Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 235, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1935 — Page 3

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YOUNG GUNMEN \ADMIT SHOOTING OF DETECTIVES Two Nabbed at Farm Near Shelbyville by State Police. (Cnrrtinurd From Pag* Onoi unarmed. clad in their blood-stained underwear They had been asleep when officers first came. On the floor near their bed were a German automatic .38 caliber, and two .33 caliber Colts. These, they said later, were in the brief case they carried in their flight from the apartment Saturday after the fight with the detectives. While police were handcuffing Pierce and Joseph. Headlee disappeared and they found him a moment later, crawling under a bed in an absurd attempt to escape. He jfa>' as dragged out. At first the bandits were surly and would sav nothing except that Joseph, saving he was speaking for both, said: “We are outnumbered and we know it. I am speaking for both ot us. All we want is that Headlee gets a break ” Later on. however, after he had become more used to talking in the Statehousp office, Joseph had a rhanßp of heart, in the matter and smiled cynically when hp was asked if h p and pierce had pulled guns on Headlee. Joseph Praises Pierpont As they were putting handcuffs on the gunmen one of me officers remarked that they w-ere the same ‘bracelets’’ Harry Pierpont, electrocuted Dillinger lieutenant, once had worn. “He was a damned good man.” Joseph, the 28-year-old desperado said. “A damned good man.” Mrs. Headlpe owns the 20-acre farm the fugitives chose for a hiding place, and Headlee has been making a living as a huckster since he was released on parole from the state prison. He was sent to the Indiana State Prison on a liquor charge during prohibition, and escaped in 1930. Four years later he was rearrested and sent (o Michigan City for five years on charges of having escaped. He was paroled in August of this year. Pierce Refuses to Talk His first question when he arrived at the office of Capt. Matt i Leach was: “When can T get out on bond." Pierrp would not, talk to any one. nis only expression rams in a series of grunts of pain when Dr. Charles R. Hird. State Police physician, dressed his wounds. Bullet Courses Around Ribs Dr. Bird said that a bullet entered Joseph's chest through the left arm pit. coursed around the ribs and emerged from the back. He is wounded only superficially, Dr. Bird said. Pierce was shot in the left side and the bullet went through a nerve center that paralyzed his left arm. Dr Bird said. Joseph readily told of the details j of the shooting Saturday in the! Hazel-Dell apartment. He was cocky, careful to give himself the very best break in his story at the expense of his companion and Headlee. He said: “We had just walked in when the cops came to the apartment. It's this way. We were walking dow'n the street and I made that police car. “I said to Paul, ‘That’s a police car,’ and he said, No,’ but I knew it w r as because I had seen the license. said. ‘That’s all right, w'e yCin’t done nothin' to bring the 'heat on us here, and w r e walked into the flat. ’Paul Let Him Have It’ “Paul had just gone into the bedroom and got out, his shoulder holster and laid it on the bed, I was in the kitchen when the rap came on the door. “I opened the door and Paul walked out of the bedroom. ThT* police said, ’Which one of you is Coleman?’ and we both said we were. “They said, ‘You can’t both be Coleman’, and I said, ‘Why not?, we’re brothers.’ Then Quinnette started to pull a rod and Paul let him have it. I knocked Chatham down on the davenport and he shot. The bulltet went through m.V coat and vest and burned me. Then he shot again and hit me. Dragged Chatham Into Hall “It, didn't hurt much, but I told him I was shot and not to shoot any more. Paul jumped off Quinnette and ran into the bedroom. I dragged Chatham out into the hall.” He was asked here whether he had dragged Chatham or Chatham had dragged him. I dragged him,” he boasted. “I could lick him the best day he ever lived. While we were fighting Paul plugged him in the foot. I knocked him downstairs and ran back in and slammed the door. “We took the car (from Dr. Edmund Moten> and drove out Road 29 to thp Hearilpp home, and laid in there, iHeadlee told officers they \had not arrived Pt his home until Sunday. but Joseph insists they arrived there Saturday.! Planted Car 10 Miles Away “Whpn it got dark we took the car out and planted it (about 10 miles from the Headlee home). Tbpn we came bark ” Detectives Quinnette and Chatham and the two bandits were wounded in a desperate hand-to-hand struggle in the apartment Saturday afternoon. The two detectives were sent to the apartment to investigate two men living there, "who supposedly were connected with the Anderson shooting. Chatham was slugged on the head, and Quinnette was knocked to the floor when they pntered the apartment. As Quinnette .struggled with one of thp bandits on the floor, ihe other shot him six times, twice in the abdompn. Chatham was pushed down the stairs. In the cross-fire, the two bandits were shot. They escaped out the rear entrance, and fled, carrying two suitcases, to 13th-st and Cornell-av. where they overpowered Dr. Ed/■nunri Moten. Negro, and fled in his Dodge coupe. City Hospital authorities said today that Quinnette was improving and probably would be Informed of the capture of his assailants.

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The Indiana State Police got I heir ropn! At the end of a trail of blood, shed both by Indianapolis city police officers and the gunmen who shot them. State Police early today found Paul Pierce and Donald Joseph. Left to right (above) are Donald F. Stiver. State Police superintendent; Pierce and Joseph.

‘Psychoanalysis’ by High Court Conservatives Is Flayed by Liberal Trio Ancient' Doctrine That Court Will Not Inquire Into Motives of Legislative Body Cited by Cardozo After Liquor Tax Is Held Illegal. BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.—One of the most, caustic criticisms of a Supreme Court opinion came today from the court’s three liberal members, who ascribed to their conservative colleagues the use of “psychoanalysis” in imputing to Congress motives for legislation now held unconstitutional. | Ihe minority opinion, filed yesterday by Justice Cacdozo on behalf of himself and Justices Brandeis and Stone, was in a liquor tax case involving to a considerable extent the same questions at issue in the

Hoosac AAA case being argued today, the Gussy coal act, and the famous 1922 child labor tax case. In all these cases, opponents say that the tax levied is not really a tax. as Congress says it is, but part of a icgulatory scheme. Thus, in the Hoosac case the processing tax is aid to be an unconstitutional scheme to regulate farm production. A similar contention Is made as to thp Guffpy act. All but two of the justices held in 1922 that the 10 per cent tax on child labor products was designed not to produce revenue but to prohibit child labor. Six of the justices, in an opinion by Justice Roberts, held yesterday that section 701 of the revised statutes, imposing a SIOOO tax on liquor business carried on in violation of local laws, was an unconstitutional Federal effort to police local affairs. Cardozo Writes Opinion The three dissenters pointed out that Congress designated the levy as a tax. Justice Cardozo concluded his discussion as follows: “The judgment of the court rests upon the ruling that another purpose, not professed, may be read beneath the surface, and by the purpose so imputed the statute is destroyed. “Thus the process of psychoanalysis has spread to unaccustomed fields. “There is a wise and ancient doctrine that a court will not inquire into the motives of a legislative body or assume them to be wrongful. “There is another tfise and ancient doctrine that a court will not adjudge the invalidity of a statute except for manifest necessity. “Every reasonable doubt must have been explored and extinguished before moving to that grave conclusion. Recalls Former Warning “The w'arning sounded by the court in the sinking fund cases has lost none of Its significance. ‘Every presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.’ "I cannot rid myself of the conviction that in the imputation to the lawmakers of a purpose not professed, this salutary rule of caution is now' forgotten or neglected after all the many protestations of its cogency and virtue.” Justice Roberts in the majority opinion charged that the Federal government “under guise of a taxing act usurped the police power of the state.” Koran Temple to Meet Mrs. Mame Deßossett is to be hostess tomorrow at her home. 34 W. 19th-st. to members of Koran Temple. Daughters of the Nile, who are to sew for the benefit of the Children’s Shrine Hospital, Chirago.

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| Sunrise S:.">6 I Sunset 4:20 TEMPERATURE —Dec. 10. 1934 T a. m 20 1 p. m 23 —Today—--6 a. m 39 !• a. m 31 la. m 37 11 i. m 29 *a. m 34 12 a. m 28 9 a. m 32 I p. m 28 BAROMETER. 7• m. 18.89 1 p. m . 29.99 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 1 a. m... .08 I Total precipitation since Jan. 1 54.86 , Deficiency since Jan. 1 1.02 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. i Amarillo. Tex Clear 30.22 32 Bismarlc. N. D PtCldv 30.18 —4 j Boston Clear 29.84 38 I Chicago Cloudy 29.94 26 Cincinnati Cloudy 29.84 42 ; Denver Cloudy 30.06 30 Dodge City. Kas. Clear 30.26 24 ! Helena, Mont Cloudy 29.98 36 Jacksonville. Fla Cloudy 30 06 54 Kansas City. Mo Clear 30.26 26 | Little Rock, Ark Clear 30.06 46 Los Angeles Cloudy 30.04 58 1 Miami. Fla Clear 30.06 64 | Minneapolis Clear 30.22 —4 Mobile. Ala PtCldv 30.08 52 New Orleans PtCldv 30.10 60 New York Clear 29.86 40 Okla City. Okla Clear 30.26 34 Omaha. Neb Clear 30.32 16 Pittsburgh Cloudy 29.82 38 Portland. Ore Cloudy 30.08 50 San Antonio. Tex PtCldy 30.08 60 San Francisco Cloudy 30.16 51 St. Louis Cloudy 30.08 30 Tamoa. Fla PtCldv 30.06 56 Washington. D. C Cloudy 29.88 34 WEALTHY CUBAN HELD FOR $300,000 RANSOM Havana Police Order House-to-House Search for Abductors. j By United Press HAVANA. Dec. 10.—Police authorities ordered a house-to-house search throughout the capital today i for kidnapers of Nicolas Castano, 66. multimillionaire held for $300,000 I ransom. 1 Castano is said to be worth $20,000.000. He is owmer of vast interests in sugar mills and cattle lands. He w'as seized by armed men yes- ‘ terday from a sedan in which he I was driving through the Vedado j suburb. Police were secretive, and Castano’s relatives sought to suppress new's of the crime in fear that the I victim might suffer. INDIANA SAFETY LAW HELD NATION’S BEST Educators Hear M’Murrav Report on School Bus Act. | Timet Special WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.—Indiana’s law on school bus safety is the best in the nation, members cf ! the National Council of State Superintendents and Commissioners of Education in convention here agree. The view w'as revealed following an address by Floyd I. McMurray, | Indiana school superintendent, explaining provisions of the law. Mr. McMurray said he expected !to spend considerable time in Washington during the session of the Congress to open next, month as a member of the legislative committee of the National Education Association. He announced he would be a candidate for re-election as state superintendent.

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FRIENDS LAUD, G. 0. P. FLAYS F. D. R. TALKS Capital Reacts Along Usual Partisan Lines to New Deal Defense. (Continued From Page One) the ones who always clamored for a high protective tariff which wrung hundreds of millions from the farmers without remuneration. They now complain bitterly when the shoe is on the other foot and they are called on to reciprocate., I am glad the President has shown them up.” Black Lauds Speech Senator Hugo L. Black (D.. Ala.): ‘The speech showed that the President intends to move forward wit/i his farm program in order to benefit not only the farmers but business generally.” Senator Frederick Steiwer (R„ Ore.): "It is unfortunate that the President regards American critics of obvious defects in the Canadian trade agreement as calamity howlers'.” Rep. Kent Keller (D„ HI.): “I think he hit the nail on the head and showed what the Administration has done for the farmers, not what might be done.” Rep. Wesley Disney (D„ Okla.): “He stated w-hat seems to be the crux of the whole thing, the interdependence ot industry and agriculture.” It was at Notre Dame yesterday afternoon that Mr. Roosevelt was accorded a significant tribute by George Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago—a tribute so glowing in its terms that the President confessed to "choking up” w'hen he heard it. The Chicago prelate indirectly rebuked those who have claimed the Catholic Church disapproves of the Administrations attitude toward religious activities in Mexico, and employed language w'hich many listeners believed w'as intended to discredit the political broadcasts of Father Charles Coughlin, militant Detroit priest. Opening the impressive ceremonies at which the President received an honorary degree as doctor of laws, Cardinal Mundelein declared: “We are not in politics. Neither the church nor I, no individual cardinal, bishop of priest, no organization of laymen or Catholic newspaper has the right to speak for the 20.000,000 Catholics in this country in matters of politics: only the bishops of the country together in conference or council, and they have not done so, and so we do not want our words to be interpreted in that sense. Nor have I any intention of defending the Rooseveltian policies: the President is perfectly well able to do that himself, and he needs no outside help.” The prelate then said Mr. Roosevelt, “who with faith and invincible courage when other brave men were faltering, took the reins of government at a crisis which threatened with collapse and chaos the centuried civilization and institutions of our country and the rest of the world, and is now by achievement even more than by official position the first citizen of our republic.” The President journeyed to Notre Dame from Chicago where he spoke for a half-hour to 14,000 cheering farmers attending the annual convention of the Farm Bureau Federation. In sharp language, he struck back at New Deal critics and charged that "profiteers” of the depression were attempting to sow seeds of discontent by playing the city against the farm. Mr. Roosevelt fotmd time, during a luncheon at the famed Saddle and Sirloin Club at the stockyards, to reiterate his intention to keep this nation free of European disputes. In effect, he urged other nations to follow' his neutrality policies. Farmers Back Stand By T utted Press CHICAGO. Dec. 10.—Farm leaders today indorsed President. Roosevelt's speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation. Typical of the attitude of the farmers toward the message the President delivered hare yesterday was the statement, of J. G. Lipman, dean of the college of agriculture of Rutgers University. "Everyone knows,’’ said Dean Lipman, “that when the farmers are rich every one is rich. Mr. Roosevelt, expressed it perfectly—that there can be no discrimination when it comes to prosperity." E. M. Higgins, Lake Geneva, Wis., director of the Wisconsin Agri- [ cultural Association, said: “Mr. Roosevelt stated exactly what the American Farm Bureau Federation has been fighting for, a fair deal for everyone, including the farmer.” Another to indorse the President’s speech was E. E. Gallup, superintendent of agricultural education of the State of Michigan. “We all approve of what Mr. Roosevelt said, and I think his talk i summed up the farm situation exactly,” he said.

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WPA MAY LOSE ARMORY WORK Labor Shortage May Block Spending $1,800,000 in Indiana. Wayne Coy, Works Progress Administrator for Indiana, today announced Washington has made available $1,800,000 for construction of armories in the state, of which $350,000 is earmarked for a new naval armory in Indianapolis. How'ever, Mr. Coy said that unless there is enough unemployed skilled labor available, the armories will not be built. The building industries, he said, have re-emploved so many skilled laborers that there is doubt if enough are available on relief rolls. POLICE PRISONER DIES ON WAY TO HOSPITAL Clifford Greenwood, Held for Vagrancy, Stricken After Arrest. Clifford Greenw'ood, 31, of 521 Lockerbie-st. died en route to City Hospital last night a few' minutes after he had been charged with vagrancy at police headquarters. Delbert Little, 246 W. Ray-st, and Joe Britt. 917 S. Senate-av. brought Greenw'ood to police headquarters and accused him of stealing Little's coat Friday night. Greenw'ood became 111 when he was registered at the turnkey’s office and w'as sent to City Hospital in an ambulance. He died en route. Cause of death has not been determined.

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FAMED FIGHTING EDITOR IS SLAIN IN MINNEAPOLIS Wife and Daughter Witness Murder of Crusading Journalist. By r ented Peru* MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 10.—Walter Liggett, crusading Minneapolis publisher slain last night, feared he wmuld die at the hands of an assassin and had cached a mass of evidence to support charges against his political foes, it was revealed today. Liggett told friends less than two months ago he feared a mortal attack and had safely secreted "in the East” a complete file of evidence in connection with the bitter campaigns he waged against enemies of his Midwest American. One man is held. Liggett’s hysterical widow', who, with their 10-year-old daughter, sat in the car w'hile the gunmen shot him, partly identified the prisoner. He is Isador (Kid Cann) Blumenfeld, w'ho had been frequently referred to in Liggett’s Midwest American, a radical weekly, as a bootlegger. Mrs. Liggett named another man. He was arrested, questioned and released. Liggett w T as an outspoken enemy of Gov. Floyd B. Olson, head of the Farmer-Labor Party that rules Minnesota. He also w'as an enemy of the local political organization and frequently charged "hat it had strong underw’orld connections. He had attacked scores of underworld individuals. And, going back, police found he had made many enemies through magazine articles that purported to expose the liquor traffic in many cities during prohibition. Wife Tells of Threat Liggett w'as the second crusading editor to die by assassination in Minneapolis within 10 months. The slaying of Howard Guilford, who also fought the Farmer-Labor Party, never has been solved. Mrs. Liggett said her husband intended to distribute copies of his paper containing specific charges against Gov. Olson to members of the Legislature today. On Monday, she said, a man whom Liggett Lad called the head cf a bootlegging syndicate telephoned her husband and said he was going to sue for SIOO,OOO. Liggett, she said, invited him to sue. saying he had evidence to prove his charge. The man then said, she told police, that “there are other w’ays of handling this.” Suspect Is Grilled Liggett had published and edited the Midwest American tw'O years previously. He published newspapers in Red Wing and Rochester. Before that, he wrote expose articles for nationally circulated magazines. One series of articles, exposing alleged corrupt alliances between politics and liquor, appeared in the magazine Plain Talk and brought him national notice. He was 49 years old and had served on the staffs of New' York and Middle Western newspapers. Detectives questioned Blumenfeld but kept their own counsel. In October Liggett was beaten by unknown men. He charged that Blumenfeld and Abe (Brownie) Bronstein were among his attack-

Puzzled Mothers of Two Captured Gunmen Grieve Over Wayward Sons.

THE sins of their children today brought grief to two Indianapolis parents, the mothers of Paul Pierce and Donald Joseph, young poiice-shooting gunmen who were nabbed near Shelbyville. The families have not been friendly since trouble caught up w’ith the youths. Each mother blames the other’s son for her own son’s waywardness. Mrs. Ethel Miller, a slight woman, sobbed In her home at 215 Leota-st, and said son. Paul Pierce, had gone three and a half years to Manual Training High School. He got into trouble first, she said, when he and a gang of boys stole a car. They sent him to Indiana state Reformatory at Pendleton. "TheVe.” the w'oman said, “he was sducated in crime. And I'd rather see him dead than returned to that awful hole, Michigan City. a a a WHEN he was out of prison and working, he brought his pay check to me every weex. I wish they’d let him come home to me, so that I could take care cf him and be with him if he dies.” Pierce is in no danger of dying of the w'ounds inflicted on him when he and Joseph shot it our with City Detectives Orville Quinette, w'hom they w'ounded seriously, and Russell Chatham. Mrs. Joseph, w'ho w'as more philosophical about the matter than Mrs. Miller, admitted the circumstances is “awful.” Donald, she said, had not gone to high school "because he couldn't, afford it.” “He is an auto mechanic.” she said, “and learned his trade in a garage down the street here. But I can’t tell you anything else, because the police have said I'm not to talk to any one. “It’s awful. I wish they'd take my boy to a hospital and have his wounds treated before they question him.” ers. He had attacked both in his newspapers. Last night Liggett, his wife and their daughter. Marda. went to the grocery. Returning, a car was parked near the Liggett garage. Liggett got out and two men leaned from the car and began shooting. Liggett dropped, groceries falling around him, and the assassin's car sped past the Liggett machine. Mrs. Liggett said she saw the two men. When police arrived, she was hysterically crying: "Kid Cann—Kid Cann,” and the child was bent over the body of her father, crying: “Don't die. daddy. Don’t die.” Once a supporter of Gov. Olson, Liggett had been the center of many storms during the last two years. He was arrested in June charged with kidnaping two 16-year-old girl.% Frank Ellis, a radical labor leader, was co-defendant. Liggett charged a political frame-up. In July he was indicted on a statutory charge. He obtained a change of venue to St. Paul and was acquitted. Besides his wdfe and daughter, Marda, Liggett is survived by a son, William Wallace#’ 12.

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FILIPINOS DROP FREEDOM GOAL FOR ‘SECURITY’ People. Fearing Japan. Look to American Flag for Protection. iCnniinued From Pate One) independence in this part of the world is impossible without economic independence and adequate national defense. Most politicians privately admit that neither of these is possible for the Philippines standing alone. Publicly, they are reluctant to declare themselves frankly until they can release popular opinion from 35 years of regimentation for independence. Explain Reversal The Filipinos contend that their reversal of policy is comparable to equally radical readjustments of other and older governments interested in the Pacific. The.se have also reshaped their Far Eastern policies since the Japanese began their defiance of the League of Nations and their encroachments upon the Asiatic mainland. They contend that whenever Washington and Manila considered independence. it was always on the assumption that both political independence and territorial integrity could and would be effectively guaranteed by | treaties binding all interested neighbors. Developments in China, proving such safeguards valueless in ! the Far East, surprised Washington ■as much as they did Manila. The Filipinos contend that the resulting | change of viewpoint, involved no bad faith or vacillation on the part of either party. Further. Filipinos contend that | abandonment of independence, made untenable by forces beyond | their control, merely means the rationalization of a situation which never contemplated American withdrawal until there was every reason to believe that, by means of treaty safeguards and othenvi.se. the islands would be able to maintain their newly acquired status. Today all the evidence is to the contrary. Leaders Realize Problem However, leaders fully realize the seriousness of the problem at Washington, and that the resources and tremendous trade advantages possessed by the islands are little unj derstood and less appreciated in the l United States. They are conscious ; of the American determination to avoid new entanglements abroad, on the one hand, and to cut loose from old ones on the other. Filipino hopes for a proper solution rest on two points. First, that the United States, having surprised the world bv making good its promise of independence—a promise skeptics predicted would never be kept—would never force upon them an independence which would be independence in name only. Secondly. they believe the fever of ingrowing. narrow nationalism prevailing in the United States today is only a temporary flash of conservatism resulting from the depression; with the return of prosperity and American commercial expansion. there will come renewed interest in foreign trade and a determination to conserve American markets wherever they may be located.