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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17

An administration may fall or
rise, because Of the measure Presi-
dent Hoover signed on June II,
1890.
Retaliation by foreign nations,
whose trade with us was smashed
against the high Smoot- Hawley tar
if wall, has dramatized the issue.
And thus, having advanced out of
the academic and technical fields,
our tariff policy has assumed vitality
important proportions for all
Americans particularly for the s.
100000 or 100000 unemployed.
Disaster Has Resulted
Critics of the bill, which they
contend was conceived in greed and
nurtured by log-rolling, say that
because of it these things have re-
suited:
OUR FOREIGN TRADE life blood
of American industry that is tuned
up to produce more than we can
consume, has been cut in half.
FOREIGN NATIONS, once our
friends and customers and now our
business enemies, are barricading
themselves behind equally high
tariff stockades in retaliation.
INDUSTRIES HERE, finding it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17

sure that none of Capone's enemies
sent bullet through his back.
Dwight Green, assistant district
attorney in charge of income tax
frauds, read in a triumphant voice
two indictments charging Capone
with cheating the government of
$213, 900 in income taxes.
Twice Green demanded:
Did you violate the United States
income tax laWs?"
And twice Capone moistened his
thick lips, stared at his Well-mani-
cured fingers and mumbled in a
tenor whisper:
Guilty"
Then Victor La Rue, another as
sistant district attorney, read the
indictment charging Capone with
5000 separate liquor law violations,
accusing him of engulf1ng the mid
die west with food of noxiouS
bootleg beer.
How do you plead?' asked La
Rue.
Capone tried to wet his lips again.
But his tongue was dry.
Guilty. he finally said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
GABLE ON VICTORY
THRESHOLD IN WAR
OVER TABERNACLE
Six-Year Fight for Ban on
Sport Events in Temple
Near Close.

E Howard Cadle today stood on
the verge Of victory in his years old
battle to GUST marathon contests,
boxing shows and wrestling match
es from Cadle tabernacle, which he
built to dedicate as a temple of in
terdenominational worship.
At 2:30 Sunday, Cadle will appear
on the platform of the tabernacle
for the first time in seven years to
present a plan whereby he will form
a new organization to regain control
of the building.
Six years ago he turned Cadle
tabernacle over to Tabernacle AS
ISOLATION, corporation headed by
Walter Hansing, Urbana, Ind.
Failed TO Make Payments
These owners. Cadle said today,
recently have failed to make pay
ments to the Fletcher Realty Com
pany on the real estate, and the
property reverted to the Fletcher
company last week.
Ralph K. Smith of the Fletcher
Realty Company will recommend
that his company make concessions
in price to an organization that will
operate the building for religious,
educational, music and civic pur-
poses, Cadle said.
Since releasing control of the
structure six years ago, Cadle has
fought bitterly against it's use for
sports contests and endurance spec
tacles. He charged that restrictions
he made in the sale of the property
prevented such affairs being held
there.
Courts Back Promoters
Courts, however, upheld the pro-
moters, on the ground that q por-
ton Of the receipts went to chart
ties.
At the Sunday mass meeting,
Cadle will speak on Restoring the
Temple
He announced that there will be
1000 voices in the choir, and that
Homer Rodeheaver, director of
music 1Or Billy sunday, Will nave
charge of the music.
An invitation has been extended
to all who ever have sung in the diff
ferent Cadle tabernacle choirs to
take their seats on the platform.
Radio to Garry Services
The services will be broadcast over
WFBM from 2:30 to 4.
Delegations will attend from sew
eral towns throughout the state
where Cadle has held union evan
gelistic meetings.
Cadle built the tabernacle at New
Jersey and Ohio streets in 1921 in
memory of his mother, Loretta
Cadle of Salem, Ind.
It was dedicated in October, 1921,
by Gypsy Smith, when the largest
crowd in state religious history at
tended.
The tabernacle has seating ca
pacity of 10000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17

increasingly difficult to maintain
foreign markets for their products,
are establishing branch factories
abroad as a means of tunneling I'M
der the tariff barriers.
THESE THINGS have resulted, in
turn, in making our unemployment
problem more and more serious:
and
BUSINESS, feeling the hardest
pinch of the prolonged depression,
is more, uncertain now than when
the bill was under debate in con-
gress, because of the prospect that
the whole tariff question soon will
be reopened.
Talk of Even Higher Rates
On the other hand, many sup.
porters of the tariff say the world
situation has not been affected by
our bill, and the Republican ma
tional committee even has spon-
sored the statement of a congress
man that some of the rates are not
yet high enough.
They also contend that If the
rates had not been increased tons
of commodities and manufactured
goods, produced at cheapest prices
abroad. would have been dumped
on these shores and thus would have
added to the agricultural and in
duStrial distress.
This tariff bill started in a way
that gave no hint of what finally
would happen. In the last presi-
DENTAL campaign, the promise was
made that congress would be called
in special session to make limited
revision Of the tariff and adjust
agricultural rates as a measure of
farm relief.
The gate was opened on Jan. 7,
1929, when the house ways and
means committee started hearings
Before it was closed dozens of
schedules and scores Of rates had
been changed-rnoStly upward-and
there had Streanned through the
halls of congress delegation after
delegation of lobbyists.
Hopes Are UnfulfIled
The senate finally completed its
revision Of the rates on March q,
1880, and three months later the
bill became a law.
But this did not occur before the
country had echoed with pleas from
business and politics that the bill be
vetoed, nor before dark predictions
of its results had been made by ex-
perts.
When congress sent the bill to the
President, he announced almost i'm
mediately that he would sign it, ad-
hitting in the same breath that it
was a product of log-rolling and
contained inequalities.
His two hopes were that final ap-
proVal of it would quiet the uncer-
tainty that had reigned in the bust
ness world since the revision was
begun, and that the inequities would
be corrected by the tariff commits
sion.
+ But now year has passed, and
neither of these hopes has been full
filled.
So today the Smoot- Hawley tariff
act enters its second year with the
prospect that it either will not ex-
list on June IT. 1882, or will have
been changed by that time 50 that
it hardly will resemble the measure
President Hoover signed one year
ago today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
PROBE REPORT
OF GANG RAIDS
ON GAMBLERS
Detroit Gunner Said to
Have Melted $4,000 in
Three HauIS.
POKER BOYS HELD UP
Two City Hoodlums Acting
as 'Spotters,' Police
Rumors Say.

Underworld reports of gangster
raids on big money poker games in
two north side apartments and
club recently, that have Melted
gunner $4,000, today were being
probed by police.
According to information that has
sifted into headquarters from var
ious haunts, the gunner are from
Detroit and still are in Indianap-
oils, working with two local hood
lums who are sporting" the games.
No official reports of the robberies
have been made to authorities, but
it is known that members of police
raiding squads and higher-ups in
the department have almost COM
plete details on the stickups.
Get $4,000 in Raid
First victims of the gangsters it
is said, were participants in poker
game who were held at bay by the
thugs who cleaned off the tables
and robbed the customers" of
nearly $4,000.
Other reports say the same gun
men since then have. struck at two
other games, walking out with
$4,000 and $1,000.
Several years ago, during the
reign of a political party that was
hand in hand with controllers of
the Indianapolis gambling racket.
raids on craps, poker and other
chance games were a regular oc-
currance.
According to the rumorS, the In
dianapolis finger lnen" are receiY-
ing heavy cut on the loot.
Plan Further Quizzing
Police, i'll view of the reports, to-
day contemplated further inyestiga-
ton of statements by Arthur ST.
mons, Los Angeles jockey, who dur
ing a period of Inconsistencies in
a Lebanon hospital over the week
end, mulnbled of connections with
Detroit gangsters.
After regaining consciousness, he
asked hospital authorities if he had
talked too much" They said he
was worried when they informed
him of his remarks about the gang
sterS.
Sinons was found on United
States Road 50, near Lebanon, Sat
urday. He denied he had been the
victim of slugger, asserting he had
spells of Inconsistencies resulting
from head injuries sustained when
he was kicked by a horse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
HIGH COURT HIT IN
NEW STEVE APPEAL

suited from a conspiracy backed by
his enemies within the ranks Of the
khan.
The life Imprisonment sentence
on his conviction for the murder of
Madge Oberholtzer, Indianapolis
woman, is grossly excessive" the
writ states.
Attorneys for Stephenson asked a
change of venue from Judge Harry
Cruinpacker of the court. Crum-
packer set hearing on arguments
on the petition for Tuesday.
The petition. sets out that in the
period of almost six years, the state
supreme court has had sufficient
time to rule on the appeal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
TARIFF THAT HAS BEEN
DOCUMENT OF DISASTER
IS ONE YEAR OLD TODAY
Depression Prolonged, Foreign Trade Cut in
Half, Business Shaky and Uncertain
Over What Future Holds.


WASHINGTON June 17.--Exports from the United
States May toaled sos in value while imports
valued at s182OOOOOO figures published by the de-
partment of commerce today showed.
These figures are over than the export and import
figures have been for many years.
Exports during May dropped nearly S1OOO0,0OO
under April, when they s21488O,OOO American
sales abroad have dropped gradually January when
they $249642,OOO. Imports were nearly S4OOOOOO
less in May than in April which month showed 1885,
744,00O in American sales abroad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
Then and NO7e,
a Trag edy in
Tariff Making

TN the first four months of this
Il year, under the tariff rates of
the Smoot- Hawley act, our for
eign trade fell off by more than
half a billion dollars.
Except for a few spurts, our
exports have been slipping stead
lily ever since the tariff bill be
came law a year ago.
The most sensational decreases
have taken place in the last six
or eight months.
The value of exports under the
new rates in the first full four
months they were effective was
half a billion dollars below the
same period of 1929.
These figures, giving the values
in thousands of dollars, tell the
story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
TAPS SOUNDED FOR
Al CAPONE'S REIGN
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press staff Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 17-One of the
most unsavory chapters in Amer
lean criminal history closed Tues
day when Scarface Al Capone
pleaded guilty to combined charges
of income tax fraud and liquor law
violations.
He will reappear in the federal
court of Federal Judge James H.
Wilkerson on June 80 to be sem
fenced to prison and to abdicate his
rule of what once was the most
powerful gang Of wholesale muir
derers, bombers, torturers, labor
racketeers, illicit brewers, gamblers
and vice mongers the United States
ever has known.
"Scarface Al" has before him a
maximum penitentiary term of
thirty-four years and a top fine of
100000. Because of his guilty plea
he hopes for a prison sojourn of
considerably less than that and a
IIe not quite so SUN.
The Sonber courtroom was
damned with hard boiled detectives,
bailiffs, reporters. "sob-sisters" and
curious citizens when Capone am
bled in.
He wore a flannel suit of butter
yellow, shoes of yellow, hat of yell
low, tie Of yellow. Even his eye
balls appeared yellow in the gloom
of the velvet-curtained room.
Soon Judge Wilkerson entered,
quietly and grim He took one
startled look at Capone's all-too
gorgeous color scheme and sank into
his chair, as if to recover from the
shock.
"Scarface" wobbled to the bar as
briskly as his weight would permit
as the clerk called his case. Bulky
Iaforffxrac
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
By Tim eS Special

By Times Special
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, June II.
Charging the Indiana supreme
court with illegally delaying his
murder conviction appeal for nearly
six years, D. C. Stephenson, former
Khan leader, today opened another
onslaught in his battle for freedom.
In petition for writ of habeas
corpus, the one-time khan chief
charged in the La Porte county su-
perior court Tuesday, that the delay
in disposition of his case by the
high court is unconstitutional and
unreasonable.
He sets out that he was not given
a fair trial and the conviction re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
You u See!

William H. Lee, 418 Harvard
place, is some picker when it
comes to fortune tellers.
He picked one out Tuesday
night that told him he was
going to lose some money.
And by the time Lee left the
seance, he told police he dis
covered his pants-pocket had
been picked for $35.
Police are holding Ef1e
Jones and Luella Gray, Ne
groes, 632 East Washington
street, as the adept prognoSti-
Gators. They are charged with
grand larceny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
QUAKE ROCKS TOXIC.
City in Darkness as Check
of Damage Begins.

By United Press
TOXIC, June 1T-Tokio and
vicinity was rocked by severe
earthquake starting at $40 o'clock
tonight.
Authorities believed considerable
oil property damage would be re.
ported.
Several sections of the city we're
IN darkness due TO the failure Of
power lines.
Telephone and telegraph lines
also were damaged.
Some damage was reported at
Yokohama. the seaport city eighteen
miles from here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17

Tariff collections during the
first full three months to which
the new tariff rates applied
amounted to $94,937 1852, more
than 100000 under the same
period of 1929.
The new higher rates can not be
blamed for all of this decrease. but
they undoubtedly were one of the
major factors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
POLICE LAP UP BEER
Chiefs at JuareE. Mexico, for Con-
vention, Drink 5000 Bottles.

By United Press
JUAREz, Mexico, June 17-Four
hundred delegates attending the
convention Of Texas police chiefs
and city marshals at FL Paso, Tex,
came to Juarez Tuesday night for
a banquet and drank $700 worth Of
beer, it was reported today.
About 5000 bottles of beer were
consumed by the officers. according
70 employees Of Hugos cabaret.
where the banquet was held. Much
lof the food prepared for a huffet
supper was not eaten, however.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
Three BOmbings Spread Fright

Three BOmbings Spread Fright
By United Press
TURIN, Italy, June 17.-Three
bombs were exploded here during
the night The bombs were set in
outlying sections of the city and no
casualties occurred. The gate Of a
villa and garden bench were dam
aged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
SOUGHT IN
FAITHFUL MURDER

be able to shed some light on her
whereabouts during the time just
before her body was tossed up on
the beach by the waves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
BY MARSHALL M,NEm

WASHINGTON June 1.-THE Snoot-Hawey one year
old today, but little rejoicing
months
widely condemned law these
that REPRESENTATION
msts business and opposition political say has
proongdWl outweigh all other presidential campaign
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17
TWO BEACHES OPENED
Warfieigh, 18th Street Resorts Get
Health Board Approval.

Two bathing beaches, Warfleigh
and Twenty-sixth street, were
opened today by the city recreation
department following approval of
water specimens by the city health
board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17

In these same four months of
1881 our imports have decreased
in value by Sac, 100000, as these
figures reveal:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-17

And, Tor the first four months
of 1881, our exports we're worth
$534,l03,000 less than for the same
period of 1880, as these figures
show.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
GERMANY WILL
BATTLE TO GET
| AMERICAN help
Seeking Capital to Rescue
the Nation From Com
plete Relapse Into Finan-
cial Ruin

BY FREDERICK KUN
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Berlin, July - (UP) A fight
for American capital to rescue a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
Mount Carmel
Plant Sold
Bought By the Altas=An=
sonia Co of New Haven

The Atlas-Ansonia company OF
Nav Haven has purchased the
Mount Carmel Manufacturing com
pany of Mount Carmel. The plant
has been involved in litigation for
many months because of dissoiu-
ton action brought by local inter-
eats. A month ago Attorney Marcus
Weisman of this city purchased the
concern from the stockholders for
several thousand dollars above the
oneumbrances. He is believed to be
the seller to the New Haven concern.
John T. Sullivan of this city was
the principal stakeholder OF the
company.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09

slowly reviving Germany from re-
lapse into financial chaos was be-
gun today.
The governments position was
unquestionably much better as re-
suit of the Hoover moratorium and
the pledge of 1000 outstanding
banks and firms. offering private
resources to the reich.
The battle against bankruptcy was
believed half won by these major
moves, but officials told the United
Press the second step will be:
Ito halt Withdrawals Of foreign
credits.
Ito redirect a stream of for
eign-particularly American - cap
ital back into German channels.
DR. Hans Luther, head of the
Reichsbank, is going to London soon
to arrange for a great foreign loan
through the Reichsbank. The loan,
it was reported, will be in connec-
ton with the program to secure
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
u DEATHS HAVE
OCCURRED FROM
BROCKTON BOOZE
hey Drank From Bottle
During Circus Perform
ance-Man Who Made
the Drink, Is Only One
Alive

Brockton, July s.-UP)-The
death from poison bootleg liquor
taken during a circus performance
X0R increased to six to-day with
the death of Edward Sullivan, A, Of
Brockton.
The complete death list included:
Mrs Annie Jacobs, So, of Brock
ton.
Edward Jacobs, "a, her son.
John A. Blake. 65, West Bridge
water.
George Davidson, Sc, Brockton.
Lloyd Dean, AZ, Brockton.
Edward Sullivan, A, Brockton.
Dominick Desormiers, an unem-
ployed shoe worker said by police
10 have made the fatal potion by
mixing wood alcohol with water,
was the only imbiber alive. His
condition was critical. Police said
he would be charged with six counts
OF Granddaughter If he survived.
The bootleg liquor was consumed
by the party in Desormiers room
Tuesday afternoon. The group wit
messed a circus performance that
evening and the first victim, George
Davidson, was stricken the Hollow
Ing morning.
The remaining deaths occurred at
short intervals during the day. Sui
Ivan died at Brockton hospital early
to-day.
Suspicion was cast on Desormiers
when It was learned he had pur-
chased a gallon of wood alcohol ito
thin some shellac" and later showed
his landlady bottle saying "if you
should take a drink of this 1t would
kill you sure"
He has been unemployed for some
time and was understood to have
done some bootlegging on small
scale.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09

dies and one or two with children
in arms.
As a rule on all such occasions,
those who want to alight are at the
extreme end of the vehicle and 60
through quite an ordeal squeezing
through. Whether this crowding 10
due to a scarcity of buses or din.
Guilty in getting reliable drivers 10
not known to patrons, but in any
event It is the cause OF much pro-
family on the part Of men and 1t is
not possible to tell what kind of LAM
guage women would use to express
their feelings If one could get them
to talk,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09

400,000,0o0 or 50o.o0o.000 marks
($119, 0o0,000) rediscount credits.
The flood of almost fatal WITH
drawals of foreign currency In the
past two weeks, when the Hoover
debts plan lay in the balance at
Paris, seriously threatened the eco
nomic stability Of the nation.
These already have lessened, how
ever, totalling but 25,000,000 marks
(about $6,000,000) yesterday as COM
pared to the staggering total OF To-
O00, 900 marks on Monday and about
100000 on Tuesday. That was re-
garded as a healthy sign and the
government was believed winning It's
battle against a financial panic. ana
ruin.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
No Fault With
New Bus Route
Streets in Good Condition
But Vehicles Over
crowded

The new route for the Sylvan ave.
nue. bus is all right, Bridge. Penn
berton, Pleasant and Ridge streets
are in good condition, so that the
only complaint heard is about the
crowding on certain trips. This was
very noticeable at o'clock yester-
day afternoon. Every seat was oc-
cupied and about twenty persons
were standing, some carrying bun
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
Cars Damaged But
Occupants Not Injured

Automobiles operated by Edmund
J. DAILY, Jr., of SO Concord street and
Angeline Masse Of 460 Hamilton ave-
nue. figured in a collision yesterday
afternoon near the intersection OF
Wolcott and Howard streets. Both
cars were damaged. but no one was
injured. While driving on the South
mayd road yesterday John Mossette
of 232 Orange street crashed into
hydrant. Both the police and water
departments were notified of the mis-
hap.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09

contract to Metro Goldwyn-M Mayer.
She had parts in Her Cardboard
Lover" "Their Own Desires" THE
Cob" "Olympia." and "The Single
| Standard"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
VARIETY Is

VARIETY Is
"You were engaged for Tour
wears! Wasn't 1t rather boring?"
Not was not always the same
manufacturers.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1931-07-09
MUST BE SCOTCH

''Why did you have only one Of
the twins photographed?
"They looked so much alike, 1t
was no use spending the money get.
ting pictures of oth."-Answers.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-08-23
new CHRYSLER
AGENCY OPENED

Volmer Roberts. well known In
Valley automotive circles,
rounces e establishment in
Brownsville OF a Chr. Ter dealer
ship located in the salesroom Of
the Williams Motor Co. on Levee
St.
Two Chrysler models, an 8 and a
6. are already on display, and a
complete line OF Chrysler cars is
now en- route and will be on hand
some time next week, according to
Mr.. Roberts.
Through the facilities afforded
by the Williams concern, all
Chrysler CTS will be afforded
complete service facilities by the
new dealer.
Roberts was engaged in the auto
mobile business in San Benito for
II years, and was also employed for
a time in Brownsville as manager
Of the Cad''ac agency by the Den
nett Motor Sales Co.
He has a wide e perience In his
line.