Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 84, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1932 — Page 2

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INDICT ONLY 3 AND BLAST RED ‘BONUS PLOTS' Jurors Ignore Judge’s Plea, Refuse to Put Blame on Communists. Hu rippt-H nirnnl Srtrapnprr Alli'iner WASHINGTON. Aug. 17.-Threr overseas veterans, including a wearer of the Distinguished Service Cross, remained in district jail here today as ironic refutation of the administrations charge that ‘Communists’ inspired the bonus army disturbances, which led to their evacuation by federal troops. They will be tried in October on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon. The Indictments were returned by the grand jury ordered by President Hoover to investigate alleged Communistic inspiration of the bonus marchers on the day of the July 28 battle. In instructing thp jury. Justice Oscar Luhring expressed the hope they would find that Reds" rather than former soldiers Instigated the so-called riots. No Reference to Charges The grand jury report made no reference to charges by Hoover. War Secretary Patirk Huley and MajorGeneral Douglas H. MacArthur, chief of staff, that Communists led the bonusers, and threatened “insurrection” and overthrow of the government. The inquiry lasted two weeks, and the .jury listened to evidence from district commissioners, Police Chief Pelham Glassford and his men. government agents who spied on the camps fer two months, and bystanders. Witnesses who asked to be allowed to testify for the veterans were not summoned. Communist Suspects Released Meanwhile, every bonus marcher arrested in a round-up of alleged Communists has been released by the policp and government agents. The trio now in jail are almost the only members of the 15,000 bonusers left, in the capital. They will remain in jail until October, unless they can raise $3,000 bond. All were indicted for alleged assaults In the brick fight that occurred four hours before the arrival of troops. All denied they were Communists, or sympathized with oemmunism. The apparent explosion of the “rerl scare” came simultaneously with renewed charges by administration spokesmen that “radicals" i necessitated the President's call for; troops. Representative Royal C Johnson (Rep., S. D.), told an American Le- | gion pbst at La Crosse, Wis., Monday night, that he could prove the bonus army had dynamite, guns and ammunition in its camp. The war department and local police denied t his. Magazine Assails Veterans The Republican, which is published weekly by the national Republican committee, summarized Hurley’s official justification of the use of troops. It declared -less than one-third were vrterarrr*'-' although MajorGeneral Prank T. Hides, veterans' I administrator, has records showing that 90 per cent or more had been in the army. An editorial entitled "Plotting Against the Republic” linked "reds” among the bonus marchers with an alleged soviet attack on the banks. The three indicted are John O Olson of Nebraska, Bernard McCoy of Pennsylvania and Broadus Faulkner of Kentucky. Olson served overseas in the Sixteenth infantry, first division, and was decorated with the D. S. C. by General Pershing for extraordinary heroism in rescuing wounded comrades under fire at Cantigny. In Trouble Over Flag McCoy enlisted in the navy, and once was orderly to Rear Admiral William W. Moffett, chief of the navy air service. He last an eye from the explasion of a shell being unloaded from an Austrian ship captured at Heligoland. Faulkner served thirty months overseas in the Three hundred eighth labor battalion. and was gassed. Olson, who lived at the Anacostia camp, was on his way downtown, he said, when some veterans came across a lo* carrying an American flag. “The police rushed at them, and tried to tear away the flag,” he said. “Just say I went into action, that's all. And I'd do it again if I see the American flag being mauled." McCoy said he also rushed in when the police attacked the flag, only to find six bluecoats sitting on him almost immediately. Faulkner said he was arrested while trying to get his mail, and that he simply “grabbed a cop's stick" before he was hustled into the patrol. SLEEP WALKER INJURED Topples Out of Second Story Window; Two Ribs Broken. Condijion iof Richard Barth. Pennsylvania hotel, member of the classified advertising staff of The Times, who was injured in a fall from a second story window at a Syracuse. Ind., hotel early Sunday, was reported as improved today. Barfh suffered two fractured ribs and bruises when he fell while walking in his sleep. He left Indianapolis Saturday to spend his vacation at Syracuse. CYCLIST BADLY HURT Hurled From Rear Seat of Motor Bike As It Hits Auto. Fracture of his right wrist and severe head injuries were suffered by' Raymond Shelley, 20, of 702 North Bellevieu place Tuesday. He was hurled from the rear of a motorcycle driven by his brother Howard when it collided at Bright and Michigan streets, with an automobile driven by Fred Harris, 19, of 227 Hiawatha street. Another Grandson for Baker CLEVELAND, Aug. 17—Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war. now; has ‘hree grandchildren. A sbr. was born Tuesday to Mr. and Mrs. Newton D. Baker 111 in Maternity hospital here. Bakers daughter, Mrs. John P. McKean, h&3 two sons.

Striking lowa Farmers Repulsed by Police in Raid on Stock Yards

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This Is THE Day! Rush Your Brown Derby Votes

The Great Race Starts and It’ll Be Mad Rush Until Sept. 3. "What did.ja get up early today for. Big Boy? Got a date with a hefty blond?” If this question was asked of you j big bread-and-butter boys this morning, then there's but one alibi. That is, you knew that as this is being read you'd have your first opportunity to vote for the King of the Brown Derby in 1932. In this very edition you hold in your hand, and every edition from now on of The Indianapolis Times until Sept. 3. you’ll find a Brown Derby ballot ready for your penmanship to scribble the name of the city’s mast distinguished citizen. Then tlie Big Night Then on the night of Sept.> 8. as legislators of the" sfrfte ■' celebrate Governor's day with citizens; at 'the j Indiana state fair, your candidate —if he wins—will be crowned with the dun-colored top piece and re- | ceive from The Times a plaque, j engraving his name in the hall of fame as the city's third winner of j the “darby.” It is a contest of masculinity. It is an election without fear of semi- ! ninity grabbing off the throne ; through a chiffon-showing coup. Any one can vote. Years or the number of kindergartens you nave attended are no bar. All you need | to do is to be able to write your ! candidate's name in some language near enough to English so that the derby's staff of linguists can read it. Who? Oh, Who? Your candidate need not have the biggest head in town or the most obsolete haircut to win. A phrenologist has been hired to keep Lhc craniums within hat-band size or lo! who would there be to wear this noble crown? Cast votes as many times and in as many speakeasies, beauty shops, or barbering emporiums as you de-

Whose Brown Derby? J What Indianapolis man will he crowned with the BROWN' DERRY a( the Indiana State Fair on Sept. 8? What man will win the plaque that goes with the derby? Clip this coupon and mail or bring to The Indianapolis Times. Just write your choice on the dotted line. Vote early and often. OFFICIAL BROWN DERBY BALLOT To the Editor of The Times: Please crown with the Brown Derby as Indianapolis' most distinguished citizen.

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Right—Samples of the literature used in their campaign for farmer members. Leaders of the movement, meeting in Des Moines, announced plans to extend the strike to eight midwestern states by Sept. 1 .

$3,000 Contest The board of contest judges in the $3,000 Times-Circle movie vacation contest finds it necessary to postpone announcement of the winners until Thursday. The board consists of Henry R. Behrens, interior decorator; Randolph Coates, nationally known artist, and Hale MacKeen, director of the Civic Theater. Because of the many thousand entries received, the checkers on correctness and spelling of names did not finish their work until late Tuesday. Never in the history of this contest have so many elaborate entries been placed before judges.

sire. Get your ba Kg f Wmtn you can and out of any’ strees car, sofa-scat, or restaurant table you may be near. Police Chief Mike Morrissey has requested that derby voters keep violence at minimum in fighting over rights to paper ballots. One hundred ballots will put your candidate's name in the first list of standings to be printed in Saturday's edition of The Times. Don’t v.'ait until the last minute, for the judges of the contest wall be announced next Monday, and w'hen they get their head-measur-ing stick out there's no telling w : ho will be guillotined if the required votes are not in the derby bag; Get today’s ballot and start your writer’s cramp. It's the big ballot in this paper with a Brown Derby done up in black ink. Mail or bring them to The Times. All right, Eddie, let's go. Pass the shears, not the beers, and let's clip 'em out, for dear old "Darby's” sake.

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Over Score of Livestock Trucks, Heavily Guarded, Run Blockade. By United Preps SIOUX CITY. Ia„ Aug. 17.-Po-lice and special deputies early today repulsed an attack of 450 striking lowa farmers on the Sioux City stockyards. Armed jwith clubs and brickbats, the farmers stormed the yards after more than a score of livestock trucks had eluded pickets on nine paved highways leading to the city. They w'ere repulsed by eighty deputy sheriffs and twenty-five city police as they sought to take livestock from pens and from trucks w'hich had run the blockade. Farmers were helpless against the latest attack. Deputies, after a day of passive resistance accompanied many trucks through farmers’ lines during the night. They stood on the running board and sw'ung clubs at strikers w'ho attempted to block their progress. Smuggle Stock to Market Dow'n muddy side roads and unused byways, independent farmers smuggled their stock to market, after a deadlock Tuesday in w'hich only six trucks broke the strike barriers. All trucks w'ere guarded heavily by deputies. Enraged by the show T of armed force which they could not fight w'ithout similar weapons, the farmers assembled in a noisy mob and headed in automobiles for the stockyards. They were bent on liberating stock brought in in defiance of their picket. Police, led by Sheriff John A. Davenport and eighty newfiy commissioned deputies, repulsed the attack by a, show of arms. There was no shooting. After more than twenty minutes of bitter wrangling, the farmers retreated and once more resumed their picketing. Raid Climaxes Battle The stockyards raid was the climax of a bitter fight. Deputy Sheriff Fred L. Yock engaged in a fist fight with strikers before he was able to escort one cattle truck through the lines. Other similar incidents were reported to the sheriff by his men. Some picketers permitted trucks to penetrate their lines after strenuous arguments. The operations marked the first success of police against strikers. The holiday leaders sought new methods of preventing cattle and produce shipments until prices climb to better than cost of production. Intimidation was the most powerful weapon available. “You can go through all right," the strikers told farmers unsympathetic to their holiday, "but if you do—” The unfinished sentence caused more than a score of contemplated trucking operations to be abandoned. Attempts to arbitrate the milk war ended in failure. Farmers held steadily to demands for an increase of $1.17 a hundred pounds in the wholesale milk price.

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TENNESSE MAN BELIEVED TO BE TORCH CAR PREY Man Who Left Auto in City Garage and Vanished Is Sought. (Continued from Page One) off the National road west of Indianapolis after the Speedway race in 1930. Then followed his story of hysteria. He said he feared detection and burned the body in his car on High School road, north of the Rockville road. He said he fled from the scene, and that a young man and women brought him to Indianapolis. From there he wandered through Tennessee and southward to his home city of Mobile, where he was captured. Cursojy tracing of Stover's automobile was started shortly after the murder by Indianapolis detectives This was dropped and the car. a Durant sport coupe, remained in the! garage. More than two months ago, John T. Hawkins, a member of The Times staff, found the car while looking for a used automobile. Another member of the staff viewed the car. obtained the 1930 Tennessee license plate, and the search for Stover was started. Stover, a man of small stature with reddish hair, similar to that on the victim's body, left Eliza bethton several days before he drove into the local garage. Would Be “Back Later” “I’m going to be gone a little ! while,” attendants reported he said. “I’ll be back later.” He never returned. Reviewing the j case, detectives say Stover might have met Schroeder at the race and then was turned into the victim of the pyre. Stover had a reason to be indefinite in his announced plans. The Albany Insurance Company at Salt j Lake City sought him for a $294 debt incurred there. Stover used a postoffice box—No. 313—in Elizabethton in '930. The Times has learned that the box actually belonged to E. Martin. Friends reported Stover left and a bonding company also sought him to clear up transactions on a home. From there Stover's trail led to Minneapolis, then back to Campus, Mich., and finally he returned to Elizabethton. Flees Salt Lake City Prior to these moves, Stover was, in Salt Lake City, where he purchased the Durant. After he fled that city, the insurar.ee company took up his pursuit and said he might have gone to Tampa. Fla., before his first appearance, a few months later, in the Tennessee town. Search is Tampa also proved futile. With the aid of detectives Roy Pope and Harry Mason, The Times confirmed the Salt Lake City angle Difficulty w-as encountered in tracing the Tennessee license plate, 397-812. The plate record finally was uncovered in Nashville, Tenn., but no further record of the car was found. Stover bought the license in Washington County, Tenn., Jan. 24. 1930. In the meantime, the car stood in the downtown garage, unheeded. County, state and city officials abandoned the trail in the flury of the trial and investigation. The car gathered dust. Tires became deflated. The battery was worthj less. Car Sold Here But while The Times investigaj tion was underway, a south side j business man bought the car. j Cleaned and in best of condition, it now serves him daily. Throughout the weeks Schroeder awaited trial, the fire-mangled body i of his victim lay in the Royster and Askin funeral parlor. Schroeder, | pale and shaking, viewed the rei mains after being returned from j Mobile by George Winkler, then sheriff. Although on the verge of cracking, he remained silent, as he has at all times. Attempts to find members of Stover's family or his relatives also have failed. The insurance company’s search had set him to flight and if he was not Schroeder’s victim, officials of the company still want him. Stover's disappearance is remarkable. He bought the car and then drove to the various cities. In Indianapolis he did not hesitate to say he would be gone for a while. From that time, nine days before Schroeder burned his expensive car and its human cargo, no record of Stover has been found. Ohio Legion for Bonus By 1 nited Poes* TOLEDO, Aug. 17.—The Ohio American Legion convention on Tuesday voted unanimously in favor of a resolution demanding immediate payment of the soldiers’ bonus.

Democrats Are Ready to Launch State Campaign

Two Regional Meetings to Open Drive: Peters Issues Statement. State campaign of the Democrats opens Thursday with two regional meetings and two similar assemblys will be held in the remaining four sections Friday and Saturday with state and congressional candidates present. The conferences will be held with district, county, township and ward workers and methods of conducting the campaign in each section will be discussed. As the opening blast in the campaign. R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, issued a statement declaring that $18,729,178 in savings to the taxpayers was effected by the special session of the general assembly through measures sponsored by the leaders and legislators of his party. 51.50 Law Not Included This retrenchment estimate does | not incuude the savings expected 1 to be made throughout the $1.50 1 maximum tax levy law because the reductions will not- be reflected until the 1933 budgets are made up. Patrons declared the chambers' ; budget limitation bill failed in the house because of attempts to attach | an amendment cutting out the 15cent state levy, and the Walsman budget bill failed in the senate because of efforts to insert the Hoffman home rule bill as a rider. McNutt to Attend Paul V. McNutt, Governor nominee, and Fred Van Nuys, the senatorial choice, as well as candidates for other state offices will attend the regional meetings with Peters. The schedule follows: First region. Warsaw, city hail. 2 p. m. Aug. 18. Steuben. La Grange, Elkhart. St. Joseph, Marshall. Kosciusko. Noble. De Kalb. Fulton, Miami, Wabash. Whitley. Huntington. Allen. Wells and Adams counties. Second region, Monticello. courthouse, 8 p. m.. Lake Porter. La Porte, Slarke, Pulaski. Jasper, Newton, Benton. White, Cass. Howard, Clinton, Carroll, Tippecanoe and Warren counties. Third region. Greencastie. courthouse, 2 p. m., Aug 19; Vermillion, Fountain, Parke, Montgomery, Boone, Marion, Hendricks. Putnam, Vigo. Clay, Owen and Morgan counties. Fourth region, Bedford courthouse. 8 p. m.: Sullivan, Greene. Monroe. Brown. Jackson. Lawrence. Martin. Davies, Knox, Gibson. Pike, Dubois. Crawford, Orange, Washington. Clark. Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Sjencer. Wprrick. Vanderburgh and Po.sev counties. Fifth region. Greensburg. city hall, 2 p. m. Aug. 20: Johnson, Shelby, Rush, Fayette, Union. Franklin. Decatur, Bartholomew, Jenbings. Ripley, Dearborn. Ohio. Switzerland, Jefferson and Scott counties. t Sixth region, Muncie. Hotel Roberts, 8 p. m.; Tipton, Grant, Blackford. Jay. Randolph. 'Delaware. Madison, Hamilton. Hancock. Henry and Wayne counties. HELD TO FEDERAL JURY City Man, Accused of Rum Violation, Held on $2,000 Bond. Frank Harper, 28, of 1451 Central avenue, arrested Saturday night by federal dry agents on liquor transportation charges, was held to the federal grand jury under $2,000 bond Tuesday by Fae W. Patrick, United States commissioner. Agents said they seized a case of bonded whisky, case of ~ed whisky and twelve gallons of alcohol in Harper’s car of East Michigan street.

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SCHOOLMATES TO MEET Honor to Be Paid Memory of Instructor, Miss Luie Huff. Schoolmates of sixty years aeo will meet Aug. 25 to honor the memory of their former instruct6r. Miss Luie Huff, who taught in Washington and other townships in the north section of Marion county. The reunion, an annual affair, will be held in Brookside park, while former pupils at Miss Huff s schoolhouse gather around a basket dinner. Mrs. Marion Pilcher is president of the group. Among former students at the school are Julian Wetzel, vice-president of the Indianapolis school board, and Almus G. Ruddell. president of the Central Rubber and Supply Company. SHIP HITS ROCK; 781 ARE SAVED Panic-Stricken Tourists on ‘Boat Quieted by Musio. By United Pres* NEW ALBANY. Ind.. Aug. 17. A wheezing steam calliope and a ship's orchestra were credited today with having averted a panic on the City of Memphis when the ship went aground in the Ohio river near here. The ship was returning from a pleasure trip when a rock ripped a hole In the hull. The boat began to list heavily as water poured into the hold, and passengers were ordered to don life belts. As the sinking vessel neared shore the 781 passengers surged toward the land side. Officers and crew were hard pressed to keep th* load evenly divided. The orchestra and calliope kept np a steady stream of music, playing until all passengers were safely ashore. Officers said the music quieted the terrified tourists. Three persons were injured slightly as passengers crowded down the gangplank. They were Virginia Done. 14; Ellen Bailey. 15. and Ruth Savage. 16, all of New Albany The ship was within a half mile of its home port when the accident occurred. LEGION DEMANDS BEER Illinois Veterans Vote for Repeal, Payment of Bonus. DANVILLE. 111., Aug. 17.—Repeal of the eighteenth amendment was demanded at the state convention of the American Legion here Tuesday. Immediate payment of the bonus, | better care for disabled veterans, and reduction of interest rate to 2 1 > per cent for borrowers on bonus certificates also was asked. Jobless Man Killed by Train. By United Pres. HAMMOND. Ind., Aug. 17. j Pulling a cart of firewood he had 1 cut along the Grand Calumet river, ; Jason Zarice, 58, was killed by a | South Shore electric train at a | grade crossing. Zarice, unem- | ployed, was returning home with (the wood.

j\UG. 17, 1932

'DISMISS SIX i GUARDS AFTER 1 i PRISON BREAK Woman Warden Blames Men for Not Shooting at 23 Escaping Youths. 1 1 />>/ Cnitril GRANITE. Okla.. Aug. 17. Warden Grace G. Waters discharged six ■ guards Tuesday for letting twent\j three inmates escape from Granite i reformatory. She said that the | middle-aged guards "didn't have the nerve to shoot." Chairman W. C. Hughes of the : state board of affairs said another guard, not on duty at the I time of the escape Sunday night, | also had been dismissed. Oklahoma and Texas officers con- ! tinued search for seventeen of the i convicts. Six have been captured, j the last two being taken in a field near Blair after they had wrecked a car stolen here. After their escape the young con- . victs inaugurated a reign of terror ■ in southwestern Oklahoma. Mrs. Waters, who calls the 780 inmates “my boys," has been in i charge of the reformatory since her i husband, the former warden, died in 1927. Injured in Playground Game Hurled violently to the ground at i Finch park Tuesday night while playing “crack the whip," Norman Fogleman. 18. of 1611 Pleasant ! street, suffered concussion of the brain. Police took him to city hos- | pital. %

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