Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 96, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1934 — Page 3

AUG. 31, 1931

ESCAPE-PROOF PRISONS URGED BY U. S. CHIEF J. Edgar Hoover Attacks Incompetent Guards Before Lawyers. (Continurd from Pa*e One) part of the blame for the breakdown of the prnal system In some case's squarely on the shoulders of a certain type of lawyer. *‘l am quite certain," he stated, "that some members of the legal profession have been Instrumental In securing favorable action in the matter of executive clemency for confirmed criminals whose proper place of abode never should have been elsewhere than behind escapeproof bars. “Anything bearing upon the matter of a pardon or parole should be publicized widely, particularly the identity of those representing the criminals seeking extension of clemency." Lauds Policy! raining He said that in the first half of 1934 more than 5.500 persons were arrested who were on parole or had been pardoned with the majority of these sentenced for major crimes. Os 173.768 cases examined by his department in the same period. 44.329 had previous criminal records. Os adequately trained police forces, Mr. Hoover said: “Too much emphasis can not be placed upon the development of modern investigative methods and conditions in the lesser populated communities. “The larger municipalities adequately are equipped to take care of themselves, but to permit rural communities to be inadequately equipped is the surest way to render feasible the continued operation of dangerous criminals. You can not keep modern cities comparatively free from crime when the surrounding rural communities are protected inadequately. “Crime no longer is a local problem. Criminals travel too rapidly and extensively. Modern methods of law enforcement and scientific crime detection must be made as effective in the rural areas as in the cities, with radio cars, teletypes, training schools and the better type of intelligent men. “These are not local or county * problems. They are state problems, in which the entire nation should be interested. School Is Planned “The federal government Is planning to establish a school to tram investigators. I do not subscribe to the theory, sometimes prevalent among certain legislators, that education is a handicap to a good investigator. • Nor do I believe that a good investigator necessarily must be a physical giant in order to possess the innate courage necessary to be an effective law enforcement official or to become an expert in the use of firearms.” Mr. Hoover said his department got 3.531 convictions in the fiscal year 1934. 93 81 per cent effectiveness. It located 928 federal fugitives and identified a total of 4,356 fugitives. It obtained eleven life sentences and other sentences totaling 5.073 years, and saw fines of $772,938 imposed. It recovered $1,116,619 of stolen goods. While Mr. Hoover did not compare these figures with those of law enforcement units in governmental subdivisions, such comparisons undoubtedly would result unfavorably to the subdivisions and would seem to justify the arguments of those seeking statewide organization of peace officers under a command such as Mr. Hoover now’ holds for the federal government. CITY BAH TODISCUSS TRUST COMPANY PACT Proposed Agreement to Be Studied at Meeting Sept. 12. The Indianapolis Bar Association will meet in special session Wednesday, Sept. 12. to consider an agreement which will be presented to local trust companies stipulating that the companies will not engage in the practice of law.

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Here are the noble domes that seek the right to supplant a Brown Derby for their straw' lids and felts on the night of Sept. 6, at 8 p. m., in front of the Indiana state fairground grand stand. Here you see the four leaders in the race to be the city's most distinguished citizen. Fred W. Steinsberger, Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers’ Association president, is in the lead today and also has the smallest head-size, a 6 T . Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., Cosmopolitan Democratic Club president, is second in the standings up to early today and has the largest head in the contest, 7 1 i. Dr. Paul Kernel, Hoosier Athletic Club president, and head of the Hoosier Optical Company, is third and has the next smallest cranium with a size of a dice point-7. Fourth place is held by Fred W. Krueger. Walgreen drug stores manager, with a hat-size of 7Vi. Last ballot in the contest will be printed tomorrow and the winner announced Tuesday. PURSE THIEF SUSPECT NABBED BY PASSERBY Woman’s Screams Attract Rescuer Who Captures Negro. Lucius McTov, 19. Negro, Jackson, Miss., is held by police today on vagrancy charges after his capture last night by a pedestrian following an alleged purse snatching attempt. McToy is alleged to have attempted to snatch a purse from Mrs. Ruth Beringa, 330 East Vermont street, while she was walking in the 200 block East Vermont street. Mrs. Beringa's screams attracted Charles Dossey, who chased 'the Negro and caught him. DISPOSITION OF SEIZED LIQUOR PROVES PUZZLE Owner Claims Title to Whisky Stored in Apartment. Police today were considering what to do with fourteen cases of bonded whisky confiscated in a raid on an empty apartment at 220 North Liberty street last night. James Raftis, 48, of 248 North Liberty street, a restaurant operator holding a liquor license, claimed the whisky. He said he stored it in the apartment because he had no room in his case.

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CITY YOUNGSTERS WIN U. S. DANCE TITLES Quartet to Get Silver Cups at Chicago Convention. Four Indianapolis children were to be declared national amateur dance champions and awarded silver cups in Chicago as a feature of the Chicago Dancing Masters’ Association's convention. The children, who carried away nearly one-fifth of the prizes offered at the convention in competition with contestants from all over the country, are Gloria Metzler, who won in the ballet department; Irvin Sudbrack, acrobatic department; Elinor Ellis, musical comedy department, and Mary E. Karstadt, tap department. All are pupils of the Jac Broderick studio. FREE SPEECH UPHELD AT PROTEST MEETING Talcott Powell, Times Editor, Defends Constitutional Guarantee. The right of free speech was upheld last night by speakers at a meeting protesting recent arrests of speakers at a labor demonstration in Camp Sullivan. Untrammeled exchange of opinion is essential if the nation’s economic and social problems are to be solved, declared Talcott Powell, Indianapolis Times editor. Also on the program were Sol Larks and William Wilson, arrested Aug. 1 when they spoke at an outdoor mass meeting. The orderly protest meeting, held at 116 East Maryland street under Provisional committee of Action for Free Speech auspices, was not attended by jjolice. NEIGHBOR SLUGGED AT MYSTERY FIRE HOUSE Investigating Noise When Attacked, Youth Tells Police. A vacant house at 217-19 North Keystone avenue which has been set on fire four times, entered police news again last night as George W, Birk, 17, of 213 North Keystone avenue, reported to police that he was slugged by an unknown assailant while he was investigating a noise near the house.

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WALLACE SEES FARM LABOR AS JOB OF SCIENCE Secretary Predicts Pastoral Utopia Within Fifty Years in U. S. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 31. Like Tennyson, Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace dipped into the future today and saw fifty years hence in America a white-collar peasantry wherein science will toil and Americans will relax in a pastoral Utopia. Mr. Wallace ventured his forecast between trains carrying him from Memphis to Des Moines. From Des Moines he said he would make a short drive over lowa, arriving back in Washington early next week. He said science would do for individual production what it has done to replace man in the factories it will do to replace work in the fields.

A “crude example’’ was given, that of a rake that would take the hay and grain from the fields without the aid of man, other than the pressing of an electric power control. Machines would do the housework for the farm wife and the field work for the farmer. “There is a lag of fifty years in science and its application to man’s individual production,’’ Mr. Wallace said. “The farmer has not taken the full fruits of the paved highways and electric power. I think there is idealism in the plans of Ford and Firestone when they advocate subsistence farming. “Why is it not as reasonable that science can replace the toil on the farm as it has in the modern factory? After all, a dignified peasantry leads to stability. Science in fifty years will pick up the lag and go to work on the farm for the individual.”-

JOBLESS OUTLOOK IS SERIOUS, GREEN SAYS Labor Chief Warns United States of Employment Situation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—President William Green of the American Federation of Labor today again warned the nation that the prospective employment situation this winter is serious. He declared that unless business revived vigorously this fall the country faced the loss of all recovery gains. From October, 1933, to June, 1934, he said, the number of those looking for work increased by 300.000 and the number of jobs available gained only 100,000. CONSTITUTION DAY IS PROCLAIMED BY MAYOR Sullivan Ugesr Flag Be Displayed Here Sept. 17. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today issued a proclamation setting forth Monday, Sept. 17, as Constitution day in Indianapolis, and asking that flags be displayed throughout the city.

FERA Traffic Survey in City Lists Danger Spots

Most Accidents Occurred at Sixteenth and Meridian, Report Shows. The most dangerous traffic intersection in the city is at Sixteenth and Meridian streets. The intersection, fourth in the volume of traffic in the city, was the scene of sixteen auto crashes in 1933, it was reported today in a survey of the city plan commission undertaken as an FERA project. Police report analysis shows that in 1933 there were 2,107 collisions between automobiles. A separate survey is under way to determine the hazards which

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Yeggs, apparently unfamiliar with the use of nitroglycerin, early today wrecked a Walgreen drugstore at Thirty-fourth and Pennsylvania streets and demolished a large safe in an attempt to blow the safe and obtain the store’s receipts. The blasted safe, bolted to the floor and four feet high, is shown above, while one of the smashed windows is shown below with some merchandise lying on the sidewalk in front of the store, where the force of the explosion had tossed it. CHURCH TO CANVASS UNEMPLOYED MEMBERS Survey to Be Inaugurated at Meeting Sunday. The Garden Baptist church, 314 Bright street, will inaugurate an employment survey among its membership at a special meeting at 5:30 Sunday. Unemployed of the community are invited. The Labor day message of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America will be read fc* Charles Mitchell, director of young people's work for the church. The employment survey will aim to discover the type of employment, and the income, of all families in the church.

CHARLES DILLINGHAM. STAGE PRODUCER, DIES Renowned for Beauty of Productions, Management Skill. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 31.—The theater mourned today the death of Charles B. Dillingham, 66, renowned for the beauty of his innumerable productions and for his managerial skill. He died last night, victim of a general breakdown in health. While noted for the lavishness of his productions, he was a stickler for good taste.

pedestrians may expect at street corners. Belmont avenue and Michigan street, with thirteen crashes, was second to the north side corner in collisions. Other corners, with a high number of accidents, follow: Massachusetts avenue, Delaware and New York streets, 12; Noble and Washington streets, Rural and Washington streets, and Capitol avenue and Washington street, 11 each; West and Washington street, and New York and Meridian streets, 10. Washington street tops other city thoroughfares with 124 collisions at its various intersections with Meridian street’s full length second with 119. The survey will be continued throughout the autumn.

Celebration of Jewish Holidays to Open Here

Rabbi Morris Fueriicht to Preach at Service Sept. 9. Rabbi Morris Fueriicht will preach a sermon on “Religion and Life,” at 7:30 Sunday night, Sept. 9, at the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, Tenth and Delaware streets, in observance of the holiday Rosh Hashanah. The following morning at 9:30 he will speak on “American Judaism in Perspective.” The congregation will observe five separate holidays commemorating the new year 5695. They are Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 9 and 10; Sabbath Shuvah, Sept. 14 and 15; Yom Kippur, Sept. 18 and 19; Succoth, Sept. 23 and 24, and Shemini Atzereth and Simchath Torah, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1. Religious school will open Sunday morning. Sept. 16, at 9:45 for registration and regular sessions. Members of the congregation have been asked to send to the rabbi or to the executive secretary before the Yom Kippur memorial services the names of out-of-town members of their families who have died since last Atonement Day and the names of those in town who were interred in cemeteries other than that of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. Special Services Open Special services will be held at the Congregation Sharah Tefilla, Meridian and Merrill streets, at midnight tonight, inaugurating a week

of special prayers which precede the Jewish New Year 5695, Sept. 10 and 11. Tonight's services, known as "Selichos,” will be conducted by Cantor A. Portnov and the high holiday choir. The congregation is the oldest orthodox synagog in the state.

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TWO-YEAR WAR IN GRAN CHACO IS NEAR FINISH Paraguay, Bolivia Ready to End Fighting, Is Report. (Copyright. 1934. by United Press' BUENOS AIRES. Aug. 31.—Hope waxed strong today that the bitter two years war in the "Green Hell ’ of the Gran Chaco might be ended quickly through peace efforts of the United States, Brazil and Argentina. Paraguay has accepted a proposal by the three powers for immediate cessation of fighting. President Daniel Salamanca of Bolivia is expected to reply to the proposal during the week-end. Simultaneously, the United States is expected to answer a Bolivian inquiry as to the legal, or Juridical significance of a truce as it concerns possible failure of peace negotiations. It was believed that President Salamanca, who was at the fighting front today, was consulting his generals as to the advisability of accepting the peace offer. Chances of acceptance seemed heightened by the fact that dispatches from the front showed Bolivia to be in parlous position I with the rainy season approaching. Within less than two weeks the Paraguayans, led by a brilliant French-trained commander-in-chief, have captured eleven Bolivian forts. Part of the Bolivian force is crowded in a corner of the Chaco bordering Bolivia proper, backs to the j Pilcomayo river on the other side | of which is neutral Argentina, comi munications severed. PROWLER SUSPECT IS NABBED BY WATCHMAN | Youth Faces Charge of Attempted Thefts From Cars. One of three alleged prowlers, who are said to have attempted to steal articles from an automobile parked j in front of 250 West Ohio street, | was seized and hold for police early j today by Thomas C. Dunn, Edgewood. a night watchman. Mr. Dunn frieghtened away two men and then captured Morris Bridges. 22, of 1514 Lennard street, at the point of a revolver. Bridges is held by police on vagrancy charges. • CHILDREN ARE GUESTS City V. of F. W. Post Entertains Poor Youngsters. Children of destitute veterans were beii.g entertained by the Frank T. Strayer post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, today at an all day picnic in Broad Ripple park. V. O. Jackson is in charge of the affair assisted by W. Watts and William Johnson. Lee V. King is post commander.