Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1931 — Page 14

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'NICK' FIRM AS 'REGULAR' IN PARTYMTTLES Never Wavered and Once Almost Was Retired for Good. This U tie fifth installment of "The Ktoi-T •* Nieh&i** Longworth." It deals with the poUtlesl crisis he faced Wore ♦be World war. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 15.—Nicholas Longworth’s political crisis came in the years 1910-14. He lived in a political turmoil which nearly retired him permanently from public life. Only the strong Republican political organization in which he had worked for years saved him. Regarded by many as a fop, he was not widely liked in the rough and ready house. He had the handicap of being son-in-law of Theodore Roosevelt. Recognizing this, in later years, Longworth helped organize a son-in-laws club, with other notable men who married into more notable families and he expressed sympathy for W. G. McAdoo following the Wilson White House marriage of a later day. Nick Never Wavered Longw’orth’s allegiances pulled him in diverse directions and the party to which he had maintained firm allegiance seemed on the verge of disintegrating. One of the active leaders, President Taft, split with his father-in-law Taft and another leader, Speaker Cannon, were hardly on rpeaking terms. Taft fought with the Republican senate chieftains, too. But Longworth never wavered. He stayed a regular Republican, even through the Bull Moose split, which cost him his seat in the house for two years. He maintained his equilibrium while Alice Longworth publicly was attacked for smoking cigarets. She continued to smoke. Stfl! Led Society World Away from the Capitol halls, however, there was harum-scarum play in which Nick and Alice were leaders. Military Aid Archie Butt records that one night after leaving the White House he stopped at the Longworths to find Alice reading the ‘‘Song of Solomon” to a select audience. Major Butt said that in retaliation for his roughness the party later tried to enter his home to disarrange his furniture, whereupon he dumped ice water on their heads from an upstairs window. Alice fired back verse, ridiculing him mercilessly as a White House slave. After the 1912 debacle, Longworth returned to Cincinnati where he always maintained a residence at the family home, Rookwood, and mended his political fences in earnest. . Started on Way Again In two years the pendulum swung, and Longworth was elected to the sixty-fourth congress. Under the seniority rule, however, he had lost all the high standing in committee assignments won by his previous decade of congressional service. He started in at the bottom to build up his power to a higher point than before. Longworth was 46. His knowledge of parliamentary law, his interest in tax and tariff matters, his energy and resourcefulness, made him a valuable member of the minority party. The Democratic majority was moving rapidly on tariff and banking reforms, and there was little glory and much work in the job of opposing Woodrow Wilson. Adopted Big Navy Policy Europe was embroiled in war and the United States was excited over it. Longworth adopted Roosevelt's big-navy and preparedness policies, and advocated them in congress and elsewhere while the still popular Roosevelt was shouting the same ideas from newspaper pages daily. On top of the heap, Wilson speaking for peace, prevailed until the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. Longworth often recalled the 1902 Venezuela incident when Roosevelt told the German ambassador he would send Admiral Dewey down with the fleet if Germany, with a battleship already off Caracas, refused to arbitrate its claims there. Had Roosevelt not acted, Longworth said after the World war, Germany would in all probability have established a naval base close to the site of the Panama canal.” Supported War Measures I remember once,” Longworth said of the pre-war period, “I voted for four battleships when a thendistinguished Democratic leader urged eloquently we should have no navy at all, because New York harbor could be defended by rowboats.” He supported war measures, voted .with regret for the declaration of war, and criticised the way the Democrats ran it. The war ended and Roosevelt died. The Republicans gained control of the house in .1918 and Longworth had power. In 1921 Harding, from Ohio, entered the White House and Longnorth mounted higher. The Republican chieftains of his early days were getting old and he came into his own. (To Be Continued) Bank Now Has Twelve Branches Twelve branches of the Fletcher Trust t Company were in operation today following change of seven state banks into authorized branches fit the company.

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CHILDREN TO HAVE FREE INSTRUCTION

Indiana Roof Ballroom Will Start Juvenile Dance Classes Under the Direction of Jack Broderick. THE Indiana theaters’ announcement of a free dancing school for children between the ages of 6 and 16, the first of its kind to be held in or around Indianapolis, has resulted in a flood of inquiries, according to Cullen E. Espy, general manager of the Skouras-Publix theater interests in this city. Espy says dancing schools of the kind are being established in Skouras theaters throughout the country, but that the Indiana’s connection with the Indiana Roof ballroom will make its free dance instructions the most attractive in the Skouras organization. Jack Broderick, local dance teacher, has been chosen to direct the

instructions in connection with a staff of other dance instructors. They will teach all dance steps suitable for children, and promise a healthy body development, and the assumption of grace, poise and self-confidence among the youngsters who attend. Any child purchasing a child's admission ticket to and attending the Indiana theater will be eligible to attend the free dancing class. The Indiana’s free dancing school's registration and first instruction will be given in the Indiana Roof ballroom next Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. Espy invites parents to attend with their children, but promises a rigid supervision of the young would-be dancers should their parents find it necessary to leave the ballroom during the instructions. at: tt Indianapolis theaters today offer: “A Connecticut Yankee” at the Apollo, “A Tailor Made Mar” at the Palace, “Dishonored” at the Indiana, “Ten Cents a Dance” at the Circle, “Fighting Caravans” at the Ohio, “Apron Strings" at English’s, “The Lightning Flyer” at the Lyric, movies at the Colonial, and burlesque at the Mutual. ADOPT Mill! DAY Experiment Is Successful at Kellogg Plant. NEW YORK. April 15.—The sixheur day at the Kellogg Company plant in Battle Creek, Mich., has been so successful it will be adopted permanently, Lewis J. Brown, president, revealed today. At the time of the change last December, the minimum wage scale was $4 per day. When the hours were decreased wages were increased 12% per cent to keep the scale at the same level. FINDS FARMERS~PAY HUGE INTEREST RATE Editor’s Survey Shows Chattels Are Under Heavy Mortgages, Survey of southern Indiana, completed by James R. Moore, editor of tile Hoosier Farmer, discloses that many farmers of the droughtstricken area have mortgaged thenchattels at from 30 to 42 per cent interest in addition to their land loans. Moore declared that these chattel loans are made under the small loan law which permits charges of 3% per cent a month on amounts to S3OO. He urged fanners to take advantage of the land bank credit being made available by county organizations functioning under a state committee appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie.

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OIL FIRM HEAD GIVENFREEDQM Judge Quashes Liquor Case Against Carpenter. Because Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter ruled that police entered his apartment illegally, Harry B. Carpenter, Apartment 21, 1209 North Illinois street, president of the Lincoln Oil Refining Company, was free of blind tiger charges today. Raiding Carpenter’s .home on a John Doe search warrant, which attorney for Carpenter charged was issued on “hearsay, unfounded and untrue,” a police squad is said to have confiscated more than twenty pints of whisky, gin and wine on March 20. The motion to suppress evidence, which Judge Wetter sustained, charged that the police first tried to break into the apartment, when Carpenter was not at home, and that, failing, they returned the next night and obtained a pass key from the custodian under threat of breaking down the door. The warrant never w-as served on any one, the motioncontended, and was issued without probable cause, on indirect information received by a patrolman. IN AUTO THEFT Youth Arrested; Two Os hers Sought; Car Burns After Wreck. Police today held Tanaza Codarmaz, 16, of 965 West Pearl street, on auto theft charges, and sought two others who, police alleged, Tuesday stole an auto and then wrecked it. The car burned after plunging down a bank at South Harding street and White river. CAR TIPS; THREE HURT Two Indianapolis Men Injured in Auto Accident in Florida* By United Press MIAMI, Fla., April 15.--C. R. Peebles, 52; his brother Walter, 60, and their Negro maid, Mrs. Martha Jackson, 50, all of Indianapolis, were injured seriously near here early Tuesday when the car in which they were riding skidded and overturned.

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SUNDAY WARNS WETS' DEFIANCE MEANSANARCHY ‘We’ll Keep Prohibition If We Dye Land Red With Blood,’ He Shouts. “We’ll keep prohibition going if we have to dye the land red with blood!” Thus did Billy Sunday, Hoosier ballplayer-evangelist, describe to what lengths he would have the “bene-drys” go to compel obedience to the eighteenth amendment, as he addressed a capacity audience in Roberts Park M. E. church Tuesday night. “Can't enforce prohibition? You can’t enforce the Ten Commandments, but if it were not for the Ten Commandments there would be no civilization. Forty-six out of forty-eight states voted dry; the supreme court ruled the Volstead act legal—obey or you’re a crook!” Sunday shouted. Beginning of Anarchy “You’ve got to get mad! You’ve got to do something. Liquor defiance is the beginning of anarchy.” “Some ministers’ sermons smell like herring and sauerkraut. Lots of preachers’ lips are tied down by fear that the congregation won’t like it. To deny the preachers’ rights to be heard in public morals is a damnable insult!” he shouted. “There is no difference between the anarchy of Sacco-Vanzetti and repudiation of the eighteenth amendment.” Sunday asserted that misuse of government permits for medical alcohol and light sentences for lawviolators are grave faults of present enforcement methods. “He’d Fill the Jails” “If I was a judge, I’l fill the jails,” he said. “State rights? Poppycock.” “Referendum? Why try to decide whether crooks will obey the law or not?” “Personal libeAy is curtailed. Every law on the statute books interferes with the personal liberty of the individual.” Sunday’s appearance in Indianapolis was one stop of a nation-wide tour he is making in the cause of prohibition. Indiana Anti-Saloon League sponsored his appearance here. MARCH GAINS REPORTED Old Trails Has Biggest Month, General Manager Declares, Report that the March business of the Old Trail; Insurance Company exceeded any month in the history of the firm, was made Tuesday bj- Burl W. Balay, secretary and general manager, at a meeting with Indianapolis agents and department heads at the Lockerbie. PLAYGROUND SOUGHT Northeast Group to Petition Parks Board. Northeast Civic League members Thursday will ask park board members to establish a playground in that section, it was decided at a meeting Tuesday night at the home of C. A. Peters, 3810 North Temple avenue. It was decided also to ask the city to extend Temple avenue across the traction line tracks bordering Thirty-eighth street, to improve streets in the district and to erect a street light at Caroline avenue and Millersville road.

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6 DRY RAIDS LAND 10 BEHIND BARS

Two Men, Paroled Monday, Are Caught; May Go Back to Prison. Ten persons, including two women and two ex-convicts who were paroled from state prison Monday, were held today on blind tiger charges after dry squads Tuesday night mopped up six alleged speakeasies and beer flats. One day’s freedom found Jack Holloway, city, and Thomas Draginnis, 30, of Cleveland, behind bars again v/hen Lieutenant Michael Morrissey’s squad raided the apartment of James Collins, alias Racketeer, at 3145 Norh Illinois street. Holloway and Draginnis, sentenced from criminal court here in 1923, as auto bandits; Collins and Ray Todd, 27, of 1035 Edwards street, University Heights, were arrested. Todd is under indictment for auto banditry, accused of several holdups in March. Parole of Holloway and Draginnis forbade their visiting a liquor establishment or consorting with gangsters. In the apartment of William Ross, 24, Apartment 5, 306 West New York street, a police dry squad claims to have confiscated eighteen quarts of home brew. Twenty-two quarts of home brew-, and ten gallons of brewing beer were taken in the home of Nick Owens, 43, of 1448 West Henry street, according to police. Wendel Regus, 32, Negro, and Mary Reed, 25, Negro, were arrested in a raid on their home at 1938 Yandes street, in which police say they found three bottles of alcohol. Police arrested Frank Luciak, 49, of 766 North Holmes avenue, after a raid on his home, and Mrs. Lydia Mann, 53, of 1905 North Tacoma avenue, w-as held on a blind tiger charge after police say they found a hundred quarts of home brew in her home.

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GRAIN RATE QUIZ ENDS Interstate Commerce Commission Orders Revision of Schedule, By United Press WASHINGTON, April 15.—A lengthy study of western grain rates has been concluded with issuance by the interstate commerce commission of a supplemental order revising and correcting the reduced rates prescribed last year, and refusing further consideration of individual cases.

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dianapolls Building Congress day was celebrated. All trades represented in the construction of a home were represented at the show’s exhibition in the Manufacturers’ building of the state fairground. A luncheon at noon, an open forum discussion, and an inspection of the model house were features of the meeting. Thursday will be “Indiana” day at the show with realtors and builders scheduled to visit the exhibition from various sectors of the state.