Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 284, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1932 — Page 1

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11 BEATEN AS PICKETS AND MINERS CLASH Violence Flares as Union Men From Sullivan Invade Vigo County. WORKERS ARE HALTED Prevented From Entering Shaft When They Try to Go On Duty. /iii i tttird Frrnn PIMENTO. Snd.. April Violence flarpd'in Indiana's mine strife when eleven officials and miners at the Dixie Bee shaft here, were beaten and cut as pickets prevented nonunion workers from entering the mine. Included among those attacked and beaten was W. L. Mace, operator of the Dixie Bee mine. Last Feb. 17 an injunction against pir.ketipg of the Dixie Bee mine was granted Mace by Federal .Judge Robert, C. Baltzell. Baltzell directed Mare to appear in federal court at Terre Haute this morning. It was intimated that, a United States investigator might be sent to the mine area, A call for aid was sent to Sheriff Joe Dreher at Terre Haute. When he arrived with several deputies, the fighting had ceased and the mob, believed recruited in the Sullivan area, had dispersed. Injuries Not Serious In addition to Mace, those injured were: John H. Beasley, Tprre Haute attorney. counsel for Mace. Orville Lancet, Terre Haute, an employe Jn the mine office. Frank Cirss, mine boss. Don B. Whitlock. Emmitt, Shakes, James Vaster, Dave Brousmen, Laurence Ruster, Louis Rogers and Hnracp Puckett, all of Pimento. None of the injuries were believed serious. Reports said that a group of union miners numbering about five hundred, many of whom arrived this morning from Sullivan, took up a position at the hpad of a lane leading from the main highway into the mine Auto Widows Smashed As nonunion workmen arrived in cars they were halted and ordered to return home. Those that refused were dragged from their autos and beaten, kicked and cut, according to reports given Sheriff Dreher. Windows of autos were smashed and some of the machines damaged, it was reported. Twenty men employed on the night shift were halted as they left the mine. They said they were pushed and shoved out of the area but were not beaten. Approximately ninety-five men reported for work this morning. Those that proceeded on their way were not molested. ‘No Aid Is Needed' By I nited Prenn TERRE HAUTE. Ind„ April 6. Sheriff Joe Dreher was authorized by Vigo county commissioners today to “hire all of the deputies needed to quell the disturbance'’ at the Dixie Bee mine. Federal authorities here and Governor Harry G. Leslie were notified lhai assistance would not be needed. A delegation of miners left here today for Dugger, it was learned, to attempt to persuade nonunion miners there to leave the mines. Leslie Orders Probe local and county authorities in Indiana's mine regions must cope with labor outbreaks, Governor Harry G. Leslie decided today after a series of conferences with union representatives, which were interrupted by phone pleas of mine operators for state aid in quelling violence. Leslie said he believed ihe matter could be settled peaceably without calling national guard units to the scenes. The Governor stated the national guard will be detailed to the region, however, “if the situation gets out of hand." Dr. John H. Hewitt, state unemployment director, was to begin an investigation in the mine territory this afternoon on Leslie's direction. Hewitt will check reports that, although the mine union scale is $6.10 a day, and operators, offered to pay $3.60 a day to union miners, that the operators have offered nonunion miners $4 daily. Quiet at Sullivan By United Prenn SULLIVAN, Ind.. April 6. Mines in the Sullivan area were idle today as the result of union workers picketing the coal fields and sending nonunion miners home when they came to work. The machines in which the nonunion me n came to work were halted, picked up, turned around and started away from the mine area. Sheriff J. Wesley Williams, who Tuesday was told by Governor Harry O. Leslie that “you've got to keep peace in the mine area," was not In his office today. 1% was reported he was visiting several mines in the western part of the county. PURDUE TO BUILD UNIT rontrart I*l f or 5168.009 Annex to Engineering Structure. g'j Timm Bp trial LAFAYETTE. Ind., April 6—Contract for erection of the second unit of anew mechanical engineering building at Purdue university wa* awarded A. E. Kemmer, Lafayette, by university trustees Tuesday on a bid of $168,000.

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Toy Balloon Is Used to Prove Drunk Driving B’j 1 nitrd Prr*n MINEOLA. L. 1., April 6. A revolutionary idea in police work was inaugurated Tuesday when a toy balloon was used to prove that Michael Klasowsky was guilty of driving his automobile while intoxicated.* Dr. Milton Lehman testified that after Klosowsky's arrest, he had given the prisoner a toy balloon to inflate. After Klasowsky had blown it up, Dr. Lehman tied a string around it# neck and took it home. This sample of Klosowsky's breath was passed through a chemical solution and Dr. Lehman said he was able to determine the state of the defendant's intoxication by the result. The chemical solution turned a milky white, the physician said, proving Infallibly that Klosowsky was in a pretty exalted state.

DIVORCE ENDS IDEAL MATCH' Fifi Widener Holden Wins Decree at Reno. By T nited Prenn RENO, Nev., April 6—Fifi Widener Holden's “perfect love match" with Milton Whitely Holden was relegated definitely into the past today. Mrs. Holden, a New York and Philadelphia society leader and daughter of Joseph Widener, millionaire race horse owner, obtained a divorce after an eight-minute private hearing on her cruelty charges. Modishly dressed in a brown ensemble', she was gay as she left the courtroom. It was rumored among her friends that, she planned to remarry. This was not confirmed. Mrs. Holden's divorce today was her second. She divorced Carter Leid.v, with whom she eloped in 1920 to Knoxville, Tenn., when she was 17 and he a 20-year-old University of Pennsylvania freshman, in Pennsylvania. She married Holden shortly afterward.

RUM BOAT RAMMED Collision Ends Dry Agents’ Chase Off Miami, B >/ United Prenn MIAMI, Fla., April 6.—A headon collision between a thirty-two foot liquor running boat and a twenty-six foot federal speed boat, each attempting to ram the other, ended a spectacular chase and battle in north Bisca.vne bay today. Both boats were thrown' on the shore by the impact, their bows wrecked. Harry W. Wilson, Bimini, one of three alleged rum runners aboard the boat, was captured by custom officials after a chase after the collision. His leg was injured. Two others escaped. Federal prohibition agents reported they found 200 sacks of liquor in the wrecked rum boat. DRY AGENTS TO MAKE SPEAKIE DIRECTORY Squad of Sixty Sets Forth Armed With Mapping- Equipment. B}/ I nitrd Prrsttt NEW YORK. April 6.—Sixty prohibition agents, armed with large maps and pockets full of red-head-ed pins, have set forth to compile a speakeasy directory of New York. The sixty agents then will be in a position to plafl anew, intensive and intelligent attack on the wet, front, according to Colonel Amos W. Woodcock, director of prohibition. Thus, thpre is pvery indication of a tightening up all along the prohibition front.

SENATE STARTS ON STUDY OF TAX BILL

By United Pregg WASHINGTON. April 6,-The senate, through its finance committee, today began consideration of the billion-dollar tax bill in an atmosphere indicating a protracted and probably bitter battle over certain of the provisions approved by the house. Treasury Secretary Mills appeared before the committee to advocate a return to the original treasury program announced last December. He opposed thp house provisions which, in his opinion, would act as a deterrent 'to a business revival. He specified corporation tax increases. stock and bond transaction levies and dividend’taxes as among “vices which have crept into the bill.” The secretary asserted that “the cumulative effect of all these provisions is very great.” “They tend,” he said, “to converge the full weight of each of them upon capital actively employed in business, and to discourage the normal flow of capital into industry and commerce at a time when business men are hesitant and industry stagnant. "Their combined restrictive effect magnified by the heading influence of the depression will in my judgment tend to retard business recovery. “What we want, to accomplish above all else at the present time is to break down the vicious circle of deflation of credit, industrial stagfalling price* and lom of

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1932

MYSTERY SHIP PAIR SOUGHT IN LINDY HUNT Man and Woman With Baby Carriage Landed Near Cape Cod. TWO TRAILED IN WOODS Fishermen Lose Sight of Suspects; Early Return of Child Hinted. By I nitrd Prenn WAQUOIT. Mass., April 6.—A man and woman with a baby carriage, who reportedly were landed by a mysterious white yacht near this Cape Cod village late Tuesday night, were sought by posses today. The report that the couple had disappeared in the woods between here and Mashpee, made to police by two local fishermen, created considerable excitement in this section, only a few miles from where a house-to-house search for clews in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping was conducted Tuesday. Authorities, however, had nothing to indicate positively there was any connection between the report and the Lindbergh case. While state and local police hunted for the couple over a wide, area of woodlands, coast guards searched Cape Cod waters for the mysterious big white yacht which reportedly put out to sea as soon as it landed the man and woman. John Jones, Waquoit, fisherman, and his son, told police the yacht put into this little port late Tuesday night. At 5 a. m. today, they said, they saw the man and woman, with the baby carriage, go ashore on the Mashpee side of the bay. The Joneses said they trailed the couple through the Waquoit summer colony and for more than a mile through the woods to “Pinehurst, near the Waquoit-Mashpee townline. There they lost sight of them. The Joneses told police that, although they trailed the couple more than a mile, they were not able to get close enough to see what, if anything, was in the baby carriage, Planes Appear Again By United Preen HOPEWELL, N. J„ April 6.—Possibility that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh today received signals from comrades of the air which might aid in the search for his kidnaped child arose when three planes roared out of the north, circled the mansion twice, and then disappeared iri the direction from whence they came. This recalled the mysterious airplane visits over the home at the start of the investigation, when watchers below noted the planes dropped messages to earth. It was impossible to tell today whether any one emerged from the great white Lindbergh mansion to watch the planes. Incidents which have increased optimism for return of the baby included: Enforcement by state troopers of a rule prohibiting newspaper men from parking cars on Wertsville road, after several days of apparent indifference. This may be the result. of a rapidly growing force of newsmen here. The Lindbergh home, for the second night, was brilliantly lighted with police apparently restlessly active. Reports credited to one police official that, the baby would be. returned before. 8 a. m. Wednesday. He hinted the child might be left at i the home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow in Englewood. Mrs. Morrow is Anne Lindbergh's mother. Reports that milk deliveries, discontinued after the kidnaping, had been resumed. It was pointed out that, expectant mothers also drink certain grades of milk.

purchasing power. To put, men to work capital must go to work, j “Credit must be sought and freely offered. But capital must see some chance of profit to compensate for the risk. Business men will not borrow and banks will not lend unless the enterprise offers some fair prospect of return.” Mills was vehement, raising his hoarse voice against “vices in the bill.” '‘The railroads are flat on their backs and the United States congress selects this moment to impose on them punitive taxes,” Mills said. “Some of them were written into the bill in the last forty-eight hours. Some without hearings and with no information. “Don't tax losses, don't tax incomes they haven’t got. Those are the kind of vices which have crept into the bill—hidden double taxation.”

Physicians Urge Beer, Whisky for Medicine

By United Prtgg TYTASHINGTON, April 6. —Liquor and beer have a definite medicinal * and curative value, the house judiciary committee was informed today by medical men, including a representative of the American Medical Association. The witnesses appeared in behalf of the Beek-CeUer bill removing the restrictions on prescriptions of liquor and the Goal bill permitting more liberal prescriptions of beer. “It is a guestion of practical results to tha pa 1111%" testified

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Henry L. Stevens Jr., national commander of the American Legion, who was urged today, in a scorching telegram from a New York Legion post, to “call off the legion lobby in Washington and halt the gigantic raid on the federal treasury.”

WHEEL BREAKS, TRAIN PILES UP 11 Coaches Derailed, but No One Injured. By United Prenn KENDALLVILLE, Ind., April 6. Wreckage along j,he New York Central tracks at Brimfield, eight miles west of here, was cleared away today, following a derailment Tuesday night, in which eleven cars of a west bound express went off the tracks. Six hundred feet of track was torn away, blocking the route for nine hours, A broken wheel caused the wreck, which occurred while the train, one section of a double-header, was going sixty miles an hour. Officials attributed the absence of loss of life or serious injury to the fact that all cars remained upright. UNCLE PLEA DENIED Illinois High Court Upholds Brothers’ Conviction. By United Prenn SPRINGFIELD. 111., April 6.—The Illinois supreme court today denied a rehearing in the case of Leo Brothers, who was convicted of the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune police reporter. The court at its February term affirmed Brothers’ conviction and sentence of fourteen years. KILL 500 GUERILLAS Japanese Troops Repulse Bands Along Railway. • By United Prenn MUDKEN, April 6.—Five hundred guerillas were killed and 3.000 estimated to ha ve been wounded in bittor fighting with Japanese troops along the east branch of the Chinese Eastern railway near here today. Japanese placed their losses at terj dead. FAVOR ILLINOIS TRAFFIC Police and Fire Chiefs Ask Street Be Designated Preferential, Police Chief Mike Morrissey and Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell today recommended to the safety board that North Illinois street, from Thirty-eighth street to the canal, be made a preferential street. The chiefs recommendation also included a proposal to transfer the traffic signal at Forty-sixth and Illinois streets to Fifty-fourth street and College avenue. PREPARE TOW-IN TEST City to Appeal Sheaffer Baling of Unconstitutionality. The city administration will appeal to the circuit court the decision of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer that the tow-in law is unconstitutional. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan declared Tuesday sufficient grounds remain for the city to appeal, and that the legal department is preparing for the test case. In the meantime, the police department will abide by the Sheaffer decision.

PHAR LAP. ACE OF TURF, DEAD Acute Indigestion Fells Australian Wonder Horse. BY DAN BOWERMAN T’tiDfd Press Staff Correspondent MENLO PARK, Cal.. April 6. Phar Lap. the mighty “wonder horse" from Australia and one of the mast magnificent thoroughbreds of all time, lay dead today in the rambling frame stables of Ed Perry's stock farm. Red-eyed from lack of sleep and from crying, the little group of horsemen who sat before the blan-ket-covered body in flickering lantern light all night long, was still stunned by thfc loss of their Bobby. A sudden attack of acute indigestion Tuesday felled the giant sorrel gelding which crossed the Pacific ocean to win the $50,000 Agua Caliente handicap and captivate the admiration of the American sporting public. David J. Davis, co-owner of the track monarch, arrived today by airplane from Los Angeles. He entered the stable, lifted the blanket and, as tears, streamed down his face, murmured, “Poor Bobby.” He dropped the blanket over the horse which had won $332,250 for him and his Australian partner, and stumhled outside to his wife. Davis was still too stupifled by his loss to make any decision as to disposal of the body. Friends suggested that it be mounted and placed on display at one of the jockey clubs. He said he had valued “Bobby.” as he was called affectionately by the small retinue of (Turn to Page 14) BLIND DATE IS FLUKE FOR ‘MARRYING J. P.’ 22-Year-Old Red Head Disappoints 79-Year-Old Gallant. By United Prenn EVANSTON, 111,, April 6.—The blind date that Judge Samuel Harrison had Tuesday night with a 22-year-old red head was broken. The 79-year-old marrying justice who throws in appropriate advice and a pound of tea with each wedding. and who personally is looking for a bride, was too gallant to say w r ho ducked the engagement. Justice Harrison announced on April Fool’s day that as Evanston’s first chief of police, oldest judge in Cook county, heir to a SIOO,OOO British fortune, rescuer of fifteen men from a burning boat, great-grand-father and marrier of 1,600 couples, he wanted a wife. Now his desk is heaped with more than 200 letters from would-be-wives. Each mail delivery brings more. REOPEN RATE HEARING Testimony Taken in U. S. Court on Telephone Company. Hearing in the Southern Indiana Telephone and Telegraph Company rate case was reopened in federal court today by Samuel Dowden, special master in chancery, to permit testimony as to the company’s present valuation. Earl Carter, former public service commission engineer, testified that the company's valuation as of March 1, 1932. was $1,638,562, and that its average valuation between 1927 and 1931 was $1,733,450. The case is an appeal from a public service commisison order denying a rate increase.

William C. Woodward. Chicago, counsel of the American Medical Association. "A physician hates to stand by and see a patient whom he could relieve being restricted from use of the proper medicine.” Representative Edward W. Goss (Rep., Conn.) produced a letter from Dr. S. W. Lambert. New York, in which the physician indorsed the use of beer in medical treatment. ' “I believe beer to be a very useful remedial agent for uae of convalescents and nursing mothers.” Dr. Lambert stated. "A bottle of 4 per cent beer per day is the very least prescription that ean be considered desirable."

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NEW YORK POST FLAYS LEGION LOBBY, DEMANDS END OF ‘TREASURY RAIDS’

Scorching Telegram Sent to Organization Head on Bonus Agitation. HUGE GOUGE CHARGED Name of Veteran Degraded by Clamor for Money, Critics Declare. By United Prenn NEW YORK. April 6. The American Legion was called upon today to force its officers and executives “to cease further agitation for treasury raiding for veterans.” A stinging telegram forwarded by the Willard Straight post of the legion to National Commander Henry L. Stevens, charged flagrant abuses which it attributed squarely to the legion itself, adding that congress has been intimidated by a “paid Washington lobby and highpressure propaganda.” Stevens Tuesday was quoted by the White House as indorring the President’s opposition to any bonus at this time. The message, one of the sharpest of its kind on record, comes on the eve of hearings for more bonuses to ex-service men, opening next week at Washington. “We demand,” said the telegram from the New York veterans, "discontinuance of Washington ’ lobby and all attempts to coerce congress to vote additional billions and special privileges which will thereby

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TWO HURT IN CRASH Auto Overturns on Road 52 Down Embankment. A woman was Injured seriously and a man was cut and bruised when an auto ran off of State Road 52 north of Sixty-eighth street today, overturning down an embank'ment. Although the woman refused to give her name, police believed she is Mrs. Phoebe Hudler of Noblesville. The car bore a certificate of title in the name of Huber Hudler. Her companion, Libin Dinidrof, 28, Incurred, a severe mouth laceration and police were unable to learn his address. Both are in the Methodist hospital. LEAP YEAR IS A -FLOP’ Marriage Licenses for 3 Months 81 Below a Year Ago. Failure of the fair sex to boost the marriage business is making leap year one of depression for Dan Cupid in Marion county. For the first three months in 1932, county clerk’s records revealed today, the number of marriage licenses issued is eighty-one less than for a corresponding period last yaar. James C. Potter, file clerk, reports that 656 licenses were issued for January, February and March of 1931, compared with 575 this year. STIMSON SAILS FRIDAY Secretary of State Prepares for Journey to Europe. By United Prenn WASHINGTON, April 6. The state department announced today that Secretary of State Stimson had made arrangements to sail for Europe on the liner lie de France, leaving New York next Friday night. Stimson will leave here at noon Friday.

Bonus Foes Hope Legion Stand Will Help Them

By United Prenn WASHINGTON. April 6 The national American Legion organization, according to White House announcement, solidly is supporting President Hoover's efforts to quench the growing sentiment in congress for a $2,000,000,000 war veterans' bonus. Secretary Theodore Joslin announced that Henry L. Stevens, legion commander, had informed the President that the national organization strongly indorsed his opposition to any further appropriation at this time for payment of World war veterans’ compensation. Revelation of the legion's attitude came as congressional advocates of the bonus quickened their activities In preparation for house ways and means committee hearings which open next Monday.

degrade patriotism of war service, imperil government finances, gouge taxpayers and make the w-ord veteran synonymous with panhandler and grafter.” The whole subject of veterans' grants came under the lash of the local post, which charged that the living were favored over widows and dependents of the dead. “Is this,” the post asked, “because dead veterans cast no votes?” The post made a study of veterans’ administration records in Washington, which, it said, showed “that statutes sponsored by the legion discriminate against widows and other dependents of veterans killed in war service and favor liv-

Mob in St. Johns Threatens

Premier’s Life, Wrecks Parliament House. BY JOHN T. MEANEY United Press Staff Correspondent ST. JOHNS. Newfoundland, April 6-—Police and volunteer troops assumed control of St. Johns today, after wild rioting in which a mob, inflamed by the growth of unemployment and the government's economic difficulties, wrecked the parliament building and threatened to lynch Premier Sir Richard Squires. Former service men. in charge of officers of the Newfoundland regiment, picketed public buildings and banks and patroled the main streets in groups of twenty-five. The police force, which was handled roughly in the rioting Tuesday night, was detailed to regular duty this morning. The government’s resignation, as demanded by the crowd, was expected momentarily. The mob numbered 15.000 at its greatest strength when a parade started from the Majestic theater to the parliament building. Polire Attack Crowd Resolutions protesting against blocking of popular demand for an investigation of the government were being discussed there. The parade started in an orderly fashion. Witnesses said the rioting began when police assailed the crowd at the parliament buildings. The government has been attacked by the opposition for three weeks. Investigation of charges of malfeasance in public office and misuse of public funds by the prime minister and secretary of state had been demanded. The crowd threatened to take Sir Richard to the water front and I throw him in the harbor, just as i they had threatened to throw him I out of a window several weeks ago, I when a mob invaded his offices and , forced him to telephone orders for an increase in unemployment relief. The Rev. Father Pippy, shielding the prime minister from the mob, after he had been smuggled out of the parliament buildings, stood his ground courageously as the hostile crowd came charging toward him. Priest Saves Premier Father Pippy and his companions were pushed roughly against an automobile. The priest climbed on the running board and made a fervent appeal that the crowd do nothing further to harm the premier. The crowd retreated for the priest. He and his assistants took Sir Richard to a nearby house. He then escaped through a rear door. The attack on the houses of parliament lasted two hours. When it was finished not a sound pane of glass was left in the buildings. Furniture, desks, chairs, tables, radios, everything the invaders could lay hands on was smashed and thrown aside or used for weapons. Doors and partitions were kicked in. A piano was carried outside to a nearby park. One of the rioters sat down and played a few popular tunes. Then someone started dancing on the piano keys. A few minutes later the expensive instrument was wreckage. Hourly Temperatures 6a, m 45 10 a. m 55 7a, m..... 45 11 a. 58 Ba. m,.... 47 13 fnooe).. 90 9a. m..... 52 Ip. mSi... <3

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! Administration leaders hoped that, the stand of the legion would lessen timidity of those congressmen who support the bonus because of fear of losing the veterans’ vote. It was not known, however, to what extent the rank and file of the legionnaires supported their national leader's views. Bonus advocates are concentrating now on the Patman proposal for paying off the veterans in full with a $2,000,000,000 issue of new currency backed by | 40 per cent of gold. Rep. Rankin (Dem., Miss.) declares such inflation would j “stimulate prices and start the l wheels of business turning in all i lines of industry.” Rankin believes it would be a ; tremendous help, especially to i farmers.

| ing veterans receiving payments for [ disabilities having nothing to do : with the war.” The telegram said, in full: Legion Lobby Hit “Study of veterans’ federal legislation and veterans' administration figures discloses ruinous cost approaching billions of dollars annually, rapidly mounting to annual cost of two to three billions and estimate ultimate total of one hundred billions for World war veterans. “Existing statutes have been promoted by American Legion through paid Washington lobby and high pressure propaganda. “Facts show that statutes sponsored by American Legion discriminate against the widows and other dependents of veterans killed in war service, and favor living veterans receiving payments for disabilities having nothing to do with the war. Is this because dead veterans cast no votes? “Six hundred eighty thousand : World war veterans now drawing I government bounties, free hospital- | ization. medical, surgical and nursing service. Present stautes give | these benefits to any veteran tem- , porarily disabled through accident | °r malady of any kind subsequent to and having no relation whatever to war service, who are, in fact, able bodied Civil Service Menaced “Approximately 75 per cent of available beds in veterans’ hospitals are occupied by men with disabilities incurred in civil life. “Legislation granting automata preference to veterans is wrecking merit principles of civil service by accepting and advancing incompetents. “While approving yesterday’s statement against immediate payment of bonuses, we urge strong and continuous opposition by the legion to any advancement of the payment date. “We call on legion executives to cease agitation for pensions or any further treasury raiding legislation for veterans. We favor more generous payments to dependents of those killed in war service and equalization of benefits to bona fide war disabled veterans. Wants Act Repealed “We ask the legion to about face and support repeal of present act which entitles all veterans to free hospital service and allowance lor disabilities not connected with the war, already costing seventy-fl”* millions annually. “We demand discontinuance of Washington lobby and all attempts to coerce congress to vote additional billions and special privileges which j thereby will degrade patriotism of i war service, imperil government I finances,' gouge taxpayers, and 1 make the word veteran synonymous with panhandler and grafter. ’ The telegram, sent to National ; Commancfer Stevens at Indianapolis. was signed by Hugh Gal- ’ laher, commander of Willard 1 Straight post, No. 842, American ; Legion, and by H. M. Darling, adjutant of the post. K is believed here that other posts wrill signify their intention of joining the Willard Straight group In demanding a reversal of the legion’s past position. May Be Disciplined A second possible result will oe an attempt of the national organiza- : tion to discipline the Willard Straight post for its conduct. This even may take the form of ejection from the national body. Any such attempt will, however, be fought by the New York legionnaires. Among the active members of the Willard Straight post are Ernest Angell, attorney; C. Leroy Baldridge, staff artist for the Stars and Stripes, the A. E. F. newspaper; Dr. George Baehr, director of medical serivee, Mt. Sinai hospital; E. P. Brooks, wearer of D. S. C.; Dr. Raymond L. Buell of the Foreign Policy Association; Ernest Omening, newspaper publisher; Professor Carlton J. H. Hayes of Columbia university; Thayer Hobson, president of William Morrow & Cos., publishers; Theodore Kenyon, wearer of the D. S. C.; Oswold w. Knauth. executive vice-president of R. H. Macy and wearer of the D. S C.; Walter Lippman, Charles E. Merz; Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, wearer of the chroix de guerre; Chauneey Waddell, son-in-law of Chief Justice Hughes; former United States Attorney Kenneth F. Simpson; Sidney Howard, playwright, and James L Rorty, writer, wearer of the D. s. c.