Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 299, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1932 Edition 02 — Page 3

APRIL 23, 1932.

SENTIMENT FOR RECOGNITION OF SOVIET GROWS ;12 Senators Favor Step as State Department, Hoover Continue Opposition. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23,-Senti-inent for recognition of Soviet Russia is increasing in the senate, j A Unted Press survey shows at least twelve senators now favoring recognition, most of them on the ground that it would open vast Russian markets to this country. The state department stiU oppoees recognition. Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee long has been the leading champion of Soviet recognition. Democratic Floor Leader Robinson recently Joined in the agitation. Other senators favoring recognition includes Johnson (Cal.), Cutting <N. M.), Brookhart (la.) and Norris Neb.), Republicans; Pittman (Nev.), George (Ga.), Lewis (111.), Dill (Wash.) and Wheeler iMont.), Democrats, and Shipstead, farmerlabor. “It is ridiculous to try to trade with Russia without recognition,” Norris said. He also thought recognition would make it easier to control Russian propaganda in this I country. Cessation of Communist propaganda long has been the cardinal point in the conditions set up by the state department as prerequisite to recognition. The senatorial sentiment favoring Russian recognition apparently has found little support in the administration. One high official told the United Press recently he would like to see good relations restored between the United States and the Soviet, but regarded recognition as impractical at this time. President Hoover has been rep- I resented widely as opposed to restoration of diplomatic ties with Russia. Officials declined to predict whether conflict between Russia and Japan would change America’s recognition policy. However, it was pointed out that this question would have no effect on the sale of arms to Russia by American exporters inasmuch as United States firms now can sell to Russia anything they desire. It was recalled that several years ago the state department disapproved the sale of a certain type of military airplane to Russia. However, this disapproval was advisory and not mandatory. Officials explained that the department’s disapproval was based on the fact that the particular type of airplane in question was used by the United States navy and that its disapproval would not necessarily apply to other types of military supplies. PROHIBITION BLAMED IN LINDBERGH CASE Senate Resolution Says Crime Was Financed by Bootlegging. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23.—A resolution describing the Lindbergh baby kidnaping as a “particularly heinous crime” and blaming prohibition for the “successful financing of crime on a large scale” was presented in the senate today by Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.). Bingham, in a speech accompanying presentation of the resolution, called attention to the reported ofler of Al Capone to bring about return of the baby in exchange for his release from prison. Bingham said the fact that it has been necessary for authorities to seek underworld co-operation toward return of the baby "lends force” to arguments that the kidnaping was engineered by friends of Capone. COPS CHARGE NEGROES SOLD YOUTHS LIQUOR Arrest Trio in Raid on Apartment at 2209 North Capitol Avenue. Three Negroes accused of selling liquor to youths of high school age for a year were arrested Friday night by Sergeant Wayne Bear and squad who raided an apartment over a garage at 2209 North Capitol avenue. Those arrested were Forrest Jones, 38; his wife, Anna, 36, and Happy Tippy, 36, of 1254 North Illinois street. The officers said they seized five gallons of whisky and six gallons of beer. According to the raiders, whisky was sold at 25 cents a drink and beer at 25 cents a quart. Several youths from 15 to 18 visited the place while the police lay in wait preceding the raid, they reported. BROUGHT FROM PEN TO GET SENTENCE William Milton Gets 18 Months in Cigaret Robberies. Brought here from the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., where he is serving a term on another charge, William Milton was sentenced today by Judge Robert C. Baltzell to an additional eighteen months’ term of robbing interstate freight shipments. Milton was a member of a gang which stole a total of forty-seven cases of cigarets from cars on railroads in Bartholomew, Montgomery, Orange, Dubois, Clark and Tippecanoe counties. A woman who has been a fugitive for several months received an eighteen-months’ term today. She Is Mrs. Margaret TomaseHo, convicted of selling narcotics. Her husband, James Tomasello, is serving a five-year term in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., for the same offense.

No Hop Dream fy United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 23. —John Gregory tossed in his sleep as a nightmare coursed through his brain. He dreamed he was trapped by a wall of flame in a burning house. Gregory awoke suddenly and pinched himself to make sure he was not still asleep. His dream had come true. He struggled out of the house through smoke and flame and gave the alarm.

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SALARIES TO BE GUT AT BUTLER Faculty Favors Slash to Preserve Curriculum. Salaries of Butler university faculty members will be reduced not more than 10 per cent beginning next fall unless business conditions improve, it was announced Friday following a meeting of the board of trustees. Only a business revival or a larger enrollment will save the teaching force from a cut, it was said. Reduced income from investments was given as the reason for the reduction. The faculty, in a meeting prior to the board meeting, expressed willingness to accept a cut rather than lower the standards of the school by eliminating any courses. Faculty appointments for the last year were continued through next year by the board. No new appointments were announced. Dr. Walter S. Athearn, president, in a speech before the faculty meeting, declared that with an encouraging outlook for increased enrollment next fall, the faculty pay would be reduced, but not the full 10 per cent. “Butler has ridden the storm thus far without disaster,” he stated. “While the university income has been lowered, conditions are not so grievous as those reported at many other universities.”

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‘GERMANS WON’T PAY Finance Minister Declares July 1 to Be End. By United Press BERLIN, April 22.—The Telegrafen Union News agency today quoted Minister of Finance Herman Dietrich as saying that Germany "will not” make further moratorium payments after July 1. The use of “will not” instead of the usual “can not” used by members of the government was the first time an administration official had gone beyond Chancellor Heinrich Bruening’s January statement of inability to pay. Dietrich was quoted as saying at a mass meeting of the constitutional party at Altona: “The moratorium ends July 1, but Germany will not pay more after that date. If I, as a responsible Reich’s finance minister, am able to so declare without its leading to International complications, it proves that the situation must be fairly clear to the statesmen of other lands.”

Ping Pong, game of your grandmother, is back with a couple of vims. It’s been hiding in the basement or playroom during the winter months, but with the present spring-like weather, the courts have been taken out on. the lawns when breezes are calm. Upper Left Photo —Miss Frances Brittain, 706 West Forty-third street, whacks the white pellet.

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‘We’ll Quit When He’s Free,’ Say Supporters of Labor Leader, Denied Pardon. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. April 23. Supporters of Tom Mooney gathered forces today “for a fight to the finish which will end only when he walks out of San Quentin a free man.” Their renewed drive for a pardon was matched by opponents of the convicted labor leader, who claimed new evidence has been uncovered tending to establish Mooney was convicted justly as one of the San Francisco preparedness parade bombers in 1916. Confidence that Mooney had a fair trial was expressed by Governor James Rolph Jr. in denying the convict’s fourth application for a pardon. He left the way open, however, for another appeal. Governor Rolph said significantly,

$lO Gold Pieces Will Be Presented to Youngest and Oldest Pairs. Twins—'They’ll be at the Lyric Tuesday night hundreds strong if advance registrations are a barometer. The Times office has been rushed by pairs of twins, their families and friends, since the announcement Thursday that the Dodge twins, Beth and Betty, former “Follies Bergere” stars who open their week’s engagement at the Lyric today, are to be hosts to all twins in Indianapolis and Marion county Tuesday night. The Dodge twins, whose theatrical careers read like ‘Who’s Who in Stageland,” have delegated The Times to invite all local twins to their party. At the first evening show Tuesday, the party will be held and after their act Beth and Betty Dodge will welcome the twins and present the youngest set with $lO in gold and another $lO gold piece will be given the oldest pair. There is no charge of any kind connected with this offer. Only stipulation is that you must reside in the county, register personally, or have one of your immediate family do so at The Times office before Tuesday noon. A birth certificate is necessary and if you have a recent photograph it is requested, but the latter is not compulsory. Besides the “Parisian Revue” which Beth and Betty Dodge will present, the local twins will witness the entire performance, including five other acts of RKO vaudeville, featuring Hibbitt and Hartman, comedy pair; Benny Ross and Maxine Stone, song and dance artists; Raymond Bond and Company, comedians; Will Aubrey and Hashi and Osia. Zasu Pitts. Norman Foster, June Clyde and Henri Ametta are featured in the new Universal picture, "Steady Company,” the screen event on this program. More information concerning this party will appear in The Times Monday. Births „ (Girls) Roger and Wilma Bourne. 1140 Sprue*. Roy and Stella Crays, 3180 Gale. Paul and Lillian Bunnell, city hospital. Ralph and Lake McCord, city hospital. Ralph and Lilly Liford, city hospital. (Boys) Harry and Olive King, Methodist hospital. Orville and Hermine Ritchie, city hospital. Robert and Gertrude Moreland, city hospital. Deaths Thomas Edward Taylor, 18, Methodist hospital, accidental. Charles W. Berry, 57, Methodist hospital. accidental. Helen Paulsel, 76, 1443 North Meridian street, cerebral hemorrhage. Sarah Elizabeth Sc udder, 70, 3750 Brill, cerebral hemorrhage. John Wurfel. 9. city hospital, accidental. Mason B. Meek, 47, Methodist hospital, carcinoma. Henry Bauer, 75, 438 North Be rill* avenue. acute myocarditis. Melinda Jane Runvon, 83, 1935 West Vermont street, cardio vascular renal disease. John Boling, 47, 1947 Ralston, pulmonary tuberculosis. Florence Adeff, 4, 173i Howard, accidental.

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Upper Right—Miss Brittain and Miss Ruth Lewis, 5609 Central avenue, testing their skill on a ping-pong court furnished through the courtesy of Em-Roe Sporting Goods Company. Lower Left—Miss Brittain and Miss Lewis have knitted their smiles together at the net after a game. Lower Right—Miss Lewis displays her agile back hand in this photo.

“I cannot say what my decision would have been on a plea for commutation of sentence—l based the denial solely on Mooney’s application for unconditional pardon.” The Mooney defense committee, however, echoed Mooney’s oft-re-peated statement that only a straight pardon would be accepted in order to “clear his name.” Captain Charles Goff of the San Francisco police, a principal investigator in the original Mooney prosecution, said he had found “important new evidence” in support of the conviction. He said anew witness, J. H. Ball of Yolo county, had been located who claims he saw Frank C. Oxnam board a train at Woodland, Cal., on the morning of the parade blast in plenty of time to reach San Francisco and witness the disaster. Oxman, now dead, testified at Mooney’s trial that he saw Mooney and Warren K. Billings put down a suitcase, presumably containing a time bomb, at the scene of the explosion a few minutes before it occurred. Governor Rolph’s denial of a pardon to Thomas J. Mooney was cited editorially by the San Francisco News, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, as “a staggering blow to the prestige of California.” “It is a calamity from which every one of us will suffer as enlightened people everywhere challenge the quality of our citizenship and our civilization and wonder what manner of men we are,” the editorial, captioned “Another Mooney Frameup,” said. Rolph has “destroyed his own career as a national figure,” it said. “No wonder that he fled by airplane after telling the reporters he didn’t feel any too well and needed a rest. “Governor Rolph faced his supreme test and opportunity, and he failed.” The newspaper said his action will stir up bitter feeling and strengthen the bands of those who would destroy our institutions.”

OFFERS JBY PUN Claudius Huston in Favor of Medical Control. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 23. Claudius Huston, former chairman of the Republican national committee, believes the present system of prohibition is a failure and suggests a plan placing liquor distribution largely in the hands of physicians. “It only would be necessary,’’ he said, “for congress to put a provision into the revenue bill requiring a stamp tax of, say, 25 cents or less per pint on ‘hard’ liquor, a like amount per quart on wine’ and from 2% to 5 cents per bottle on beer produced for medicinal purposes, and then, by a resolution to be adopted, advise the administration that sentiment favors a change in the drastic enforcement policy applicable to doctors.” Hust said “honest drys necessarily must admit that the present liquor conditions in this country are very deplorable.” CITY PLANS NEW BID Physician, Nurse to Be Employed for Home Visitations. A physician and nurse to attend tuberculosis patients unable to obtain admission to Sunnyside sanitarium will be employed by the city, the health board decided at its meeting Friday. The decision is based on recommendation of Dr. M. J. Barry and Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health officer. The board alos selected resident physicians for city hospital. More than 125 applications for the posts were received, including some from Canada and Mexico. Those named were Drs. Emmett B. Lamb, Harry M. Coval, George S. Rowe and M. Cornacchione, surgery; Edwin P. McLaughlin, Bennett Kraft and Vincent Noone, medicine; Dillon Geier, ear, nose and throat; J. E. Gillespie, admitting room, and H. C. Wurster, eye.

CITES G. 0. P. ‘BADEXAMPLE’ Van Nuys Warns Democrats to Keep Party ‘Clean.' Warning that Democrats in Marion county must not get into the same boat as the Republican party, which “has fallen into the hands of men who used it for their own selfish interests,” was sounded by Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic senatorial nomination candidate, in an address in the Ninth ward Friday night. The former district attorney invaded the home territory of Hendricks Kenworthy, Ninth ward chairman and manager for Walter Myers, another senatorial aspirant. “Whether we win or lose, let us keep the Democratic party free from the selfishness and domination of a few,” Van Nuys declared. “I must compliment the people here for working for an uninstructed delegation and so preserve the independence that always has characterized the Democratic worker.” Van Nuys declared he “hoped there would be no pussyfooting in state and national platforms.”

CUSTOM OFFICE CLOSINGFEARED Appropriation Cut Threat to City Headquarters. Closing of the Indianapolis and Evansville federal customs offices is threatened by the pending 10 per cent cut in the treasury department appropriations, according to wire dispatches today. It would mean closing of seven customs districts, Indiana, Colorado, lowa, Tennessee, Nebraska and Wyoming, Tennessee and UtahNevada, consolidation of ten districts with others, closing thirtyone ports of entry, and discharge of 213 officials. George M. Foland, local customs collector, today said he has not received official notification of the proposed abolition of his office, but said such action would result in heavy loss to a number of Indiana firms. These firms now clear their imports through the Indianapolis and Evansville offices, but in event of their being closed, would have to pay commissiones to brokers in other cities. The closing would be particularly costly to tobacco companies in Evansville, drug plants, nut wholesaling and veneer manufacturing plants here. With the office here these firms may store their imports in bonded warehouses, paying the customs duty as the goods are withdrawn from the warehouse. NAZI FATE AT STAKE Hitler Anxious as Germans Prepare to Elect Diets. By United Press BERLIN, April 23.—Four-fifths of the German electorate will go to the polls Sunday in state diet elections expected to determine the fate of the Fascist movement in Germany. Adolph Hitler, “Nazi” leader, hopes to win control of the diets of Prussia, Bavaria, Wuerttemberg and Anhalt and their police forces. The election will be Hitler’s big chance to regain his prestige after his defeat in the two recent presidential campaigns and the disbandment of his “brown shirt” army by emer- ! gency government decree. The campaign has been as sensational and bitterly contested as the presidential election and the subsequent run-off. It was climaxed Friday by an unexpected sham battle in the air above the former imperial palace. ART DISPLAY PLANNED Hoosier Salon Pictures Will Be Shown at Spink-Arms. Pictures in the Chicago Hoosier Salon will be exhibited the week of May 1 in the main dining room of the Spink-Arms, with local patrons in charge. Program for the week will be participated in by the American Legion, Junior League, Irvington Union Club, D. A. R., Woman's Department Club and Federation of Art Clubs.

NEEDLED BEER SEIZED IN RAID ON DANCE HALL Federal Agents, Cops Nab Happy Hour’s Proprietor on Legger Charge. Needled beer was reported seized Friday night in the Happy Hour barbecue stand and dance hall, 6013 Rockville road, which a federal dry agent is alleged to have “shot up” in October. Federal agents, who were aided by Sergeant Wayne Bear and a police squad, reported seizure of the beer. They arrested John Lazora, the proprietor, on a blind tiger charge. Patrick Currie, federal officer accused of a wild west shooting escapade at the place, never faced trial. After numerous continuances in the court of Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron, the case was dismissed on motion of the state. Witnesses Failed to Appear Witnesses, including several men said to be members of the American Legion post at Danville, and Lazora, failed to appear to tsetify against Currie. The Currie case resulted in a clash between Charles Britt, then federal deputy prohibition administrator for the southern Indiana district, and Sheriff Charles L. Sumner. The federal officer, it was said, demanded the sheriff “lay off” the roadhouse. Shortly after the Currie episode, four deputy sheriffs were dismissed. Mar Murder Scenes The Lazora place is within a few blocks of scenes of two outstanding mystery deaths in criminal annals of Marion county. The deaths were those of an unidentified man whose charred body was found in the automobile of Harold Herbert Schroeder in 1930, and of Mrs. Helen Hager Whelchel. Schroeder is serving a prison term. John Thomas Shaw, Negro, charged with the murder of Mrs. Whelchel, was acquitted on his third trial, after spending a year in the death house at the Indiana state prison following conviction on first hearing of the case.

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■ Signing' Off Vote Appeal Painted on Sexton’s Office Gets Official Ban.

SOMETIME this week, some one painted a sign on the window of the private office of Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, which faces on East Washington street. In red, white and blue paint It proclaimed: “Renominate Timothy P. Sexton—Active Democratic County Treasurer.” Now the fact that candidates for this, that and the other office adorn the courthouse with their cards is nothing new. But when the paint went up it was new, with a capital “N”. Late Friday, county commissioners found out about it. “Well,” said Dow Vorhies, “I guess it is stretching the point. But I can’t do anything. I’m only one commisisoners. It takes two, you know.” “What’s that?” demanded Thomas H. Ellis, commissioner, “A sign on whose window? No, that ain’t right. Wait until I go out and look at it.” Ellis and Vorhies gazed at the sign. Vorhies blinked a couple of times an walked back into the commissioner’s office. Ellis rolled his cigar to the other side of his mouth. He walked into the treasurer’s office. “Boys,” he said, “that sign don’t look so good. The boys are talking about it. Take it off!” It was off in five minutes. RENAME COMMISSIONER Judge Baltzell Selects Young for Another Four-Year Term. Howard S. Young, a United States commissioner since 1903, was reappointed today for a four-year term by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Young first was appointed by Judge Albert B. Anderson.

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Charles Perrott Suffers Bruised Eye; Boy, 11, Is Injured. A man who is said to have jumped from a moving automobile after a quarrel with his wife was among persons injured Friday in traffic accidents. Charles Perrott, 50, of 5819 North Delaware street, is in city hospital, with head injuries incurred, according to his wife, Mrs. Bertha Perrott, 45, when he jumped from the automobile he was driving, at Meridian street and Westfield boulevard. Mrs. Perrott received a bruised eye. Mrs. Mary Moore, 50, and daughter, Imogene, 9, received bruises when the automobile driven by the husband and father, Earl Moore, 52, of 33 South Oriental street, struck a parked truck at 719 Prospect street. Warren Oliver, Salem, Ind., owner of the truck, was arrested on a charge that the truck had no tail light. Richard Kirkhoff, living in the 4200 block Madison avenue, was bruised when he was struck near his home by an automobile driven by Miss Mildred White, 39, Greenwood. Broken nose was suffered by Charles Curry, 39, of 207 Minerva street, when the automobile in which he was riding with Vernon Young, 27, of 418 Harris avenue, struck another car at Harris avenue and Washington street. The other car was driven by Floyd Broyes, 42, Marion. Young, said by police to be at liberty on parole from the state prison, was arrested on a charge of failing to stop after an accident.

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JACOBY SCORES BIG SLAM: WINS BRIDE IN WEEK Famous Bridge Expert to Marry Pretty Texas Tennis Player. By United Press DALLAS, Tex.. April 23—Oswald Jacoby, big trump and double man from New York, will end a week’s courtship here Monday by marrying Mary Zita McHale, pretty Dallas Tennis player. She never has played contract bridge in her life, has attempted auction “only two or three, times.” and seriously doubts her ability to shuffle properly a deck of cards. This fails to dampen the enthusiasm of Jacoby, internationally famous card expert and partner of Sidney Lenz in the recent “bridge battle of the century,” with the Ely Culbertsons. Jacobs doesn’t expect his wife to know much about slams and vulnerable bids “She doesn’t have to play bridge,” he said. “It’s a mathematical game, and the feminine mind doesn’t lean that way. I make the solemn prediction that she will play more bridge in the future, though no woman can play bridge as well as the best men players. “I think it’s going to take a long time, however, for me to prove to Zita that I'm a better bridge player than she.” They met on the tennis court here last Monday. LIFTS LAMP TO PEEK IN GAS TANK: BL00IE! Kansan Escapes Explosion With Only Minor Injuries. By United Press TOPEKA. Kan., April 23.—While he was filling his gasoline tank, K. L. Case had a look, using a kerosene lamp. The lamp was not damaged, nor was Case badly. The fire trucks and police patrol cleaned up the remains. By United Press CHICAGO, April 23.—Lawrence Martin, 36, oil station owner, suspected the quality of a shipment of gasoline and took five gallons to a vacant lot for the lighted match test. Martin, suspicious no longer, hopes to be out of the hospital within a month after severe burns on his back and legs are healed. SHORTRIDGE DEBATERS SCORE TWOVICTORIES Defeat High School Teams of Cincinnati, Louisville. Two Shortridge high school debating teams w r ere victorious here and in Cincinnati, 0., Friday night in debates on the subject, ‘Resolved, That the high protective tariff Is detrimental to the best interests of the United States. The Shortridge affirmative team scored against the Louisville (Ky.) male high school team when they clashed in Caleb Mills hall. Members of this team are Warren Shearer, captain; Julian Kiser, Charles Johnson and Robert McVie, alternate. The negative team debated In Cincinnati against Walnut Hill high school Members of the latter team are Charles Fiebleman, captain; Joseph Rothbard, Homer Cornell and Arthur Sachs, alternate. ‘WOOFING’ LEADS TO NEGROES’ SHOOTING “Innocent Bystander” Suffers Most in Poolroom Affray. “Woofing” led to the shooting of two Negroes today, one suffering a serious wound. The shooting occurred in a poolroom at Nineteenth and Yandes streets. Robert Noble, 1805 Yandes street, told police; “He woofed me, so I shot him.” Noble explained he meant Hilliard Armour, 1932 Yandes street, had cursed him. Armour was shot in the left hand and suffered a slight wound. George Whitfield, 1948 Yandes street, a bystander, received a serious wound in the left side, when Noble fired a shotgun at Armour. Most of the charge struck Whitfield.