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OUSTED JURORS READY TO FILE BANK CHARGES

Affidavits Will Be Filed Against Others of Brewer Firm If Prosecutor Fails to Act, Is Promise. CRITICISM OF GOETT IS RENEWED Prosecution Should Not Be Confined to Dying Financier, Four of Group Declare in Statement to The Times. dnr£ of Hnhrr/lrmfnl of public and bank funds made public thus far in the Marion f ountv ••purer" include: I. Ralph I. Il'tch. former chief deputv sheriff under former Sheriff Charles I„ ißurki Sumner, accused of embezzling SRfWifl. •*. f harlcs Bailer, former Washincton Township assessor, permitted to make good a shortage of over S-TOO® in his accounts. Embezzlement affidavits are to he filed against him 1. Thomas Bovle. former Criminal Court clerk, discharged in April. IV,t. after discover* 1 of *V,R.R. shortag* : n his arenunts in .fudge Frank r Baker's court, Judge Baker says crir -al affidavits against him will he filed. t. Scott R Brewer, dving former president of the defunct State Savings and Trust Cos., accused of perjury and embezzlement in connection with the hank failure. The grand jurors threaten to file affidavits against several former officials of the State Savings and Trust Cos. if the prosecutor fails to name them. Bail* retired from office .lan. 1. 1935. Judge Baker fired the grand .lurv because, he charged, they failed to indict the former assessor. Doyle, former clerk in Judge Baker’s rourt. whose accounts were found short in April. 1934. never has been indicted although three grand juries have held sessions since the shortage was made up. Members **f the Marion County Grand Jury discharged summarily Tuesday by Criminal Judge Frank P. Raker today threatened to file affidavits as citizens, against several officials of the State Savings & Trust Cos., if the prosecutor fails to act. This development fame as Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer was reported preparing to file affidavits against one

nr morn officials of another Hpfunrt hank, against Chat'los Bailey, former Washington Township Assessor, charsnnjr him with a shortage in his accounts, and against another former county employe reported involved in a funds shortage. A group of the grand jurors told The Times today th: t they * had been ready to retun indictments against several of th* former State Savings officials, but hat they were prevented from dom; so by delays on the part of the gvand jury deputy prosecutor. Henry O Goett. and that they felt that criminal action should not stop with Scott Brewer, dving fromer president of the bank Prosecutor Spencer has indicated that Mr Brewer is the only one of the hank's former officials against whom he will flip affidavits. Four of the discharged grand nirors. who wrrr flryrd by Criminal Juice Prank P Baker for not indicting Mr Railev. said they would be willing to give the inside'* dr- * ails of the situation before a pubIte meeting, sf one could be arranged. The four were Sherman Roherts. foreman; William Sullivan. Prank MrCreadr and Orville Miller. Thomas Dovle. discharged Criminal Court clerk, whose accounts were found to be $958.83 short when examined hv the State Accounts Board in April. 1934. also will be named in an affidavit, according to Judge Baker, in whose court Doyle worked under appointment of County Clerk Glenn B Ralston. Disclosure of Doyles shortage came after Judge Baker had discharged the grand jury Tuesday because. he said, the members had delayed voting an indictment against the former Washington Township official in order to permit him to make tip his fund deficiency. ' A public official who steals from the public funds is worse than a highway robber and deserves Ipss sympathy," Judge Baker declared. Reason for Act Withheld A? the time Clerk Dovle was discharged last spring. The Indianapolis Times asked Judge Baker for a statement as to the reasons, and he said he had asked County Clerk Ralston to remove the clerk Mr. Ralston would make no statement as to the reasons. Superior Court Judge Herbert E Wilson, who retired Jan 1 as countv prosecutor. >aid today he never was aware of the Dovle shortage and "the matter consequently could not have been presented to the grand jury by me ” Mr. Ralston today said he had paid one-half of the shortage charged to the former criminal court clerk. The balance was paid by a bonding company. Mr. Ralston also said that he had made no effort to have criminal proceeding started against Doyle when the shortage was discovered. Meanwhile, the discharged grand jurors retained former Municipal Judge William H. Shea tier to represent them. Brewer's Condition Critical Revelation of the Doyle shortage 1 the latest in the chain of dexelopments following rapidly upon Judge Baker's discharge of the jury. Yesterday, prosecutor Spencer filed affidavits charging Scott R Brewer, former president and managing agent of the defunct State Savings and Trust Cos. with bankers embezzlement and perjury. In Washington, where Mr Brewer went last September to accept a position !n the Federal Housing Administration. it was said he u a (Tarn to Page Three)

W The Indianapolis Times W* BO OU Fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature; frost tonight, probably heavy.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 15

BARUCH ASSAILS TAX-FREE BOND Urges Amendment to Bar Practice: Hears War Record Lauded. I nitrd Pres* WASHINGTON. March 28—A constitutional amendment to eliminate all tax-exempt bonds in the future was advocated this afternoon by Bernard M. Baruch, financier and adviser to five Presidents. Testifying before the Senate Munitions Committee on plans to take profits out of war. Mr. Baruch said he possessed some tax exempt bonds, but favored their elimination as a means of "making faxes fairer." Earlier. Senator James F. Byrnes • D.. S C.. Administration spokesman. appeared as a voluntary witness to defend Mr. Baruch's wartime record, which has been under attack bv Senator Htiev P. Long and the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. “I want to say.” Senator Byrnes explained, "that there have been insinuations that Mr. Baruch in some way made personal profits out of the World War. Those insinuations are untrue.*’ Mr. Byrnes said Mr. Baruch "saved millions of dollars for the government” as head of the War Industries Board. *'He personally paid the expenses of one committee and it amounted to about $85,000.’’ Senator Byrnes said “When the War Industries Board was liquidating. Mr. Baruch personally paid the expenses homewrrd of young women employes who wrre brought to Washington to replace men drafted for service abroad." BRITISH KING SNUBBED BY EAMONN DE VALERA President *>f Ireland Beeline* to Attend Silver Jubilee. R'l t nitrd Prr** DUBLIN. March 28—President Famonn De Valera directly snubbed the King of England today when he announced in the Dail that he had notified Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald he w as unable to accept an invitation to the King's silver jubilee celebration this summer.

‘Lay Off Me, ’ Says Farb; *Oh Yeah! 9 Replies Chief

Lasky Farb. who runs a horse race handbook shop at Maryland and lilinois-sts. calls on Chief Mike Morrissey in the police station this morning and says to him like this: •What's the idea of Lieut. Thomas McCormick, and his vice squad coming to my place yesterday, and tearing the Western Union ticker tape off as fast as it came in? None of my customers were allowed to see it. and it ruined business.'* The chief says: ‘T told them to go there and do that Those were mv orders. Well, they cot to stop it: it's bad for business." Lasky snaps ' I'm going to put you out of business.” the chief shouts. "You 11 be sorry if you try to do that You'll be sorry. And furthermore. I'm going to get back that craps table they look from me some tune ago."

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npHE air dust laden. The sun obscured. Silt drifted high against fences, trees and buildings. Struggling new crops covered with a gritty, fatal pall. Cattle bellowing the agony of suffocatior. These are the often-told tales of the catastrophic dust storms that have wrought havoc in the great grain bin of America west of the Mississippi, as soil is torn from the parched prairies and scattered over thousands of miles. Now comes thp human side of the picture. Margaret. Bourke-

Chuck Isn’t Angry at Police —He Likes ’Em —And Once the Playboy-Boxer Actually Saved Some Money— J ust as a Gag.

Editor’s Note—This is the first of a series of articles on the life and deeds of Charles Frederick (Chuck) Wiggins, battler and Hoosier playboy extraordinary. BY JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer ONCE Chuck Wiggins was sensible with money—just as a gag. He had been in Buffalo for a fight that brought him $2500. The more he got to looking around Buffalo, the better he liked it. so he stayed for two days. At the end of that time he had to wire home for carfare.

Even for Chuck, that was a bit headlong, and he arrived in Indianapolis a little sheepish and considerably shorn. He looked vainly in his pockets fir a receipt for the American side of Niagara, and then recalled that the liquid he had seen most of was not water. He cot down to training and promised any one who knew of his Eastern extravagance, or any one he thought might have heard of it, that the next fight he had out of the rity would be an occasion for a splurge of economy that would make Wiggias history. It. was. "I gave the porter monkey a dime; the waiter a dime: and. with papers and liquor, the whole bill came to $11.14,” he explained. When he tells this story. Chuck's eyes squint and call your attention to the myriad scars that make his face look like glass touched with frost. He laughs

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orgy. Chuck, whose full name is Charles Frederick Wiggins, is 36, growing on 37. He is celebrated chiefly for a formidable ring history, which he says he has not finished, and for his extra-ring crossness with minions of the law who are sent, from time to time, to bring him in for a court interview. n m n THERE is no record available of the exact date when Chuck chose up sides with the Indianapolis police force. Early Wiggins is hard to get. Chuck prefers to recall his major ring triumphs. His engagements, major and minor, with police are mentioned only in an off-hand manner. It puts the heat on him. he explains. However, there are those who have such tenacious memories ihat they can't forget the time in a near-downtown hotel that

‘ Get out."’ ••You’ll be sorry, i m going to get an injunction against you.” "Get out." And that ended the first hand-to-hand encounter Chief Morrissey has had with the bookies since his stirr ng order to close them. Lieut. McCormick said, after Farb's visit, that he intended to have a man at that ticker all the time until someone gave up. All unscheduled yesterday. Sergt. Carl Ashley, who isn’t even supposed to be bothering about gambling according to the chief's orders, tore the phone off a wall of a bookie place yesterday at 6 W. Louisiana-st. This morning he reported to the chief that he had been in there looking for a man he wanted to arrest on a Municipal Court warrant and the old police urge was too strong—he enforced the law.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1935

Chuck went on the loose. He became drunk and disorderly—in the order n.v.ned—and it was one of those times he didn't know his own strength. One policeman came. Then another. Then another. Chuck waded into them swinging rights and lefts with the light-hearted abandon of a group of college boys tearing down enemy goal posts after a game. More police came. It was not until eight of them had arrived and more or less entered the fight, until five firemen had arrived and done the same thing, and until central headquarters was vaguely considering setting up a recruiting headquarters outside the hotel, that Chuck was subdued. Next morning he was sorry and thought the police should forgive all. Chuck really likes policemen. If he gets cross with them, it’s only because his point of view is temporarily distorted by the use of alcoholic beverages and Chuck is the first to admit that he sometimes forgets himself when he's had a touch too much. a a a IT wasn't long ago that Chuck had a pretty good idea. He pointed out that many older fighters, who had retired from the ring but were famous in their days, now have jobs as chiefs of police and sheriffs. ‘Tt’s a good job for an exfighter. who can handle his fists and has had plenty of battles on his hands. I ought to be chief of police of Indianapolis. I know about police and can handle them.” Then something occurred to Chuck, who was conducting his musines publicly and imprudently on the sidewalk < which in itself wa- unusual) in front of the police station. • Don't quote me though.” he cautioned every one. "Because if Chief Mike Morrissey hears about this he'll have me in jail before night.” NE X T—Once Chock Wiggins Bought a Horse.

CRUMBLE INTO THE DUST With Ruinous Visit of Unwelcome Sandman Into Home of Farm Family

BIONNE KIDNAP PLOT VERIFIES Would-Be Abductors Are Known; Hoped to Exhibit Five Babies in U. S. IConvriKht, 1935, bv United Press! CALLANDER, Ont., March 28. The existence of a well-organized plot to kidnap the Dionne quintuplets was verified this afternoon by the provincial police. The United Press learned that the plotters are known, but can not be arrested becaus no overt acts were committed. The plan of the would-be kidnapers, it was learned, was to steal the babies from Dafoe Hospital and take them across the United States border by automobile. There they ,/ould have been put on exhibition for profit. Discovery of the alleged plot prevented it from being carried out and now Dafoe Hospital is guarded day and night by uniformed provincial police. Today the five Dionne babies are 10 months old. Their weight has increased an average of one pound each in the last month. They sleep well and laugh out loud. Dr. A. R. Dafoe, who delivered the babies, says that their intelligence is above the average. Mrs. Ovila Dionne, the babies mother, visited their nursery yesterday to show them to a group of friends. It was the first time she had seen her babies for nearly two weeks. Dr. Fafoe marked their birthday by announcing that the quintuplets are becoming “young ladies to the extent that they no longer require night feeding.” One Dead in Theater Panic By United Pres* PUEBLO, Mexico, March 28.—Collapse of a gallery and a cry of “Earthquake” caused panic in a theater here last night. One woman was killed and 50 persons were trampled.

Rep. Crowe Threatens to Punch Book ‘On the Nose 9

BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, March 28.—Rep. Eugene B Crowe of Bedford, Ind., today expressed himself as having a ‘ notion” ne would like to make a trip tc Indianapolis and deliver personally to William H. Book, executive vice president of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, a "punch in the nose.” It seems that Mr. Crowe yesterday dispatched to Mr. Book a letter saying that it was none of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce's business Low Mr. Crowe votes on farm legislation. Mr. Book, it appears, solicited all members of the Indiana congressional delegation to vote against Administration amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act. He contended that the amendments would handicap food processors such as the Chamber of Commerce represents. and also pointed out that farm prices have risen to the point that the cost of living in urban centers is rapidly becoming a menacing problem. Mr. Crowe retorted tartly that he and do his own voting on the prop-

—Photo by Margaret Bourke-White; Copyright, 1935, NEA Service, Inc. White, in this exclusive photograph for NEA Service and The Indianapolis Times, graphically portrays the plight of a Texas farm mother and her son who sleep exhaustedlv, worn out by their two-week battle against the storm. Even closed windows and doors are futile barriers against the inroads of the dust; so to escape smothering they lie in bed with towels covering mouths and nostrils. Sleeping fitfully, they awaken only to review the new havoc of the wind.

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EXTRA! RICHMOND HAS QUINTUPLETS! YES SIR. 5 KIDS!

By United Press RICHMOND. Ind., March 28. Richmond, Ind., like Callendar, Ont., now can boast of quintuplets. Five kids were bom on a farm near here yesterday. “Martha,” the mother, is a nanny goat. Each of the kids was reported perfectly normal. HENRY FORD IS ‘FAKE,’ LABOR LEADER SHOUTS Strike of Entire Auto Industry Predicted in House Quiz. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 28. Workers of the entire automobile industry will strike and take the rubber industry employes out with them unless Congress gives aid to labor. Francis J. Dillon. A. F. of L. organizer, told the House Labor Committee today. Mr. Dillon, chief union organize! in the automobile industry, bitterly attacked Henry Ford. “Ford is the biggest fake in the country.” Mr. Dillon said, “and the most over-rated man. But he's been lucky so far. He’s not only the country’s biggest employer, but also the. most unscrupulous.”

Express Your Desires for We Aim to Please

THIS edition of The Indianapolis Times should be a little, more interesting than usual for YOU. For instance, you are concerned about the dust storms now' sweeping the Midwest. Just the other day we in Indianapolis had a taste of the dust. More than a nuisance, the dust storms are a

osition and Mr. Book, almost quite j as tartly, retaliated by sending a! long reply and a copy of Mr. Crowe's letter to Rep. Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis. Mr. Ludlow mentioned’tHe matter casually to Mr. Crowe. When the Capitol building ceased its trembling and the blue haze; cleared from the corridors of the I House Office Building, Mr. Crowe was solidly astride the situation, arms akimbo. "Farmers in the Ninth District don’t write down here to oppose legislation sought by the Indian-! apolis Chamber of Commerce,” he | roared. "Maybe Mr. Book doesn’t j know it. but when wheat was selling for $1.75 a bushel it cost only half a cent more to make a 9-cent loaf’ of bread. ‘‘lf the members of the Chamber of Commerce in Indianapolis would pay labor a just wage there wouldn’t be any necessity of keeping 40 million farmers bankrupt so that those in the city can live.” Mr. Crowe paused for breath, pushed his jaw just a little farther forward. “I've a good notion." he said, to go i down to Indianapolis and punch that Book square on the nose!”

BRITISH, SOVIET IN AGREEMENT ON PEACE AIMS Anthony Eden and Maxim Litvinov United on All Points, They Reveal After Two-Hour Parley in Moscow. NAZI ATTITUDE STRONG/SAYS SIMON Public Opinion in Germany at Fever-Heat Over Scheduled Executions of Four Men in Memel Territory. By i nited Press MOSCOW, March 28.—Great Britain and Russia got together this afternoon on peace in Europe and found themselves in agreement on means of attaining it. After a two-hour conversation between Capt. Anthony Eden of Great. Britain and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov, it was learned from official sources that the two found themselves in agreement on all points discussed so far.

SAFECRACKERS GET SI2OO HERE Blast Fails to Interrupt Sleep of Caretaker Two Rooms Away. Expert cracksmen blew the safe of J. Homer Dady's grocery, 1802 W. Morris-st, last night with so little confusion and noise, that the blast failed to awaken James Springer, building caretaker, asleep two rooms away. They took between SI2OO and SI3OO that Mr. Dadv had intended to put. in the bank yesterday, but had left there over night because he was too busy to attend to it. The cracksmen broke the combination off the four-foot high safe, and inserted the explosive material in the resultant hole. They packed the safe well, and set it off. The front door was blovm neatly from its hinges, leaving unprotected the money which they took. CITY PUPILS TO GET ONE WEEK VACATION 62,000 to Begin Spring School Recess Next Monday. The 62,000 children in the Indianapolis public schols will begin their spring vacation Monday. Schools will be closed for ’he entire week. The 5000 pupils ir parochial schools will not attend classes the Thursday and Friday befort Easter. COUPLE WED 61 YEARS, FETED ON ANNIVERSARY Surprise Party Given Here for Mr. and Mrs. Abe Bailey. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Bailej. 6015 Bonna-av, who were marr.ed 61 years ago today in Hamilton County, were surprised by their children and grandchildren this noon with an anniversary party. Mr. Bailey is 84 and Mrs. Bailey 81.

very real peril. Is the worst yet to come? Where do dust storms come from? What causes them? What can be done about them? Well, you’ll find the answers in three absorbingly interesting articles starting on the popular Feature Page today. Take Europe s war-like attitude. All of us want to know the “inside” of the momentous conferences now being held. And while Westbrook Pegler is on vacation, William Philip Simms, the world's No. 1 foreign expert, has taken the "Pegler spot” on the Feature Page and is writing daily about Europe's troubles. If, you want to know what’s going on, read what Mr. Simms has to say about it. On the Woman's Page today starts an interesting series of stories designed to interest every one. Almost everybody is interested in stamps and most of us at some time or another have taken a fling at stamp collecting. Starting today. The Times offers you a brief daily article on stamps—all kinds of stamps. And, really, it’s a gripping study, these stories behind stamps. Chuck Wiggins, the Hoosier Playboy, is going to be loose again and in honor of Chuck’s latest release from county jail. The Times today starts a series of three articles on Indiana's most spectacular citizen and probably its most good-natured. Busy times, these. TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatur-s 8 a. m 35 10 a. m. ... 46 7a. m 38 11 a. m 47 Ra. m 39 12 <noon> 4R 9 a. m 42 1 p. m 5# Tomorrow's sunrise, 5.34 a. m. unset, 6:06 p. m.

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The points were not enumerated, but they obviously included an Eastern Europe security pact and the problem of maintaining European peace if it is menaced by Germany’s rearmament. It was stated the conversations were extremely cordial and would be resumed tomorrow. Capt Eden i gave M. Litvinov a complete account nf thp British-German talks in Berlin. including probably Adolf Hitler’s attitude, toward the Soviet Union. Hitler Attitude Strong By l nitrd Prr*s LONDON, March 28 —Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, tacitly admitted in the house of commons tonight that Adolf Hitler had adopted a. strong attitude during their recent conversations in Berlin. The conversations. Sir John said, revealed “considerable differences of opinion, but the result undoubtedly will be valuable and both sides will be able clearly to understand their respective viewpoints—a process indispensible to further ptogress.” “Under the circumstances, ’* Sir John said, “it Is obviously iindesirable to make a full statement on the position of affairs still under investigation. “Unauthorized speculation such as has appeared in some quarters should be disregarded, but I may state that in the course of the two days of conversations with Chancellor Hitler, the European problem and its relation to Germany was reviewed and all topics of the London communique of Feb. 3 were brought under discussion.” Germany in Furore By T nited Press BERLIN. March 28—Germans angrily demanded action from the government today to prevent execution of four Germans of Memel Territory. The government, it was learned, planned early action to try to halt the executions and to demand a new deal for the thousands of Germans in the litle Memel Territory taken from Germany after th World War and given to Lithuania. Denunciations of Lithuania, demands for government action, pledges to Germans of Memel to defend them and appeals to Adolf Hitler to “hit them” characterized mass meetings at‘ which shouting thousands in cities all over the country denounced the death sentences. Four Memel Germans were sentenced to death and 83 to prison terms for complicity in a plot to separate Memel from Lithuania. Protest meetings quickly organized by Nazi authorities were held last night in many cities—Berlin, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfort, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Aachen, Brunswick and Koenigsberg among them. Koenigsberg is the chief town of East Prussia, which borders on Memel territory. Kovno Is Resentful By United Press KOVNO (Kaunas) Lithuania, March 28.—Resentment arose in Lithuania today over Germany’s angry reaction to the death sentences imposed on four Germans in Memel Territory, and prison sentences imposed on 83. The chief defense attorney at tha trial, Prof. Vladimir Stankevitschius. was prevented from holding his regular lecture at the university by tumultous demonstrations of nationalistic students. The professor, a legal authority of international reputation, had demanded acquittal of all the accused. House Speeds Action Bf United Press WASHINGTON, March 28.—House Administration leaders today rushed action on a tremendous national defense program as the European arms situation hourly grew more tense. Bill after bill, all designed to strengthen naval and military establishments, were pushed rapidly through the legislative mill. The House with little opposition and no record votes, passed four navy bill*. Four Burned to Death in Home ARGYLE, la., March 28—Youthful Earl Roberson, his wife and their two infant children were burned to death today when fire destroyed their farm home.