Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 127, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1932 — Page 9

OCT. 6, 1932_

WET COMMAND SHIFTS IN DEATH OF LINTHICUM House Anti-Dry Leadership Falls on Shoulders of Rep. O’Connor. BY WALKER STONE Yimri Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.-With the death Wednesday of J. Charles Linthicum, congressman from Baltimore's “silk stocking” district, the mantle of leadership of the Democratic wet forces in the house passes to the. broad shoulders of Tammany s representative, John J. O'Connor. Linthicum’s chairmanship of the house committee on foreign affairs,

by the rult of seniority, will go to Representative Sam D. McR ey n olds (Dem., Tenn.t. A re d-h aired fighter, whose technique of battle is to shout down his parliamentary foes, O’Connor aggressively challenged Linthicum's leadership of the Democratic ‘‘wet bloc” in the last session. But the noisy New Yorker failed

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to unhorse the mild-mannered Marylander, who had the prestige of twenty years of seniority, and whose name gave 'respectability” to the wet movement back in the early twenties when most of the socalled respectable members of congress were on the side of prohibition. Linthicum’s strategy was to keep the anti-prohibition battle on the high-sounding plane of states’ rights, plead gently for repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and bide his time until a shift of public sentiment would send a majority of representatives into his camp. But the policy of watchful waiting was one which the impatient O’Connor could not appreciate. He yearned for action. So it was that the New Yorker couldn't keep in tune with Linthicum's steady plunking for repeal, and started twanging lustily on the harp-strings of modification and beer. The Republicans, likewise, were divided on whether a repealist or a modiflcationist attack should be the wet offensive. Representatives James M. Beck, erudite Philadelphia lawyer, sided with Linthicum in favor of a steady repeal fire. Representative William E. Hull (Rep., 111.) threw his support behind O'Connor's modification flank movement. New Leaders Rise The other Republican wet leader, Representative Fiorella H. La Guardia, the fiery little insurgent and real leader of the combined “wet bloc,” cheered on both sides. La Guardia believed in using both the frontal and flank attacks, anything to keep the drys in retreat. And he worked out a compromise by which both propositions were brought to a vote, resulting in the repealists amassing a larger vote than the modificationists. Through his twenty years in congress, Linthicum was a consistent wet. He came here when no one believed prohibition would become law. f He saw the Constitution amended, and he stayed to become a leader of the forces of repeal. With his party in power and with the anti-prohibition tide sweeping in, it is believed death came to rob him of a place near the head of a victory parade. Wets Are Hopeful Wets are hopeful that they will modify the Volstead act to legalize beer, and pass a resolution submitting repeal in the coming short session of congress, or at least in the first session of the newly-elected congress. Leadership in the house will be O’Connor. Beck, and La Guardia, and in the senate Millard Tydings (Dem, Md.), and Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.). Indication* are it will be a Democratic rather than a Republican parade, which means than O’Connor and Tydings will be the standard bearers.

TRACKLESS TROLLEYS FINANCING CONSIDERED Seek to Sell 5624,000 in Securities to Pay for Busses. Petition of the Indianapolis Railways to issue $624,000 in securities to finance the purchase of trackless trolleys is under consideration today by public service commissioners. Commissioner Howell Ellis conducted a hearing on the petition at which Charles W. Chase, president and general manager of the company, appeared as witness. City permission has been secured to try out the trackless trolleys on the Riverside and South Meridian lines for a six months period. PURDUE TO HONOR TWO Degrees to Be Conferred on Graduates, University Head Announces. Purdue university will honor two of its graduates with honorary degrees on home-coming day. Oct. 15. it was announced by Dr. E. C. Elliott, president of the university, Wednesday in a speech before the Purdue Alumni Association of Inlapolis at the Severin. lines of candidates will not be tade public until the degrees ire t* ,-esented. They were voted last ring, but were unable to attend it commencement exercises. 60MB RUINS CREAMERY Damage to Plant Estimated at 535,000; Watchman Kidnaped. Bn United Prr* it BURLINGTON. Wis., Oct. 6. Bombers WTecked anew creamery of the Burlington Co-Operative Pure Milk Association here early today after kidnaping a watchman at the plant. Two bombs were exploded by five masked men Damage was estimated at $35,000. The watchman, John Eisenhart, was released two miles away.

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By United Pren CLEVELAND, Oct. 6.—Rudy Vallee shed his role of “crooner” here and started on the war path. He was provoked at a newspaper article written after an interview last Saturday. His ire, it appeared, had been mounting steadily, and at 2 a. m. he began his search for Anthony. C. Decola, the reporter who wrote the story. With Mrs. Vallee tugging at his coat, and entreating him to ignore the matter, the singer stormed into a hotel where - the reporter had lived. There, he learned Decola’s new telephone number. He reached the reporter, and • challenged him to fisticuffs. Decola said he suggested that the matter could be settled better sometime during the day, and went back to bed. tt a u BUT Rudy had engagements at a local theater that day. In the evening, however, he took up the search again. He stalked, alone and quietly, into the editorial office of Decola's paper. It was at the end of the day, and the staff in the “city room" was lounging about chatting. Vallee Inquired of the telephone switchboard operator if Decola was in. He wasn’t. Then he got Decola’s address. The staff, at sight tot the radio and stage, star, quieted and listened covertly, while Vallee talked with the state editor, who is a member of the same college fraternity. Some of the staff men recalled lines from Decola’s Saturday story. One paragraph had quoted Vallee as saying: “I don’t devote any of my time to prooving that I’m a real man. I do not have to defend my manly qualities.” The sight of Rudy stalking alone into Decola's “home territory” semed proof of these statements. >t tt * VALLEE explained to the stateeditor that he was quite serious in seeking the writer qf the story. "I invited the man into my hotel room when he wanted an interview,” Vallee said. “I offered him refreshments, and answered all of his questions. When he asked me to sing in Italian, I did so. And then he goes out and writes a rotten story like that. “I'll get him if it takes all night,” he asserted. Then he walked out with Decola’s address written on a paper in his pocket. COMPLETE PLANS FOR RALLY J°L S ° CIALISTS Vice-President Nominee Maurer to Speak Here Friday Night. Final arrangements were being made today by Socialist party leaders for the meeting Friday night in Cadle tabernacle when James H. Maurer. Pennsylvania. Socialist candidate for Vice-President, will speak. Mr. and Mrs. Maurer will arrive here Friday morning from Marion. Maurer will address Earlham college students at Richmond in the afternoon. Other speakers here will include Ed Henry, Socialist state secretary; Mrs. Mary Donovin Hapgood, wife of the Indiana candidate for Governor, and Forrest Wallace, senatorial candidate. WORLD PEACE IS TOPIC Outlook Will Be Discussed Sunday at Forum; Ludlow to Speak. The outlook for world peace will be discussed att 2:30 Sunday in a forum headed by Representative Louis Ludlow and President W. C. Dennis of Earlham college. The forum will be held in the home of Frank P. Manly, Seventysixth street and road No. 31, and is sponsored by the Indiana peace committee. DRUNKEN DRIVER. FINED 30-Day Jail Term Also Slapped on Motorist by Cameron. Fines totaling s4l and costs and a 30-day jail term were assessed against John Shepard, 38, R. R. 4, Box 114, following conviction Wednesday by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on charges of drunkenness, driving while drunk, reckless driving and disobeying a stop and go sign at Maryland and Meridian streets. TRUCKERS MAP PLANS v Seek Campaign to Increase Legal Length, Weight of Cars. Campaign to obtain increase in the legal length and weight of trucks and trailers today was being mapped by the Motor Truck Association of Indiana, following a luncheon Wednesday at the Severin.

Walks Against Auto; Hurt Michael Cassidy, 63, of 557% West Washington street, suffered an eight-inch gash across the forehead today when he walked into the side of an automibile on Washington street between Delaware and Alabama streets and was struck by the door handle.

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STORY OF SEA HORROR TOLD BY SHIP SURVIVORS Two Youths, Only Members of Steamer Crew Alive, Tell of Rescue. By United Prus VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 6. A blond 17-year-old high school boy. Jimmy Thorsen of Portland, and a swarthy Filipino lad, Gonzala Decenay, have reached here to tell the last tale of the steamship Nevada, which rests on the rocks of the Aleutians. The boys told how they swam ashore through raging seas when the Nevada struck a reef, thirteen days out of Portland, how they lay two days on wet rocks of Amatigmak island without food and without hope, and then how the sailors of the President Madison quarreled lor the honor of swimming ashore with the lifeline, which finally saved them. “I was a cadet on the Nevada, so I was in the pilot house,’ Thorsen said. “We were going ahead full speed. “Suddenly, I heard a grating noise, and only a slight shock. “The second mate ordered the alarm bells rung. We rushed cn deck, and over the side we could see the combers breaking. “There were seventeen men in our boat as we pushed off. As we were about half a mile from the ship, a big wave swamped us and the boat capsized. “God, but the water,was cold. There s were a lot of other fellows hanging to the boat. “One by one they just dropped off and disappeared into the water. “After awhile, I was the only one hanging to the boat. Then another big wave washed me off, and I had to swim for it. Ahead I could see j land.” I Then Thorsen related that a piece

Too Costly? By United Pret* WASHINGTON. Oct. 6—A dime a day from each person of voting age in the United States Vould pay the entire public education bill of almost 25,000,000 American pupils and students, tne-federal office of education said today. The bureau estimated the annual cost of public education amounts to $36.42 for each ‘adult 21 years and over. The . total cost in 1930 was more than $2,500,000,000.

of wreckage struck him on the head. It all but ended his life. Greatly weakened by loss of blood, he found himself washed up on the island. “The first sight was ghastly—the bodies of four Chinese members of the crew were on the beach,” he continued. “Hours later the Oregon Maru sighted our signal. She launched a boat, but the frail craft couldn’t make it. “Another day passed and the President Madison arrived and put off a lifeboat We wondered.whetner they would have to turn back, too.” Young Eddie Blomberg, seaman of the Madison, a laughing wiry little fellow in a dirty while sailor’s hat and an oily suit of* overalls, tells the rest of the story: “The old man, that’s the captain, ordered two lifeboats over. I was in one with the third officer, R. E. Stull. “I said ’I can swim in with a line.’ Some of the other fellows said, ‘let me do it.’ “So the third officer, he says, ‘let Eddie go. He was the first to volunteer,’ so they tied a line on me and slipped me over the side. “Hard to swim? Hell, it was nothing at all. I just let the waves wash me in, that’s all. “They pulled them all to the life boat with a rope, and then I went last.” Hit by Car; Suffers Shock Severe shock was suffered by Mrs. Michele Cardacelli, 50, of 552 East Fortieth street, Wednesday, when she was struck by an auto driven by L. E. Clay, 3925 Winthrop avenue, at Fortieth street and 'Central avenue. Clay was not arrested.

PLOT TO BOMB PRISON FOILED: GRILLGUARDS Daring Scheme to Free Inmates Told After Arrest of Two Women. By United Peru* DEARBORN, Mich., Oct. 6. Probability that tw - o, and perhaps three or more, Jackson prison guards were implicated in the plot to bomb the state prison and free the inmates, frustrated by police late Wednesday, was advanced by prosecutors today as they continued their questioning of five persons held. “We are certain that at least two other guards besides Archie Trench are implicated in the plot, ’ Sherman F. Kelly, assistant prosecuting attorney, said. “We have just resumed our questioning of the suspects and prison employes, and we may find several more are mixed up in the affair.’’ Kelly refused to name the guards suspected of complicity in the plot, for which French, head of the prison twine factory, and two women are under arrest, and two prison inmates held in custody. It was revealed today that Agnes Schoonmaker, Minneapolis divorcee, who allegedly came here to aid in the plot, was the sweetheart, and not the sister of James Hall, alias Overstreet, Oklahoma bank bandit, serving a thirty-five year sentence for robbery. Police said that Mary Cross, 26, was the sister of Eddie Cross, the other prison inmate held in the plot. Kelly said that no information regarding the new suspects would be made until after he and Prosecutor Harry S. Toy had made further investigation of the plot. Revelation of the daring scheme to blast a holfe in the prison with dynamite and to effect the escape

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Antonio Papania. hailed by Italian-AmericaK as “the new Caruso,” will sing Monday night at a charity benefit concert at Cadle tabernacle at 8:15. He will be assisted by his brother, Frank Papania, and an instrumental trio. Members of the committee in charge of the concerts are John Bova Conti, chairman; Paul Montani, Dr. Joseph Storey, Antonio Annarrino, Anthony Scolaro. Gus Spiuzza, Varl Roumondi-and Joe Danna.

of Hall and Cross was made late Wednesday with the arrest of the two women in their Dearborn apartment. Five sticks of dynamite, two revolvers, more than 100 rounds of ammunition, ten dynamite caps and a fuse were found in the women's rooms, police said. There also was a letter revealing the plot and implicating French in its commission. A confession alleged to have been obtained from Miss Cross, implicating the five, and partially con-, firmed by the other woman, was made after several hours of grilling by police.

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ODOR OF GARLIC SCENTS HARRY'S PATH TOPRISON Grave Social Error, He Learns When Judge Cameron Acts. Exuding the pungent odor of either garlic or liquor is more than a grave social error, Harry Lynn, 2011 East Twenty-fifth street, learned to his dismay today in the municipal court of Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Lynn was brought into court on complaint of Mrs. Sarah Rodecker, probation officer, for failure to pay a drunken driving fine he received in 1931, when he was placed on probation. Records revealed Lynn had paid only sl2 on a $65 debt to the city. Not content with his ill-considered treatment of the debt, Mrs. Rodecker said, Lynn frequently had appeared for his probation reports smelling strongly of liquor, a practice frowned upon by most court probation departments. Today, as Lynn appeared before Cameron to attempt to explain the delinquency, Mrs. Rodecker suddenly exclaimed: “Why judge, there's liquor on his breath now.” The judge sniffed and a penetrating odor did register on the judicial nostrils. . “What about it?” queried the court. “Have you been drinking?” “That’s garlic, judge, I’ve been taking for my cold,” said Lynn. “You’d better work out that $53 balance you owe the city,” decreed Cameron. “Fifty-three days at the state farm.” One-third of all g sauerkraut packed in the United States is put up in factories in a radius of fifty miles of the New York state experiment station at Geneva.