Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 249, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1935 — Page 1

POLLUTION FOES GIRD FOR VITAL TEST IN SENATE City and Industrial Lobby Backs Amendments That Would Kill Purpose of Bill, Supporters Charge. MEASURE HAS WON HOUSE APPROVAL Physicians and Health Authorities Throughout State Strong for Reform; Unhealthy Conditions Exposed by The Times. The Administration’s bill to outlaw pollution of nearly 1100 miles of state streams today faced a crucial test in the Indiana Senate where amendments were to be offered which advocates of the measure say would defeat its purpose. Approved by physicians and health officials throughout the state the bill has passed the House of Representatives. Last week the measure was on the threshold of Senate adoption, when it was called back to permit amendments. Meanwhile a strong lobby of municipal and industrial interests has been at work.

A survey bv The Indianapolis Times of stream pollution in the state, disclosed an incalculable numl>er of deaths and permanent ailments traceable directly to B. coli-laden waters, polluted by municipal and industrial wastes. Typhoid and other fevers as veil as mastoid and throat infections have resulted from swimming in the state’s rivers, and creeks, the survey disclosed. Water Supplies Affected Municipal water plants as well as privately-ownea plants have been shown by The Times to be compelled to step up purification processes in order that drinking water may be made safe. This step up in chemical treatment has increased the costs of supplying water to taxpayers. In one southern Indiana town it is necessary to increase the chemical content of drinking water to keep the supply safe at the tap while swimmers, unaware of the B. coil-steeped waters, swim and dive in the source of that city's water, oblivious of its dangers. In the report of the State Planning Board the extent of pollution and its effect on drinking water is stressed. “As population increased pollution of streams commenced and now there are very few surface sources of water which are safe," the report states. Michigan City Erects Plant Need for sewage disposal plants in cities and towns is ’ l ;' emphasized m the report. The Times, in two Indiana surveys on stream pollution pointed out Mulligan City as an offender and how it polluted its own drinking and bathing water. The city poured its j sewage within 1000 feet of its mu- j mcipal beach. Michigan City erected a sewage disposal plant and is ending for all time the pollution of Lake Michigan and the oeach resorts at its front door. Terre Haute an Offender Terre Haute, long one of the main offenders in polluting its own drinking water source—the Wabash river —has river beaches where youths learn their first nose-holding dive in water which is highly contaminated. Crawfordsville sewage, coupled with a wire-mill wastes, pours A. coli as well as dangerous acids and chenUr*’* .nto waters used for bath“ Th .us even found Brandywine Crees. the site of the Old Swimming Hole ot James Whitcomb Rilev ft.me polluted by wastes from a reduction plant while a park named after the Hoosier poet was made unpopular because of odors from the plant. Ir. Indianapolis yearly surveys have shown that this city’s own beaches on W’hite River are breeding places for B. coli and its attendant ulSCioc*. Disease Traced is Water Dr Thomas B Noble, one of the state's foremost surgeons and physicians. attributes the beginning of many infections to the swimming in polluted waters. •’But.” he adds, “by the time I get the case it is impossible to trace the pollution.” One Indianapolis physician will not permit his son or daughter to swim at city beaches during the summer months. “I have a cabin up north and we go up there in the summer, but I wouldn't let trfrm swim in Indianapolis pools and their impure water supplies,” he says. He relates how one expert swimmer, who had won medals in coniTurn to Page Two)

ANOTHER SCOOP The Indianapolis Times tomorrow will publish another full page of pictures of the famous Dionne quintuplets—an exclusive feature of The Tunes. The pictures are of new poses of the five charming young Canadian ladies who, though they mere born on a farm and never leave their new are known to the four comers of the earth.

The Indianapolis Times wi eo ou •e.m Fair tonight and tomoiTow; slightly colder tonight with lowest temperature 10 to 13 degrees.

VOLUME 40—NUMBER 249

DETECTIVE’S LIFE IS DULL, SAYS OFFICER; WINS HIS DEMOTION The life of a detective sergeant was too dull for Dennis Reilly, so now he is a first-class patrolman at his own request. Edwin Harvey found, after 12 years as a fire department chauffeur, that he was of too nervous a temperament to be a driver of a fire truck. These disconcerting facts were reviewed by tne Safety Board today. which obligingly demoted Sergt. Reilly at a cost to him of $2lO a year and Chauffeur Harvey at a cost of 18 cents a day. With some embarrassment Chief Mike Morrissey told of Mr. Reilly's disillusionment, and Fire Chief Fred Kennedy of Mr. Harvey’s temperament. Two men were promoted to take the places of adventurous Sergt. Reilly and nervous Chauffeur Harvey. VANDALS RUIN WORK DONE_BY_CARPENTER Police Asked to Halt Destruction of New Garage. D. W. Finley, a carpenter, today complained to police of the destructive activities of some unidentified critic of his work. A week ago last Wednesday, he said, he laid the foundation for a garage at 3336 N. Denny-st. When he returned the next morning, some one had dug up the found&Mon. He laid another. This week he began the frame work. Last night it was finished. This morning §ome one had moved the whole works off the foundation. He wants police to look into this. SENTENCED TO HANG FOR MURDER OF MOTHER Californian. Convicted of Slaying, to Die on May 2. By United Press BELLEVILLE. Ont., Feb. 26 Harold W. Vermilyea. 49. Ontario. Cal., today was sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of his 76-year-old mother. Justice Nicol Jeffrey set the date of execution as May 2. Legislator Is Taken 111. Rep. Martin J. Downey <D.. East Chicago! was taken ill this morning while in the Senate chambers and was taken to his hotel, where he is reported as recovering

House to Decide Fate of Pari-Mutuel Bill Today

Foes Predict Defeat, Pointing to Narrow Margin by Which Measure Survived Ax Yesterday. The pari-mutuel betting bill legalizing gambling on horse racing in Indiana was scheduled for a showdown this afternoon in the House of Representatives with its backers claiming passage by the scant margin of two or three votes. Roll call yesterday advancing the bill to third reading was by a

vote of only 47-*45. on the issue of indefinite postponement. Since then, the bill's adherents have been lobbying busily and claimed they have a gam of five votes against a loss of two. for a net gain of three. Rep. Morris H. Coers (D.. Indianapolis) and Rep. Joseph A. Andrew <R.. Lafayette), opposition leaders, were confident that anti-betting lines would be held and that a gam of several -otes would permanently defeat the bill at this session. Inactivity of administration leaders in supporting the bill is believed to add to the possibility of defeat. Reps. Karl D. Nottingham iR., Muncie) and John H. Schermerhorn R., Wawaxa) were the only Republicans favoring adoption when it was voted upon on second reading. Both Democrats and Republican legislators announced that they favored the bill giving the Indiana State Fair Board annual appropriations of SIOO,OOO through 1936 in lieu of permitting the fairground to become a gambling place in order that revenue from legalized horse racing might be used to pay off the board s indebtedness. Such a bill is

Chuck’s Party Is All Over —He’s Back in Again—But Two Deputy Sheriffs Are Distinctly Put Out

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S-NRA BACKERS. ENEMIES HEARD Amendments to Bill Likely Following Session in Senate Chamber. Amendments to the Dyer StateNRA bill were expected to be offered to the Indiana Senate today following last night’s two-hour hearing at which backers and opponents of the measure packed Senate chamber and galleries. It was expected the committee would suggest removal of all provisions prohibiting the use of commercial “loss leaders,” price fixing and jail terms for code violations. In effect the amended bill will enable a state code commission to carry out Federal NRA policies, its supporters declare. R. G. Foster, representing the Indiana Retail Lumber Dealer’s Association, charged that opposition to the measure has consisted of "unfair newspaper activity apparently prompted by the Republican Editorial Association.” “NRA is nothing more or less than a soul in business,” said Mr. Foster. “The of NRA are the employers who do not want to pay (Turn to Page Three)

CHIEF STILL MUM ON CROSSING INCIDENT Tells Safety Board Again He Has No Report. Exactly 11 days after a police squad car under Sergt. William Purcell disregarded a warning signal at the Belt Railroad crossing at and was brushed by an engine, Chief Mike Morrissey said today that he had no report on the incident to make to the Safety Board. Although Sergt. Purcell was not punished for violating a city ordinance. Mo. ton Reid, conductor of the train, was arrested on an obscure city ordinance and received a suspended fine. The Safety Board gently asked Chief Morrissey today if he would complete his investigation and make a report. The chief told a reporter noncommitally that he had made "some” progress. 7.000.000 Fighters. Says Italy By United Press ROME. Feb. 26.—Italy is capable of mobilizing 37 classes totalling 7.000.000 to 8.000.000 men, it was stated officially today.

pending as special order of business today. “I'll vote for this appropriation bill but not for a measure legalizing gambling in order to give the fair board its money.” declared Rep. Benjamin F. Harris iR.. Richmond). “Race tracks can't be a success in Indiana. Let's bring down the appropriation bill. I'm willing to support it." urged Rep. J. R. Thompson <D.. Seymour), who yesterday urged indefinite postponment. In the meantime clergymen, business men. n anufacturers. and retail merchants deluged iuc representstives with letters and telegrams urging that the pan-mutuel measure be defeated. The measure was held to be detrimental to state business in that it wo’ild cause wage-earners to "play the ponies” instead of paying their bills. It is believed by many that the state fair board, if assured passage of the SIOO,OOO appropriation to clear its indebtedness, would drop any interest it might have in a parimutuel measure.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935

BY JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer CHARLES FREDERICK 'Chuck) WIGGINS, the Hoosier playboy, whose infectious spirit of fun is known to one and all in this section, jollied two deputy sheriffs into making a round of beer spots with him Sunday night. Technically, Chuck was out of bounds when he visited at least three N. Capitol-av beer taverns, roistering in a perfectly harmless but illegal manner, because he had served only 24 days of a 45-day sentence for drunken driving. This proved embarrassing to Deputy Sheriffs Howard Brennan and Charles McCallister, the Chuckler’s companions, and today Deputy Brennan turned in. his badge and quit. Sheriff Otto Ray said both men had been fired the Thursday before the party Sunday, but had been kept until the end of the month so that they might find other jobs. Deputies Brennan and McCallister composed the emergency squad Sunday night, so when, in tire absence of Sheriff Ray or Chief Deputy Charles Markey, they took the Chuckler out and drove away in one of the sheriff’s fleet of cars, no ones made a move to stay them. a a a- - hours later Deputy Brennan and Chuck appeared back at the jail where Sheriff Ray, meanwhile informed of the frolic, was waiting up for them. “Chuck's mother was ill,” Deputy Brennan explained, “and I took him home to her.” However, Sheriff Ray said he had been reliably informed that Chuck was unable to find his mother in any of three taverns the trio visited, and he had come to doubt the voltage of the emergency of the visit home. Moreover, Sheriff Ray, who said he would not “take the fire” for things done behind his back, called a meeting at 6 tonight of all deputies, regardless of shifts, and promised he would tell them then “What’s what.” “There’s going to be discipline around here,” he explained. “Any deputy not here will have to turn In his badge.” The sheriff was obviously angry. a a a CHUCK and his roisterers arrived at the first tavern, 1023 N. Capitol-av, at about 8 o’clock Sunday night and the proprietor told The Indianapolis Times yesterday that the Playboy had managed, by then, to collect an imposing retinue, a fraction of it quite drunk. The Times exclusively revealed Chuck’s expedition in its early editions today, precipitating Sheriff Ray’s actions. “They played around for a while,” the proprietor said, “but a little fellow was so drunk as to be annoying and I asked them to leave.” They did, but failed to pay the bill. “That's all right though,” he stated. “I know Chuck.” Some of the party had disbanded when ‘hey arrived at the Midway Tavern, 16th-st near Capitol-av. Chuck spent a quiet half hour or so browsing about the many framed pictures of him that decorate the wall there, and the pictures cl chorines in striking poses who had inscribed them lovingly, and publicly, to the phuckler. Chuck, of course. paused anou for a dash of this and a touch of that at the bar. sometimes carrying a mug of bee - .* back to the galleries with him. a a a SOME place, former Deputy Brennan and Chuck lost former Deputy McCallister and made the return to the jail without him. The Chuckler went straight to his cell. This morning Chuck was chipper when an Indianapolis Times friend called on him. “Chuck, were you out of jailSunday night?” “Yep; I went home to see my mother. She's ill.” “Were you in a beer tavern any place?” “No such thing. I wasn't in any beer spot.” “But we heard you were in a couple up north.” “No, sir. It’s a lie. Say, why don't you reporters quit ribbing me. Quit ribbing me. will you? Ain't I got days? A ; n’t I in jail? Ain't I doing all right?” He seemed to be.

$400,000 ALLOTTED FOR I. U. STRUCTURE Loan to Be Used for Erection of Administration Building. Bp United Pres s BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 26. Construction of anew administration building on the Indiana University campus was assured today with announcement that the Public Works Administration had approved a loan for the project. The building will cost approximately $400,000. of which $120,000 will be a direct grant. The remainder will be loaned by the PWA. TODAY’S WEATHER j Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 16 10 a. m 18 7 a. m 17 11 a. m 19 8 a. m 17 12 <noon).. 19 9a. m 18 Ip. m 22 Tomorrows sunrise, 6:22 a. m.; sunset, 5:34 p. m.

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RARE RUTH TO BOSTON DRAVES 1 \ Going to Beantown Club as Vice President and Assistant Manager. By United Press BOSTON, Feb. 26.—Babe Ruth is coming to the Boston Braves as vice president and assistant manager, it was formally announced here today. The famed home run king has been given a three-year contract, according to the official announcement issued by Charles F. Adams, part-owner of the club. CITY IS THREATENED BY $ WOO BLAZE Lockport (N. Y.y Firemen Win 8-Hour Batlle. By United Press LOCKPORT, N. Y., Feh. Fire which swept through the heart of the Lockport busines* section was brought under control today with a loss estimated at SIOO,OOO. Hampered by a strong wind, snow and freezing temperatures, firemen battled the flames for more than eight hours. The fire threatened the entire business section. UNION SECRETARY TO ATTEND DANCE HERE Official of Journeymen Barbers Will Be Guest of Honor. William C. Birthright, general secretary and treasurer of the Journeymen Barbers’ International Union will attend as guest of honor a dance in Falls City Casino at 9 p. m. Thursday, sponsored by a joint committee of the Indianapolis Journeymen and Master Barbers. The Indiana State Board of Barber Examiners and the Indiana Inspectors will also be guests. PACKING PLANT SETS NO-ACCIDENT RECORD Perfect Safety Record Established by Armour & Cos. The Indianapolis Armour & Cos. plant had a perfect safety record for five months of last year, without a single lost-time accident for the entire period, the Institute of American Meat Packers, Chicago, announced today. The accident-free months were February, March, May, June and July. PLANES WINGING EAST 11 Army Fombers Leave. California in Mass Flight. By United Press RIVERSIDE. Cal., Feb. 26.—Eleven Army bombers took off from March Field at 9 a. m. (Indiinapelis time), today on a mass flight to Washington, D. C. Capt. Harold Smith, in charge of the flight, said the first stop would be Dallas, Tex., via San Antonio.

Columbia Controls All Gas Pipe Lines Available to City, Probers Informed

The Indiana legislative committee, investigating charges of monopolistic control of natural gas supplies, last night was told that Columbia Gas and Electric Cos. holds either investment or contractural rights in every available source of a natural gas supply for Indianapolis. After two hours of testimony regarding natural gas company bonds and mortgages, notes and defaults, foreclosures and receiverships, interlocking directorates and overlapping ownerships, these facts stood out: 1. The only existing natural gas pipe line capable of supplying Indianapolis is owned by Indiana Gas Transmission Cos., which is a subsidiary of Columbia Oil and Gasoline Cos., in turn owned by Columbia Gas and Electric Cos. 2. Panhandle and Eastern Gas Cos. is half owned by Columbia Oil and Gasoline Cos. 3. J. H. Hillman Jr, Pittsburgh

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LIQUOR BILL TARGET OF BITTER HOUSE ATTACK; ‘MONOPOLY,’ BAUER’S CRY

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Relief Not Expected Until Tomorrow Is Prediction of Forecaster. The cold wave which struck Indianapolis swiftly and fiercely yesterday morning, bringing the temperatures down from 51 degrees to 16 degrees in less than 24 hours, will continue unbroken here through today and tomorrow, J. H. Armington, Federal Meteoroloist, said today. The snow storm forecast for yesterday broke last night between 11 and midnight. By this morning the light fall of snow had been blown from streets and sidewalks. Any break in the cold wave will come gradually late tomorrow, and there is no indication that the spring-like weather of the week-end will return soon, Mr. Armington said. Although the skies were threatening yesterday, by today Municipal Airport officials said that flying conditions were good. The only casualties caused by the sudden cold snap were numerous fires directly attributed to overheated stoves and furnaces. The extreme temperatures in the last 24 hours were 51 degrees at 10 yesterday morning and 16 degrees at 7 today. 2000 MARCH IN GALE, SNOW; DEMAND WORK Scantily Clad Mob Braves Snow in Newfoundland City. By United Press ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Feb. 26.—Two thousand hungry, scantily clad men and women braved an easterly gale and snow swept streets today to march on the Department of Health and Welfare Building here, demanding food, clothing and work. FIND MOTHERS GUILTY OF HARBORING BANDITS Federal Court Convicts Parents of Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 26.—The mothers of Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker and Raymond Hamilton, three of the Southwest’s most notorious desperadoes, were convicted today on Federal charges of harboring Clyde and Bonnie. They were among 15 defendants involved. LEGS OF MAN FOUND ABOARD LONDON TRAIN Grewsome Discovery Leads Police to Seek Victim’s Body. By United Press LONDON, Feb. 26.- Scotland Yard men sought today the body of a young man whose neatly severed legs were found in a suburban train at Waterloo Station yesterday. The legs had been cut off just below the kneecap. They were wrapped separately in newspapers, and together in an outer coving of brown paper. Police believe that if the man was murdered, the crime had been committed during the week-end. THREE FAITHS UNITE IN MEXICO PROTEST Rabbi, Minister and Catholic Bishop Assail Alleged Persecution. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. 26.—A rabbi, a Protestant minister and a Catholic bishop, were principal speakers at a protest meeting here last night against the suppression of religious freedom in Mexico. A resolution protesting such suppression was adopted and forwarded to President Roosevelt.

capitalist, w’hose personal companies have an interest in Kentucky Natural Gas Corp., also is a stockholder in Pandle and Eastern, and also in Missouri-Kansas Gas Cos., owners of the other half of Panhandle and Eastern. 4. Kentucky Natural Gas Corp. has contracted to sell 30 per cent of its annual surplus gas to Indiana Gas Transmission Cos. at -26 1 a cents per 1000 cubic feet, for sale only in Indianapolis or in the territory north and east of the city. 5. That neither its supply nor its existing pipe lines would permit Kentucky Natural Gas Corp. alone to contract to supply the 12.000.000 cubic feet daily average estimated Indianapolis demand. 6. That it is improbable any interests capable of financing another natural gas pipe line would enter the Indianapolis district in competition with existing utilities.

Vote on Acceptance of Amendments td Control Measure Delayed Until Thursday by Representatives. IMPORTER SYSTEM UNDER FIRE Terre Haute Lawmaker Engages in Heated Debate With the Rev. Morris H. Coers, Chairman of Committee. At the end of the bitterest debate of the session, the House of Representatives today voted to postpone until 11:15 Thursday a vote on acceptance of amendments to the state liquor control bill. All members of the House Public Morals Committee concurred in a majority report recommending; amendments to the pending- bill to abolish a distillers’ monopoly, require closing of retail liquor places on Sundays and making technical changes in the measure.

Rep. Lenhardt Bauer, (D., Terre Haute), was the lone dissenter. He submitted a long list of amendments to the Administration bill and engaged in a bitter debate with Rep. Morris H. Coers, (D., Indianapolis), committee chairman. By a vote of 34-45 the House defeated a move by Rep. Frank G. Thompson (D., Bluff ton), Administration floor leader, to prevent printing of both reports. Rep. Bauer opened the debate for adoption of his long list of amendments. The new liquor control bill, said he “is merely putting anew coat of paint on the old wagon.” “Last night when I left the committee room members of the committee who signed the majority report admitted that they were signing away their birthright by returning a favorable report on this bill,” declared Rep. Bauer. “They urged me to take action to kill this measure.” “The Public Morals Committee has not changed any of the meaning or the underlying policy of the

FEAR WOMAN SLAIN BY CHINESE BANDITS Missionary Reported Held as Wife’s Hostage. By United Press TOKIO, Feb. 26.—Chinese bandits are believed to have murdered Mrs. Ruth Wheatley Frencham, wife of a missionary worker whom they are holding as a hostage, it was learned here today. News of the latest bandit outrage has been suppressed in China and its publication in Shanghai was forbidden by the authorities. The bandits reported to have captured the town of Ningchao (also known as Ningkiang) near the western border of Shenshi province and carried off the Rev. S. C. Frencham, Melbourne, Australia, and his wife, a native of London. MARKET IS READY FOR GAS BONDS, KERN TOLD Financial Houses Give Favorable Report to Raab. Mayor John W. Kern today announced that he had been informed by Albert L. Raab, attorney for the City Utility District, that the financial houses had responded favorably to the proposed bond issue to finance the purchase of the Citizens Gas Cos. INDICT LAWRENCE HIATT West Side Tavern Operator Accused of Second Degree Murder. Lawrence Hiatt, West Side tavern operator, who is alleged to have shot and killed Art Dampier, South Side hoodlum, in a fight Dec. 16, was indicted on a second-degree murder charge today by the Marion County grand jury.

Tonight the committee will hold what may be its final session before writing its report and submitting findings to the Legislature. Witnesses will be Gavin Payne and Newton Todd, Indianapolis, orokers, who are to be questioned relative to sales of Citizens Gas Cos. stock. The committee is attempting to learn the true ownership of a block of Citizens stock held in trust by Indiana Trust Cos. Intimating that he believed evidence of a monopoly had been uncovered, Att. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr, indicated the data assembled during the Indiana probe may be forwarded to Washington, where a congressional inquiry is contemplated. Principal witness at last night’s meeting was H. F. Rinedell, New York attorney for Mr. Hillman’s in(Tum to Page Two)

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bill on your desks,” he claimed. “This bill, which every one knows was written by Tom O'Meara, contains the vicious features of the law we are now operating under.” Rep. Morris H. Coers (D., Indianapolis), Public Morals Committee chairman, rose to defend the majority committee report. He explained that as a ministef of the Gospel, he could have no sympathy with the liquor traffic in any form, but that he realized thafj a form of control is necessary because of the public sentiment in favor of liquor. The majority committee report represents the best judgment of the committee, tha Baptist clergyman said. “Broken Faith,” Coers Charges He charged that Rep. Bauer had “broken faith” by disclosing committee discussion that it was agreed would not be touched upon. “Here, this one man (Rep. BauerX brings in a self-interested proposal with which he proposes to supplant the majority report,” Rep. Coers declared. When Rep. Coers spoke of “selfinterest,” Rep. Bauer leaped to hi* feet and demanded that he be allowed to answer the intimation oqj a point of personal privilege. He explained that his only connection with the liquor industry id through his position as attorney fo* the Federal Alcohol Code Authority and that through that connection, he has learned of approximately $200,000 worth of tax evasions. Displays Copies of Letter* These evasions were made “chiselers” in the industry, he said. Rep. Bauer displayed photostatia copies of letters signed by Thomas O’Meara. Terre Haute attorney, and one of the authors of the Administration’s beer bill, alleged to tell of the signing of contracts with outstate breweries and importers. He also displayed copies of letters signed by Frank McHale telling of the transmission of brewery contracts and other missives urging that the matter of contracts with importers be taken up with Mr, McHale at his headquarters in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. “I think this is alhlousy and that's putting it mildly,” declared Rep. Bauer as he attacked the importer system of the old bill. “Legalized Hijacking,” He Says He related how SSOO was required for the payment of contracts and the right to become importers. “Who got this money? Into whose pockets did it go. I’ll tell you it went into the hands of the attorneys and importers. It is legalized hijacking,” he charged. Rep. Bauer then related how arbitarily a 5 cents a barrel tax had been set by the importers on beer. “And they said that 2 cents was for code and the rest for stat® organization and association purposes,” he charged. “Let’s cut out this cancerous growth and this monoply. Their bill will cover 150 pags and it’s three times as long as it should be,” declared Rep. Bauer. Rep. Herbert H. Evans then received permission to debate the committee report and charged that Indiana had reached a stage of “absolute debauchery.” “We Repub .icans—the House had nine at the last session—knew when they passed the beer bill that it would be a legalization of the A1 Capone system and we told tha General Assembly that it would. Our words have come true. “Mr. O’Meara is an attorney, but I or any attorney could take a good stenographer and write a beer bill in three hours and yet he’s been since last December writing the administration bill,” charged Mr. Evans. “Monopolies” Under Fir® Rep. Bauer bitterly attacked th# “monopolistic” provisions of tha original bill. “Powers given the commission to limit the number of persons engaged in the importation of liquor and to restrict trie number of wholesalers are obviously vicious and destructive” he charged. Establishment of local boards to pass upon the fitness of applicants for licenses “would have the tendency to throw the issuance of licenses back into politics,” Rep, muer continued. provisions of the original bill placing restrictions upon out-state brewers and distillers from engaging in business in Indiana fell under his fixe.