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1,995 YEARS BEHIND BARS
METED OUT TO VIOLATORS
OF DRY LAWS IN INDIANA
Thousands Sent to Prison in Government’s
Attempt to Enforce Prohibition;
$609,102 Taken in Fines.
BY WALKER STONE
Tim* Sprrial Writrr
WASHINGTON, July 11.—A total of 1,995 years, one month and
twenty-six days behind the bars
That is what the federal government's attempt to enforce the “noble
experiment" had meant in Indiana up to June l, 1933,
Four thousand three hundred seventy-eight times federal judges in
Indiana pronounced sentences against persons who violated the Vol
stead act.
Three thousand twenty-one times
the federal magistrates ievied fines
against persons who refused to
consider as sacred the eighteenth
amendment to the Constitution.
A total of $609,102 was taken di
rectly from the pockets of Indiana
citizens and used by Uncle Sam to
make more arnstes, provide more
jail sentences and levy more fines.
Many Not Included
These are figures compiled by the
department of justice. They do not
include the number of jail sen
tences in the first five years of pro
hibition. nor the amount of jail
sentences in days for the first, two
years, nor the number of fines in
the first two years, nor the amount
of fines in the first year.
The department does not have
records for the earlier periods of
prohibition.
Nor do the figures include any
fines or jail sentences imposed by
Wright "bone dry” law. The figures
were taken from the records of In
diana federal courts alone.
It is probable that, if the fig
ures were available, it, could be
shown that prohibition sentences
and fines levied by Indiana munici
pal. county and state courts were
many times as large.
For 1921, the first year of pro
hibition, the department of jus
tice has no records on prohibition
cases handled in Indiana federal
courts
Huge Sums in Fines
In 1922, department records show
only the total amount collected in
prohibition fines—ss,B26. In 1923,
jail sentneces totaled 14,099 days,
and fines $17,110. in 1924, jail sen- j
fences totaled 33,667 and 198 fines i
netted $65,000. In 1925, jail sen- !
tences totaled 30.902 days, and
eighty-four fines netted $72,660. In
1927, 196 sentences totaled 23,514
days, and 172 fines, $30,870. In
1928, 508 sentences totaled 38.577
days and 384 lines $35,181. In 1929,
608 sentences totaled 43,757 days 1
and 608 fines $48,952. In 1930, 785 j
sentences totaled 114,334 days and |
785 fines (the peak) yielded $95,332. !
In 1931, 488 sentences totaled 1
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AYRES * DOWNSTAIRS * STORE
94,791 days and 183 fines $2,489. In
i 1932, 952 sentences (the peak;
totaled 206.660 days (the peak) and
! 256 fines yielded $59,371. And from
Jan. 1 to June 1, 1933, 646 sentences
totaled 88.717 days, and 109 fines
netted $28,911.
. The totals are 4,378 sentences,
,718.256 days in jail, 3,021 fines,
1 $609,102.
TAKES STEP TO
STEADY DOLLAR
j
Roosevelt Orders Survey to
Find Way to Act,
Says Report.
By United /’rent
WASHINGTON, July 11.—Presi
dent Roosvelt reliably was reported
I today to have ordered a survey of
; ways of managing the country’s
i currency to prevent violent fluctua
tions in purchasing power of the
dollar.
The President’s ultimate goal is to
| keep the purchasing power of the
j dollar stable after it reached a level
satisfactory to the administration.
Addition of two new professors to
the “brain trust" was interpreted by
well-informed persons as a move in
that direction.
Professor James Harvey Rogers of
Yale and Professor George Fred
erick Warren of Cornell opened offi
ces in the commerce department to
day, ostensibly to co-ordinate ef
forts to balance the budge*. Rogers
is an expert on foreign markets and
credits. Warren is an agricultural
economist.
Well informed persons indicated
the professors would be put to work
both on the problem of managing
the currency as well as on budget
affairs.
INJURED COWBOY FILM STAR HAS NEW ‘GIRL FRIEND’
; ' :: A "T 1 "
Two wrecks, it seems, have occurred recently in
the career of Hoot Gibson, cowboy film star—one
when he smashed his airplane during a race at Los
Angeles and the other when his marriage to Sally
Eilers, movie actress, went on the rocks. •
Anyway, here is Gibson, recovering in a Los
BANDITS OBTAIN SBS
IN STOREMBBERY
Three Clerks Held at Bay by
Pharmacy Thugs.
Holding three clerks at bay with
pistols, three masked bandits who
have made a practice of staging
their holdups at midnight, robbed
the James E. Brady pharmacy,
Fifty-second street and College av
enue, Monday night.
Timing their entrance so they
would obtain the entire night re
ceipts, the bandits walked in with
drawn guns and rifled the cash
register of SBS. Frank Rummel,
4611 Central avenue; Ray Burke,
5131 Park avenue, and Richard
Earle, 6556 Ferguson street, clerks,
were lined up with their hands in
the air.
The bandits fled in a cream-col
ored coupe and were pursued by
Morton Rucker, 427 North Dearborn
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Angeles hospital from injuries received in the plane
smash up, as he shows a picture of the wreckage to
his new girl friend, June Gale, 21-year-old San
Francisco actress, with w r hom he admits he is "madly
in love.” Gibson announced that he and Miss Eilers,
recently returned from Europe, plan a divorce.
street, merchant policeman, until he
lost their trail on Illinois street.
A plate on their car had been
stolen earlier from a car parked
near the wrestling arena at Penn
sylvania and Michigan streets.
CHIEF CLERK NAMED
BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Mildred Gallagher Chosen to Post
by VaL D. Nolan.
Miss Mildred Gallagher, 894 West
drive, Woodruff Place, Monday was
appointed chief clerk in the office
of Val D. Nolan, federal district
attorney.
Miss Gallagher is a St. Agnes
academy and business college gradu
ate and formerly was employed by
the National Retail Hardware As
sociation and the Democratic state
committee. She recently has been
secretary to Fred Pickett, supreme
court clerk.
Charged With Farm Escape
Detectives Monday arrested Jesse
Taylor, 27, of 143 South Oriental
street, on a fugitive charge. Taylor
is alleged to have escaped from the
state penal farm in 1931.
BANKER IS CONVICTED
IN FORGERY PLOT
Former South Bend Official
Faces 1 to 14-Year Term.
By United Press
CHICAGO. July 11. —A sentence
of from one to fourteen years in
prison lay before John R. Steele,
former South Bend (Ind.) banker,
today following his conviction on
charges of conspiracy to forge
$41,000 worth of Cook county tax
anticipation warrants.
A jury returned the conviction
Monday, after first asking Judge
John Fardy for additional instruc
tions concerning testimony.
Youth Drowns in River
By United Press TyjTjVi
JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., July 11.
—Leroy Thomas Smith, 16, Clarks
ville, drowned in the Ohio river
below the government dam here
late Monday. Charles Resch, 16, a
companion, tried desperately to save
him.
BRITONS BACK
ROOSEVELT ON
HIS PROGRAM
‘Vote of Confidence’ Given
U. S. President in House
of Commons.
BY W. G. Ql ISENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July 11.—President
Roosevelt was given a tremendous
"vote of confidence" in the house
of commons Monday night as lead
ers of every shade of political opin
ion urged the government to aban
don its middle position and join the
United States in his "great experi
ment.”
The most influential spokesmen in
England outside the government
seized the occasion of debate on the
economic conference to pay tribute
forcefully to Mr. Roosevelt's initia
tive and courage in contrast to Eu
rope's Inaction.
The debate showed plainly that
the President has fired the imagina
tion of this country.
Even nationalistic leaders, usually
antagonistic to American policies,
joined in the appeal that the gov
ernment of Prime Minister J. Ram
say MacDonald pursue a definite
policy like the United States.
“The government can not run with
the Montague Norman hounds and
! hunt with the Roosevelt hare,” was
I the way Lieutenant-Colonel Leopold
; Amerv, conservative, put it. “That
is what they are attempting to do,
and they are pleasing nobody.”
Sir Herbert Samuel. Liberal lead
er, hoped that “Mr. Roosevelt s
| heroic experiment will succeed.”
“If it fails.” he said, “it might
j prove disastrous.”
Two former chancellors of the ex
: chequer, Winston Churchill and Sir
Robert Horne, stoutly supported Mr.
Roosevelt, particularly on his policy
of refusing temporary stabilization
of currencies.
"The effect of the rise of dollar
prices,” Sir Robert said, “has been
to increase considerably sterling
prices, and we have obtained the
| benefit of what is taking place in
America. If the world were assured
| that we are working along the same
lines as the United States, there is
j nothing that can stop us.”
Churchill eloquently praised Mr.
Roosevelt's reflation policy and
urged Britain to follow his example
and embrace this opportunity for
! closer co-operation, both being off
I the gold standard.
"The American navy—if I may
j pursue a metaphor—has come over
1 as it did in the great war,” Church
ill said, "and is steaming along
the same course with us. There is
no risk of a monetary conflict be
tween us and the United States."
The debate was opened by a state
ment from Neville Chamberlain,
chancellor of the exchequer, who
said that Britain still regards the
world’s chief troubles as interna
tional and capable of solution "only
through international action.”
JULY 11, 1933
STEEL INDUSTRY AT
NEW MARK IN GARY
l ! . S. Corporation Working
to Fill Orders.
By T'niied Pri
GARY, Ind., July 11.—Continu
ance of the present near-capacity
operation of the Gary plant of the
United States Steei Corporation,
leading industrial recovery here,
with 15,000 workers drawing a pay
roll of more than $1,000,000 a mon'h,
was indicated here today with publi
cation of the firm's unfilled tonnage
orders.
At present the three major Gary
plants of the corporation are op
erating on the following schedules:
Gary works, 60 per cent capacity;
sheet mills. 84 per cent, and tin
mills. 115 per cent.
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