued to Robert Whiteman. 801 Yoke avenue. Lewis Whiteman’s term on the school board expires Jan. 1, 1931.

38 PLUNGE TO DEATHIN RIVER Collapse of Bridge Mars German Celebration. Hu 1 nitrd Preen COBLENZ, German}', July 23. A weakened and condemned iron bridge crowded with holidaymakers watching the Rhineland liberation celebration here Tuesday night collapsed and carried more than 100 men, women and children into the Moselle river. The governor o£ the Coblenz district announced an official death list of thirty-eight today. Sixteen were injured badly. Twenty-five or more of the others were suffering from submersion and shock. President Paul von Hindenburg, who had been making a triumphant tour of the liberated regions, broke off his trip and returned to Berlin. Before leaving, he contributed 10,000 marks to start a relief fund and attended memorial services in the Coblenz town hall for the victims. Flags, which until midnight had been fluttering from every vantage point in the Rhineland, were . lowered to half mast today. Collapse of the weakened struc- ! ture, which the people crowded | upon despite the injunction against j using it. came at the height of the ! celebration. SERVICES HELD FOR" CIVIL WAR VETERAN Jennings Branham, 88, Dies After Exposure to Sun. Last rites for Jennings Branham, Civil war veteran, who died Tuesday at the home of his son, Ernest J. Branham, 1027 Newman street, werr held at 2 this afternoon at the ‘ home. Burial was to be in North Madison. Mr. Branham became ill after exposing himself to the sun, and complications caused his death. He formerly was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad. Twenty-three years ago he retired from active | railroad work when he was shot by box car thieves. He was wounded j twice during the Civil war, THRESHER MENACED*BY METAL PUT IN WHEAT Horseshoe and Auto Spring Discovered feefore Placing in Machine. ' l‘ji Tims* Sordini GREENSBURG. Ind., July 23 j Sabotage in the harvest field was discovered here on the William Leimgruber farm when a man feeding the separator for wheat threshing struck a fork against a horse--1 shoe tied securely on the inside of a bundle of wheat. Investigation of other sheaves dis- | closed an automobile spring clip tied lin the center of one. In order to prevent the wrecking of the thresher : which would have resulted had any such metal been fed in. every bundle in the fifteen-acre field was cut and examined before being fed into the separator. Will Jackson, owner of the threshing outfit, is investigating. Dupont Man Dies DUPONT. Ind.. July 23.—Frank O. Hoyt, former Coal City and Greenwood business man. died here. He was a charter member of the Knights of Pythias lodge at Greenwood and was affiliated with the Masonic lodge and Methodist church here, He leaves his widow, Mis.

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Luck was with Albert Christison, 9, of 232 Beauty avenue, when he fell from the running board of an automobile beneath the wheels of a trailer Tuesday afternoon. He escaped with a few broken teeth, a sore jaw and bruises. Floyd Smock, R. R. 11, driver of the automobile, told police he did not know the boy had hopped the running board. Albert was returning home from Rhodius park swimming pool with his brother when he “hooked” the ride.

In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9 a. m.: Northwest wind, 5 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.10 at sea level; temperature, 78; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 12 miles; field good. PRISONER IN HOME Paralytic Arrested in Liquor Raid Can Not Be Moved. Bu Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 23. George King of the Cuba neighborhood is under arrest but is a prisoner in his own home. He was arrested following a raid cn his home in which officers say they found home brew, but due to the fact that King is paralyzed from the waist down he could not be moved to the county jail here. A fall in which he sustained injuries to his back caused paralysis and he is scarcely able to move himself in bed. No date has been set for his arraignment.

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Anderson Man Is Arrested When Car Figures in Corner Collision. Charges of drunken driving were ! filed against Joseph Campbell, 37, of Anderson, following an automobile accident early today at Massachusetts avenue aWd Alabama street. Campbell’s car collided with a machine driven by Cliff Udell. 42, of 459 West Thirty-second street and knocked Udell’s car into a street car telephone call booth at the corner, police say. Robert Campbell and Harry ‘H. Haden. with Campbell, were charged with intoxication. Suffers Cut Nose Mrs. Dale Jackson, 27, of 262 South Temple avenue, suffered a badly cut nose, and her husband was cut on the arm when a car driven by Jackson and a machine driven by Glen Johnson, Edgewood, Ind.. collided at Meridian street and Madison avenue Tuesday night. James Jackson. 4, and Robert Jackson, 2, escaped injury. Hopped on Car Floyd Smock, R. R. 11, Box 24-J, driver of the automobile, told police he did not know the boy had hopped on the running board. Leo Doos, 21, Negro, 12174 Cornell avenue, suffered a fractured collar bone H’hen his truck overturned at Fifty-second street and Broadway Tuesday afternoon, after colliding with a car driven by Miss Mary Louise Minnick. 21. of 7701 North Pennsylvania street. Water Using Record Set Bi/ Times Special GARY, Ind., July 23. Hot weather caused setting of anew water consumption record here, 49.355,000 gallons having been used in three days, an average of more than 16.000,000 a day,, against normal daily consumption of 9,000,000 gallons.

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DRIVER LICENSE LAW ATTACKED Target of Suit Contesting Legality and Fairness. The attorney-geeeral’s office today prepared to defend constitutionality of the Indiana drivers* license law, enacted in 1929, against attacks made in a suit filed Tuesday in Marion circuit court. George Moss, Indianapolis traveling man, whose license was revoked by John G. McCord, license judge in the office of Secretary of Sta‘? Otto G. Fifield, following Moss’ conviction in municipal court on a charge of drunken driving, is plaintiff. Injunction is asked restraining Fifield, James L. Bradley, chief of the auto license department, and his assistant, William Schmidt, from forcing any provisions of the act. The petition argues the act is unconstitutional on the ground it gives officials power to convict a person without the intervention of a jury, gives them power to summon drivers to a hearing without enabling the driver to compel attendance of witnesses in his own behalf, and empowers the defendant officials to compel forfeiture of an estate by unconstitutional means. Moss was represented in filing the suit by the law firm of Baker, Baker and Jacobs and not the firm of Baker and Daniels, as erroneously stated Tuesday.

MOTHER OF NINE SENTTOJ’RISON Washington Woman Guilty in Delinquency Case. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind , July 23. Convicted of contributing to the delinquency of her children, Mrs. Edith Fox, mother of nine, was fined SIOO and sentenced to ninety days in the woman’s prison in Daviess circuit court here. Chief witnesses against the mother were two of her daughters, Thelma, 13, and Agnes, 9. Circuit Judge M. S. Hastings announced that steps will be taken to have five younger children, four girls and a boy, made county wards. Two sons of Mrs. Fox are awaiting removal to institutions. Earl, 17, will be taken to the colony for the feeble minded, and Orville, 15, to the state boys’ school.

Dummy Joke Em Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 23. —Four policemen followed a scared boy to a dark stairway here, after he told them of the discovery of a dead wom- . an. The officers found a pair of legs protruding from some clothing. Then they discovered a dummy used in display windows had been turned to the purpose of a joker.

Father of len Dies Bn Times Special NEWCASTLE. Ind., July 21. Samuel W. Morris, 89, is dead of cancer at the home of his son, Roy Morris. Burial will be made at Simmons cemetery, near Greenfield. He leaves ten children, Mrs. Jane McCormick, Benton Morris, Colbert Morris and Roy Morris, all of this city; Mrs. Alonzo Craig, Mrs. Oil Armstrong and Mrs. CagJ Brewer, Knightstown; Mrs. John Blessing, Carthage; Mrs. Charles Holiday, Willow Branch; Mrs. Wayne McMeans, Freesoil, Mich.

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SUIT LAUNCHES FIGHT TO HALT CONGRETE JOBS Asphalt Interests Act to Enjoin Project on Shepard Street. Campaign .to halt all so-called “two-course concrete” pavements in j the city was opened in Marion superior court • three today by | asphalt interests with the filing of a suit to restrain the works board from proceeding with Shepard street work. Suit for injunction culminated the prolonged asphalt-concrete paving material feud. Merle N. A. Walker, attorney for four property owners on the street, charged in the complaint that the laying of the entire eight-inch pavement in one operation is a violation of the state paving law. City Engineer A. H. Moore said the city specifications recently were revised on advice of the city legal department to permit bidding on the “monolithic” type, where both the foundation and wearing surface are laid in practically the same operation. Called Modern Practice . Moore contends that the laying of the eight-inch pavement at one time is in accord with modern paving practices, declaring that the state paving law is obsolete. The state highway lays one-course pavement, Moore pointed out. Walker’s complaint alleges that the resurfacing act can not be applied to concrete streets laid in this manner, because the wearing surface can not be removed, alleging property owners finally are assessed for anew street job. Before the board today, Walker contested legality of the board’s awarding of a contract on Udell street to the Indiana Paving Company, low concrete bidder, before expiration of a ten-day period for filing preference of material. E. Kirk McKinney, board president, told Walker that property owners gave a waiver on the time for filing the petition, asking that the contract be awarded the low bidder. On advice of Walker the contractor stopped work, pending settlement of the case. Petitions signed by two property owners were filed today on Udell street for both asphaltic concrete and concrete paving. Trickery Is Alleged “On the face of it, it appears that both petitions are properly signed by resident property owners, but I am advised that some of the parties moved in forty-eight hours before to permit "them to have a voice,” Walker said. “Strictly speaking, the board had no right to proceed before expiration of the ten-day period. This condition has arisen out of the activity of those selling paving materials, it seems,” Walker said, asking the board to obtain legal opinion on the matter. “The contractor should have known the law. Let them stop work until it is worked out legally,” commented Charles O. Britton, board member. McKinney said the board was advised that the realty company representatives paying 80 per cent of costs signed the waiver and asked that work proceed without delay.

FINE LEWIS IN ILLINOIS COURT Assessed SSOO Penalty for Alleged Contempt. John L. Lewis of Indianapolis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, with headquarters here, was fined SSOO for contempt of court by Judge Charles G. Briggle in court at Springfield, 111., today. Appeal of the fine by Lewis was looked upon as certain by officials of the union here. Lewis was in Springfield where, with fourteen associated officers and organizers of the union, he faced the contempt of court citation. The fourteen others accused were held guilty of contempt of court, but were not fined or sentenced to jail. Lewis’ fine was fixed after Judge Briggle upheld Master-in-Chancery Frank L. Trutter finding that Lewis and his associates were guilty of violating an injunction restraining them from interference with the “reorganized” anti-Lewis union of mine workers. Trutter had recommended none of the defendants be punished, holding the contempt was technical. The contempt charges grew out of organization work by the Lewis union in Illinois where an organization dubbed a “rump union” by Lewis was formed at a convention at Springfield several months ago. Previously Illinois supporters of Harry Fishwick of Illinois and Alexander Howatt of Kansas had seceded from the Lewis union when Lewis claimed wholesale frauds on the part of Illinois leaders.

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SUSPENDS DRY PISTOUJSERS Woodcock Pledges Quiz in Rum Search. I!ii United Press WASHINGTON, July 23.—Amos W. W. Woodcock, federal prohibition director, today suspended for three days without pay two prohibition agents whom E. G. Duncan, Maryland state engineer, accused of stopping an automobile in which he and his wife were riding after firing two shots. Woodcock said that investigation of Duncan’s charges against the two agents, Charles R. McC&rtney and John T. Weigel, failed to show that the agents had fired upon the car. Duncan filed the charges with Woodcock last week. , The incident occurred on the night of July 16, while Duncan and his wife were riding along a Maryland road in a car belonging to the state bridge commission. Duncan said the car contained no liquor and complained of rough treatment by the two agents. DENY KRAIT MERCY Ft. Wayne Man Must Pay for Car Death, Leslie Rules. Governor Harry G. Leslie today denied a plea for clemency for Edward W. Kraft, Ft. Wayne, sentenced in Allen circuit court to one to ten years in state prison on involuntary manslaughter charges. Kraft, his wife, and Samuel D. Jackson, his attorney, appeared before the Governor this morning, seeking mercy. • Kraft was convicted on a charge of running down a factory worker in Ft. Wayne, Jan. 16, 1928, inflicting fatal injuries. The state introduced evidence to show that Kraft was driving too fast, considering weather conditions and prevalence of factory employes returning home from work. The supreme court later affirmed the conviction, but commitment papers have been held up pending the Governor’s action.

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Veteran Showman Obtains Start for Canine Act in Visit to Pound. BY SHELDON KEY A veteran showman went searching for stage talent in Indianapolis today with which he hopes to revive one of the most famous “big toppers” of yesterday. Four pudgy faced poodles of the city dog pound will help Henry V. Gentry, retired showman and former owner of the famous Gentry Dog and Pony show, again take his place as the “king of dog trainers.” Gentry, who has lived in Bloomington since he sold his show fourteen years ago, announced today he will go on the road next spring as soon as he can train seventy-five dogs and forty ponies. Sons to Run Show “Hundreds of fathers and mothers who saw my show when they were children sent letters asking why I don’t start my show again so I’m starting in the business,” Gentry said today as he picked out some likely talent at the dog pound for his trick acts. For forty years Gentry toured the country. The show grew and he prospered until finally he sold out and retired. Promoters changed the show to the Gentry circus and the public wondered where the real “dog king” had gone. Robert and Henry, sons of the veteran trainer, will manage the new show “when dad gets them started.” Loves Tiny Proteges From now until spring the three Gentrys will be busy teaching their canine performers the tricks of yesterday. This famous showman disclosed a few secrets. This is the way he picks talen for his shows. “See that look in that puppy’s eye. He has intelligence and will be a great actor some day--just notice how lively the little fellow is,” Gentry remarked as he pulled a fluffy white poodle from its kennel at the pound. “I’ll buy about a hundred dogs this summer and train them for my show. They must all be good natured and have that sparkle in their eye that I recognize the minute I see it” That Gentry knows and loves his tiny proteges was evident. “Treat ’em nice; that’s all they want,” was the philosophy the veteran showman uttered as he patted his new friends and put them in his car to take them away.

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LABOR TO TAKE ACTIVE PART IN INDIANABALLOT Foes of Unionism Will Be Fought With Votes, Green Asserts. “In tlris campaign the American Federation of Labor is coming into Indiana. We will confront the candidates with their stand for Judge Parker’s confirmation for the supreme court. Those who favored him will be opposed with all the strength of organized labor.” William L. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, sounded this keynote of organized labor for the coming campaign in an address this mornihg before the International Stereotypers and Electrotypers’ Union at the Claypool. In an hour's rapid-fire talk, he answered critics of his regime as head of the American Federation of Labor. Answers His Critics His critics have assailed failure, of the A. F. of L. to take definite action in the south and its attitude toward striking coal miners in the east. “The report of the A. F. of L. to the next convention will show a decided gain in membership, despite the depression and adverse conditions,” President Green declared. “It will show we have carried trade unionism into the south and that it has reared there as a mighty force.” He demanded that trade unionists rally to the movement and support candidates at the polls' this year who will vote for labor's anti-in-junction bill in congress and for relief measures designed to minimize unemployment and to combat the changing economic-* conditions due to supplanting of workers by machines. Machines Take Toll ‘•We have been enjoined from free speech, free press, and free assemblage,” he declared. “It has become unbearable. There can be no group in the United States deprived of these rights if this union is to endure. “Labor is paying a terrific and terrible toll for efficiency and economy when machines supplant the trained workers. We can point to the glass blowers, deprived of work by the bottle blowing machine, to the old-time telegraphers, to the musicians, now being supplanted by sound pictures and mechanical music, and to many others. “This economic movement will continue, so this nation must solve the problem if every man who is a consumer may be kept an active consumer.” GARAGE THIEVES MAKE SPORTING GOODS HAUL Robbery Loot Includes Fishing, Football and Baseball Equipment. “It was a sporting goods store, not a garage,” was police comment today when W. J. Nave, 1333 South Belmont avenue, reported theft of a large supply of athletic goods from his garage. The loot included two fishing reels, a tackle box, a pair of hip boots, two baseball suits, a pair of baseball shoes and a baseball glove, a football suit, a pair of football shoes and a bathing suit.

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