Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 282, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1933 — Page 13

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BRADSHAW IS LIKELY TO GET CITY JUDGE JOB Cameron, Seriously 111, May Resign, Due to Impaired Health. M’NUTT TO ACT SOON Deputy Prosecutor Is Apparent Victor in Scramble for Post. BY JAMES DOSS Time* Staff Writer Wilfred Bradshaw, deputy prosecutor in charge of juvenile court cases, is scheduled to succeed Clifton R. Cameron as judge of municipal court three. Governor Paul V. McNutt's time has been taken up lately with attempts to get Indianapolis banking conditions settled

and the new state executive machinery clicking smoothly, but is reported a s having decided to commission Bradshaw soon. The Governor's attention is believed to have been focused on the municipal judicial post by a request from the Democr a t i c county commit-

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tee that he ask for Cameron's resignation. .Judge Cameron is seriously ill at his home at 2116 Central avenue. Hia place on the municipal bench has been filled during the last four or five weeks by judges protempore. If Bradshaw is commissioned by the Governor as scheduled, his victory will be a sharp disappointment to a number of Democratic attorneys and politicians who have indulged in a merry scramble to line up influential friends, since it became known that Cameron’s impaired health probably would prevent his retaining the post much longer. Wins in Crowded Field A few weeks ago, a crowded field was jockeying for positions at the quarter-mile post, but Bradshaw put op a burst of speed as they went into the stretch and is reported to have outdistanced City Clerk Henry O. Goett and Albert Schmollinger, Marion county representative. Most of Bradshaw's ' drag" comes through Pleas Greenlee, the Governor's No. 1 secretary, who has charge of appointing deserving Democrats, subject, of course, to the Governor’s approval. Goett and Schmollinger were not the only ones well up in the going along with Bradshaw. Russell Newgent, attorney and juvenile court referee, had more than an outside chance. Ed Brennan, present municipal court deputy court prosecutor, and Harry Raitano, attorney, were reported aspirants, but started out as ‘•also-rans.’’ Frick Loses Out Early Ernest Frick, board of works secretary. was another of the city hall Democratic clique with judicial ambitions. and had the backing of E. Kirk McKinney, former city chairman. However, McKinney and Greenlee had a break some time ago that has not been healed entirely. Another aspirant who had more than an even chance was Blythe Q. Hendricks, former newspaperman and Princeton graduate. However. Hendricks has been taken care ol with a state appointment as public relations counsel for the highwty and conservation departments. Either Goett or Schmollinger, it is reported, may be rewarded with another judicial plum, having failed to beat Bradshaw under the wire for the Cameron post. Judge Thomas E. Garvin of civil municipal court one will leave the bench May 1, and one of them may succeed him. Like most of the deserving Democrats on whom the McNutt mantle has fallen or will fall, Bradshaw is a legionnaire. He is past commander of Maddon-Nottingham post and has been active in district affairs. Bradshaw is 38, married, father of tw'o. former Harrison law graduate, former school teacher and in his second term as juvenile court prosecutor. He saw more than two years World war service. Bradshaw resides at 613 Eugene street. G. A. R. Commander Dies If i/ I'nit fit Pres* EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 5. John W. Zeigler. 84, commander of the local post of the G. A. R.. died at his home here Tuesday. He enlisted in the union army at the age of 14. His death leaves but seven members of the local past.

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Chance —and luck doubtless saved two lieutenants from a watery grave, as last-minute developments prevented them from being aboard the ill-fated Akron on her final voyage. Above is Lieut. Thomas Robbins, aid to Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett. who was all set to make the flight when his mother returned unexpectedly from an European visit and he was granted a leave of absence. Below' is Lieut. G. F. Mentz, who was scheduled to accompany Admiral Moffett, but w r as given leave to go to New York to bid farewell to his mother-in-law, as she started for Europe.

HIGH PRAISE IS GIVEN MOFFETT Admiral Put Aviation Over * in Navy, Declares P. K. Wrigley. By United Press CHICAGO. April s.—Philip K. Wrigley, millionaire head of the chewing gum company and former lieutenant of naval aviation, accredited Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, today with having been the man who ‘‘put aviation over” in the United States navy. Wrigley was closely associated with Moffett when the rear admiral was in charge of Great Lakes naval training station during the World war. "He became interested in naval aviation when there was no naval aviation,” Wrigley said of the officer who was aboard the dirigible Akron when it crashed Tuesday off the Atlantic coast. "He saw it coming when there was no such branch of the service, when there was no appreciation for it. And he put it over. "I attribute the success of that branch of the service to him. He was the only man who saw the need of trained men to keep the ships in the air. He was dynamic. “He was a jump ahead of the others. He was the ideal commanding officer.”

Muscle Shoals Board to Be Given Broad Powers BY GEORGE SANFORD HOLMES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 5. —Three members of a board to be designated as the Tennessee Valley Authority" will be vested with broad powers for development of the Tennessee river valley, in the Muscle Shoals legislation now being perfected by President Roosevelt. Two drafts of the bill are under- i

stood to be in his hands, one drawn by Senator George W. Norris (Rcd., Neb.), and the other by Chairman' McSwain of the House military committee. The principal differences are on methods of financing the project and the extent to which the Wilson Dam plants will be utilized for fertilizer production. Norris is said to be in favor of a bond issue against all future construction; McSwain is advocating a bond issue against the present plant at Muscle Shoals as well as new construction. His proposal calls for an issue not to exceed $100,090,000. bearing interest of not more than 3 per cent, in the form of circulation-privileged bonds, such as were employed for the building of the Panama canal. Fertilizer production under the Norris draft would provide for experimental work, the results of which would be made available to farm organizations, agricultural colleges. county demonstration agents, etc. The Moswain idea regarding fertilizer production goes much farther and would provide for the manu-

547 City Saloons Closed When State Went Dry Just 15 Years Ago

PROMPTLY at midnight, 3,520 Indiana saloons must close up tight . . . Ind'.anapolis loses 547 saloons and four important breweries . . . 9.460 brewery employes and bartenders are out of work after midnight . . . Indianapolis authorities will clamp the lid on tight.” Fifteen years and three days ago in the midst of the World war, Indiana papers carried those headlines. It was a time when Indiana awaited enforcement of the victory of the Anti-saloon League making Indianapolis and the slate dry. Today, though, Indianapolis and

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U.S. WILL TAKE LEAD IN RAZING TARIFF WALLS Message From Roosevelt Points Way to Action for World Aid. LINKED WITH WAR DEBT Europe Can Not Pay Unless Barrier Is Removed, President’s View. • By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 5.—? The United States is on the eve of an epochal move to readjust tariffs, smash international trade barriers, clear the deck for action at the coming world monetary and economic conference, and settle the war debts. This was foreshadowed in President Roosevelt s special message, in which he declared he shortly would "ask congress for legislation enabling us to initiate practical reciprocal agreements to break through trade barriers and establish foreign markets for farm and industrial products." Enactment of this legislation is seen as indispensable to the success, not only of the proposed economic conference, but of the coming war debt negotiations. Without it, the administration’s hands would be tied. U. S. Must Start Action Debtor nations, particularly those with adverse trade balances, can not reduce their tariffs until creditor nations start the ball rolling, and the United States is not only the principal debtor nation of the world, but its principal exponent of insuperable tariff barriers. Unless the United States can enter both the economic conference and the war debt conversations free to negotiate on tariffs, both will be doomed from the start. President Roosevelt very clearly sees the connection between tariff reform and war debt payments. Payment, he was warned, can be expected only if we permit trade to flow freely. As he feels that uncertainty is one of the principal factors holding up world recovery, he is preparing to clear away the uncertainty hanging over both debts and tariffs. Defended on Tariff Revision Monetary and exchange stabilization is likewise dependent, in a large measure upon tariff revision. Debt settlement contingent upon normal international trade movement. As long as the debt qestion hangs fire. Great Britain, for example, can not return to the gold standard, nor can the pound sterling cease its more or less violent fluctuations. Secretary of State Cordell Hull is expected to make full use of such powers as congress may give him in the matter of tariff reduction. Always a rabid opponent of prohibitive trade barriers, he was handpicked by the President, it is said, largely to lead in the negotiations ahead. Tariffs will play a major role at the coming world monetary and economic conference. They will be discussed in the abstract, however, rather than in the concrete. The effort will be to bring about a general agreement as to policy, leaving specific tariffs as between individual nations to be negotiated within the agreed framework.

facture and sale of fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients in carload lots. Actual prduction of fertilizer, to reduce the price of that commodity, extensively used in the south, is said to be highly favored by southern members. ARGUE ON WAGE SUIT Evidence to Be Heard Later In 810,000 Case Against Commissioners. First arguments in a SIO,OOO damage suit agairfct Marion county commissioners were heard by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox Tuesday. The suit was filed by Emil Bader, a former employe of the county highway department, who charges that nonpayment of his salary during the period in which the commissioners were seeking to oust Charles Mann, former highway superintendent, caused him to lose his home and furniture and resulted in serious illness of his wife. Evidence in the case will be heard later. Defendants are Dow W. Vorhies and Thomas H. Ellis, present commissioners, and George Snider, whose term expired in January'.

the state, in contrast, await the turn of Thursday into Friday when beer again will be legal. It was on April 2. 1918. that Indianapolis papers told, under the names of George V. Coffin, now G. O. P. political boss and then chief of police, that the police would enforce the law. In the same column was the statement of the late Rev. E. S. Shumaker, head of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, anticipating the lay-awav of large amounts of liquor by Indianapolis residents. Charles W Jewett, then mayoi, issued a statement that *here would be no leniency to drunks.

XDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1033

‘RED HUNTS’ JAM ELLIS ISLE

Depoi~tees Rounded Up by Hundreds in Palmer Drive

This is the fourth of six articles on EKis Island by A. J. Liebling. BY A. J. LIEBLING Times Special Writer NEW YORK, April s.—" The Cameronia first. Two Communists.” The coast guard steersman puts the cutter alongside Pier 56. A lithe sailor jumps out, makes fast. A narrow plank is shoved out. Over it walk two workingmen in worn clothes,' caps. An immigration inspector in plain clothes follows them. The sailors shove a' battered trunk over the plank. “Cast off." The man with the rope leaps aboard again, the plank has been pulled in. the cutter moves up the river under the stern of the tall ship. Lamar Costello, towering exmarine sergeant, chief of the guards at Ellis Island, leans back against the window frame in the pilot house and speaks again in his booming voiice. ‘‘Three for the Champlain.” The cutter is a delivery wagon, the Hudson piers her route. "Anarchists and- members of proscribed organizations (Communists)’’ are among the human packages she distributes. During the last year fifty-one were deported from the United States. The laws invoked during the ‘‘deportation delirium" of 1919 and 1920 remain on the statute books and have in fact been strengthened by a least one decision since those days when new plots were discovered by government detectives and reported to the newspapers every day. tt tt it POLITICAL deportations are based on an act passed on Oct. 16, 1918, during the war, which provides for the exclusion of aliens who believe in opposition to all government (anarchists), or who believe in the overthrow by force or violence of the government of the United States, cr of all forms of law, or the assaulting of officers of any organized government because of their official character, or destruction of property, or sabotage. A World reporter described Ellis Island’s most dramatic hour when "In the blackness of the early morning, with a few selected government officials and newspaper men as the only witnesses, a shipload of ‘Reds,’ who have been adjudged enemies of the United States began recently the long journey to Soviet Russia. "There were 249 of them in all--246 men and three women.” That was Dec. 21, 1919. Following the armistice, ‘here had been labor troubles the nation over. Also, a number of bombs had been sent through the mails. No clew to their senders ever was found. A great Red scare followed, promoted by A. Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson’s attorney-gen-eral, who claimed knowledge of a!]’ sorts of nefarious plots. Six thousand persons were rounded up in one raid, 4,000 in another. The Buford deportees were headed by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman, both anarchists rather than Communists. They believed they would find a warm welcome in Russia. With the departure of the Buford came a statement from the department of justice that more “Soviet Arks” would follow “until the number of the 60,000 Reds in the United States was considerably lessened.” a tt tt BUT the Buford was the last as it was the first mass deportation of radicals, partly because the Soviet union declined to accept more deportations until it was recognized by the United States. In this, according to Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, the “Soviet Ambassador” of the time, the union was influenced by Mr. Palmer’s promise to dump 20,000 lunatics on its shores. Today the immigration bureau has a list of several thousand aliens to be deported to Soviet Russia when diplomatic relations are resumed. Most have been released on their own recognizance and not a few have died peacefully. Martens, after repeated federal raids on his office and the failure of numerous attempts to deport him, departed “because he felt he was not wanted"—not a difficult inference. The “Soviet Ambassador” is now dean of a college in Russia. Gregory Weinstein, one of his associates, is said to be the Grover Whalen of Moscow, conducting distinguished American visitors on their trips of inspection. Bill Shatoff. a leather-lunged table-pounder oL the pre-war village, built the Turk-Sib Railway. Berkman died embittered and disowned by the Communists; Emma Goldman recorded her disillusion in the autobiography she published recently from her refuge in a capitalistic country. The raids went on on such a huge scale that all records of many prisoners were lost, and by refusing to answer questions on Ellis Island, the men made identification and interrogation impossible.

LAST minute part ie s were planned in Gary. South Bend and La Porte. Evansville prepared for hundreds of guests for the night from Kentucky. A South Bend liquor dispenser said he expected to be out of the business “a long, long time.” He was. City, county and state courts were puzzled as to future actions on disposing of liquor cases. One local brewery obtained a county court injunction to prevent interference with operation. All auempts to halt prohibition enforcement failed.

“Leaving Ellis Island on the Cutter’'—sketch by Margaret Lowengrimd for the World-Telegram

THERE are no more wholesale raids today, but the savage statute remains on the books, a ready club to the hand of any Tory' government which may come to power. The language of the law is so inclusive that an alien who dropped a penny in the hat passed around by an unemployed council speaker or who bought a copy of the Daily Worker could, in the heat of any industrial dispute, be legally deported. It must be remembered that “believing, teaching, advocacy” and the rest constitute no crime except in the few states retaining criminal syndicalism laws. In the eye of the law a native anarchist is as respectable as a native Tammany Democrat. The Communist party of the United States of America nominates a national ticket which appears upon the ballot in most states. Aliens alone are subject to punishment for these beliefs, which are in themselves perfectly legal. The base of the anomaly is the legal fiction that banishment is not a punishment. To quote Louis Freeland Post, then assistant secretary of labor, whose climbing influence had much to do with the end of the terror—- " Where a citizen can not be punished without substantial cause and after conviction at a judicial trial an alien may be banished for frivolous causes and by autocratic administrative process.” "The law is the law. and there's no use stirring up a lot of sob story sentimentality business,” sniffs the New York district's expert in radical cases, a shortwinded, eminently honest Scot. "Personally. I have no sympathy for 'em—inciting and fomenting and stirring up." tt a a IN the case of an illegal entry deportee a mere technical violation of the law, this same inspector is the kindliest of men. He has. limitless contempt for the methods employed in the "Palmer raids” immediately after the war, the roundups by department of justice agents, which resulted in 20,000 arrests to secure a few hundred deportations. “Bluffs.” "roughnecks,” he calls the secret service men under the touted William J. Flynn, who organized the spectacular and indiscriminate rodeos in which they imprisoned thousands of persons picked up at Ukrainian funerals, Swedish workmen's balls and other desperate Soviet affairs. Charles Recht, attorney for the Soviet government here, recalls

Indianapolis on its last wet night of 1918 found the weather wetter than the celebration. Celebration was hampered considerably by a heavy thunderstorm early that night. Pharmacies, handling liquor, did a thriving business, but it was conceded that most of the drinking citizens had laid in their whisky supply long before the zero hour. * However, with saloons having permitted their 1 quor supplies to dwindle for a few days before, many closed before midnight

the incarceration of a 5-year-old girl "for advocating the forcible overthrow of the United States government.” That was in the Palmer raid time. Her parents, enthusiastic Communists, had enrolled her in the party, and the imaginative department of justice agents duly had carted her over to Ellis Island, where Mr. Recht had her photographed surrounded by roses. “It made a fine picture for the newspapers,” he recalls. That sort of thing never happens now. tt a tt MEMBERSHIP in a left wing labor union is not in itself ground for deportation.

‘Beer Breath’ Taboo for Pupils in City Schools And if Any Show Up for Classes a Bit Tipsy, Parents Will Face Juvenile Court Charges. With advent of legal beer, school pupils may drink a glass of beer at supper with their parents, if the parents do not object, but must abide to a strictly prohibition policy when they go to school. As far as Indianapolis school authorities are concerned, presence of children at school with odor of alcohol on their breaths will not be tolerated. Moreover, if pupils should appear at school a bit tipsy some morning, such demeanor may liable his parents to juvenile court charges of con-

tributing to delinquency. These are opinions expressed to- j day by D. T. Weir, assistant superintendent of public schools in charge of elementary education. “What was done in the way of i education in regard to harmful es- j sects of alcohol, prior to prohibition, j now must be done all over again,” j Weir asserted. State law makes mandatory next ; year the teaching of harmful effects ! of alcohol and narcotics. A chapter on the detrimental es- j sects of alcohol will be included in J the hygiene textbooks to be used in Indianapolis schools next year. “Such education of children will j be difficult,” Weir predicts. "The j child will be met with the inconsistency of having beer in his home and information that it is harmful when he gets to school.” W. A. Hacker, assistant superin- j tendent in charge of socftl service, does not anticipate any great increase in disciplinary problems because of beer. “The matter will be handed the same as the cigaret problem, ’ Hacker explained. “We are advocating that children drink milk instead of any beverage, whether it is tea. coffee or beer. “All we can do is to teach that j alcohol is a poison, using as basis for this, .statements of scientists.”

I when there remained no liquid ] for the thirsty. tt 4 tt n • ON the morning of April ?, saloons became dispensaries of soft drinks and hotel bars were changed over night to coffee shops and lunch rooms. Shortly after the advent of prohibition in Indianapolis, police found they could make raids generally on booze transporters, and autos were stopped and searched by the score. It still was easy to obtain good whisky in the city after the state went dry, the chief supply coming . from then still wet Ohio.

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These unions, although sympathetic to the Communist party, are not part of it. and the government acknowledges the presence on their roster of non-Commun-ists. “Even if the riot is part of a strike over wages or working conditions?” “Yes.” “Suppose a member of an American Federation of Labor union takes part in a similar riot—perhaps in the same wage dispute?" “He is not deportable. The American Federation of Labor is not a radical organization.” Next—Famous characters on Ellis Island.

MURDER TRIAL BEGINS Members of Jury Visit Scene of Killing: Youth Is Defendant. By L nited Prr.gs LAWRENCEBURG, Ind.. April 5. —Prosecution evidence in the first degree murder trial, of Leonard Baker. 18, charged with the slaying of Edward Hemke. Weisburg postmaster, was presented in Dearborn circuit court today. Members of the jury visited the scene of the slaying Tuesday night. Hemke was slain during a robbery attempt last November. THEFT SUSPECTS HELD Four Boys Taken By Police; Three Admit Stealing Autos. Four boys, two 16. the others 15 and 14. were taken into custody by police Tuesday night in automobile theft cases, and three are said to have admitted stealing about a dozen cars in the last few weeks. One of the 16-year-old boys was caught by Emmert Hogle, 41. of 1126 North Illinois street, as he attempted to move Hogle's automobile from a parking space on Monument Circle.

The first illicit whisky still was not found in Indianapolis until six months after the city went dry. Since then, stills have multiplied rapidly. an a jacker first in prominence. His loot, though, was not the alcohol and corn whisky of today, but the choice cordials, ryes, the scotch and other high class bonds of real stuff that was being brought to Indiana for the private consumer who could afford the new price of more than $5 a quart.

JURY SYSTEM OF SOUTH IS PUTONTRIAL Scottsboro Defense Lawyers Prove No Negroes on Jury Lists. APPEAL BASIS IS LAID White Control of Courts and Legal Machinery Under Attack. Here is the first of two special article* on the Scottsboro rase by Mary Heaton Vnrse, distinguished American novelist now at the scene of the trial. BY MARY HEATON VpRSE DECATUR. Ala.. April s.—The first phase of the trial of the nine Negroes accused of attacking two white girls near Scottsboro ended with what is everywhere considered a victory for the defense. More than the "Scottsboro boys” are on trial in the courtroom in Decatur. The defense has attacked the jury system of the south. It has attacked the white control of the courts and the legal machinery of the state. Between the opening of this famous trial March 27 and adjournment for a week-end recess March 31, the defense proved that no Negroes appear on the jury lists of Decatur in direct definance of the fourteenth amendment. The excusion of Negroes from all jury lists admittedly lays the foundation for appeal to the supreme court of the United States in case the nine Negrces are found guilty. Negroes Swarm at Courthouse The courthouse where this drama is being played is a roomy undistinguished building of yellow brick. In front is a soldiers' monument to those who died in “defense of states’ rights.” Negroes swarm about the courthouse corridors, and groups of long, rangy southerners talk earnestlv together. There is a sprinkling of Negro women in the courtroom, and practically no white women. National Guardsmen stand with fixed bayonets at the stairs. Once the courtroom is full—it holds 425no one further is allowed in. Behind a barrier, hundreds, mostly Negroes, wait hours for admittance. People stand outside the ! court-house as early as 5 in the morning. The audience of men in the courtroom is tense and absorbed, fascinated by the cleverness of the defense council and at the same time execrating him for it. Audience Learns Fine Points To many in the audience the courtroom has been movie theater and lecture room in one. They are trained to appreciate the fine points of a great trial lawyer—and Samuel Leibowitz is more than a great trial lawyer; he is a supreme artist. The most routine question Leibowitz asks in his beautifully modulated voice becomes eventful and living. He plays upon his audience with an incredible mastery. His methods are quiet, simple, unhistrionic. He has a clever face, a fresh color, greyish hair and he is challenging the very essence of the southern system. Two well dressed old men behind me are saying: “It’ll be a wonder if ever he leaves town alive.” A fine looking young fellow next me confides, “I’ll be surprised if they let him finish the trial.” Hostility Is Restrained “Do you mean there’s a movement on foot to railroad him out of town?” “They do say there is. They ain't advertisin’ or makin’ speeches, but they’ll know what to do when the time comes.” He has received many threatening letters. Additional guardsmen have been sent for to guard his apartment. This hostility is as yet restrained and under the surface, but a very real factor to be reckoned with. The passages between Leibowitz and Attorney-General Knight are conducted with spirit but with good manners and good temper. The district attorney has a long, sensitive, quivering nose. He is dark, quick, very intelligent. His pleasant southern voice contrasts with Leibowitz's clear precision. General Chamlee of Scottsboro and Joseph Brodsky of the International Labor Defense and the other defense attorneys. When for a moment General Chamlee takes Leibowitz's place the excitement dies. Things are dull. Judge Is Impartial Above the battle sits Judge Horton. tall, shambling, a strong nose, deep eye sockets, a face reminding one of Lincoln. He is truly judicial, truly anxious that this trial shall be conducted impartially. To one side sits Captain Burleson in his dapper uniform, and several other officers. Next to the officers sits the black boy, Heywood Patterson. He is dressed in blue overalls and he is so black that there is a blue bloom on his wide face. It comes on one with almost* a shock that all this array of legal talent, all this court full of intent people is about this boy, that he is the black core of the proceedings. STRUCK BY STREET CAR Soldier Is Injured: Woman Hurt When Hit By Auto. Jonathan F. Gant, 25, soldier at Ft. Harrison, suffered several cuts when he was struck by a street car while attempting to cross Massachusetts avenue at New Jersey street Tuesday night. Mrs W. L. Clements. 62, of 3246 Guilford avenue, suffered cuts and bruises when she was struck by an automobile while walking at Thirtieth street and Fall Creek boulevard. Frank Underwood, 74, Nobleaville, driver, was not held.