Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1931 — Page 3

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FEDERAL COURTS LOSE DIGNITY - . AND PUDLIG'S RESPECT THROUGH PROHIBITION, PRODERS REPORT

Heavy Burden of ‘Police Cases’ Is Viewed as Peril to Justices. ASSAIL ‘BARGAIN DAYS’ Efforts to Clear Dockets by Minimum Fines Help to Racketeers. (* the tecocd of a series of article* rising the facts about prohlas related la tho report of the Wlcker*ha.m commission. BY CECIL OWEN Lotted Press Stall Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Prohibition, in the opinion of the Wick* ersham commission, has “injured The dignity, impaired the efficiency, and endangered the wholesome respect for federal courts which once obtained.” Special significance is attached to this indictment oi prohibition’s effect upon federal courts because ten of the eleven members of the commission arc lawyers or federal judges. In addition to the verdict of the full commission, several members amplified their views or. this point in their separate reports. The commission found that ten years of prohibition had imposed a. heavy burden of what really was police court work on federal tribunals. ‘“Bargain Days” Assailed The volume of liquor cases In federal courts multiplied by seven during the first five years of prohibition, and there were eight times as many dry law cases terminated in 1930 as there were total federal prosecutions in 1914, the commission found. The federal court congestion due to prohibition was said by the commission to have led to “bargain days” at which large numbers of defendants were permitted to plead guilty and escape with small fines. In 1930, the report addeff, nearly 90 per cent of dry law convictions were of this type. “Tlie bargain method of keeping up with the dockets, which prevails of necessity in some of the most important jurisdictions of the country, plays into the hands of the organized illicit traffic .by enabling it to reckon protection of its employes in the overhead,” the commission said. Congestion in Prison Since the court congestion occasioned by the large number of prohibition cases makes speedy trial and punishment difficult to obtain, criminal prosecution was said to be a “feeble deterrent” to law violation. The commission also pointed to the congestion in federal penal institutions. It cited justice department reports showing the total federal longterm prison population—those serving sentences of more than a year—and had risen from not more than 5.268 on June 30, 1921, to 14,115 on June 30, 1930.

More than one-third of the longterm prisoners in the five leading federal institutions June 30, 1930,

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were , confined for prohibition violations. “Lawyers everywhere deplore, as one of the most serious effects of prohibition, the change in the general attitude toward the federal courts,” the report said. Courts Losing Dignity Formerly these tribunals were of exceptional dignity, and the efficiency and dispatch of their criminal business commanded wholesome respect and fear. “The effect of the huge volume of liquor prosecutions, which ha? come to these courts under prohibition, has injured their dignity, impaired their efficiency, and endangered the wholesome respect for them which once obtained.” Agitation of prohibition organizations for appointment of judges and prosecutors zealous in dry law prosecutions was condemned by the commission. Under pressure to make a record on prohibition, it said, prosecutors have forsaken long standing legal standards of conduct Scandals Are Created United States marshals also have been affected adversely by prohibition, the report said. It cited scandals of bribery, failure to destroy seized liquor, failure to serve padlock orders, and accepting of graft for protection of bootleggers as bringing the executive arm of the courts into disrepute. _ “There has beeri a general bad effect on the whole administration of justice,” the commissioiv summarized. LOOT 7 TOTALS Thefts of Radio, Watches, Night’s Crime Toll.^ Burglars, in five attempts Thursday night, obtained loot valued at S2OO. The office and empty safe of the Union Ice and Coal Company, 1910 Bluff road, were ransacked, but no money was obtained. Frank Moore, 39, of 302 North Randolph street, discovered a burglar in the living room of his home early today. The intruder escaped through a window. Burglars who pried open a kitchen window in the home of D. H. Steele, 5549 Guilford avenue, stole a radio valued at $l5O. Two watches and a revolver were stolen at the home of C. Fred Davis, 3074 North Pennsylvania street. A watch valued at SSO was stolen from the home of R. M. Anderson, 410 North Keeling avenue. JOBLESS AID DEMANDED American Federation of Labor Deplores Unemployment Crisis. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 22.—America can not go on facing such crises as the one occasioned at present by the millions of jobless workers throughout the country, the American Federation of Labor declared in a statement adopted Thursday night demanding aid for the idle.

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Suggesting that “very serious consideration” be given to the advisability of separating banks and security companies frequently operated by them, John W. Pole, controller of the currency, is shown above as he testified in Washington before the senate subcommittee investigating national bank practices. He discussed proposed legal changes which would permit national banks to establish branches.

FLU EPIDEMIC GAIN REPORTED Disease Outbreak Centered in New York City. By, Science Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The influenza outbreak in the United States has centered in New York City, reports to the United States public health service here today show. For the week ending Jan. 17, there were 1,005 cases in New York City alone. In the nineteen states which have reported for last week, there were 2,022 cases. Reports from the remaining states have riot been received yet. These same nineteen states reported only 1,046 cases of influenza the preceding week, and for this same week ip 1930,' these nineteen states reported only 559. The largest figures for individual states so far are 113 ifT'Maryland and 282 in New Jersey. This state probably is influenced by its location contiguous to New York City, which appears to be the center of the outbreak. Public health authorities do not expect the present outbreak to grow to the proportions of the 1928-1929 epidemic. At that time in one week close to 150,000 cases were reported. The type of influenza is very mild this year, with few deaths. HOLD FOUR FOR THEFT Deputy Sheriffs Allege Negroes Stole Hogs From Farm, Four Negroes were held today by deputy sheriffs on grand larceny charges and another is sought, alleged to have stolen hogs from the farm of Chris Dietz, Kitley avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad. Those held are Walter McCleary, 30, of 39 South Catherwood street; Jack Turner, 22, of 2524 Northwestern avenue; Alex Kirkpatrick, 56, of Glencoe, and Fred Spencer, 4851 East Sixteenth street.

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DANK CASHIER ROUTS BANDITS

Bullet-Proof Glass Shields Three From Shots. \ " Protected by bullet-proof glass and partitions, employes of the New Augusta State bank are satisfied now that any further attempts at bank banditry will avail gunmen no more than did a robbery attempt Thursday afternoon. Following James W. Bartley, Old Augusta, a customer, into the bank lobby, two bandits sprayed the interior of the bank with bullets before they were beaten off by gunfire of R. E. Huffman, cashier. They fled from the bank to a waiting stolen auto in which they escaped, with a third member of the gang who sat at the wheel during the robbery attempt. While one bandit marshaled Bartley into a rear room, his companion trained a gun on Huffman, Miss Stella Coble, assistant cashier, and Robert Huffman, bookkeeper, with the command “Stick ’em up!” The cashier calmly reached for a telephone and drew an army pistol from a drawer. Both bandits opened fire, their bullets bounding off the bullet-proof glass, and embedding in the thick partition. Through a small loophole in. the window Huffman directed his bullets, but was unable to hit either bandit. They ran from the bank. Fifteen or twenty shots in all were fired.

ALMA RUBENS WILL BE BURIED SATURDAY Many Former Friends Expected at Dead Star’s Funeral. By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Jari. 23—Many of the friends of Alma Rubens who knew her when she was at the height of her screen career and who w 7 ere loyal to her when she faced tribulations are expected to attend her funeral rites Saturday. She died Wednesday night. Services of the Christian Science church will be held in the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn cemetery. Her body will be taken to Fresno, Cal., to be placed in a mauseoleum.

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