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Editor Times — IN answer to the community chest drive: If a working man thinks that we should give and help the unemployed, who have to live the same as the rest of us, but why should we give to the Y. M. C. A., and the Boy Scouts, when we know that a large per cent of it goes for the ones in it? If they would stay out of it, as they should do, the poor people would get more and would be better satisfied. The Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. are self supporting and the Boy Scouts could be set aside in time of need like this —and should be. COUNTY LABORER. m k a Editor Timrs — WHAT I am going to say goes for a lot of us “down and outers.’’ Maybe, if we had a finger in the pie or a prospect of even a part-time job, we would have been at Butler Friday night yelling our heads off for Hoover, too. Selfpreservation before politics, even though every one knows how “terrible” he is. And at that, believe me, we would have made a bigger noise than they did. EX-SOLDIER. m * n Editor Times— A FARMER of Salem, Itid., writes President Hoover as follows: Dear Mr. Hoover—Since you show a willingness to debate with your opponent, show him up first by demonstrating that the tariff does for the farmer what it does for industry and why. Show why the average prices of one are 9 per cent above 1914 prices, and the other is 43 per cent below the 1914 prices, and that you mean to continue that policy. Since, as a farmer, I think I am not on the same basis as industry, must I become a Christian Scientist, to think that I am on an equality with industry in traffic benefits? I would appreciate your personal answer in due time, if not convenient before election day. M. U. JOHNSON. B B B Editor Z'iincs— TF I were you, I would get a political reporter who would tell the truth, at least once in a jvhile. And also if you were at the fieldhouse Friday night, like all patriots should have been, to see our President and our next President, you would have seen that the fieldhouse was filled to capacity. The fleldhouse held 33,000 people, the gymnasium was full and 50,000 people were turned away. If you call this a“‘mild welcome” you are off your base. When Mr. Hoover, our President and next President, got up to speak, the crowd went wild. He couldn’t start his speech for about twentyminutes after he came in, because the crowd kept applauding him. READER OF YOUR PAPER, BUT A LOYAL REPUBLICAN. The Times did not state that Hoover was given a mild welcome at Butler fleldhouse. In its Friday night's extra. The Times stated that newspaper men present declared the reception given Hoover was the greatest that he had received on his tour. The mild welcome referred to the greeting given the President during his parade—which certainly was mild. By the most liberal estimate, only 23,000 were packed in the fleldhouse to hear Mr. Hoover speak. By no stretch of the imagination or of the building, could 33,000 people be Jammed therein. nun Editor Time* — LET’S turn away from the political issues of the day and devote a little space in your column today, to a local situation worthy of consideration. Recently, Walter Scott Athearn, president of Butler university, stated that unless conditions at the school changed, the institution would have to close its doors within five years. I have much respect for Mr. Athearn, a man of high intellectual power, but his present method of governing a student body never can be successful at Butler. For years, the situation on the Butler campus has been the same, but more magnified in the last two years. For years, the students have wanted to dance on the campus, and promote the traditional student affairs dear to the hearts of all students. But no, they have been forced to rent and pay excessive prices to the Oolumbia Club, Indiana ballroom, etc., for the privilege of holding the annual class balls, while at all other schools, such affairs are permitted to be held in the gymnasiums, thus eliminating great •xpense and helping to stimulate school spirit. If the student wishes something to eat or drink, he must visit the Campus Club, leased to an individual as a private enterprise. The closest drug store is some eight or ten blocks away. Still, the zoning board will not permit the erection of a business building closer to the campus. What lam trying to point out is, that the school does not offer to its sludents what it takes to hold them, but endeavors to force on them arbitrary rules and dogma prevalent in the early days of the college. Sciences, classics and romance languages dp not constitute the entirety of a college education, but the social part of college days does a great deal in developing the culture of the student. Don't blame the athletic conditions. Wake up, Mr. Athearn! Co-operate with the students. BUTLER AT HEART. STEAL OFFICER’S GUN Policeman Leaves Revolver in Emergency; Somebody Takes It. Here's a theft that is irritating to patrolman Forrest W. Allison. Returned from a run in the police emergency automobile, Allison left his revolver in the car Tuesday afternoon. A few hours later he discovered the weapon had been stolen.

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BRAZEN PLEA TO AID HOOVER SENT POTS Turn Pulpit Into Platform for Stump Speeches, Republican Appeal. KLAN TACTICS REVIVED G. 0. P. Would Make Prayer Meetings Over Into Campaign Rallies. Ivan Morgan, chairman of the Indiana State Republican committee, today accepted responsibility for an appeal to ministers of the state to plead for Republican votes from their pulpits on Sunday morning; to turn their prayer meetings into campaign rallies, and to appeal to their followers to pray for success of the Republican ticket. This open attempt to thrust the churches into politics was made by letters sent to ministers throughout the state. The letters were sent from special headquarters in the Claypool hotel, set up by Morgan under the title of “Good Government Department.” Ministers Voice Protests The letter was not sponsored by the Rev. F. A. Hayward, who also has had headquarters under the committee, and has been endeavoring to enlist support for the ticket. His correspondence with preachers has been of a less brazen character. Many ministers who have received the letters>bave protested and anew internal war started inside the committee when it became known that Morgan openly has endeavored to use the tactics so powerful in days of the Klan. The letters to the preachers were based upon the charge that the Democratic platform meant a return of the saloon. Upon that basis of deceit, the preachers were urged to the most unusual course of preaching their sermons next Sunday on the text of Hoover and Watson and other candidates. Text of Letter The text of the letter, believed to be the most brazen effort to put churches directly into partisan politics, reads: Dear Clergyman: Feeling that your political interests comes in two of the great issues of the Republican campaign, namely, restoration of our government from economic distress together with the great moral Issue involved in the return of the saloon, we, therefore, appeal to you for help in this “Last Hour Campaign.” First, by discussing these subjects, especially the moral issues in an address given to your congregation on Sunday, Nov. 6. Second, by having a good government discussion at your midweek meeting. Third, by impressing your people with the tremendous obligation involved through the privilege of the American ballot. Fourth, a call to prayer for a righteous government through the leadership of God-fearing men. You no doubt can improve greatly on these, our suggestions, but knowing the worth of your good work in good government in the past, we sincerely thank you for your help again. Very truly yours, Indiana Republican State Committee. BAKER RAPS G. 0. P. Republicans Are Blamed for Depression. By United Press NEW YORK. Nov. 2.—A “Republican doctrine,” described as “stark selfishness,” is to blame for the present economic depression and the world trade war, Newton D. Baker charged in an address here Tuesday night. The former secretary of war particularly attacked the HawleySmoot tariff, which he interpreted as a declaration of war “by the Republican party against the rest of mankind.” “The greatest danger that faces the United tSates at this time,” he warned, “is Mr. Hoover’s sudden and violent conversion to the Haw-ley-Smoot tariff.” Baker reviewed the world stage from 1921 with the observation at that time “there was offered to the United States the staff of leadership among the peoples of the world.” ‘TWEET, TWEET, DOC! 8-Year-Old Sammie Goes to Hospital; Can’t Talk, Only Whistles. By 4 nited Press DALLAS. Tex.. Nov. 2.—" Tweet j tweet” answered Sammie Shaw when an emergency hospital attendant asked him what was the matter. That was the only answer the attendant could get; the only one, in | fact, the 9-year-old boy could make. In an enthusiastic moment Sammie had gulped a small whistle i which stuck in his throat. When he tried to talk, he merely whistled. He will be X-rayed today to locate ; the whistle. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 36 10 a. m 48 7a. m 35 II a. m 49 Ba. m 37 12 (noon).. 52 9 a. m 43 1 p. m 55

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1932

Reno’s Bank ‘Panic’ Is Turned Into Business Boom’

BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY United Pre* Staff Correspondent TV ENO, Nev., Nov. 2.—Reno's merchants and bartenders, who discovered an unexpepted business boom in what started out to be a panic, opened shop today eager to find out what would happen next. In the first twenty-four hours of a two-week “banking holiday” that saw most of the financial institutions in the state closed, economic laws were turned topsy-turvy, spending was on a soale unequaled in recent mnoth, and more big, round sliver dollars were floating from hand to hand than in months. The police station was doing the biggest banking business in town. Dice rattled with new vigor and roulette wheels whirled and spun incessantly as gambling picked up. “This,” tradesmen and divorce lawyers murmured sadly

G. 0. P. FEARS AROUSED BY GLASSJLAST ‘Shocking Perversion of Fact’ Laid to Hoover by* Virginia Senator. BY LEO R. SACK Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Just when they were beginning to feel that President Herbert Hoover’s tide had turned, Republican leaders today again were feeling low in spirit because of the powerful indictment delivered Tuesday night by Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. It was, Democrats and Republicans alike concede, the most devastating speech of the campaign, one which left Mr. Hoover standing

accused of “shocking perversions of fact” and of “overtaxing his imagination,” much as did writers of fairy stories in appealing to fancies of children. He made serious c h a rges against Hoover cabinet members, and denied the Hoover statement that this country was

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in danger of going off the gola standard last winter. So worried were Republicans over Glass* charges that Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills thought it necessary to make reply immediately after Glass concluded, and on the same radio chain. Mills’ quick comeback, arranged after word of Glass’ program was given out, so angered the Virginian that he eliminated a complimentary personal reference to the secretary from his prepared text. “Racked With Resentment” Importance was attached to the Virginian’s speech because, as the joint author of the federal reserve law and most of its subsequent amendment, as a former secretary of the treasury, and as a member of the present senate banking and currency committee, he is regarded as the ablest student of banking in congress. To him Hoover and Mills turned last winter and spring, when they sought leadership to enact the various fiscal laws calculated to stem the depression. In poor health since congress adjourned, Glass said he has lain on his bed “racked with resentment” at Hoover’s recent assaults on Democrats which “involve an amazing degree of ingratitude.” War Secretary Assailed The President's assertion that the United States was within two weeks of going off the gold standard, he described as “false in fact and implication.” “I assert that those responsible for legislation never had the remotest intimation from the administration that the gold standard was in danger,” he said. If the gold charge was true, Glass charged, Hoover and Mills are guilty of “amazing dishonesty, of cheating the investing public,” because dur(Tura to Page Sixteen) PLEA IN MOTOR CASE WINS; DELAY HEARING City Piano Tuner Resists Removal to Face Theft Indictment. Hairline distinctions in interpretation of the federal motor theft law were drawn by federal officials when Earl E. Brannock, 1173 West Twenty-ninth street, piano tuner, resisted removal to Dallas, Tex., to face a federal motor theft indictment. Brannock explained he had rented an automobile at Dallas for use in his business and had received permission to drive the car out of the state to bring his family to Indianapolis. At Lexington, Ky., he said, he rah out of funds and was forced to put the car in a garage. Later he came here without the car. He produced receipts to show he had made payments of S3OO on the car to the rental agency. Howard S. Young. United States commissioner, and Telford B. Orbison. assistant district attorney, sympathized with Brannock s plight and Young continued the hearing until Nov. 23, releasing Brannock on his own recognizance.

ANALYZING MR. HOOVER How does Herbert Hoover’s professional past bear upon his qualifications for President of the United States? First of a series of three articles, by Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes, famous liberal editor and educator, discussing this question, appears today on Page Nine.

Toy Bandit Cigaret Case, in Shape of Pistol, Weapon of De Pauw Youth.

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A FTER using a cigaret case shaped like a pistol as his weapon, Malcolm Berger, 21, De Pauw university freshman and Rector scholar and son of a Columbus (lnd.) merchant, is held today on a robbery charge, having confessed, according to detectives, that he obtained $77 in robberies of three filling stations, two having been committed Tuesday night. “You got me—really don’t know,” Berger replied when asked why he turned criminal. The cigaret case, said by police to have been tossed away by Berger as he saw officers approaching, was recovered. “We do some things on the impulse of the moment. I guess this is one of them,” Berger explained. “Then you have nothing but remorse and regret.” Berger, well dressed and of good appearance, was hatless, according to description given by victims of robberies. Asked whether his father had supplied him with money sufficient for his needs, Berger replied : “I didn't depend much upon him.” u a u 'T'HERE was no romance connected with his venture into the field of crime, Berger said. “Money just went fast,” he declared. “Fraternities and social life were very expensive. “I was up against it,” he continued, “and came here Saturday by interurban and robbed one of the stations. I came back the same way Tuesday night and robbed the others.” Berger said he was right guard on the freshman football team at De Pauw, and had been working as a waiter in a restaurant on the campus. Parents of the prisoner, Mr. and Mrs. David Berger, visited him today, both broken by sorrow. “We just can’t understand why he did it,” the father said. “His bills were paid; he had a good supply of clothing and we gave him spending money in amounts we believed sufficient.” , The fathher corroborated Berger’s statement that he never had been in trouble before. BUB AF the loot, $44 was obtained Tuesday night in robbery of a filling station at Wilkins and Meridian streets. The attendant, Thomas H. Cantrell, 32, Zionsville, saved sl9 by telling the robber the money was his own. At a station at Prospect street and Madison avenue, the loot was S2O. The attendant, George Winkelman, 23, Brownsburg, said no weapon was drawn, but the robber kept a hand in a pocket as if holding a gun. A station at New Jersey street and Massachusetts avenue was robbed Saturday night of sl3. Searching for the bandit, police saw Berger standing on the sidewalk in front of 957 South Delaware. He threw some object aside on seeing the officers, who arrested him after driving around a block. ‘ON WEEK’ FOR COURT; BUT JUDGES TAKE OFF State Supreme Bench Postpones Today’s Conference on Cases. This is “on week” for the Indiana supreme court, but the judges took the day off They decided two cases Tuesday. Calendar of the court is crowded and the various judges are from six months to six years behind with their work, a recent tabulation of their cases showed. Tuesday but three of the judges attended the court conference. Judges Julius C. Travis and Clarence R. Martin, who are up for re-election, did not attend. So today's conference was called off. The court meets in conference for two weeks and then takes a week off to prepare decisions.

to themselves at the first shock of the moratorium, “is going to be awful. All the money is locked up. We'll be taking in cows on the hoof for canned peaches, and chickens for divorce decrees.’’ B B B ALAS for all laws of economics, but luckily for business, the populace, like the banks, declared a holiday —but it was a buying holiday, a spending spree. Never, in recent months, has business been so gOod. The divorce business, one of Reno's most flourishing “industries,” went on as usual. Fifteen suits were filed Tuesday, attorneys paying court fees in cash in each instance. The First Natonal was the only bank in the city to remain open. It stacked up $3,000,000 in cash. “Come and get it,” invited President Richard Kirnan. “Come again tomorrow,” he urged at closing time.

AUTHOR ENOS HIS LIFE AT HOME IN CITY Leo Markum Slashes His Throat; Worried Over World Suffering. Mystery surrounded the suicide of Leo Markum, 31, of 2139 North Pennsylvania street, author, who today took his life by slashing his throat with a razor in the bathroom of his home. Relatives informed Dr. John Salb, deputy coroner, that they knew oi no reason for the suicide of Mr. Markum, and that his only worry the last few weeks had been about “the suffering of the world.” Mr, Markum slashed his throat while his father, Jacob Markum, stood outside the bathroom door asking his son why he was groaning. The author finally opened the bathroom door and collapsed at his father’s feet. Wrote “Mrs. Grundy” The father said wjien he asked his son if anything were wrong, the latter replied: “No.” Markum said he repeated the question and his son then opened the door, his throat cut. He died before medical aid was obtained. Mr. Markum’s most outstanding work was the book, “Mrs. Grundy: A History of Morals,” which was published about two years ago. At that time Mr. Markum made his only public appearance in connection with his work, when he was the guest of honor at'a tea at a downtown department store. In addition, he contributed more than fifty books to the HaldemanJulius Company. Most of his works centered on history and philosophy. Had Few Contacts Mr. Markum Worked for hours at a time in the state library, doing research for literary work. He was retiring and had but few contacts other than with his family. “My boy was worried about the world and how many people are suffering,” the father said. “He had ample means and was occupied, most of the time, with his work.” Funeral arrangements have not been made. Survivors, in addition to the parents, are two brothers, Harry Markum, local theater manager, and Benjamin Markum of Boston, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Windheim of Boston.

Bright Spots

By United Press General Electric Company reports it has hired 2,500 men in connection with the manufacture sale and installation of its new oil furnace. Bradstreet's reports business failures in the week ended Oct. 27 numbered 462, against 521 in the preceding week. Teck Hughes Gold Mines Ltd., reports net earnings for the year ended Ai;g. 31, of $1,331,591, a gain off. 411,700 over preceding fiscal yea*. Universal Atlas Cement Company resumes operation.- at its Buffington works. Silk Association of America reports employment in the silk industry increased 14.5 per cent during September. Csis Elevator Company receives government contracts totaling $51,000. Standard Oil Company of New Jersey declares extra dividend of 25 cents a share. Sharpe & Dohme Inc., reports third quarter net profit of $227,504, against $167,653 in preceding quarter.

Hoover, If Defeated, May Quit, Give Office to Victor at Once

BY FLORA G. ORR Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Possibility that Herbert Hoover, if defeated for the presidency, Nev. 3. may name Governor Roosevelt as secretary of state, and then turn the government over to him by resigning with Vice-President Charles Curtis, is being discussed here. Woodrow Wilson contemplated such a step in 1916 in case Charles Evans Hughes defeated him, and recent disclosures indicate he had decided upon this course, which would make a precedent in United States history. President Hoover’s statement of Monday night, deprecating the four month lapse between election and inauguration ot anew administration, also is viewed as possibly significant in this connection, although it was made as a plea for the necessity of continuing the present Republican administration. White House attaches today refused to comment on this phase, and said nothing could be said with regard -to Hoover’s future course. ” Wilson’s intention to resign in 1916. recently revealed by his secretary, Joseph P. Tumulty, is detailed also by George Sylvester Viereck in his book

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OTHERS, whose quiet withdrawals in recent weeks was in part responsible for the “moratorium,” also found themselves with cash in their pockets, or hidden in their sugar bowls. The gambling halls had their thousands of dollars kept ever-ready to pay off winning streaks. There was at least $17,000,000 locked up in the closed banks. But there was $3,000,000 more in the First national, and thousands on thousands in pockets of citizens. All the cash, so suddely released from strongholds, began to rush into circulation. Police Chief J. M. Kirkley feared footpads would join the “holiday.” He urged citizens to leave their cash in the station safe. Thousands of dollars was “on deposit” there today.

HOOVER, WATSON BRANDED ‘ENEMIES.’ BY LABOR CHIEFS Scathing Denunciations Flung at G. 0. P. Nominees by National Leaders of Railroaders and Pressmen at Rally Here. Records of President Hoover and Senator James E. Watson as “arch enemies” of labor and the progressive attitude, today had been bared to thousands of members of union labor in central Indiana. These listings of reactionary thought were made by A. F. Whitney, international president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and Major George L. Berry, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants’ Union, leaders of organized labor. They spoke at Tomlinson hall Tuesday night. Whitney and Berry indorsed the candidacies of Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic nominee for United States senator, and Paul V. McNutt, Governor nominee. Sparing no words, Whitney, a Republican, launched immediately into a careful analysis of the Hoover-Watson records by prefacing his address with the statement: "I have always been a Republican, but I come here to apologize for voting for Hoover four years ago. I now recommend to you Franklin D. Roosevelt. v

“I am willing to give up the four horsemen of ‘destruction, delay, deceit and despair,’ and navigate with Roosevelt across the stream of concentrated wealth and special privilege. “I feel more certain that we will reach the shore, which unfolds a more equitable division of work and wealth and a more enduring prosperity, because it will be based upon the general prosperity of the masses.” Whitney received another chapter in the now famous expose by Senator George Norris of the attempts of Wiliam Doak, secretary of labor, to amend the anti-injunction bill as to nullify its worthiness. Quotes Hoover Views He declared that Doak, after offering Donald Richberg, general counsel for the rail brotherhoods, a federal judgeship, evidently either with White House knowledge or acquiescence, to recommend “slight amendments” which would nullify the measure. Being refused, Doak, Whitney said, attempted to obtain his (Whitney’s) concession to some compromises in the bill “which did not appeal to me as especially desirable or in the best interests of labor.” He quoted President Hoover as declaring that “the principal of individual freedom requires the open shop,” and said that since Hoover has occupied the White House it has been painted twice by nonunion contractors. Assails “Whip of Fear” “President Hoover and his supporters have resorted to a campaign of fear that should be disgusting to every courageous, thinking man,” Whitney asserted. “The Republican party far underestimates the courage and intelligence of the average American vpter if it thinks that it (Turn to Page Sixteen) SUES HIS FATHER FOR COLLEGE FUNDS: LOSES Court Rules Parent Does Not Have to Pay for Education. By United Press DENVER, Nov. 2.—8i1l Smith’s dad doesn’t have to pay for Bill’s university education. Bill Smith is William V. S. Smith, former football captain at the University of Colorado. His father is A. V. S. Smith. In a suit filed in district court here Smith sought to collect $1,900 from his father to pay for the younger Smith’s university training. He claimed his father, “because of love, affection and other valuable considerations,” agreed in 1923 to finance the university bill, but had neglected to do so. The suit was dismissed by District Judge Charles Sackman.

on the friendship of Wilson and Colonel E. M. House, just published. B B B WILSON, under whom Hoover served as food administrator, admired the English system ot governmental responsibility, under which a defeated prime minister immediately resigns, and depends upon a general election for creation of a new government. Wilson’s plan, Viereck says, was to request the resignations of Vice-President Thomas Marshall and Secretary of State Robert Lansing, then appoint Hughes secretary of state, and himself resign. Hughes would have succeeded to the presidency. Wilson’s attorney-general, T. W. Gregory, had approved the legality of the plan. The'statement of Hoover in New York, Monday, after referring to the troublous times and stating a belief that recovery has begun, was; "This recovery can not be continued unbroken if administrations change, and there is a four months’ lapse before inauguration and a twelvemonth wait before new policies can be brought into working order—no matter how admirable they may be.” *

THE POLITICAL ROUNDUP Republicans have aided the farmer, says Curtis. Throngs turn out in rain to see Roosevelt. Hoover still ponders California trip. Tenth district in doubt, says Ben Stern. And all the rest of the political news of the day. Turn to Page Seven.

MACHADO IS IN LEAD President’s Party Tops Cuba Vote; Four Slain. By United Press HAVANA, Nov. 2—Four persons were known killed today and several wounded in the Cuban legislative and municipal elections in which early returns indicated a general victory for the Liberal party of President Gerardo Machado. Conservatives won the governorship of Pinar Del Rio province and several seats in the legislature. Liberals claimed sweeping victories in Havana and Camaguey provinces, and were leading in Mantanzas, Santa Clara and Oriente. MISSED FUNERAL; SUES TELEGRAPH COMPANY Evangelist Charges No Effort Was Made to Locate Him. Because he failed to receive a telegram and missed the funeral of his father-in-law, the Rev. Lewis J. Miller, evangelist, today sued the Postal Telegraph Cable Company for SSOO in superior court five. Miller was preaching in Shelbyville when Eugene W. Beal, his father-in-law’, a Civil war veteran, died Aug. 19, 1932, the suit states. He was staying with the Rev. J. C. Wilson, pastor of the Calvary Baptist church. The complaint charges the telegraph company “made no reasonable effort to locate him” when his wife, Aimee, notified him of her father’s death, from Tampa, Fla. Flowers, later sent by Miller, never reached there until after the funeral, the suit alleges. ‘EXILES’ VOTE~BY MAIL Hundreds of Americans In Paris Send Ballots Across. % United Press PARIS, Nov. 2.—Some 300 Amer- | icans are casting their presidential ! votes by mail in Paris, the United | States consulate estimated today. More than 30,000 American expatriates living in France are deprived of the right to vote, because i of their absence abroad. Final votes must be mailed on ! the Majestic Wednesday to reach | polling places in time.

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JURY PROBES VOTE THREATS TO EMPLOYES Prison Terms Face City Men Who Coerce Workers in G. 0. P. Fear Drive. SERVANTS ‘CLUBBED’ Menaced With Job Loss If They Refuse to Cast Hoover Ballots. With two additional manufacturing companies and a downtown department store reported as spreading the Republican campaign of fear among their employes, Prosecutor Herbert Wilson today warned employers that they are liable to fines and imprisonment for attempting to dictate votes of employes. Word that the additional companies had informed their employes that it would "be advisable” to vote the G. O. P. ticket was lollowed by Wilson's statement, after testimony of several employes had been laid before the grand jury. In addition, several prominent Indianapolis women informed The Times that certain business men were attempting to carry the campaign of fear into their homes. Servants Are Coerced It was said that servants of several business men had been informed: “If you vote the Republican ticket and then get into the breadline. I’ll help you. But if you vote for Roosevelt and then end up in the breadline, don’t come to your former employer for aid, because you won’t get it.” One of the women declared that she “thought the days of slavery were over.” R. Earl Peters, chairman of the Democratic state committee, also issued a statement for state-wide distribution, in which employers were warned of their liability in forcing employes to follow their political dictates. Wilson said he issued his warning to employers-in a “friendly attitude,” believing many did not know of the Indiana statute. Fine and Prison Penalty Wilson said the law provides for a fine of not less than S3OO and not more than SI,OOO and a year’s imprisonment, or both, for employers convicted of instructing their employes to vote for certain candidates of a certain party. In many cases, employers have not threatened openly to discharge employes, but have Intimated this outcome to such degree that the workers actually are afraid to follow their own desires or beliefs. The Indiana statute reads: Every person who, being an employer, pays his employes the salary or wages in pay envelopes on which there is printed or in which there is inclosed any political motto, device, or argument containing threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or acions of such employes, or within ninety days of an election or primary election puts, or otherwise exhibits, in the establishment or place where his employes are engaged in labor, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice or information that if any particular candidate is elected or defeated, wprk in his place will hf closed up, or the wages of his en* ployes reduced, or other threats, e *. press or implied, intended t* calculated to inflame the political opinions or actions of his employes, shall be fined not less than S3OO nor more than SI,OOO, or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, and shall be ineligible to any public office or public employment for the period of four years from and after the time of the commission of such offense.” HEARST RIPS HOOVER ‘ARISTOCRATIC REIGN’ President Has No Understanding of Free Government, Is Claim. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—ln a signed editorial today, William Randolph Hearst, publisher, named by President Hoover in his New York speech Monday as one of the forces back of the Roosevelt candidacy, replied to the speech by calling upon the people to reject “Mr. Hoover's ideal of an - aristocratic government.” “Mr. Hoover and his friends,” the editorial in the New York American read, “Mr. Morgan and Mr. Insull of the power trust, Mr. Grundy of the depression tariff; Mr. Dawes, special and peculiar beneficiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and Mr. Montague Norman, alias Skinner, governor of the Bank of England—may mean well, Dut they seem to have no understanding of the fundamental principles of American free government.” tax deadline" is near No Extension to Be Made on Fall Payment, Says Sexton. Monday will be the last day for payment of the fall installment of 1931 taxes, it was pointed out today by Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer. who said there will be no extension of time. Those who pay by mail are warned that only remittances postmarked not later than midnight Monday will be received, Wednesday. The office will be closed Tuesday, election day, and remained closed until Dec. 1 for handling mall and posting books.