Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 52, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1932 — Page 3

T TTLY 11, 1932

PRISON CAMP‘SWEAT BOX’ KILLING OF YOOTH REVEALS GUARDS’ FIENDISH TORTURE Grand Jury Indicts Two After Disclosure of Practices Turning Back to Days of Spanish Inquisition. NECK CHAINED; FEET PUT IN STOCKS One Inmate Ruptured by. Kick; Another Is Made Deaf by Sapling Clubbing on Head, Probers Told. By I nilrd Puss JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 11.—Prison camp torture, rivaling the inquisition of the Spaniards who settled this country, has been revealed in charges that a 19-year-old New Jersey boy was strangled to death in a state prison “sweat box.'’ Two men face trial in the fall on first-degree murder charges as result of the revelations and the indictments which followed. They are Captain George Courson and Solomon Higginbotham of the Bayard (Fla.) camp. The victim, Arthur Maillefert of Westfield, N. J., was found dead in the “sweat box,” a chain around his neck, his feet in stocks.

lie had been without food for two days, a beating had preceded his entry into the “sweat box.” And the day before his death, he had been marched around the camp dressed only in a barrel with a hole large enough to admit his head. Bloodhounds had trailed the youth after he escaped from his barrel garb. As soon as Maillefert was returned to camp, he was flogged, then placed in the torture box, too weak to stand alone, witnesses told the grand jury. Tortures Are Listed The witnesses and the grand jury report described these alleged torture practices. Prisoners’ heads were placed in stocks, racks and barrels. Prisoners were forced to wear heavy barrels around their neeks. Picks were attached to prisoners’ ankles as hobbles. Some prisoners were given pint doses of caster oil as punishment for minor rule violations. Convicts were maltreated by guards and captains for making statements to inspectors which they thought jvere made in confidence. Prisoners placed in the “sweat box’’ were given one ounce of bread and water once daily. Fifteen or twenty prisoners severely had been flogged One guard flailed a prisoner with a. sapling, and the blow on the side of the head caused collapse of the ear drum, and resulting deafness. One prisoner was kicked by a guard, a severe rupture resulting. Guards Free on Bond The sweat box was a square, boxshaped inclosure within a small sixfoot square building with a tar roof, sweltering under the hot Florida sun. The “box” was three feet square and about six feet high. A prisoner could stand up in it, but could not sit down unless he was short, in which case he could sit cramped with his knees at his head. Maillefert, defense witnesses said, killed himself. He had charged guards with being “yellow,” because they did not kill him, they said. He had been unruly, he had escaped twice, he had said he would “die in hell" before serving the remainder of his nine-year sentence for robbery and larceny. The two indicted guards are free on $5,000 bond.

FIVE PERSONS HURT N VARIETY OF ACCIDENTS Woman Suffers Broken Leg When Porch Swing Falls. Five persons were injured in a variety of accidents Saturday and Sunday.* Broken leg was incurred by Mrs. Daisy Dunkerson, 34, when a porch swing fell at her home, 539 North Keystone avenue. Francis Jordan. 7. of 910 North Tuxedo street, suffered a broken right arm while playing on a slide at Brookside park. Gash on the head and sprained right arm were suffered by Willis Tate, 17, of 645 Birch avenue, when he fell on a diving board at the Rhodius park swimming pool. Jesse Handlon. 8, of 516 West Merrill street, suffered a fracture of his right arm and a deep cut on the forehead when struck by a falling door at the Old Trails Truck Company garage, 618 West Merrill street. Cut in the right arm toas suffered by Ray Totten, 31, 1260 West Raymond street, when glass in a door broke. GAS CROOKS SET FIRE Thieves Blamed for Burning of Garage; Loss Is 55.000. Persons who stole gasoline are believed responsible for a jfire Saturday night which destroyed a garage with a loss of $5,000. The garage, located at Forty-sixth street and the Lafayette road, was owned by S. W. McCready. Firemen fought the flames nearly two hours. Four automobiles were burned m the garage. Although hampered by a small supply of water, firemen prevented spread of the flames to a barn nearby. CLARA BOW BACK AGAIN Returns to Hollywood. 18 Pounds Lighter; Reduced by Dieting. Hjt f ailed Prc ** HOLLYWOOD. July 11.—Clara Bow was back in Hollwood today eighteen pounds lighter, and with plana to direct her husband, Rex Bell, In a motion picture in addition to her own appearance in another. Min Bow reduced by diet and massage. She has been on her CaliforniaNevada ranch for several months.

PUSHES BEER FIGHT Bingham Refuses to Drop Battle for Vote. By Bcripps-Hownrd New*paper Alliance WASHINGTON, July 11.—Senator Hiram Bingham (Rep., Conn.), will make another effort this week to force the senate to go on record in favor of “immediate modification of the Volstead law." Bingham will bring up his beer proposal when the senate disposes of Senator William E. Borah's currency inflation amendment which was sponsored last week as a means of confusing the beer issue. When he saw that he was being out maneuvered by Joseph F. Robinson and Borah, Bingham withdrew his amendment in order to preserve its future legislative status. “But there is the possibility that some other amendment will be offered as a substitute for mine,” Bingham said, “If the opposition goes through with its plan of preventing any sort of roll call on beer.” Bingham has been accused of building up his own re-election campaign at the expense of the Democratic platform. “That's not so.” he said. “I am trying, as I have done at every opportunity for the last two years, to amend the Volstead law. It will be done some day and I believe the sooner it is done the better it will be for the country.”

ROBBER SHOT DOWN Caught Red-Handed by City Merchant Cop. Harry Sawyer, 23, Negro, 1120 Vanderman street, is in a critical condition at city hospital as a result of a wound suffered early today when he is alleged to have been caught in the act of robbing a pharmacy. He was shot through the body by McKinley Armstrong, 1808 East Holley street, merchant policeman. Before the shot was fired, Armstrong told police, Sawyer threw 7 a sack containing 147 pennies and a dime which struck the officer in the face. Sawyer asserted two other men were with him, but no trace of them has been found. Search of his home revealed a variety of articles, believed to have been stolen. Drawer in the store where postal funds are kept was found broken open by police. Nearby was a screw 7 driver, jimmy and gunny sack.

What, No Cake? Householder Comes Home to Find Strange Boys Feasting in Kitchen.

B u I tiilrtl Pi t's* NEW YORK. July 11.—Three boys, all 10 years old or younger, sat a a kitchen table in a Park avenue apartment munching crackers, eating string beans and drinking milk. ‘ What are you doing here?” the surprised apartment owner, Henry Dunkley, asked them. ‘‘Eating,” they replied, not in the least surprised, although they were perfect strangers in the neighborhood. "How did you get in?” "Easy; through the window. Say, mister, you ain’t got no cake, have you?” “I'm afraid not.” "All right; only we generally find cake, sometimes ice cream. But these beans ain't so bad.” Do you make it a habit to break into apartments and help yourself to food?” It was just a week-end custom, the boys explained, and they "didn't break in, either. Open windows ain't so hard to find this weather.” 2 RACE PILOTS RILLED Ohio Drivers Lose Lives in Crashes in Sunday Events. By l nited Prc* AKRON, 0., July 11.—Samuel M. Gibson. 25. youngstown. was burned to death Sunday when his racing auto crashed through a fence during a SS’z-mile race. Flames prevented witnesses from rescuing the driver. By l tilled Prem CADIZ,, 0.. July 11.—Carl F. Dawson. 26, Cambridge, 0., was thrown from his race car and killed during the fifty-mile feature race on the American Legion program Sunday when the machine left the track and struck a tree.

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BY JAMES CANNON Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, July 11.—Claire Ray was as baffled as a mystery play detective at the end of the first act. She couldn't remember the name of her second husband. "Oh, he was a tenor singer in a road show,” pouted the platinum haired dancer, who is spending her fifth honeymoon learning hot steps for anew show. “I married J. Kelly, a Seattle banker, when I was 16. We split up after two weeks. But I was only a. child then, you see. My third was Monty Banks, the movie comedian. We were, together a whole year. “Then I married Charles Carnavale. His allowance was cut off two months after we were married. So I left him,” she declared. The muffled splashing of running water interrupted “Miss” Ray’s breathless saga of matrimony. A1 Is “Dominator” “That’s my latest darling. He’s a honey. He’s taking a shower. I'm so sorry you can’t meet him,” she giggled by way of introducing by remote control A1 Kerwin, Jamaica real estate man, whom she married July 4, after a month's romance. “A1 dominates me. That’s why I like him. I love a man to dominate me. You respect him more. Oh, of course. A1 doesn’t make me jump through hoops. No man could," she said defiantly. “I believe in marriage. You have affairs. Why not marry? The reason most girls don’t get married a lot is because fellows don't ask them often enough. Married for Money “Have I always married for love? Oh, no. A couple of times I married for money. But this time it's for love, believe me. “Listen. A1 met me a month ago at a party. He proposed every day for three weeks. So I married him. “Say, I got it!” she exclaimed suddenly. “My second husband was Harry Anderson. Sure. Harry Anderson. I met him when I was playing Pant ages’ time. “Can you imagine my forgetting his name! Gee, and I was married to him for two months!”

JOBLESS; ENDS LIFE Man Shoots Self: Girl Near Death From Poison. One of four persons who attempted suicide over the week-end is dead and another is in a serious condition at city hospital. Despondent because he could not find work, David Bohanon, 69, shot himself twice in the head w 7 ith a revolver Saturday night. He died Sunday in ity hospital. The shooting occurred at his home, 613 North Jefferson avenue. Miss Mary Morley. 20, of 1239 South Belmont avenue, is in a serious condition at city hospital as a result of swallowing poison in a suicide attempt. Motive for the act was not learned. Two women w 7 ho were despondent over domestic difficulties are in fair condition after swallowing poison. They are Mrs. Dorothy Miller, 1255 Calhoun street, and Mrs. Zelma Long, 5309 Julian avenue. WIFE OF NEWSPAPER EXECUTIVE IS BURIED Mrs. Margaret Hawkins Laid to Last Rest in East. By T nitrd Prc** PELHAM MANOR, N Y„ July 11. —Mrs. Margaret Hawkins, wife of W. W. Hawkins, vice-chairman of the board of the Scripps-How’ard newspapers, was buried Sunday in Kensico cemetery after funeral services in the Hawkins' home. The Rev. Lewis G. Leary officiated. Pallbearers included Robert P. Scripps, Roy W. Howard. W. G. Chandler, G. B. Parker, Robert J. Bender, Keats Speed. Joseph S. Carreau and W. N Hurlbut. Mrs. Hawkins died Friday following a minor operation. She was known for her social, philanthropic and church work.

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NAB FAKEJOIN PAIR Two Held for Passing Bogus Half Dollars. Police today are holding two men found possessing forty-four counterfeit half dollars, following two reports of attempts to pass the coins. The prisoners are William Cox, 31, who gave "city" as his address, and Robert Sloan, 27. of 822 South State avenue. Cox is charged with drunkenness, vagrancy and carrying a weapon. Police said he had a blackjack. Sloan is charged with drunkenness and vagrancy. Cox, according to police, admitted he served a fourteen months prison term, but refuses to give details. Trail of the two was picked up following a complaint to police by Irvin Ellis, 415 South Alabama street, an ice cream vendor at the South side market.

Have a Care! Don’t Swim After Meal, Don’t Overtax on Golf Links.

This is the last of a series on summer health and ailments. PLAYING thirty-six holes of golf when you normally tire after eighteen is like sticking a shotgun at your head and fingering the trigger. Eating a heavy meal and then immediately going swimming is just another way of sending the undertaker your calling card. And if those two ways don’t boost hospital or morgue business, then try finding a first-class insanitary place to purchase your picnic lunch. After you’ve found it, have the florist send you daisies with an "In Memoriam” card. These methods of finding the terminal station to the Pearly Gate were related today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer. "Moderation! Moderation! And more moderation is the keynote for the man or woman who plays in the summertime,’’ Morgan said. nun “t'XERCISE is highly beneficial w 7 hen taken in moderation. For instance, swimming is a fine form of exercise, but, taken after a hearty meal, oxertaxes the heart. The stomach requires an extra supply blood after eating, but if one goes in swimming immediately, then the heart is forced to overwork. "If you start muscular exercise, start in gradually. After middle life a man who can play eighteen holes of golf without tiring should confine himself to eighteen holes and not attempt thirty-six, with fatigue and possible overexertion at the end of his game.” The health officer warned against the purchase of' picnic foods from places not in a sanitary condition. "All picriic foods should be prepared freshly. Inquire closely into the sanitary condition where you buy foods for picnics,” Dr. Morgan warned. "Often the eating of any contaminated food, if contamination has reached the ptomaine stage, may result in a fatality.

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ASKS HOUSE TO FOLLOW FIXED ECONOMY PLAN Unofficial Whip Lays Down 6-Point Program for State Assembly. Democratic house members will be asked to support a six-point economy program to save millions when they caucus Tuesday night. Representative Virgil Simmons <Dem.), Bluffton, declared today when the assembly convened Simmons, the unofficial Democratic house whip, asserted the assembly should get down to business and follow a regular plan instead of pursuing the shotgun tactics which characterized the first two days of the special session. He would have it declare a threeyear moratorium on the education construction program for the state colleges and universities which call for $500,000 annually; and on other institutional construction. Simmons will support repeal of the three-mile gravel road and county unit road laws; divert approximately half of the state highway commission’s $23,000,000 annual income to the counties and cities for maintenance of local highways, and repeal of the bone dry laws and provide for sale of medicinal whisky at 50 cents a pint tax. Urges Cuts in Pay He seeks to reduce all institutional, departmental appropriations and salaries of state and county officials and employes 10 per cent and take away all fees from county of- ! fieials. “Thus we speedily can obtain the economy and reductions that we desire,” Simmons said. “Several bills regarding the points outlined in my proposal have been introduced. What I desire is that the Democratic house majority get behind them.” Simmons also asserted when a personal income tax bill is introduced to equalize the tax burden it also must place a levy on corporations. Would Save $3,000,000 “It would be unfair to tax the one and permit the other to escape,” he said. The three-year moratorium on the institutional and education conj struction fund would mean a total i saving of approximately $3,000,000, and approximately the same amount would go into the county treasuries if the fees were taken away from the local officials and the salaries reduced, he said. The 10 per cent horizontal slash on all appropriations would mean an annual savings of $6,000,000, Simmons said. The three-mile gravel road law has placed a bonded indebtedness of more than $43,000,000 on the people, while the burden of the county unit road law bonds is in excess of $18,661,824, Simmons said. Desert Battles Are Feared By T'tiilcd Press ISTANBUL, July 11. —Clashes were feared today between numerous Nomadic tribes forced by the severe drought to cross the Syrian frontier, and over 1.000 well armed Bedouins also proceeding toward Alexandretta to escape the drought.

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7 DRIVERS PINCHED; 4 ON RUM CHARGES

Five Autos, Two Trucks Held by Cops Pending Trials of Owners. Five automobiles and two trucks ate held today by police pending trial of owners and other occupants on various charges. R. J. Cones, 35, of 137 Highland avenue, and John Stevens, 40, of 1146 East Georgia street, were arrested while in Cones' car. Stevens is charged with drunkenness, driving while drunk and failure to have driver’s license. Cones faces a drunkenness charge. Grover McCullough, 40. of 2352 North Sherman drive, Is charged with drunken driving. Dick Edwards, 21, Mooresville, faces charges of blind tiger and parking in an alley. Three men arrested in an automobile, after police had been told they had been shooting at passing cars, did not have any firearms at the time of their arrest. They are Frank Wilds, 38, of 609 South Missouri street, charged with drunken driving; Thomas Cunningham, 50, of 468 North Randolph street, and Eli Mick, 52, of 150 South West street, both charged with intoxication. Charges of reckless driving, vagrancy and profanity are faced by Hilo Collier, Pontiac, 111. His truck and trailer were seized. Harley Floyd. 19, of 1446 East Seventeenth street, accused of teaching young boys to steal gasoline, is held on charges of vagrancy and failure to have license plates. Four boys, under 15, arrested with Floyd at Seventeenth street and Arsenal avenue, are held at the juvenile detention home. Floyd's truck was seized. He said he bought the truck five months ago, but had no license.

3 FACE JM TRIALS Large Quantity of Booze Is Seized, Police Report. Deputy sheriffs who raided the home of Eugene Wodtke, Brill road and Summer avenue, Saturday night, reported seizure of a large quantity of beer, brewing equipment and malt cans fashioned into drinking mugs. Basement of the home, according to the officers, was a well equipped drinking parlor. The officers said they seized sixty-nine quarts of beer in bottles, fifty gallons brewing, two twelvegallon and three ten-gallon jars. Wodtke is held on a blind tiger charge. Abe Harris, said to have been caught by a policeman in the act of delivering a gallon of alcohol in the 300 block Virginia avenue, is held on a blind tiger charge. More than one hundred gallons of home brew were reported seized by police who arrested Addison White, 38, in a raid on his home at 3817 Hoyt avenue. Ten gallons of brewing beer and three gallons of wine also were reported seized.

King Is Pinched By United Press CHICAGO. July 11- Onlookers at the weekly showup of prisoners at the detective bureau saw in the swarthy pair of men nothing to distinguish them from scores of other suspects. But detectives revealed that a king had taken his place in the lineup for the first time. The “King" was Tine Bimbo, ruler of all Chicago's gypsies, and his companion was Pete Bimbo. Tine's son and heir apparent to the gypsy throne. The pair was picked up on disorderly conduct| charges.

LEGION READY FOR CONVENTION Veterans to Gather at Kokomo July 30. Fifteenth annual convention of the Indiana department, American Legion, to be held at Kokomo July 30 to Aug. 2. will be attended by several hundred World war vetterans. Registration of delegates, a dinner and entertainment will open the convention Saturday, July 30. Sunday will be devoted to sports and competition among the posts and special religious services in Kokomo churches. Forty drum and bugle corps will engage in contests in Kautz field Sunday afternoon and evening, with Chester Hill in charge. A business session in which legion and auxiliary meet is scheduled for Monday morning with a parade set for the afternoon. High point in the entertainment Monday night will be an amateur boxing contest in Kautz field. Officers will be elected at the closing business session in Sipe theater Tuesday morning. It is certain that at least four prominent legionairres will be candidates for position of department commander. These include V. M. Armstrong of Indianapolis. William O. Nelson of Anderson, Bruce L. Peters of Cambridge City and L. V. Hauk of Morristown. 'SLIGHT’ KING’S ENVOY British Governor-General in Ireland Demands De Valera Apologize. By United Press DUBLIN, July 11—Governor-Gen-eral James McNeill, representative of King George in the Irish free state, threatened to resign today unless President Eamon De Valera and members of his cabinet apologized for recent “slights” to the governor-general. The governor-general was not invited to the reception for the papal legate, Cardinal Lauri, during the eucharistic congress. The government was said to have no intention of apologizing to McNeill.

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BRAZIL TROOPS RISE IN REVOLT AGAINST RULER Return to Constitutional Regime Is Demanded by Garrison. By United Press SAO PAULO. Brazil. July 11.— Two battalions of the Sao Paulo garrison, which revoted and demanded immediate return to a constitutional regime, claimed today that state and federal troops had joined the movement. The revolt centered in Sao Paulo, worlds coffee center, one of the most important industrial cities in South America. It indicated another break between the “Paulistas" of Sao Paulo state, powerful in northern Brazil, and southern leaders, who headed the 1930 revolution and established Dr. Getulio Vargas as provisional president. General Isidoro Dias Lopes headed the revolutionists. They demanded that Vargas carry out his promise to return to a constitutional regime. Vargas has been provisional head of the government since Dr. Washington Louis was overthrown in November. 1930. The revolutionists proclaimed Pedro de Toledo, who resigned as federal intervenor of Sao Paulo state, as state governor. The revolt had been planned for some time, but was not revealed until several officers who refused to join the rebels were arrested. The federal government sent General Goes Monteiro from Rio De Janeiro to direct operations against the rebels. The government claimed that only two battalions were involved, that the rest of the country was loyal to the regime, and that the revolt would be quelled quickly. Peru Rebels Defeated By United Press LIMA, Peru, July 11.—Gmernment troops held Trujillo, important Northern Peruvian City, today after driving out rebels through a combined air and land attack. Bombing planes, which played an important part in the federal victory, pursued the rebels outside Trujillo as they fled toward Cajabamba and Santiago De Chuco. The government considered the revolt ended. Crime Drops In Chicago CHICAGO, July 11.—Despite unemployment, police records today showed crime decreasing here. A year ago, the average was sixty crimes a day. In January it was thirty, and today the average has sunk to twenty-two daily.

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