Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1935 — Page 3

JAN. 8, 1935.

SOCIAL REFORM HEADS PROGRAM FOR ASSEMBLY

Age Pensions, Relief, Taxation, Liquor ar.d Penology Measures Studied. (Continued From Page One) probability of a sharp reduction in tax?s on liquor about wind up the major phases of the taxation situation However, the liquor tax is so indissolubly linked to the liquor problem as a whole that it better can be discussed in relation to liquor reform. The Governor has a group of advisors at work on liquor recommendations. He has refused to name them, with the explanation that it is better that they not be known, thus making it harder for them to be •'approached.” He did not actually make the latter part of the statement, but he couched his statement in such a phrasing that no other interpretation was possible. Liquor Housecleaning Urged Consequently, on liquor as on other contemplated legislation, there is a great deal of secrecy. The administration realizes that is is open to. and has been the target of, all sorts of accusations because of the present beer and spirituous liquor setup. There is a genuine public demand for a housecleaning, and the poscihilities include: 1. Reducing the whisky tax to around 7 cents a pint to give the retailer a better "break” in the fight for business with the bootlegger. 2. Separation of beer-and-wine sales and spirituous liquor sales. In other words, by-the-drink sales would not be legal in restaurants and other reputable resorts selling beer and win^* 3. Creation of a three-man or a five-man liquor commission, answerable to the Governor, along the lines of the public service commission. Such a liquor commission would have absolute authority over licens- | irg and profiteering. It could make whisky sales in bulk legal and thereby, along with ending profiteering. make it possible for cheaper by-the-drink sales. Importer System Threatened 4. Tiking the present package sale n onoply away from the drug stores and making it possible for other reputable establishments to handle spirituous liquor. 5. Elimination of the importer system of beer handling, which, it is charged, has been used as a political patronage sop and has reflected In some cases to the discredit of the administration. 6. Prohibition control of wholesale outlets by out-of-state distilleries, one of the evils of the old saloon system which brought the Industry to disrepute and prohibition. The general trend in the forthcoming liquor legislation, it is indicated, will be toward elimination of monoply and consumer price reruction, rather than emphasis on revenue raising. Police Reorganization Looms The administration policy toward the State Police, it is reported, is in a fairly well rounded form now and is an ambit) jus undertaking. A complete reorganization of the department is in prospect and is reported to contain the following possibilities. 1. Divorcement of appointments, promotion and tenure from political influence. 2. Establishment of an adequate pension system. 3. Increased appropriations to provide an adequate force which would guarantee the continual presence of at least 100 effectives at all times. (The present force is approximately half that large.) Such a force would mean roughly an average of one enlisted man in each county, plus the necessary officers. 4. Establishment of a school for state troopers which also would house State Police headquarters. (Plans started.)

Self-Support Outlined 5. An adequate radio alarm system. (Already under way.) 6. Authority to the Governor to treat with neighboring states with a view to setting up a teletype 01 other adequate interstate alarm system. 7. Provision whereby the state police could be self-supporting. Two suggested ways in which this cou’.d be accompanied are: ia> A special tax on burglary insurance companies. This idea has worked well in New York, where fire insurance companies pay a special tax for maintenance of the firemen's pension fund and other extraordinary expenses of the fire department. <b> Mandatory diversion of all or a part of traffic fines collected by the state pofcce. Massachusetts, New York. New Jersey and Pennsylpolice on an actual profit-making basis when return of stolen goods is counted. Penal Reform Studied Recommendations of the Governors Commission on Governmental Economy are expected to cover such a wide field as state finance administration, transportation ii. e., the state's responsibility in road building and maintenance and not to be confused with the bus-truck-railroad competition problem), public welfare, education, administration of justice, and local and state governmental structure. Thus th" Governor will have two sets of ejnerete recommendations on penal reform. When the Michigan City prison breaks made Indiana's name a byword in other states, the Governor called in the most accredited prison experts he could obtain. They made a searching investigation and submitted their report. This, in turn, was shown the governmental economy group, which will submit its own recommendations. Form which the penal legislation is likely to take Is establishment of the merit system in state penal institutions; creation of a state department of welfare to centralize control of prisons and reformatories, creation of a central parole board to handle all questions of parole and pardon, the board to be completely non-political and its personnel to include at least one competent psychiatrist, one attorney and one thoroughly experienced soc ial worker. It is difficult, even impossible, to forecast the moat important phase

Colorful Cast Sketched at Scene of Hauptmann Drama

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'JpHE flashing pencil of Artist George Clark, creator of “Side Glances,” portrays for NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times the crowded stage on which the drama of the Hauptmann trial is being enacted. Principals, officials, lawyers and privileged spectators jam the enclosure before the judge in the tiny Hunterdon County (N. J.) courtroom. Seated on the elevated bench *where he dominates the scene is Supreme C#urt Justice Thomas W. Trenchard of Trenton. At the far end of the bench, the

MINISTERS TO CONVENE HERE Christian Pastors to Study Proposed Abandoning of Night Services. Two theological problems, the proposed abandoning of Sunday night services and the proposed inclusion of a confessional in church activities, will be the paramount issues at the Christian Ministers’ Association Jan. 14 and 15 at the Third Christian Church. The sessions will open Monday afternoon with registration and a devotional period in which a model w orship service w ill be demonstrated by the Rev. Melvyn Thompson. In his address on ‘‘The Psychological Approach to Personal Problems,” Pro/. Edmund Conklin, Indiana University psychology department dean, will discuss the confessional. Other speakers will include the Rev. Allen R. Huber, Frankfort; the Rev. Ephraim Lowe, the Rev. Mark Anthony, the Rev. B- R. Johnson, association president; the Rev. C. M. Yocum, the Rev. E. L. Day, the Rev. G. I. Hoover, the Rev. W. F. Rothenburger, the Rev. James A. Crain, the Rev. J. A. Watson. Newcastle, and the Rev. Charles Mull, Johnson County.

BANDIT SLUGS GROCER, FLEES WITHOUT LOOT South Side Man Treated at Hospital for Head Injuries. A grocer, Ben Silverman, 1036 S. Illinois-st, was struck brutally on the head this ftiorning in his store at 729 N. West-st, in a holdup attempt. Shortly after he had opened the store, a man entered and asked for a 25-pound sack of flour. As Mr. Silverman stooped to get the flour, the customer struck him on the head with a blunt instrument. The bandit fled at the sound of Mr. Silverman's cries. The grocer was treated at City Hospital for several gashes on his head. WORLD WAR ORDER TO MARK ARMY DAY Hoosier Chapter to Outline Program at Ft. Harrison Meeting. Plans for the observance of Army Day. April 6. will be discussed at a meeting of Hoosier Chapter. Military Order of the World War. at Ft. Benjamin Harrison tomorrow night. Frank H. Henley, commander, said the meeting will follow a dinner at the mess of Headquarters Company 11th Infantry. Brig. Gen. W. K. Naylor, Ft. Harrison commandant, will be a guest. of social legislation scheduled to come before the assembly. This is relief and re-employment and necessarily can not take definite form until the Federal program is drawn, because the two must be co-ordi-nated. The present old-age pension law, recognized as a step in the right direction, also has been recognized as ineffectual. . r .t almost is certain that the minimum pensions will be raised, the age limit lowered and the requirements lessened as to residence in the county. Some means remains to be found to make it mandatory because of the widespread flout.ng of the present law by some counties. So manifold is the legislation likely to come before this year's General Assembly that it is impossible to crowd mention of all of it into this small space. However, other important contemplated statutes include: Stiffening of the stream pollution laws; enactment of legislation similar to New York's Moreland Act which gives the Governor power of subpena in all investigations involving state funds; general overhauling of the present laws governing state purchasing,' with particular attention to accurately drawn and advertised specifications and submission of bids. Also reform of the present receivership system which permits the drawing of fat fees to dram the assets of insolvent banks and other corporations; establishment of a Power Authority with broad discretionary powers to be directed toward establishment of new sources of power in Indiana and enactment of state NRa legislation in co-opera-tion with the Federal Government.

Hot, Dry Rooms Named as Common Cold Cause Improper Ventilation Blamed, but Medical Association Also Warns Against Overdoing Fresh Air Fad. There would be fewer common colds if more attention w r ere paid to proper ventilation, the Indiana State Medical Association has pointed out. Hot, dry rooms, the association declared, are ideal incubating chambers for cold infections, as disease germs thrive in high temperatures.

At the same time the association bulletin asserted the fresh air fad may be overdone. “Most modern dwellings have enough cubic feet within their walls to supply the average number of occupants with good, breathable aid, without too much opening of window’s and creating drafts. In the region in which we live in Indiana persons frequently take a cold from sleeping on a sleeping porch or in a room, too freely ventilated,” the announcement oontinued. Many col is or other respiratory diseases follow exposure to cold, the association declared. Persons constantly carry disease germs which are excited into activity by temperature changes. The common cold, the association announcement says, is one of the biggest problem of modern medicine. HOUSING DIRECTOR TO DISCUSS ACT BENEFITS Program Official Will Speak at Meeting in Tomlinson Hall. Benefits of the National Housing Act, under which more than $500,000 in insured loans have been made in Indiana and more than $2,000,000 expended for home modernization, will be outlined at a meeting in Tomlinson Hall tonight. Speakers will include Thomas McConnell, associate director of the Federal Housing Administration and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and the building trades. FIRST JOHNSON PIECE PUBLISHED BY POST “Crack Down” Hugh Roars for Balanced Budget in Article. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 'B.—Business confidence could be restored in three months by balancing the Federal budget and removing all fear of inflation. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, retired national recovery administrator, said today in an article in the Saturday Evening Post. Johnson admitted billions must be spent to relieve distress, but he said two roads were open—one to degrade Federal credit; the other to maintain it and use it. He commented: “One is to try to scare money out of people by threats to its value; the other is to try to persuade money out of people by creating confidence in its value.” ‘MERCY’ FLIER KILLED Army Pilot Crashes Into Hill on Return Trip. By United Press MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. B. A heap of wreckage on a hillside 20 miles north of here today marked the end of the trail for Lieut. James L. Majors, Army flier, w’ho lost his . life on an errand of mercy. Lieut. Majors, whose home is in Shreveport. La., had flow r n an enlisted man to the bedside of his sick father at Aliceville, Ala. Flying alone back to Maxw r ell Reid, his | home port, he crashed against the hillside during a drizzling rain, with fog making visibility zero. LEG BROKEN IN CRASH Pedestrian Struck by Martinsville Driver on Way for 1935 Plates. Charles Rankings. 51, Martinsville, on his way to obtain 1935 license plates, late yesterday became involved in a motor mishap that sent J. E. Wade, 70, Helmsburg, to Methodist Hospital with a fractured j left leg and other injuries. The accident occurred at the ini tersection of Troy-av and BiufT-rd. j Deputies instructed Mr. Rankings to appear at the sheriff s office today to show his new license plates. 39 Die of Bubonic Plague By United Press MUKDEN. Jan. B.—Reports reaching here today said that 39 persons had died from bubonic plague and many others were victims of the dread disease in Manshaniun, a town in Fongtien province.

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witness sits in a raised stand, facing Attorney-General David Wiientz’ questioning. The court bailiff, whose duty is to preserve order and guard the jury, stands beside the jury, seated in two rows along the wall in the background. Below the bench at a small table, sits the clerk of the court (second from left) opposite the court stenographers. At the right of the narrow passageway sit the legal talent who wage the bitter battle—from right to left, Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel; Lloyd Fisher,

BARBASOL LEASES SENATE-AV BUILDING National Firm to Start Expansion Program. The four-story building at the southwest corner of Senate-av and 9th-st has been leased for a 10-year period by the Barbasol Cos., national manufacturers of shaving preparations and toilet articles, as part of the company’s expansion program. The total rental to be paid is SIOO,OOO with an option to purchase the property at any time during the lease period. The company will combine its newly leased property with its present location at 814 N. Senate-av, immediately south of the leased building. The transaction was made by Edward Barker & Sons, local realtors with offices at 1308 New City Trust Building. The firm represented both the Barbasol Cos. and the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Cos., Pittsburgh, Pa., the owners. UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ATTACKED Blamed for Depression, Slow Recovery by Brookings Chief. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Jan, B.—Unequal distribution of income contributed much toward the depression and in like manner retarded recovery efforts, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of Brookings Institute, Washington, told a representative group of Pittsburgh’s business executives last night. “Unequal distribution of income among the various classes of society, in so far as it tends to increase savings relatively to consumptive expenditures, thus serves to retard rather than promote economic progress,” Dr. Moulton said, FACES LIQUOR CHARGES Indian Held After Auto Crash; Pal Also Nabbed. Police lodged charges of drunkenness, failure to stop after an accident, failure to have a driver’s license and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated against Jack Eaglefeather, an Indian, 2546 Pros-pect-st, after his car last night collided with the parked auto owned by H. B. Nickell, 40, of 522 E. 56thst. With Eaglefeather was George Grooner, 52, of 427 S. Alabama-st, who was charged with drunkenness. GRAND JURORS CHOSEN Judge Baker Selects Four, Two More to Be Picked Thursday. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker Thursday will select two more members for the Marion County grand jury which will sit in session during the next six months. Four were selected yesterday. The four seated are Charles Wittoff, 2345 N. Delaware-st, former court bailiff: Frank McCready, R. R. 7, Box 415, farmer; Charles W. Otto, 326 Buckingham-dr, bricklayer, and Sherman Roberts, 32 N. Belmont-av, retired coal dealer. OLD SUIT IS DISMISSED Five Superior Court Judges Take Action in State Case. Marion County’s five Superior Court Judges met in general term yesterday and dismissed the five-year-old suit brought by Philip S. Hauk, a contractor, a gains v the State Highway Department. The contractor claimed slllß was due him in connection with the building of a bridge. Dismissal was because of want of prosecution. Kiwanis Club to Meet Kiwanis Club directors will hold their first meeting of the year at 5:45 Thursday at the Columbia Club.

JOBLESS HELP ‘HID Wff MAYOR Unemployed Electricians at Huntington Serve Without Pay. By United Pr< s HUNTINGTON. Ind., Jan. 3. Undaunted by extension of a restraining order against virtually all regular city employes, Mayor C. W. H. Bangs continued this afternoon to supervise installation of municipal electric service from a hideout. The Mayor is hiding to prevent Sheriff O. E. Johnson from serving him with the restraining order. The order was obtained in Circuit Court by the Northern Indiana Power Cos. in an effort to prevent extension of city light plant service to residential users. As the. order is extended to additional city linemen, the Mayor organizes new crews to carry on his night work. Although Wallace Reed, city clerk-treasurer, is restrained from paying the linemen, unemployed electricians are co-operating willingly with the Mayor’s campaign. David Smith, Ft. Wayne, special judge in the case, will hear a motion of Claude Cline, city attorney, to dismiss the restraining order Jan. 11. Mayor Bangs was inaugurated Jan. 1 after winning the Nov. 6 election on a campaign promising a municipal light plant for the city. 'SILENT SALESMAN’ TO FACE LARCENY CHARGE Negro Alleged to Have Stolen, ReSold 35 Suits. Described in court as ‘‘the Silent Salesman of Indiana Avenue,” Leo Yeakey, 34, Negro, was bound over to the grand jury today under S2OOO bond after a hearing on larceny charge; before Municipal Judge Dewey Meyers. Yeakey, according to testimony, had stolen and re-sold 35 suits and 5 overcoats during the last three months. Employed at the Rite Clothing and Jewelry Cos., 43 S. Ulinois-st, from where he is alleged to have smuggled the clothing, Yeakey was surrounded in court by half a dozen of his “customers.” Each admitted having bought choice garments at ridiculously low prices, but said Yeakey carried on all transactions without disclosing the source of his remarkable bargains. The six agreed to pay the company the true worth of their garments, FIRE GAMEWELL HEAD IS RENAMED BY BOARD Thomas Haefling Reappointed to Superintendent’s Post. This morning’s reappointment of Thomas T. Haefling, 247 Hendrickspl, as superintendent of the fire department Gamewell division, was confirmed later in the day by the Safety Board. THIEF STEALS WEAPONS Burglar Makes Way With Three Rifles and Revolver. A burglar, fully armed with three rifles and a revolver stolen from the home of Edward Dean, 3848 N. Delaware-st, last night, is being sought by police. Aside from the arms, valued at $l5B, the burglar stole a watch valued at SIOO, a $5 hunting knife and two quarts of liquor.

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his aid; Attorney Peacock, prosecution aid; Special Prosecutor George K. Large, and Hunterdon County Prosecutor Attorney Hauck. Behind them are principals and officials around whose actions the trial revolves. Starting at right are shown Bruno Hauptmann, the defendant; a state trooper; H. Norman Schwartzkopf, superintendent of New Jersey State Police, and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, the murder of whose baby son set in motion the events which the trial climaxes.

ROOSEVELT’S ‘COLD’ WINS HIM SLIGHT CAPITAL SYMPATHY

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. B.—Official White House announcement that President Roosevelt was suffering from a slight head cold and could not see visitors brought skeptical smiles and little sympathy in many Washington quarters. It has been noted frequently that Mr. Roosevelt’s “colds” have a peculiar way of coinciding with periods when he has a great deal of work at hand which requires freedom from the customary stream of White House visitors. Despite his “cold,” Mr. Roosevelt was able to work without discomfort in the privacy of his study in the White House proper and that he was not too ill to see Speaker Joseph W. Byms and Secretary Frances Perkins.

DR. WILL SMITH WILL LEAD DEMOCRAT CLUB Cosmopolitan Group Again Selects Dentist as President. Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., dentist, today entered upon his second term as president of the Cosmopolitan Democratic Club, following his reelection last night at the first annual meeting in the Claypool. Other officials elected at the meeting, at which 15 new members were accepted, are John W. King, vice president; Vincent lozzo, treasurer; Mrs. Charlene Ray, corresponding secretary; James Butler Jr., recording secretary, succeeding Dr. Theodore Cable, who asked to be retired, and Ray Davis, sergeant at arms. RABBIT OPEN SEASON WILL CLOSE JAN. 10 Fur Animal Trapping Days Will End Five Days Later. Indiana rabbit hunters will be obliged to hang up their traps and guns Thursday, for Jan. 10 has been designated as the closing date of another open season. In issuing this word today the Conservation Department described the rabbit season as “a successful one for a majority of sportsmen,” and said a breeding plant is‘now under development at the JasperPulaski game farms. The season for trapping or taking fur-bearing animals closes Tuesday, Jan. 15, the announcement added, and freshly skinned hides must be disposed of not later than Jan. 20. FACES LIQUOR CHARGE Stamp Tax Violation Laid to Tavern Owner. Lazar T. Zabana, 56, proprietor of a beer tavern at 1001 N. Capitolav, today faced charges of violating the stamp tax provisions of the state liquor law, after police seized 98 pints of liquor, which they d they found without revenue stan. yesterday in arresting Zabaia. Fairbanks, Lady Ashley Travel By United Press ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, Jan. 8. —Douglas Fairbanks and Lady Ashley, who recently was divorced in a suit in which Mr. Fairbanks was named co-respondent, arrived today from Paris.

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STATE SWINE GROUPSjLECT Three Organizations Outline 1935 Programs at Sessions Here. Members of three swine breeders’ associations met yesterday in Indianapolis, elected officials and formulated policies for the coming season. Arthur Thompson, Wabash, was chosen president o? the Indiana Chester White Breeders; E. E. Horton, Rushville, secretary treasurer, and Thomas R. Hendricks, Franklin, was named vice president. The meeting was held in the Claypool. Approximately 50 members of the Indiana Duroc Swine Breeders Association gathered at the Severin. Harry Caldwell, Connersville, was elected president; Howard Boyer, Tipton, vice president, and Harry T. Gooding, Anderson, treasurer. Members of both groups and other interested breeders later attended a meeting of the Indiana Swine Breeders Association in the Claypool. Dean J. H. Skinner, Purdue University, spoke on methods of feeding and predicted that the market price for hogs would be even more next year due to the corn-hog agreements between the breeders and the United States Government. RECREATION GROUP TO OFFER BOXING, MUSIC Marion County Committee Also to Give Family Shows. Musical entertainment, three boxing bouts and a “battle royal” comprise the program to be presented by the Marion County Recreation Committee at Tomlinson Hall at 7:30 tomorrow night. Committee officials also announced two family entertainments, one to be given at the Brightwood Young Men’s Christian Association tonight, and the other at Mayer Chapel, 448 W. Norwood-st, Friday night.

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KIDNAP LADDER STIRS DRAMATIC COURTMTTLE State's Hopes of Convicting Hauptmann Rest on Ownership. (Continued From Page One) kidnap ladder and with a ladder taken from the Lindbergh garage. Before he left the stand, the state had proved that the kidnap ladder had been placed against the side of the Lindbergh home; that it had left marks on the wall, below the window, where the top piece had scraped away some of the paint. It ha dproved that it would have been possible for a kidnaper to enter the Lindbergh nursery in the manner the state charges Hauptmann did, for Lieutenant Sweeney gave the jury a picture of how he, a 180-pound man, climbed into the nursery from the Lindbergh ladder, and “did it easily,” stepping over a suitcase that had been placed by the window exactly as it was night of the kidnaping. In cross-examination. Mr. Reilly brought from Lieutenant Sweerey the admission that when he crawled through the window from the ladder, he had to use both hands, the inference being that it would have been impossible to carry a baby out of the nursery and down the ladder. The aged Mr. Hockmuth was called after technical testimony by police experts who had visited the nursery of the stolen baby on the night of the kidnaping. They failed to find any fingerprints, and Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly had beer; caustic in his criticism of their failure to find even the prints of the Lindbergr household.

Ladder Is Key Point The state today had reached a crucial point in its prosecution of Hauptmann. It will attempt this afternoon to prove that the ladder used by the kidnaper and murderer of the Lindbergh baby is his handiwork. Success will bring the taciturn German carpenter close to the electric chair. Failure will materially weaken the state’s hopes of obtaining a conviction. This afternoon a long parade of witnesses—policemen, wood experts, carpentry experts, tool experts—by whom the state hopes to prove beyond doubt that Hauptmann was maker, were to be called. The state yesterday began its task of proving that the ladder was used by the man who crept into the Lindbergh nursery and stole the baby, and first will complete that task. Once that point is established, it will undertake to enmesh Hauptmann in its construction. Should the state establish Hauptmann as the ladder’s maker, it would be the strongest evidence yet obtained against him, stronger than Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s identification of his voice as that of the mysterious “John” who collected $50,000 ransojfr, stronger even than the identification of Dr. John F. Condon, who paid the ransom, will make this week. Reilly Ready for Battle It definitely would link Hauptmann with the major crime itself—the kidnaping and the murder—whereas the identifications merely link him with the crime of extortion. Mr. Reilly, Hauptmann's chief counsel, came into court determined to fight the ladder evidence to the last ditch. His crossexamination of the ladder witnesses, particularly Arthur Koehler, Department of Agriculture wood expert, who will bear the load of the state’s contentions, was expected to be more than usual bitter. He displayed some of that bitterness in opposing its admission. Mr. Wiientz said today the rapidity with which the major witnesses—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Mrs. Lindbergh and Betty Gow—have been disposed of indicates th entire trial will last a month, perhaps less.