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POLICE FIRE ON BONUS MARCHERS

CITY, COUNTY, U. S. WINK AT LAW VIOLATION Investigation of ‘Vanishing’ p edera! Booze Proves Sorry Flop. SUMNER DODGES ISSUE Sheriff Does Nothing in Dicks Case; Morrissey Ignores Fake Raid. Investigations of alleged major law violations and corruption in the core of city, county and federal governments are dormant today, while officials, with powers to halt the irregularities, declined to take action. Several times, in the last three months, improper activities and alleged law violations by .employes and leaders of governmental departments have been revealed. In each instance, however, officials have made but minor attempts to uncover facts, although their apparent negligence has brought a storm of protest from all parts of the city and county. First in importance in the unheeded violations is the “disappearance” of 1,200 pints of whisky, worth several thousand dollars, from the basement of the federal building. This liquor was stored with other stocks after federal dry agents confiscated it from a freight car en route to Chicago from Evansville. At Chicago the liquor was scheduled to go through various cutting processes to be resold to prohibition law violators at gangster prices. Search Apparently Dropped Investigators were brought from Washington. George R. Jeffrey, district attorney, evinced intex-est in the probe. There was a shakeup in the local prohibition division. The investigation faltered; then halted entirely. Since then neither Jeffrey nor any other federal official in Indianapolis has developed any results from clews which might lead to capture of those guilty of the booze steal, similar to the Squibb $225,000 liquor theft in 1926.. Inactivity in the investigation has continued despite the city-wide reports that much of the stolen liquor was used in entertainments at an expensive, near-downtown apartment. A more recent revelation is that Charles Edward (Red) Dicks, serving a six-month booze sentence in the county jail, is charged with havng almost “absolute freedom” from jail while a member of the "chain” gang. Sumner Dodges Issue Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner, ht the insistence of The Times, opened an investigation into the situation, which resulted in his assertion that “there's nothing to it,” after questioning persons accused. The charges not only accused Dicks of leaving the '‘chain” gang to visit his wife and drive his new car in various parts of the city, but also with continuing his liquor business without surveillance by county authorities. Among charges against Dicks was one that he had delivered booze to deputy sheriffs in a downtown hotel during one of his absences from the county jail. Dicks and Roy Delvin, county maintenance man, who supervised the “chain” gang’s work, denied allegations that Dicks ever had left the gang. Later Delvin admitted taking Dicks twice to his home on Creston drive. However, it was learned that Dicks, shortly after his arrest in March on the booze charge, had moved from Creston drive. This information, turned over to Sumner by Tne Times, failed to bring continuance of the investigation. Suspended for Two Days However, it was learned today that John Boyce, chief jailer, had been suspended for two days by Ralph Hitch, chief deputy on orders of Sumner while the latter was in Chicago recently. The suspension was revoked when Sumner returned. # Boyce denied to The Times today that he ever had been suspended. Efforts to reopen the Dicks probe with another check of court records, which Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer admits were altered, have failed. The records read that Dicks was to serve six months on the state penal farm. At the county jail, the records read the term be served in jail. Meanwhile, Chief Mike Morrissey, who returned Monday from a vacation in the north part of the country, has taken no action on the alleged fake raid staged by Sergeant Patsy McMahon and his friends on a barbecue on Road 31 at Seventyfifth street. The raid took place almost three weeks ago. The case was probed by feder.l authorities and city detectives. Morrissey heard the story from the operator and an employe of the place. They said they were the victims of the alleged fake raid. Morrissey also heard stories of "''Mahon and his friends that the ti viible 1.; I been ™-ovoked by John McCrady, employe, \..,0 accused McMahon of “shaking me down for §6OO on a liquor load.

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy, with probably thunderstorms tonight or Friday; cooler Friday.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 67

Hundreds Hurl Bricks at Cops in Pitched Battle as Bonus / Army' Evictions Are Begun

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JUST go some place and look “real hungry”—that is the way to eat when you have no money. The advice is that of Geraldine Davis, 21, who was asleep Wednesday night at the Hawthorne yards in a flat car loaded

PRETTY BLOND SUES PHYSICIAN Asks $25,000 Heart Balm From Doctor. Silence in which a pretty blond music teacher awaited for foui-teen years her marriage to a wealthy east side physician, continued today as the plaintiff in a $25,000 breach of promise suit refei*red all questions to her lawyer. Secrecy also veiled the complaint filed in superior court two today. The complaint filled half a page, and only stated that the defendant proposed to the plaintiff in 1918 and that the marriage never culminated. Miss Hazel Julia Fink, 4503 East Washington street, charges in the complaint that Dr. Manlon E. Beverland, whosce office is at 3036 East Washington street, proposed fourteen years ago. “I have nothing to say,” she said when asked regarding the suit. “My attorney will make any statements that are to be made.” Dr. Beverland, however, declared no settlement would be made. He said facts of the case would come out at the trial —“if it goes to trial.” He indicated that a settlement outside of court was expected “It’s just a plain case of blackmail,’’ he charged. “The suit is about something that happened seven or eight years ago. She won’t get a dime from me.”

MINERS HELD PRISONERS IN SHAFT; 1,500 PICKETS MASS AT DIXIE BEE PIT

By Time * Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., July 28. Threat of a bloody conflict arose again in Indiana’s strife-torn mine district today, when a crowd of union miners and their sympathizers, estimated from 1.500 to 2.000 assembled at the Dixie Bee mine, twelve miles south of here, near Pimento. Armed with clubs and other weapons, with many reported to be carrying guns, the crowd held members of the mine’s night shift prisoners in the pit. Sheriff Dreher, with several deputies, attempted to disperse the throng, with no success. About thirty-five men, who went

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with steel rails when a railroad detective awoke her by yelling: “Get to hell out of here.” Geraldine, dressed in overalls and shirt, had been mistaken for a boy. The officer saw his mistake. "Oh, beg your pardon,” he said. tt tt tt

HE turned Geraldine over to police who are holding her on a vagrancy charge. Officers doubt that she is 21. They believe 17 is nearer her correct age and they don’t like her hazy answers to questions. “Back in the mountains around Elkins. W. Va., is definite enough for the girl. That is where she says her father was killed seventeen years ago; whei-e her mother died seven years ago and where a brother, John, lives. “John and I have made several bumming trips to the coast,” the girl remarked today. Her bed of steel rails was not uncomfortable, she said. Explaining absence of a hat, she remarked: “I just tie a handkerchief around my head to keep the cinders out.” tt tt tt THE problem of eating without money was dismissed airily. “Go some place and look real hungry. They’ll feed you,” is Geraldine’s method. “Smile,” a photographer said. “Who, me? Why the hell should I smile? Give me a cigaret.” “ Wet or Dry?” Demands Cannon By United Press PITMAN GROVE, N. J., July 28. —All congressional candidates in the coming election should be required to make a fiat statement of their position on submission, modification or repeal of the eighteenth amendment, Bishop James Cannon Jr., said in a speech here Wednesday night.

to work between 6 and 8 o’clock Wednesday night, are virtually without food, and fear to emerge. Several of them are reported to be armed. Only a few guards are stationed at the shaft. Efforts of operators of the Hoosier mine and their miners, involved in similar trouble last week, to obtain promise of protection from Governor Harry G. Leslie were fruitless, at a conference in Indianapolis Wednesday. The Governor would give them no satisfaction, and is reported to have asked “more time to think the matter over,” before taking action on returning troops to the troubled district.

Fight Starts After Veterans Are Removed From Old Armory to Be Razed. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 28. —Police fired at veterans of the bonus army in renewed disorders here today. At least two shots were fired. Additional police were ordered to the scene. The shooting occurred at the entrance of one of the buildings from which treasury agents earlier in the day had evicted about 100 veterans. An attempt was made to rush the entrance. The policeman guarding the doorway fired the shots. One man, believed to have been a veteran, was carried away, apparently wounded. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 28Several hundred bonus army veterans rushed police lines today behind government property which treasury agents had repossessed this morning, seized an ammunition dump of bricks from demolished buildings, and began a wild barrage. Disturbers were carried off so fast in police patrols that it was impossible to tell how many arrests were made before the brick battle ended. It lasted about ten minutes. Several policemen were hurt so severely they had to go to a hospital Several others were cut and bleeding as were a number of the marchers.

Battle Near Capitol Superintendent Glassford announced this afternoon that police and treasury agents would hold the government building, a former national guard armory, “repossessed” from bonus army veterans, but that there would be no attempt at further evictions today. The battle of bricks took place near the stately Capitol building. A general mobilization of police was ordered at the riot scene. Under command of Brigadier-General Pelham Glassford, police chief, hundreds of bonus marchers converged on the point of the disorder. Many had arrived when the surprise rush against comparatively weak police lines in the rear of the disputed area put the bonus men in possession of the bricks. An effort was made to raise the Anacostia drawbridge to prevent Commander George R. Thompson’s 5.000 men, living on the Anacostia flats, from joining the melee. Too many already had reached the bridge and it was impossible to raise it. “Arms” Are Seized Commander Walter Waters had counselled the Pennsylvania avenue squatters early today to leave the prescribed buildings without disorder, and most of them followed his advice. Bonus “MP's” disarmed their own men at the Anacostia camp. The seized “arms” were clubs. Authorized leaders of the bonus army offered every assistance to police authorities in quelling the disturbance. Glassford took personal command of his bluecoated troops. He occupied the lea of a shanty in company with a squad of police. A brick hit Glassford in the chest. Policemen were bowled over here and there by the lumpy missiles. Scores of men were seized and hauled away during the skirmishing. Some estimates of the number of persons gathered at the riot scene were as high as 5,000. Brick Hits Glassford Glassford, Waters and other bonus army leaders sought privacy in one of the veterans hovels for a conference when the fighting was ended. Glassford went in minus his gold badge of office. The brick had knocked it off. office. In the Waters-Glassford conference, the former blamed the socalled “left wing” for the riot. Waters said he could not control the men. Glassford warned him that the bonus army situation was becoming increasingly serious and that police could not be expected indefinitely to restrain themselves. Attorney-General WiUiam Mitchell today announced that the veterans must immediately evacuate all federal property or “suffer the full penalty of the law.” The eviction plan was worked out, it was understood, partly in the conference held at the White House Wednesday with President Hoover, at which War Secretary Hurley Treasury Secretary Mills and Assistant Treasury Secretary Heath were present.

SENATE VOTES FOR SPUT OF HIGHWAY FOND Majority Is in Rebellion Against Veto Edict of Governor. CLASH ON JUDGES’ PAY 9 House Stages Angry Clash Over Proposals for Salary Slicing. Despite the political power of the Indiana highway commission, the board today lost its first senate fight to preserve the $24,000,000 gas tax and auto license fund. At the same time, the house of representatives was embroiled in controversy over proposals to slice salaries of Marion county judges and court attaches. Meanwhile, both houses continued their tax programs, ignoring the threats Governor Harry G. Leslie made Wednesday in his second “message.” Leslie, who declared he would veto measures not agreeable to him, apparently had succeeded only in breaking contact with Republicans and strengthening house Democrats. Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush, Republican, and president of the senate, today took the stand against Leslie, which was being followed by his opponents in his own party. Slap at Leslie “The senate will continue to pass bills and send them down to Leslie’s office for Henry Marshall to veto,” he said. Marshall, Leslie’s mentor, was on hand Wednesday when the Governor prepared his message. Without debating the question, thirty-one senators calmly voted to accept the house bill providing for a 50-50 split of the highway department fund, which commissioners and paving interests are fighting to retain. The senate also rejected anew measure amended to save the state highway department funds. The bills were brought before the senate on reports from the special committee appointed to work out a compromise plan. Majority members of the committee offered a compromise whereby the license fees would be split, but the commission could keep the gasoline tax by taking over 20 per cent more county roads on Jan. 1, 1933. Salary Cut Fight Blocked Further battle over the county salary cuts was blocked by the gavel in the house. With charges of Representative Fred Galloway (Dem.), Indianapolis that “unclean hands” are responsible for the salary trimming proposal, the house received from committee four bills drastically reducing pay rolls of the nine courts. Taking the floor as a heated debate ensued from the committee report, Galloway hurled the charge of “unclean hands” at Representative Albert Walsman (Dem.), Indianapolis, author of the measures. “Representative Walsman, we all know, comes here with unclean hands ,” Galloway declared. His assertion, however, was drowned by the clang of the gavel in hands of Speaker Walter Myers. “The gentleman is impugning motives of Representative Wals(Tum to Page 7) STORMS TO HIT CITY Thunder Showers Probable Tonight, Says Weather Man. Temperatures today and Friday will be around normal for this time of year, according to J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief. The high Wednesday was 83. which is about one degree above the seasonal average. Slightly cooler weather is forecast for Friday and thunder storms are probable tonight. Armington said the maximum temperature Friday will be about 82.

WOMAN KEEPS DEATH THREAT BY ATTEMPTING TO END LIFE IN COURT

Swallowing a quantity of poison, Mrs. Kate Norris, 1528 Blaine avenue, today attempted to take her life in municipal court, in keeping with her death threat made several weeks ago when she was arrested on a booze charge. Mrs. Norris, the mother of an 8-year-old boy, who told schoolmates his mother gave him “several slugs of alky,” took the poison as she stood before Judge William H. Shaeffer. Sergeant Wayne Bear, who led the raiding squad, was testifying that he found a quantity of alcohol at her home on Blaine avenue. Suddenly, Bear turned and yelled to another officer: “Watch her, there’s something in her hand.” By the time the officers could reach her, Mrs. Norris had swallowed tablets from a bottle which she had concealed in her purse. A previous attempt of Mrs. Norris to commit suicide followed the raid at her home July 2, when Bear told her “You’re not fit to be bringing

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William G. Chandler Jumps 8 Floors to Death at Downtown Building. Motive for the suicide Wednesday of William G. Chandler, 63, Chicago broker and former Indianapolis resident, who leaped from the eighth floor of the Odd Fellow building, remained in doubt today, relatives asserting that his health was good and that so far as they know, he had no financial worries. Mrs. Jewel Chandler, the widow, is a guest at the home • of her mother, Mrs. Matilda Campbell, 214 North Randolph street, who, speaking today for her daughter, said that so far as the widow knew, Mr. Chandler was not in financial difficulty. Inquest is being held today, following preliminary investigation by (Turn to Page 7)

DEATH AUTO DRIVttFREED Witnesses Live Far Away; Case Dismissed. Prosecution on a manslaughter charge resulting from a fatal automobile accident is a remote possibility, provided the witnesses are persons living at points distant from Indianapolis. So today Thomas O’Connor, 22, of 1423 North Pennsylvania street, stands absolved of all legal stigma due to a manslaughter charge which followed an automobile collision on June 19 in which Miss Beverly O’Brien, 22, of Highbore, S. D„ lost her life. The accident occurred on the National road, east of Indianapolis. The charge was dismissed on Wednesday in the court of Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Impossibility of attendance of witnesses living in distant cities and a recommendation of the coroner, Dr. W. E. Arbuckle, led to the dismissal motion, according to Jacob Steinmetz, deputy prosecuting attorney. Dismissal was without prejudice, Steinmetz said, which leaves the way open for grand jury action. O’Connor had been drinking to a slight extent, Dr. H. N. Harger of the Indiana university school of medicine stated, following a blood test shortly after the accident. Newspaper Man Is Dead By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind., July 28.—William T. Stott, 65, Spanish-American war veteran, once city editor of the Chicago Tribune and later managing editor of the Portland (Ore.) Oregonian, died Wednesday night after a one-year illness. The widow and one son survive him. Funeral services will be held Friday.

up your boy.” Norman, the son, is in the juvenile detention home. Mrs. Norris recovered from tne first attempt and had been released on bond. After taking the poison today, she was given first aid and taken to the city hospital. When Mrs. Norris attempted to take her life, her sister, Mrs. Irene Carr of Michigan City, was standing beside her. After the act, a woman in the courtroom, then in an uproar, screamed: “Why did you do it? Why did you do it?” Sheaffer withheld action in the case. Previously, Mrs. Norris had served thirty days in the women’s prison on a booze charge and only had been at her home a few days after serving the term when the last raid took place. Officers traced booze complaints to her home after the principal of a west side school heard children talking about Mrs. Norris’ boy. The pupils said the boy told them his mother “always gives me a slug of alky before I go to school.” ii*

UPWARD MARCH CONTINUES FOR STOCKS, GRAINS Wall Street, Timidly but Hopefully, Echoes Bull-Throated Roar That Shook Nation in 1929; Trading Heaviest of Months. WHEAT GAINS THREE DAYS STRAIGHT! Rising Prices Bring Cheer to Farmers of Nation; Virtually All of Agriculture’s Commodities Quitting Low Levels. By United Press BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT ruir A fin T,ibr 9fi fnm. United Press Staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, July 28.—Combine harvesters, cutting wide swaths through fields of golden grain, sang a cheerful song today in the ears of farmers—for overnight the paper value oft he nation’s wheat supply had soared $18,500,000. Like cheer met the eyes of the livestock producers as they surveyed cattle and sheep on the ranges and hogs rooting in their pens—for the value of all livestock today stood $50,000,000 or more above recent low quotations. The wheat pit roared with predepression gusto today as wheat prices went up for the third successive day, reaching the highest levels in two months. Public Back In Market A last minute flood of profittaking sales cut the advances, but at the close the prices were % to 1 cent higher. Money from the long-closed purses of the general public poured into wheat purchases. It was hailed by traders on the Chicago Board of Trade as a sign that public confidence in basic commodities had been largely restored. There was more general speculative buying than in weeks. At the close, wheat prices were. Old July, 51 cents, up 1 cent; old September, 5214 c, up 94, and December, 55!4c, up 94. At the peak, old September wheat sold for 5318 cents a bushel. It was the highest price since June 4. Trading Volume Expands Other grains spurted in accord, but corn fell off in late trading. Corn closed unchanged to % cents lower while oats were % to % cents higher and rye was % to 1 cent higher. The volume of trading expanded with the rising tide of optimism. Today’s total was expected to compare with that of Wednesday, when 37,233,000 bushels of wheat changed hands. That was almost twice the total for the same day last week, when 19,865,000 bushels were traded, and more than twice the 15,267,000 bushels that changed hands on the same day last year. The growing optimism of the farming communities, which saw in rising prices a chance to pay up debts and buy much needed supplies, found reflection in statements of great business and industrial leaders. The fact that virtually all agricultural commodities apparently are slowly moving away from depression levels, and removing many threats of bankruptcy and foreclosure, was greeted with enthusiasm in city and country alike. Bullish Reports From Abroad The advance was attributed largely to bullish crop reports from Canada and Europe, where considerable reductions in previous yield estimates are expected. L. A. Downs, president of the Illinois Central railroad, said reports from throughout the rail system, indicated “a distinct change toward better sentiment as to business outlook.” His words were echoed by Sewell L. Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward Company, great mail order house, who, in a statement to his managers, assured them that signs of a business upturn were apparent. Bradstreet’s commercial review found similar rounds for optimism. “Sentiment in business and finances has improved,” the review said. “Taking the west, in all, there is more cheerful sentiment than has existed in a long time. “Indications are for a slow but steady gain. Money conditions are improving.” Patrick H. Joyce, president of the Chicago & Great Western railroad, predicted the fall would see general improvement of conditions. Don’t Bea Pig, You Pig! By United Press HOLTON, Kan., July 28.—Harry Berridge decided it was time to wean his pigs, and shut up their mothers leaving the pigs at large. They adpoted several purebred dairy cows as stepmothers. When milking time came there was no milk. The pigs paid with their liberty. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 68 10 a. m 81 7a. m 69 11 a. m 84 Ba. m 74 12 (noon).. 86 Ba. m., ••A 78 ip. m..,.. 88 j

ETXRA PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

NEW YORK, July Timidly, but hopefully, the stock market echoed today; the bull throated roar that shook the nation in 1929. Heavy buying swamped the exchange at the opening, 750,000 shares —equal to a full day’s trading a few weeks ago—changing hands in the first hour. Prices were touching the highest points since May 23. Millions of dollars in open market values were added to leading stocks. The clattering tickers fell two minutes behind, while A. T. and TANARUS., rising 1% to 84 V 4, led heavy trading in other shares. Spurred by the steadily rising market of the last few days, and encouraged by renewed strength in commodities, almost 800 brokers were on the floor when the great bell of the exchange clanged its three sharp strokes at 10 a. m. and the market opened. Here in the great hall, almost six stories high and a city block wide, 2,500 persons thronged the floor in noisy confusion. The brokers clustered about the horse shoe trading posts, the 400 pages weaving their way through the throng. Not the Roar of 1929 One hundred ticket operators and 1,200 telephone clerks added to the uproar and confusion. Ten minutes before the market opened the excitement had begun. Down from New England, in irom the west, up from Memphis and Chattanooga, the orders of a nation were flooding in again. Clerks in brokerage offices, catching the overnight wires, leaped to telephones to call the floor brokers. The babble of voices blended, merged into a steady hum on the floor below. But the roar was not the roar of 1929. It was muted, softer, slower in tempo than that hideous tumult which had rung through that hall in October three years ago. The frantic clamor of the great bull market which echoed even into the streets beyond was only a faint echo in today’s activity. And the Rush Is On Ten a. m.—The gongs are sounding. There across the room, the dancing tape, enlarged, is mirrored on its flowing, translux screen. Louisville Nashville, 100 shares, 1314, unchanged, opens the day. One hundred General Baking preferred, 100 Minneapolis Moline, 100 Best & Cos., 100 Missouri, Kansas & Texas at 3% —no, another 100 at 4, that’s better—look, 1,000 shares are coming up—Radio at s ls, but it’s unchanged. Another 1,000. It’s General Motors at 9%, up %; A. T. & TANARUS„ another 1,000, up 9s; and the market rush is on. By noon Du Pont was well in motion, up 1 The rails had joined the march. New York Central was up a point, Atchison IV B , Union Pacific up 194, the long disheartened railroad stockholders buying gingerly on news of car loadings and reopened factories. They’re Buying Hopes These were not profits men were buying, but equities, not pieces of paper alone, but hopes, the hopes for grain trains rolling down across the northwest over Union Pacific tracks, livestock moving east by Atchison. At 1?30, transactions stood at 2,100,000 shares. Obviously the market would top the highest previous day of the year 2,600,000 shares on Feb. 13, five dreary months ago. Brokers were predicting a 3,000,000share day. And still the orders poured in. Flurries of'profit-taking swelled the turnover, as doubters took their one and two points and quit. But new buyers were found and again leadars moved on to new highs. Market Steady at 2 A. T. & T. stood at 88 at 1:30, up 5% points, adding it was estimated $102,620,000 to the open market value of the stock, held by 647,000 persons in this country and abroad. Union Pacific had gained 4 points by then, Atchison nearly 3.. Allied Chemical had made a high of 56%, up 4. At 2 the market hung steady, prices unchanged, the flow of selling and buying surging to and fro indeterminately. But the pace has slackened. Hot, weary, the brokers