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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Chickens Are Stolen

After ransacking the home of
Alva Carney, 400 West Raymond
street, without taking anything of
value, thieves last night went to
the garage at the rear of the house
and stole three chickens valued
at So.
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WRITER TELLS
HOW JUDGE CAN
INFLUENCE JURY
Article Cites Cases That
Show Miscarriage of
Justice.

A youth, deranged slightly by
head injuries suffered in boyhood.
faces trial for murder of his father
in-law.
Put yourself in his place in a Hoo
/ sier courtroom.
There is no question as to the
youths guilt, but the circumstances
are eXtenuating.
Underlying the murder is the
story Of a wife attacked in youth by
her father, and shortly before the
Staying a similar attack occurred
The trial judge forbidS the wife to
present this testimony to the jury.
The husband is sentenced to be
! electrocuted.
Actions Exposed
This miscarriage of justice. be-
cause of faulty actions of the trial
judge, is exposed in an article bv
Alan S. Hays, attorney, on What
Is Wrong With Justice" in the De-
cember issue of Towers Mystery
magazine.
DR.. Harry Elmer Barnes. con-
tributing editor of the Scripps- How
ard newspapers and the Indianap-
oils Times, in a foreword to the
article says:
THE jury trial is all too often
little more than trial by judge and
Judicial prejudice. The procedure
OF Judge Webster Thayer in the
Sacco-Vanzetti case is only a pc
culiarly atrocious example"
In Mr.. Hays article he saws, "The
judge should give no indication of
his opinion of the defendants guilt
or innocence. Yet during the trial,
unless he has been very careful. his
questions, his gestures, his facial
expressions, perhaps merely the
flicker of an eyelid, will have indi-
Gated his belief in the prisoners
guilt.
Jury Watches Judge
Lawyers for defendants often
complain of this. The jury all too
often may convict solely in reliance
on the judges obvious state of mind.
I'm one case where the Jury
stayed out too long, it was explained
later that the judges impartiality
had made the jurors delay decision.
There are judges who openly air
their prejudices in open court. They
do this by delivering an unfair
charge to the jury, by hampering
the defendants attorneys, by show
ing skepticism of defense witnesses
or by displaying antagonism toward
the defendant" says Mr.. Hays.
In citing the case of the youth
tried for murder of father-in-law
and the barring of testimony giving
valid reason (attack of daughter
by father for the crime, Mr.. Hays
gives the judges words as:
Not All Are Unfair
"This should have been brought
to trial in the lifetime of her
father. It would be no juSti-
fication of the murder (the attack
on the wife of the slayer. 1t is an
issue that doesn't belong here. do
not propose to try the dead man in
stead of the defendant who is on
trial before us, the judge ruled.
"Of course" continues Mr.. Hays,
mot all of our judges are unfair. 1t
is the duty of the jury to decide the
defendants guilt solely on the evil
dence of the trial. If the case is
famous, they may have been in
f1uenced by newspaper accounts. In
this case, the public will be clam
oring for revenge and the jury re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Medical instruments Taken

Theft of a bag containing medical
instruments valued at $50 from the
car of DR.. H. F. Beckman, 5l4
Hume Mansur building, while the
automobile was parked near Metho-
dist hospital, was reported to police
last night.
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tires merely to carry out the pub
lies will.
"I am sure the jury believes them
selves to be acting in a spirit OF
strict impartiality, but this they can
not do. The criminal system has
damned and doomed our prisoner
from the moment the arresting off,
Ger laid eyes upon him." he con-
cludeS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-08
Drinks It and Prints It
What's Sauce for the Goose Is Sauce for the
Gander, Thinks Disorderly Editor.


ID oCKNGHAN C., Dec "A newspaper editor who won't
his misfortune print has publish
County Journal who
printed story
drunkenness.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
SECUR|TYCHECK
ASKED HERE

The Public Utilities Commission
today took steps to seek inclusion
in the national securities bill, now
pending in Congress, Of a setup
Of some kind for local control Of
securities.
The recommendation will be
drafted by Assistant Corporation
Counsel william A. Roberts and
will include a provision to insure
retention of the power now held
by the commission over public
utility stocks sold here.
The commission feels it would
be futile to set up provision for
national control of stocks based
upon State regulations, as is done
in the pending bill, without also
providing some means OF local
control.
At the same time it was made
clear by Major Gen. Mason M.
Patrick, chairman Of the commits
sion, that it is the wish Of the
local body that its present powers
over utility stocks be neither cur
tailed nor complicated.
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To 7 ak
N CAPITOL

Gen. Jacob S. Coxey, sr., mayor
of MaSSilon, Ohio, will discuss
causes and cure of the business
depression and collapse Of the
credit-banking system in the
House caucus room in the Cap
itol at 1880 tonight. The public
is invited.
General Coxey observed last
Sunday the thirty-ninth ami
versary of the march of "Coxey's
Army of unemployed on Wash
ington. He says that the present
depression is much more serious
and widespread than that of 1894.
Refused use of the Capitol
steps for his speech pointing the
way out of the wilderness" Gen.
eral Coxey predicts that Vice
President Garner will have many
embarrassing moments before the
next three years of his term have
passed, as others will ask the
same privilege.
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DEFEAT LIKELY
FOR WALLACE
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pledges to reduce production.
The House limited this power
to the 1903 crop, but the Sen
ate extended it to the 1884
crop if the Government owns
any cotton by that time.
Price-fixing Agree m ents:
Minor changes made by Senate
in the House provision, author
izing the Secretary to negotiate
price-fixing agreements between
producers and professors. while
suSpending the antitrust laws.
Vary On Appropriations
Processing Tax: House au-
thorized secretary to impose a
processing tax, to pay the cost
Of farm relief, equal to the diff
ference between the current
average farm price and its fair
exchange value" The Senate
rewrote the provision with
about the same result. The
House empowered Wallace to
change the tax to meet changes
in economic conditions but the
Senate limited the change only
to prevent accumulation OF
surplus stocks.
Appropriations: The House au-
thoriZed necessary approprla-
tons; the Senate set aside
$100,000,000 to launch the re-
lief program.
Commodities: The House ap-
piled relief to wheat, cotton,
corn, hogs, cattle, sheep, rice,
tobacco and milk. The Senate
struck out cattle and sheep
while adding sugar beets and
sugar cane.
Retail Stocks: The House ex-
empted stocks held by retailers
from the processing tax for 80
days. The Senate exempted all
retail, stocks and placed the 30
day limit on retail stocks held
in warehouses.
The conferees also must agree
on the farm mortgage relief sec.
lions. The House passed these pro-
visions as a separate bill, but the
Senate tackled them on the farm
measure.
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RAIL D|CTAT Or
IS ASKED
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until vacated by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The bill is designed to accom-
plish reorganization Of the rail-
roads by cooperation, but the CO.
ordinator is given power to issue
orders if cooperation fails.
Made Three Groups
The nations railroads would be
divided into three groups--EaSt-
ern, Southern, and Western. The
antitrust laws would be suspended
to permit carrying out OF the re-
Mobilization plans.
The purposes stated in the bill
are:
/. To encourage action by
carriers which will avoid un1ec-
essary duplication Of services
and facilities Of any nature and
permit joint use Of TERMINALS
and trackage.
2. Control allowances, acceSSo-
rial services and other practices
affecting service, to the END
that earnings of the road would
be increaSde.
8. Avoid waste and other pre-
ventab1e expenses.
4. Promote financial reorgan1-
Zation Of the carriers, so as to
reduce fixed charges and to i'm
prove credit.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
HARTMAN BANK
FUNDS SHIFTED
To AID POOL
Senate Group DeIves Deeply
In Testimony Directors Got
Manipulated Profits

Revelation that Is directors Of
the Hartman National Bank and
Trust Company, Of New York
manipulated the banks stock with
funds borrowed from their own
institution today held the .atten-
ton of a Senate Judiciary sub
committee.
At an executive meeting, the
committee decided to dig deeper
into the operations of this di.
rector'S pool, linked at least in
directly with the illegal transfer
of $1,393, 900 from depoSitors' &C
counts to a bond purchase &C
count.
This transfer formed one basis
for a criminal indictment re-
Gently against Joseph w. Harri.
man, former president Of the
bank.
The subcommittee sought addi-
tional light on the strange fail
ure of the Comptroller's office
and later the Department Of JUS
tice to prosecute Hartman dur
ing the last light months Of the
Hoover administration.
Acting Comptroller Of the Cur
rency, F. G. Await satisfied the
Senator'S that his own record in
this transaction was clear. A
decision was reached, however, to
summon former Comptroller OF
the Currency, j. w. Pole, who re-
signed his post last September.
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''Be Good Girl and Do Whatever You
Are Told," Peggy's Mother Urges
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said the police assured the Nc
Maths there would be no tap
ping Of telephone wires.
He said:
"It may be three or four
days before we hear anything
from the kidnaperS. It may be
the kidnapers will contact
Peggy's relatives in Detroit"
The servants in McMath home
"a butler and maid-are "the
most loyal in the world" he said
in refusing to make public their
names.
waiting for Contact
Lee said he and McMath were
being guided by the Lessons drawn
from the Lindbergh kidnapping.
"peggy's younger brother Francis,
Is being kept home from school
because they do not want him
to run chances Of having photog'
raphers take his picture.
Lee said he and a friend, Harry
Sawyer, maintain a const n t
around-the-clock vigilance at the
McMath home in the hope Of re-
ceiving a telephone call from the
kidnapers.
The police today were carefully
guarding some of their move
ments. A report that they had
dug up a letter bearing on the
case was circulated in Harwich.
This was given some credence
by the arrival here from Boston
Of the official State photographer
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who is said to have made photo
static copies of the letter.
Police headquarters was a bee
hive OF activity. A special police
broadcasting station was set up
at headquarters for the purpose
of prompt communication with
State troopers scattered through
out the Cape Cod area searching
for the missing girl.
Fifty State troopers were started
off from police headquarters to.
day in an intensive search for the
kidnapped girl, with the reminder
from Lieut.. James Hughes, Of the
Massachusetts, State police, that
"the Lindbergh baby was found
within a mile of his home"
Entire Cape Scanned {.
Every camp, every gas filling
station, every store, and every
place that might be harboring
the girl was ordered searched.
Lieutenant Hughes instructed
his men to at first concentrate
within a mile radius of the Har-
wich Grammar School, from in
front of which the girl was kid
naped Tuesday afternoon, and
gradually extend their operations
over the entire Cape Cod area.
He told them:
You are to stop all suspi-
ciOuS cars and watch for either
a girl or a boy. You all have
radios in your cars. If you
find anything suspicious, COM
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BR|TON DENIES
SLAP At j. 8.

LONDON, May 4 G.N.S).
Denying he was actuated by
Americas abandonment of the
gold standard, Chancellor of the
Exchequer Neville Chamberlain
today asked the House Of Com
mons to increase the exchange
equalization fund from $50, 900, 900
pounds ($585, ,O0O,O0O) to 350,o00,-
900 pounds ($1, 1865 90, ,00O.
Chamberlain's request was
made in the form of a. financial
resolution placed before the
House shortly after Prime Minis
ter j. Ramsay Macdonald had
delivered a formal statement out
lining his recent conversations
with President Roosevelt.
The Chancellor had recon-
mended an increase in the fund
in his recent budget message to
the House.
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SENATE To PASS
1871 RATIO

The Wheeler resolution, direct
ing the American delegation to
the London economic conference
to work for the reconciliation Of
silver, gained enough support to-
day in the Senate to insure its
adoption.
The resolution, sponsored by
Senator Wheeler (D) Of Mon
tana, would put the Senate on
record as favoring an interna-
tional agreement, restoring silver
to a monetary basis, on q ratio
Of 16 to l against gold.
? The President, in the initiation
bill, was empowered to remonetize
silver whenever he saw fit to do
50. This authority would enable
him to carry out any silver agree
mert entered at the international
conference.
Wheeler declared the remoneti-
1ation of silver would increase
world commodity prices at once
BY increasing the purchasing
tower q. silver nationSS
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
5 NeIU Forest Camps
Awarded to Virginia

War Department orders author
izing the transfer Of $4,000 add1-
tional men from conditioning
camps. to emergency conservation
work camps were approved to-
day. The men will be directed
to 122 camps in % States. With
the arrival of this latest con-
tingent the camps will have a
total enrolment of $500. Among
the locations for the latest
detachmentS are: North Caro-
linA Virginia and Oregon. 5 EACH
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municate with headquarters at


municate with headquarters at
once"
The VOodOO Colony
Immediately after the instruc-
tionS were given, the troopers
headed off in all directions in
their cars. A special radio broad
casting apparatus was set up at
headquarters to which they could
communicate at once any clue
which they developed.
The search for the kidnapped
girl was expected to extend quickly
to the "voodoo colony" in this re-
gion, located between Harwich
and Brewster-less than five miles
from the Harwich grammar
school, from which place Peggy"
was driven away by colored man
in a blue sedan and dressed in a
chauffeur's uniform.
Worked on Ships
The Portuguese Bravas living
in the colony originally came over
to America from Portugal and
the Cape Verde Islands to work
on the whaling ships operating
from the New Bedford, Mass, dis
trict. From New Bedford they
spread all over New England as
their numbers multiplied and
many Of them settled in the
Cape Cod area.
They are a mixture Of Portu-
guese and Spanish, for the most
part. They are experts in hand
ling small boats.
Many of them are now working
in the cranberry and blueberry
bogs on the peninsula.
May Be at Sea
The police, in searching the
homes, stores, and highways here
aboutS are not unmindful of the
possibility that the girl may have
been taken aboard a boat and
taken out to sea.
Part Of the police force was as
signed to q search of boats and
were enlisting the support of
Coast Guard officials.
Shortly before II a. m. Brig
adler General Needham received
information that caused him to
order q detail of 20 men to pro-
ceed Immediately to the Mashpee
Indian camp, in the town Of
Mashpee, is miles away.
The MaShpeeS are the only re-
naming tribe Of Indians left in
Massachusetts,.
Needham declined to reveal
what information he had received.
Indians In Case
Reports were current while the
police were rushing to Mashpee
that about two weeks ago six
Mashpee Indians had been en-
ployed at the McMath estate, do
ing work about the gardens.
Meanwhile, the distracted pa.
rents Of the missing girl, Mr.. and
Mrs. Neil c. McMath, waited
in their beautiful home for news
from the kidnaperS.
The police and State troopers
were still remaining away from
the McMath home, respecting the
expressed wishes of the father
Of the kidnapped girl.
A dreadful silence, growing
more ominouS hourly. has been
the only answer to the fathers
plea.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
GIRL 8 DETROIT
KIN READY To
AID RETURN
Mrs. F. c. McMath Invites
Kidnapers to "COme to U.s."
Gang Haunts Searched

DETROIT, May 4 G.NSO'
Grieving Detroit relatives Of kid
noped Peggy McMath, 10-year-old
heiress to two Detroit industrial
fortunes, today invited the little
girls abductors to communicate
with them.
Mrs. Francis C. McMath. her
paternal grandmother. said:
eff the kidnapers are afraid
to 60 to Neil (Peggy's father,
Neil Cook McMath) let them
come to us, without fear. We
only want Peggy back"
William r. Kales, maternal
grandfather of the little girl
reiterated his statement that the
family could not raise a large
ransom in cash.
He Joined his son-in-law in
asking the aid of newspapers IN
removing the impression that the
family can marshal a large sum
in cash. The closing Of Detroit
banks has gravely depleted his
fortune as we'll as that OF his
wife, and the elder McMath.
Mrs. Kales' Peggy'S grand
mother, is the daughter Of John
S. Gray, one of the original
stockholders Of the Ford Motor
Company.
Her inheritance in Ford stock
from her father was about $7,0OO,'
OOO-$12,500 a share. Most Of
this fortune, however, is now tied
UP in closed banks or frozen real
estate, Kales indicated.
Police Have DOutbs
James K. Watkins, Detroit's
Oxford-bred police commissioner,
close friend of the Kales fam
lily, conferred with the stricken
grandparents today and promised
the full cooperation Of Detroit
police.
Detectives here continued skep-
tical, however, of the theory that
a. Detroit gang was behind the
abduction of Peggy from her
school in Harwich, Mass, Tues
day. But gang quarters were
quietly searched.
Intimates of BLACK Leo" Gel
lura notorious Detroit gangSter
scoffed at the report Of Depart
ment of Justice agents that he
was seen in a bootleggers' colony
near the scene of the kidnapping
of Peggy.
They declare Black Leo has
been within 20 minutes ride OF
Detroit for the last five months.
Federal agents say he was traced
last month to Sycamore, about 2S
miles from Harwich.
Hunted in 1880
If Black Leo is within 20
minutes ride of Detroit, police
here do not know it.
He has been sought since July
1880, in the murder Of Gerald E.
Buckley, crusading radio an.
nouncer, and William Cannon
and George Collins, Chicago
racketeers.
Cannon and Collins were shot
down near the side entrance OF
the La Sale Hotel, where Cellura
lived, two weeks before Buckley
was slain in the lobby Of the
hotel.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

GATTI-CASAZZA which begins
on December 26 and will run for
Il weeks, will be Mr.. GattiS
twenty-sixth at the Metropoli.
tan.
The singers who will join or
rejoin the company will be
Lotte Lehman, German lyric
and dramatic soprano; Lillian
Clark, young American soprano;
Claudia MuZio, Italian lyric
and dramatic soprano; Cyrena
Van Gordon, American con-
tralto; Paul Althouse, American
dramatic tenor; Charles Hack
EFT, American lyric tenor; Max
Lorenz, German Wagnerian
tenor; Nino Martini, italian
lyric tenor; John Charles
Thomas, American baritone,
and Emanuel List, Austrian
American basso.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
Woman, So, Found
Dedd,in Home Here

Mrs. Menia Eadtke. SO, was
found. dead in her home on
Walker Mill Road, Greater Capt.
tol Heights, early today. The
woman's body was found by
William Dent, a neighbor, who
notified Prince Georges county
police. DR.. James I. Boyd, OF
Forestville, declared the woman
died Of natural causes 4.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

parents Wis. HELEN VASkO
tied Helen at Columbia Presby-
terian Medical Center and went
away happy and satisfied, Judge
Smith said.
The judge said he will direct
that the two-year-old youngster
be released from the hospital
and taken home tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

Earth" from
the PreSbyte.
rian Board
of F. orei gn
Missions.
The funda.
nenta lis t s
are headed
by DR.. j.
Gresham Ma
chen, presi-
dent Of the
w estminSter
Theologi c a !
Seminary at
Philadelphia,
who led the
.GAoOk on
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

They seemed cheerful and they are the ones to
dig it up.
Then went over to see, Lew Douglas, the old
Arizona cowpuncher, head of the budget, who says:
"You are just in time. All need to balance the
books today is Sc, ,0OO"
What tough job that guy has! But he is able.
Lunched with Senator Joe Robinson, of Arkansas,
and Senator Connally, of Texas
And not one of all these men knew what infla-
ton was
~ fcopyrisA4 ASA ~ McNausht syndloat.l
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

q tG 3 G K q II FEAhL DUCA
Mrs. Buck for her liberal.
ism as a missionary in China.
He said he would carry his
fight to purge the board Of all
"modernistic tendencies" to the
general assembly Of the church
meeting in Columbus, Ohio, May
IS. The Philadelphia Presbytery
has adopted his overture cali
ing for an investigation Of the
board,
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

a review Of
her divorce
by Harry K.
Thaw, slayer
Of Stanford
White. and
establish the
paternity Of
her son, Rus
sell Thaw.
The former
beauty, now
48, maintains
she is penni-
less and re-
ceiveS no gifts
OF m o n e y
from t h e
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
2 Pharmacist Jobs
Open in u. S. Service

Application for the positions
of junior pharmacist and as
sistant pharmaceutic aide in the
Veterans Administration and in
the Public Health Service, will
be accepted by the U. S. Civil
Service Commission until May 2S,
It was announced today
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

the two out
standing nov
elites in the
1933-34 opera
S e a on will
be " M e rry
Mount" and
" S al m e ;"
W e r e an
nounced to-
day by Giulio
Gatti.Casazza,
general man.
ager of the
Metropolitan
Opera.
The season,
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

he was even before he was
Speaker.
Had a long chat with
Speaker Rainey. Saw Con-
gress pass the initiation bill,
the biggest bill ever to pass
any legislature in the history
of the world. Invited right
into the office of our new Sec
reta1'y of the Treasury, Mr..
Woodin, while the Federal
Reserve Board was in session.
He said:
"Maybe you can give us a
laugh; we can't get anybody
to give us any money"
The Washington times., 1933-05-04

EVELYN NEsBIT ThaW family.
She intends, according to her
own statement to effect .
change in her status with rela-
ton to the Thaws through court
action.
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
Removal Of Baby's Eye
Wise, Agrees Mother

NEW YORK, May 4.-Little
Helen VaSko's mother, Mrs.
John Vasko. is convinced at
last that the courts were wise
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
S Native Born Singers
For MET" Next Season

NEW YORK, May 4.-The
engagement Of 10 new singers,
five of them Americans, and
confirmation of the report that
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
Church War Follows
Pearl Buck Case

NEW YORK, May 4.-War-
fare between Bible fundamen-
talistS and liberals flared up
anew today following the resig-
nation of Pearl Buck, author Of
the best seller, "The Good
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Evelyn Nesbit Fights
For Review of Divorce
Are Doing

ATLANTIC CITY, May 4.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has re.
newed her court fight to obtain
The Washington times., 1933-05-04
WILL ROGERS Says:

Seemed good to get in here yesterday and see old
friends. The Vice President turned over his office
to to hold conferences in He is the same Garner
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in ord e ring
r e m ov a | of
her b a by S
left eye be-
cause Of a
tumor. The
m o t h r. S
C h a n g e Of
mind was re-
w a ! e d by
Judge George
w. Smyth, of
the WeStcheS-
ter Cou n t y
Ch il d r e ms
Court.
The child'S
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance $45, 1863 ,930.91;
expenditures, $7,500.210.91; Gus.
toms receipts, $1.537. 7.957.88.