Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1932 — Page 9

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BOTH PARTIES VOTE ‘NO’ ON TAX SESSION Secret Poll of Delegates to 1930 Convention Shows Opposition. PUBLIC VIEWS OPPOSITE Home-Owners and Farmers Would Convene Legislature for Levy Changes. BY BFN STERN fCoDvricht. 1932. bv The Times* Everybody is against a special sesion of the general assembly except, the common people. That the politicians are in opposition is clearly indicated today in the tabulation of The Times secret poll on this question by 1930 delegates to the state conventions. Os the 958 delegates who expressed themselves, 547 voted against issuance of the call, while 411 favored such a move. Party domination was evident, especially among the Republican delegates, who voted 272 against 157 for a session. The cleavage was much narrower among the Democrats with an opposition of 275 to 254 for the call. Seventy-nine ballots were laid aside because no preference was indicated. Many of the ballots carried notations to the effect that if tax relief matters only would be considered they favored a special session, while others asked: What can we expect from the type, of legislators we have?” Marion County Vote Close Proponents of a special session l carried Marion county by narrow margins of four votes in each instance. Democrats voted 60 for and 56 and the Republicans 38 for and 34 against. That the delegates in the industrial centers sense the public reaction is shown in the Marion and Lake counties poll where the proponents in each party carried the vote. The heavy vote in favor of a session which was expected from the rural counties failed to materialize in the most instances. Division among the Democratic delegates was not as sharp as among the Republicans, yet there can be no doubt that the politicians in both parties are fearful of the resylts of an extraordinary meeting. There in also no question that if a program for a session had been announced the “ayes” would have won in the balloting. But as many delegates declared in notes and letters, there is a distinct fear of the results of a session, and that, to a major degree, influenced the voting. Partisanship a Factor Then, it must also be remembered, (hat convention delegates are usually selected because of their firm partisanship and because they obey orders. And so far no commands 1o favor a session have been transmitted. Rather than vote for a session many of the delegates, as was said before, left the spaces blank and so escaped, what they felt to be, a responsibility. On the other hand if a poll was taken of the men on the streets, or on the farms, the small home owner or farm owner, the results would be far different. foof of this contention is seen in th statement of Indiana Farm B eau leaders that 50,000 farmers clamoring for a special session, a also in the score of letters ref (and. seeking information as to < pause of the delay of the call. t the result of the poll speaks for t tself—It says emphatically “the politicians are against a special fusion.” fTherefore, and logically—after studying the records of the politicians—such a session must be good for the people. SOCIAL INSURANCE'S DEFINED BY EPSTEIN Industrial Democracy League Hears Old Age Security Expert. “Social insurance is the use of the organization of society to take care of inevitable accidents and old age by each person paying a small sum for protection,” said Abraham Epstein, executive director of the American Association for Old Age Security, Wednesday night. Epstein told more than 200 persons at a lecture, sponsored by the League for Industrial Democracy in Robert's Park Methodist Episcopal church, that approximately 3,000,000 workers are injured in industrial accidents each year, and that threefourths of a million are disabled for four weeks or more. Powers Hapgood of the Columbia Conserve Company of Indianapolis, will speak on “True and False Industrial Democracy” at the lecture meeting Feb. 3. JUST A NECKTIE PARTY Thief Loots Ohio Man's Car of Forty Dozen. Enough neckties to last him several years were stolen Wednesday night by a thief who looted the automobile of Sol Schlutz of Dayton. 0., while it was parked near Indiana and Capitol avenues. Schlutz told police forty dozen neckties were taken. Looting the car ot H. H. Ska bo. 3520 East Fall Creek boulevard, thieves stole luggage and clothing valued at SIOO, he informed police. Three crates of eggs, valued at *13.50, were taken from the car of William Boullie. 143 North Highland avenue, he reported today.

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‘I,OOO TO 1 CHANCE’ OPERATION LAUDED BY CITY MOTHERS

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Mrs. Lillian Moore and baby Diana ... in a drama of science and mother love.

‘Death Would Be Better Than Living Misery/ Say Women Here. A young mother in New York today received the plaudits and encouragement of Indianapolis women as she appeared to gamble the life of her 13-months-old daughter with death in an attempt to save the child from the fate of lifelong idiocy. Local women and mothers believe they, too, would take the 1,000 to 1 chance of the child's surviving the operation rather than see the baby blighted for life. “If the doctors are correct, the mother has everything to gain and nothing to lose,” Mrs. C. A. Janies, local clubwoman, said. “Even in the contribution to science, she is justified.” Mrs. Paul T. Hurt, chairman of the American home department of the Woman’s Department Club, declared the “child will be happier asleep.” ‘‘l would feel I would see her again in the next world,” Mrs. Hurt said. “The baby would not be gone forever. I would give the child every chance.” Doubting the success of the operation, Mrs. Henry R. Alburger said she believed heartache would be the mother’s fate in both instances. “I, too, would prefer to take the chance,” Mrs. Chester Ridge, former president of the Indianapolis Parent-Teacher Association stated. “That would be better than having the child live in misery.” Both Mrs. Delbert O. Wilmeth, director of the Indianapolis Council of Women, and Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, president of the Et Cetera Club, believed the operation should be considered from the humanitarian standpoint.

Times Special Session Poll

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The Indianapolis Times

Surgical Attempt to Save Child From Lifelong Idiocy Delayed. By United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 28.—Officials of the Neurological institute, where the infant Diana Moore is undergoing brain examinations, have withheld decision once more as to an operation to save the baby from lifelong paralysis and possibly idiocy. Further tests will be made next Tuesday, the institute announced, with its spokesman making this comment: “If an operation is performed, it will not be an experiment or a 1,000-to-1 chance. The institute will not rsik its reputation unless a definite end is to be served. If there is an operation, it will be by a surgeon.” Mother Is Determined The baby’s mother, Mrs. Lillian Moore, announced her determination several days ago to have the operation performed, even “if my baby has only one chance in a thousand of living.” Meanwhile, as surgeons and neurologists continued to argue over the operation, a growing protest against the effort was noticeable in the neighborhood of the Moore home. “She has no religion,” a neighbor said of Mrs. Moore, “but what right has she to take odds of 1,000 to 1 against her child?” Another remarked: “How’d you like to have 1,000 to 1 chalked up against your life, with all the world watching?” Mrs. Moore, who is near a nervous breakdown, answered this argument with, “If the operation cures her, she will thank me when she grows up.” Father Is Located Publicity given to the case has enabled Mrs. Moore to find her husband, James, whom she charges with abandonment. He is in Detroit and Mrs. Moore will press for a grand jury indictment today. Mrs. Moore and her mother have given Diana, loving care during the 13 months of her life. She is a very fat baby now, with a heavy thatch of dark hair on her too-small head. She is helpless, can not hold herself up for more than a few seconds and physicians claim that she will ; not even be able to do that much longer. She never will walk, or talk, they assert, unless an operation can expand her skull so that she may develop enough brain to make her normal. ‘GERMANY CAN t T~~PAY’ Faces Ruin If Forced to Continue Reparations, Says Diplomat, By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28.—Germany can not fulfill her reparations obligations, and demands that she continue to pay would destroy the whole basis of German private credit abroad, and thus “completely bar all possibility of future German solvency for political or private purposes,” Dr. O. C. Kiep, German consul-general here, today told the eastern regional conference of the New York State Savings Bank Association.

LOTTERY ‘MESS’ IS GIVEN GRAND JURY

Asserting “this case has the earmarks of fraud and threats,” Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today abruptly halted the trial of three men on gaming charges, and turned over information on the alleged Butchers’ and Packers' lottery to the county grand jury for investigation. Scoring the defense, Cameron made his assertions after Herman Wiltsee, 2*48 Napoleon street, state's witness, testified Fred Blldridge, 2360 North Illinois street, and Don Cutshaw, 602 North Sherman drive, alleged operators, paid him only $650 on a $1,300 ticket. Wiltsee is charged with gaming, while the others are being tried on

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932

RICH S. BEND MAN IS FREED BY K[DNAPERS Howard Woolverton Home, Unharmed; Payment of Ransom Denied. AGREEMENT INTIMATED Police Think ‘Seven Gang’ Given Money; Secrecy Shrouds Return. By United Brea* SOUTH BEND, Ind., Jan. 28. Howard A. Woolverton, 52, wealthy industrialist and latest victim of a million-dollar midwest kidnap ring, was safe at his home here today, after being held nearly twenty-four hours for $50,000 ransom. His release came while authorities hunted through Illinois and Indiana underworld gathering places for trace of the infamous “Seven gang,” believed to have conducted the abduction. Representatives of the prominent Woolverton family issued denials that any ransom had been paid or promised. Police asserted, however, that circumstances of the industrialist’s release indicated an agreement had been made. An aura of mystery veiled the facts of Woolverton’s sudden reappearance, unharmed and well fed during his detention. Blind Folded by Captors A prepared statement was given to newspaper men by state police, who thronged the home. One reporter, who asked one pertinent question, was ejected without ceremony. It apparently was known to those gathered at the Woolverton home when he would return, and he was met at the station when he left the interurban train. Woolverton said he was blindfolded from the time the kidnapers seized him in his automobile in the heart of a rich residential section Tuesday night until Wednesday night. At no time, he said, did he know where he was. Wednesday night, he said, the kidnapers placed him in an automobile and drove for several hours. Then the car was stopped, he was led out, and his bandages removed. He was told to wait a few moments to enable the abduction automobile to drive away. Denies Ransom Paid Woolverton said he did not know what city he was in. He said he walked a few blocks and questioned a passerby, who told him he wr - in Michigan City. He then went to the railroad station and boarded an electric train, which brought him to South Bend at 11:20 p. m.. According to the prepared statement, he went by taxi to his home and entered while police guards and state troopers sent to protect his family were waiting. The only hint of his impending release made public was a statement by attorneys for the Woolverton family during the evening tl at they expected a “break" around midnight. Captain Rex Risher of the state police declared Woolverton refused to converse with authorities or give details of the abduction. Risher said he believed the kidnapers had threatened him with death if he gave any aid to police. Attorney G. A. Farabaugh, representing the victim’s family, denied flatly any ransom was paid. The victim is a member of one of the wealthiest of South Bend industrial families. He was seized Tuesday night as he was driving home with his wife after attending the theater with George M. Studebaker and his wife, of the wellknown automobile interests. Mrs, Woolverton was in collapse today from shock of the kidnaping, and under the care of physicians. Denver Case Solved By United Press DENVER. Jan. 28.—A murder, a robbery, and a suicide, linked in i strange sequence, were declared today to solve the mysterious kidnaping of Benjamin P. Bowers, bakery official, held five days last week and released after he premised to pay $50,000. Bower was abducted, police declared, by Joseph Clinton, Riley, an escaped convict, who killed himself Wednesday to escape arrest. He faced charges of killing Murrell Rothfuss, Denver collector, two weeks ago, to keep Rothfuss from telling of the Bower kidnaping plans. Aged Man Kills Self By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 28. Illness was blamed for the suicide by shooting of Jacob L. Jones, 63.

counts of operating a lottery and gaming enterprise. “There's not a clean thing about it,” said Cameron. “It's so rotten it smells like it came from a sewer. I'm turning the whole mess over to the grand jury.” Cameron continued hearing further evidence in his court until Feb. 18, permitting prosecutors to place it before grand jurors in the meantime. Wiltsee. in his testimony, said his demands for full payment of winnings on the ticket brought the response from Cutshaw that “the ticket's a phony.” Wiltsee said Cutshaw told him he was paying him the half price of the ticket to prevent him from turning the case over to police.

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This sketch shows how the British navy’s submarine rescue apparatus works. Masks on, the men have left the sunken sub and are coming to the top. HELP T.J, PROGRAM Organizations to Seek New Quarters for Sufferers. Seeking separate buildings or wards at the city hospital for treatment of advanced tuberculosis patients, directors of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association today announced they will meet with other organizations in February to outline a co-operative program. Edward Harris, president of the association, said health board members, representatives of the Indianapolis Flower Mission and managers of Sunnyside sanatorium will confer. An attempt will be made to use some f the $60,000 now held by the Flowe. Mission to erect a structure in which advance cases can be housed. Mission members recently offered the funds to the city for erection of a building, but lack of health board finances has prevented materialization of the project. LINDY 30 NEXT WEEK Eagle Is Thankful He Has Slipped Off Nation’s Front Page. By United Press NEW YORK, aJn. 28.—Charles A. Lindbergh will celebrate his thirtieth birthday a week from today, thankful he has slipped off the front page and can apply himself to his work as an aviation technical adviser. The flier is supervising finishing touches of the new home in New Jersey he will occupy with his wife, the former Anne Morrow, and his infant son. It was learned the flier’s plane has not been taken from its hangar in several weeks. HUEY - IN ‘ABOUT FACE’ New Senator Unexpectedly Leaves Capital for Louisiana. By United Pres* WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Senator Huey Long tDem., La.), who this week renlinquished the governorship of his state to take the oath as a senator, left Washington at 2 a. m. today for New Orleans. The United Press was informed at Long's office that the journey was unexpected. His office force did not know of the senator’s departure until this morning. It was understood his return to Louisiana had to do with the dispute over the governorship. Grief Blamed in Snicide CORYDON, Ind., Jan. 28.—Grief over the death of her husband is believed to have been the motive for the suicide by hanging of Mrs. Rebecca J. Albin, 59, in a barn on her farm near here.

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Top photo shows what life is like in a British submarine, under operating conditions. This is the control room from which all movements of the craft are directed. Officers and men are at their diving stations; in the left center is an officer at the periscope and in the left foreground is thte radio operator. The map shows the approximate location of the sunken British submarine M-2 in the English channel off Weymouth.

Win HEARS HIS DOOM SENTENCE Jackson Killer Will Die in Chair Aug. 1. By Times Special LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 28.—Sneering at court officials and spectators, Charles Vernon Witt today was sentenced to die in the electric chair at the Indiana state prison before dawn Aug. 1, for the murder of L. A. Jackson, Indianapolis chain store chief. The convicted killer retained his composure throughout the proceedings, and he spent half an hour with his parents, after he was sentenced, Witt became abusive to Sheriff Wilbur Small when the latter refused to remove the handcuffs as the criminal stood before Judge John W. Hornaday. When Hornaday reached the section of his statement, condemning Witt to his death in August, the convicted gunman turned to Chester Jackson, son of the slain grocer, who was seated at the state’s table. For a full minute Witt stared at Jackson, and his lips moved. Defense attorneys lost a motion for retrial in the Boone county court after presenting arguments before Hornaday. The attorneys said they will take immediate steps to appeal the conviction to the state supreme court. The court ordered Witt and Louis E Hamilton, alleged “trigger man” in the slaying, returned to the Marion county jail. Witt will be held in Indianapolis two weeks before being sent to the state prison. Hamilton will remain in Indianapolis until his trial, which may be held here next month. VEHLING RULING WILL BE GIVEN SATURDAY Judge Gause Will Announce Fate of Motion to Quash Bribe Charge. Ruling on a defense motion to quash the affidavit charging Coroner Fred W. Vehling with tribe solicitation will be made Saturday by Fred C. Gause, special criminal court judge. Defense attorneys are expected to file a motion with Gause for a change of venue if the quash petition is overruled. The trial tentatively has been set for Feb. 9, but transfer from the county would delay it several weeks. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin today directed Vehling’s attorneys to file anew abatement plea to the | impeachment proceedings pending against Vehling. Chamberlin said the plea was not in proper form.

Woods 16-CentEgg Talk Proves Real Boomerang By Scripps-Hoicard Sewspaper AUiance WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—The humble hen had a relatively important part in quieting Representative Will R. Wood’s demand for a 10 per cent cut in federal salaries, it has been

learned. Thanks may be due to this barnyard creature, who neither toils nor spins, if the proposal is permanently shelved. Ever since his demand, with the statement that eggs could be purchased for “16 cents a dozen,” his telephone has been ringing with requests for the market or farmer who sells them at that price. Several colleagues joshed him so frequently that he hung up in their ears. Hundreds of protests have reached him by mail, and almost every writer has informed the Hoosier representative of the price eggs were bringing in their section of the country. Wood now knows the status of the retail and wholesale market on this commodity from Maine to California.

“He escaped questioning and a checkup R w . when he discussed problems involving millions K ' " 000 of dollars,” said a Democratic wit, “but when he got down to eggs, people knew what he was talking about.”

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Entered an Seeond-Claas Matter at Postofffee Indianapolis Ind

So Boring By Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., Jan. 28.—Joseph Horvath, tired of waiting for a Lake circuit court jury to return a verdict in his trial for the first degree murder of a neighbor, John Gresko, asked to be taken to his jail cell. The request was granted. Horvath was sleeping soundly when officers arrived to inform him that the jury acquitted him on the sixteenth ballot. Gresko, said to have been drunk, was shot fatally after hurling stones through windows of Horvath’s home.

LAY STONE FOR PHONEJJLDING Documents Placed in Box Imbedded in Wall. Officers, directors and departmental heads of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company participated in laying the corner stone of the new general headquarters building at Meridian and New York streets at noon today. President J. F. Carroll placed records, documents and other data from all departments of the company in a copper box, which was placed in a recess adjoining one of the main columns of the structure. Carroll spread the mortar and the corner stone was lowered into place. Among documents included in the box were the current issue of the Indianapolis phone directory, sales manual, typical Bell system practice in block wiring, pictures of operating rooms and many charts. Board members present were: Carroll, Fred C. Gardner, Will G. Irwin, Frank A. Montrose, Curtis H. Rottger, Frank D. Stalnaker and Elmer W. Stout. Other officers, in addition to the president, at the ceremonies were Montrose, vicepresident; R. C. Rottger, vice-presi-dent; A. R. Henry, sec?etary-treas-urer, and W. J. McWiliams, general auditor. The new building when completed will be seven stories high, has a 195-foot frontage on Meridian street and ninety feet on New York street. The building will be completed late in the summer. Fire-Fighting Fee Set PORTLAND, Ind., Jan. 28.—A charge for sending Portland firefighting equipment and men out of the city has been fixed by the city council. The fee will be $lO for use of the truck and each man will receive $2.

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JAPAN’S GUILT IN MANCHURIA IS LAID BARE Inside Story of Conquest Is Revealed by Release of Secret Exchanges. NIPPON IN BAD LIGHT Tokio Shown in Position of Riding Roughshod Over Peace Treaties. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripos-Hoarard Forelrn Editor WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.—The Sino-Japanese conflict today entered anew and more dangerous phase, the end of which anxious officials here did not dare predict. Simultaneously, the whole inside I story was made public through a ; release of hitherto secret exchanges between the nations involved— Americp.. Japan, China and the League of Nations—as demanded by , the senate. From beginning to end—from the i capture of Mukden to beleaguered Shanghai—Japan is revealed as riding rough-shod over the peace treaties and even over her more recent pledges to attain her objectives. In none of the documents—save the Chinese—is she formally singled out as a violator of the covenant of the league, the nine-power treaty or the Kellogg pact outlawing war. But at times some of them come close to it. “Watched Her Step” Nevertheless, what Japan has i done, she did by stages, halting after each major move as if to weigh what the effect of it would be on the United States and Europe. Then, as nothing more than another written protest came her way, she proceeded with the next adventure. First she captured Mukden and the strategic points close by. Then she broadened out, to the Nonni river, to Tsitsihar, to Chinchow, and finally to Shanghai. There are sixty-three documents. The first is from China to the league of nations, dated Sept. 21, 1931. In it she informs the league that Japan had taken Mukden by force of arms and invokes Article 11 of the league covenant, authorj izing the league to take immediate ! steps to prevent further develop- ' ment of a situation endangering the j peace of nations. Pact Is Invoked Simultaneously, China sent a note to Washington, invoking the Kellogg pact, accusing Japan of “unprovoked and unwarranted attack,” | and deliberate violation of the I pact.” Secretary Stimson complied immediately on Sept. 22, by sending a memorandum to Japanese Ambassador Debuchi, expressing surprise and concern. Here a point is made clear upon which the American public has been a trifle hazy, namely, why the United States did not act on I its own and invoke either the nine-power treaty or the Kellogg pact. Co-Operates With League The reason was that China had appealed to the league and the league happened to be in session, and it was decided to have the United States and the league cooperate. The league sent identic notes to both China and Japan, urging them to try to “withdraw their troops forthwith” and to refrain from any act which might aggravate the situation. China’s reply to the league pledged complete compliance, but ; Japan’s indicated she would much rather the league would stay out of it and let her settle with the Chinese alone. Nevertheless she stated her troops had been withdrawn, save for a few, and these would be called in as soon as the situation improved. Disagrees With Japan ; Then came the bombardment of | Chinchow by twelve Japanese war ; planes. Stimson asked Tokio for ;an explanation. Tokio replied the incident was of no great importance. “The secretary of state can not understand how the bombing of Chinchow can be minimized or how it can be said to be of no importance,” Ambassador Forbes was instructed to tell the Japanese. “Bombing of an unfortified and unwarned town,” he said, “is one of the most extreme of military actions, deprecated in time of war.” Followed another series of notes of no very startling content. But always, instead of diminishing their troops, the Japanese sent in more, and ordered them to advance. Now came the promise to the league and to Washington not to take Chinchow, then its capture, regardless of the promise. BRAND FATHER KILLER Colorado Rancher Alleged to Have Slain Three Children. By United Press DELTA, Colo., Jan. 28.—A charge of murdering his three motherless children for $3,000 insurance and of trying to conceal the crime by burning his home faced Michael Stefan, rancher, today. Stefan, in a critical condition from burns, was held under guard without bail in a hospital. The children, Michael Jr., 9; Marjorie, 5, and Donald, "3, perished a week ago today. Runaway Girl Returns By Times Special GAS CITY, Ind., Jan. 28.—Mary Walls, 15, has returned to her home here after traveling several hundred miles on a freight train with three men, one of them an ex-convict. She was taken into custody at Charleston, 111., while attired in male clothing. She said she left home to escape doing housework.