Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1935 Edition 02 — Page 3

DEC. 7, 1935

'GIVE BARRETT chance:plea OF ATTORNEY Bad Man’s Fate in G-Man Killing to Rest With Jury Today. (Continued From Page One) year manslaughter sentence. Alternating shouting and whispering, Rice said Barrett "is on the cross and they want you to put the noose around his neck ” Paul Pflster. assistant district attorney. outlined details of the government's case to the jury before Rice made his plea. Pflster called attention of the jury to the fact that shreds of evidence were collected from all over the country. Pflster told the jury he had been sitting for a week wondering what defense could be made to the charge. "Now I find myself," he said, "searching for any defense that was made to the charges. “I never have met the gentleman before, but I would like to say Rice has presented as good a case as he could.” Seven G-Men Present In the courtroom to hear the arguments were seven government agents, all from the Cincinnati office out of which Agent Klein worked. The widowed Mrs. Catharine I. Klein and her three children were there. Pflster pointed out that the evidence was that Barrett, who professed to have been afraid of feudists, nevertheless had taken several stolen cars back into the same community to have their numbers changed. Where, he asked, is the man Barrett said told him on the morning of Aug. 16 that the feudists were after him? "No Case for Sympathy" "Before he had time," Pflster went on, “to manufacture a story, before he had time to realize he would have to face a jury of his peers, Barrett, in that yard that night, told the first persons he saw that he thought his victim was a government man. "That was the inner man speaking, and then he was speaking the truth. "This isn’t a case for sympathy. This is-a case where the country is looking to you to uphold the laws of the nation. “This is a case where 615 Federal Agents in the country—clear, upright, educated—are looking to you to uphold the laws of the nation.” Mrs. Klein Weeps "They are not looking for sympathy. They are asking for you to see that the law is upheld. “I’m thinking of the three goldenhaired children back in their Southgate (Ky.) home, always wondering why it is their daddy doesn’t come home. "And the answer is that a confessed car thief struck him down." Mrs. Klein wept into her handkerchief and the two boys. 9 and 7, sat very still and looked straight ahead. There was a recess and Rice began his summation. “I think I should say a word to the bereaved widow of Mr. Klein. "In talking to my man when he was in the hospital I said, ‘Did you murder that man?’ and he said 'I never saw him in my life before. I had no ill-will against him. Why should I?" Rice then addressed the jtiry. "I have suffered most of any one in this trial because I've had the greatest burden. Expected Death at Any Time ' And what was that burden? It was fighting all the facilities and forces of the entire United States government." Rice said that ever since the feudist battle of Manche ter in 1932. Barrett had expected death momentarily. That, he said, w'as why Barrett had not cared whether he violated the law. “If the Federal agents had been on the job. they w'ould have arrested Barrett for auto thefts, not just kept a file on him," he said. Barrett got his information that Klein was a government man from "that old lady” who, after the shooting, said “Them government men are killed.” Rice said. "And he had that information after, not before, the shooting,” he charged. Rice went into oratory when he asked why the government hadn't brought in the guns of the Federal agents. "Because,” he yelled, "they didn't want them to match up with the Barrett guns. "The law of self-defense, gentlemen, is the oldest law known to mankind. No Right to Take Life “It has been on the book ever since the beginning, and it will be there to eternity. "No one has a right to take that precious thing the Master gave you.” "They assautel him and they made him kill one of them,” he said. “They’ve already put 70 years in prison on his gray hairs, for auto theft, and the hard-boiled prosecutor will come up before you and want to kill him—rub him out. "But remember the Bible says, “Whatever ve judge, that judgment shall be meted out to you. "We ask you in the name of mercy and justice to give the defendant a manslaughter verdict. That's 10 years." Rice cooed to the jury the story of the crucifixion and professed to And In it some analogy to the predicament in which George W. Barrett now' finds himself. "He's on the cross,” said the lawyer, "arms outstretched, and they want you to put the noose around his neck." Plea Lasts One Hour ‘Give him one little spark of hope," he said. “He’s already got 70 years." Rice ended his plea in one hour, waiving one-half of his allotted time. 9 During the taking of testimony, which lasted from Monday to 5:30 yesterday afternoon, it was brought out by the government that Barrett aid not announce any plans he might have had to get out of the country on Aug. *l6 until he heard horn a stool pigeon acquaintance

Ladies, Be Seated! Quins Proud of First Chairs

Much more can be done with a set of brand-new grown-up chairs than just sitting on them. The Dionne quintuplets soon found that riding them, jockey-like, as one rides a horse, was hilarious. That's Yvonne at the left, laughingly unconscious that she’s about to be biffed by Marie, while Cecile, Annette and Emilie. in order, proudly exhibit their growing strength.

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The Dionne babies can also sit in their new chairs in the regular way and be quite demure about it, too. Here they are, sitting up straight and showing every evidence of pride in their new chairs and their new accomplishment. Left to right, Emilie, Yvonne, Marie, Cecile and Annette are obviously pleased, and why shouldn't they be, for you see how sturdy and independent they’re getting.

that the Federal officers were after him. The defense, however, brought out that Barrett was the only surviving eye witness to a. feud foray in Manchester. Ky„ in September, 1932, in which two of Barrett's cousins were killed. Expected Arrest for Year The defense also showed that the present commonwealth attorney, or prosecutor, has been attempting to make indictments against those he believes guilty of the feud shooting and it was inferred that members of the opposing side hoped to kill Barrett and eliminate him as a possible grand jury witness. Indictments previously returned against the four suspects had been stolen from the bullet-riddled courthouse at Manchester, the preseni commonwealth attorney told the court and jury. From his own lips, the government brought from Barrett that he had expected for one solid year, momentarily, that Federal agents would arrest him for stolen car activities which he admitted had extended over a period of more than four years. Admits Numerous Trips But Barrett said on the stand that Federal arrest “meant nothing to me because I had a greater worry—the fear of the men from Manchester.” Nevertheless, Nolan made Barrett admit, even though he said he made all of his numerous trips to Texas, California and Mexico because he was afraid of the Manchester gang, that he invariably returned in a few days in an auto he had stolen somewhere in the Southwest on the trip and subsequently sold the stolen car for a handsome profit. Asked to explain his routine nostalgia. Barrett, who murdered his mother and his sister, said that an inexplicable love for his family seized him on each occasion and forced him back into what he described as a danger that made him cold with fear. Near Manchester Many Times The government also proved that in the midst of his feudal fears, Barrett frequently drove stolen cars to a place near the battle of Manchester to have the engine numbers changed. The defense did not summon to court either the man who Barrett said changed the numbers on his stolen cars, or the man he said told him on the morning of Aug. 16 that the Manchester “gang’' was in Hamilton, 0., which was his current home. Barrett was on the stand from 10:30 yesterday morning until late yesterday afternoon. HOT BEANS BURN BOY William Brinson. 5, Rides Into Kitchen and Upsets Pot. The aroma of beans cooking on the stove yesterday afternoon tempted William Brinson. 5, of 2014 S. Noble-st, to ride into the kitchen on his tricycle and sample the cooking. He pulled the pot over on himself and was burned about the shoulders, chest and arms. William was treated at City Hospital. CHAIR CATCHES MAN Paul Masters Suffers Hand Injury W'hen Seat Folds Up. A folding chair is all right, believes Paul Masters. 3302 Ruckle-st, if it retains its poise. But the folding chair Mr. Masters occupied last night at 107 S. Capi-tol-av collapsed. He was treated at City Hospital for painful hand injuries.

HUGHEL EN ROUTE TO FEDERAL POISON President of Defunct Firm to > Start 5-Year Term. Myron M. Hughel, former president of Pass & Hughel was en route to Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., today to begin a five-year term for using the mails to defraud. He surrendered to United States Marshal Charles W. James Thursday and spent the night in Marion County jail, leaving yesterday for Atlanta in the custody of William B. McGuirk, deputy marshal. His appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago is pending. w Walter P. Pfaff, who was chairman of the board of the defunct firm, is free on a $15,000 appeal bond. He received a three-year sentence. COMMITTEE EVADES FILLING G. 0. P. POST Successor to Miss Cunningham to Remain Unnamed Until 1936. The Republican State Committee has evaded the difficult job of naming anew national committeewoman for Indiana, to succeed the late Miss Dorothy Cunningham. At its regular meeting yesterday, the committee voted 16 to 8 to indefinitely postpone a nomination. Chairman Don B. Irwin issued a statement after the meeting, intimating the post would remain vacant until filled in the regular way by delegates to the 1936 national convention. AUTO, JEWELRY STOLEN Drinking Companions Rob Man, Who Throws Purse Away. Two men who invited David Strode, 3151 Northwestern-av, to have a drink with them early today, robbed him of his auto and jewelry valued at $315, he told police. Mr. Strode threw his purse into the brush near Madison-av and Stop 9 road when the men began to search him, but was unable to find it again later. Had Too Much Butter It didn't make sense the way Walter Maholland, 23, Negro, 605 N. Blackford-st, had so much butter to sell his neighbors recently, so police arrested him. He confessed, they say, to having stolen the butter. Storage Batteries Stolen Thieves pried open two rear doors at the Indianapolis Auto Laundry. 1112 N. Meridian-st. early today and took a number of storage batteries from the charging table.

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Junior Aviators Exhibit Model Aircraft Today Free Attraction at Tomlinson Hall Sponsored by The Times Attracts Local Enthusiasts. Indianapolis youngsters are model plane conscious today! Members of the Times Junior Aviators organization, local dealers, and other local model builders today opened the Times Model Aircraft Exhibit at Tomlinson Hall. The show starting at 1 and continuing until 9 tonight is free to the public. All Indianapolis youngsters and their parents are invited.

Hundreds of miniature crafts of every description and representing long tedious hours of work, are on display. Model Building Proficiency Visitors will have an opportunity to observe the high degree of model building proficiency attained by local boys. The opening of today's show marks the greatest period in the development of model plane activity in the history of the Junior Aviator movement. Scale model contests, demonstrations of propeller carving, fuselage building, exhibits of tiny gasoline and compressed air motors, and motion pictures are included in the day’s program. In addition to individual displays junior aviators have arranged club exhibits. Local dealers are also to have their own displays and several national model plane manufacturers have sent special models and equipment for the show. Display of Trophies Prize winning N. A. A. models constructed by local youths are to be on display together with the trophies won at the national meets in St. Louis and Indianapolis. Judges awarding the 'trophies for the individual and best club exhibits are Nish Dienhart, Municipal Airport supervisor Herbert Fisher, aviation division director, Chamber of Commerce, and Emory W. BrySi, mechanical drawing instructor’, Technical High School. The arrangements for today's aerial attraction have been in charge of a committee headed by William Engler of The Times. Others on the committee are Herschel Knight, Times Squadron Commander; Harry Meyers, Em-Roe Sporting Goods Store; John Clemens. Charles Mayer Cos., and Roscoe Judd, Harold Stoffer, Warren Workman and Cecil Flynn. Sportsman's Store. Pupils Visit Arsenal Cannon Asa feature of anew national high school journalism week, 1300 Technical High freshmen visited offices of the Arsenal Cannon yesterday. An additional 1300 will will visit the offices Monday^

ENDS LOVE PROBLEM BY TAKfNG OWN LIFE Radio Announcer Failed to Choose Between Wife and Niece. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7. A romantic entanglement to which he saw no solution led Leslie Raymond, 41-year-old radio announcer, to end his life, police decided today. Raymond, apparently unable to decide whether he loved his wife or his niece by marriage, drove to a lonely spot near the ocean, ran a tube from the exhaust of his car into the interior and started the motor. The two women, his third wife, Mrs. Anna. Raymond. 37, and the niece, Esther Shuren, 18. both sobbed out their love for Raymond when informed of his death.

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STATE MOTOR TRAFFIC BODY TO MEET HERE Federal Regulations For Carrier Industry to Be Discussed. Principal speaker at the annual convention of the Indiana Motor Traffic Association, Inc. to be held next Friday and Saturday at the Antlers, is to be Park M. Smith, assistant director of the new motor carrier of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Federal trucking regulations are to be discussed by Mr. Smith at a luncheon Friday. For the past seven years he has been secretary of the Greyhound Management Corp. and previously was with the Minnesota Railroad and Warehouse Commission. Other speakers are to be Ted V. Rodgers, president, American Trucking Associations, Inc.; Carl F. Jackson, manager of the association’s rates and tariffs division, und Roland Rice of the association's counsel. The program is to include a clinic on Federal regulations conducted by Mr. Jackson and Mr. Rice, divisional meetings and a dinner and floor show. Officers are to be elected Friday afternoon. Maurice Tucker, South Bend, is association president, and D. F. Mitzner, secretary.

Going Up! It’s 67 Now! a a bub Employes of National Bindery Cos. Take Eight Children in Annual Times Drive.

EMPLOYES of the National Library Bindery Cos. took Clothe-a-Child and one-year’s saving of dimes from their pocketbooks today to dress eight children and boost the annual campaign's total to SIXTY-SEVEN children.

MODERN GYMS AREJSTIFIED McMurray Writes Article for Magazine on Good of Basketball. The Indiana basketball frenzy has been justified by the construction of modern gymnasiums which may be used for musical, dramatic, health and community programs, Floyd I. McMurray, state public instruction superintendent, stated today. Mr. McMurray stated his views in an article, “Roll Back the Canvas,’ in the current issue of the Indiana Parent-Teacher, publication of the Indiana Congress of Parents and Teachers. "Out of the early Indiana basketball frenzy and the local desire to cope with rival communities came the building of gymnasiums all over the state—an addition to the school property which otherwise could not have been acquired,” Mr. McMurray said. "School executives no longer recommend the purchase of expensive canvas to protect the basketball shrine from the heels of the community. Gymnasium floors are no longer sacred to the rubber soles of a dozen basketball players. Progressive school men have rolled back the canvas.” HUNTINGTON REFUSED SIO,OOO EXTRA FUNDS $902.97 Allowed for Expenses of Administration, However. The State Tax Board yesterday refused the petition of Huntington city officials for approval of a $lO,000 emergency appropriation and instead allowed a total of $902.97 for city administration expense. Expense on many items in the petition had been incurred before appropriation was made, the board found. Items disallowed included S6OOO for additions to the sewage disposal plant and $1750 for a City Hall heating system.

OFFICIAL WEATHER .I'nlted State* Weather Bureau

Sunrise :.V Sunset t;2O TEMPERATURE —Dee. mt—- * a. m. ‘it 1 p. ra II —Today—- * a. m 3 IB a. m 41 Ta m 4* 11 a. m 4.1 * a. m 41 12 a. m 44 9 • m. 4 1 p. m 14 BAROMETER ■ a. m. 30.21 1 p. m in r.s Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7am 1.11 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 36 03 Deflciercv since Jan 1 143 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A M. Station. Weather. Bar Temp. Amarillo. Tex Clear 29 or 34 Bismarck. N. D Cloudv 29 S8 1* Boston PtCldy 30.60 20 Chicago Rain 30 10 38 Cincinnati . Ram 30 34 44 Denver PtCldy 30 04 34 Dodge City. Kas. . Clear 30 04 32 Helena, Mont Cloudy 30 14 34 Jacksonville. Fla ... Cloudv 30 46 54 Kansas City. Mo. ... Cloudv 30 04 48 Little Rock. Ark. Rain 30.12 52 Los Angeles Clear 30 20 50 Miami. Fla Cloudy 30 36 70 Minneapolis Rair 29.84 38 Mobile. Ala Cloudv 30.30 60 New Orleans Cloudv 30.24 64 New York Cloudv 30 68 24 Okla City. Okla. ... Cloudv 30 00 48 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 29 96 42 Pittsburgh Rain 30.48 32 Portland. Ore . Rain 30 06 46 San Antonio. Tex Rain 30 06 58 San Francisco Cloudv 30 23 52 St. Louis Cloudv 30.10 44 Tampa. Fla. .. Cloudv 30 42 54 Washington D. C Cloudy 30 68 28 DOEPPERS RITES SET Former City Hospital Head to Be Buried Here Monday. Funeral services for Dr. William A. Doeppers. former City Hospital superintendent, are to be held at 10:30 Monday in the Hisev & Titus Mortuary, 951 N. Delaware-st. Burial is to be in Crown Hill. Dr. Doeppers died Thursday night at his home. 5883 Washington-blvd. He was 43.

Weekly savings resulted in the raising of SIOO and the employes said they desired to outfit the eight children by turning their co-workers into shoppers. Small groups of workers are to shop for each child. Madden-Copple Co.’s employes, with a bid for two girls and a boy. was another employe organization that warmed themselves and children at Clothe-a-Child Yuletide blaze for the city's unfortunates. New donors today follow: The Leader Store, 10 children. Employes of J. L. Mac Daniel Printing Cos., four boys and four girls. Indianapolis Bowling League, Pritchett’s alleys, girl. Fountain Square Recreation League, Fountain Square alleys, boy. I Want Last Last Year's Children, four children. Operators of Belmont Exchange, Indiana Bell Telephone Cos., two girls. Lady With Brown Hat. girl. South Side Man’s Club, two children. Mrs. G. 8.. girl. Knight Kluh. girl. Big Four Wheel Shop Employes, Beech Grove. Boy. Employes of National Bindery Cos., eight children. Employes and Madden-Copple Cos., two girls and boy. Dannie and David, boy. Old Scotty, boy. Industrial Engineering dept., C. S. Rubber Cos., boy. Ex-Cel-Cis Beauty Products Cos., boy. Mrs. J. W. Kenny, child.

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ANTIQUE STATE LAW MAY SPOIL HAMMOND YULE City Workers May Not Be Paid Because Taxes Are Delinquent. Times Special HAMMOND. Ind., Dec. 7— A century old state law which provides that no public official or emplaye shall be compensated so long as his taxes are delinquent, may deprive a number of Hammond city workers of salaries payable before Christmas. Herman Conter. Lake County treasurer, has been called upon by August Riechers, local building and loan association officer, to enforce the statute. Mr. Corner, while intimating he will not take action unless compelled to do so. has admitted that such a request constitutes a command under terms of the early law. Recently the statute was enforced at East Chicago where Attorney Willard Van Horn succeeding in evicting a city policeman from a home on which taxes were unpaid. Mr. Conter. in that instance, arranged to deduct a small amount from the officer's pay checks, thus saving him the loss of his entire income. Just how many workers would be affected if the law' is invoked, is not known. It was said, however, that time required to check tax duplicates probably would preclude any action before next Friday, the city's pay day. BEECH GROVE BALL CHAIRMAN IS NAMED Verl Pierson to Direct Infantile Paralysis Benefit. Verl Pierson, bailiff of the County Commissioners’ court, has accepted appointment as general chairman for Beech Grove of the President's Birthday Ball, to be held Jan. 20. The ball, which has been an annual affair of national scope for the last three years, is held to raise funds for infantile paralysis victims. In 1934 Beech Grove raised S9B. which was turned over to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. This year $125 was raised. 70 per cent of which was given to Riley Hospital, and the balance to the Foundation. This is Mr. Pierson's third appointment as chairman. TEACHERS IN SESSION 500 From Eastern Indiana District Meet at Knightstown. Timex Special KNIGHTSTOWN, Ind., Dec. 7. Five hundred teachers from six eastern Indiana counties gathered here today for the anual meeting of the Sixth District Teachers' Association. Dr. Albert W. Palmer, Chicago Theological Seminary president, was to head a speakers’ group, which included Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and Dr. John J. Haramy, history instructor at Indiana Central College. Indianapolis.