Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 229, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 February 1935 — Page 1

CHILD LABOR CURB WINS APPROVAL OF SMILEY CHAMBERS Marion County Probate Judge Ignores Stand of American Bar Association to Lend Indorsement. URGES RATIFICATION BY ASSEMBLY Amendment to Meet First Crucial Test Tuesday in House Vote on Minority Report Opposing Acceptance. Opposition of the American Bar Association Committee to final ratification of the Federal Child Labor Amendment was cast aside today by Marion County Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers, who expressed his complete approval of the amendment and urged ratification by the General Assembly. The first crucial test for Indiana ratification of the amendment will come in the House at 11:30 Tuesday when a vote will be taken on acceptance or rejection of a minority

recommendation to withhold approval. Ratification has been recommended by a majority of the House Labor Committee. “No individual or group,” Judge Chambers said, “should permit mere technicalities over state rights to prevent a favorable vote on such a humane movement as the prevention of child labor.” At the same time Senator Jacob Weiss, <D., Indianapolis) sponsor of a joint resolution in the Indiana Senate f or ratification of the Federal amendment, said that while the association committee may be correct in its interpretation of the word “labor” in the amendment, there is no reason to suppose that Congress would adopt other than reasonable and proper regulatory laws. American Bar Critical During the campaign for ratification in several states, including Indiana, opponents of the Federal amendment have cited the criticism by the American Bar Association, whose committee, speaking of"the ( use of the word “labor” instead of “employment,” argued that this would permit legislation preventing children from performing errands at home. Senator Weiss said the Bar Association statement, widely distributed, quotes only part of th? testimony of Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor before the Senate Committee at Washington. What Miss Abbott really said. Senator Weiss declared, was: “I was also in doubt about the word ‘employment,’ which we had had considerable difficulty about in state legislation, because especially on piece work the children often work with their parents, are not on the pav roll and are not held to be employed. and we fool that it is a dangerous word to use, as far as the protection of children is concerned, on that account.” Pastor Urges Ratification Citing reasons why the amendment should be ratified by the Indiana General Assembly, the Rev. V. R. Johnson, chairman of the Indiana Church Federations industrial relations committee, told the House labor committee that if each state had performed its duty toward children there would be no necessity for Federal legislation. There are states, he said, where child labor has not been stopped as it has in Indiana. This places Indiana industry in competition with low priced commodities made b\ children in other states he said This point also was emphasized b\ Mrs W D. Harvey, Kokomo, speaking for the Indiana League of Women Voters. .. . „ Martin R. Miller, speaking for railroad brotherhoods, urged adoption. He asid there is not a bona fide labor union in the nation that does not favor the bill. Holds Farms Not Affected Milton Campbell. Cincinnati. 0., adjutant of the industrial department of the American Legion, advocating acceptance of the amendment, warned that with termination of NRA regulations against child labor, industrialists would attempt to replace the hundreds of thousands of adults who took the places of children in industry when The codes went into effect. The amendment would not give Congress unusual powers, Mr. Campbell pointed out. At present, he said. Congress may declare war. -onseript all persons and make treaties with foreign nations No state that has ratified the amendment, Mr. Campbell said, has found that it prevents farm children from doing chores or aiding their parents. Farm organizations have been told, he said, that the amendment would prevent children from aiding on the farms. Times Index Page Bridge * Broun * Business News * Church Services 2 Comics Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial ® Financial • 1* Hickman—Theaters 9 Piano Lesson * Sports 10, 11 State News 2 Womans Pages .............. 4, 5

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WELFARE CHIEF ISSUESWARNING Miss Lenroot Asks Unending Fight for Child Labor Ban Principles. Rejoicing over the ratification of the Federal Child Labor Amendment by 21 states, Miss Katherine Lenroot, chief of the United States Children’s Bureau, last night, warned representatives of the American Legion child welfare conference against a cessation of vigilance after the desired legislation is obtained. She spoKe at the conference dinner at the Claypool. Credulity, superstition, greed and indifference were named by Miss Lenroot as the principal enemies to building a better, civilization. “We are doing more than giving security to children in child labor legislation,” she said. “We are making a government which will be able to cope with the complications of a twentieth century life.” The delegates today were to receive an invitation from Mrs. Emma Hunt Krazeise, Louisville, head of the Kentucky Children's Bureau, to hold their 1936 meeting in Louisville. Mrs. Krazeise yesterday amused the delegates with an account of a skillful manipulation of politics by which the bureau obtained support of its program from the Kentucky legislators.

TIMES EDITOR'S CAR INVOLVED IN CRASH Woman Injured; Powell and Wife Unhurt. Talcott Powell, editor of The Indianapolis Times, and his wife, Mrs. Helen Ranney Powell, escaped injury early today in an automobile collision at Maple Road-blvd and Central-av in which one voman was sent to City Hospital with head injuries. The injured woman whose condition is not serious, is Mrs. May Stratton, ->4, of 27 N. Euclid-av. a passenger in the Chrysler sedan of Edwin B. Riegel. 406 N. Chester-st, an employe of Kingan Sc Cos. Mrs. Powell was driving her husband’s Buick sedan. The accident occurred shortly after midnight. Mr. and Mrs. Powell, who had bepp attending a Players’ Club committee meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt F. Rantzer, 4525 N. Delaware-st, had driven Mrs. Herman C. Wolff from there to her Golden Hill home, and were driving east on Maple Road-blvd to their apartment in the Chateaux. 1501 E. Maple Road-blvd, when the accident occurred. Mr. Riegel’s car struck the Powell automobile, according to police reports. The Riegel automobile struck the Powell car a glancing blow in the rear an dthen caromed off on to the curbing at the northeast corner of the intersection. Mr. Powell notified police and the City Hospital ambulance.

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DRAWN INTO TRIAL LIMELIGHT

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Esther Ellison (above), pretty 19-year-oid Bronx (N. Y.) girl, became one of the crucial characters in the Lindbergh kidnap trial when she was named by Elvert Carlstrom, young Swede, in offering an alibi for Bruno Hauptmann on March 1, 1932. It was to see Miss Ellison who lived a few doors away, he explained that he went to the bakery where he saw Hauptmann dining.

Bruno's Alibi Blasted by Own Witness, Is Claim State Is Jubilant as Defense Star’s Strange Story Is Smashed by Brilliant Prosecutor. BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff Correspondent FLEMINGTON, N. J., Feb. 2.—The prosecution jubilantly declared today that it had smashed Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s last defenses and would succeed in sending the sullen carpenter to the electric chair for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

Members of the state’s staff felt the defense collapsed with the cross-examination of Peter H. Som mer, 47, who told the strangest story of any of the defense alibi witnesses, and suffered f v <e nm damage in cross-examination Sommer’s testimony vas i’ 'tided to bear out the theory o* .(..ward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, that Isidor Fisch, assisted by Violet Sharpe, Morrow servant, both dead, kidnaped the baby and collected the ransom. His story disintegrated rapidly under the hammering of Atty. Gen. David T. Wilentz. He will be further cross-examined when court reconvenes Monday. End of Trial Near With tlie trial nearing its concluson—the jury may be deliberating Hauptmann’s fate next Saturday—the desperate state of the defense was indicated by activities of Hauptmann’s counsel. Mr. Reilly will spend today and tomorrow in New York interviewing and seeking new witnesses to bolster the alibi that suffered such carnage this week. The other lawyers also wil devote their every moment during the recess to the defense. Even the first of the defense'? handwriting experts did not escape unscathed. The state made John M. Trendley admit he had studied the handwriting involved only two and one-half hours. But Sommer suffered most. First, he identified Fisch positively as one of the two men he saw with a woman carrying a baby on a Hudson River ferry, bound from New Jersey to New York, the night of the kidnaping. Then he said he wasn’t so sure. Bruno His Best Witness First, he said the woman was Violet Sharpe, recognizing a photograph. He was broken down on this point, too. Finally, he placed the time he saw the group on the ferry as after midnight of the night of March 1, 1932. The baby was kidnaped at around 9 o’clock and long before midnight every highway and every ferry was guarded. As the case entered what may be its last week of trial, it was generally conceded that Hauptmann himself h.as been his best witness. Witnesses who have taken the stand to support his alibi have not been impressive to observers. The prosecution beat down their credibility by introducing surprising facts concening their general character and reputation. In each of the lives of almost all there has been some discreditable facts—a jail sentence, a nillicit venture, a sftady business, leaving the

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impression that they are not citizens of substance. How the record of their testimony appears in type is one matter, .low it sounds to a jury of four women and eight men, who are a cross-section of the common honesty of Hunterdon County, is another. At times • there has appeared on the face of at least one woman juror an expression of disdain as she listened first to a bootlegger, next to a speakeasy proprietor, and again to an ex-convict, who came forth “to see justice served.” The character of the defense alibi witnesses thus far presented shows that in desperation Mr. Reilly has snatched at any straw presenting itself in this rapidly rushing flow of evidence that seems to be carrying his client toward destruction. “Intimidation” Is Charged The impression today, even among some of Reilly’s colleagues, is that it would have been better never to have put some of these witnesses on the stand. They have been willing, and in some cases too willing, to come forward with their stories. And under the hammering of the Attorney General, who is backed by the investigafcon efforts of 200 New Jersey and New York police officials, they have wilted into stammering .explanations of their own lines. Tne defense calls this “intimidation,” and declares thore is a welldirected campaign to frighten all prospective witnesses for Hauptmann into staying away from Flemington. That the events of the past three days may have frightened away seme witnesses is undoubtedly true. But the state goes on the assumption that a man who has something to hide is not worthy of credence. DROPS DEAD ASTOUTH RETURNS STOLEN PURSE Pursues Thieves, Recovers Money; Woman Stricken. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 2.—'Two small Negro boys snatched Miss Nellie Wamsley’s purge. A passing youth gave chase. The boys dropped the purse. Their pursuer recovered it and returned it to Miss Wamsley. She smiled, said “thank you” and dropped dead.

Samuel E. Rauh Dead; Won Fame as Pioneering Business Leader, Philanthropist and Civic Official

Funeral services for Samuel E. Rauh, Indianapolis philanthropist, and chairman of the board of the Belt Railroad and the Indianapolis Stockyards Cos., *ho died last night at his heme, 3025 N. Meridian-st, will be at 4 tomorrow in the Flan ner & Buchanan Funeral Home, with Rabbi M. M. Feulerlicht, of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation, officiating. Mr. Rauh, who was borr. in Germany, was 81. He tame to the United States when 13, going to Dayton, 0., where he studied in the public schols and attended a night business college. He came to In* dianapolis in 1874, where he founded a small fur and hide dealers' business. He was the founder ans builder of a number of Indianapolis slaughtering and packing companies, and was director of the Indianapolis Dissecting Cos., one of the first plants organized in the United States for the disposal of garbage.

NRA BILL TO GIVE M’NIiTT LIMITED PRICE CONTROL

Undaunted by Gas Probe, Users to Continue Battle for Permit, Givan Says Attorney to Appear Before Public Service Commission as Required by New Law, to Renew Application for Franchise to Serve County. The Users Gas Cos., undismayed by the Legislative inquiry into its activities and oacking, will appear before the Indiana Public Service Commisison anc! renew its application for a franchise to sell natural gas in Marion County. This was learned today from Clinton H. Givan, company attorney, who assured The Indianapolis Times that his backers had no intention of

abandoning their efforts to serve Marion County, even though the present Legislature passed a law that now requires them to get the Public Service Commission’s approval before they can renew their appeal for a franchise to the Marion County Commissioners. A majority of the commission yesterday told the Legislative committee they would not now grant the franchise. Backs Officers’ Testimony Mr. Givan, a central figure thus far in the Legislative probe, said his backers are prepared to furnish a bond of $1,000,000 in cash or its equivalent within 48 hours of the signing of a contract with the city to insure delivery of natural gas, which he said they can take from Western Kentucky or West Virginia fields. Mr. Givan said the officers of the Users Company were telling the truth to the Legislative probe committee when they denied knowledge of the identity of the backers, but he declared it was not true that, when and if the contract with the city was signed, those officers would be immediately pushed aside. The statement of Marshall Oberholtzer, president, that the company intended to make no immediate profit in the sale of gas was true, Mr. Givan insisted, adding that the company expected to make its profit “at the field.” He said no agreement had been made about how the present officers should be paid. Clarke Interested, Is Report The city never has answered his proposal to sell gas to it, Mr. Givan said, and ne has been waiting since November for a counter-proposal. To reveal the backers of the compaiy, he reiterated, would be to open the way for raids on it by other interests. Meanwhile, there was anew rumor that one of the backers of the Users was Harley Clarke, who effected the merger of the Indianapolis Light and Heat Cos. and the Merchants Heat and Light into the present Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. The legislative committee adjourned yesterday until Monday afternoon when John w. Smith, president of the Detroit City Council, will appear to offer testimony on what he terms a secret attempt by pipe line interests to create a vicious monopoly in Indiana. Nye May Be Called Mr. Smith, a prime mover in the organization of Middle Western mayors to fight the establishment of a gas monopoly, agreed to appear at the invitation of the committee. The committee also was considering asking United States Senator Gerald P. Nye (R., N. D.) to appear before it when he visits Indianapolis Wednesday to speak on the munitions inquiry. Senator Nye has charged from Washington that he also has knowledge of secret operations which would put the state into the power of gas pipe line interests. TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 29 8 a. m 30 7 a. m 30 9 a. m 30 Sunnse tomorrow, 6:51; sunset, 5:07. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, 15 miles an hour; visibility, variable; ceiling, 200, overcast; barometric pressure, 30.23 at sea level; occasional light freezing mist,.

In 1894 he assisted in the organization of the Union Trust Cos., where he was a member of the board of directors until his death. F.j was a director of the Kokomo Steel and Wire Cos., and director of the Continental Steel Corp. when the two companies merged. Ho assisted in the organization of the Federal Union Security Cos., of which he was first vice president and director, and was president and director of the Home Heating and. Lighting Cos., which later .became the Peoples Light and Heat Cos., and now is a part of the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. Mr. Rauh organized and became president of the Indianapolis and Noblesville Traction Cos., later reorganized as the Central Indiana Traction Cos., and later was elected to the board of directors of the Belt Railroad and the Indianapolis Union Stock Yards. Mr. Rauh has been director of the Indiana National Bank, president of

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MAIS, LEGENZA PUTTODEATH Ruthless Bandit Chieftains Pay With Their Lives 1 for Crimes. By United Press RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 2.—A brief fortnight after capture in New York, Robert Mais, 29, and Walter Legenza, 41, ruthless leaders of the tri-state bandit gang, died in the electric chair today. The quaking Mais walked to the death room first. He was pronounced dead at 7:50 a. m., three minutes after the electrodes were fastened about his limbs. Legenza, both legs broken in a gun battle with Philadelphia police, was carried to the death chamber in a wheel chair. Physicians cut the plaster casts from his still unmended legs to apply the deathdealing electrodes. Neither outlaw rested during the night. Long after midnight they called for coffee and continued to chat nervously with prison guards. Legenza was dour and depressed. His younger companion was jump and fears had been expressed that he, too, would have to be carried to the chair. Prison attendants had some slight difficulty in affixing the electrodes to Legenzt’s legs, stiffened from several weeks in plaster casts. However, adjustments were made quickly.

LEADERS MOVE UP IN EARLY TRADING American Can Gains Full Point on First Sale. By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—American Can gained a pcint on its initial sale on the Stock Exchange today and several other leading issues scored small advances in an otherwise irregular and narrow moving list. Trade was quiet. (By Abbott, Proctor & Paine) 10:00 A. M. Prev. N. Y. Close. Atchison 43% 43 7 s C & O 42 421 a Un Pacific 10014 101 Gen Eiec 23% 2314 Westinghouse Elec 3712 371s Chrysler 37% 37% Gen Motors 31*8 31 >8 Briggs 2614 26 7 8 Douglas 23% 22 7 8 Un Aircraft 13% 1 4 * 8 Anaconda 10% 10% Int Nickel 23 23 Texas Gulf 3514 35 Un Carbide 4612 46% Atl Refining 24% 24% S O of Cal 30 30 SO of Ind 2414 24>4 S O of N J 40 ’2 4012 Beth Steel 30 29 7 s Ren Steel *. 13% 137s U S Steel 36% 36 3 a Lorillard 1914 1912 Reynolds Tob B 47% 48 AT&T 104% 105 Cons Gas 19% 19% I T & T 8 7 s 8% Armour 514 514 Borden ...'. 24% 24% Natl Dairy 161s 16 Standard Brands 17% 17 5 s Com Solvents 20% 21 Celanese 3114 31% Am Radiator 14 13% Loew s 33 32% Radio 514 514 Am Can 113 112 Int Harvester 41% 41 % Mont Ward 25% 25% Sears Roebuck 337s 33% Natl Dist 26% 2614

the Bedford Stone Construction Cos. and vice president of the Union Reduction Cos. of Cincinnati. He has served as chairman of the Indianapolis Athletic Club realty committee end on the building committees of the Highland Gold Golf and Country Club and the Broadmoor Golf and Country Club. He was a director of the Athenaeum and served as honorary chairman of the American Jewish relief committee. He was a member of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce and the board of governors of the Board of Trade, Indiana Democratic Club and the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. Mr. Rauh served as president of the board of park commissioners six years during the administration of The late Joseph E. Bell and Charles W. Jewett, and took an active part in establishing the present boulevard and park sy c *em*> He was Democratic chairman of national

Sweeping Powers Proposed in Amendments to Receive Drastic Modification, House Author Declares. MEASURE APPROVED BY RICHBERG Fair Wages Clause to Remain, Leader Says;] Several Other Changes Suggested by Representatives. Sweeping powers given Gov. Paul V. McNutt to intervene in price-cutting wars and fix minimum prices, recommended in amendments to the proposed state NRA laws, will receive drastic modification today, it was announced by Rep. J. Napier Dyer (D., Vincennes) author of the original bill. Rep. Dyer said the House Federal relations committee, which yesterday unexpectedly submitted amendments purporting to have the approval of Donald Richberg, national NRA head, today would limit the price-fixing power of the Governor to retail “loss leaders,” items offered at less than cost to attract customers to stores.

The amendments will be further modified today, Rep. Dyer said,- and when the printed, amended bill is presented to the House Monday, will not contain the broad powers given by the amendments submitted yesterday. The price-fixing powers as recommended would have provided a distinct innovation in state control of competitive marketing. Republicans, who have threatened to oppose any state NRA bill, would have been joined by insurgent Democrats in defeating any state industrial stabilization measure containing price-fixing powers, Statehouse leaders said today. Rep. Dyer said he did not know how the new Section 11, which empowered the Governor to act during emergencies arising out of unfair competitive practices within an industry due to destructive price cutting or price wars, found its way into the long list of recommended amendments. Filing of the amendments came as a distinct surprise. So far as any public knowledge is concerned, no one knew the Federal Relations Committee had held meetings or hearings on the proposed amendments to the Dyfer measure, which was introduced early in the session and action deferred until word was received from Washington on modifications required by the Supreme Court decision in the “hot oil” cases. The amendments as received yesterday by tne House would have precipitated the most bitter legislative fight of the session. Rep Jacob J. Reisinger (D., Evansville) had threatened, when the original state NRA bill was introduced to wage a bitter battle against any price-fixing features, other Democrats are known to oppose giving such authority to the state government. The amendment providing for a board for determination of average wages in the localities of the state,

YES, WE’RE-PROUD Some show—and some crowd! A capacity crowd jammed the Armory last night to see The Times-Legion Golden Gloves amateur ring championships. That’s a real tribute to The Times. Publicity on this anual sports classic is carried exclusively in Indianapolis in The Times. That’s why we are proud of last night’s crowd —the largest in Golden Gloves history here, in both numbers and box office receipts. It proves again the tremendous drawing power of The Times. It’s our show and we’re glad of it. You’ll want to be there when the champions are crowned on Feb. 15. All Golden Gloves records are passing the borads in rapid succession—attendance, entrants and class. Some show'—some crowd. Os course we’re proud.

finance committee during the 1928 presidential campaign. In 1928 Mr. Mrs. Rauh presented their ian-st, to Indianapolis, at a dinner given for members of the board of School Commissioners and other school officials. The home, valued at $200,000, has been converted into the Rauh Memorial Library, and was dedicated in 1929. During the 1928 Indiana State Fair Mr. Rauh gave two scholarships for Purdue University to the boy and girl winner exhibiting meatproducing animals. He was married in 1871 to Miss Emma Sterne, daughter of Charles and Eugenia Fries Sterne. Mrs. Rauh died last October. Surviving are two sister, Mrs. Rose Leopold, Chicago, and Mrs. Julia Einstein, Cleveland: a daughter, Mrs. Hortense Rauh Burpee, and a son, Charles S. Rauh, and three grandchildren, Estelle Rauh Burpee and Jane and Jgck Wei. 4

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which would supply the basis for determining the amount of fair wages to be paid in an industry, will remain and become the subject of House debate, Rep. Dyer said. Governor to Name Board Several other important changes in the Dyer- bill are recommended. These include the requirement that all state codes conform with the national codes applying to their particular fields, although the state may set up new codes for divisions of industry and trade not covered by national codes. The regulations would remain in effect until March 31, 1937, or until corresponding federal legislation becomes inoperative. Intrastate business transaction also are covered by the amendments thereby removing any possible loophole that might have existed under the original measure. Administration of the state code would be in charge of a board to be appointed by the Governor. It became certain after adjournment yesterday that the Democratic majority in the Senate will not vote to include the nominations of candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State and other state officials in the list of officials nominated by direct primary elections. G. O. P. Primary Bill Ready At present only county, city and township officials are nominated by direct vote of the people. State officials now are named at party conventions. The Albright bill, now pending in the Senate, would permit candidates for state offices to be selected by direct vote of the adherents of the political parties. The Republicans already have a bill pending in the Senate calling for repeal of the primary law, as pledged in their state platform. Meanwhile members of both Houses anxiously awaited details of the state liquor control bill which has been under preparation by a special secret committee. The measure now is scheduled for introduction late next week. The present improper system to collect taxes on beer, upheld by the Federal courts, or anew plan to include either public or private agencies to control the revenue on imported beer and liquor are being debated by the drafters of the new bill. No agreement has been reached. It is certain the new bill will provide for a reduction of state taxes on hard liquors. At present $2 a gallon is levied. This levy may b reduced to as low as 50 cents a gallon to combat bootlegging. Beer taxes may be reduced from 5 cents a gallon to 4 cents. Local boards to pass upon applications for licenses may be recommended. Price control for liquor sales has been discussed. Athletic Club to Hold Party Brink’s Athletic Club will hold i? card party and dance at 9 Tuesday night at the Dearborn Hotel, 3208 E. Michigan-st. H. L. Danforth, club manager, and Theodore Lich, secreretary, are in charge.

FOUR TRAGIC YEARS Shortly The Indianapolis Times will publish the long lost letters of Napoleon to his beloved empress, Marie Louise. Written at frequent intervals amid the lull of battle these messages, only recently unearthed from Austrian archives, are expected to answer questions that have puzzled historians and students of the doughty Corsican for more than a century. Asa prelude and in order that readers may full acquaint themselves with the background and setting of the revelations they will disclose, The Times will print a resume of Napoleon’s four tragic years before the debacle, an exciting period that covers his marriage, life and final break with his lovely Austrian bride. This brief history will be contained in a series of three articles which will appear Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Watch for them!