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U. S. GRAND JURY
MAY PROBE GRAFT
IN NATIONAL GUARD
Department of Justice Investigation Into
' Alleged Forgeries May Be Asked
by Val Nolan.
SECRET SERVICE AGENTS ACTIVE
Jhree Company Commanders in State Militia
Asked to Resign After Federal
Charges Are Revealed.
BY WILLIAM H. M’GAUGHEY
Times Staff Writer *
Probability of federal grand jury action in alleged na
tional guard graft and fund irregularities was indicated today
by Val Nolan, United States attorney.
Mr. Nolan revealed that two cases of petty graft had
been brought to his attention several months ago by secret
service agents.
“If there is evidence of other cases of graft in the In
diana national guard, I will ask the department of justice
to step in and conduct an investigation,” Mr. Nolan asserted.
Cases of alleged falsifica
tion of vouchers and check
forgeries have been dis
covered by investigators of
Comptroller-General J. R. Mc-
Carl’s office in Washington,
The Times learned yesterday.
No report of this investigation
has been received from the comp
troller-general's office, Mr. Nolan
said. In the event of prosecution,
any evidence from that sourse prob
ably will be turned over to the at
torney-general, he said.
Results of the investigation con
ducted by secret service operatives
here concern cases of fund irregu
larities of two officers of the In
diana national guard, Mr. Nolan
said.
The cases were not presented to
the federal grand jury at the last
session.
Three Asked to Resign
Although Adjutant-General Elmer
F. Straub asked three officers to re
sign as result of the federal gov
ernment's investigation, he has
taken no step to press prosecution,
he said.
In the shakeup that is under way,
more company commanders will be
asked to resign. General Straub told
The Times yesterday.
Information from Washington in
dicates thousands of dollars in na
tional guard funds have been taken
in the last few years.
Forgeries Are Charged
Colonel Robert T. Young, former
state disbursing officer, was sen
tenced in September. 1933, to the
federal prison at Atlanta for five
years for the embezzlement of $20,-
*OOO in national guard funds.
The cases investigated by General
Straub reveal an alleged forgery of
government checks by Harry R.
Piles, former commandant of the
Greensburg unit, and of alleged
fund irregularities in the guard
units commanded by James C.
Gabriel, Crawfordsville, and How
ard E. Ross, Evansville. All three
officers were asked to resign.
Piles was appointed commander
of the Greensburg unit upon the
recommendation of Captain John
Friday of Shelbyville, over the pro
tests of a number of Greensburg
citizens and of the American Legion
post there, according to officers of
the unit.
Captain Friday is successor to
Colonel Young as disbursing officer.
SWITZERLAND WILL
RETAIN GOLD PARITY
Balanced Budget Will Not Be
Altered, Says Government.
Bti United Per ax
BERNE. Switzerland. March 28.
Switzerland will adhere to the pres
ent gold parity of the franc, the
government announced today, an
swering reports that the country is
in danger of being forced off the
gold standard.
The announcement said the gov
ernment would not allow r its bal
anced budget, established last Oc
tober, to be endangered and will
' oppose any additional expenses not
covered by revenue.
MARTIN INSULL QUITS
DETROIT FOR CHICAGO
Former Utilities Operator Faces Em
bezzling Charges.
Bn United Prcrx
DETROIT. March 28. —Martin In
sult was taken aboard the 12:40
p. m. Michigan Central train to be
returned to Chicago where he
faces trial on charges of embezzle- j
ment connected with the collapse j
of the Insull properties..
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Times Index
Auto News 8
Berg Cartoon 12
Bridge 19
Broun 11
Classified 17-18
Comics 19
Crossword Puzzle 19
Curious World 19
Editorial 12
Financial . 14
Good Old Days 3
Hickman—Theaters 11
Lippraan 14
Monuments of Literature 11
Pegler 11
Radio 17
Bporta 16-17
State News 10 ;
Wallace Series 4j
Woman’s Pages 6- 7
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ATTACK STORY
TOLD BY GIRL
Mrs. Mary Beyerlein Tells
of Plunge to Evade
Accused Pair.
Unable to climb the short flight
of stairs to municipal court room
three. Mrs. Mary Beyerlein, pretty
18-year-old girl who leaped from a
third floor window during a drink
ing party at 451 North Illinois
street Sept. 27, today told of the
alleged criminal assault upon her
by two local men during the party.
Mrs. Beyerlein wore braces to
support her back as a result of the
injuries she sustained in the fall.
She was assisted into the ~ourtr
oom by her mother, Mrs. Sue
Chadwell, 273 North Holmes ave
nue.
Because of her physical condition,
Judge Dewey Myers held court in
the detective bureau on the first
floor of the police headquarters
building. In the room, Richard
Heymann, 30, of 2339 Spann ave
nue, and William Bowers, 24, of the
Colonial hotel, charged with the
alleged attempted criminal assault
upon Mrs. Beyerlein, watched
shamefacedly as she walked to the
witness stand.
Frankie Ralston, theatrical pro
ducer. who with Bowers and Hey
mann, is charged with possession
of marjuana cigarets at the party,
was not present. His attorney ex
plained that Ralston was in Can
ada with a show. Hearing on the
charge of possessing the narcotic
cigarets was set down for April 20.
In almost inaudible tones, Mrs.
Beyerlein told of meeting Bowers
at a downtown drug store on the
afternoon of Sept. 27. when he sug
gested first that they go to a show
and later invited her to the North
Illinois street apartment.
Mrs. Beyerlein testified that they
met Heymann at the apartment
and both men tried to ply her with
drinks, and when Ralston entered
the room forced her to smoke a
marijuana cigaret. When Bowers
and Heymann attempted to attack
her in the bedroom, Mrs. Beyerlein
testified, she jumped from the
window.
Both Heymann and Bower denied
the alleged attack when they took
the stand and both protested that
they had been drinking heavily and
were vague about the incidents of
the party. Under cross-examina
tion, both men admitted that they
had not gone to the assistance of
the girl after she leaped from the
window.
Judge Myers bound Heymann
and Bowers over to the grand jury
for further investigation under
SI,OOO bond each.
Five Dead in Chilean Floods
By l Filled Press
ANTOFAGASTA. Chile. March 28.
—Torrential rains in the Andes have
caused floods and washouts which
so far today had resulted in five
dead and 100 injured, beside enorm
ous property damage. Communica
tions with the interior were dis
rupted.
LOOK AT WORLD THROUGH THE EXPERT EYES
OF GREATEST FOREIGN AFFAIRS AUTHORITY
To obtain for newspaper readers a first-hand, authoritative pic
ture of the w-orld situation today. William Philip Simms, foremost
authority on foreign affairs, is touring the world for The Indianap
olis Times.
He now is in Japan, from where he has dispatched his first
series of five articles, and will proceed from Tokio to Shanghai, Nan
king, Peiping, Harbin and Vladivostok, then leaving for Moscow and
other European capitals.
Mr. Simms, now Scripps-Howard foreign editor, was bom in
Grantville, Ga.. Aug. 28. 1881, started his newspaper career on the
Atlanta Journal, going from there to the Cincinnati Post as dramatic
editor. He began his foreign service as Paris correspondent for the
United Press in 1908. remaining there until the outbreak of the great
war.
During the world conflict, he was a war correspondent in France.
Belgium, Italy and Russia. Simms was chief of the United Press
bureau in Paris during the peace conference.
Returning to America, he was sent to the Orient in 1920 by the
Scripps-Howard newspapers, returning to cover the Washington
naval conferences as a far eastern specialist.
Mr. Simms is holder of the British war, British victory and
French Verdun medals. He is a fellow of the American Geographical
Society and a member of the Academy of Political Science and the
Ypres League.
The first of Mr. Simms’ dispatches appears tomorrow.
Dillinger Plotted to Free Terror
Mob Pals by Disguising Gangsters as
Guardsmen, Captain Leach Reveals
BY BASIL GALLAGHER
Times Staff Writer
A FRUSTRATED plan to free
t£ree members of the In
diana “terror mob’’ from the
heavily guarded Lima <O.) jail in
which John Dillinger, escaped
desperado, planned to use gang
sters disguised as Ohio national
guardsmen, was revealed today by
Captain Matt Leach of the state
police.
With Harry Pierpont, Charles
Mackley and Russell Clark safely
Imprisoned in the Columbus (O.)
penitentiary and the heavy mili
tary guard which surrounded the
Lima jail for more than a month
disbanded, police throughput the
middle west relaxed today for the
first time in many weeks.
Captain Leach pictured Dillin
ger as a hunted man with his
hand against the world, hiding in
an obscure Chicago flat, deserted
by his henchmen because he is
“too hot” and afraid to venture
into the streets even at night.
As Pierpont and Makley pre
pare for death in the electric
chair for the murder of Sheriff
Jess Sarber of Lima and Russell
Clark starts today on a life sen
tence for the same crime, Captain
Leach pronounced the gang’s
reign of terror at an end.
“It’s curtains for Dillinger
now,” said Captain Leach, em
phatically. “He’s licked. Hamil
ton, Burns, Fox and Van Meter,
all wanted as members of the
gang, are afraid to go near him.
He’s too hot.”
a a a
SEATED at his office at state
police headquarters at the
statehouse, Captain Leach pointed
to a row of rogues gallery pictures
on the walls. Across the pictures
of Pierpont, Makley and Clark,
and other dead or captured mem
bers of the gang, heavily penciled
“X’s” had been made. An “X”
across the scowling countenance
of Dillinger had been erased.
“He’s a tough hombre,” said
Captain Leach, gazing with a
hint of admiration at "Whittling”
Jack’s mug, “but he’s really
through. He can’t win now.”
“From information which came
to us, we have learned that Dil
linger actually made an effort to
free Pierpont and the other two
men from the Lima jail.” Captain
Leach added. “The plan called
for eight gangsters dressed in
army uniforms to pose as Ohio
national guardsmen.
“Another gangster was to dress
as a lieutenant. The plans vrere
to have the gangsters enter Lima
at night and hide in town until
just before court adjourned in the
afternoon. The plan then called
for the fake lieutenant and sev
eral of his “soldiers” to present
fictitious papers purported to
have been signed by Governor
White to the sheriff ordering the
prisoners to be turned over to the
“military authorities” on the pre
text of moving them temporarily
from the jail bscause of a raid
scare.”
“Dillinger did not take active
part in the plan,” Caplain Leach
added. “By that I mean he did
not go to Lima himself. But he
sent Hamilton and Burns or sev
eral other members of the gang
there and they reported back that
the plan was impossible to exe
cute.
The scheme fell through for
three reasons. First, the tip to
me w'hich I passed on to General
Bush at Lima, causing an in
creased vigilance; second, the fact
that Dillinger could not muster
enough men to carry the plan
through, and third, that General
Bush, who is a thorough soldier,
knew all the men in his outfit
and anticipated even the most
fantastic move by the gangster.”
Four Are Slain in Voting
Outbreaks at Kansas Citg
By United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 28.
The death toll in Kansas City’s
bloody municipal election jumped
to four today when P. W. Oldham,
a bystander, succumbed to a bullet
wound suffered when he happened
within range of duelling gunmen of
the victorious Democratic machine.
Oldham was unlocking his hard
ware store last night when three
carloads of gunmen opened fire on
Deputy Sheriff Lee Flacy, a Demo
cratic challeger, as he entered a
nearby delicatessen store.
Flacy, mortally wounded, re
turned the fire, killing Larry
Cappo, north side ward-heeler,
riding in one of the attacking auto
mobiles.
Flacy lay dead and Oldham
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1934
“There is no question that Dil
linger was ‘fingering’ the Lima
situation,” said Captain Leach.
“When the plan which I have out
lined fell through, Johnny decid
ed that his pals would have to
‘take the rap.’ He’s too smart to
stick his head in a noose.”
a a a
CAPTAIN LEACH yawned wear
ily. He pointed to a pile of
correspondence on his desk deal
ing with Dillinger’s escape.
“If I don’t get him soon. I’ll go
nuts,” he said. “I haven’t had a
decent night’s sleep for about six
Origin of Wirt's Charges
Laid to Crusaders Head
Economic Liberty Society Chief Made Statement to
Roosevelt, Dr. Raymond Moley Says.
By United Press
NEW YORK, March 28.—A possible clew to the origin of Dr. William
A. Wirt’s sensational Communist charges against the administration brain
trust was reported today by Professor Raymond A. Moley, former as
sistant secretary of state and once an outstanding figure in the so-called
trust.
COOK COUNTY JAIL IS
STONEWALL HOTEL IN
MAN’S LETTER HOME
By United Press
CHICAGO, March 28.—“ Dear
Dad: I won’t be home for a short
time because I am detained on
business at the Stonewall hotel,
2600 South California avenue,
Chicago.”
So wrote Lenn Fordyce to his
father at Buchanan, Mich.
The father asked detective chief
William Schoemaker for more in
formation, to which Mr. Schoe
maker replied.
“Dear Mr. Fordyce: I am very
sorry to tell you that the Stone
wall hotel your son mentions is
none other than the Cook county
jail. His business is gvernment
business, since he is accused of
transporting a stolen automobile
from one state to another.”
SAFE IS BLOWN TO
BITS: S2OO IS TAKEN
‘Burglar-Proof’ Strongbox
Is Shattered by Yeggs.
(Pictures on Paee Fifteen)
Office of the Blue Diamond Coal
Company, 55 South Forest avenue,
was wrecked completely and a sup
posedly “burglar-proof” safe was
blown and battered to bits by yegg
men last night.
The yeggmen used an acetylene
torch, huge sledgehammers and
other heavy tools stolen from the
Pennsylvania railroad coach shops
nearby.
A hole was burned through the
heavy iron shell of the specially
built' bank type safe to a 2,000-
pound concrete “filling” which was
blown with nitroglycerine. A small,
round inner safe then was taken
outside the office and cut open with
the acetylene torch.
William O. Bender, manager, es
timated there was about S2OO cash
in the safe.
Hourly Temperatures
6a. m 16 10 a. m 27
7a. m 17 11 a. m 31
Ba. m 23 12 (noon).. 35
9 a. m 24 1 p. m 38
w r ounded when the cars roared
away.
The delicatessen battl# occurred
as votes were being tabulated to
give the incumbent machine, con
trolled by Tom J. Pendergast, a
59,000 vote majority over the ticket
of the Citizens’-Fusion party.
William Finley, Negro Democratic
precinct captain, was shot to death
by mobsters who entered a polling
place early yesterday.
TJius, to the tune of pistol shots
and thwacking clubs in the hands
of thugs, was Kansas City’s famous
“Little Tammany” returned to pow
er over the city government for an
other four years.
The victorious mayoral candidate
was Bryce B. Smith, incumbent.
His opponent was Dr. A. Ross Hill,
former president of the University
of Missouri. The Fusionists elected
two city councilmen.
Sheriff Thomas B. Bash issued a
pickup order for Joe Lusco, north
side Democratic leader, to whose or
ganization Cappo belonged. Two
men were arrested in connection
with the delicatessen battle.
Shortly after the Negro finely was
slain, Charles Casciola staggered
into a hospital near the scene, suf
fering from bullet wounds. He re
fused to tell officers how and where
he was wounded.
The Kansas City Star, one of
whose reporters, Justin D. Bower
sock. was among the many slugging
victims, denounced the election in a
front page editorial as “a disgrace
to Kansas City, a blot on Missouri.”
The newspaper offered a $5,000 re
ward for evidence leading to the ar
rest and conviction of the reporter’s
assailants.
Complete returns from the city’s
461 precincts gave Smith 141,117
votes and Dr. Hill 81,749 votes. The
Fusionists elected two city council
men to break the unanimously
Democratic council.
months all on account of Dillin
ger and his mob.
“I nearly had him a week ago
in Detroit,” Leach said, a gleam
of excitement creeping into his
eyes. “I was there when Herbert
Youngblood (Dillinger’s Negro
companion) was shot at Port
Huron. That spoiled everything.
Johnny was on his way out of
Chicago' to Detroit. We knew
where he was going. We knew
where he had a car hidden. Then
Youngblood was shot and Dillin
ger, who is no fool, beat it back
to Chicago.
The fact that Dr. Wirt was in
Warm Springs, Ga., coincident with
the visit of George A. Christians,
head of the Crusaders for Economic
Liberty, was recalled by Dr. Moley
in a copyrighted interview in The
New York World-Telegram. a
Scripps-Howard newspaper. Chris
tians was agitating for monetary
reform.
Dr. Moley said that Mr. Christians
told Mr. Roosevelt—who then was
President-elect—that he was merely
“The Kerensky of the revolution.
Dr. Wirt was not present during
the interview, but later mingled
with the other visitors at the hotel,
which was the center of gossip about
governmental affairs at the time.
That was the single occasion, to
my best knowledge, on wh..n I saw
Dr. Wirt.” Dr. Moley added.
“Whether Dr. Wirt met them in
Warm Springs, talked with them, or
now knows them or their views I
can not say,” said Moley. “I do not
know that Dr. Wirt was in Warm
Springs on or about that time and
that I talked with him. It was my
only meeting with him.”
Incident- 1$ Recalled
(Copyright, 1934, by United Press)
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March
28.—George W. Christians, presi
dent of the Crusades for Economic
Liberty, told the United Press here
today that he told President Roose
velt at Warm Springs, Ga., on I
Dec. 1, 1932, that he was “only the
Kerensky” of the American revolu
tion.
“If you move to the third stage
of the revolution, to the ‘Lenin’
dictatorship stage, you’ll be the first
man in history to do so,” Mr
Christians said he told the then
President-elect, who replied:
“‘Well, Oliver Cromwell did it!’”
As far as I know, I never told
Dr. Wirt anything,” Mr. Christians
said.
Story Branded ‘Bunk’
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 28.—Dr.
William A. Wirt’s “brain trust plot”
charges today were termed “bunk”
and “Wall Street propaganda” by
members of the house rules com
mittee considering a formal in
quiry.
Sharp attacks on the Gary school
superintendent marked the com
mittee’s hearing on a resolution of
Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle
(Dem„ N. C.), for an investigation
of the charges by a special house
group.
M ERCUR Y~TOUCHES~I6.
NEW MARCH 28 LOW
Warmer Weather for Tonight Is
Forecast by Bureau.
Slumping to 16 above zero early
today on the heels of a cold wave,
the mercury set anew low for the
date in history of the T ndianapolis
weather bureau.
Tile previous low for March 28*
was 20. in 1923. Warmer weather
tonight, tfith rain or snow tonight
and tomorrow, was forecast, with a
new cold wave expected to move in
by tomorrow afternoon or night, ac
cording to J. H. Armington, local
meterologist.
The mercury was not expected to
drop below freezing tonight.
WAGE HIKE ANNOUNCED
BY TINPLATE COMPANY
Ten Per Cent Increase to Affect
1.800 Employes.
By United Press
MANSFIELD. 0., March 28. A
10 per cent wage increase for em
ployes of the Empire Sheet and
Tinplate Company here, effective
April 1. w’as announced by Carl H.
Henkel, president of the company
today.
The wage hike w’as ordered to
meet new levels in the steel indus
try. and will mean an increase of
$250,000 in the company’s pay roll
during the remainder of the year,
affecting some 1.800 employes.
SUGAR BILL INTRODUCED
i *
Compromise Proposal for Production
Put Before House.
I By United Press
WASHINGTON. March 28. —!
j Chairman Marvin Jones of the'
! house agriculture committee today
j introduced anew compromise sugar l
production bill, fixing the domestic j
beet sugar quota at 1,550,000 tons I
and domestic cane sugar at 260,000 1
tons.
ROOSEVELT AIDS MASS
SENATE FORCES FOR
VOTE ON VETERAN VETO
VAN MiySTO
BACK VETO OF
VETERANS BILI
Indiana Senator Decides to
‘Stand By President and
His Program/
BY WALTER STONE
Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, March 28.
Taking a position diametrically
opposite to that taken by his Demo
cratic colleagues in the house, Sena
tor Frederick Van Nuys, Indiana’s
junior senator, announced today
that he will back the President in
the fight over the independent offi
ces appropriations bill.
Shortly after the overwhelming
vote in the house overriding the
President’s veto yesterday after
noon, Senator Van Nuys was asked
by The Times correspondent how
he intended to vote. The senator
replied that he wanted time to
study the President’s veto message,
and compare the President’s new
executive orders, restoring certain
veterans to the pension rolls, with
the provisions in the vetoed supply
bill.
This morning, Senator Van Nuys
gave out the following formal
statement:
“I shall vote to sustain the Presi
dent’s veto. I receive hundreds of
letters every week from all classes
and conditions of -Indiana citizens,
urging me to stand by the President.
They feel and I feel that the one
way out of our present difficulties
is strict adherence to his program.
Robinson Plans Speech
“The only way I know how to
stand by the President is to stand
by him. This I have done, and am
doing, irrespective of personal or
political results.”
Indiana’s senior senator, Arthur
Robinson, Republican, will vote to
override the veto. In a speech be
fore the senate today, Senator
Robinson is expected to lay the
groundwork for making the veter
ans’ issue the dominating issue in
his forthcoming campaign for re
election.
Resentment at the afilure of the
administration to extend them more
recognition in the matters of patro
nage is one of the unconfessed rea
sons why Indiana Democrats in the
house kicked over the traces and
voted yesterday to override Presi
dent Roosevelt’s veto.
Two questions were asked of each
Indiana congressman who voted to
override the President’s veto.
1. Why did you vote to override
the veto?
2. How do you intend to balance
the budget?
Ludlow Makes Reply
Their replies follow:
Louis Ludlow: 1. “Because I
thought the legislation was fair, i
both to the veterans and the gov
ernment.” 2. “We’re not balancing i
the budget, anyway.”
Finly H. Gray: 1. “Because I
wanted to fulfill campaign promises
to my soldiers. I told my soldiers
that I would not vote to reduce
their pay more than the pay of
others.” 2. “I’d balance the budget
by paying off enough bonds to stop
$400,000,000 interest. Then I’d have
$300,000,000 left after making up the
difference between congress and the
President.”
James I. Farley: 1. “I thought the
World war presumptives and the
Spanish war veterans should be re
stored to the rolls.” 2. “If this un- !
balances the budget, the same
amount can be deducted from some ■
other appropriation already made, :
from whatever appropiration the
President thinks best.”
William H. Larrabee—l. Because
thought it was the right thing to
do. 2. I’m not ready to answer that \
question now. I’ll answer it later
I think your questions are unfair j
Kidnaped by Red Giberson ,
City Man Tells Police
Ernest (Red) Giberson. his hair dyed black and sporting a small
mustache, is reported to have been in Indianapolis early today where he
itidnapped and robbed a local man. taking his victim for “a ride” to No
blesville, scene of Giberson's recent spectacular escape from jail
Mud-spattered and cold after a
long walk, O. A. Dart of 517 North
Alabama street, who told police he
has known Giberson for five years,
walked into police headquarters
early today and told of being kid
naped by the red-headed suspect
in the slaying of Sergeant Lester
Jones.
Dart told police that Giberson
was accompanied by a middle-aged,
heavily-built man who wore a pis
tol hidden beneath his coat. Dart
told police that the bandits robbed
him of $lO, giving him a dime for
carfare.
A blue sedan bearing Michigan
license plates pulled up at the curb
in the 300 block North New Jersey
street shortly before midnight, Dart
told police. The man whom he later
positively identified as Giberson,
stopped Dart and flourishing a re
volver, ordered him into the sedan.
Entered is Seond-Clas Matter
at Postoffiee. Indianapolis. Ind.
HE’S ‘FOR’ PRESIDENT
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Senator Van Nuys ,
AIR MAIL BIOS
AREJUTLINED
Companies With Canceled
Contracts Must Oust
Former Officials.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, March 28.
Transportation of air mail will be
returned to private companies
within two months, with all airlines
eligible to bid so rtemporary con
tracts if they purge themselves of
former officials charged with fraud
and collusion. Postmaster General
James A. Farley announced today.
Advertisements for bids will be
sent out by the postoffice depart
ment this week, calling for sub
mission of bids within fifteen days.
Successful bidders will be required
to start operations within thirty
days after contracts are awarded,
Mr. Farley said.
Fifteen routes will be flown at
the start, covering slightly more
than half of the mileage formerly
covered by commercial air routes.
Companies whose contracts were
cancelled on charges of fraud and
collusion must change their corp
orate set-up, Mr. Farley said. In
adidtion they must have dismissed
all officers w'ho were connected with
the so-called “spoils conference”
held by Postmaster-General Walter
F. Brown in 1930.
Mr. Farley said he had been ad
vised by lawyers that existing air
lines could revamp their companies
in a "reasonable time” and be elig
ible to bid on the temporary con
tracts. However, it was emphasised
that changing their corporate setup
would not qualify them ig any of
the new company officials attended
the 1930 conference. <
“The temporary contracts will be
made for a period of three months,”
Mr. Farley’s announcement said.
The postoffice department will have
the right to extend such contracts
for one or two three-month :
periods.”
ROOSEVELT SETS SAIL
IN ASTOB'S YACHT
Leaves Jacksonville for
10-Day Cruise.
By United Press
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. March 28.
—President Roosevelt sailed from i
this picturesque port today for a
ten-day cruise in southern waters.
His son. James, accompanied him.
The nations chief executive,
seeking rest and relaxation after
months of arduous administration
duties, departed aboard the Nour
mahal. palatial yacht of Vincent
Astor. Accompanying him also
w’as a group of close friends
w r ho were shipmates with him on
previous trips of the Nourmahal.
With Dart in the front seat the
men drove to Lebanon, where they
purchased gas. As they drove far
ther north to Frankfort, Dart said,
Giberson and his companions con
versed in low whispei was
surprised when the banaito dtd
into Noblesville, where Giberson is
wanted for escaping from the
county jail more than a month ago
by sawing away several bars in his
cell. At the time of his escape, the
desperado was awaiting trial for
the murder of Sergeant Jones dur
ing the robbery of the Peoples
Motor Coach Company in Indian
apolis last year.
Menacing Dart with a revolver
the pair drove Dart back toward
Indianapolis, where they took $lO
from him at Rockville road and
West Washington street. He was
told to “beat it" and “keep his
i mouth shut,” he told police. '■
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marlon County, 3 Cents
Result of Bitter Battle
Hinges on Three or
Four Ballots.
CHAMBER IS CROWDED
Debate Is Started as More
Than 100 Members of
House Look On.
By United Press
W ASHINGTON, March 28.
—ln an atmosphere of excite
ment, the senate today de
bated President Roosevelt’s
veto of veterans pay restora
tion legislation.
The veta w r as overridden yester
day by the house. 310 to 72, and sim
ilar action by the senate would en
act it into law despite the Presi
dent’s objections.
Majority Leisder Joseph T. Rob
inson announced he was ready for
consideration of the veto message.
It was expected that about two
hours of debate would precede the
vote. There was no clear indica
tion of the outcome. A two-thirds
majority was necessary to override.
Galleries Are Crowded
Galleries were crowded and more
than 100 members of the house
crowded the rear of the chamber as
the senate approached the test
which was to determine the admin
istration's hold over congress.
While Mr. Roosevelt was defeated
in his plea for ratification of the
St. Lawrence waterway treaty, the
test on the veterans’ pay cut issue
was regarded as more important
because of the insurgency w’hich has
developed within the President's
party.
As the President’s veto message
was read—the first order of business
—senators paid little attention.
Some last minute efforts to solicit
votes still were in progress.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
in green and occasionally adjusting
a longnette to glaze at the scene
below her, sat in the galleries re
serves for guests of senators.
Cutting First Speaker
Senator Bronson Cutting (Rep.,
N. M.), was the first speaker in the
1 debate.
As the debate proceeded the sit
uation narrowed down to the dispo
sition of three or four still doubt
ful votes. They could throw the
decision either way.
Senator Bennett Champ Clark
( Dem„ Mo.), of the group insisting
on higher veterans’ benefits, said
he thought the veto would be over
ridden, but that the result hinged
on decisions still to be made in a
few cases.
If the President is over-ridden in
the senate the bill automatically be
comes law. It carries $228,000,000
more than budget estimates—sl2s,-
000,000 for government workers in
partial restoration of pay reductions
and the remainder in increased vet
erans’ compensation.
Needs Thirty-two Votes
It requires a two-thirds majority
to over-ride the veto. Robinson
had to be sure of thirty-two votes
to make ce: ‘ lu that it could be
sustained.
While President Roosevelt called
attention in his veto message to the
fact that the congress had not pro
vided tbfi extra $228,000,000 by taxa
tion, his opposition was based more
on principles than on the money
involved.
“My disapproval of this bill is
not based, solely on the considera
tion of dollars and cents,” he stated.
There is a deeper consideration.
You and I are concerned with the
principles herein enunciated. I
trust that the congress will continue
to co-operate with me in our com
mon effort to restore general pros
perity and relieve distress.”
The President referred to the so
called “presumptive” cases which
would be restored permanently to
the pension rolls under the bill he
refused to approve.
‘Presumptive’ Cases Issue
Showing that he was willing to
grant certain increases, Mr. Roose
velt by executive order affected in
creases for both World war and
Spanish war veterans. But any
“presumptive" cases restored to the
rolls were placed there only pend
ing a review. This is the point he
has fought for throughout the bit
ter veterans controversy.
“I intend now by regulation forth
with to direct an appeal by the ad
ministration of veterans affairs in
each and every one of these disal
lowed 29,000 cases (the number re
moved from the pension rolls after
judgment that disabilities were not
service connected) with the further
direction that in the final determin
ation of these cases every reason
able doubt be resolved in favor of
the veteran, and every assistance
be rendered in the preparation and
presentation of these cases.
“While these cases are pending
the veterans wil be paid 75 per cent
of the compensation they received
prior to the time they were removed
from the rolls. If the appeal is al
lowed they *lll receive back com
pensation. Only in cases disallowed
by the board of appeals will the vet
eran thereafter be permanently re
moved from the rolls.”