Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 154, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1932 — Page 2

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NEW HEARINGS IN SCOTTSBORO CASE ORDERED

Convictions of Negroes in Alabama Unfair, Says Supreme Court. (Continued from Page One) the girls, threatening them with knives and guns, had torn their clothing from them and ravished them. Mrs. Price said once that five Negroes had -assaulted her. Another time she said it was six. Again she said that three had attacked her and three her friends. Ruby Bates equally was uncertain about her assailants. Mrs. Price was said to have been taken from the train unconscious. Yet both women identified without hesitation the Negro boys, who ha'* been arrested as the ones who had molested them. They discussed in detail the caliber of the guns they said had been drawn against them, and the knives. Though Mrs. Price’s story asserted that the Negro boys and the white boys shouted back and forth while the assault was taking place, the message wired ahead to Paint Rock did not mention the women at all. t The charge involved a crime committed in an open car in the early afternoon, on a train that passed through Scottsboro and several other towns and villages. Witnesses were produced who saw a fight on the train but none that saw anything else.

Within two hours after the girls had been taken from the train at Paint Rock, they were examined by a physician. Girls Not Excited The evidence he gave was used by the prosecution as establishing its claim yet he found no evidence of hysteria or excitement in the girls, and as to injuries Inflicted in the “struggle” they described he testified that “both had a few minor scratches on their hands and arms. The Bates girl had some bruises on the lower part of the groin • . . about the size of a nickel and a bruised place on her shoulder; and the Price girl if I remember had a bruised place here on her throat and on her hip behind and a few scratches on the forearm.”

While the Alabama court held, during the trial, that the character and reputation of the girls was not an issue, defense contended in its supreme court brief that it is, in view of the medical testimony, and asks that their whereabouts the night before the train ride be investigated. The story the girls told was noised around the little town of Paint Rock the day of the arrest, and a crowd gathered. It was decided to hold the girls in jail as well as the beys. During the night all of them were taken to Scottsboro. Next day a special grand jury was hastily empaneled. The nine boys were indicted.

Troops Guard Trial. Trial was set for April 6, just eleven days ahead. The Negro boys had no counsel so for the purposes of arraignment the presiding judge designated all the members of the Scottsboro bar to look 'after their interests. Meanwhile the local newspaper had told of the occurrence under big headlines, a large threatening crowd gathered, which peace officers addressed, asking them to let the law take its course. • The Governor had been asked for troops and three national guard companies were on the ground even before the indictments were returned, a few hours after the charges were placed. The Negro boys had no friendly visitors during the short time between accusation and trial. Their folks said later they were afraid to go into that part of the county.

ATTEMPT MADE TO WHIPSAW ROOSEVELT Letters Charge Klan Is Trying to Knife A1 Smith. Second attempt to confuse supporters of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential nominee, was seen today by local party leaders in the mailing of campaign literature to a picked list of Democratic voters. Several weeks ago anonymous postcards were mailed from Chicago, urging that the name of Roosevelt be scratched from ballots and that of Governor Alfred E. Smith inserted. Use of voting machines eliminated possibility of such change. The letters received by voters today inclosed a reprint of a paid political advertiement indorsing Senator James E. Watson for reelection. Included with the reprint was a multigraphed letter signed in facsimile by five names. The charge is made that klan activities are being carried on in the Democratic party to injure Smith.

REPUBLICAN VICTORY PREDICTED IN STATE Bar and Women Leaders See Sweep for G. O. P. George A. Ball, Republican national committeeman; Miss Dorothy Cunningham, committeewoman, and Mrs. Beryl Holland, state vicechairman, today issued statements claiming victory in Indiana for their party. The national spokesmen declared that “the trend to Hoover in recent weeks has been tremendous.” “Indications are from all sectors of the state that the tide will sweep the Republican ticket to victory in the Tuesday election,” they said. Mrs. Holland declared that “never before In history has Indiana taken such a sincere interest in an election. “The women of Indiana contributed largely to the election of President Hoover in 1928. and they have not deserted their leader in this economic crisis." they said. Injured En Route to Wed By United frets ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 7.—Miss Sally Rogers, 21, of Monterey, Ind., was in serious condition in a hospital jiere today with injuries suffered on Road 20 near Elkhart, when the truck in which she was riding collided with another. It was reported she was en route to Sturgis, Mich., to be married when , the accident occurred.

ONE GREAT NIGHT FOR TAFTS

Widow Recalls Shining Times of Old in White House

Six wives o t Presidents still are living in America. Where are the present homes of these First Ladles of the Land? What are their activities? What Is their social life? Who are their friends and neighbors? How do they vie# the contemporary world, and what are their recollectiona of the White House? In a series of six articles, the third of which follows. William Engle, a Times staff writer, will answer these questions. Today he interviews, in her Washington home, Mrs. William Howard Taft. BY WILLIAM ENGLE Times Staff Writer (Copyright. 1932. by the New York WorldTelegram Corporation) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—”1 think (he greatest time of all was June 19, 1911, in the evening,” said Helen Herron Taft. “Will always thought so, too.” Silver-haired and gentle now, not so imperious as she was when she remolded White House social regimen, she was sitting in the rich front room of her big house in Wyoming avenue, talking of the glamour of the days when Potomac drive was new and of the compensation of 1932. Moving through distant, kaleidoscopic years. Adding that she still gets around—crossing continents and oceans—summering abroad, wintering here, but living simply with three trusted servants and once in a while friends in for tea.

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“Yes, that was the greatest time. We had 5,000 people at the party.” It was the late heydey, too, of the Pike street, Cincinnati, girl, who married the young lawyer, William Howard Taft, went up and down the world with him apd finally to the executive mansion. Their silver wedding at the capital. The night was balmy and the stars were out. Chinese lanterns and garlands of colored lights glowed in constellations from the cedars and shrubbery of the White House lawn. A rainbow searchlight made a shimmering volcano of the great fountain in front of the porte cochere. Somewhere in the shadows the marine band was playing. tt tt tt AS the favored 5,000 strolled the lawn the darkness outside grew alive witH 15,000 curious others, peering within, and the phalanxes of all the police reserves of Washington had a hardtime keeping order. Then, at 11, trumpeters blew a fanfare. President and Mrs. Taft stepped out on the south portico, descended amid vast hullabaloo, began to greet the folks. So many dignitaries were there that the private citizens felt lonesome. The senate strutted to the last sulky Democrat. So did the house. Out to a man, also were the diplomatic corps and the Washington branches of the army, the navy and marine corps. But no one had a better time than ancient Aunt Della Torrey of Millbury, Mass., whose pies her nephew Will set greater store by than any other fare. It was she who was delighted by the cabled greetings from the kings and queens of the earth, while her nephew was more gratified by a letter from an old friend, and wrote a two-page, long-hand reply. There were other moments—a multitude. They endure. They flow back sometimes through the deep stillness as the serene mistress in Wyoming avenue lays aside the Harpers that she finds is changing so, or the immutable Geographic; as she comes in from St. John's Episcopal church, or when she sees friends leave after a while at contract. an o THE time ... the time the Pope received her and she chatted in French with him. He was Leo XIII, and when he found she could understand him they spoke for half an hour.

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He was charming, she remembers. But he could not pronounce Roosevelt’s name; called him “President Roomvine.” The time . . . the time she took small Charlie Taft to hear his father’s inaugural address. How that little tucker preferred the company of Long John Silver, taking along “Treasure Island” against the threat of ennui. “I consider it a tribute to his father’s eloquence that ‘Treasure Island’ was not opened that day. The time of the cruise with Mr. Taft on the Mayflower in his last year as President. How everywhere there were those thunderous twenty-one-gun salutes. Yes, she said, it is a long, eventful way she has come to get to this still place on the shaded street, to reach at last a time of quiet. It is not easy for her to be quiet. It is not natural. A quarter of a century coming up side by side with Mr. Taft, from obscurity to the White House, made her a stranger to solitude.

a a a SO even now, at 71, she does not capitulate to the years. She wandered abroad alone last spring, when her daughter could not accompany her. “Helen wanted to go, but she had to be at Bryn Mawr.” She stopped off on the way back in Canada. “We’ve had a house at Murray Bay, let me see, since 1892. We like it there in summer.” She will be getting around Washington this winter. But she misses Will. The big house is very quiet; She wishes Will were back, if only for an hour. It creeps into her voice when she speaks of him, and every once in a while today she did. It shows in her face when his name comes up, and it did now and then. “The bust That is Alonzo, Will's father. Will’s is upstairs.” “I hope the world court will succeed. Mr. Taft would have liked to see that. . . .” “I want to see prohibition beaten. Will never drank himself, but he felt that way, too. . . .” The life they richly led could not have left her otherwise. She could not ahve fought for him as she did, could not have been “Nellie” always to him and he “Will” to her, as they talked among friends, without the tie making this indelible mark upon her. There are other moments. Mo-

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Mrs. Taft today. ments that keep flicking back into the quiet house that was dim today beneath the bronze leaves. She was slim and rosy and 18, with grey-blue eyes, a tip-tilted nose and dark bangs. That was when fate tapped her on the shoulder in the starlight on a snowy hillside. n u THEY had never seen each other before, she and the stalwart young man, and that astonished them. They had grown up in Cincinnati. Their fathers were lawyers. She was a student in Miss Nourse’s school. He was studying law. “It was at a coasting party, I remember very well, on a fine steep hill on Mt. Auburn,” she wrote long afterward. “Will Taft was there and after being introduced to me, he took me down the hill on his big bobsled. After that we met frequently.” They met a rehearsals for “She Stoops to Conquer” and A Scrap of Paper.” The younger set of Cincinnati in 1885 were thespain a while, and the romance of the law student and the girl from the brick house in Pike street thrived. A year later, in 1886, Helen Herron and Mr. Taft were married; they honeymooned to Europe second class; came back to Cincin-' nati to live in a modest house down by the stone quarry. From that day, his wife was as absorbed in the man’s career as he was himself. “Mrs. Taft always kept my feet on the ground,” he used to say. She had to urge him ahead in politics, for, as she often recalls, .“he was no politician.” And she was the one he could always depend upon for encouragement and counsel through all the years of varied government service in the far places that led finally to Washington. u a ALWAYS she has had a patrician way, a will of her own. The White House perceived that no later than the day of Mr. Taft’s inauguration. After the ceremony Mr. Roosevelt decided not to ride back to the White House with his successor, a custom before that unbroken. . “Since the ex-President was not going to ride back,” Mrs. Taft later explained, “I decided I would. No President’s wife ever had done It before, but as long as precedents were being disregarded I thought it might not be too great a risk for me to disregard this one. “Os course, there was objection. Some of the inaugural committee took my place at my husband’s side. Perhaps I had a little secret elation in thinking that I was doing something which no woman ever had done before.” Installed in the White House, she promptly revealed her executive ability; she upset social tradition. The ushers at the doors disap-

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Mrs. Taft as she appeared when mistress of the White House, and a baby picture of her. peared. Footmen in livery took their place. Ike Hoover, head usher, put on a uniform. A housekeeper supplanted the steward, and Mrs. Taft herself kept direct supervision over all the household affairs. n tt u SHE overhauled the hit-and-miss mode of sending out White house invitations, the traffic in which had been a minor scandal for thirty years; in deference to the city’s hostesses she announced her yearly schedule of entertainment early in the autumn; she presided at what took on the aspect of an American court. Always, in White House functions, she surrounded herself with army and navy officers, and they were always in full dress. The custom of serving refreshments, abrogated in the Roosevelt regime, was restored and the cabinet hostesses fell in line.

Still a savory memory are the hot corn dodgers of Mrs. MacVeagh. She was the wife of -the secretary of the treasury, and while her pipe organ, running through three stories of her famous house, boomed lusty melody, she dispensed dodgers on gold platters. That was something in 1910. With dignity and aplomb, Mrs. Taft reigned and then, after four years, she saw before Taft did, that Taft’s number was up. She saw the break with Mr. Roosevelt impending, and at the time she said regretfully, “Will will not see.” With a heart as stout as whert she entered, she went away from the White House and left her mark upon its life. Those are her cherry trees by the Washington monument; those are her queenly ways they still talk about. Now, in the three-story brick house, all but lost among the elms at Twenty-third street and Wyoming avenue, affairs of less glittering moment, but seemingly pleasant enough, fill the autumn days. Next: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.

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DEMOCRATS ON DUARD ACAINST C. THREAT Ready to Move Into Action to Beat Down Any LastMinute Surprise. (Continued from Page One) of the mistakes, and the usually disorganized Democrats conduct a campaign as smart as Mark Hanna’s in 1896. The campaign has converted two erstwhile friends into angry foes. Both Hoover and Roosevelt served here under Woodrow Wilson, and with their wives It was their wont to get together in their respective homes for pick-me-up Sunday suppers. With Hoover not a party man—indeed, suspected of being a Democrat—and Roosevelt an “independent, anti-Tammany Democrat,” the two comparatively young men had more in common then than they have now.

Sideline Interest Increased

Each candidate’s strategy has increased sideline interest. From a man willing to make only three campaign speeches, Hoover has been transformed into the most active seeker of the presidency in modern politics. The roar of protest against his policies shelled him from his White House dugout. Roosevelt insisted on a strenuous, nation-wide tour, against the advice of all advisers, solely to convince the voters he was physically able to endure the rigors of the presidency. Asa result, liis health has disappeared as a slubject of public discussion. Few major mistakes have marked the battle, but the Republicans seem to have suffered most. Their “campaign of fear” apaprently has antagonized the rank and file.

And Hoover’s statement that loss of the gold standard was only two weeks distant at one* time, together with his declaration that his defeat would bring weeds to the pavements and rot to the schoolhouses, angered the influential interests favorably disposed toward him. A1 Smith Nearest Blunder He was accused, even in Wall Street, of a willingness to slow up recovery to advance his political fortunes. On the Democratic side, A1 Smith's Newark address was the nearest the Democrats came to blunders. But the Republicans showed a, peculiar inability to capitalize on this slip, and the Democrats quickly rallied. Oratorical high lights have been Senator Carter Glass’ assault on the administration’s “financial fallacies” and Owen D. Young’s rebuke of the “fear campaign.” Os an entirely different order, but politically significant, was Smith’s address at Boston. His reconciliation with Roosevelt was an event both human, and, as he says, “historic.”

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THPEE GUESSES WHAT IS THE HIGHEST NORTH S \' * j NAME GIVEN \ * J this plane p 4r (Answers on Comic Page) BERT DEMBY, EX-11, P. HEAD HEREJS DEAD Former Bureau Manager Is Victim of Pneumonia; Wrote Sports. Bert M. Demby, 29, former United Press bureau manager here, died Sunday in his home, 1713 North New Jersey streec. Pneumonia contracted a few days earlier caused the death. Born in Little Rock Ark., Mr. Demby came to Indianapolis in 1926 as a United Press correspondent. He then was an employe of The Times and later was named manager of the local office in 1928. He held the post a year, and later went to Chicago to be a special sports writer. He returned to Indianapolis in 1930 and married Miss Lois Stone, daughter of the Rev. F. M. Stone, formerly of Indianapolis. He was a member of Central M. E. church of Hot Springs. Mr. Demby is- survived by the widow and his mother, Mrs. Kate Demby of Hot Springs. Definite funeral arrangements have not been made, However, the rites probably will be held Tuesday morning in the home. The body will be taken to Hot Springs for burial.

LIBERALS LEADING IN NICARAGUA ELECTION Hold Comfortable Majority in Incomplete Voting Returns. By United Preen MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Nov. 7. The Liberals were leading by a comfortable majority in the incomplete returns today from Sunday’s presidential election, although the conservative strongholds were yet to be heard from. Scattered returns gave the Liberal candidate, Juan B. Sacasa, a lead of 16,000. Liberal congressional candidates showed similar strength. The Liberal majority in Managua was 2,500.

‘FREE MOONEY,’ 15,000 CRY AT MASSMEETING Flag of Soviet Russia Displayed in Rally at San Francisco. By United Prc* SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.—With the flag of Soviet Russia prominently displayed above the speakers’ stand, an enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 persons jammed Civic auditorium here Sunday to launch anew drive to obtain a pardon for Tom Mooney, serving a life sentence for the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness day bombing. Roughly dressed workmen and studious appearing men joined in chanting "Free Tom Mooney” in thunderous chorus, stamping their feet in accompaniment. There was the frenzy of a college student football rally. It was the first time the hammer and sickle of Soviet Russia had been displayed in San Francisco. The throng sang the “Internationale,” Communist anthem. The meeting was swept from climax to climax as Theodore Dreiser, novelist, and Lincoln Steffens, liberal writer, spoke. Dreiser conducted the questioning of Paul Callicotte, eccentric Portland (Ore.) mountain guide, w’ho claimed he, not Mooney, planted the Preparedenss day bomb that killed ten persons.

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