Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 239, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1933 — Page 3

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ERNIE SCHAAF 1 CLAD: CARNERA IS QUESTIONED Heavyweight’s Death Due to Natural Causes, Says Medical Examiner. (Continued From Fage One) of the substance pressing on Schaafs brain would have to be determined by microscopic examination. Schaaf, 24, failed to recover from the coma into which he was battered in the thirteenth round of the bout. A hemorrhage, caused by the rupture of a blood vessel in his brain, resulted in a blood clot on the right side ol the brain. When paralysis of the left side of his body set in, and his condition rapidly became worse, physicians decided on an operation as the one remaining chance to save his life. He died at 4:15 a. m. Thiough the morning, waiting for his expected "arrest," Camera sat in his room at the Hotel Victoria, his mountainous form slumped in a chair, the picture of dejection. Camera Grief-Stricken He said little to interviewers, but that little was clothed in halting expressions of grief. This, he explained was the first tragedy of his career—a career that has carried him from circus life as a “strong man," through wrestling, and into fighting. “I was over in New Jersey last night with some friends,” he said. “Someone telephoned about Ernie's death. I rushed back as fast as I could. I had hoped so much he would live. He was a good young man." Under the questioning of reporters, Camera said that it must have been the constant punching, “those left jabs,” that injured Schaaf so seriously. “I remember that last blow,” he said. “It w'as started as a left jab and I turned it into a sort of hook. I didn't think I hurt him. I didn’t notice any pained expression on his face. Perhaps that was because I was so anxious to win that I couldn’t notice.” “Will you fight again?” he was asked. “I shall have ” he started to Say when one of his advisers interrupted to remark, “This is no time to say anything about that.” “But you know I have got to fight Jack Sharkey four months from now,” Camera continued. “I never have had a thing like this before, never has any one died like this after being in the ring with me. And lam 26 years old." “My mother,” he added a moment later, “my mother lias called me up today from the little town of Sequale, near Venice. My mother Giovanna. She called me to tell l.ie I must do my best to console Mis. Schaaf, Ernie's mother, because she knows liow she feels. She told me I must send flowers, but of course I had sent them already. But she was thinking about this thing.” "Then, too,” he continued, “I could not do more than tell Mrs. Schaaf how I felt. So I sent her a telegram.” rarents at Bedside At Schaaf s deathbed were his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schaaf; his sisters, Miss Mae Schaaf .aid Mrs. Elizabeth Sullivan; his manager, Johnny Buckley; his trainer, tfony Polozzolo; and the Rev. Father Francis Scully. He was carried from the ring of Madison Square Garden Friday night amid the rowdy hoots and derisive gestures of fight fans who thought his collapse after a blow to the jaw from Camera's left glove was a feigned knockout. The fight itself had appeared only lukewarm with little or no action. Schaaf, outweighed by his giant opponent, weaved in constantly, attempting to wear down Camera. Always he was frustrated by jabs from Camera’s left hand. From the ringside these blows seemed to have little force behind them. Fans’ Attitude Changes Finally, in the thirteenth round, Schaaf stumbled back, sank slowly to the floor, lifted himself on one elbow, then flopped over on his face. An hour later he was brought to semi-consciousness, and remained in that condition much of the time until his death. When Schaaf’s continued stay at the hospital made it apparent that he had really been injured the attitude of fans changed, and those who hissed his departure from the ring sent flowers and telegrams of sympathy. Schaaf clasped a rosary in his big hands and his mother sprinkled him with holy water as he died. Father Scully, who had given him the last sacraments of the church, ha,, lighted candles and was intoning prayers. Buckley left the hospital a few minutes after Schaaf died to reach champion Jack Sharkey, who left Miami, Fla., Monday night for New York. Buckley wired him at Jacksonville to go through to Boston without stopping in New York. Buckley was in tears and vehement against the people who had termed his fighter “a quitter" immediately after the fight. "There never was a gamer boy in the ring,” he said, “and there never was a cleaner boy. 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First of a series of Leisure Hour programs planned for residents of Perry township by the Southport Men's Brotherhood will be presented at 7:45 Friday in the Perry township righ school. A one-act play, “School of Wisdom,” will be presented under direction of Miss Leora Weimar, dramatic coach at Indiana Central college. Cast of the play includes Melvin Livengood. Marietta Leland and Nelson Eaton. A musical program, including community singing, will be included in the evening's events. MARTHA COX IS DEAD West Side Woman Had Lived in City for Last Ten Years. Following an illness pf several days, Mrs. Martha Cox, 74, a native of Kenton, Tenn., died Monday at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Raleigh Watt, 4244 West Michigan street. Funeral services will be held in the Watt home at 2:30 Wednesday. Bureal will be in Floral Park cemetery. Mr. Cox had lived in Indianapolis ten years and was a member of the South Methodist church.

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SCHOOL TENURE LAW REPEAL UP BEFORESENATE Action Held Over as Result of Long Parliamentary Wrangle. Repeal of the teacher tenure law is expected to come before the senate today, according to Senator E. Curtis White (Dem., Indianapolis), and others in favor of retaining tenure in all schools. Action on the repeal measure was delayed late Monday by the lengthiest parliamentary snarl thus far encountered by the senate. White claimed the journal of the senate should be corrected to show his motion for indefinite postponement of the Schricker bill as the question before the senate. After thirty minutes of wrangling, the matter was referred to the committee on journal correction and held over until today for decision. Bill providing greater safety regulations for school buses was passed today by the senate and referred to the house for action. Number and kinds of lights, together with size of letters labeling buses are set out in the measure. Prior to the noon recess Lieutenant Governcr M. Clifford Townsend announced that exxpenses of conducting the senate for the first thirty days were lower than for a corresponding period in 1931 and 1932. Total of $20,072.14 has been expended. Townsend said, compared with $23,606.51 in 1931 and $25,004.20 in 1932. Introducing twenty new bills, the senate Monday afternoon moved rapidly to clear its routine business so administration measures could get a clear track this week. One of the bills raises the salary of Lieutenant-Governor M. Clifford Townsend from SI,OOO to $6,000 a year. The other places control of the state’s finances in the new department of audit and control, to be appointed by the Governor. Reapportionment of the state’s fifty senators is provided in a bill introduced by Senator Harold L.

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Strickland (Dem., Hammond). Marion county would retain its six members without sharing one with Johnson county, as now. Level-ug of salaries for all county judges at $4,200 a year is asked in a bill sponsored by Senator J. Francis Lochard <Dem., Milan) Attempt to levy a tax of 1 cent on each metal bottle cap manufactured or sold in the state was killed. Senator Herbert V. Tormohlen (Rep., Portland), author of the bill, said he believed 200,000,000 bottles of home brew are made in Indiana every year and that a tax on the caps would produce much needed revenue. Another bill to receive its death warrant was one to give creditors an opportunity to recommend a receiver when receivership suits involve preferred stock or bond issues. Two bills amending the $1.50 tax levy law were advanced in the senate. One refers to levies to retire bonds issued for obligations incurred prior to Aug. 8, 1932, and the other to levies for refunding bonds issued to pay for contracts let prior to the same date. Repeal of the 50 cent mortgage filing fee also was advanced to third reading, along with a bill to grant double compensation to minors receiving injuries when employed at tasks not specifically permitted by the workmen's compensation law.

HOOVER FAILS TO BID OPENLY FOR LEADERSHIP •Farewell Speech’ Leaves His Party Policy on War Debts, Gold Standard. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres* Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Feb. 14.—President Herbert Hoover was back in Washington today for his seventeen remaining days in office, leaving his party a clear-cut policy on war debts and monetary stability, but disappointing followers who had hoped for an open bid for the retention of party leadership. Mr. Hoover, in what widely was heralded as his “farewell address,” called for international co-opera-tion for economic revival, with possible use of war debt payments to the United States as a fund to aid central banks in stabilizing currencies on a gold basis. He derided the contention that the war debts, in themselves, are the dominant factor in the world depression, and made clear a belief that if Europe expects concessions on the debts, her nations must cooperate in stabilizing currencies and otherwise acting for economic betterment. He spoke before the Lincoln day dinner of the National Republican Club Monday night. The world, he said, should try to

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find “a place for silver, at least in enlarged subsidiary coinage.” But though his audience followed his comments on international affairs closely, it was when he turned briefly to party matters that the 1.500 Republican listeners displayed the greatest interest. Some party leaders thought Mr. Hoover might have a sensational answer to reports of a movement to unseat his supporters in the partyorganization. The President referred to his defeat last November, and predicted that the Republican party would be returned to power. “An organization that can showmore than 15,000,000 adherents after seventy years—an irreducible minimum in the reaction from the worst depression the world has ever seen—indeed is testimony to the virility of the principles Lincoln enunciated,” he said. “The Republican party will support the new administration in every measure which will promote public welfare. It must and will be vigilant in opposing those which are harmful.” Leaders of both parties were reluctant to discuss the political part of the speech for quotation, but privately many interpreted it as indicating Mr. Hoover was ready to fight to maintain party leadership. Mr. Hoover and his party were in New York less than seven hours.

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ATTACKS COST 1 OF GOVERNMENT Reductions Are Essential, Says Statistician of State C. of C. Desp e fact that the average worker wage has droppd 49 per cent in he last fourteen years, cost of operating state government is far above the level of 1920. Virgil Sheppard. State Chamber of Commerce statistician, says in a report made public today. Asserting that the task of adjustment of the two factors constitutes, greatest problem before legislators, Sheppard urged further reductions of expenditures as essential to welfare of the state. "If the state legislature could re- | duce appropriations to the 1920 ! level there could be little complaint 1 on cost of government for the next i few years unless there is further ] : decrease in income and cast of liv- j ing,” he said. Largest single cost increase since 1920 was in exj>enditures for retirements and pensions which soared

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! 388 per cent. Sheppard said Edu- ■ cational costs were increased 75 per ! cent, while conservation expenses grew 60 per cent. Overhead agencies required 49 per cent additional funds, and health and welfare casts increased 29 per cent. Total state j expenditures swelled 56 per cent. Cost of living during the same period decreased 32 per cent, the rei port shows.

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