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The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
HIT LEGION CUSTER
Robson Post Members Go
to Ecker'S Defense.

Using the detailed manner of
storytelling in the days of King
Arthur and his knights with subtle
word shafts in place of lances, seven
members of the Bruce P. Robson
post of the American Legion at
tackled, in pamphlet form, the oust-
ing of John r. Ecker of Linton as
service officer of the legion depart
ment of Indiana.
The pamphlets were issued Sun
day at the annual spring conference
of post officers of the legion in the
Antlers.
It told of the alleged "railroading'
of Ecker from Office and the nam
ing of Harry Hall of Marion as his
successor.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
ENGINEER IS SLAIN
MartinSviIIe Official Found
Dead in Yard of Rink.

RI Times Special
MARTINSVILLE, Ind, April II,
More than a score of persons
we're being questioned today as
police sought motive for the
Staying here early Sunday of Frank
Smith, 64, Martinsville city engineer.
James Richardson, manager of a
skating rink, where the Staying oc-
Cured. is under arrest. Richardson
was said to have elected Smith
from the rink after the city en-
gineer is alleged to have made ad-
vances to woman.
Smith apparently was struck on
the head with heavy instrument
and death was caused by cere-
bral hemorrhage. The body was
found in the yard of the pavilion.
First witnesses questioned ad-
mitted seeing Richardson eject
Smith, but denied seeing the episode
that led to the killing.
Smith has served as county sur
veyor and had built many roads
in Morgan county. He was named
city engineer two years ago.
Survivors are the widow. four
sons, two daughters and four sisters.
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon. Burial will be in
Greenlawn cemetery, south of here.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
GUN BATTLE is
VIEWED HIJACK
KILLING CLEW
Search for Gardner Slayer
Turns to Fight Scene
Near GreenCaStIe.

Search for killers of George Hol-
land (HotS) Gardner, 25, of 225
South Holmes avenue. turned to
near GreencaStle today on informa-
ton of a gun battle between occu-
pants of two cars there Friday
night.
Frank Day, q farmer, said occu-
pants of two cars exchanged shots
near his home late Friday night.
He told Sheriff Alva Bryan that a
man, apparently wounded, was car
ried from one car to the other after
the shooting.
Cap Found at Scene
Gardner's body was found in his
bullet-riddied roadster in front of
his home early Saturday Bryan
informed Indianapolis police that
Day had turned over to him cap
the farmer found near the shooting
scene.
The only Indianapolis clew I'M
covered today was the finding of
30-30-caliber rife near Gardners
home today. TIL gun was found
by Fred Miller, IS, of 318 South
Addison street, in the rear of a
vacant house at 210 South Addison
street. The weapon had been hurled
from an automobile. police believe.
Confident of Success
Detectives. although guarding in
formation closely. said they expect
ed to solve the murder mystery
soon.
Efforts to locate a Calumet City
(Ill) gangster, known as Mickey"
who accompanied Gardner and was
wounded in the hijacking attempt,
failed thus far, according to Detec-
tive Chief Fred Simon.
Gardner's wife, Ruby, and three
other persons in the Gardner home
when the crime was discovered,
were to be questioned today by de-
tectives.
Others arrested were Mrs. Effie
Wright and Richard Rogers, IS,
roomers at the Gardner home, and
harry McQulnn, 70, OF 2724 Shelby
street. Mrs. Gardner was released
Saturday on her own recognizance.
Served 60 Days
Simon said records show Gardner
served sixty-day term on the state
farm in 1923 for vehicle taking. In
February, 1926, while serving an,
other term, Gardner escaped from
the farm, to be captured two days
later and sentenced to two to five
years in the Indiana reformatory,
term which he served.
Autopsy by deputy coronerS Sat-
urday disclosed that three .45-caliber
bullets pierced Gardner'S body.
Arrangements for the funeral
have not been made.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
LEGION'S STAND is
LAUDED BY HURLEY
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
j. 6. Lackey, oaklandon, Ind, Whippet
sedan, 1s-961. from Senate avenue and
Market street.
Alvin Kendrick, 429 West Michigan
street, Oakland coach. 66-895, from in
front of 429 West Michigan street
Edgar Snyder, 1899 Spann avenue,
Graham-Paige sedan, 65-721, from 200
East Washington street.
Dodge sedan. so2-916, from Rushville,
r. D. Bailey, 4O2 Trowbridge street.
Ford coupe 57-663, from Senate avenue
Inez Lynn, s4s South Illinois street.
Ford Sedan, from. wilkins and Meridian
Donald Yount, Greenwood, Ind.
Chevrolet coach, 253-258, from White
land, Ind.
Colles= Avenue Motor Sales Company,
Nash coupe. M-1921, from vacant lot at
1924 East Tenth street
Collegg Avenue Motor Sales Company,
Ford sedan M-1921, from vacant lot at
1924 East Tenth street.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police
belong to:
Frank Ford, 824 North Tacoma avenue
Buick coupe, found at Stxty-third street
and Carrollton avenue.
Martha Parks, 2809 East Riverside drive
Chrysler sedan, found at 2809 East River
side drive.
Jack Wins. 242s Martindale avenue
Oakland roadster, found in front of IA
West Nineteenth tsreet.
Mrs. Celie Smith. 2605 North oxford
street. Ford roadster. found at Twenty
eighth and oxford streets.
Robert Bailey 402 Trowbridge street
Ford coupe, found at 331 West Ohio street
Ford tudor sedan. no license plates, nc
certificate of title, found in the first alley
east of Burton avenue between Udell ano
Twenty yeighth streets.
M P. Griffin, Chicago, Ill, Chevrolet
coach, found at Senate avenue and Wash
ington street.
street. apartment 10l. Auburn coupe found
at 30l5 North Talbot street,
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
AUTOIST PULLS
TRICK ON THIEF
Turns Into Lighted Garage
to Ditch HoIdup Man

Taken for ride in his own auto
mobile early today, Morris Born
stein, 1914 Union street, was robbed
of billfold containing SIG by a
young man who escaped after Born
stein drove into lighted garage.
Bernstein told police that as he
stopped the car in front of his home
the bandit slid into the seat beside
him and menacing him with re-
volver, commanded. Drive on"
After driving two blocks, Born
stein was robbed and the trip con-
tinued to 1921 Bluff road, where
Bernstein swung the car into a
lighted garage and stopped the mo-
tor. The bandit fled as Alvin Holt
and Afford Rosebrock approached
the car from the house at the Bluff
road address.
Two of three Negroes reported
caught in the act of holding up
two men in an automobile service
station early Sunday suffered slight
wounds when three squads of po-
lice fired after closing in on them.
Officers said they saw Edward L..
Maze, so, proprietor of the station,
at 1841 North Capitol avenue, with
their hands raised. Two of the Ne
groes held revolvers and the third
stood nearby.
The three took refuge in a wash
room and fired two shots, and the
same number was fired by the of
f1cers. The Negroes then surren-
dered. They are George Tabor, 20,
of 2436 Martindale avenue, shot
under the right arm; Norman Jen-
nings, 20, of 1928 North Arsenal
avenue, and Jesse Woolridge, 1880
Martindale avenue, wounded in the
Loft Inor 49,
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
G. o. P. EDITORS FR0WN
ON DRY REFERENDUM
Vote Down Proposal at Closing
Session of State Meeting.

Session of State Meeting.
Despite repeated statements OF
Senator James z. Watson, titular
head of their party, in favor of a
referendum on prohibition, members
of the Indiana Republican Editorial
Association refused and voted down
resolution to this effect at their
closing business session Saturday.
Instead, they inserted a resolution
reaffirming their belief in consti-
tutional government"
The editors declared in favor of a
special session of the general as
sembly for enactment of tax relief
legislation if it could be confined
ito emergency needs and an agreed
program.
Ray Seller of Franklin was elected
treasurer, to succeed Harry Thomp-
son of Versailles, who becomes sec
ond vice-president, and A. H. Smith
of Charlottesville was advanced from
first president, succeeding
Samuel E. Boys of Plymouth. Ar
thur K. Remmel of Ft. Wayne is the
new first vice president.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
New York Governor Has No
Real Program, G. 0. P.
Editors Are Told.

Indiana Republican editors had
returned to their desks today, revivi-
fed in their Republicanism after
the two-day meeting here which
ended with a banquet Saturday
night, at which Patrick j, Hurley,
secretary of war, spoke.
A total membership of 1.056 at
tended the dinner, according to
Samuel E. Boys of Plymouth, retir-
ing president of the organization,
who introduced Hurley.
Declaring Hoover is the man who
kept this nation from the dole, Hur-
ley praised him as the outstanding
economist of the world today.
"All the relief measures proposed
by the President merely are emer-
gency plans, not intended to be per-
manent,". he said.
Roosevelt AssaiIed
Declaring reelection of President
Hoover is a national necessity, Hur-
ley assailed Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt for the attack he made
on the Hoover "nonpartisan" eco
nomic program in an address
Thursday.
Governor Roosevelt has added
himself to the critics of that pro-
gram who have no program of their
own worthy of consideration, Hur-
ley said.
IF Governor Roosevelt had an
economic program for this nation,
why didn't he submit it to his fell
low Democrats who control the
house OF representatives instead of
waiting until they enacted the
most important provisions of the
Hoover nonpartisan economic pro-
gram?"
Cites War on Depression
Turning his attention to the
Presidents record, Hurley said:
Depression has proved a most
stubborn foe. Like the multiple
headed hydra, no sooner is one head
Of the beast chopped of when an
other grows out.
The President has attacked de-
preston on a hundred fronts, but
no sooner does he stop the ravages
of one attack upon our civilization
and our American standards of liv-
ing when another assault swoops
down from some other hostile sec
tor"
Hurley declared the President 'led
in organization of a movement to
stimulate home building and home
ownership and called out of hoard
ing millions of Stacker dollars and
put them back into circulation"
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11

Hearing will be held April 10 before
Circuit Judge Lawrence Busby.
Mellett, who with Mayor George
r. Dale of Muncie was indicted re-
Gently by a federal grand jury at
indianapolis on liquor conspiracy
charge, has been i'll since October,
1881, when he was stricken with
paralysis while at the statehouse in
indianapolis.
The impeachment petition follows
q bitter fight among Democratic
factions for the Office Of city con-
troller.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
Asthma Treatment
On Free Trial!

D. j. Lane, a druggist at 1413
Lane Building. st. Mary's, Kan,
manufactures treatment for Asth-
ma in which he has so much con-
f1dence that he sends a SIPS bot
tie by mail to anyone who will write
him for 1t. His offer is that he is
to be paid for this bottle after you
are completely satisfied and the one
taking the treatment to be the
judge. Send your name and ad-
dress today.-Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
S0VIETS KILL KOREANS

By United Press
TOXIC, April 1.-THE Chientao
Manchuria, correspondent on Nip
pon Dempo news service reported
today that Soviet troops killed
twenty Koreans on the Korea
Siberia border when the natives at
tempted to cross into Russian terri
tory.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
Jobs-No. 5---
Totes Millions in His Truck,
but NeUeY Has Been Robbed
BY ARCH sTEINEL

GUARDING si0,000,OO0 a year,
~ or an average of 100000 a
week, sounds like a JOB full of
color and adventure.
One coniures up bandits lurk-
ing near the corners of buildings,
with automatics leveled. Badges
for heroism dangle in shooting it
out with these banditS-dangle in
dreams only.
For the job Of carrying and
guarding $4,000, 900 a year in In
dianapolis isn't as exciting as
selling the first pair of long pants
TO a boy in clothing store.
Theodore Lich, 30, of 1881
Draper street, messenger and
guard for the Drinks Express
Company has that job. He's
carried more than $50,00O,000 in
pay rolls and store receipts in the
last five years and never has been
in holdup.
He's handled $50,000,000 and
lost but $40 in that time.
1T was a $50 pay check, and
out OF my own pocketbook it had
to be made good" Lich said.
I ICH is probably the only man
IL in the city, who can if he de-
sires, work on the city streets in
his undershirt in the summer
time.
Of course, he's not literally on
the street when he's in his
"skivvy" top-piece, but instead is
in the company's armored truck,
incased in steel. The steel COM
partment which serves as Lich's
home during his work days
reaches lis degrees in tempera-
ture in summer.
Does it get hot in there? Say,
as hot as blazes, and in winter Il
gets just that much colder" Lich
explains.
You see heater can't be
placed in the truck because of fire
danger to the currency we haul.
nor can an electric fan be used
in hot weather. So it's Just boil
or freeze" he said.
But taking money to bank, COL
lecting store receipts, isn't all of
Lich's job, for, on top of being
able to guard the money, he must
know how to count change ac-
curately and quickly, and use an
adding machine.
n
EACH armored truck carries
IL between $1,000 and $4,000 in
small change to aid merchants in
outlying sections and save them
trips to banks for that change.
And these days, rife with
"Speakeasies" and political hench-
men, are hard on embryonic
guards and messengers for ar
mored pay roll cars.
For one can not take Lich's lob
unless one is married, or, if single,
must live at home.
Political wheelhorses or per-
sons addicted to jobs dependent
on the party emblem are barred
as guards.
If you so much as speak kindly
of a "Speakeasy" or frequent a
poolroom, you're one of the un-
wanted. Men with matrimonial
difficulties get thumbs down. if
they seek his job, and you must
live as Lich has at least five years
in Indianapolis.
He is bonded for $4,000.
r.
EXCITING! No, it's hardly
H that. It's just my job. Of
course, when I first went to work,
my wife used to worry sometimes
if I came home late, but now she
never does.
But I've got my boy fooled. He
thinks his daddy is a policeman,
because he wears a uniform. He
brags to the neighbor children
and you can't convince him
otherwise" declared Lich as he
swung into the armored car for
another ride with big money.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
PURSE-STEALING NETS
$50 OVER WEEKEND
Negro Youth Is Naboed by Cops;
Nine Women Lose Pocketbooks.

Nine Women Lose Pockesbooks.
Nearly $50 was the loot in purse
stealing over the weekend, nine
thefts having been reported to po-
lice.
Four purses were stolen at the
home of R. j. Newman, 46 Jenny
lane, owned by his guests. Losers
were Mrs. Lol Carpenter, Mrs. Helen
Smith and Mrs. j. A. Walker, Mum
Gle, and Mrs. C. Van Niman, Chi
cago. The purses contained $3.50.
Other losers were Mrs. Osceola.
Small, 976 Udell street, mother of
Patrolman Jack Small; Mrs. Helen
Williams, ITO North New Jersey
street; Mrs. Helen Hunter, TIA East
Twenty third street; Mary Brown,
Negro, 313 Minerva street, and Casa
lima Sweeney, Negro, TIT North Cap
itol avenue.
Ray Goodman, II, Negro, 247o
Cornell avenue, was arrested in
connection with the theft from Mrs.
Hunter.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
RATES TALK SCHEDULED

The clty'S compromise rate Set
Elements with the water and power
companies will be discussed in pub
lie Wednesday night when Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan addresses the
central committee of South Side
Civics Club at its monthly meeting
at the Garfield park shelter house.
Other speakers. in addition to Sui
1ivan, will be Edward II. Knight,
city corporation counsel; James E.
Deery, city attorney, and Walter C..
Rothermel and John f. White,
members Of the city's utility rate
committee.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
JACK HORNER is RAIDED

Jack Horner was ousted from his
corner Sunday by police who raided
his home at 628 East Michigan
street, apartment II, and today he
faces charges of blind tiger and
keeping gaming device.
The raid was made by Sergeant
Lester Jones and squad. They re-
port seizure of 272 quart bottles of
home brew, twenty gallons brewing,
eight cans of malt syrup, two ten
gallon kegs, two jars, hose, capper
and slot machine.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11

One person was killed, sixteen
persons we're injured, three drivers
were arrested and seven motorists
are sought as a result of more than
a score of traffic accidents during
the weekend, according to police.
Thrown from the seat of a coal
truck at Tenth street and Belmont
- avenue, early Sunday,
n William Kuegelmann,
~ 10, Of 1888 West Court
| IN street, was injured fa-
~ tally.
- Kuegelmann's death
raised the county's 1882 traffic toll
to 20.
The truck in which he was riding
was being driven by George Wise,
Is, of 1445 Saulcy street, who, with
Keueglmann, was employed by the
Belmont Coal Company.
Struck by Taxi
Struck by a taxi early today a.
College avenue and Forty-ninth
street, Hardin Wright of Bloom
ington, Ind, was injured critically.
Police did not arrest Harry T, Skin
ner, 43, of 3433 East Tenth street,
driver of the cab. Wright is in city
hospital
Mrs. H. J. Thompson. 670 West
drive, Woodruff Place, was injured
internally when the auto in which
she was riding, driven by a chauf-
feur, overturned on state road 81,
two miles south of the city, Sunday
afternoon. Theodore Thompson, 20, |
her son, and Lucian Dunbar, 525
Sutherland avenue, a third pas
senger, were cut and bruised.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Bowen, 1920
Woodlawn avenue, were injured Sc
verely Sunday night when Bowen
drove his car into a safety zone
guard at East and Washington
streets in order to avoid collision
with another car. Both were cut |
and bruised on the head and face.
Street Car in Crash
When the car in which they were
riding was struck by a street car
at Olney and Eleventh streets,
Sunday, Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall
Wiles, 1902 East Thirty third street,
incurred head and body decorations. |
Mrs. Maria Collins, At, 124 East
New Work street, and Mrs. Alvin
Lauely, 521 North Alabama street, |
incurred severe body bruises when
the car in which they were riding
crashed into another at Illinois and
North streets, Saturday night.
After his car crashed into a safe
ty zone at East and Washington
streets, early Sunday, Ray Boyd, |
26, of 1876 West Eleventh street, |
was arrested for drunkenness and
driving while drunk. He was cut
and bruised.
TT. Wayne Woman Hurt
Mrs. S. Rombke, So, of Ft Wayne, |
incurred a broken. arm and body |
decorations in an auto crash Sunday
night at BrookvilIe road and Arling-
ton avenue.
In collision at the National and |
Holt roads, early Sunday, John
Wicker Jr., 2101 West Walnut street,
was cut on the face. He is in city
hospital.
When he lost control of his car
and it crashed down an embank-
ment and overturned at Burdsal
parkway and RAIDER street, Saturday
night, Howard Price, 25, of 2502
North Harding street, was injured
seriously.
Others injured in crashes are:
Mrs. Minnie Curtis, 40. of 2630 Cornell |
avenue. cuts on the face and legs; Mrs. |
Margaret BrodY, 81, of 610 North Califor-
MIA street, ankle injuries. and George De |
Fabis, 5, of 3035 Madison avenue, body
bruises.
Charges of drunken driving were placed
against Dale Smith, 20, of Franklin, Ind,
and Emmett Smith Negro, "a, of r. r. Il,
Box 1875 after traffic miShapS,
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
ROOSEVELT'S STAND
SCORED BY HURLEY
ILL WITH PARROT FEVER
City Nurse Stricken With Unusual
Disease in California.

Disease IN CaIiTOrnla.
Condition of Miss Daisy Gentry,
nurse, i'll of parrot fever at her
home, 1905 North Delaware street,
was satisfactory today, according to
the attending physician.
She was stricken with the disease,
known to physicians as psittacoses,
after attending two patients at
Pasadena, Cal, one of whom died.
This is believed the first case in
indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
Chico Marx Hurt in Auto Crash

By United Press
HOLLYWOOD, April 11.-Chicc
Marx, one of the four Marx
brothers, comedians, was recovering
today from painful injuries Sus-
tained in an automobile accident
Saturday. He received a fracture of
his right knee, broken rib and
lacerations.
The Indianapolis times., 1932-04-11
AUTO ACCIDENT
DEATH TOLL IN
COUNTY AT rs
William KuegeImann Hurt
Fatally; 16 Injured in
Score of Crashes.

One person was killed, sixteen
persons we're injured, three drivers
were arrested and seven motorists
are sought as result of more than
a score of traffic accidents during
the weekend, according to police.
Thrown from the seat of a coal
truck at Tenth street and Belmont
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
ST. PAUL COUNCIL
BACKS LYNCH LAW
Refuses Workers De-
mands for Scottsboro
Protest

ST. PAUL, MINI, June 10. - A
workers delegation elected from the
International Labor Defense, visited
the city council and the mayor this
week and demanded their endorse
ment for a resolution calling for the
immediate release of Tom Mooney
and the nine Scottsboro boys of Ala
bsma who are facing the electric
chair on framed-up charges.
Frank Spector, who has just ar
rived to town from the West Coast
a cellmate of Tom Mooney, headed
the delegation of the I. L. D. Spector
was sentenced to prison because he
participated in organizing the agri-
cultural workers of California.
The City Council heard the resolu-
zion, but took no action on it. Mayor
Mahoney said that the issues q
Scottsboro and Mooney should not
be linked together By this the city
council and particularly Mayor Ma
honey showed their race hatred
against the Negro workers-in want
ing to separate the issues-which the
international Labor Defense con-
siders cannot be separated.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
Make Demands for
Bonus Be Heard
New York, N. Y.


Daily Worker
The millions of ex-servicemen in
the United States, of which over a
million are unemployed, are being
cheated by the officials of the Amer
lean Legion and the Veterans of For
eign Wars.
The Ways and Means Committee
killed the bonus following Patman's
initiation scare. Patman claimed to
represent the vets-se does the
American Legion and the Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
The rank and file of the ex-soldiers
nov realize that they must put up
their own fight, led by rank and file
veterans. Today new chapter is
being written by the veterans. Thous-
ands are preparing for a march to
Washington and are uniting their
forces. The demands for full and
immediate payment of the bonus will
be heard from the Capitol steps on
June 8. Come on. vets, join the
march under the leadership of the
Workers Ex-Servicemens League.
An Ex-soldier.