Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1932 — Page 1

STORM DELAYS ELECTROCUTION THREE HOURS Tubercular Murderer’s Prayer to Die Natural Death Fails. GOES TO CHAIR CALMLY Snowbound Prison Forced to Hold Up Execution, Awaiting Doctor. By r pitril f'rrft BELLEFONTE. Pa., March 28. Quincy Wallendez. 34-ycar-old tubercular murderer, walked to his death in the electric chair in Rockview prison today after a heavy storm snowbound the district, Rave him a respite of almost three hours. Wallend®z. who prayed for months that, he might, die a natural death, was pronounced dead at 9:42 a. m., by Dr. W. A. Barrett, prison physician brought to the execution room after a two-mile trip on a sled, through two feet of snow. It had been feared that Wallendez might have to be carried to the electric chair because of the seriousness of his condition. Suffering from tuberculosis and heart trouble, physicians predicted his death from natural causes within a short time. New Reprieve Refused Wallendez, convicted last November of first degree murder in connection with the slaying of-his wife, Mrs. Carrie Porter Wallendez, was given a month's reprieve at the request of Judge Harry A. McDevitt, Philadelphia, who had sentenced him. Judge MpDevitt who had been unaware of the doomed man's physical condition at the time of his trial, unsuccessfully sought a second reprieve last week. , The state pardon board made no recommendation in the case, and Governor Gifford Pinchot informed McDevitt he could not intervene. When the first reprieve was grant - ed, it, was believed that a natural death would occur before the month of grace expired. Physicians, who examined Wallendez, concurred in this belief, and the prisoner himself prayed for such a death. He made the 200-mile trip from Philadelphia to the prison in an automobile Saturday without ill effects other than fatigue. His condition would not permit him to be brought by train, it was said. Meets Death Calmly Today he was to have been executed at 7 a. m. But the heaviest snowstorm in this district for the season blocked highways’ and delayed the arrival of witnesses and officials. It was more than two hours before he walked to the chair. Wallendez, his body emaciated by the disease from which he suffered, walked calmly into the execution room at 9:37. At his side, Father Francis McCreech, prison chaplain, said a prayer which Wallendez repeated after him. He made no statement. Guards strapped him to the chair immediately and the first contact was made at 9:38 a. m. Four minutes later Dr. Barrett announced that he was dead. “Bovs, I Die Brave” Tn his cell a simple message was found. It read: ' Boys. I die brave. Put your faith in God." Wallendpz had no visitors over ilie week-end. Prison officials notified his mother in Lakp City. Fla., but. havp received no message regarding disposition of the body. He had no children. Fuses w'erc blown out at a nearby substation, causing the first delayin the execution. They were replaced. but a motor truck sent to bring Dr. Barrett, stalled in a snowdrift, A second machine was sent and it. too, became stalled. A team of hrrses and sled then were vsent to the physician's house, two miles from the execution room. Hourly Temperatures fi a. m...:. 33 10 a. m 43 7 a. m 33 11 a. m 45 8 a. m 36 12 (noon).. 46 9 a. m 41 1 p. m 48

War Debts Andrew Mellon Is due to sail for London late this week. As secretary of the treasury, he led in negotiating the war debts settlements calling for the payment of more than $22,000,000,000 (principal and interest) to the people of the United States. As ambassador to Britain he will find himself in the thick of Europe’s new battle for revision, reduction or cancellation. This battle, no\v flaring up again, probably will wax hotter and hotter, until the Lausanne reparations and war debts conference decides something next June. Mellon will be a key man in the negotiations. This will be so even though the United States stays away from Lausanne. The Times Tuesday will start a series of three articles on the war debts: <l> What Europe expects of Mellon: <2> Mellon's stand on the war debts, and <3) What congress say* on the subject. These articles, by William Philip Simms, Scripps-Hcward foreign editor, will give you a clear insight into the situation which Mellon faces.

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, not much change in temperature: lowest tonight about .17.

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GARNER PLANS SPECTACULAR TAX APPEAL

Decides on Personal Plea in Eleventh-Hour Entry Into House Fight

H I nil rd Pres* \\7 ASHINGTON, March 28.—Speaker John N. Garner will make a personal appeal to the house Tuesday in an attempt by his own personal force to persuade the house to pull itself together, and adopt a tax program that will balance the budget. He was persuaded to undertake this spectacular and almost unprecedented action by frantic appeals from his own Democratic party leaders, who are fearful of the effect of the collapse of the house leadership on the financial condition of the country, and upon the fortunes of the Democratic party itself. Garner, a veteran of thirty years’ sen-ice in the house, one of its most effective debaters, is counted on now- to rally the scattered following and save the situation from complete disaster.

CARRIES HOPE TO LINDBERGH Norfolk ‘Go-Between’ Dares Storms in Mysterious Flight to Hopewell. By United Press NORFOLK, Va., March 28.—The Rev. Dean H. Dobson Peacock, one of three Norfolk negotiators who believe they have established contact with kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby, started by airplane today tc confer with Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh. John Hughes Curtis, motor boat manufacturer and chief negotiator announced that Dr. Peacock had j started from the naval base in the face of such bad weather that all planes in this vicinity had been grounded. The fact that the Episcopalian minister undertook the trip under such conditions indicated the importance the negotiators placed on lesults of a week-end trip Curtis made. Where Curtis went over the weekj end was not known. He admitted to the United Press, however, that only after some difficulty had the negotiators re-established contact with the men they believed to be agents of the kidnapers. 1 Curtis expressed the belief the baby will be returned, although it is not yet certain, he said, that the negotiations will be successful. Peacock hoped to return to Norfolk tonight. Peacock. Curtis and the third negotiator. Rear-Admiral Guy H. Burrage, U. S. N., retired, all had planned to go to Hopewell today. Actor, Aimee in Dry Debate | By United I’rrxx i LOS ANGELES, March 28.—Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton, evangelist, and Walter Huston, actor, will debate the advantages and disadvantages of prohibition tonight in ! the evangelist’s huge temple.

RATE SCHEDULE TO BE ORDERED Approval of Water Action to Be Voted Today. Completion of the new Indianapolis Water Company rate schedule is expected late today, together with an approval vote of the public service commission on the compromise settlement reached Friday, it wa sannounced by Commissioner Harry K. Cuthbertson. Cuthbertson conducted the rate reduction hearing and engineered the settlement which resulted in reduction of the minimum rate to SI.OB for ,500 cubic feet and slashed $66,000 from the city's bill. Previous minimum was $1.50 for 750 cubic feet. Rate reduction petitioners contended that there are 40.000 minimum users using not more than 450 cubic feet per month. They will be benefited under the new schedule. it is said. But the company agreed tn only a $55,000 revenue loss in making the concession to the city and higher consumption rates are to be raised somewhat. Cuthbertson said today “at least company revenues will not be in- ; creased” under the new schedule. He also is reported to be trying to effect some sort of settlement in the Indianapolis Power and Light Company rate reduction case, first hearing of which is set for April 6. DORIS ARBUCKLE WEDS Fatty’s Ex- Wife becomes Bride of Beverley Hills Banker. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. March 28—Doris Deane Arbuckle, screen actress and ! former wife of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, was married here Sunday night to Elmer S. Hartz, Beverley Hills Banker.

CATHOLIC STAND ON MIXED MARRIAGE BRANDED INTOLERABLE BY PROTESTANTS

NEW YORK, March 28.—The federal council of Churches of Christ in America has taken issue with Roman Catholic church on the problem of ’ mixed religious marriages.” holding the Catholic position is ‘‘intolerable” The council's stand was made known in a report released today, completed after several months of study by its committee on marriage and the home and approved at the March meeting of the administrative committee of the council. The chairman of the committee A,.

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Garner made his decision when house leaders, on the point of despair, were fearful that the task of writing a tax bill might have to be turned over to the senate. The Speaker has been criticised severely for his failure to step into the fight when the sales tax was defeated last week. He was absent from the floor when the vote was taken. By his eleventh-hour decision to go into the fight. Garner becomes the central figure in one of the mast spectacular dramas in the house of representatives since Speaker Joe Cannon was shorn of his power. Garner today made clear his view that it is imperative now to assure the country, and the world, that operating expenses of the government will be paid. ‘‘lt has come to a point now where the worst kind of taxes are better than no taxes at all,” Garner said informally to newspaper men.

‘Oven Man , ’ Baked 331 Days, to Get New Skin By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 28.—Jack Duty, the “oven man,” who his lived inside an electrically heated contrivance for 331 days, today is to be removed from his home to Baptist hospital, where treatment preparatory for skin grafting will be started. It was thought the treatments would have to last a w-eek before skin grafting could be started. Doty, sandy-haired and slight of build, suffered back and leg burns last May 3, in an automobile accident. Two companions were burned to death. The "oven man” has surprised doctors w-ith his recovery, as physicians said when more than one-third of the body’s surface is burned the case generally is fatal.

SHOOTS GUARD, ESCAPES JAIL Thug Makes Daring Break in South Bend. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 28. Basil Banghart. 27, a gangster linked with a suspect in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, was sought in three states today, following his daring escape from the county jail. Stanley Klosinski, a guard, wounded by a machine gun blast fired by Banghart, was reported recovering. While the daily roll call of prisoners was being held, Banghart made his way down from his second floor cell. Hurling a handful of red pepper in the eyes of guard Edward Wroblewski, Banghart ran to the jail office and seized a submachine gun. Attracted by the noise, Klosinski ran to the office. He was halted by a burst of shot from Banghart’s weapon. Banghart fled from the jail, commandeered a taxi, and forced the driver to take him to Mishawaka. There he left the taxi and had not been seen since.

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by which the report was prepared is Dr. Howard Chandler Robins, professor of theology, general theological seminary, New York. Other members of the committee include: Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.. George W. Wickersham. former attorney-general of the United States; Mrs. Robert E. Speer, president of the national board of the Y. W. C. A. m m m THE report was drafted originally prior to the decree from the Vatican on the same subject. Feb. 5.

OGDEN IN RACE FOR GOVERNOR Ten Principles Outlined by Attorney-General. Attornpy-General James M. Ogden today became the fourth announced candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in

the Tomlinson hall convention, June 8 and 9. Ogden outlined ten p r i nciples upon which he will make his cam paign for votes of delegates to the State convention. They include: Economy and efficiency in government; opendoor policy in office fair utilities rates for the consumer; reme-

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i dial banking legislation, and plans ifor future of labor. Ogden was born in Danville, and attended Central Normal college at Danville and De Pauw university.

The Vatican held that the children of marriages between Catholics and non-Catholics must be reared in the Catholic faith under pain of annulment of the marriage. of participation in church activities, denial of a church funeral. and, in extreme cases, public excommunication. The committee's conclusions are set forth in four recommendations : man WHERE the persons contemplating marriage are members of different communions

THE budget must be balanced. I advocated the salts tax because I thought it was the easiest way to work the matter out. It was a temporary measure. The house did not care for that kind of a tax. “Unless the budget is balanced, foreign exchange will be affected and I do not know what would happen. You would find the dollar would be depreciated.” Garner has not attempted to speak to the house since he was elected Speaker at the start of the session. During the tumultuous debate which has torn the original billion-aollar revenue bill to shreds and eliminated the sales tax feature. Garner has taken little part in the proceedings. His appearance in the house Tuesday probably will coincide with a report from the special subcommittee appointed to frame a program which will provide the revenue expected from the deleted sales tax.

STORMS AGAIN RAVAGE SOUTH | BY GRADY RENOLDS Former U. S. District Attorney (Copyright. 1932. by United Press) CLANTON, Ala., March 28.—! Deadly storms struck the southland twice within six days, returning for j an Easter visitation that left nine | or more dead and eighty injured, and the entire countryside terrified. Chilton county, which reported more than forty dead to the toll of more than 300 exacted by the first storm, and Bibb county adjoining, were hardest hit, reports today indicated. Six of the dead were reported at : Lamley and Jemison, a few miles from here. There were unconfirmed ! reports of more dead at Thorsby. In this latter town and at Lomax, where ten colonies had been estab- | lished for refugees, the tents were j swirled into the air and swept bei fore the wind as parachutes in a : hurricane. The seventh known dead was Mrs. Harvey Lewis of Buchanan, Ga., who succumbed in a hospital at Rome, Ga., early today. She was injured in the collapse of her home. In some districts, search for vicj tims was impossible before daylight. Os the twenty or thirty victims now in Clanton hospital, ten may not survive their injuries, attendants said. i Sixteen members of one family were injured when the storm struck the house and farm build- | ings of Jim Kilgore, south of Newi man, Ga., reports relayed here said. | The Kilgore family was holding a reunion. Kilgore's children and 1 grandchildren were seated at the j dinner table. When the storm struck every member of the party was injured. The house was blown away. All the ; farm buildings were demolished. In northern Alabama samples of hail stones “as large as baseballs” were protographed that the citizens I might have proof.

POORHOUSE ROW AIRED IN COURT Cameron Hears Account of Attack on Inmate. A poorhouse quarrel was described before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today and he withheld judgment with the statement that he would rule Tuesday. In the meantime, he said, he “will see what the county commissioners are going to do about this.” William Baker, 72. and Everett Suttor, 38, inmates of the Marion county infirmary, were involved in the quarrel. Baker filed charges of assault and battery with intent to kill and rob, but no evidence was offered in support of the latter. Baker said he had been robbed of $2. The aged man said he was struck from behind by Suttor, accused of being armed with a cane which he took from a cripple. Baker asserted trouble started when Suttor made derogatory remarks about James West, dead cousin of the aged man. Charles Schultz, infirmary superintendent, told Cameron that Suttor is a willing worker at the institution, but that Baker refuses to work and is a trouble maker. He has been at the poorhouse four years. ZEPPELInIiEAR MADEIRA Eckner to Fly Huge Air Liner Over Gibraltar. By United Press BERLIN, March 28.—The Graf Zeppelin was approaching Madeira, off the west African coast, today on a return flight from Pernambuco to Friedrichshafen, the Hamburg American line announced. Commander Hugo Eckner intended to fly over Gibraltar.

nearly related in doctrine or policy, they may well be advised by their respective pastors to settle the question before marriage by agreeing to attend together one or other of their churches, or even a third church, and to bring up their children in it. Where only one of the persons is a member of a church of the Protestant group and the religious differences are profound, such persons should be advised to consider the situation with gteat

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Representative John Rankin iDem!, Miss.), a leading sales tax opponent, issued a statement saying the house "committed a terrible blunder Saturday when it inserted into the tax bill amendments providing for high protective twWTs on oil and coal.” He announced he would seek to have the rates stricken from the bill. “The tariff is more responsible for our unfortunate conditions today than anything else, and probably than everything else put together,” Rankin said. “It has not only impoverished the farmers of America, but it has provoked retaliation on the part of every country on earth, paralyzed world commerce, stagnated world trade, driven agriculture into bankruptcy and day laoorers into the bread line. “The American people are demanding relief, and the world is demanding relief, from the vicious tariff systems under which we now are suffering.”

DIES UNCONQUERED

Osage Chief Is Indian to the End

By United Press PAWHUSKA. Okla., March 28. —Chief Bacon Rind, tribal head of America’s wealthiest Indians—the Osages—smokes the pipe of peace today with the Great White Father. The 74-year-old chieftain died today in his modern home, instead of in the tribal residence that served his living moments—a backyard tepee. One of the nation’s most photographed Indians, Bacon Rind, posed annually with Presidents upon visits to Washington, but he never permitted the clothing of the white man, the customs of his conquerors, to become his own. Despite oil riches, he clung to his tribal feathers, buckskin, and beads in preference to pressed trousers and ten-gallon hats. The backyard tepee was one of the idiosyncrasies that identified him as individual from other members of the Osages, with their palatial homes. M n n WHEN his head-right checks rolled in, he built, for his children mainly, a mansion in the Indian village near Pawhuska. The house had is oversupply of bathrooms, with automobiles of various makes as adjuncts. But in his backyard a. weatherworn tepee served as his dwelling. And the bathrooms and the cars were distinctly Bacon Rind’s family. not his own. Interviewers and visitors would find the wrinkled chief squatting, legs akimbo, in the door of this tepee instead of on an overstuffed divan in his home. While tribal “bucks” rode into culverts with the team of “white mule” and high-powered motors, old Bacon Rind would deprecate the disintegration of his tribe due to the ease of oil wealth. U H tt “/■'VSAGE! Dam foil. Got V-/ money! Money do Osage no good,” he’d comment, as he puffed on his long-stemmed pipe. It was this grumbling against the Indian turned civilized by the black gold of Oklahoma that led to a virtual mutiny in the tribe against his reign over younger “bucks.” At his death he was “chief in name only.” The “bucks,” with their white “squaws,” and the “squaws” with their ‘squawmen” adventurers, ousted him as on old “foggy.” Death of his daughter, Louise Becon Rind, was believed to have caused hi mto grieve deeply and hastened his death. His gruff demeanor, with the typical Indian “huh!” or "ugh!" for replies to questions he did not desire to answer, coupled with his manner of living, caused him to be one of the favorite chiefs of the nation for artists and sculptors to use as a model. Bacon Rind was born on the Kansan plains. His Indian name was Wah-She-Hah. With the tribe he moved to Indiana territory in 1868. when the Osages sold their Kansas lands to the government. DEATH TURNS TABLES Bridge Worker, Who Cheated Doom Before, Killed in Plunge. By United Press PRINCETON, Ind., March 28. Willard Kays. 24, plunged to death in the Wabash river today from the new bridge here at almost the same spot where last December he escaped a similar fate. In the other accident, in which \ a derrick collapsed, Earl Hollingsworth, a co-worker, was killed. Rabbi Sonnenfeld Dies By United Press LONDON, March 28.—A dispatch j to the Exchange Telegraph Cos. from Jerusalem reported the death of Rabbi Sonnenfeld, 83, leader of : the extremist Orthodox wing of Palestine Jews and opponent of political and ’temporal Zionism.

seriousness, in all its aspects, and to reach an agreement before marriage. Where intolerable conditions are imposed by either church in which membership is held, persons contemplating a mixed marriage should be advised not to enter it. The committee on marriage and the home protests earnestly against the requirement by any church that the children of mixed marriage should be pledged to that churcK

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NABBED FOR GEM THEFT Ex-Manager of Coast League Ball Club Jailed for $52,000 Robbery. By United Press LOS ANGELES. March 28. —Jerry Downs, former manager of the San j Francisco Coast League ball club, was jailed here today accused of being one of two bandits who robbed a fashionable jewelry store March | 19 of $52,000 in gems. Arrested with Downs were Edi ward J. Carlson, 38, and Eugene (Jones. 22. Police announced Downs and Carlson confessed to the robbery. Jones was accused of receiving I stolen property. REVIEW FOR DRY CASE High Court so Ponder Issue of Warrantless Search. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 28.—The supreme court today decided to review a case involving the right of i prohibition agents to search without a warrant a private garage on residential property. The court decided to pass on the conviction of John Vance Taylor, Baltimore, on charges of violating the dry laws. PAULINA JJNDER GUARD Mrs. Longworth Acts to Prevent Kidnaping of Daughter. By United Press ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., March 28.—Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the late Speaker of the house, and her daughter Paulina, arrived here today. Mrs. Longworth was accompanied by two men, apparently guards, for her daughter. There have been kidnaping threats recently against Paulina. Schumann-Heink Improved By United Press ST. LOUIS, March 28.—Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink, famous singer suffering from grippe and laryngitis, today was reported in an “improved condition,” by her physicians.

“XTTHERE conferences in the ’ * churches interested in the questions arising from mixed marriages can be arranged, such conferences should be welcomed with a view to safeguarding the sanctity of marriage ~~and the spiritual welfare of the home.” Strong emphasis is laid in the report upon the avoidance of any ‘‘ecclesiastical interference,” which would force upon either partner to a marriage any rigid church requirement which is contrary to his own religious convictions.

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LASH STUDENT PRDBE PARTY IN TENNESSEE •Bunch of Bolsheviks and Anarchists Not Wanted,’ Governor Says. PROTEST TO KENTUCKY Frankfort Is ‘lnvaded’ by Easterners, Incensed by Mine Area Ejection. By United Press NASHVILLE. Tenn.. March 28. A plea by a group of eastern college students that they be “guaranteed their constitutional right” to travel in Tennessee was denied by Governor Henry H. Horton here today. “We don't want a bunch of bolsheviks, communists or anarchists interfering with the peace of Tennessee citizens.” Governor Horton told a committee of five students. The main party of “investigating” students, who left behind a committee to call on Governor Horton, was en route in busses and private automobiles to seek an audience with Governor Ruby Laffoon of Kentucky at Frankfort at protest the ejection of the group from the southeastern Kentucky coai fields last week. Claim Rights Violated The protest to Governor Horton was based on the students’ claim that Walter Smith, county prosecutor of Belli county, Kentucky, violated their rights and those of Tennessee in sendnig them out of Kentucky under an “armed” escort, which did not turn back until they were thirty miles inside the Tennesssee line. Members of the party on arrival here from Knoxville appeared tired. Many were unshaven. The group of students, now composed of seventy-five members, issued the following statement: “The people of Knoxville were very kind to the student delegation during their short sojourn there. We also appreciate the interest displayed by the News-Sen-tinel both in its stories and in the. attitude of its reporters. We must protest, however, against several unfortunate incidents. Charge Teacher Was Beaten ‘‘J. M. Bleboit, teacher in Jamaica continuation school, New York, was thrown from a bus by Kentucky officials and kicked and beaten as he lay in the gravel. “We consider this behavior a shameful violation of the hospitality upon which the south prides itself.” The drtegation includes representatives from Harvard, Colby, Carnegie Tech, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Tennessee. the University of Cincinnati, Columbia, New York, Smith. Oxford I and the Union Theological seminary. “Bullets for Marshals” Students said that when they complained while being escorted through Tennessee that the federal highways were being blocked, a deputy sheriff from Harlan county asked them: “Well, what are you going to do about it?” They replied, “we will tell the United States marshal.” They said the deputy sheriff then took a handful of blunt nosed bullets from his pocket and said, “we have these for United States marshals.” They laughed today, recalling that one man at Cumberland gap told Pauline Daum of New York. They reported the man said: “You little rat. I'd like to take you up that thar hill and skin you alive and throw your fur down to your friends.” They laughed too when they recalled that a Kentucky woman on peering into the bus had said, "There ain't a white person in the crowd.” 8.000.000 STILL IDLE March Failed to Show Expected! Decrease, Says Green, By United Press WASHINGTON, March 28. Eight million persons still are out of. work in the United States, according to etsimates of President Wililam Green of the American Federation of Labor. He said March had failed to bring the normal seasonal improvement, only about 300,000 persons returning to jobs during the month. TRACTION “IN THE RED” Insull Proposes Abandonment of Marion-Frankfort Line. The Northern Indiana Power Company, Insull owned, today petitioned the public service commission to abandon an interurban line running between Marion and Frankfort, through Kokomo. The petition, alleging revenue slumped because of truck traffic on a state road paralleling the track, states the line lost $70,346 in 1931.

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