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HUGE ILLINOIS CROWDS GREET HOOVER, PARTY President at Springfield for Dedication of Lincoln Tomb. INTERESTED IN CAPONE Makes Brief Speech Before Legislature as He Is Welcomed. Hoover at Hardinr Tomb Picture Pan 2. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pre*i Staff Correspondent SPRINGFIELD. 111., June 17. States should be the pioneers In adjusting functions to changing economic conditions and inventions, President Herbert Hoover said today in a brief speech to the Illinois legislature prior to the rededication of Lincoln’s tomb State legislatures are the laboratories in which our new ideas of government are tried out,” the President, said in acknowledging an enthusiastic welcome from the joint eession of the house and senate * The presidential party arrived shortly after 9am Central Standard time. Tills is the last major stop in a mid-western tour of nearly 2,500 miles which has taken Mr. Hoover into West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, all states in which recent Democratic gains forecast hard battling when the administration comes up for re-election next year. Met by Huge Crowd Mr. Hooier. however, has sought to avoid partisan politics on the whole, and at Marion, 0., as here, he appeared in his official role as head of the nation to dedicate a national monument. A huge crowd met the President and Mrs. Hoover at, the Wabash station, only a stone's throw from she spot where Lincoln boarded the train which carried him to Washington for his inauguration. It was a perfect bright summer day and thousands of motorists came from various parts of the state. Crowds were on station platforms as the presidential special rolled across the state, the largest being at Decatur, where tonight on his Way back, Mr. Hoover will make a brief stop. Interested in Capone ' There was much. interest aboard the presidential train in the news that A1 Capone’had-pleaded guilty to violations of the prohibition law and income tax evasion because the federal activity which culminated in this development* began under prodding of Mr. Hoover personally. No comment came from the President, however. The party was shown the old Lincoln home, which is furnished with the original pieces. My father’s house was very much like this,” Mrs Hoover said. She inspected the “what-nots” in the old Franklin store, and the curious odds and ends of the period which were around the rooms. Applaud Lamont, Dawes The large arsenal where the Illinois legislature received Mr. Hoover was hung with flags and bunting and the vast crowd gave the scene the atmosphere of a national political convention. Commerce Secretary Lamont and Ambassador Dawes, both of Illinois, were applauded when they entered. Mrs. Hoover, entering in a summer green costume, was given an ovation. A deafening cheer broke as the President entered, the cheering lasting nearly one minute. He spoke briefly thanking the general assembly for the reception. A band outside struck up just as he began to speak drowning out his remarks for a few moments. He spoke less than five minutes after which he received members of the legislature on the platform. The President then returned to lunch with Governor Louis L. Emmerson at the executive mansion before proceeding to the Lincoln monument for the dedication exercises at 2:45 p. m.

QUAKE ROCKS TOKIO f City in Darkness as Check of Damage Begins. By United Press TOKIO, June 17.—Tokio and vicinity was rocked by a severe earthquake starting at 9:10 o'clock tonight. Authorities believed considerable oil property damage would be re* ported. sections of the city were in darkness due to the failure of power lines. Telephone and telegraph lines also were damaged Some damage was reported at Yokohama, the seaport city eighteen miles from here. POLICE LAP UP BEER Chiefs at Juarez, Mexico, for Convention, Drink 3.000 Bottles. By United Proa JUAREZ. Mexico, June 17.—Four hundred delegates attending the convention of Texas police chiefs and city marshals at El Paso. Tex., came to Juarez Tuesday night for a banquet and drank S7OO worth of beer, it was reported today. About 3.000 bottles of beer were consumed by the officers, according to employes of Hugos cabare;. .where the banquet was held. Much the food prepared for a bust-t 'supper was not eaten, however.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 32

TARIFF THAT HAS BEEN DOCUMENT OF DISASTER IS ONE YEAR OLD TODAY

Then attd Nowa Tragedy in Tariff Making

IN the first four months of this year, under the tariff rates of the Smoot-Hawley act, our foreign trade fell off by more than half a billion dollars Except for a few spurts, our exports have been slipping steadily ever since the tariff bill became a law a year ago. The most sensational decreases have taken place in the last six or eight months. The value of exports under the new rates in the first full four months they were effective was half a billion dollars below the same period of 1929. These figures, giving the values in thousands of dollars, tell the story: . , 1929 t 930 JolT $400,881 $296,761 Aocnst 380.364 297.765 September 437.163 312.207 Oetober .528,514 326,896 And, for the first four months of 1931. our exports were worth $534,103,000 less than for the same period of 1930, as these figures show: 1930. 1931. January $410,840 $206,642 February 348.852 224,342 March 369..V19 235,895 April 331.732 217,000 In these same four months of 1931 our imports have decreased in value by $445,580,000, as these figures reveal; . 1930. 1931. January $310,988 $183,133 February 281.707 174.946 March 300,460 210,200 April 307,824 187,000 Tariff collections during the first full three months to which the new tariff rates applied amounted to $94,937,162, more than $60,000,000 under the same period of 1929. The new higher rates can not be blamed for all of this decrease, but they undoubtedly were one of the major factors. Three Bombings Spread Fright By United* Press TURIN. Italy, June 17.—Three bombs were exploded here during the night. The bombs were set in outlying sections of the city and no casualties occurred. The gate of a villa and a garden bench were dam-t, aged.

TAPS SOUNDED FOR AL CAPONE'S REIGN

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, June 17—One of the 1 most unsavory chapters in Amer- j ican criminal history closed Tuesday when Scarface A1 Capone j pleaded guilty to combined charges of income tax fraud and liquor law violations. He will reappear in the federal j court of Federal Judge James H. I Wilkerson on June 30 to be sentenced to prison and to abdicate his j rule of what once was the most powerful gang of wholesale murderers, bombers, torturers, labor racketeers, illicit brewers, gamblers and vice mongers the United States ever has known. ‘Scarface Al” has before him a maximum penitentiary term of thirty-four years and a top fine of $90,000. Because of his guilty plea he hopes for a prison sojourn of considerably less than that and a fine not quite so stiff. The somber courtroom was jammed with hard-boiled bailiffs, reporters, “sob-sisters" and curious citizens when Capone ambled in. He wore a flannel suit of butter yellow, shoes of yellow, hat of yellow, tie of yellow. Even his eyeballs appeared yellow in the gloom of the velvet-curtained room. Soon Judge Wilkerson entered, quietly and grim. He took one ' startled look at Capone's all-too gorgeous color scheme and sank into his chair, as if to recover from the shock. “Scarface” wobbled to the bar as briskly as his weight would permit as the clerk called his case. Bulky 1 detectives crowded around, to make I

MIKE MORRISSEY TRAVELS LONG HARD ROAD TO REACH TOP O’ THE HEAP’

... Ten years ago the destination of freight in Indianapolis railroad yards depended partly on' Mike Morrissey , a hustling young Irish flagman .

Depression Prolonged, Foreign Trade Cut in Half, Business Shaky and Uncertain Over What Future Holds. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 17.—Exports from the United States in May totalled $205,000,000 in value, while imports were valued at $182,000,000, figures published by the department of commerce today showed. These figures are ower than the export and import figures have been for many years. Exports during May dropped nearly $10,000,000 under April, when they were $214,880,000. American sales abroad have dropped gradually since January, when they were $249,642,000. Imports were nearly $4,000,000 less in May than in April, which month showed $185,744,000 in American sales abroad. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL WASHINGTON, June 17.—The Smoot-Hawley tariff act is one vear old today, but little or no rejoicing greeted its first birthday. In its twelve months on the statute books it has become the most widely condemned law in years. And these twelve months have served to make more certain that the tariff, and the depression—which economists. business men and opposition political leaders say the tariff has prolonged—will outweigh all other issues in the presidential campaign next year.

An administration may fall, or rise, because of the measure President Hoover signed on June 17, 1930. Retaliation by foreign nations, whose trade with us was smashed against the high Smoot-Hawley tariff wall, has dramatized the issue. And thus, having advanced out of the academic and technical fields, our tariff policy has assumed vitally important proportions for all Americans, particularly for the 5,000.000 or 6,000,000 unemployed. Disaster Has Resulted Critics of the bill, which they contend was conceived in greed and nurtured by log-rolling, say that because of it these things have resulted: OUR FOREIGN TRADE life blood of American industry that is tuned up to produce more than we can consume, has been cut in half. FOREIGN NATIONS, once our friends and customers and now our business enemies, are barricading themselves behind equally high tariff stockades in retaliation INDUSTRIES HERE, finding it

You ’ll See! William H. Lee. 418 Harvard place, is some picker when it comes to fortune-tellers. He picked one out Tuesday night that told him lie was going to lose some money. And by the time Lee left the seance, he told police he discovered his pants-pocket had been picked for $35. Police are holding Effie Jones and Luella Gray, Negroes, 632 East Washington street, as the adept prognosticators. They are charged with grand larceny.

sure that none of Capone's enemies sent a bullet through his back. Dwight Green, assistant district attorney in charge of income tax frauds, read in a triumphant voice two indictments charging Capone with cheating the government of $213,000 in income taxes. Twice Green demanded: “Did you violate the United States income tax laws?” And twice Capone moistened his thick lips, stared at his well-mani-cured fingers and mumbled in a tenor-whisper: “Guilty.’’ Then Victor La Rue. another assistant district attorney, read the indictment charging Capone with 5,000 separate liquor law violations, accusing him of engulfing the middle west with a flood of noxious bootleg beer. “How do you plead?’’ asked La Rue. Capone tried to wet his lips again. But his tongue was dry. “Guilty,’’ he finally said.

... Mikes next, service to the transportation world was flagging down speeders, carrying out his duty as a sergeant of the police motorcycle squad. y

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931

increasingly difficult to maintain foreign markets for their products, are establishing branch factories abroad as a means of tunneling under the tariff barriers. THESE THINGS have resulted, in turn, in making our unemployment problem more and more serious; and BUSINESS, feeling the hardest pinch of the prolonged depression, is more- uncertain now than when the bill was under debate in congress, because of the prospect that the whole tariff question soon will be reopened. * ' Talk of Even Higher Sates On the other hand, many supporters of the tariff say the world situation has not been affected by our bill, and the Republican national committee even has sponsored the statement of a congressman that some of the rates are not y#t high enough. They also contend that if the rates had not been increased tons of commodities and manufactured goods, produced at cheapest prices abroad, would have been dumped on these shores and thus would have added to the agricultural and industrial distress. This tariff bill started in a way that gave no hint of what finally would happen. In the last presidential campaign, the promise was made that congress would be called in special session to make a limited revision of the tariff and adjust agricutural rates as a measure of farm relief. The gate was opened on Jan. 7, 1929, when the house ways and means committee started hearings. Before it was closed dozens of schedules and scores of rates had been changed—mostly upward—and there had streamed through the halls of congress delegation after delegation of lobbyists. Hopes Are Unfulfilled The senate finally completed its revision of the rates on March 22, 1930, and three months later the bill became a law. But this did not occur before the country had echoed with pleas from business and politics that the bill be vetoed, nor before dark predictions of its results had been made by experts. When congress sent the bill to the President, he announced almost immediately that he would sign it. admitting in the same breath that it was a product of log-rolling and contained inequalities. His two hopes were that final approval of it would quiet the uncertainty that had reigned in the business world since the revision was begun, and that the inequities would be corrected by the tariff commission. But now a year has passed, and neither of these hopes has been fulfilled. So today the Smoot-Hawley tariff act enters its second year with the prospect that it either will 'not exist on June 17, 1932. cr will have been changed by that time so that it hardly will resemble the measure President Hoover signed one year ago today.

. . . Still months away from his thirty-fourth birthday, Mike now is the head of the city's police department, the youngest chief in •history of the force.

PROBE REPORT OF GANG RAIDS ON GAMBLERS Detroit' Gunmen Said to Have Netted SIO,OOO in Three Hauls. ‘POKER BOYS’ HELD UP Two City Hoodlums Acting as "Spotters/ Police Rumors Say. Underworld reports of gangster raids on big money poker games in two north side apartments and a dub recently, that have netted gunmen SIO,OOO, today were being probed by police. According to information that has sifted into headquarters from various haunts, the gunmen ai*e from Detroit and still are in Indianapolis, working with two local hoodhams who are “spotting” the games. No official reports of the robberies have been made to authorities, but it is known that members of police raiding squads and higher-ups in the department have almost complete details on the stickups. Get $8,009 in Raid First victims of the gangsters it is said, were participants in a poker game who were held at bay by the thugs who cleaned off the tables and robbed the “customers” of nearly SB,OOO. Other reports say the same gunmen since then have, struck at two other games, walking out with $2,000 and $1,600. Several years ago, during the reign of a political party that was hand in hand with controllers of the IndianapolLs gambling racket, raids on craps, poker and other chance games were a regular occur ranee. According to the rumors, the Indianapolis “finger-men” are receiving a heavy cut on the loot. Plan Further Quizzing Police, in view of the reports, today contemplated further investigation of statements by Arthur Simons, Los Angeles jockey, who during a period of unconsciousness ijn a Lebanon hospital over'the weekend. mumbled of connections with Detroit gangsters. After regaining consciousness, he asked hospital authorities if he had “talked too much.” They said he was worried when they informed him of his remarks about the gangsters. Simons was found oh' United States Road 52, near Lebanon, Saturday. He denied he had been the victim of a slugger, asserting he had spells of unconsciousness resulting from head injuries sustained when he was kicked by a horse.

ACTORS SOUGHT IN FAITHFULL MURDER

Storr of Starr's Life, Faje 2. By ViLitcd Press NEW YORK, June 17.—Solution of the baffling death of beautiful Starr Faithfull appeared today to hinge on a comprehensive check of the girl's movements from the time she left her Greenwich Village home on that fatal Friday morning nearly two weeks ago until she was drowned in the sea off Long Beach, L. I. Two mysterious figures, whom authorities have been unable to locate since they entered the hectic and adventurous life of the 25-year-old girl, are believed by District Attorney Elvin N. Edwards of Nassau county, to hold a possible key to the solution of Starr’s death. These two figures are said to be a Jack Greenaway and a Bruce Winston, both believed to be actors. No more is known of them by authorities. Neither is under suspicion, but they are believed to have been with Starr at a party on the night preceding hqr disappearance and may

CADLE ON VICTORY ’ THRESHOLD IN WAR I OVER TABERNACLE

Six-Year Fight for Ban on Sport Events in Temple Near Close. E. Howard Cadle today stood on the verge of victory in his years-old battle to oust marathon contests, boxing shows and wrestling matches from Cadle tabernacle, which he built to dedicate as a temple of interdenominational worship. At 2:30 Sunday, Cadle will appear on the platform of the tabernacle for the first time in seven years to present a plan whereby he will form a new* organization to regain control of the building. - Six years ago he turned Cadle tabernacle over to Tabernacle Association, a corporation headed by Walter Hansing, Urbana, Ind, Failed to Make Payments These owners. Cadle said today, recently have failed to make payments to the Fletcher Realty Company on the real estate, and the property reverted to the Fletcher company last week. Ralph K. Smith of the Fletcher Realty Company will recommend that his company make concessions in price to an organization that will operate the building for religious, educational, music and civic purposes, Cadle said. Since releasing control of the structure six years ago, Cadle has fought bitterly against its use for sports contests and endurance spectacles. He charged that restrictions he made in the sale of the property prevented such affairs being held there. Courts Back Promoters Courts, however, upheld the promoters, on the ground that a portion of the receipts went to charities. At the Sunday mass meeting, Cadle will speak on “Restoring the Temple.” He announced that there will be 1,000 voices in the choir, and that Homer Rodeheaver, director of music for Billy Sunday, will have charge of the music. An invitation has been extended to all w ho ever have sung in the different Cadle tabernacle choirs to take their seats on the platform. Radio to Carry. Sendees The services will be broadcast over WFBM from 2:30 to 4. Delegations will attend from several towns throughout the state where Cadle has held union evangelistic meetings. Cadi? built the tabernacle at New Jersey and Ohio streets in 1921 in memory of his mother, Loretta Cadle of Salem, Ind. . , It was dedicated in October, 1921, by Gypsy Smith, when the largest crowd in state religious history attended. The tabernacle has a seating capacity of 10,000. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 61 10 a. m 76 7a. m 66 11 a. m 77 Ba. m 70 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 72 1 p. m 79

be able to shed some light on her whereabouts during the time just before her body was tossed up on the beach by the waves.

HIGH COURT HIT IN NEW STEVE APPEAL

By Times Special MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. June 17. —Charging the Indiana supreme court with illegally delaying his murder conviction appeal for nearly six years. D. C. Stephenson, former Klan leader, today opened another onslaught in his battle for freedom. In a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, the one-time klan chief charged in the La Porte county superior court Tuesday, that the delay in disposition of his case by the high court is unconstitutional and unreasonable. He sets out that he was not given a fair trial and the conviction re-

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INTERNE TRIMS OWNJONSILS Doctor Nearly Strcceeds in Surgery Marvel. By United Press PHILADELPHIA. June 17.—Dr. Charles I. Meacham, 25-year-old interne at the Chestnut Hill hospital, nearly accomplished another marvel of surgery when he attempted to remove his own tonsils, fellow internes revealed today. Dr. Meacham attempted the feat with mirrors and nearly succeeded in an operation never yet achieved, it was s.aid. With a three-bladed tonsilectomy instrument, he snipped off the left tonsil without difficulty. But the mirrors and the necessity for manipulating the instrument with his left hand confused Dr. Meacham on the right tonsil, and loss of blood forced him to give up the remainder of the operation. A fellow surgeon completed the job. Dr. Meacham used a local anesthetic. He rigged up his mirrors so that they cast a light beam down his throat to that he could see to operate. He practiced with a “dummy’* instrument for three weeks before attempting the actual operation. TWO BEACHES OPENED Warfleigh, 26th Street Resorts Get Health Board Approval. Two bathing beaches. Warfleigh and Twenty-sixth street, w’ere opened today by the city recreation department following approval of water specimens by the city health board.

suited from a conspiracy backed by his enemies within the ranks of the klan. The life imprisonment sentence on his conviction for the murder of Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis woman, is ‘’grossly excessive,” the writ states. Attorneys for Stephenson asked a change of venue from Judge Harry Crumpacker of the court. Crumpacker set hearing on arguments on the petition for Tuesday. The petition sets out that in the period of almost six years, the state supreme court has had sufficient time to rule on the appeal.

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COPS SPURRED IN HUNT FOR STOREKILLERS Tripte Arrest in Chicago Gives Clew to Slayers • of L. A, Jackson. MURDER MOTIVE HINTED Suspect Alleged to Have Talked of Shooting in City. By Times Special CHICAGO. June 1" —Reports that Detective Charles Bauer of Indianapolis had given partial identification of Chester Byous, held as a suspect here in the Lafayette Jackson slaying, as the gunman who shot him in the head, were current this afternoon. Bauer could not be located for confirmation. Efforts to bring to justice tbs slayers of Lafayette A Jackson, head of the Standard groceries, were redoubled here and in Chicago today as developments in three different channels appeared they might lead to solution of the crime. In Chicago three men are under arrest who are alleged to have fled Indianapolis shortly after the slaving of Mr. Jackson in the East Washington street store. Indianapolis detectives today sought to obtain further statements from two youths arrested after a robbery of a chicken dinner place Tuesday night, one of whom, police say, indicated he knew the bandit who murdered an east side barber recently and hinted knowledge of the Jackson slayers. Son Suspects Murder Meanwhile, in criminal court, Chester Jackson, son of the slam grocery head, who was in the store the time the bandits entered told Judge Frank B. Baker and Deputy Prosecutor John Kelly that he believes the gunmen raided the store to murder his father and not for robbery. The trio under arrest in Chicago are Chester Byous. 24;' Joseph Smith, 20, and Nathan Brown. 28, who were nabbed by Chicago detectives on suspicion in connection with the recent robberies of two Indainapolis bakery company drivers and as suspects in the Jackson slaying. According to Captain John Stegc of the Chicago detective bureau Brown has charged Byous with “shooting two persons in Indianapolis, wounding one of them seriously.” Three Under Indictment He said, according to Stegc. that one of the persons was a bakery driver. This is believed to have been Ora May, 36, of 2519 South Pennsylvania street, who was shot in the right hand May 1 when he resisted robbery by two bandits. He is a driver for the Freihofer bakery. Byous, Smith and Brown are under indictment on charges of assault and battery with intent to rob in criminal court. Agents of the bakery, of the Standard groceries and Detective Charles Bauer, who was shot in the head by one of the Jackson gunmen, are in Chicago. It reliably is reported Bauer already has identified the picture of a man as the gunman who shot him when he ran to the store while Jackson and the bandits were exchanging gun fire. Blames Other Two According to information, wivr.i of Byous and Brown are sisters, but Stege said Byous blames the Indianapolis shootings on Brown and Smith. The other shooting was said to have been that of a woman who was putting her car into a garage. Edward Beitz, 24, of 702 North Alabama street, and Fred Kirk. 21, of 1116 Fletcher avenue, are held here under $5,000 vagrancy bond-, after they are said to have admitted the S6B robbery and beating of the w’oman operator of a chicken dinner place atw9o6 North Emerson avenue Tuesday night. A woman companion who is said to have aided them in the robbery is sought by detectives. Mrs. Martha Glasspool, 63. proprietor of the place, told police the trio entered, ordered meals and then the youths drew guns. They obtained $8 from her and S6O from a trunk they smashed while lootin'? the premises. Knocked to Floor She charged that when she. knocked the revolver from Benz's grasp, that he slugged her, knocking her to the floor. Police claim Beitz said he knew the slayer of an east side man and later that he knew "something about” the Jackson killing. Chester Jackson told county authorities the bandit who opened fire on his father directed Bert Hoffman, bookkeeper in the store, to raise his hands, but whispered: “You're safe, we don't want you." Chester Jackson also stated that his father dropped to the floor and that he tried to reach a shotgun nearby. Fired at Jack3on It was then, Chester Jackson said, that one of the gunmen yelled to an- , other of the slayers: “Let him have it,” the slayer directing his gunfire at Mr. Jackson. Theory of the slaying was presented to Baker and Kelly by Chester Jackson at the trial of Floyd Board. Negro, charged with robbery in connection with the shooting of Earl Hendricks, manager of a Standard grocery, at 1419 East Twenty-fifth street, Jan. 3. Hendricks, testifying only gava partial identification of Board as the bandit who shot him m the. head and fled w ith $45,