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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
THREATS USED
EFFORTS Of
DRY OFFICERS
Federal Court Witness at
Terre Haute Describes
Intimidating Tactics.
ACCUSED MAN CLEARED
Jury Takes Only Five Min
uteS for AcquittaI in Case
Accusing Agents.

Blu Times special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April H.
Stories of intimidation of witnesses
so they would testify to cases built
up by federal prohibition agents
were heard in federal court here be-
fore Judge Robert G. Baltzell in the
trial of Luther G. Ramsey, Bloom
field. He was acquitted on a charge
of selling liquor.
Raymond Moore, son Of the
Bloomfield town marshal, was one
Of two witnesses offered by the gov
eminent in attempting to prove that
whisky was bought from Ramsey.
Moore declared that dry agents told
him that unless he testified to a
buy they would get" his fathers
job.
The other witness, r. C. Cook, teS-
titled the agents told him that if he
did not remember making a buy
from Ramsey he would be rail
roaded"
"At first I did not remember ever
buying liquor from Ramsey" the
witness said, "but after the threat
I remembered getting some, some
time between the middle of Deem
Der, 1927, and the last of February,
1928"
The jury took only five minutes
to acquit Ramsey.
Staying of Youth Recalled
The alleged coercion took place
shortly after Wayne Lucas, said to
have been an undercover worker for
dry agents, fatally stabbed Delmar
Oliphant, Bloomfield, high school
boy. At the time feeling in the
community was running high both
against bootleggers and the dry Of
f1cers. Two automobiles filled with
men went to the home of Lucas to
beat him up and were joined by a
group of high school boys, including
OIiphant.
Lucas was acquitted in the STAY
ing on a plea of Self-defense.
Situation Declared Changed
It was pointed out in court circles
here that since the incidents re-
ferred to in the Ramsey case, the
prohibition enforcement admins
tration has been changed and it
was declared different tactics are
now being used.
The second defendant acquitted
in liquor case was Steve Starkey,
Terre Haute.
Dry Agent Develin, who aided in
raid on Starkeys home, testified
that liquor he had in a bottle at
the time of the raid, was red, where
as liquor found in a glass was
white. However, other evidence
established that Develin's bottle
contained white liquor, supporting
a defense contention that the evil
dence for the case had been
planted"
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ernmental officials may be drawn
into the case as alleged victims OF
Webster and Newman, Prosecutor
Judson L. Stark said today.
Stark has amaSsed evidence, he
said, pointing to Webster and New
man perpetrators of a scheme to
eXtort money from officials under
threat Of printing defamatory ar
ticleS in Weoster's newspaper, The
Indiana journal.
The blackmail indictment re-
turned against Webster names
Thomas SineS, Sanitarium operator
at 1927 North Delaware street.
In the second indictment Web
ster and Newman are charged with
conspiracy to force various persons
to buy advertising space against
their will"
Webster'S offices are at 500
Knights of Pythias building.
Newman is held in default of a
$4,000 bond at the county jail.
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to be given in his honor at the
Hotel Astor on May 6.
The fact that this dinner is
sponsored by the Merchants AS
ISOLATION. and that such person.
ages as Governor Roosevelt, Mayor
Walker, j. P. Morgan, Thomas
Lamont, John D. Rockefeller Jr.,
Vincent Astor, Charles M. Schwab
and Otto H. Kahn will attend, is
considered to be quite significant.
Commissioner Whalen, who has
been called such high-sounding
names as "glorified hoorwalker."
"supermaster of ceremonies" and
the gilded copper" would con-
tinue the Walker tradition in the
mayors Office.
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He completely eclipses the popu-
lar mayor in the matter Of pub
icity The papers record almost
every move that the commissioner
makes.
If he comes to headquarters
without a gardenia in his lapel, it
is worth half a column, and If a
outton is off one of his spats, it's
a banner line.
Whalen was born in tenement
house on the lower east side. He
is a. He entered politics with
John F. Hylan, acting as a cam
paign manager for Hylan when
he ran for mayor in 1913. When
Hylan was elected Whalen became
his secretary.
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WHALEN FOR MAYOR WALKER FOR SEAT in S

He runs Jimmy a close race for
the title of best dressed man in
New York, and he does fairly well
in the way of wisecracking.
= q
A NEW YORK paper carried
IA an interview today with
Whelen, relative to the forthcom-
ing May day Communist demon
STATIONS. The interview starts off
with:
IF there's going to be any
queen of the May in this town
three weeks from today, it will be
me-not william z. Foster.
Whaleu just recently completed
MS first year as police commits
sioner.
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BY H. ALLEN SMITH
United Press stan Correspondent

NEW YORK, April 1.-THE
IN most famous policeman in
the world, Grover A. Whalen, will
be the next mayor of New York
City if you will believe goodly
number of the city's political wise
acres.
Three years is q considerable
length of time by ordinary stand
ards, but 10 the spectators in the
realm Of politics, it's only a hop,
skip and stumble, and they'll tell
you that New York's polished,
blue Shirted police commissioner
can't help but be the leading
Pre- .agonist of a scent subway
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fare after Jimmy Walker is late at
city hall for the last time.
And as for Jimmy Walker, the
dopeSters know down deep in their
hearts that a seat in the United
States senate is being shined up
for him.
=
XXTHALEN already is being
w groomed for the mayors
chair and there really are no
violent objections to him, save
those offered by the Communists
and one or two denoted police
SergeantS.
Speculations as TO the BLACK
HusSar's" political future are
based, for the most part. on a
huge testimonial dinner which is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11

and Harold Lloyd, for they had long produced their
own pictures.
But the public has missed many familiar face
and in quite few it hasn't been poor talk
ing voice that has caused the temporary or per-
manent retirement of player.
COLLEEN MOORE, one of the greatest Of box
~ office attractions, hasn't made a picture in
more than six months
The trouble that led to the recent separation
from her husband, John Mccormick, may have had
something to do with it, but most important was
the $12500 a week salary she drew during her last
productions with First National.
Except in very rare cases, salaries OF that size
aren't being paid any more and though practically
every producer in the colony would be glad TO star
Colleen none feels like placing her on the pay roll
at the figure to which she was accustomed.
Tom Mix of course, parted company with FOX
studios many months ago.
He once was reputed to be drawing the highest
of all salaries $4,000 a week.
Fox decided that was too much and excepting a
special occasion now and them $4,000 is top on the
Fox lot at present.
Universal announced that 1t parted sorrowfuny
from Laura La Plante.
The studio said the separation was LOT the
mutual advantage of the parties concerned.
1t was known, however, that the salary demands
Of Miss La Plante had more than anything else to
do with the break
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
FOUR ARE INJURED
AS AUTOS COLLIDE
Two Are Hurt Seriously as Cars
Crash, Overturn in City.

Four persons were injured, two
seriously, when two automobiles
crashed and overturned early today
at Thirtieth street and Keystone
avenue.
Pinned In her husbands sedan
after the crash, Mrs. Charles Kerr,
As. Of % West Sixteenth street, al
most was asphyxiated by carbon
monoxide gas from the motor ex-
haust before she was extrtcated
from the wreck.
Mrs. Margaret Rupker, 76, Of
3941 Park avenue, riding in the
other auto with her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Elsie Rupker, 40, same
address, was injured seriously on
the head. She and Mrs. Kerr were
sent to city hospital.
Kerr suffered wrenched knee,
and Mrs. Elsie Rupker was bruised.
Both machines we're demolished.
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In 1924, he took charge of the
Wanamake- department store as
general manager, at salary said
to have been 100000 a year.
q 81
ONCE December Of 1923, when
~ Mayor Walker appointed him
police commissioner, Whalen has
added 1000 men to the force, in
augurated the fashion Of some po-
lice wearing Sam Browne belts,
and caused every attache of po-
lice headquarters to develop a
passion for deep blue shirts.
AS chairman Of the mayors re-
ception commission for distingu-
ished guests. Whalen already is
famous throughout Europe.
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BILL TO DRAFT
INDUSTRY FOR
WAR SHELVED
Universal CONSUMPTION Is
HamStrung by Action
of Congress.

BR ScriDps-Hotoard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE
ten-year effort of preparedness adj
vOcates to enact a permanent uni
versal CONSUMPTION bill, to become
effective automatically at the out
break of war, collapsed today when
leaders Of the Progressive-R epub-
lican group in the senate revealed
their determination to block the
measure during the remainder of
the present congress.
Vigorously resisted in every con-
gress since 1921. when it was orig
inally presented by the American
Legion. the program has now been
abandoned by its supporters in both
house and senate.
A series Of amendments approved
by the house last week was de-
scribed by Representative Royal G.
Johnson of South Dakota, one of the
chief advocates of the program, as
having actually killed the bill"
BLOW at PrOfiteering
Described by its sponsors as a
measure to reduce wartime profit
eering and facilitating industrial
mobilization in national emergen-
cies, the proposal was attacked on
the floor as an indirect route to a
permanent national policy Of uni
versal military service.
Representative Wainwright of New
York, former assistant secretary of
war, who introduced the resolution
IN the present session, told the
house its real purpose was ito find
a way to put into effect in time of
war the so-called universal draft"
Presidents Harding and Coolidge
repeatedly recommended passage of
the bill, but President Hoover did
not mention it in his massage to
congress last December.
Hands Are Tied
AS finally sent to the senate mill
tary affairs committee today. the
bill provides for a national commits
sion of eighteen members-four from
the house. four from the senate,
five cabinet members and five rep
resentatives of industry and labor
to study methods of equalizing the
burdens and minimizing the profits
of war"
No funds are provided for the
study, however, and the commission
expressly is denied authority to con-
slider any method for mobilization
Of labor.
But even this egg-shell commits
sion can not be set up until the SEN
ate shall approve the house bill.
Such approval now appears to be
out Of the question.
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P00RHoUSE DESTROYED
Fire Races Parke County Building
Without Injury to Inmates.

81 United Press
ROCKVILLE. Ind, April IL
Thirty-nine occupants Of the Parke
county infiImary, two miles from
Rockville. left the structure without
injury during a fire which destroyed
the property Thursday night with
a loss estimated at $4,000.
The IRE started IN an unoccupied
room and spread rapidly to living
quarters Of the inmates.
Nothing but the brick walls OF
The building. are standing.
Inmates were divided today. some
going TO the county Intimacy at
Newport. and others to Rockville.
where they were housed temporarily
IN private quarters.
The Rockville fire department
was handicapped by la Z water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
DRYS GAINING, BUT
TRAIL IN RUM POLL

4ri ~ made an effort last part of the early
a f observation-disclosures the nationwide poll OF Literary
c on enforcement modification, and repeal OF the
amendment. hood L,+ v+yI vere
throughout country the dys forged slightly aheao ou sun
magazine today the District OF Cou nave
million votes to the pol
OF the total 1O257 Alt cent for repeal OF he
mont. TIA 26S ballots cent have been cast or mo"
. and 712 $40 or more cent for enforcement
Returns announced by Literary Digest today were:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
SERVICES ARRANGED
FOR J. G. DIETZ, 81
Funeral to Be Held Saturday for
Civil War Veteran

Funeral services will be held at
, Saturday from the residence of
Mrs. Lottie Arnold. 159 Bakemeier
street. for John George Dietz, 81,
native Of Germany and Civil war
veteran, who died Thursday. Burial
viii be in Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr.. Dietz had lived in Indian
apolis since 1871 and was employed
by Mode Brothers shoe store at 14I
East Washington street for fifty
two years. His wife, formerly Miss
Charlotte Stein of Columbus, died
in 1926. He is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. 1rnold and Mrs.
Emma Smith. and three sons, John
Dietz, Edward Dietz and Otto Dietz,
all Of Indianapolis.
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Owner of Burned Home Hurt

WARSAW, Ind, April 11.-Mrs.
Dwight Mock, Wawasee, was burned
seriously on the head, arms and
feet when naptha she was using to
clean clothing exploded, and her
home was destroyed by fire that
followed the explosion. Loss is esti-
mated at $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11

ASkln, 1907 North
Meridian street.
until 3 p. m. Sat
urday. Burial will
be in the family
lot at Spartans-
burg.
Born near Rich
mond in 1864, Mr..
K ir k m a n was
graduated from
De PAW univer-
Sity and opened
law Offices. He
was prosecuting
attorney of Wayne
county eight years
10 fars cnrrriY4n fNr11
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years in the house of representa-
tives and six years in the state
senate.
Survivors are the widow. Mrs
Ginevra Hill Kirkman; daugh-
ter, Mrs Harold B. West, and a son,
Roscoe Kirkman Jr., all of Indian
apolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
VISITING PASTOR TALKS
Each Man Must Bear His Cross, AS
serts Pittsburgh Minister.

Mankind, like Christ. must bear
its cross; some on their backs, some
in their hearts, others in their
minds. the Rev. Hugh Thomson
Kerr, Presbyterian pastor of Pitts
burgh, Pa. declared at pre-Easter
services today in Keiths theater.
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Aged Minister Dies

WARSAW. Ind, April 1.-THE
Rev. c.. F. Dryer, 81, is dead at his
home here. lie had served as pas
tor of churches at Ligonier, Fl.
Wayne, Roanoke, Columbia City and
Warsaw.
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nor PIE DrEJoU Richard and Bebe Daniels all left Paramount
take options that meant more
To the stars Daniels went to work or rO d.
1870 to make a picture
MOS his high salary Reginald Dennys departure
from universal and condition reported When JACK @
Vdor departed from Paro
Miss Moore and all probably will make many oe Pr
4 I righ now it looks as they will get used TO working
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Nicotine is contained in tiny pear
shaped bulbs or knobbed hairs,
which cover the surface of the to-
bacco leaf.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
FUNERAL SUNDAY FOR
DRY BUREAU LAWYER
Roscoe Everett Kirkman Served 10
Years in Legislature.

Last rites for Roscoe Everett
Kirkman, 65, attorney attached to
the Chicago Office of the prohibi-
ton enforcement bureau and
former member of both houses of
the Indiana general assembly, who
died wednesday Of pneumonia at
the Methodist hospital, will be con-
Quoted Sunday at the Lynn Qnd)
Christian church.
Friends may call at the under
taking establishment of Royster &
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-11
TALKIES CLIP STARS SALARIES

BY GEORGE III. BEALE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD April lin the rush and confusion that accom-
talking producers
pretty generally knocking the from the salaries Of
faYoite
The reduced income move was quiet one
persons Mary Pcord Charlie Chaplin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-25
SPEAKERS FLAY
WARE ARE STUDY
Society of International Law
Told Folly of Rules That
Are Broken.

On the eve of President Hoovers SUBJ
mission to the Senate of the latest con-
tribution to world peace-the London
naval agreement--the American Society
of International Law was chided by one
of its members today for devoting so
much attention to a study of war.
Members of the society, all of whom
have devoted their careers to the study
of international complications and their
settlement, were told by two speakers
one retired rear admiral, that the law
governing the conduct of war at sea
should be restated on the basis of ex-
perience in the World War.
Rear Admiral C. L. HuSsey, u. S. NJ,
retired, and E. G.. Trimble, instructor
at New York University, seriously dis
cussed the subject in papers replete
with references to warfare and indi-
Gated possibilities "in the next war;"
Rules Declared Broken.
When they had concluded, Prof.
Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr Col
lege challenged the society Ito find in
the whole history of the law of war one
rule of law that has not been broken"
Expressing disappointment that people
still talk of war and rules for its con-
duct instead of constructive law of
peace" Prof. Fenwick said that one of
the foibleS of our experience Is trying
to moralize on our immoral acts"
The whole history of human expert
ence in respect to rules of war, he said,
has consisted of setting up certain rules,
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then breaking them in time OF connlct,
and then meeting again to re-state
policy to hold until the next war breaks
them again. -
Lets don't be silly about the thing;
he said. "Of course, women ana GILL
dren will be killed in the next war.
Why be pious in setting up dlneren-
tiations that are entirely iuoglcai; ~ ~,
perfectly legitimate to blow up p ,SIs1
ship with 1000 men aboard, put lliegai
to asphyxiate man In antlcipa'ioi'
of his death by drowning.
Variance Of Horrors.
eff a bullet weighing two pounds will
blow I'D a man, why bubble over the
use of a bullet weighing under one
pound? If it is legal to use shrapnel,
whv not use explosive bullets? 1t would
seem to me that death by gas would
be more to be desired than by explosive
bullets"
prof. Fenwick attacked the whole
theory of setting up rules OF conduct In
war in so far as would apply 70 COM
batants and non-combatants. Follow
ing his extemporaneous remarks ne
was sharply challenged by other mem
beers of the society Several who an
swered him said they thought ne took
a too pessimistic view; that it was pos
able to protect the interests OF neutrals
and non combatants by setting up rules
generally agreed to.
"There is a rule" Prof. Fenwick said,
Ito the effect that there must be no
needless devastation. A general In the
Civil War destroyed everything in the
Shenandoah Valley and another general
set fire to every fence post between At
lanta, Ga, and the sea. That, OF
course, was deemed a military neces-
sity.'
In direct answer to Mr.. Trimble, who
had suggested at some length possible
restatement of the law governing war
at sea, Prof. Fenwick proposed that a
code of one article be established. It
Should read" he said, that future wars
shall be conducted by officers and men
like gentlemen I would add that the
individual officer and man should be
the Judge of what constitutes gentle
man."
Rear Admiral Hussey and Prof. Trim
BILE spoke seriously of possibilities sug-
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LEXINGTON FLIGHTS
ATTRACT OFFICIALS
Distinguished Party Leaves
Today for Air Maneuvers
Off Hampton Roads.

High Government officials, Army and
Navy officers, experts In aviation ano
newspaper men are leaving the WASH
ington Navy Yard late today aboard
the u. 8. S. Aroostook for the Hampton
Roads, Va, area, preparatory to view
ing an aerial demonstration tomorrow
aboard the airplane ,,. carrier cs u; O.
Some Of those who will view the
demonstration in the sky were arrang-
ing to fly down to the Hampton Roads
area from the Naval Air Station at
Anacostia.
~ Planes to Take Part.
Seventy-two airplanes of the Lexing-
ton viii take part In the demonstration
and the visitor will get q closeup OF
the first-hand operations Of the giant
floating landing field.
Invited to be guests Of the Navy for
the demonstration were members OF the
Senate and House appropriations com.
Ynittees. members of the Senate a!Io
House naval affairs committees. Speaker
Longworth, Representatives Smell, Pou,
Tilson and Garner; Assistant Secretary
of War F. Trubee Dawson, Asslstant
Secretary Of Commerce for Aeronaut1cS
Mai. Clarence M. Young, DR.. George w,
Lewis of the national advisory com.
mittee for aeronauticS, Rear Admiral
Hutch I. Cone, u. S. N, retired, member
of the United States Shipping Board,
and 10 officers of the Army.
Preparing to leave Anacostia by plane
were Assistant Secretary of the Navy
for Aeronautics and Mrs. ingalls,, MI.
and Mrs. Howard Eels, Comdr. J. H.
Towers, Maj. Toilette Bradley Of the
Army Air Corps and Lieut.. (Junior
Grade A. p. Storrs, Sd, naval aviator.
MofRett to Be Host.
Likewise preparing to ny from Ana
costa were Representatives Clark Bur-
dick and Menalcus Landlord and Lieut..
J. j. Clark. -.
Rear Admiral William A. Moffett,
chief Of the Bureau Of AeronauticS, Navy
Department, will play host 70 the yisi-
tors during the time they are watching
the maneuvers. Rear Admiral w. II.
STANDBY, assistant chief Of naval oper-
atoms, win also accompany the party.
Newspaper men making the trip are
Robert C. Albright of the United Press,
Pierce Miller of the International News
Service, Fulton Lewis of Universal Serv-
ice and Oscar Leiding of the Associated
Press. Thirteen photographers. repre-
sentatives of all the major still silent
newsreel and sound-reel services, will
be in the party to record Photograph
cally the capers of the naval planes
and the workings Of the Lexington.
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Datants and noncombatants is main

batants and noncombatants is main
tanned.
other members of the society sug-
gested that war at sea will not figure
greatly Gin the next war"
Germany is going into the mechani-
cation Of its army. and it is the hope,
said speaker from the floor, "that q
mechanical army will go through q
popular army, such as would be called
into service by France, like a knife
through butter. For that reason the
necessity for getting food to combatants
will not be Of such pressing Importance,
assuming that the German premise will
be taken"
This afternoon the society devoted
itself to q round-table conference on
the Recommendation of international law
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gested by international complications
and the tenor of all the addresses was
that war is by no means an impossi-
bility. Referring to this apparent ac-
ceptance of the theory that war Is
inevitable, Prof Fenwick himself said
there seems to be justification for 1t in
world affairs today.
The chief problem, the speaker said,
in setting up rules for war at sea, Is to
reach fair compromise between neu-
trails and belligerents, to define what
shall be contraband and to establish
protection for noncombatants. The use
of airshipS, submarines and high ex-
plosives has virtually made obsolete the
technique of blockade, and the speak
ers agreed that lin the next war there
will be no safety for women and chill
dren unless distinction between COM