Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1931 — Page 8

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INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS LEADERS OPPOSE PAY CUTS

AGREE PRESENT LEVELS SHOULD BE MAINTAINED Several Refuse to Discuss Problem in Survey by United Press. OWEN D. YOUNG SILENT Macey, Railroad and Utility Heads All Against Slashes. (Copyright. 1931. by United Press) NEW YORK, July 30. Leaders in railroad, utility and mercantile fields declared their opposition to any projects for wage cuts, in statements to the United Press today, and indicated their belief that present wage levels must be maintained. A few, Including Owen D. Young, chairman of board of the General Electric Company, declined to discuss the situation. The United Press has requested statements of the leaders’ position on wage cuts. Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, emphatically reiterated a statement he made last April in which he declared that “every effort should be made to maintain wages.” Jesse Isidor Straus, president of R. H. Macy & Cos.; P. E. Crowley, president of the New York Central Railroad Company, and Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, agreed in favoring maintenance of today’s wage scale. Even on Part Time Several executives maintained that where, because of slack business, it has not been possible to maintain as large a force of active workers as In normal times, efforts have been made, and should be made, to keep the maximum number of men employed, even on part time. ‘‘l am not in favor of reducing railroad wages at the present time.” said President Willard. ‘‘l can not speak for other interests, and what I have said simply is an expression of my own opinion at this time.” Gifford’s declaration was as follows: ‘‘At the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in April I said that I believed we should make every effort to maintain wages. This still is my view. In the effort to keep a maximum force at work, full-time employment has not been possible for all employes in all parts of the Bell system, but there has been no reduction in wage rates." A telegram from P. E. Crowley of the New York Central lines, read: "As yet the New York Central lines have not considered reduction in wages.” The reply of J. I. Straus of Macy’s was hopeful of an improvement in business. Straus said: Macy Business Better "Replying to your telegram, believe wages and salaries should not be reduced as long as dividend rates are maintained. Consideration of reductions of wages and salaries should be after reductions of dividends are forced. Following my statement at the president’s conference in November, 1929, we repeatedly have announced to our organization that it was not our intention to reduce wages but that their co-operation was essential. Our business shows improvement and it is our hope and expectation that we shall be able to continue present salaries and wages.” T. G. Lee, president of Armour & Company, regards the wage problem as one for individuall solution by each industry. In his reply to the inquiry, he said: "Salary and wage question presents different problem to every individual company. Prefer not to discuss it.” “Thanks. Nothing to say,” read the telegram from Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company. Young was associated for months in the attempt to settle Europe’s post-war difficulties, and it was his economic plan which was finally adopted as a basis for German debt settlements. L. J. Noah, president of the American Woolen Company, wired briefly: "Have no statement to make on the wage cut situation.” COPS PRESS DRIVE TO CLOSE ‘I,OOO JOINTS’ Three More Persons Are Arrested in "Blotter” Squad Raids. Pressing their campaign against the city’s thousand speakeasies, police Wednesday night closed two more places in which they say they confiscated large quantities of beer and alcohol. A squad shattered 200 quarts of home brew in the apartment of John Widman and Eva Wilkes, at 750 Concord street, and charged both Widman and Mrs. Wilkes with operating a blind tiger, they reported. Nineteen gallons of alcohol, several empty cans, and a rifle, were taken at the home of Edward Carter, 2447 Paris avenue, police said, and, although Carter asserted he was watching the liquor for another person, he was charged with blind tiger. Three Sent to Prison By Times Special LIBERTY, Ind., July 30.—Prison terms of three to ten years each were imposed in Union circuit court here on two men and a woman from Dayton, 0., on pleas of guilty to burglary- They are Chester Taylor, SJ; Bari Oer. ?4, and Lucille Bottoroff, 19. An alleged accomplice, Joseph Koelsch, pleaded not guilty. They were charged with stealing merchandise from freight cars.

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The federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., to which A1 Capone, Chicago gangster, was sentenced by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson of Chicago today for income tax evasion and liquor law violation, is shown above with a view of the interior of one of the cell houses. Capone is shown at the right and Judge Wilkerson at the left.

(Continued from Page 1) through with a compromise, that’s not my fault. It’s tough, all right.” "I am burning my bridges behind me,” declared the “world’s worst criminal” before entering Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson’s court to receive sentence on his plea of guilty to violating the prohibition laws 5,000 times and failing to pay income tax on the millions he admitted he hack made illegally. In the only authentic interview granted on the eve of his departure for prison, the contrite Capone said his greatest ambition was to raise his son to be a good citizen. Asks No Favors He said he would be satisfied with any punishment the government decreed, would ask no favors in prison, and would emerge determined to build up a business reputation of which his family could be proud. Capone, who weighs well over 200 pounds, was bothered by the heat and admitted he was "nervous” at the prospect of several years in prison. Time after time he mopped his face and slightly bald head with a towel. "I’m ready to take my medicine,” he said. "I realize that the charges were just. That’s why I pleaded guilty. The officials performed their duties honestly and efficiently. If the government thinks it can clean up Chicago by sending me to jail, well and good. "But when I come out, things will be different. I’ll ihiss the world’s fair (and I always wanted to see one, too), but I’ll be paying my debt to society and when it’s paid I’m coming out to start all over, raise my boy right and make my family proud of me. Ready To Go “I’m ready to go now, any time. I’ll pay my own way if it will get me there any quicker. The sooner in, the sooner out. “In prison I’ll have time to decide what I’m going to do afterward. It

Explaining That ‘Tired Feeling’

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Your Times’ carrier was a worn out. tired boy or girl today as the evening paper was tossed on your front porch. Today was the day of the annual picnic for Times carriers at Riverside amusement park, and was it a day of thrills and fun? Just ask any of the 1,000 or more that took over the park and all its amusement devices! Long before the big gates swung open at 9 a. m. boys and girls arrived from every direction. They unloaded through street car windows when the traffic through the doors became too slow. They swarmed out of busses. Times circulation men worked overtime seeing that each carrier had tickets entitling him to free rides on all the fun devices. So, if it was a tired boy or girl who tossed the old evening daily on the porch tonight, smile with them, for they had a big time at Riverside today. |

$1,850 Fun! By United Press LONDON, July 30.—Kenyon V. Painter, a 12-year-old Cleveland, 0., boy, caused a sensation today when he bid and paid $1,850 for a silver salt cellar at Christie’s ale room. Master Painter accompanied his father to the auction at Christie’s. He watched the bidding and finally asked his father if he couldn’t join in. "Dad told me to bid until he stopped me,” the boy said. “I just bid until the others stopped. It was good sport and something to tell the kids back home.” He was the first school boy to outbid the older buyers at Christie’s.

will be something connected with finance. Whatever it is, you can bet it will be honest and legitimate. Ten years ago I came here from Brooklyn intending to make an honest living. If I didn’t do it then, I will now.” Capone, whose income from beer, liquor, and vice had been estimated in the millions of dollars and who has been accused of directing the murders of more than 300 in Chicago’s liquor wars, denied he nad done all the things of which he had been accused. The gangster said he positively would not accept any of the many offers he had received to write his history or sell ideas for gangdom moving pictures. Hotel Sale Made By Times Special SPENCER, Ind., July 30.—The Layman hotel here has been bought by Mont E. Crowe, former clerk of the Owen circuit court. Lawson Laymon, killed in a recent automobile accident, was the former owner.

Upper Left—"Up in the air, boys," at The Times carriers’ picnic. Upper Right—Two Times carriers resting a moment and wondering which thrill to experience next. They are (left) Doris Johnson, 11, of 560 Lexington avenue, and (right) Lorene Emberton, 10, of 417 South Pine street. Bottom—Maybe you think these young chaps aren’t having the time of their lives. \>

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BOY ADMITS THEFTS Police Claim Confession of Burglaries From Lad, 14. Three robberies were confessed today, according to police, by a 14-year-old Indianapolis youth. The lad was arrested in bed at his home after an automobile, which police say he admits he stole in Columbus, Ir.J., was found standing near the grocery of Russell Mayhew, 1164 West Thirtieth street. The boy admitted the attempted robbery of the Mayhew grocery on Wednesday night, theft of oil, grease and gasoline from the Hicks Oil Company, 1306 West Twenty-ninth street, and the robbery of a confectionery at 1529 West Twentyninth stredt. The boy is held on a vagrancy charge, as is a companion, also 14, who rode in the stolen car, but was not implicated in the thefts. BOND ISSUE APPROVED Tax Board Places O. K. on Carroll County School Project. A $27,000 bond issue for a grade school building in Tippecanoe township, Carroll county, was approved by the state tax board today, without alteration. Commissioners were ordered to advertise for bids on the Martin Gertsch road, Fletcher township, Jennings county, and submit them with a renewed request for a bond issue. The issue requested was for $17,000. Similar action was taken on the request for a $6,000 bond issue for construction of the A. R. Zimmerman road, Hamblin township, Brown county.

SHORTER WORK DAY URGED BY LABORCHIEFS Federation Comes Forward With Four-Point Plan to Aid idle. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Prees Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 30.—Organized labor has stepped into the job situation in-an effort to prevent the impact of reduced industrial earnings from falling with undue weight upon the shoulders of the employe - consumer. The American Federation of Labor today came forward with a program it believqs would prevent suffering next winter due to unemployment. This program calls for: 1. Shortening of work hours to distribute employment. 2. Employment guarantees; promises from management that those now employed will be held through the winter, so that the fear of unemployment, which tends to encourage hoarding, could be dissipated. 3. Creation of more work, public and private, even chores around homes. 4. Collection of funds for relief, both municipal and private. The federation maae no. reference to the question of reducing wages, against which the White House is continuing its warfare. Situation More Critical In proposing its program, the federation declared unemployment is “growing more critical,” despite a seasonal improvement due to the harvest season. "We must look forward to a worse unemployment problem next winter than last,” the federation stated. This action follows that of executives of railroad labor organizations. They declared railroad wages must not be reduced in event the railroads fail to obtain their 15 per cent freight rate increase. Any attempt at reduction would be “resisted,” the labor executives warned. At the same time, President Hoover has turned to the problem of preparing to meet demand for relief next winter. He is engaged in a series of conferences in which John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, and F. C. Croxton, acting chairman of the President’s committee on employment, have figured. Dole Is Opposed Both agree with Mr. Hoover in opposing any federal action which might be classed as a dole. They declare the problem is one for local charity and municipalities. Estimating present unemployment at about 5,200,000, a decrease from the 6,300,000 unemployed last January, the American Federation of Labor said trade union reports showed a rise of unemploj'ment to 18.9 per cent in July as against 18.2 per cent in June. It was estimated that about 175,000 have lost their jobs since June, though the harvest season has taken on some 275,000 hands, reducing the net unemployment perhaps by about 100,000 during the harvest season. BOAR MAULS BOY, 13 Tries to Play Cowboy With Hog; He’s Bitten, Bruised. By United Press SIDNEY, Neb., July 30.—Roger Geller, 13, while playing cowboy, craved more excitement than he could get from lassoing fence posts and riding a stick horse. He went out to the hog lot and picked on a big boar. Physicians said he will recover from the bites and bruises he got in the fight which followed.

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BY BEN STERN Encouraged by the recent decision of the Indiana supreme court that municipally owned utilities have a right to earn a “reasonable interest on the money invested,” citizens in almost every Indiana city are girding to resume the fight for public ownership. This decision in the Logansport municipal lighting plant case paves the way for purchase of utilities by municipalities through issuance of bonds against the property to be redeemed by the earnings. Proponents of the move to have the city purchase the street car lines say that it opens the way not only to this, but to public ownership of the water company. In the Logansport case, the earnings of the company light plant were used for the making of public improvements, as is done at Anderson, Richmond, and other cities. Down at Washington the municipally o /ned utilities defray the cost of the city government. a tt u This should point the way for Indianapolis to a method of reducing the tax burden against which business men and property owners are now shouting at the tops of their voices. "Let the publicly owned utilities pay our taxes,” is heard everywhere. Even staunch adherents ol‘ private ownership such as John McCardle, chairman of the public service commission, admit that the time is near when most municipal-

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HEART ATTACK AND GAS KILL WOMAN

Mrs. Fish Believed to Have Torn Connection From Hot Plate. A heart attack, which resulted in her breaking the connection on a gas hotplate, is believed to have caused the death Wednesday afternoon of Mrs. Jeanette L. Fish, 57, at her home, 2925 Washington boulevard. Asphyxiated by fumes from the broken connection, the body of Mrs. Fish was found in the basement of her home by her husband, James L. Fish. Mrs. Fish had been washing in the basement. It is believed she suffered the heart attack and falling knocked the hose connection on the hotplate free of the stove. A pulmotor from the city hospital was used in a vain atempt to resuscitate her. Surviving her besides the husband are: two brothers, Ray McDowell and Fred McDowell of Sidell, 111., and two sisters, Miss Carrie McDowell of Sidell and Mrs. Grace Kayser of Pocahontas, 111. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

Pup and Mule Gertrude Had One Under Each Arm, Say Cops; She’s Jailed.

“Where art thou going my pretty maid? I’m going a-wallsine sir. she said. Tou’re under arrest, pretty maid. Take me, take my dog, she said.’’ tt n tt THIS predicament confronted Motor Policemen Albert Brahaum and Albert Reinking today at Henry street and Senate avenue as they detained Mrs. Gertrude Kline. 35, of 421% Massachusetts avenue, as she stepped into a taxi from an alleged "speakeasy” nearby. Mrs. Kline had a Pomeranian pup in one arm and a pint of "mule” under the other, police said. Brahaum and Reinking w r ere in a dilemma. They didn’t have anything against the dog, but they did want to escort Mrs. Kline to jail. “Okay, lady, you’ll both go to jail,” the policemen replied. So Ching, a Pomeranian pup, is living off of policemen’s lunches in the basement holdover for canines while Mrs. Kline bemoans his fate in another portion of the jail while awaiting trial on a charge of drunkenness.

CRASH DRIVER HELD Faces Charge of Operating Car While Drunk. Charges of operating an automobile while drunk today faced Henry W. Schoenborn, 45, of 4026 Madison avenue, following a series of south side accidents Wednesday night. Police charge Schoenborn’s automobile collided with several cars on Madison avenue before he finally came to a stop by demolishing his car in a head-on collision with an auto driven by Thomas V. Thomas, 20, of 2916 Shelby street. Two persons were injured in accidents. Leslie Pruitt, 21, of 401 North Rural street suffered cuts and a sprained ankle when he walked into a moving automobile at Rural and New York streets. Miss Oakley Roe, 16, of 325 South Pine street, was treated for minor bruises after being struck while crossing Pine street at Harrison street.

ities will own their public utilities. "Although I am strongly opposed to public ownership, I can see it coming,” McCardle told the writer recently. a tt tt Incidentally it was McCardle who approximately five years ago wrote the opinion in which the commission denied the right of the Logansport utility to a profit. Appeal was taken to the high court, with the result already mentioned. Jere West, now a member of the public service commission, also was reversed by this supreme court opinion for a similar decision he made while circuit judge at Crawfordsville. There are times when a plain ordinary sort of citizen can conceive of a real liking for the supreme court after decisions like the above. FA ROBBERY CHARGE Alleged Holdup Pair to Be Returned to Morgan County. Officers from Morgan county were expected to arrive today to return Wililam Burgess, 30, of 1743 Morgan street, and Lonnie Collins, 30, of 1129 South Pershing avenue, to that county in connection with a shotgun holdup in which sl4 was obtained. Burgess and Collins, according to police, admitted that they held up Raymond Risley, rural driver for the Polar Ice Company, on State Road 67 near Mooresville. Burgess is a former employe of the ice company.

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WEBSTER FREED IN WIFE'S CASE Shaeffer Dismisses Lazy Husband Charge. "She stole my receipts for money I paid her.” This was the charge today of Irving Webster, publisher, against his wife, Mrs. Mable Webster, in defending a "lazy husband” charge in the court of Municipal Judge William Shaeffer. Shaeffer dismissed the charge after Webster declared he could not find receipts showing that he had paid her money. "You’re being sued for divorce by your wife, so I’ll let the superior court take jurisdiction of this charge,’’ said the judge as he dismissed the lazy husband count. Webster asserted he could not find his book of receipts in his office. The case has been continued on several occasions in Shaeffer’s court to give Webster an opportunity to find the receipts. CORONER PROBES DEATH Suicide Angle Being Investigated in Case of Henry Roush. Whether Henry Roush, 28, found dead Wednesday in his room at 724 East Twenty-third street, was a siucide is being investigated today by Coroner Fred Vehling. Mrs. Sarah Messersmith, at whose home Roush lived, told officers she believed Roush had been dead several days. She discovered the body when she entered the room to make up his bed. RECEDES FOREIGN ~ 3 OST Westfield Woman Named Hospital Supervisor in Syria. Miss Jewel Leitzman of Westfield, Ind., has been appointed supervisor of the surgical division of the hospital at the American university of Beirut, Syria. Miss Leitzmann is one of thirty-two persons named to the six American colleges in the Near East this year by Albert W. Staub, American director, New York.

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FINE OPERATOR IN 'NEWS CLUB' LOTTERY CASE Conviction Marks Step in Police Drive Against Gambling. One conviction in municipal court, another arrest, confiscation of hundreds of baseball pool and bank clearing pool tickets, and continuation of a gambling case in court were activities today in the battle Police Chief Michael Morrissey has declared on gambling in Indianapolis. Ernest Siewert. 36, of 831 Park avenue, was fined SIOO and cosis after one of his former agents testified against him. 6!ewert was arrested as the operator of the "News Club” lottery. At the time of the raid police found no tickets, but Thursday a tip led them to the hiding place of thousands of tickets in Siewert's apartment, they said. Ex-Official Wins Delay Case of Louis W. Cajmefix, former city councilmen, charged with operation of the "Golden Glow” lottery, a 2,000-sucker 25-cent pool that is alleged to have paid SIOO and SSO weekly in prees. was continued today in municipal court on request of Jacob Steinmetz, deputy prosecutor, who said he wanted to procure a star witness. Attorneys for Carnefix said they would file a motion to suppress evidence when they learned who would try the case Aug. 14. Judge Pro Tem. J. E. McDonald informed them he would leave his temporary bench Saturday. One point defense attorneys said they would base their motion on was that the search warrant erred in the address of the place searched when Carnefix was arrested. Confiscate Pool Tickets A police squad car early today arrested Miss Thelma Stevens, 23, Negro, 2428 Martindale avenue, on a charge c/ operating a lottery, and Mrs. Jesse Saunders. Negro, 2460 Columbia avenue, on charges of keeping a room for pool selling and operating a lottery. Hundreds of baseball pool tickets and bank clearing tickets were taken from them, police say. Police failed to convict Robert Zeff, Melvin Levin, Edward Kelly and Irving Goldman when their attorney brought out the fact that the affidavit on which their tailor club lottery was smashed was signed by the prosecuting witness after the arrest.

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