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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
WinkS Tell
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, March r.
Pinky, blase alley cat, stood on
the witness table before Mag
istrate Michael A. Ford.
Come, Tom, jumpl" ar
exhortation repeated fifteen
times with more than ordinary
fervor by John Bonner, Negro,
who said the cat was his Tom,
brought no more than the
blinks of a cat-around- town
who had been out for a night
Of it.
"Pinky, wink at the judge,
Miss Catherine Borrho, who
likewise claimed ownership of
Pinky, alias Tom, commanded
in an effort to prove her point.
She previously had explained
Pinky was somewhat of mouser,
and also an amateur pianist.
Pinky slyly winked at the
judge, first one eye, then the
other, and the judge sue
cuInbed.
TITS your cat" he told Miss
Borrho.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

LIE said the racketeer told his
l. l. secretary he was more inter-
ested ip changing the clearing
house figures than in obtaining
advance information on the figures
before their release.
Numerous phone calls have been
received by Calvert and his Sec
rotary requesting information on
the daily figures.
What are the clearings? I
want to know if I've won," is the
common phone request Calvert
says.
Our continued refusal to release
the clearings except to the news
papers has halted many of these
calls" he says.
r =
LIE is not worried by past in
1 4 Limitations or probIematical
ones Of the future. He's sure in
the knowledge that as he and his
secretary are the only ones COM
putting the figures daily that those
figures are as accurate as modern
adding devices can make them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Electric Chair Demanded for Schroeder;
Mattice Makes Final Plea for Con-
viction of Mobile Man.
HOLMES ASSAILS STATE EVIDENCE
Winkler Branded Liar; Other Witnesses
Forced to Testify in Exchange for
Protection, Attorney Says
BY EDWARD C. FULKE

After nine months waiting Harold Herbert Schroeder,
IS, former Mobile (Aa garage this afternoon will
have his fate placed in the hands of twelve criminal court
jurors who may either convict acqut him of the torch
murder
Schroeder stole the last stages of the trial progressed
know in few hours whether he must pay with his life
for the alleged murder and burning of unknown The
charred body of the victim dragged from Schroeder
flaming sedan the High School road early May 81.
When court adjourned at the desperate battle that
has lasted fourteen days ended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

States final argument was
completed at that time and the
jury was prepared to receive
the case before 3 p. m.
In the spot where hundreds be-
fore him had sat through tense
moments of waiting, Schroeder was
to hear Judge Frank P. Baker read
his instructions and surrender the
case to the jurors.
Mattice Attacks Story
Floyd Mattice, chief deputy
prosecutor, stood before the jury
from $3.50 a. m. until noon, making
the states last attack on Schroed-
er's story that the unknown man
died of a broken neck in All acct
dent.
There never was a case in the
history of the court where de-
Tense attorney had so little to work
on to save his clients neck" Mat
tice declared.
Gall the evidence of guilt that
was Smeared on the countenance
of this convicted man has been
smeared by himself.
"Schroeder'S scheme was ne
farious one, and the factor of his
undoing was the fact that his friend
was discovered while his fleeing
tracks still were hot" Mattice said.
Resorted to Shams
"He had no defense. He resorted
to shams- suspicion on the
authorities who arrested him, and
lied before and during his trial"
Mattice closed his final argument
shortly after 12:45 p. M, not max
ing a plea that Schroeder be sent
to the electric chair. He said the
state is not "apologizing" for re-
ceiving the case from the former
administration.
Mattice displayed the knife with
which, he said, Schroeder stabbed
the unknown man whose body was
found in the car.
Airplanes that zoomed over the
courthouse in the closing minutes
of the state argument caused Baker,
at one time, to rap for order.
Through the entire session
Wednesday, attorneys reviewed evil
dence heard from the stand for
the last thirteen days. Prosecutors
completed the first half OF their
closing argument, and Schroeder's
attorney, Ira Holmes, finished his
argument at 4:45 p. m.
Holmes argued four hours in an
effort to shatter the wall of cir
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
YOUNG GIRL TAKEN
ON PARTY is CHARGE
Uncle One of Four Men Held on
Delinquency Counts.

Four men were held by police to-
day after they are alleged to have
been involved in a drinking party"
in which a 15-year-old girl partici-
pated late Wednesday.
According to Sergeant Harry
Smith, neighbors found the girl in
a stupor at the side of house at
573 Jones street. Authorities al
lege the girl was brought there by
her uncle, Otto Powell, 90, of $40
West Morris street.
The men, in addition to Powell,
all of whom are charged with vag-
rancy and. contributing to delin-
quency, are LIE Roy Highfield, 10, of
852 Bradshaw avenue; Woodrow
Daley, 18, of the Jones street ad-
dress, and Edgar DALEY, %, of $50
West Morris street.
The girl is held at the detention
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
200 DIE IN BLAST
Careless Chinese Soldiers
Blamed for Blast.
Bp United Press

81 United Press
SHANGHAI, March Il. - Two
hundred passengers lost their lives
today in an explosion aboard the
river steamer Pachi, the Shanghai
harbor master officially announced.
The Pachi was a total loss.
The accident occurred Wednesday
hight off Big Tree beacon, sixty
miles from Shanghai.
One hundred soldiers are said to
have boarded the ship at Woosung
and virtually took possession. The
captain asserted cigarets, carelessly
thrown by the soldiers caused the
fire and the explosion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
SCRIPTS URGES
RECORD CUT IN
s HOURS
Shorter Working Day Than
Ever Dreamed of Seen
as Future Need.
WEALTH SHIFT is VITAL
Advocates Drastic Change
for More Equitable
Distribution.

By ScrtppS-Hot0ard Newspaper Alliance
WASHIN GTON, March r.
Warning of serious consequences
even dictatorship-unless ways are
found to relieve permanently the
present economic situation, which
permits of cycles of depression, was
given today by Robert P. Scripps,
president and editorial director of
the Scripps- Howard newspapers, in
an address at the progresSiveS' con-
ference here.
Two basic reforms we're put for
ward by the speaker. They were:
l. Shorter hours of labor than
ever have been dreamed of.
2. A much more wide diStribu-
ton of wealth-through wages or
otherwise-to permit increased lux
ury consumption, and increased
luxury employment"
"As I see it, gentleman" Scripps
said, "the alternative is the goose
step, one way or another, and
Lenin or Mussolini makes mighty
uJGIS Qlu6r6IlCe.
Views Usually in Harmony
'F'or two reasons / am especially
grateful for having been invited
here,' said Scripps.
"In the first place, I am happy to
meet again and talk with men who
have been my friends, and whom 1
have admired for long time.
I'm the second place, am happy
to be able to register the keen and
particular interest of the Scripps-
Howard newspapers in the problems
here under discussion, and in the
sort of legislation that can be ex-
pected from the So-called maverick
legislators here assembled.
"Editorially, we do not agree with
all of them all the time, but the
fact is we find ourselves plugging
for most Of them most of the time.
The special question of this ses-
Sion-unemployment and industrial
stabilization-iS one [ have been
writing lot about lately, and / am
not going to bore you by rehashing
twenty or thirty columns of mate
rial already printed. However, I do
want to relieve myself of one
thought.
Vital Question Cited
"In leading this discussion, Sen
ator La Toilette is tackling a prob
lem that goes directly to the heart
of vital question: Can the insti-
tuition of democracy survive the age
of science and the machine?
For science and the machine are
here to stay, and must be exploited
somehow. And under our present
loose and anarchistic industrial
system, they are not being exploit
ed efficiently, from the standpoint
of most of our people.
When increased per capita pro-
duction, on the farm or in the shop,
means not plenty, but unemploy-
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
MAN CRUSHED IN
ELEVATOR SHAFT
Newton Brown Dies at New
Power Plant.

Newton Brown, 1881 Madison ave-
nue., was killed almost instantly to-
day when he was crushed by an
elevator in shaft used in construc-
ton of the Indianapolis Power &
Light Company's South Harding
street plant.
Fellow employees told Coroner Fred
w. vehling that Brown, who was
standing on a ledge on the elevator
shaft, fifty feet high, leaned in the
shaft as the elevator descended. His
head was crushed. He plunged to
the bottom of the shaft.
The body was sent to the under
taking establishment of Coroner
Vehling pending attempts to locate
relatives, believed to live in Craw-
louisville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
500 ARE EXPECTED
AT BEEFSTEAK DINNER

Columbia Club to Honor rs Year
Members With Annual Fete.
More than 500 members are ex-
pected to attend the forty-first an
nual beefsteak dinner of the Co.
lumbia Club tonight at the club in
honor of members who have be-
longed more than twenty-five years,
it was announced today by Wallace
o. Lee, assistant chairman of the
entertainment committee.
The POSTMASTER will be Governor
Harry G.. Leslie, who will introduce
the speaker, Edwin P. Morrow, for
mer Governor of Kentucky. Spe-
cial dancing and singing acts will
be presented.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Hourly Temneratnres

home. Then one day he got
holder. He came into the Office.
I was busy. My secretary talked
to him. He offered her 5000 weekly
just to dictate the figures to be
published daily. She refused
angrily and he left without seeing
me.
well, the telephone calls kept
up until finally I became angry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
FIREBUG MANIAC is
SLAIN BY TROOPERS

Set Three Buildings in Flames;
Tried to Hamper Blaze Fighters.
By United Press
MORRISTOWN, N. j., March IL.
An unidentified maniac, who set
fire to three buildings on a farm
near here and then tried to prevent
tiremen from eXtinguishing the
blaze, was slain today by state
troopers who fired to brighten him.
Damage to the farm buildings
was estimated at between $4,000
and $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
DOG RESCUED FROM
DEATH WINS PRIZES

Two Weeks Brings Greyhound
From Pound to Show Honors.
By United Press
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-Two
weeks ago E. j. Burke saw an I'M
kempt greyhound in the humane
society's death chamber" liked
the dog, obtained her, named her
Patches" and took her home.
Today the same dog, now called
Patches Queen" was on exhibit at
the Mississippi Valley Kennel Clubs
show and had three blue ribbons
decorating her cage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
MOONEY BILL BEATEN
Wisconsin Senate Kills Resolution
Asking for Pardon.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
MADISON, Wis, March 12.-The
Wisconsin state senate defeated, II
to Is, today a resolution asking the
Governor of California to pardon
Thomas Mooney and Warren K.
Billings, convicted of murder in San
Francisco's preparedness day riot in
1916. The house had adopted the
resolution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
WOLF RACKET CHARGED
Kill Tame" Animals in Minnesota
for Bounties, Is Claim.
BIZ Tnited Press

bU UNtI6U PFtSS
ST. PAUL, Mimi, March H.
Senator j. V. Weber of Slayton, has
introduced a bill in the state legis-
lature under which state bounties
would be paid only on wild wolves"
Weber charged that many per-
sons in Minnesota operate wolf
farms,' kill off part of the crop each
year and collect the bounties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
Bakers Father-in-Law Dies
By United Press

POTTSTOWN, Pa, March 12.-
Howard Leopold. 81-year-old father
OF Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Baker, wife
of the former secretary of war,
Newton D. Baker, died at his home
here. Mrs. Baker and his two sons,
Ralph Leopold of New York and
Leroy Leopold of Washington, we're
with him when he died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
LET'S PLAYMATE, 5, FIRE
GUN; BOY, II, is SLAIN
Child's Finger Slips on Trigger and
Older Lad Falls Dead.
IN Lnited PreSR

BIZ United Press
MILFORD, Ill, March 12.-It was
proud moment for 5-year-old
Francis Borror when Lawrence
Goodhue, IL, said he would let
Francis fire his .22-caliber rifle.
Lawrence placed the gun in
Francis hands and started to ex-
plain how to shoot a can off a
nearby fence.
Francis fingers slipped, discharg-
ing the rifle, and Lawrence fell,
wounded fatally. Neighbors found
Francis hiding in q coal shed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
CHURCH CAMP BEACH
COVERED BY BOTTLES
Fleeing Rum Runner Throws away
Cargo of Silver Dollar
By United Press

By United Press
OCEAN GROVE, N. J., March II.
Clam diggers dashed into the surf
of this Methodist camp meeting as
ISOLATION community today. Motor
lists who heard the good word
focked to the beaches; and resi-
dents with knowledge of offshore
currents rushed to BeImar, nearby.
High tide had scattered number
less bottles of SILVER Dollar" and
Golden Wedding" thrown over by
a rum runner evading coast guards
men. The sands had been picked
clean within a few hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
JOHN w. HANAN DEAD
Federal Judge in Wilson Regime
Succumbs at Lagrange Home.

Word was received here by friends
today of the death Of John w. Ha-
nan, in his home at Lagrange. Mr..
Hanan, prominent politically in the
state, was a federal judge in tbs
Panama Canal Zone during the VIII
son administration. Funeral services
are to be held in the Lagrange home
Sunday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12
MOTHER TAKES BABY
CARRIAGE; IS FREED

Woman Given Choice of BuggieS
Sent Her by Sympathizers.
BgsUnited Press
WASHINGTON, March IA
destitute mother, whose name police
refuse to divulge, appropriated a
baby carriage that didn't belong to
her, so she could take her baby
for a ride.
Within few hours, freed by the
owner of the buggy, she was able
to take her pick of six assorted
carriages sent to the police station
by sympathizers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-12

Only Calvert and his feminine
secretary know the digits of to-
days clearings and debts before
their noon release TO newspapers
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10

force to be utilized by the capitalist against the
working class, but is instead a strengthening
force to be hurled by the working class against
the capitalist class
The mass deportation of foreign born workers
does not turn against the capitalist class. It is
wrong to think as many do, that this mass de-
portation would be impractical for the capitalist
class even today, that it would decmate the
permanent reserve army needed by the capitalist
class. Yes, it is utterly wrong to think so. This
decmates the fighting militant proletarian army
without considerably reducing the reserve army
which can be enlarged at any time by a new
wave of naturalization.
The renovation Of a long forgotten law which
authorizes the voluntary deportation of dis
tressed aliens" shows this quite clearly. It
shows that the capitalist class is determined to
have mass deportation of foreign born work
ers. In fact, through the so-called voluntary"
deportation the capitalist class is endeavoring to
send out of the country not only the workers
who in ever greater numbers participate in the
class struggle, but even those who, although dis
satisfied and restless, do not as yet participate
in it and express their unrest by wishing to "go
back" The capitalist class knows that very soon
these workers will join in the struggle.
The working class must, therefore, close its
ranks ana oppose Soud, lndlSSoluple unity OF
action to the mass deportation of foreign born
workers Such unity of action must be the i'm
mediate aim of the working class in the present
situation. The realization of this aim will be
powerful revolutionary lever without which it is
materially impossible to defeat the well planned
and organized campaign of the capitalist class
firmly determined to press the deportation of
thousands upon thousands of foreign born
workers.
The native elements of the American working
class must not fall under the sinister influence
OF capitalist propaganda. They must not al
low this pernicious propaganda to inject into
their minds the false notion that mass depor-
tation of foreign born workers will help them
They must understand that this mass deporta-
ton cannot but harm them. And together with
the other elements of the working class they
must fight against it-fight and win.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
No Money for Unemployed!

Pittsburgh jobless, when demanding Of that
city bread for the starving, were answered by the
mayor and chief of police that the city couldn't
afford" it.
Now it turns out that the city could afford,
however, $4,000 mother Of lavatory for the
said police chiefs, and 1895 worth Of knick-
nacks, oil paintings, Persian rugs and what not
for the mayor.
And if it will teach lesson in the necessity
of breaking down the respect for authority
which is drilled into the workers by every agency
OF capitalist propaganda, we will mention that
when the Pittsburgh popuace descended upon
the City Council in protest at some other little
CRAFTS one councilman, invoking the religious
credulity of the audience, cried out:
Blessed are We when men shall revile you, and
shall say all manner of evil against you falsely"
Which reminds us, that IN the Juror Of Civic
virtue" that has been sweeping New York City,
while all the protestant divines and Jewish rabbis
have found cause to zap against Tammany cor
ruption, the Catholic priests have been making
noise exactly similar to the well known clam
What, may we ask, has Cardinal Hayes got in
vested in the Walker administration?
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
The Significance OF Today's De-
portations OF the Foreign-Born

TODAY the deportation Of foreign born work.
ers is so intensive and so extensive as to be
uualitatively distinct from what it was before.
During the partial Sterilization of capitalist
economy, the deportation, on a mass SCALE OF
foreign born workers was only menace in
tended to intimidate these workers and prevent
them from expressing their opposition to CAPT
talist naturalization. An actual deportation Of
thousands upon thousands was then impractical,
because it offset or neutralized the influence of
naturalization upon the reserve army-it left
this reserve army as large as before, whereas it
was necessary for the capitalist class to swell it
through naturalization, to render it larger than
it ever was, not only in order to check the Ac-
tive Army and prevent it from securing during
the favorable economic conjuncture during the
relative expansion of industrial activity an
amelioraton of its situation but also in order to
exploit it still more and worsen its already bad
condition.
Today instead the mass deportation of foreign
born workers is more than a menace 1t is more
than a possibility" arising from the impending
approval of a new and more vicious legislation.
Naturally, the existing legislation is somewhat
archaic" when compared with the proposed one.
But in spite of that the mass deportation of for
eign born workers is a dire actuality, dreadful
reality too patent to be denied.
Why? The present economic crisis with the
attendant recession of industrial activity far
more than triples the size of the reserve army.
But that is not all This crisis is by no means
the same as the cyclical crisis which occurred
nine or ten years ago. That marked the incep-
ton of capitalist partial sterilization This marks
the liquidation of such Sterilization That had
as an immediate perspective temporary solu-
ton of the postwar general crisis. This faces
an intensification of the same. Not only does
this present crisis increase alarmingly the re-
serve army 1t radicalizes this army, it trans
forms this army into fighting and militant Sec
ton of the working class.
Today therefore, this large reserve army be-
comes menace for the capitalist class it spells
ruin. Once this army realizes, under the pres
sure of misery and starvation, that working class
unity is necessary in the struggle against hunger
and exploitation, it is no longer a competing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-10
TAKAMATSU TO SEE NEW
YORK SLUMS
WORKERS MURDERED FOR PROTESTING AGAINST JAPANESE SLUMS

sometimes 6 by 9. In this one room all members
of family are crowded together, sometimes
in a cell, 1t is the only place for everything
sleeping, cooking, washing, living" The rent
for such a room is 5 sen, or about 21ac day,
collected daily by the landlords agent A bowl
of the poorest rice costs sen, but often the
workers are too poor to get even 8 bowls of rice
a day, to say nothing of anything more.
Every disease known to poverty flourishes in
these surroundings. tuberculosis spreads in the
foul damp air. Trachoma, that contagious dead
ly disease of the eyes, attacks one worker after
another. Typhoid fever and other Infectious
diseases pass quickly from one family to an
other.
How could it be otherwise when unSkilled
workers are earning less than SO sen (25c)
day, while skilled workers may get 80 sen or 40c?
Jobless workers are not getting even these
few cents. And unemployment is increasing in
Japan. Official government figures admit 100000
unemployed, but the number is probably more
nearly 100000 Unemployed workers rather
than starve in the cities have been going back
to the rural districts at the rate of 10000
month, according to official figures. This ex-
odus to the country only puts an added burden
on the tenant farmers, already desperately poor.
From so to so per cent of the farmers crop
must go to the landowner
Yet for protesting against such conditions as
these, workers have been jailed, tortured and
murdered. Before carrying out its raids on
Reds" the government built extra barracks as
jails for those it planned to arrest A thousand
workers were jailed in one concerted drive, SIM
liar to the Red Raids in the United States in
1890.
Workers of the United States will demon
strate their solidarity with Japanese workers in
protest against Prince and Princess Takamatsu
and the ruling class they represent.