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BRITONS’ FATE IN HANDS OF SOVIET lURY Trial Ends in Burst of Drama as One of Six Admits Guilt. EXPECT EARLY VERDICT Five Englishmen, Facing Death Penalty, Hold to Innocence Claims. BY EUGENE LYONS I nitrd Prrss Staff Correspondent OCTOBER HALL, MOSCOW, April 18.—The fate of six Britons and eleven Russians charged with high crimes against the Soviet state was placed in the hands of three judges today when their trial reached its end. A verdict was ex- ' pected late tonight. The trial culminated in a burst I of drama as William MacDonald, partly-crippled British subject, limped hesitantly to the fore and bowed his head in confession of guilt. The Russians despairingly did the same, but the five other Britons, all facing possible death sentences, stoutly maintained their innocence. The judges, after a brief retirement, returned to the room with all the, documents in the case, and the room then w'as locked in accordance with the law. Second Confession .Made MacDonald made his second confession when called upon for his final statement. "I confessed my guilt," he said. "I have nothing more to add.' When he sat down, the court called upon John Cushney, another of the Englishmen. "I will leave this court room as honest a man as when I entered It,” Cushney declared. Charles Nordwall was the third Englishman called to the bar to give his “last word,” a privilege the Soviet law grants all defendants. "I am innocent,'’ Nordwall said. "I still am a friend of the Soviet Union, and I am not afraid to say this in the presence of the press. The court only can acquit me after considering the evidence.” Allan Monkhouse was called next. As Russian chief of the British Met-ropolitan-Vickers Company, he is the business superior of his countrymen. Espionage Is Denied ‘T am perfectly certain that Thornton couldn’t have signed the confession that was attributed to him voluntarily,” he said. "I stand before you absolutely innocent." W. H. Thornton confessed in preliminary examination that he conducted espionage activities under the direction of a high British official of his company. He repudiated the confession during the trial. Thornton now stepped forward. "I pleaded innocent at the very beginning," he said, "and I repeat it now. The entire evidence against me is unreliable.” KARRER TO JUDGE CASE Named In Sit on Bench in Trial of J. S. Scanlon. Clyde Karrer, attorney, today was named special judge to preside in criminal court Monday at the trial of James Scanlon, head of the J. C. Scanlon Auto Company; William L. Bruce, an official of the same company, and Melvin Lee Hindman, former policeman, all chaiged with embezzlement and grand larceny. Thomas McGee and Fred Barrett, defense attorneys, last week obtained a change of judge from Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, charging prejudice. Indictment of Scanlon. Bruce and Hindman grew out of the alleged embezzlement of funds from auto finance companies in the alleged fictitious sale of cars. FORMER TRUSTEE SUED Demand for $50,000 Payment Taken Under Advisement by Judge. Suit to collect $50,000 on promissory notes issued by a former Warren township trustee was taken under advisement by Special Judge Chalmer Schlosser in.superior court two today after arguments were heard. The suit was brought against Charles M. Walker, trustee, to collect on the notes issued by William H. Cooper, to cover operation expenses of township schools. Holders of the notes and the amounts are Shelby National bank, $5,000; Central National bank. Grcencastle, $15,000; Second National bank. Richmond. $25,000. and Frances M. Beane. $4,000. Former State Official Suicide By United Frnr BLUFFTON. Ind„ April 18 —Arch Waugh. 77. former member of the Indiana house of representatives, committed suicide at his home here today by turning on the gas. Times Index Page. Books 17 Classified 16 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 15 Dietz on Science 13 Editorial 12 Financial 15 Germany, a Ten-Day Tour 3 Hickman Theater Reviews 9 House of Morgan — a Series 8 Pan-America by Air—a Scries.. 11 Radio 16 Serial Story 17 Sports 14 Wiggam Cartoon 18 Woman's Page 4

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 293

Grant Reprieve of Week to Ruth Judd to Permit Verdict by Sanity Jury Woman Killer Had Been Scheduled to Die Friday in Arizona Noose; Warden Believes Blond Slayer Has Gone Mad. By i nH f and f*rrns PHOENIX, Ariz., April 18.—The state board of pardons and paroles today granted a week’s reprieve to Winnie Ruth Judd who was to have been hanged Friday for the murder

of Agnes Ann Leroi. The repriece was granted because board members feared Mrs. Judd's sanity hearing, now underway at Florence, site of the state prison, would not be concluded by Friday. It w'as the second won by Mrs. Judd. She was to have been

FACTOR LEARNS SON STILL SAFE Kidnaped Youth Unharmed, Says Note to Father From Abductors. BY ROBERT T. LOUGHRAN United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright.. 1933. bv United Press) CHICAGO, April 18. Jerome Factor, 19-year-old kidnaped son of John (Jake the Barber) Factor, is safe and unharmed, the father has been informed. In a letter from the kidnapers, the first containing definite instructions, Factor w’as assured that his son has suffered no mistreatment during the six days that he has been held for $50,000 ransom. The latest letter, it was learned from the office of Attorney-General Otto Kerner, was delivered Monday night at the Hotel Pearson to George and Louis Cohen, brothers-in-law' of Factor. George Cohen immediately telephoned Factor advising him of the contents of the letter. The news so calmed the distraught parent that he returned to his suite in the Morrison hotel after spending several hours "in hiding.” Agents of the attorney-general, learning of receipts of the letter, demanded the missive but w'ere unsuccessful in obtaining it. SENATE AUTHORIZES HARRIMAN BANK QUIZ Adopts Costiga-n Resolution for Investigation. By t nitrd Prrvt WASHINGTON, April 18.—The senate today adopted the Costigan resolution authorizing the judiciary committee to investigate justice department delay in prosecuting officials of the closed Harriman National bank. MADE-WORK LABORERS TO BE PERRY GUESTS 5,000 Will Attend Indians' Game April 21 at Local Stadium. Made-work laborers, who have worked on roads, streets and in schools and other public buildings, will be honored April 21. Five thousand of them will be guests of Norman A. Perry, owner of the Indianapolis baseball club, at a game between the Indians and Minneapolis at Perry stadium.

U. S. to Probe Gangster Effort to Control Beer BY RAYMOND CLAPPER 1 nited Press Staff Correspond?nt (Copvricht. 1933. bv United Press) WASHINGTON. April 18,-Orders have gone out from prohibition authorities for a thorough recheck of new beer permits to search for hid den racketeers. These orders were issued by Dr. James M. Doran, commissioner of | industrial alcohol. * They were the result of the reported discovery of a beer permit for a New Jersey brewery found in possession of a gangster slain in Elizabeth, N. J., a few days ago. This revealed that gangsters in some localities are making an effort to get control of distribution of legal beer, prohibition officials say. Two days before legal beer went, ’

on sale, a policy of “pronounced liberality" in issuing beer permits was laid down by the new director of I prohibition Major A. V. Dalrymple, ; a protege of Senator William Gibbs ■ McAdoo. He operates under the | department of justice while Doran is under the treasury department. Both offices must concur in issuance of beer permits. The New Jersey case has fanned smoldering differences between the two offices which have grown out of the proposal to merge the treasury's industrial alcohol permit bureau into the department of justice prohibition bureau. "Our investigation will he a thorough one, and we will revoke any permits where we find anything of a questionable nature,” Doran said. "We are hunting particularly for cases involving the use of dummies for concealing real ownership by racketeers. New Jersey is the locality causing most concern, although some unverified reports £ave ecme in regarding activities in Chicago. Prohibition enforcement policy was placed in the hands of Dalrymple, anew administration appointee, when he succeeded Amos tv. w. Woodcock of the Hoover administration. He immediately laid down a pol--1 icy that the purpose of the beer act

hanged on Good Friday but a stay was granted in respect to the day. Warden A. G. Walker of Florence, meantime, requested the sanity hearing, expressing the belief that Mrs. Judd had gone mad. It is illegal in Arizona to hang the insane.

GARNISHEE FOES FACING FAILURE Suits to Set Aside Orders Will Be Dismissed, Say Attorneys. Efforts of garnishee suits defendants to set aside court orders w'hich have deducted 10 per cent of their incomes for many months, probably will meet with failure, according to opinions given by local attorneys. Suits for vacating the garnishment orders and also seeking to recover money held by the sheriff’s office in partial settlement of the claims, appear to be contrary to the state statute creating municipal courts, it is said. The statute provides that municipal judges may set aside judgments on petitions filed in the same court term that the order was issued. Since majority of the orders w'ere issued prior to the present court term, and the annulment suits w'ere filed in a later term, the legal issue is defined clearly and the decision is apparent, according to attorneys who have studied the cases. Neither Dan V. White nor Thomas E. Garvin, municipal judges, have indicated their ruling which is expected prior to the latter’s resignation, May 1, to re-enter private practice. Several w'eeks ago Garvin and White issued a joint ruling holding the garnishee law unconstitutional. Previously, for several months, no garnishment orders had been issued from their courts while a test case was in process of decision. Payments were accepted by the sheriff's office, how'ever, on judgments in force prior to the ban by the judges. Several thousand dollars are held by the sheriff awaiting ruling of the municipal judges regarding disposition of the money. 57.500-YEAR OFFICIAL ILLITERATE, IS CHARGE Can’t Read Nor Write, Says Petition for New Yorker’s Removal. By Vnitrd Prrxn NEW YORK. April 18.—Hyman Schorenstein, who draw's $7,500 a year as commissioner of records for Kings county, New' York's largest borough, neither can read nor w’rite, according to a petition for removal filed with the county registered today by Murray M. Pomeranz, Brooklyn attorney. The alleged illiterate recorded Is a leader in the powerful Brooklyn Democratic organization of John H. McCooey. He was appointed by Register Aaron L. Jacoby.

was to produce the maximum revenue, and that it should be construed liberally toward that end. Major Dalrymple held that it would be easier to police breweries when they were legalized than if they were denied beer permits and were operated as cereal beverage plants.

Debt Revision Cake for Europe Will Depend on Willingness to ‘Eat Spinach 9 of Lower Trade Walls

John Bull and Marianne Have Minds Set Mostly on Dessert. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scriops-Howard Foreitn Editor WASHINGTON. April 18.—Suecess of the Roosevelt-MacDonald-Herriot meetings at the White House this week and next —and. by the same token, of the world monetary and economic conference, later on, at London—hinges apparently upon two things. 1. A war debt revision understanding preceded by a moratorium

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933

ASK MILK FOR THOUSANDS OF CITY CHILDREN Widespread Undernourishment Is Revealed in Survey by Health Officers. BASKETS NOT ADEQUATE Danger of Tuberculosis Is Stressed by Dr. Morgan in Report. Several thousand small children in Indianapolis are undernourished as result of improper diet and lack of milk, many of them in tubercular families, according to results of a survey conducted by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. Report on several hundred families investigated by the health board school nurses was to be submitted by Dr. Morgan to Miss Hannah A. Noone, Center township trustee, today or Wednesday in an effort to obtain more milk for these cases. In practically every case, the family is receiving a poor relief basket from the trustee, but the food in the baskets is not adequate or of the proper type for families with undernourished children, Dr. Morgan said. Examples Arc Cited In some instances, he explained, the families are receiving one or two quarts of milk a day through the trustee, but more is needed. He cited one instance of a family with six children, ranging from 14 months to 14 years, which is getting two quarts of milk daily but needs seven, as the children are undernourished, the 14-year-old girl weighing only 67 pounds. Several other cases where families with several small children, all underweight and some of the children incipient tuberculosis sufferers, W'ere pointed out. Lasting Harm Is Faced "Providing the proper amount and type of food for 12,000 indigent families is a tremendous task," Morgan said. "The biggest trouble is that diets which may be adequate for adults are not suited to growing children. "Provision of a plentiful supply of milk is necessary in these families, or these children will suffer inestimable harm of lasting effect. Not only in there danger of widespread of tuberculosis and other communicable diseases, but the child’s physical development may be arrested.” PRIZE BEAUTY HELD IN DEATH OF BOY Stabs Brother With Butcher Knife in Scuffle. By U nitrd Pres* EAST ST. LOUIS. 111., April 18.— Pretty Loretta Carl, 23-year-old beauty contest winner, was freed on SIO,OOO bond today pending a coroner’s inquiry into the death of her brother Willis, 18, w'ho died as the result of a w'ound from a butcher knife wielded by his sister during a scuffle. Miss Carl was chosen “Miss East St. Louis” several years ago in a beauty contest sponsored by merchants here.

Charles Cynical Because one woman has treated him badly, Charles Eustace was cynical about all women. Then he spent a summer in the little town of Belvedere, fell in love and found himself in a series of surprising events. It’s all told in the new serial. “Darling Fool,” beginning Thursday, April 20, in The Times.

YI7ORLD recovery, the jobs of 30.000.000 people scattered around * ’ the earth, perhaps even world peace, are seen as depending in a large measure on the historic White House visits beginning this week. Here is the second in a series of four articles on that subject.

on the June 15 installments aggregating 5140.000.000 the sine qua non of Great Britain and France. 2. A pretty definite commitment to remove the obstacles now blocking w'orld trade, stabilize enrrenaies, return to the gold standard or gold exchange basis, lift restrictions on international exchange, and associated reforms including disarmament if possible—America's minimum requirements. There will be no table-poundings

Jimmy Walker Marries Betty Compton in France

■— ■ ■■ m n n if* a ***** ' his bride. \l| IP Banns for Wedding Rit y Posted Soon After First

REPORT SUNKEN AKRONLOCATED Wreckage Believed Found on Floor of Atlantic With Grappling Irons. By i nitrd Prrte NEW YORK, April 18.—Grappling irons from the tug Sagamore have encountered "an object large inough to be the main body of the sunken dirigible Akron,” the tug reported today. A message from the tug to the U. S. S. Portland, which is the flagship of the searching fleet now in Atlantic waters, reported that while dragging the floor of the ocean off Barnegat Light, it encountered the supposed w'reckage. By l nitrd, Pres* WASHINGTON, April 18.—Captain Herbert F. Leary of the U. S. S. Portland sent the following laconic message to the navy department today: “Believe Akron located.” RACER DENIES ARREST Lou Moore Declares Some One Is Posing Under His Name. Lou Moore, automobile race driver, declared today that some person apparently was masquerading under his name in a case w'hich resulted in the arrest of Frank Rainey, with an automobile in -which federal dry agents reported finding tw'o gallons of liquor. Moore today disclosed that he has been in California during the winter. returning here only last Friday, and that he has no automobile other than the one he had in California. At the time of Rainey's arrest, April 11, it w'as reported he was driving an automobile belonging to Moore. REPORT SCORES IN CUBA SHOT DOWN Rumors of Many Deaths Are Unconfirmed. By United Prcst HAVANA, April 18.—Reports of deaths mounting into scores circulated through Havana today as clashes between police and student opponents of the regime of President Machado continued, but it was impossible to confirm the rumors. Students throughout Havana disappeared into secret hiding places as the police search for agitators was pressed, and as a result there was no way telling which ones w’ere dead. Officially, the death list stood at a total of three for the recent days of intense agitation against Machado.

or public outcries on the part of either side. But behind the smiles of the President and his visitors, jaws will be grimly set. Both sides will stick by their guns. That the President already has won the first round by having war debts shoved back into line on an equal footing with other major world problems is admitted. Europe had insisted war debt reduction was the whole thing. But that the debts have not been

Banns for Wedding Rite Posted Soon After First Wife’s Divorce. By United Prcsx CANNES, France, April 18.—Former Mayor James J. Walker of New York and Betty Compton, actress, were married today. The ceremony took place at 11:15 a. m. In Cannes town hall. The ceremony was performed by Mayor Cazaignaire, who wore the red sash of his office. Banns for the wedding were posted soon after former Mayor Walker's first wife was granted a divorce in Miami, Fla. It was understood that Walker md his bride would go to the Compton villa. Beau Geste. Mrs. Walkel s mother, w'ho had been living Liere with her daughter, w'as to move to a hotel. Today’s ceremony was unheralded, although the marriage had been expected daily since the banns were taken down from town hall last week after being posted for ten days as required by French law. Doors Are Bolted The ceremony was performed behind a locked door guarded by four husky gendarmes. Dr. Joseph Fisher, the bride's physician, served as her witness. Alfred Sharon, American lawyer, was Walker's witness. The mony was witnessed also by Jean Martinez, a Cannes hotel proprietor, and by the bride’s mother. Walker was dressed in a navy blue suit. He wore no hat. Mrs. Walker wore a tailored suit of cream colored flannel, and a green felt hat. The couple were congratulated by French officials in French. Walker turned to his bride Newspaper Men Held Back "What are they talking about?” he asked. The bridal party left immediately for the Compton villa. Walker was uneasy during the ceremony. He was no longer the gay m n about town of his American heyday. Even his infectious smile was gone. After the ceremony was performed, the wedding party slipped out the bac’: door of the town hall. Gendarmes held back newspaper men ts the party drove off in a fast car. OSCAR RATTS IS DEAD Former Member of Public Service Commission Taken at Hospital. By United Press NEW ALBANY. Ind., April 18.— Oscar Ratts. 60, Paoli, attorney and former member of the Indiana public service commission, died at a New Albany hospital today after a three week's illness.

‘Stew 9 Donnelly ‘In 9 Again; Now It 9 s the Paris Bastile

Stewart Donnelly, pugilistically known to old ring fans of Indianapolis as Young “Stew" Donnelly, has worn out his welcome again. "Stew,” who has lived off “chumps” and in the best, barred-window hotels of this continent, bumped up against a couple of French gendarmes and, according to a Paris dispatch, has a faucet and bunk in the bastile. And it’s just because some Parisian is said to have listened 10ng—--564,000 long—to "Stew’s” tale of easy money.

Roosevelt Is Ready to Stick by Guns to End World Miseries. shoved back a bit farther than that is equally clear. Premier Ramsay MacDonald- of Great Britain and former Premier Edouard Herriot of France doubtless will be diplomatic about it, but the determination of their respective governments to get sweeping reductions has not abated an iota. John Bull and Marianne La France are like two small children (Turn to Page Two)

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62 MARION COUNTY CANDIDATES ENTER REPEAL VOTE RACE Wet Slate of 42 Is Backed by Men’s and Women’s Organizations Opposing Eighteenth Amendment. STRONG CAMPAIGN TO BE WAGED Most Signatures on Petitions Will Put Names on Ballot; Ward and Precinct Drives to Be Conducted. Sixty-two Marion county repeal candidates for delegates to the state convention for rejection or retention of the eighteenth .amendment today filed their declarations with Glenn B. Ralston, county clerk. Forty-two names were filed in a complete slate indorsed jointly by the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Woman’s Organization for National Prohibition Reform and the other twenty candidates filed as independents.

GROCERS MAY WIN BEER FIGHT Fry Willing to Liberalize Rules on Delivery of Case Lots. Paul Fry, state excise director, today announced he is willing to liberalize the beer control rules to permit grocers to deliver beer in less than case lots. Informed of a resolution passed by the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers’ Association defying the delivery rule, Fry said he agreed with their viewpoint. "I do not want to do anything by rule that will handicap business for any legalized beer dealer,” he declared. “If the law permits delivery in less than case lots, no rule will be made by me to prevent it.” Authors of the law said that it does forbid transportation in less than case lots, but expressed the belief that Fry could make a rule lifting the ban without objection being raised. They attributed “this unfortunate wording” of the law to haste in its drafting. OPERATION TO SAVE CHILDJS ORDERED Appellate Judges Uphold ‘Act of Mercy’ Verdict. By United Press BROOKLYN. N. Y., April 18.—An eye operation to save the life of 2-year-old Helen Vasko was ordered today by the appellate division of the supreme court, upholding a decision of Judge George W. Smyth of the children's court in Westchester county. The parents of Helen had opposed the operation to remove a tumor that threatened to injure the brain, declaring they would rather have "God take her” than permit her to live with only one eye. The operation would necessitate removing part of the retina of the eye. GAS TAX BILL BACKED Administration Measure Is Reported Favorably in House. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 18. The administration bill providing for continuation of the federal gasoline tax for another year, coupled with presidential power to revise postail rates, was reported favorably today by the house ways and means committee.

Arthur Johnson, also of the world-at-large, is detained with "Stew” for suavity of speech on the confidence game charge. It is further hinted that Donnelly and Johnson may know a lot about the Lindbergh kidnaping case. Debonair "Stew" won as many bouts with verbs as with left-hooks, and his last fling at catch-weights with the law in Indianapolis is memorable in that even though "Stew” dropped the decision he dealt a laughing right-handed quip that isn’t forgotten today. The yarn goes that “Stew”—his fighting days over—was wearing out the leather lounges in the ClayDool. The hotel's management charged grand and petty "bootlegging.” They were tired of watching him come through the circular doors. But they couldn't catch him with bottle-passing or "conning” a guest. The hotel went to the late Superior Judge T. J. Moll seeking an injunction against "Stew's” siestas. (Turn to Page Nine)

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The forty-two receiving the most signatures on petitions to be circulated in their behalf will have their names placed on the ballot for the special election. Only forty-two wets and a like number of drys will be voted on. May 6 is the deadline for filing candidacies. Indorsed by the Marion County nonpartisan repeal committee, the slate bristles with names closely linked to Indianapolis’ business, industrial, professional and social life and contains both Democrats and Republicans. Slate Strongly Racked Combined efforts of officers and members of state repeal groups will be placed behind the slate, according to announcements today from Leo Rappaport and Mrs. Sylvester Johnson, respective chairmen of the two repeal organizations. Rappaport, in addition to heading the state repeal organization, is chairman of the county committee made up from both organizations. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr., secretary of the state women's organization, also is secretary of the special Marion county campaign group. With filing of the slate disposed of, the Marion county committee is preparing to launch a campaign to obtain thousands of signatures for the blanket petition bsaring the wet candidates’ names. Petitions to Be Circulated Downtown headquarters will be maintained for obtaining wet signatures and petitions will be circulated through wards and precincts. Wet petitions wall be printed on white paper and dry petitions on pink paper. No duplication of signatures is permitted under the provisions of the 1933 act, which authorized the holding of the special repeal election June 6 and the convention June 26, at which the 329 state delegates must vote as they were elected. Satisfaction w r ith the strength of the organization wet slate and belief that Indiana will vote to repeal the pi ohibition law, w r ere voiced today by Rappaport, as he stressed the chief aim of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. "I can not overlook the opportunity to point out again, as the association repeatedly has in the past, that the organized movement for repeal primarily is one for return to sanity in government,” Rappaport declared. Sees Indiana Awakening “Great strides have been made in Indiana within the last year toward elimination of intolerance and bigotry. In fact, the swing toward decent liberalism in this state has been the talk of nation. On June 6, the people of this state will have the opportunity to clinch these gains.” The repeal slate is composed of: William A. Atkins, 3650 Spring Hollow road 'Golden Hill). Herman W. Kothe, 3845 Guilford avenue. George J. Marott, 3268 Washington boulevard. (Turn to Page Nine) Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 44 10 a. m 51 la. m 44 11 a. m 53 8 a. m 46 12 (noon).. 54 9a. m 50 Ip. m 55

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