Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1931 — Page 1

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300 HUNGRY UNEMPLOYED QUELLED BY TEAR BOMBS AFTER WRECKING GROCERY Mob Overpowers Clerks of Oklahoma City Store, Tears Food From Shelves and Smashes Display Windows. CROWD OF 700 WATCHES LOOTERS Outbreak Occurs in Center of Business District; Seventy-Five Policemen Are Required to Halt Riot. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Jar,. 20.—Three hundred unemployed men in search of food stormed and wrecked a grocery at noon. The outbreak occurred at Reno and Robinson streets, two blocks from the center of the business section and was quelled only after deputies threw tear bombs into the ranks of the rioters.

The mob overpowered clerks and the owner of the 3tore, tore food from the shelves and smashed display windows. About seventy-five city police and county officers answered a riot call and began making arrests. At least 700 other men looked on as the mob looted the store. Trouble in Other Cities By United Press In New York City today a crowd of unemployed, many of whom professed to be Communists, marched on city hall. They were kept away from the city hall by a large group of police, but set up soap boxes in front of the Woolw’orth building and talked. Jobless in Haverhill, Mass., marched to the city hall and presented a number of demands including sl2 weekly to each man out of work. In New Brunswick, N. J., a crowd of 2,000 forced its way into the municipal building where a woman made a speech. Danbury (Conn.) reported that a group of Communists broke up a meeting between labor department representatives and strikers Monday night. Unemployed interrupted the New York legislature sessions at Albany Monday night. TURBANS, TASSELS ARE URGED FOR LOBBYISTS House Members Told Registration Rules Are Ignored. If recommendations of Representatives Miles Furnas (Rep., Randolph), and Earl Crawford (Dem., Union and Wayne), are carried into effect, lobbyists will wear either green o- red turbans with long black tassels. The suggestions were offered after presentation of a resolution from Representative Fabius Gwin (Dem., Dubois and Martin), requesting Speaker Walter Myers to enforce the regulations barring lobbyists trom the floor of the house and to. admonish lobbyists that they must be registered. Gwin charged that many lobbyists are failing to respect house rules and have not registered with the •ecretary ol’ state. ACTION ON ESTATE OF SLAIN WOMAN IS SET Fond of Accused Husband Is Raised to $20,000. Hearing to name an administrator tor the estate of Mrs. Mary Jane Phillips, murdered Friday, will be held at 2 this afternoon in probate court, following petition by Ira Holmes, attorney for the husband whom detectives accuse of the murde . Holme; previously had declared he ako would petition for an injunction restraining police and detectives from questioning Phillips further. The husband has been grilled almost continually since his wife's body was found, her skull smashed with a club, but in the face of circumstantial evidence has denied guilt. Original bond of SIO,OOO under which the husband was held was increased late Monday to $20,000. Hearing on a vagrancy charge against him was continued Monday until Friday. CUT BY BROKEN GLASS Man Attempts to Jump Through Window; Taken to Hospital. Rosooc Wilson, 31, of 2865 East Michigan street, Apt. 2, told his wife he was going to Jump through the window Monday night. His first effort resulted in cuts on ills legs and feet and lie was taken to St. Vincent's hospital. Police said he had been drinking. Luke Lea Sues for Million By United Press KNOXVILLE, Ind., Jan. 20. Suits for a total of $1,000,000 today were filed against Knoxville NewsSentinel by Luke Lea. Nashville newspaper publisher, who, as in similar suits against the Chattanooga Times and the Chattanooga News, charged libel. The suits against the News-Sentinel were filed at Athens. Tenn.

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POWERS URGE ARMS SLASH Preparatory Conference Report Is Adopted by 7 League Council. By United Press GENEVA, Jan. 20.—Pressing necessity for a successful world disarmament conference to aid in relieving world economic distress was emphasized at the League of Nations council today by the foreign ministers of -seven powers. After adopting the report of the sixth preparatory commisison for general disarmament recommending the calling of a world conference as early as possible, probably in February, 1932, the council heard the outstanding diplomats of Europe bitterly condemn war and again commit their governments to disarmament by unqualified approval of the preparatory report. Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, promised the council and a crowded gallery that the forthcoming disarmament conference will not obtain complete disarmament, but will achieve progress by “a serious reduction of armaments.” Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, said: “We are bound to a policy of disarmament, as a matter of self interest in relief for unemployment, poverty and political distress.” He also attacked all military alliances and said Britain recognized only the alliances of the league covenant. Dino Grandi, Italian foreign minister, stressed the need for avoiding further delay in view of unemployment and the vast debts of European nations. Dr. Julius Curtius, foreign minister of Germany, warned the league it must succeed in giving security to nations or lose the justification for its existence.

'BOY FRIEND’ TO AID Judge Tames Daisy’s Story About Clara Bow. By United Press I-OS ANGELES. Jan. 20.—The story which Daisy De Voe promised to tell about the private life of Clara Bow having been cut short by a judicial ban, the blonde secretary expected to relinquish her place on the stand today to her supporting witnesses. Chief among them was Alfred Mathes, her "boy friend,” who was asked to corroborate statements made by his fiancee in her trial on charges of stealing $16,000\-hile in the employ of Miss Bow. Mathes was expected to testify that Mlsa Bow gave his fiancee full authority to sign checks drawn on the actress' account. FILED FOR SUSPECT Former Judge Takes First Client In 16 Years. For the first time in more than sixteen years James M. Collins, former criminal judge, appeared in behalf of a defendant in a criminal i action, when he filed a habeas corpus writ for Steve Bimbo. Chicago, in superior court one today. Hearing on Bimbo’s extradition to Chicago to face charges of a conspiracy to murder will be held at 2 this afternoon by Governor Harry G. Leslie. i He. with Mary and Anna Bimbo, was arrested here Jan. 5, by Detectives Emmett Staggs and Charles Russell. Steve, Pete and Tene Bimbo are charged with the murder of Angelo Nicholas in Chicago. The Habeas corpus petition asserts Bimbo was found not guilty of the charge In a Cook county (in.) court last summer. - Bimbo was freed after his arrest on $250 bond as a fugitive.

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Nine members of the Wickersham commission, whose report on law enforcement was made public today, are shown here. Monte W. Lemann and W. I. Grubb, two of the commissioners, were not present when the picture was taken.

SENATE ADVANCES GAS TAX JOBLESS AID BILL

Committee Amendments Are Accepted Despite Verbal Barrage. Senate unemployment relief proposal, * designed to distribute the cities, counties and towns gasoline tax to the local communities Feb. 1, instead of March 1, proceeded another step today after undergoing a verbal barrage similar to that which delayed its progress Monday. Result of tljp senate debate was exactly nothing, since the committee amendments over which the contest arose were accepted and the bill was ordered printed and laid on the senators’ desks for another round Wednesday. Meanwhile the money to be distributed, which Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, says is around $3,000,000, was increased by a final $600,000 payment of the funds borrowed by the state highway department. Total borrowed was $1,600,000. Amendments Accepted Amendments to the bill, accepted tentatively today, would require* that all the money given to the local governmental units be expended for wages only in road work and not for contractor payments. They provide that other than road work might be done with the money to provide additional jobs, and that where poor relief funds are depleted, county commissioners may transfer this money to township trustees for poor relief. Number of dependents must be considered in selecting men for employment and not more than three days work a week given where work must be divided to provide more jobs. The amendments provide, and also that officials must co-operate with the Governor's unemployment relief commission and local relief agencies. Holmes Leads Off Debate Senator C. Oliver Homes (Rep., Lake) led off the debate by pointing out that under the Indiana law trustees may spend all that is necessary for poor relief and there is no such thing as a depleted poor relief fund. Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., La Porte and Starke), who succeeded in delaying passage of the original 80 SEEK CLEMENCY Pardon Board to Consider Pleas of 27 Slayers. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Jan. 20. —Cases of twenty-seven prisoners onmurder charges will be among the eighty in which pardon, parole or communtation of sentence is asked of the Indiana state prison board of pardons meeting at Michigan City. Jan. 29. Thirty of the prisoners whose cases will be Reviewed are serving life sentences. Thirty-nine cases will be laid before the pardon board for the first time and forty-one will be re-opened.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931

No. 1, Roscoe Pound, dean of Harvard law school; 2, Kenneth Mackintosh, chief justice Washington supreme court; 3, H. W. Anderson, Richmond (Va.) lawyer; 4, Judge Paul J. McCormick, Los Angeles; 5, Ada L. Comstock,

bill under suspension of rules Monday afternoon, tried to make the diseussian o special order of business Friday afternoon, but later withdrew to permit the printing. Senator Harry K. Cuthbertson (Dem., Howard and Miami), took the senators to task for wasting time while need grows greater “than any time in the history of BANK BANDIT SLAIN Police Capture Four Others and Foil Holdup. By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., Jan. 20.—One of five unidentified bandits who attempted to hold up a shipment of money from the First Trust and Savings bank here to the Federal Reserve bank in Chicago today was shot and killed by Hammond police. The others were captured. Police had been awaiting the attempt for about three weeks. A disguised escort of officers followed the bank car and the bandits became suspicious. A gun battle was precipitated when the police car collided with the bandit’s machine about two miles from the bank. During the battle one of the robbers was wounded fatally by a shot gun blast. The others surrendered. General Dies of War Wounds PARIS, Jan. 20.—General Etienne De Villaret, 77, died today after years of suffering from head wounds received when in the front line trenches in 1915. The same shell blinded him. Truck Driver Hurt in Acciuent Kenneth Smith, Plainfield bakery truck driver, was injured Monday night when the truck overturned in a ditch on the National roa.l, west of Indianapolis. He suffered severe face lacerations and is at city hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 29 10 s. m 29 7a. m 29 11 a. m 28 Ba. m 30 12 (noon).. 27 9a. m 28 Ip. m 27 COOLIDGE. SMITH WILL SPEAK FOR RED CROSS Broadcast in Interests of Drought Fund Campaign Announced. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Calvin Coolidge and Alfred E. Smith, members of the. committee named by President Hoover to aid the Red Cross in its $10,000,000 drought relief fund campaign, have accepted invitations to speak Thursday night over combined networks of the National Broadcasting Company in support of the drive. Their speeches. Coolidge’s to be broadcast from Northampton, Mass., and Smith's from New York, are part of a Red Cross program beginning at 8 p. m., Indianapolis time.

president Rodcliffe college; 6, W. S. Kenyon, United States circuit judge; 7, George W. Wickersham, Ne# York, chairman; 8, Newton D. Baker, secretary of war for President Wilson; 9, Mark J. Loesch, Chicago lawyer.

this state.” He was the author of the amendments. The bill was introduced jointly Monday by Senators LOe J. Hartzeil (Rep., Allen and Noble) and J. Francis Lochaxd (Dem., Dearborn, Tennings and Ripley). Hartzeil moved that the rules be suspended and the bill placed on third reading and passage at once. Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., Laporte and Starke), moved the matter be made a special order of business Feb. 2, and debate started. Although Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush did his best to help Hartzeil, he was unable to stem the storm of protest against hasty action and the motion to suspend the rules failed to get the two-thirds vote required, although Rowley’s motion was tabled contrary to senate rules. Rowley used the opportunity to attack Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep., Fountain, Vermillion and Warren), who last week had a senate committee on unemployment appointed, out of which grew the gas tax, fund plan of relief.

PURDUE DEAN DIES Richard B. Moore, Chemist, Passes in New York. By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 20.—Dr. Richard B. Moore, dean of the chemistry department of Purdue university, Lafayette, Ind., died today at Memorial hospital. Dr. Moore was internationally known and became head of the chemistry department at Purdue university in 1926. He was born In Cincinnati in 1871 and studied not only in the United States but also fn England, where he later was chemistry instructor in various English schools. From 1905 to 1911 Dr. Moore was professor of chemistry at Butler university, resigning this post to become associated with government operations along experimental lines. He is the author of several works relating to chemistry, radio-activity and rare gases. HOSPITAL RIDS UP Veterans’ Bureau to Open Building Proposals. Bids of one hundred contractors for the new United States Veterans’ hospital, to be erected on the Coffin golf course, will be opened in Washington this afternoon by veteran bureau officials. The contract for the $500,009 government institution will be made within two weeks. The hospital is to be completed in ten months. Erection of the institution will give employment to about 400 men, all of whom will be Indianapolis residents under a provision in the specifications, suggested by Representative Louis Ludlow.

WICKERSHAM PROBERS’ REPORT ON PROHIBITION CONFUSING, CONFLICTING

Ban on Legalized Saloon in Any Form Emphasized by Commission. FROWN ON U. S. CONTROL . Admit Lack of Observance, Urge More Money for Enforcement. (Other stories on Wickersham report, Pages 8 and 13.) By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Conclusions and recommendations of the Wickersham commission’s report on prohibition, signed by ten of the eleven members subject to individual reservations - embodied in separate reports, follow: 1. The commission is opposed to repeal of the eighteenth amendment. 2. The commission is opposed to restoration in any manner of the legalized saloon. 3. The commission is opposed to the federal or state governments, as such, going into the liquor business. 4. The commission is opposed to the proposal to modify the national prohibition act so as to permit manufacture and sale of light wines or beer. States’ Co-operation Urged 5. The commission is of opinion that the co-operation of the states is an essential element in the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and the national prohibition act throughout the territory of the United States; that the support of public opinion in the several states is necessary in order to insure such co-operation. 6. The commission is of opinion that prior to the enactment of the bureau of prohibition act, 1927, the agencies for enforcement were badly organized and inadequate; that subsequent to that enactment there has been continued improvement in organization and effort for enforcement. 7. The commission is of opinion that there is yet no adequate observance or enforcement. , 8. The commission is of opinion that the present organization for enforcement still is inadequate. Differ on Enforcement 9. The commission is of opinion that the federal appropriations for enforcement of the eighteenth amendment be increased substantially and that the vigorous and better organized efforts which have gone on since the bureau of prohibition act, 1927, should be furthered by certain improvements in the statutes and in the organization, personnel, and equipment of enforcement, so as to give to enforcement the greatest practicable efficiency. 10. Some of the commission are not convinced that prohibition under the eighteenth amendment is unenforceable and believe that a further trial should be made with the help of the recommended improvements, and that if after such trial effective enforcement is not secured there should be a revision of the amendment. Others of the commission are convinced that it lias been demonstrated that prohibition under the eighteenth amendment is unenforceable and that the amendment should be immediately revised, but recognizing that the process of amendment will require some time, they unite in the recommendations of conclusion No. 9 for the improvement of the enforcement agencies. Recommendations Are Made 11. All the commission agree that if the amendment is revised it should be made to read substantially as follows: Section I.—The congress shall have power to regulate or to prohibit the manufacture, traffic in or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation therof into and the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes. 12. The recommendations referred to in conclusion No. 9 are: 1. Removal of the causes of irritation, and resentment on the part of the medical profession by: (A) Doing away with the statutory fixing of the amount which may be prescribed and the number of prescriptions. (B) Abolition of the requirement of specifying the ailment for which liquor is prescribed upon a blank to go into the public files. (C) Leaving as much as possible to regulations father than fixing details by statute. 2. Removal of the anomalous provisions in Section 29, national prohibition act, as to cider and fruit juices by making some uniform ruling. 3. Increase of the number of agents, storekeeper-gaugers, prohibition investigators and special agents; increase in the personnel of the customs bureau and in the equipment of all enforcement organizations. ’ 4. Enactment of a statute authorizing regulations permitting access to the premises and records of wholesale and retail dealers so

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City Cop Case Under Inquiry By Times Special WASHINGTON. Jan. 20. “Government lawlessness in law enforcement is an abhorrent proposition.” j This is the language used by the Wickersham commission in characterizing entrapment methods such as were revealed in the Indianapolis police trials. Report on the Indianapolis cases was a part of the evidence before that section of the. commission which inquired into illegal acts by government officials. “There have been other eras of corruption,” the report concludes, “but the present regime of corruption in connection with the liquor traffic is operating in anew and larger field and is more extensive.”

HOOVER FIRM FORDRY LAW President Stands Bank of Commission in Opposing Repeal. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—President Hoover today took a position strongly behind continuing the eighteenth' amendment and federal prohibition as now administered, and intends to press for still more efficient enforcement. He announced this decision, filled with many political possibilities, in his message transmitting the Wickersham prohiblton report to congress. So far as Mr. Hoover’s influence goes, the Republican party nationally must stand' firmly behind the eighteenth amendment or repudiate his leadership. Is Against Repeal Mr. Hoover registered strong approval of the commission’s general report opposing repeal of the eighteenth amendment and opposed any revision of it, as recommended by a majority of the commissioners individually, to give congress latitude in regulating—implying the right to festore —liquor traffic. Mr. Hoover interpreted the views of a majority of the commission as opposing repeal, apparently, since, only two members stood for unconditional abolition of the amendment. The other objectors to th'e present regime favored revision, not complete abolition. Mr. Hoover stated: “The commission, by a large majority, does not favor the repeal of the eighteenth amendment as a method of cure for the inherent abuses of the liquor traffic. I am in accord with this view. Opposed to Revision “I am in unity with the spirit of the report in seeking constructive steps to advance the nationaf ideal of eradication of the social and economic and political evils of this traffic, to preserve the gains which have been made, and to eliminate the abuses which exist, at the same time facing with an open mind the difficulties which have arisen under this experiment.” He added that he saw serious objections to, “and therefore must not (Turn to Page 12) as to make it possible to trace products of specially denatured alcohol to the ultimate consumer. 5. Enactment of legislation to prohibition independent denaturing plants. 6. The commission is opposed to legislation allowing more latitude for federal searches and seizures. 7. The commission renews the recommendation contained in its previous reports for codification of the national prohibition act and the acts supplemental to and in amendment thereof. 8. The commission renews its recommendation of legislation for making procedure in the so-called padlock injunction cases more effective. 9. The commission recommends legislation providing a mode of prosecuting petty offenses in the federal courts and modifying the increased penalties act of 1929, as set forth in the chairman’s letter to the attorney-general dated May 23, 1930, H. R. Rep. 1£99. Lemann Fails to Sign There are differences of view among the members of the commission as to certain of the conclusions stated and as to some matters included in or omitted from this report. The report is signed subject to individual reservation of the right to express these individual views in separate or supplemental reports to be annexed hereto. All members of the commission signed this report except Monte M. Lemann of Louisiana.

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Separate Opinions, Aside From Committee Finding. Are at Variance, FIVE FOR MODIFICATION Baker and Lemann Would Wipe Dry Amendment Off Books. By Scrivvs-Haward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 20.—Modification or repeal of the prohibition amendment was urged by a majority of the Wickersham commission, whose report was submitted to congress today. With no commissioner giving unqualified approval to prohibition, the commission of eleven divided as follows: Five favored modification of the eighteenth • amendment—four of whom favored an adaptation of the Swedish plan for a quasi-govern-mental dispensary system—Anderson, Loesch, Mckintosh, Comstock Pound. Two favored outright repeal— Bake?, Lemann. Four favored further trial—McCormick, Grubb, Kenyon, Wickersham; the two latter also suggested a referendum. Agree on Breakdown Only on three points were all the commissioners In virtual agreement. They agreed on the present breakdown in enforcement and observance. They agreed on the need for increased measures and appropriations for enforcement pending repeal or modification. And all agreed on outlawing the saloon, save that two would leave that to .the states. None favored the light wines and beer proposal. Some confusion as to the meaning of the commission’s recommendations was occasioned by the attempt to make® report signed “with reservations” by ten of the eleven members. Thus the single report on “conclusions and recommendations” began with the unqualified statement that “the commission is opposed, to repeal of the eighteenth amendment.” This failed to show’ that two commissioners favored repeal and that five urged modification, all of w’hicli information was relegated to the individual statements by the commissioners .who had signed the joint statement "with reservations.” More Men, More Money About half of the report of 90,000 words was devoted to a factual summary of the prohibition experiment and present conditions, as determined by the commission through twenty months of secret hearings and special surveys. After a lengthy and vigorous indictment of the failure of enforcement to date and of the widespread corruption and crime, the report stated: “More men, more money, and more and better equipment tor the enforcing agencies undoubted?? would achieve much, but no improvement in machim ry will avail without co-operation from the states. “This state co-opera don ultimately will depend upon local public opinion. So long as public opinion is adverse or indifferent in large cities and in many states, so long as there is no practicable means of reaching home manufacture 'which easily may run Into commercial manufacture), and so long as the margin or profit remains what it is, serious obstacles in the way of satisfactory enforcement will continue to .ve beyond the reach of improved organization personnel and equipment and tightened statutory and administrative provisions." Oppose Jaw’s Lawlessness Despite this pessimistic view, a majority of the commission joined in recommending, pending possible repeal or modification, the following: Liberalize provisions for physisicians’ liquor prescriptions; limit the use of cider and fruit juices; increase enforcement personnel; extend power to search wholesale and retail premises; prohibit independent denaturing plants: tighten padlock Injunction provisions; codify dry laws and Improve method of prosecuting petty offenses. “The commission is opposed to legislation allowing more latitude for federal searches and seizures the report stated. That apparently does not apply to wholesale and retail premises, on which the opposite recommendation was made. Special severity was shown by the report in treating legal lawlessness in enforcement and the federal gov - ernment's nullification of prohibition by* its policy of subsidizing the grape products industry. SNEEZE CAUSES DEATH Mill Worker Succumbs as Result cf Bursting Blood Vessel. By United Prets LAWRENCE, Mass., Jan 20. Frederick E. Conrad, 33. of North Andover, sneezed so hard while at work in the Arlington mills hero Monday that he burst a blood vessel, dyin* several Jpouin later.

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