Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 41, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1931 — Page 3

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STRADDLING AND TARIFF FLAYED BY DEMOCRATS Ham Lewis and Jouett Shouse Spur Editors to 1932 Campaign. BY BEN STERN Time* Staff Correspondent GARY, Ind., June 27.—With two important messages ringing in their ears, members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, party workers and aspirants for political preferment returned to their homes today to mull over and digest them. One was the program for democracy outlined by the fiery Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who is expected to be Illinois’ favorite son candidate for President, which was regarded as an answer to the address delivered in Indianapolis on June 15 by President Herbert Hoover. The other was the plea that the Democratic party abstain from evasion and compromises on important issues, including prohibition, voiced in telegram from Jouett Chouse, chairman of the Democratic national committee. Lewis Given Ovation Despite the Intense heat in the banquet hall, the hearers rose to their feet time after time to cheer and applaud the oratorical fireworks which characterized Lewis’ baiting of the Republican administration, and, in particular, the Hoovet- address in Indianapolis. Although not asked to deliver the Ifcriswer, Lewis took it upon himself to pick up the gauge of battle with the intent, it was openly declared, of winning Indiana’s support for his ambitions. After pointing to the manner in Which he said the federal reserve feystem, a Democratic measure, has been perverted for the use “of every bucketshop jobber and highwayman of finance,” Lewis assailed the economic depression and directed his bitter wit and effective satire at the President's “American plan.” The tariff came in for a lashing. Pointing to the Democratic tariff under Wilson, Lewis declared: “So equitable was the result to the nations of the earth and so profitable to our America, that our exports to the world in 1919 and 1920, even admist the ashes and tears of a war-stricken hemisphere, reached eight billions of dollars a year—more than any other tariff had accomplished. And an excess of three and five billion dollars over the Republican return.” Shouse Condemns Straddling Shouse in his telegram declared: “It is absolutely necessary that in the platform which we present next year there should be no evasion of any of the grave questions which are now agitating the country. We must be explicit in our exposition of our plans for panic relief, for tax reform, for farm relief, on the power question, on prohibition and on everything else.” “Our adversaries may be willing to go before the country on a platform of evasion, but we ca-i not j afford such a compromise. “If the nation is to change the government as I believe it means to do, we must be definite in all things” the national committee chairman warned. He especially charged the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association to assert itself in this program.

Dry Law Plagues Hoover Hoover’s future difficulties over prohibition were forecast in an address by Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, former governor of Wyoming, who declared: “The President will have difficulty to convince the voters that the public Suffers an optical illusion in the belief that it sees widespread defiance of prohibtion laws md wholesale debauchment of public officers attendant upon the pretence of enforcement.” Although no Indiana aspirant for office was on the speaking program tnany were introduced. A standing ovation was accorded Paul V. McNutt, Indiana law school dean, an avowed candidate for the nomination for Governor. Prank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, who also is said to be a candidate was applauded as was Walter Myers, 1931 speaker of the house, who is said to be seeking the senatorial nomination. Introduction of R. Earl Peters, state chairman was the signal for prolonged applause. FRANCE CELEBRATES 1916 VERDUN VICTORY Fifteenth Anniversary of Famous Battle Observed Before Allies. 9:> United Press VERDUN, June 27.—The fifteenth anniversary of the French victory bver the Germans in the battle of Verdun—the mightiest and bloodiest clash of arms in history—was celebrated here today in the presence of representatives of the allied armies. The celebrations will continue Sunday. At Dawn Feb. 21. 1916, the German artillery opened a bombardment on the forts of Doumont and Vaux, thus beginning an attack which was to last, intermittently, tor two years and exact a toll of pearly 2.000,000 casualties. June 28, 1916, was the turning point in the battle, when the grayclad German troops finally were Stemmed at the very gates to the forts protecting the key city of verBun. The fight continued for another twelve months or more, but Ihe issue already was decided and It is this date in June the French feommemorate as the day of victory. | AETNA Trust and Savings Cos. Checking and Savings Accounts See Us About Your Insurance 23 N. Penn. St. ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

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Witt Confesses His Part in L. A. Jackson Slaying

Following is the full statement signed by Charles Vernon Witt, suspect in the slaying of Lafayette A. Jackson. He admits his presence in the store, but clears himself of having fired the shots that killed the head of the Standard groceries. The statement: My full name is Charles Vernon Witt. I am 24 years old and live in Indianapolis. I am a married man. I came to the city in the latter part of March and lived at 1028 T 6 Ashland avenue. While I was living there, Ed Allen also came the latter part of March to live at the same address. I later learned that Ed Allen's name was Louis Hamilton. On the morning of May 27, about 9 a. m., I met Louis Hamilton at Massachusetts avenue and East street. Hamilton was in an Oldsmobile sedan where I had expected to meet him, but did not expect him to have a car. I got in the car with Hamilton, and while riding he suggested we stick up a Standard grocery store. Hamilton told me there was a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun in the back seat of the car and for me to use it. When we got to the Standard grocery store on East Washington street near New Jersey street, he stopped the car in front and told me to follow him. I then took the shotgun out of the car and followed Hamilton into the store. After we were in the store, Hamilton told me to cover those people. Hamilton then started

LEGION IN ROUNDUP More Than 10,000 to Gather at Broad Ripple. Indiana American Legion mem- . bers began converging on Indianapolis today for the annual Seventh district roundup which is expected to draw a crowd of more than ten thousand persons to the Broad Ripple grove, where the meeting will : be held Sunday. Invitations have been sent to every post in the state, and the number of acceptances received, ac- ! cording to Major Barnett W. Breed- j love, in charge of arrangements, in- ! dicates the largest crowd in the history of the roundup. The feature of the day will be a 1 drum corps contest between the various corps sponsored by Legion posts of the state. Approximately sixty corps have been invited to compete and try to WTest from the , Anderson corps the title which it j won last year. The groups given a i good chance for this year's championship include Lafayette, the run- ; ner-UD last year, Tipton. Muncie j and Bluffton. CAROLE, POWELL WED; Film Couple to Sail Today for Honeymoon in Honolulu. By T'nitrd Press f HOLLYWOOD, June 27.—William Powell, film actor, and his bride. , the former Carole Lombard, also of the films, planned to sail today for Honolulu on the S. S. Malolo on their honeymoon. Only relatives were present Friday night when Powell ar.d Miss Lombard were married at the home of the actress’ mother. Horatio Powell, father of the actor, was best man. and the bride was given away by her father, j Frederick Peters of Ft. Wayne, Ind. SAFE BLOWERS BALKED Attack Two Strong Boxes, but Fail to Open Them. Safe crackers were unlucky Friday night, failing to open “boxes’’ in two business places. The Penn Coal Company office. 741 East Washington street, was entered through a back window and the safe was battered, but unbroken. Thieves also entered the Eisemann Ignition Service Company at 40. North Capitol avenue and worked unsuccessfully on the safe in a back room. However, they took sll from a box in the office. 4

through a door into the office. I heard several shots fired in the office and Hamilton called to me to “let them have it.” I fired one shot toward the rear of the store. I then turned around as a man came in the front door shooting at me. I fired one shot at him. I meant to hit him in the legs. I called to Hamilton to ’Come on, let’s go.’ We left the store and got into the automobile parked in front. As I started to get in, someone shot me in the left hip. Hamilton drove the car east and while riding I noticed that Hamilton had been shot in the forehead. We drove to the neighborhood of Twelfth and Illinois, where we left the car and walked back to Tenth and Park, where I had my car parked. Hamilton and I got in my car and drove to my parents’ home near Bainbridge, Ind., where I picked up my wife Naomi and the three of us went on to lola, Kan. the home of Louis Hamilton. My wife and I spent a few days with Hamilton and his folks and then we left, returning to my parents’ heme, where I left my wife. Then I went to Terre Haute, where I disposed of the Chrysler sedan I had been driving and took a bus to Richmond, Ind., where I bought a Ford sedan. Then I went and got my wife and took a trip through the east. We then returned to Indianapolis where I was arrested. I make this statement of my own free will and accord.

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GEORGIA'S ‘BOY’ GOVERNOR GIVEN OATH OF OFFICE Sworn In by His Father, 33-Year-Old Executive Faces Big Problems. BY FOSTER EATON United Pres* Staff Correspondent ATLANTA, June 27. —There was a re-enactment with variations, here today of the now epic chapter in American history w'hen Calvin Coolidge received from his father, a justice of the peace, the oath of office as President of the United States. Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 33-year-old bachelor attorney, received from his father, Richard Brevard Russell Sr., chief justice of the supreme court of Georgia, the oath of office as Governor of Georgia. The simple ceremony, conducted on the grounds of Georgia's veneraable statehouse, made “Dick” Russell, soft-spoken, fluent “boy orator,” not only the youngest Governor in the history of the state, but the youngest chief executive now in office in America. In a sense it seemed like thrusting a boy into man’s clothes to invest “Young Russell” with the highest authority in the gift of his state, but the people who elected him last fall know him as a legislator of experience, twice speaker of the general assembly. Governor Russell faces possibly the toughest set of problems which ever confronted anew Governor, including a $7,000,000 state deficit and the moral obligation to reorganize the state governmental departments in the interest of economy. Russell was sworn in by his aged father, sire of a family of eighteen of which thirteen are now living, on an old Bible which his mother received from her father at the age of 7. ’

RIVER CLAIMS LIFE OF BOY, 13 Police Chief Issues Orders After Tragedy. Sirens of White river, whose soft songs whisper to small boys on hot summer afternoons of the pleasures and adventures of swimming in unguarded swimming holes, have lured another daring youngster to death. Zeddie Cox, 13, listened to the murmur of the old river Friday afternoon, when the mercury was near 100. Today arrangements are being made for his funeral. Two boys playing on the bank near Oliver avenue bridge said they saw Zeddie, who couldnst swim, go under twice and they ran for aid. Police dragged the river from 4 until 7:30 when divers, assisted by Francis Hodges, life-saving director for the Indianapolis chapter of the American Red Cross, found the body in water twenty feet deep. Zeddie was the son of Frank Cox, 318 South Missouri street. And because the sirens’ songs are attuned only to the ears of boys, and boys always have been moved by the spirit of adventure, Police Chief Mike Morrisey is taking all precaution he can to prevent future tragedies. He has ordered the arrest of ail persons found swimming in unauthorized and unprotected spots.

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One of the most charming of the younger set in Parisian society is the Duchess of Nemours, above, wife of Prince Charles Philippe and niece of the Belgian king. She is hostess to many affairs for American society folk in the French capital.

A. F. OF L. HITS DREISER BLAST Supports American Ideals, Defenders Retort. By United Press WHEELING, W. Va., June 27. West Virginia state and labor officials today answered charges made by Theodore Dreiser, the novelist, against the American Federation of Labor by defending the federation as “an organization based upon American ideals as opposed to Communism.” Harry Norrington, vice-president of the state federation of labor, said the American federation always had discouraged radicalism. He declared that the National Miners’ union, which is sponsoring strikes in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, fostered Communistic ideals. Dreiser’s attack on the United Mine Workers of America, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, was answered by John Cinque, president of Subdistricts 5 and 6 of the union. Sinque scored the novelist’s charges that the union and federation were aligned with capital. In reply to the novelist’s remarks lauding the National miners union Cinque said “The N. M. U. must get away from its radical Ideas if it expects to have a part in the union movement of the nation.”

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Gus Snider, R. R. 4. Greenfield. Ind., Chrysler sedan, from. Washington street and Senate avenue. Melvin Evans. 529 West Seventeenth street. Ford coupe. 754-512, from Washington street and River boulevard. Hy Wishmeyer, R. R. 10. Box 224. Chevrolet sedan. 27-868. from 339 Virginia avenue. Myrtle M. Hawkins. 1416 Laurel street. Ford roadster. 752-231. from Garfield park. Vera Meyers. Lebanon. Ind., Chevrolet sedan, from Lebanon, Ind. United Cab Company. 505 Meyer Kiser Bank building. Rosecoe M. Collins, 3323 North Illinois street, driver. Plymouth sedan taxi. Cab No. 1 from 1210 West Washington street.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Essex coupe. M-1425, found on Wilkins street, between Capitol avenue and Church street.

BLACKTOP AND CEMENT WAR TO FLARE IN COURT Decision in Paving Feud Object of Suit to Be Aired Tuesday. Marion circuit court will be the mecca of paving material attorneys and promoters Tuesday when the more than a decade old controversy between cement and blacktop interests is to have its day in court. Although the docket discloses merely an injunction suit brought by a taxpayer against the state highway commission, in the background looms the clash of big business during a time of failing markets and depressoin. These interests include the once highly organized and standardpriced Portland cement producers and the various blacktop products with such significant sponsors as Standard Oil. Blacktop Variants Hit Whether “blacktop, blacktop and blacktop" specifications meet requirement of the Indiana state highway law f<fr three types of paving in all competition for bids is the question involved in this suit. Blacktop boosters say “yes,” that there is sufficient distinction between the various asphaltic constructions to meet the law’s demand. Cement contractors and salesmen say “no,” yet feel that if all bids were on concrete there would be sufficient competition between contractors to meet the law’s requirements. Appeal Is Likely They assert confidently that all things being equal, brick or blacktop never, under present knowledge of construction, can compete with cement for the prize of the paving dollar. The suit was filed by Robert O'Connor, Fort Wayne road builder, as a citizen and taxpayer asking that the commission be injoined from proceeding with the blacktop construction on State Road 9. near Huntington. Whichever side is victorious, the case likely will be taken into the supreme court for a final ruling which will give the commission absolute legal backing for their future guidance.

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Sydney W. Pascall, above, of London, will serve as president of Rotary International for the coming year. He was elected by unanimous ballot at the twentysecond annual convention of Rotarians at Vienna. DEATH CASE NEAR JURY Defense in Vivian Gordon Trial Rests; Alibis Offered. By United Press f NEW YORK. June 27.—The trial of Harry Stein and Samuel Greenberg, asscused of murdering redhaired Vivian Gordon, will reach the summation stage Monday. The defense rested its case late Friday after several witnesses testified that neither Stein nor Greenberg was near the scene on the night Miss Gordon was strangled to death. Birds Use Scarecrow By United Press SHELBYVILLE, Ind., June 27. Birds are no longer frightened by scarecrows, Tom Vaughn, living here, found, as he examined the pockets of a suit he had hung on a cherry tree to keep off birds. A robin had built a nest in one of the pockets.

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JURY PONDERS KILLER'S FATE Oklahomans Study Evidence Against Officer. By I'fiifed Press ARDMORE. Okla., June 27.—With a jury of middle-aged business men and farmers rested today the fate of former Deputy Sheriff William Guess, charged with murdering Manuel Garcia Gomez and Emilio Cortes Rubio, nephew of the president of Mexico. The jury received the case at 7:32 o'clock Friday night, deliberated until 10:15 and then was ordered to bed by Judge John B. Ogdens. Guess’ trial has been of international interest.

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