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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-21

7 understand that Arment took
him over 20 the FISH room and made
him stay there all day charges All
Williams. former guard IN No. 4
dormitory a the farm. IN an afii-
davit TO The Indianapolis Times.
Then. in the plain words Of a
plain man All Williams tells Of
nightfall and how the aged man
was sent back 20 lis dormitorr
Awakend With Club
The inmates slept Morning
came. Former Guard All Williams
aWoke his prisoners with the dor
mitorv alarm clOck-a club he kept
il his desk
L hammered for all the prisoners TO
get up. He meaning the old
man fell back dead across the
bed. charges Williams in his sworn
statement.
Ali Williams has seen things at
the Indiana state farm
All Williams shouldn't love pris-
oners he guarded
Aft has a right to hate them
For. in February 1923. when Aft
became a penal farm guard. he was
beaten on The head with piece Of
iron while guard IN No. 2 dormitory
when a Negro escaped.
Sears from Attacks
And on ATS head is a scar from
another escape attempt that sue
ceeded and he was struck with a
slingshOt
They slipped up behind me and
took my gun away All guards at
the state farm carry guns at the
present time or did before l left
there. except the night guards. The
dormitory guards were forbidden
guns after the last escape I had in
No. ? dormitory.' swears Williams
in his statement
Theodore LueSse. red" agitator
who related his experiences at the
farm in one Of the series of stories
in The Times. was an inmate in
Williams dormltOry
He always was a perfect gentle
man. declares Williams in his affi-
daVlt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-21

Williams. in his affidavit. says that
the Oregon boot. a much heavier
shackle and OF more brutal type, was
used at the farm at one time, but
was eliminated.
He is borne out in his declaration
b. the assertion of Harry H. Wissel,
acting superintendent of the farm,
who admits, These light chains
have superseded the old heavy ball
and chain which a man was forced
70 carry with him, as well as the
Oregon boot
Charging his own former brother
officers with seducing inmates into
attractions Of farm rules. Williams
IN his affidavit says. L have heard
guard --- would give them Gig
arets and then turn them in after
wards for it when he caught them
smoking another cigaret."
Inmate Was FraiI
"A boy named Dan Shipper CShip-
per's story Of suffering while in q
tuberucular condition was related ir
earlier installments by The Times
acted all right when he was in m,
dormitory. I heard they beat ur
on him. He was pretty frail then.
charges Williams.
The former keeper bears out tn,
fact as stated by former inmate.
that all guards carry blackiacks n,
canes. in his sworn statement.
i had club, as all dormorie.
have clubs, and it was in my desk
Williams said.
I used club only once anc
that was when a fellow stole some
tobacco from the other inmates anc
ne struck at me when I was search.
ing him. I hit him." confessed vii.
liams, in his affaidavit.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
PLASTER WAGE
HIT AS HIGH

Holding that the $14-aday wage
asked by Washington plastererS
would sound the death knell Of
small building operations, Logan
Pingree, president of the Build
ing Trades Employers ASSocia-
ton and of the Excavators' Asso-
citation, today sent a telegram to
Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins and L. w. Robert, jr.. as
sistant secretary and contracting
officer of the Treasury Depart
ment, asking for a lower and
prevailing wage for plasters here.
The telegram revealed that
contracting plasterserS have Of
fered a $1O-a-day wage. Mr.. Pin.
gree also pointed out that the
"Renovize Washington Campaign"
which is expected to put several
millions of dollars into circula-
ton and furnish employment for
many men, will be seriously jeop-
ardized if the wage asked by the
plaStererS is granted.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
PERKINS PLANS
LABOR QU|ZZES

Miss Frances Perkins, Secretary
of Labor, will visit Atlanta shortly
for conferences with groups there
on labor legislation and develop
ments, and then will go to Madi-
son, Wis, to receive an honorary
degree from the University of
Wisconsin on June 10.
Regional conferences in other
parts of the country probably will
be held in the near future, iii
accordance with a plan worked
out recently at the meeting of
the House Committee on Labor
with the Secretary. A similar
meeting with the Senate commit
tee is in prospect.
More adequate labor legislation,
particularly at this time, with
respect to child labor, old age
security, limitation of hours of
work, unemployment insurance
and possibly prohibition of night
work for women, is seen by the
Secretary as a vital need.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
GRANT To TOUR
IN EUROPE

Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Corps
of Engineers, was today given
leave of one month and IS days
with permission to visit foreign
countries.
Colonel Grant. director of Pub
lie buildings and Parks, has been
assigned to take the course at the
Army War College and will en-
ter after his return.
Col. James Albert Woodruff.
of the Command and General
Staff School at Fort Leaven-
worth. KanS.. has been assigned
to replace Colonel Grant. Colonel
Woodruff is no stranger in Wash
ington, having been on duty in
the Office of the Chief Of
Engineers in July, 1919.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
MEETING HEARS
BANK FRAUD
LAID JUS.
Treasury FIayed by Cooper at
U. S. Savings Session; Man
From Oregon An AcCuser

CHARGES that the Treasury
Department is resolved not to
reopen any Of Washington's
closed banks and that the Gov
ernment allowed insolvent banks
to continue business before the
banking holiday. we're made at a
mass meeting Of depositors and
stockholders of the United States
Savings Bank last night.
The gathering was staged in
the Booker T. Theater, on U
Street Northwest, with Col. Wade
H. Cooper, president and major,
ity stockholder Of the bank, and
c. H. Walker, of Oswego, Ore,
the principal speakers. The lat,
ter claimed that he had forced
the Treasury Department to re
open a bank in Bremerton. Wash
Cooper Charges Fraud
Claims that the Government
had perpetrated fraud on stock
holders of some banks by not clos
ing the institutions sooner, Colonel
Cooper stated that depositors have
ample grounds for filing of claims
against the Government for pay
ment of their deposits in full.
The meeting opened with Selec-
tions by an orchestra, after which
Colonel Cooper outlined plan for
reopening the bank independently
of the proposed merger of several
banks as the Hamilton National.
Depositors are asked to waive
claims on IS per cent of their de-
posits. This 35 per cent is to be
truSteed for funds to enable the
bank to reopen, after which IS
per cent is to be made imme'
diately available. The 35 per cent
is to be repaid through bank earn
ings.
Some subscriptions we're made
last night and Colonel Cooper said
he would be at the theater build
ing between 4 and 6 p. m. today
to receive other waivers.
r. F. C. RumOr Denied
Denying rumors that the Hamil
ton National Bank would ask the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton to take preferred stock in the
institution, E. C. Graham, presi
dent, said that efforts are being
made to wind up the stock sub
scription campaign this week SC
that the bank may open for busi
ness about July l.
The Hamilton National Bank
officials, Graham said, will ad
here to the original plan to pro-
cure the needed $1,250,O00 sub
scriptions from the stockholders
and depositors of the seven par
ticipating banks. Stock, however
may be procured by others.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
TANK
IS YANKED

The War Department today is
minus one war tank and plus one
parking space, thereby solving a
problem that for weeks proved a
source of increasing irritation to
Army officials.
The tank was parked at the
War Department by a New Jersey
inventor after he failed to inter
est Uncle Sam in the 11-ton We
hicle. Officials didn't want it
and neither, apparently, did the
inventor.
AS weeks went by the adjutant
generals office asked Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant, director of public
buildings, to have the tank re-
moved. Early today S. j. Oliver,
supply officer for Colonel Grant,
solved the problem by having
laborers tow it shortly after dawn
to an isolated street near the
| Naval Hospital. 1t will be junked.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
JUPITER SAFE;
MARSFAR OFF

Mars and Jupiter are in no
danger of colliding.
This assurance has been doled
out repeatedly during the past
few days at the Naval Observa-
tory in answer to excited queries
from persons observing the two
nlanets approaching each other"
in the heavens.
Sunday the planets were in
conjunction" which means they
were the same distance above the
horizon. but their approaching
collision was only an illusion ere
ated by their being in range.
Last night Mars was $50 million
miles from the Earth and Jupiter
about 496 million miles. The
phenomenon will be seen again
August 27, 1885.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
Clinics Continue
For Medical
Graduates

Clinics for the graduating
clas of George washington Uni
versity Medical School were con-
tinued today at George Wash
ington University Hospital.
The series of clinics, which
started yesterday at Gallinger
Hospital, will be continued to-
morrow at Garfield, st. Eliza
beths,. Emergency. Childrens,
and Episcopal Hospitals.
A dinner for doctors from
other cities attending the clinics
will be held tonight at the Uni
versity Club.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
FAVORS
BONDED CABS

Peoples Counsel Richmond B.
Keech, today added his request
to that of the Public Utilities
Commission for early passage of
a bill to require common car
riers operating here to post evil
denec of financial responsibility.
Mr.. Keech, who has long ia
vored some plan to insure finan-
cial responsibility for taxicab
operators, points out that there
is little or no opposition to the
plan and that it is favored by
many of the cab owners.
Mr.. Keech addressed his letter
to the chairman of the House
and Senate District committees,
who yesterday we're urged by the
Public Utilities Commission to OBJ
tain passage of the bill at the
present session of Congress as
emergency legislation.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
U.S.MESSENGER
HELD IN THEFT

A 19-year-old youth was today
held under $4,000 bond for the
Grand Jury on a charge of
larceny from the United States
Government.
Raymond E. Grant, a messenger
in the Labor Department, is
accused of opening mail addressed
to the department and extracting
money orders.
Police said there are more than
100 cases involved. Grant, who
has been a messenger at the
department since last April,
pleaded guilty to the charge
before Judge John P. Mcmahon.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
CHANGE
HANGS FIRE

The District Commissioners to.
day showed signs of backing
water" on the proposed changes
at Thomas Circle as they ordered
letters sent to various persons
and groups who have protested
the plan.
The letters, after acknowledg-
ing receipt of the protests, added:
"The Commissioners have
been and will continue to be
very careful in making these
changes from the standpoint OF
the appearance resulting. In
this connection, a model IS
being made showing precisely
the changes proposed. Only
after inspection of this model
will the Commissioners take any
further action"
The plan calls for an inner
circle to carry Fourteenth Street
traffic and street cars to elimi'
nate present congestion.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
D. c. HOARDERS
FACE PROBE

Names Of a number of District
residents are included in the list
of 1000 gold hoarders now being
investigated by the Department
of Justice, it was said today.
The number of District resi-
dents involved was not estimated.
1t was said that persons who
withdrew large amount of gold
will be visited by representatives
of the Bureau of investigation
who will show them the provisions
of the law and ask them what
they did with the gold.
If they say it was returned to
banks the stories will be checked.
Action was delayed because
there were so many fictitious
names on the list. Persons who
sent gold out of the country can
be prosecuted. it was said, al
though conviction will be more
difficult.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
TEACHERS
FOR ECONOMY

Nearly a score of retirements
of school teachers will be ap-
proved by the Board of Educa-
ton tomorrow as the first step
in the school retrenchment pro-
gram under the slashed supply
bill for 1884.
The retirements, for age and
disability, are the usual order of
business for this time of the year.
but the positions vacated now are
abandoned to save the salaries.
It is planned by personnel
changes to save 100000 stricken
from the school estimates.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
S|ROV|CH ASKS
REDRESSF0R
EMPLOYEES
Introduces Bill for Naming
of Liaison officer to Be
Referee OF Disputes

A bill creating the position OF
liaison officer and a board OF
appeals to handle Federal per-
sonnel troubles was introduced in
the House today by Representa-
tive William I. Sirovich (DO Of
New York.
The bill is identical with one
which was framed in a confer
ence last week and which its
supporters sought to have
adopted by the Senate as an
amendment to the independent
offices supply bill.
Under terms of the Sirovich
bill, this officer will be independ-
ent of executive departments and
independent offices and will be
empowered to hear. investigate
and adjust all differences be-
tween employees and their supe'
riors. He will be drawn from
the classified civil service upon
selection by the Civil Service
Commission, and must have
served the Government for 20
years. His salary will be $4,000
year.
The appellate board will be
established in the Civil Service
Commission and will consist of
the three commissioners. 1t will
take action on appeals from the
findings of the liaison officer
after the head of the department
or the incumbent of the position
affected has objected in writing
and all interested persons given
an opportunity to be heard. The
decision of the board will be
final
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
TWO ARRESTED
TODAY JAILED
|NFATAL|TY.
Claim Victim Stumbled, Admit
Toting Body Around and
Finally Dumping It

Two men at large since the
death. April 3, of Mrs. Eva Cum
berland, so, who was found un-
conscious with her skull fractured
in a yard near her home, we're
arrested today and held in the
death.
Arrest of the pair means free
dom for two other men held in
the District Jail following action
of coroner's jury which held
them on murder charges.
Edward Fritchie Harris, So, and
Edward Thomas Haislup, %, the
new suspects, admitted, according
to detectives, that they carried
Mrs. Cumberland to the yard
where she was found after she had
fallen from a second floor room
during a drinking party at the
formers home in the 600 block of
L st. N. E.
Victim Stumbled
The pair are said to have con-
fessed that Mrs. Cumberland was
with them in Harris living quar-
ters over a plumbing shop. She
stumbled through a we'll hole
which gave access to a ladder
leading down to the shop on the
first floor.
Harris and Haislup found her
unconscious, and we're very
scared" they told police. They
said they took Mrs. Cumberland's S
unconscious form on a truck first
to the home of Haislup's brother,
William Albert Haislup, Is, the
700 block Tenth st. S. E., and
told him of the party. They then
took the woman to a yard near
her home in the 700 block Of
Ninth St. S. E, and left her
where she was found several
hours later. Young Haislup was
also arrested today as a United
States witness.
Order Two Released
Capt. b w. Thompson, acting
detective chief, said the District
Attorneys office will be notified
of the confessions and release of
Edward Taylor, 80, the 900 block
Potomac Ave. S. E.. and Wilbur
Allen. "a. of Camp Springs, Md,
from District Jail will be asked.
These men we're held at the
inquest following statements that
they were the last to see Mrs.
Cumberland alive.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
D. G. Citizens Ask Changes
In Local Government

daily with complaints and sug-
gestions.
Most complaints. the Mary
lander said, are centered about
the Board of Public Welfare
which has charge of administrat-
ing funds for unemployment re-
lief and dispensing other charity.
Most of the complaints and
suggestions received by Palmi-
sano are written, but many are
verbal, either personally or via
telephone. In most cases where
complaints are made, however. it
was learned the person making
the protest either has no proof
or is unwilling to testify at a pub
lie hearing.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06

lish, little gentle sarcasm. I'LL,
In these years Bennett of the great trio with
Wells and Shaw; he middleaged man. prosperous,
of great reputation, still working hard sun h1ps;
think, to do work great as "The Old wives lale
Exact and Fascinating
These diaries are the third volume of series, now
complete published by the Viking Press "a one-voume
edition of the material is the Literary Guild seec
tion this monthly The final years necessary to give
the picture of Arnold Bennett completely; individually,
the first Volumes recording Benefits struggles ana MS
successes, we'll his were more lneresChg'
In the last years Bennett gives picture OF literary
life in London, gmpses of few fine characters ana an
insight into his which is fascinating. No man couo
be exact about the cost of breakfast or the NUMBER OIL
words written day-and remain interesting uheSS he
had talent of the highest color
How Novels Grow
proof of it when he notes in his diary that an ugly,
cantakerous into restaurant in Paris and
made nuisance of herse-and instantly the whole GEN.
tral idea of "The Old Wives Tale came to him.
In the later the creative spring is drying up
although there good bits about the conception
of Lord Rango-and you learn something else about
Bennet-that he remained the country yoke all his lte
shoudering his way among those whom ne thought more
sticking to his own judgments.
All About Revolution
friend of mine was invited few years ago to
tribute to symposium about the United States, his
particular subject being the newspaper it was understood
that he to have editorial censorship and would be
permitted to say whatever he chose. And few weeks
later he received note telling him that his subject was
"The Degradation of the American Press The latest
symposium edited by Samuel D. Schmalhausen (who must
do them in his sleep by this time) called Recovery
Through Revolution" and begins with thoughtful, i'm
pressive essay "The Idea of Revolution by Robert
Morse Lovett.
do not know whether good Communists will like
Mr.. Lovetts ukewarmness toward the ritual of vio
lence" and good Conservatives will certainly not like his
paragraphs the betrayal of the world by the middle
class which brought profit and to their present
position the great forces of society," 1t is good essay
provoking than the efforts of contributors to
make America appear country naturally revolutionary
Spain China, England, Japan Latin Amerca-the
whole world discussed in relation to revolution To those
who scare easily, l recommend The Engineer Surveys
Revolution" Mr.. Poakoy does not think that planned
armed revolution is at all likely in America; and thinks
that we ought head for "engneering craftsmanship"
He is very persuasive.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06

District residents apparently
want the entire District govern
ment changed, according to Rep
resentative Vincent L. Palmisano,
CD of Maryland, chairman OF
a special subcommittee of the
House District Committee which
is scheduled to investigate Dis
trict affairs during the recess of
Congress.
PalmiSano made this revelation
today in pointing out that Dis
trict residents are deluging him
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
TWO Hurt in Crash
Remain in HOSpitdL

Two were injured. one seri-
ously, yesterday, in an automobile
crash at Sixth and East Capitol
Streets. William Matherson. S.
of Keyser, w. Va, and Edith
Arnold. A, of the 100 block
Eleventh St. N. E., are under
treatment in Casualty Hospital
Matherson's condition is described
as serious.
Hugh Fiskel, of the 100 block
Rhode Island Ave. N. E.. said
by police to have been operating
the other machine, was un-
injured.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
Society Girls Turn
Taxi Dancers For
Charity's Sake

Ten cents a dance-with
young socialites of Washington.
Some of the smarter society
girls will sell dances for that
price at the charity affair to-
morrow afternoon and evening
at Mrs. Joseph Letters home
on Dupont Circle for the bene-
fit of the Thrift Shop.
In addition to the dancing,
which will take place between
4 and 6 in the afternoon and
and midnight, there will be
fortune telling, hot dogs and
lemonade on sale and all the
activities usual to a country
fair.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06

Wnen the geneTdl SCTlhe OIOhe ouC
in England, in 1926, Bennett wrote in
his diary that it was "a political
crime that must be paid for" and
the next day that it was "pitiful,
foolish-a pathetic attempt of the
underdogs," and he adds, Il anticl-
pate that the Tory press and the
speeches of reactionary politicians
will now be terrible"
In short, he was typical English
Liberal, with the emphasis on his
Englishness, convinced of the policy
of muddling through. The names OF
Lenin and Trotzky do not appear IN
the diary of 1921 to 1928; the names
of some millionaires, English and
American, do appear, and with
friendly notations, or, for the Eng
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
TRAFFIC FINE $40

John Ware, colored, 400 block
N st. N. W.. was fined $40 and
costs for driving an automobile
with no permit in his possession in
police court at Hyattsville yester
day. The youth was arrested by
Maryland State Policeman Claude
Cubbage near Largo.
The Washington times., 1933-06-06
True to Type.
Benefits Diaries Complete Record
Of His Life
-By GILBERT SELDES.

TT SEEMS to annoy number of reviewers to discover
that Arnold Bennett never became Communist and
In the days of his prosperity only as liberal in poll
tics as he had been when he struggling writer.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
al DELEGATES
TOCONVENT|ON

Taking the place of Lee Lander
man, assistant farm advisor, George
Boa6en and six Imperial Valley
representatives left yesterday for
Los Angeles for the state conven-
ton of the III clubs of California,
which is to be held September Z, 8,
and 9, at the Davis agricultural
college.
Imperial Valley representatives
sre Earlene and joe Northrop, FL
Centre; Jack Warner, Srawley:
Stanley Boaden, Mulberry senior
CLUB. and Misses Eugenia Ryder and
Virginia Teel.
The delegation left Brawley yes
terday afternoon and entrained at
Los Angeles last evening for San
Francisco where they expected to
have several hours for sightseeing
before going on to Davis. This
group will probably be the first 10
arrive there and have the distinction
of having travelled the farthest Of
any other representatives at the
conference.
They were to be met by w. R.
Ralston, assistant state leader of
All clubs, in charge of all southern
counties. and c. F. Elwood, OF the
Berkeley office of the agricultural
extension department, the latter
acting as guide for the delegates
from the valley.
Among the many interesting
events on the program for these
young people is TO be visit to the
state fair now in progress at Sac
ranento. A different route will be
taken on their return offering a
most delightful and educational
trio, a resume of which will be
given by individual delegates over
the local radio station On or about
September Is.
With the idea in mind of being
able to finance at least four OF
their club 10 attend this conven-
ton the Senior All club started
out in the spring to make it pos
sibility, and did so. This is COM
meadaple because of the fact that
the expenses If a trip that dis
tance is no little thing and MEM
bers are justly proud of their VIC
tory.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-09-06
GRUWELL LEAVES CITY

3. NJ. Gruwell, former superin-
tendent of the local elementary
schools, met with the school board
last evening for the last time and
then left for Los Angeles, where
he will engage in business.
Guy A. Weakly, appointed 10 fill
the position vacated by the retir-
ing superintendent, is expected to
arrive with his idnlily within the
next few days They will reside at
1866 Olive avenue.