Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1932 — Page 9

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BOY, 17, AGAIN IS SENTENCED TO DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR

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Fight to Save Youth to Be Continued, Clarence Darrow Asserts. Bn t hit til Prrna COLUMBUS, 0.. June 2 —Clarence Darrow, noted criminal lawyer, today said he would carry on a legal fight against execution of 17-year-old Russell McWilliams of Rockford, 111., “as long as the boy lives." Darrow. widely-known as an agnostic. was here for a debate with Rabbi Jacob Tarshlsh of Columbus on the subject of religion. The famous attorney was told Judge Arthur Fisher had sentenced McWilliams a second time and set the execution date for June 24. • Well, he won't die on that date,” Darrow replied with quick emphasis. ••I’ve though about the case, and I know what we will do. We'll take it right back to the supreme court of Illinois. I won’t venture a prediction what success we will have there. But it we fail, we will go to the Governor. “We will carry on the fight as long as the boy lives. “We took it to the supreme court once, and we can do it again Darrow interceded for McWilliams when the first conviction was appealed to the Illinois high court. The boy was convicted of slaying a street car motorman. Darrow said he would return to Chicago Friday. Plea to High Court Bn United Pm * ROCKFORD, 111.. June 2.—The state supreme court which once has saved the life of Russell McWilliams. 17. will again be asked to prevent electrocution of the youthful slayer. McWilliams. whose execution Clarence Darrow and leading social workers are striving against, was condemned to death in the electric chair a second time Wednesday by Judge Arthur Fisher. The supreme court had referred the case to the jurist for introduction of more testimony in mitigation of the plea of guilty, which the youth entered to charges of slaying a street car motorman in a gininspired holdup. After hearing McWilliams' own story of a month-old career of crime inspired by wild companions and gin parties. Judge Fisher a second time ordered him executed, and set the date as June 24. Anew appeal to the high court which had asked Judge Fisher to give “tender consideration" to a lesser sentence was decided upon by defense counsel, after a conference with officers of the Juvenile Protective Association, who contend execution of one so young would set an unfortunate precedent. Approves Dry Enforcement B'l t nitvit Frr WASHINGTON. June 2.—Prohibition Director Amos W. W. Woodcock. just back from a three-week Inspection trip through the middle west and Rocky mountain regions, said today that he found enforcement activities satisfactory in those sections.

BRIDGE CONTRACTS TO BE LET JUNE 14

Sixth bridge contract letting of the season will be held June 14 by the state highway commission, it was announced today by Director John J. Brown. Bids will be received on thirtyfour structures in thirteen counties, w.ih an estimated cost of $400,000. The list advertised includes one of the highest bridges to be built by the department, according to William J. Titus, chief engineer. It will span a huge gulch on the new 100-foot entrance to Turkey Run state park, carrying traffic off U. S. 41. This structure will be of open spandrel concrete type, with the bridge floor about 80 feet above the low water level of Turkey Run creek. There will be three spans of 60. 80 and 70 feet each. The roadway is 24 feet, with a five-fcot sidewalk on either side. Other outstanding structures in the letting are two bridges on road 21. between Richmond and Muncie. one 150 fee and the other 175. and a bridge on road 66 near Grandview In Spencer county, which will be 170 fovt. The letting list follows: Two bridet* on road 5 in Blackford eo.mtv. I*'* bridtc* on road 10 in countr. Six bridge; on road 21 in Wavne countv.

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171 MINERS ARE FACING ARREST * ■ Violation of Federal Strike Injunction Charged. Arrest was faced today by 171 southern Indiana miners named in bills of information filed late Wednesday by District Attorney George R. Jeffrey, charging violation of a federal court injunction against interfering with operation of two co-operative mines. The injunctions were issued by Federal Judge Louis Fitzhenry of Illinois, special judges, at request of operators of the Hoosier mine, Sullivan county, and the Dixie Bee mine. Vigo county. It is expected arrest capiases may not be served before next week to permit defendants to come here and surrender to Marshal Alf O. Meloy. The bills of information are bar-ed on charges that union miners en-! gaged in a riot at the Dixie Bee, mine, April 6, threatened and cursed! miners who were working, destroyed some mine records and damaged the property. It also is charged they destroyed personal effects of the workers and an electric motor operating a ventilating fan used to protect miners from suffocation. One of the mine employes was beaten. It is charged. The permanent injunction in the Dugger case was granted Feb. 27, 1932, after testimony that union miners attacked the mines and sought to close the co-operative mines because they did not pay the standard $6.20 wage scale. HENRY MAGEL DIES Furniture Man Suffered Heart Attack. Henry Magel. 70. furniture company head, died Wednesday in his home, 1203 East Vermont street. Heart attack caused the death. He was president of Henry Magel fc Cos., upholstering and furniture finishing concern at 1327 North Capitol avenue. He was in the furniture business in Indianapolis forty years. He headed his own firm for the last twenty years. He served three terms ns city councilman more than thirty years ago. He also was treasurer of Bright wood before it became a part of Indianapolis. He was born in Hamilton. O. He came to Indianapolis with his parents when he was a boy. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 Friday in Kirby-Dinn funeral home. 1901 North Meridian, street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery.

Bridge on roed 21 in Henrv countv. Bridge on road 36 in Madison countv. Three bridges on road 43 in Owen countv. Bridge on road 47 in Parke countv. Six bridges on U. S Highwav 50 in Lawrence and Jackson counties. Four bridges on road 57 In Daviess countv. Four bridges en road 66 in Snencer countv. and one bridge on road 45 in the i same countv.

DOCTOR CLEARED IN RUBENS DRUG CASE

By United Pr<*s LOS ANGELES. June 2.—Retold as from the grave, the pleas of a noted motion picture actress for drugs brought freedom today to Dr. Jessie I. Citron, prominent Hollywood physician, acquitted on federal narcotic charges. In a dramatic courtroom scene. Dr. Citron described the visit to him of Alma Rubens, whose motion picture career was said to have been wrecked and her health undermined by the narcotic habit. “ My hope of retaining my hus- , band's love depends on my having

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BROOKHART TO FACE BITTER VOTE BATTLE Foe of Big Business and Wall Street Is Worried Over lowa Primary. BORAH ISSUES APPEAL 'Chicken Stew’ and 'Same Old Boloney,’ Are Issues in Hawkeye Campaign. BY RAY TUCKER Time* Stiff Writer WASHINGTON. June 2.—" Chicken stew" versus "the same old boloney." That, in the plain language of the two most important and picturesque candidates, is the form which the free-for-all primary for the Republican senatorial nomination has assumed in the corn-belt state of lowa. Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart is seeking renomination against old guard and administration elements. The primary comes next Monday, and it has aroused keen interest here because of the light it will throw on sentiment in a mid-western, Republican stronghold in a presidential year. Brookhart has been the most radical member of the progressive bloc, bitterly has assailed big business and Wall Street as responsible for the depression, and has fought the administration at every turn. Hint Senator Is Worried Two progressives have campaigned in lowa for Brookhart—Representative Fiorello H. La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.) and Senator Peter Norbeck (Rep., S. D.), chairman of the senate banking and currency committee. Senator William E. Borah (Rep., Ida.), Just has issued a public appeal to lowa to support Brookhart. Reports reaching here are that Brookhart is worried. An extra large field of six opposing candidates likely is to throw the nomination into convention, where the old guard would defeat the senator. Under lowa law the convention 1 nominates if any one candidate does I not get 35 per cent of the primarv vote. i Brookhart has outmaneuvered his ; foes in the same sort of campaign i twice before, and left here confident I he could do so again. Henry Field Is Strong Henry Field, seed man and rural humorist, is Brookhart's strongest opponent. Field's speeches are flavored with witty and caustic r emarks. and he talks the language of the plain people, which has been the senator’s forte. In fact. Field won a vocal skirmish precipitated by Brookhart’s characterization of the former as j "the chicken stew candidate"—a reference to the choice dish served iat picnics provided by Field each j year. "Yeah," replied’ Field. “Well, I'm | willing to make the principal issue of this campaign "chicken stew against the same old boloney.’ ” Brookhart fortified himself with campaign arguments by constant attendance at the senate Wall Street investigation. He has pitched into : big business, concentrated wealth, the “stock market gamblers,” and what he calls their political allies. Nepotism Is Charged He has blamed the "stupidity and avarice" of these interests as chiefly responsible for the "orgy of speculation and the depression.” His program includes limitation of industrial salaries, redistribution of wealth through taxation, inflation, price-fixing for agricultural products, and a $6,000,000,000 public works program. Besides limiting salaries in the steel and railroad industries—his two special obsessions—he would limit the salaries of newspaper editors and cartoonists. Fields has attacked Brookhart for nepotism following disclosures that members of the senator's family draw about $25,000 from the government. He also refers unkindly to Brookhart's senatorial absences while making Chautauqua speeches. Fields says of these things: "We have caught the senator sucking eggs." CLIPPINGER - WELCOMED Fletcher Trust Official Becomes Scout Council Treasurer. H. Fester Clippinger. vice-presi-dent of the Fletcher Trust Company, was welcomed into the Indianapolis Boy Scout council today in the Lincoln by executive board members. Clippinger recently was named treasurer of the council to-succeed Fred L. Hollweg. Plans for dedication of the new fieldhouse at the Scout reservation June 19 were discussed.

a baby,’” he quoted Miss Rubens, wife of Ricardo Cortez, as saying. “She feared she would lose the child. I prescribed only enough drugs to carry her along and keep up her courage,” the physician said. “I didn't give her as much as she required. Had I given her less In several instances, I am sure she would have collapsed and died. Her condition was pitiable.” Dr. Citron was charged with proving the actress with large quantiles of narcotics, feeding an addiction which it was claimed toppled her from the heights of screen fame, and so weakened her that she died suddenly of pneumonia.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1932

SOVIET HOTEL TOWER OF BABEL

Every Language Heard, in Vain Effort to Get Service

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Glimpses in the vicinity of the New Moscow hotel, Moscow, including a view of a squadron of cars—rarities—reserved for tourists.

This is the second article of a series of articles bv Alice Hughes on what she found in Russia after a year's absence. BY ALICE HUGHES Times Staff Writer (CoDvright. 1932. bv the New York WorldTelegram Corporation.) THE new Moscow hotel is a Tower of Babel. Intourist. Russia's state-owned travel bureau, houses clients there from far-flung sections of the world. In the public rooms may be heard the mingling of Turkish, English. French. Spanish, singsong Chinese and guttural German. The German is more persistent. Interpreters rush through lobbies calling for tourists in strange accents of their native tongues. The room clerks, knowing only German and Russian, are subject to fantastic finger signals by those who want keys. Many of the visitors po Internationale as soon as they arrive. They don flaming red ties and scarlet blouses and bestow’ the greeting "tovarish*’ on all.

DEMAND WILL BE MADE FOR OUSTER OF WALKER

Charges to Be Filed Soon Against Mayor With Governor Roosevelt. By United Preaa NEW YORK. June 2.—Removal of James J. Walker from office will be sought soon. The United Press learned today that the Hofstadter committee is prepared to submit its data on the mayor and his income, as gathered by the committee’s investigation. The committee and its counsel. Judge Samuel Seabury, may not make the removal demand, but will submit evidence, based chiefly on the claim of an alleged violation of a law against public officials holding securities of concerns interested in city contracts. This evidence also will contain data for possible action on the claim that Walker failed satisfactorily to account for income he received aside from salary. Whitman Precedent Stands Once the data is submitted—and this probably will be before the Democratic national convention, in which Governor Franklin Roosevelt will stand as a presidential nominee candidate—some citizen or civic organization will be in a position to submit a removal demand. It appears likely now that this will be the procedure, rather than to have a direct demand from the committee. In connection with the city contract phase, the Governor is likely to be given a precedent which arose in the regime of former Governor Whitman. As to the question of accounting satisfactorily for income. Roosevelt himself has said that the proper standard for public officers is that they be able to provide such accounting. Whitman removed a public service commissioner for holding securities of a public utility. While this man turned over the bond to his wife. Whitman held that, despite technical nonownership by the official, the spirit of the law had been infringed. Walker contends that a bond of a company given him was turned over to his wife. May Bother Roosevelt The Walker issue may prove embarrassing to Roosevelt from a political standpoint at this time. Removal of the mayor conceivably might alienate the Tammany delegation at Chicago, with its heavy votes, while retention of him might be used possibly by political adversaries claiming he was fearful of Tammany. Investigation has revealed so far that New York politicians and their associates have banked approximately $15,000,000, a checkup disclosed" today. Among those brought out are the following: Mayor Walker. $291,195: Russell T. Sherwood, business agent for Mayor Walker approximately sl.000.000 banked: the law firm headed by the forn.'r Tammany leader. George Olvanv, banked $5,283,032: Dr. William H. Walker, mayor’s brother. $432,677.

The hotel is crowded and, in turn, each of the 500 rooms 1s jammed. I could furnish a fourroom New York apartment out of my bedroom, and still not know where to put Hebe, six-foot bronze nude who poses as an elaborate, * but inoperative electrolier. My mahogany desk is worthy of a bank president. The chandelier is a golden branch. The rugs are rich orientals; the beds, clean and comfortable. From the windows I cr.n see crimson and gold radishes, which are the towers of St. Basil’s church. A bath! M M M ITURN on the tap to celebrate this Soviet compromise with bourgeois convention. The -water does not run. I turn to the Intourist guide at my elbow. She darts into the hall and appears with a white-aproned porter shuffling in carpet slippers. He fumbles helplessly, retreats, returns with two other , porters. They set up a great clatter. "Come, have your lunch!” in-

MERE YOUTH OF 67

‘Smoke Eater’ Fights Retirement

CAPTAIN PHILIP KILE, firefighting veteran, will wage another kind of battle before the board of safety Tuesday in an effort to prevent being retired on pension. He wants to serve three more years. He asserts that he will be a mere 67 on June 13 instead of a decrepit 70, as fire department records show. Chief Harry E. Voshell has recommended retirement of Kile from service with aerial ladder company No. 13. Kile, according to the department’s records, is the oldest man in point of service among the city's “smoke eaters.” At his home. 531 East Thirtysixth street, Kile explained Tuesday night how the discrepancy in his birth date arose. The records show June 13, 1862. but Kile asserts 1865 was his birth. 9 9 9 " r T''HOSE were the days of J. horses, buggies and midwives," he said, "and you had to take your parents' word about your age. "At 18 I was working every day when old Fire Chief Webster got in touch with me and offered me a job as a substitute fireman. In order to get the job I had to lie about my age. Instead of giving my birth date as June 13, 1865, 1 moved it back three years to 1862." From time to time the fire department sends questionnaires to each fireman in order to recheck the records. Kile’s answers always read: "Philip Kile, June 13, 1862, married, etc. ,” until March, 1930, when 1865 was given as the year of birth. In April, 1930, the pension regulation was inserted in the book of regulations. "I would like to work those three years. I am capable and

NOTRE DAME WILL HEAR OWEN YOUNG

Bn United Preaa SOUTH BEND, Ind.. June 2. Owen D. Young, New York financier. will be speaker at the eightyeighth annual commencement at Notre Dame university Sunday. 9 Commencement activities, which began today, will continue over the week-end. The president’s address to the graduating class was scheduled for today. Maas for deceased alumni will be held Thursday, to be followed by class day exercises and presentation of honors. The John P. Cush-

vites Madame Krasnaschokova, my Intourist angel. (Krasnaschokova means rosy-cheeked one.) “The bath will be repaired by the time you return." "And cleaned?”l ventured. "Cleaned." Luncheon is the big meal of the day. The hotel dinning room is vast and clean. A flower pot on every table. Plenty of waiters. A four-piece orchestra grinds with more force than finesse. Tourists have a choice of foods —a heartening soup, fish, lamb, turkey, partridge, French peas, carrots, potatoes and beets. Dessert is a pastry, a fruit compote or a small, hard apple. All this Is an improvement over last yea*. Coffee is frankly chicory. Sugar is. of course, gritty and que?r tasting. I watr ;i the efforts of an American trying to make the waiter underst md that his eggs must be boiled tvo minutes and no longer. The \'alter scratches his head and shrugs his shoulders. The American holds up two fingers of

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•feel that I have them coming to me," Kile remarked. M M M T?OR almost a half-century Kile *■ has thrilled to the shrieking of sirens, clanging of gongs and the smell of smoke. "Why there are a lot of fellows on the department who never have seen any water and they never have seen any big fires," Kile said. A year ago Captain Frank Aldrich lost a similar case before the board. Retired, Aldrich said he he felt he could not survive the disappointment. Now he says, “I'm glad to be away from the old station."

ing hall of engineering will be dedicated with Sergius P. Grace, New York, as speaker. The annual alumni banquet will be held in the evening. The academic procession wil begin at 8:30 a. m. Sunday, followed by a solemn pontifical mass at 9 o'clock. The Most Rev. James E. Cassidy, bishop of Fall River. Mass., will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Graduation exercises, with awarding of degrees, will begin at 4:30 p. m., followed by Young s address, closing the program.

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one hand and makes an ellipse of thumb and finger of the other hand. m n n THE waiter’s cries of helplessness bring the dining room manager. He too, fails to interpret this abracadabra. A frenzied wrangle follows. The American grows apopletic. His voice and color mount. Finally an Intourist guide is called to interpret the message, which by now commences to sound ridiculous. Ten minutes later the eggs arrive. They are hard boiled. Back to room 265, which the three porters, now augmented to four, are just leaving as I approach. “It is finished?” “Finished,” chatits the plumbers’ quartet. I twist the faucet. The water is bright red! Is this Soviet ideology? Is this dialectic maternalism? (These are the two pet phrases of the tovarish*. The water flows for five minutes: ten. It runs the same shade all the time I am in Moscow. It is not a strange, new, natural phenomenon, symbolically indorsing the Soviet color sign. It is simply that the water pipes are rusty. Can anything be done? “Yes. Sechase.” I have heard that word before! It means presently, at once. But it also means practically never. u n n A SERVICE button glistens conspicuously over the doorway of Room 265. 1 remember the scornful way the Russians have of referring to Americans as a nation of button pushers. "A press of the button and everything is done, leaving no personal incentive,” is the Soviet argument. They are not victims of any such labor-saving device, for under the button in my room there is a card, neatly hand written in four languages, stating, “This bell does not work.” One morning I awake with a headache. At home I might have taken a couple of aspirin tablets. Here in a strange land, the seriousness of my illness grows disproportionate. Mme. Krasnaschokova, arriving to set me forth on a day’s planned events, is sympathetic. Would I like a doctor? I see an opportunity to put Russia on trial in the handling of a visitor's illness. So I add a few groans and insist on a doctor. My guide asks one more question. “Is your illness internal or external?" * I answer internal, and ask why. I learn that doctors and clinics are divided in Russia, among those who treat internal ailments, and those who treat outside disturbances. A telephone call to announce our coming; another for an intourist car to convey us, and in half an hour I am in the presence of a capable physician. a m QUEUES of women await their turn to register as patients. But the Intourist girl rushes to the head of the line. There is some protest. I hear her say, “Eto Stranatzi,” and the line falls back courteously. The Russian treatment of strangers is unfailingly gracious and considerate. "Remove your coats here,” a man’s voice commands, once I am enrolled and on my way upstairs. All other garments, hats and rubbers, including those of the patients, however ill, must be checked. Again a line of patients to be encountered, but my guide is intrepid. In a lew minutes the doctor is taking down a history, and shortly after, treatment and relief follow. Everythin* is spotless. There is no hurry, no disorder, no confusion. The fee is six rubles. Intourist's interpreters appear to be sisters of mercy. How to send a telegram: where to buy a darning needle; when to make a fuss—they know. They have been accused of shepherding tourists to the things the government wants to be seen. Perhaps. But each traveler may hire his own car and chauffeur, and he may go almost anywhere or foot. (To Bo ContinoOUj

JIM WATSON’S MOIST PLANK PUT ON SHELF Hoosier Republicans Will Get Same Proposal as National Convention. SENATOR HAS ‘HIDEOUT’ Colonel Ed Thayer’s Office in Washington Is Hoosier Haven. BY WALKER SOONE Timei Staff Writer WASHINGTON. June 2—At the Indiana Republican headquarters in Washington the office of "Colonel" Ed Thayer, secretary of the senate, it is said that Senator James E. Watson's "model moist plank." drafted for adoption by the Indiana G. O. P. state convention, has been shelved tentatively. A few days ago it was reported here that the plank, which bids to the drys by demanding strict enforcement of prohibition and to the wets by advocating a referendum, was in the hands of party wheel horses in the state, and that agreement had been reached to insert it in the state platform. However, "the boys" who talked Indiana Republican politics in the colonel's comfortable office today said that Watson’s proposed plank had been abandoned, and that there would be substituted in its place a plank comforming to the prohibition declaration of the national convention at Chicago. Plank to Be Drafted Soon Although the Chicago convention will be held a week after the Indiana state convention. Hoosier Republicans have been assured that the national prohibition plank will be in final form in plenty of time for advance ratification by the state convention. James R. Garfield Jr. of Cleveland. son of the former President, has been designated by national Republican leaders to draft a satisfactory prohibition plank. Garfield, a dry who is friendly to the idea of a referendum, has been in Washington recently, conferring with party chieftains, including Watson, and has promised to have the final draft of the plank ready soon. Indiana Republicans, it Is explained. want "to keep in line" with the national party on the prohibition issue. The words used in "Colonel” Thayer’s office were: "We want a prohibition plank that will model after and precede the Chicago plank." Hideout for Watson “Colonel" Thayer's office is a popular gathering place for Indiana Republicans in congress and those who visit Washington. It is a spacious room, located in a secluded corner across the corridor from the senate chamber. Senator Jim Watson uses it daily as a “hideout” and a caucus room. The colonel is, of course, a Watson appointee. Charles Watson, brother and political advisor of Senator Jim, Is in the office almost daily. So is Representative Fred Purnell, a Watson lieutenant, mentioned recently as n "dark horse” candidate for Governor and also as the man who might nominate the senator at the state convention. Incidentally, Purnell emphatically has denied both rumors, and has asserted that he does not want to be Governor, and, like Watson, plans to "stick to his last" in congress and not even attend the convention. Callers at Colonel Thayer’s office in the last week have Included such prominent Hoosier Republicans as John L. Moorman of Knox, selected as temporary chairman of the state convention; George Ball, committeeman from Indiana, and Clem Richards of Terre Haute. CLUB _ SEEKS CHANGE IN STREET NAMES Action Promised at Meeting of Montcalm Civic Group. Action soon will be taken by the Montcalm Street Civic Club to have several streets in the northwest locality renamed, it was declared Wednesday night at a meeting at 1715 Rembrandt street. The club will seek to have Indiana | avenue, north from Fall creek, rej named Stadium avenue. The street i there borders Perry stadium. Memj bers of the club also discussed con- ■ struction of Sixteenth street from Perry stadium east across Fall creek and the canal to Northwestern avenue, where it will connect with the section of the street now being widened and paved. Mrs. Dean Hazel was elected secretary of the club. SEARCH FOR HUSBAND Young Wife Tells Police Mate May Have Killed Self. Police today searched for William Cavett. 21, of 2183 West Miller street, following report of relatives that Cavett disappeared Saturday night after threatening "to do something that will stop all worry about me.” The missing man was married five weeks ago and his wife, Dorothy, 18, said she feared her husband may have ended his life because of de- | spondency.

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