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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Youngest Officer Ever to
Hold Post Given
Appointment.

Lieutenant Michael F. NIorrissey
today was named indianapolis po-
lice chief, the youngest officer to be
awarded the post in the history of
the city.
Not yet "a, Morrissey viii step
from his position as head of a
gambling squad to the post vacated
by the death of Jerry E. Kinney,
June 8.
appointment of MorrlsSey was an
nounced today In a statement signed
by members of the city safety board.
MorriSsey, who lives at 1416 East
Market street, was named to the
police department as a patrolman
June IA, 1922.
No Change in Policy
Since then he has served as head
Of motorcycle squads, in the traffic
department and in the detective
bureau. He was promoted to SER
geantcy Of the motorcycle squad in
1925, after having held post in
the traffic department.
In the later part of 1925 he was
transferred to the detective depart
nlent and then reduced to patrol
man in 1925 at the advent of the
Duvall administration.
In 1927 he again was named a
sergeant. When Mayor Reginald
H. Sullivan took Office. he was
named lieutenant.
He is Democrat.
Morrissey is unmarried and lives
with his parents at the Market
street address.
Headed Gambling Squad
Following his appointment by the
board, Morrissey declared he would
do everything possible to suppress
vice and crime, including gambling"
"The appointment came as a sur
prise to me- he stated. There will
be no radical changes in personnel
and policy. Twill need cooperation
from other members of the depart
ment and believe will get it.
eff make a good record as chief,
it will be because the members of
the department have supported my
efforts.
IT appreciate the confidence
Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and his
board Of safety have in me and will
do all I can to enforce the law and
uphold that confidence
Morrissey is a member of the Elks
lodge, the knights of Columbus and
Holy Cross Catholic church.
Morrisey, as head of the gam
bling sweepup squad during the last
six months, has staged several raids
that have won him commentator
from heads Of the city and the de-
partment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Stimulate Business Fear

This sharp contrast between ma
tional shrinkage of, say, $4,000, o00,-
600 and a loss of $1,50O,000,000 from
export trade is an indication of the
disarrangen1ent of our own inter-
nal production and consumption en-
tirely apart from that resulting
from decreased sales abroad. Some
of this enlarged dislocation is also
due to the foreign effects upon
prices of commodities and securities.
Moreover, the repeated shocks
from political disturbance and rev.
oiution in foreign countries stinlu-
late fear and hesitation among our
business men. These fears and ap-
prehensionS are unnecessarily in
creased by that minority Of people
who would make political capital
out of the depression through mag
nifying our unemployment and
losses.
Other small groups in the bust
ness world make their contribution
to distress by raids on our markets
with purpose to profit from depre-
citation of securities and conmodi-
ties. Both groups are within the
law; they are equally condemned
by our public and business opinion;
they are by no means helpful to the
nation.
Fear and apprehension, whether
their origins are domestic or for
eign, are very real, tangible, eco
nornic forces. Fear of loss Of a
job or uncertainty as to the future
has caused millions of our people
unnecessarily to reduce their pur-
chaSes Of goods, thereby decreasing
our production and employment.
These uncertainties lead our
bankers and business men to ex-
treme caution, and in consequence
mania for liquidation has re-
duced our stocks Of goods and our
credits far below any necessity. All
these apprehensions and actions
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

Henry Holt and John w. Jordan,
resident partners Of Thomson g. Nc
Kinnon, are made defendants in the
suit.
Affairs Of the Indiana Savings
and Investment Company are not
jeopardized by the federal suit, be-
cause its losses already have been
made good by the surety company.
Complaint Of the bonding COM
pany alleges that Holt and Jordan
accepted Holloway's account and
permitted him to speculate in stocks
that smashed with the general
stock market slump. having at the
time actual knowledge that the
company's money was being used.
Action against the brokerage firm
has been delayed two years, the at
torneys explained in order to avert
any danger of that publicity might
bring on the Indiana Savings firm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

President Hoover brought
a message Of optimism to the
midwest.
He warned that the country
should not look "only at the empty
hole in the middle of the doughnut."
but instead apply itself to the
American plan to consist of the
voluntary individual efforts neces-
sary to build the new business, facil-
tiles and homes to meet needs Of
a 100000 population increase in
the next twenty years.
Criticism of the activities of bear
raiders in Wall Street who have
pressed down major stocks was
voiced just after he condemned
those who would make political
capital out of the depression
through magnifying our unen1ploy-
ment and our losses"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
JOCKEY FEARS
TOO MUCH CAB
indianapolis Police to Quiz
Injured Man.

In hospital room at Lebanon
today lay Arthur Simons, Los An
geles, jockey. who is afraid he has
talked too much"
He was brought to the institution
Saturday after motorists found him
in ditch on u. S. Road So, I'M
conscious and suffering from scalp
wounds, believed inflicted by a blunt
instrument.
Hospital attaches said Simons be-
came worried when he was informed
that he had 1numbled while uncon-
scious of connections with Detroit
gangsters.
Simons, however, told police that
his scalp wounds were of no impor-
lance and that he was suffering
from skull injury received several
months ago when he was kicked by
horse on California race track.
Indianapolis police, according to
Major Herbert Fletcher, will inves-
tigate and probably question Simons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

The suit lists checks totaling
$196,500 drawn on the company's
account by Holloway, together with
$22,500 in cash. Il charges these
funds were paid over to Thomson
& McKinnon to cover stock trans
actions between Sept. l, 1923 and
Nov. II, 1929.
It also includes $157,Ss3.59 profits
from the market returned to Hollo-
way by the brokers, which, the COM
plant states, was paid back to the
company, leaving SOL ,So6.41 not re-
paid.
Holloway, listed in city directory
as salesman for a downtown de-
partment store, after the death of
his father in 1927, managed both
the investment company and an
affiliated firm, Charles E. Holloway
& Son, Inc, engaging in real estate,
mortgages. loans, rentals and fire
insurance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Parents Reveal Strange Jekyll-Hyde' Com
pick of Girl, Due to Use of
Liquor and Drugs
KILLED TO SEAL LIPS, FAMILY VIEW
Post-Mortem Adds Weight to Theory That
Starr Faithful Was Murdered
Then Tossed Into Sea.
BY CARL ID. GROAT
United Press STAFF Correspondent
fCopyrtrht. 1891. bv United Press1

NEW YORK, June A6.-Both the family of dead Starr
Faithful and District Attorney En n Edwards of Nassau
county chung today to the theory murder in her strange
DEATH Moreover their idea that the girl of many moods met
violent death before her body cast up by the sea
Long Beach, strengthened traces of verona were
found in post-mortem examination.
The verona may have been merely sedative but from
the sinister chain of circumstances so far adduced in her
life history authorities more than ever convinced that
death traceabe to who wanted her senced
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Hoover Voices Plea
Thai Country Haze
Faith i'm Recovery
President Urges Optimism in Address tc
c. O. P. Editors and Advances Theory
for Twenty Y ear American Plan

Defense OF the tariff, condemnation of doles government
unemployment insurance and such forms Of public relief
blast at Wall Street methods and plea for optimism
the message which President Herbert Hoover brought his
address at the Indiana Republican Editorial Association
dinner Monday night at the state Playground
More than 5000 heard the President advance his theory
for recovery which he called the American Plan and which
to spread period of twenty years. but method
of putting this plan in operation proposed the address,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
BOARD ISSUES
FIREWORKS BAN
Police Ordered to Halt Pre-.
mature Celebration.

The Fourth of July will be OBJ
served July 4, and not before.
This was the edict today of the
safety board, which instructed po-
lice to prevent premature celebra-
ton with fireworks.
The board set June % as the first
day for fireworks wholesalers to
start deliveries to retail dealers, and
July ] as the day when dealers may
sell fireworks to individuals. Fire
works banned by the board include:
Paper balloons, automatic torpe-
does, spit devils, devil-on- walk, VIC
tory globe salutes, K. o. Radio, 0. K.
Salutes, f1recrackers longer than
three inches, dynamite or other. ex-
plosiyes more powerful than black
gunpowder blank or other car
tridges and pistol, revolver or other
devices for exploding any kind OF
cartridges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
BROKERS SUED; CHARGE CASH
EMBEZZLED, LOST ON STOCKS

Asking for the return of $4,000
alleged to have been eInbexled by
Cornelius E. Holloway and lost on
the stock market, The American
Surety Company of New York to-
day brought suit against Thomson
81 McKinnon, city brokerage firm.
Holloway formerly was secretary
Of the Indiana Savings and Invest
ment company. whose losses were
made good by the bonding company
and which is not affected by the
suit.
The bonding company charges
that the stock brokerage firm had
knowledge that the money which
Holloway lost on the market was
that of the firm he represented, and
for this reason is responsible for
the loss.
The suit, in effect, charges that
the money was lost in gambling, and
for this reason is unusual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Politics Is Unstable

Upon these war origins are super
imposed the over-rapid expansion
Of production and collapse in price
of many foreign raw materials. The
characterization of silver in certain
countries and a score of more re-
mote causes have all contributed to
dislocation.
Some particular calamity has
happened to nearly every country in
the world. and the difficulties of
each have intensified the unem-
ployment and financial difficulties
of all the others.
AS either the cause or the effect.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

The early morning sun threw
a series Of grotesque shadows
across the boulevards Of Warf-
leigh.
Patrolmen Mowery johnson
and Walter Bennett logged
along In their car basking in
the freshness Of the new day.
An object moved several feet
in front Of the car and 1t came
to an abrupt halt.
"See that" johnson said.
Sure I do" Bennett said.
Let's look" they both said.
After careful Investigation.
the officers returned to police
headquarters and invited their
fellow officers to partake of
soup.
BY the way, the moving OBJ
Jet was a seven-pound turtle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
FARM GROWN AUTO
PARTS FORD'S AIM

While the exact aims Of the De-
troit automobile manufacturer are
cloaked in secrecy. some Of his So
a-day farm hands have heard or
learned a few Of the reasons why
Ford has set up his 3,000-acre "ag-
ricultural laboratory"
Growth Of cantaloupes to get al
cohol for auto paint, one dirt farm
er said, is contemplated by Ford.
After the extraction of alcohol from
the melons, the residue is to be
made into new cheap substance
as serviceable as wood. the farmer
reckoned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

By United Press
ADRIAN, Mich, June 16.-Henry
Ford intends to find out whether
automobile raw materials can be
grown" on farm.
Taking a page from his close
friend. Thomas A. Edison, who
Monday announced he successfully
had vulcanized synthetic rubber
made from goldenrod, Ford is re-
ported to have spent more than
100000 in purchasing LenaWee
county farm lands for farm grown
raw material experiments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
STUDY SCHOOL LEVY
1881 2 Budget May Stay
at 1880 Figure.

The tax levy of the school city
will remain at last years figure,
S1.01, 1t was revealed today when
the board of school commissioners
adopted tentative budget for the
1931-1932 school year calling for
the expenditure Of s7.459.546.
The budget requirements for the
new year is a reduction of $28,746
over the last years expenditures
and this despite the fact that state
aid to the school city will be $4,000
less during the current year.
Ninety principals and assistant
principals were appointed at the
board meeting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

ward the gate guarded zealously
by the two rnarShals.
Halt" shouted SI1ithly.
The quintet in the sedan ig-
nored the command.
you can't do that" chimed in
Marshal Donovan.
The sedan, guided by Hender-
son, did. 1t gathered momentum
and drove straight for The sandy
beach, Bathers and sand moles
screamed and Scurried for safety.
Mothers ran with their children.
The car Owed int the river
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

Cox on vagrancy charge, the Ra-
venswood town board figures on
a new beach price schedule that
may run like this:
Coupe suicides-no running
board hangers -on-S1.
Roadster diyes-with wife-50
cents-without, rs.
Motorcycle n1anslaughter - IS
cents.
Sedan slaying-s1 for car and
driver-50 cents a passenger.
Trucks and all other vehicles
make special arrangements
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

deputy sherifs, they received ex-
PLANTATION for the gate-crash.
Leaning his shoulder on the two
Laws" and with friendly whiffs
of his breath Henderson broke
down in tears with, I'D have
succeeded If you hadn't pulled us
out"
GO while Henderson is held in
the county Jail charged with
operating an automobile while
under the infuesfe Of LIQUOR and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Hourly Temperatures

and only halted its plunge at
n1id-Stream.
y
ERIGHTENED swimmers awoke
! to the realization that the
cars occupants were in danger
Of drowning. Henderson and his
companions were dragged to the
beach. where three CT the youths
Immediately fed.
While the twin narslaals held
Henderson and Lewis Cox. 10, of
5l7 North Wallace street, for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

avoiding the Is cents head tax on
swimmers. dived into White river.
J. L. Donovan, marshal for
Mayor Charles Hubbs ST.. and
Ben S. Snithly, marshal for
Mayor Charles O. Ford, blithely
we're gathering in the "two-bitS"
from backless and trunkless suits
when the attempted wholesale
suicide" occurred.
g
A SEDAN, driven by Sterling
~ Henderson, II, Of $40 North
Hamilton ayenue, careened TO-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
DEATH PENALTY ASKED
Men Charged With Christmas Eve
Murder on Trial at Plymouth.

1F1CH NIIaTB Ecu WIN OMTIStnlaS Eve
Murder on Trial at Plymouth.
BIZ United Press
PLYMOUTH. Ind, June 16.-De-
tense counsel in the trial of Simon
Dyer, 81, charged with the murder
Of Paul Scheiman, %, North Judson,
prepared to battle strong evidence
presented by seven state witnesses,
in Marshal circuit court here. The
state is seeking sentence of death
against Dyer.
Scheiman was slain last Christ
mas eve while on his way to a
church entertainment with his
mother and two sisters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
Dartmouth HonOrs Morrow

By United Press
HANOVER, N. H, June 10
Dwight w. Morrow, United States
senator, was awarded the honorary
degree Of doctor Of laws by Presi-
dent Ernest Martin Hopkins at the
one hundred sixty-second COM
mencement at Dartmouth college
today. A class of 1872 was graduated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
FRANKLIN PRExY QUITS

Homer p. Rainey Resigns to Take
Presidency of Bucknell.
By United Press
FRANKLIN, Ind, June is. -
Homer P. Rainey. president OF
Franklin college here since 1927,
has resigned and will accept a
similar position with Bucknell uni
versity, Lewisburg, Pa, 1t was an
nounced by the board of directors
today The resignation was to take
effect Immediately.
Rainey. who came here from the
University of Oregon, is a member
OF the committee Of the North Gen.
trail Association Of universities and
colleges to revise standards in lib
eral art colleges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16

Court to Act on Newspaper Sale
By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 16.-Justice
Jesse G. Adkins of District Of Co
lumbia supreme court will act
Wednesday on the proposal Of Ed
ward B. Mclean to sell the Wash
ington Post to David Lawrence for
So 600 600.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
ID AvENSWOOD is revising its
N swimming beach prices to-

day.
In fact, the new schedule may
result in the little municipality
with its multiplicity of John
Laws" to advertise itself as the
Gateway to Paradise, Purgatory.
and Hades."
It all came about when sedan
with I'VE youths in it crashed the
beach gate. guarded by the towns
two 6aarshals Monday night, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
AVERT LAND TAX CRISIS
British Laborites Accept Liberal
Amendment to Bill.
By United Press

d CH&kCU FF6SS
LONDON, June 16.-The crisis
that threatened the labor govern
ment over its land tax measures
was averted today when Premier
j. Ramsay Macdonald accepted a
Liberal amendment to the bill
guarding against double taxation
on amounts already paid in income
taxes.
Macdonald told a meeting Of the
parliamentary labor party that the
government accepted the amend
ment, as redrafted. subject TO re-
consideration of certain details. The
threatened crisis in the house of
commons tonight therefore would
pass over, he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-16
AL PLEADS GUILTY
Capone Admits Huge In
come Tax Fraud.
Detailed Capone Story
Page i. Section 2.

By United Press
CHICAGO, June 16.-Al Capone,
his underworld power crushed by
the United States government,
stood in federal court today and
pleaded guilty to defrauding the
nation of almost 100000 in in
come taxes and conspiring in a
$20O,O0O,O00 beer combine to vio-
late the prohibition laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-24
Vida Obrera Ball
Rallies Workers
to Support Paper

Under the auspices of group of
Latin American workers there will
take place a big dance for the bene-
fit of the Vida Obrera. Danson Tan
COS, fox trots and other native Latin
American dances with native music
by members of the Vida Obrera
group will be feature of the affair.
Others will give several solos of pro-
letarian songs from the Latin Ameri-
can countries. A real good time and
Latin American atmosphere is prom
Used.
The Vida Obrera was banned from
the mails by the Wall Street govern
ment together with other working
class publications for carrying the
message of the Communist Party to
the millions of Latin American
workers exploited in the factories and
farms throughout the U,SA. The
United Front Committee of Latin
American workers is holding this af-
fair to provide funds for the reap
pearance OF the Vida Obrera.
The dance will take place at New
Harlem Casino, ll6th st. and Lenox
Ave, Saturday, September 26 at $50
pm, admission for men so cents,
women, rs cents.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-24
New Anti-Racket
Law. Directed at
Working Class

The Anti Racketeering bill
passed by a special session of leg
islature in Albany is nothing more
than a camouflage to equip the
capitalists with more legal wea-
pons to crush the working class.
The bill defines a racketeer as one
who seeks to compel another to
join an organization whether
formed under the laws of this state
or another" The bill nowhere spe-
officially defines the nature of this
compulsion to be prohibited. This
means if a worker is striking
against a wage cut and he is pick
citing a shop to stop scabs he can
be criminally prosecuted for seek
ing ito compel another to join an
organization"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-24
Endorses Mooney
Release Campaign
Protection of Foreign
Born Aids the
Campaign

NEW YORK.-The National Com
mittee for the Protection of the
Foreign Born issued the following
statement endorsing the campaign
launched by the International Labor
Defense to free Mooney, the Harlan
miners, the Scottsboro boys and all
class war prisoners. The statement
follows:
"For fifteen years Tom Mooney has
been confined in a dungeon In
California. Everyone knows that he
was framed up but the state still
refuses to release him. Thirty-four
miners in Harlan, Kentucky are
facing a frame-up charge on murder
for striking against unbearable con-
ditions. Nine young boys in Scots
boro, Alabama are condemned to
death in the electric chair on a
trumped up on charge of rape, con-
victed on the testimony of two no.
torious women.
"Foreign-born workers are being
terorized by the Department of Labor
agents, threatened with deportation
and especially are they being VIC
timized when they go on strike
against starvation and misery. These
attacks are not isolated. The attacks
on the Harlan miners, the Scottsboro
boys, Mooney continued to stay in
prison, the persecution of the foreign
born are all part of a gigantic at
tack against the whole working-cla
to smash their resistance, to force
down their standard of living, to pre-
vent the workers from organizing to-
gether and fight against all per-
secutions.
1.-The National Committee for the
Protection of the Foreign Born calls
upon all its affiliated organizations
as we'll as other working class bodies
to rally around the campaign
launched by the International Labor
Defense. The foreign born and ma
tive must unite to smash all attacks
against the working-clas whether 1t
comes in the form of persecution
against the foreign born or an at
tack such as in Harlan case or the
Scotsboro. Let the campaign to free
Tom Mooney be the opening signal
for united front of all workers to
struggle against all kinds of terroriza-
ton and persecution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-24
COUNCIL WINS
FOR WORKERS

Tuesday the representative Of the
Harlem Unemployed Council, Com
rade Lealess, won real victory for
the workers in the 121 Court where
eviction notices are being handed
out. Lealess came to represent Mr..
and Mrs. Hansen Of ITO Park Ave.
who we're slated for eviction with
their four small children because
they could not pay their rent. Han
sen has been unemployed for long
time. Hansen explained how he had
been terrorized by the police, the
charity organizations and the bosses
political parties for refusing to starve
peacefully. While Lealess was de-
tending Hansen and all Of the other
workers in the court the judge asked
him whether he was lawyer.
Lealess replied that he was an I'M
employed worker and had been a
miner, lumberjack, dish washer or
any lob he could find.
All Of the cases that we're heard
before the Hansen case got five days
before the eviction can be served
Beginning with the Hansen case the
Judge increased the time allowed
before the eviction could be served
to ten days. All workers who are
faced with eviction should follow the
example Of the workers in the 121st
ST. court