Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1932 — Page 1

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AMELIA EARHART LANDS IN IRELAND

Not Dale, But a New, Weird Standard of Morality Is on Trial

ET'HE trial of George Dale, bitter foe of the Ku-Klux Klan, more bitter foe of graft and corruption, most courageous crusader in behalf of honesty in government, has ended. The trial of the United States of America now begins. Twelve men have said that George Dale is guilty of conspiracy to Violate the prohibition laws. Under an infamous system of federal procedure that came with prohibition, they rendered their verdict upon the testimony of men and women whom they would not believe under any condition or circumstance. They rendered their verdict upon the testimony of confessed perjurers, upon the evidence of confessed lawbreakers, upon the words of vermin upon the body politic. Yet for the time and through the system that now obtains in federal courts, for the time, these perjurers, criminals, scum, were lifted to the plane of re'iability, while the words of those to whom the people Jhad given their trust and confidence were put under the cloud of suspicion and tainted with disbelief. ( Not one of the twelve men who rendered a verdict of guilt against Dale would trust any witness for the government in any ordinary tran|atctkm. These twelve men would have shunned, as lepers, the parade of the ©llscou; mgs of the earth that was presented by the governmnt to justify •Its charges against Dale and his administration. mm ' m VjUCH is the low level to which liberty and law has been reduced In this Volstead era that criminals become honest men, prostitutes become saints, the professional gambler becomes the honest business man, the corrupt and exposed grafter becomes the instrument of justice. All the ordinary standards of life and judgment are reversed. In every other circumstance, life records stand for something. Men who have led honest lives can rely for their own protection upon Iheir years of integrity. Men who have slunk in the paths of crime and vice and squalor expect to receive contempt, suspicion, scorn.

New City Water Rates Are Illegal, Court’s Ruling Public service commission order increasing water rates of large consumers was held illegal today by Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams. The ruling was mad?T'ni a suit brought by the Moynahan Properties Company, operators of apartment houses. The order enjoins the Indianapolis Water Company from placing the new rates in effect, and prohibits the utility from discontinuing service of large consumers who decline to recognize the new rate schedule. The new schedule also reduced the domestic minimum rate from $1.50 to SI.OB a month, but this is not affected directly in the court ruling.

QUAKE ROCKS SAN SALVADOR Report Unknown Number of Persons Killed. /> a United Vrett SAN SALVADOR. May 21.—An unknown number of persons were reported killed in a violent earthquake which shook San Salvador today. The casualties occurred in the interior of Salvador, according to reports. though some damage was done here. Communications at some points were interrupted. HOGS END WEEK AT HIGHER PRICE LEVELS Cattle Nominal on Light Receipts; Sheep Dull. Hogs closed the week up 15 cents from Friday's average this morning at the Union Stockyards. Somewhat lighter receipts and better demand were responsible for the upturn. The bulk 100 to 335 pounds, sold for $3 15 to 53.55; top price represented bv the 53.55 figure. Receipts were estimated at 3,000; holdovers 87. The cattle market was nominal on receipts of 50. Vealers were steady nt So down. Calf receipts numbered 100. Not enough sheep were on hand to make a market, new arrivals numbering only 50. With scarcely enough choice hogs in Chicago this morning to establish a market, prices dipped slightly after the opening. Scattered good to choice porkers scaling 180 to 200 pounds were bid in at $3.40, or 5 to 10 cents lower than Friday's average. Receipts numbered 7,000, including 5.000 direct; holdovers, 3.000. Cattle receipts. 100; calves, 200; market, steady. Sheep receipts, 8,000; market stationary. Foreign Exchange ißv Jtmri T Haraill 4s Cos • —Mv 31Open. Bttrlln*. Enaland Krone. Prone* £?*’,* Ur*. lUlv Guilder. Holland -IJSi Krone Denmark 2005 Yea. Jooon ■***• Faculty Group Sponsors Sing Faculty chapel committee of Butler university will sponsor the university's first all-chool sing Wednesday night with Mrs. Frieda Robinson of the English department. In charge. Four classes will participate and a silver loving cup will be awarded the class giving the best performance.

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 9

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FILE SUIT TO RECOVER $70,000 PETTIS BONDS Securities Were Left in Trust for Employes of Store. Suit to recover $70,000 of bonds left by Alphonso P. Pettis, to provide funds for employes of the Pettis Dry Goods Company, was filed Friday in superior court five. The bonds were held as a trust fund by the Indiana Trust Company and five other defendants. Leo M. Gardner, administrator of the Pettis estate, withdrew a similar suit, in which Charles Pettis and Frank C. Dailey were defendants. The Petttis store went into receivership several weeks ago. The five other defendants are Dailey, Charles W. Pettis, Eugene C. Miller. Perry O'Neal and Robert A. Efroymson. Charges that the defendants unlawfully and wrongfully hold and detain possession of the bonds were made in the suit. Pettis died in France several years ago. leaving bulk of his estate to the Indianapolis Foundation. Hospital Head to Speak Dr. John G. Benson, superintendent of the Methodist hospital, will speak at a home-coming meeting of several hundred members of the nursing alumnae association Wednesday.

But, apparently, it is different when, for some reason or for no reason, a federal system of prohibition enforcement projects its prosecution of a city administration. It took the case of Dale to expose the whole viciousness of the sys;em which reverses the traditions by which men judge morals. mum MEN do not change overnight. Those who have been brave in the fight for the right do net become corrupt. And those who have led lives of crime, vice and corruption do not become truthful under the inspiration of a federal opth and the shrewd guidance of a political prosecutor. The history of the witnesses against Dale was written into the record Iby the questions of the federal prosecutor. He qualified one witness by having him admit perjury on a former appearance. Every other witness against Dale was made expert by admitting violations of law, by admitting disloyalty, ingratitude and worse. Against that was the history of Dale, which makes the verdict rendered by the jury of a conspiracy to violate liquor laws so monstrous on I its face, so fantastic by the evidence, as to be unbelievable by every known standard of judgment. Dale came into prominence first by his fight against the powerful Ku-Klux klan. He rushed with his small, weekly, starving newspaper to the defense of the Jew, the Catholic, the Negro, who were being ostracized, boycotted, beaten by the hooded order of hate, and they had no other defender. He did this when the powerful newspapers of his community did not dare to raise a word of protest against the weird organization that substituted force for law and then finally placed its puppets in power. m m m T TE jeopardized his life and his liberty to defeat the campaign of hate that was destroying every ideal of this country. There is no question about the forces of organized society “framing” him then. Significantly, it was through the use of the liquor law that

TARIFF FIGHT PERIL STILL IS OVERTAX BILL Oil and Coal Levies Are Voted On, Then Flood of Amendments Comes. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 21.—The threat of a free-for-all, catch-as-catch-can tariff fight still hung menacingly over the senate today as it proceeded slowly toward a vote on the lumber and copper import duties in the tax bill. Neither vote may come today. The senate wrangled Itself out of the oil tariff bog late and voted, 43 to 37, to include the one-half cent a gallon impost, key to the four tariffs in the bill. Friday night the tariff vote trade worked again, and the coal duty of $2 per ton was voted in, 39 to 34. After the oil vote, Senator Millard Tydings (Dem.. Md.) offered his 500 tariff amendments, saying that if industries in other states were to be given tariff protection, industries in his state also must have a chance to get such help. Senator George W. Norris (Rep., I Neb.) introduced his export debenI ture farm relief amendments. If Tydings presses his amendments for separate votes, or if the debate on Norris' proposal flares into a farm relief debate, passage of the budget-balancing 51.030.0000,000 tax bill long will be delayed. Pressure to Speed Votes r But pressure is being exerted to | speed votes and cloture to restrict debate may be invoked. But Tydings insists he will go through with his threat to seek votes on his 500 amendments, and Norris apparently will not be deterred. It was a tense moment, marked by contradictory political situations, when the senate voted on the oil tariff. Norris withdrew his motion to reduce the levy from one-half cent a gallon to one-fourth of one mill. Henry F. Ashurst (Dem., Ariz.) shouted a vehement ‘‘aye!" as the balloting began. Mild-mannered Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican national committee and apostle of high protection, voted “no!” Albert W. Barkley (Dem., Ky.) came in late, and the air was electric, as the senate awaited his answer. He is to be the keynoter at the Democratic national convention next month at Chicago, spokesman for the party which has so severely condemned Republican high tariff policies. “Yes!" said the keynoter. Party Fight Foreseen Thus, with a record during the Hawley-Smoot tariff row of 1930 of voting against oil tariffs, Barkley, on the eve of a hot presidential campaign, supported the same tariff. On the coal vote, Fess opposed the tariff, and Barkley voted for it Barkley's votes may strengthen the reported party fight against making him keynoter. Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, voted against the oil tariff, but Mrs. Hattie W. Caraway, the other Arkansas senator. voted for it. The final formal 'count was 43 votes for the oil tariff, and 37 against. The actual vote was 42 to 38, because Tydings voted “no" and then changed to “yes" to enable him to move for reconsideration of the vote later. A change of three votes would beat the oil tariff.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932

Dissenters Starting Monday, The Times will run a series of four articles on the views of prominent dissenters —men who quarrel with the present organization of the world. The Times, through the United Press, has asked them in effect; “You complain of this world’s organization: what would you do about it?” Answers are given by Norman Thomas, noted Socialist; Henry L. Mencken and John Dos Passos, brilliant writers and iconoclasts, and Max Eastman, Communist writer. The views are these men’s opinions and are presented as such. The Times and the United Press do not identify themselves with any opinions and present the articles merely as an interesting series from men knowm generally as real thinkers.

SPEED TRIALS ARE ON TODAY First Qualification Runs for 500-Mile Event This Afternoon. Qualification trials for the twentieth running of the 500-mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedday on Memorial day were started at 10 this morning, and twenty-five cars were reported as ready to take their tests today. Among those who will qualify today are Billy Arnold, 1930 winner; Louis Sclmeider, 1931 winner; Louis Meyer. 1928 winner, and such stars as Tony Gulotta, Cliff Bergere, Pete Kreis, Bill Cummings, Deacon Litz, Lou Moore, Fred Frame, Bob Carey and Bryan Saulspaugh. Today’s trials will close at 6:59 o’clock. The fastest qualifier today will be given the No. 1 position in the 500-mile race, the pole. The other two fastest qualifiers will also be placed in the front row and the fourth fastest at the pole of the second row, and so on. Sunday’s qualifiers, despite the speed they make, will be placed behind today’s drivers and Monday’s behind Sunday's list. It was predicted by experts that a speed of 118 miles an hour should win the pole position. It is understood that three cars. Arnold’s, Moore’s and Saulspaugh’s are capable of developing that speed. The qualification trial consists of four laps at a minimum speed of ninety miles an hour. The forty fastest qualifiers will start in the race, and it is estimated that a speed of 102 miles an hour will be necessary to win a place in the opening lineup.

Timing Chart

Following is a simplified speed chart for timing cars in the qualification and practice runs at the Speedway: TIME M.P.H. I TIME M.P.H. *•0 <3 I 1:34 95.74 ; 3* 78.27 I:3t 97.82 J 3. 77 1:31 98.94 <■** I:3# 190. }33 78.24 1:29 181.12 J ; 34 79 1:28 142.27 JJ* *1 9* 1:24 147.14 |* *2.37 1:23 1*8.43 J:}* *3.33 1:22 149.75 - *4.11 1:21 111.11 •** *4 9* 1:20 112.3# J3 *5.71 i 1:19 113.92 *2 25 I 1:17 114.8* *; 8*23 1:18 H 8.42 1:41 89.11 1:15 134 I 1:14 121.42 1:38 #1.83 1:12 m 1:37 *2.7* 1:11 128.74 I:3* 93.73 1:14 128JT7 1:85 94.73

An Editorial

a grand jury indicted him, and the tools used then were of the same sort that appeared in the present federal charge. Dale had faith in America. He did not believe that tyranny, no matter what garb or nightgown it wore, could triumph. And so, in that faith, he shouted his protest that he was being lynched by a crooked grand jury, composed of criminals, and a Klan judge sent him to the penal farm for contempt. Be it said as a part of his record that he went with his head erect, defiant, still trusting in freedom and America, as he can afford to go to a federal prison now, with head erect, serene in his own knowledge of innocence. Dale made history. The judge who sentenced him was indicted by the house of representatives for tyrannic abuse of judicial power. A majority of the state senate confirmed that verdict. Dale finally was freed by a pardon from a Governor, who tried to use this one good act to gloss over the evidence of his own corruption. m m m A ND then the people of Muncie, tired of corruption, tired of the graft in public affairs, tired of protected vice, tire of protected violations of prohibition law, which, in those days, did not interest the federal authorities, elected Dale as their mayor. His record as mayor might have caused a jury, under any other system than such as prevails in federal courts, to give heed to his evidence. Jurors might have been expected to give at least equal weight to what he said as against that said by the criminal, the confessed perjurer. Since he has been mayor, no hostile newspaper ever has suggested that the prohibition laws were violated as they were under his predecessor. No minister, preacher, priest, or prohibition fanatic ever has accused him of having an “open” town. Prostitution no longer flaunted its scarlet invitation to youth. The professional gambler no longer preyed upon the credulity of the wage earner.

LEGAL BATTLE TO FREE LINDY FAKER STARTS Attorney Is Retained for Curtis; Repudiation of Confession Likely. BY DELOS SMITH - United Press SUB Correspondent HOPEWELL, N. J., May 21. John Hughes Curtis’ fight to prevent prosecution for his cruel Lindbergh hoax began today with indications of a court battle that may bring repudiation of parts of his “confession” of that hoax. The court fight was forecast by retention of an attorney to represent the Norfolk faker—the first legal move on his behalf since state police announced his negotiations “were a figment of his imagination.” Early stages of that fight will be directed by W. C. Finder, a prominent Norfolk attorney, retained by relatives and friends of the boat builder, now reposing in jail at Flemington. Curtis is held on a misdemeanor charge, subjecting him to three years in jail and a SI,OOO fine. Court Fight Is Planned Pender, former law' partner of Federal Judge Luther D. Way, left i Norfolk Friday night. Curtis proi fessed to know nothing of Pender’s retention. Pender was expected to move at once to obtain release of Curtis on SIO,OOO ball. A court fight to free Curtis, it was believed, would be based of necessity on proof that Curtis was not guilty of giving false information, or hindering the hunt for a murder or kidnaping suspect. Or it would be based on extenuating circumstances. These extenuating circumstances have been discussed here and at Norfolk: Curtis might claim the confession was forced by state police. He might claim his early activity was forced by Norfolk rum runners with whom he is known to have associated as 8. speed boat builder. It might be claimed for him that early negotiations were legitimate as far as Curtis was concerned; that later he suspected, or learned, he was dealing with fakers; that the publicity received urged him on with the resultant fabricated stories, and that finally a confession resulted through fear of reprisals by racketeers with whom he first dealt, if he “squealed" on them. Has Curtis Told All? These theories all are based on the assumption that “Curtis has not told all,” a belief rapidly gaining strength in Norfolk, and receiving some consideration here, although police say no basis for such a theory is known to them. Colonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf has declared Curtis innocent of any part in the kidnaping, and of any part in the extortion plot, which extracted $50,000 in cash from Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon. However, police have not abandoned investigation of his activity and his story, else they would not quarrel with Dean H. Dobson-Pea-cock in the latter’s refusal to come here for questioning, even with expenses paid. The dean prefers to be questioned in Norfolk. Colonel Lindbergh himself, who refused to file charges against Curtis. has given no irdication of what prosecution if any he may desire. Schwartzkopf announced Friday night. Lindbergh did say he would not interfere with the police. Hourly Temperatures <5 a- m 68 8 a. m 75 7 a. m 70 9 a. m..... 78

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Amelia Earhart Lands in Ireland After Ocean Hop

First Woman to Span Atlantic Ends Flight of I,9KMHiles. By United Preit LONDON, May 21. The Central News Agency reported this afternoon that Amelia Earheart Putnam had landed near Londonberry, Ireland. She had planned to reach Le Bourget Airdrome in Paris. At the office of the Belfast (Ireland) Telegraph here, which has a direct wire to Londonderry, it was stated this afternoon that Mrs. Putnam had landed about five miles from Londonderry. Londonderry is on the northern tip of Ireland, about fifty miles in from the coast. If reports of her landing are correct, the American flier would have traveled about 1,950 miles since she left Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, at 4:50 p. m. (eastern standard time) Friday. The first woman to make a transAtlantic flight alone, Mrs. Putnam flew to Ireland from Harbor Grace. She was favored by good weather over the Atlantic, fairly good visibility, and a southwest wind which helped her fast, red monoplane on its way. Miss Earhart obviously was anxious to begin her flight from Harbor Grace just five years after Colonel Lindbergh began the first non-stop solo flight from New York to Paris. She flew there from New Jersey as a passenger with Pilot Bemt Balchen and Mechanic Eddie Gorski. They tuned up her Lock-heed-Vega machine. At 4:45 p. m. (eastern standard time) Friday Miss Earhart guided her plane down the runway, where Lou Reichers had Started an unsuccessful attempt to fly the Atlantic just a week before. The sky was cloudy and a light southeast wind was blowing when Miss Earhart left Harbor Grace. The ship carried its capacity load of 420 gallons of fuel. With a cruising radius of 3,200 miles, favorable weather and an experienced flier at the controls, Balchen reiterated his estimate that chances for Miss Earhart’s success were “99 out of 100.” Miss Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air, when she flew from Newfoundland to Wales in the airplane “Friendship” in 1928.

DO-X AZORES BOUND ■ ' ' ■ ■■ World’s Largest Plane Is Headed Over Ocean. By United Preset ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, May k 21.—The flying boat DOX was en route to the Azores today on the first leg of a trans-Atlantic flight to Lake Constance. Switzerland. The ship left Holyrood bay at 3 a. m. (eastern standard time*. The commander was not certain before the start that he would land at Harbor Grace and resume the Atlantic crossing from there. Later he headed the world's largest aircraft over the Atlantic for the Azores.

In civic management, Muncie was the one city in the state to reduce taxes year after year and show a surplus in its treasury. The grafting contractor no longer fattened on public Improvements. The vendors of supplies to the public no longer paid a rakeoff to officials. m m m UNDER any other except the vicious system that has been introduced into federal procedure by the prohibition law, the word of Dale should count for as much as the word of diseased craven whose lies were palpable upon the witness stand. But apparently such no longer is the case. A lifetime of integrity, of daring honesty, of courageous defense of the common good means nothing. The perjurer for the hour, becomes sanctified and elevated and believed, and his lifetime of crime, rottenness, irresponsibility is forgotten under the blessing of a prosecutor who desires convictions and a record. What happens to Dale is important only to himself, his family—and perhaps, to the city of Muncie, if it be turned back to the venal, the vicious, the grafting, the corrupt. What happens to our fundamental standards of justice, of right and wrong, means much. Some day, somewhere, in this country there will appear a Judge with sufficient courage to declare that we are at the end of a long crooked road, that once again men who have led honest lives will be believed as against the testimony of the man who has been corrupt and crooked; that the government of this country does not depend for its integrity upon the evidence of the scum, the criminal, but that it will encourage men to lead honest, upright lives, in order to gain the confidence of their government. The last word has not been written in the case of Dale. There yet may be a judge or judges who will have the courage to liberate the whole federal system of justice from its present moral astigmatism. A system that can crucify a Dale through the acceptance of the evidence of confessed perjurers and crooks places the freedom of every citizen in jeopardy, makes liberty itself a hazardous adventure.

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DALE TO FIGHT CONVICTION IN HIGHER COURTS Muncie Mayor, Undaunted by Guilty Verdict, to Appeal Case. -Undaunted by his conviction by a federal court jury, George R. Dale, militant Muncie mayor, today prepared to carry his fight for justice and freedom to the highest court in the land. The mayor, who charged he was framed because of his fight to clean up Muncie, together with nine codefendants, was found guilty of a charge of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. Convicted with Dale were Frank F. Massey, police chief; Fred Ellis, Muncie safety board member; Captain William A. Parkhurst, detectives Kenneth Horstman and Harry Nelson, patrolman Dan Davis and Raymond F. Powell, and two bootleggers, Ernest Flatters and Fred Kubeck. One Defendant Cleared One defendant, Raymond C. Hoover, police garage mechanic, charged with having transported liquor from Muncie to Indianapolis for the Der>ocratic state convention in 1930, was acquitted. Another defendant, Corbett Johnson, admitted bootlegger, pleaded guilty before the trial started and testified for the government, while the thirteenth defendant, Chauncey Stillson, alleged bootlegger, Is a fugitive. At the request of defense counsel, sentencing ol those convicted was deferred until June 1. They were released on bond. Maximum penalty under the conspiracy charge is a two-year prison term and $5,000 fine. The Jury returned its verdict about 5:30 Friday, after more thin four hours’ deliberation on the five days of testimony and arguments. Dale Quickly Recovers Dale and his co-defendants and attorneys were not in the federal building when the Jurors announced they had reached a verdict, but were called to the courtroom by telephone. Then, In a hushed courtroom, Clerk Albert C. Ssgemeier began reading the separate verdicts handed to him by the Jury foreman. “We, the jury, find the defendant George R. Dale, guilty as charged,” the clerk droned. This was followed by guilty verdicts in the cases of the remaining defendants, with the exception of Hoover. Dale, surrounded by his friends, appeared shocked and surprised, but quickly recovered his equanimity and reassured his sympathizing friends and relatives. Jost Started to Fight “Don’t worry,” he told reporters. "I’ve just begun to fight. I’ll carry this to the United States circuit court of appeals, on behalf of all defendants.” “That’s what you get for trying to clean up Muncie,” one of his friends remarked indignantly, but Dale only smiled. Later. Dale issued a statement, in which he charged government witnesses presented perjured testimony, and repeated his charges that he is the victim of a “frame-up” engineered by political enemies and the lawless element of Muncie, which he sought to smash. “The Jury must have believed it was all right for the Muncie council, through its agent, Bob Parkin(Turn to Page Three)