Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1934 — Page 1

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CLARK INSIDE JAIL WHEN MURDER WAS DONE, SAYS SHOUSE Dapper Mobster, Guarded by Twenty Heavily Armed Indiana Police, Takes Stand Against Former Pal. TERROR GANG’S ACTIVITIES BARED ‘Torture Man’ of Outlaw Group Shot Self in Hand Accidentally During Raid, Says Convict, Brought From Prison. BY BASIL GALLAGHER Timm Staff Writer LIMA. 0.. March 22.—Under guard of twenty heavily armed Indiana state policemen. Edvvaid Shouse, terror mobster. was brought here today from the Indiana state prison to testify against his former friend, Russeii Clark. Clark, alleged ‘torture man” of the John Dillinger gang, is on trial for complicity in the murder of Sheriff Jess Sarber. Lima, in the jail delivery that freed Dillinger and started the gang’s wave of terror throughout three states.

It vas a Hramalic scene when .■'house, brought from the Indiana stale prison at Michigan City in the Marion (Tnd.) police department's armored car. was hustled into the courtroom. Twenty stale pnlicpmen under Lieutenant. Rav Fisher had formpd S house's escort from Indiana and immediately took posts. Rims drawn, at mery pntranre to the room. Phonse. with his prison haircut and prison garb. was a far different figtne from the dapper gangster whom women led to rapture and whose tailoring taste used to run to complete color ensembles. Under direct examination Shouse testified: That Clark was inside the jail when the sheriff was slain and that Clark told him later that he shot himself in the hand when his pistol was discharged accidentally. Re veals Holdup Details That Dillinger and Harry Pierpont alone held up and robbed the Peru 'lnd.t police station of weapons. That Clark and Pierpont held up and robbed the Central National bank of Greencastle, Ind. Shouse shouted emphatically that. Clark was inside the jail when the sheriff was slain. His shout came when Miss Jessie Levy, Indianapolis. Clark's attorney, tried to break dowm his story. Miss Levy, whose defense for Clark has been an alibi case that he was in Detroit at the time of the killing, asked Shouse on cross-ex-amination: “Sissy" of Gang ‘Now i'n't it a fact that Clark w,, m De’roit when Dillinger was liberated from jail?" No. it isn't." shouted Shouse. “He wa,s inside the jail and I was on the outside." Questioning of Shouse developed thai hP was the "sissy" of the gang. •'They didn't think I was tough enough." Shouse testified, "and they had planned to kill me—they not only planned—they swore to kill me." Threatened by Pierpont Shouse asserted that Pierpont. the gang's alleged trigger man, who is under sentence of death for the Sarber murder, was "especially tough" at him. The onp time dapper little gangster also revealed that from Clark, the man against whom he is testifying. came the tip that he was marxed for death by his fellow mobsters. ■ Clark tipped* me off so I took his ear and beat it for California." Shouse said. He asserted his share of the loot from the St. Mary's iO > bank robberv was $2,000. and he denied taking part, in anv holdups after leaving the cane, except for the robbery of a saloon at Ft. Wayne. Ind. Bottle of Whisky Loot "All I got out of that was a bottle of whisky.' said Shouse. He oid no' sav who his companions were. Shouse went through the history of the gangsters' dcprec.?:ions after their break from Michigan City and liberation of Dillinger. Thp convicts came to Indianapolis and then went to Hamilton. O . to meet Harry Copeland, and frequently discussed plans for the jail break. The convicts felt they owed a debt of gratitude to Diliinger because he aided in their break from Michigan City, Shouse explained. Tells of Jail Raid After once postponing Dillinger's liberation, the gang came to Lima in two cars, Pierpont and Clark in one and hP. Copeland. John Hamilton and Charles Makley in the second. Shouse testified. "I was told to stay outside and did stay outside." Shouse. who revealed also that he was the only "two-gun" man in the gang. He always carried two weapons, he asaerted. S’.ouse said it had been agreed that there would be no killing unless it was absolutely necessary." He explained to two Lima ciitzens. passersbv. that noise of the shooting inside the Jail was "shelves falling out of some filing cases." Vteniea Pierpont Charge Shouse denied vehemently, on cross-examination by Miss Levy. gut* his attentions to Pierpont'a wile (Turn to Page Four)

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ROWBOTTOM IS DEAD AT NOME Ex-Indiana Congressman Is Stricken Suddenly With Diabetes. /?./ I ni t rrf r>>, EVANSVILLE. Ind., Maich 22. Harry E. Rowbotiom. 49. former Indiana congressman wno served a term in prison for selling postmaster appointments, died suddenly at his home here today of diabetes. It was in April, 1931, during his third term as representative from the old Firsi district, that Mr. Rowbottom was convicted in federal court here ana sentenced to one ytr and a day in prison. He also was fined *2,000 Postmasters at' Boonville, Mt. Vernon. Petersburg and Cnrisney, who obtained their appointments through Mr. Rowbottom, were dismissed as a result of th,. investigation. In his defense Mr. Rowbottom said that he had accepted Christmas gifts and campaign funds from several persons seeking postmasterships. Mr. Rowboi tom's political career started in 1919 when he was elected a member of the Indiana state legislature. He was re-elected in 1921 and 1923. He first, was elected a member of the Sixty-ninth congress and re-elected twice. Mr. Rowbottom was born in Aurora and was educated in Ludlow • Ky.i schools, in recent years hP was engaged in thp insurance business. A widow and one son survive him.

'WISH I WERE DEAD,' CRIES INSULL'S WIFE Fugitive Magnate Unheard From: Mate Hysterical. Rft 1 nit rd Prean ATHENS. March 22.—"1 wish I had the courage to commit suicide —but I can t." Mrs. Samuel Insull cried today as. hysterical, she was nursed ov Mme. Zehra Couyoumdjoglou. mystery beauty and close friend of the refugee Chicago utilities magnate. Mme. Couyoumdjoglou and servants watched her carefully today, as she showed no sign of calming. Mrs. Insull had urged Insull to surrender to American authorities Mme. Couyoumdjoglou advised him to continue to seek to escape extradition. For a while, the women quarreled and then would not speax to each other. Insult's departure, and the wife's frantic grief. brought them together again at the apartment hotel where both live. Insull was assumed today still to bp cruising the Mediterranean in his steamship while his attorneys here, in consultation with his London agents, continued to seek a refuge for him.

Leading Citizens Form Vigilance Committee Here to Stamp Out Criminal Elements; Cleanup of Legal Procedure to Be First Wedge

Preparing for a concerted smash at the growing crime situation, a committee composed of a number of leading citizens met today at the Columbia Club to perfect a nonpartisan organization. The group, known temporarily as the "Indianapolis committee." will announce a permanent name later. Its objective is the suppression of the type of violent and ruthless crime committed by the bandit, kidnaper. gangster and racketeer, through an aroused public opinion and of legal loopholes. Its program, broadly, is to bring ; about such changes in the various 1 criminal codes as are necessary to make justice speedy and effective, and to divorce police work and

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably snow flurries, lowest temperature tonight about 25; warmer bv tomorrow night.

Ky l nited Prexx CHICAGO. March 22—Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, former collector of internal revenue, today served the first, aay of a week's term in the county jail for stealing the affections of Norman Nottingham, a tall policeman, from his w'ife. Susanne. The term may be lengthened to six months if Mrs. Nottingham can produce enough money to pay for Mrs. Blacklidge's room and board in jail at the rate of 50 cents a day. A preliminary payment of $3.50 insured a week s incarceration. Mrs. Blacklidge w'as the loser in a recent alienation of affections suit, a jury awarding Mrs. Nottingham a $7,500 verdict. When Mrs. Blacklidge was unable to pay the judgment, Mrs. Nottingham was given the opportunity to send her rival to jail. This week Mrs. Nottingham announced that she had saved enough money to insure one week's imprisonment for Mrs. Blacklidge. EX-POLICE CAPTAIN HELD AS MURDERER Former Frankfort Officer Charged With Slaying Woman, Escort. By United Fret i* LAFAYETTE. Ind., March 22. Walter Scott, 45. former Frankfort police captain, was under arrest here today, charged with killing a woman w r ho had spurned his affections and her male escort on a downtown street corner. Mrs. Esther Lockwood. 34. and her brother-in-law, Russell Wells, 30. Oxford, were shot as they walked along the street. Scott was arrested immediately. Police w'ere told the former policeman had followed Mrs. Lockwood home from her wwk in a downtown bathhouse each night for six weeks and had become threatening w’hen she spurned his attentions. PLANE CRASHES: 3 DIE Tri-Motored Ship Falls in Takeoff in Peru. By United Fret* I.IMA. Peru. March 22.—A trimotored Pan-American Grace Line plane with twelve passengers crashed while taking off for Chile from Las Palmas airport today, killing three persons and injuring four. The dead were Homer V. Farris, pilot; Lawrence S. Wagner, radioman. and Frank Large, a passenger. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 14 Bridge 19 Broun 13 Classified 17-18 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 19 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Good Old Days 3 Hickman —Theaters 13 Lippmann 15 Monuments of Literature 13 Pegler 13 Radio .' 9 School News 6 Sports 16-17 State News 8 Woman's Pages 10-11

criminal law enforcement from politics. Thus far. the committee is composed of Hugh McK. Landon. Arthur Baxter. Eli Lilly. Harry O. Chamberlin. Joseph J. Daniels. Thomas D. Stevenson. Theodore B. Griffith. Herman Wolff. Professor Clyde White. H. Weir Cook. Dr. F. S. C. Wicks. Mark Hamer. James B. Minor, Walter Myers, Dr. Louis Sega r. Irving Fauvre and E. L. Ogle. Various organizations indorsing the move also will have two representatives each. "The existing situation with respect to crimes of violence has beI come so serious that no patriotic citizen can blind himself to the gravity , of the problems which it presents." | said a statement issued by the . committee today.

Spy Chase Is Centered in New York Foreign Scientist Said to Be ‘Brains’ of Gang, Is Sought. By / niird Prraa NEW YORK. March 22—Mysterious rammifications of a huge international espionage ring swung to New York today with reports that secret service agents were on the trail of a foreign scientist, described by some sources as ‘ brains” of the spy organization. The reports were that the scientist came to New York from Switzerland shortly before Robert G. Switz of New Jersey, and his wife allegedly confessed participation in the spy ring to police in Paris, where they are held. The organization terrified Europe, where charges of French officials indicated it was collecting intormation for Germany and Soviet Russion against France, Britain and the United States. French government agents were sadi to have been in New York since last Thursday, working on the Switz case in co-operation with local detectives.

WOMAN PAYS TO PUT RIVAL FOR HUSBAND’S LOVE IN COUNTY JAIL

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AUTO CHIEFS, LABOR HEADS DEADLOCKED Little Progress Made by Administration in Move to Avert Strike. BOTH SIDES ADAMANT Union Leaders Ready to Confer With President on Dispute. By l nitrd Pro* WASHINGTON, March 22.—Labor and industry remained as far from agreement today as the administration swung into a second day of personal conference in its efforts to stave off the threatened automobile strike. Meantime, it was said that the White House does not regard the automobile strike situation as hopeless, although admitting that both sides appear adamant. Automobile union leaders from Detroit and Cleveland met with President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and then conferred with Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson preparatory to their afternoon meeting with President Roosevelt They voted to stand firm in their demands for collective bargaining through unions and the right to organize. which they claim have been denied.

Manufacturers Are Firm Thp manufacturers, w'ho had a tw'o-hour session w'ith the President yesterday, w;ere standing just as firm in their fight against unionization. It appeared to many that the best the President could hope for immediately would be continuation of the present truce which has halted ihe strike temporarily. Mr, Green, William Collins. A. F. of L. leader for Michigan, and one representative each for eleven unions in the Detroit area and one in Cleveland w'ere selected to lay labor's case before the President. Mr. Collins said they w'ould ask particularly for a final interpretation of section 7-A of the recovery act, which says labor shall be free to organize and select men of its own choosing for collective bargaining. Claims Free Choice Denied “Free choice—the President has said it meant free choice—is something we haven’t had," Mr. Collins said. Mr. Collins said the unions would give the President evidence that the present system of collective bargaining in automobile factories was not functioning. The manufacturers continued to insist that they are abiding by section 7-A and that the workers are satisfied with their present representation. They insisted they could not agree to new' workers’ election and it was. made clear that nothing short of a pre-emptive call from the President j roulil induce them to enter a joint I conference with the labor leaders. Magnates May Meet Again It w'as considered likely the | manufacturers might be called to another session with the President after he hears the union case. The manufacturers admitted that in past workers’ elections no one has been permitted to be nominated as a representative of labor unless he was emplyoed in the plant involved. The unions insist Section 7-A gives them the right to name outside union officials. The administration has upheld this view' in 'captive” coal mine disputes. There w'as increasing speculation as to the Dossibility that the President might resort to his licensing pow'ers. Mr. Green, in an open statement, said labor would urge this course ‘ if these manufacturers maintain their stubborn and unyielding attitude and refuse to accord the workers their exercise of their legal right to organize into a union of their owrn choosing and to bargain collectively through their own chosen representatives " CITY TRUCK ORIVER IS ELECTROCUTED IN OHIO Allen Crow Killed When Another Vehicle Hits Live Wires. Allen Crow, 27, of 1147 River ave nue. was electrocuted yesterday near Celina. 0., according to word received here today. It is reported that Mr. Crowstopped his truck on a highway when another truck ran into some live w'ires and that he was electrocuted. The widow. Mrs. Ada Crow, and one child survive. Funeral arrangements have not been made.

"The first part of our program contemplates a study of the laws defining crimes of violence and affixing penalities therefore, and of the laws which provide the legal machinery for the prosecution of such crimes. “We shall concern ourselves, among other things, with such matters as bail, the interposition by defendants of technical defenses for the purpose of delay, changes of venue, selection of juries, rules of evidence, charges to juries, rendition of verdicts, mandatory sentences, iimitmg the time for appeals, expediting decisions of higher courts on appeals, prison management and paroles and pardons. “The second part of our program will involve a study of the methods

He’s Had But One Vice — Veteran Newspaper Man Doesn’t Smoke 5-Cent Cigars, but He Doubled for Tom Marshall.

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A private room at the city hospital has been turned into an editor’s office. Here Colonel Clarence E. Woods, veteran newspaper man, and former editor of Delta, magazine of the Sigma Nu fraternity, writes editorials, magazine articles, and letters to all parts of the country. Colonel Woods is at the hospital to be treated for anaemia. BY HELEN LINDSAY Times Staff Writer ABLE to double for former Vice-Prpsident Thomas R. Marshall once in eve r y way except smoking a nickel cigar. Colonel Clarence E. Woods, Sidney, 111., chuckled today in his room at city hospital over

CITY JEWELER ENDS HIS LIFE Harry 0. Cobb Commits Suicide at North Side Home. Harry O. Cobb. 42. of 1723 North Meridian street. Apartment 19, prominent local jeweler and piatinumsmith. committed suicide this morning in his rooms, a few' minutes before he was to appear in municipal court to answ'er a charge or drunkenness. Marty Frankfort, 850 North Pennsylvania street, a professional bondsman, told police that he had gone to bring Mr. Cobb to court this morning, and as they w'ere ready to leave the building Mr. Cobb W'ent back to his rooms. A few minutes later Mr. Cobb appeared and said, I've taken cyanide." He died while en route to the city hospital in an ambulance. A card left by Mr. Cobb revealed that his father is Lewis Cobb, Mansfield. Ky. Detectives wtoo had been working on the case of a valuable diamond stolen from Mr. Cobb said that they had attempted to see nim several times, but had been unable to obtain any information because Mr. Cobb w'as under the influence of drugs and liquor.

COLD SPELL DUE TO QUIT CITY TOMORROW Rise in Temperature Reported Near by Weatherman. Cold wave w'hich produced a drop in temperature of 26 degrees here early this morning, was expected to remain until tomorrow' night, when a rise in temperature is likely, according to J. H. Armington, local meteorologist. The mercury, which had climbed into the sixties yesterday afternoon, fell steadily to 27 at qoon today. Mr. Armington forecast cloudiness tonight and tomorrow, probably w'ith snow' flurries, and a minimum temperature tonight of 25. LEGION POST TO GIVE BENEFIT CARD PARTY Public Invited to Tnurnpy Tomor- ' row at Oaklandon. Service Post, No. 128. American Legion, will sponsor a public benefit eucre and bridge party at Legion hall in Oaklandon at 8 tomorrownight. The committee in charge includes Dr. Harold M. Jones. Fred C. Duzan. Bradford B. Evans. Mrs. Alta Law'son, Mrs. Florence Gee and Mrs. Emma Mock. CLUB WILLHEAR OAKES Insurance Executive to Speak on “From Chaos. Out." In observance of Financial Independence week, Mansur B. Oakes, insurance executive, wall speak on "From Chaos. Out.” before the Exchange Club Friday noon in the Washington.

of appointment and advancement of police and detectives and the selection of prosecutors and of judge having criminal jurisdiction. "Co-ordinate with these studies will be a study of such related matters as limitation of sale of firearms, equipment and training of police, co-operation between police of the several communities, and, perhaps the most important of all, the focusing of public attention on the work of the law enforcement officers to the end that capable, honest and fearless officials will be encouraged, assisted and retained, and corrupt ones will be displaced.” The committee explained it intends no hasty and ill-advised action. as the problems are too serious to be susceptible of quick solution*.

the experience. Colonel Woods, native Kentuckian. and veteran newspaperman, is a patient in the hospital for treatment for anemia. He is a life member of the Kentucky and Florida Press Associations, and for nineteen years was national editor and grand recorder of the Sigma Nu fraternal magazine, Delta, published in Indianapolis. It was as a member of the Florida Press Association that Colonel Woods had his “big moment.” when he posed as VicePresident Marshall, and spoke to crowds of school children and loyal defenders of the Democratic party along the Caloosahatchee river. nan YICE-P RESI DEN T MARSHALL and Mrs. Marshall w'ere guests of the, association, taking a trip along the river aboard a river steamer, to w'hich w'as lashed a flatboat loaded w'ith tropical fruits and a band. "They were fine, democratic people, and we all enjoyed them on the trip.” Colonel Woods recalled. "But another engagement at Ft. Myers forced Mr. Marshall to leave the steamer by speedboat. His departure w'as not knowm to hundreds of school children. assembled along the banks of the river, waving flags and shouting greetings. Someone had to appease those children, and their grown-up companions. “Asa nonsmoker, I w'as on the upper deck of the steamer, where I had gone to be away from the dense cloud of smoke coming from the cigars, pipes and cigarets of the editors gathered below'. When the call came for a speech by Vice-President Marshall, I was shoved to the side of the boat and told to speak to them. "Did I look like Marshall?" the colonel chuckled, and stroked his carefully trimmed mustache. "No! I w'as much more handsome! But physical resemblance wasn't necessary. I made them a speech, just like Marshall might have done. It was all about the party, and assurance that we w’ould w'in the war. The crowd cheered, and at the next stop, the speech w'as duplicated.” n n * SO successful was the adventure, that it w'as repeated on the lower deck of the boat by "Rube” Allvn. editor of a Sarasota paper, who spoke eloquently, impersonating President Woodrow Wilson. "Next day, the party of editors continued up state in a special train in great splendor on passes,” Colonel Woods recalls, with a grin. "At the first station we were greeted with calls for a speech by the vice-president, and repeated the fraud, with a speech by me from the rear end of the train to throngs of people gathered there. "No one enjoyed the joke more than the native Floridians, when it was explained to them the following day in local papers. One editot summed up the episode with one remark—Colonel Woods has but one vice—the vice presidency.’ ’’ Navy Bill Is Accepted By t nited Prexx WASHINGTON. March 22.—The house today accepted the conference report on the Vinson bill authorizing the President 'to build the United States fleet up to treaty strength.

Representatives of organizations supporting the committee include: Service Club. Harry Jordan and Thomas A. Hendricks: Rotary, T. E. (Pop! Myers and W. I. Longsworth; Lions, Walter Shirley and Albert Stump; Exchange Club. Clarence Morrill and J. Willard Bolte; League of Women Voters. Mrs. Leo M. Gardner and Mrs. W. P. Snethen; Womens Rotary, Mrs. Edward Franklin White; Women's Department Club. Mrs. Othniel Hitch; Rainbow Division Veterans, Hannon Young and Sidney Miller; Seventh District Federation of Clubs. Mrs. J. F. Edwards. Other groups to name representatives soon include: American Legion, Kiwanis Club. Business and Professional Women's Club and Indianapolis Council- of Women.

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‘CHISELERS’ IN NRA WILL BE PUNISHED, WARNING OF HOKE State Emergency Council Chief Issues Edict at Michigan City Luncheon; Denies 'New Deal ‘Expensive.’ INDUSTRIAL PROFIT SHOWN IN 1933 Labor, Agriculture and Business Benefited, He Claims; Unfair Practices Must Stop at Once, Is Order. B’J Timra Bpprinl MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 22.—Those who persist in defying NRA or in trying to get away with unfair practices or code violations are going to be punished. This was the edict issued today in an address by Fred Hoke, National Emergency Council of Indiana director, at a luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce and business men s organizations. In warning NRA chiselers that th p federal recovery program must not be hampered by selfish profit-seekers, Mr. Hoke answered complaints of some leading industrialists, who complain that “the new deal is too expensive; that industry is being gouged to pay for it.” The speaker pointed out that a balance sheet of the first year of the new deal, prepared by the National City bank

TRUCKS CONVOY REQUEST DENIED A! Feeney Refuses to Lend Aid: ‘Nothing Doing,’ He Asserts. Convoy for trucks of the Kibler Trucking Company, 1444 East Nineteenth street, on trips out of Marion county w'as refused today by A1 Feeney, state safety director. Officials of thje company requested the convoy, Mr. Feeney said, for a truck going to Rockville, Ind. "Nothing doing,* said Mr. Feeney, "the state police are not permitted by law to take part in labor troubles. But if we could convoy the trucks we w'ould not be able to furnish men, with but fifty-eight men enrolled on the force.” Mr. Feeney's statement came on the heels of the discharge of five alleged pickets who faced vagrancy charges in municipal court. The alleged strike sympathizers were Frank Plew', 28. of 2207 Roosevelt avenue; Herman Sons. 36, of 1017 North La Salle street; Joe Keppen. 24. of 3119 East Twentyfifth street; Everett Anderson. 24. of 2207 Roosevelt avenue, and William Bohenkamp. 40, of 1641 Greenfield avenue. Police said they merely saw the men cruising near a warehouse. No evidence was offered that the men attempted any violence. "... the Kibler Trucking Company has refused to abide by the decision rendered by the National Labor Board and absolutely refuses to submit any difference to arbitration” This statement was made earlier today by G. T. Watson, secretary of the local labor board, at the behest of the board's publicity committee. Albert Ward, attorney for the trucking company, denied that the firm had refused to arbitrate all questions. “It’s a long story. They wanted us to arbitrate whether the company should be an open or closed shop. This we refused to do,” Mr. Ward said. He said the trucking company had refused to mediate upon several other matters. Strikers contend that the company has refused to reinstate discharged union men and w'ill not deal with them through the Indianapolis regional labor board.

LINK DILLINGER TO STICKUP IN FLORIDA Trio Gets SIO,OOO at Bank; Indiana Tags on Car. By United rrrxt ST. CLOUD, Fla.. March 22. Search for John Dillinger centered in Florida and other southeastern states today after witnesses to a SIO,OOO bank robbery here late yesterday identified one of the three bandits as the notorious outlaw. Three unmasked white men, who escaped northward in a small machine bearing Indiana license No 372-458, forced Cashier Paul Kirkpatrick to open the Citizens’ State bank vault and carry the loot to their waiting automobile. FIREMEN RESUCITATE GAS FUMES VICTIM Rescue Squad Saves Man Stricken Cleaning Wall Paper. The firemen's rescue squad this morning resuscitated Joseph 44, of 2209 Winter avenue, after he was overcome from gas fumes while cleaning wall paper with a gasoline machine at 803 North Dearborn street. Stolx was taken to city hospital. His conditiDn was renorted “fair." , -

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! of New York, and setting out comparative profits and loss- : es of thirty-seven major industries for 1932 and 1933, shows just the contrary. "This table show's.” he said, "that whereas in 1932 these thirty-seven major industries had a deficit of $45,802,000 in 1933. they made a net profit of $440,643.00. "The automobile industry w'as tha biggest, profit-maker in the list. From a deficit of $14,000,000 in 1932, it jumped to a profit of $90,000,000 in 1933. "These figures show' that in the first year the new' deal began making money not only for labor and for agriculture, but for industry. Most of our business men know' this. They realize that the recovery program. or something like it. is their only hope, and they arp doing thejE part, in NRA and in other activities. Too Many Chiselers "But there still are too many selfish profit seekers. They are hampering the effective working out of NRA in Indiana, and this is slowing up recovery. "Only last week our field adjuster investigated complaints about a factory in an Indiana city. He found that since NRA the management had set a new' standard of production for employes. Then they had dismissed old employes on the pretext they could not mept the new standard, and promptly re-hired them as apprentices, at low r er w'ages. "Moreover, they had established two ‘rest periods' of a half hour each, and told their employes that those who could not meet the new production standard might ‘catch up’ on their work during the rest period. The result was they w'ere getting nine hours’ w'ork for eight hours’ pay. "Our adjuster pointed out these violations and asked whether the company would prefer to correct them or have the case reported to Washington. The manager went back to the eight-hour system the next day, promised to pay the back wages due old employes w'ho hart been fired and re-hired, and reduced the production standard 5 per cent. Hat Cleaner Scored "In Indianapolis there is a hat cleaner who advertised he w'ould cle.'n hats at 25 cents each, when the code price is 65 cents, and that he would give a free shoe shine with every hat cleaned. He did not pay his shoe shining boys one cent of wages—they had to depend on tips for their pay. “The man upset the entire hat cleaning industry in the city, for naturally his competitors couid not meet, such unfair trade practice without violating the code themselves. That case has gone to Washington. "These are only a few of the worst examples out of 843 complaints of violations of the President’s Re-employment Agreement or of permanent codes received in the Indiana office of NRA. We have succeeded in making satisfactory adjustments in 591 of these cases, and there are 352 still on hand “There are a few who are openly defiant, or who persist in trying to get away with unfair practices or with violations of the wage and working hour provisions. We have no desire to do any threatening or bulldozing, but I tell you those people are going to be punished." Public Losing Faith Failure to prosecute NRA violators was held responsible today for waning interest of the public in the national recovery program, by Fred Hoke, Indiana director of the national emergency council, in a report to Frank B. Walker, federal NEC director. "A survey throughout the state." says Mr. Hoke in his report, “discloses that in the beginning of the NRA program, enthusiasm for it ran high. This is cooling off rather perceptibly, and the explanation for it is that there has been no prosecution of violators." Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 23 10 a. m 26 7a. m 26 11 a. m 26 Ba. m, 25 12 inoonri. 27 9a. m 26 lp. m 27