Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1936 — Page 5
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te - Shited Crusaders”
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Military Coup, Clergyman Says.
d military overthrow of the government by “shirted,” ned terrorists, now lacking 2
r, was drawn today by the Rev. !
» M. Birkhead, Unitarian minister id Civil Liberties Union official. Birkhead asked President Roosevelt for an investigation, citing |” proof” of plans for a .of local and state govern-
nts and a march on Washington
y more than 100 organizations. “All these organizations need is a ler to make them an incredibly inister force,” Birkhead said. Singly they are not yet a serious menace.” Says He Has Proof
Birkhead seid he had proof the Shirt Crusaders with headquarters at Chattanooga, Tenn. the terrorism and overthrow describes. Kansas City, he said, 18 a Western headquarters for the organization and in this area more
~ than a dozen of similar character
Birkhead’s “definite proof” was a from George W. Christians of { Chattanooga, ander-in-chief of the - ; Crusaders. The letter _.cd a threat to the min-
oo _ ister and a copy of “General Or-
il in which a march on the government is outlined. It said in part: - “The first objective is to take con-
of local governments in the ‘ol- :
8g manner: Details Are Given
March in military formation to
and around the governmental buildtic appeal, force the officials
pings. Then, by sheer numbers and
accept and act under the direcof an economic supervisor apa by the president of the crufor economic liberty. This
a (E= first duty will be to repudi- =
the public debt and utilize the ents assigned thereto for the
: Public welfare.
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“Dishonest officials should immevy be brought to justice. . . . Great care should be exercised so that: the situation does not get out of control and some poor, muddleheaded. but honest politician gets hung without a fair trial.” : The “temptation to use a few
A Dintarpie to loosen up fat pocket-
" should be righteously resist-
o ed, ‘the letter said.
The letter, asking Birkhead to “start something,” added: © “Revolutions aren’t nice, are they? Before this is over there may be some reason for the Black Legion to be Ashamed of themselves as pik-
: VIOLENCE ADVOCATED
~~ BY GROUP’S LEADER
Chattancors Man Denies Charge of ; Kansas City Pastor,
By United Press : TTANOOGA, Tenn., June 29. advocating violence should
it become necessary, George W. , leader of the “Red Revolutionary Society” of White : Crusaders, boasted today his tion eventually will em“all but § per cent of this napopulation.” - ns, middle-aged engineer whe is president of the Crusaders for Economic Liberty and com--in-chief of the Crusader V Shirts, denied charges made the Rev. L. M. Birkhead, Kansas y pastor. He qualified his stateat with admission the organiza‘advocates violence to attain its
Jrusaders for Economic Liberty, fistians said, hold the gold stand- | responsible for the depression,
MEDICAL STAFF FOR © C.M.T.C.IS NAMED
e. Edward O. Little Is to Be : Ranking Officer. Dr. Edward O. Little, member of the rating board of the veterans’
administrative faculty and . who ds a lieutenant colonel's commis-
ve officer on duty during the first } weeks of the Citizens’ Military
Wreckage of the airplane in which Charles Ballard, 25 (insert), Plainfield, was killed, and John N. Praay, 24, also of Plainfield, was injured Saturday afternoon, is shown above with the faulty motor that is said to have caused the crash, sprawieq out on Manieirel Airport.
Dancing Dionnes By United Press CALLANDER, Ont., June 29. —The Dionne sisters danced to ‘the music of a 40-piece Salvaation Army band and liked it s0 much they demanded an encore. The band was brought here yesterday to serenade the. infants outside the hospital grounds. The - concert was more or less an experiment, and nurses and hospital ate * tendants anxiously watched it from the sidelines. Had the quins been frightened, the music would havé been stopped immediately. The band started playing very softly, and the babies came out on the veranda. A nurse led them from the veranda to the grass in the yard, and the babies ran to the wire fence. They stood with faces pressed against:the heavy mesh. As the band broke into a lively march, one of the babies started to dance, and soon all five little rose-clad figures were dancing. When the concert was over, the babies went to the fehce, chattering, and the band had to render an encore.
SOUTH BEND GIVEN VETERANS’ MEETING
Eight From Indianapolis-Win Elective Positions.
Times Special ; BLOOMINGTON, Ind. June 29.— The state convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars is to be held in South Bend next year. . Selection of the city was made Saturday at the close of the threeday convention.
Eight Indianapolis ‘persons were |
honored by the veterans organization and its auxiliary by election to offices in the two groups. Elevated to posts in the veterans organization were Karl Carey, Indianapolis, senior vice commander; Earl S. Passwater, Indianapolis, quartermaster, and Dr. Fred Smith, Indianapolis, surgeon. Indianapolis women holding offices in the auxiliary are Mrs. Nelle Carey, senipr vice president; Blanche Scudder, Gertrude Kremer, Emma Passwater and Mae Williams, councillors.
20,000 WALK OUT IN FRENCH STRIKES
More Labor “Troubles Plague Pre--mier Blum’s Government. By United Press = PARIS, June 29.—Twenty thousand workers walked out in the Moselle Valley industrial districts today. The strike increased the number of French strikers to 180,000, and threatened further labor troubles to plague Premier Leon Blum’s government. Many workers remained on strike
in the Annesy, Grenoble and Metz
HUGE STILL EXPLODES
:| No Injuries Reported; Blast Rocks
10-Mile Area.
. | By United Press
, Mass, June 20.— The huge Doherty still at the Cities Service Refining Cos East Braintree plant exploded early today, rocking houses over a radius of 10
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VICTIM'S RITES SET FOR TODAY
Motor Failure Blamed for Accident; Passenger Hurt Slightly.
Times Special
PLAINFIELD, Ind, June 20.— Funeral services were to be held at 2 p. m. today for Charles Bale lard, who was killed Saturday in an air crash at the Municipal Airport in Indianapolis. He was 24. Burial
was to be in Plainfield.
John N. Praay, 24, also of Plainfield was bruised slightly in the crash, , : Praay said “everything happened so fast I can’t recall all of it.” “As the motor started missing
and stopped, Ballard turned back to the field and we crashed,” he|
said. “I pulled myself out of the wreckage and tried to pull Ballard out and by that time several others from the airport arrived and helped me.” Airport attendants said Mr. Ballard attempted to land after his motor failed at an altitude of about 150 feet. They said he did not have enough altitude to make the turn back to the field and the craft nosed downward. The motor was described as being old. Mr. Ballard, who had been flying two years with 200 hours to his credit,” was regarded among other local fliers as a first-class pilot. He piloted the plane that crashed in the 1935 Indiana Air Tours. -- Surviving in addition to the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Ballard, are two sisters, Mrs. David Milhous, 4008 W. Washington-st, and Miss Elizabeth Ballard, Plainfield.
C. M. B. MEMBERS TO HAVE PROGRAM
Club of Class to Be Host at Tonight’s Event.
A Goodspeed Club C. M. B. program is to be sponsored tonight by the Goodspeed Club, an organization of members of the Christian Men Builders’ class of Third Christian Church who have attended services for 52 consecutive Sundays. Members of the Demegorians, public speaking club of Technical High School, talked on “Walls” at the class service yesterday. ! Miss Thelma Hunter was chairman for the talks by Eldeen Blair “Mending Walls”; James Runyan, “Invisible Walls”; Allen Crips, “The Great Separator,” and Mary Agnes Dunwoody, “Walls of Misunderstanding.” © Charles Parks is club sponsor. Alvin Joslin, saxophonist, accompanied by F. A. Barker, played. The program was broadcast over WFBM.
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Officials Unable to Take Congressman From His Office.
By United Press WASHINGTON, June 29.—Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck threw authorities into a baffling dilemma today when he boldly returned to his office at the Capital after vaulting to freedom over a seven-foot fence around a private Maryland sani-
tarium. . A warrant charging assault was revived against the Democratic Congressman from Washington; he is wanted by Maryland authorities as a fugitive from the sanitarium, and a lunacy hearing may be ordered here. But in the face of it all Zion-
check settled himself complacently
in his luxurious office suite while police, reporters and scores of curious crowded around his office door and authorities admitted that because of a tangle of jurisdictional disputes no one can be found with ed power to take Zioncheck into custody.
REP, ZIONCHECK ==
~ WHITE OXFORDS,
hn the WOMEN'S Shop... + Clearance
quested at 10:30 a. m. (Indianapolis
time). Wanted in Maryland
Maryland Zioncheck as a fugitive’ from the sanitarium, but so long as he was in the District of Columbia they were helpless. It was reported that if District authorities succeed obtaining custody of Zioncheck they will recommit him to Gallinger pending possible action on the assault warrant or possible renewal of at-
Sempts to give him a lunacy hearZioncheck, playboy of Congress, lin
authorities wanted |
SENTENCED FOR LOCAL THEFTS
Plead: ‘Guity to Looting
Filling Stations on Saturday.
Four men were given long sen-
|tences in Criminal Court today on
their pleas of guilty to a series of Aline station robberies Saturday afternoon. They are Cleo Arnold Chelf, 23, of 731 .8. -st, sentenced to 10 to 25 years in the State Reforma-
.| tory; Lester Sandlin, 31, of 1928
Broadway, 15 years; his brother, Cisley, Sandlin, 25, of 1401 W. 33rdst, 10 to 25 years, and John Gordan, 20, of 915 Gladstone-av, arrested early today, 10 to 25 years. All four were out on parole in previous theft cases, police said.
Photo Is Identified
A photograph of Chelf was identified, police said, by C. L. Voss, 43, of 230 E. 9th-st, as being that of one of two bandits who forced their way into his car in the downtown area and shoved him out at Sherman-dr and Millersville-rd. Several minutes later two bandits driving Mr. Voss’ car robbed a fill-
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FATHER HELD AFTER BLAZE IN RESIDENCE
Police Find Parent in Stupor and Children Huddled in Corner.
August Evans, 31, of 541% 8S. New Jersey-st, was held by police today on a charge of child neglect following a fire at his. home yesterday. Police said they sotnd Evans lying on a bed in a stupor after he allegedly overturned an oil stove which started the fire. Evans’ two children, Chester, 8, and Robert, 6, were found huddled in a corner, police said, as neighbors put out the blaze. The children werg taken to the Detention Home pending further investigation. The mother is at City Hospital following the birth of ane other child.
Summer Bible School Closes Memorial Presbyterian Church daily vacation Bible School today had concluded its 1936 sessions. One hundred twenty-five pupils attended graduation exercises ‘and a picnic yesterday in Brookside Park. D. W. H. Kendall, church pastor, was school superintendent.
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