Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 264, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1931 — Page 1

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PAUL MOORE QUITS POST AS AIRPORT CHIEF designs in Secret Session After Long Period of Turmoil. COX NAMED SUCCESSOR M. G. Johnson, Engineer, to Take Assistant’s Job at Field. After months of turmoil and lashes over authority, Paul H. Moore, superintendent of the Indiana municipal airport, today submitted his resignation to the works board. The action was taken in a closed session of the board from which newspaper men were excluded. Moore left the city hall before he could be questioned. Only recently has the board had the power to control the situation at the airport. This authority became vested in the board with the | passage of a bill in the legislature which removed the previous dual, power of the city council and the works board. Cox Is Successor Charles E. Cox Jr., employed as assistant superintendent several j months ago an dthen reported as j being groomed for Moore’s place, will be the successor of the former superintendent. M. G. Johnson, assistant city en- i ginecr, who was identified with the airport project in the final months of construction, will step into Cox’s place and will be known as engineer and airport manager and also will retain his post in the city engineer’s office. Johnson will be paid SIOO a month In addition to his salary in the engineer’s office for services at the airport. Edward Johnson, attache at the airport, was named assistant to Cox at a salary of j SI,BOO. Cox wll Irecelve $3,600 annually. . Believes Resignation Demanded Moore’s resignation, according to reports at the city hall, followed months of bickering between Moore and Cox, and the works board and council. It is believed generally that his resignation was demanded after the legislature’s action gave the works board power to act. Heretofore, the works t board was tied and could not take action on airport matters without ratification of the city council. During this period, Moore retained sufficient support in the council which, it was reported, would have held the post for him in case of an open battle. Moore supervised construction of the airport which cost the city more than $750,000. The building of the j airport went smoothly until last 1 summer when several blowups occurred among workmen and officials. Battles flared over digging the second well and its alleged heavy content of pollution. Regime Is Cut Short Other outbreaks came when com- I pletion of the administration! building was months overdue and j finally it was taken over by a bond- j ing company. Moore’s regime at the airport j was short, the city only moving to ' the field in the last thirty days. j E. Kirk McKinney, president of the board, said Moore had submitted a verbal resignation and indi- , cated $1,200 in salaries would be j saved the city under the reorganiza- I t.io. Moore formerly was connected with the Chamber of Commerce and j spent several years in developing aviation activities in the city. Cox, formerly was connected with Curtiss 1 Wright Flying Sendee of Indiana. He served overseas during the war. •I DON’T CARE. 7 SAYS WIFE KILLER SUSPECT Refuses to Reply to Formal Reading of Warrant; Held Without Bond. By United Press CLEVELAND, March 16.—Leo ( Yaratch. 25, formerly of Corry, Pa., was arraigned on a charge of wife murder today before Judge Oscar Bell, who continued the case until March 20. Asked to reply to Clerk Adolph Kozelkas formal reading of the murder warrant, Yaratch muttered an indifferent “I don’t care,” and was ordered held without bond. Yaratch was arrested Friday night by detectives who found him wandering aimlessly near the spot where the body of his slain wife, Margaret, 28, was found early that day. SOVIETS ARE SUBJECT Labor Press Correspondent Will Speak at Communal Hall. From A. B. Magill. who was a correspondent for the labor press at 1 the trial of eight engineers re- j cently convicted of conspiracy and sabotage in Soviet Russia, will have opportunity to hear details of the trial at Communal hall, 17 West Morris street, Wednesday night at 8. Magi’ also will lecture on the program of the Russian five-year plan and illustrate his talk with pictures. The lecture is under auspices of the Indianapolis section of the International Workers’ Ordc •. j Supreme Court ta Adjourn So'"' By l atte4 Pr ess WASHINGTON. March 16.—Tire supreme court announced today it will adjourn March 23 until April 13

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VOLUME 42—NUMBER 264

CHAPLIN PICKS A QUEEN!

Will He Star or Wed London Girl?

She’s only 20. - > .d so far has been seen only in minor roles in Br sh movies and in advertisements for which she ha odeled. But Patricia D. ring, or Sari Maritza, as she is known profession ..y, is believed to have won the

BY MILTON BRONNER N'EA Service Writer LONDON, March 16.—Don’t be surprised if the next queen of Hollywood, or at least that part of the film capital otfned by Charley Chaplin, is Patricia Dctering, or Sari Maritza, as she is known professionally over here. Mary and her little lamb had nothing on Chaney and his little Patricia. For everywhere that Charley went, Patty was sure to be. Charley not only took her to lunch on his own; he waltzed her right in among his aristocratic friends, Sir Philip Sassoon and a lot of the other nobs. When she walked in, they all sat up and took plenty of delighted notice. tt tt tt PATTY is petite, blonde and blue-eyed. She Is English on her father’s side and Hungarian on her mother's. Also she is 20, lives in the South Kensington portion of London and has been earning a living by filling moderate roles in the British movie studios and, on the side, posing for some very lovely pictures for facial creams and other advertisements. Where Chaplin met her is his secret. But his admiration for the pretty girl is nobody’s secret. It has been blazoned to all the country. n t; tt IT also is understood that she is going to Hollywood to take a considerable part in the next Chaplin film. Anyhow, London is sure that her fortune is made. For every time Chaplin has very much admired a pretty girl, he either has starred or married her. And in both cases that meant wealth and luxury. Hit United Press VIENNA, March 16.—Charlie Chaplin arrived here from Berlin today. A crowd of 200 persons greeted Chaplin at his hotel.

NEW ANGLES’ CLAIMED IN BROWN MURDER MYSTERY

BY ARCH STEINLL Times Staff Correspondent NASHVILLE. Ind., March 16. Frobe into the murder mystery surrounding the death of two, and perhaps three, persons in the Lee Brown home was reopened today by state and county investigators after “new angles” were reported to have been uncovered. Chief fragment of new evidence was the discovery of a piece of dress dangling from a fence that surrounds the ruins of the home. Virgil Quinn, deputy state fire marshal, arrived here and was to aid county authorities in the investigation. Excavations in the ruins had been started early today at the home under direction of Brown county authorities.

BIGGEST HOG IN CHICAGO STOCKYARDS’ GRUNTS INTO MAYOR RACE

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAX United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, March 16.—The biggest hog in the Chicago Stock yards, King George, two “hot blues” singers, the World war some wheelbarrows, and other things almost too numerous to mention got embroiled in Chicago’s seething mayoralty campaign today. The battle Is between William Hale Thompson, Republican, and Anton J. Cermak. Democrat. The prize is the job of being mayor during the 1933 World’s fair. And the methods the candidates are using to garner- the votes are nothing if not unique.

artistic approval and perhaps the affection of Charley Chaplin, upper right. Patricia, shown here in two poses, at left with a pet marmoset, may go to Hollywood when the famed comedian returns to America.

SPEED PLANS FOR HOOVER SEA TRIP

‘ln Picklement’ By United Press NEW YORK, March 16. Charles J. Correll, ‘ Andy” of Amos ‘n’ Andy fame, is on his way back to Chicago today, more worried than he was over the breach of promise suit of Madame Qtleen. While in New York with his partner, Correll suffered from an infected nose, which finally landed him in the hospital, which he left each day to broadcast. A slight operation was performed that confined h'm to his bed for two or three days. The infection, according to the National Broadcasting Company, is only minor. However, it did not prevent Correll from returning to Chicago, his home, Sunday.

FEAR 150 MEN LOST Blast on Sealing Ship Is Reported. By. United Press ST. JOHNS. Newfoundland, March 16.—Reports of a blast disaster believed to involve the loss of a sealing steamer which carried a crew of 150 men, were received here today from Horse island on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. The men from the steamer were scattered on loose, moving ice several miles from shore, the reports said Their fate was unknown.

Brown county authorities still are seeking Paul Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, accusing him of murdering his parents and firing the home. However, autopsies of the buried bodies, supposedly those of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, conducted by Indiana university medical school authorities revealed glands that indicated two males had been burned in the house. If this is true, authorities say, Mrs. Brown still may be alive or her body may have been burned to ashes without leaving a trace. According to a story told after the fire by Chester Bunge, hired hand, the son had shot the parents and threatened Bunge’s life. Other “new angles” were claimed but not discussed today by investigators as they reopened the investigation.

There’s the “biggest hog in the Chicago stock yards” for instance. Thompson said he was going to obtain the gigantic porker, decorate it with a red ribbon and label it “Tony Cermak, the job hog.” Cermak already is president of the Cook county board. He said he would resign if elected mayor on April 7, but Thompson insisted that his looking for a second job indicated that he Is “greedy.” Then there is the little matter of the wheelbarrows. n m THOMPSON’S campaign song, which may be warbled to the tune “Sidewalks of New York” if

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President to Sail Wednesday or Thursday on Trip to Porto Rico. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 16.—Activity at the White House, the navy department and aboard the reconditioned Arizona vas speeded up today to permit the earliest possible start by President Hoover on his trip to Porto Rico and the Virgin islands, announced over the weekend. The time of departure may be made known today. The President probably will sail from Norfolk Wednesday or Thursday depending upon how soon accommodations can be made ready. Mrs. Hoover has decided not to make the voyage, and instead will visit her son, Herbert Jr., who is ill in Asheville, N. C. In the President’s party will be War Secretary Patrick Hurley, Interior Secretary Lyman T. Wilbur and Lawrence Richey the President’s secretary. Visits to Scenes of Suffering In making this trip, the President is rejecting numerous invitations to spend a genuine vacation in some expensive southern resort. It is understood he does not feel justified in idling in some rich man’s playground while there is widespread suffering in the country. The ten-day West Indian tour is of a piece with this attitude. Both Porto Rico and the Virgin islands have suffered heavily, physically and economically in recent years. The Virgin islands were purchased from Denmark in 1917 for military reasons. They h r •> a total area of only 133 square miles, with a population of 20,000. The latter has been shrinking rapidly of late due to heavy migration of native Negroes to New York City. Women now outnumber the men by 20 per cent. Brighter in Porto Rico He will see a pathetic people impoverished—well nigh forgotten for years their formerly lucrative trade in rum and bay rum gone. He will see islands that have been devastated by earthquakes—islands foredoomed by geologists to oblivion when some gigantic future earth tremor engulfs them. The Porto Rican vista, while depressing, will be brighter to some extent, due to the recent assiduous efforts of Governor Roosevelt to mitigate the lot of the natives—to build up waning industry and introduce new trades—to' foster education and better social conditions. Yet here, too, will suffering meet his eye—suffering from the blighting breath of inexorable hurricanes.

the warblers slur their words i carefully, starts thus: Tony. Tony, •’Where’* yonr wheel barrow at? “Imagine the world’s fair mayor “With a name like that!” The Thompsonites were reported to be planning a wheelbarrow parade in which the paraders would sing “Tony, Tony,” etc., the while they trundled their onewheel vehicles. King George and the World war entered the campaign when Thompson issued a statement in which he said that If Cermak is elected “it will make him a most powerful ally of the king of England, which would. be4o the detriment of the American people.”

TAX HIKE PERIL SPURS COUNTY POORAID QUIZ Threat of 25-Cent Boost Stirs Probe of Present Relief Program. $400,000 DEBT AIRED Action on Bond Issue Is Deferred Until Special Council Meeting. Threats of a 25-cent boost in Marion county taxes in 1932 to pay an aggregate of $400,000 spent this year on poor relief today spurred members of the Marion county council to an extensive probe on the county’s poor relief program. Action on a $400,000 bond issue to pay the poor debt was deferred this morning until Wednesday, pending a meeting of representatives of poor agencies and county officials Tuesday noon at the Chamber of Commerce. Retrenchment program on road building in the county this year was indicated at the same.time by council men when three ordinances providing $164,000 for three roads were slaved to be turned down. Discussion of the poor relief situation brought condemnation of the pres ant “basket system,” and resulting expenses as “the most serious situation ever faced by taxpayers.” Slams Poor Relief Statutes Councilman Roy Sahm, urging that the present volume of relief be curbed, pointed to the present $400,000 debt as an expense which “taxpayers can not stand.” The debt represents poor relief bills from last December to March 15. More than thirty groceries are owed the aggregate sum. William H. Book, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce civic affairs committee, told councilmen that poor relief statutes were to blame for “the biggest thing this county ever faced.” Lack of investigators under nine township trustees was blamed for the “promiscuous” poor aid program. Sahm charged' trustees with handling relief in an “unbusinesslike fashion.” ‘Supplies Not Bought Wisely’ “The one trouble with the whole relief system is that supplies are not bought wisely, and a system should be inaugurated to pay the lowest possible cost for supplies,” Sahm declared. County Commissioner Dow W. Vorhies told councilmen that the $400,000 represents bills already accrued and that scores of grocers will be forced into bankruptcy unless the county’s debt is paid. “If these grocers are not paid, many will be thrown out of business, and only those who are financially able to carry on can do business with the county,” Vorhies said. GETS IN WRONG HOUSE; MISTAKE IS FATAL Tiips on Stairs of Strange Home, Falls and Breaks Neck. By United Press SAN MATEO, Cal., March 16. Bernardo O’Donnell’s failure to rec- j ognize his own front door cost him j his life. O’Donnell returned home late Sunday night. He entered a door which he thought led him to his own apartment. Upon reaching the second floor he realized he had made a mistake and was in the wrong house. He turned to hurry back down the stairs. Half way down he tripped, fell j and broke his neck, dying almost instantly. HOBO KING, InToVE^ IS LOOKING FOR JOB Girl Demands He Work, Make More Money Than She Does. Bit United Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. J. Leon Lazarowitz, once crowned “king of the hoboes,” was in San Francisco today—looking for a job. The man who was selected “king” at a hobo convention in Minneapolis in 1927, and later abdicated, confessed that his desire for less travel and more security was inspired by an affair of the heart. He met a girl, he skid, in Brandon, Canada, while on a “side door pullman” tour. “She works steady and says I got to work and make more money than she does,” Lazarowitz explained. “So that’s why I’m here.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 30 10 a. m 34 7a. m 30 11 a. m 34 Ba. m 32 12 (noon).. 34 9 a. m 33 1 p. m 35

THOMPSON explained that Melvin Traylor, prominent banker, wants to become president of the international bank of the world.” “This is the reason why Traylor is raising unlimited funds for Tony,” said Thompson. “If the people of Chicago want a dictator and a tool of the international bankers, let them vote for ‘Dictator Tony;’ if they want a real American who fights for the people, let them vote for Bill Thom ps on.” He recalled that he advised against the United States entering the World war. “But the government did not

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Their companion, Virgil Kirkland, 20, convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, these four Gary (Ind.) youths now face murder trials as the aftermath of the death of Arlene Draves, 18, during a drinking party. Left to right are David Thompson, Paul Barton, Leon Stanford and Harry A. Shirk. Pleas on a lesser charge may be accepted by the state to save the long trials, it is expected.

REPORTER WILL BE HOOVER AID Boston Man Named as New White House Secretary. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 16—'Theodore Joslin, 41, Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript, will be appointed secretary to President Hoover, it was announced at the White House today. Joslin replaces former secretary, George Akerson, who resigned six weeks ago to take an executive post with a motion picture corporation. Joslin has been a Washington correspondent of the Transcript for a number of years. PEGGY"HOOVER, 6, TO SEE FATHER TUESDAY President’s Granddaughter to Visit Parent for First Time in Months. By Times Special WASHINGTON,- March 16. Peggl Anne Hoover, granddaughter of the President, will celebrate her 6th birthday With her father, Herbert Jr., at Asheville, N. C., Tuesday, it was learned at the White House today. Peggy Anne is taking her young brother, Herbert 111, aged 3, to see their father for the first time in five months. The father has been recuperating from an illness at the mountain resort.

SLAYS BROTHER AND SHERIFF; ENDS LIFE By United Press MONTICELLO, Ind., March 16.—A life-long friendship between Sheriff Ray Fisher, 49, of White county and Scott Talbutt, farmer, ended tragically Sunday when Talbutt killed Fisher, wounded a deputy, killed his own brother, then committed suicide rather than be arrested for bank robbery. Talbutt, 43, fired upon Fisher without warning when the sheriff and his deputy. Barney Ireland, went to the Talbutt farm to serve a warrant issued in Tippecanoe county against Talbutt and his brother William, 34. The warrant charged that the brothers participated on Feb. 6 in holding up the Battle Ground bank and stealing. $1,400. Sheriff Fisher had delayed arresting the Talbutts for several days, insisting to officers of the neighboring county he believed them innocent. Scott Talbutt and he had been friends for years. Talbutt supported him

when Fisher ran for sheriff. Officials of the Battle Ground bank visited the Talbutt farm on an invented errand last Friday. Later they identified the brothers as the bandits. The warrant was sent to Fisher to serve as the Talbutt farm is just inside the line of this county. When Fisher asked Ireland to accomany him he told the deputy it was unneessary to take a gun as he “knew” the brothers would not resist. At the farm, the sheriff was reading the warrant to William Talbutt when Scott stepped suddenly from a corn crib and opened fire with a

SCHROEDER LAUGHS WHEN JUDGE PASSES SENTENCE

In apparent good humor and without his usual scowl, Harold Herbert Schrceder, 35, of Mobile, Ala., today stood before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and was sentenced to two to twenty-one years in the Indiana state prison. Schroeder’s sentence was mandatory under the verdict reached on Thursday night by a jury that found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Schroeder was charged with the alleged slaying of an unknown man whose body was found in Schroe-

listen to Bill Thompson’s advice,” the mayor added, “and we all know the result.” a a a CERMAK, a Bohemian immigrant, who rose to wealth as brewer, politicain and real estate dealer in Chicago, said he did not intend to do any “mudslinging.” But he did hire himself a pair of “hot blues” singers to entertain his audiences, gathered in an assortment of brass bands and fife and drum brigades, built Chicago’s largest electric neon sign, and announced that he “fully intended” to beat Thompson.

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DEATH TAKES REPJSWELL Louisiana Democrat Dies at Washington. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 16. Representative Ames Benjamin Aswell (Dem., La.), member of the house agriculture committee, died at 2:15 a. m. today of heart trouble at his apartment here. Aswell had been a member of all congresses since 1911. As senior Democrat on the agricultural committee he led the fight in the house for the inclusion of food loans in the drought relief bill passed at the last session. Aswell represented the eighth district of Louisiana and lived at Natichtoches. He was brought up on a cotton plantation and worked his way through school. He graduated from the George Peabody Teachers college in 1892, and later received the degree of bachelor and master of arts from the University of Nashville. Before entering the political arena, he taught school. Ho was president of the Louisiana Polytechnic institute from 1900 to 1904, served two terms as state superintendent of public education, was chancellor of the University of Mississippi and president of the Louisiana state normal college from 1908 to 1911.

shotgun, killing Fisher instantly. Ireland, unarmed, ran. A bullet ripped through his hand as he dodged across a field to summon aid. When posses surrounded the farm later they found the bodies of both the Talbutts in the house. Scott apparently had shot his brother, then committed suicide and fallen across William’s body. ■Sheriff Fisher was a World war veteran. He leaves his wife and two children. William Talbutt leaves his wife. Scott was unmarried.

der’s flaming sedan on the High School road early May 31. Schroeder sat quietly in the jury box before sentencing. Brought before Baker he stood silently while Ira Holmes, defense attorney, told Baker no appeal would be taken. “Have you anything to say before I sentence you?” Baker asked. “No. Nothing at this time,” Schroeder answered. Baker then pronounced the sentence, saying it was “2 to 14 years.” Holmes corrected Baker, pointing out the maximum was twentyone years. Holmes, Baker and Schroeder laughed together at the judge’s error. Wearing a hat for the first time since he was returned here from Mobile last June, Schroeder was returned to the county jail in a “chain gang” with nine other prisoners. Schroeder will be taken to the state prison Tuesday by Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner under guard of sheriffs. As Schroeder left the courtroom he was shown a picture of Harold Webb, 24, whose mother, Mrs. Louise Crooks, R. R. 2, Box 673, had told Baker, as the case was going to the jury, that she believed her son had perished in the car. “Does that look anything like the man?” Holmes asked. Schroeder looked at the picture several seconds. ■*+ “No, sir,” he answered.

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LEU BROTHERS ON TRIAL FOR LINGLE DEATH 30-Year*old St. Louis Man Accused as Hired Killer of Reporter. STATE’S PLANS SECRET Suspect’s Attorneys Confident They Can Prove He Is Not Murderer. BY WILLIAM E. HALLBERG United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO. March 16.—The longawaited trial of Leo V. Brothers on charges of committing Chicago’s most sensational crime—the murder of Alfred (Jake) Lingle—opened today in Judge Joseph Sabath’s criminal court. A clash between opposing coun.sel over witnesses called by the state started the trial. Tyrell V. Krum, chief defense counsel, attempted unsuccessfully to obtain immediately the names ol state witnesses living outside Chicago. The defense charged a previous list produced by the state included the names of persons without the remotest connection with the Lingle murder. The quarrel ended with the state promising to identify its remaining witnesses “in ample time.” The 30-year-old St. Louis man. whom the state charged with the hired killing of the Tribune reporter and secretive racketeer, appeared nervous as attorneys prepared to spend at least a week in selection of a jury. Plans of the state in the trial were as mysterious as was the killing of Lingle last June 9. Brothers himself confessed he knew nothing of the evidence to be offered against him. Both Sides Are Confident Attorneys for both state and defense were sure of victory. “I’ll stake my professional reputation Brothers goes to the electric chair,” was the comment of Pat Roche, chief investigator for John A. Swanson, state’s attorney. Brothers’ attorneys were just as positive he would be acquitted. They based their belief on the list of twenty-one witnesses the state had said it would produce. None of these witnesses, they contended, could do more than say he saw the murder and that Brothers was the slayer. To offset testimony of this kind, the defense was ready to produce other witnesses of the slaying who would testify Brothers was not the man. Predict State's Failure - The possibility was discussed that Charles F. Rathbun and James E. McShane, special prosecutors appointed to solve the case, might withdraw' as attorneys to act as witnesses. Since the killing last June these men have done little else but investigate the crime. Tyrrell Krum and Louis Piquett, defense attorneys, predicted the state would fail because a motive for the slaying could not be proved unless it was proved someone had paid Brothers and who that some one was. Brothers was arrested last Dec. 21 at a hotel where he had been in hiding for many months. He was held a secret prisoner until Jan. 9, seven months to a day after the murder, when Roche summoned newspaper men, pointed to Brothers and announced, “There is the slayer of Alfred Lingle.” Started Crime Cleanup That was all Roche or any of his colleagues ever has said except to repeat time after time that they “knew” Brothers was the slayer and that he would be positively identified. No crime in Chicago’s history has had a more far reaching effect than the murder of Lingle, which so aroused the city that numerous drives against criminals were started, grafting and corruption were revealed, and such a demand for a cleaning up started that gangsters were put on the defense for the first time in years. $6,130,046 IN PLAZA Fortune Spent in 10 Years, Report. Between Nov. 10, 1920, and Dec. 31, 1930, local and state governments expended $6,130,046.24 on the Indiana World war memorial, according to the report of the state board of accounts today by Examiners Ross Teckmeyer and Otto Jensen. Os the total sum. $3,264,510.12 came from the 6 mill special state levy, which has been cut to 4 mills for the next four yeans by the 1931 legislature. City of Indianapolis contribution was $1,287,299.62 and Marion county $1,475,476.37. Various minor funds are listed in the report including $50,462.22 for Block 5, and $52,368.31 for Block 16. The main shrine, listed as Building A, cost $1,597,074, and the oblisk and fountain, $714,985, thus far. FREE 14,000 PRISONERS By United Press LONDON, March 6.—Fourteen thousand male and female prisoners, arrested in India for participation in the nationalist civil disobedience campaign, have been released. Captain Wedgwood Benn. secretary of state for India, said today In the house of commons. )