Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1933 — Page 1

HUNCIE JURY IS NAMED FOR PASTOR TRIAL Suspended Minister Faces Charge of Attempting to Attack Girl. FIGHT FOR COURT SEATS Score of Witnesses to Be Used in Effort to Prove Innocence. By l * Siic, ini MUNCIE, Ind., March 29.—A jury, comprised of Delaware county farm- j ers, this afternoon was selected to l try the Rev. Lemuel Conway, suspended pastor of the First M. E. church, on a charge of attempting! to attack an 18-year-old Sunday school teacher. The jury selection came at the end of the forenoon session. The courtroom was crowded with residents of Muncie and surrounding towns. Presentation of the state's case started early in the afternoon session, while Miss Helen Huffman, alleged to have been the victim of the attack attempt, and her family were in court. She will be the chief witness to the charge that Mr. Conway attempted his assault on a lonely road in December. Mr. Conway, with a score of witnesses. will attempt to discredit the girl's charge, asserting he had driven the girl to the Muncie business district and was in a plumbing shop discussing a fishing trip at the time of the alleged roadside episode. Throngs Fight for Seats Wjth word that a jury had been selected, extra squads of Muncie police were dispatched to the courtroom to Randle the throngs fighting of seats. The girl’s story, on which the indictment is based, si that Mr. Conway took her to a country road, ! where his alleged attack on her was j prevented by a passing automobile, j Miss Muffman was clad in an ! orange blouse and brown suirt. Mr. Conway, with his wife and several of his children, are crowded at the defense table with attorneys. He is taking an active interest in the rase, advising often with his counsel. Scramble for Seats The crowd was of such proportions Tuesday afternoon that one woman fainted the scramble for seats. Mr. Conway, who has refused to vacate the church parsonage, was suspended for the year after the church trial, presided over by Bishop Edgar Blake, resulted in verdicts of guilty in the girl’s case. The church body also convicted him for knocking William Aurand, church choir leader, over chancel rail in a wrangle during a service shortly after the girl made her charges. EMPLOYES HOLD FETE More Than 200 Attend Goldstein Brothers’ Event at Antlers. Mr. and Mrs. James McClelland won a waltz contest at a card and dancing party of employes of the Goldstein Bras, department store at the Antlers Tuesday night. The affair was sponsored by the Mutual Aid Association of the store and was in charge of Harold Goldsmith and Roy Frazier. More than 200 attended. Entertainment program was presented by Misses Betty Ginney and Alice Arnold, and S’d Hasse. STETSON AID IS~ ILL Secretary in Serious Condition Following Major Operation. Miss Maxine Harry, secretary to Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, is in a serious condition at St. Vincent’s hospital as result of a major operation which she underwent Tuesday. Logger Suspects Are Held A police cruising squad under Lieutenant Dan Cummings today arrested two men in an auto overhauled at Bellefontaine street and Massachusetts avenue and confiscated a gallon of alcohol. Under arrest are Ernest Blevins. 27. Lawrence. and Elwood Auvid. 25. of 3514 Ralston avenue. They are charged with transporting.

Spent 65c to Get 85.00 Weekly Income —4-Day Ad \lr. Hla Plummer, 2019 North Illinois street, chose a Times Room Ail as the medium from which to secure a tenant for her room. The room was rented to a Times reader on the fourth dav at a cost of only do cents for the following advertisement : ILLINOIS N , !fll9—? rooms-fuV-niHifd: sun parlor: private lavator*: private entrance: S.V TAMM*. Mr. Landlord, if your property is vacant, list it in The rimes Rental Columns for four or more insertions and receive a free listinp in The Times Spring Rental Guide, out Saturday. April t, and distributed free through all Haag Drug Stores. No increase in rate —just 3 cents a word (lowest want .id ra'e In city!. RI. 5551 Times Want Ad Headquarters, 214 West Maryland Street

The Indianapolis Times Increasing cloudiness tonight, becoming unsettled with probably showers Thursday; rising temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 276

Labor Keeps Up Fight on Forest Jobs Last Desperate Effort to Kill Roosevelt Program Made in House. By I nited press WASHINGTON. March 29—Or- I ganized American labor, through house spokesmen, began a last | desperate attempt today to prevent passage of President Roosevelt's plan to recruit a construction corps of 250.000 jobless. Chairman Connery of the labor committee, chief of the so-called “labor bloc,” attacked the administration unemployment relief measure, which passed the senate. “I am authorized to say that not only Mr. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, but organized labor in its entirety is j against this measure,” Connery said, j Objection by Minority Leader McNary today blocked senate consideration of the $500,000,000 Wagner relief bill, second item in President Roosevelt’s unemployment relief program. MARION BANDIT SUSPECT DIES Wounded in Police Roundup of Gang of 5: Officers Claim Confession. By Timex Special MARION, Ind., March 29.—William Browning, 43, Toledo, wounded , Saturday night when he attempted to escape police who rounded up five bandit suspects, died Tuesday night after making a partial confession. The wounded bandit is said r? have admitted to Mayor Jack Edwards, who said he met Browning in j a boxing bout several years ago, that! he and gang members had con- j ducted several robberies and safe j blowings, and planned a series of crimes in the vicinity of Marion, but could not remember where any had I been staged. Informed that he was dying,! Browning asked to see Ted Elbert, | Toledo, another of the suspects, who | was taken to the Grant county hos- ! pital under heavy guard. He asked | Elbert to care for his mother, Mrs. Minnie Porter, Toledo, widow of a former Marion policeman. Browning said Elbert was brains of the gang. The dead bandit, who formerly w'as a sports promoter in Cincinnati, said he became connected with the gang several years ago, working the confidence racket until "times got hard,” when they turned to safe blowings and banditry. Others held are Ray Shaw, Detroit; John McHenry, Toledo, and Lewis Ruggles, Marion taxi driver. Asked if Ruggles “spotted” places to rob in the vicinity of Marion, Browning said Ruggles was “too dumb for that, but he was a fine driver.” The four remaining prisoners may be arraigned in circuit court here | today or Thursday.

Bright Spots

By United Tress Norfolk & Western railroad re- j ports net income for first two I months of 1933 of $2,688,304. against $1,246,983 in like 1932 period. Electrical Securities Corporation reports 1932 net profit of $2.916.391.! against $2,675,198 in 1931. Atlantic Coast Line railway re- j ports February net operating income of $566,353. against $563,314 in ! February, 1932. Follansbee Bros. Cos. resumes op-; erations at its Wheeling (W. Va.) ; tin mill. Illinois Central railroad freight' loadings last week were 12,543 cars, | I compared w r ith 11.045 cars in the j | preceding week. I JAIL JOBLESS LEADERS Four Given Three Months Sentences on Charges of Rioting. ! By I nited Press HAMMOND. Ind.. March 29. Stella Chappa, Lydia Oken, Charles , Church and Gus Lysiak, leaders of several unemployed demonstrations in Hammond, were under sentence of three months each today on charges of rioting. Their inability to pay cost of witness fees will make it necessary for them to serve nearly a year. Each brought numerous witnesses to tes- j tify. HEARING TO BE HELD Board of Works Prepares for Sherman Drive Improvement. Board of works today instructed the city engineer's office to prepare ! for a hearing on a proposal to improve Sherman drive between Thirtieth and Thirty-eighth streets, j where drainage is poor. Cost of the improvement, accord- ; ing to a preliminary estimate, would be $1.50 a front foot of abutting real estate. No date lor hearing has been set. Senate Passes Whisky Bill H t 1 nited Pr< ss WASHINGTON, March 29.—The senate today passed the Copeland bill removing present restrictions on :he number of medicina'. liquor prescriptions allowed to physicians. Wabash Nominations Asked Nominations of three alumni to i places on the board of trustees of Wabash college are asked in notices mailed by F. Rider Freeman, chairman of the canvassing committee, and Fred C. Domroese, registrar.

ACT TO RENEW CONFIDENCE IN INVESTMENTS Roosevelt Urges Congress to Give Security Buyers . Protection. BILL IS INTRODUCED Drastic Control of Stock and Bonds Sales Will Be Provided. BY FREDERICK A. STORM I nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. March 29.—President Roosevelt called upon congress today to restore public confidence in investment securities by correcting abuses which have cost Americans billions of dollars. As soon as reading of the President's message was completed, legislation setting up drastic control of securities sales by providing for full publicity regarding the backers and their claims, was introduced by Senate Majority Leader Robinson. It was referred to the judiciary committee. The interstate commerce committee will handle it in the house. The bill would set up a rigid control of securities sales, administered by the federal trade commission. All advertising, both through the printed rod or by radio, would be prohibited until vital information regarding the financial conditions of the promoters of either foreign or domestic securities is filed with the commission. Huston Thompson Drafts Bill This information relates to capitalization, dividends, profits, funded debt, assets and liabilities, the issuers’ income, expenses and fixed charges during the preceding year, bonuses and capital investment. Disclosures during the senate stock market investigation played an important part in framing the drastic new regulations. Huston Thompson, who as chairman of the federal trade commission a decade ago. frequently at-! tacked unethical business practices, helped in drawing up the legislation. Mr. Roosevelt revealed in his message that this program was “but one step in our broad purpose of protecting investors and depositors.” Other legislation relating to supervision of exchange transactions and “to correct unethical and unsafe practices on the part of officers and directors of banks and other corporations,” will follow. Urges Full Supervision The President recommended federal supervision of interstate traffic in securities and said: “In spite of the many state statutes the public in the past has sustained severe losses through practices neither ethical nor honest on the part of many persons and corporations selling securities.” “What we seek,” he continued in his 300-word message, “is a return to a clearer understanding of the ancient truth that those who manage banks, corporations and other agencies handling or using other people’s money are trustees acting for others.” Mr. Roosevelt made it clear that, the federal government “can not and should not take any action which might be construed as approving or guaranteeing that newly issued securities are sound in the sense that their value will be maintained or that the properties which they represent will earn profits. Seventh Message to Congress “There is, however,” he continued, ‘an obligation upon us to insist that every issue of new securities to be sold in interstate commerce shall be accompanied by full publicity and information, and that no essentially important element attending the issue shall be concealed from the buying public.” It was the seventh message Mr. Roosevelt has sent to the special session of congress since it convened three weeks ago. Already three major pieces of legislation have been enacted into law—the emergency banking act, the economy act and the Volstead act modification. Farm relief and unemployment bills are pending in congress, with prospects of early enactment. OPENS LENTEN SERIES Bishop Warren L. Rogers Holds Services at Christ Church. A series of Lenten services by Bishop Warren L. Rogers, bishop of ; the diocese of Ohio, were opened at noon today at the Christ church.

Teachers Offer to Work Without Pay to Keep Schools Open for Full Term

City schools will remain open foi the regular term ending in June, the school board announced today, after accepting an offer from teachers to serve without pay, if necessary. Problem of finances which, it appeared, might force the board to close schools a month early, is overcome by willingness of teachers to “make personal sacrifices.’ Communication from the executive board of the Federation of Indianapolis Public School Teachers was adopted by the school board Tuesday night. Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of schools, pointed out the term probably could not have been completed without co-operation of the teachers. Dilemma caused by restricted bud-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933

HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU—ON APRIL 7

, • £ *• V ji i . —■' v jdA

Here’s looking at you! Looking at you on April 7 as you “heist” —not hoist—a Chicago bowl of 3.2 per cent Indianabrewed beer and nibble on a pretzel. Miss Betty Stayton of 1334 North Ewing street, got thirst thoughts today and so she scoured the town with the above photographic result. She found a special three-

CITY JOB DRIVE IS MOVING ON Modernization Campaign Is Expected to Give Work to Hundreds. City-wide modernization campaign, designed to give work to hundreds of unemployed, went forward today with naming of a committee to check homes, apartments, stores and offices in regard to improvements. An army of 5,000 volunteer workers will be recruited in the movement, to be staged April 22 to May 5, asking property owners to start improvements at this time, to aid employment and business. Russell C. Rottger, vice-president of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, was named chairman of the sales force which will enlist volunteer workers from civic, luncheon clubs, women’s organizations and labor groups. Louis J. Borinstein, Chamber of Commerce president, who is heading the improvement drive, at suggestion of Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, named Chester W. Albright of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, and Samuel Miller, Great Western Furniture Company treasurer, as Rottger’s assistants. Volunteer workers will canvass home owners and other property owners to get promises they will start improvements while prices are low and workers need jobs. “Much interest is being taken in the suggestion that now r is the time to make needed improvements while building materials are at rock-bot-tom prices,” Borinstein stated. ‘WINE’ LABEL ON 3.2 BEVERAGE IS FOUGHT Pure Food Laws to Prevent It, Thinks Head of Yinters’ Group. By l nited Prrxx SAN FRANCISCO, March 29. California vinters, united in declaring their half-century old wineries will not produce “near wine” of 3.2 per cent alcoholic content for a recently legalized market, made plans today to prevent such a beverage being labeled “wine.” “We have no objection to manufacture and sale of a 3.2 beverage compound containing a wine base, but we most certainly will object to its being called wine,” said Edmund A. Rossi, president of the Italian-Swiss colony of vintners at Asti, Cal. “I am confident federal pure food laws would prevent labeling of near wine as real wine,” he said. TAX “STAMPS SALE’ ON Inquiries Regarding Intangible Levy Are Numerous at Sexton's Office. Sale of intangibles tax stamps was started today in the office of Timothy P. Sexton, county treasurer, at a special window. Few of the stamps were sold, but inquiries regarding them were numerous. Stamps to the value of $52,000 have been allotted Sexton.

get might have upset the entire school curriculum, he said. In their offer, teachers incorporated a statement, already indorsed by the commission on emergency in education. “We would prefer to make personal sacrifices rather than to have the children denied their educational birthright,” it read. “Should the board of school commissioners.” the offer continued, “find that the funds are not sufficient to pay the full amount of salary called for in the teachers’ contracts. we are sure that the teachers are willing and will prefer to teach the necessary time to complete the school term without pay rather than to deprive the children of their full year of school work.”

pound pretzel made for the merry- merry unpopping of the beer caps in April by the Purity Cone and Pretzel Company, 2648 Northwestern avenue. The Chicago bowl she borrowed from Charles Mayer & Cos. As for the rest, the six pints in the mug with the rising foam, the coy eyes and smile, that’s Mrs. Stayton’s own secret, or the photographer's, as they say, “Beer’s near.”

DOCTOR, NURSE ROUND TO JURY Charge of Performing Illegal Operation Is Faced. Charged with performing an illegal operation. Dr. Tell C. Waitermire, 52, of 1339 North Pennsylvania street, and Mrs. Winnie Winningham, nurse, 301 East North street, Apt. 1, waived arraignment Tuesday afternoon in municipal court four and were bound to the grand jury on $5,000 and $2,000 bonds, respectively. Police arrested the pair Monday night after nieghbors complained of activities at the Pennsylvania street address. Robert Arnold, Negro porter, arrested on vagrancy charges, was dismissed Tuesday afternoon. Two women found in the house described by police as suffering from medical neglect, were sent to city hospital. Mrs. Winningham. so listed in the city directory as Dr. Walterimre’s nurse, was arrested under the name of “Marie Willingham.” FREE SPEECH APOSTLE AGAIN FACES COURT “I’ll Be Speaking When Weather Gets Warmer,” He Says. Charles Krause, 77, of 527 Middle drive, Woodruff Place, had another of his numerous days in court today, and refused to desist from being an apostle of free speech as exemplified in street corner harangues. Appearing in circuit court before W. C. Wetter, judge pro torn, Krause succeeded in having set aside a fine of $lO and costs imposed in municipal court on a disorderly conduct charge. “It’s about time you stopped these street corner harangues,” Wetter said. “I’ll be speaking again when the weather gets warmer,” Krause responded. The case on which the appeal to circuit court was taken was based on the arrest of Krause Sept. 13, 1932, following a clash over speaking on streets, one of many in which hfe has been involved. PLAYWRIGHT IS SUICIDE Falrick Kearney Ends Life by Gas; Adapted Dreiser Story. By United Press NEW YORK. March 29.—Patrick Kearney, New York playwright who adapted Theodore Dreiser’s “AnAmerican Tragedy” for the stage, committed suicide Tuesday by inhaling gas in the furnished room he occupied. His last play, produced on Broadway, was “Old Man Murphy.” Two years ago, the playwright’s friends said, he was worth about $250,000. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 46 7a. m 34 11 a. m 49 Ba. m 40 12 moon;.. 49 9a. m 43 Ip. m 52

The school board adopted a reply, asserting the offer would be accepted only as a last resort. “The commissioners now can give assurance to the teachers and the public that the present school term will be completed.” board members said. ‘•This is only another evidence of the fine spirit of co-operation and loyalty which the teachers of the city have displayed during these critical times. “It will be impossible, for several weeks, to know definitely whether the board's finances will make it necesary to ask teachers to do what their federation has indicated they are willing to do. “The teachers will be paid until the money available for payment of salaries is exhausted.”

STORM OF PROTEST RISES OVER MONOPOLY ON BEER GIVEN IMPORTER BY STATE

JEWISH SHOPS FORCED SHUT IN GERMANY Hitler Flings Warnino to World to Put Stop to Organized Protests. BY CLIFFORD L. DAY United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN. March 29.—Demonstraj tions against Jewish elements increased today, with sporadic boycotts in various German communities, despite the government s announcement that its program of ’ retaliation against atrocity lies” would not begin until 10 a. m. Saturday. Jewish peoples of the world must ! recognize that “the Jewish war i against Germany sharply affects ! Jewry within Germany,” Chancellor Adolf Hitler said today in discussing j with the cabinet the Nazi party's I measure against anti-German | propaganda abroad. “Further reports from New York,” he said, “state that the boycott agi- ! tation against Germany still is ragj ing, and also that mass meetings j and radio speeches are agitating ! against American citizens of Ger- ! man origin.” Hitler, who returned by airplane today from a conference at Munich, party headquarters, said reports from London describing the appearance of automobiles with placards calling for a boycott on German goods gave the impression of a well- ; organized movement. Referring to the party's action j against the Jewish people in Germany, he said: Jewish Shop Picketed “It had to be organized, otherwise defensive action would have originated with the mass of the population itself, and thus assumed an undesirable form. Through organization, the entire action can be held in hand, thus preventing molestations of a personal character or acts of violence.” In Essen, home of thi famous | Krup armament works, proprietors ; of Jewish department stores closed I their establishments hurriedly, on I orders of the Brown shirts. In Wittenberg and the province of Brandenburg, Hitler's storm I troops picketed Jewish shops and forced them to close. Boycotts of many chain stores | were effective. All stores owned by Jewish proprietors were closed in Darmstadt. Jews of Gleiwitz voluntarily closed during the morning, and found their places of business officially closed by the new dictator's storm troops when they sought to open them in j the afternoon. Patch Steel Helmets Rift Differences between the Nazis and the Steel Helmets in Brunswick appeared to be nearing an amicable agreement. The government lifted j its ban against the war veterans’ organization, effective April 1. The Steel Helmet organization annonuced that henceforth no applications from men adhering to Socialistic principles would be accepted, and that applications for I membership by followers of Karl Marx now pending would be ignored. J Twelve hundred Steel Helmets arrested at Brunswick have been re- | leased, it was announced, but 150 ! leaders of the organization, includ--1 ing many anti-Hitlerites, remained j in custody. Irony Greets Protests Frank Seldte, leader of the Steel Helmets and minister of labor in the Hitler cabinet, returned to Berlin Tuesday night. The German press received the news of American protests with some irony, and an ostensible feeling of “relief” that attacks on the anti-Jewish policy were not more vigorous. The Deutsche Zeitung, for example. quotes a reference by Represen--1 tative Blanton of Texas in congress | to “discrimination against Jews in the residential sections of Washing- ; ton.” and warns America "to put her own house in order.’ BANKERS ARE INDICTED Former President. Auditor Accused of Embezzlement at Cleveland. By L nited Press CLEVELAND. March 29.—C. Stirling Smith, former president of the failed Standard Trust bank, and Dalte T. Winslow, former auditor, were indicted today on charges of embezzlement. The Standard bank, which succeeded the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers’ Co-operative National bank, had depasits of sl3 200.000 when it failed in December. 1930. STATE BANKER ROBBED Holdup Frustrated, Official Is Beaten by Trio. ; By United Prrxt r ROCKVILLE. Ind., March 29. , Two men and a woman, frustrated in ! their attempt to rob the Montezuma State bank, beat and roobed William T. Montgomery, bank president. at his home in Montezuma Tuesday night. Montgomery and his wife were : held captive in their home by the bandits several hours, he reported.

Entered as Second-Class Matter et Post office, Indianapolis

Single ‘Foreign 1 Brand of Brew Could Be Specified by Appointed Official and Other Kinds Barred. BOYCOTT OF INDIANA IS HINTED Political Setup, Giving Plums to ‘Deserving’ Democrats, Seen as Probable Under Present Law. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer Deluge of protests descended upon the state beer administration today, when it was disclosed that rules laid down by Paul Fry, excise director, permit a monopoly on foreign beer to a single importer in each of the ten districts of the State. By selling a single Milwaukee beer, the importer could bar from his district any other Milwaukee brew or any St. Louis product, for example. He would have absolute control as to the decision of what brand of foreign beer would be imported.

'PENNY' BIDS SAVEFARMER Neighbors Return Livestock to State Man After Mortgage Sale. By Timex Speeial NEWCASTLE, Ind., March 29. Quietly, but effectively, neighbors of Chalmers Eaton, tenant farmer with a large family, saved him from loss of his livestock by public sale Tuesday to satisfy a chattel mortgage. The neighbors bid in pennies. Persons who bid otherwise were escorted from the crowd in an orderly manner. There was no resistance. Only friendly bids were offered, and after the sale, all the property was returned to Eaton. Milk cows drew bids of 4 cents; hogs, 3 cents; steers, 3 cents; horses, 4 to 14 cents, and heifers, 3 cents. No bid higher than $1 was made. Eaton declared that not only had he failed to make enough money to pay the debt for which he offered his livestock as security, but did not make enough to pay rent on the farm, located seven miles west of here. HIDDEN GOLD SEARCH BLAMED FOR MURDER 70-\’ear-Old Woman Recluse Tortured, Slain; Home Set on Fire. Hit l nitrfl Prt ss SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. March 29. —Visions of hidden gold inspired the “torture murder” of Mrs. Freda M. Gibson. 70-year-old recluse, police said today after investigation of the crime. The woman’s partly burned body was found Tuesday by firemen in the kitchen of her flaming home. Evidence tending to show that two fires has been set in the house was found, supporting the police theory that Mrs. Gibson was tortured for wealth her assailants believed she had hidden, then killed her, and fired the house in an effort to hide the crime. Mrs. Gibson lived alone for fifteen years in the kitchen and dining room of a two-story house. VIRTUAL MARTIAL LAW RULES IN MINE ZONE Machine Gun Set Up at Illinois Town, Police Patrol Streets. By 1 nited Press ZEIGLER. 111., March 29. A machine gun was mounted at the city hall here today and special police patrolled streets enforcing virtual martial law as new violence threatened in the Illinois mine war. Police were ordered to question all persons whose actions appeared suspicious. Crowds were not permitted to gather and firearms were ordered confiscated. FACES MURDER COUNT Movie Union Officer Held Without Bail; Chief Is Freed. Ho l nited press CHICAGO. March 29—Thomas Maloy. reputed director of the Chicago Motion Picture Operators’ union, was freed on $5,000 bond today, while two associates were detained for questioning in the slaying of Fred Oser. an expelled member of the organization. A charge of murder was placed against Ralph O'Hara, Maloy’s assistant, who said he killed Oser in self-defense following a quarrel over the latter’s expulsion. O'Hara and Julius Dickstein. who said he formerlv owned the gun with which Oser was slain, were denied bail. SOCIAL WORKERS MEET Tubercular Patients Problems Studied at Sunnyside Session. Special problems of tuberculosis patients were studied today in a meeting of representatives of social agencies at noon at Sunnyside sanitarium. The mee'ins: was ca'led by Dr. Augustus L. Marshall, president of the Sunnyside board of managers.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cent*

Governor Paul V. McNutt is in South Bend and Fry refused to comment regarding the matter, telling some who questioned him to “get a lawyer.” Getting a lawyer may be what will happen, as several attorneys for out of state breweries discussed the new rules at a local meeting today. Two courses of action to break the monopolistic feature were being considered. One was appeal to the courts and the other a manufacturers' beer boycott on Indiana. Provides for 10 Importers It wa.s pointed out by those coming to the Statehouse to protest that the beer law provided for ten importers, which was interpreted that the importers could make state-wide sales. The law also provided for the state excise director to set up districts "based on the congressional districts." But, instead of providing twelve districts, as provided in the congressional setup, only ten were designated, and then the rule made that an importer would be named for each. This importer would handle all the beer not made in Indiana that is sold in the district, but could make no sales outside th edistrict. Would Allow' ‘Deal’ It was pointed out that this would permit him. so far as the law and rules provide, to make a deal with any single foreign brewrery and prevent sale of any other beer in the district. Another charge being made is hat way is paved for a "political setup’’ with those getting the importer permits being Democrats considered deserving of reward, who would be given large beer-consuming districts likely to prove gold mines. Fry refused to talk about the matter and said the permit list was not ready, nor any part of it. Clauer Is Mentioned Report had it that one of the importer permits in the Indianapolis district, where tw'o are available, will go to William E. Clauer, Democratic treasurer-elect. This, however, could not be verified Name of Thomas Taggart, Democratic state committeeman, has been linked with appointment of the Tenth district importer. Hhe law already permits "hotels with mineral springs” to sell all the bottled beer they can at a SIOO license, while other hotels must pay S3OO. Taggart is owner of the French Lick Springs resort hotel. KILLER IS SENTENCED Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter; Given 2 to 21 Years. Sentence of two to twenty-one years in the state prison w'as imposed today upon Luke Robinson, 37, Negro, 963 Coe street, when he pleaded guilty before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker to a charge of voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Herbert Pennick, 36. of 1122 North West street, on July 30. 1932. Pennick died the following day. Argument which ensued when Pennick demanded Robinson give him part of $404 he had received as veteran compensation led to the slaying, Robinson asserted. WATCH FOR KILLERS City Police Ordered to Be on Lookout for Murderers. Indianapolis police today w'ere asked by Toledo authorities to watch for two men, believed en route here, who committed a murder early today in Toledo. Descriptions of both, driving a black Chevrolet two-door sedan, were telegraphed to Chief Mike Morrissey, but no details of the killing were given. Both men were said to be armed. CUMMINGS MAY STAY Scheduled to Stick in Cabinet, Reliable Sources Report. WASHINGTON. March 29. Homer Cummings will remain as attorney-general in the cabinet of President Roosevelt and will not go r. the Philippines as governor-gen-eral. it was reported from authoritative sources today.