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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-03
I'll ReUeaI the Whole Truth,
Says Mrs. Mabel WiIlebru11dt
Great Series of Articles on
Prohibition Starts in The
Times Monday.
RV Times Special

! RV Times Special
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Now 1t
can be told, and Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt is telling it. In a series
Of articles, to be published In In
dianapolis exclusively by The Times,
starting Monday. she has written
the story Of eight years of prohibi-
ton enforcement from the inside.
She writes it as she saw it, in her
capacity of assistant attorney gen.
eral charged with the duty, among
others, Of the general conduct of
cases under the national prohibition
act.
Some of the reasons why she
wrote the articles, and what, in part,
they will reveal, she told briefly, to-
day, in the intervals of moving into
her new suite of Offices, in which
she is resuming in Washington the
private practice interrupted by eight
years of government service.
i wrote them," she said, because
so many stories have been told of
and about me that it seemed to me
more satisfactory, more dignifled, to
tell the story Of the last eight years
once and for all and close the book
on those pages Of my life and work
Facts All the Time
What specifically are some of the
things I am telling? Well, first and
last and all the time, facts, and
facts, and again facts, with names
and dates.
Some of these facts will surprise
a great many people, shock others,
and seriously diSplease, I suspect, a
considerable number OF friends, as
we'll as foes, of prohibition.
That is because I have told the
plain, unvarniShed truth, hewing
to the line and letting the chips fall
where they must, in dealing frankly
with this difficult national problem.
1T is my hope that those who are
interested sufficiently to read what
I have written, may at least be en-
abled thereby to get clearer and
less emotional view of the actual
task and obligations involved.
Writes the Truth Only
II have written only the truth as
see it, as in fact saw it through
eight years of personal dealing with
a great number of officials, the
courage of some of whom had been
sapped to the vanishing point by
political ambition, and with certain
spineless others who were suffering
from that Washington malady-gov-
rnmentitis-which is another way
Of saying: Never displease anyone,
and do as little as possible
Others, too, there were of whom
have written, those courageous
and fearless ones, some of whom
were fired for daring to buck the
politicians.
Il have told the stories of some of
the 'higher-ups' who have so mis-
handled prohibition enforcement
that it will take many years fox
the country to recover from the
harm that they did.
Some will not like to hear that q
good deal of the source of supply of
liquor today is coming from an
avoidable loosenesS in handling per-
mits, from the stranglehold on en-
forcement machinery by certain al
cohol lobbyists.
But these facts can not be left
out of a fair picture of the national
situation"
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Mostly fair tonight and sunday
cooler tonight" was the forecast is
sued today, as temperatures were
near normal.
Employees Of the Indiana Bel
Telephone Company and the Indi-
annapolis Power and Light Company
worked overtime repairing breaks in
small units of telephone and trans
mission lines. Their damage was
not heavy.
Police today we're seeking the
identity of the Negro woman who
was struck and killed by an auto
driven by Glesner Beam, %, Of 1914
Central avenue, as she crossed North
Capitol avenue in the 900 block
about Friday night.
Coach Strikes Auto
Beam was arrested on charge OF
involuntary manslaughter and or
dered held under $4,000 bond. Wit
nesses said the woman seemed to
halt as Beams car approached and
then pitched into it. Her head shat
tered the cowl lamp.
The heavy rain put police mo-
torcycles out of commission with
the result that only one speeding
arrest was made. Traffic arrests to-
tailed nineteen, as compared with
approximately 100 arrested nightly
for the last ten days.
When an automobile driven by
Scott Wadley of 1876 North Merid-
ian street, was struck at Twenty
fifth and Delaware streets, by a
Peoples Motor Coach Company bus
driven by Richard Clark, 27, OF 2l54
Ashland avenue, Wadley's daugh-
ter, Miss Melissa Wadley, I8, and
Miss Betty Lee Burns, 20, Of 42OS
Washington boulevard, we're cut BY
flying glass. Clark said he hao
swerved to the left to avoid car
being towed across the street.
Taxi Skids, Hits Store
skidding on the slippery pave
ment, a taxicab driven by John Full
er. 80, of 535 Jones street, plunged
over the sidewalk at Illinois and
Ohio streets into the front OF the
Newark Shoe Company store, 164
North Illinois street. Two plate
glass windows were broken and shoes
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DOG RACING
Bet DECISION
IS DUE TODAY
Judge at Greenfield viii
Give Verdict on invest
ment SyStem.'
APPEAL IS PREDICTED
Allison Road Track viii
Open Windows Tonight
If Operators Win.

Shortly before noon today Judge
Arthur G. Van Duyn Of the Han
cock circuit court was sched-
uled to give a decision on the
temporary injunction requested by
the Indiana Kennel Club, Ltd, dog
track operators on the Allisonville
road, against police interference
with the tracks operation Of a
brokerage investment" system of
betting.
Judge Van Duyn's decision was to
determine whether the investment"
betting is a violation Of the state
gaming and pool-selling laws.
The case was venued from the
superior court of Judge James A.
Leathers to the Hancock judicial
district.
Claim System Not Gambling
Attorneys for the dog track in
their pleadings for an injunction at
the hearing early this week argued
the investment" betting was not a
violation of the state laws. Clinton
H. Givan, county attorney, who rep
resented Sheriff George Winkler,
and Herbert Spencer, city attorney,
counsel for Chief of Police Claude L.
Worley, agreed the judges ruling in
the case was one of decision as to
whether the investment" betting
is gaming.
A favorable decision to the dog
track owners will open the closed
cashiers windows at the track to-
night, it is said.
Judson L. Stark, county prosecu-
tor. has said on several occasions he
would not countenance any system
of betting at the track regardless OF
an adverse court decision.
Stark has not appeared as counsel
in the Hancock injunction hearing
Going to Higher Court
Belief the betting litigation viii
be carried to the supreme court OF
the state is given credence by Givar
who said, prior to the judges de-
cision, he would ask the supreme
court for writ of prohibition tc
prevent the new type of betting
should the county lose at Green
field.
Criminal action of gaming charges
are pending in the Marion county
criminal court against nine employees
and operators OF the dog track, The
criminal hearings are set for the
September term of court.
Judge Van Duyn's decision is
awaited with interest by operators
of a proposed dog track at Jeffer-
sonville, Ind. The judges ruling is
the first real test case on the new
wrinkle in wagering to receive
judicial opinion in Indiana.
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TAX RATE IS $1,18
Request to Council viii Be
for Scent Raise.

Resquest of city officials for a
$1.18 tax rate for 1880 probably will
go to city council Monday night.
Mayor L. Ert Slack estimated the
request will be for $118 levy, an
Scent boost over 1929 rate. The city
general fund levy recommendation
will be IS cents, an increase of is
cents for interest.
1t was originally predicted by City
Controller Sterling R. Holt the total
estimate would be about S1.16.
An effort to make further reduc-
tions was made at a conference Of
Holt and Slack.
City council is expected to cut the
departmental requests in an effort
to make additional slashes.
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Ho1U the Market
Opened

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.-In the face
of the usual weekend profit t-taking
dozens of stocks forged to new high
ground in the early trading on the
Stock Exchange today. Trading was
fairly active with several large
blocks appearing.
Atchison spurted to record at
2631s up a point, and new highs
were made by Engineers Public
Service at rs. up rs, on 5000 shares
and Westinghouse Electric at 215%
up e..
U. S. Steel and long list of other
leaders made fractional gains, while
General Electric declined points
TO 800 and American Telephone and
Telegraph eased y to 1901.
National Cash Register rose a
point to 1904 on a sale of 5000
shares and small gains were re-
corded in Radio-Keith-O -Orpheurn,
Public Service, Packard, Missouri
Kansas-Texas and several others
from various groups.
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TAXI WAR IS
begun IN CITY
Rate Battle PreSaged When
Yellow Cab Owner Opens
New Line.

A taxi rate war was started today
when Mike Maroney, operator of
the Yellow Cab Company, having
the highest rates in the city, be-
gan operation of cheaper rate
line to be known as the Lincoln
cab line.
Maroneys new company operates
from the same Office as the Yellow
Cab Company, 1922 North Illinois
street.
The Lincoln cabs are Ford sedanS
painted yellow.
Rates are 25 cents the first two
miles and 10 cents for each addi-
tional one-half mile.
The new line was seen as a thrust
against the recently opened Red Cab
line, which also is a Ford-motored
line. and has a rate of 25 cents the
first two miles and 10 cents for each
additional two-thirds mile.
The new company today gave In
dianapolis five cab lines, the Yell
low. the Checker Royal Blue, the
United. the Red and the Lincoln.
The United and the Checker
Royal Blue cut rates some time ago.
The drivers Of the United cabs own
their own cars and are banded to-
gether in a mutual ownership Or
ganization.
The cab price war was presaged
some time ago when the Checker
Royal Blue Slashed prices. Since
then it has been a fight between the
Blue and the United with Maroney's
line holding to the higher prices.
Free rides Friday night featured
the Inauguration Of the Lincoln
line.
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DR.. SHOOK DEEPLY PAINED'
BY LIES OF PROSECUTION

watched flies chase each other across
the ceiling.
He was so low in his chair he was
not visible over the counsel table.
Not even when the bitterest charges
were made did his interest quicken.
His self-control. acquaintances say,
he acquired during years he was be-
coming worlds champion revolver
shot, an honor he held for ten
years.
Shook will be back in court to-
day to hear more evidence against
him. At the close of Fridays ses-
sion his own, allegedly blood-stained
clothing, was being laid before the
jury.
A three-hour session will be held
today. adjournment coming at noon.
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analytical detachment hardly in
keeping with the extreme import
ance of this case to DR.. Shook him
self. He evinced no great interest
in the technical discussion OF
anatomy in which his attorneys and
Coroner Murphy INDUCED for two
hours Fiday.
st guess they we're trying to bring
out one point" he said, referring to
his lawyer, "and they did that"
The one point, he said, was the
testimony there we're other wounds
on Theora's body in addition to the
slit in her threat, which could have
caused her death
All day Friday he paid but slight
attention to what was going on He
loIled "a his beach chair and
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Shortly after 10 Friday
night, Gardner and Brooks
drew guns on Charles Reynolds,
19, of $685. Ferguson street, att
tendant at a Western Oil sta
ton, 5000 East Michigan street,
and took $40. Moore, cripple,
drove Gardner automobile.
Fifteen minutes later they held
up Daniel D. Goldrick, "a, at
Sinclair station, Twenty-fourth and
Meridian streets, and escaped with
$85 from the safe.
Then, before police could answer
that call, they appeared in an In
diana Refining company station
Arlington avenue and Washington
street, covered Charles Albright, 81
North Brookville road, with guns,
took $50 from the safe, locked ALI
bright in the washroom, and ran
out of the station.
Suspicious of Car
While they were in the station,
Moore drove the black sedan up and
down Arlington avenue. Carroll
Nipp, 27 South Arlington avenue,
became suspicious of the car, and
iotted down its license number.
Then he saw two men run from the
filling station on the corner, and
leap into the car which roared west
on Washington street.
In the sedan, parked in Gardeners
garage, Sergeant L. M. Troutman,
and patrolmen Jack Small and Fred
Stegg. found a revolver and a bag
Of silver money.
Gardner was in his house, his
clothing still wet. They found S23
in his pockets. He refused to adj
nit participating in the holdups.
Gun in Possession
Moore, whom police arrested at
his home, had a gun and $50 on his
person. Under grilling by the Of
ficers he confessed, and implicated
Brooks and Donaldson. Police took
a gun and $95 from Brooks.
Detectives Charles Golnisch and
Robert Taylor obtained signed con-
/ fessions from the trio admitting the
three crimes Friday night, and
Moore admitted to police that their
past raids caused double police
shifts. A year ago. he said, they
were implicated in a hijacking
shooting near haywood.
Grilled by detectives today, all re-
tracted their statements of robberies
other than those committed Friday
night.
They Met Before
When Gardner was brought to
police headquarters by the night
riding squad, Immediately after his
arrest at his home, Detective Robin
Taylor peered into Gardners face.
We've met before" he announced.
Eyes, at Sunnyside," responded
Gardner with a catch in his voice.
Only last week" Taylor's daugh-
ter, girl of 20, very i'll at the sani-
tarium, and Gardner's wife lie side
by side on hospital beds, and 1t was
while visiting thier sick relatives
that the men met.
Police said Gardner himself was
the victim Of hold-up men while
employed as attendant at the Stand
ard Oil Company's filing station at
Thirty eighth and Illinois streets
about a year ago.
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NEW HERRIN'
IS THREATENED
Ogden Told of Massacre
Hints in Bono Mine
Trouble.

Threats of another Herrin mas
sacre" unless the state drops the
prosecution of union miners who
took part in the Bono Mine Com
pany rioting at Dana June % were
reported to Attorney General James
M. Ogden today.
Ogden also was informed that
United Mine Workers officials had
made overtures to the mobbed
Dana miners which would permit
them to operate with union cards
"if they would drop prosecution"
Such were the report brought
back from Vermilion county by
Merl Wall and George w. Hufsmith,
deputy attorneys-general, who re-
turned from spending seevral days
in furthering prosecutions growing
out of the rioting.
They reported that no action is
taken to secure additional affidavits
by Prosecutor Homer D. Ingram
when the state is not on hand. In
gram, himself, warned the deputies
of the "Herrin massacre" threats.
Troop Readiness Urged
The attorney generals Office will
advise the Governor of the situa-
ton and urge that troops be held
in readiness if it is deemed neces-
sary, Ogden said.
The deputies trip resulted in four
teen more afldavits for rioting and
rout being filed against alleged
members of the mob. This brings
the total to f1fty-eight, all Of whom
are members of the United Mine
Workers of America according to
Wall.
The Bono mine is worker-owned
and operated on a pay scale Of $3.50
a day. The union scale is S6.10.
Several weeks ago several hundred
alleged union miners gathered at the
Bono mine and brutally beat the
worker owners.
They appealed to Governor Harry
G. Leslie for protection and the
Governor asked the attorney-gen
erals office to aid in the proSecu-
tions. The mine is now running,
Wall and Hufsmith reported.
New Riot Threatened
They also told Ogden that the
miner owners went to Terre Haute,
headquarters of the Eleventh district
of the union, and sought to arrange
for employment Of union miners.
They were told by a national or
ganizer that one of the conditions
for union approval would be the
dropping Of prosecution of the
rioters, they said.
Ingram told the deputies it had
been said in Vermillion county that
"if a single miner serves a single
days time for this job there will be
another Herrin massacre here"
Union officials, both state and ma
tional, had called on Leslie, upon
the Governors request, and declared
the union opposed any rioting. They
intimated that it might be the
"Reds."
Wall, however. reports that the
union officials refused to forfeit the
carsd Of even those who admitted
they took part in the Bono affair.
Several Of the latest named in af-
fdavits are said TO be close personal
friends Of Ingram Both the prose-
cutor and Sheriff Harry Newland
had done nothing about the rioting
until ordered to act by the Cover
nor, it was said.
Rioting and rout we're charged
against the following. as a result
Of the deputies investigation this
week:
Clyde Shew, Cliff vitalie, George
Foos, Louis Philli, Walter Cottrell,
Pete Jacobs, Frank Pence, Joseph
Gislo, Charles P. McLeash, Roy
Vanzo, George Harrington, David
Putnam, Franklin Jackson and
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RAIN BREAKS LONG
DROUGHT IN STATE,
SAVING CORN CROP

TRAFFIC accidents fatal interrupted telephone and Lighting service
Easements comprised the toll indianapolis Friday nights
while farmers
he removed
throughout the state Of tnestmabe
overshadowng weather
declared.
oaed 90 inches At other points in the state it
III; Wabash
evansville 64 Bufton lthe heavies0 BIO
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Killed SCOUTS SELL
WALES MATCH FOR 81
Prince Adds New Scotch Joke to
Worlds Supply.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
ARROWE PARK, BIRKENHEAD,
England, Aug. 3.-The worlds
supply Of Scoach anecdotes was
augmented today with a revelation
of an incident concerning the visit
of the Prince of Wales Friday to
the Boy Scouts world jamboree
here.
While visiting the Scotch camp
the prince lighted his pipe and
tossed away the match. A canny
Scot scout picked up the match and
auctioned it later for five shillings
(about SD.
The present proud owner OF the
burnt match-also a Scots offer-
ing to exchange it now for q pair OF
kits or q hagpipe. ..Am-A.AA-~Asa1..-s
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BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY
Limited Prexs Stan CorreSpondent

United Press STAN correspondent
COLUMBUS, o., Aug. 3.-Dr.
James Howard Shook, former pro-
fessor at Ohio State university, now
on trial accused of the murder Of a
college girl, Theora Xix, Is deeply
pained by the attitude Prosecutor
John j. Chester Jr., has taken in
the presentation of the case against
him.
Il am surprised Chester should
stand there and tell lies to the jury, -
DR.. Shook told the United Press.
Those are tactics one would ex-
pect from a shyster lawyer and not
from state official"
he discussed his case with &C
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-03
URGE GENERAL STRIKE

Uraguayan Communists Remember
Sacco-V -Vanzetti Execution.
Bv United Press
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay, Aug. 3.
Communist leaders began today
10 urge a general strike on Aug. %,
to commemorate the execution in
the United States of Sacco and
Vanzetti.
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In the Air

Weather conditions at $50 a. m.
Southwest wind, twelve miles an
hour; temperature, 78; barometric
pressure, 1915 at sea level; ceiling,
solid overcast at $500; visibility, six
miles. field wet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-08-03
GROCERY STORE ROBBED
Yeggs get S1O0 Grom Safe and
CigaretS,

Yeggs who entered the N. F.
Burnett x Son grocery, 2202 West
McCarty street, by breaking rear
window, pried open safe to get
500 in cash Friday night or early
today.
The safecrackers helped them
SELVES to s40O worth Of cigarets.
The theft was discovered when the
store was opened at 5 this morning.
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The Graf S first report to the
navy said that she was ninety
. miles south of Pico, one of the
Azores islands, and that she
was progressing steadily in her
westward journey at a rate of
approximately fifty miles an
hour. The report said that the
Graf was encountering light
winds.
Before that report came a United
Press dispatch from Ponta Del
Gada. Azores. said the Graf had
dropped a bag of mail over Santa
Maria island, one OF the Azores
group, and sped on.
Previous dispatches from the
Islands and from passing steamers
reported the Graf was making
steady progress against the winds
whicl she has had to buffet almost
from the time she left her base at
FriedrichShafen.
Speed rs Disappointing
The speed made by the dirigible
so far has been disappointing to
the officials of the Zeppelin line.
According to the latest available
figures, she has averaged but little
better than forty miles an hour
from Friedrichshafen TO the Azores,
and unless weather conditions in-
prove materially it was not believed
the ship would reach Lakehurst be-
fore some time Monday, perhaps
during the afternoon.
DR.. Hugo Eckener, commander OF
the Graf, stated on his first day out
that he would not decide upon
which course he would take from
the Azores until he reached the
island group.
Il was believed here. however,
that he would strike out on di-
rect. course so as TO pass north OF
the Bermudas and then head in
directly for the LakehurSt field.
The Graf Zeppelin carried aboard
q crew of forty men. eighteen pas
sengers. two Of them women, end
a stowaway. who managed TO get
aboard in spite Of all the prccau-
tions which were taken by The Of
hcials at the Friedrichshafen
hangar.
Hard on StOwaway
On board also we're two gorillas a
male and a female. Looie and Suzy;
500 canaries. a piano and more than
q ton Of mail. All the reports in
dicated that the passengers were
having a pleasant. comfortable time
and that the weather. except for the
winds. was good.
At first there was considerable
mystery as TO the stowaway. DR..
Fckener. apparently not wishing TO
raise the young German lad to the
rank of hero" probable has asked
for as little publicity on the subject
as possible.
The lad was confined in the
crews quarters and will be deported
to Germany as soon the Graf lands
at Lakehurst. DR.. Eckener was
said to have demanded severe pun
ishment for the boy for endangering
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Mother and Daughter Get Reduced
Rates.

b. United Press
RICHMOND. Cal, Aug. 3.-Act-
ing as one another's bridesmaids, a
mother and her daughter here took
advantage Of cut rates from minis
ters and we're married both on the
same day. Mrs. Sue Ensign became
the bride of Clarence Moran, while
her daughter. Elva, Is, became Mrs.
Richard Van Dusen.
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HOGS LOSE GAINS
RECORDED FRIDAY
Cattle Market Dull With Prices
Looking Lower for Week.

LUUh4iIs AUWOI 4U4 FFCVN'
Hogs lost all the advance recorded
Friday and today were selling mostly
35 cents lower at the Union Stock
yards. The bulk. 140 to 260-pound
weights. sold at S11.15 to S1190. Re-
ceipts were 5000 and holdovers 479.
Top price paid was $1,000.
The cattle market was nominal,
and lower for the week. Vealers
were weak 10 lower. selling mostly
at S14.5O down. Top price today
was SIS.
Sheep were about steady. Fat
ewes sold at $3.50 to $3.50. Better
grades were selling at s12 to $3.50.