Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 193, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1931 — Page 1

lOHNSON LASH SEARS HOOVER AND HK AIDS President Tears American Constitution to Bits, Fiery Foe Declares. DEBT PLAN IS ASSAILED Congress Travels Road to Dictatorship, Charge of Californian. By United Press WASHINGTON, Doc. 22.—Senator Hiram Johnson, California Republican orator, hurled jibes and bitter sarcasm at President Hoover and i he Republican leadership in a twohour, attack upon the Hoover moratorium in the senate today. Johnson charged the President with tearing up the Constitution, and said that congress was traveling ttje road to a dictatorship in following the debt proposal. Making a last stand for the debt opponents, Johnson said Mr. Hoover obviously was working for reduction of foreign debts. He figured that the one-year moratorium would cost every taxpayer S3O and every American man, woman, and child $2. “When the Republican party does this,” he told the Democrats, “the country is safe for democracy.” May Vote Tonight Johnson’s speech opened what was expected to be the last day of senate debate, but there was no clear indication when the attack upon the moratorium would subside. Leaders still expected a vote tonight. In closing his remarks, the California senator called upon the United States to follow the harder path in this debt matter. “Let us not go back to the place where cowardice may take us along the easier path which foreign nations approve,” he said. “We may face temporary hardship, but this w r ould be met. Let them default if they will. “There never will be peace in Europe until the treaty of Versailles is destroyed.’’ Resents Concession to France Johnson particularly resented the concessions made to France. He .pointed out that experts met as late as Aug. II to prefect thep roposal. “Haste was essential,” he said. "There was a crisis that had to be met in extra legal fashion by the President. The miserable congress could not be called in the crisis. “You who are jealous of your prerogatives—if there are any such here—recall that agreement of July 6, when congress could not act, could not be called, when the executive branch alone could act. You prate about the founders, the glorious Constitution. “I am certain that you who expound it never will permit this usurpation, but will resent the fact that the Constitution has been flouted, treated as a scrap of paper, torn into a thousand bits and scattered to the four winds.” Eloquence Is Searing “You may imbue your President with God-like powers to deal with the destinies of the American people. But when he seeks to legislate without the formalities of the constitution in a matter affecting the very life blood of our people, when he seeks to put upto them the burden ob taxation that is not theirs —and you tolerate It—then you have taken the first step toward a dictatorship. “That step will arise in the future to taunt yon. Senators, tills is the first false step. It is an entering idea by which an executive official may legislate as he sees fit. “It. is the first time in the history of my life that an yman in executive office sought to legislate by virtue of a Western Union telegraph blank in a matter affecting $250,000,000 of the public money and which saddles the taxpayers with the deficit to that extent.” Quotes Foreign Declaration Johnson quoted a declaration of representatives of Great Britain, North Ireland. Belgium. Italy, and Japan, in which they said they had wanted the complete suspension of debts provided by the original moratorium proposal, but accepted the Franco-American agreement of July 6, "in order to achieve unanimity, although it has the effect of imposing a substantial additional burden on Germany from 1933 on.” “It is plain,” said Johnson, “that on one imagined they were dealing with the original proposal, but with anew plan, anew ideal. “The original proposal was intended for all inter-governmental debt. That’s the proposal on which you legislated by telegraph, and that that’s the proposal which it is pretended is included in this resolution.”

Japan Loses Manchuria, where threats of world strife are being fanned near to reality, is a land of mystery to Americans. So, in lesser measure, are China and Japan. For the information of its readers, The Times Wednesday presents the first of a series of five interesting, authoritative articles written by Science Service, on the situation in the Far East. The first one will prove conclusively to the reader that Japan has not found Manchuria tie "promised land” for its hundreds of thousands of excess population, as its statemen hid hoped. Watch for this series. It’s a mine of information for you.

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The Indianapolis Times Somewhat unsettled tonight, Wednesday partly cloudy; not much change in temperature, lowest tonight 40 to 45.

VOLUME 43—NUMBER 193

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Christmas comes but once a year, but before come many days of preparation, of service to others, of hope, and of wondering anticipation by children. The Yuletide spirit here is expressed in pictures. Upper Left—Glenn Nichols and Charles Kersey, firemen at Engine House 23, Rader and Udell streets, display a few of the toys repaired and constructed at the engine house for needy children. The firemen are co-operating with the Northwestern Civic

LOOTING OF LOCKER I IS LAID TO VEHLING

BY DICK MILLER Charges that Coroner Fred W. Vehling looted the locker of Lieutenant Lewis L. Stanley, city fireman, and obtained personal possessions following the fireman’s death in an, auto-truck crash, were made before the county grand jury today. Fireman Walter B. Geizendanner and Assistant Chief Fred W. Kennedy were witnesses as the probe entered its final stages. City officials and friends of Mr. Stanley objected to an autopsy perTHREE DIE IN CRASH Bus Burns After Head-On Collision; 17 Hurt.* By lulled I’rrsx HIAWATHA, Kan.. Dec. 22. Three persons were killed and seventeen others injured today when a large bus of the Interstate Transit Lines collided head-on with a stock truck. Both machines burst into flames after the crash, which was said to have occurred when the driver of the truck lost control of his vehicle. CRU DE BO MB’ IS SENT TO ACTRESS AS -GIFT’ Postal Inspectors Probe Attempt to Mar Marion Davies’ Beauty. By United Press SANTA MONICA. Cal., Dec. 22. Postal inspectors today sought to trace the sender of an infernal machine discovered among the Christmas presents of Marion Davies, motion picture actress. The box containing the homemade bomb was delivered to the Davies home last week, and remained unnoticed until Monday, when the actress instructed her butler to open it. Servants were frightened when a puff of smoke emerged from the box. Police discovered it was a device by which matches were to be rubbed against sandpaper, igniting two small sacks of powder.

TT was a gray day. -*■ Now it isn't. For, hopping like the mercury' and sunning itself like the sky, the Clothe-a-Child-for-Christmas campaign jumped to 303 children pledged to be clothed for 1932's school months at noon today. Those 303 donors will mean 303 children assured clothing to defy the elements in the winter months. Those 303 donors will mean an approximate expenditure of between $3,500 and $3,750 in clothing to outfit the city's poor.

League, which has gathered articles for the Christmas packages, 1,200 of which are ready for distribution. Upper Right—Just three Christmas orphans at the city dog pound. That is, they will be orphans on Christmas day unless they are adopted by some dog lover to bring Yule joy to a child. Lower Left—Service to others. Russell Willson, president of thq. school board, buys a supply of Christmas seals from Miss Louie

feffmed after he was killed in the crash at Sixteenth street and Central avenue, Oct. 31. Friends alleged the cause of death, a skull fracture, was evident, and that Vehling performed an unwarranted post-mortem. Jury Asks Records Grand jurors also summoned records of Vehling’s office today to determine how many cases of autopsies are on file in his office on which no reports have been made to city or county health board. In the cases being scanned, it was said Vehling had filed claims for $25 each with County Auditor Harry Dunn. | Charges of ‘body grabbing” against Vehling also were to be sifted by the grand jurors. According to information Vehling, at the start of his term last January, rushed bodies to his own undertaking establishment, 702 Virginia avenue. Negro bodies were sent to the C. H. C. Willis & Son undertaking parlors at 632 North West street, it is said. Denies "Many Bodies” It is charged the bodies were embalmed hurriedly and relatives forced to pay exorbitant fees to obtain possession. Herbert Willis of the undertaking firm denied that embalming students handled any bodies at the establishment. but admitted he charged S3O for embalming, which, undertakers say, ordinarily costs sls to $25. Although Willis asserted he had not "received many bodies,” city hospital records reveal 68 per cent of the Negro cases handled by the coroner were rushed to the Willis establishment early this year. ADOLPH HITLER HURT Auto Rams Tree, Injures Fascist Leader and Companion. By United Press PRITZWALK, Germany, Dec. 22. —Adolph Hitler, Fascist leader, was injured slightly today when his automobile hit a tree. Hitler broke his finger against the windshield. A companion’s nose was broken and the driver suffered from concussion. Hitler continued in a borrowed car.

CLOTHE-A-CHILD CAMPAIGN PASSES 300 MARK; LET’S BEAT 400, NOW

And the end of the campaign will see a last minute spurt that should bring the Clothe-a-Child list past 400 youngsters outfitted. n a 'T'HE deadline to Clothe-a-Child is 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon: Up to that hour we 'Will give you a needy girl or boy who has been checked for worth by relief agencies of the Community Fund and the social service department of the public schools. You visit the child in his or her home. You see his or her needs.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1931

Dumas, Sheffield Inn, representing the Marion County Tuberculosis Society. Lower Right—Noses glued to toy display window, they wonder whether Santa Claus received their orders. It’s a scene re-en-acted downtown thousands of times daily, Left to right, Robert Metzger, 11, of 5423 North New Jersey street; Thelma Sterling, 9, of 557 Lord street; Ethel Agnes Stone, 5, of 627 Prospect street.

‘Legs’ at Rest Jack Diamond’s Funeral Without Pomp of Gangster Rites.

BY DELOS SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent MASPETH, L. I, Dec. 22. Under bleak, raipy skies, Jack (Legs) Diamond was buried today without clergy and without the ostentation that has marked so many gangster funerals of recent years. The nimble-footed former wharf thief who became a gang leader and was slain last week in Albany, had only the plainest of coffins and but two cars of mourners. Funeral services were conducted from a two-story brick home, one of a long row of such houses in this rather quiet middle-class suburban village. The body rested in the plain mahogany coffin on the second floor. Shutters and blinds were drawn. Every one was barred from the house. Within—since a priest had been denied him —Joseph Lynch, an Albany undertaker, read the Catholic prayers for the dead. nun ONLY the closest members of the family were about the room. When the brief services were concluded attendants brought out the flowers. There was one big wreath of red, white and blue lilies. There was another of yellow, re dand white roses. There was a cross of rosebuds. Following that came the coffin, with a blanket of rosebuds over the top. Then came the seven mourners. First w'as Mrs. Alice Schiffler Diamond, who ran to the mourners’ automobile with a fur piece over her face. Her sister and two other women accompanied her. Following them came three men—so far unidentified—and they entered the second mourner’s car. Burial was in unconsecrated ground. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 46 10 a. m 50 7a. m 47 11 a . m 52 Ba. m...... 47 12 (noon).. 54 9a. m 47 Ip. m..... 56

You shop for those needs. You give him or her a bit of your heart and you take a bit of his or her heart away with you to sing your Christmas carol through the Yuletide and as long as garments wear. u tt n TTURRY! the time's short. Office -*■ forces, clubs, and neighborhoods can Clothe-a-Child. Just call Riley 5551 or write The Times for your boy or girl. New pledges, bring the total to 288 children, follow: Editorial department of Times (eared lor one child and took another).

DAWES IS CHIEF ARMS DELEGATE Named Head of American Mission to Geneva. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—President Hoover today announced the appointment of Ambassador Charles G. Dawes in London as head of the American delegation to the league disarmament conference in Geneva, beginning Feb. 2. President Hoover also announced that, in all probability, a woman would be included in the American Geneva delegation. Hoover said that the whole question of disarmament “has been of profound interest to women throughout the United States.” The Preisdent said that women of the nation have evinced great interest in arms limitation for many years and that he now is discussing the appointment, with a woman of eminent qualities and prominence. Henry P. Fletcher, recently resigned member of the tariff qpmmisson, will not be able to join the American Geneva delegation. The appointment of Dawes caused some surprise. For many months it has been expected that Secretary of State Stimson would be chief of the American delegation. It is understood he found himself unable to leave his regular work for the eight months of the conference.

SNUB FOR M'FADOEN 'Keep Advice/ He’s Told on Postal Patronage. BjfUn tied Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. The administration today made official its rebuke of Representative Louis McFadden (Rep., Pa.). Postmaster-General Brown advised him the department neither wants nor intends to follow his advice on postal appointments. McFadden on the floor of the house recently denounced President Hoover in scathing terms. Subsequently, Senator Reed (Rep., Pa.) announced McFadden would be deprived of his patronage. CRASH AT^ VATICAN Wing of Famous Library Collapses. By United Press VATICAN CITY, Dec. 22,-The entire right wing of the Vatican library collapsed today. It was feared three persons were buried in the ruins. The artistic loss was expected to be tremendous.

3 Shopping days till Christmas

American Lesion Monthly’s employes (eared for three children and took three more). Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Queisser, S3® Berkley Road. Office employes of Snperintendent of Rolling Stock. Bit Fear railroad iboy and air!). This Is A Spanish American and Indian War Veteran’s Pension Money. The Boss and Rhinv. Claim Denartment of Travelers Insurance company (eared for one and took two more children). Don’t Want Name Used (eared for one and took two more children). Mrs. George Hilgcmeier Sr. and Mr*. E. W. Spitznagel. Office of tke Indiana Farm Bureau, 92®

BODY OF CINCINNATI GIRL, KIDNAPED AND KILLED BY FIENB, FOUNB IN CELLAR

Tragic Discovery End of Widespread Search for Five Days. SLAIN NEAR HER HOME Clerk Makes Ghastly Find as He Goes to Basement of House for Wood. By United Press CINCINNATI, 0., Dec. 22. —The body of Marian McLean, fair-haired 6-year-old child, who was abducted, attacked, and slain, was found today. The child lay, face up, in a musty cellar a block from the cottage w’here she and her mother, four days ago, were making exciting little plans for Christmas. The child’s torso had been mutilated. She had been choked. After a general hospital autopsy, it was announced that Marian died of bleeding and shock, the result of an assault. * “Marian was the victim of a mental defective, there can be no doubt of that,” said Coroner M. Scott Kearns, who sped to the scene with a squadron of police cars sent to control a fury-driven throng milling through the neighborhood.

Body Found in Cellar ; For .four days, since her disappearance "with a tall, dark stranger” late Thursday, officers pressed the search through the city and surrounding territory. Then today Charles Bischoff went to his cellar to chop kindling wood. He lived on the second floor of the house. Lying on boards, dimly revealed in the light of a candle Bischoff was using, was the body of Marian, Her tiny blue tarn o’ shanter had slipped from her tusled hair. Her eyes were swollen. The cheeks wore stained from tears. Death doubtless w'as caused within the last twenty-four hours, the coroner said. The child’s disappearance had laid a touch of sadness and anxiety on homes throughout the city, where Christmas day was awaited with suspense by children. Mother in Hysterics Mrs. Mildred McLean, weakened and dazed by the days of uncertainty, lost herself in hysteria when the news reached her. Police opened a lane in the throngs of curiosity driven persons who shouted madly for revenge. Mrs. McLean was escorted from the cottage where Christmas presents remain concealed. They are gifts she can not bestow. She lived alone with Marian. The father, Joseph McLean, left his wife two years ago and is in Phoenix, Ariz. The mother was taken to police headquarters, where she might have privacy in her grief and she could be cared for by matrons and relatives. Three men gave police their only clew to the slayer. They had seen a man enter the cellar where the body was found. They were Harry Cox, Allen Clark and Albert Overbeck. "The man stood on a corner half an hour,” they said. "He was nervous, obviously, and kept eating apples from a sack he had. Three Others Slain "Fnially, he walked into the house at 428 East Twelfth street.” It in this house Marian’s body was found. "The man was about 30 years old. He was rather tall and dark- ; cemplexioned. We did not see him leave, although we stood conversing near by for half an hour.” Three other small girls have met a like fate here in the last dozen years. Two of them never were found. The body of the third was tossed on the porch of her home. None of the abductors w r as apprehended. The house where Marian’s body was found is about 100 feet from the place where she last was seen alive by Julius Servuzzi, 17, a neigh- i bor boy. ' Servuzzi said Marian watched him j washing his motorcar and laughed j at the antics of a dog which put its dirty paws on the bright fenders , after he shined them. “A little while afterward,” said ; Servuzzi, "I saw her with a tall man J going down an alley. He was a : dark man, foreign looking.” Servuzzi’s statement was borne i

Lemcke buildinr. (cared for fear children and took two more). Mr. Humboldt Exchanee. fust a Good Fellow (boy and rirl). Golden Rule class of Zion Evangelical church (two girls). Two Ladies Who Don’t Want To Be Known. Employes of Columbia Conserve Company (three boys and two tirls). Butler university's Y. W. C. A. (two rirls). * The Lew Hill Grain Company. Lincoln office of Indiana Bell Telephone Company (cared for five children and took two more). A. C. E. S. bowline league. Pritchett alleys. A Married Couple Wanting to Help, Mis* West Fifteenth Street.

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Wondering . . . longing . . . fearing . . . Mrs. Mildred McLean, mother of little Marian McLean, 6, who was kidnaped from her home in Cincinnati and murdered, is shown above in the child’s playroom as she waited with the Christmas toys for news of their little mistress. The inset is anew snapshot of the slayer's victim.

| out by reports of children who were i Marian's friends. Several of them j told of being offered sw r eets and ; money by a stranger, who, they said, followed them when they left their homes. Crew'd Rushes to Scene A throng of persons crowded to the McLean neighborhood when the news spread. They milled around the slain child's home, where the mother, frantic during the four-day search, was hysterical when news of Marian’s death reached her. Police experienced increasing difficulty in holding back the crowds, driven by curiosity and excitement of the days of suspense when all Cincinnati and surrounding territory were searched for the child. Charles Diers, detective, said he had visited the cellar late Monday. ; The body was not there then, he i said. Mrs. Joseph Servuzzi, mother of the boy w'ho last saw Marian, told police she received a telephone call today, during which the voice on the wire said: "If there are any police around there, have them search the house at ” The receiver banged down. Vanished on Thursday Marian disappeared at 4:30 p. m. Thursday. Police searched through all southern Ohio and northern Kentucky. Gypsy camps were visited. A deserted subway here was explored with flashlights. Houses w'ere ransacked. No word and no clew was I foufid. ! Cincinnati newspapers took up the cry that the child must be found. It w : as the Christmas sea*son and the despair in the McLean cottage was throwing a blight over the homes of the entire city, where children excitedly awaited the big night. The Cincinnati Enquirer offered SI,OOO reward. Smaller rewards offered totaled several hundred dol- : lars. Neighborhood Near Panic I So agitated was the neighborhood i that when a second-hand dealer i visited one of the homes Monday to ; buy odds and ends and asked the | child who answered the door if | "she was there alone” her mother screamed frantically. A crowd gathered and the dealer, bewildered and innocent of the cause of the scene, was rescued by police from probable violence of a crowd which collected. Children were kept in to save them from the terror at large in the street, where police squads became a familiar sight. DECORATIONS STOLEN Thief Makes Way With Lawn Fixtures, Woman Reports. Someone living near 1362 South Sheffield avenue, will have the Christmas spirit embodied in stolen Yuletide decorations Mrs. Edward Massner of the Sheffield avenue address informed police a thief stole decorations from the exterior of her home Monday night. They were valued at $3.

Auditor’' office of Stoekkrards (eared for two children and took two more). Claim denartment of State Automobile Insurance Association. For Carl W. Steinhauer Jr. Davenport, fa., at Christmas. Xiar’i Daughters of Irvington Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Wood Nichols. 4308 Carrollton avenue. Peoria h Eastern Railway Athletic Association Peoria A Eastern Railway general offices (two children). Sigma Phi Gamma sorority. Mr. and Mra. Anonymous and family. Group of Tech Girls. Plumbing and Heatinr howling league, Illinois alleys.

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NATION SHOWN AT CRISIS BRINK ✓ Metropolitan Life Chief Startles Senators. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—F. H. Ecker, president of the Metropolitan Life, the worlds largest life insurance company, painted a startling word picture of economic conditions before the senate banking and currency committee today. He said that economic conditions are worse now than last June and the crisis, “when the patient either dies or gets well,” is approaching. "But I do not think,” he added, “that this country and this business of ours is going to die.” In the next year, he told the committee, $243,000,000 of railroad securities will come due and only two of the roads involved, with $24.000,000 of the securities, have money to meet them. Ntelvin Traylor of the First National bank, Chicago, told the committee one of the chief services the proposed reconstruction finance corporation could render would be the partial release of almost $2,000,000,000 tied up in closed banks. Ecker also told the committee that of $1,300,000,000 available for investment by insurance companies in 1931, 32 per cent ($416,000,000) was loaned policy holders on their policies, and that he foresaw difficulties in making future loans on policies.

DRY RAIDERS BLASTED Dynamite Trap Mangles One, Blinds Another in Georgia. By United Press PEARSON, Ga., Dec. 22.—Authorities began an investigation today into a dynamite trap which injured four deputies as they were raiding a still near here. The cleverly arranged trap to kill the raiders was indicated by wires leading to the explosive and to a hidden switch. The detonation occurred as the officers w’ere examining three barrels of mash. A board touched by one of them was believed to have fired the charge. Berry Palmer, one of the injured deputies, was in a critical condition today following amputation of a leg which was mangled by the explosion. TWO SHARE $250,000 Widow, Son Heirs in St. Clair Parry Estate Under Will Today. Estate of St. Clair Parry, who died at his home, 3010 North Meridian street, Wednesday, today was bequeathed to the widow, Mrs. Margaret G. Parry, and a son, George T. Parry. The estate was vafued at $250,000 isl personal property.

Meanest Thief Prospects of Mrs. Ira Buttz, 1346 South Sheffield avenue, and her two children for a merry Christmas faded Monday afternoon, when $35 was stolen or was lost from Mrs. Buttz’ purse. She and the children were shopping for clothes in a downtown store when she discovered the money was missfrig. Mrs. Butt* was buying needed clothes for her children rather than toys, this year. Buttz had been out of work ten months and only recently was able- to find a job.