Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1931 — Page 13

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LESLIE HAILED BY MENTOR AS SUPER-LEADER Great ‘Achievements’ Cited in Reviewing Two Years of Regime. LAUDED FOR ‘COURAGE’ Overlooks Old Age Pension Veto in Emphasizing Humanitarianism. Henry W. Marshall, Lafayette, publisher and closest adviser of Governor Harry /j. Leslie, is well pleased with the first two years of the Leslie administration and particularly with the Governor’s conduct during the 1931 legislative session. His views on the subject are set forth in the May number of the Purdue alumnus,” and the title: “Leslie, the Governor —Two-Year Resume.” ‘All Indiana shares in the benefits accruing from the successful administration of Governor Leslie,” is the keynote sounded in the opening paragraphs of the Marshall tribute and the theme is carried out in this tone. Praised to Skies “It is possible at the midway point in the Leslie regime to make a fair appraisal of the things accomplished and to take the measure of the man in the Governor’s chair,” says Leslie’s mentor. “Such estimate, impartially made, will be generally accepted as timely and proper, “the article continues. “The thing that stands out in any survey of the Leslie record is the rugged honesty of Leslie the man, the citizen, the public officer, the Speaker of the House and the Governor of a great state. “Gifted with judicial fairness, endowed with outspoken courage and having the poise that comes of long experience in public life, Governor Leslie was unusually well fitted and practically prepared to take on the responsibilities and duties of the state’s chief executive. Man of "Broad Sympathy” "Trained in self-reliance at Purdue, schooled in the law, equally at home on the farm and in politics, Harry G. Leslie carried with him to the state Capitol the keen alertness, the open-eyed intelligence, the broad sympathies and homely, wholesome fundamentals essential to the handling of the people's problems.” Leslie appointments, majority of which were the renaming of holdovers from the regime of former Governor Ed Jackson, then are cited in proof. “Governor Leslie has set new standards of executive sympathy, understanding, helpfulness and intensely practical humanitarianism in connection with the proper handling of the state’s unfortunates in penal and benevolent institutions," Marshall writes. (Marshall does not mention the Leslie veto of the old-age pension bill, the only humanitarian legislation passed in Indiana for a decade. Marshall was on hand when the veto message was written and delivered.) Points to Vetoes But vetoes are mentioned en masse as follows: “It is a genuine tribute to the integrity and commanding ability of Governor Leslie that while he has set up a record of seventy-four vetoes, not a single one of his vetoes ever has been overriden by the lawmakers. In this support of the Governor is to be found a remarkable non-political acknowledgment of Leslie's leadership qualities.” 'Marshal doesn’t explain that the great bulk of these seventy-four were “pocket vetoes,” made by the Governor's failure to sign bills, handed down the last three days, after the legislature adjourned. Adjournment precluded any effort to override the vetoes.) “Under Leslie, the highw’av system has developed as never before and has achieved a national reputation for economical and efficient read construction and maintenance," the article states. (No mention is made here of admitted failure of the highway department to collect federal aid in 1930, which resulted in a senate investigation.) “Help” to Farmer “In the fields of sound and practical farm relief and in emergency employment activities, as well as in the important business of encouraging the use of Indiana products, Governor Leslie has been forceful and resourceful. He has earned in all fairness a high place in the regard of the workers cn the farms and cities.” • Leslie vetoed the only two bills backed and passed by organized labor. Out of a $200,000 annual emergency fund he didn’t spend a cent for farm drought or unemployment relief.) A paragraph is devoted to the Governor's backing of the R. O. T. C. and Marshall then closes, as he began, with a paean of praise. STATE HELD •BOUND’ TO REWED DIVORCED Clergy ‘May Properly Decline’ is Assertion of Yale Dean. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 14. Divorce is a civil function remarriage of divorced persons should be performed by civil, not clerical, authorities, in the opinion of Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean-emeritus of Yale divinity school and one of America's outstanding religious authorities. Ministers “may properly decline” to remarry those divorced. Dr. Brown said in a Shaffer Foundation lecture on the teachings of Jesus. Those divorced, he said, are separated by the state and should be remarried, if they must, by the state. He described “companionate marriage” as a “joy ride” advocated by “shallow' minded people.”

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OLD ‘CAP’ DOLLAR KEEPS SENDIN’ ’EM OUT OVER PACIFIC

H i/ hcrippg-flntcard \ cvespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 14. —Balboa discovered the Pacific ocean for the white race; Robert Dollar discovered it for American commerce. “Don’t wait for your ships to come in!” Captain Dollar advised. “Just keep sendin’ ’em out. They’ll come in all right, a3 long as you keep sendin’ ’em out.” For thirty years the west coast’s pioneer trans-Pacific trader has been

“sendin’ ’em out.” His ships, more than any other factor, opened the slumbering Orient to American trade, which grew 300 per cent in a third of a century. They changed Dollar from a cook's helper into a multimillionaire, from an obscure mill owner into the best known American east of Suez. Dollar belonged to that vanishing race of toughminded American capitalists, who in the 'Bo’s and ‘9O s emerged from plains, mines, forests, and seaboards with the fortunes they had wrung from nature by their own hands. | He is deeply religious in his individual, Presbyterian way. He hates unions because they have stood in his way. His great antagonist is another picturesque figure, Andrew Furuseth, head of the Seamen’s union, who won over him when President Wilson signed the the La Follette seamen’s act at the end of a twenty-one-year fight. He never has smoked nor drunk. He

loves his simple home, his wife and family, his frugal routine. The model for Peter B. Kyne’s “Cappy Ricks” never commanded a vessel, yet he knows his many ships from keel to truck as he knows the palm of his own hand. His favorite book is the Bible, from which he reads every evening and morning.

ROBERT DOLLAR started, as the stories say, “from the bottom of the ladder.” This rung was a job as cook's helper in a Canadian lumber camp at the age of 11, after he came from his birthplace at Falkirk, Scotland. He learned to “figger” by candlelight, using a nail and a chip of bark. He and his brother saved enough from wages of $25 a month to buy a farm, then timber land in Michigan at $1.25 an acre, then a sawmill. A breakdown from overwork sent him to California, where he started lumbering again. He found ho couldn’t get his timber to market, so he bought a tiny coaster, the Newsboy, and plied up and down the coast from San Francisco to his timber mill in Mendocino county. # a a IN 1901 he took his first lumber cargo to China. Since a Scotchman, like nature, ahbors a vacuum, he brought her back loaded with silk, spice, tea, and rice. It was the first episode of one of the world’s great shipping epics. Today the Dollar banner floats from the mastheads of fifty ships, nine of them the first and finest round-the-world liners. As with the British empire, the sun never sets on the Dollar fleet. Cap Dollar wants to live to be 100 and then to die in his sleep. “When I come to die at 100,” he said, “I hope I’ll have a very hard day at the office, come home and read my Bible, then go to sleep and wake up in the next world.” At 88 he is reported improving after a long illness, a third wish also he has achieved. He has seen his “pond,” the Pacific, come into its belated owm, commercially. City Man Slugged, Robbed Awaiting a street car at College avenue and Eleventh street early today, Harold Dean, 316 North Bosart avenue, was slugged by two Negroes. They beat Dean with a club, and took $4.

MARBLE TOURNEY STARTS SATURDAY

One more day of practice and then marble shooters in four city districts will line up for the opening preliminary matches in the citywide play for the mibs title. Winner of The Indianapolis Times city tournament will win a prize that any boy or girl would be glad to land —a trip to Ocean City, N. J., to compete in the national tournament the week of June 21. All expenses will be paid, a chaperon will look after the lad’s welfare, there’ll be a week of great entertainment at the Jersey ocean

HUNT WOMAN BANDIT Suspect Jealousy Cause of Holdup in Home. Antics of a masked feminine bandit in a south side home Wednesday night, continued to bewilder police today. When Mrs. Carl Cracraft, 1333 Kentucky avenue, answered a rap at her rear door, she stared amazed into the muzzle of an automatic in a w’oman’s hand. The woman was masked. Holding Cracraft and his wife at bay with the gun, the bandit took $1 from Mrs. Cracraft, told the family to get out of town, trampled a photograph of Cracraft on the floor, and ordered Mrs. Cracraft to produce her husband's clothing, which, the gunwoman said, she would cut into small pieces. She left before carrying out the threat. Cracraft said he suspected a former sweetheart.

Slayers Greet Death With Open Arms, Gestures of Defiance

Rifles were leveled . . . onlookers grew tensely silent . . . death was only a few seconds away. And in this remarkable TimesNEA Service picture, taken just before a military firing squad executed three convicted murderers at Guatemala City, Guatemala, you see how the condemned men mat their fate. Note two of the victims, their legs bound together, waving a hat and a handkerchief in defiance of death. The arms of the other were thrown out to greet the impending hail of bullets. In the background is a crowd which witnessed the public Vcecution.

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PROBE WEDDING ACROSS BORDER Michigan Attorney-General Sifts Marriage Status. By United frees LANSING, Mich., May 14.—Detroit’s famous international wedding, in which the alien bride stretched her fingers across the Ca-nadian-American boundary line to receive the ring, was under investigation today by the attorney-gen-eral. The bridegroom, Reginald Crudde, naturalized American, was barred from marriage in Canada because his Mexican divorce from his first wife was not recognized by Canadian law. The bride, Miss Emily Hunt of Scotland, could not enter Detroit to be married here because the Scottish immigration quota already was filled. So the couple met in the middle of the Ambassador bridge, 200 feet above the waters of the Detroit river, Monday night. Judge Watts and Crudde stood in the United States and Miss Hunt in Canada. The bride extended her finger into American territory, Crudde slipped on the ring, and Judge Watts pronounced the words of union. It was expected that in a few days the bride could enter the United States as an American citizen by marriage.

But the legislature took a different view.

resort and side trips to places of historic interest in the east. First four of the preliminaries to be staged at a dozen play centers will be pulled off Saturday, starting at 10 o'clock in the morning. If you live closer to one of these four playgrounds than to any other in the city, you’re eligible for the matches Saturday. Openers will be played at Spades, Rhodius, Garfield and Willard parks. Be there a little before 10 o’clock, ready to go. The prize certainly is worth the effort. Don’t miss your opportunity for this great trip. Every boy and girl between 6 and 15 years of age is eligible.

ALFONSO’S FORTUNE TO BE CONFISCATED

By United Press MADRID, May 14—Perfect tranquility now' exists throughout Spain, Niceto Alcala Zamora, president of the council of ministers, said today in announcing general elections June 21 or 28. Many monks and nuns have remained in their convents, he said. Alcala Zamora expressed the opinion that the recent disturbances originated among the monarchists, whereupon extremists seized the opportunity to spread disorders. That must not be taken as imThe president lamented that the government had been taken by surprise in Madrid, but he pointed out

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INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 14,1931

DEATH HALTS BRAVE BATTLE BY EDUCATOR Loses Courageous Effort to Sign Baylor Diplomas Before End Comes. FIGHTER UNTIL END Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks President of Texas School for 29 Years. By United Press WACO, Tex., May 14.—Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, 67, president for twenty-nine years of Baylor university, died today after losing in a courageous fight to sign 428 diplomas for spring graduates before death stilled his hand. The veteran educator passed away at 1:15 a. m., leaving 168 of the diplomas still unsigned. Even after physicians had told him that death was near and that any exertion would shorten his life, Brooks had fought on in an effort to leave his signature on all the 428 diplomas as the mark of “a last task” completed for his students, but he failed. Death was caused by internal cancer. He had been in a coma since Wednesday. His wife; a daughter, Mrs. Aurelia Brooks; his son, Sims, prominent Waco attorney, and his boyhood schoolmate, Pat M. Neff, former Governor of Texas, were with him when he died. Dr. Brooks was stricken several months ago. Makes Valiant Fight Slowly the illness increased until more than a week ago physicians declared positively the educator could not live more than two weeks longer. It was after that he made the valiant fight to sign the diplomas for the students to be graduated next week. To the end Dr. Brooks displayed the same indomitable spirit which had inspired his boyhood studies by a.kerosenee lamp, his work as a railroad section hand, his studies at Eaylor and Yale, and his years as president of the oldest institution of higher education on Texas soil. Rounds Out Active Life When on May 2 his doctors told I him he had but a few weeks to live, he set about systematically rounding out his active life. The 249 diplomas he wished to leave as a last “memento” to the students and the school. “My only regret,” he said, “is that I shall never be able to stand before another student body. Carry on.” - In the days that followed the physicians’ announcement there was no hope, Dr. Brooks alternated between working at the diplomas and sitting alone with his wife, holding her hand and recalling the years they had spent together. Toward the end he called in Neff, who had been his roommate at Baylor, and they talked of college days. Funeral Set for Friday Neff was in the flower-banked hospital room when death struck. Dean W. S. Allen, acting president of Baylor since Dr. Brooks was incapacitated, was the only other person present except members of the family. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon in Waco hall, $2,000,000 auditorium presented to Dr. Brooks as the gift of the citizens of Waco to Baylor university. Dr. George W. Truett of Dallas, and Dr. J. M. Dawson of Waco, will officiate. Muneie Man Buried By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., May 14.—Funeral services were held Wednesday for James Connett, 51, who died of heart disease at a furniture store where he was employed.

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] that those guilty of negligence have i been punished. The new republic celebrated the j anniversary of the first month of 1 its existence by moving to confis- • cate the private fortune and properties of former King Alfonso XIII ; as one result of the anti-religious attacks on churches, convents and other institutions. It is estimated that Alfonso’s es- | tates and other properties would exceed $10,000,000 in value. The most valuable is the royal palace at Santander, in the north, I which was a personal gift to Alfonso by the citizens of Santander. The other royal palaces are the property of the crown.

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FIVE OF CITY RUM RING RULED GUILTY

Baltzell Will Pronounce Sentence on May 23; Three Freed. The five members of Indiana’s SIOO,OOO bootleg ring w'ho were found guilty of conspiracy to violate the dry laws by a jury in federal court Wednesday night will be sentenced May 23, Judge Robert C. Baltzell announced today. After deliberating an hour and forty minutes the jury declared guilty Earl J. Allen, “brains” of the gang; Leon C. Brooks, former prohibition agent; Clarence R. Criswell, Andrew C. Johnson, garage operator, and Sterling Stringer, charged with being one of the liquor truck drivers. Three were acquitted. They are Claude Gallagher, Frankfort poolroom operator; John C. Martindale, Clermont used car dealer; and Glenn B. Wafeh. Presenting but three character witnesses, defense attorneys rested the cases without challenging any of the testimony through material witnesses or by placing the defendants on the stand. NO U. S. FOR GANDHI India Chieftain Decides Not to Visit America This Summer. By l nited Press BOMBAY. India, May 14.—The Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, civil disobedience leader, declared today that hp definitely had decided not to visit the United States after the forthcoming India round table conference in London, to vhich he is a delegate.

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LAUDS LOAN STRENGTH U. S. League Manager Says Trade Is Strongest in Nation. Despite bank failures, building and loan associations continue strong financially, and are now one of the strongest financial institutions, comparable with the national bank, H. Morton Bodfish of Chicago told the Marion County Building and Loan League in the Athenaeum Wednesday night. Bodfish is executive manager of the United States Building and Loan League.

FEAR NEW STRIFE IN KENTUCKY AREA

By United Press HARLAN, Ky., May 14.—National guardsmen patroled the southeastern Kentucky coal fields from their new base here today under an ultimatum from 11.000 unemployed union miners that if they did not soon get help they were going to help themselves.” Governor Flem D. Sampson was accused of breaking faith with the unemployed miners and Colonel Daniel M. Carrell, in command of the 400 troops sent here to quell disorders such as have taken five lives, was charged with siding with the mine owners, in a statement issued by William M. Hightower, president of the Evarts local of the United Mine Workers of America, in behalf of the 11.000 men. “Our backs are to the wall,” he

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STUDENTS FIGHT DANCING BAN ‘Rebels’ Also Demand Card Playing Be Allowed. By United Press TIFFIN, 0., May 14. —Demands for abolition of the ban against dancing and card playing at Heidelberg college were to be presented officials today as students continued in revolt against the administration of Charles E. Miller, president. Unrest over religious restriction, which flared up with the stoning of President Miller’s offices last week, smoldered on the campus when it was learned that the 70-year-old executive would neither lift the bans on social life nor re-employ Dr. Newell Sawyer, popular English professor. Faculty members and trustees have backed the president. While the athletic field ticket office was destroyed in an incendiary fire, spokesmen of the student body denied that it was fired by students. They attributed the blaze to town “hoodlums.”

I declared. “The Governor is against us. The money power is against us. We have got to live. Somebody will have to help us or we will help ourselves, and we mean just that.” After Hightower’s scathing statement of living conditions here, Colonel Carrell announced the transfer of his base of operations from Evarts—seat of nearly all the trouble—to the county seat here. Karlan is the western apex of a triangle formed by Evarts and Cawood, where 125 troops have been m anticipation of further trouble. Although saying the situation “remains fairly quiet,” Colonel Carrell admitted numerous additional requests had been received for national guardsmen to replace armed guards at the mines.

CAROL LIKELY TO LOSE HEAD, SAYS AUTHOR Bercovjci Views Revolution as Certain in Rumania. His Native Land. PEOPLE ARE STARVING ; Whole Royal Family Is in Peril: Republic Seen as Outcome. BY 11. ALLEX SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, May 14.—Revolution is almost certain in Rumania, with the distinct possibility that members of the royal family will lose their

lives in the flareup, according to Konard Bercovici, native of King Carol’s coun try, who has gained a wide reputa ti o n for himself as a writer. Bercovici came down from his Connecticut farm today for an interview', He wore a steel vest, which he says is a pro-

tection against Rumania bullets, because he has written a book exposing a great many secrets of the monarchy. Already, he claims, hi3 life has been threatened a score of times. “Rumania’s royal family,” he said, “will pass from the political scene before 1931 has passed.” The Rumanian people, Bercovici explained, are a hot-headed lot. King Carol holds it in his power, he believes, to save himself and the other members of his family. He can abdicate and declare a republic with himself at its head as president, if he wants to. But unless he does that, he stands a good chance of “getting his throat cut,” Bercovici said. Famed for Gypsy Stories Bercovici has written many books and stories about Rumania, and he has become famous for his tales of the country’s peasant and gypsy life. Since the war, he has spent four or five months of each year in Rumania, and he feels that he knows the bent of the Rumanian's mind. "I know one thing,” he said, “they’re sick of their royal family.” Queen Marie and Prince Carol, and the others,” he said, “have made a comic opera out of Rumania. Americans think that all Rumanians are like Queen Marie and the others. But they are far from that. The Rumanian people are starving. “The monarchy has been extravagant beyond hope. All Rumania is interested in the United States in borrowing money. And when I write an article or a bock against the monarchy, they get after me. The Rumanian government is selling monopolies—selling the government’s wealth. People Lose Rights “All the constitutional rights of the people have been abrogated, Marie and her clique have control over the banks. That’s what stands in Carol’s way. He isn’t free. “The Rumanian people are starving and cold. They have no seeds to plant. They can’t sell their wheat. If they had seeds to plant, they / wouldn't plant them this spring. The ( majority of them are not ploughing this spring. “They know that their day is at hand. Something is bound to happen. And Carol would better get out while the getting’s good. Else he’ll lose his head in the bargain.” While there exists a possibility that Russia might gain a foothold in Rumania and make the country Communistic, Bercovici believes a republic is at hand. 2 KILLED, 3 HURT AS STOLEN CAR CRASHES Cop’s Pursuit of ‘Joy Riders* Ends as Auto Plunges off Road. By United Press ARLINGTON, Mass, May 14.—An automobile apparently stolen for a “joy ride” was pursued by Arlington police early today and plunged over an embankment, killing two occupants and injuring three others critically. The dead were John Scott, 22, Watertown, and Mrs. Helen Flynn, 18, Somerville, a recent bride. John Griggs saw the machine being removed from his garage and notified police who followed the auto. Police thought they had lost the automobile until they heard the screams of the injured. CHIMNEY SITTER DOWN Japanese Striker Taken to Hospital After 316-Hour Vigil. Bp United Press TOKIO, May 14.—Hiroshi Chiba, chimney sitting striker, descended from his perch atop a smokestack of the Japan Dye Works today after the settlement of a strike in which he joined with hundreds of fellow workers. He was taken to a hospital to recover from his vigil of 316 hours and 22 minutes. He climbed the post May 1 as a protest against the company's treatment of workers. JOHN D. SRr HONORED Made “Knight of Kingdom of God” by Cleveland Baptists. By United Press CLEVELAND, May 14.-r John D. Rockefeller Sr. now is a “Knight of the Kingdom oi God,” an honor bestowed upon him* at the 100th anniversary of the Cleveland Baptist Association for “his distinguished sendee to humanity.” jHe recived a medal emblematic of the honor.

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