Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1934 — Page 1

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BY-DRINK BAN TO RENEW DRY EVILS, IS FEAR Return of Corruption and Graft Visualized by Liberal Wets. TEST CASE IS PLANNED Hotel Men to Appeal to Courts: City to Attempt Rigid Enforcement. Evils which followed the futile attempt to enforce national prohibition freely were predicted today for the city and other oemmunities in the state, following the opinion yesterday of the attorney-general that "by the drink" sales of hard liquor in the state are illegal. Acting on the opinion. Governor Paul V. McNutt placed the burden of enforcing the unpopular act squarely on the shoulders of city and county authorities. An aftermath of graft and corruption. with bootlegging surreptitiously carried mi in licensed beer places, was the picture drawn by those who oppose police action against the sale of liquor in hotels and restaurants. Assertions by some officials that enforcement will be immediate fo 1 - lowed the action of the state government in leaving the unwanted foundling the drink problem—up to the local authorities. Morrissey Is Outspoken Chi?f Mike Morrissey was outspoken in his attitude on the problem. • If sale of liquor by the drink is a violation of the law we will enforce it,” he said. “However, we will take it up with the safety board and the city legal department to see how far we can go. There always will be the necessity of proving a sale. It is possible that we may assign a squad to do no other work than investigate 'by the drink' sales.” Law Is Ignored Here Meanwhile, cash registers in various bright spots in town rang merrily to the accompaniment of tinkling ice in long, cool drinks of highballs and rickeys. Governor Paul V. McNutt called upon local authorities to enforce the law following the receipt of a memorandum from the attorney-gen-eral's office which stated that sale of whisky “by the drink” is illegal under the state liquor control act. The attorney-general's memorandum added that the act only permits the sale of hard liquor by the package in licensed drug stores. Mayor Sullivan's Views Mayor Sullivan's attitude on the problem was similar to that expressed by his police chief. Admitting he had not read the attorneygeneral’s opinion, the mayor said: “We will enforce the law relative to hard liquor whatever the lawmay be.” Marion eountv officials also unhesitatingly expressed themselves as ready and willing to prosecute any violations of the liquor act. Reversing himself on a former opinion given a year ago to the effect that the liquor control act was Judge Frank P. Baker today said: I’rges Rigid Enforcement “There should be a vigorous campaign against the sale of hard liquor by the drink in Indianapolis and Marion county immediately. These establishments that sell hard liquor bv the drink are nothing more than old-time saloons. The state liquor control act was framed to prevent the return of the open saloon and a saloon, regardless of the name we may call it. is a place where hard liquors are sold by the dnnk.” Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson announced that his office vigorously wit* prosecute alleged violators of the liquor act and will co-operate with the Governor in enforcement. We ill enforce the law relative to the sale of hard liquor by the drink to the letter.” asserted Sheriff Charles <Buck> Sumner. "These fellows selling liquor have been given a little privilege and are running hog wild.’ ” Test Case to Be Made Meanwhile, attorneys for the Indiana Hotels Association indicated that the hotel men. who have advocated sale of hard liquor by the drink in hotels and restaurants, would make a test case of the at-torney-general's opinion and carry it to the supreme court, if it is enforced. From other Indiana cities today came opinions which almost unanimously termed the attorney-gen-eral's opinion "unenforceable.” In Gary. Police Chief Stanley Buckling said that while his department would co-operate with the state, the law is no r'enforoeable.” Prosecutor Otto W. Koenig. Ft. Wayne, said that he would take no action until he had seen a copy of the opinion. In South Bend it was indicated that if the enforcement of "bv-the-drink” sales is left to city and county authorities, no attempt at enforcement will be made. PAY CUT IS CONTINUED Government Employes Retain 5 Per Cent Reduction. Kyt Hit. 4 Press WASHINGTON. July 7.—President Roosevelt, in an executive order. continued the present 5 per cent pay cut for government employes for another six months. The decision was based on a survey of living costs. nog Killed by Police A do* was shot by police yesterdayafter It had bitten John Carel. 5. of 5354 East Washington street, on the right leg.

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FUTURE BRIGHT, SAYS WOOLLEN Roosevelt Money Policies Merit Nation’s Respect, Banker Holds. The Roosevelt administration fairly has earned the confidence of the nation in its purpose to withstand all demands for fiat money, and sound money is assured. These statements by Evans Woollen. president of the Fletcher Trust Company, featured a review of current business conditions issued today by the bank. The review r was decidedly optimistic in forecasting the future. “Whatever reservations one may have about the gold reserve act and the silver purchase act,'’ writes Mr. Woollen, “there has been no direct inflation of currency. “Tiie administration, confronted by threatening fiat-money attacks, has fairly earned our confidence in its purpose to withstand all such attacks. Sound money, if not the soundest, is reasonably assured.” Other promises of a better future listed by Mr. Woollen follow: 1. The world-wide movement toward economic recovery will carry America with it. 2. The NRA is correcting its faults, as in the service and steel industries. and in the matter of prices generally. Industry Improves 3. Industrial production, though lagging in durable goods, has been moving up 2 per cent a month until it now is 85 per cent of the 19231925 average. Factory pay roils were up 73 per cent May 1 and unemployment was down 40.2 since March, 1933 4. Total cash returns to farmers probably will exceed those of 1932 or 1933 even without the augmented benefit payments. 5. The banks now have a surplus reserve capable of supporting an expansion of. perhaps $20,000,000. which is greater than that before the 1929 crash 6. Business activity for May was placed at 74.2 by the Guaranty Survey and at 80.4 per cent by the Annalist. as compared with estimates of 62 and 72.5 for May. 1933. Lists Disadvantages Mr. Woollen, whose forecast on farm finances also was based on a Guaranty Survey study, also found unfavorable factors. These included: 1. Increase in the last five years of the public debt to $10,000,000,000. an all-time high, coupled with a decrease in international credit to anew all-time low. 2. A “barely tolerable” burden of taxes. 3. President Roosevelt’s recent recommendation for social insurance which, “whatever its merits, increases the uncertainties of an already uncertain future and so impairs confidence.” BOY, 9, SUCCUMBS, VICTIM OF RABIES Child Given but 14 Pasteur Shots. Says Doctor. Rabies, contracted when he was bitten on the neck and arm by a dog three weeks ago. brought death to Josep*h Fey. 9. of 817 Birch avenue. this morning at Riley hospital. Dr. Vivian Seheib. who attended the boy, stated that she understood that three days were allowed to elapse before the boy received his first Pasteur treatment and that he received only fourteen inoculations instead of the customary twentyone.

Times Series to Reveal Water Source Pollution After another survey of water sources throughout the state. The Times Tuesday will present a series of articles revealing deplorable conditions existing in many of our streams and other sources of water supply. The series will show how human lives are endangered daily by polluted water. It will show instances where adults and children swim in waters that at times carry sulphuric acid. It will cite the case of a city whose common council refused money from the federal government for a sewage disposal system which would prevent pollution of a stream at its back door. Last V vear The Times conducted a summer survey of conditions of Indiana rivers and streams on which thousands of persons are dependent for drinking water, game fish and recreation. The new series will reveal that conditions in many of these places are as bad this year as they were last, and will cite countless new instances where health is endangered. That such situations exist in Indiana is deplorable, but none the less true. The Times has felt it a public duty to bring before its readers a true picture of actual conditions, many of which can be overcome with a little less personal greed on the part of responsible persons. The series begins Tuesday. Watch for it in The Times.

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MARINE STRIKE THREATENS TO INVOLVE6S,OOO General Walkouts Menace San Francisco and Portland. TROOPS ANGER UNIONS Labor Will Fight to Finish, Says Council Head; Guns Bristle. By United Press General strikes threatened in three major cities today while smaller industrial wars caused disturbances in many communities. The situation in brief: SAN FRANCISCO Striking marine workers, dislodged from the waterfront by troops, sought to precipitate general strike. PORTLAND, Ore. —Union labor will consider a general strike Monday after representatives of twenty-two unions approved a general strike for the entire Pacific coast. MINNEAPOLIS Representatives of truck drivers and transportation employers met with regional labor board to avert general strike. Union heads held up decision pending last minute effort to settle drivers’ grievanees. tty United Press SAN FRANCISCO. July 7.—The big culb of "general strike” hung over San Francisco and Portland today as union labor chieftains, angered by intervention of national guaftsmen in suppression of San Francisco's bloody maritime workers’ riots, threatened a walkout of 65.000 union men. "We will prosecute the strike on the waterfront with everything at labor's command," Edward A. Vandeleur, president of the San Francisco Central Labor Council, said. "We are in the fight and we w’ill see it to a finish.” A general strike would involve 45,000 union men here and 20.000 at Portland. Starting with teamsters and street railway employes, it would paralyze the land commerce of both cities. Water traffic has been bloekaded since maritime workers walked out in a coast-wide strike. May 9. Efforts to open the San FrancLsco port led to the sanguine waterfront riots of Tuesday and Thursday and calling of the national guard. While the labor chieftains met, national guardsmen, with bristling bayonets and machine gun emplacements. enforced armed peace on the city's strife-torn embarcadero. Meantime. President Roosevelt’s national longshoremen's board, spurred by general strike threats, invoked its authority under the new labor disputes act. It was announced it would start public hearings in federal court here Monday. Presence of the troops and grim orders that “any guardsman who fires a shot in the air will be courtmartialed—shoot to kill,” cowered strike pickets and sent them retreating from the bloody area which saw two killed and 100 wounded in Thursday’s rioting. Sporadic minor clashes between police and pickets occurred throughout the city yesterday. Officials Are Silent tty United Press WASHINGTON. July 7.—Officials received with apprehension today reports from the Pacific coast that general strike plans were under discussion in connection with the bloody longshoremen's strike. They refrained front comment, however, holding that the President's special mediation board had full power to act in the situation. Reports on all developments were being received constantly by the labor department. Strike Check Sought Ry United Per a* MINNEAPOLIS. July 7.—Representatives of 5.000 truck drivers and their employers met today with the regional labor board in a last minute effort to avert a paralyzing general strike. Union men roared and stamped vociferous approval of proposals for a general strike at a mass meeting last night, but delayed action until after today's meeting at the request of Governor Floyd B. Olson. The general walkout, affecting approximately 75,000 trades workers, had been tentatively scheduled for Monday night. Demands presented by the truck drivers today are an outgrowth of their recent riotous ten-day strike and the truce which ended it.

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FIREMEN SAVE BLAZING TRUCK IN WATERFRONT CLASH

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Fire was added to the terror of rioting in the San Francisco dock strike, when strikers, after overturn ing autos and trucks, put the torch to them. Here firemen are shown quelling a blaze which rioters hai started before fleeing from the police charge. ..

FIVE PERSONS DIEINSTORM Ice Forms on Northwestern Lakes as Heat Wave Continues in East. tty United Press CHICAGO. July 7.—lce formed on northwestern lakes today in the wake of storms, which killed five people, while New York and the eastern seaboard sweltered in the seventeenth day of a record heat wave Topcoats were comfortable in Des Moines, St, Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago, New York expected another day such as yesterday, when the Central park observatory recorded 130 degrees on a thermometer placed in the sun. In North Dakota the mercury dropped below the freezing point. In Minnesota, Montana and South Dakota it hovered around 40 degrees. Chicago, where world fair crowds panted in 100-degree heat only last week, expected a maximum temperature of around 65 degrees today. Thunder storms and a tornado which preceded the spreading chill brought death to five persons. Two persons, one in Chicago and another in Tarnov, Neb., were killed by lightning. A man was killed by a board ripped from his home by a small tornado at Roseland, Neb, and a woman and a small boy were crushed by falling trees in Detroit. In contrast to the western cold, the mercury stayed high in the 70s throughout the night in New York. Officially the metropolis’ maximum temperature yesterday was 92.1 degrees at 5 p. m. but unofficial thermometers went many degrees higher. High humidity made life in the brick and steel canyons a misery. Washington was even hotter, with an official maximum of 96 degrees. At Cleveland it was 92 and in Detroit 94. The gulf states enjoyed moderate temperatures, although 100 degrees was recorded in San Antonio and 98 in El Paso. Phoenix, Ariz., was the nation’s hottest spot, officially, at 106 degrees. City Under Blankets Comforts and quilts, unused for many weeks during the recent heat wave, were dragged from storage places by chilly citizens last night as result of the heavy temperature drop which followed a heavy rainfall late yesterday and last night. The rainfall totaled 1.67 inches here. It was general throughout the state, according to the weather bureau. Heaviest precipitation reported was at Kokomo, 2.93 inches. The rainstorm brought the mercury down to 65 during the night. The weather bureau forecast that temperature today probably would not rise beyond the seventies. Tomorrow was expected to be “fair and warmer,” with the temperature probably not going above the eighties.

GAMING RAID STORY IS PROVEDJM ERROR Fisher Not Discharged Cop, Records Show. Hiram Fisher, 227 North Capitol avenue, has asked The Times to correct a statement carried in a story publisher July 3 in connection with a gambling raid on the Claypool billiard room. The story referred to Mr. Fisher as “a former policeman who was discharged from the force following an investigation about five years ago.” The Times was misinformed, and was in error when it stated he was discharged. Records of the safety board reveal that “Harm M. Fischer” resigned from the police force Jan. 19. 1926. The record contains no reference to any charges being filed against him. or of any

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Tear bombs and gas guns played an effective part in routing the thousands of pickets and sympathizers who rioted in the San Francisco dock strike. The officers, wearing “tin hats,” are shown in action during the melee, in which two men were killed and more than seventy wounded.

U. S. Sailors Riot at Nice in Good-Will Tour;2oHurt Forty Others Land in Brig as Patrols Round Up Battling Tars; Two of Injured in Critical Condition. By United Press NICE, France, July 7.—A1l short leave from the American battleships Arkansas and Wyoming were canceled today after street riots that left twenty American seamen injured and forty in the ships’ brigs.

Two of the injured were in serious condition —an unnamed seaman with a fractured skull and James Kline, 25, seaman on the Arkansas, with a bullet wound in his throat. A police statement said that the biggest riot, at the Case de Paris, started when a large bill was presented to a group of seamen and one of them said: “Take it off the war debt." The fight was on. Today the thousands of American flags which greeted the ships' crews on their arrival were withdrawn in token of the town's anger. The ships are on a good-will tour in a sense, but the will of residents of Nice, outraged by the worst naval rioting they ever saw, was so bad today that there was a possibility the ships might move on instead of remaining in Villefranche harbor till next Thursday, as was planned. Kline, police said, was shot when he attacked a young French woman walking with her husband on a lonely road. Reports of the case rioting reached the ships, and patrols of seamen, led by officers, were sent ashore to round up the celebrants. The French thought they were reinforcements and began attacking them. Several officers received black eyes. The patrols halted the fights in the cases and arrested rioting seamen. The incidents occurred while the Riviera generally was looking forward with pleasure to the ships’ visit. Night clubs at Juan Les Pins last night even suspended their gigolos for the duration of the visit so that the crews would have no competition. The gigolos demanded full pay for the period of suspension, threatening to call a strike of all Riviera gigolos. 1 ROCKEFELLER NEARS 95 John D. Sr. to Celebrate Birthday Tomorrow. By United Press LAKEWOOD. N. J.. July 7.—John D. Rockefeller Sr. will observe his ninety-fifth birthday tomorrow without benefit of special arrangements. The aged financier is reported in reasonably good health. Hourly Temperatures. 6 a.- m 65 8 a. m 66 7 a. m 65 9 a. m 67

Braganza Castle Bombed By United Press

LONDON, July 7.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch today said a bomb had damaged the Duke of Braganza's castle in lower Austria.

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Chancellor Moves to Center Control in Few Trusted Men; New Church War, However, Looms in Offing- in Germany. NEW LABOR ‘CZAR’ IS SELECTED Attacks on Steel Helmets Not to Be Repeated, New Chief of Storm Troopers Tells War Veterans. BV FREDERICK OECHSNER United Pres* Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1934, by United Press) BERLIN, July 7.—A far-reaching: rearrangement of duties and powers of Nazi leaders to center control in a few trusted men, was revealed today as the first aim of Chancellor Adolf Hitler in the second phase of his “Third Reich.” An important under-the-surface indication was that the Nazis sought a period of peace and quiet during which Hitler and his aids would do their utmost to keep the party hot heads from attacking Jews or other factions except the Communists. New difficulties for the Nazi regime arose today, however, in the drive to make the Mueller, or Reich church, group dominant in Germany. The Evangelical synod of Baden rejected a law’ merging

FIRE DESTROYS PENAL FACTORY Damage to Putnamville Plant Is Estimated at $35,000. tty United rrrsg PUTNAMVILLE, Ind.. July 7. Fire which destroyed two manufacturing plants at the state penal farm caused a loss of approximately $35,000, Ralph Howard superintendent, said today. The blaze broke out shortly after noon yesterday and rapidly swept through the building housing the furniture and rock wool plant. All prisoners and guards were at lunch, leaving the building unoccupied. No one was injured. Prisoners and guards co-operated with firemen from Brazil and Greencastle in confining the blaze to the one building.. Mr. Howard said there was no disorder among inmates. The building, constructed of brick and wood and valued at SIO,OOO, must be replaced entirely, Howard said. He estimated loss of machinery equiment at $15,000, and stocks, including raw materials, at SIO,OOO. BUS LOOTED OF TRUNK Chicago-Bound Midnight Bus Has Tarpaulin Cut. Passengers on the midnight bus to Chicago last night heard strange noises soon after the bus ;iad left the city. Frank Landreville, 1210 Concord street, driver, stopped and found that the tarpaulin on top of the bus had been cut and that a trunk was missing. The trunk, which belonged to Mrs. Furman Carroll. Chicago, contained clothing valued at $l5O.

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the Baden church with Ludwig Mueller’s Reich church. The supreme church council, dominated by Mueller, thereupon dissolved the synod. The action indicated a growing resistance to Mueller’s police in districts which previously had been neutral in his drive to build up a church organization closely knit to the Hitler regime. In the reorganization moves, all the storm troopers are under Viktor Lutze. successor of Ernst Roehm, alleged leader of the revolt that precipitated Germany’s bloody week of reprisals. Kurt Schmitt, minister of economics, has been given dictatorial powers over trade and industry. Made Labor “Czar” Today Constantin Hierl was given complete control of the important voluntary labor service, which keeps scores of thousands of young men out of possible trouble in the ranks of the unemployed. This takes the labor army from the jurisdiction of Franz Seldte, minister of labor and leader of the Steel Helmet organization of war veterans which incurred Roehm’s wrath by refusing to be absorbed into his storm troops. Seldte received assurance from storm troop leader Lutze that there would be no more attacks on his war veterans and that he would do his utmost to jee that there was co-operation without friction in the future. There were stories today that disaffected storm troops were going through Berlin, demanding revenge for the killing of Roehm. Investigation seemed to disclose conclusive evidence that this report was untrue. Rumors Prove False Two tours of the district, one yesterday afternoon and another last night, showed the ordinary policemen patrolling singly instead of in groups and without carbines. There was no excitement of any sort. The district usually is a turbulent one, compared to others in the city, but extensive questioning failed to disclose any knowledge by any one that there had been disorder. Among outstanding rumors of the last twenty-four hours were several that Hitler had been fired upon while riding in his automobile and that he had narrowly escaped assassination at Munich. Attempts to clarify the situation in connection with these rumors failed to disclose any substantiation in official or responsible unofficial sources. For example, in connection with rumors that Edmund Heines, one of the slain rebels at Munich, had brandished a revolver in front of Hitler, the investigation showed: Heines was arrested after being caught in compromising circumstances. Members of the raiding party which seized him verified that he was not armed. Other rumors denied in responsible or official sources were that Hermann Goering had met with an “accident”; and that Vice-Chancel-lor Franz Von Papen had been assassinated. Slain ‘by Accident’ By United Press MUNICH. July 7.—Reports today indicate that Dr. Will Schmitt, former music critic of the newspaper Meunchener Neueste Nachrichten, was killed by Nazi “Iron Fists” in mistake for another man of similar name who was on their blacklist. Schmitt’s death was disclosed yesterday with publication of a notice saying he died accidentally. Political Leader Flees tty United Press LONDON. July 7.—Semi-official German sources said today that Gottfried Treviranus. German political leader, had fled from Germany and was with friends in England. Treviranus formerly was leader of the People’s party. After a distinguished naval career, he entered politics. He was a member of the reichstag from 1924 to 1933 and was minister without portfolio and then minister of transport and communications in the cabinet.