Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 113, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 September 1934 — Page 1

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STATE REPRESENTATIVES THROW SUPPORT FIRMLY REHIND PRISON REFORM

Members of Lower House of General Assembly Vote to Back Proposals for Nonpolitical System. ‘SPOILS’ REIGN IS UNDER ATTACK Legislators Pledge Efforts to Continue Times Drive for Revision of Whole State Penal Setup.

Another name wa* added to the long list of escaped prisoners from Indiana penal institutions today as local police were asked to aid in the search for Robert Carter, 39, Negro, Marion county, who fled from the Indiana state farm yesterday. Ry Lnilnl Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 20.—Orville Criss, Michigan City, and John W. Applegate, La Porte, today were reinstated as guards at the Indiana state prison. CriM was suspended early in the summer on a charge of neglect of duty, and Applegate was suspended for similar reasons a month ago.

Smashing party lines, Democratic and Republican nominees for the 1935 Indiana house of representatives, voting thus far in The Indianapolis Times’ state-wide, nonpolitical poll, favor banishing the “spoils” system from the state’s penal institutions. Concurring with senatorial candidates of both parties, the nominees for lower house seats in early returns rolled up majorities for all the proposals made by The Times. The state police civil service plan ap|>ears to l)e a favorite. Second in popularity is the projmsal that prison officials and guards be placed on a civil service, merit basis.

The suggestion to create a central state department of correction to have supervision over all penal institutions found the candidates divided almost equally, while a substantial majority was given the proposal that such a department be created to have supervision over state institutions and limited control over county jails. Additional expressions of opinion continued to roll in as results of the early returns were being tabulated. The new returns from candidates appear to increase the majorities in favor of the proposals. Albert Sahm. Indianapolis, Democratic nominee for representative, definitely opposes placing all officials and employes of all penal institutions on a civil service merit basis He favors civil service regulations for the state police. Mr. Sahm expressed approval of the suggestion that a state department of correction be created to have control over state institutions and limited supervision over county institutions. Asks “No Jokers" • Mv affirmative vote in the poll." declared Mr. Sahtn. “is based on an unequivocal civil service enactment containing no •jokers’.” “I am especially interested in the state correction institutions being properly supervised.” declared Henry J. Richardson Jr., Indianapolis, another Democratic nominee for representative. Mr. Richardson gave his unqualified endorsement to the civil service plans for state police and penal institution officials and employees. He also favored a department to have limited control over county institutions and complete supervision over the state institutions. He questioned the legality of any effort to give the state control over all institutions —both state and county. Charles Lutz, Indianapolis. Democratic candidate for representative, professed to have an “open mind on all of the questions.” Mr. Lutz failed to register his opinion one way or another and his ballot was classified as -noncommittal.” Johnson Opposes Poli ics Other Democratic candidates favoring the entire program are: Robert L. Stanton. East Chicago: Bern B Grubb. Lafayette: Julius At f eld. Gary; Herman Buchofz. Brazil. Ind.. and Fred C. Rowley. Muncie. M. U. Johnson. Salem, another • Turn to Page Ten)

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FARM LAW IS RULED INVALID Creditors’ Rights Violated, Says Federal Judge in Baltimore. By United Press BALTIMORE. Md., Sept. 20. Persistent doubts of the coastitutionality of the Frazier-Lemke law affording liberal relief to debtridden farmers bore fruit today in a decision by Federal District Judge W. Calvin Chestnut. The court, in a test case, held the act to be unconstitutional through violation of the rights of creditors as provided in the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution and by seeking to supercede the jurisdiction of the state courts. The judge’s decision took a view similar to that held by opponents of the measure which was passed in the closing days of the last congress. It passed despite administration opposition. Passage was obtained through filibuster threats by Senator Huey P. Long (Dem.. La.) and others. It was signed by President Roosevelt on the basis of an opinion by Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings that it was constitutional. Considerable surprise attended signature of the measure by the President, due to the initial opposition and the counstitutional doubts. The measure provided that a farmer might appear in court and obtain a revaluation of his mortgaged property. He then would be given five years in which to meet his indebtedness, living on the property in the meantime and paying only rent. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 61 10 a. m 77 7 a. m... 63 11 a. m 80 Ba. m. 69 12 (noon).. 81 9 a. m 73 1 p. m 83

'Whispering Campaign’ of G. 0. P. Is Under Fire Democratic State Chairman Denies Minton Pians to Resign in Favor of McNutt. BY JAMES DOSS limn Staff Writer Charging a Republican whispering campaign. Omer S. Jackson. Democratic state chairman, today denied, in behalf of Governor Paul V. McNutt, reports that the Governor is using the candidacy of Sherman Minton as a short cut to the United States senate for himself.

The Democratic state chairman branded as "political lies” implications that “the government of Indiana has not been handled honestly. sincerely and for the best interests of all the people.” Mr. Jackson said information has reacht*d the committee that the next story to be told by Republican whispering squads is that Mr. Minton is a candidate for the senate only to be elected so he may resign and the Governor take his place. "This is utterly false,” Mr. Jackson said, pointing out that Governor McNutt repeatedly has denied publicly that he would resign the Governorship before the end of his term. The state chairman reviewed the trend of recent Republican ora-

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By L nih il Presi NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—A suspect has been arrested in the Lindbergh kidnaping case and M as brought to police headquarters today for questioning by high authorities of that twoand -a - half - year-old manhunt, the United Press learned today. The arrest climaxed a series of mysterious maneuvers by police which began with the arrival at the Greenwich street police station of J. Edgar Hoover of the United States department of justice, Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf of the New Jersey state police and Lieutenant James E. Finn, under-cover operative assigned to the Lindburgh case exclusively. New York police commissioner John F. O’Ryan also came to the Greenwich street station, lending further support to reports that an ‘'important break” in the case was imminent. The suspect was said to have been brought into headquarters from the Bronx. HOSPITAL DRIVE AIDED BY WOMEN'S GROUP Druggists Chapter Gives 5750 to Furnish Room. First organization to pledge funds to furnish a room in the proposed Flower Mission Tuberculosis hospital is the Women’s Organization of the National Association of Retail Druggists, Chapter 20. The organization has notified campaign headquarters that $750 will be given. Plans for the hospital include fourteen single rooms, eight six-bed wards, ten four-bed wards and six solariums. In addition, there will be four emergency rooms, two diet kitchens, two linen rooms, eight baths and a waiting room. PEACE OFFICER IS SLAIH IN CHICAGO Battered Body Is Found Near Station. By United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 20.—The battered body of Police Lieutenant John F. Day, 66, was found in a vacant lot a block from the Gresham police station on Chicago’s south side today. Investigators said the lieutenant, a member of the police force for forty years, appeared to have been beaten to death. The body was discovered by a workman. The officer’s civilian clothes were in disarray and his face bore evidence of a beating. Lieutenant Day, who was married and the father of eight children, failed to report for duty at midnight, but other officers at the Gresham station believed he was ill and no investigation of his absence was undertaken. He apparently was attacked while walking along the dark street from the Rock Island railroad station, two blocks from police headquarters.

torical broadsides and noted the veering of the Republican attack from the national administration to the state administration. Recalling the initial Indianapolis meeting at which the Republican senator. Arthur R. Robinson, spoke, Mr. Jackson pointed out that it was on the night of first returns from the Maine election in which the G. O. P. suffering a crushing defeat instead of the victory it expected. “It is significant.” Mr. Jackson said, “that on the very night of the Maine election. Senator Robinson changed his tactics, did a complete about-face and switched his attack from the national to the state administration."

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INSTITUTIONS’ BUDGET FUNDS UNDER ATTACK $150,000 in County Figures for Inmates’ Care Draws Criticism. ITEM SAID MANDATORY No Way to Determine How Money Is Spent, Say Tax Adjusters. Severe criticism of a $105,000 appropriation in the county budget for the care of inmates in state institutions was entered today by the county tax adjustment board on the grounds that the county has no way of inspecting the institutions to determine how the money is used. Fabian Biemer, deputy auditor, told the board that the expense was mandatory under the law. Board members, fighting against time to examine the budgets, declared that the two weeks allotted for the study was not sufficient for thorough inspection. Vice-chair-man Cornelius Posson said that the task required fifteen months. Appropriations for court salaries in the county budget are less than the mandatory figure fixed by statute, it was disclosed at this morning’s session. This afternoon Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce officials reiterated their recommendation that the $200,000 appropriation for oldage pensions be abolished unless additional funds were provided for trained social investigators and improved facilities. Earlier in the day, Virgil Sheppard, director of the chamber s governmental research bureau, had charged that many items removed from the Marion county budget may have to be reinstated by additional appropriations during 1935. ‘ The county council, in general, eliminated all requests of county offices and institutions for increases in appropriations over 1934,” Mr. Sheppard declared. “The actual budget reductions below the 1934 budget include a number of items that may have to be reinstated.” “We hope,” the research director continued, “that the county council has acted judiciously in making such budget reductions because it is the intention of the bureau to scan all requests for additional appropriations in 1935 carefully and oppose any requests that appear to be made as a result of no actual emergency.” The 1935 county budget provides for a tax levy 45 per cent less than in 1934. Appropriations for actual operating expenses are approximately $75,000 less than in 1934. Harry Miesse, Indiana Taxpayers’ Association secretary, renewed his criticism of a 4 per cent allowance for tajc delinquency. The Indiana Taxpayers’ Association demanded a further reduction of 11 cents in the school city rate. The Miesse suggestions were attacked bitterly by A. B. Good, school business director. Mr. Good challenged the accuracy of Mr. Miesse’s statement that Marion county and Indianapolis are the only taxing units in Indiana that make provision for tax delinquency.

State Cotton Mills Base Pay on Code for South Situation Is Listed by City Strikers Among Chief Grievances; Capital Explains Reason. The Indianapolis Bleaching Company, 900 West Wabash street, is one of three active plants of its kind north of the Mason-Dixon line operating under the southern provisions of the cotton textile code.

This was learned today by The Indianapolis Times after United Textile Workers of America strikers had listed it as one of their principal grievances locally. The southern section of the code provides a minimum weekly wage of sl3, as opposed to a sl4 minimum here. Workers say that the difference is carried on up in the pay scale for those receiving more than the minimum. NRA officials in Washington refused to believe it possible that Indiana, classified in the northern division in the silk and wool textile codes, was in the southern division for the cotton textile code until they looked up the minutes of the code adoption. Then, they offered this explanation: "The cotton code was the first adopted. It laid down a scale for the southern mills and the northern mills, without describing the limitations. Later, it was agreed that Indiana should be in the southern group since most of the mills were operating close to the Ohio river and just opposite Kentucky.” Since that time, the Mason-Dixon line has been the dividing line between northern and southern divisions in code matters, it was said. The administration announced that wage differentials in code sections were allowed because of differences in livinU costs. It is the contention of Charles P. Drake, business agent of Local 2069. U. T. W. A., that living costs here are those of a northern city and not those of a southern textile town. Charles A. Young, plant manager for the bleaching company, contends that his factory and the two other active Indiana mil* enjoying the southern classification were given the lower wage rate because they are engaged in the manufacture of a very coarse type of cloth, which, he said, required a much less skilled

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BOY’S MURDER STILLMYSTERY Police Continue Efforts to Build Up Case Against Jacobs. With the murder of Donald Edward Dillon apparently as much of a mystery today as it was nine days ago when the 13-year-old boy's battered body was found in Pleasant Run creek, police still were trying to build a case against a roomer in the Dillon home, 1871 Shelby street, and against the boy’s mother. The roomer, Gilbert Jacobs, 37-year-old factory worker, and the mother, Mrs. Dimmie Dillon. 35, who has lived with Jacobs for more than a year, both are held under $2,000 bond on child neglect charges, preferred by police so that they might keep the pair in custody as long as possible while investigating. Mrs. Dillon was questioned at length again this morning. Arraigned yesterday on the neglect charges, the pair struck back, through their attorney, when Mrs. Dillon preferred child neglect charges against her divorced husband, Shirley C. Dillon, Remington (Ind.) farmhand, who was in the courtroom for her hearing. Dillon was arrested immediately and bond, which he made later, was fixed at SSOO. He has been praised by police as co-operating with them in their investigation. Hearing on ali three child neglect cases has been set for next Thursday afternoon by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler. Vagrancy charges against two Negroes, William and Addison Jackson, brothers, held in $5,000 bond since shortly after the boy’s body was found because they had previous records of molesting children near the scene of the crime, were continued today until Tuesday at the request of police. Attorney’s Band Slashed Bn United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 20.—The bond of Louis Piquett, attorney charged by the government with implication in the harboring of John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter, was ordered reduced today to $20,000 by a circuit court of appeals.

class of labor than the finer goods made in the textile centers of the north. Two Pickets Arrested Two pickets and an alleged Communist, the latter a Negro, were arrested today on the picket line at the Indianapolis Bleaching Company. The pickets, members of the United Textile Workers of America, were James Bryant, 30, of 3333 West Tenth street, and Howard Pittman. 35, of 421 Lansing street. Witnesses said that Pittman was standing in a vacant lot when he was arrested and that Bryant was walking along in the picket line. After a conference with Charles P. Drake, business agent for Local 2069, and with a union attorney, Municipal Judge Dewey Myers reduced their bonds of SI,OOO, set by police, to SSOO each. At the same time he increased bond for Wilbur Wilson, 30. Negro, 105 Douglass street, from $2,000 to $3,000. He is described by police as a Communist. SLEEPING SICKNESS IS REPORTED DECREASING Five Fewer Cases Last Week Than Preceding One. Five fewer new cases of sleeping sickness were reported to public health authorities in Indiana during the last week than were reported in preceding week, it was announced today by the state health board. Twenty-three new cases were listed last week, four of them in Marion county. Twenty-eight cases had been reported the week before. The figures were gathered by Dr. Thurman B. Rice, Indiana university medical school authority and collaborating epidemologist with the state board. Dr. Rice's report also showed three cases of diphtheria in Marion county last week.

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Ml SUSPECT M POT IDLE HOLDUP HERE Marion (Ind.) Cab Driver Is Quizzed in Daring Evans Holdup. Police today held Louis Ruggles. 34, six-foot Marion (Ind.) taxicab driver, as a suspect in the coolly executed daylight holdup of the Evans Milling Company, 1730 West Michigan street, yesterday. Ruggles is suspected of being the large, overall-clad bandit who held a submachine gun and seized nearly $2,500 in pay roll envelopes and cash from John Clapp, company bookkeeper. Another thug stood guard just inside the office door with two automatic pistols. Following the finding of the second car used by the bandits abandoned on Warman avenue and the railroad track early'today, police began a search for two men well acquainted in that neighborhood. Police believed that possibly the men had aided in the escape of the bandits. The car had been stolen from C. H. Fleming, 1619 North Illinois street. The first car used in the raid was found abandoned at 48 South Tremont avenue last night. Acting on a tip, police raided a home in Sunshine Gardens and arrested Ruggles. Tentatively identified by Lee Allen, Indianapolis Bowling Association manager, whom he is alleged to have held up Tuesday, Lawrence J. (Pig) Nichols, 35, Puritan hotel, is held by police on vagrancy charges under high bond. Two men, one of them masked, tied up three persons in the bowling offices in the Kresge building and escaped with SI,OOO. When the mask slipped from the face of the robber, Mr. Allen told police that he recognized him as Nichols, a former neighbor.

ROOSEVELT IS GIVEN MILL STRIKE REPORT Early Peace Move Indicated by Conference. By United Press HYDE PARK. N. Y.. Sept. 20. The textile strike situation was laid before President Roosevelt today by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins and Governor John G. Winant, chairman of the special board of inquiry in the dispute. There was the feeling here in unofficial quarters that the Perkins and Winant visit portended an early move by the President in an effort to bring peace to the textile industry. DEATH SENTENCE IS UPHELD FOR PERKINS Negro Due to Die Oct. 1 for Detective's Murder. The Indiana supreme court today affirmed the death sentence imposed on Richard Perkins, Negro, convicted of the murder of Detective Sergeant Heckman of the Indianapolis police department, in the milk wagon holdup case of two years ago. Unless Governor Paul V, McNutt grants executive clemency, Perkins will die in the electric chair at Michigan City Oct. 1.

Firm Offered Japan Tear Gas Patents, Is Charge Devices Intended for Police Work, Munitions Chief Tells Senate War Inquiry Board. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 20.—John E. Young, Federal Laboratories, Inc, president, Pittsburgh, testified today before the senate munitions committee that he offered in 1932 to sell tear gas patents, manufacturing processes and formulae to the Japanese navy.

“Do you believe ! n an adequate national defense?” Chairman Gerald P. Nye (Rep., N. D.) asked him. “I do,” Young said. Another development of the morning session was evidence that Young used a British woman writer, Mrs. Patricia Kendall, to introduce tear gas into India. Young said the materials offered in Japan were for “police purposes and would hot have been used in military operations. Mr. Nye read into the record a letter from Young to Okura &c Cos., Japanese merchants in New York, in February. 1933. urging speedy consummation of the sales agreements because of possible embargoes by the United States state department. “We wish to turn over to you,” Young wrote, “not only the patents and the right to them in Japan for issuance there, but also the formulas, manufacturing process, detailed manufacturing specifications P

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Assistant Radio Operator Paints Bitter and Harshly Drawn Picture of Wild Confusion on Bridge. REFUSED TO ORDER S O S, HE CLAIMS Acting Chief Warms ‘Didn’t Know What It Was All About/ Ft. Wayne Man Tells Federal Board. By L nited Press NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—A bitter, harshly-drawn picture of bewildered master and officers on the bridge of the flaming S. S. Morro Castle was given today in testimony before a federal board inquiring into the disaster. George Alagna of Ft. Wayne, Ind., slender, tanned and soft-spoken assistant radio operator on the burned luxury liner, told the inquiry that Acting Captain W. F. Warms, stumbling back and forth through a dense fog of smoke on the bridge, had:

INDICATE DEAN JURYFILLEO Defense and Prosecution Believed in Agreement on Last Man. The state and defense indicated this afternoon that they had finally agreed upon a jury in the murder trial of Edward (Foggy) Dean after ten weary days of haggling in criminal court. Unless changes are made late in the day, the jury to try Dean for the submachine gun killing of Police Sergeant Lester Jones, will be composed of Joseph McCoy, H2O South Pershing avenue; Oscar Cray, R. R. 10; Ernest Schultz, 3533 East Vermont street; Alfred Hoop, Acton; John Pfegley, 711 North Sherman drive; Roy R. Shepherd, 1047 West Twenty-eighth street; John R. Pratt, 24 East Thirty-second street; Carl Kleiman, R. R. 9; Charles W. Martin, 1230 Livingston avenue. Dallas Holcome, R. R. 10; William Schumacher, 2724 North Meridian street, and Raleigh Pogue, 440 North Euclid avenue. The defense and the state previously agreed that, if it were impossible to fill the jury today, court would be adjourned at noon and an eighth panel called. No such action was taken at the noon recess. Mrs. Lester Jones, widow of the slain officer, sat quietly in court today beside Floyd J. Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor. Watching the proceedings with interest, she glanced several times at the man whom, the state charges, murdered her husband.

BANDIT TRIO ROBS MOORELAND BANK Loot Not to Exceed $2,800, Teller Says. By United Press MOORELAND. Ind.. Sept. 20. Two young men robbed the Mooreland bank today and escaped in a car driven by a third bandit after binding and gagging three employes. The holdup occurred shortly before noon. Amount of loot could not be determined immediately but O. S. Williams, teller, said it would not exceed $2,800.

and detailed instructions in their use. “Due to the impending possibility of a federal embargo on such materials, I trust you will be able to secure authority from Tokio to proceed with the transaction at an early date. . . .” Young’s letter said the Japanese navy intended to "purchase some of our products on or before March 31. It added that a Captain Hiraoka had requested 'all patent numbers” of the products. Young testified that the United States war and navy departments would have been notified of the sales if the negotiations had been successful. Testimony that an American missionary' in Ecuador combined religious work with demonstrations of tear gas also was given by Young, who told the committee the missionary was his brother Paul.

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1. Repetedly refused to give him (Alagna) orders to send out the SOS radio call at a time when the ship was in dames and Alagna believed it had been burning more than, an hour. 2. Appeared not to know “what it was all about''; didn t recognize Alagna despite the fact that the operator wore his officer’s cap; and gave a meaningless, vague reply of “all right” to Alagna's request for orders. 3. Gave orders to abandon the bridge and himself abandoned the bridge while the radio operators were fighting their way thrc igh j smoke, leaving the radio room r out 3:30 a. m, after sending the .ong delayed SOS. when Warms finally gave the orders. (“I said: Lo*k at the yellow rat deserting us,’” Alagna recalled.) 4. Said to Alagna before the SOS was sent—that “conditions” were out of his (Warms’) hands. 5. Stood with other officers on th* forward part of the ship after abandoning the bridge, while TpedT sengers who had jumped overboard struggled in the water. “I told Roger (chief radio operator) it was damnable that they were drowning that way,” Alagna said, indicating that he believed swimmers might have gone out from the burning hull to aid them. 6. Alagna also charged that ship’s officers knew that a combustible pol-ish-mixed with kerosene—was used on the ship, apparently in violation of regulations of both the steamboat inspection service and the Ward line. He said his superior told him to mix kerosene with the regular paste polish when he first went on the ship so that it would polish more effectively. Some of It was in a radio shack closet which burned first. The story told by Alagna, who had been described by earlier witnesses as hero, trouble-maker, strike leader and fa vengeful person feared by the ship’s master, was the fullest and most vivid picture yet given of confusion on the bridge of the burning vessel. Alagna criticised the manner in which rescue steamers and the coast guard cutter Tampa came to the aid of the stricken Ward liner in his afternoon testimony. ROOSEVELT BROADCAST SCHEDULED FOR OCT. 12 President to Address Convention of Wounded Veterans. By f. nit>a Press TRENTON. N. J., Sept. 20 —President Roosevelt will speak from th® White House over a nation-wide radio hookup to wounded World war veterans here the night of Oct. 12, it was announced today. The chief executive will address the opening session of the threeday convention of the Purple Heart Association, composed of soldiers who have been granted the award of merit for wounds received in the war. AWAIT*PIERPONT RULING Counsel Expects Early Decision on Death Verdict Appeal. By Lniti 4 Press COLUMBUS O. Sept 20.—An early decision on the appeals of Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley, Dillinger gangsters under death sentences, is expected from the Ohio supreme court which yesterday heard two hours of oral argument by counsel. The gangsters were convicted of the murder of Allen county Sheriff Jesse Sarber in liberating John Dillinger from jail last fall. Times Index Pag® Berg Cartoon 13 Bridge 21 Broun 17 Classified 25, 26 Comics 27 Crossword Puzzle 13 Editorial 18 Financial 24 Hickman—Theaters 12 Modernize Your Home 4 Pegler 17 Radio 10 Serial Story 27 Sports 22, 23 State News 7 Vital Statistics 25 Woman s Pages 20, 21