Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 48, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1931 — Page 1

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TOW-IN LAW ASSAILED BY BUSINESS MEN Repeal of Parking Ban to Be Demanded at Session Tonight. BRANDED AS ARBITRARY Refusal by City Council Will Launch Suit"" for Injunction. Criticising the downtown parking ban as “unreasonable, arbitrary and oppressive,’’ Indianapolis business men tonight will demand the city council repeal portions of the new traffic law. This was decided today at a meeting of the group and William Boyce, attorney and former city clerk, will make the demands on the council. If the council does not act, members of the steering committing of the protesters will file an injunction suit to test the traffic law. An ordinance amending and another rescinding the parking ban are ready for presentation to the council. The parking ban Ls to be enforced again, starting Wednesday, following rewording of the traffic law to make Impounding of cars violating the morning non-parking rule mandatory. Attacked as Detrimental In a statement signed by Prank S. Fishback, chairman, and S. J. Shaffer and E. S. Conner, committee members, the business men attacked the parking ban as “detrimental to the city's business interests.” “The committee is opposed to giving objectionable features of the ordinance a trial because if they are invalid by reason of their oppressiveness and unreasonableness and are detrimental to the city’s business interests, then a further trial of the same regulations can serve no useful purpose, whereas great, harm and injury to downtown business will result from continued enforcement,” the statement said, in part. Boyce vsaid present trafffic regulations are strong enough, provided stickers were inforced and collections made on them. Repeal Ordinance Ready Councilman George A. Henry will submit an ordinance repealing the parking ban at council meeting, holding it has proven unsatisfactory and has hurt trade of downtown firms. City Attorney James E. Deery also ls prepared to submit an ordinance reducing the area included in the ban, and changing the time limit from 7 to 9:15 a. m. to 8 to 9:15 a. m. Other city officials point out it would be difficult to change the time limit because of the expense of obtaining and erecting new warning signs. Under Deery’s ordinance, the area in which the ban would be effective would be bounded by Capitol, Ohio, Delaware and Maryland streets. Petitions which the committee claims are signed by approximately 2,000 business men protesting the parking ban are In the hands of City Clerk Henry O. Goett, and will be submitted to the council tonight.

CORN REFINERS FINED Government Wins Partial Victory In Prohibition Battle. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., July 6.—The Corn Products Refining Company was fined $5,000 today on charges of entering into a conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws, giving the federal government a partial victory in its efforts to penalize corporations providing supplies for manufacture of illegal alcoholic beverages. The fine was imposed by Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry when the New York company's attorneys entered a plea of molo contendre in the case, which has been pending for months. WHEAT PLAN REJECTED Vice-President’s Proposals Turned Down by Chairman Stone. 8y United Press WASHINGTON, July B.—The federal farm board today rejected renewed suggestions that the board and the grain stabilization corporation withhold government wheat from the market until it reaches 85 cents or $1 per bushel. The proposals were made in person by Vice-President Charles Curtis and Senator Capper (Rep., Kan.) SPRAINS HIP IN FALL i Tinner Tumbles 18 Feet From Scaffold While at Work. Falling eighteen feet from a scaffold, Arthur Abell, 23, of 1201 Tabor street, suffered a sprained hip today. Employed by a tinning firm, he was working on a house at 1420 East Tenth street when the accident occurred. He was taken to Methodist hospital. CRASH KILLS CITY GIRL Mrs. Elizabeth Boles Hurt Fatally in Cleveland Suburb. By Times Special CLEVELAND, 0., July B.—Mrs. Elizabeth Boles, 20, of Indianapolis was killed in an auto crash in Bay Village, a suburb, here today. Her husband, Merrill, was injured slightly. The car swerved into loose gravel to avoid striking another. It turned over three times,

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 48

‘NEVER AGAIN ’ THEY DECIDE

Look carefully, boys and girls, at these pictures and try to remember them when next Fourth of July comes around. Each is a graphic object lesson of the necessity for “safety first” always in handling fireworks. Upper Left—Lorene Grooms, 9, of 1424 South Richland avenue, is a victim of a back-firing Roman candle. Eight shots from the candle struck her on the arm instead of brightening up the sky as intended.

' ‘ y MUSSOLINI READY • IWy" TO SOOTHE POPE 1 Gets a Break Reported Drafting a Sol V . ' Answer to Encyclical of iliSf ■, It Looked Bad for Baker Last Week. iJlllkiij "' He Found Piano Tuner in Venire. home, July e.—premier Bemt

SLOT MACHINE DRIVEORDERED Morrissey Tells Police to Open Campaign. Orders to pentrate hundreds of resorts they know harbor slot machines went out to police today from Police Chief Michael Morrisssey, opening a war against the machines which terms “one-arm bandits.” Uniformed and plainclothes men were instructed to watch poolrooms, pharmacies, sofe-drink salloons, dance halls and other places in which slot machines might find lucrative patronage. In many of these place ante rooms hide the machines from all but persons known to the management, Chief Morrissey said, and it was to find a way into these and other hiding places that he commanded his men. Chief Morrissey, before his ascent to the top of the police force here, was a foe to gambling in all forms, and declared today he would nto tolerate the spread of slot machines in the city.

BANK CALL ISSUED State Follows Lead of Federal Government. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 6.--Comp-troller of the currency today issued a call for a statement of the conditions of national banks at the close of business, June 30, 1931. Following the lead of the national banks, as is customary, Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, today issued a state bank call for reports as of June 30. MOTORIST IS WOUNDED Explosion Proves to Be Shotgun Blast; Injuries Are Minor. What Frank Walford, 909 Chadwick street, thought were firecrackers tossed from an auto his car passed early Sunday were shotgun shots, he discovered when he began picking shot from his body. He was treated at city hospital. His wounds were minor.

Well, Maybe the Jungle Boys Are Right, at That, About New Yorkers

By United Press NEW YORK, July 6.—Two black boys from central Africa, boys who know only two words of English, announced through an interpreter today that “New Yorkers must be crazy.” They had come to this country last week with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, explorers, to help care for a motley assortment of gorillas, chimpanzees, and other former residents of the dark continent brought to Central Park zoo. New York. Their judgment was announced at the conclusion of their first sight-seeing tour in America, one that took them from the zoo, where they have been sleeping on the floor of the spare elephant pen, to the Johnson apartment in the St. Moritz, up Fifth avenue, through Harlem where they saw their own people dressed as whites and driving automobiles for the first time. Offering that sight-seeing tour, they were interviewed by Henry

Upper Right—Robert Oliver, 9, of 3656 West Tenth street, had the lid of cistern opened to toss in a big firecracker. A playmate dropped the cistern lid on Robert’s toe. That’s why he's wearing a bandage and is perfectly content to read a book today. Bottom—Ronald Lee Moon, 6, of 1358 South Belmont avenue, is somewhat of a young scientist and did a bit of experimenting. He took the powder out of a torpedo and set a match to it. “Never again,” he has decided.

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Gets a Break It Looked Bad for Baker Until He Found Piano Tuner in Venire,

BY ARCH STEINEL. Only the fact that piano tuning is a seasonal occupation kept Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker from batting .000 in selecting anew grand jury panel today. The judge called the men for grand jury service and was compelled to discharge five of the six on pleas ranging from “too much business” to ‘‘not in the city half of the time.” But- the sixth man,' Harry E. Weier, of 415 East Forty-third street, saved the judge’s batting record when he said, “I’m a piano tuner.” “Then you’re not busy at the present time,” the judge asked of the “ivory doctor.” “No, your honor, I won’t be very busy for about ninety doys,” replied Weier. “We’ll use you for the ninety days then, while there’s a slump in piano tuning. Then if you want off after that we’ll see what we can do/’ declared the judge. In attempting to fill the regular criminal court jury panel the judge found enough “excuses” to shade a college sophomore at class-dodging. “Bad heart,” “I’ll lose my job,” formed the major reasons for avoiding the “hear ye” of the court bailiff. But the best reason of the lot didn’t stop Judge Baker. “You’ll be placed on the jury temporarily,” he told A. R. Seymour, 825 Edison street. And Seymour’s plea to be excused was merely that, “I make paste. I must make it fresh every day. There’s no one that knows how to make the paste I make and sell, so I wouldn’t mind to be let off." FIBS SEE HOOVER Post, Gatty and Wives Are White House Guests. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 6. Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, round-the-world fliers, arrived in Washington shortly after noon to dine with President Hoover. About 500 people, mostly women, were at the union- station to greet them as they left their train. Sol-emn-faced and apparently a trifle awed, the fliers arrived at the White House executive offices and were received by the President. The wives of the aviators were escorted to the entrance of the executive mansion where they were received by Mrs. Hoover,

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931

Reported Drafting a Soft Answer to Encyclical of Last Week. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, July 6.—Premier Benito Mussolini was said on good authority today to be drafting a conciliatory reply to Pope Pius’ encyclical made public last week. The reply was expected to terminate the protracted and bitter quarrel between the government and the Vatican over the suppression of Catholic action clubs. The encyclical—given out in Paris hours before the publication in Vatican City—was a direct attack on the Fascist party for alleged attempts to tear the youth of Italy away from the Roman Catholic church. Amazement and irritation first were expressed openly by Fascist government authorities led by Premier Benito Mussolini. The effect of the document, sent outside the realm of Fascism to insure its publication abroad without change, was electric, and a stiffening of the government’s attitude in the already prolonged dispute between the church and state, was at once noticeable. The Vatican, as a result, Sunday night issued an apparently “inspired” statement seeking to explain the action of Pope Pius XI. The statement emphasized that the encyclical “must not be considered an act of hostility against the Fascist regime.” It was insisted that the Holy See always has desired pacific collaboration with the Fascists, but the statement said that the Vatican regarded the recent communications of the Italian foreign office to the foreign press and also the last Italian note to the Vatican as “unpleasant occurrences.” Prior to issuance of this public statement, there had been indications in Fascist quarters that suspension of all negotiations growing out of recent difficulties would result from the pope's encyclical, bringing about a more serious deadlock.

CALDWELL IS GUILTY Southern Investment Banker Convicted of Fraud. By United Press NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 6. — Rogers Caldwell, who as head of Caldwell & Cos., investment bankers, became one of the south’s leading financiers, was found guilty today of a charge of fraudulent breach of trust and larceny in connection with a $200,000 road bond deal. The verdict carries an automatic sentence of not more than three years in prison. Caldwell had been on trial several weeks.

Lee Moon, for the Amsterdam News which circulates in the Harlem district, a a a a a a HENRY LEE MOON wanted to know "the reactions of these abo r inal Africans to the western civilization.” He had to ask Mr. Jo, son to act as interpreter, for he himself was quite unfamiliar with the Swahili dialect which this year is quite unlike that of Harlem, colored in spots by the Porto Rican influence. The visitors’ "reaction,” translated, went about like this: ‘These American people build nests in the air, like birds.” They referred to the New York skyline. “Fifth avenue is a swell government road.” The only good roads back lv>me, Johnson explained, are government roads. "All these people must be crazy,” they announced at a traffic intersection of Fifth avenue,

BARROW PLEA FOR STEVE TO DRAWTHRONG Famous Lawyer to Appear Before High Court Here Tuesday. ‘BACKED UP’ BY MARTIN Viewpoint Advanced by Chief Justice in Re--cent Decision. Preparations were made today for a large crowd expected to fill the supreme court chamber at 2 p. m., Tuesday to listen to famed Clarence Darrow, Chicago criminal lawyer sociologist, plead in the D. C. Stephenson case. Darrow will appear to argue against the court’s action in issuing a writ of prohibition halting habeas corpus proceedings in Laporte superior court. His viewpoint already has been advanced in a memorandum filed by Chief Justice Clarence R. Martin, who refused to join in the writ issuance. Martin held that the supreme court only could halt a habeas corpus proceeding in time of invasion or when the very government itself is threatened. This he pointed out is the provision of the Indiana Constitution. But deputies from the office of Attorney-General James M. Ogden will argue that the court does have the power when its own jurisdiction is threatened. They have had the Stephenson murder appeal pending before them, fully briefed, since 1928. Earl Stroup and Joseph Hutchinson will represent Ogden in the argument. They will Show that the docket has been kept open by additional actions of Stephenson and he thus is responsible for the delay in the murder case decision. Should a habeus corpus action be successful, the supreme court would lose jurisdiction through loss of custody of the prisoner, they will contend. . - The prisoner is the former KuKlux Klan dragon who now is serving a life sentence for the death of Miss Madge Oberholtzer, an Indianapolis girl.

BLASTS WRECK HOQSIER MINE Renewal of Union War Is Believed Cause. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 6. Two explosions, believed to be a renewal of the struggle between union and non-union factions, shattered the Water Lily mine, near here, today, after Earl Bollinger, night watchman, had been kidnaped. Bollinger said he was seized by two men and taken to a lonely road south of here. A few minutes later two blasts wrecked the hoisting shaft and surface buildings at the mine, which had been operating on a non-union basis for the past year. GADLE RECOVERING f " — " v Heart Attack Follows Talk at Tabernacle. E. Howard Cadle today had recovered from a heart attack suffered Sunday afternoon following an address before 4,000 persons at Cadle tabernacle. The services were continued by Alvin L. Carter, music director, after Cadle’s collapse. Cadle spoke on “Putting First Things First,” illustrating his talk with incidents of conversions and other evangelistic experiences. Next Sunday, he has announced, he will on “If I Were the Devil, How Would I Run Indianapolis?” Contributions Sunday boosted the fund being raised to meet $6,000 back payments necessary to regain control of the tabernacle. HELD IN CRASH DEATH Fatality in Kokomo Smashup May Be Blamed on City Man. By Uni*cd Prrss NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 6. Following the death of Ewing Pennel, 24, of Kokomo, near here today in an automobile-truck collision, Wilbur Highland, who gave his address as 1114 East Market street, Indianapolis, was held in jail here to face a probable charge of manslaughter. Officers said they had evidence to show that Highland was driving on the wrong side of the road.

Weird Illness By United Press WICHITA FALLS. Tex., July 6. Crying for protection against a pack of imaginary dogs yipping at his heels, Ben Rhodes, dog catcher for four years, lay today in the grip of a strange malady at a hospital here. Physicians, puzzled by his illness, say his condition is critical. Sunstroke and hydrophobia are among the theories presented by physicians.

Wifi. HAMILTON TO BE TRIED IN LEBANONCOURT Change of Venue Granted Suspected Pair in Jackson Murder. Court fight of Louis E. Hamilton and Charles Vernon Witt to beat the state’s demand that they pay with their lives for the alleged gun slaying of L. A. Jackson, Standard grocery head, May 27, will be staged at Lebanon. This was announced today when Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, acting on a change of venue motion filed by Ira M. Holmes, defense counsel, selected Boone county as the trial scene. Due to the change, this may delay the trial which would have been held in criminal court July 13. As far as is known here, Circuit Judge John Hornaday of Boone county plans to recess court until the September term. With the transfer of the case, Lebanon will be the scene of two important murder trials in the next few months. In addition to the Hamilton-Witt trial, Mrs. Carrie Simmons will face first degree murder charges on the grand jury’s accusation that she poisoned her daughters, Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons, at a reunion picnic June 21 at Memorial park. She was indicted Friday. Witt and Hamilton, repudiating their purported confessions to police, will face the Boone county jury on the charges that they entered Mr. Jackson’s store, 419 East Washington street, and in a gun battle that followed his opposition to a holdup attempt, shot Mr. Jackson, wounding him fatally.

Who Hit Me? By United Press WASHINGTON, July 6. When John Sullivan was thumped on the back while walking down the street, he tried to start a fight with the man behind him. Then Sullivan realized that fifty firecrackers in his hip pocket were exploding. A hospital interne dressed his wounds.

WEATHER |S 'NICE' Coolness to Continue, Is Bureau’s Prediction. Cool weather is in prospect for Indianapolis for the next two days, according to the weather bureau forecast today. Today is scheduled as fair with the mercury reaching the 80’s, but a general unsettled condition throughout the state is forecast Tuesday, with cooler weather late Tuesday. Temperatures over the week-end were slightly above normal, but far different from the terrific heat that was broken Thursday. No more heat waves are in sight immediately, according to the bureau. HEAR BRIBE TESTIMONY 15 Lawyers Face Disbarment in New York Court Proceedings. By United Press NaW YORK, July 6.—A hearing in the cases of fifteen lawyers accused of bribe giving, opened today before Clarence J. Sheam, referee. The first witness was John C. Weston, who was prosecutor in women’s court from 1921 to 1929. He told a story of his financial relations with the attorneys, all of whom faee disbarment. LICENSE DRIVE STARTS Eleven Cab Drivers Arrested for Failure to Have Permit. Campaign against taxi drivers who do not possess licenses to operate in the city has been started by Captain Otto Ray, city license inspector. Eleven cab drivers were arrested over the week-end and will appear Wednesday in municipal court. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 66 10 a. m 75 7* a. m 68 11 a. m 77 Ba. m 72 12 (noon).. 76 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 78

"They want to go all directions, therefore they do not know where they want to go.” a a a a a a “ITS ridiculous," they said, “to have a train way up in the air wtth- . out a ‘head’ (locomotive) They laughed as the Ninth avenue “L” made its wide turn at One hundred tenth street. “Only whites rode in automobiles back heme. Why do the blacks or how do the blacks get to ride in them in this country?” they wanted to know as they approached Harlem. Told the Negroes here owned their automobiles, they asked: “But how do they get so much money?” They earned $4 a month in Ugandi, and had not heard (nor were they told) o: the great Harlem policy game*/ r' “ * 7" " *

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HOOVER FLATLY REFUSES TO ACCEPT FRANCE’S VIEW OF WORLD WAR DEBTS HOLIDAY President Cuts Short His Rest at Rapidan to Return and Draft Note Informing: Officials Proposal Is Unacceptable. NEW CREDIT GRANTED GERMANY Paris Reported to Be Astonished by U. S. Chief’s Firmness in Insisting Spirit of Plan Must Be Followed. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 6.—Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, in Paris, reported to President Herbert Hoover by telephone today that he had presented America’s latest memorandum on debt postponements to the French government. He said the French had taken it under consideration and were to talk with him again at 7 p. m. (noon, Indianapolis time). BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 6.—One more difference with France remains to be received before President Herbert Hoover’s project for a world-wide holiday on international debt payments can be proclaimed. The problem involves Germany’s payment to France of goods worth about $30,000,000 for which there are existing contracts. The French position on this matter was rejected by the President, who cut short his holiday at Rapidan camp and returned to Washington late Sunday to resume personal direction of the negotiations. Today anew proposal sped to Paris. Officials hope it •vhl bring about the agreement they have been anxiously awaiting for two weeks.

CONTINUES EAST IN RECORD HOP Vinet Ahead of Mark as He Flies From City. Hoping to set anew record for west-to-east coast flights with passengers, C. D. Vinet hopped from municipal airport at 5:03 a. m. today. Vinet, who landed here at 8:40 p. m. Sunday, decided to stay overnight because the weather reports showed bad weather in the Allegheny mountain reg;ion. When he reached here, after 11 hours and 40 minutes’ flying time, he had broken all records for passenger trips over the route. Pasengers to Indianapolis were Mrs. A. G. McGraw and her 18-months-old daughter Nancy Jane, who continued the flight to North Beach, N. Y., today, and Robert B. Morris, Dayton, 0., and Mrs. Alice Dunlap, who remained here. Vinet expected to stop at Pittsburgh for breakfast, reaching the New York city in less than five hours. He is flynig a fast Lockheed Orion monoplane, with cruising speed of 175 miles an hour and 230 miles an hour top speed. 0, K, ONJHNE SALE Knox Company Equipment Brings $25,000. Sale of the equipment and machinery used in the abandoned mine No. 3 of the Knox Consolidated Coal Company to the Used Coal Mine Equipment Crmpany for $25,000 and. the cost * removing it, was announced today by Theodore Stempfel, federal court receiver. The sale of the equipment was authorized by the court as but one mine, No. 1 is being used, Sam Dowden, attorney for the receiver, explained. The other two mines in that locality are abandoned and the veins can be worked from No. 1. Receiver for the Knox Consolidated first was asked and obtained in the circuit court here and with the filing of a suit in federal court, Stempfel was appointed. WELL, HE~HAD~mS~PRIDE Accountant-Bandit Irked by False Report of Robbery. By United Press IRVINGTON, N, J., July 6.—Valentine Christ, young Newark accountant, robbed a filling station attendant of $5, according to police. But when Christ read in the next day’s papers the victim had reported a theft of $lB, he thought someone ought to explain. According to police, he went back to the station and not only cleaned out the till a second time, but tried to make the attendant account for the previous discrepancy.

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Both France and the United States agree that the problem of German payments in goods should be submitted to a committee of financial exports. France wants the experts to act as they see it. America wants them instructed to act only within the spirit of Mr. Hoover’s original proposal, providing a complete debt holiday for Germany. This government agrees with France that the sanctity of “existing contracts” for goods must be preserved. But it wants France to reloan Germany the amount It will receive in goods from German citizens during the next twelve months, or to make any other arrangement so long as Germany loses nothing. France’s latest memorandum was received here early Sunday. While the city slept, state department code experts deciphered it. Before noon it was telephoned to Mr. Hoover, resting at his Virginia woodland tamp from the strain of fifteen days of nerve-wracking negotiations. Disappointed by the French reply, the President hurried to Washington by motor to consult with Ogden L. Mills, acting secretary of the treasury, and William Castle, acting secretary of state, and draft a reply. The President found one piece of good news awaiting him. It was a note of Chancellor Heinrich Bruening of Germany, assuring Mr. Hoover that none of the money saved Germany by the Hoover plan would be used for armaments, as some groups had charged it might be. Castle announced today that the “new and simplified formula” had been submitted to France. He added he believed it would “meet the entire situation.” France Astonished By United Press PARIS, July 6.—Andrew W. Mellon, treasury secretary, spent the morning with Ambassador Walter E Edge, studying President Herbert Hoover’s reply to the French memorandum on the Hoover plan for a year's debt payment holiday. The French generally were astonished at Washington reports that Mr. Hoover found the French draft of a compromise accord inacceptable. The American response is to be handed the French at 3 p m. New Credit Granted By United Press BERLIN, July 6.—A new credit of $50,000,000 was granted the -gold discount bank, a reichsbank subsidiary, today by an American banking consortium headed by the International Acceptance Company. Previous international credits totaling $100,000,000 were almost exhausted. AUTO STRIKES GIRL, 7 Motorist Held Blameless After Mishap on East Side. Struck as she ran across the street in front of her home, Mary Lou Martin, 7, of 715 South Keystone avenue, suffered head and arm injuries this afternoon. Louis Darko, 17, jf 1050 Nelson street, driver of the car was not held. The girl was treated at city hospital. PREDICT TRADE UPTURN Business Editors See Conditions as Favorable to Recovery. By United Press ~ NEW YORK, July 6.—With resistance to downward tendencies holding their prices around present levels, American business now is in the condition that generally precedes an upturn, the semi-annual business review by the national conference of business paper editors