The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-25
DALE REFUSED
SEPARATE QUIZ
BY MITCHELL
Attorney General Listens to
Muncie Mayors Plea for
Investigation.
ACCUSERS ARE FLAYED
Indicted Executive Brands
Foes as PeriuerS in
His Brief.
BY WALKER STONE
Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, March 25.-May-
or George R. Dale today failed to
secure from Attorney-Gen Will
liam E. Mitchell a promise of a sep
arate and impartial inquiry into the
alleged perjury of witnesses whose
testimony before the indianapolis
federal grand jury resulted in the
Muncie liquor conspiracy indict-
ment.
The Muncie mayor conferred to-
day with Mitchell and Assistant At
torney-General Youngquist, in
charge of prohibition cases, for
more than an hour, but they gave
to him nothing more than a prom
Use to take up the case with District
Attorney George Jeffrey in Indian
apolis.
The justice department executives
promised to forward to Jeffrey a
copy Of the memorandum submitted
by Dale, purporting to show that the
indictment of himself and a dozen
other Muncie officials and residents
resulted from conspiracy entered
into by bootleggers, gamblers and
federal agents.
Request Held Unreasonable
According to Dale, Mitchell took
the position that his request for an
impartial investigation was "unrea-
sonable," saying his many duties
precluded him from giving his per-
sonal attention to the case.
80 told him." said Dale, that
1 didn't want him to do anything
but detail couple of investigators
to gather the facts. I told him I
thought I was doing him a favor
to warn him in advance of trial
that perjurerS and racketeers had
deceived District Attorney jeffrey"
YoungquiSt was expected to write
Jeffrey today, asking for complete
report on the Muncie case, and ask
ing Jeffrey to trace down the
charges against the grand jury wit
neSSeS contained in Dale's brief"
ASSailS Foes in Brief
Dale scathingly arraigned his
accuSerS and the methods by which
evidence was gathered, in a brief
filed with the attorney-g general.
To charges of sixteen overt acts,
he made answer, portraying his
accuSerS as law breakers driven
from Muncie during his city-wide
cleanup; as politicians out for re-
venge, and as contractors whose
stranglehold on the city he had
broken.
In answer to the charge that he
transported liquor to the Indian
apoliS state Democratic convention
in 1880 from Muncie city hall, Dale
says that the accusation is entirely
untrue.
He states that he believes the
evidence" was presented by Earl
Randolph, Republican, discharged
from the board of public works by
Dale for alleged irregularities.
hept Campaign Promises
In conclusion, mentioning overt
act No. %, Dale says in his brief,
I'm my campaign I promised three
things: To destroy the paving mo-
nopoly that had exacted tribute
from real estate owners and the
public; to kill the gambling and
liquor racket; and, last and most
painful, to fire everybody I found
On the city pay roll.
This has been done, as promised.
1t is not strange, therefore, that
the thieves who felt the halter
draw are not in the best frame of
mind.
But it does amaze me that the
government should lend ear to their
complaints and threaten me and
others of my administration with
long terms of imprisonment as
penalty for freeing Muncie from
graft and lawlessness."