Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1932 — Page 2

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DEPRESSION IS LAID AT HOOVER REGIME'S DOOR Democrats Fire Volley of Oratory at Jefferson Day Dinner. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 13.—Democratic orators, loading party workers with campaign ammunition, today heaped upon the Hoover administration the blame for the depression, and outlined a program of economic rehabilitation for the party to espouse. Through a series of addresses at a Jefferson day luncheon attended by Democratic leaders from near and far, ran the theme that the Republican party had wrecked business, plunged millions into misery and engulfed the government in debt due to extravagance. Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkansas said President Herbert Hoover had been elected as “an economic genius with a patent formula to insure prosperity” which now should be thrown “into the limbo of exploded heresies.” “Recognized Unsound” “Every policy advanced in the 1923 campaign by the ‘economic marvel of the age’ now is generally recognized as unsound,” Robinson declared. “The record of the last three years establishes the conclusion that + he economic policies of the United States as reflected in extravagant government expenditures, in loans to bankrupt foreign governments, and in the enactment of tariffs which have well-nigh destroyed our commerce, have been the controlling factors in producing depression in this country, and in causing it to extend to other shores.” Democratic Floor Leader Henry T. Rainey of the house concentrated his fire on the Republican tariff policies. He said all the world has retaliated aaginst "our upward revisions of the tariff" until international trade is paralyzed. Hits Commerce Department Representative Mary T. Norton of New Jersey denounced the administration for extravagance and failing to balance the budget of the past two years. She directed charges of waste particularly against the department of commerce, of which Mr. Hoover was head before he became President. Mrs. Nellie Tayjoe Ross, vicechairman of the Democratic national committee, declared that “if this nation is to be lifted from the present abyss of distress, a partnership must be established between the Democratic party and men and women of all political faiths who believe that the times and conditions demand a change in the control of the government.” / Proposes Program Senator Robinson suggested the following program to remedy the country’s troubles: American capital should be used at home rather than loaned abroad. This government should announce a firm purpose not to Cancel or readjust oblgations due from foreign countries, except upon conditions manifestly to the interest of our own people. The “policy of isolation reflected in prohibitive tariffs” must be abandoned .in favor of “fair, reciprocal tariff arrangements.” Laws for the prevention and regulation of monopolies must be enforced. The high cost of government must be reduced by abolishing and consolidating federal bureaus and departments. “Readjustments must come in domestic production-and in commerce” in order to increase commodity prices. PRESENTED 500 BIBLES Methodist Hospital to Receive Gideons’ Gift Sunday, Gift of 500 Bibles to the Methodist hospital by the Gideons will be accepted Sunday afternoon at a service to be held in the nurses’ home of the hospital. Dr. John G. Benson, hospital superintendent, arranged the program. Dr. Frederick E. Taylor, pastor of the First Baptist church, will speak. Choir of the First Presbyterian church will sing. Dedication of the Biblgf will be in charge of Dr. O. W. Fifer, Methodist district superintendent. BREW SEIZED IN RAID Beer and Alky Found in Vacant House Next to Susnec‘V Albert Gribben, 37, of 519 East Vermont street, today was charged with blind tiger after'Sergeant John Elsenhut said he confiscated a large amount of beer and two gallons of alcohol. Eisenhut said the booze was found in a vacant house, adjacent to Gribben’s residence. Two hundred fifteen quarts of home brew' were confiscated. police said. THIEF IS -AIR-MINDED’ Steals Propeller From Plane in Capitol Airport Hangar. A thief with a partiality for airplane loot is sought by flblice today. Breaking the lock on the door of a hangar at Capitol airport, he removed a propeller from a CurtisWright junior plane and escaped. A special wrench is required to remove the propeller bolt, police were told. Harry Boggs, R. R. 17. Box 236-X, manager, estimated loss at $39. SHOW HUGE U. S. DEFICIT April Treasury Reports Reveal Loss Exceeding Two Billions. By Unite ft Pres* WASHINGTON, April 13.—A federal budget deficit of $2,017,858,745.29 on April 11. was reported by the treasury today. It was the first time in history that any nation’s peace-time deficit has exceeded $2,000,000,000. Lodge to Give Card Party Pivot City lodge, Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, will give a card party Wednesday night -in the lodge room, 457 Transportation building, Delaware and South streets.

MOB VE NTS HATE ON STUDENTS Arkansas Group on Mercy Errand Lashed in Kentucky

Laden Koch, director of Commonwealth eolleee, Mena. Ark., has written for The Time* and NEA Service the following rloeop personal experience store, describing how he and four other representative* of the college were whipped bv a mob and driven opt of the state when they attempted to investigate conditions in the Kentucky mine area and distribute relief suppllie*. Koch wrote the following article after reaching Knoxville, Tenn. BY LUCIEN KOCH Director Commonwealth College Knoxville, Tenn., April 13. —A peaceful visit to the Kentucky coal fields on the part of two teachers and three students from Commonwealth college, with myself as leader, came to a climax Sunday night when a mob, inspired by a mayor and a police chief, drove us out of town and beat us with switches in a woods near the state line before kicking us out of the state. Our car loaded with food for the needy miners, we drove over the city line of Pineville, Bell county, and were meet immediately by Police Chief Osborne. He forced us to halt at the curb. “What are you doing here?” Chief Osborne demanded. We replied that we planned to stop in Pineville and then continue on to Harlan, assuring the chief that our intentions were entirely lawful and peaceful. “You are not stopping in Pineville,” Osborne replied. When we asked why, he ordered us to follow him. We proceeded into the center of Pineville and stopped across the street from the courthouse, where a crowd gathtered around our car. CHIEF OSBORNE went into conference with Mayor Brooks and several citizens. He seemed to be having a hard time trying to decide on the next step. First, he ordered us out of the city. Then he demanded that I makg a speech from the courthouse steps, but I declined. Next, he demanded that we put up peace bonds or go to jail. Again, we assured him of our peaceful intentions. Mayor Brooks then took charge of the situation.

EX-CITY MAN PLANE VICTIM Rites Here Thursday for Harold Stearns. Funeral services for Harold Stearns, 23, aviator, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Johnson, 3540 North Meridian street, will be held at 2:30 Thursday in the home of an aunt, Mrs. Cyrus W. Short, 3550 North Pennsylvania street. Burial will be in Washington Park cemetery. Mr. Stearns was killed Monday in New Orleans, when he fell 2.000 feet from an airplane. His parachute failed to open. Mr. Stearns attended Sftortridgc high school. Complications following an operation resulted in the death of Hans Martin Bosse. 27, of 27 West St. Joseph street, apartment 10, Tuesday. He died Tuesday in Methodist hospital. He was a member of the Indianapolis Athletic Club and the Athenaeum. J Survivors are his mother and brother in Germany. Funeral services will be held at 2 today in the Shirley Brothers’ central chapel, 946 North Illinois strset. Cremation will follow. John Franklin Null, 92, a Civil war veteran and a resident of Indianapolis forty-six years, died late Monday in his home, 649 Congress avenue. Mr. Null was born in Nulltown, which was named for his father, Israel Null. He served in the quartermaster corps during the war, enlisting from McDonough county, Illinois, r Private funeral services will be held at 2:30 Thursday in the home. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. FLAY NEW LIGHT RATES Northwest Civic League Condemns Compromise Seale. Resolution protesting new rates levied Under the Indianapolis Water Company compromise as “unfair, unjust and unlawful” has been placed before the public service commission by the Northwest Civic League. Text of the resolution: “After aue consideration and study we wish to go on reebrd with vigorous protest against new rates levied by the Indianapolis Water Company as unfair, unjust and unlawful.” “We believe that the time has come for us to wake up. and that citizens of Indianapolis should demand a city-owned water company and a city-owned light and power company.” Skips Tax on SI; Soaked 60 Cents By United Press KANSAS CITY, Kan., April 13. Leslie Chrisman was taxed 5 cents on a $1 bank deposit last year by county assessors. He did not pay when the tax became delinquent Nov. 1, nor until this week. He was penalized 60 cents.

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This picture of the bared back of Harold Coy, member of a Commonwealth college delegation from Mena, Ark., shows the welts raised on his body by the flogging he received when he and four others were whipped by a mob and driven out of Harlan county. They had gone to the Kentucky coal mine area.-to investigate conditions and distribute relief supplies.

“We don’t want you in Pineville,” Brooks said. “If you don’t drive out of the city we w r ill drive your car out for you.”

Royal O. K. on Bride Refused Prince Nicholas

By United Press BUCHAREST, April 13.—Prince Nicholas of Rumania was en route to Paris by automobile today on a

year's "leave of absence,” after failing to persuade his brother, King Carol, to recognize his marriage to a commoner. It was understood that Nicholas had not* relinquished his royal rights. He was given time to reconsider his choice of life with his commoner bride,

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Lucia Deletj, in preference to life here as a member of the ruling family KNAPP FOR ECONOMY G. 0. P. Governor Candidate Urges Retrenchment. By Times Special BLOOMFIELD. April 13.—Drastic retrenchment in the cost of government was urged as the first step in lowering the state tax burden, in an address today before the Rotary Club by James M. Knapp of Hagerstown, former Speaker of the house of representatives and candidate for the G. O. P. Governor nomination. Greater efficiency in operation of government; consolidation of departments; elimination of unnecessary employes with duplicate duties; drastic reductions in operating budgets and equalization of the tax burden were advocated by Knapp as steps in the reduction program. Highway Inspection Planned Meeting at the statehouse Thursday, members of the state highway commission will inspect northern Indiana highways. WEEK-END EXCURSIONS TO CHICAGO $5.00 Round Trip Leave Indianapolis 11:30 A M Friday; 2:35 A. M or 11:30 A. M Saturday, and 2:35 A. M. Sunday. Returning to reach Indianapolis not later, than 4:10 A. M. Tuesday following date of sale. $3.60 Round Trip TO LOUISVILLE On all trains leaving Fridays. Saturdays and Sundays. Returning to and including Monday following date of sale. Coach Service Only For Tickets and Information apply to City Ticket Office, 116 Monument Place. Phone Riley 9331. Pennsylvania Railroad 1 ' " 1 A Sensational Value! New Speed Queen Washer $49.50 Guaranteed Ask to See It VONNEGUT’S I>nu m <>n. Irvington Belmont. fountain Sqnurr. City -Wide Service I_ Fletcher frost < — dtmipang —■ Wow mmmmmmmi

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We reminded him that our car was our private property. Chief Osborne then cut the ropes and canvas cover that lashed our provisions to the car and ordered another man to drive our machine. Then he helped pull me from the driver’s seat and into another machine, where I was held until I later was placed in the rumble seat of our car. Then our car was driven recklessly out of town, toward the

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Harlan county line, the driver casting off bundles of relief supplies as he drove. Soon, the driver of our machine was changed and the newspaper men following us were ordered to keep back. The motorcade was cut down to three machines—a Harlan car in front, ours in the middle and a Pineville car behind. 0.0 0 AFTER we crossed the Harlan county line they escorted us up Black Mountain to within fifty feet of the Virginia state line. There they ordered us out. One at a time, we were led to the bushes at the side of the road and beaten with switches cut from trees. I was taken first, my wrists chained. Next came Harold Coy, a teacher of old Kentucky lineage, who was beaten on the back. Sam Sandberg, who was wounded in France and spent five months in a hospital, was given five extra lashes because he was older than some of us. Leo Gruliow, another student, and Isaac Greenberg, president of our student body, were last to feel the lash. During the beatings, members of the mob seized and read our copies of the bill of rights and a statement we previously had prepared for the Governor, assuring him of our peaceful intentions. 000 WHEN we were ordered back to the car, Coy and I were subjected to additional pummeling and our hair and noses pulled. Between periods of violent swearing, our captors asked us such questions as: “What do you think of the American flag? “What do you think of God Almighty?” We remained silent. Finally, we were ordered across the Virginia border with threats of death and “stringing up” if we ever dared return. From there we proceeded to Knoxville. Tenn. There could not be a clearer case of violation of civil liberties than the indignities that we suffered. The most significant point is that our expulsion was initiated by duly constituted officers of the law—Chief Osborne and Mayor Brooks despite our repeated statements that our mission was an entirely peaceful one.

D.S. RULE OVER POWER URGED GY VAN NUYS Break Hold of Utilities and Bankers, Plea of Senate Aspirant. By Tima Special TIPTON, Ind., April 13.—Government control and operation of the j natural power resources of the nation to break the stronghold of utility operators and international bankers was advocated by Fredi crick Van Nuys. candidate' for the Democratic senatorial nomination, I in his Jefferson dinner address at ! armory here Tuesday night. More than 500 heard the Democratic leader urge a return to Jeffersonian principles. Van Nuys urged “home rule for cities in utlity matters, federal con- | servation of natural resources, in- ; eluding the gigantic natural power plants, and. if necessary, government operation to free the American i people from the shackles of utility ; slavery.” Home Rule Big Issue “The one big issue is home rule for the people in the state and nation and that should be the pledge of the Democratic party everywhere,” he said. “The stranglehold of the big i utility operators and international bankers upon necessities of our everyday life should and must be broken. The might of the great power trust is growing by leaps and bounds and a halt must be ; called and called quickly, if the American people are to free themselves from the already heavy shackles.” Van Nuys also advocated banking reforms to safeguard the savings of the people from operations of bankers in name only. Would Bolster Banking Act We must strengthen the provisions of the federal reserve act and make it the safeguard of our banking system as it was under Woodrow Wilson, and not the emasculated thing it has become under mismanagement of the Republican maladministrations of the last decade,” he declared. Turning economics, Van Nuys asserted the local tax rate would be lowered if the 4-cent gasoline tax were redistributed I among the counties and townships | to retire the heavy and burdensome road bond issues, instead of being given to the state highway commission to “squander upon roads for friends of the members.”

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Alberta Knight Confronted by a fingerprint found on the bed in which Alberta Knight, 12, was strangled to death in her home at Whiting, Ind., Glen Donald Shustrom, 23, admitted, police claim, that he attacked the girl and then killed her by twisting a light cord around her throat. Shustrom, an oil refiner and neighbor of the Knights, said he had spent the night with a roomer in the Knight home, arose early and went to the girl’s room. He killed her, he said, when she recognized him.

PARENTS GET WARNING Actions Strongly Affect Children. Rabbi Steinberg Declares. Actions and attitudes of parents were declared t-o be strong indirect influences upon children, even of pre-school age. by Rabbi Milton Steinberg of the Beth-El Zedek Hebrew* congregation at a general meeting for parents of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten. Tuesday, at 30 West Fall Creek boulevard.

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SCHOOLS HOPE FOR REDUCTION ; IN LIGHT RATE Defer Demand for Slash on Utility’s Promise to Study Revision. Steps to demand reduction in ; heavy electricity bills paid by the i school city have been delayed to J await outcome of a promised study of the schools rates by the Indianapolis Power & Light’Company, tt was learned today. Announcement by A. B. Good, schools business director, that steps were being taken to demand a light | rate cut for the schools, was | followed by a visit by represents - | tives of the light company who promised to study a possible rate adjustment. Good took the position that the school city, which pays an annual light bill of about $47,000, was entitled to a rate cut comparable with that granted the civil city. While the civil city pays a flat rate of 3 cents a kilowatt hour for current, excepting street lights, which are charged for at an annual flat rate, the school city pays a number of different rates, ranging from 3 to 7 cents. The Central library and Manual I Training high school have the lowest rate, 3 cents for the first 1,000 kilowatt hours, and 2*-i cents for the remainder. The school garage and Schools 4, 25, 48 and 64 pay a rate of 6 cents for the first fifty kilowatt hours, ranging downward to 4 cents. A rats of 7 cents for the first fifty kilowatt hours, ranging downward to 3 1 2 cents, is paid at five high schools, the administration building, shop buildings, eightythree grade school buildings and fourteen branch libraries.

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