Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1933 Edition 02 — Page 1

WIFE STABBED TO DEATH IN ALIMONY ROW Chemist, Purdue Graduate, Inflicts Fatal Wounds With Pocket Knife. 'SAW RED,’ SAYS KILLER t Three Transfusions Futile; j Slayer Sits in Car to Await Arrest. (Pirturr on I'aire ?) Two years of domestic discord came to a tragic end Friday night, when Dallas H. Dice, 32, Purdue graduate chemist, fatally stabbed lis estranged wife, Berniece L. Dice, 17, after a wrangle over support noney at their home, 1923 North larding street. \ Then while his wife lay dying in ) ity hospital, futilely undergoing ' hree blood transfusions, Dice calmy narrated to detectives Morris Jorbin, Stewart Coleman and Fay Javis the events leading up to a livorce suit filed by the wife in drcuit court in January. Dice, who had been residing with lis mother at 1704 East Tenth

street, had gone to the Norl h larding s tre e t home to discuss Jimony payments vith his wife and o pay her S2O ibtained as rent or a house they iwneri jointly. Dice, In h is tatement to dojetives, said his ,'ife first refused 1,0 take the money. Then she demanded it, he said, and he, In turn, refused, saying he would give it to his mother. “If you do, 1 11 get a court order and get it from your mother,” Dice quoted his

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wife as saying. “I saw ‘red’ and got piy pocket knife out and stabbed her,” Dice's confession continued. With several arteries in her neck severed, Mrs. Dice ran into a yard next door and was picked up by her sister, Miss Helen Anderson, of 152 X Pruitt street, who had been a witness. Rushed to Hospital Dr. Charles Walker, city hospital Interne, was passing in his car and he and Miss Anderson took Mrs. Dice to the hospital, Walker applying thumb pressure to the wounds in an effort to stem the flow of blood. Dice seated himself on the runnuing board of his car and waited until he was arrested by Sergeant Roscoe Wilkerson and Patrolman Otto Burke. At city hospital, blood futilely was given for three transfusions by Miss Anderson; another sister, Mrs. Jonas Frye, 1527 Pruitt street, and a neighbor, Mrs. Martha Shaw, 1916 Koehne street. Mrs. Dice died at 11:30. The Dice romance began more than eleven years ago in Lafayette, when Dice was a student at Purdue and Mrs. Dice was attending West Lafayette high school. Married in 1922 They were married in 1922, when Dice was graduated, and came to Indianapolis in 1925, when he obtained a position with an Indianapolis laboratory

as an analytical chemist. Dice, in his statement to detectives. said his salary was $230 a month and that he had been paying $65 a month on court order for the support, of his wife and t'heir daughter, Phyllis Anne. Today, Phyllis Anne is at the home of one of

her uncles, unaware that her mother is dead and that her father is in city prison facing murder charges. Her only concern was attention to her demand: • Read me the funnies.” Her aunts are postponing the moment when they must tell her that her mother is dead. The Dices had separated several times during the last six years, but Dice told detectives their married life before that had been one of contentment. The divorce action filed by Mrs. Dice, still pending, charges Dice often beat her and, on one occasion, threw knives at her. Action on the divorce decree had been held up by an effort to arrive at a property settlement. Saul Rabb, Mrs. Dices attorney, said today. Times Index Books 11 Bridge 9 Classified • 9-10 Comics 11 Crossword Puzzle 8 Curious World 8 Dietz on Science 9 Editorial 4 Financial • 8 Heywood Broun 4 Hickman Theater Reviews. 6 Industrial 2 Obituaries 2 Radio 9 Serial Story 11 Sports 12 Talburt Cartoon 4 * Vital Statistics 8 Wiggam Cartoon 9 I Roman’s Page ... 5

The Indianapolis Times Unsettled with showers and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday; not much change in temperature.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 303

U. S. Urges World Truce on Tariffs Proposal Is Made to Organizing Committee of Economic Parley. By l nitnl Press LONDON, April 29.—The United States took the lead in proposing a world tariff truce today when Norman Davis, American ■•ambassador-at-large,” proposed to the organizing committee of the w r orld economic conference that the nations invited be informed that this country advocated economic armistice. The committee summoned the conference to meet at London June 12, and agreed to inform the fiftyfour nations who will gather here of the American proposals. King George personally will open the conference, it was announced by Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary. The suggested truce would involve prohibition of “dumping,” and export bounties. Davis told the United Press that the committee members appeared pleased with the announcement of the American proposal, of which several apparently were aware in advance. Two or three seemed surprised, he added, but he did not reveal who they were. The committee evidently shelved the additional United States proposal that it recommend a temporary economic truce pending convo- : cation of the conference. Several | members are understood to have I opposed this suggestion. SGANLANFOOnD GUILTY BY JURY Faces 2-to-14-Year Term; Trial Tangled by Perjury Charge. | James C. Scanlan, president of the auto company bearing his name, must serve two to rourteen years in the Indiana state prison, a jury in criminal court ruled today when its sealed verdict, reached at 8 p. m. Friday, was read before Special Judge Clyde Karrer. Scanlan was found guilty of conspiracy to commit a felony, grand larceny in the fraudulent financing of automobiles. Karrer set May 8 as the date for formal sentencing. A sensational development preceded reading of the Scanlan verdict, Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson announcing he w f ould ask the grand jury to consider evidence against Louis Rosenberg, attorney, on charges of subornation of perjury. Rosenberg was attorney for Melvin Lee Hindman, former Indianapolis policeman, under indictment with Scanlan and chief defense witness, who confessed perjury Friday before the sealed verdict of the jury was reached. Wilson said Hindman told him he had been “willing and to plead guilty, but Rosenberg had refused to permit him to do so.” In a written statement Hindman is alleged to have made, he repudiated all of his defense testimony in Scanlan’s behalf. MERCURY TOUCHES 77 Rises to Highest Point of Year in City at 1 p. m. Highest temperature of the year was recorded at 1 p. m. today when the mercury stood at 77. It had reached 75 Friday afternoon. Break in the high temperature is expected Sunday if the predicted thundershowers arrive. Today's Short Story If you have vacant property, be sure and have it listed in The Times Rental Guide, published twice each month on the first and fifteenth. Hundreds have found Times Want Ads the most economical means of renting their vacant property. The cost is only 3 cents a word, the lowest want ad rate of any Indianapolis newspaper. IF YOU ARE MOVING, Get your copy of The Times May 1 Rental Guide FREE at Want Ad Headquarters. 214 W. Maryland St., or at any HAAG Drug Store, <.23 convenient locations).

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Greatest Mass Population Movement in All History Is Ordered by Soviet

BY EUGENE LYONS. Vnitfd Press SlafT Correspondent MOSCOW. April 29. Two momentous decrees issued simultaneously today bv the Soviet government and the Communist party provided for the establishment of fixed zones of residence for a population of 160.000.000 citizens and for the probable expulsion of approximately 1.000.000 party members from the Communist ranks. The government's decree sets up buffer strips along both the western and eastern frontiers made up of only the most politically and socially desirable elements of the population. It orders a mass movement of population without precedent in history of the world. The Communist party called a nation-wide '‘chistka”—a cleansing of the party ranks. Each one of the party's 3,200,000 members without exception will be called before a cojpmission, and in a public hear-

lOWA TROOPS ARREST FARM MOB SUSPECTS Militia Rules Two Counties as Revolt Spreads Through State. 35 ORDERED SEIZED Accused of Leading Attack on Judge; Soldiers Bare Bayonets. BY W. H. MILLHAEM United Press Staff Correspondent LE MARS, la., April 29.—Four suspected members of the farmer mob that tried to hang Judge C. C. Bradley were arrested by Colonel Glenn C. Haynes of the lowa national guard today as the farm revolt spread along a 100-mile frontier. Khaki-clad state troopers patrolled Plymouth and Crawford counties, determined to prevent recurrence of such outbreaks as the one in which the veteran jurist was mobbed near here and that at Denison, where farm rioters-injured some twenty deputy sheriffs in a pitched battle. The four men arrested by Haynes, who is in command of the 250 troopers stationed here, were taken to the armory guard house by military police. Thirty other members of the mob still were being sought. Huge Crowd Gathers Those arrested were: John Kounkel, T. J. Ernst, 35; Jack Sokolovski, 19, and Henry Reintz, the latter a farmhand on the Ed Durban farm. There a huge crow : d of farmers have gathered, threatening to aid Durban resist an eviction order. Judge Bradley was dragged from his courtroom Thursday by five masked men, assaulted and nearly hanged when he refused to sign an oath promising not to sign further foreclosure orders for lowa farms. Fear of new outbreaks was frankly expressed today as throughout Plymouth county, hotbed of unrest for a week, little groups of farmers began gathering. Reports reaching the military headquarters said that open defiance of martial rule had spread from the Minnesota border to Clarinda, 150 miles south. Key Figures Sought Leon Power, assistant attorney general, said he would come here Monday to rule whether men arrested will be tried in civil or military court. Colonel Haynes dispatched to General Matthew A. Tinley, commanding the forces at Denison, where a mob of farmers repulsed fifty special deputy sheriffs Friday night, names of men to be arrested. The names were not revealed, but it was believed the men were suspected of being key figures in the uprisings at Primghar, here, and at Denison. Machine guns were mounted on the courthouse here and 250 troopers patrolled the streets enforcing martial law. Colonel Haynes, veteran of the Rainbow division, conferred with Sheriff Ralph Rippey, and said he obtained names of the men who jerked Judge Bradley from his bench in Plymouth circuit court, placed a noose about his neci and spared his life only after he knelt in a roadside and prayed. Bayonets Are Bared Throughout the night, militiamen with fixed bayonets patrolled the streets in this city of 5.000. An air of civil war prevailed as hundreds of belligerent farmers, in whose hearts revolt against mortgages and declining milk and grain prices has smoldered more than a year, massed at the Durban farm, ( which is listed to be sold under foreclosure. They openly defied the troopers, but dared not attack them. Farm Sold Under Guard By l nited Press WAUSAU, Wis., April 29.—Fifty policemen and deputies, under orders to shoot and hurl tear gas bombs in event of rioting, stood guard today as Sheriff Henry Kronenwetter sold the Walter Patz farm in a mortgage foreclosure action. Hundreds of farmers jammed the courthouse square protesting, but they did not rush the officers.

ing required to prove his right to : be a Communist. The decree divided Russia into three main areas. The first will be the rigidly restricted zone from which “the hostile classes and elements will be expelled.” This zone will be made up of Moscow, Leningrad, Karhkov, several other of the largest cities, scores of industrial centers, and the 100 kilometer zone along the entire western frontier. In this zone alone, the decree involved the revision of a population of more than 15,000,000 persons. The decree extended the passport system, already applied to some of the larger cities, to all of the Soviet Union. It revealed that the aim of the passport system was not only to depopulatize overcrowded cities, but also to strengthen popular morale in the more important industrial and strategic regions which would

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1933

SENATE INFLATION BOOSTS STOCKS

‘Come and Get Me!’ Says Store Owner, Selling Beer Openly Without License

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Martin Levy (right), delicatessen owner, selling beer without a license over the counter at 833 South Meridian street. Joseph Levy, cleaner, 842 South Meridian street, is the customer “killing” one without the benefit of state license.

PLEDGE REPAIRS T 0 1,000 HOMES More Than $1,331,000 Will Be Spent in City’s Modernizing Drive. Property owners have signed pledges to repair and remodel 1,000 homes in city-wide modernization campaign, drive leaders announced today. This was shown by a tabulation of cards on which pledges totaling $1,331,206 have been reported. This amount is 53.2 per cent of the $2,500,000 goal. The campaign will continue through May 5. Workers reported majority of home-owners will make repairs immediately to take advantage of low material and labor prices. Cards indicate new porches, garages, general repairs, painting, plumbing and landscaping are included in home-owners’ programs. In addition, thousands of dollars’ worth of repairs have been pledged on factories, business places, offices and apartment buildings, campaign leaders said. Several hundred tradesmen already have received jobs as a result of the campaign, they stated. New pledges reported to campaign headquarters, Chamber of Commerce building, Friday, totaled $225,223.

On the Spot! The bangtails are off today at the Churchill Downs track and from now until Derby day Times racing fans will be watching them with especial interest. Adding to the race news service which The Times has been featuring, O. Revilla, who has been picking ’em for galloper fans in the Capital edition and writing a column on the sport page, has gone to Louisville to dish up all the news and gossip at the Kentucky track. His selections, hot off the pan, will appear every day on Page 1 of the Capital edition and his news from the track on the sport page.

be espeeialv vulnerable in case of war or foreign intervention. Every inhabitant of the restricted zones will be investigated rigidly under the decree, and any found wanting will be expelled. Influx of new population was practically halted by the establishment of two other zones. The first of these takes in all other urban and industrial sections, including a certain portion of the agrarian population. Passports will be required for all inhabitants regardless of their class, origin, or political status. The other zone includes the remaining districts —the majority of the villages, and great sweeps of farm lands, in this zone no passports will be issued. The effect will be to make it most difficult for the peasantry to abandon the land to take up industrial pursuits. Any villager desiring to move first must obtain the permission of village authorities,

Follows Baker’s Ruling and Flings Challenge to State Officers. “Come and get me!” Flinging this dare at county, state and city authorities today, Martin Levy, proprietor of Levy’s Kosher Kitchen, 838 South Meridian street, wfid legal 3.2 beer at his restaurant without purchasing a state license. Publicity given a ruling Friday by Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, declaring the state beer control act unconstitutional, resulted in Levy’s open and above-board defiance of the state law. “I sold beer last night and this morning—in fact I sold one case to one man. I'm selling it openly. This isn’t a speakeasy. And I'm going to continue to sell it,” Levy said. Competition in the restaurant line and his inability to pay the high license fee demanded by the state, resulted in Levy's determination to follow Baker’s ruling and flout the law. “They know where they can come and get me if they want me. I’ve talked to prohibition department officials of the government, and they said they wouldn't bother me,” Levy declared. “This is the first time I’ve broken the law—if this is a law.” Levy had varied brands of beer for sale. A huge window sign advertises the brew. He asserted that although the present price would be 15 cents a bottle, he contemplated selling it later at two twelve-ounce pints for 25 cents. DAYLIGHT SAVING IS EFFECTIVE SUNDAY Clocks to Be Turned Hour Ahead at 2 A. M. By United Prefix NEW YORK, April 29.—Daylight saving time becomes effective at 2 a. m. Sunday in thirteen states and Canada. Because of increased observance of daylight time in Maine and Canada, it is estimated that more millions on this continent would turn watches and clocks ahead an hour tonight than last year. By Timex Special CHICAGO. April 29.—Daylight time officially will supplant Central standard time in Chicago, its suburbs, and northern Indiana cities and towns in the Chicago area at 2 a. m. Sunday. LICENSE DEADLINE SET May 10 Last Date to Get New Drivers’ Permits, Finney Rules. May 10 today was set as the deadline for obtaining drivers’ licenses, in an announcement from Frank Finney, chief of the state auto licensing department. Finney warned motorists that arrests for failure to have licenses would be started on that date.

More Service! Starting Monday, May 1, the Capitol edition of The Times will carry the complete new list of New York Stock Exchange quotations The market will be given at 11 a. m., eastern daylight savings time. Most subscribers to The Times home edition will receive the complete closing list of the exchange, made possbile by the new time schedule in effect in New York and other market centers.

TROLLEY CARS AREREROUTED Convenience for Patrons Effected: Change Will Be Made Sunday. Rerouting of Ulinois-Shelby, Prospect and Minnesota downtown street car lines, at request of patrons, was announced today by J. P. Tretton, general manager of Indianapolis Railways, Inc. The changes are effective Sunday. New routes have been chosen to make it more convenient for patrons to reach downtown stores. The new routes follow: Illinois - Shelby Northwest on Virginia to Maryland, west on Maryland to Illinois, then north on Illinois. Southbound and IllinoisUnion depot cars will not change routes. Prospect—Northwest on Virginia to Maryland, west on Maryland to Meridian, north to Washington, east on Washington to Virginia, then southeast on Virginia. Minnesota—Northwest on Virginia to South, west on South to Illinois, north on Illinois, east on Washington, south on Meridian, west on Georgia, south on Illinois, east on South, and southeast on Virginia. Free transfers will be issued to passengers wishing to transfer between Illinois cars to Fairground, Butler, Mapleton, Shelby and union depot cars. Transfers will be honored at Maryland and Illinois streets and at Thirty-fourth and Illinois streets. DEMOCRAT GETS JOB Mary Paddock of Greenwood Named to Education Post. Miss Mary Paddock, of Greenwood, today was named state attendance officer of the state board of education by Governor Paul V. McNutt. Miss Paddock, Democrat and former vice-chairman of the fourth congressional district, wfili supplant Miss Blanche Merry, of Rensselaer, Republican, when she takes over the office.

Beer Price Cut 25 Cents Case; Name Brew Probers

Drop of 25 cents in the case price of beer, announcement that investigators will travel the state next week in search of control act violators and denial that contributions to the state Democratic campaign fund were demanded as the price of importing licenses were among today’s developments on Indiana's foamy front. The lower case price was due to the fact that Indianapolis-made beer, which can be sold at a less price than imported brew, will be on the market June 1. Wholesalers are absorbing 15 cents of the cut, and retailers 10 cents. The reduction will not be felt by the consumers in restaurants, and the 15 and 20-cents a bottle price will continue. At Hammond, it was announced by Superior Judge V. S. Reiter, that he will rule next Thursday on constitutionality of the beer control act. It was held unconstitutional Friday by Judge Frank P. Baker of Marion criminal court ir. Indianapolis. It was in Reiter’s court Friday that Abe Rosen, Gary bottler, who obtained a restraining order recently to avoid obtaining a license,

Entered a* Swond Class Matter at Postoffire. Indianapolis

BILL PASSAGE 1 TO 5 POINT’S

List Closes at Best Levels of Day in Most Active Saturday Trading in Three Years. WHEAT PRICES RISE 3 CENTS Business Reports Are as Buoyant as Market Gains; Steel Operations at 1933 High Point. BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 29.—Stocks and commodities were whirled into new high ground for the year today in response to the passage of the senate of the farm bill permitting broad inflation of the American dollar. Stocks shot up 1 to more than 5 points in the most active Saturday trading in three years. Gains steadily were enhanced, and the list closed around the best levels of the day. Sales totaled 3,390,000

shares, the heaviest trading for a Saturday since May 4, 1930, when volume was 4,867,330 shares. Wheat rose 3 cents a bushel at Chicago and was strong at Winnipeg; cotton spurted $1.50 a bale; copper metal firmed up; sugar made anew high for the year; cocoa, rubber, wool tops, and silver joined the rally. Business reports were as buoyant as the stock market gains. Steel operations for the United States were placed at 29 per cent by one of the trade publications, the highest rate in more than a year. Youngstown reported operations at 32 per cent for next week, against 24 per cent for the present week. Steel scrap, a barometer of the industry, jumped. Buying in stocks was of such volume that tickers could not keep pace. Early in the morning, when the rate of operations was at 10,000,000

House Will Speed Enactment of History-Making Measure

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 29.—Early final enactment was assured today for the omnibus inflation-farm relief bill in which the senate has voted, 64 to 20, President Roosevelt powers unmatched In modern legislative' history. The unprecedented measure empowering the administration to inflate the currency, raise commodity prices, control agricultural production and reduce farm debts now goes to the house. Senate approval was given

Friday night. The farm crop mortgage sections of the measure already have passed the house as separate bills. Leaders promised swift action on the composite bill with the new inflation section added by the senate. House and senate will reconvene Monday after a week-end recess begun Friday night. Os the three sections of this extraordinary bill, two merely are permissive—farm relief and inflation. The other section for scaling down and refinancing farm mortgages is mandatory. The extent of discretionary authority given President Roosevelt and Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace almost is unlimited in its potential effects upon their fellowcitizens. Wallace is empowered to give farmers a pre-war return on the crops through a system of bounties and rents. These would be paid in exchange for acreage reduction to eliminate surplus production and drive prices upward. Money for the bounties would be raised through taxes levied on processors of foods —taxes to be paid in the end by housewives buying groceries at the corner store. A $2,000,000,000 federal land bank bond issue is authorized for refinancing of farm mortgages at a

charged that contributions to the Democratic campaign fund had been solicited. Rosen named R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, and his Ft. Wayne law partner, Fay W. Leas, in the campaign fund soliciting charges. After he had the money ready, Rosen said he was refused a license with the excuse that being a Republican, he lacked indorsement of the Lake county and Gary city Democratic organizations. Peters said he had never seen Rosen, and Leas, who was named as the man who actually solicited the contribution, denied Rosen’s charges. Twelve beer investigators, three from Indianapolis, were appointed today by Paul Fry, excise director. Each will receive $l5O a month and mileage and will investigate 3,000 permits and 1,000 applications. The twelve will assemble here Monday for two days of schooling under Fry. Philip Lutz Jr., attorney-general, and Fred Bechdolt, attorney for the excise director. The Indianapolis men named are John Ryan, William Brown and Jack Strickland. *

HOME EDITION PRICE T W O CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

shares for a five-hour day, they were ten minutes behind. They caught up around the end of the first hour and then another wave of buying caused them to lag more than ten minutes after the close. Asa result of the spurt in steel operations, steel shares were in demand. United States Steel opened 8.000 shares at 44 7 8 , up l 7 *, and later crossed 46 for the first time this year. New tops for the year were made by Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Republic, the latter two inspired by the sharp upturn in the Youngstown district. General Motors approached 21, against a previous close of 19 u, a new high for the year. American Can jumped across 84 to a record for the year and a gain of more than 9 points. J. I. Case made anew top for the year above 57, against a previous close of 53 ’/2. Western Union made anew top (Turn to Page Eight)

reduced scale and on a long-term basis. Senator Elmer Thomas <Dem., Okla.), sponsor of the inflation section. believes it will transfer $200,000,000.000 of purenasing power frem those who have to those who have not. That statement on the senate floor shocked conservative opponents of inflation. Internationally Significant The inflation section also has tremendous international significance. It offers a potential 30 per cent debt reduction on current ar.d defaulted installments. Another section authorizes the President to revalue the gold dollar within a 50 per cent range. Remnants of the Republican old guard bugled themselves into battle against inflation. Their opposition proved feeble. A series of tests produced as many smashing administration victories. A senate overwhelmingly inflationist for months had found an opportunity to follow a leader, who would take responsibility for currency expansion. Warning that President Roosevelt would not pay veterans' adjusted compensation, even if authority were written into the bill punctured a bonus boom which threatened for a time to succeed. Amendments Are Numerous Amendments showered on the bill as the voting hour approached but Vice President Garner put them to a vote and the senate sent them to the waste basket as rapidly as they could be offered. A few minutes after 6 p. m., the senate voted 84 to 21 to empower the President to inflate. Within an hour the omnibus bill —farm relief, currency inflation, mortgage reduction—finally was approved by a vote of 64 to 20 and the senate called it a week to meet again Monday for consideration of the Roosevelt program for government operation of Muscle Shoals and development of the Tennessee valley. Consideration of the inflation bill was costly to the administration in one respect. Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.). Mr. Roosevelt's first choice for secretary of the treasury, broke openly, bitterly and perhaps finally with the President. Pleads Guilty to Killing PLYMOUTH Ind.. April 29 —Bert Cudney, 23, who confessed slaying his father, Lafayette Cudney, 68, with an iron bar, pleaded guilty on charges of second degree murder today and not guilty on charges of first degree murder. Sentence was delayed. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 58 10 a. m 74 7a. m 60 11 a. m 75 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 76 9a. m 70 Ip. m.... 77