Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1932 — Page 2

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RELIEF AGENCY BILL IS KILLEB J IN HOUSE VOTE Postpone Measure to Pay $lO Weekly for Aid of Families. Thousands of unemployed and starving persons who are, not eligible fbr aid from township trustees, today found the avenue of aid, through finance raising measures, blocked by the house of representatives, W-iilr the house killed, by a vote of 57 to 28. the bill which would set up relief agencies in every county i and pay a maximum of $lO weekly to distressed families, the senate j painted a picture of no more unem- j ployment in a bill Introduced to; provide borrowing funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. N The senate bill, sponsors said, would wipe out slums in rural dis- ' tricts as well as cities, thus, restoring property values and providing con-! etruction work for unemployed. ‘ ; Can’t Be Reconsidered The vote which blocked relief by the house upheld indefinite postponement of the Weiss-E. C White bill. Under house rules the subject of unemployment relief can not be reconsidered. The house bill created a relief commission in every county of the state consisting of the circuit judge.: circuit court clerk and president of the board of county commissioners. The money for unemployment je- | lief would be obtained by a 10-crnt, j stamp tax on each legal document! requiring a notary seal. It did not ask for funds imposed by direct taxation When the report was read Repre- j tentative John D. T. Bold (Dem.).l Evansville, asked consideration of it ] he postponed indefinitely, its coauthor, Jacob Weiss <Dem.>, Indianapolis, asked the motion be tabled. Vote Is Even A voice vote was close with an i apparent edge to the friends of the hill. But a division showed only ! twenty for tabling the motion to table against twenty proponents. "Do you members want to go on j record as opposing unemployment i relief?" Weiss asked. "We haven't j adequate funds in any county to I give, unemployment relief to thou- | sands of distressed -and starving, j There are thousands of unemployed ! who have some little property and because of this they can not ob- ; tain township aid. We should help i these folks who. during the last ! ye.ar, have come in thousands to I soup kitchens here and in other urban centers. "For God's sake, reflect before you vote to postpone this bill,” Weiss pleaded. "If you adopt that motion you will kill the subject for the session and there can not be any relief.” Loral machinery to borrow! finance corporation funds and creation of a state slum clearance bureau cf five persons, under the state building council, already in exist-! once, is sought in the senate bill. Act for Slums’ End The bureau would make a statewide survey and recommend local pregrams of slum clearance. According to Senator C. Oliver Holmes (Rep,), Gary, the bill is designed along the lines of the New York law, and is “a fine bit of social legislation, badly needed at this time.” Senators joining with Holmes in introduction of the bill were Winfield Miller, Indianapolis; Harry M. Williams. Ft. Wayne, and Chester A. Ferkins, South Bend. According to Holmes, limited dividend corporations could be created locally to finance the new construction from the federal funds, but under the provision that “reasonable rentals" will prevail. “Little good can come from the abolition of slum areas unless those who live in them a.re provided with “better quarters,” he pointed out. TILSON TO RESIGN Former Leader of House to Practice Law. By I niter! Prr*• WASHINGTON. July 26,-RepiT-sentative John Q. Tilson (Rep., Conn.), former leader of house Republicans, who was defeated for that position last session by Representative Bertrand Snell (Rep.. N. Y.), has announced that hr will resign from congress. Tilsons announcement became public in a post-session issue of the Congressional Record. Tilson announced he would not be a candidate for re-election and would resign as soon as it could be done without causing his constituents undue expense in electing a successor. j For more than twenty-one years Tilson has represented Connecticut in the house. His announcement of retirement said this had been “at considerable personal sacrifice," and that he felt it necessary to resume i the practice of law to increase his income. RULES COPS CAN : T~RUN RAID’ ON FIGHT CALL Finding of Beer During Investiga- I tion No Case, Says Sheaffer. Police who find beer while in- j vestigating a report of a fight can t successfully maintain a prosecution on a blind tiger charge. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer held today. Blind tiger charges against Martin Mulkern. 226 East Vermont street, was dismissed as a result of the court's stand. Mulkern was arrested Monday when police were railed to the Vermont street address on a report that a woman was being beaten. Officers said they found Mrs. Ruth Richards suffering from scratches and she is said to have told them she wished to fi'e a liquor rharge against Mrs. Florence , Ruggles. Both were arrested on assault and battery charges which were dismissed when both refused to sign affidavits, Mulkern was found in the basement of the hAme. Police said they found ten pa’lons of heme brew in process of making, six quart battles cf beer and eight dozen empty quart bottles. i

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Ernestlna Calles and Thomas A. Robinson By f iiitnl I'rntt MEXICO CITY, July 26.—The former Ernestina Calles, daughter of General Piutarco Elias Calles, former president of Mexico, was married at Cuernavaca Monday night immediately after being divorced from Thomas A. Robinson, her American husband, the newspaper Excelsior Ssaid today. She was married to Jorge Fasquel, Vera Cruz merchant, the newspaper said.

Judge Lays Much Crime to Extreme Liquor Laws

Roughshod Father Cox Would Punish Bankers as Part of His Platform.

By l ini It'd Prr** NEW YORK. July 26—Urging drastic penalties for a few bankers and freely discussing his own presidential candidacy on a “jobless party” ticket, Father James R. Cox, pastor of St. Patrick's church. Pittsburgh, and leader of the "hunger march” last January, returned from Europe on the S. S. Majestic today. He was completing a pilgrimage to Vatican City. He said a convention of the “jobless party” would meet in St. Louis Aug. 17-18. to nominate him for president. Father Cox said he would make an active campaign and indicated his belief that he stood a good chance of being elected, emphasizing that 9,000,000 persons are unemployed and estimating an equal number on part time as potential voters for his cause. When asked the opinion of the pope. Father Cox declared that “It Is none of the pope's concern.” tt n u HE declared his belief that the government should take over banks, asserting that there were 4.000 bank failures in the United States last, year; that there had been only one bank failure in England and Canada: and that there had been no bank failures in China, “since Columbus discovered America.” “They cut their heads off over there," he said. His projected presidential campaign will be financed by units to be known as "Father Cox's blue shirts,” he said, describing them as units of fifty persons who would band together and finance their own activities. "On the liquor question,” he said, “the first thing to do is to give 'em jobs. Then give 'em the money so they ran buy liquor, and we'll give ’em the liquor.” r n o DISCUSSING the presidential candidates of the two major parties he said: "One is a weak sister and we know all about the other one" Asked which he considered the "weak sister,” Cox answered. "Why, Frankin D.. of course.” LESLIE IGNORES PLEA Denies He'll Deliver New Legislative Address. Report that Governor Harry G. Leslie was preparing to deliver a second message to the legislature, setting out six points to be covered by adequate legislation within the next six days, were denied by Leslie today. Effort to bring him into the fray by a senate resolution, introduced by Senator John L. Niblack (Rep.t. also was thwarted at the morning session. It provided that the Governor present an administration program to the legislature and bills converting it into law be taken over by a joint steering committee. "There is nothing to the story that I am about to deliver another message,” Governor Leslie asserted. “So far no such plan is afoot. I do not know whether I shall go back up there with more advice or not. I haven't quite made up my mind whether it is by place to do so.” PERSHING JOINS DRIVE TO CUT PENSION WASTE General Will Work to Sliee Payment* to “Non-Disabled Veterans."' By I nited Prr** NEW YORK. July 26.—General John J. Pershing today allied himself with a group vigorously campaigning to obtain reductions of payments to so-called "non-dis-abled veterans" of the World war and Spanish-American war. According to Paris dispatches, he said he intends to reply favorably to an invitation to join the advisory board of the National Economy League, which began organizing today a drive to eliminate $450,000,000 a year spent in veterans relief. The league is a non-partisap organization of citizens anff veterans formed last May to obtain reduction of “wasteful and unnecessary governmeiyal expenditures to compel a reduction iu taxation.”

Create Contempt for Other Statutes, Says Baker in Speakeasy Holdup Case. Blame for much crime and lawlessness was laid to “extreme liquor laws” by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker Monday. In a short lecture from the bench, the judge declared “stringent liquor laws have created contempt for other laws.” Sentencing four youths convicted of robbing Elnis Sheel, 26 East Fourteenth street, proprietor of an alleged speakeasy, Baker continued: “These boys reasoned that it would be easy to rob this man of liquor, because he would be afraid to call police. From plans to get liquor, it was not far to plans for taking money. “These boys would not have robbed a filling station, or a store. “They saw (hat this man was making some illegal money and thought they might as well have some of it.” Baker explained the ease did not warrant high penalties for robbery. He found* the quartet guilty of grand larceny and sentenced each to the state reformatory 1 to 10 years. The youths are: Harry Burke, 20, of 5818 Washington boulevard; Herbert Owens, 21, of 540 Somerset avenue; Ernest Joliffe, 25, of 1338 Central avenue, and Carl McWilliams, 22. of 1159 King avenue. DELAY BUDGET CUTS County Chiefs Mark Time on Pruning Job. With county commissioners waiting to see “what the legislature does” before filing a budget request, it appeared today annual pruning of 1933 county appropriation schedules may be delayed several weeks. Councilmen can not start their economy drive, which doubtless will mean wholesale slashing of budget requests, until commissioners survey 1933 appropriation figures. An unprecedented amount of wrangling over valuation figures, yet unfixed, also will delay work of the budget makers. The board of review, which adjusts property assessments, has an extension of time for completing its work and will not adjourn until Aug. 9. Meanwhile, twenty-two county officials who demanded budget increases for 1933 are the target of criticism from groups fighting for tax reduction.

Corner Horner Mother Goose in Reverse as Cops Find Cabman in Gutter.

INSTED of sitting in a corner. Jack Horner was lying in a gutter when police found him before dawn today after the taxicab he was driving leaped a curb and came to rest on the courthouse lawn against a torpedo used as a recruiting display of the United States marine corps. Two officers cruising at Washington and Alabama streets saw the taxi whiz past the intersection at high speed. An instant later it had leaped the curb to the lawn. Search of the cab and shrubbery failed to reveal Horner. He was found later in a gutter in the 300 block. North Pennsylvania street, police said. No torpedoes are likely to get in Horner’s way for the next six months. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer fined him SIOO today, sentenced him to the penal farm for 180 days and revoked his driver's license for one year, in a drunken driving charge. Horner's hogie is said to be on the Brookville road two miles east of Irvington, but he told police he lives at 902 East Eleventh street.

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BRITAIN PLANS TO ‘PRESSURE’ U. S, PLANTS Empire Parley Talks Ways and Means to Force Use of Goods. BY CHARLES M. M’CANN t'ni'.ed Press Staff Correspondent OTTAWA, Ontano. July 26. Plans to force use of empire products upon more thSn 1,002 branches of United Slates factories in Canada, and to substitute coal from Wales for anthracite from Pennsylvania were discussed informally her 6 tojiay by perplexed empire economic conference delegates. The delegates, working in committees and subcommittees, arc fearful lest one dominion be given a trade preference that may injure another; that their own producers back home may lose a foreign customer. If the coal deal should be completed, the state would lose about one-lourth of their export coal business to Canada, about a half million tons of coal trade. Great Brjtain now furnishes about 900,000 tons annually. Heavy Loss Faced by U. S. The loss to the United States in dollars and cents trade, should the deal go through as planned, would be about $3,500,000, enough to keep many a Pennsylvania or West Virginia coal miner's family in winter food. Increased export of Canadian lumber to. the mother country is the price this country expects Britain }o pay for discarding some of the United States coal. As for the branch factories established here at a cost of a billion and a half to evade high tariffs imposed against United States products after passage of the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill, they are at the mercy of the Dominion. The plan is to require that at least 50 par cent of the value of the product manufactured must be paid out in British empire labor or British empire raw materials. Make Them Valueless The teeth in the proposal is the plan to refuse these branches the lower tariff rates granted to Empire Producers. Failure to obtain these rates would force the plants to close, and make them practically valueless to present owners. Most of the $1,500,000,000 invested in branch plants is for the manufacture of automobiles or accessories. chiefly tires. General Motors and Ford are reported actively fighting the proposal. Indication has been given that India, the colony-Dominion, and the small colonies will protest against any trade preferences to Dominions that will interfere with their own p-ofitable foreign trade.

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Talking Over Troubles Keeps ' Thousands From Suicide Fate

New York's Save-a*Life League Preserves Lives by Advice. BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT I'nlttd rr<*n Staff Corrr.mtndrnt NEW YORK. July 26—Ten to fifteen men and women will enter a busy midtown office today—to announce that they are thinking of committing suicide, and would like to talk it over. The number almost has donbled in the last year of the depression. Two thousand would-be suicides applied for aid at the offices of the National Save A Life League here in 1931. In the seven months of 1932 to date, that number already has been equalled—and the list grows daily. Las- week, eight persons, all men, committed suicide in New York City, three by hanging, two by gas, two by leaping from bridges and one by poison. Forty-five more attempted suicide unsuccessfully, most of them boys and girls in their 20's. Meanwhile, seventy persons visited the league office during the week, told their problems and were dissuaded from their intentions. The Rev. Harry M. Warren, director and founder of the league, has dedicated his life to that work for the last twenty-five years, ever since a sermon in which he offered to help those thinking of self- destruction. Ten persons came to him for aid then, and the work of the league began. Since then he has advised 25.000. Today he directs the work from his suite of offices, employs ten persons including four advisors, and maintains a “rest home” on a beautiful estate at Hastings-on-Hudson, where destitute and unhappy men may recover their strength while the league seeks jobs for them. “Painful though the realization may be, suicide is more common among the educated classes than among the illiterate masses,” Dr. Warren says Financial reasons, nerve strain, frustrated love, physical illness and fear of discovery, take their toll. BATTLES DRY AGENTS New Yorker Charged With Liquor Transporting Nabbed in Lafayette. By United I’rcr* LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 26.—A man who said he was Shannon, 48, South Senaca*. N. Y., was held here today on a federal charge of transporting liquor. He was arrested after a gun battle with Thomas Scott and Gilbert Bates, federal dry agents. United States Commissioner Morris R. Parks set Shannon’s hearing for Aug. 6. A man riding with Shannon escaped.

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M'NUTT TALKS TO DEMOCRATS Governor Candidate Sees Victory in November. Effective organization will give the Democratic party a victory by j 250.900 votes in Indiana at the November election, Paul V. McNutt, j candidate for Governor, declared ! Monday night in addressing a meet- ' ing of the Young Democrats' Club at the Lincoln. He said the party's : Marion county margin will be 50.000. McNutt was honor guest and principal speaker at the meeting. Others on the program were R. Earl Peters, state chairman; H. Nathan Swaim. county chairman, and Francis J. McCarthy, who presided. More than 300 men and women attended. The present campaign, McNutt

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declared, is the most important “within the memory qf any of us present here.” "This campaign,” he continued. | “is important not only to us as j Democrats, but to the entire people, jWe owe the people anew deal | through the application of tried Democratic principles. For once a great party has the courage to take a stand on all the questions of public interest. After success at the : polls we will put in operation the principles enunciated in our platform.” Discussing the opposition party, McNutt declared: “The Republican party has a campaign of the three graces.’ In i Harding,’ they had faith. In Coolj idge, they had hope and in Hoover ! they have charity.” “Teddy” Not to Aid Hoover Drive By I nitfd Pres* MANILA. July 26.—Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,, governor-general of the Philippines, does not plan to return to the United States to campaign for President Hoover, he ini formed the United Press today.

JULY 26, 1932

'MUNCIE COP'S MURDER LAID TO CITY MAN • ~ Campbell Admits Slaying of Officer. Reports Chief of Police. ! By Timr* Special SPRINGFIELD. 0.. July 26.—Russell W. Campbell of Indianapolis, ; held here with Sherman Clemen?, also of Indianapolis, has confessed to slaving James O. McCracken, Muncle dnd.) policeman, according to Frank Masssey, Muncie police chief. Massey announced the confession after questioning Campbell. The prisoner and Clemons are held as suspects in the slaying of Charles Holt, Springfield policeman, and the | serious wounding of another officer, William McCutcheon. Campbell, according to authorities, j.hls made a statement in which he admits being an occoupant of an automobile, from which the shot fatal to Holt was fired, but asserts that Clemons did the shooting. Clemons | denies this. The two men are suspected of being members of a gang which has committed several theater robberies over a period of two years. The list j includes a robbery at Richmond, in ; which loot was $700: Marion. $900; Newcastle. $500: South Bend. $300; Evansville. $l,lOO, and Ft. Wavne. $1,900. McCracken was killed April 24 while guarding two messengers carrying $747 theater receipts. Holt and McCutcheon were fired upon June 29 when they attempted to search an automobile in which two men were riding. In a struggle which followed the slaying of Holt, McCutcheon obtained the coat of one of the men. It contained an automobile driver's license issued to Russell W. Campbell, 1641 North Capitol avenue, Indianapolis. MRSTw. G. LYTLE DIES Former City Woman Will Be Buried at South Bend. Mrs. Pearl Lytle, wife of William | G. Lytle, former commercial survey ! engineer for the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, died Monday night | in South Bend, where the family moved in 1930 after residing in Indianapolis twenty-three years. Funeral services and burial will | be at South Bend Wednesday afternoon. While residing here, Mrs. Lytle was affiliated with North Park chap- ! ter, Order of Eastern Star, and the North Methodist church. Besides the husband, she leaves i four children, Mrs. J. Harding McCarty, Hammond: Mary Margaret, | Rosalind and Joseph Lytle, at home; two sisters, Mrs. L. J. Francis, Canton, 0., and Mrs. A. P. Al- ; len, Ford City. Pa., and a brother, ! Frank C. Bole, Canton.