Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1937 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
JUDGE BAKER SAYS GAMING
PAYOFF EXISTS
Fines Rahke $500 After Criticizing Indictment As ‘Weak.’
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Mr. Spencer was in Chicago, his office said. Chief Deputy Prosecutor
Oscar Hagemeier also Was out of
town, the office said.
Rahke pleaded guilty Monday to the aiding and abetting a lottery i charge, the judge pointed out, |
Addressing Ed Meyer, vice squad officer, Judge Baker asked: “I want to know if the vice squad 1s responsible for this indictment. Do they investigate other places. How about ...... place in Wabash St.? Is that territory under your supervision?” “Yes, if there is a gambling place there,” Officer Meyer said.
“Travesty,” Charges Judge
“If there is a place, you say,” Judge Baker said between gusts of laughter. “I walked by there the other day and saw gambling in full view. | “Furthermore, who operates on S. New Jersey St? You (Officer Meyer) ought to get someone above you to take iff your strait jacket so you could operate.” In reply to Mr. Howard's statement, Judge Baker declared: “The grand jury has the power io bring in anybody it wants without a search warrant. I know lotteries can be stopped, but this case with this indictment is just a travesty. “The situation in Indianapolis shows that somebody is profiting very greatly from gambling as it exists.” When informed of Judge Baker's charges, Sheriff Ray said: “He (the Judge) is saying something that I have known for years. This is apparently a controversy between Judge Baker and Prosecutor Spencer, and I can't see any reason for mixing into it. | “We weren't called in on this case at all. Everyone remembers the ffort I made to clean up things around here. I didn’t get any cooperation. All I did was wear myself out and accomplish nothing.” Chief Morrissey could not be reached for comment, and Mayor ern was out of the city, his office said.
LOCAL YOUTHS HELD ‘IN ROBBERY SERIES
Sheriff Claims Confession In Station Holdup.
| shania Press NOX, June 23.—Three Indianapolis youths were held in the Starke County ‘Jail today as suspects in la long. series of filling station robberies in northern Indiana. Authorities said one of them had confessed. hose in jail are John Hanrahan, 20, said to have admitted his part in the| robberies; Dennis L. Stewart, 21, and Herbert Coss, 19. Sheriff Frank B. Lough said that Harahan has no previous record but| that Stewart and Coss| are on parole from the Indiana Reformatory. All three are suspected of committing holdups in Winamac, Chesterton, Star City, Raps San Pierre, Hamlet and La Crosse. Sheriff Lough led a posse into the woods along the Kankakee River in Jasper County when a State game warden heard shots on the Ed Vollmer farm. Later it was |learned the trio were firing at silver coins placed in a tree. In an automobile which the sher- | iff said was stolen in Indianapolis, authorities found a sawed-off shotgun, five other shotguns, six smallcaliber rifles and one revolver. Also there was about $200 ‘in small ‘change, a blow torch, two radios
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lant assumed that there was something wrong with our system of government and were asked for the purpose of eliciting from him what he thought was the solution or else for the purpose of inciting him to violate a statute.
Hits Guilty Verdict
“Nowhere did he plead for the adoption of his opinion nor did he incite anyone within the meaning of this statute. “No one could say from the evidence in the case that he ‘violated any provision of the statute.
a verdict of guilty could rest and the verdict is not supported by sufficient evidence and is contrary to law.” The defense had attacked constitutionality of the Indiana criminal syndicalism law as “throttling free expression.” Butash's attorneys cited the recent U. S. Supreme Court decision {reeing Dirk De Jonge from a seven-year sentence under the Oregon Criminal syndicalism law for participating in a Communist rally. They also cited the highest court's recent decision in favor of Angelo Herndon, Georgia Negro charged with inciting insufrection. The decision today did not rule on constitutionality of the Indiana law,
First Test of 1918 Law This was the first test of the Crim-
inal Syndicalism Law since. its pas-
sage in 1918.
Mr. Butash was convicted on charges ‘of attempting to advocate overthrow of the government by force. He was arrested in May, 1936, after speaking at a meeting of Angola businessmen and Tri-State College students.
- Witnesses who testified against him said they invited him to speak so they could trap him.
After speaking five minutes, Mr. Butash answered questions from his hosts and declared he favored the Farmer-Labor Party. He suggested, according to testimony, that Congress ‘‘could be forced to take action” on pending security legislation. The naturalized Hungarian was saved from the crowd by college students after he was attacked, trial records showed. Warned to leave Angola, lhe was arrested the next
and a hacksaw.
IN "INDIA
MEETINGS TODAY
Kiwanis Club, international convention, all day Lions Club, luncheon. ton, noon. . : Young Men’s Discussion Club, dinner, Y.
Hotel . Washing-
iC. A, p. m, : Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon. N : Twelfth District American Legion, lunchnoon
eon, Board of Trade, y luncheon, Board of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Trade, noon. Real Estate Board Property Management Division, - luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon.
MEETINGS TOMORROW Kiwanis Clubs, international convention, all day. Real - Estate Board, Hotel Washington, noon. Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. American Business Club, lumbia Club, noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade. noon. Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,
luncheon,
luncheon, Co-
noon. Caravan Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,
no diana Motor Traffic Association, lunch-
eon, Hotel Antlers, noon.
MARRIAGE LICENSES (These lists are from official records at the County Court House. The Times is not responsible for any errors of names or addresses.) :
rd McAvoy. 31. of 1312 Carrollton ad Mary Anne Demaree, 33, of 1312 | 1lton Ave. . ore B. Underwood. 24. of 1013 Castle Ave.. to Elizabeth Rice, 18, of Indianap-
olis. ; d E. Kimberlin, 22, of {3017 Clifton Wis Norma K. Durflinger.|21, of 372 t Ave. i z i C. Graves. 29. of 630 N. Main St., Beech Ofove, to Fanny E; Burris, 24. i olis. i of iam. Webb. 72. of Maywood. Ind. to Katherine Hinkle, 77. of Mars] Hill. . Alton Carver. 21, of Indianapolis: to Moil Bandy. 16. of 1833 Miller St. | Arthur James Queisser, 31,0 of 320 W. 29th St.. to Ruth Cain. 19, i of 4108 E. Michigan St. f
BIRTHS
Boys | Boyd, Clara Shacklett, at 4110 Cor-
aelius. i , Lola Kocher, at 2011 Shelby. Berhard, 10) Lynch, at 357 Lansing. William, Julia Pipes, at 512 Patterson. Harold, Dorothy Rutland, at 916 Mus-
King n. Beatrice Mowery, at 1445 W.
Oneal, Annis McKinney, at 923 English. =~ Girls *
Ward, at 1226 Wit
lyman Cashman, at 3
Gladys George,
Mabel 0. CoN iilard, Ella Flory, at 2512 Graydon. John, Mary Stewart, at 1249 W 25th. Rov. Celesta Wood, at 514 W. Henry. George, Nora Johnson. at 1706'z Brooker. Delman, Ella Lacey, at 2138 Highland,
DEATHS Jerome ‘Tanner,
8, he far: Frank Tingle, 54, at 738 King,
hage. ' oe ritam Helis, , at Long, pneumonia.
at City, cerebral
day. He was. convicted in July and
NAPOLIS
35, fracture. | Mattie B. Hayden, 62, acute cardiac dilatation. i alter B. Owens, 60. is
Melvin Harold Wells. 67, at Central Indiana, chronic necocarditis. Carl S.| Johnson, 48, at rebral hemorrhage. Nick Stroan, 75, at City, orrhage. Nancy Lindley, 70, at St Vincent's, carcinoma.
Arthur M. Glick, 14, at St. Vincent's. epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis. Minnie Carter, 71, at 946 N. Traub, cardiac decompensation. :
Ervin O. Kramer, at City, at 725 N. West. at City, chylecysVeterans’, ce-
cerebral hem-
OFFICIAL WEATHER
United States Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly
cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight and |
tomorrow.
Sunrise wigmimeesion
4:17 | Sunset
TEMPERATURE —June 23, 1936— pm, ........
BAROMETER
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending at 1 a. m. .00 Total precipitation since van. 1.....°20.74 Excess since Jan. 1 .. . vo en JS NY MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Partly cloudy tonight and temorrow, probably thunaershowers extreme north this atternoon or tonight: somewhat warmer tomorrow and central and north tonight,
Illinois—Generally fair tonight and. tomorrow, except thundershowsars northeast this afternoon or tonight: warmer tomorrow and west and north tonight. Lower Michigan—Showers and thunderstorms tonight or tomorrow; slightly warmer, Ohio—Fair, partly cloudy. Kentucky — Fair, slightly warmer in southeast portion ‘tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, warmer in extreme east portion.
WEATHER IN. OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.
Station. Weather, Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex. 90 10 Bismarck, N. D ..Cloudy Boston ..Cloudy Chicago vin ..Cloudy Cincinnati ....... .. +... PtCldy Cleveland, O.
warmer tonight; tomorrow
Jacksonville,
Kansas City, Mo
N. | Little Rock,’ Ark. ....
Los Angeles .. . Miami, Minneapolis ... Mobile, Ala. New Orleans New OKla. Omaha, Ne Pittsburgh Portland, Ore. ........ San Antonio, Tex. .... San Francisco ...... St. Louis
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Civil Liberties Plealby Butash Is Upheld by Supreme Court
Paul Butash
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sentenced to one to five years in| prison. i According to the trial testimony, Mr. Butash solicited magazine subscriptions from Angola businessmen. In his conversation with one, he mentioned the word “system” in connection with the economic and political order. This lead to his invitation to speak. Mr. Butash denied that he advocated the overthrow of government through force, insisting that his use of the word “force” had been misunderstood. He was a stanch supporter of the Constitution, the Chicago magazine sales-
California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Washington, Idaho, Ohio and other states, pressed by post-war hysteria against communism into passing similar criminal syndicalism laws, | now have been considering their | repeal. ! ; Only this year Oregon repealed a “criminal syndicalism” law similar to the Indians statute. In-the recent session of the Leg- | islature, the American Civil Liberties Union led the fight for repeal of the Indiana law. Many labor leaders joined the movement. The act forbids publications, | flags or utterances which advocate overthrow of the, Government by force or the general cessation of industry. The preamble specifically mentions the Russian revolution.
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DECLARE MONEY PAID FOR STOCKS NEVER RECEIVED
Morley Trial Witnesses Assert Holdings Were Illegally Traded.
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Additional witnesses today testi--fied in Federal Court that they paid the C. J. Morley Co. for stocks which never were delivered and others said stocks they bought were switched for others against their will. » ; The testimony was given in the trial of Morley, a former Colorado Governor and judge, and four others on charges of using the mails to defraud in the operations of alleged “bucket shops” here and in Evansville. Mark Zimmer, Kokomo engineer, testified that he paid $600 for stocks and that they were traded for others without his authority.
Describe Alleged Operations
He said he was told that he had bought the stocks on margin and that the day the company’s offices here were raided he was called in to make an additional payment. The witness said that he paid for his stock by check. He said the check was indorsed first by Olaf T. Anderson, one of the defendants, and then by Andrew Jacobs, attorney. Louis J. Eckstein, Jasper manufacturer, testified also that stock he
" purchased was traded for another against his wish.
V. E. Blakely, Winchester clothier; Harry Rizzo, Middletown fruit dealer, and Oris H. Wright, Vincennes, testified today that they never received the stocks on which they made payments. Charles J. Golden, Ft. Wayne, clothier, told the jury, on examination by the U. S. Attorney, that he had contracted to buy $1127.50 in stocks; that he paid over a period of months approximately $1100 in money and collateral for which he received no securities nor the return of his investment.
50 Others to Testify
Thus far 29 of 85 witnesses called by the Government have testified. ‘Exhijbits to be issued by the Government will total more than 400, according to District Attorney Val Nolan. Many of the witnesses have related about-high pressure methods of selling by a man whom they knew only as “Mr. Spencer.” Frequently objecting to testimony and admission of exhibits as evidence, William Bryans, Denver, attorney for the 69-year-old defendant, sought to check the stream of Government testimony.
One of the exhibits introduced by
| the Government as evidence, de-
scribed as the “sucker list,” contained long lists of names of midd!eclass business men, farmers, doctors and manufacturers who were to be induced to buy stock which the prosecutor claims never was received.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Train Blast Toll at 3
A Reto SER
Death in Milan Hospital last night of Engineer George Gottberg, 50, of Louisville, increased to three the toll of the boiler explosion which
wrecked this Baltimore & Ohio Railroad engine yesterday morning near. .Osgood, Ind. >
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Charles Dickason, 55, Seymour, {rainman, and Roy Carr, 47, Mitchell, fireman, were killed instantly in the blast which tore the boiler in to three parts and hurled this one back along-side one of the 12 cars which were derailed.
Delinquent Payments Swell - Marion County Tax Collection
Marion County tax payments during the spring collection, which closed May 2, totaled $8.642,088, according to figures released today by Chief Deputy Auditor F. W. Biemer. : The amount is $373,700 more than the $8,268.388 payments during the corresponding collection a year ago. . The deputy auditor said that of * 5 this year's total $693.935 represented | FIGHT
payments on delinquencies.
EXCITEMENT When the distribution is made the ' FATAL TO SALESMAN School City is to receive the largest | CSR
amount. $2,862.020. The City Gen- By United ress eral Fund will get $1,695,155, the| VINCENNES. June 23.—The exCounty General Fund $644,757 and citement of the seventh round of the Marion County Welfare Depart- | the Louis-Braddock’ championship ment $454,899. : fight last night proved fatal to W. The balance will be distributed | B. Scott, 50, New Albany chemical among various smaller taxing units. ' company salesman.
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Dreaded Texas Killer Leads 19
In Farm Break
By United Press WELDON, Tex., June 23.—Nin teen fugitives from the Eastha Prison Farm, including murderers, robbers, burglars and. thieves, roamed the woods of the Trinity
River bottoms today in a break for |
freedom. The 18 others were led by W. Bybee, a killer once reprieved from death sentence and an associate ¢ Raymond Hamilton, Clyde Barro and Bonnie Parker, three of th most dreaded outlaws of the gen
nated. - The 19 overpowered Pike Allen, a guard, and made away with his horse and gun,
Four of the fugitives were murderers. Bybee was the most noPrison guards, accustomed to frequent breaks, had not asked for aid today.
DE MILLE IS GITED BY TAX PROBERS
Incorporated His Salary, Investigators Told.
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counsel, could use personal holding
of taxes.” : He said the Treasury had lost, “huge amounts of taxes because of | use of the method, and that the resuit was that other taxpayers “have horne an undue share of the expenses of Government.”
Gets Corporation Salary
Helvering explained that, in the case of men with large income, the surtax on individuals is: greatly in excess of the tax on personal hold--ing companies. In the case of de Mille, ne explained that the producer caused his earnings to be placed in the corporation, which then paid him a salary less than the amount he earned in the movie industry. The difference between his earnings and his salary from the company, Helvering said, was put into the corporation.” Income taxes on such money, when owned by the corporation, were less than would have been the case if the taxes had been levied on the income of the individual, Helvering ‘explained. . Predicts Savings Rep. Vinson (D. Ky), a committee member, predicted up to 50 million dollars in revenue could be saved if Congress appropriated three million dollars additional to strengthen the Internal Revenue Bureau's personnel. | The Bureau was criticized by Senator La Follette (Prog. Wis.) for “delay” in developing data concerning the use of foreign’ insurance companies to avoid tax payments to the Federal Government. Rep. Allen T. Treadway (R.
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DISCOUNT PERIL OF WALKOUT ON U. S. RAILROADS
Labor Experts Think Law Will Force Both Sides To Negotiate.
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means of persuading major carriers to hear their demands. Delegates left for their homes immediately te prepare for the election. : The rail unions have long pure sued the method of authorizing a strike, by referendum, in order to give their negotiators a big stick." The practice is to vote union officials power to call a strike at any" time, The impending Big Four negotia=~ tions with the railroads involve a strategic issue, however, which may cause serious complications. In the old days the brotherhoods negotiated separately with each railroad system. In the depression the road executives negotiated as a national unit for a wage cut, which the unions, also as a national unit, accepted. Now the indications are the care riers want to split things up and give each railroad a chance to reduce the unions’ demands if it can— which other roads could cite in seeking - similar reductions. The unions are preparing to insist on a national negotiation, and that’s why the unionists are now sharpening their weapon.
Prepare to Poll
1350,000 Trainmen
By United Press CHICAGO, June 23.—Representa« tives of five railroad brotherhoods prepared today to poll 350,000 traine men, switchmen, conductors, fire= men and engineers on advisahility of a strike. Members of operating unions will vote within 30 days on whether they should call a strike to enforce * demands for a flat 20 per cent wage increase and to turn down demands of railroads for downward revision of 100 rules affecting hours and working conditions. Results of the poll will be canvassed by union heads meeting here June 26. A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, largest of the group, announced that if members vote a strike and set a date for it, their action will “open the door” to intervention by the Federal Railway Board. . “This will compel the railroads te negotiate,” Whitney said.
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