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U. S. BARGAIN WITH CAPONE IS ASSAILED Congressmen Scathing in Their Criticism of Deal for Light Term. PRAISE ' GIVEN JUDGE Gang Czar, Stunned by Act of Jurist, Fears Long Prison Sentence. BY JULIUS FRANDSEN TJnlted Pre Staff Corr^soondent WASHINGTON. Aug. I.—Four senior members of senate and house judiciary committees today criticised the department of justice’s “bargaining” plan under which light sentences are recommended for “public enemies” in return for admissions of guilt. This was the method followed by government prosecutors in dealing with A1 Capone. But Federal Judge Wilkerson at Chicago refused to recognize the agreement and ruled that the gangdom leader should stand trial. The government’s aim had been to get Capone behind bars as quickly as possible. Now it must proceed with an expensive and perhaps protracted trial. And Capone faces the possibility of a sentence up to thir-ty-two years. Judge Right, Says Walsh “Judge Wilkerson is right past all dispute,” Senator Thomas J. Walsh Dem., Mont.) telegraphed in response to an inquiry from the United Press. “Bargaining arrangements give rich criminals an advantage and bring justice into deserved disrepute,” he said. Walsh is recognized as one of the legal authorities of the senate. “An old and hardened criminal whose record is well known and who has been caught in the meshes of the law should not be let off with a light sentence simply because he admits what can be established before, a court and jury,” Representative C. A. Christopherson (Rep., S. D.) said. Negotiations Assailed “There should have been no negotiations with Capone at all,” Senator Caraway (Dem., Ark.)., said. "He made a business of crime and should suffer the consequences.” Representative A. J. Montague (Dem., Va.) condemned the bargaining system as “unsound in theory and vicious in practice.” It never should be used, he said, “save in extraordinary instances, such as deaths or unavoidable absence of witnesses or loss of official records or other physical evidence and when guilt is known, but can not be proved fully.” Judge on Vacation Du United Press CHICAGO. Aug. I.—Federal Judge James H Wilkerson prepared today t.o leave for a month's vacation in Michigan and thus to withdraw for the time being at least from the national furore he created when he told Alphonse tScarface Al) Capone that “a federal court can not be bargained w’ith.” Behind him the 62-year-old jurist was leaving, first of all, an angry, frightened Capone, who had planned to go to prison for a few years, but now must stand trial on charges which may prove far more serious than those to which he pleaded guilty with the understanding his sentence would be comparatively light. Officials Embarrassed Behind him. also, the judge, whom gangsters long have feared, was leaving “embarrassed” officials in Washington and a way cleared for what, possibly may become one of the most sensational criminal trials in history. In a surprise session Friday, Wilkerson granted the request for the income tax case, .setting the trial for Sept. 8, after allowing withdrawal of Capone’s guilty plea. He withheld an answer in the liquor cases and made it clear he believed Capone should be given the stufiest sentence possible. He ordered the grand jury to investigate further the indictments, with the view to making the charges more serious. Faces Heavy Penalty As things stood today, Capone faces one expensive trial for sure, with another pending and a grand jury looking for chances to “whoop it up” enough to make it a Jones “five and ten"’ law case That the gangster may remain out of prison many more months and posisbly be free even to sell his beer to the world's fair crowds In 1933 was admitted. It also was agreed generally that his ultimate fate now appears much darker than it did before. U. S. FARM BOARD IS DEFENDED BY SETTLE State Federation Head Asserts It Has Aided Stabilization. President. William H. Settle of (he Indiana Farm Bureau Federation staunchly defended the federal farm board before the Farmers’ Club luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce Friday. The board has done more to stabilize prices of farm and industrial products than any other one governmental agency. Settle declared. “If the marketing board has failed, then so has the federal reserve act. for it has failed to prevent bank failures, and so has the labor board, for there are 6.000.000 men out of work in the United States today,” he declared. Unprofitable agriculture formed the basis of the present industrial depression, he said, and now there are fewer farmers failing than Tther business men.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 71

Knockout Charge Wins Divorce for Opera Star

Cyrena Van Gordon and her favorite Horse.

RAIN ON WAY FOR WEEK-END Showers to Reach State by Tonight Is Forecast. A cooling draught of rain is promised Indianapolis and vicinity tonight or Sunday by J. H. Armington, United States weather observer. “A storm centering in the upper Mississippi valley may reach Indiana. The northern portion of the state probably will get showers, with local thunderstorms in the southern section.” He forecast that Sunday’s temperatures would be about ten degrees below Friday’s maximum of 93 degrees. But the city will swelter today under 90-degree heat, with the thermometer in a fair way this morning of beating Friday’s maximum. It stood at 86 at 9 a. m. Friday night and this morning the temperatures added to sleeplessness, with a minimum of 76 degrees at 6 a. m. today. One heat prostration was reported to police Friday afternoon, when Jack Adams, 810 Madison avenue, was overcome while working on his automobile at his home. Hourly Temperatures Midnight... 84 5 a. m 79 1 a. m 82 6 a. m 78 2 a. m 81 7 a. m 79 3 a. m 80 8 a. m 83 4 a. m..... 79 9 a. m 86

TOO MUCH CLASS IS BREW JOINT JINX

Sergeant John Eisenhut, qualified toda yas an expert in interior decoration, Eisenhut is known far and wide in the city as a catcher of interior decorators (of the bootlegger variety,) but Friday night he became an expert, vhen he recognized

How the Market Opened

By United Press NEW YORK. Aug I.—Trading in stocks which during July was the lightest since 1926, continued dull in the early part of the short session today. Prices, however, were firm with the majority of issues making fractional gains. Steel shares were in fair demand with United States Steel at 85 s 4, up V*. and Bethlehem at 37 H, up M on 1,000 shares General Motors rose %to 37 3 i while Chrysler eased a fraction. Oils held steady; coppers eased, while utilities were slightly higher. After a week of watching domestic developments which involved dividend reductions and poor earnings statements by the leading steel corporations the financial community again turned its attention to the foreign situation. Extension of a $250,000,000 credit to the Bank of England by the New York Federal Reserve bank and the Bank of France was expected to tide over that institution in the present crisis. The Reichsbank raised its discount rate to 15 per cent in anticipation of reopening banks next week The Unted States was reported sounding out Germany on a credit to provide the Reich funds to purchase American commodities. Woollen to Address Democrats The tariff and other national problems will be discussed by Evans Woollen, speaking before an open meeting of the Washington Township Democratic Club at Allen’s grove, Fifty-second street and Arsen*] avenue. A free barbecue supper rflll be given to all who attend.

CHICAGO, Aug. I.—Atfer testifying that on two occasions her husband knocked her unconscious with his fist, Cyrena Van Gordon, contralto star of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, was granted a divorce from Dr. Shirley B. Munns, eye and ear specialist, to whom she was married at Greencastle, Ind., in 1913. Miss Van Gordon did not ask for alimony, explaining she always had supported herself. She said she and her husband had been separated since last June 20. Immediately after obtaining the decree, the prima donna left for New York to be with her brother, Joseph McGriff, who was reported seriously ill. GERMANY DICKERS ON U, S. FARM SURPLUS Cotton, Wheat Deals May Be Made on Long-Term Credit, By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Part of the farm board’s stocks of surplus cotton and wheat may be purchased by Germany under long-term credit arrangements. Ambassador Sackett in Berlin has suggested such arrangements to German officials and, according to word received here, is continuing conferences with them regarding possible purchases. The farm board would be willing to do business on a long-term credit basis with “a responsible government,” according to Carl Williams, member of the board for cotton. He indicated that Soviet Russia was the only prospective customer which which would not be considered in that class.

chintz curtains over a basement window as a sign of an alleged home brew emporium. Eisenhut and his squad raided the basement of John Reese, 42 Brookville road, and found 221 quarts of homebrew, 25 gallons brewing, he reported . The basement was outfitted in nobby style to care for trade. Gay colored chintz curtains screened the windows. Countless bottles of homebrew lined the white enameled shelves, while an electric refrigerator held an additional supply, Eisenhut said. Electric fans cooled the basement “recreation parlor.” White cloths covered highly polished tables, ash trays, put to hard usage, dotted the tables. Bowls of pretzels formed the piece de resistance on each table, Eisenhut said. Reese never had been arrested previously for liquor law violation He was slated on a blind tiger charge. Eisenhut declares the “chintz” case catered to the "white pants” set. SWINE DROP 40 CENTS ON LACK OF DEMAND Cattle Quetabiy Steady: Vealers Sell Off Half-Dollar. Extreme indifference of buyers this morning was responsible for a sharp drop in hog prices at the city yards. The market held mostly 20 to 40 cents off. The bulk, 140 to 280 pounds, sold for $6.75 to SB. Early top SB. Receipts were estimated at 1,500: holdovers were 178. Cattle were quotably steady, receipts numbering 150. Vealers lost 50 cents, selling at $8.50 down. Calf receipts yere 150. Little change was noted in the sheep market, lambs selling mostly at $7 to SB. No top kinds here today. In the Air Weather conditions in the air at 9 15 a. m.: South southwest wind, 11 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.02 at sea level; temperature, 87; ceiling unlimited: visibility, 10 miles; field, good.

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STATE SALARY CUT PUN HIT BY OFFICIALS Moorman Suggestion Meets Vigorous Opposition in AI! Quarters. HELD SLAP AT HOOVER Policy Would Be Harmful, With No Aid to Tax • Rate Cut. Cutting of salaries of state employes, as suggested in a resolution at a meeting of Indiana prison trustees, will be opposed vigorously by state department heads, both Democratic and Republican, a symposium by The Times disclosed today. “Absurd, silly, contrary to public policy, and a slap at President Hoover,” is the way the wage cut proposal made by John Moorman of Knox, Indiana state prison trustee, was characterized. Moorman introduced a resolution for a 10 per cent wage cut for all prison employes receiving more than $l4O a month and a 7 per cent cut under that figure. The resolution is to be acted on at a trustees meeting, Aug. 28. Urges Wage Cuts After introducing the resolution, Moorman gave an interview urging wage reductions throughout the state government and institutions. He had conferred with Governor Harry G. Leslie and the proposal was taken as a straw in the wind for'a possible Leslie policy of wage reduction. This policy has been condemned by President Hoover for both public and private industry and the retention of the wage scale was urged recently from Washington by Senator James E. Watson. Department heads whose placess do not depend upon apointment and those aointed who dared express opinions unanimously were against the wage cut proposal. No Aid to Tax Rate With the state tax rate at 29 cents, 20 cents of which goes for schools, a general wage cut would not change the rate, a single cent, it was pointed out. A $500,000 saving must be effected before a cent can be cut from the state rate. “Talk of wage cutting is just beginning at the wrong end to effect any governmental saving,” Lawrence F. Orr, chief of the state board of accounts and ex-officio member of the state budget committee. declared. “The only way to save state taxes is to lop off some of the $200,000 to $300,000 in appropriations. The budget committee has set the maximum salaries for all departments. If a reduction is made in these figures, it will not result in a saving of more than $50,000, which would mean nothing in the way of tax saving.” Ogden Against Move Should the wage cut policy be adopted, it would require budget committee action. Attorney-General James M. Ogden was outspoken in his opposition to the move. “I would be for any policy which would mean a tax reduction, but to cut wages of state employes is not one of the things that would bring about such a happy result,” Ogden assert. 1 "Now is the time to uphold the President of the United States and not for a state government to take a stand directly opposite to what Hoover has proposed. It merely would be setting a bad example to all industry, public and private.”

FRANCE, U. S. LOAN BRITISH $250,000,000 Bank of England Agrees to Pay 3% Per Cent Interest. By United Press PARIS, Aug. I.—Complete accord between the Bank of France and the federal reserve bank in New York dwas reached today on a large extension of credit to the Bank of England. The agreement was reached in hurried conferences concluded here at noon, wiht consultations by trans-Atlantic telephone to New York. It provides for the immediate extension of credits totaling nearly $250,000,000 to the Bank of England. which agreed to pay 3% per cent interest. The loan will be diveded equally between the federal reserve bank and the Bank of France.

Today's the Day; Get in Race for $3,000 Prizes How many motion picture stars do you know? If you are familiar with most of the cinema, celebrities, by all means enter The Times-Indiara theater $3,000 Vacation Contest, which gets under way today. Elsewhere in today’s Times there appears a group of six movie stars, along with complete rules for governing the contest. Read the rules, look at the stars, and then write down their names. To the seventeen persons who send in the most nearly correct list of names will go vacation prizes amounting to more than $3,000 in the form of accommodations at five of America’s most famous hotels and recreational resorts. The contest is being held in conjunction with the Indiana's presentation of the New Fall Hits, the first of which opened Friday. And as an example, two of the stars in this picture, “Confessions of a Co-Ed,” appear in the first group of photographs today. The forty-two stars whose picture will be used are considered by the committee of arrangements to be the best known in Indianapolis of the ones who will appear in the New Fall Hit pictures at the Indiana during the coming months.

Si! Some Sun Sombrero!

i&SilttiHS J 1 | Ii . J j ! i' It. was some sombrero Senorita Inez Ramirez <above> of Puerta. Armulees. Panama, wore when she 1 arrived at San Francisco aboard 1 the S S Perla to a (tend . KHT J school. M There’s art in these fifty-gallon tlpt <., l Inca-type hats, the senorita says, - and that's not all. What chance Twfiwiiilo HfL has the glaring sun to do its blis- ' 1

It was some sombrero Senorita Inez Ramirez (above) of Puerta Armulees, Panama, wore when she arrived at San Francisco aboard the S. S. Perla to attend art school. There's art in these fifty-gallon Inca-type hats, the senorita says, and that's not all. What chance has the glaring sun to do its blistering through this kind of protection?

LINDY STARTS DASH TO MOOSE FACTORY

HuntsOwnßody EVANSTON, 111., Aug. I. Search for the victim of a drowning tragedy was turned into a joke when it was discovered that Rolland Brown, Northwestern university student who was supposed to have drowned, was among the dozen or more bathers searching for his body. A watcher saw him set out, but didn’t see his return from a long swim and he had joined in the search not knowing it was himself he was looking for.

BATHERS’ PAL FLEES Takes Clothes of Nude Pair at Ravenswood. What a pal, the driver of an auto that sped like a phantom from Ravenswood beach early today when red headlights of a deputy sheriffs’ cruiser gleamed through the trees! For his sudden pilgrimage to unlearned parts marooned two companions quite embarrassingly. Deputies Pat Kinney and Harry Cook answered a radio complaint from the Maxie Epstein cottage that two youths, sans raiment, were disporting themselves on the beach —by the way, the same beach that Ravenswood’s “mayor” Charles O. Ford, has announced is private and is to be protected by a fence. The youths, on the beach when Kinney and Cook arrived, confessed the fugitive auto contained their clothes. Epstein’s heart was touched. He loaned the boys bath robes and gave them shelter until their friend returned.

WORLD GIRDLERS ARE DOWN AT OMSK

By United Press MOSCOW, Aug. !. Clyde E Pangbom and Hugh Herndon Jr., round-the-world fliers who left Moscow Friday in an effort to fly 2,700 miles to Irkutsk without a halt, came down at Omsk today at 2 p. m. (3 a. m. Indianapolis time). The fliers had made an earlier forced landing at a point far off their route, near Kustanai, they reported. Omsk is almost exactly half-way to Irkutsk and was a stop-ping-place Friday for Miss Amy Johnson. English flier, en route to Tokio from London in a light plane. While the Omsk halt was understood to be only for refueling, it

Hunters and Trappers From Far North Throng to See Flier. BY MAX BUCKINGHAM United Press Staff Correspondent OTTAWA, Ont., Aug. i.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife set forth today for their venture into the little traveled areas of northwest Canada, en route on their vacation air journey to Tokio. They flew from here at 9:50 a. m. for Moose Factory. As the Lindberghs took off, hunters and trappers thousai ds of miles to the northwest were making their way to Aklavik, hoping for a glimpse of the famous fliers on their air trip to Japan, Aklavik is one of the scheduled stops on the Lindberghs’ intinerary. Today’s flight will take them to the foot of James Bay for an overnight stop. From Moose Factory they are scheduled to push on to Ft. Churchill, another 700-odd miles farther up Hudson Bay, and thence to Baker lake, and Aklavik, at the mouth of the Mackenzie river. Lindbergh took advantage of his stop here to consult with Royal Air Force pilots familiar with flying conditions along the shores of Hudson bay and across the vast stretches of Arctic and sub-Arctic territory between the bay and the Mackenzie river valley—a country with few satisfactory landing places, where fogs rise densely and suddenly. Acocrding to dispatches from Aklavik, the fame of Lindbergh has spread even in the remotest regions of the northwest territories, and Indians and Eskimos are as interested as white trappers in seeing him. Cut by Bursting Bottle While refilling ice coolers in the Century building today, George Hart, 41, of 312 North De Quincy avenue; suffered a severe cut on his right hand when a bottle of water which he w r as handling broke. He was given emergency treatment at the city hospital and taken home.

combined with the deviation from route to put Pangbom and Herndon farther behind the Pcst-Gatty flight schedule. Behind Rivals’ Time By United Press IRKUTSK, Siberia, Aug. I.—Two American fliers trying to circle the world in a week, were awaited here today. Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr. left Moscow at 5'20 p m. (7:20 a. m. Indianapolis time) for Irkutsk. The distance is about 2,700 miles. Pangborn and Herndon were slightly more than eleven hours behind the record set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty when they left Moscow, but they said they expected to regain lost time by a nonstop flight here. The fliers, as Post and Gatty had done, sacrificed sleep to continue their journey. More than one-third of their world flight has been accomplished in three days. From Irkutsk, Pangborn and Herndon planned to fly to Khabarovsk. near the Pacific, and thence northeast to Nome, Alaska, without a stop. From Nome they planned to fly directly back to New York. Their only hope to beat the PostGatty world-encircling record of eight and one-half days lay in their ability to continue their long nonstop jumps. Their Bellanca monoplane is slower, with a cruising speed of about 110 miles an hour, but has & longer cruising range—a factor they re! on to help them lower the recced.

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U. S, POLICE SYSTEM HELD ; INEFFICIENT AND CORRUPT BY WICKERSHAM PROBERS City Forces Dominated by Politicians, £ Officials Incompetent and Fearful of W Losing Jobs, Report Says. RECORD IS LONG LIST OF FAILURES Civil Service Control Is Recommended So Men of Ripe Experience Can Be Retained, ‘Shakeups’ Eliminated. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—The American police structure, from the lowliest patrolman to the politician who controls his destiny, was condemned today by the Wickersham commission. With few exceptions, city police forces were represented as dominated by corrupt politicians, administered by inexperienced or incompetent executives in constant fear of their jobs, and with personnl severely handicapped by sketchy training, inferior intelligence, inadequate wages and insufficient equipment. Blame for these conditions was placed chiefly on the control exercised by politicians over appointment of police chiefs. This control, the commission concluded, has resulted in designation of incompetent executives, who are replaced with such rapidity that they have little opportunity to familiarize themselves with their duties.

The nation’s police were inalyzed in a 140-page study, the commission’s ninth publication. It was made public by the White House. The report said there has been “a loss of public confidence in the police of our country,” due to “the general failure of the police to detect and arrest criminals guilty of the many murders, spectacular bank, pay roll and other holdups, and sensational robberies with guns.” Uncertainty Bad Factor Uncertainty surrounding the chief’s tenure of office, it added, seeps down through the ranks and makes for “restless, worried and inefficient employes.” The familiar procedure of appointing police chiefs was outlined, with the mayor picking his man on the basis of politicians’ recommendations, and with the new chief never certain how long he will be in office. Such appointments, the report! said, are usually the result orpopular outcry against the incumbent. When such outcries, frequently inspired by interested politicians, become too loud, the mayor discharges the chief. The report said the new chief was likely to be an inexperienced man, who proceeds to “shake up” the force and jettison his predecessor’s policies, on the broad theory that they must have been wrong. These reorganizations, taking place in larger cities on an average of about every two years, effectively disorganize police efficiency, the report said, and diminish the protection for which the public pays. Urge Civil Sendee Control The commission recommended civil service protection for police chiefs, by which they would be removable only for proved cause. This, it said, would enable the executive to administer his office without fear or favor. Thus could be retained in office men of ripe experience in their jobs. The commission cited the case of Milwaukee, which has had but two police chiefs in forty-six years. A Wisconsin law brings police chiefs under civil service rules. Milwaukee is cited in this and previous Wickersham reports as outstanding among large cities in crime detect tion and prevention. The commission remarked that civil service requirements for police chiefs would be violently opposed by politicians, since “in the main the funds which really make successful campaigns possible come from the habitues of vice, gambling and bootlegging resorts.” Mentality Is Low Policemen in general were characterized as of low average mentality and education, inadequately trained and ill-equipped for their work. The report concludes that more than 75 per cent of the country’s policemen are not equipped mentally for their work. A ' better system of training policemen was urged as a prerequisite to appointment. The commission felt that if police chiefs were removed from politics and police standards and training generally raised, with concomitant “living wages” for patrolmen, there would be no dearth of high caliber material, and much of the “furious antipathy against all law inforcement officials” would be removed. Inadequacy of police equipment was deplored, and wider use of radio and teletype recommended. Detroit was commended especially for its use of the radio. State police were commended generally. The report recommended them as a regular feature of state government. Old Soldier Dies of Injury Wister P. Stott, 82, inmate of the National Soldiers’ home atf 111., was found dead at 4! today in a room at the On. tel. Injuries suffered in a fall ft Friday night are believed to have caused his death. Stott had planned to return to the soldiers’ home today.

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DREISER LOSES HIS FILM SUIT Injunction Denied to Halt Screen Showing. By United Press WIHTE PLAINS. N. Y„ Aug. I. Supreme Court Justice Graham Witschief today denied th application of Theodore Dreiser, novelist, for an injunction restraining the Paramount Publix Corporation from showing its screen version of Dreiser's “An American Tragedy.’’ Dreiser’s complaint against the moving picture concern w r as that it had distorted the original story. $15,000,000 AVAILABLE FOR FARM RELIEF Grasshopper, Drought Inroads to Be Fought by U. S. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—Approximately $15,000,000 wnll be available for the carrying out of President Hoover's instructions that the department of agriculture cooperate with local agencies in relieving distress caused by this summer’s drought and the western grasshopper invasions. The money will come from the $20,000,000 agricultural rehabilitation appropriation of the last congress. Restrictions originally imposed will be modified to care for the grasshoppers. Only about $5,000,000 of the fund was used to meet requests for relief last winter and spring. The President issued his instructions after the department has informed scores of petitioners that no funds were available for combatting the grasshopper menace. The department has an appropriation of only $29,000 annually for such work. COOLIDGE WILLING TO BE DRAFTED, REPORT May Run for President in 1932, Close Friends Tells St. Paul Paper, By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. I.—ln a copyrighted story, the St. Paul Dispatch Friday quoted Colonel James F. Coupal, former White House physician, as authority for a statement that Calvin Coolidge would run for president in 1932 if the people “draft” him. Colonel Coupal, a close personal friend of the former president, is spending a vacation at Lake Minnetonka. The Dispatch quoted him as saying that “Coolidge will run if the people evince an unmistakable and unquestionable desire to ‘draft’ him to pull the country out of thi3 period of depression and if he can have the presidency without political or other obligations attached to it.” SUES CITY FOR PERMIT TO ERECT GAS STATION Zone Board Restriction Attacked in Complaint by Woman. Suit to mandate the city building commissioner, William Hurd, to grant a permit for a filling station was on file today in superior court one. Mrs. Mary Stanford, Fall Creek boulevard and Delaware street, bases her claim on a recent Indiana appellate court ruling which holds the city zoning board has no authority to change districts from residence to business or vice versa. Judge Clarence E. Weir recently ruled in superior court four that the zoning board’s restrictions were “unreasonable and unlawful,” and should be removed as to the Stanford real estate. Mrs. Stanford conteriae the board refused to cJ .4 slder her permit.

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