Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1934 — Page 3

SEPT. 4, 1934_

ANCIENT FENAL SYSTEM MUST BE WIPED OUT Scores 'oin in The Times’ Drive to Put Program on Civil Service. (Continued From Pace One) control of New York's five bastiletype prisons and half-dozen state controlled wall-less prisons and reformatories. He is scheduled to attend the Indiana state penal conference in Indianapolis on Sept. 30 to speak on prison management. "All state penal institutions under my supervision are almost 100 per cent under civil service requirements so far as the selection of employes is concerned,” explained Dr. Thayer. "The only exceptions are two clerkships in each prison which are filled by appointees selected in each prison by the state controller and some of the most inferior jobs such as labor jobs.” Sees No Comparison Since the reorganization of the j New York stat government in 1926. all wardens have b*en appointed from competitive civil service lists, according to Dr. Thayer. "I have been in the service of the prison department of New York since 1904. and have been familiar with It from 1892 until the present date.” Dr. Thayer said. "I have seen political management of the prison system of this state and I have had many years' experience since it has been severed from political influence,” he continued. "I will state to you very frankly that there is no comparison between the condition as it exists today and the condition existing under the old political regime.” With guards and other prison employes selected on the basis of merit, escapes from the prisons under Dr. Thayer's supervision occur seldom as to be insignificant, according to prison experts. Escapes Are Reduced Escapes from New York's medium security prisons, which correspond in some details to the Indiana state farms, have been reduced through adoption of a rigid military discipline among guards, some of whom are mounted. Only nine escapes have occurred from the much publicized wall-less Wallkill state prison, and most of these occulted while the guard organization was being perfected. "Seven of these men are accounted for, two of whom were executed in Pennsylvania for the commission of a homicide,” Dr. Thayer announced. "There arc two men at large whose whereabouts are unknown.” Pennsylvania, spurred by repeated prison riots of its own, looks to the next legislature to reform the penal system by placing the state’s institutions under civil service requirements similar to those proposed by The Times for Indiana. Outstanding in New York The outstanding success of the civil service system of operating the extensive prison system of New York state was cited by prison experts other than Dr. Thayer as a convincing example of the efficient and economical operation of a penal system after politics has been excluded. 1 Ohio criminologists pointed to the Smooth operation of the penal institutions of that state since the spoils system was thrown out. Stories of waste, inefficiency and brutality came from Kentucky, California, Tennessee, Oklahoma and New Mexico, where the political management of institutions remains intrenched. Inquiry of Sanford Bates, prison ureau director for the justice department. revealed that all guards in federal penal and reformatory institutions are under civil service and are given special training. Federal wardens and their deputies are named by the attorneygeneral on recommendation of the prisons' bureau director. Publication of the results of a nation-wide survey of current practices in the operation of jails and prisons was followed by demands throughout Indiana for a speedy revision of this state’s methods of supervising prisoner. Demand End of Politics At Vincennes, civic and luncheon societies heard Walter Myers, prominent Democratic attorney and former Speaker of the Indiana house of representatives, demand "a piison management that will know neither politics nor pull.” Prominent residents of Indianapolis and Marion county indorsed The Times' proposal for a central department of correction with wardens and guards appointed under civil service rules. Marion county members and candidates for the Indiana legislature broke party lines to promise support to legislation providing for adoption of such a system. Without exception, authorities on prison management submitted their considered opinion that without proper methods of selecting officials and guards no substantial improvement in penal management would come. Hoover Joins in Drive J. Edgar Hoover, head of the federal Justice department's criminal Investigation bureau, called for escape-proof prisons. Prisons and jails must be institutions from which major criminals can not escape. Mr. Hoover declared. Conditions which make such escapes possible must be removed.

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BANDIT GANG ELUDESPOLICE Three-Man Mob Escapes in Cross-Town Chase; Shots Fired. The three-man bandit gang which has been raiding filling stations here during the last two weeks escaped from police after a crosstown chase early today. The gang held up and robbed Harold Hamilton. 25, of 3403 East Washington street, attendant at the Producers Oil Company station, 3410 East Washington street, of sls and escaped. Three men held up Mr. Hamilton last week. A police squad picked up the trail of the bandit car at State and Southeastern avenues and chased it across the city to West Washington street and the Belt railroad. Police fired -ix shots at the pursued car. A train passing over the tracks halted the police and the bandits escaped. A deputy sheriff later discovered the car believed to have been used by the gang abandoned at Tibbs avenue and the Pennsylvania railroad. The automobile had been stolen from Dr. C. A. Weller, 3720 North Delaware street. EIGHT SEEKING PAROLE One Marion County Man Among Group Asking Clemency. One Marion county man is among the eight lifers who will seek parole or shortened terms from the state clemency commission when it opens a three-day session tomorrow at the statehouse. He is Eddie Terry, sentenced in 1920 from Marion criminal court for murder. CLEANING SHOP RAIDED Thieves Smash Door Lock, Take S3OO in Clothing. Police today were seeking the identity of robbers responsible for the theft early yesterday or Sunday night of wearing apparel valued at S3OO from the Warman Cleaners. 2811 West Michigan street. The burglary was reported by Frank Rice, Warman manager, who said a lock on the front door had been smashed. he said, pointing out that law enforcement officers pay with their lives for these escapes, as do private citizens who fall victim to the fleeing desperadoes. H. Eliot Kaplan, secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, with New York headquarters. vigorously denounced the spoils system and held that Indiana's penal system never will cast off the baneful influence of politics until it applies the merit system in the selection and promotion of institutional personnel.

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LIGHT-FINGERED ROB6AT FAIR Stolen Auto Detail Also Is Kept Busy by Many Thefts. Police reports today showed that the Indiana state fair was proving a magnet again this year for the more enterprising "pickers of pokes” in this part of the country. Yesterday the light-fingered gentry picked the pockets of six persons at the fairground, four of whom were out-of-towners. Their oldest victim was Alonza Sargent, 88, of 1608 Churchman avenue, who had a billfold with sls and clippings from newspapers of 1845 and 1848 lifted from his pocket at the McGuffey exhibit. Jacob Heldig, Danville, Ind., lost sl4 and papers when his billfold was taken at the hog barn; Charles L. Hawkins, Anderson, Ind., $lO and driver's license at machinery exhibit; R. C. Ford, Terre Haute, Ind., sll and Masonic lodge cards at International Harvester exhibit; Richard Muench, 2328 North Alabama, s4l and driver’s license at

Indiana university building, and Hampton Surface, Greenwood. Ind., $4 and receipts at the McGuffey exhibit. The fairground also proved the cause of worry to police assigned to the stolen automobile detail. Omer J, Williams, 858 Berwyn avenue, and Frank Jenkins, 236 East Ninth street, reported cars stolen yesterday. Recovered at the fairground was a car previously stolen from Owen Harvey, 2815 MacPherson street.

TWO YOUNG CITY MEN HELD FOR VAGRANCY Insulted Wife, Policeman Charges, in Making Arrest. Two young men who learned last night that the majesty of the law is no less imposing out of uniform are in city prison today on charges of vagrancy, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer. Patrolman Chester Timmerman and his wife were leaving a restaurant at Nineteenth street and College avenue last night when Hobart Stierwalt, 23, of 2154 Carrollton avenue, is alleged to have made an insulting remark to Mrs. Timmerman. Another man, Leotis Shircliff, 22, of 2154 Guilford avenue, then entered the argument in behalf of Stierwalt, according to patrolman Timmerman’s charges.

BARBER PASSES ATNBME HERE; RITES FRIDAY William Rauser, 67, Dies After Short Illness; Funeral *Set. William Rauser, 67, of 1810 Union street, died early today at his home. Mr. Rauser, veteran city barber with a shop at 518 West Washington street, had been ill a short time. Funeral rites will be held at 9 Friday at Sacred Heart churclw and burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Helena Rauser; one daughter, Mrs. William Sanders Jr., and one brother, George Rauser, all of Indianapolis. Mr. Rauser was a member of the Sacred Heart church and the St. Francis Aid Society. Rector Funeral Tonight Funeral services for Walter Rector, 62, of 1331 Congress avenue, who was killed Sunday when he fell to the bottom of a seventy-five foot chasm at Clifty Falls state park, will be held at the Jordan funeral home at 8 tonight. Burial will be in Switz City tomorrow. Wincel Rites Tomorrow Burial services for Virgil Wincel, 20, of 18 North Tremont street, who died yesterday in Methodist hospital of injuries sustained in a fall down an elevator shaft at the Acme Evans Company, will be held at 3 tomorrow in his father's home, 26 North Holmes avenue. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Surviving Mr. Wincel are the widow, Mrs. Helen Wincel, to whom he was married ten days ago, and the father, Floyd Wincel. Owen County Farmer Dead Last rites for A. J. Brenton, 78, Owen county farmer, who died yesterday at the home of a son, Orville Brenton, 3 7 3 Burgess avenue, will be held at the Arthur Day funeral home in Bloomington at 1:30 tomorrow. Burial will be in Spencer. Before moving to the farm in Owen county, Mr. Brenton lived in Indianapolis and was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad. Surviving him are the son and a number of grandchildren and great-grand-children. Former City Woman Dies Indianapolis relatives have been advised of the death of Mrs. Roberta I. Mitchell, former resident of Indianapolis, in Washington. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. Mrs. Mitchell lived twenty-five years at 44 North Layman avenue, and was active in club life in Indianapolis. She is survived by two sons, John H. Mitchell, Chicago, and Edward V. Mitchell, Indianapolis, and tfwo sisters, Mrs. Joseph P. Smith and Mrs. C. C. Wallace, Indianapolis. Ex-Railroad Man Dead Burial services for George C. French, 85, who died Sunday in the home of a son, George L. French, 31 North Tacoma avenue, were to be held at 2:30 today in the Conkle funeral home. Burial was to be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. French was a retired employe of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, and had lived in Indianapolis twenty years. Surviving him are three sons, George L. French and Charles V. French, Indianapolis, and William C.

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French, La Salle, 111., and three daughters. Mrs. Mollie Culp Smith and Mrs. Jennie B. Adams. Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ida Deutsch, Louisville. Bogard Funeral Set Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Bogard. 66. of 1202 Parker avenue, who died yesterday in her home, following a long illness, will be held at 2 tomorrow in the home of a daughter, Mrs. H. G. Dorbecker. 3115 Nowland avenue. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Bogard was a member of the Centenary Christian church and the Druids’ auxiliary. Surviving her are the daughter, two sisters, Mrs. Edvard Waters and Ethel Chandler, both of Ihdianapolis, and four brothers, F. M. Hawkins and J. W. Hawkins, Indianapolis, and William Hawkins and George Hawkins, Greenfield. Long Illness Is Fatal Funeral services for Mrs. Cora Finley, 63, of 1823 Ruckle street, who died yesterday in St. Vincent's hospital following a long illness, will be held at 1 tomorrow in the Speaks & Finn funeral home. Burial will be in Delphi. Mrs. Finley was a member of the Episcopal church. She had lived in Indianapolis since 1914. Surviving her are a daughter, Mrs. Richard Evans, Indianapolis, and two sons, Max Finley, Indianapolis, and Garrett Finley, Los Angeles, Mrs. Kercheval Passes Final services for Mrs. Laura B. Kercheval, 1365 North Gale street, who died yesterday in Methodist hospital, will be held at 2 tomorrow in the Flanner & Buchanan funeral home. Burial will be in Crown Hill. Mrs. Kercheval had lived in Indianapolis thirty years. Surviving her are are four sons, Edwin, Thomas, Vine and Kenneth Kercheval, all of Indianapolis, and four daughters, Mrs. Cloe Shepard and Mrs. Ellen Favorite, Los Angeles; Mrs. Ethel Ebdrly, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ruby Shoemaker, Birmingham. Grocery Owner Succumbs Funeral services for Edward Orme, 65, of 607 Congress avenue, will be held Thursday afternoon in the residence. Time of the funeral and place of burial have not been announced. Mr. Orme was proprietor of a grocery at 107 Kentucky avenue. He had been in the grocery business twenty-six years. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Delia Orme; a son, Edward; a daughter, Marie, and a sister, Mrs. Hazel Munday.

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SULLIVAN MAY EXTEND LIMIT FORGAS BIDS City Officials. Bond House Representatives to Confer Today. Discussion of the progress—or lack of progress—to date in the receipt of bids for the marketing of municipal revenue bonds which it is proposed to issue to make possible purchase by the city of the Citizens Gas Company is scheduled for this afternoon in Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan's office. Henry L. Dithmer, representing the city utilities department directors. and William J. Mooney, representing that department's trustees, will confer with the mayor, he announced. Representatives from bond houses in New York, Chicago. Cleveland and Cincinnati also will attend the .meeting. and it is expected that they will ask an extension of the time limit for submitting propositions. No definite proposals have been received as yet. Earlier in the day. The Indianapolis Times had learned that Mayor Sullivan might be expected to extend the time limit despite the fact that his statement of July,3o, inviting proposals 'or a bond issue of approximately/ 7,000,000 to enable the city to ( .kc over the gas company, definite, j set today as the final date for submission of bids. Earlier efforts to obtain financial aid from the federal government were unsuccessful. Applicatfon was made last fall to the public works administration. The project was approved as sound from an engineering and legal viewpoint, but ultimately w’as denied because used for retirement of stocks and most of the money sought was to be bonds of the gas company. An effort to obtain congressional authorization of the proposed loan failed in the closing days of the session last June. Quotations on bonds of both the Citizens Gas Company and of the Indianapolis Gas Company have dropped recently. This is viewed by competent observers as indicative of the fact that there is no serious expectation on the part of local bond houses, or of bond houses in New York or Chicago, that the city either can or will take over the Citizens plant and property, at least in the near future. Indianapolis investment houses are not interested in purchasing bonds of the Citizens company as it now is operating, The Times has learned. Bond firms will consider purchasing revenue bonds only when prospects for net income, out of which can be paid annual Interest and principal of the bonds maturing each year, are materially better than they are now. HAY FEVER AND ' ASTHMA TREATMENT ON FREE TRIAL ST. MARY’S, Kan.—D. J. Lane, a druggist at 1413 Lane Building. St. Mary’s, Kan., manufactures a treatment for Asthma and Hay Fever in which he has so much confdence that he sends a $1.25 bottle by mail to any one who will write him for it. His offer is that he is to be paid for this bottle after you are completely satisfied and the or.e taking the treatment to be the judge. Send your name and address today, stating which trouble you have.—Advertisement.