Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1932 — Page 5

JAN. 5, 1932_

REPORT BARES BRUTALITIES IN MINE DISTRICT Posse Beats 60-Year-Old Preacher. Surrounds. Home With Guns. Thl* I' the Art* nf a erie* <*n rendition* in ihf Harlan rotinlr fRy.) min* itrlkr ronr. where terror rendition* have prevailed tor month*. It ia written hv John Moutoux, a staff writer of the Knoxville (Tenn.) Newg-Sentinel. a srrlpn*-Howard newspaper, barred from the courtroom because of an editorial in hi* newspaper deatinc with the verdict In a murder trial in the district. BY JOHN T. MOUTOUX Time* Stall Correspondent FRANKFORT, Ky., Jan. 5. Brutalities of the “law” in Harlan county, Kentucky, center of recent coal mine disorders, again are exposed in a nine-volume report on conditions in the mine area by a commission appointed by former Governor Flcm D. Sampson. The report consists of some 1,200 pages of testimony obtained by the commissioners, J. Smith Hays of Winchester and A. A. Bablitz of Lexington at the scene of the trouble. Both are leading members of the Kentucky bar. In addition to the many atrocities the report discloses an amazing disregard of civil liberties and demands that those who “outraged common decency be prosecuted.” Wholesale raids were made on the homes ol miners, many ol the miners lodged in jail without opportunity to make bond, and kept there for days and weeks before being given an examining trial. The report was presented the day before Governor Sampson left office, yielding to Governor Ruby Lafloon. No action has been taken on it. Sheriff Is the law The “law,” as it is known in Harlan county, is Sheriff John Henry Blair and his more than two hundred deputies. Blair himself did not participate in any of the clubbings administered by the deputies, but in a statement to the commission he takes full responsibility for their acts. During the recent trials at Mt. Sterling, of William Burnett, for murder, and W. B. Jones, for murder conspiracy, much evidence was introduced by the commonwealth on the whipping of one Charlie Carpenter, strike breaking miner. There is no doubt that the whipping occurred and that it was ?■ brutal affair, but that incident was unimportant compared with the beatings which miners have rereived at the hands of the deputies and Evarts policemen, and revealed in the commission's report. Here is a typical case from the report,: Mrs. Viola Grace. 37-year-old wife of the Rev. J M. Grace, 60y e a r-o 1 and Southern Methodist preacher, told of the kidnaping of . her husband and the beating he ' received. Beat Preacher “He was taken out of the jail at Neon, Ky., turned over to the Jenkins bunch, who turned him over to the Harlan county bunch,” she said. “They took him to Lynch, took him up the mountain on the Virginia side, and beat him on the head Vith a pistol till his head was as black as your suit. His cheekbones were busted, both his eyes were bruised up where they hit him with a blackjack or something; ; they kicked him across the back, j over the kidneys, until he spit blood I three days. 'He finally got away and fifty j shots were fired at him as he ran. j He went to Middleboro. Ky., and joined the National Miners Union, i They sent him to New York to get I aid." Later, the commissioners asked J Sheriff Blair about this incident snd all the other atrocities they had unoovered. “At the time this happened I was in Grand Rapids,” the sheriff said. Men Wore Armor “Did your posse have anything to do with that?” he was asked. "They say not; I am sure they did not.” Blair replied. Mrs. Grace also described the surrounding of her boarding house at Wallins Creek by deputies. “John Henry Blair sent out fifty or sixty gunmen who surrounded j my house with machine guns,” she said. “They had a tripod planted '■ right under my window. All the j men had from one, two. three and four guns on them; had ammunition in their belts buckled around them; had breast plates on front and back.” “You saw the breast plates?” she was asked by one of the commissioners. “Sure you could see them. George Lee had one on; it looked like a baseball outfit. This little threefoot gangster—nobody in Harlan county ever saw' him before: they say he is from Chicago—he wa* plated until he creaked.” Negro Is Victim George Lee is chief peace officer at Black Mountain camp. The man ! referred to as “three-foot gangster” ! is George Haywood of Chicago, one of the Black Mountain mine guards. ! He formerly *as a salesman of j riot equipment and was taken on as a mine guard. During the Jones I trial he brought $50,000 slander ! suit against J. M. Robison, former i * United States senator and chief of the defense counsel in the miners' trials, because Robison referred to him in the trial as “the man nicknamed Alphonse Capone.” The commissioners asked Sheriff ; Blair about this. He said: "We had information that there j were arms at Mrs. Grace’s house, a lot of literature, a lot of guns. I sent thirty men. They took guns sufficient to handle any situation that might arise. They took a Browning or two, some machine guns, some automatic guns.” Henry Thornton, 48-year-old Negro miner, said one night a party of eleven deputies headed by Bob Blair came to his house. Q—What did they do? A—They jerked me out of bed. ! took me out on the road, and knocked me in the head. Q —Did they say why they were doing this? A—They said I had been attending the meeting of the National Miners’ Union. Next—More About Harlan County* Police Brutalities,

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PEACE MOVE IS URGED BY PAGE Editor Calls for Slashing of War Debts. Only by quick action of the United States in strengthening peace agencies such as the world court and League of Nations, and by further drastic reductions of war debts can wc aid in re-establish-ment of European countries, Kirby Page, editor of the World Tomorrow, told more than 250 men and women at the Columbia Club Monday. “If the middle-of-the-road government in Germany goes down, down goes the peace of the world and the disintegration of civilization,” Page said. He asserted that “the simplest reason why America should cancel the war debts is because we’re not going to collect the money anyway.” Stumbling blocks to peace lie in the attitude of European nations toward permanent peace, Page said. “France is unwilling to disarm because of fear of Germany, and of invasion,” he asserted. “Germany, on the other hand, is seeking revision of the Versailles treaty, believing that reparations demands are too severe.” Bishop Edgar Blake of the Indianapolis area of the Methodist church introduced Page. Mrs. Isaac Born, vice-chairman of the Indiana council on international relations, sponsors, presided. NEW SCOTTISH RITE COMMITTEE TO MEET Policies for 1932 to Be Outlined by Executives at First Session. First meeting of the new executive committee of Sahara Grotto will be held at the Grotto clubhouse tonight to consider appointment of chairmen of, standing committees and to determine 1932 policies. C. Wilbur Foster, who was installed as monarch at the Athenaeum Monday night, will preside. Foster has announced the appointment of the following men to serve in appointive offices: William E. Spridgeon, marshal; Charles Forrest. captain of the guard; J. Steven Fullen, orator; Jack Stone, sentinel; Isaac Geese, assistant sentinel, and Harold G. Lanham, chaplain. Past monarch's fez and jewel was presented to Carl B. Schey, retiring monarch. Monday night. Charles G. Walsh, past monarch, was in charge of installation ceremonies.

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CAPTAIN ENGLISH CAMP TO INSTALL OFFICERS Auxiliary Will Join in Ceremony at Board of Trade Friday. Installation of Captain Wililam E. English camp, No. 84, Spanish War Veterans, and auxiliary officers will be held in the Board of Trade building Friday at 9 p. m. Officers to be installed are: ~ 95 r! ,’ r i — r - Anacker. commander: Fredrick Mootz. senior vice-commander; Harry CL Roberts, iunior vice-commandcr: Ernest D. Atherton, officer of the dav: Herbert V. Rvker. officer of the Guard: Sidney D. Manuel, trustee for three-year term: C. J. Monohan. auarter master: O •J, Williams, patriotic instructor: William M. Thomas, chaplain: Samuel P. Goode, historian: Dr. Thomas J. Beasley, surgeon: James Rosebrough. senior color sergeant: Edward Benson iunior color serseant: Abner D. Hood, chief musician. Auxiliary—Elizabeth A. Arbuckle. president: Anna Gilbert, senior vice-president: Susan Thompson, junior vice-president: Maude Atherton, chaplain: Orphal Stevens, patriotic instructor: Emma Mootz. historian: Minnie Geisler. conductor: Jessie M. Manuel, assistant conductor: Marv D. Coleman. Guard: J. M. Manuel, secretary; Emma E. Smith, treasurer. Auxiliary members will assemble in the Denison at 8 p. m. and will march in a body to the Board of Trade at 8:45. GRANT INCORPORATION Williams Creek Petition Wins Commissioners’ Approval. / Approval of a petition for incorporation of the town of Williams Creek, north of the city, was given Monday by county commissioners following a hearing. The board set Jan. 16 as the date for voters of the town to meet and elect three inspectors, who will arrange for a town election.

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SEEK NEW BUILDING County Commissioners Will Try Juvenile Home Change. Scathing criticism of the juvenile detention home by the retiring grand jury today led county commissioners to speed their search for another building. Dow W. Vorhies, county board of commissioners president, stated the board does not intend to renew rental on the present structure, if a more suitable place can be found. Grand jurors reported to Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker that “the detention home is more depressing and dreary than the county jail.” Commissioners have concurred, saying that S3OO monthly rent for the present structure is beyond reason. The present site at 225 East Michigan street was obtained several years ago. RAB IM GETS BETHEA nHIU BACK FEUS fIKE after Musterole— safe “counterirritant”—is applied once an hour for 5 hours. Many feel better after first application. jUßangS ■NOW ■ ii, h, —*— . 136 N. Pennsylvania St. STORES 1 70. T W Washington St.

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