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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS
PRESS; KILLS MINNESOTA
GAG RULE BY 5 TO 4 VOTE
Ringing Opinion Is Delivered by Chief
Justice Hughes in Establishing
Rights of Newspapers.

By Scripps- II ot1ard Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE Su-
preme court continues to be the
wonder of Washington.
AS a result of newspaper COM
ment on the courts recent change
from conservatism to liberalism,
through the alignment of Chief
Justice Hughes and Associate JUS
tice Roberts with the famous dis
senters-Justices Holmes, Brandeis
and Stone-the court room was
crowded at it's final meeting of the
term Monday.
Whether the tourists crowding
the small and monastic chamber
sensed it or not, they witnessed q
scene which may have cemented a
transformation in jurisprudence of
greater Importance to America than
the declaration Of war or the cleo
ton of President. And, as has
been true so often of late, the CEN
tral figure of the drama was
Charles Evans Hughes.
Hardly had the ceremonies honor
ing the late Chief Justice Taft and
Associate Justice Sanford been con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
VIRGIL DUE IN COURT
Sentence Rehearing Date
to Be Set Today.

BIZ United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind, June 2. -
Virgil kirkland was to be brought
before Judge Grant N. Crumpacker
today from the state reformatory,
where he is serving a one-to-ten-
year sentence imposed when he was
convicted here on a charge of at
lacking Arlene braves with intent
to commit criminal attack.
Judge Crumpacker was to set a
date for hearing to determine
whether the sentence will be
changed to from five to twenty-one
years, as requested by the state.
In sentencing Kirkland, Judge
Crumpacker described the crime as
assault with intent to commit a
felony" carrying the lighter term.
Burney Maxwell, sheriff of Por-
ter county, presented himself at the
Governors Office today with papers
to return Virgil Kirkland, notorious
defendant in the Valparaiso murder
trials for the death of Arlene braves
Of Gary, to court in Valparaiso for
possible sentencing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

Roosevelt Is the man to win, and
those who oppose him are talking
about his health.
Roosevelt is endeavoring to
prove by his activity that his
health is better, not worse. The
Democrats look also at Ritchie,
but dodge any mention of prohi-
bition.
GATHERED in a great banquet
~ hall Monday night the Gov
errors listened to Meredith
Nicholson, George AIDE, Strickland
Gillian and Will Hays. 1t was
social gathering, with golf for the
men and bridge for their wives.
No one has dared to breach open
ly the subject Of prohibition or Of
employment sterilization.
But the lid which has been
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
THREE CHILDREN
HURT BY AUTOS
Injuries, However, Slight;
Run Into Cars Paths.

Peril that hovers over city streets
for reckless children brushed but
did not grasp three youngsters Mon
day night. Playing in streets near
their homes they ran into the paths
of automobiles and were injured
slightly.
Six-year-old Margaret Gibson. of
518 North Hamilton avenue, was
bruised and cut and suffered mild
brain conclusion when she skipped
into the street in front of an auto
driven by Sterling Henderson, 20, of
$40 North Hamilton avenue. She
was treated by a neighborhood ply
sician and taken home.
William Cullom, 3, Of 2946 Station
street, was hurt slightly when he
ran in front of bus near his home,
and Edward Muew, s, Of 243 North
Rural street, also was injured
slightly by an auto driven by Dan
Wildman, %, Of 511 North Grant
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
BIZ United Press

By United Press
WEST ORANGE, N. j., June e.
All intensive Six-year man hunt that
led detectives around the world in
search of the thrill slayer" Of a
Long Island taxi driver, ended to-
day with the capture, virtually on
New Yorks doorstep, of Philip K.
Knapp, former Cornell university
student, son of a wealthy Syracuse
IN. " family.
Knapp has been sought since July
2, 1925, when he is alleged to have
slain Louis PAMELA Of Hampstead,
l.. L, then penned a note to his
father saying that he got enjoy
ment out of inf1icting death on
others.
The youth, also an army deserter
from Mitchell field, L. l., is sus-
pected of being the perpetrator of
the "3X'' murders which claimed
two lives and terrified New York
for weeks.
While police still we're searching
in strange lands for the thrill
slayer" twelve detectives surround
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
LAST HOPEFOR
FALL is DASHED
U. S. Supreme Court Rules
Against Review.
BY LYLE C. WILSON,
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, June 2. - Albert
Bacon Fall must go to the prison
gate, but he never may set foot in
side the walls.
Justice probably will lead the for
ner secretary Of interior to the pris-
on and release him there-content
with exaction Of a 100000 fine.
And the fine never may be paid.
The last legal recourse against
sentence of one year in jail and
the fine was exhausted Monday
when Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes CURLY denied Falls appli-
cation for review Of his case.
Hughes was cabinet colleague
of Fall during the Harding admin
istration, when the former interior
secretary accepted 9 100000 bride
from e. L. Doheny in exchange for
a lease on the Elk Hills oil reserve.
Fall could appeal to still another
colleague of the Harding cabinet,
President Hoover, but it is under
stood there will be no executive
clemency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

Ear and away the strong
est political power in my own
commonwealth is the power
of the organized public utili-
ties. And I venture to guess
that there is hardly a single
state where the pressure OF
public utility lobbyists upon
legislature and the govern
ment is not known.
I'm Pennsylvania the Republican
party is in power. The pubic
utilities do not dominate the Re-
publican party, or rather the men
and women of whom it is composed,
but they own and operate the party
machinery.
"They control the state chairman,
the national committeeman and
other officials of the Pennsylvania
state committee, and these officials
busily are occupied in doing the will
of the public utilities and in defeat
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
Boy, III, FEees

Stricken with smallpox, 13-
year-old Henry Bradford Law
in city hospital today after
having lived three days in the
basement Of a vacant house
since he ran away from his
adopted home.
Monday a police squad, an
swering a call of Mrs. Rosa
Laswell, s14 DAILY street, who
saw a body in the basement
OF a house at 800 Daily street,
found the boy i'll there.
He had run away from the
farm house of Benjamin Jar
rett, near Danville, Ind. Jar
rett adopted the boy from the
indianapolis Orphans Home
two years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
NAB THRILL KILLER
HUNTED SIX YEARS

ed a shabby frame cottage here and
seized the man as he returned from
his employment as mechanic.
The search for Knapp had been
pressed in the eastern part OF the
United States, Canada, Mexico,
Central and South America, into
the ranks Of the French Foreign
Legion at Morocco and even into
China.
Meanwhile, the army deserter al
ways was within a short distance
of New York, living in Boston for
several months Immediately after
the murder Of PAMELA, and for
three years prior to October, as a
member of the coast guard at the
Staten Island station, where he was
accepted as an honorable and re-
spected married man.
Knapp was taken to headquarters
here and admitted readily the STAY
ing of PAMELA, police said, saying
that it was committed merely to
experience the power of infiicting
death and to enjoy the excitement
of being the object Of manhunt."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

cluded before the court, with a
Sw1ftneSS not usually associated with
this august body, swung into &C
ton.
The chief justice squared his
broad shoulders, tossed back his
black robe enough to reveal the
white tipped edge Of his vest and
leaned out across the bar of justice.
Then, with the information Of an Or
acle, he delivered another of those
far-reaching opinions that have
provoked both admiration and con-
Sternation.
Once again, in case Of incalcul-
able import for its effect upon the
freedom of the press, the erstwhile
conservative acted as spokesman for
the new liberal" majority.
Holds Gag Law Invalid
Any statute, he declared, that is
designed to impose an anticipatory
restraint upon publication even of
malicious, defamatory and scan
dalouS" subject matter constitutes
censorship intolerable to the Amer
lean spirit. There are sufficient
legal remedies, he pointed out, for
use latter" publication.
The great right of the freedom Of
the press, he asserted, transcendS
all efforts to remedy local problems
through statutory action. Cutting
through what he called ''1nere de-
tails Of procedure" the chief JUS
tice held invalid the Minnesota law
which had come before the court
as the result Of an attempt to in
woke it against a Minneapolis news
paper charged with defaming GER
tain city officials for their failure
to prosecute gangSters.
Even before the chief justice be-
gan to read, it was obvious that
he was about to hand down another
decision rejecting the famous SUI
preme court shift and that it was
to be another 5-to-4 opinion.
Conservatives Lean Back
For as he cleared his throat, the
dissenting conservatives, Butler,
Sutherland, Vandeyanter and Nc
ReynoldS-leaned back in their
black leather chairs and stared at
the skylight. But Holmes, Brandeis,
Stone ard Roberts sat forward as
If to catch every word he read.
When Justice Butler delivered the
dissenting opinion, Hughes settled
down comfortably, the Snowy-haired
Holmes sank back alongside "The
Chief" Stone gazed out over the
court room, Roberts eyes strayed
toward the walls of the chamber.
and Brandeis Scrutinized something
on the bench before him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
SITE FOR NEW CITY
DOG POUND OFFERED

Sanitary Board Gives Permission
fer Building on South West Street.
Permission for construction of a
new city dog pound on site on
South West street near the Ray
mond street bridge, owned by the
sanitary board. was given today by
the board.
Relocation of the dog pound has
been under discussion by city off,
Gals for several years, and at
present a bond issue to build a
modern pound building is being
considered, but no definite decision
on the move has been reached.
The present pound, which is
housed inadequately, is located on
Massachusetts, avenue in the Bright
wood area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

Perhaps out Of the back rooms
may come a movement of Re-
publican Governors to select dele
gates who can be turned to the
columnist at the right moment.
There is no Governor here who
will not conf1de privately that if
the election were to be held this
fall, the party under Hoover is
doomed, and who would not desert
him at the slightest provocation.
But the President has his friends
on the ground, fighting and talk
ing. They are led by former
Governor James P. Goodrich Of
Indiana.
On the surface the conference
is innocuous. Underneath it is
shot full Of politics. The boys
are wondering where they are 60
ing and they are ready to jump.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
FIVE EX-COPS
START APPEAL
Men Convicted in Bride
Case Fight Verdict.

By United Press
CHICAGO, June 2.-Five Indian
apolis policemen opened an appeal
in the circuit court of appeals here
today from conviction on charges
of accepting protection money and
free drinks from a liquor resort.
The four policemen are Martin
OBrien, Claude Ridenbach, Ralph
Lambert, David j. Curran and
Thomas Dray. They were convicted
before Judge Robert G. Baltzell in
indianapolis.
Defense attorneys claimed the
policemen were "entrapped."
Charges were made that the Off
GERS collected East Twenty-second
street protection fees and were given
free drinks.
All five officers were discharged
by the board OF safety after the
trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
50. Reward

Seven days ago two bandits
walked into a grocery store
and shot down Lafayette A.
Jackson.
Today his slayerS still are
free. The Times knows some
one must know who these gun
men are.
TO the person who will give
information leading to their
arrest and conviction, The
Times and other friends of the
dead man will pay $4,000.
In the civilization Of which
we are so proud, such crimes
can not be tolerated. The
killers must be caught, and
they must be punished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

of the store. He made his accu-
sations in front Of Mrs. Tolbert
Monday night, detectives said.
Later the night Of May II, Toll
bert and Mooey, according to
Mooey's statement to police, re-
turned I'd the store.
They were successful in scoop
ing SIS from the cash register,
but they had not counted on the
shooting accuracy Of George VII
son, Is, clerk.
When the bandits turned TO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

leave the store, Wilson fired sew
eral times. Tolbert was found
dying on the curb outside, after
bis companion had fed.
Mooey, according to authori-
ties. said he and Tolbert had
stolen the auto used in the rob-
berry at Columbus, after another
car they had stolen in Indian
apolis had burned out" at Co
lumbus.
Mrs. Tolbert IS held In lieu OF
5000 bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

shot fatally as he fed after q
robbery.
The accusation was hurled at
her Monday night by william
Mooey, 20, of 1858 North Olney
street, who in a verbal confession,
according to police, related he and
Mrs. Tolbert were in the j. H.
Taylor pharmacy. Twenty-first
and Illinois street, early the night
Of May II, before the robbery.
IVES, I was there" she said.
i ave had sundae. But I
didn't spot the store. like he says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

I didn't even know my husband
was going to hold up the place
and Mooey didn't say anything"
When asked If she knew that
her husband had stolen several
automobiles and engaged in stick
ups. she said:
II didn't know anything about
it. I didn't know what he was
doing and I knew nothing of the
automobile that we had that
night. You know, If you can't
trust a husband after nine years,
he's not much good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
CANADA'S TARIFF Is
HELD SLAP AT u. s.

MisS), senior member of his party
on the finance committee, issua a
statement describing the Canadian
increases unqualif1edly as reprisal
against the Hawley-Smoot tariff
enacted in the first congress of the
Hoover administration.
Commerce department officials
have begun an examination of the
situation with facts now available,
TO determine what the increased
Canadian duties mean in terms of
dollars and cents to American
manufacturers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
BONDS FOR 3 SEWERS
TO BE SOLD AT ONCE

Broad Ripple, IrvingtOn, POgue's
Run Projects Advanced.
Three bond issues totaling $409,-
600 for the Broad Ripple, Irvington
and Pogue'S Run interceptor sewers,
which have been held up by hti-
cation, are to be sold at once, it was
announced today following meeting
of the sanitary board.
Sale of the bonds by the control
ler'S office was ordered by the
board after discussion of the suit
to enjoin construction of the sewers,
which was won recently by the city
in circuit court at Greenfield.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
SHOWERS SCHEDULED
Fair Weather Is Due for
24-HOur Detour.

Detour of fair weather in the next
twenty-four hours with thunder
showers probably replacing it, was
predicted today by the weather bu-
reau.
ForecaSterS said they did not be-
lieve the change would result in vio-
lent atmospheric disturbances, but
probably only spring showers. ac-
companied by some electric displays.
Rising temperatures also are on
the weather menu.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

TIE always did get the tough
Ia breaks and there's a little
fellow who has had a bad break
since he was born"
Mrs. Marie Tolbert, %, mother,
and widow Of a bandit-husband,
through bars in the city prison,
today muttered her sorrow for
her slain husband and 7-ysar-old
son.
But she denies that she spot
ted" the pharmacy in which her
husband. Charles Tolbert, %, of
l4l6 North fremont avenue, was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
BY BOYD GURLEY,
Editor Of The Times
LICK, Ind, June

ERENCH LICK, Ind, June a.
Il In desert Of mediocrity. the
conference Of Governors conferred
its attention today upon two men
Roosevelt of New York and
Pinchot Of Pennsylvania.
The Governors are pledged to
talk on no important topic. Pin
chot crashes the gate with a talk
on public utilities, but the others
are content to listen to speeches
on the mechanism of government.
although outside the conference
they talk politics.
The Republican Governors are
accepting Hoover as inevitable
and appraising the probable loss
Of votes in their states. The
Democrats are wondering whether
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
Detailed tariff story on Page IL.

Detailed tariff story on Page IL.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 2.-Polit-
ical and economic talk in the cap
ital today revolved around Canada's
suddenly heightened tariff wall.
Commerce department officials
telegraphed American trade repre-
sentatives in Ottawa to rush de-
tails of the new duties and q copy
of the speech in which Premier
Bennett outlined the increased
protection.
Through the Democratic national
committee, Senator Harrison Dem,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
BIGGEST GRAFT IN HISTORY
LAID TO UTILITY TRUST IN
PINCHOT talk TO GOVERNORS
Linking of Power Firms With Party Leaders
to Mulct Public of Millions Viewed
as Threat to Rule by People.
(Other details Of Governor rs Conference Page 81
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Times STAFF Correspondent

FRENCH LICK Ind, June blinking of the powen
with political party leaders to mulct the American
people of millions of dollars annually through high rates
charged by Governor Clifford Pnchot of Pennsylvania in
addressing the Governors conference here today.
A pioneer conservatonst Governor Pinchot had been
scheduled for tame talk Timber and It's Uses But he
chose the topic of public utilities of which he has been
student for the last two decades
Federal control offers the only hope of solution of the
utilities problem Pennsylvania's Governor said
''We are facing imminent threat to the rule of
the people established by the founders of this republic
Governor Pinchot declared The public utilities undere
that threat
'he power Of public utilities is manifest in every po-
tica assembly, from congress to the smallest town meet
ing and the Of the least political unit
that of the largest state reaches the national govern
ment itself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

ing the will Of the voters as ex-
pressed at the polls.
IF the Democratic party were in
power IN Pennsylvania instead of
the Republican, have no doubt its
party machinery also would be con-
trolled by the organized public
utilities of the state.
Lack Of Regulation Planned
"The political power of the utin-
ties Is the direct result Of the fail
ure to regulate them on the one
hand, and Of their almost incredible
expansion on the other"
Beginning less than two genera
tons ago with nothing, the electric
industry today has total invest
ment Of approximately $4,000, OOO,-
OOO," he said. cit ranks fourth or
fifth among all our industries in
invested capital"
Growth of concentrated control
was pointed out by the speaker,
who asserted that more than 90
per cent of the power now gene
rated in the United States is under
domination and control of four ma
jor interests.
Figures were cited to show these
groups to be the REORGANIZATION
group, controlling SIP per cent;
North American, 1903 per cent;
Harris-ForbeS, 1886 per cent, and
insult, 1880 per cent.
Interests Work Together
"These interests work together
harmoniousiy under a common
policy toward a common end
which is milking of the public" the
Pennsylvania Governor charged.
Through the device Of the write
up, the electric utilities alone today
are collecting from the people of
pennsylvania interest on much more
than one hundred million dollars
that never was put into the bust
ness.
Through overcharges In rates
the public utilities generally are
collecting in Pennsylvania alone far
more than fifty million dollars
year over and above a fair return
on their investments.
Biggest Graft In History
Through the same overcharges in
the United States at large, the cleo
trio utilities alone are collecting
yearly from the people a sum esti-
mated by one man who should know
at the vast total of five hundred
million dollars.
Graft is money collected. but not
rightly due. So here is graft. and
so far as know, the most gigantic
graft ever imposed or collected by
any single business since the world
began.
Pointing out that the gigantic
utility operations have become inter-
state and thus escaped state control.
the Governor urged the state to CO.
operate in bringing about some ma
tional regulation to cope with the
problem.
Every Home Being Drained
How heavily every home is be-
ing drained is shown by the fact
that last year when the depression
visited virtually every other indus
try, the utility companies increased
their profits over forty-four million
dollars, breaking all records" ne
said.
Il wish to express my firm con-
viction, based on no little practical
experience, that the question of the
public utilities can not be settled by
the individual states acting alone.
The problem essentially is ma
t1onal in it's character. It can be
solved only under the leadership
and by the action Of the nation It
self, assisted and supported, of
course, by the co-ordinated action
Of the individual states"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
THE GATE FOR TEX
Deportation Is Ordered by
French Officials.

PARIS, June 1.-THE ministry OF
interior ordered today the deporta-
ton of Texas Guinan and her COM
pany of show girls, barred from
landing in France when they
reached LIE Havre last Friday on the
liner Paris.
They will be sent back on the
Paris Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02

But he always did get the
tough breaks"
She spoke Of her husky son
Charles. The reporter had seen
the boy the day after Tolbert was
slain.
Hes a great boy, but he's had
a bad break ever since he was
born"
q e. q
NEOOEY. who is charged with
NA auto banditry. said Mrs. Toll
bert had made . mental layout
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-02
JOIN AGAINST PAY CUTS
Colorado Mine Heads Withdraw Pc
titiOn to Slash Wages.

ution 70 SlaSh wages.
By United Press
DENVER, June 1.-THE Empire
Coal Mining Company Of Ag1ilar,
Colo, swung into line today with
the Rockefeller controlIeS Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company and the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
against wage cutting.
It voluntarily Withdrew a petition
asking the state industrial commits
sion for permission to reduce
miners minimum wages from $3.50
to IS day. The company's petit
ton, seeking authority for CORE
spending siashes in the pay Of it's
other workers as well, was aled last
Friday.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-11-26
FARMERS AND
WIVES ENTERTAINED

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