The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-24
HERE TO HELP
TOM,' WALKER
TELLS FRISCO
Mayor of Gotham Arrives to
Lead Fight for Mooney
Release.
GREETED BY GOVERNOR
Hello, Iim,' Is Welcome,
as Famed 'PIayboyS'
Meet in West.
GREETED BY GOVERNOR
BY GEORGE HI. BEALE,
United Press staff Correspondent


SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. "a. -
Mayor James j. Walker Of New
York came to San Francisco today,
seeking a pardon for Tom Mooney,
whose imprisonment for the Prepar-
ednesS day bombing in 1916 has
been a constant source of agitation
for fifteen years.
AS Walker stepped from the Oak
land ferry, he was greeted officially
by civic and state executives fore
most of whom was his good friend,
Governor James Sunny JIM
Rolph, in whose hands MONEYS
fate rests.
81 want one thing to be made
clear right now" said Walker, land
that is that my coed friend, Cali
fornia's great Governor, is the boss
of this thing. He is running the
show.
Nothing must be allowed to con-
fuse the issue. There is no politi-
cal significance to my trip, and I
do not intend to permit anything
political or social to interfere with
the case on hand. We are here
only in the interest of Tom
Mooney"
Will Go to San Quentin
"After I confer with Governor
Rolph," Walker added, 81 shall go
to San Quentin to see Mooney. I
intend to assure him that he will
get a square deal from his Gov
ernor.
Then we will make plans for
the hearing, at which I hope Gov
ernor Rolph will make history by
pardoning Mooney"
The hearing is scheduled to open
here Dec. /, and all plans for it will
be completed at a private confer
ence between Walker and Rolph
Wednesday.
The greeting between the friends
was cordial.
Hello, Jimmy" said the Gov
ernor.
Hello, JIM" said the mayor.
Plans Surprise Angle"
Then, both showing the smiles
they have made famous, they shook
hands, news cameras. grinding and
thousands cheering.
Other civic dignitaries we're pres
ent, led by Mayor Angelo Rossi, and
they presented the official greeting
of the city.
Walker said he intended to plead
MONEYS cause from an angle not
hitherto presented.
He declined to reveal the nature
of this angle, because "if surprise
is known it no longer is surprise"
They'd Need Is Guns"
Zone hundred men, representing
the ultra conservative interests of
America were present at a dinner
which I attended on my way west"
Walker said. THE Mooney case was
the chief topic of discussion. AS I
was about to leave the dinner, Vim
cent BendiX, the financier, said to
me: Mooney has more friends in
this audience than people can real
ize.'
The mayor, who turned down an
official state reception with f1f-
teen-gun salute, because his train
passed through Sacramento at sos
a. M, said he would like nothing
better than to go back to Sacra-
mento for the honor.
II really turned down the Gov
ernor'S suggestion because 1 did not
want to impose on him." he said. ut
almost would have been worth while
for me to establish that had been
up that early At that 1 guess
they'd need the fifteen guns to get
me up"
Explains Separation
Mayor Walkers party included
Aaron Sapiro and Frank P. Walsh,
attorneys for Mooney; James Crom-
well, stepson of E. T. SALISBURY,
senior partner in j. P. Morgan &
Co.; State senator John A. Hast
ingS of New York and Edward
secretary of the Chicago
Federation of Labor.
Sapiro explained that the reason
in separating the pleas of Mooney
and Warren K. Billings, who was
convicted with Mooney in the bomb
ing which caused ten deaths and
injured forty, was that different
witnesses and different facts were
concerned in the two cases.
In all previous attempts at free
dom Mooney and Billings have act
ed together and unsuccessfuily.
Billings case is complicated by
the fact that he is a "two-time
lcser," and under state law a two
time loser" may not be pardoned
unless cub course is recommended
by the state supreme court.