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DIRTY POLITICS BLAMED FOR LASH MURDER 11 Floridans Are Indicted After Kidnaping and Deadly Assault. (Continued From Page One) been in trouble with the police before. As president of the Unemployed Brotherhood, he was accused of organising a riotous demonstration in front of CWA headquarters in 1934. He also made a speech one night in which he said to a street-corner crowd: “If they don't give us the relief we want, let's go open a warehouse and take what we need." He was arrested, but released later on his promise before a local judge that he would make no more such speeches. Later he held several relief jobs under FERA and WPA. Mr. Rogers was Mr. Poulnot’s right-hand man. When the three were arrested by the raiding party that fatal Saturday night, three others were present: Charles Jensen state secretary of the Socialist party; John A. McOaskill, city fireman and son of a city policeman, and Walter Roush, a member of the Socialists' state executive committee. Tut Into Police Cars The six men were put into police cars and taken to police headquarters at the City Hall, where they individually were asked a few desultory questions. They were charged with being Communists but each man denied it. Mr. Roush, Mr. Jensen ana Mr. McCaskill were released almost immediately. Although Mr. McCaskill was well known to the police, Mr. Poulnot began to yell for help when two policemen led him to a car in which two strangers were seated. Crowd Is Fooled A crowd gathered. Somebody asked what was the matter and one of the abductors said, “He is a crazy man we are taking to Chattahoochee.” (Chattahoochee is the state asylum, 200 miles from Tampa.) Mr. Poulnot was thrown on to the floor of the car and told to keep his mouth shut. Th; car then proceeded to a waterfront street, where the other cars were waiting. A burlap bag was put over his head. Another car drove up. Mr. Shoemaker was taken out of it and thrown in on top of Mr. Poulnot. Mr. Shoemaker was a powc rful man, more than six feet tall and weighing 240 pounds. He resisted w hen taken out of the first car, and apparently struck some of his abductors. Somebody hit him such a powerful blow' on the head with a blackjack that he w'as knocked senseless and his whole right side was paralyzed. The car was then driven rapidly

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Everett E. Edwards, Wife Met at London Dance 'During Conflict. To many men the World War was a nightmare of noise and terror, but to Everett E. Edwards, 1625 N. Somerset-av, and his wife, Mrs. Winifred Graney Edwards, it recalls romantic memories of England. Mr. Edwards was a convalescent in the King's Canadian Red Cross Hospital in Priory-la, London, and Mrs. Edwards was a clerk in the Royal Air Force when they met at a dance in London, Nov. 18, 1918. They were married in Old Trinity Church, New York, Feb. 20, 1920. A native of Indianapolis, Mr. Edwards enlisted in the Forty-Eighth Canadian Highlanders, Cos. B, in Toronto in the spring of 1918. A memorable date for Mr. Edwards is Oct. 22, 1918, because ne, with 19 other patients in the hospital, were guests of Princess Alice, a sister of the late King George V, in Windsor Castle on that day. The awed soldiers were taken through Windsor Castle and Eton College and were given dinner in Ciro’s exclusive night club. Princess Alice and her daughter, Lady

to a wooded section near Brandon, his name was scratched off the blotter and the name “O. R. Sauls” was written in. The Tampa directory lists no O. R. Sauls. These men walked out unmolested. But Mr. shoemaker, Mr. Poulnot and Rogers were escorted separately to cars parked outside by policemen who told them they would take them home, f a town 14 miles from Tampa, where Mr. Rogers already had been whipped within a circle of auto headlights. His clothes had been torn off. When his back and thighs were a mass of cuts and bruises, hot tar was smeared on him and feathers out of a pillow slip were applied. The same treatment was given Mr. Poulnot and then Mr. Shoemaker. Telling about it afterward, Mr. Poulnot said that during the ride to Brandon, Mr. Shoemaker seemed to be only half conscious and frequently moaned. While the whippings of Mr. Poulnot and Mr. Rogers were severe, they were mild compared to the savage blows given to the limp body of Mr. Shoemaker. Apparently the floggers used a chain and leather belts or rawhides which cut deeply into his flesh. Left Unconscious on Ground Hot tar was then poured over the open wounds, followed by feathers, and he was left unconscious on the ground. The floggers then drove away and left the three victims in the darkness. Mr. Poulnot and Mr. Rogers managed to get into their clothes and tried to Help Mr. Shoemaker, but he was too weak to move. Leaving him, they walked painfully several

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miles to a filling station and later begged rides to the city. It was almost dawn when Mr. Rogers w r as able to get in touch with Jack Shoemaker, former district commander of the Florida American Legion, and brother of the thira victim. Together. they return to the woods and found Mr. Shoemaker unable to walk. They took him to a Tampa hospital. Warmth Applied to Body He had lain in the open on a cold night for seven hours. It took doctors 24 hours to restore his body warmth with applications of hot water bottles. “He is horribly mutilated,” Dr. M. R. Wmton reported to the newspapers. “I wouldn’t beat a hog the way that man was whipped. He w T as beaten until he is paralyzed on one side, probably from blows on the head. He can not say anything to you; he does not know what happened. He can t use one arm, and I doubt if three square feet would cover the total area of bloodshot bruises on his body, not counting the parts injured only by tar.” Mr. Shoemaker’s powerful physique kept him alive for nine days, but he was not able to talk coherently. When gangrene, resulting from burns made by the boiling tar on his right foot and leg, advanced rapicjly, surgeons amputated the leg. But he died soon after the operation and the case became one of murder. Civic Leaders Amazed. Tampa learned of the flogging on Monday morning. Amazement was expressed by civic leaders. The newspapers demanded detection and punishment of the perpetrators. An outburst of indignation made itself felt among the law enforcement agencies. Asa consequence, today 11 men stand indicted by the Hillsborough County Grand Jury on charges of murder, kidnaping and assault in connection with the case, and as accessories after the fact to such offenses. They are R. G. Tittsworth, Tampa police chief at the time of the flogging; his clerk, Manuel A. Menedez; Sergt. C. A. (Smitty) Brown, who led the raiding squad; five city policemen who went w'ith Browm, and three men from Orlando said to have been imported to conduct the floggings. Next—Gambling and Politics. Tomorrow on Page One, Second Section.

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TRUCK OWNERS MOBILIZED FOR DRIVE State Traffic Association to Make Campaign Plans Today. Mobilization of owners of more than 200,000 trucks licensed in Indiana for support of the safety program of the Governor's committee on public safety was announced today by the Indiana Motor Traffic Association and American Trucking Association. The IMTA safety committee 1s headed by Ray Shook, South Bend, and Ed J. Ruhner, Seymour, is chairman of the ATA state steering committee on safety. Plans for developing the safety campaign are to be made at the IMTA directors meeting this afternoon. Charles L. Riddle, Indianapolis, new president, is to preside. Names of operators active in safety are being furnished by the IMTA, to Donald F. Stiver, stave safety director, and Loran W. Warner, state accident prevention bureau director. “Indiana Motor Traffic Association, Inc., and its members, with the record of winning the national safety cup presented by American Trucking Associations, Inc., for the best state association safety campaign conducted in the United States last year,” said a letter to operators, “are under a double obligation to give active and energetic support to this movement and should all the more be in a position to make a worthwhile contribution to this allstate effort.”

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CHURCH NEEDS IN DOWNTOWN ARES STUDIED The Rev. Clive McGuire Heads Federation Group Making Survey. Because officials of the Church Federation of Indianapolis believe the greatest church needs come from close-in areas to the west and south of the business district, whs. e facilities are inadequate, a survey of the situation has been launched. The Rev. Clive McGuire, executive secretary of the Baptist Churches of Indianapolis, has undertaken a survey of the number, location and activities of the churches in the area and upon that survey the federation is to base its program, Dr. Ernest N. Evans, federation executive secretary, announced today.

Members of the commission, headed by Mr. McGuire, are: L. F. Artis. Senate Avenue Y. M. C. A., associate secretary; the Rev E. L. Day, director of Disciples churches in the city; the Rev. W. C. Hartinger, district superintendent of Methodist churches; the Rev. H. B. Hostetler, state superintendent of Presbyterian churches; the Rev. Howard G. Lytel, Fletcher Place Methodist Church pastor, and the Rev. W. G. Proctor, Mayer Chapel Presbyterian Church paster. The commission is to meet Tuesday. Cleaning Shop Window Smashed Someone hurled a brick through the window of a cleaning shop at 243 Virginia-av last night. Raymond j Vawter, owner, said there had been j no labor trouble.

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