Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1932 — Page 3

AUG. 4, 1932

BILL ABOLISHING COMMISSION IS SENT TO DEATH House Kills Combs Measure to Wipe Out Public Service Board. Because utilities would be permitted to operate without state regulation, the house of representatives today killed the Combs bill to abolish service commission. Although the house almost Unanimously favored abolishment of the commission, the bill was defeated because it provided no substitute control for utilities. Attempt to amend the measure to begin enforcement of the act in 1933. after substitute control measures could be enacted by the next legislature was defeated when proponents of the bill urged abolishment of the commission be left to the 1933 general assembly. Weiss Leads Oppositoin Representative Jacob Weiss (Dem.), Indianapolis, led the opposition with the declaration that passage of the bill would ‘ create a chaotic condition," leaving utilities to operate with "free reign and no government supervision.” The house and senate today jointly moved to recall from Governor Harry G. Leslie the gas tax and license fee redistribution bills, parts of which were held unconstitutional by Attorney-General James M. Ogden following passage. The bills would increase shares of cities and towns by one-fourth, and would reduce share of the state highway commission in the same amount. Favor Chain Tax Bill The house ways and means committee reported for passage the ; amended chain store tax law, under which companies now operating more than twenty stores, would pay ; $l5O tax on each store, instead of j the present $25 tax. A senate bill providing for creation of a state purchasing board was defeated when the house moved indefinite postponement. , The house received for passage a bill which would deny aid to persons who refuse to work for trustees' poor supplies. Senate Bill Killed Under lash of being a "new tax burden on the home owner,” the senate bill providing for a 50 cent filing lee tax on each SIOO of mortgage filings, went to its death in the house by indefinite postponement. It would have raised $7,000.000 annually, its supporters contended. The house also moved forward to third reading the unemployment insurance bill which would give $lO weekly to unemployed persons for only ten weeks in a year. One accomplishment of the special session became a reality today when Leslie signed the McKesson bill suspending for two years the 2cent educational improvement fund levy. FAMILY BREAD-WINNER IS P\JT ON PROBATION Youth, Only One of Six Employed, Is Freed After Accident. Pleas of being the only employed member of a family of six resulted today in Carl Ingels, 17, of 1133 North Keystone avenue, being placed | on probation after being fined $5 and failure to stop at a preferential street and displaying improper license plates. Ingels was in court of Special Judge Paul Rochford after an accident Wednesday at Park avenue and Twenty-fifth street, where Ingel’s car colliided with the automobile of Carl D. Spencer, 1959 Hillside avenue. Spencer’s car was demolished. The sedan driven by Ingels bore license plates issued for a sedan of another make. Judgment was withheld on the improper plate charge. Mrs. Minnie C. Dodson, 3330 North j Meridian street, was fined $5 and costs for failure to observe an au- j tomatic traffic signal at Twenty- j second and Delaware streets. The j costs were suspended. STEEL JOB FOR LAMONT Former Commerce Secretary to Be j Named Institute President. I Hilcd Press NEW YORK. Aiig. 4.—Robert P. Lamont, who resigned as secretary j of commerce Wednesday, will be | elepted president of the American j Iron and Steel Institute at its meet- j ing of directors on Aug. 18, Charles; M. Schwab announced today. ■ Schwab, as chairman, will remain as chief executive officer.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen ! belong to: Charles F. Hershey. 307 South Grav I street. Oldsmobile tudor, 116-092, from 323 ; East North street. Carl Johnson. 2533 North New Jersey I street. Studebaker coach. 59-951. from I Sixty-second street and Allisonville road. ] O B. Ball, 1117 Hoyt avenue. Chevrolet coupe. 112-021. from Tenth street and Sterling avenue.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: F. Bur rail, Noblesviiie. Ind . Marmon sedan, found In garage at 2329 North Illinois street, stripped. Lester Koelling. 859 West drive Woodrud Place. Chrysler sedan, found at New York and Illinois streets. R. M Newllng, 878 Middle drive. Woodruff place. Chevrolet coach, found at | Georgia and Illinois streets. Studebaker sedan, no license, no certlfl- I rate of title, found in front of 2427 North- ] western avenue Chevrolet sedan, no license plates, found i at Chesapeake and Illinois streets. Ford sedan, no license plates, no certlfl- j cate of title, found at Pleasant run \ boulevard and Raymond street.

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This is the second of a series of articles outlining the probable consequences of the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment or tne liberalizing of che Volstead act. BY JOSEPH MITCHELL and WILLIAM D. O’BRIEN Times Staff Writer ' Copyright. 1932. bv the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) NEW YORK, Aug. 2.—Sudden reappearance of legal lager on the tables of the nation’s homes, restaurants, hotels, and clubs may revive an eight-billion-dollar indutry, create thousands of jobs, provide a minimum of $200,000,000 in federal revenue in one year and bring back the reasonably temperate and gracious drinking habits which existed in this country before the era of peepholes, dollar gin and light housekeeping bars. And a splintering, inevitable blow may be dealt to bootlegging, the greatest clandestine industry the world ever has known, by return of beer through a revision of the Volstead act's stern definition of the word “intoxicating. ’ Members of the illicit liquors industry will find it difficult to complete with the dispensers of legal beer. In the decade preceding the World war, lager beer made up in volume more than 90 per cent of the total annual sales of all alcoholic beverages in the United States. If this situation is revived and if beer is distributed through groceries and food establishments the bartender in the speakeasy will be forced to hang up his towel and search for a post behind an or-ange-drink stand or soda fountain. The syndicates now operating cordial shop chains will be forced to break hundreds of leases. n n T'HE rural distillers of corn whisky and applejack and all those who carry on the jug trade may not have to follow the plow again, but those who live on city streets in which almost every house contains a speako will be able, at last, to get a little sleep. Beer once was the king beverage. That is why, it is said, the prohibitionists vehemently are fighting the return of the 2.75 to 4 per cent type, which is considered comparatively innocuous by many brewers, many physicians. The drys remember that breweries once manufactured more than nine-tenths of the liquor consumed in the country—a significant fact—and controlled over 87 per cent of the entire liquor capital. They remember that brewers owned or controlled most urban saloons, and that many of the old brewers were powerful sectional politicians. The militant dry leader, D. Leigh Colvin, once remarked: "Even to permit the near-beer breweries to operate is like toying with rattlesnakes!” Prophetic observers say the transitional period immediately following the revision of the Volstead act will be a time of experimentation, of fierce struggle, of rapid social changes. They say the attraction of the speakeasy undoubtedly will wane under stiff competition, but the tensile grip of the racketeer will not be easily snapped. a * a AN independent brewer of cereal beverages in New Jersey said recently: “Last Sunday I had a long conversation wuth one of the most influential beer racketeers in the east. I’ve known him for a long time. "He told me frankly chat the racketeers have too much cash involved in the beer trade to let go without a death struggle of

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some kind. He said that when legal beer is possible, small brewers like me are going to be told just what and where we can sell, and at what price. "They control the major outlets. The speaks will not be torn out of the system all of a sudden. ‘‘lt was impossible to enforce prohibition. It will be just as impossible to keep legal beer out of speaks. Racketeers will organize the trade. ‘‘l am old enough to know that the liquor problem never will be solved. It is like human nature. Preachers have been trying for over 2,000 years to make us behave ourselves. From what I've seen, we are about the same.” The same gentleman, a sardonic but realistic person, said many small brewers probably will lay off men when straight beer is permitted again. He explained that it takes more than twice as many laborers to manufacture near-beer, because straight beer first must be brewed and then “stripped” of its normal alcoholic content—an intricate process. tt U tt HE said that 300 men are needed in a brewery the size of his, but only 100 men are needed in a straight beer plant of the same capacity. But he said the increased demand for real beer should be considered. However, his pessimistic view is

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Wonders How He Can Raise Funds in Cell to Pay His Estranged Wife. Both Superior Judge Russell J. Ryan and William Kleine have been away from home for several weeks. Ryan is in Europe on a vacation. But Kleine, who lived at 1147 English avenue, has been in jail since June 20, when Ryan committed him for contempt of court. Kleine wonders if he is iy>t the original "forgotten man,” as he tries to find some method of getting S3O to obtain his release. He will be released when he makes back payment of support money to his wife, Mrs. Bertha Kleine, and his 4-year-old daughter, Geraldine. Failure to do so caused Ryan to cite him for contempt. If Kleine were not in jail, he probably would not be working. He was a machinist's helper in the Big Four's Beech Grove shops, which are closed, and are not expected to open until early in September. Since March, Kleine had only fifty days’ employment, and never more than fifteen days in one month. Juvenile court records show that since March Kleine paid approximately 22 per cent of his income as support money during the four months. His average weekly income was about sl3. Kleine was ordered to pay $7.50 weekly to his wife pending settlement of their divorce case ip Ryan’s court. His attorney obtained the court's consent to reducing the payments to $5, when Kleine's income dwindled. Annual Picnic to Be Held Annual picnic of Service post. American Legion and its auxiliary, will be held Sunday at Plummer’s grove on Fall creek, three and onehalf miles east of Oaklandon. The post commander is Harold M. Jones and Mrs. Jennie Beever is president of the auxiliary.

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obscured by the lusty, stout-heart-ed predictions and promises of the nation’s major brewers. Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of Manhattan’s Knickerbocker brewery, said he was ready to spend at least $5,000,000 for improvements and hire from 600 to 1,000 additional workers. He believes that during the first year of beer’s return the nation’s breweries will spend at least $200,000,000 for pay rolls, supplies, an extra equipment. All the major brewers are exceedingly sanguine. Henry G. Piel of the Brooklyn brewers, Piel Brothers, expends to spend sl,00,000. Trommer in Brooklyn has spent $700,000 in readying his plant for the manufacture of oldfashioned beer, plans to spend $300,000 more. Said August Busch of AnheuserBusch, Inc.: “If beer should be legalized under fair restrictions so we could produce one-half of our pre-prohibition output of 1,600,000 barrels, we would spend $7,000.000.” He thinks beer’s -eturn will give employment to between 500,000 and 1,000,000 persons. n THE big brewers are breathing testimonials to their robust, hearty, pleasant product. They speak in big figures. They refuse to be grim. They speak of tfie orders which

MISSING MAN SOUGHT Relatives of Garland Rider Ask Help in Locating Him. Relatives of Garland Rider, 28, who has been missing since he left Crothersville with an unidentified man to drive to Indianapolis two weeks ago, appealed for aid today. Rider, who had been unemployed for some time, had been in Crothersville visiting his brother. He left Crothersville to visit his sister, Mrs. Alice Alexander, 1308 North Chester street. Rider is five feet eight inches tall? weighs 145 pounds and has dark brown hair and blue eyes. He is thought to have been wearing a dark | suit when he left Crothersville. He j always wears tortoise shell glasses, j LIBERTY CmEFS~NAMED State Central Committee Members Appointed by Hackley. State central commitee members of the Liberty party were made public today by Forrest L. Hackley, Indianapolis, national organizer. L. J. Granger, Hammond, is committee chairman. Members are: C. E. W’ikoff, S. E. Hargis. J. Roy Paul, Ward B. Hiner. J. O. Cotton. Mrs. L. F. Judd. R. R. Singleton. William H. Jackson, J. K. Brown, L. W. Rube and Hackley, all of Indianapolis: E. A. Parrett. North Manchester: Leroy H. Swartz and E. A. Nutle. Ft. Wayne, W. L. Overholser, Winamac, Walter A. Reese. Shelbvville; Elbridge Lackey of Koleen, Dr. G. K. Lucas. Greensburg. and Dr. H. E Dukes of Anderson.

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will flood the allied trades—the manufacturers of bottles, kegs, refrigerating machinery, syrups, brew salts and sugars, isinglass, varnish, rubber, brass fittings, labels, faucets, bungs, bunging machinery, corks and crown caps, dryers, pasteurizers, coolers, pumps, tanks, gas compressors. They think it will require approximately half a million carloads of freight to service the brewing industry. What if congress does provide that all beer must be sold in bottles? All right, they will buy bottles and recapture them. They look forward to the sight once again of their names on bottles of straight-forward thumping beer. They say it required about 12,000,000 acres of good American soil to produce the barley they used before prohibition, about 35 per cent of the crop. Now, they say, they are ready to pay 75 cents a bushel for good malting barley. n n ASKED if they think the consumption of beer will be as large as in pre-prohibition days, the brewers refuseed to be quoted. They say speakeasies have tutored two generations of Americans, potential beer drinkers, in the use of ardent spirits. The population of the nation has increased 13 per cent during the prohibition era; urban population has increased and beer is consumed in cities. The same period has been distinguished by great development in state highways and by an enormous increase in motor trucks. In the old days, beer was dispensed by tap because the bottle cost was prohibitive. Now, it can be transported by motor trucks from city centers within a radius of 100 miles to small-town grocers, hotels. Most families now have refrigerators. Beer can be kept cold in the home. The brewers are not apprehensive. They see enormous possibilities in the development of their industry.

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