Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 180, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1933 — Page 13

DEC. 7, 1933

CAMPAIGN TO END RACKETS TO OPEN SOON Senate Committee Called to Meet Dec. 15 as First Step. Hii I nited l’n WASHINGTON. Dec 7.—Draftins: of ne federal legislation designed to wipe out the racketeer and gunman will be begun next week by a senate committee which has investigated the underworld during the congressional recess. Senator Copeland iDem.. N. Y., chairman, today called the committee to meet Dec 15 to consider numerous proposals for drastic curbs on crime and changes in rourt procedure. He said the committee would consider using the currency control provisions of the Constitution on which to base legislation which would permit the federal government to prosecute kidnaping cases where a ransom is demanded or received. Proposes New Powers At present the federal government is helping track down kidnapers and turning them over to the states for prosecution. In so doing it has used a newly created division of the justice department formed to combat, the racketeer. Under Senator Copeland’s plans this department would be enlarged and clothed with new powers of crime detection and prosecution. Other proposals before the committee include: Rigid control of the sale and transportation of firearms. Universal fingerprinting for all residents of the country to simplify criminal identification. Asks Extradition Changes Provisions for extradition of fugitive witnesses. A grant, of power to prosecuting attorneys to put witnesses under oath in taking statements from them before trial. Doing away with unanimous verdicts of juries as necessary to conviction of crime. A constitutional amendment would be necessary for this. Enlargement of the Dyer motor theft act to enable federal authorities: to punish any one removing stolen goods from one state to another. TAXI DRIVER ACCUSED IN MONEY. RING THEFT Held to Grand Jury on Charge of Woman Passenger. Everett Hacker, 1720 Southeastern avenue, taxi driver, was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of grand larceny in SIOO bond by Judge Dewey Myers In municipal court today. Mrs. Pearl Becker. Belmont hotel, testified she engaged Hacker's cab several weeks ago and left a pocketbook containing two diamond rings valued at $l9O and $77 in cash in the taxi. Subsequently, she said, she identified Hacker as the driver of the cab The pocket book containing the rings had been returned, she testified, but some of the cash still is missing. •EARLY BIRDS’ ELECT Jess Gassoway Heads Y. M. C. A. Exercising Group. The “early birds,” a group of men who exercise at the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. at 9:30 a. m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, elected Jess Gassoway, president of the group. Fred Harrold was elected secretary-treasurer; William Barnes, vice-president, and Harold L. Hinman, instructor and sponsor.

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Mrs. Donald E. Page, 4567 Carrollton avenue, is chairman of a special Christmas Seal sale committee of the Artemas club, which will co-operate with the Marion County Tuberculosis Association in its annual attempt to finance its anti-disease work in Indianapolis and Marion county for 1934 through the sale of the little holdav health emblems. With her assistants, who include Miss Wilhelmina Shirtz, 2261 North Talbot street, Mrs. Page will offer Christmas Seals to downtown buyers during the coming week in the lobby of the Indiana National bank. Funds derived from the Seal sale are expended to maintain the Nutrition Camp for Sick Children, at Bridgeport, to keep Sunnyside Sanatorium and the city's freshair schools functioning for the protection of community health

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and to continue the city and county-wide better health educational program, under which the death rate from tuberculosis has declined more than 65 per cent since 1914.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

BUILDERS BACK SLUM CLEARING PLANjJSK AID Wire. Indorsing Project, Is Sent to Ickes: Labor Joins in Plea. Telegram indorsing the Indianapolis slums clearance program has been sent to Harold L. Ickes, interior secretary, by the Central Labor Union and the Marion County Building Trades Council. The telegram read: “Labor has indorsed Indianapolis housing projects. Thousands unemployed, skilled and unskilled workers, will benefit from this program. This project must go through to give new hope to Indianapolis workers. Please aid Indianapolis to complete program.” It was signed by Robert C. Fox,

central union president, and Charles Lutz, trades council president. The $5,000,000 program has met with both approbation and disapproval on the part of various groups. The federal loan of $4,460!000 is dependent on the raising of $700,000 by sale of stock locally. It was reported that John G. Rauch, attorney for the Indianapolis corporation, has gone to Washington to assist in preparing final contracts between the corporation and the government.

‘UNCERTAINTY’ SCORED Ogden Mills Says Monetary Policy Is Delaying Recovery. By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 7.—Basic forces are at work toward recovery, but they are being held back by lack of confidence engendered by uncertainty over the ultimate value of the dollar, Ogden L. Mills, former secretary of the treasury, said in an address at the Women’s National Republican Club last night. He urged a return to the gold standard “to eliminate this handicap.'”

FOUR DIE IN STORM: FIVE OTHERS MISSING Wind Sweeps Pacific Coast From California North. By United Press PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7.—Five fishermen were reported missing today in the wake of a storm that caused four known deaths along the Pacific coast from California northward. Remnants of two fishing boats.

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smashed to splinters, were found on the west side of Vancouver island after a particularly heavy wind. No

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trace of the three men who had manned the boats was found. Two other boats are missing.