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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
Meet Problem in Honest
Way, Appeal Made by
Senate Candidate.
BIZ Tim es Special

By Times Special
ANDERSON, April 2l.-Referen-
dun on repeal Of the prohibition
law was proposed by Walter Myers,
candidate for the Democratic sena-
torial nomination, in an address
here Wednesday night.
There are two ways of meeting
the question of prohibition" de-
clared Myers. "One is to go on
obviously, as we are doing now and
to refuse to admit that a mistake
may have been made under the
nervous stress and strain of war,
when four and one-half million men
were away in the army.
I'VE can continue spending mil
lions of the taxpayers money for
enforcement that does not enforce
and. at the same time, perhaps, lose
a billion in taxes that could be coll
lected easily and without protest.
This is the cowardly and dis
honest way of meeting the question.
THE other way is to repeal the
amendment, if it has failed and put
something better in its place. We
can restore to each state the police
powers taken from it and permit its
people to retain prohibition, If they
want it. This is the honest, manly,
and straightforward way of meeting
the question.
Il stand where I have always
stood. I favor the honest way of
meeting the issue by letting the
people decide whether they want
prohibition or not.
Personally, 1 am so strong an
advocate of temperance that I do
not believe in being Incorporate,
even in behalf of temperance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
Lindy'S Visitor Here

Secrecy today surrounded visit
here Wednesday afternoon of a
woman travelling in large red
monoplane, who became involved
in the Lindbergh kidnapping case
Tuesday.
The monoplane, a Cessna, piloted
by Otto Ferguson Of Kansas City.
Mo, landed at municipal airport for
refueling and to obtain weather
report. The woman refused to alight
and declined to answer questions of
reporters.
She appeared Tuesday in Hope
well, N. j., the home of the Lind
berghs, but reason for her visit was
not disclosed.
Reports that a green Essex auto
mobile, bearing Missouri license
plates 564-395, containing three
men and a baby. left Kansas City
at about the same time as the
woman, were being investigated to-
day by police here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
CANDIDATES SPEAK
Summers Safety Drive Is
Cited at Rally.

Candidates for Democratic nom
nations for county offices in the
primary, and their representatives
spoke at Ninth Ward rally
Wednesday night in the Sherman
Inn, Sherman drive and New York
street.
Miss Julia Landers, speaking in
behalf OF the candidacy of Sheriff
Charles (Buck) Sumner, declared
that the mothers of $4,000 school
children in the county have ap-
preciated the accident prevention
and safety work conducted under
his direction. Others who spoke
we're:
Chalmer Schlosser. candidate for cir
cult court Judge: DR.. william H. Larrabee.
of New Palestine. candidate for re-elec-
ton to congress; Timothy P. Sexton. candi-
date for the denomination for county
treasurer; John Under in behalf Of Earl
R Cox for Circuit court Judge. James E.
Deery for the same office. Andrew J. Blue
her. Leonard A. Hohlt and Louis Wolver-
ton for sheriff, Frank j. Mccarthy and
r. Wilson in behalf Of Dr. William z. Ar
buckle for coroner and DR.. Robert DwYer
for the same office. Patrick J. Delaney
and James A. Kregelo for county commits
sioner, Second district; Christ Hoffman.
w. J. ROLES and Dow W Vorhies, county
commissioner, Third district
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
NSAM INSULT RISES AND FALLS LIKE METEORH


current to meet the interest on the
mortgages.
And so the vast agglomeration of
100 or more operating companies
known as Middle West Utilities COL
lapsed.
This holding company. and sew
eral related companies, are in the
hands of the courts.
The Middle West Company's pro-
ducing properties are mainly still
sound. Where operating companies
do not owe too much money, their
future is secure.
The fate Of each will depend
upon what each can earn and how
far these earnings will go in pay
ing debts.
OF course 1t is impossible to make
any general statements about the
future of the more than one hun
dred companies gathered by insult
into the fold Of his Middle West
Utilities.
The holding company which
united them all under one general
management will be taken apart.
But it is practically certain that
the constituent properties will be
regrouped, in ways not yet clear.
A LII this takes place on pieces of
L A paper. The generators in Mid
die Vests 300 steam driven sta
tons and 300 water power stations
will keep on grinding out current.
They are not affected in any
physical way by the collapse of all
the financiering which brought them
together.
Part of the tragedy Of the re-
ownership is the nature of the COM
pany's territory. Middle West Ut1li-
ties was one of the greatest Ameri-
can power systems, yet it sold the
output mostly to small towns and
the countryside. There were only
half dozen large cities on its lines.
That meant two things. In the
first place, it meant that its bust
ness would be affected by farming
conditions. In the second place it
meant that its securities would be
very widely held, and that the mar
ket for its securities would be
reduced greatly when the prices
of farm products went down.
1t happened that insults COM
pany needed money very badly just
at the time when thousands of !
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
GOOSEY Lee IS HERO
Saves Life of Prisoner in
Suicide Attempt.

Harry (Goosey) Lee, Negro poll
tician and convicted liquor law vio-
lator, was credited today with saw
ing the life of a county Jail
prisoner who attempted suicide late
Wednesday.
The prisoner, Karl Marsh, 81, of
427 South East street, facing trial
on charges of vagrancy and con-
tributing to the delinquency of
minor, is in a serious condition at
city hospital, after SlaShing his
throat.
City prison attaches had trans
ferred Marsh to the county Jail
from the city prison Wednesday
afternoon. AS Marsh stood in line
in the Jail Office, he drew a knife
from his pocket and slashed his
throat three times.
Lee, a trusty, serving a term re-
ceived in federal court, was stand
ing nearby. He leaped toward
Marsh and seized his arm, wrestling
the knife from the mans grip.
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come and CO. and have heard the
stories of hundreds of youthful
bandits who have been caught.
=
IN story written the day be-
L fore his death, Edgar Wallace,
mystery story writer deluxe, de-
clared he believed 10 per cent of
crime is due to the desire to
show off,"
ut is not only the cause of a
great deal of petty crime, but also
is the reason for many major
crimes" Mr.. Wallace wrote.
But veterans of the Indian
apolis police department disagree
with Mr.. Wallace.
They do it for easy money, for
the thrill of it. They don't care
about the hero part of it." local
officers said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

heroes in the eyes of friends. It's
true, especially of these bandits
OF high school age these days."
MorrisSey said. LAS they grow
older and serve prison terms, they
still have the desire to show off,
If not TO friends, to keep a "repu-
tation' in gang circles" he stated.
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INEFFECTIVE CHIEF FRED 81
- MON says they do it for a
thrill.
After the first robbery, they
want another thrill. and there is
the markings of a bad gunman,"
Simon declared.
ITO show OFF," questioned De-
tective Captain Herman Rada-
macher. No. They just want to
do it, that's all"
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by FIRED HEDGES.
"CTTCK EN- up!"

"CTTCK EN- up!"
~ Hard eyes and a leering
mouth emphasize the command
as a nervous finger trembleS on
the trigger of a revolver.
Nov gimme your dough"
The bandits heart beats fast
er. He glances furtively on all
sides. He is alert to the Slight
est movement Of his victim.
"Get away from here"
With bravado of an experienced
gunman, a youthful bandit, pull
ing" his first stickup, waves his re-
volver menacingly.
And don't look back" he com
mands.
Thus some Grant youth has
committed his first robbery, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

tial of very much larger stations
and assured them against power
failure.
insult applied the policy which
made him famous later-that of
setting rates which did not quickly
pay back the cost of installing the
service, but which encouraged the
customer to buy more and more
electrical appliances, until finally
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

electric current was indispensable
to every customer.
insult was a pioneer in the move
ment to decentralize industry by
making ample power available for
factories in small towns, instead of
concentrating it in the big cities.
It was his aim, apparently, to
connect all his widely scattered
power companies into one great SUI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

They get the idea that they
want some easy money. and they
figure Stickups are the smooth
est way to get it" Captain Ed
ward Helm declared.
Then, after they pulled their
first job, they get scared. That's
when they give themselves away
and are caught" Helm said.
=
THEY do q stretch in prison
l. and get out on parole. I'm
prisonment hasn't done them a
whole lot Of good. There's the
start of a criminal"
Most of them just have
craving for excitement. Some Of
them probably want to appear to
be heroes, but mighty few"
Sergeant Charles weddle said.
But Captain John Mullin has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
Held After Booze Raid

Schuyler Marshall, 1917 North
Alabama street, faces trial today on
a blind tiger charge after police
squads raided his home Wednesday.
asserting they seized four gallons
of alcohol, two gallons of colored
whisky and eight quarts of home
brew. Six persons said to have been
drinking as the raid was staged
were not arrested
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
PUSH MEMBER DRIVE

c. of c. Workers Encouraged nv
First Two Days Results.
Encouraged by results of the first
two days Of the Chamber of Com
merce membership campaign, work
ers today continued their solicita-
ton on behalf of the chambers
business building program
While the economic foundation
may have been shaken somewhat.
that foundation still is solid enough
to rebuild upon,s Louis J. Borin-
stein, chamber president, told cam
paign workers Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
PROHIBITION VOTE
URGED BY MYERS
Fare Enough
By United Press

By UhWed Press
NEW YORK, April I'll
Gotham's fire fans paid
nickel a head to watch one
Wednesday night.
They dropped their nickels
in the Blocker street turn
stiles of the Sixth avenue ele-
waited to watch fire crews on
the 81" tracks play high pres
sure hose on the blaze.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
FLASHLIGHT BURGLAR
IS FORMER CONVICT
Fingerprints on File at Capitol
Bureau Establish Identity.

Fingerprints on File at Capitol
Bureau Establish Identity.
Identity of a Negro slain early
Saturday after he entered the home
of Rudolph Grosskopf, 4S47 Carroll
ton avenue, was established
Wednesday by the federal bureau
of criminal Identification at Wash
ington, where fingerprints showed
the victim was Howard Reed, an
ex-convict.
According to a telegram from
John Edgar Hoover, director of the
bureau, to local police, the Negro
had served two terms for burglary,
one in Ohio. the other in Michigan.
Reed, known as the "flaShlight
burglar" is believed to have entered
six homes last week. Grosskopf
fired seven shots in his home, one
of which struck the Negro in the
left side and penetrated the heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
WIRES TAPPED ON
LINDBERGH ESTATE
Gold Strike
BIZ Tnited Press

BIZ Unlted Press
CHICAGO, April 21.-Wilson
A. Smith Jr. was jailed for de-
linquent alimony payments
when his divorced wife told
Judge Harry Miller she had
been forced to sell gold inlays
from her teeth to support her
2-year-old daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
IMMEDIATE PAYMENT
OF BONUS FAVORED
National United Veterans Call for
Congress Action.


Congress Action.
I'VE favor immediate payment of
the bonus," Edward G.. Schaub,
commander of the National United
American Veterans, said today.
THE payment, at once, of the
bonus is an absolute necessity"
The 81 Dup, with membership in
Indiana and various other states,
has held several meetings recently
for organization purposes. At a
meeting Tuesday night at the Gar
field park community house NUM-
cipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin was
one of the speakers.
1.-THE government can operate on
40 per cent Of the gold standard"
Schaub stated. I'VE now have 70
per cent and the government can
pay the bonus without danger of
financial difficulties and without
affecting the gold standard of the
nation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
SEEKS z0NING MANDATE
Edgar Frybarger Demands Permit
for Filling Station.

Seeking a writ ordering the city
zoning board to permit erection of
filling station at the southwest
corner of Central avenue and Thir-
ty-eighth street, Edgar L. Fry
barger mad filed suit today in cir
cult court.
Adjoining property owners recent
ly were upheld by the coming board
after they testified they purchased
real estate from Frybarger after he
promised not to use the corner lot
for business purposes for a period
of twenty years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

/ small towns were needing money
badly, too.
Middle West Utilities was report
ed owing bankers $50, 000, 900 or more
at the beginning of 1892, and insult
saw there was no hope of getting
the money by selling securities, as
he always had done.
insult tried desperately to find
the money in New York, but could
not. Returning sadly to Chicago, he
watched the courts administer the
first aid which the law provides for
stricken enterprises.
n
THIS was the Samuel insult
Il whose career had been mar
Vicious as an Alger story. One per-
son in every ten used his services,
including every person in Chicago.
He was the wealthiest in the bust
ness.
He had come to this country from
England as young man in 1881.
He had held a number of jobs in
London, studying stenography
nights, and had happened to an
swer an advertisement for secretary
from a man who turned out to be
Thomas A. Edison's London repre-
sentative.
It was only natural that, shortly
sfterward, insult should come to
America.
Soon EdiSon's business manager,
insult had unequaled view of the
beginnings Of the electric light and
power industry close up. Presently
he took a hand himself.
In the year of the worlds fair
he became president of the COM
pany now known as Commonwealth
Edison, in Chicago.
This ruddy-faced, tireless young
man saw that the road to efficiency
for the producers of power and
fortune for its owners lay in con-
solidation. He soon brought the
power business of Chicago into unity
insult unity
TINE beginnings of interconnect-
Il ed electric power. and, there
fore, the beginnings of the epic of
insult in American life, were in 1919,
when insult and his brother Martin
bought some rural properties north
Of Chicago.
They acquired a dozen isolated
power stations, strapped most of
them and connected the towns with
high-tension lines.
This gave each town the poten-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
OLDEST PHYSICIAN DIES
Connecticut Doctor, 80, Practiced
Until Death in Night.
By United Press

FAIRFIELD, Conn, April 21.-Dr.
Martin Van Buren, Durham, be-
lieved at 90, to be the oldest prac-
ticing physician in the United
States, died in his sleep during the
night. Had practiced medicine here
for sixty-two years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
BY JOHN w. LOVE

-
fcopgriEht. 1882. NEA Service. Incl
A T y, Samuel insult Of Chi
L n cago-foremost figure in Ameri-
can public utilities-looks back to-
day on his long rise and sudden fall
His is an amazing story Of finance,
climaxed by the friendly" receiver
ship Of his giant Middle West Utili-
ties Company, once worth $780,
100000. 1t is the largest business
default in the worlds history.
insult began life as a poor immi-
grant from England. He became
Thomas A. Edison's secretary and
grew up with the light and power
business.
At the peak Of his career he came
to command more than $1,000
100000 worth Of electric power and
gas enterprises, electric railways.
steam railways, coal mines, street
car lines, elevated railways. taxicab
and bus lines, heating plants, ice
plants and office buildings.
The multitude of companies he
dominated operated over practically
the entire eastern half of the United
States.
They served at least 10000 900
persons in more than 5000 COM
munities, and had around 2 half
million stockholders, many of whom
were customers.
From Maine to Texas. the chain
OF insult industries extended. The
bulk of all this was in Middle West
Utilities, the biggest of the In
sull holding companies.
Properties of his other holding
companies largely were grouped in
and around Chicago.
r. n
THE tragedy of the great Middle
i West Utilities failure, ten
times bigger than the Kreuger COL
lapse in Europe, is fundamentally
the same as the tragedy of the fore
closure of a small farm, only big
ger and more complicated.
Prices went down, but debts re-
NAMED the same and mortgages
went on as before revenues de-
clined, but loans had to be paid off
in the same hard dollars with which
they we're contracted.
Samuel insult found himself no
longer able to raise enough from
his tension empire of electric
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

perpower chain at some future
date.
Next: How insult financed his
great Middle West Utilities Com
pany with holding companies on
top of holding companies The
story of how a $500, 100000 con-
Germ was built up relatively in a
few years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
Shortest Railway to Die
By United Press

bU DHtten PTess
LINCOLN, Neb.. April 21.-One Of
the shortest railroads in the world
seven blocks longs ready to go
out OF business. The line, built to
carry material to the new State
Capitol building, Is owned by the
state.
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police begin logging his trail.
After the first LOB" it is a game
of hide-and-seek with the law"
and the embryo murderer, hunted
as he is, gets thrill from it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
STATE ASKS RECEIVER
Insurance Commissioner Asks An
cillary Action by Court.

cillary Action by Court.
Petition for appointment of an
ancillary receiver for the Inter
Southern Life Insurance Company,
Louisville, filed by John c. Kidd,
state insurance commissioner, was
pending today in federal court.
The petition sets out that the
company was held insolvent by the
northern Illinois district federal
court and a receiver named April 10.
Kidd asks appointment of a re-
ceiver here to conserve the COM
pany's assets in this federal dis
trict The company has policies on
Indiana residents valued at ap-
proximately S15,o00,OoO, the suit
states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
Audubon ParIey Is Sal

Thirty-fourth annual meeting Of
the Indiana Audubon Society viii
be held May 10 and IA in Craw-
louisville, DR.. Earl Brooks Of
Noblesville, president, said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

a different idea.
They're just natural born
criminals, they can't help it,
Mullin said.
Chief Mike Morrissey agrees,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21
7. B. HEADS ELECTED
DIR. Will Martin, Eokon1o, Is Named
Association -residesst.

Association -reSidez5t.
DR.. Will j. Martin of Kokono
was named president of the Indiana
tuberculosis Association at the clos
ing session Of the twenty-frst an
nual conference Wednesday in the
Lincoln.
Others elected are W. B. Hice Of
Terre Haute, first vice-president:
Mrs. Ella B. Kehrer OF Anderson
second vice-president; Mrs. George
Daviess of South Bend, secretary.
and DR.. Alfred Henry of Indianap-
oils. treasurer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-21

This Is the first Of two stories on the
rise and fan Of Samuel insult, Americas
foremost public utility magnate, whose
$4,000 900 Middle West Utilities Com
pany IL In hands Of receivers
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nations Capital will be able to
view after December 10 an ex-
hibit of models, maps, and photo
graphs arranged by the National
Capital Park and Plannir Com
mission at the Navy building.
The exhibit, which will be con.
tinued indefinitely. is being pre-.
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body. It will be ready for public
inspection within 10 days. 4
A special room has been set
aside by the planning commission
for it's collection of Washing
tonia close to the main entrance
OF the Navy building. Models
now being prepared for exhibition
at the Chicago Century of Prog
reSS fair will be added to the
local collection next year.
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MRS. EVELINA FRANCES
DELANO

Funeral services for Mrs.
Evelina Frances Delano, SO,
widow of Rear Admiral Francis
II. Delano, who died in Emerg-
ency Hospital, Annapolis, yester-
day, will be held tomorrow after
noon at 3 o'clock at the Naval
Academy Chapel.
Mrs. Delano had been i'll only
@ few days. She was a daughter
of the late DR.. Henry Delano
Payne and Eliza Hale Payne, Of
New York. Surviving is a son,
Major Frederick A. Delano,
Marine Corps, retired, of An
i1apoliS.