Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1932 — Page 7

JULY 11, 1932

SUPPORT VOTED FOR THOMAS BY I IBERAL CHIEFS Convention Balks at Help to Communist Congress Candidates. By Rrrijipa-Jlwcard .V eictpapy Alliance CLEVELAND, July 11.—After a sharp skirmish over the question of supporting Communist congressional candidates, leading liberals of the United States, concluding their twoday convention here, adopted a platform which includes approval of the candidacy of Norman E. Thomas for President. In its platform declaration, the League for Independent Political Action hailed the platform and candidacy of Thomas, who is the Socialist candidate for President, as superior to those of the old line parties and urges its members to support him. A sharp debase was precipitated when the league was urged to support William E. Browder of Chicago, Communist candidate for United States senator in Illinois. Dr. John Dewey of Columbia university, national chairman of the league, and Professor Paul Douglas of the University of Chicago, led the attack on the proposal to support any Communist candidates. Vote Down Communist Aid "It is not a question of Communistic principles, but one of Communist tactics," Dr. Dewey said. "Communists disrupt all parties, and unless this fellow is an exception he favors the same principle.” Professor Douglas warned against allowing Communists to enter the league’s ranks to destroy it, as did Devere Allen of New York, chairman of the meeting. The vote was forty-seven to eight against supporting Communist candidates. Adoption of the 600-word platform, formulated by a special committee as the nucleus of a program for the government to produce jobs for the jobless and food for the hun-' gry, ran into stiff opposition from groups oppaing the banking and agricultural sections. The planks were being rewritten and will be submitted again to the convention. “You can, if you will,” states the opening section of the platform, ‘hasten t'he end of the present depression and substitute intelligent political leadership for misrule. Would Abandon Old Parties "Only by abandoning the twin machines of the Republican and Democratic parties and supporting independent candidates who stand for a united third party on a progressive program of social control devoted to the welfare of the masses, can futility be avoided in the future. "While we do not necessarily support every feature in the ultimate program of the Socialist party, we do believe that in the present election the candidacy and platform of Norman Thomas is infinitely preferable to those of other parties and we therefore urge all our members to I work and vote for him ” The platform contains specific recommendations on the problems of unemployment, public ownership of public utilities, social legislation and civil liberties and international relations. It dismisses the prohibition question in the following brief paragraph : "While on Democratic principles we recognize the right of the people to vote on the abolition or of modification of the eighteenth amendment, we condemn the Republican and Democratic parties for subordinating urgent economic issues to the liquor question.”

PROHIBITION CANDIDATE FACES $750 ACTION Upshaw Calls Slock Suit Effort to Embarrass Him. Writ of attachment to satisfy a judgment of $750 against William D. Upshaw of Atlanta, Ga., Prohibition party candidate for President, has been obtained by the Credit Investment Corporation of Atlanta, according to press dispatches today. “The action is nothing but an effort to hinder my campaign,” declared Upshaw, who has remained in Indianapolis since he was nominated by the party's convention last week in Cadle tabernacle. He said that he bought five shares in the Railway Lock Spike Company while he was in congress. After he had made several payments, the company faile'd. "I have heard nothing of the matter for eleven years,” the candidate declared. "The company has failed. The stock is worthless. This attempt to collect money is a plain attempt to injure me in this campaign.” The investment company claims that Upshaw owes $450 principal and S3OO interest. KONECKE QUITS T JOB Veteran Thystcal Director Resigns Tost; Effective Sept. 1. Resignation of Robert L. Konecke, senior physical director of the Central branch o f the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A., effective Sept. 1, was announced today. He has been identified with the local association since 1902. Konecke .•as not announced his plans for the future. For six years he has taught in the 4-H Club summer schools of Purdue university. He served as director of the Boys’ Club, formerly located at Meridian street and Madison avenue, for five years. He was physical director at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., during the World war. HOLDUP IS FRUSTRATED Kokomo Man Fights Off Attack by Three Gunmen. By I'nitrrl Prrts KOKOMO, Ind.. July 11.—An attempted holdup by three gunmen who jumped on the running board of Dolph Deisch's auto Sunday night was frustrated when Deisch swerved down the road and fought the men with one hand. A lacerated thumb, injured when he grabbed the hammer of one of the men’s gun, and cuts from flying glass, when one bullet shattered a window, were suffered by Deisch. Mi* Mary Weaver, 20, riding with Deisch, was unhurt. w,

PROHIBITION MOVEMENT IN U. S. CENTURY OLD

Dry Forces Fought Long, Uphill Battle; Booze Barons Caused Own Fall

This Is the first of four stories on the history of prohibition, made especially timelv bv the recent action of the Republican and Democratic national conventions. BY' BRUCE CATTON NEA Service Writer ON Jan. 15, 1920, the well-known evangelist, Biilv Sunday, presided at funeral services in Norfolk, Va., for John Barleycorn. As the casket containing the remains of the ancien, toper moved out to what was expected to be its last resting place. Mr. Sunday cried: "Good-by, John. You were Gods worst enemy. You were hell’s best friend. I hate you with a perfect hatred.” And so John Barleycorn- was buried, aand on the following day the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, outlawing the liquor traffic, went into effect. Today there are signs that the deceased has been r'irring restlessly in his coffin—turning over once or twice, at least, if not preparing to sit bolt upright. And as the two great political parties, perspiring freely, set about putting a pulmotor into operation, it is worth while to look back to the beginnings and see how- prohibition began, what it meant to the land that adopted it, and how the political parties have handled themselves in regard to the matter. n n a THE temperance movement itself is as old as America itself, despite the fact that the early inhabitants were largely men who liked their liquor strong and knew how to hold it. By the middle of the nineteenth century this movement had given birth to a definite movement for enactment of prohibitory laws. Maine went dry first of all, and by 1855 no fewer than twelve additional states had done likewise. All these backslid, however, and shortly after the Civil war, Maine was left alone as the nation’s solitary dry state. There was another rise of prohibition spirit in 1830, however, when Kansas wrote a prohibition law into its Constitution, and several more states w-ent dry in the decade following. Again, though, there w-as backsliding, and by 1905 America contained just three dry states—Maine, Kansas, and North Dakota. The cause of prohibition had been making progress, nevertheless. In 1869 the Prohibition party, never really influential, but significant, just the same, of a slowly rising prohibition sentiment, w-as organized.

SHANK AWARDED AIR TOUR PRIZE Wins Trophy for Greatest Reliability Record. Bob Shank, one of Indiana's most ardent exponents of safe and sane flying, today possessed the trophy awarded Sunday at municipal airport for the pilot making the best reliability record on the Indiana, air tour. The trophy was awarded at the close of the six-day tour Sunday afternoon. It was provided by the Lincoln Life Insurance Company, Ft. Wayne, for the pilot who “by his atitude, his attention to rules, and his piloting ability, has done the most for the promotion of safety in aviation.” Judges were Lieutenant Stanton T. Smith. Walker W. Winslow, William B. F. Hall, H. Weir Cook and Joseph T. Chumate, department of commerce inspector. Shank, Hoosier airport president, piloted a Travel Air plane on the tour. French Livezey, Hoosier airport pilot, won first prize of S2O in the spot landing contest, held at the end of the tour. He missed the mark by twelve feet. Second prize, sls, was won by Harry Boggs. Capitol airport manager. Carl F. Millican, Hoosier airport, won third prize of $lO, and Ned Bottom, also of Hoosier airport, won fourth prize of $5. The tour ships left Muncie Sunday morning, after an exhibition of stlznt flying by Dick Young, Waco test pilot, and visited Connersville for lunch, before ending the tour at municipal airport here.

GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR FACE POWDER But Cosmetics Then Were Same as Now, Analysis Reveals. By l nited Press PRINCETON, N. J., July 11.— Face powder was the same back in 400 B. C., even though the Greeks had a different word for it, archeologists have revealed. The powder, "psimythion" to the Greeks, was found in a woman's tomb at Corinth, Greece, by Professor T. Leslie Shear of Princeton university. Chemical analysis showed it was made by processes identical with modern manufacture. The discovery at Corinth was the oldest record of white face powder, Shear said. CHOOSES PARLEY HEADS Governor Names Allan Bloom to Arrange Juvenile Conclave. Allan Bloom, director of the Indianapolis Jewish Community Center Association, has been selected by Governor Harry G. Leslie to arrange for the conference of juvenile agencies to be held here Oct. 6-8. The Governor also announced the appointment of M. E. Foley, veteran member of the Indiana state prison board of trustees, as chairman of the general committee to arrange for the American Prison Association meeting here Oct. 3-7. John A. Brown, secretary of the state board of charities, was named executive chairman of the committee. Prominent persons from throughout the state were made committee members and the Governor and Mayor Reginald ¥ honorary members. cl 1 *

The 18th Amendment "Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article, the manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. "Section 2. The congress and the several states shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” —Ratified by the necessary 36 states Jan. 16, 1919; operative Jan. 16, 1920.

In 1874 the much more important Woman's Christian Temperailce Union came into being; and in 1893, in the First Congregational church of Oberlin, 0., w-as born the AntiSaloon League. The league w-as founded originally to support a local option law; but two years later it was organizing on a national scale, with a convention at Washington. In a very short time it was making its influence felt in no uncertain fashion. nun THE league wad primarily an organization supported by the Protestant churches; but its officials. with their brilliant general counsel, Wayne B. Wheeler, soon demonstrated that they knew as much about practical politics as any man in the country. Party labels meant nothing to the league. It applied to every candidate for office the single test—was he wet or dry? If he was wet, it called on its members and followers to go to the polls and sock him; if he was dry, it demanded, and got, his support. At Westerville, 0., it established its headquarters, with a printing plant. In the decade and a half following 1909 that plant had printed for distribution to the country more than 114,000,000 leaflets, nearly 2,000,000 books, more than 5,000,000 pamphlets, upward of 2.300,000 placards and approximately 157,000,000 copies of weekly and monthly magazines. And the league’s war chest was kept full. In its first thirty years of life it spent fully $35,000,000 to further the cause of prohibition. When the fight was at its hottest it was spending $2,500,000 a year. Nor was this money wasted The league knew precisely what it wanted and how to get it; its propagandists were able, its political experts were shrewd.

CONTRACT ffll EXPERTS pj AY IT -l# ■ ■' " -■ McKemYrnt

BY W. E. M’KENNEY Secretary American Bridge League 'T'HE least understood of contract bidding conventions is possibly the forcing two bid. Before using this bid, you must remember that not only do you place an obligation upon partner to keep the bidding open until a game-going contract is reached, but you place the same obligation upon yourself. Therefore, a two bid should not be made unless you are willing to play the hand at a game-going contract, even though partner’s hand is trickless. The response also is misunderstood. A positive response to a forcing two bid should not be given unless the responding hand contains either an ace or at least a king and queen of one suit and a king of another. Remember, that when partner makes a two bid, he already has decided to play the hand for game—what he now is trying for is' a slam. Take the following hand as an example:

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M many tables South opened the contracting with a bid of two spades. West passed and North, because he held normal support in spades, made the mistake of giving BANK GETS JUDGMENT Fletcher Trust Awarded 529,400 Against Realty Stockholders. By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 11.—A verdict for judgment of $29,400 in favor of the Fletcher Trust Company of Indianapolis, was given by a jury in the Hamilton circuijt court Saturday. The judgment, against the East Side Realty Company and Royal A. Bechtold, was given in a suit on a $25,000 note, transferred here from Marion county. Several defendants w ? ere stockholders in the East Side company winch borrow r ed this amount from the Fletcher Trust Company. They are: Edward F. Madinger, Dr. Mavity J. Spencer, Charles M. Deer, W. E. Mendenhall and William F. Roepke, all of Indianapolis. GOODRICH HEIR IS DEAD Son of Rubber Company Founder Succumbs to Prolonged Illness. By T nited Press YORK, Me., July 11.—Charles C. Goodrich. 60. son of B. F. Goodrich, founder of the Goodrich Rubber Company, died at his home here Sunday after a prolonged illness. Goodrich was a member of the board of directors of the rubber company’.

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PROHIBITION MAP OF U S. JAN. 1, 1919 TO WHITE—DRY BY STATE LAW Here are two of the leaders in prohibition victories of a decade : .JUHl••••• ago—Andrew J. Volstead (upper left), former congressman from Minne- : V| l sota, and the late Wayne B. Wheeler, moving spirit of the dry cause.

Here are two of the leaders in prohibition victories of a decade ago—Andrew J. Volstead (upper left), former congressman from Minnesota, and the late Wayne B. Wheeler, moving spirit of the dry cause. Dry campaigners are seen on the march in the larger photo.

STATE prohibition laws were the goal at first. When the league celebrated its twentieth birthday, in 1913, the list of dry states had increased to nine, and congress had been induced to pass the WebbKenyon act, pledging the federal government to help dry states stop importations of liquor from wet territory adjoining. In the year the league held a jubilee meeting at Columbus, O.— and announced that from that date it would drive straight for a federal prohibition law. Two weeks later 4,000 men and women paraded in Washington in a prohibition demonstration. The league busied itself in congressional elections, and in 1914 sent no fewer than 50,000 speakers into the congressional fights. Mr. Wheeler later testified before

a positive response by bidding three spades. The hand does not contain an ace nor a king, queen and a king, therefore the proper response would have been two no trump. South then would bid three spades and now North would be justified in bidding five spades, as he has normal support in trump and has the other three suits practically stopped. In other words, his hand should fit with partner’s. Os course South would then go to six spades. The Play The play of the hand develops an interesting squeeze. West opens with the jack of hearts, which the declarer wins xvith the ace. He leads the king of spades, West winning and returning the four of clubs, which South, the declarer, wins with the ace. Six rounds of spades are taken, the dummy follows with three spades and discards a heart and two diamonds. West discards three hearts and three clubs—it is imma. terial what East discards. The declarer now leads the queen of clubs, West must discard a diamond. The six of clubs next Is played and again West must discard a diamond, baring down to his king. Now the declarer leads the jack of diamonds from dummy and goes up with the ace in his own hand, catching West’s king. The last trick is won with the queen of diamonds.

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the senate that it was not unusual, at that time, for whole freight carloads of prohibition propaganda to be shipped from Westerville in one day. All of this had its effect. A fact not generally recalled today is that in the fall of 1914 a majority of the house of representatives voted for a prohibition amendment. To be sure, the amendment got no farther; but the indication of the league’s growing power, and of the growth of prohibition sentiment, was plain enough for any observer. Nevertheless, those most opposed to prohibition paid little attention to it. The organized liquor trade certainly failed to see the handwriting on the wall. ana UNBIASED observers have stated that the liquor trade in a very real way helped to bring prohibi-

AIMEE’S ‘DAVY’ FOUNDGUILTY Nurse Awarded $5,000 Balm: May Not Collect. By United Press LOS ANGELES, July 11.—Mrs. Myrtle H. St. Pierre, comely brunette nurse, saw little opportunity today to collect, at least immediately, the $5,000 breach of promise verdict she won Saturday from David L. Hutton, husband of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, evangelist. Hutton, in addition to announcing an appeal to “the highest courts,” declared he was “broke.” “That St. Pierre woman won’t get a red cent out of me,” he said, "because I haven’t got one.” In spite of these difficulties, Mrs. St- Pierre expressed happiness that she “was vindicated.” "All I wanted was to clear my name,” she said. “It wasn’t the money because I don’t think he has any of his own.” Meanwhile, Mrs. Hutton was reported recovering from a collapse suffered when "Iron Dave” informed ijer of the verdictThe evangelist struck her head on the floor when she fell unconscious at the news, physicians said, and did not speak for several hours. They denied Mrs. Hutton had suffered serious injury. Garage Bids Set by State State highway commission announced today that bids will be received Aug. 1 for construction of a subdistrict garage at Ridgeville, Randolph county.

tion on itself. It permitted the open saloon to become a festering sore in municipal life when it very easily could have compelled a cleanup. It allowed the very phrase, "liquor trade,” to become weighted with unpleasant connotations. When it tried to fight the Anti-Saloon League, it used tactics that were not only pitifully ineffective, but highly repellent. In every way it alienated those who might have defended it and strengthened the cause of its foes. Not until 1916 did the United States Brewers’ Association wake up and offer to clean house. By that time it was too late. The tide was rising—or perhaps it would be better to say that it was going out—too fast. The stable door was being locked not only

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after the horse had been stolen, but after he had been spirited away to the other side of the country. By the time the United States entered the World war, in 1917. twenty-six states had gone dry, and the Anti-Saloon League was ready to introduce the eighteenth amendment in congress. ana f I ''HE fact that a war was on J- probably helped the league materially. In the first place, there was an undeniable need to conserve the cereals used in manufacture of liquor. Second, the attention of the country at large w-as focused on France instead of on prohibition. Third, many of the most prominent anti-prohibition. leaders had undeniably Germanic names, which helped to identify prohibition in the popular mind as a war measure. Nevertheless, the signs of the time had been clear before the nation entered the war, and the congress that passed the eighteenth amendment had been elected before the ■war. The eighteenth amendment passed the senate on Aug. 1, 1917. On Dec. 17 of the same year it passed the house. Incidentally, J. Thomas Heflin of Alabama, then a congressman and later famous as a bone-dry senator, spoke and voted against it. a a a /""VN Jan. 8. 1918, the amendment got its first ratification—by the Mississippi legislature. On Jan. 14, 1919, it got its thirty-sixth—enough to put it into the Constitution—by the Nebraska legislature. Twelve other states ratified it later, the last one being New Jersey, which approved the amendment on Mrach 7, 1922. Meanwhile —in September of 1918 —congress had passed a law providing for -war-time prohibition. This law went into effect on July 1, 1919, after the country had been at peace for more than half a year; but "real prohibition” began on Jan. 16, 1920, when the eighteenth amendment went into effect. It remains only to note that the Volstead act passed by congress on Sept. 4, 1919. was vetoed by President Wilson on Oct. 27 of the same year and was passed over the veto on the following day. Next: The beginning of enforcement, the rise of A1 Capone and other gangster chiefs from the “easy money” that flowed from bootleg liquor.

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LABOR EXPECTED TO STAY NONPARTISAN Federation Executive Committee Will Meet to Discuss Campaign. By Scripps-H.oward Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 11.—Union labor, it is believed will remain nonpartisan in the coming campaigns. Although pressure is being exerted to have the American Federation of Labor desert its usual custom and indorse the Democratic platform because of its wet and liberal planks, pressure from the other side is said to be equally strong. The federation’s executive committee will meet in Atlantic City this week to discuss the coming campaigns. It is probable that the committee will name a "nonpartisan committee” of five to work in the various congressional and senatorial districts- for the friends of labor and against its enemies. What other action labor will take will be decided this week.

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WEST TO GET BIGGER VOICE IN ELECTORAL VOTE California Ballots Twice as Big as in 1928 Due to Reapportioning. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 11.—When America's millions go to the polls in November to name the next President, the relative efleetiveness of their individual ballots will considerably be changed from four years ago. In California each vote will, in the final result, count approximately twice as much as in 1928. To a lesser extent, ten other states also will have a larger voice in choosing the President. Twenty-one states, on the other hand, find their power in the national election somewhat curtailed. This situation, productive of grey hairs for politicians, results from the new congressional reapportionment, based on the census of 1930. The law takes congressmen from twenty-one states and adds to the representation of eleven commonwealths. Scan New Alignment It. affects the presidential election because each state has as many electoral votes for President as it has senators and representatives. Thus Delaware and Nevada, each "ith two senators and one representative, have three electoral votes each. New York has forty-seven electoral votes. As the national campaign approaches, political leaders are scanning the new alignment with anxious eyes. For the first time in twelve years the shift of population from the old states to the new, from city to farm, fully will be reflected. The Pacific coast gains ten new congressmen and ten additional presidential electors under the new lineup. The key state of California, normally Republican, gains nine of these added votes. The state of Washington gains one. Mighty Battle Is Faced A mighty political battle is in prospect to secure the allegiance of the Pacific coast voters. Other important shifts find Michigan, also normally Republican, with four addition congressmen. Democratic Texas gains three. New York, New Jersey, and Ohio, always question marks in a presidential year, each adcl two to their already large electoral vote. Losses in representation are pretty evenly distributed in a geographical and partisan way. Missouri is the greatest loser, forced to get along with three less congressmen and three less electoral votes. lowa, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Kentucky lose two congressmen each. Calculated on the basis of normal party vote, Republican states gain a total of fourteen electoral votes; Democratic states, six; and doubtful states, seven. Republican states loose twelve; Democratic states, nine, and doubtful states, six. Far West Gains Ten Geographically the far -west gains ten; the middle west gains seven and loses twelve; the east gains five and loses six; the south and southwest gain five and lose nine. Gains and losses in representation and electoral votes as tabulated by the clerk of the house are: Gains: California, 9; Michigan, 4; Washington, 1; Florida, 1; North Carolina, 1; Texas, 3; Connecticut, 1; New Jersey, 2 New York, 2; Ohio, 2—Total, 27. Losses; lowa, 2; Kansas, *1; Maine, 1; Minnesota, 1; Nebraska, 1; North Dakota, 1; Pennsylvania, 2; Vermont, 1; Wisconsin, 1; South Dakota, 1; Alabama, 1; Georgia, 2; Kentucky, 2; Mississippi, 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 1; Virginia, 1; Indiana, 1; Massachusetts, 1; Missouri, 3; Rhode Island, I—Total, 27. Veteran Rail Conductor Dies By I nitcrl Prrss MT. VERNON, Ind., July 11.— Jonathan Buchanan, 66, retired railroad conductor, died at the home of a daughter,, Mrs. Louis Hohstadt Sunday. When retired by !he Louisville Nashville railroad last March, Buchanan was the oldest conductor on the Hendersch division.