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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
~ Leader Latest
By United Press

BIZ bHttcd Press
Three men, known throughout the
nation for their dry views in the
period since prohibition, have joined
the growing army of those favoring
either repeal or resumbission.
Following closely upon the start
ding announcement of John D.
Rockefeller Jr., teetotaller, ardent
temperance worker and large con-
tributor to Anti-Saloon League
funds, two more men prominent in
the nations life, went on record to-
day in favoring giving voters an
opportunity to pass on retention, re-
lection or modification by refer
endum.
The two latest are william Gibbs
McAdoo, son-in-law of the late
President Woodrow Wilson and one
time secretary of treasury, and John
r.. Mott famous Y. M. G. A. lead
er. They are for referendum by
the voters.
Neither has gone 'wet," but both
are for a showdown. McAdoo would
have politics and prohibition sep
grated and the voters given a clear
cut chance to express their will
after thirteen years under the dry
law Mott. famed throughout the
world for his work with youth, ex-
pressed in London a view that pro-
hibition had worked some good. but
with it such abuses as to warrant
resubmitting the question to the
electorate.
In the light of these major pro-
nouncements, the prohibition ques-
tion took on an Importance un-
parslleled since it became part of
the law of the land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
HUNGER RELIEF
BILL HELD UP
Senate Shelves Measure
for Army Supply Draft.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, June e.-Reliet
legislation temporarily was side
tracked in the senate today and
the Wagner program, providing
3OO,O00,000 for direct loans to
states, hay on the calendar. while
the army appropriations bill was
debated.
Minority Leader Joseph T. Rob
inson sought an agreement for con-
Sideration of the Wagner measure
at noon Friday, but Chairman Da-
vid A. Reed of the military affairs
committee objected, and debate
proceeded on the army bill.
In the house, the Democratic
leadership announced it would give
legislative right of way to the Full
mer bill, authorizing distribution to
the needy of 100000 bushels of
farm board wheat and 100000 bales
of cotton.
The senate rules committee
granted a special rule to a senate
bill authorizing the reconstruction
finance corporation to make adj
vances to finance crop production.
The house voted to disagree with
senate amendments to the economy
bill and to send the controversial
measure to conference.
The senate banking and currency
committee voted to substitute the
Reilly home loan discount bank bill,
at present before house commit
tee, for similar measure intro
duced in the senate by Senator
Watson rep, Ind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
Hourly Temneratur,
Gyp-Sied
Tries to Change Luck;
He Does, and Loses
$40, His NeStegg.

EOR seven weeks, Frank L. Jor-
Il dan, as, of 1913 South Airing
ton avenue, had treasured a $50
bill as bulwark against the des-
titution of his three motherlesS
children.
In less than minute today
the money was gone as Jordan
attempted to change his luck
at the behest of an unidentified
gypsy woman.
Working at his first job in
weeks, the construction of a gar
age on state Road So, he was &C.
costed by five women and a man,
all said by Jordan to be gypsies.
The party was riding in large
sedan.
Told to follow instructions and
his luck would be changed, Jor-
dan emptied his pockets. His
purse containing the $40 bill and
a SIS bill, was opened by one OF
the women, who blew into it and
waved her hands in the air. Re-
turning the purse to Jordan, she
entered the car and the party
drove away.
When Jordan inspected the
purse, the lone IS bill remained.
Deputy Sheriffs Waldo Carter
and Harry Cook searched the
road as far as New Palestine with
out result. An inspection OF
gypsy camps in the vicinity of the
city win be made to locate the
party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
Tie? Not Joe
ToIbert, Carolina Boss,
on Convention Scene,
Sans Cravat, as Usual
BY THOMAS L. STOKES

United Press staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, June 9.-"Tieless
~ Joe" Tolbert of South Caro-
lima, a familiar figure about Re-
publican conventions since 1888,
symbolizes the last stand fight
here of the old-time southern
Republican boss against the re-
form movement instituted by
President Hoover.
Tolbert, slightly stopped giant
of q man, will get into action to-
day when the Republican national
committee begins to air a series
of contests among southern dele
cations involving, in other cases
also, the displacement of the old
crowd by the Hoover element.
This scramble for seats in the
convention is the first important
event in any Republican conven-
ton.
'Fn put my crowd in-always
have" drawled the South Caro-
lima boss, confidently. his blue
eyes twinkling Shrewdly.
He is spotted easily as he am
bles about, his broad black fedora
bobbing above the early arrivals
in the hotel Hobbies. Where there
should be a tie to set off his tall
stiff collar, there is none. His
close cropped mustache CLEANS
white against his rudy, wind
weathered complexion.
It's an unnecessary piece of
paraphernalia," he said, scorn-
fully. of the accustomed tie.
Tolbert even refused to wear
one at recent White House re-
ception, undiSttirbed by the gold
braided diplomats, 2Vho eyed him
askance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
Just Luck
Seven Empty Cars Hap
pen to Be on Freight,
So Veterans Hop On.

SOMEWHERE between Indian
~ apolis and Cincinnati today,
about $50 ex-service men are
riding the rods" and singing a
victory song.
When dawn broke today the
'1ost' legion, awaiting transpor-
tation here on the march to Wash
ington to demand immediate
bonus payment, hoped a freight
train en- maSse ana sped eastward.
1t happened at sun-up as the
small army lined the Big Four
right of way near Beech Grove,
where a "hot shot" freight, trail
ing seven empty cars, slowed
long enough for every ex-service
man to hop on.
AS to what happened to a detail
of railroad detectives assigned to
prevent the veterans from board
ing freights, nobody knows. In
fact, nobody seems to know how
the seven empty freight cars were
attached to the fast freight. But
the cars were there and so were
the veterans.
1T just happened, that's all, an
official of the railroad said.
The wait of the veterans began
Tuesday night, when a detach-
ment Of forty-one arrived from
Decatur, H.. aboard freight. The
army encamped for the night at
Emerson avenue and the Big -Four,
and Wednesday morning appealed
in vain to Governor Harry G. Les
lie TO provide transportation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

In1ted fFco& stan
CHICAGO, June 9.-President
Hoovers views on prohibition were
brought today to the Republican
national convention vanguard, as
leaders found themselves swept
along by a growing tide of nation
wide developments in the prohi-
bltion situation.
Postmaster General Walter F.
Brown was the bearer. For the
moment, he kept his own counsel,
but he prepared soon to consult
other leaders on this topic, grown
vitality important the last week
through announcements of men
high in the national life, like John
D. Rockefeller Jr., William G. Nc
Adoo, former secretary of treasury,
and John r. Mott, Y. M. G. A.
leader.
There was every sign that the
fight had gone out of the dry
group.
The spirit of the first arrivals
was to let the White House have
its way in shaping the liquor plank.
The drys' most influential figure
here, Simeon d. Fess, Republican
national chairman. said today he
probably would make no statement
on the resubnnission question, as his
duties as national chairman would
Tequire his full attention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
DRIVE CAUTIOUSLY!
1929 Children Leaving
School Friday.

Motorists today were warned to
drive cautiously, for Friday, 58,289
indianapolis children will leave the
cityS public schools for the annual
summer vacation. OF this number,
44,264 will leave elementary schools
and 14,025 high schools.
Grade schools are graduating
1878 children and the high schools
2,404 pupils.
In conjunction with release of the
more than $4,000 children from
school officials announced, summer
schools will open Monday and will
continue until July 80.
The summer schools will be held
from 8 to II in the mornings. six
days a week, at Shortridge, Tech
nical and Crispus Attacks high
schools, and at grade school No. 10.
1855 Ashland avenue. The Crispus
Attacks courses will include both
high and grade school classes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
LAUNCH CHILE'S
SPECIALIZATION
Cooperation Plan viii Re.
place Competition.
BY CARLOS G. DAvILA,

tNOpyIlknL. 4S5@. DV united Press
SANTIAGO, Chile, June 9.-The
government of Chile has two i'm
mediate objects:
l. An increase in production I'M
til we have surplus for exporta-
ton, which has previously been lost
due to the copper and nitrate crises
2. The Specialization of all eco
nomic processes.
To this end we shall work by or
ganizing all production through CO.
operation instead of competition.
Profits from economic processes
will go in small part to individuals
but mostly to the state. We hope
to create collective economy Sys-
tenn which will progress parallel
with individual enterprise which has
dominated until the present. The
object will be to raise the country
from its state of misery.
1t will be necessary to proceed
with a benevolent economic die
tatorship" breaking up private in
terests to realize the plan I have
outlined.
For realization of our work, we
have the backing of the productive
classes and especially the potential
riches and reserves of human ener-
gy which have been impotent be-
cause of inherent faults of the
capitalistic system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
TODAY

Convened in Cadle taber-
nacle at $50 by George A.
Ball of Muncie, national COM
mitteeman.
Prayer by the Rev. ]. I.
Saunders, pastor of the Shiloh
Baptist church of Indianapo-
lis.
Address by Governor Harry
G. Leslie.
Official call to order by j.
Frank McDermond Jr. of At
tica, principal secretary of the
convention.
Reroprt Of the credential and
rules committees.
Ivan c. Morgan, state chair
man, takes over duties as per-
manent chairman of the con-
vention.
Election of delegates and al
ternate delegates at large to
the national convention.
Election OF presidential cleo
tors at large and contingent
electors at large.
Official report of the nom
nations for representatives in
congress in the primary.
Adoption of the platform.
Election by reclamation of
candidates for uncontested
places on the state ticket.
Balloting for contested places.
Cadle tabernacle has been
leased by the Republicans for
Friday, should balloting on
contested posts not be COM
pleted this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
JAFSIE STICKS TO TRAIL

Continues Hunt for Police Record of
Man Getting Indy Ransom.
By United Press
BOSTON, June DIR. John F.
(Jafsie) Condor, continuing his hunt
for police record of the mysterious
John" to whom he assertedly paid
$50, 900 ransom money in the Lind
bergh baby kidnapping, visited Boston
police headquarters today.
He was accompanied by Detectives
Robert Coar and Samuel Leon of the
New Jersey state police. After con-
ferring with police commissioner,
Eugene G. Huffman, the three men
were introduced to Deputy Superin-
tendent Ainsley c. Armstrong, in
charge of the bureau of. records.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
THUG SOUGHT
IN Indy CASE
SURRENDERS
Harry FIeiSher of Detroit
Purple Gang Gives Up
to Police.
ACTION FORCED BY PALS
Notorious Gunman Hunted
for Months as Trigger
Man in Massacre.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
DETROIT, June 9. Harry
FleiSher, member of the notorious
Purple gang here, and sought for
questioning in the Lindbergh baby
kidnapping case, surrendered today
to police. He is wanted as the al
legged trigger man" in the mas
sacre Of three gangSters here last
year.
Accompanied by his attorney.
Edward H. Kennedy Jr., the no.
torious gangSter walked into Prose-
cutor Harry Toys Office to give
himself up. Doors Immediately
were closed.
FleiSher's surrender was believed
to have been forced by fellow men,
bers of the gang. Since a conf
Dental alarm" was flashed from
Hopewell, N. j., headquarters of
the hunt for the Lindbergh baby,
to "pick up Harry Fleisher," the
gang has been under severe sur
veillance by police.
Accompanied by Attorney
Accompanying Fleisher and Ken
nedy was Charles Friedman, at
torney, who is handling appeals for
the three other members of the
gang, convicted of killing three
rival gangsters in the apartment
massacre.
The trio went first direct to the
office Of Don Martin, chief in
vestigator for the prosecutors office,
and from there to Toys Office.
FleiShner was named as a gun
man in the So-called Collingwood
massacre by his former friend,
"Solly' Levine, whose tstimony re-
suited in conviction of three Purple
gangsterS now serving life terms in
prison.
Search for the gangster extended
from Mexico City to Canada in con-
nection with the Lindbergh case. He
was said by friends to have spent
most of the time here in Detroit,
leaving for Toronto about a month
ago. under orders of the gang. His
trail was picked up there by police
and lost.
Arrested % Times
Fleisher has been arrested twen-
ty-two times by Detroit police since
1921. The charges ranged from
simple larceny, robbery armed, ex-
tortion, kidnapping (of bootleggers)
speeding and carrying a gun, to as
sault with intent to kill. In each
case he drew a fine or was dis
charged.
Fleisher was described by police
bulletins as a killer" They warned
in bulletins to shoot first and ask
questions later" if he made any
movement when apprehended.
In his description of the Colling-
wood massacre, Solly Levine said
that Fleisher had been first to fire
into the three victims, who had been
seated on davenportS and given
cigars during supposedly friendly"
conference.
He shot right past my nose"
Levine said. AS the three killers
were leaving, Levine said, one of
the victims moved.
"FleiSher went back, put his gun
to the mans head and shot him
again"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
DUPE is QUIzzED
IN MEANS TRIAL
Mrs. Mclean Admits Sign
ing 100000 Order.


WASHINGTON, June g. Cross
examination of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean at trial of CASTOR B. Means
on charges of embezzlement and
larceny, disclosed today that Mrs.
Mclean signed an order last March
for Means to pay 100000 to a Neil
Williams for return of kidnapped
Lindbergh baby.
The order was torn from the
pages of Means confidential note
book. 1t was dated Aiken, S. c.,
E-23-32," and read:
For CASTOR B. Means: This is
your authority to turn over to Neil
Williams the 100000 in your Gus
tody. (SignedD Evalyn Mclean"
The order was introduced as evil
dence shortly after court con-
vened and the wife of the news
paper publisher went to the stand
for cross examination by defense
counsel.
Name of Colonel Robert Guggen-
helm, brother of the United States
ambassador to Cuba, was mentioned
again when T. Morris Wampler,
chief defense attorney. asked Mrs.
Mclean if she had requested Means
to drop his negotiations with Gug-
genheim. District Attorney Rover
said Wednesday he would prove
Means also attempted to interest
Guggenheim in starting search
for the baby
Mrs. Mclean testified that dur
ing Means negotiations in South
Carolina, he asked her to obtain
the automobile of Vice-President
Curtis, SO the kidnapers might
bring the child in it."
Means told me that the kidnap-
ers needed unusual protection in
breaking through the police cor
don,' she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09

Lcud DCIuSbcln
By United Press
BISKRA. Algeria. June 9.-The
body of Lena Bernstein, interna-
tionally known woman filler from
France, was found on the aviation
field here today.
Her death was a. mystery and
there was some suspicion she might
have been murdered.
Miss Bernstein, former holder of
the women's world record for
straight-line flight, now held by
Mile. Maryse Bastie, came to AL
geria recently for an attempt to re-
gain the record.
Miss Bernstein was 81 years old
and was Russian emigree. She
left her native country after the
1917 revolution and went to Bel
GUM, later moving to France, where
she was educated.
She obtained her pilots license
at Aulnat, near Clermont, France
and began giving air exhibitions,
On May 2, 1880, she broke the
woman's endurance record at LIE
Bourget, Paris, setting a mark of IS
hours As minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
Roosevelt for Action

BV United Press
ALBANY, N. Y, June 9.-Gov-
ernor Franklin Roosevelt believes
that the most important need in
the prohibition controversy is one
of action. He stands for new
constitutional amendment to elimi-
nate the eighteenth amendment
and return the control of alcohol
back to the states.
When pressed for a statement of
his attitude on prohibition, he re-
ferred inquirerS to his letter in 1880
to Senator Robert F. Wagner in
which he advocated superseding
the eighteenth amendment with a
new amendment for state control.
He said his views on prohibition
bad not changed since.
There must be action on prohi-
bition," Governor Roosevelt said.
ave have delayed and debated 1t
300 long"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09

OF such measures as will conform
to the federal enforcement act"
For the second time since open
ing Of the convention Wednesday,
Will H. Hays, motion picture die
tator, and former state and ma
tional chairman of the Republican
party, took the floor to plead for
organization.
He said:
This is the most vigorous con-
vention I have seen in this state.
There is much loose talk about Civ
ing us leadership. That is wrong.
We have the leadership. What 1
am pleading for is fellowship. Let
us have fewer fault-finders and the
Republican party, for the good of
this nation, will be returned next
November"
The unopposed candidates are
headed by Senator James f. Wat
son, whose name will be presented
by Roland Turner of Greensburg,
Tenth district leader.
Others unopposed for nonina-
lions are: Treasurer, Miss Mary
Sleeth, Rushville; auditor, James o.
Leek, Terre Haute; attorney gen
eral, Floyd Jellison, South Bend,
and supreme court reporter, Miss
Genevieve Brown.
Judicial candidates slated to be
renominated are: Judge supreme
court, Third district, Clarence r.
Martin, Indianapolis; Fifth district,
julius c. Travis, La Porte; appellate
court, First division. Elmer @. Lock
year, Evansville, and Second di-
vision, Noel G. Neal, Nobles7ille.
The balloting for contested places,
which follows, will be headed by
selection of Governor nominee.
So tight and uncertain appears
this contest, in which eight are en-
tered, that the state committee had
Turn to Page One, Second Section)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
BLAME YEGGS. FOR FIRE
Cleveland officials Think Nitro Blast
in Safe Caused Blaze.

Cleveland Officials Think Nitro Blast
in Safe Caused Blaze.
By United Press
CLEVELAND, June 9.-City and
state authorities advanced the the
DRY today that amateur safe crack
ers may have caused the fire dis
aster here this week, that claimed
eleven dead.
Workers continued searching for
additional victims today.
A safe in savings company on
the ground floor of the wrecked FL
lington apartments, was found to
have been tempered with, accord
ing to Safety Director Frank j.
Merrick. He believed that yeggs,
who failed in attempts to open the
safe, had set of a charge OF nitro
glycerin that caused the fire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
AKRON SLATED TO HOP

Dirigible to Take Of From West
Coast Friday or Saturday.
BIZ United Press
SAN FRANCISCO. June 9.-The
naval dirigible Akron is expected
to leave for Lakehurst, N. j., Friday
or Saturday. Twelfth naval district
headquarters believed the craft
would return along the southern
route it followed en- route to the
Pacific coast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
OFFERS NEW DRY PLAN
Jim Reed Claims Beer, Wine Can
Be Authorized Legally.

BIZ United Press
KANSAS CITY, June 9.-Former
Senator James A. Reed today adyo-
Gated a plan to provide the nation
with ''healthful and palatable" beer
and wines without doing violence
to the eighteenth amendment.
He said congress should permit
8 or 81 per cent beer and wines
with a limited alcoholic content
This could be done legally, he said,
without violating the eighteenth
amendment, and would permit the
nation, states and municipalities 10
levy q tax en- these drinks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
Faces Jersey Quiz


TRENTON, N. j., June 9.-Colonel
H. Norman Schwarzkopf said today
that he has telegraphed Detroit
police. for permission to have his
men question Harry Fleisher, reput-
ed gangster, in connection with the
Lindbergh kidnapping and murder
case.
It have received no official Motif
cation of Fleisher's surrender" Col
Schwarzkopf said, but l have asked
that we be permitted to question
him in Detroit"
It was re- ed here that Colonel
.Schwar--opf already has dispatched
men to Detroit for this purpose.
Authorities here want to question
him closely in connection with some
leads previously obtained, but it is
understood that the evidence oo-
tanned has been so conflicting that
this clew may prove valueleSs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
Drys' Grip of Years Shattered in State Con-
vention; Victory Achieved by
823-620 Count.
REIGNS IN HALL
Delegates From Industrial Centers Triumph
Over Arid Groups From States
Rural Sections
Leslie's Address on Page 6

Grasping at resubmisson of the eighteenth amendment
and repeal of the Wright bone dry law the only salvation
of their party in the fall election leaders of the Republican
party in Indiana today pushed through wide open plank
by vote of 823 to $40.
In resembling their 1912 bolt to the Progressive
party the Indiana Republicans staged the bterest fight
twenty years. with drys going down before the offensive of
the delegates from the preponderanty industrial cener
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
GOAT GLAND MAN RUNS

John r. Brinkley, Kansas Special
ist," in Race for Governor.
By United Press
TOPEKA. Kan, June 9.-The
name of John r. Brinkley, the
goat gland specialist" was before
the voters of Kansas today as an
independent gubernatorial candi-
date. Petitions bearing 10000 names
were delivered at the statehouse
Wednesday, with the request that
Brinkley's name be placed on the
ballot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
W00DIN is TRAPPED
BY WOODEN CHECKS
Michigan Man Is Held by Sheriff
at Brazil Jail.

On charge of passing checks,
said by stae police to have been
wooden" Chester Woodin. Kalama-
zoo, Mich, is held at Brazil, Ind, in
the custody of Jay county sheriff,
Lon j. Wehrley.
Woodin was arrested by state pa
trolmen Lawrence Letzkus and Roy
Newgent after instructions had
been issued to state police to watch
for the man.
Sheriff Wehrley and state patrol
man Harl Hollingsworth will accom-
pany George Brown, automobile
dealer of Redkey, Ind, to Brazil in
an attempt to identify Woodin as
the man who traded an automobile
incumbered with a mortgage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-09
NAB LEGISLATORS WIFE
Mrs. Bertha Huddleston Charged
With Driving While Drunk.
By United Press

by LHtIth FTc8s
WASHINGTON, June 9.-Mrs.
Bertha Huddleston, wife of Repre-
sentative George Huddleston of
Alabama, was arrested Wednesday
night on a charge Of driving an au-
tomobile while drunk.
Mark NJ. Penn, with Mrs. Hud-
dleston in the car, was arrested on
a charge Of being drunk. The ar
rests were made when the car
crashed into another machine
parked in the street.
Mrs. Huddleston was released on
bond of $500.