Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1932 — Page 1

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Editor Timet— T JUST have finished reading my evening paper. I read it from the first page to the last each night, I always read some articles that .are interesting to me, but tonight I read an article written by Mrs Sullivan that I will be unable to forget for awhile. She is asking why the Indianapolis police don't stop the children from keeping her awake, tearing roofs off coal houses, etc, I just wonder if this woman is the mother of any children, not kids, if she has no love in her heart for these unfortunates who live around the 600 block on West Washington street, and have no other place to play. Does she want the police, those men whom I teach my boy to respect and be friendly with, to go out there and run those boys off the atreet? Mrs. Sullivan, do you know that 4f the Indianapolis police belittled themselves enough to devote their time to running little children off the streets, it wouldn’t be any time at all until they would kindle a fire of hatred from the child-loving public? Some of our greatest men started Just like these children, and I doubt if they ever would have obtained their goal if they had been run inside by the police every time they left their yard and did some boyish trick. I am an ex-pugilist, a working 'man and a father of a boy that is a boy. But I respect and teach him to respect Chief Morrissey and his men. I hope the time never will come when my boy or any other man’s boy has to be cautioned against the Indianapolis police department for fear they might get run in or arrested for disturbing the peace of some sleeping citizen. God help the unfortunate lad who has no place but the streets to play. CASEY JONES. nan Editor Timet — TWO of the most illuminating election reports come from Morgan county, where Professor KfcNutt was raised and practiced law prior to his employment at Indiana university, and Fayette county, where Judge Springer lives and practiced law for many years. In Morgan county McNutt received a majority smaller than majority accorded Roosevelt by 48. In Fayette county Judge Springer received 497 votes more than President Hoover. J. C. JOHNSON. nun Editor Timet— I AM a reader of The Times and wish to thank your paper for publishing people’s thoughts. I am an ex-service man. I saw in the paper where Mr. Hoover was thankful that they had people in Washington to take care of the mobs, which was right. But the veterans who were run out of a place they helped to save, did not know how to take care of mobs, machine guns, gas bombs, and bayonets, but they surely did know what to do with the rooster Nov. 8. Also, Mr. Hoover stated that there W’ould be no one hungry or cold. We had popcorn and threw the unpopped kernels out in the street for birds, and seven little children going to school got on their knees and ate the popcorn out of the dirt. I am glad that Mr. Roosevelt was elected and we will see in the next four years if poor children have to eat out of the gutter. Please publish this so our nice Governor. Mr. Leslie, can see that he is not taking care of all the poor in this state as he boasted. JACK WILLIAMS. mum Editor Timet — THE tremendous Democratic landslide shows clearly that the majority of the common people have awakened to the fact that they really rule the country. Passage of the eighteenth amendment was the biggest piece of legislative folly ever enacted. For fourteen years this ridiculously hypocritical law has existed while taxes have mounted steadily: morals have deteriorated, crime has been organized, and this nation has become the world's laughing stock. The people’s votes have elected men pledged to modify and repeal this law, almost without exception. Will they obtain the desired results or will the newly elected members fiddle while Rome burns, to the blatant- loud-mouthed tunes of the Anti - Saloon League, Methodist * Board of Temperance and Morals and other fanatically dry organizations? Immediate action to remedy this injustice Will be appreciated sincerely by the people whose votes have spoken plainly. SIX VOTERS.

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HOOVER ASKS ROOSEVELT TO DEBT PARLEY Britain, France Put Issue Squarely Up to U. S. in Notes. SWIFT ACTION IS URGED Precedent-Shattering Step Taken on Europe’s Plea for Revision. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—The fate of Europe’s plea for war debt revision depended in large measure , today on President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s answer to President Herbert Hoover’s precedent shattering invitation to a White House conj ference. Great Britain and France put the debt reduction issue squarely up to j this country in notes made public by the state department. They asked ' fundamental revision of their SB,- : 000,000,000 obligation. Pending ! negotiations to this end, they rej quested delay on Dec. 15 payments of nearly $124,000,000. Mr. Hoover, speeding east from’ California, asked Mr. Roosevelt and 1 his advisers to meet with him at the White House late this week. The President wants his successor’s ideate on war debts and other i economic issues because these questions are certain to carry over into the Roosevelt administration. Any debt settlement will rest finally with the Democratic congress. World Is Left Guessing Confined at his Albany mansion by a cold, the President-elect left the world guessing for the time being as to whether he would come here. The British-French attqck on the war debt structure is regarded by Mr. Hoover as the opening wedge in a general campaign for reduction of Europe's $11,000,000,000 debt to the United States. In a resolution adopted last December, congress shouted a resounding “no” to possible future requests for debt fevision. Now the question is: Shall Mr. Hoover ask congress to change its mind. He said he w r anted Mr. Roosevelt’s advice before drafting recommendations. First Reaction Is Cold First congressional reaction was cold toward any further concessions to Europe. Senator David A. Reed (Pa.) and Charles L. McNary (Ore.), Republican leaders, said congress should stand firm on its declaration of last winter opposing debt reduction. Democrats W'ere cautious in commenting pending disclosure of Governor Roosevelt’s views, but Senator Claude A. Swanson (Va.), ranking Democrat on the foreign relations committee, said he believed congress would receive reductions proposals unfavorably. Senator Thomas J. Walsh (Dem., Mont.) said a special session should be called quickly if a decision was necessary before debt payments are due Dec. 15. The regular session does not convene until Dec. 5. Stimson Remains Silent State Secretary Stimson declined to discuss the British and French notes pending Mr. Hoover's return. He said no other notes had yet been received. Asked if the Hoover administration still held to its policy of discussing debts with each nation separately, Stimson said there had been no change. This policy, if continued, would make a general debt conference impossible. It appears likely that if Mr. Roosevelt agrees to come here, a large conference including senators and representatives of both parties, (Turn to Page Two) Whiting Youth Dies in Crash Byl nited Prrtt HAMMOND, Ind„ Nov. 14.—Paul Krivackic, 17, Whiting, was injured fatally here when his automobile collided with, another.

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SUSPECT IS HELD IN FARM MURDERS

By United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind.. Nov. 14. —County Attorney James R. Emshwiller announced today that he had received word that John Moore, 25, was under arrest in Virgihia, Minn., in connection with the slaying here last week of Moore's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. (Bert) Moore. Emshwiller said he would send two deputies to Virginia today but that no formal charge would be placed against young Moore at this time unless Moore fought extradition. The bodies of Bert Moore and his wife were found in their farm home last Saturday morning. John Moore left Hartford City about two weeks ago after working for several months on his uncle's farm. Emshwiller said, however, that several witnesses told him they saw

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TYPHOON RUINS TOKIOJEOION 30,000 Houses Inundated; Flames Wreck Village. Hit United Prctt TOKIO, Nov, 15. (Tuesday)— Thirty thousand houses were inundated and other widespread damage was reported when a typhoon swept over Tokio today. The village of Kashiwabara, twenty-four miles east of Shizuoka, was destroyed by fire which was spread by the gale. It was estimated that 800 houses were burned before the flames were extinguished. The number of casualties was not reported. The storm, which started at 7 p. m. Monday, continued through the night, disrupting communication and transportation and plunging the city of Tokio into darkness as electric transmission wires were torn down.

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COLD WAVE IS NEAR Mercury to Plunge Below Freezing, Is Forecast. Winter’s siege was expected to be renewed Tuesday afternoon or night with snow and below-freezing weather scheduled to follow high temperatures of today and Sunday. J. H. Armington, United States meteorologist, said that a decided mercury drop is due for Indiana and the midwest because of approach of a severe cold area from northern Canada. Clear skies and moderate temperatures will hover over the city today, but the mercury will skid downward Tuesday morning, he predicted. HIGH COURT TO RECESS Supreme Justices to Prepare Opinions and Assemble Dec. 5. Bit United Prett WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.—Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes announced today that the supreme court would recess next Monday until Dec. 5. In the interim the court will prepare opinions to be delivered on its return,

the young man here Friday, and that two tramps told him they overheard Moore say then that he was on his way to the C. A. Moore farm. Emshwiller said he had evidence that young Moore had only $lB when he left Hartford City, and he had not worked since. Minnesota authorities said the young man had S4O in his pockets when arrested, and that the money was in bank notes issued by the Muncie, Ind., Merchants’ National bank. No positive evidence has been found that anything was stolen from the C. A. Moore home. Local authorities asked Minnesota police to look for John Moore after they found a picture of a girl on the floor of the C. A. Moore home, near the two bodies. The picture was said to be one of Miss Anna Blue, or Schiller, a waitress of Tower, Minn., authorities said. John Moore was a friend of the girL

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, NOV. 14, 1932

Above, framed in a border of happy-looking beer-drinkers, a map showing how state after state has abandoned prohibition policies . . . movement which reached its climax in the 1932 elections, when nine states climbed on the beer bandwagon. This is the first of a series of six stories dealing with the present movement for the return of beer, a movement in tensified by the recent elections. BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1932, NEA Service. (Inc.) THE Speaker’s gavel which falls on Dec. 5 to open congress will be a bung-starter. But how great a flow of what kind of beer can issue from that bung in dry United States is a big question. This last “lame duck” congress will assemble with an unmistakable cry from the entire country ringing in its ears and demanding that something be done about prohibition. Something will be done. Just what, is less certain than some enthusiasts believe. They think it is all over but the shouting.

The first move will be for legal beer, immediately, before the eighteenth amendment is touched. Assume, that by adding together the wets and such former drys as accept the “mandate of the people,” such a bill can be passed. What will it be? If the beer provided is really intoxicating in fact, it clearly violates the Constitution, and the courts will have no choice but to throw it out. If it is a really nonintoxicating drink, will it satisfy the thirsty? Somewhere between subzero nearbeer now permitted, and a beer with an unquestioned kick, lies a compromise—a compromise that will make the brew palatable, with maybe just the least bit of a lift to it, and yet not intoxicating beyond any reasonable dqubt. In the range between 2.75 per cent and 4 per cent lies that compromise, a beer that the thirsty would be glad to get, and yet which leaves enough doubt as to its intoxicating properties to get the benefit of court approval and avoid a possible veto by President Hoover, who is at heart a dry. HUM ANY alcoholic content up to 4 per cent is debatable, with equally reputable authority on both sides. Much of the light lager beer sold before the war was only around 3 per cent, and nearly all beer was under 4 per cent. The O’Connor-Hull bill, defeated 228 to 169 last session, but certain to come up early in this one, provided 2.75 per cent by weight, a 3 cents a pint tax, and sale in bottles only. Between the extreme wets, fighting for the limit at 4 per cent, and the drys, such compromise seems likely. But suppose such a bill is passed? Can you get your beer immediately? Maybe. Has your state a prohibition enforcement act like the Volstead act, prohibiting drinks of more than of 1 per cent alcohol? The chances are two to one it has, for only fifteen states are at this, moment le(Tum to Page Four) TRAIiTrAMS TRUCK; ' FATHER, SON INJURED Parent Critically Hurt When Flier Roars Over City Crossing. George Beldon, 46, 617 North Linwood avenue, employe of the Polk Milk Company, was injured seriously, and his son. James, 14, was cut and bruised when a truck in which the two were riding was struck and demolished by a Big Four “crack” passenger train today at Newman street and Massachusetts avenue. The father suffered a possible skull fracture and internal injuries. He is in city hospital. Apparently failing to see or hear crossing signals which were in operation, according to witnesses, the father drove the truck into the path of the inbound train which was traveling at a high rate of speed. The son was thrown clear of the wreckage and only bruised. The train was in charge of John Kelly of Bellefoptaine, 0., conductor. Publishers’ League to Meet BOONVILLE. Ind.. Nov. 14 —The Pocket Publishers' League will convene here Friday for its annual fall meeting.

“SWANG” WAY TO FAME Gus Hill “swans” his way to fame with Indian clubs. Read the first of the “old trouper" stories on Page 9.

ROLPH TO FREE RUM PRISONERS California Governor to Act in Short Time. By United Brest SACRAMENTO, Cal., Nov. 14. Governor James A. Rolph today announced that as soon as the results of the recent state election are certified, he will pardon all persons in California prisons who are “not guilty of anything outside of violating the Wright act.” The announcement was made in a telegram to a New York newspaper asking whether the Governor proposed to pardon prohibition offenders who were convicted of violating the enforcement law repealed at the last election. Approximately 1,000 persons now are serving sentences in California prisons and county and city jails for violation of the Wright act. Details of the pardons were not supplied by the Governor, who left for San Francisco. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 37 10 m 49 7a. m 38 11 a. m..*. 52 Ba. m 40 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m 45 1 p. m 57

BAKER SPEECH HERE TONIGHT TO OPEN RELIEF FUND DRIVE

Annual drive of the Indianapolis Community Fund will open tonight at a gigantic mass meeting in Cadle tabernacle with Newton D. Baker, former secrets :y of war, sounding the keynote of the campaign. Baker, now serving as chairman of the national citizens’ committee on relief and human service, appointed by President Herbert Hoover, will speak at 8. His address

will be broadcast to mid-western cities over station WFBM. Admission to the meeting will be free, and officials in charge have announced that no solicitations will be made during the evening. P r e p a rations are being made to accommodate a crowd expected to tax the capacity of the building. Baker’s address tonight will set in motion the

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machinery of the fund organization comprising 3,000 workers, each a volunteer and each determined to reach the goal of $1,052,632 set for the drive. Preliminary organization of the campaign has been completed, officials announced today, and all is in readiness for the starting gun. First reports will be received on Wednesday noon at the Claypool. Although optimistic regarding the outcome of the drive, Arthur R. Baxter, campaign chairman, pointed out today the necessity for each citizen contributing to the fulllest extent of his means.

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CUBA COUNTS 2,500 DEAD IN GALESURVEY Thousands of Homeless and Destitute Must Be Cared For by Government. UNTOLD HAVOC SPREAD Smoke of Funeral Pyres in Wrecked Town Is Visible Many Miles. BY LAWRENCE HAAS TJnited Press Staff Correspondent (CoDvright. 1932. by United Press) HAVANA, Cuba, Nov. 14.—Cuba counted a toll of 2,500 dead today in the terrific hurricane disaster, which obliterated the south coast town of Santa Cruz Del Sur, and spread untold havoc through Camaguey pro- I vince. A full recapitulation of the disaster was possible with fairly complete reports from the stricken district. More than 1,000 were injured some 300 of them severely. The property damage and loss of crops, sugar mills and machinery amounted to perhaps $100,000,000. Thousands of persons were homeless and destitute, meaning that they will have to be cared for by the government for months, until rehabilitation is possible. Relief Work Organized Relief work was organized on an impressive scale, and food, clothing, medical and other supplies were poured into the province by train and truck. The scene in w r hat was last week the populous port of Santa Cruz was a sight which those who witnessed it will never forget. The United Press correspondent reached there Saturday, the first American reported to arrive. From miles away, the smoke of funeral pyres could be seen spiraling up in the calm air, as troops gathered the hundreds of bodies scattered for miles around and burned them. Town Strewn Over Country Burial was impossible, since haste had to be made to lessen the danger of pestilence. There was no town left. The town was levelled and strewed over the landscape like a village of toy blocks kicked helter-skelter. The wind and the twenty-foot wall of water that followed it from the sea swept bodies and wreckage for several miles inland. Parts of houses, boats, bodies, household goods and other objects were lying in the drying fields two miles from town. Bodies of people and animals were being burned as fast as they could be gathered. Survivors Hunt Relatives Meanwhile, dozens of frantic sur- | vivors, who had refused to join the hundreds evacuated to Camaguey City, wandered disconsolately in the shattered ruins, aimlessly looking for lost relatives. Many half-clothed and injured children were among them. A sight that haunted my memory as I left the town was a child’s toy scooter, standing intact before a low tiled doorstep—all that remained of w’hat had once been a home —as though awaiting its small owner.

INTERESTING HOBBY

Cat raising is a fascinating hobby. Read Mrs. C. O. Robinson’s interesting article today, in her hobby series. Page 14.

“Last year there were 70,000 donors to the fund and we hope that this year we can increase this number substantially,” Baxter said. “The crisis we are facing offers a challenge to every person who has a job and an income. We must

Crowd the Tabernacle

■VTEWTON D. BAKER brings a message to Indianapolis tonight. His address at Cadle tabernacle is the start of a great movement, a crusade to prevent human misery, at a time when misery threatens, an effort to save human beings in an hour when danger menaces. From this city his message, rather an appeal for the saving of civilized standards of living, will go to the nation. That Mr. Baker is known as a great orator can be forgotten. That he served the nation during the days of war as the head of all the forces can be dismissed • It is important only that he comes as the plain citizen, whose heart impels him to devote all the wisdom he has gained, all the genius which is his, all the sympathy which he has stored from years of experience in dealing with stricken humanity, to a cause even greater than that when he dealt with masses in terms and times of bitter conflict. a * * a a a THE cause is as sacred as any for which he ever has spoken. The objective is more important than any in which either you or he ever has participated. The facts are plain, clear, stark and horrible. There are thousands of families who will oe in want this winter unless there be a sharing of the means of life. There will be thousands of families to whom will come bitterness, desperation, despair, a crumbling of the foundations of life, unless there be maintained those social organizations which feed the mind and the soul. The gathering tonight opens the annual appeal of the Community Fund for donations. There can be, of course, but one answer. The fund must be raised. These who have must share with those who need. Tonight, Newton D. Baker will tell you in convincing terms why this must be. y

WHITEWASH U. S. DRY FORCE HERE ON ‘LOST’ BOOZE Federal Executive Drops Probe Into Strange Disappearance of 1,200 Pints of Seized Liquor From City Postoffice. AGENTS ARE BRANDED NEGLIGENT Amount of Missing Whisky Is Nearer 336 Bottles, Asserts Woodcock; Continues Quiz Into Personnel Discipline. Expectec. “whitewashing” of the mysterious disappearance of about 1,200 pints of confiscated liquor from the federal building a year ago had materialized today, according to dispatches from Washington. The case, which attracted widespread attention at the time the disappearance was discovered, has been charged off to “loss and experience” on the books of the prohibition bureau, it was learned at office of Prohibition Administrator Amos W. Woodcock. This action bears out forecast made when Woodcock, on Aug. 25, promised an early report on the last of several investigations of the mystery, that the report would be delayed until after the election, and then no action taken.

There will be no grand juryaction in the case, which has been dropped, so far as the prohibition bureau is concerned, except that Woodcock intends to make further inquiry into an angle of the case involving personnel discipline, he intimated. Woodcock has on his desk a stack of affidavits and statements two inches thick, the result of several futile inquires, according to word from Washington. He now is convinced he never will know actually how much liquor disappeared or who took it. “It is another case of closing the stable door after the horse has been stolen,” he said. “This report proves beyond doubt that our men in In- . dianapolis were unduly negligent ’ and careless, and they since have adopted more efficient methods. “We have no substantial evidence of criminality. We don’t know how much liquor disappeared and we don’t know what happened to it. The chances are that if any was taken, it w 7 as consumed long ago.” The missing liquor, a fine gra'< of imported bourbon whisky, was SCHOOL TERM TO RE SLICED Eight Weeks to Be Cut From Year; Slash Pay. Eight weeks shorter school term and a total salary reduction for teachers of 28 per cent is a situation forecast today by A. B. Good, busi-! ness direfctor of the city schools. The reduced term and less pay j for teachers result from reduction of the school tax rate to 92 cents by the Marion county tax adjustment board, Good said. Anew budget necessitated by the rate cut will be ready for presentation to the state board of tax commissioners within a few days, Good "nnounced.

shoulder the responsibility for our less fortunate citizens. “The success of the campaign and the continuation of the work of relief organizations supported by the fund depends on the generosity and public spirit of the citizens of Indianapalosi.”

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part of a freight car load seized at Evansville in March, 1931. It was seized at request of the New Orleans prohibition office which had learned how it had been smuggled into the New Orleans port and shipped in a car, labeled “lumber,” for Chicago. Woodcock believes that 1,200 pints is an exaggerated estimate of the amount of liquor missing, it was reported here today. Report of his investigators sets out that order for destruction of 1,182 packages, “more or less," each containing approximately twelve pints, was issued by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell, June 30, 1931. Accepted Agents’ Count The records also show that on June 30 and July 1, 1931, the whisky in “1,154 packages” was poured down the sewer in the federal building basement. The difference in the amount of liquor ordered destroyed and the amount reported destroyed is twen-ty-eight packages, or 336 pints. At the time the disappearance was learned, Alf O. Meloy, United States marshal, stated he had not counted the liquor when it was turned over to him, but had accepted records of prohibition agents, who checked it out of the freight car and into the federal building storeroom. Woodcock’s report holds that the only actual count made was in June, 1931, when the New Orleans office sent to the Indianapolis office an inquiry as to amount of the seizure.

Gave Whisky to Girl The count at that time was 1,154 packages. That count, Woodcock js informed, was not a numerical count, but an estimate by two agents, who inspected the stored liquor, found it in a cord so many packages long and so many packages high, and computed the number of packages to be 1,154. Woodcock said no one seems to know how the figure 1,182 packages ever got into the court’s destruction order. The only hint of criminality uncovered by Woodcock's investigators, it is said, was in a statement by one witness that a certain employe in the federal building, whose name Woodcock will not reveal, gave some whisky of this particular type to a girl. The employe denies the charge, according to Woodcock. Britt Transferred South It is pointed out that John W. Morrill, present deputy administrator for the southern Indiana district, in no way is connected with the disappearance as he was not sent to Indianapolis until Feb. 7, 1932, months after the loss was learned, Morrill succeeded Charles Britt, who was demoted to special agent and assigned to New Orleans. First hint of the liquor theft was received when George W. Bugbee, a federal dry agent, who had charge of the liquor storeroom, where hundreds of bottles of confiscated liquor were stored, reported he had noticed several times there had been a shortage in the amount of liquor seized and placed in the room. Some of the liquor missing was part of the Evansville freight car load. Also reported missing was imported b;er and ale seized March 12, 1931, by deputy sheriffs in a raid on a mansion at Eightieth street and College avenue, leased by Claude and Nellie Bitroff. Refused to Keep Key Bugbee refused to keep a key to the storeroom longer and turned it over to Britt. Bugbee is said to have insisted on having witnesses accompany him to the storeroom in the future, so there could be n<j charges of irregularity against him. Officials of the Indiana AntiSaloon League are said to have investigated the disappearance, and to have obtained information that one dry agent had entertained lavishly in his northside apartment, and had served fine liquors, presumably including some of that taken from the storeroom. The federal building liquor storeroom first gained notoriety six year* ago when it was learned $225,000 worth of liquor from the Squibb* distillery, Lawrenceburg, Ind., had been stolen. Whitewashing also was charged in that case, several janitors being convicted of the theft.