Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1932 — Page 2

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UNITED TRADING FRONT FOR BRITISH EMPIRE IS PROPOSED; U. S. EXPORTS THREATENED Rearing of Towering Tariff Walls Around Far-Flung Dominions Probable Outcome of Ottawa Parley. THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN BALANCE New Rush of American Factories Across Border Will Result if England Achieves Her Goal. By Unit'd Press OTTAWA, Ont., July 21.—The imperial economic conference moved with precision and speed today toward a united trade front by the British empire, which, if achieved, means a serious blow at American exports. At the opening session of the conference, Stanley Baldwin of Great Britain offered to the delegates representing the far-flung nations of the empire, comprising one-fourth of the people of the world, a “wide extension” of tariff preferences in dealing with Britain.

Premier Richard B. Bennett of Canada proposed such tariff preferences between the dominions and the mother country, and made a concrete offer to Britain of free entry for such of her products as do not interfere with Canadian enterprise. * The offer also applies to other units of the empire, although he emphasized it was not possible for the empire to trade only within itself and exclude the rest of the world. Reads King's Message, The governor-general opened the session with a message from King George. “You are opening anew page in history,’’ the message said. “By a co-operating combine, the conferences could stimulate not only their own, but world trade, the message continued. The governor-general, tall, lean, morning-coated, then gave his own welcome. Stanley Baldwin, head of the British delegation, preferred Bennett as chairman. He was supported unanimously, and Bennett of-! sered a message to the king thanking him and wishing him and the queen long life. The word “loyalty” was avoided, so that the Irish Free State delegation could subscribe without embarrassing the De Valera government in "its oath of allegiance fight.” Listen in Silence This message approved, Bennett made his own speech. Delegates and galleries listened in silence. The speech was regarded as of great importance, destined to do much to ' guide the conference to success or failure. Baldwin, as head of the ranking British delegation, followed Bennett. His persuasive voice contrasted with the blunt tones of the Ca- 1 nadian. Empire co-operation, Bald-j win said, was a matter cf vital importance. All countries represented, he' said, are suffering from the depression. He pointed out that the principle of giving preference tariffs to empire goods had been recognized. “Its scope was limited,” he said,: “but it has been a real stimulant, j Under her new tariff policy Great British can offer a wide extension of preferences. She already has granted provision for free entry to some empire goods. Stimulus for AH "We can deal in a wider field. Complete free trade is not possible, but. any stimulus of trade will benefit ali. and such stimulus is a matter of urgent importance in this depression." Bennett and Baldwin were the main speakers, but the heads of other delegations were followed closely. No one knew where some speaker might make a starring proposal. If the parley succeeds, there will be anew rush of American capital, American factories, and, incidentally, American jobs, to Canada, to Britain, and to other parts of the empire. Shut out of this stupendous market by preferential tariffs, vast American interests will face the alternative of either locating inside the barriers, or going out of business. If it fails, Canada, . like Great Britain, may be “driven” to seek economic understandings elsewhere, notably with the United States. A feature of the opening ceremonies at the house of commons this morning served to illustrate how clc*ely Canada and the United States already are bound together economically. All in U. S. Autos As one by one the imperial dele- j gates arrived before the entrance to the imposing pile, they did so in ! American automobiles. There was not a British car in the procession. From the glistening seven-pas-senger limousine carrying the former British prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, down to that bringing the j humblest attache, all were Amer- | lean cars, made in Canadian branch plants. Today the United States has more capital invested on this side of the border than has Britain, the mother country. It has almost twice as much. In fact, that is the rub. so far as the United States is con- . cerned, for American factories located in Canada do not hire American labor. Nab Fire Alarm Suspects Investigating report of a false fire alarm, sounded at Twenty-second and New Jersey streets, police Wednesday night arrested Loyd Stout, 21. and Rober f Anderson. 23, both giving addresses as city, on charges of drunkenness, disorderly conduct and pulling fire boxes.

‘JAIL-BREAK' BY GIRL, U, FOILED Incorrigible, Rules Judge in Passing Sentence. A 14-year-old girl, alleged to have organized a score of juvenile prisoners to attempt escape from the county juvenile detention home Wednesday, was sentenced to White’s institute, girls’ correctional school, for an indefinite period. Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler, who said authorities had frustrated the jail-break plans, passed the sentence. The account of how the girl had planned to stage a “mob attack” upon Mrs. Anna Pickard, juvenile home superintendent, and steal her keys was reported to Geckler by court officials. “It was reported to me that she had planned to open the doors and release all children confined in the juvenile home,” the judge declared, after trying the girl on charge of incorrigibility. Evidence concerning a liquor party, attended by the girl and a youth, was given at the trial today. She testified she had drunk liquor at the home of William and Mary Carrigan, at 407 West Merrill street, June 27. She identified Herbert Ray King, of 513 South Senate avenue, as the youth who escorted her to the party. Carrigan and his wife were found guilty and given suspended sentences of thirty days in jail and $1 fine each. King was released along with two other defendants, alleged to have attended the party. WATERS SCQRNSHONOR Bonus Army Boss Refuses to Be Vice-Presidential Nominee. By United Press MASSILLON, 0., July 21. Walter F. Waters indicated today that he would rather be head man over his bonus army in Washington than a nominee for the second highest position in the nation. He declined a request of Jacob S. Coxey that he be the vicepresidential nominee of the Farmer-Labor party, Coxey announced. “My interests,” Waters wrote Coxey, “are wholly taken up with organizing the bonus expeditionary force and furthering the work I have undertaken.’’

THEY'TELL ME Jkf

THERE oughta be a law,” says Senator Handout, who has been finding the pickin’s poor this session, "against heads of state colleges, members of institutional boards, and the pay roll boys clutterin’ up the lobby and the committee rooms." This veteran, who puts out the best utility purchased "likker” of any legislators, was in a vindictive mood as he said this. He bit down on his "borrowed” cigar, pushed aside the "borrowed” meal, and and gave the ol’ conductor his sentiments on the great problems of the special session. “F'rinstance, there’s the Rowley bill in the senate, which would remove the mandatory feature of the law requiring counties to hire agricultural agents. “It's a waste of money nowadays and anyhow, the taxpayers should have a say-so as to whether they want an agricultural agent. "As it is today, the law provides a job for every graduate of Purdue agricultural school. Why, Dean Skinner came down to an agricultural committee meeting of the senate and said we had to kill that bill. In other words, the state has to take care of the poor student after it gives him an education, according to the dean. M M M “The way the situation is today, we don’t need any agricultural experts in most of the farming counties. The graduates ought to earn their livings off the public pay roll. “There was a time when the farmer wanted to know how to make two stalks of corn grow where only one grew before, but with the grain market as it is today, what the farmer wants to learn is how to make one stalk grow where there were two before.” Obviously in a better mood with this off his mind. Senator Handout propped his feet on the table and rolling his cigar for a minute, added: “Senator Rowley's bill has merit and should pass, even though, as the Purdue professors say, ’it closes ;he door of opportunity to the young.’"

Miss America, 1930, Dies

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By United Press I ORLANDO, Fla.,. July 21.—Miss ! Margaret T. Ekdahl, Miss America j of 1930, died at an Orlando hospital!

Japan Denies Intent to Seize More Territory

145 CONVICTS SEEK PARDONS Prison Trustees to Consider Cases of 7 City Men. Cases of , seven Marion county prisoners, serving life sentences at the state prison and seeking pardons, will be considered next Thursday by prison trustees. All except one are in prison on murder charges. The seventh, Joseph Dietrich, w'ho seeks either parole or commutation, has served twelve years of a life sentence for criminal assault. One hundred and forty-five prisoners will have their cases reviewed by the board. Fourteen of this number are from Marion county. Marion county prisoners seeking clemency include the following who are serving murder sentences: Clifford Pollard, sentenced Nov. 28. 1926. life, first degree; Harry Porter, sentenced May 14. 1925, life, second degree: Lewis Buckner, sentenced Oct. 25. 1919. life, second degree; Lewis Moore, sentenced Feb. 7. 1924. life, second degree; Eddie Terry, sentenced Jan. 28, 1920. life, first degree, and Orville Thornburg, sentenced Feb. 15. 1922. life second degree. Others asking paroles and pardons are: Moses Byroad, sentenced April. 16. 1926, 3 to 10 years, burglary.’ second degree; Kenneth Hardy, sentenced Jan. 30. 1925. 10 to 21 years, robbery; Ollis Latimore. sentenced Dec. 4. 1929. 3 to 10 years, burglary, second degree; Jack O'Connor, sentenced Jan. 9 1929. 5 to 21 years, criminal assallt: Woodford Rnirdon. sentenced Oct. 15. 1930. 3 to 10 years, burglary, second degree; Guv West. —itenced Jan. 15. 1930. 10 years, auto banditry. Miners Go on Strike BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 21. Six hundred miners at the Sayreton mines of the Republic Steih Corporation went on strike today in protest against the recent discharge of a mine superintendent. No violence was reported.

The house of representatives well may deserve the name of the “monkey house,” but the senate is all the rest of the zoo. Watching the antics of the animals affords the only real relief on a hot summer day. And if no one else can procure a laugh, there is Senator Lee J. Hartzell of Ft. Wayne, Republican floor leader. He's the member with the pocket mirror, who flashes it seven or eight times an hour while mending the part in his hair. The great Lee now is engaged in a feud with Jerome Brown, the veteran doorkeeper of the senate. Last session a Negro employe, J. W. Mills, forgot to pay him the respect the Republican floor leader felt to be his due. Like the elephant, Hartzell never forgot. To his consternation, while surveying himself In his pocket mirror the other, day, Lee saw the vision of Mills. With an inarticulate cry of rage he was on his feet and bore down upon the janitor wdth the demand to know who had employed him. The reply was that Brown had engaged his services and “that’s why I'm here, boss.” M M M Hartzell. who heads the patronage. or plunder, committee and because of this control of pay roll i favors is the floor leader, demanded : that Brown discharge Mills and refund from his own pocket the $27 already paid the janitor as wages. Brown refused and Hartzell took i the floor of the senate with a mo- ’ tion that the doorkeeper refund 1 the money paid the janitor. Democratic ieader Walter Cham- 1 bers suggested that the matter was so important that perhaps the G. O. P. members best caucus on it. The suggestion was not heeded and Hartzell's motion teas voted down. Later, Lieutenant-Governor Bush said that he was awaro of the employment of Mills and had approved it. When the Republican floor leader takes up the time of the senate | on matters of that nature, how can the taxpayers expect to get action I on tax relief measures under the : forty-day session limit? we ask, j

Miss Margaret Ekdahl

today, after an emergency appendicitis operation. The operation was reported successful, but peritonitis set in and death followed in a few' hours.

American Observers Worry Over New Threat to Peace in Orient. by JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1932. by United Press* WASHINGTON, July 21.—The Japanese consul-general at Mukden has informed certain representatives of western powers that Japan does not plan to attack Jehol province, according to authentic reports reaching here today. The same authentic dispatches, however, said that some neutral observers in Mukden nevertheless anticipated a Japanese drive across the Manchurian-Jehol border. American observers, while refraining from open comment, are exceedingly worried about the developments in Jehol. They professed to notice a disturbing similarity between these developments and the ones which preceded Japanese military occupation of Manchuria last fall. Fear Border Clash By United Press MUKDEN, Manchuria, July 21 Japanese soldiers were sent to the Jehol-Manchurian border today, as hostilities between Japanese and Chinese appeared imminent for control of Jehol province, rich in coal and oil. Japanese military authorities declined to reveal the destination the troops, beyond admitting they were going to the Jehol front. Chinese were prepared to resist extension of Japanese influence into Manchuria, fearing that another “independent state” similar to that of Manchuoko would be created. The situation was similar to that which preceded Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The Japanese claimed that Chinese had killed Lieutenant Ishimoto, Japanese liaison officer, and set out to punish the killers. The Tokio war office today implicated Marshal Chang HsieuhLiang, Manchurian war lord, in the capture of Ishimoto.

MRS. E. L WASHBURN IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Widow Was Resident of Indianapolis for Forty-Four Years. Mrs. Eudora L. Washburn, 74, widow of Francis M. Washburn died Tuesday night at her home, 2409 Central avenue. Bom in Attica, Ind., she had been a resident of Indianapolis forty-four years. At various times in her life Mrs. Washburn had been active in three Methodist churches—the Fifty-first street, West Washington street, and King avenue. She had a deep interest in music. She was a member of the Ladies’ Aid Society and the W. C. T. U. She leaves a son, William Lowe Rice, realtor; a daughter, Mrs. Louella P. Merz; three sisters, Mrs. Grace Patin, Wingate, Ind.; Mrs. Louella Duncan, Ft. Worth, Tex., and Mrs. Bertha Keyt, Greenville, Mich. Funeral services will be held at 10 Friday morning at Shirley Bros. Central chapel, 946 North Illinois street. Burial will be in Crown Hill. MABEL TO KEEP MUM Mrs. Willebraudt Denies She Will Take Stump for Hoover. By T'vitrti Press WASHINGTON. June 21.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, who campaigned so effectively for Herbert Hoover four years ago, reaffirmed today her intentions to maintain “political silence" this year. The former assistant attor-ney-general now is practicing law in Washington and she intends to continue at this task. Reports printed Tuesday that she intended to urge Hoover's re-elec-tion on the stump were denied in a telegram to the editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Vandals Damage School Hall Damage to the inside oi t he building and theft of tobacco was reported today by Anthony Kreich, custodian of Sacred Heart school hall at 1502 Union street. Broken windows, forced doors and other damage to the interior of the building amounts to sloo,' according to Kreich.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

SENATE FLAYS ’POLITICKING' OF SAPP AND AIDS Highway Department Is Too •Meddjesome,’ Is Cry of Legislators. Indiana highway commission political activities were scored today, with introduction of a resolution in the state senate demanding politics be erased from the department. The resolution was accompanied by evidence of political manipulations, including the letter which Commissioner Arthur Sapp sent to a Wabash manufacturer, offering to oil his road if he would help preserve the commission's $24,000,000 fund in the special session road committee. The resolution was referred to the senate. After action on the resolution, battle flared when Senator William Doogs ,Dem.), Cannelton, made a vain attempt to withdraw his name from a bill splitting gas tax funds, returning one-half to cities, towns and counties, rather than give the commission free rein. He said residents of his county wanted him to do it to guarantee road work. “Get Rid of Them" Senator Walter Chambers (Dem.), Newcastle, demanded to know “whether the legislature or the highway commission is making the law's.” He descried the power of the commission “forcing legislators to withdraw their names from bills and taking positions in which they do not believe.” Senator Jesse E. Wade (Dem.), Mt. Vernon, urged the legislature to “take those infernal gamblers by the throat and get rid of them.” The Sapp letter was presented by Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep.), Wabash. , Another document was the circular letter soliciting funds for ihe state committee, sent each employe of the state highway department in May. The letter was cited in the resolution, signed jointly by Strey and Senator Russell P. Kehoe (Dem.), Jeffersonville. The resolution called attention to the political contributions sought by the commission and charged this j action “places the commission clearly as a political machine.” “Such actions hereby are condemned and the letters should be disregarded by the employes, and the commission directed to cease any and all further political activities, relative to advancement or aspirations of any political party,” the resolution concluded. Favors Popular Move In his letter to Harley Gamble, president of the Wabash Baking; Powder Company, whose road he I said he would oil, Sapp urged him to bring pressure on Strey. Long a foe of the commission, Strey favors the now' popular move to restore to cities, counties and towns one-half of the automobile license and gasoline tax which makes up the bulk of the $24,000,000 the state highway department has to spend. Sapp offered the following written explanation of his stand today: “I thought it might be wise to give Strey some of his own medicine. He has been trying for some time to bring pressure in one way or another on the highway department and the commission. He has made threats of what he would do if certain of his political friends were not taken care of and certain political enemies were not dismissed from the employ of the highway department. “For Best Interests” “I have been w'orking with the Chamber of Commerce and the citizens of Wabash to obtain for them certain highway improvements to which I think Wabash county is entitled. “Through my efforts Road 13 through Wabash county was taken over by the highway commission, as well as certain other roads crossing Wabash county. This has saved the taxpayers of Wabash county many thousands of dollars annually. “I think that the citizens of Wabash county who know me and know Strey are capable of passing judgment on this whole situation which he is seeking to stir up. "Asa member of the commission, and reasonably cognizant of the road needs of the state. I am most emphatically in favor of the retention of the gasoline tax and the automobile license fees in the hands of the commission, to the end the commission eventually can take over all the county highways for maintenance and carrying on a reasonable program of construction. "This I believe to be for the best interests of the taxpayers of Indiana.” Boy Hurt in Playlot Fall Cuts on the face and loss of several teeth were suffered Wednesday night by Elvie Pullins, 6, of 118 North Miley avenue, when he fell on a slide at a playground at Belmont and Traub avenues.

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Baby Adoption Traffic Charged to Osteopath

Accused Man Profited by Transfer of Children, Officer Alleges. By United Press CHICAGO, July 21.—H. E. Wells, a licensed osteopath, was free on SI,OOO bond today while the state's .attorney's office investigated charges of practicing medicine without a licen.se, was ordered to appear for arraignment today. Assistant State's Attorney H. S. Weinberg said he was unable to find immediately a statute directly covering the baby traffic in w’hich he charged Wells was engaged. The system, as described by Chief Inspector J. E. Edwards of the department of registration, w'as to insert advertisements in the newspapers offering a home and adopted parents for unwanted children. Edward said a fee of SIOO was charged the mother of the child to cover "legal expenses.” The child then w'ould be turned over to some childless woman, anxious to adopt an infant. Another fee ranging from S2OO to S3OO was charged the person who wished the child. The danger in the practice, first brought to Edwards’ attention by Dr. M. L. Harris, former American Medical Association president, was said by the inspector to be that no legal adoption actually took place. Edwards further charged that records of the city health department were falsified- to show that the babies were legitimate children of the adopted parents. Eleven cases of such "adoptions” have been revealed thus far, Edwards said.

JAIL PAY PHONE ONE BIG PUZZLE New System Is Adding to Hot Weather Worries. Installation of pay- telephones in city prison under regulations condemned by Municipal Judges William H. Sheaffer and Clifton R. Cameron is adding to hot weather worries of Captain Edward P. Helm at police headquarters. With a frequency annoying to Helm, calls like this come by telephone : “This is Judge Sheaffer. Connect me with the turnkey's office.” "How do I know you’re Judge Sheaffer?” Helm inquires, and the receiver is banged. Chief Mike Morrissey, in an order issued Wednesday, forbade incoming calls on the prison phones. Prisoners are permitted to call out, but there is a complication. Money and other possessions are taken from prisoners before they are locked up. Mrs. Mary K. Cantion, matron, announced Wednesday that she will continue the practice so far as women prisoners are concerned. Without money, use of pay phones simply isn’t done. However, turnkeys in charge of men prisoners, intimate they will permit a few' dimes to remain after the customary “frisking.” CHARGE-TREASURY LOOT By United Press CLEVELAND, July 21.—-A special grand jury was convened today to attempt to pick from a tangled mass of evidence the names of persons who “milked” the county treasury of $570,382 since 1926. Among witnesses to be called were sttae examiners who reported the loss was due to “skillfull manipulations of tax records.”

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Lit pc Is Miffed About Failure to Land Part

| By United Press HOLLYWOOD. July 21.—Lupe j Velez became quite definite about j the picture business today. She does not want a vacation, she declared, and unless she geis a part soon will take a plane or train right back to New York. This followed announcement that she will not play the lead in "Hypnotized” for Mack Sennctt. It seems j there was a difference over salary. Maria Alba, who visited the South Sea islands with Douglas Fairbanks, has been signed for the part. BANDITS’ LOOT IS S7O City Man Held Up, He Tells Police; Gas Attendant Robbed. Two bandits obtained S7O when they held up Roland Page, 1802 Tallman avenue, he reported to police early today. Tallman said he was walking on Seventeenth street near Roosevelt avenue, when the men halted him. While one menaced him with a revolver, the other searched his pockets. An undetermined amount of I money was obtained by a young | bandit who robbed George Steffy, S 33, of 1303 North Traub avenue, in a filling station at 702 East Tenth street, where he is attendant. Minnie Landers, 18, of 906 Fayette street, told police that a man who jumped from an automobile at Eleventh and Missouri streets, struck her on the head and robbed her of $3. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West wind, 8 miles an hour; temperature, 88; barometric pressure, I 29.96 at sea level; ceiling, clear, unlimited; visibility, 12 miles.

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.JULY 21, 1982

HOOVER TO HIT DEMOCRATS AS ‘SALOON PARTY’

President Aided by Straddle Group in Preparing His Acceptance Speech. BY RAY TUCKER Tlmrs Staff Writer WASHINGTON. July 21—President Hcover’s prohibition policy in the presidential campaign will be to denounce the Democrats' repeal plank as permitting the return of the saloon, according to reports in White House circles today. He may sponsor tiiis treatment of the issue in his acceptance address next month. Although the White House board of strategy has not worked out all details of the attack, it is understood they favor taking the offensive rather than explaining or defending their own plank. In this way, it is felt, Hcover can avoid any charge of changing his position, and conciliate both wets and drys in Republican ranks. This question is giving Hoover and his associates more trouble than any other, and it accounts for the President's delay in setting a day for notification exercises. Straddlers in Saddle This part of the speech is said to be in the hands of various members of his cabinet and leading Republican drys. including the same group which forced the convention to adopt the so-called "straddle” plank. Those counseling this attack believe it will serve to make the "saloon” rather than prohibition the paramount issue in the wet-dry fight. In 1928 the promise of a Wickersham investigation was similarly used in different and devious ways in various sections by the Hoover organization. In the w'et northeast t,hi argument W'ill be that the plank is only slightly less w r et than the Democrats'. But in the dry south and w’est Republican spellbinders will point to the presidential denunciation of the saloon as evidence that Hoover opposes any backward step toward the brass rail and the sawdust. Dry Issue Is Foremost Republican strategists have laid aside almost all other political business during the preparation of Hoover’s acceptance speech dealing with this issue. They realize that it may prove the determining factor in the whole campaign, and that a blunder may antagonize elements W'hich never can be won back. Professional drys have added to the suspense by withholding any indorsement or disapproval pending the acceptance speech. But the wets also arc exerting pressure, demamding that Hoover give his owm interpretation of the platform in frank and unequivocal statement. Strangely enough, the two women whose reputed dry views might have affected this issue recently have eliminated themselves. Some drys comforted themselves over Roosevelt’s attitude with the thought that Mrs. Roosevelt did not favor repeal. But she made clear that she does. Republicans had hoped that Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, their dry Joan of Arc in 1928. might stump for Hoover, and try to convince the prohibitionists that, despite the party’s plank, he still was a white-ribboner. But Mrs. Willebrandt has disappointed them w'ith a formal announcement that she will preserve “political silence.”