Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1931 — Page 9

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‘SCARFACE AL’ CRINGES AS HE FACES JUSTICE Gangland’s Emperor Is at End of His Rope, U. S. Officials Assert. PRISON WALLS LOOMING Capone Crime Syndicate Is Crushed, Federal Attorneys Say. By United Press CHICAGO, June 16.—The federal government brought Scarface A1 Capone to Justice today to answer for ten years of crime. Prosecutors said it was Capone’s last stand in his long criminal career. The corpulent underworld leader dropped his customary indifference to law, forsook his character as invincible ruler of the gangs and rackets —and took on the appearance of a terrorized criminal. It was the first time Capone ever has faced the probability of spending several years in prison. Government agents expressed confidence of conviction under the indictments which Capone must answer late today. Two Indictments Serious The indictments, representing months of careful and dangerous work by federal agents, charge that Capone • 1 Defrauded the federal government of $215,000 in taxes on almost SI 000,000 Income in five years. The highest oous bic penalty is -hirtyiwo years in prison and an $30,000 2 Directed a super-business in liquor which brought in $200,00b,000 over a ten-year period. Two years in prison and a SIO,OOO fine s the minimum penalty for that offense. His alternatives in answering either of the indictments are to: 1. Disregard the advice of his hiah-priced attorneys, plead gull. y and accept the penalty with the hope that the government will be 2. Plead not guilty, attempt negotiatlons for leniency over a period of five days, which delay is permitted by the law, and then change his plea to guilty. 3 Plead not guilty and fight the case despite the government’s overwhelming evidence, a procedure which might delay the final reckoning for two years. ‘He Will Be Convicted’ •’Capone will be convicted." said George E. Q. Johnson. United States district attorney, who directed gathering of the evidence. We don’t care whether he pleads guilty or not guilty, but we will grant him no leniency for a guilty plea. 'Our evidence is complete. Not only are we sure of convicting Capone on both charges, but we are also confident of sending sixty-eight other gangsters, named with him in the liquor conspiracy case, to prison.” Capone’s chief attorney, William F. Waugh, announced that his client will plead not guilty. It was reported, however, that Waugh had made advances to prosecutors toward obtaining leniency for Capone in the event he pleads guilty. Behind Capone as he was called before court lay the most amazing crime syndicate in history. h s trail splotched with the blood of more than 300 victims. This crime juggernaut engulfed cities, fringed Chicago with vice resorts, murdered with seeming impunity, reared itself above the law of the nations second largest city and the state of Illinois, and reaped a harvest of gold that staggers the imagination. Lives in Continual Fear This super crime state ramified from ocean to ocean. It was so highly publicized that college students voted Al Capone the best known in the country. Travelers reported Capone the only American talked about in far places where little outside news filtered. The first question asked by visitors to Chicago was "where is Al Capone?” Lurid, inaccurate biographies in continental journals depicted Capone as a picturesque, jovial gangster, flinging money to the poor, attending the opera in formal dress and holding open house for all who cared to come. To those who knew the inside of his life, Capone was anything but what the articles set forth. Now’ 32, he is a leering, flashily dressed, thick-lipped criminal, living in continual fear that at the next corner he will be greeted by a burst of machine gun bullets the medicine he has used to "cure" so many of his enemies, "Myth” Coming to Light To the average Chicagoan, Capone is a myth just now’ beginning to be understood. Not one person in a thousand has seen him to know* who he was. Yet every Chicagoan who has had his pants pressed, housed his automobile in a public garage, bought beer or “hard” liquor, waggered on a dog race, or belonged to certain labor unions has paid tribute in cash to Capone and his gang. At some time or another during the ten years of his reign, Capone has controlled or extorted money from all those sources. Today, however, with the government smashing gang rule and spreading on the official records the gigantic profits of the rackets, Chicago is beginning to realize how much of a hold Capone really had. Tax Payment Sets Record By Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind.. June 18. Madison county taxpayers paid $1,406,243.31 on the spring installment of taxes, as shown by a report compiled by Miss Marcia H. Barton, county treasurer. The total was $67,000 greater than the spring instalment in 1930. The state receives $159,309.72 in the distribution of the money collected here,

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Even the Mayor Can't , Sit Where He Chooses When is a guest of honor not a guest of honor—when he is the self-effacing and modest Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan of Indianapolis. The mayor met President Herbert Hoover when he arrived in the city, drove across town with the entourage and then disappeared. Just as the banquet got under way in the Manufacturers’ building Monday night, in came an inconspicuous figure and sat down at the press table. He knew the ‘‘boys’’ and made himself at home. It was his honor. , He sat there for a moment and an observant waiter, recognized the may. said: ‘‘Here, Mayor, I have a seat for you,” and sat him directly across from Albert M. Glossbrenner, his Republican opponent in the 1929 mayoralty election. No sooner did Sullivan become comfortable again than Harry Fenton, secretary of the G. O. P. state committee, spied him and brought him up to his vacant place at the honor guests’ table with the President, and so finally the modest mayor found his rightful place after a half hour of search.

HOUSE BILL 6 HEARING IS SET Case to Be Held Before Chamberlin July 1. Injunction case against publication of House Bill 6 will be held before Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin July 1, it was announced today. The suit w r as brought by the cities of Indianapolis and Muncie against Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, in which it is charged that during the uproar of the closing hours of the 1931 legislature a conspiracy was formed to bring about passage of the bill. It is charged that interests struck out the clause of the measure that provided for municipalities to control the truck and bus regulations to have authority to be vested with the public service commission. With the announcement of the trial, prosecuting officials of the county announced that the grand jury will resume its investigation of circumstances surrounding passage of the bill. Governor Harry G. Leslie appeared voluntarily as a witness during the early stages of the quiz. Mayr has decided to publish the 1931 acts, omitting House Bill 6. The state supreme court recently denied the writ of prohibition in the case, returning it to be tried on its merits in the county court.

RAILROADS UPHELD BEFORE GRAIN MEN

Declared Most Dependable and Economical Mode of Transportation. By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 16—" It is safe to assume that the total cost of transportation to the people of the United States is now greater than at any previous time in history, and this is true, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts that have been and still are being made to provide competition for the railroad, which has been, is now and will continue to be the most dependable, the most satisfactory and the most economical interior transportation agency the nation has,” declared C. D. 11 " of the Western Railway' .lttee on Public Relations, Chi. in an address before the grain dealers of Indiana in session here today. Morris contended that if all the costs of their operation had to be paid by other forms of transportation, such as motor vehicles and barge lines, as he declares the railroads are required to pay all the costs of their operation, it would be impossible for them to sell their service at anything like the rates they now charge and continue in business. "The railroad,” he said, "is owned by private capital, receives no subsidy from the taxpayer, operates In times of business depression as well as when the country is prosperous, while its activities are constantly supervised and regulated by the government. "By far the largest item in the expenditures of our state governments in recent years has been for the building and maintenance of public highways, and this does not take into consideration the amounts received from the federal government under the federal aid law. The highways thus budded are being increasingly used by motor vehicles for commercial purposes, and, in general, these vehicles are not required to pay adequately for the use thereof. The railroads pay approximately $400,000,000 annually in taxes, more than 75 per cent of which goes directly to state and local governments, so that the railroad is thus heavily taxed to furnish a roadbed for its competitor, notwithstanding it must own’ and maintain its own roadbed and pay taxes on the assessed value thereof.” TWO FIREMEN HURT Flames Cause $125,000 Loss at Elwood. By United Press ELWOOD, Ind., June 16.—Damage caused by flames which swept two lumber yards here is estimated today at $125,000. The blaze was believed to have been started by a spark from an electric sander in one of the mills. All the city’s fire fighting apparatus was used, but was handicapped by lack of water. Ernest McMinn and Loren McMmds, firemen, were overcome while fighting the flames. Gus Jones, a motorcycle policeman, was injured while en route to the water plant with a pl?a for more water. Hatched by Electricity By United Press MONTICELLO, Ind., June 16—An electric hatchery here hatched 140 pheasants for the Izaak Walton League. More than 200 eggs were tafcjn from the Diamond Point g&jgpp preserve lor the setting.

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SIGHT RESTORED, HE SEES FIRST SUNLIGHT Evangelist Wearing Bandage Over Eyes After Operation, By United Press PHILADELPHIA, June 16.—Robert Frazer, 25-year-old evangelist who has been blind all his life and recently underwent an operation on his eyes, felt guilty today because he accidentally saw the sun light while riding in an automobile Sunday. While motoring with Dr. George H. Mdore, the specialist who performed the operation on his left eye three weeks ago, the bandage slipped and Frazer saw the sunlight. "When I felt the bandage slipping,” he said, “I just couldn’t resist the temptation. I saw light only a few seconds before I lowered my gaze. My sense told me it was sunlight I saw and that its color was yellow. Probably I should not have allowed the bandage to slip aside since the time has not arrived for removing it, but I didn’t look at the sunlight very long.” ‘Heaven Not Bankrupt’ By Times Special CICERO, Ind., June 16.—"1 am weary of hearing people talk about hard times in connection with gospel work just as though heaven was bankrupt or there was a dearth in the spirit of God,” declared F. D. Nichol, Washington, D. C., associate editor of the Seventh Day Adventist Review and Herald, official paper of the church, in addressing the camp meeting of Indiana Adventists in session here.

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By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., June 18- Authorities hold a warrant for the arrest of Albert Sharp, farmer, alleged to have strewn tacks, staples and nails on a section of State Road 30 at a point two miles east of here, as a means of revenge upon his tenant, A. G. Sutton. Seven of the articles punctured tires of Sutton’s automobile and one penetrated his shoe.

TWO 6IVEN HONORS Degrees Conferred on Hoosiers by State University. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 16— Honorary degrees were conferred on two Hosier men at the one hundred second annual commencement of Indiana university here Monday evening. They are Hugh McK Landon, Indianapolis, and Newell Sanders, former United States senator from Tennessee. Jennings Laing, dean of the University of Chicago, gave the commencement address. Diplomas were awarded 738 graduates. At a meeting of board of trustees of the university, held in connection with commencement, officers were re-elected. They are: President, J. M Fesler; vice-president, George a! Ball, secretary, John W. Cravens and treasurer, Edwin Corr. THIEVES LOOT STORE Take About Everything Except Walls in Martinsville Robbery. By Times Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 16— About all that remained of the Maxwell Marshall store today were the four walls and a ceiling. Thieves who entered the store stole Jewelry, guns, flashlights and a quantity of other merchandise. Police officials who reported the theft to Indianapolis authorities told them the majority of the show cases and shelves In the place are bare. It is believed the robbers used one or two trucks to haul the loot.

CITY’S BUSINESS MEN ARE UP IN ARMS, FIGHTING TOW-IN LAW

Smarting under charges of three speakers that the impounding clause of the new traffic ordinance already has harmed downtown business men immeasurably, city councilmen Monday night delayed action on an amendment removing a flaw from the ordinance until a special meeting at 6 Wednesday. Petitions, signed by representatives of 216 downtown business firms, asking that the early morning ban on parking in the downtown area be removed, were presented to the council by Henry Roberts, downtown restaurant operator. Other speakers who pleaded for removal of the ban to prevent "further business depression,” were Frank C. Flshback, another restaurant operator, and Attorney Fred Barrett. Delay oqrthls ordinance and all

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1931

PLANES SOAR OVER INDIANA BEAUTYSPOTS 30 Ships Wing Northward After Overnight Halt at Evansville. TERRE HAUTE TONIGHT Third Air Tour Will Circle Northern Part of State Before Returning. BY CARLOS LANE Times Stiff Correspondent BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 16. Settling into a small intermediate airport here this morning, three planes of the One hundred-thir-teeth observation squadron, Indiana national guard, completed. the official entourage of the third allIndiana air tour, now on its second day. After lunch and inspection of the thirty-odd ships by several thousand persons who lined the boundaries of the field before the fleet arrived, the cavalcade was slated to swoop away to Terre Haute for an overnight stop. The military flight from Stout field, Indianapolis, was delayed a day when Major Richard F. Taylor, commanding officer, took five planes from the squadron to escort President Hoover’s train into the capital city. Guard Planes Stunt However, with Major Taylor and Lieutenants Matt G. Carpenter and Howard H. Maxwell at the controls, the flight joined the tour today to show Indiana a sample of flying that won for the squadron first place in formation take-off, and second citation for flight formation flying in the recent aerial war maneuvers at Dayton, O. Originally the flight, carrying The Times correspondent, and two national guard officers, was slated to precede the larger body of ships, but now the national guard planes will be the last to leave each of the ten fields remaining on the 1931 program. The reason is that Howdy Maxwell has been named tourmaster, whose duty it is to flag the ships from the field with the military precision and care that must be observed to preserve safety with so many planes in the air and on the field. Maxwell Hard to Bruise Tour officials asked for either Lieutenant Maxwell or Lieutenant Carpenter for the position, but Major Taylor recommended the former. “Matt shouldn't be overtaxed after that crackup in the east, but Howdy is pretty big and I don’t think he’ll bruise easily,” said the major. Flying blind in a fog on the return from the big maneuvers, Matt crashed his plane into a Pennsylvania mountainside, but escaped serious injury, Monday he was back in the operations office at Stout field with as much energy as ever in the duties that range from piloting a plane to a broom over the floor to keep the quarters shipshape. —. Soar Over Winding Ohio Flying south from Indianapolis to Madison, thence to Evansville for the night, and today to Bloomington, the tourists saw the most beautiful of Indiana’s terrain, from Clifty Falls state park at Madison to the Clark county forests and the winding Ohio river at the foot of the state. Wednesday the trip will break away from the wooded hills of southern Indiana to the flat plains of the. northern part of the state, after whatever form of rest the Terre Haute hosts have provided. Lafayette, Wolcott and Gary are on Wednesday’s bill, with Valparaiso, Michigan City and Ft. Wayne the next day, and Connersville and Muncie awaiting the fleet Friday. The tour will end at municipal airport Saturday noon. SLUGGER SENTENCED Wayne Schertzer to Farm for Hitting Wife. "11l take him back,” Mrs. Helen Shertzer told Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer today. “I won’t go back,” her husband, Wayne Shertzer, 1141 River avenue, declared. And then Sheaffer spoke: "No, you won’t be back for thirty days, anyway.” In addition to the thirty-day state farm sentence, Sheaffer fined Shertzer $5 and costs on conviction on an assault and battery charge. Mrs. Shertzer, 1141 River avenue, told Sheaffer she found her husband riding in a car with a woman, and when she attempted to hold him for police, he struck her.

others up for action Monday night was explained by the fact that Councilman Fred C. Gardner and Maurice Tennant, Republicans, were absent, and it was desired that the council as a whole act on the measure. Six Democrats and only one Republican were present at the session. Declaring he had worked to elect the present Democratic city administration, Roberts, almost at the same moment President Herbert Hoover was delivering his address at the state fairground, rapped the Hoover administration for the present economic situation. “We are up against a depression in this Hoover administration,” he said, “so serious that we need all the business we can get. This downtown parking ban will drive what little business dowatown firms still have away from th&u* *sr

MRS. MISS CO-ED ONE AWFUL FIBBER

A DEGREE was obtained under false pretenses Monday at Butler university. It was issued to an ‘‘isn’t-any-more.” The spurious A. B. in philosophy was handed to a miss who answered the roll call as ‘‘Miss Alice Shirk.” She received Miss Shirk’s degree, but she wasn't Miss Shirk. And if that’s being captious, it’s because the miss who accepted the degree is now Mrs. Robert W. Garten, nee Shirk, of 3323 Guilford avenue. B tt tt MISS SHIRK ceased to be Saturday afternoon at Martinsville. But she returned in time Monday from a short honeymoon to become "Miss Shirk,” and to disappoint numerous collectors of old shoes and rice who planned to attend her wedding, scheduled for Wednesday at the Tabernacle Presbyterian church. She is one of two “co-eds” who exchanged university cap-and-gowns for bridal veils. Miss Lillian Pierson, 2703 North Pennsj’l-

On the Dot That’s How City Engineer Brought the President to Indianapolis.

"'\7‘ES sir, way back in 1931 (in JL the spring if I remember rightly) I was working for the Big Four . . . and I put President Hoover’s special over the tracks safely into Indianapolis . . . right

on t:me, too, never missed the schedule over thirty seconds at any point.” It’s Eenjamin R. Garrnan, Big Four engineer speaking, some time in the dim future when he has retired to an easy chair. For Garrnan, who lives at 3627 East Washington street, was the man who piloted the locomotive

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that drew the President’s train of seven coaches to the city Monday. Garrnan has been running Big Four trains for twenty-seven years. He also is proud of his record in hauling Al Smith during the last presidential campaign. Others of the crew of the presidential train Monday were: Lawrence Dickey, fireman; Ed Barnhart, conductor, and E. T. Stone, brakeman. J. J. Gilchrist, road foreman of engines, east end Chicago division of the Big Four, and H. W. Sefton, supervisor of locomotives and fuel peformance of the Big Four system, booh rode in the cab. G. E. Howell, trainmaster of the east end Chicago division also was on the train. ✓ The presidential train was preceded ten minutes by a pilot train to clear the tracks.

KIRKLAND MEDICAL WITNESS IN DENIAL

Refutes Statements by Head of National Association of Coroners. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., June 16Dr. Orlando Scott, who was among medical experts called by counsel for Virgil Kirkland, convicted in connection with the death of Miss Arlene Draves during a Gary liquor party, has denied statements of P. J. Zisch, Milwaukee, president of the National Association of Coroners. Statements at Zisch were in reference to an article published in the Medico-Legal Journal May 22. Zisch charged that in the article, written by Scott, it was said medical evidence was being ignored at Kirkland’s trial. He further charged Dr. Scott represented himself to be connected with Northwestern university law school as instructor in medical jurisprudence, and that the doctor had been barred from membership in the American and Chicago medical associations. Zisch also asserted reprints of the journal article had been made for Dr. Scott, who was using them as "Business cards’’ to obtain publicity for himself and future employment as "a director of medical defense,” a term, Zisch says, “I never heard of before.”

Roberts referred to “unfortunate rumors that one or two of our councilmen own a number of parking garages.” Voicing a rigorous plea for delaying action on the ordinance amendment until business men could appear and express their views, Barrett declared the impounding clause takes away from car owners and business men their property without due process of law. Impounding of cars for violating the early morning ban on downtown parking can not be resumed by police until the flaw is removed from the ordinance. "If you pass the amending ordinance in its present form, it will set Indianapolis back thirty years,” Barrett said. “With business already suffering, now is no time to affect any business. 12 city officials would colic l

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Mrs. Robert W. Garten vania street, was married at 10:30 a. m. today to Eugene Clifford,® Indianapolis Star reporter.

COURT BLOCKS DRAIN PROJECT Judge Rules In Favor of Protesting Taxpayers.

County drainage commissioners were blocked today in proposed construction of a $189,000 drainage project in the southwest part of Perry township, when Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin ruled irtv favor of remonstrance suits filed by fifty-five taxpayers. Proceedings toward the construction cf a ditch in that section were started several years ago. Commissioners ordered the present project after construction work on another drain was found unsatisfactory. Judge Chamberlin ruled there was no necessity for the ditch and that its cost was in excess of benefits to be derived from it. Several farmers testified h"* had provided drainage faculties themselves. Taxpayers also opposed the $189,000 assessment as excessive. The judge ruled it would not be practical to accomplish the proposed construction of the drain, known as the William Hauiesen, ditch at this time.

County Crash By Times Special

DECATUR, Ind., June 16. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Schwartz and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Miller were tossed from one county to another in an automobile accident near here, but none was seriously hurt. Riding in Decatur county, their automobile failed to make a turn and crashed into a fence which serves as a boundary, and the four were flung over the fence into Allen county.

Money Chase By Times Special COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., June 16. —Both in automobiles, Clarence Isaac and J. C. Schullen, raced around the Whitley county courthouse here. Schullen wished to collect a bill from Isaac. Both were on foot at the start. Isaac ran to his automobile and tried to escape and Schullen got into his car to pursue him. After a wild dash on a street, both motorists took to the court house lawn. Each will face a reckless driving charge.

MOB CAPTURES NEGRO Would-Be Assaulter of WTiite Girl Is Believed Lynched in South. By United Press HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 16. Search was made today for the body of Thomas Jasper, Negro, charged with attempting to assault a young white girl, who was believed lynched by a mob. Police admitted that two men forced their way into the city jail Monday night, filed the lock from Jasper’s cell, and carried him from the building. Jasper appeared in city court Monday, was fined SSOO, and given a jail sentence. It was his second offense of the same nature.

f fees on all the more than 100,000 stickers issued in a year, there would be no need for this ordinance, and, in addition, a handsome sum would be placed in the city treasury.” Because a few motorists take advantage of parking privileges is no reason to punish all motorists and deprive downtown firms of their business, Fishback asserted. “My business and that of many other Arms is being injured seriously by the ordinance. People even from neighboring towns are afraid to come here and risk having their car towed to a garage for parking while they transact their business.” Ordinances introduced at the meeting included one authorizing a i $60,000 bond issue for three new i fire statics*. I

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HARDING WAS BETRAYED BY ASSOCIATES, SAYS HOOVER IN DEDICATING OHIO MEMORIAL Friends Who Turned Traitors Proved Real Tragedy of Life of Late President, Declares Nation’s Chief Executive. FLAYS AIDS OF DEAD LEADER Brands Those False to Trusts With Withering Scorn as Calvin Coolidge and Many Others Look on at Tomb. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent MARION, 0., June 16.—The late President Warren G. Harding was betrayed by some of his associates, who not only deceived him, but betrayed their country in a way for which punishment never can atone, President Herbert Hoover said today in dedicating the memorial here where the late President and Mrs. Harding are buried. ‘ W arren Harding gave his life in worthy accomplishment for his country,” Mr. Hoover said as he sought to vindicate the memory of the late chief executive by branding with withering scorn those who were false to their trust. In the presence of former President Calvin Coolidge and many others who served in the Harding administration, Mr. Hoover for the first time publicly expressed himself on the conduct of some associates of that regime.

Referring to the fact that he accompanied the late President on the fatal Alaskan trip, Mr. Hoover described how he observed Harding, then on the threshold of death, as a man whose ‘‘soul had been seared by a great disillusionment,” gr ad u ally weaken not only from phyical exhaustion, but from worry over the conduct of some of his intimates. This betrayal, Mr. Hoover said, was the tragedy of the life of Warren Harding. The President paid tribute to Harding’s “kindly and gentle spirit,” and described him as a man “of delicate sense of honor,” especially fitted to restore tranquillity and heal the rancors left by the World war. Mr. Hoover summarized briefly Harding’s achievements in his two years in the White House, climaxed by the Washington arms conference, and then turned to the tragic picture of the President straining to go through with his long trip in the west, but being crushed under the weight of great anxiety. Weakened From Anxiety “Those who were his companions on that journey realized full well that he had overstrained even his robust strength in the gigantic task which confronted him during the previous two years,” Mr. Hoover said. “We came also to know that here was a man whose soul was being seared by a great disillusionment. We saw him gradually weaken, not only from physical exhaustion, but from mental anxiety. Warren Harding had a dim realization that he had been betrayed by a few of the men whom he had trusted, by men whom he had believed were his devoted friends. “It was proved later in the courts of the land that these men had betrayed not alone the friendship and trust of their stanch and loyal friend, but they had betrayed their country. That was the tragedy of the life of Warren Harding. Punishment Never Can Atone “There are disloyalties and there are crimes which shock our sensibilities, which may bring suffering upon those who are touched by their immediate results. But there is no disloyalty and no crime in all the category of human weaknesses which compares with the failure of probity in the conduct of public trust. “Monetary loss or even the shock to moral sensibilities is perhaps a passing thing, but the breaking down of the faith of a people in the honesty of their government and in the integrity of their Institutions, the lowering of respect for the standards of honor which prevail in high places, are crimes for which punishment never can atone.” Mr. Hoover described Harding as a man of “passionate patriotism” and “deep religious feeling.” He closed with a quotation from the last public statement of Harding, which declared “Christ was the Prince of Peace and we who seek to render his name glorious must move in the ways of peace and brotherhood and loving service.” Pays Tribute to Spirit Mr. Hoover added: “He gave his life in that spirit, and in that spirit we pay tribute to his memory.” Portions of the text of Mr. Hoover’s address follows: “We are assembled here to dedicate the tomb of Warren G. Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States. This beautiful monument, erected by the voluntary subscriptions of the people, symbolizes their respect for his memory. It has been their response with tender remembrance to a kindly and gentle spirit. “Warren G. Harding came from the people. Bom just at the close of the Civil war, it became his responsibility to lead the republic in a period of reconstruction from another great war in which our democracy again had demonstrated its unalterable resolve to withstand encroachment upon its Independence and to deserve the respect of the world. Mind Fitted for Task “His was a mind and character fitted for a task where the one transcendent need was the healing quality of gentleness and friendliness. It was his misf’.tm to com-

pose the prejudices and conflicts at home, to lessen the threats of renewed wars through the world. “ He succeed ed in those tasks, when in two years he died, new peace treaties had been made in terms which won the support of our people; tranquillity had been restored at home; employment had been renewed and a long period of prosperity had begun. “Our thoughts today turn to the man himself. My first meeting with Warren Harding ever lingers in my memory. It was during the war and m a time of the greatest strain and anxiety. Late one evening the then Senator Harding, whom I never had met, came to my office. Visit Typical of Character “When he was announced there flashed into my mind the thought that here was some complaint or a request for some appointment. Instead, the senator said simply: ‘“I have not come to get anyhting. I just want you to know that if you wish the help of a friend, telephone me what you want. I am there to serve and to help.* That statement, I came to learn was typical of him. I refer to it now because it reveals the nature of the man. “Warren Harding gave his life in worthy accomplishment for hia country. He was a man of delicate sense of honor, of sympathetic heart, of transcendent gentleness of soul—who reaches out for friendship, who gave of It loyally and generously in his every thought and aeed. He was a man of passionate patriotism. He was a man of deep religious feeling. He was devoted to his fellow-men.” Former President Calvin Coolidge. who was Vice-Presient at the time of Harding’s death on Aug. 2, 1923, also was to speak. He was to be followed by Governor George White of Ohio. Senator Joseph N. Freylinghuysen of New Jersey, president of the Harding Memorial Association, prepared a review of the history of the impressive Grecian memorial tomo made possible by contribution from more than 1,000,000 persons A military band and the Republican Glee Club of Columbus O have been enlisted to furnish the’ music. Hoover to Leave Early President Hoover planned to leave aboard his special train immediately after the dedication, which was expected to be completed by mid-afternoon. He will go to Columbus, where he is scheduled to review a parade of Civil war veterans held in connection with the annual state encampment. A short reception for Mr. and Mrs. Hoover will be held in the • Ohio statehouse, after which they will depart for Springfield, lU. Construction of the Harding memorial was begun in 1925 and was completed three years ago. Many delays in arranging for the dedication were encountered. The memorial is of Georgia marble, circular in design and surrounded by forty-eight massive pillars representing the states of the Union. In the center of the tomb, on a passy plot, are the sarcophagi containing the bodies of former President Harding and his wife. Thousands tn City Marion and highways leading into it were draped in flags and bunting as men and women from all walks of life, from far and near, came to join in the tribute to the late President. Much of Marion’s recent history was written around the life of Warren Harding and today—the last phase—found thousands of friends and former intimates here to bow at his tomb. MOONEY CASE - SET New Pardon Hearing to Be Held June 29. By United Press SACRAMENTO, CaL, June 16. Leaders in the fight to free Tom Mooney, San Francisco labor leader convicted of complicity in toe 1916 bombing outrage, prepared today for a hearing June 29 before Governor James Rolph Jr., at which attorney Frank Walsh will argue anew pardon application. Walsh, who has served voluntarily as Mooney’s counsel in the many years of the fight for freedom, is scheduled to leave his New York offices for Sacramento, June 22, frankly hopeful of a sympathetic hearing from California’s new GpvATV