Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 260, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1932 — Page 5

MARCH 9, 1932

HOOVER. STILL DRY.SEEKS TO KEEP SILENCE Policy Is to Discourage Discussion of Issue Before Convention. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER In I ted rrf* SU ft Correspondent 'Coovrleht. 1932. by United Pres*! WASHINGTON. March 9.—The most authoritative information avail* * able represents President Herbert Hoover as holding his dry views, despite a pronounced desire among some Republican leaders to resubmit the prohibition issue to the country. Renewed activity over the prohibition question has led to many attempts to elicit from Mr. Hoover some public statement of his attitude on what position the party should take this year. He has declined to make one. * The information herein comes . from other sources. It is to the effect that Mr. Hoover has indicated privately that he intends to stand by the position he took when he ran for President before —which was for retention of the eighteenth amendment. President Keeps Old Views On modification, he said that to permit that which the Constitution forbids would be nullification, and that this would not be countenanced by the American people. Further, he is represented as feeling that he has an obligation to those who supported him on prohibition in 1928, and that to yield to the anti-prohibition wing of the party, now, would be a desertion of thousands of loyal friends, with no ground other than expediency to justify it. , 'His policy is to discourage discussion of prohibition as a party question. Feeling on both sides is so strong that there is fear of provoking a serious split by agitation prior to the convention. Statements Are Scarce This accounts for the scarcity of statements on the subject from Republican sources. Contrary to the practice of their Democratic opponents, the more troublesome a question becomes, the less Republicans talk about it publicly. The Republican party is as badly split over prohibition as the Democratic party. The managers want to gather in as many votes as possible from both sides. Therefore, many of the modificationists and those who merely want a referendum plank, favor going ahead without consulting the President. They expect that if any reasonable plank calling for a rejudgment of the question were inserted in the platform Mr. Hoover would not object. Strategy Being Mapped They realise he would be seriously embarrassed if they tried to change his position, so they cultivate the doctrine that the candidate has nothing to do with shaping the platform—that being the work of the convention —and that, therefore, there is no reason to bring Mr. Hoover into the controversy. The result of this strategy, if successful, would be a dry candidate on a referendum platform, making it possible for the campaign to emphasize one in dry states and the other in wet states. HOME DAMAGED, PHOTO STOLEN BY VANDALS Allies Dumped on Bed and Water Poured Over Them. Burglars in the' home of Mrs. Ethel Nield, 211 Cable street, dumped a bushel of ashes in a bed and poi red w'atcr on them after stealing a picture *of her nephew Tuesday. She discovered the house had been entered when she returned about 6:30 Tuesday evening, she told police. Robbers obtained $10.50 from a rash register in a doughnut shop at 866 Virginia avenue Tuesday night. Two men entered. One forced Elmer Sisk. 537 Fletcher avenue, the proprietor, into a back room while the other rifled the register. Miss Jewell Campbell, 418 East Vermont street, apartment 12, reported her home was entered Tuesday by thieves who obtained loot valued at SIOO, including a coat, a dress, traveling bag, mirror and strand of pearl beads. TRAINS WILL CONTINUE Nickel Tlate Curtailment Order Is Countermanded. By United Press MUNCIE. Ind , March 9. F. J DeGrief, superintendent of northern district of the Nickel Plate railroad, Tuesday issued a countermanding order directing that, passenger service on the IndianapolisMichigan City route will not be curtailed immediately. A petition is pending before the public service commission for discontinuance of two trains on the ; road. Hearing will be held on March 23. MITZI GREEN GUARDED Child Film Star’s Parents Take No Chance of Abduction. By Cuffed i*•<■* HOT LYWOOD, March 9—Accompanied by a private detective little Mitzi Green, child film star, was traveling east today to fill an eight weeks vaudeville engagement. The guard was employed by Mitzi’s parents because of recent child kidnapings, particularly that of the Lindbergh baby.

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Automobiles reoortcd to oolice as stolen belone to: Otto Crate. 1437 Saulcv street. Hudson count-. 42-JO2. from in front of 315 West Washington street. Mark Gant 3014 Broadway- Ford sedan 20-197. from in front of 3014 Broadway. Walter J Ewing. 847 North California street. Ford Tudor 59-010 from in front of 847 North California street.

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. Stolen automobiles recovered bv nolle; belone to: Guv D. V/cstloke. New Palestine, Ind.. Port! coach, found e.t Piftv-second street and Keystone avenue Ford coune. 104-597. found in front of '431 Yandes stuet.

Pledged to Clean Up, Dale Does It in Muncie

By Time* Special MUNCIE, Ind., March 9 Muncie. under George Dale's administration, is free of gang rule for the first time in twenty years. The law-abiding citizens admit it. The lawless will swear to it—with an added curse for Mayor Dale. A careful check of present conditions against those prevailing under at least four previous administrations proves it. There is booze in Muncie; there is some vice; there is some gambling. But it has been cut to a startling minimum in the Delaware county seat, long a capital of

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Henry (Red) Johnson, suitor of the Lindbergh nurse, Betty Gow, Is shown above in sailor uniform. He met Nurse Gow in Maine while she tvas taking care of Baby Lindbergh on the Morrow estate there, which adjoins the estate of Thomas W. Lamont. Johnson was employed as seaman on the Lamont yacht. Johnson’s telephone calls to Nurse Gow, at the Lindbergh home in Hopewell, N. J., particularly on the night the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped, his trip to Hartford, Conn., and apparent wanderings, caused police to detain him for questioning.

PLAN NEW BUILDING Wiegands to Erect $40,000 Florist Structure. Anew $40,000 two-story structure will be erected by A. Wiegand's Sons Company, florists,' at the corner of Sixteenth and Illinois streets, to replace buildings to be razed to permit widening of Sixteenth street and elimination of a jog at the intersection. The new building will have five storerooms 18 feet wide and 55 feet deep, while the florists’ quarters will have a frontage of 40 feet. The building will be faced with Bedford limestone. The building now occupied by Wiegands will not be razed until next month. C. M. T. C. QUOTA HERE IS ONE-THIRD FILLED First Group of Recruits Announced by Enrollment Chairman. Nearly one-chird of the Marion county quota of 105 for citizens military training camps has been reached, Norman Metzger, C. M. T. C. chairman, said today. Enrollments for the camps, to be held at Ft. Benjamin Harrison and Ft. Knox, Ky., began March 1, and will continue for two months. The campaign is under auspices of the Service Club, with the R. O. T. C., regular army and reserve officers co-operating. First group of candidates whose applications were accepted are: Foster Baker, R. R. 1: Ralph A. Benton. 1403 Bellefontaine street: Lester C. Burres. 1629 North New Jersey street; Robert D SchuUler 3106 Carson avenue; Charles L Blume. 2332 Coyner avenue; Otto C Bochert. 1918 Churchman avenue; Newton I. Cleaver. 50 Downev avenue. Maurice Culiom, 57 Tacoma avenue. Franklin E. Dillon, 4409 Manlove avenue Leonard S. Grim. 2447 Corner avenue: Roland W. Irwin. 3411 East Michigan street; Lawrauce G. Leonard. 5810 West Tenth street; Irvin E. Loy, 2352 Stuart street; David Marshall, 37 West Twentyfirst street; Robert W. McDufl, 2457 North New Jersey street. Thomas W. McGinnis. 552 West Twentyeighth street; Emerson W. McNav. 1249 Roaehe street; Clarence B. Reynolds. 2941 North Sherman drive: Jack A. Riggs. 55 Whittier place; Maletus E. Socks. 2117 Brookside avenue; Earl A. Tavlor. 127 East Thirty-third street; Harold B. White. 311 Villa avenue; Max A. White, 4125 Otterbeing avenue; Richard H. White 5134 East Michigan street, and Norman E Williams. 2340 East Eighteenth street.

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crooks, a center of vice, a hideout for criminals in a midwest circuit that included Toledo, Lima and Peoria. The gang is on the run, after a reign of a score of years which made Muncie a byword across half a continent. 000 THE big gamblers have folded up their paraphernalia and moved on. Only a few petty games survive, and those for a brief life. The red light district is only a sordid memory, with its bedraggled legions scattered to more hospitable havens. Bootleggers still ply their trade, but on a vastly reduced scale, with correspondingly boosted prices.

HOWARD RE-ELECTION AS UNION HEAD URGED 402 Typographical Locals indorse Presidency Candidacy. Re-election of Charles P. Howard, president of the International Typographical Union, was boomed today when officials of the headquarters staff of Indianapolis reported 402 locals had indorsed Howard’s candidacy. • The election will be held in May. Leon H. Rouse of New York, who has been indorsed by 142 locals, will be the only other candidate for the office. Other candidates on the ticket with Howard are Claude M. Baker of San Francisco, first vice-presi-dent; Fred G. Barrett of New York, second vice-president, and Woodruff Randolph, incumbent secretarytreasurer. Sells Baled Wheat for Feed By United Press WALTERS, Okla., March 9. Farmer Frank Byers baled 230 bales of wheat from five acres which has a market price of 20 cents a bale. This price offered by cattle feeders exceeds the return Byers would get from millers who would grind the grain into flour.

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, And the honest burghers pull j down their blinds before tapping ! another bottle of brew or churnI ing a fresh highball these nights. Protection? “Show me one prominent bootlegger in the city who hasn’t been raided once, twice or more times, and I don’t know my bootleggers,” challenged a police official today. “We play no favorites under this administration.” And the taxi drivers, who know a town like no one else does, echo the refrain, sadly and grudgingly. 000 THERE are few neutrals in Muncie today. The citizens • are bitterly against Dale or for i him, to the last ditch. And the amazing fact is that, I while many of those opposing him

M’NUTT FLAYS UTILITY BOARD Deplores ‘Failure to Serve People of State.’ By Times Special MUNCIE, March 9.—Failure of the public service commission to serve the people was deplored by Paul V. McNutt, candidate for Governor, at the Delaware county Demoocratic rally Tuesday night. “Among the serious problems which we have to consider,” declared McNutt, “is that which has to do with certain monopolies created and supported by law. These monopolies, known as public utilities companies, are supposed to serve our people. “They handle certain necessities of life and we set up certain laws and certain administrative agencies to control these monopolies. “Neither the laws nor their administration have been satisfactory during the last sixteen years of Republican rule, and I favor the strengthening of these laws that they may fulfill their purposes, namely, the protection of the consuming public. “I am not satisfied with the personnel of the present public service commission. As far as I am concerned, just as soon as it is possible, it will be changed in toto.” Equalization of the tax burden wan stressed by R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, who pointed out that “more than a million dollars each week is the price the people pay for the administration of state government.

HOARDING ASSAILED Nation in Need of Tonic, Says Glossbrenner. Plea for unity ofTaith in the nation’s ability to recover from the depression was sounded today by A. M. Glossbrenner, city director of the Citizens Reconstruction Organization drive to draw hoarded money into circulation. “What this country needs is a real awakening, a good tonic or stimulant to revive it from the doldrums," he said. “Because the elements of the economic order got out of gear we are undergoing an inevitable readjustment, but this has happened so many times in our history that we need not view it with consternation. “It behooves us to bear in mind that American business had weathered a score of depressions. The first requisite of restoration is faith and confidence, then patience, courage and fortitude.”

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do not believe he is guilty of the federal charges, they want to see him punished because “he has raised so much hell.” Then, as a clincher to their consistency, they add, “Money paid to Dale for protection? Why, he’s never had two dimes to rub against each other for the last twenty years.” Gambling, liquor and vice have been dealt a body blow, despite the most savage oppoosition, but police declare that one great difficulty they encounter in their clean-up smash is the attitude of the city court. They cite baseball pool pinches as an example of the trouble they had in “making cases.” 000 A BUY is made from a pool agent. The wholesaler is raided. But the particular book from which the buy has been made has been sold, w r as gone when the raid was made, and naturally can not be produced in court. So all the other books mean nothing and the suspect goes free. A blind tiger is being watched. A customer comes out, sees the police, flings down a pint bottle of hooch. It falls in the snow and does not break. Police produce it in court as evidence. Case thrown out. “Illegal search.” Along with the opposition of the city judge to Dale policies has been the antagonism of the city council and some other city officials They were not nominated as Dale men and simply rode to victory on the tail of the Dale kite on election day, carried through by his strength with the voters. Muncie’s cleanup has come after twenty years of gang rule. Underworld leaders, long growing bolder, swung into the saddle during the first term of Dr. Rollin Bunch. The law became only a scrap* of paper to the saloon

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barons. Dice clicked on every corner, roulette wheels spun merrily. Brothels operated with scandalous freedom. Fake foot races and fake prize fights extracted the cash from the chumps. 0 .9 0 THOSE were the days of Elmer Gentry’s dog and pony show —a misnomer, for the performers trooped nightly up the stairs to the tinny strains of an electfic piano, instead of jumping through paper hoops; of the Owl Club, where every form 1 of gambling flourished; of Gertie Smith's place, in the shadow of the courthouse. And Gertie, it may be mentioned in passing, a lady who has dallied with the scarlet trifles of life for a score of years, was one of the witnesses before the federal grand jury which indicted Dale. Vice and crime waxed fat and defiant during the first Bunch administration and into the second, when there came a temporary scuttling to cover. Mayor Bunch; Horace Murphy, unctuous psalm-singing prosecutor; Elmer Gentry, underworld kingpin, and one or two of the small fry went to Atlanta federal prison. But the lull was short-lived. The blessing of prohibition now was on the land, and Muncie observed it to the limit. Bootleggers harvested as never before, with vice and gambling rampant. “Doc” Quick, a reformer of the first water, had been elected mayor, but the gang rode him down. Then the machine, with a ghastly sense of humor, elected an amiable and estimable undertaker, John Hampton, as his successor. For four more years the lid was off. Then along came Dale. Pledged to clean up, he cleaned up.

POLITICIAN IS KIDNAPVICTIM Forced by Chicago Gang to Withdraw From Race. By United Press CHICAGO, March 9.—Timothy J. Ryan, Thirtieth ward politician, reported to police today he was kidnaped from his home Tuesday night | by three men who forced him to sign a withdrawal of his candidacy for Democratic committeeman. The deadline for withdrawals was midnight. Shortly before that time, the men entered Ryan’s home and forced him to accompany them in an automobile. ! Ryan said he had been taken to : some place in Cicero, a Chicago suburb, and threatened until he agreed to withdraw from the race. Meanwhile, police continued their hunt for gunmen who were surprised by River Grove police while tossing a body from their automobile. The men recovered the body and escaped in a running gun battle. Police first suspected these men of being Ryan’s abductors.

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BYRD IS BEST MAN Acts at Anderson Wedding for Former Navy Lieutenant. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 9. Best man at the wedding herq Tuesday night of Justin McCarthy. Cincinnati, and Miss Marge Kennedy, Aurora. Ind., was Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who was in Anderson to deliver an address. McCarthy was a naval lieutenant during the World war.

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