Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 121, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1932 — Page 5

SEPT. 29,1932-

MILLS VISIONS 1936 ‘REWARD,’ SAV jXPERTS ‘Voice of v Hoover’ Being Built Up for President Race Then, Is Belief. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Bept. 29—Ogden L. Mills, the ruddy-faced millionaire, secretary of the may be preparing the ground to plant the seeds of his own presidential ambitichs, in hopes of reaping a success2ul harvest in 1936. luere are political experts here who believe Mills is building up his own future in his current western trip. The secretary, whose political acumen has made him President

Hoover's chief adviser, spoke today in Detroit before the Michigan Republican state convention. Friday night he will speak at St. Louis, and, later, at the American Bankers* Association convention at Los Angeles. He will visit Ban Francisco, a former home, and while the itinerary for his return trip has not been

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make some mid-western stops. He is making the speaking tour that was planned for Governor Theodore Roosevelt of the Philippines, whose friends and relatives have high political ambitions for him. Mills Making Grand Tour But after it has been made known that the insular executive was willing to come back to take a hand in helping get Hoover re-elected, the trip was canceled. Thus, now Mills is making the grand tour, exhibiting himself as well as the Hoover administration policies. The treasury secretary’s recent rise in politics has be<jn sensational. A member of the house, he ran for Governor in New York and was snowed under. He became undersecretary of the treasury, and, in the last few' years of Andrew Mellon's regime, was credited with actually running the department, and fixing its policies. He’s the Voice of Hoover He was given the cabinet portfolio when Mellon was shunted to our embassy in London. At the Chicago convention, Mills was the voice of Hoover, in the prohibition, vice-presidential and other fights. During this campaign, he has been credited with being Hoover’s chief political adviser, supplanting War Secretary Patrick Hurley, and Brown, who, heretofore, were the administration’s political experts. He, thus far, has borne the brunt of the Hoover campaigning.

NAME DIVISION AIDS FOR G. 0. P. LEADERS Women's Organization Completed, Mrs. E. C. Curtis Announces. Organization of the Republican business and professional women’s division has been completed, Mrs. E. C. Curtis of Greenwood," chairman of the division, announced today. Two assistants were named for Mrs. Curtis. They are Mrs. Elma Walters of Bedford and Miss Leona White of South Bend. Mrs. Florence Hermann of South Bend was named Third district chairman for the division. The division advisory committee consists of Gertrude Barrett, Muncie; Eleanor Shields, Bloomington, and Elizabeth Rainey, Louise Ford and Mayme Blades, all of Indianapolis. DRIVER BADLY INJURED Fails to Heed Doctor’s Orders; Collapses Shortly After. Failure to heed a physician’s instructions today resulted in Loral Tansy, 30, of 3718 Roosevelt avenue, being taken to Methodist hospital in a serious condition after he collapsed at Sherman drive and East Michigan street following an auto accident. Tansy, driver for the Model Bakery Company, was injured at 4 a. m. today in a crash in the 4100 block East Washington street with a car driven by Clarence Wilson. Taken to a physician. Tansy was ordered to go home, but continued on his route until he collapsed. LISTS STATE PRECINCTS Indiana Now Has 3,691: Number 15 Less than in 1930. Pasta trua in your hat for use around election time. There are 3,691 precincts in the state of Indiana, according to J. Otto Lee, clerk of the state board of election commissioners. This year’s total is nine less than in 1930, Lee said. Reduction in precincts was caused by the loss of fifteen in Lake county, more than the total gained in other counties. REORGANIZE LAW FIRM A. Jack Tilson Made New Senior Member of City Company. Reorganization of the law firm of Gates, Walsh and Hoffman as Gates. Hoffman and Tilson, with A. Jack Tilson as new senior member, was announced today. Offices will be at 1050 Consolidated building. Madison Walsh, senior member of the firm, has retired. Other members are Edward E. Gates and Joseph O. Hoffman, special counsel for the secretary of state. Tilson formerly was musical director at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Negro Bandit Slugs Watchman Sam Goodwin. 70, night watchman at the Fairmount Glass Works, 1601 South Keystone avenue, reported to police a Negro approached him early today as Goodwin was , starting home from work, knocked t him down with a punch to trte chin and took SI.BO and a watch and chain with a Masonic charm.

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Dr. Parkhurst Visited Lurid Dives to Purge Gotham

Like phantom* from a fabulous past, living men and women flit now and then through the news, always well back of a Page One they once dominated. Their names may mean little or ieaa to the younger generation, but stir mightily memories among those who know of the influences they exerted on their times. In a series of articles, of which the following is the first. William Engle summons these giants of other years from their present obscurity for a review of the exploits that made them famous. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1932. by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation! THERE was no way of telling that this was a Sunday morning of civic distinction. On Cherry Hill and Perry street the slattern houses of joy slept in the winter sunlight. In the Madison Square Presbyterian church the congregation was given to a slight languor. The Sabbath humdrum of the nation's capital of protected vice, in the reign of Richard Croler, was unmenaced by discomforting omen. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, the scholarly pulpiteer from Massachusetts, who theretofore had distinguished himself largely by dialectic and a penchant for Sanscrit, changed all this. His sharp and eager voice, this forenoon of Feb. 14, 1892, scaled into a battle cry in the sedate old church at Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth street. It abashed the opulent pewholders. It rocked the town. It started as gaudy a crusade on vice as New York h<vs seen and opened for him a career that made him for a generation the town’s most articulate moral censor. He charged vehemently that upon a smug New York, which shuddered at a neat ankle exposed in public, there lay a blight of vice, protected, at a pretty price, by the police, and sanctioned by a richly profiting Tammany. tt tt IT had been the dubious fash- ’ ion in those days of the Haymarket and Cairo, Suicide Hall and Billy McGlory, to take this for granted, but never to speak out about it. So De Lancey Nicoli, then district attorney, summoned the disconcerting divine before the grand jury and asked him for evidence. He did not have any. His philippic on corruption, he admitted, was based on confessions made to him by repentant young blades of his congregation and on other's explanation of why his Sunday morning male attendance had dwindled. The grand jury reported these reassuring findings, condemned him for his brash statements, and the prices of the dives and bordellos stayed firm. The doughty, black-bearded parson accepted the contretempts as a challenge. He had not come to town as a reformer. He had not even become a preacher until he was 32, having gone in for teaching before that. But now, in middle age, he concluded he would find proof for his accusations if New York held it. Dr. Tarkhurst put out of mind theology and the Venezuelan boundary disputes, discarded his clerical garb, and accoutred himself as someone's western uncle. A parishioner. John L. Erving, in flashy checks, accompanied him. They let crime-wise Detective Charles W. Garner lead them. Detective Garner showed them all Washington and Water streets, where forlorn creatures, a dozen in a block, accosted them from the shadows; back rooms of bars on the Bowery, where bedizened girls flaunted macabre charms; dismal parlors in Cherry Hill, where whisky blurred unprepossessing truth.

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THE detective’s report on their excursions, made afterward, ran into reams. This is a typical bit: ‘‘ln front of No. 342 Water street stood half a dozen women, soliciting people to enter the resort with the same air that a Grand Central station hackman asks you to have a cab. As we were passing, two of the women caught the Doctor by the arm . before he knew what had happened, whirled him into the place, and sat him down on a chair. Another did the same for Erving, and I, too, was ‘steered’ into the place. "The interior of the room was something Dr. Parkhurst had never seen before. lam confident of that, On the floor was a faded rag carpet. On the walls were two cheap chromos. A table stood in the center of the room, and around it were half a dozen chairs. "On each chair sat something that originally had been a woman. That is, we supposed so, as each gaunt figure in an ancient Mother Hubbard answered to the name of Alice, Maud or Clara. "The doctor chatted with the women a few moments and had no trouble, apparently, in withstanding their blandishments." Night after night the trio in disguise went out as the spring of 1892 came on. Always, as the doctor said, “traversing the avenues of our municipal hell.” They drank whisky, saw five nude girls do the “cancan” in Hattie Adams’ place, piled up evidence. tt tt M THEN, on Sunday morning, March 13, 1892, the Doctor ascended the pulpit of his church and held up 284 affidavits. Each had been made in a house of dark report, "They asked for proof,” he said. "Here it is." The effect was almost instantaneous. He became the city’s best known cleric; anti-vice commit-

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- Above. Dr. Parkhurst in his pul- l < if pit. Below. Dr. Parkhurst on his ’ | !)Oth birthday and. at right. as he \ I looked w hen he declared war on I l ’*g, the alliance between vice and % t *T 1 M nolltir*. in ISO?. MEtI ' 's£ ' |9Egpp 1 * * j ||j tees were formed; the police began 4 I 1 to cover up. .. 1 1 He was denounced as a sensa- \ i * I tion monger, ribaia songs were * fir lifted about him in the byways, * . where lately he had been a vis- I { itor with a polka-dot flannel f I I j 1 4 necktie; there was talk of crim- ill *' ' j i t :• inal libel. & t • ' The famous Lexow legislative 1 1 | l investigation was precipitated. t&Pfllill i < The committee, headed by Clar- fTt*® J #s-*I J J"s f] ence Lexow, ridiculed at first, V* * T *r : * feared later, tore open the town. ** *- - It heard 700 witnessses and its minutes filled 10,576 pages, of Y' ,'• ■ which 9.500 were concerned with H BL | 11 Tff! blackmail, extortion and other Bi forms of corruption of the police B BH department. ||| What Dr. Parkhurst had so ardently hoped so decent and aroused public opinion"—devel- H|SSHBk oped; righteousness burned J brightly. ■flßßßßlffili . -WB&k ' n tt tt U. , . w V-V

tees were formed; the police began to cover up. He was denounced as a sensation monger, ribaia songs were lifted about him in the byways, where lately he had been a vistor with a polka-dot flannel necktie; there was talk of criminal libel. The famous Lexow legislative investigation was precipitated. The committee, headed by Clarence Lexow, ridiculed at first, feared later, tore open the town. It heard 700 witnessses and its minutes filled 10,576 pages, of which 9,500 were concerned with blackmail, extortion and other forms of corruption of the police department. What Dr. Parkhurst had so ardently hoped for—“a decent and aroused public opinion"—developed ; righteousness burned brightly. u tt u A REVULSION of political feelquit, Tammany winced. And even while the committee was still in session the Republicans elected William L. Strong mayor by a plurality nearly as great as Tammany had polled in the previous election. Excoriating, critical Dr. Parkhurst chortled into his beard then, as the police department was reorganized, and if hydraheaded folly was not exterminated its bawdier manifestations at least were subdued for a while. By that first flash across the sky the naive and pudgy doctor through all his years, and after, probably will be best remembered. It announced him as censor of the community’s morals, and he remains that, even in obscurity, today. The stubby, resolute figure, spectacled, with scraggly black beard, became a nemesis of politicians. For years after the period of midnight sorties he hung on intermittently in the role of combatant. Perpetually he was in conflict with reigning police officials.

Need India’s Liberty for World Peace, U. S. Told

Former Bombay Ex-Mayor Says Present Rule Balks Economic Recovery. By Scrippt-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—" India must and shall be free,” V. J. Patel, co-leader with Mahatma Gandhi and former lord mayor of Bombay, told the National Press Club Wednesday at a luncheon in his honor. "This freedom," he said, "India hopes to win by the present policy of nonviolence.. "But should this means fail and* violence supersede nonviolence, then God help England, and God help India!” Mahatma Gandhi and his followers, he said, are out to show the world that the spirit is an even mightier force than brute strength. He confidently expects victory along those lines. But, he added, no man can foretell the future. World peace, world disarmament and world economic recovery, he asserted, are impossible as long as India remains as she is. "As long a half the world’ population and half the world’s territory are held down by imperialistic powers,” he said, “it will require force to hold them there. Talk of disarmament under such conditions is sheer hypocrisy.” Similarly, he observed, there can be little progross in the direction of better times "as long as hundreds of millions of people are working for the equivalent of 5 cents a day.” "What the world needs,” he said, "is new markets, and starving peoples can not buy. They have no purchasing power. “An independent India.” he pursued, "would mean an ever-increas-ing market for American products. "Between 1913 and 1930 her purchases from the United States rose

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He even stood against Mayor George B. McClellan, who, he said, was a respectable front for a sinister Tammany background. “If Mr. McClellan were an angel,” he rapped out, "he'd still be Murphy’s angei!” tt tt tt THE Red Light campaign of 1901 sizzled with his epigrams, "Hell with the lid off” was the city under Tammany rule. Again, the city was so evil that "hell ought to take a vacation.’’ Civic affairs were no comelier, he discovered in 1904, when he proposed “to get a line on the McClellan regime” by a personal tour of the back rooms of saloons. He discovered, he said, that "the back-room evil” was as bad as it ever had been or worse. Thus, year in and out, he hammered at the machine, at graft in high places, at complaisant officialdom and legarthic public opinion. He was quoted up and down the country; the newspapers covered his church as assiduously as City Hall. He was so beset by interviewers that he had to reserve regular hours for the press.

from $15,000,000 to more than three times that amount. But Britain now is blocking the road. "Such was the meaning of Ottawa. India was represented at the imperial economic conference there by Indians hand-picked by Britain. "Thus India was made to appear to be offering Britain a 10 per cent trade preference when, as a matter of fact, Indians are doing everything in their power to shut out British goods entirely. She would prefer to trade with the United States, Germany and other countries. Patel spoke of the situation In India today as “war.” Political prisoners, he said, fill the prisons to overflowing. Many have to be housed in tents within walled court yards. Approximately 6,000 women, he calculated, are among the inmates.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: S. L. Hill, Mobile. Ala.. Chevrolet coach, B 47-204 Alabama, from St. Louis, Mo. Perry E. Cotton. 426 Limestone avenue, Chevrolet* coach, from in front of 426 Limestone avenue. Louis Botts. 131 East St. Joe street. Reo truck, T 30-529, from Market and Delaware streets. Henry C. Adams, 103 South Fourth street. Beech Grove. Plymouth sedan. 118-200, from 115 South Pennsylvania street.

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He was, in short, good copy—the crusader who now is a fabulous figure out of a past dim in the shadows. For thirty-eight years the determined, ageing gentleman with sharp eye and caustic tongue held his pulpit. It was not until 1918 that he stepped down—76 then, and a little tired. tt tt tt NOW, at 90, the crusading days are back in the twilight of his middle age. He lives quietly with his nephew, Winthrop Parkhurst, in Ventnor, an Atlantic City suburb. Yet he remains, to the last, a crusader in mind. He thinks the times call out as insistently as ever. for that old will-o’-the-wisp, "a wise, aroused public opinion.” “Vice isn’t flaunted as it used to be,” he said a little while ago. “But, frankly, in other ways I can see little improvement. “New York’s need is not the concentrated effort of a few, but the moral fervor and fury of the whole people.” If it were not for the years, and perhaps for the new voices lifted against corruption, he would be raising his battle banners again. Next: Marcella Sembrich, songbird.

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6RAIN FARMERS ONLY RENEFITED RY MORATORIUM 75 Per Cent Delay on Crop Loans Helps Very Small Part of Agriculture. By Scrippt-HotC’ird Xeicspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 29—President Herbert Hoover's 75 per cent moratorium on crop production loans apparently will affect less than 40 per cent of these borrowers. who comprise only about 3 per cent of the farmers in the country. H. S. Clarke, head of the crop production loan office in the department of agriculture, who will administer the moratorium, said he interpreted the Hoover announcement to affect only grain farmers. He estimated that these numbered about 200,000 of the more than half a million farmers, who have borrowed approximately $65,000,000 from the government through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the department of agriculture. The debt of these grain farmers he* estimated at about $23,000,000 to $25,000,000. These farmers live for the most part in the mid-west, where Mr. Hoover next week will deliver his second speech of the campaign. Asked why only the wheat farm-

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ers were singled out to be granted this temporary respite from debt. Clarke explained that the small grain fanners were in much worse shape than cotton, tobacco and truck growers. Plan May Be Extended By United Pres WASHINGTON. Sept, 29—Hope that constructive action would develop from the cbnference now going on in Chicago regarding the farm mortgage situation was expressed in a message from President Hoover today. At the same time, the White House made known that the 75 per cent partial moratorium on seed loans for wheat states might be followed by similar arrangements for cotton, tobacco and other crops where distress was shown. This explanation was made in reply to criticisms from Democratic sources that the wheat loan moratorium displayed favoritism. HIT POLICE PROTECTION Indiana Lack of Official Aid Is Cited by Bankers’ Association. Indiana is among ten states having only limited state police protection and shows a total of ferty-six bank burglaries and 368 daylight robberies in the last year against forty-two robberies in twelve states having state-wide police protection, according to a survey by the American Bankers Association. The same comparison holds true of losses sustained by farmers through robbery of live stock, poultry and produce, according to the survey.

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FOIL PLOT TO RLASTFUNERAL PARTYJN CURA Bare Effort to Slay Friends at Rites of Murdered Politician. By United Prett . HAVANNA. Sept, 29—A plot to blow up friends at the cemetery services for Dr. Clemente Vasquez Bello, one of five prominent politicians assassinated by gunmen here, was frustrated when the funeral was shifted from Havana's Colon cemetery to the Vasquez Bello family cemetery at Santa Clara. It could not be learned whether police warned the family or whether the wholesale bombing was avoided only because the widow of Dr. Vasquez Bello, president of the Cuban senate, changed her mind about funeral plans. In any event, the police announced that Colon cemetery had been mined heavily with enough dynamite to blow the funeral party to pieces. One powerful bomb was attached to the family plot of the Truffins, the family of Vasquez Bello's widow. Another was at the pantheon of General Calinto Gomez, Cuban independence leader.