Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 297, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1936 — Page 3

FEB. 20, 1930

TUGWELL HERO TO CITIZENS OF NEW DEAL CITY Satellite Colony Residents Enthusiastic, Stokes Learns on Trip. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Tiroes Special Writer LONGVIEW, Wash., b. 20. Found; One spot where Di. Rexford G. Tugwell is regarded as a benefactor and not an evil genius with horns and socialistic ideas, as lots of business men talk of him. The spot is a neat little valley near this city whpre 60 families are quartered in 60 houses with colored roofs, a couple of acres each for flowers and vegetables, a cow for milk and butter and a couple of dozen hens and a rooster. The resettlement is one of the so-called “satellite cities” projected by Dr. Tugwell's Resettlement Administration. an experiment that has not met. in some cases, with the success which is apparent here. Conditions Are Favorable Conditions here are favorable for the experiment. The colony is about two miles from Longview, a model planned city laid out in 1923 about several big lumber mills along the Columbia River. The men in the colony have jobs in the lumber and pulp mills, their yearly earnings varying from SSOO to SI2OO. They work five days a week. That leaves them Saturday and Sunday to tend to their vegetable gardens and flowers and keep things in repair. All have automobiles of not so recent vintage in which they go to and from the mills and for week-end outings with their families. A garage is connected with each house. I visited the project on a Sunday, a cool, sunshiny day. Here and there whole families were working about their yards, spading up for grass on their lawns and for flowers about the house and vegetables in the rear. Landscape Still Bare The landscape was still rather bare, as the families moved in only three and four months ago. But all were eager and enthusiastic about having homes of their own, instead of the far less desirable rented houses they formerly occupied in the city. I knocked at one door after another and inspected the interiors. I found them well planned, comfortable, sturdy houses. The children, in a couple of cases, proudly took me upstairs to show me their rooms. They are particularly pleased with the glistening white bathtubs, the convenient kitchen range which burns wood, and the big stove talso a wood-burner) which sits in every living room. The homes range in size from four to six rooms. The cost varies from $2400 to $3650, with an average of $2700. There is no down payment. Each family pays from $13.50 to $16.75 a month, which will amortize the obligation over a long period of years. No One Behind in Payments No one is behind in his payments. When you meet the efficient Mrs. Erma Johnson, local supervisor for the project, you feel that her watchful eye will see that the government comes out ahead on its investment. She is a sort of mother for the families, advising them about home planning, about what to plant, and so forth. In charge of administration of the colony, which is situated in the extreme southwestern part of Washington, is R. A. Bottcher, who has an office in Portland, Ore., 54 miles away, at Resettlement Administration headquarters for Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Citizens of Longview are enthusiastic about the colony, w'hich has the warm support of the Republican editor of the local daily. John McClelland, and of the Chamber of Commerce. They are interested in expanding it to provide 100 more homesThe 60 families that occupy the homes were selected from more than 400 applicants. There is a college graduate or two among them. Built for $16(5,890 The colonv was built, at a cast of $160.89TL-$24,986 for land, $141,104 for the houses. This is but a part of the rehabilitation being undertaken by the Resettlement Administration for the three northwestern states. It likewise has a big agricultural land reclaiming program for which it is acquiring 628,000 acres of depleted forest lands and arid grazing lands in Washington. Oregon and Idaho. Erosion, over-grazing, and overcultivation have done for these lands in the northwest what they did for once fertile wheat lands in the dust bowl area of Kansas. Nebraska. Colorado, Wyoming and Oklahoma. Oregon and Washington also have had their dust storms—as sailors 50 miles at sea have discovered. Many families were forced to leave farms in this area that they could no longer farm with profit. Others still can be found in the new wilderness, trying to eke out a living—and failing year by year. Their homes have degenerated into tum-ble-down shacks. Tells of Founding Town A bent old man with long beard. John C. Rush, sits in front of his hovel at Lamont, Ore—the only inhabitant left—and tells how he founded the town 30 years ago, and how it once flourished. It is only liißepairing .p^^ftSTENERS GA^ff Monument Circle VL

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Captured after slaying of their pal in a gun battle with police, two bandit suspects are shown here during questioning at detective headquarters. On the left is Detective Aren Mangus. and on the right, Detective Jack O. Small. John Faulk (center, left). 64, of 1011 Sanders-st, and Wade Stiles, 26, of 1107 Owossoav, are alleged to have held up two East Side groceries before they were trapped and Howard Lipscomb, 34, of 4626 Hovey-st, killed.

YOUNG PEOPLE TO GATHER IN CHURCH County Council Parley to Open Tomorrow. A three-day interdenominational young people’s conference is to open tomorrow at the Broadway M. E. Church. The theme of the meeting, sponsored by the young people’s division of the Marion County Council of Christian Education, is to be “Thou Art Made for This Hour.” A play, “What Shall It Profit?” is to be presented by the Emerson Avenue Baptist Church Dramatic Club, tomorrow night. Dr. R. M. Millard, Broadway church pastor, and Jack Jones, young people’s division president, are to speak. Group sessions are to be held Saturday morning and Dr. R. N. Harger of the Indiana University Medical School is to speak at 10:45 a. m. Following a business session in the afternoon, a personal problems group is to meet at 3:30. The Rev. Charles R. Lizenby of St. Paul’s Methodist Church is to have charge of recreation at 4:30.

OHIO MAIL ROBBERY SUSPECT IS NABBED Los Angeles Police Use Tear Gas in Capture. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20.—Abraham Radick, alias “The Frisco Kid,” was arrested early today as a suspect in a SIOO,OOO Ohio mail robbery and a $75,000 Pittsburgh jewel robbery by detectives who were forced to use tear gas to dislodge him from an attic. The suspected gangster fled to the attic as three Los Angeles detectives entered the residence where he had been living for more than a month. Detective Lieut. Jack Koehn of the fugitive detail called to Radick to surrender. When the suspect did not answer, the officer fired his tear gas gun into the open trap door that led to the attic. Ten minutes later Radick stumbled from the attic. desolation now, like Tyre or Sidorf. The plan is to buy up the land of those farmers who are left and move them elsewhere. If the purchase price is not sufficient for a start in anew place, money will be lent them on easy terms. The Resettlement Administration at Portland already has aided between 6000 and 7000 farmers who were in distress for one reason or another. If they are absolutely destitute, an outright grant is made to keep the family going until it can get on its feet, and then a loan is made for the purchase of necessary new equipment, seed, supplies and the like. Loans are restricted to farmers who have been unable to get money at a commercial bank or any of the government lending institutions. and they are made only to bona-fide farmers who can demonstrate that they will be able to operate their farms and repay the loan.

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ATTORNEY ATTACKS STATE GOVERNMENT Centralization of Power Is Flayed at Meeting. The McNutt administration is a direct threat to the liberties of the people because of its centralization of power objectives, Glen Hillis, Kokomo, former Howard County prosecutor, had charged today following an address last night before members of the McKinley Club. Gov. McNutt has attempted to do in Indiana what has been done in Louisiana, the speaker charged. “The Governor has gathered unto himself all the powers, whether constitutional or otherwise, and has become the sole executive in .this state,” Mr. Hillis said. “We need a Hoosier Governor who will carry out some of the highsounding phrases which were stated by him in his campaign and who will stay at home long enough to become acquainted with the state’s needs.”

FARM PROGRAM IS ASSAILED IN HOUSE Republican Calls Measure ‘Vicious, Unsound.’ Bp United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Rep. Charles W. Tobey (R„ N. H.), member of the House Agriculture Committee, assailed the New Deal in the House today for attempting to rush an “illegal” farm program to quick passage without public hearings. “This is a vicious, unsound scheme that is largely a subterfuge to circumvent the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing the AAA,” Rep. Tobey charged. Rep. Tobey’s attack came as debate was resumed on the farm subsidy and soil conservation program, which has passed the Senate. Debate is to close late today when the bill is to be thrown open for amendments. Rep. Harold D. Cooley (D., N. C.), member of the Agriculture Committee, asked adoption of the bill, saying: “Certainly the Supreme Court decision did not relieve us of the necessity of dealing with a farm program.” REALTORSAREHONORED Gifts Presented to Officers at Annual Dinner Dance. , New officers of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board today possessed gifts presented last night at the annual dinner dance held in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. More than 200 persons attended. Officers of the board are M. L. Hall, president; WMiiam G. Alberschardt, vice president; A. Edward Mantel, secretary; Fred T. Reed, treasurer, and R. A. Franke, T. E. Grinslade and Z. B. Hunt, directors.

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FATE OF STEVE AGAIN IN KANOS OF HIGH COURT Worden Asks Dissolution of Writ Barring Him From Hearing Plea. The fate of D. C. Stephenson, onetime grand dragon of the Ku-Klux Klan. again is in the hands of the Indiana Supreme Court. Contending the state failed to make a proper return to Stephenson’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus to gain release from the Indiana State Prison, attorneys for Judge Wirt Worden, of La Porte Circuit Court yesterday argued for dissolution of a temporary writ of prohibition issued by the high court to prevent Judge Worden from hearing the habeas corpus petition. With Chief Justice Curtis Roll presiding, all five members of the Supreme Court heard the latest move by which the former Klan leader hopes to gain his freedom. Claim Error by Lutz Stephenson was sentenced to a life term for the murder of an Indianapolis young woman after his conviction in Hamilton Circuit Court Nov. 14. 1925. Judge Worden and Clarence V. Shields, one of his attorneys, argued the La Porte court has the right to inquire into the constitutionality of all the processes by which Stephenson was convicted. The writ of prohibition attacks the statutory authority of the La Porte court, they argued, which gives the court power over subject matter and persons in cases arising in La Porte County, in which the state prison is situated. Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr., and his deputy. Edward Barce, erred, Judge Worden contended, by failing to include in their answer to the habeas corpus petition a certification of Stephenson’s conviction and commitment by the Hamilton court. Worden Resents State Brief In steps leading to the hearing yesterday, Mr. Lutz had filed a motion to quash the habeas corpus petition, which was overruled. The attorney general next filed a motion for change of judge and while that motion was pending obtained the temporary writ of prohibition from the high court. Judge Worden expressed resentment at the language used in the state brief supporting the motion to quash. Mr. Shields, in defending what he termed the statutory jurisdiction of the La Porte court to hear habeas corpus petitions, asked the rhetorical question of the high court: “I submit the question, does a different rule prevail for D. C. Stephenson?” Both Mr. Lutz and Mr. Barce, assisted by Thomas O’Meara, special state counsel, argued that the La Porte court can not inquire into and review the acts of the Hamilton court, a tribunal of equal jurisdiction. Hold Remedy Is in Appeal The Hamilton court conviction and commitment of Stephenson was set forth in the latter’s petition for a habeas corpus writ, state counsel pointed out, and therefore constituted a bar to the La Porte court assuming jurisdiction. State counsel offered numerous citations of cases in which the habeas corpus writ has been used similarly and in which the higher courts have held a prisoner’s remedy lay in appeal, if the face of the judgment and commitment were regular. The members of the Supreme Court interrupted counsel for both sides frequently, asking counsel’s attitudes assuming “such and such” a set of circumstances were conceded to be fact. Decision in the case, the third attempt of Stephenson to gain his freedom, is not expected before next week. He already has lost on appeal and writ or error coram nobis actions before the high court. CRANE OPERATOR FAIR AFTER LOSING HIS ARM Amputation in Mid-Air Leaves Man Fighting for Life. Bp United Press LOWELL, Mass., Feb. 20.—John McCoy, 47-year-old crane operator ■whose arm was amputated in midair yesterday, was holding his own today in a battle for life at St. Joseph’s Hospital. Attaches described his condition i as fair and unchanged.

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LEIBOWITZ QUITS BRUNTS STAFF Fate of Hauptmann Again Rests in Hands of Gov. Hoffman. (Continued From Page One) agreed there wasn’t any new evidence. “We have brought home to Hauptmann in unmistakable language,” Mr. Leibowitz said, “the plight that confronts him. He understands that at the present moment there is not available that newly discovered evidence that the law demands before any court of this state will grant him anew trial.” Mr. Fisher nodded in agreement. With that Mr. Leibowitz washed his hands of Hauptmann and took a train for New York. It was a strange scene into which newspaper men walked last night on the fourth floor of a Trenton Hotel. Mr. Leibowitz, just returned from the prison after a four-hour struggle with Hauptmann, had. thrown himself on a bed, limp and perspiring. Lines of fatigue were heavy on Mr. Fisher’s face. They ordered dinner, and Mr. Fisher finished with a strawberry sundae. Then they sent out word they were ready to talk. Dishes Clutter Table A table cluttered with dinner dishes was in the center of the room. Mr. Leibowitz was in his shirt sleeves, puffing on a stubby pipe. Mr. Fisher sat in an easy chair, his legs stretched out across the floor and his eyes drooping. Mr. Leibowitz put on his coat long enough for photographers to take pictures. Then he asked: “Everybody ready?” “Shoot, Sam,” was the answer. He talked slowly, picking his words as though they were jewels which he was going to set into some momentous pattern. His pipe went out. “We brought home to Bruno Richard Hauptmann in unmistakable language the plight which confronts him,” he said. “He understands very clearly that his last card . . Mr. Leibowitz paused, wrinkled his brow, rubbed his hand across his left eye where a minor blood vessel had broken in the heat of his argument with Hauptmann. . . has been played,” he con-

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Artistic Bp United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 20.—Artist Frank Savatis stroked his goatee today and chuckled at his newly revealed talent for apprehension of criminals. For years he has been making quick portrait sketches of any one who will sit for five minutes. He was in a restaurant Sunday when a young bandit entered, took S3O from the cash register and $8 from him. The artist hurried to his sketch board, drew a potrait of the robber. Police took the sketch and arrested Tony Calcagno, 22, as the original. “Gee, that guy sure can draw,” said the astonished Tony.

tinued, “beiore the Court of Pardons and that he has lost there as well. Both Mr. Fisher and I have told him that at present there is little further that any lawyer can do for him. “His only salvation, as matters stand now, lies in his making a clean breast of whatever guilty part he may have had in the heinous crime. Mr. Fisher’s attitude, as expressed, is that he still believed Hauptmann’s story. “My opinion as to Haqptmann’s guilt or innocence, which I had made after a close study of the evidence in the case, has not been changed one bit by the three intensive and exhausting conferences at the death house. “I can not see how I can serve the interests of justice any further by my continued participation in this case. “I therefore want no further part of any of it.” Fisher Adds Statement Mr. Fisher stirred out of his chair and dictated a brief statement saying he was sorry Leibowitz was withdrawing. “Judge Pope and myself.” he added, in a tired voice, “are hopeful that matters now under investigation will work out to our client’s benefit. Under any circumstances we shall continue to do our utmost in our client’s behalf.”

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1 SLAIN, 2 ARE NABBED AFTER BANDITCHASE Woman Swoons as Police Trap Suspect: Bullet Menaces Motorist. (Continued From Page One) up the trail on State-av, south ot Washington-st. Police forced the car of ihe gunmen to the curb near Marlowe-av, and the shooting started. Sergt. Kruse leaped out and fired two shots into the car, one killing Lipscomb instantly. Stiles jumped out and started running. Patrolman Sullivan fired one shot at him, but the bullet went wild and hit a door in the home of Fred A. Rouse. 302 N. State-av, Stiles turned into an alley, and Sullivan, in rounding the comer, slipped and fell on the ice. The fugitive continued firing and he also fell on the ice. He dashed on to the porch of the home of Mrs. Julia Murphy, 237 N. Summit-st. By this time, Patrolman William Lahrman had joined in the chase. As the pair started toward the dark porch, a woman screamed “My God, don’t go up there,” then fainted. With only one bullet left, Stiles surrendered, without further struggle, saying: “Here’s my gun. Take me.” Meanwhile, Sergt. Kruse had started in pursuit of Faulk, emptying his gun at the fleeing man, but Faulk escaped down an alley. Motorist Has Close Call During the chase, one of the bandits’ bullets narrowly missed Roy Grathaus, 21 Parkview-av, a passing motorist. The shot went through the car window, passing between the driver’s head and the windshield. Faulk was arrested later at his home by Sergt. Charles Burkett, after Stiles had given officers the suspect’s name. At headquarters Stiles is said to have admitted participating in last night’s two holdups, and in three other recent robberies. The statement also alleged that Stiles named Faulk in all of the stickups. Lipscomb’s body was taken to city morgue, where it was identified by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lipscomb of the Hovey-st address. Lipscomb had no police record, but served a term from Oct. 28 to Nov, 19, 1935, in the County Jail for contempt of court in failing to pay $3.50 a week for support of a child. Car Ownership Is Traced Faulk, according to Stiles’ alleged confession, served five years in the Indiana State Prison for robbery in Greene County. Two other men were held on vagrancy charges as police attempted to trace the ownership of the car used by the bandit suspects. It was found to belong to Paul Martin, 1711 N. Pennsylvania-st. Martin claimed he loaned the car to Oscar Sullivan, 220 N. Illinoisst, yesterday, and Sullivan said ha had loaned it to William Dodds, 1308 W. 18th-st. Sullivan and Dodds were held. Dodds, a paroled convict who said he had loaned the car to Lipscomb, has been sought by police for questioning in a recent drug store holdup in which Albertis Matherly was wounded.