Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 April 1932 — Page 2

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WAIT ALIENISTS OF PROSECUTION IN HONOR TRIAL Case Is Adjourned Until Saturday When Experts Will Reach Island. BY DAN CAMPBELL United Pres* Staff Correspondent HONOLULU, April 22.—Hawaii’s honor slaying trial was in adjournment today while prosecution alienists made ready to testify against Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, young naval officer and one of the defendants. Meanwhile, Prosecutor John C. Kelley revealed the use he had intended to put to the psychological questionnaire which was torn to bits by Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, the lieutenant's wife while she was on the witness stand. The only answer in the questionnaire, which he intended to use, Kelley told the United Press, was one in which Mrs. Massie described her husband as “not demonstrative.” He said he had intended to use that answer to impeach Mrs. Massie’s statement that her husband "always was kind and affectionate.” Alienists to Be Called The alienists. Dr. Joseph Catton of San Francisco and Dr. Paul Bowers of Los Angeles may be called Saturday when they are expected to combat defense claims that Massie was insane when he killed Joe Kahahawai, half caste, accused of leading an attack on Mrs. Massie. Kelley would not definitely-say he intended to use them. He indicated he might depend entirely upon Dr. Robert P. Faus, city-county physician, to oppose the insanity plea. How the prosecutor will conclude the case will be determined by the nature of the findings of the two psychiatrists. Kelley said he might ask for an instructed verdict of manslaughter against Massie, but added he would not make up his mind definitely until he learned what the two doctors had to report. Indignation Is Expressed Kelley said he had no plans concerning the other defendants, Mrs. Grace Bell Fortescue, Massie’s socially prominent mother-in-law, and A. O. Jones and E. J. Lord, enlisted seamen. All are accused of second degree murder. Except for reports of Doctors Catton and Bowers chief interest still centered on Mrs. Massie’s act of tearing up the questionnaire. A group of prominent island physicians expressed indignation at Kelley’s action in taking the intimate report into court, and passed a recommendation that the next session of the legislature make such questionnaires privileged. Many women were reported to have protested to the university of Hawaii, where Mrs. Massie took the psychopathic test produced in court. The women felt Kelley should not have had access to it. Mrs. Massie’s action In destroying the document was described by Defense Counsel Clarence Darrow, as the most unusual incident he ever witnessed in a court room. - “I have seen spectators applaud a verdict,” he said, “but never before have I heard of spectators applauding such an action by a witness.” HITS - WATERWAY - PLANS Railway Attorney Says Federal Projects Menace Carriers. Attacking proposals for federal development of rivers and canals, Bruce E. Dwinnell of Chicago, general attorney for the Rock Island railroad, told the Inidanapolis Traffic Club Thursday night at the Claypool that such a move can result only in a larger national transportation bill. “If the transportation needs of the country require the services of a system of railroads and if the present method of taxation of the railroads and subsidy of their waterway competitors means the crippling of the railroads and the raising Os rates, then governmental taxing and subsidizing methods must be changed,” asserted Dwinnell. VAN NUYS TALK SET Importance of Solving Jobless Problem to Be Subject. Importance of the need for solving the problem of unemployment and the methods by which this may be achieved will be discussed by Frederick Van Nuys, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States senator at a meeting at 4102 East Washington street tonight. MUSEUM TO GIVE SHOW Travel Films Will Be Projected for Children Saturday Morning, Boys and girls attending the weekly program of the Children’s Museum, 1150 North Meridian street, Saturday morning, will see films of the museum’s expedition to the southwest. The pictures were filmed by Hillls L. Howie, who will show them and give a talk. A. B. Carr, museum director, will be another speaker.

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Here is Purdue university’s co-ed varsity rifle team: Front Row (left to right;—Geraldine Tudor, West Lafayette; Vivian Long, West Lafayette; Bernice Link, Valparaiso; Esther Greiner, West Lafayette, Mildred Mills, Zionsville.

LESLIE KEEPING EYES ON BUSH Misses Governors’ Parley, Fearing Assembly Call. Governor Harry G. Leslie’s fear of leaving the state because Lieu-tenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush might call a special session of the legislature to settle the tax tangle will leave Indiana unrepresented at the annual Governor’s conference. The conference, to which Leslie was host at French Lick last year, will start a four-day session Sunday at Richmond, Va. Leslie is treasurer of the organization and collected the SIOO dues from each Governor. Today he directed his secretary to mail the money to Richmond and also to send his personal regrets on his inability to attend to Governor John G. Pollard of Virginia. Leslie never has admitted leaving the state since the agitation for a special session started. But when questioned regarding his failure to attend the Governors’ conference he said: “I am not as afraid as you might think, nor are those who are trying to put something over so smart. I have been in three states since this thing started and never was found out.” APPEAL FOR MISSION FUNDS IS SCHEDULED Minnesota Bible Teacher Speaker Monday at Baptist Church. Annual appeal for funds for the religious work budget of the wheeler City Rescue Mission will be made at a meeting Monday night at the First Baptist church, Meridian and Vermont streets, H. E. Eberhardt, superintendent, said today. Principal speaker for the session will be Peter McFarlane, superintendent of the St. Paul (Minn.) mission and Bible teacher. The program will include music by the colored Y. M. C. A. male quartet, a boys’ trio, and mission radio talent. With announcement of the meeting, Eberhardt said that the mission in 1931 was attended by 73,657 persons.

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Rear Row (left to right)—Martha Riggs, Evansville; Ava Martin, Crawfordsville; Vida Keesling, Greenwood; Helen Hogey, South Bend; Betty Pohlman, Indianapolis.

PREDICTS OWN DEATH Elderly Jew Succumbs in Temple After the Passover. By United Press NEW YORK, April 22.—Jacob Grassian, 80, predicted three weeks ago that he would live through the Passover then die. Thursday in Sephardic Jewish community temple, his wife saw his prayer book fall from his Hand. Grassian died before arriving at a hospital. COPS SLAY BANDIT Pursue Second Thug to His Room, Wound Him. By United Press DETROIT, April 22.—Two policemen surprised two suspected bandits at dawn today, shooting one to death on the spot in a blazing gun battle and trailing the other to his room where he was wounded, probably mortally. One of the officers, Charles F. Ellysen, 28, was wounded in the right leg in the battle. The thug killed was Willis Erwin, 20, no home address. The man believed dying gave the name of Ben Mitchell, 26. ECONOMY TOP ISSUE Taxation Second, Nationl Economic League Holds. Eighty-five Indiana men, thirty of them residents of Indianapolis, are members of the national council of the National Economic League which announces from its headquarters in Boston that a ballot among council members shows governmental economy and efficiency is considered the most important public problem today. Taxation is regarded as second in importance and reparations and foreign debts third. Farm relief is sixteenth and wages twenty-eighth. The national council has 5,000 members. Indianapolis members atlr: Frederic M. Avres. Arthur V. Brown. Georse Buck. F. S. Cannon. Judge Harrv O. Chamberlin. Fred C. Dickson, Dr. J. Ambrose Dunkel. G. A. Efroymson. Edgr H. Evans. Robert M. Feustal. Walter F, Foltz. William Fortune. Fred C. Gaus'h George E. Gill. Arthur L. Gilliom, W. A. Hacker. Alfred Houston. Fred Hoke. J. I. Holcomb. James M. Noel. GeorKe S. Olive. S. E. Rauh. Charles O. Roemler, David E. Ross. W. A. Shullenberger. Merle Sidener. Fred A. Sims. Frank D. Stalnaker, Beniamin M. Willoughby and Eben H. Wolcott.

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‘SHOP AROUND,’ GIRLS ADVISED ‘Soul Mate Idea All Hooey,’ Says Psychologist. The boy who is looking for the girl of his dreams is liable to see double or triple—or even more. According to Mrs. Jessie Burrall Eubank of Cincinnati, psychologist and sociologist, there are from ten to a hundred “dream girls” for every boy in Indianapolis. And that goes vice versa for the girls. The idea that every person should find his soul mate is “all hooey,” Mrs. Eubank declared, speaking last night before the Youth and Marriage institute of the Marion county council on religious education. Mrs. Eubank’s address was directed mostly at girls, because more than three-fourth of her audience were of the fair sex. The secret of finding a good husband is the same as that of finding a good dress, she told them. Her advice is, “Shop around.” She urged her listeners not to marry any one whom they were not sure they could love for twenty years. “Study the interest of your friend before you fall in love with him or her. Everybody is on his best behavior during courtship. It is after marriage that faults appear,” she said. ILL: SHOOTS HIMSELF Webber Crouch, 48, Tries Suicide; Condition Is Critical. Despondent over long illness, Webber Crouch, 48, attempted suicide by shooting today at his home, 1235 West Twenty-sixth street. He fired a bullet from a revolver into a lung. His condition is critical at city hospital. Crouch has been ill since Nov. 18 when he suffered a nervous breakdown. Germans See Debt Default By United Press BERLIN, April 22.—Germany’s default on reparations payment is inevitable and war debts payments to the United States will die a natural death without the benefit of “diplomatic clergy,” in the opinion of well-informed German quarters.

ASSERTS JAPAN CAN’T HOLD OH TO MANCHURIA Chinese Delegate to Geneva Says Nippon Must Learn ‘Change in Rules.’ BY STEWART BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, April 22.—Japan never will be able to hold Manchuria, Dr. W. W. Yen, Chinese delegate to the League of Nations, told the United Press, because the combined pressure of the league, the United States, Japan’s financial and do-

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mestic political situations, and the new attitude of China would force her out. “She entered the game after the rules had been changed,” he said. Japan does not realize that anew era of international politics was ushered in after the World war, Dr. Yen said. Japan has tried to play under the old rules. But the Japanese hate to admit their error or give up anything on which they have their hands,” he said. Dr. Yen said China is ready to negotiate with Japan for settlement of the problems that have disturbed their relations for years, and added: “But how can you negotiate with a man who is sitting on your stomach? We expect the Japanese to get back into the international settlement before we will discuss anything with them. We would be foolish to start negotiating now

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when they have bayonets and cannon at our throat." Protest Chinese Envoy By United Press MUKDEN, Manchuria. April 22. The Manchukuo republic government at Changchun today warned the earl of Lyttorv head of the League of Nations Manchuria commission, that Wellington Koo will be arrested if he accompanies the commission outside the South Manchuria railway zone. The new “independent state” recently protested Koo’s presence in Manchuria as Chinese delegate to assess damages for his country resulting from the Japanese campaign. Oil Man Poshes Crusaders CLEVELAND. April 22.—Fred G. Clark, president of the Clark Oil Company, today announced his resignation to devote all this time to further the cause of the Crusaders, national anti-prohibition society.

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