Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1932 — Page 3
NOV. 26, 1932
CONGRESS MUST LEGALIZE 4 PER CENT BEER TO GAIN BIG REVENUE, SAYS BUSCH Lesser Alcoholic Content Will Result Only In More Bootlegging, Failure to Aid Farmer, Brewer Asserts. BILL TO BE READY ON DECEMBER 5 Wine Not Included in Tentative Draft of Modification Measure, Hoped to Be in Effect by Christmas. BY MARSHALL M’NEIL Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Congress must legalize 4 per cent beer or no appreciable revenue will be raised, bootlegging will continue and farmers will benefit but little, August 'A. Busch told each member in a letter today. Busch, president of Anheuser-Busch, Inc., explained that 4 per cent beer means 1 per cent of alcohol by volume, or 3.2 per cent by weight. House leaders have assigned to legislative drafting experts the job of preparing a beer bill, for presentation on the opening day of congress, Dec. 5. Legalization of wine is not included in the tentative draft of the measure. Modification by Christmas, in the house at least, now is entirely probable.
“One of my first thoughts,” Raid Busch’s letter to congressmen, “is the alcoholic percentage to be legalized under the Volstead act. "And although recognizing and admitting the necessity for legalizing a product that will come within the definition of the term ‘non-intoxi-cating,’ my contention is and always has been, since the subject of beer re-legalization has been discussed, that unless a beer of at least 4 per cent by volume (which is 3.2 per cent by weight) is legalized, the entire plan on which the hopes for beer are based will prove a disappointing one.” Granaries Are Bulging The brewer here referred to the fact that war-time beer was permitted an alcoholic content of 2.75 per cent, simply as a conservation measure. Now, with granaries bulging, a situation exactly the reverse obtaains, and he cited this as another reason for 4 per cent beer. "There is. I believe," the letter said, “sufficient evidence of record to substantiate the fact that a 4 per cent by volume beer is nonintoxicating in fact. Furthermore, beer constitutes a liquid food when it consists of adequate body to make It nourishing and health producing." He pointed to the failure of 2.75 per cent beer in Canada and said that in advocating 4 per cent beer he is favoring “one that is lower in alcoholic content than our pre-pro-hibition Budweiser, which was 4‘g per cent.
Urges 4 Per Cent Brew “Any product under 4 per cent . . .would be barren of that appeal that constitutes an inviting and palatable drink—would encourage the continuance of bootlegging, racketeering and smuggling —would foster the trade of the alley brewery—would lack the force of aiding temperance . . . "... nnere seems every reason and justification, based on experiences of the past, .for the legalization of a 4 per cent beer, if the hope for revenue to the federal government and to the states and municipalities is not to fail and if we are not to be disappointed in the hope for relief of unemployment.’’ At the same time, the Schlitz Brewing Company of Milwaukee, in response to an inquiry, indicated that it also believed 2.75 per cent beer would not be satisfactory. In pre-prohibition days, the fSchlitz company said, the alcoholic content of beer ranged from 3.4 per cent by weight to 5 per cent. INDICT MODEL YOUTH IN HAMMER DEATH Murder Charge Returned After Eight Persons Testify. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—The grand jury returned a true bill Friday against Charles Bertrand Arnold Jr., 16-year-old ‘‘model boy’’ slayer of his step-grandmother, on a charge of murder. The action followed testimony of eight persons, including the boy’s step-mother, Mrs. c. B. Arnold, daughter of Mrs. Ellen O. Saxe, whom the boy clubbed to death with a hammer because she would not allow him use of her automobile. Mrs. Arnold was weeping when she came from the grand jury room. Others who testified were two of Bert's school chums, Norman Jonathon and James Collis, the brother of a girl friend, William Smith, and four policemen. BOSSE IS EVA CHAMP Lyon’s Team Takes City High School Grid Laurels EVANSVILLE. Ind., Not. 26. Coach Hank Lyon’s Bosse high school eleven won its second straight Evansville city title here Thursday by tying with Central. ISIS. Bosse defeated Memorial, 6-0, and also tied with Reitz. Memorial defeated both Central and Reitz.
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2,500 IN RUSH FOR 300 POSTAL HOLIDAY JOBS Civil Service Officials Are Swamped by Applicants for Short-Time Work. More than 2,500 applicants for temporary postoffice positions during the Christmas rush, have swamped civil service officials. As only 500 blank applications were on hand, most of those seeking the positions were turned away withou an opportunity to fill out applications for the approximately 300 positions lasting only a few days.
The City in Brief
Indianapolis Cubs’ Recreation Club announces the engagement of Paul Barker-Earl Cripe “Oriental Serenaders’’ for tonight. The ten piece orchestra will furnish the music for their public dance, sponsored in the Rhodius park community house. Thieves who smashed a window in the Barrett Hardware Company, 530 East Washington street, early today were routed without obtaining loot, police were told. Forty-five boys who attended the Marion County Tuberculosis Association nutrition camp at Bridgeport last summer were guests Friday noon at the weekly luncheon of the Optimist Club at the Columbia Club. S. D. Fendley, industrial control specialist of the General Electric Company, will address the monthly meeting of the Indianapolis Electrical Maintenance Engineers at 6 Monday night at the American Can Company, 1936 South East street. Thirty-second annual meeting of the Indiana Hardwood Lumbermen’s Association will be held at the Severin Friday, Jan. 20. Educational program on the duties of night watchmen will be given at fire headquarters. New York and Albama streets, at 2:30 Wednesday afternoon, Fire Chief Harry E. Voshell, announced today. Approximately 1,000 delegates from all parts of the United States are expected to attend the meeting of the National Association of Negro Musicians here next August. State convention of the organization will begin today at the Simpson M. E. chapel. Eleventh and Missouri streets, and will continue through Sunday night. C. A. McCamey, Indianapolis Retail Coal Club president, will speak on “Coals and Cokes” at the next session of the school for firemen and custodians at 1 Monday. Relief gardens in Columbia, Mo., grown with an investment of less than S3OO for seed and tools, produced $3,000 worth of food for 85 unemployed families this year. George Washington, in his first annual address to congress, in 1790, emphasized the need of a uniform system of weights and measures.
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Frances Mae Good, 19. left, and Donald N. McDowell, 16, right, are two farm youngsters who wouldn't yield to tough times. They earned a combined total of $5,671 in 1932 by activity in fifty-nine distinct lines of endeavor. The 4-H Club president’s trophies in a national achievement contest will be awarded them. Both are from Wisconsin. Miss Good from Browntown, Green county, and McDowell from Montello, Marquette county.
‘Seasonal Conditions’ Lift Butter and.Egg Prices
Numerous Commodities on Upgrade, but Staples to Remain Low. Don’t call your grocer a robber when he charges you 43 cents a dozen for eggs. About all you can do is to be philosophical. You might give him a gentle hint with something like, “Remember when eggs were 29 cents about two weeks ago?” The well-known law of supply and demand has done its deadly work. The result: 43-cent eggs, butter at more than 30 cents, etc. The rise in cost of many grocery products is due, not to the return of the high cost of living, but to what market men call “seasonal conditions.” Eggs Are on Upgrade Eggs are on the upgrade because they always are about this time of year. Chickens do not lay as many eggs these days as they did during the summer and early fall months. And the lower the supply, the higher the price. Similarly, cows do not produce as much milk. The recent snow also caused increases in prices of some commodities. Unexpected frosts in certain parts of the country where frosts are rare caught growers by surprise and ruined large parts of their crops. Spinach, sweet potatoes and onions are among the commodities affected. Staples Stay About Same Take onions, for instance. Friday morning, wholesalers said they were paying 5 cents more a hundred pounds than they were twen-ty-four hours earliei. They passed the new price on to the retailers, who sell in small lots, and can’t split 5 cents a hundred ways. So they have to take the loss. According to large distributors, the staples of the grocery business, sugar, oatmeal, pineapples, flour, and such, will remain “about the same.” There is no indication, they say, that there will be any increase in these articles to worry housewives during the whiter.
GARNERS PLAN SIMPLE LIFE IN NEW ROLES Only Necessary Function WiU Draw Them From Home. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Vice-President-Elect John N. Garner and Mrs. Garner intend to follow the "simple life” after March 4, attending only the necessary White House social functions. “One can not serve God and mammon,” said Mrs. Garner today. “We always have liked the simple life. It gives us the greatest happiness. Os course, others have a right to different ideas.” The Speaker echoed her remarks, indicating he expected to find plenty of actual work to do.
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TOWN HALL TO HEAR BRUCE BAIRNSFATHER World War’s Famed Humorist to Lecture Here Next Friday. “The man who made the world laugh in its darkest hour,” Bruce Bairnsfather, world famous humorist, who created the World war character, “Old Bill,” will be presented as an In- .
dianapolis Town Hall attraction next Friday morning at 1 at the English theater. His best known book, “The Better ’Ole,” is illustrated with sketches of “Old Bill." Bairnsfather also is the author of “Fragments From France,” “Bullets and Billets” and ’'From Mud to Mufti.”
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The humorist will be introduced by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. Hostess for a luncheon at the Columbia Club following the theater appearance of the author will be Mrs. Kin Hubbard,
MOTHERS FAINT AS SONS ARE SENTENCED Youths Are Given Ten-Year Terms for Part in Robbery. After petitioning the court for leniency, two mothers fainted in criminal court when their sons, convicted of robbery, were given tenyear state reformatory sentences. Clyde E. Karrer, criminal judge pro tern., Friday gave the long terms to James w. Bayes, 22, and Wallace Malone, 23. Sentence on a third youth, Samuel Hanson, 17, was withheld until the court investigates his age. Karrer indicated he might give Hanson a lighter sentence because of his youth. Court attaches worked diligently for ten minutes to revive the mother of Bayes, Charles Schier, 4541 Caroline street, testified he served beer and sandwiches to the youths and alleged they robbed him of S6O, Oct. 28.
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NIGHT DISPLAY OF YULE WARES TO BESTAGED Annual Christmas* Open House of Merchants Set for Thursday. The stage is set. The performance begins any time Thursday and continues until 9 that night. Mom and Pop will play the crowd scenes. Their parts will be to find Christmas presents that suit the individual tastes of members of their family. Other heavy roles will be played by Mister Sweetheart and Miss Bride-to-be, and Uncle and Aunt So-and-So, who always come through strong by filling stockings at Christmas-time. Merchants Co-Operate Stars of the night will be the Christmas wares that will be shown in every downtown store at annual Christmas open house. The seasonal holiday fete was announced today by the Merchants’ Association. The East Washington, West Washington, and Pennsylvania Street Associations of Merchants will co-operate in the open house. Every store will burn brightly and have well-oiled doors, in readiness for Indianapolis to see the 1933 Christmas gifts from every clime and every nation. Sales Talk Is Banned Clerks will be at counters ready,to show you anything your heart desires to Amtemplate as a present. Sales taK is banned. If you wish to buy. the article will be sold to you. But if you merely want to get a line on the negligee you get for Aunt Susie or the pajamas for Betty Coed, you’ll be shown the stocks, and can make your purchase at your leisure. The committee in charge is headed by Albert Zoller and composed of A. L. Block, M. S. Block, T. B. Griffith and Louis Wolf.
CHILD HUNGER DRIVEHALTED Doctor and Social Worker Stopped at White House. I Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—Two New Yorkers -were held today on disorderly conduct charges as the aftermath of an attempt by a handful of adults and children to stage a Thanksgiving day “child hunger demonstration” at the White House. Those arrested were Dr. Emil Conason and Mrs. Gertrude Haessler. Dr. Conason described himself as medical adviser to the child hunger marchers, and Mrs. Haessler said she was a social worker. Dr. Conason, Mrs. Haessler, two other adults and six children less than 12 years old, drove up to the White House gates in two taxicabs, while President Hoover was enjoying a holiday rest in the mansion and 150 policemen stood guard outside. Some fifty more children, recruited in Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities remained at a meeting hall. Dr. Conason (jumped from the taxi and asked a policeman: “Am I under arrest?” “Not yet,” the patrolman replied. “I want to send a letter in to the President, asking him to receive a petition.” “The President isn’t seeing anybody today.” Dr. Conason took a step toward the gate. Husky patrolmen marched him away. Mrs. Haessler objected violently. Policemen carried her bodily to a patrol wagon. The children—four girls and two boys—were taken to the women’s bureau with Mrs. Haessler. They were released later.
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Pet Lover Will Move Without Order by Court
Juvenile Charge Brings Order to Mrs. Krause to Vacate. Monday will be moving day for Mrs. Susanna Krause, pet lover, of 401 Berwick street, whose landlord has protested against her turning his property into a pet farm. The landlord's objections followed juvenile court charges that Mrs. Krause lured scores of children into her home, and forced them to care for the nine cats and five dogs she maintains a* pets. After threatening to remove the tenant by court action, Clyde E. Karrer, attorney for the landlord, declared Mrs. Krause had agreed to move. Mrs. Krause was scheduled to face charges of contributing to delinquency of the children kept in her home. Her case was continued when she requested trial by jury. She has denied charges by juvenile court authorities that she posed as a “fairy gcximother." “I always have treated children in the best manner, and have given them clothes, food and gifts," she declared when arraigned in juvenile court. Declaring she could produce forty children and mothers as witnesses in her behalf, Mrs. Krause denied forcing the children to care for her pets.
FALL INJURIES KILL MANUAL HIGHJEACHER Career of Nearly Quarter of Century Ended for Miss Thormeyer. Career of nearly a quarter of a century as a teacher ended Friday night when Miss Bertha Thormeyer, 64, of 93 South Butler avenue, died at Methodist hospital of injuries incurred Nov. 16, when she fell on icy steps at Emerich Manual Training high school. She was an instructor in the foreign language department. Arrangements for the funeral, which will be held Monday, have not been completed fully. . The services will be conducted by the Rev. John B. Ferguson, pastor of the Irvington Presbyterian church of which Miss Thormeyer was a member, and will be held at the Ragsdale & Price funeral home, 1210 North Alabama street. M’NUTT, PETERS CONFER Legislative Details Being Worked Out at French Lick Conference. By United Press, FRENCH LICK. Ind., Nov. 26. Details of the 1933 legislative program were expected to be worked out today at a conference between Governor-Elect Paul V. McNutt and R. Earl Peters, democratic state chairman. The latter recently returned from a vacation in Minnesota.
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Unquestionably the Great Political Book of the Year BEVERIDGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA By Claude G. Bowers William Soskin “It is very unlikely N. Y. EVENING POST that the Pulitzer Award judges will have to look any further for a "work worthy of their laurels this year. The book emulates the thoroughness and the artistry of Senator Beveridge’s own biographies of Marshall and Lincoln.” William Allen White “A splendid picture of SATURDAY REVIEW Beveridge. . . The author’s access to the letters of Beveridge, George Perkins, and Roosevelt has given him material for a story of the Progressive movement which reveals for the first time many curious and baffling incidents.” Janet Ayer Fairbank “An extraordinarily CHICAGO TRIBUNE fine and solid biography, a comprehensive history of thirty years of American politics, and as absorbing a piece of narrative writing as it has been my good fortune to read in a long time.” Meredith Nicholson “No more fascinating INDIANAPOLIS STAR biography has been written of any American. ... A vivid portrait of one of the most interesting and provocative citizens Indiana has ever known. ... An inspiring book, a book that should prove heartening to America’s youth, is this story of Beveridge’s life.” Houghton Mifflin Company
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CHOIR SINGER IS ACCUSED IN DIVORCE SUIT Named Corespondent in Petition Against Wife Filed by Teacher. By United Press ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 25.—Harvey Crawford, Elkhart business man and choir singer, was named corespondent in a divorce suit filed in superior court here by James W. Ward, 28. science instructor at Central junior high school, against his wife. Hazel. Mrs. Ward sang in the church choir which Crawford directed, according to the complaint. Ward alleged that his wife and Crawford carried on a clandestine love affair. Before coming to Elkhart, Ward taught and coached basketball at Peru, Milwaukee, Laketon and Ft. Wayne.