Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1936 — Page 1

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FORMER NAVAL | OFFICER DENIES BETRAYING U.S.

Says He Did Not Sell Navy Secrets to Agent of Japanese.

ARRESTED EARLY TODAY

John S. Famsworth Placed in Jail for Lack of $10,000 Bond.

By United Press WASHINGTON. July 14—John Semer Farnsworth, once a lieuten-ant-commander in the | United States Navy, came nervous and

wracked with pain today to the bar of a United States commissioners and pleaded not guilty to charges that he betrayed his government's naval secrets. In a case almost unprecedented in the annals of the navy, Farnsworth was placed in jail for lack of $10,000 bond on charges that he sold secret information to an agent of the Japanese navy. U. 8. Commissioner Needham C. Turnage set hearing for two weeks hence.

Farnsworth, apprehended by G-|.

men and local authorities in a surprise arrest early today, complained that he was seriously ill and that the “grossly exaggerated.” He was com-

mitted to the district jail, and a] §

medical examination was ordered. Embassy Denies Knowledge.

Japanese Embassy officials denied knowledge of Farnsworth or his alleged espionage activities, but said

a man who gave the name ‘“Farns- |;

worth” telephoned the embassy yesterday and demanded money in connection with the California spy case in which Harry T. Thompson, former Navy yeoman, was convicteq and sentenced to prison last week. The demand was refused, embassy attaches said. Under the law, the district attorney here might choose, within the next two weeks, to cite Farnsworth directly to the grand jury, If that is done, it automatically would . eliminate the necessity for a hearing before Turnage. : If that is not done, Farnsworth must be taken back before Turnage and the government will be required to present its case against him.

Penalty Is 20-Year Term If, in the commissioner's judgment, the government shows cause, Farnsworth will be held for action of the grand jury. If the government fails to present a prima facie case, Farnsworth automatically will be released. The commissioner is required by law to hear only government witnesses. . Penalty for violation of the espionage section is 20 years in prison in peace-time; 30 years or degth in time of war. e specific charge against Farnseg worth was that in May, 1935, he

* transmitted to a Japanese agent a |

book entitled “The Service of Information and Security.” Nine years ago, Farnsworth was court-martialed, stripped of his lieutenant commander’s rank, and dishonorably discharged from the Navy on charges of “scandalous conduct.” Refuse to Discuss Case”

Farnsworth was arrested by GMen who adopted a policy of absolute silence and refused to discuss circumstances surrounding the capture or details of their investigation that led up to it. The book which Farnsworth is alleged to have transmitted to a Japanese agent is a confidential .Navy publication.' It includes information on naval tactics and critiques on existing and planned operations. The Navy pointed out that the book is listed as “confidential” rather than as “secret.” “Secret” documents, such as code books, are of very limited distribution, being held by only six or seven highest ranking naval officers.

Contents Not Disclosed

Confidential publications have a somewhat wider distribution, but every officer receiving one must sign for it and be prepared to present it at any time. If lost, the ‘ officer might be liable to courtmartial.

The Navy Department would not

of the e Particular

identity of the Japanese who is said to have received the document.

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DRIVER HURT IN

35-FOOT PLUNGE

Times Photo by Cotterman.

Thrown on to the bank at the water's edge before his truck plunged 35 feet down an embankment into Fall Creek at 15th-st today, Wayne King, 32, of 529 Taft-st, narrowly escaped being trapped in the cab (above), submerged in the water. King, who was rescued by three men, was taken to the City Hos-¢

pital. A driver for Smock & Co.,

His condition was said to be serious.

contractors, King had backed up

to dump paving stones taken from streets where car tracks are being

fall.

Victor Crickmiore Decliries

repaired when the bank gave way. The machine turned. over in its

to Take Stand at Trial

Attempt to Gain Immunity for Testimony in Penny Case

Rejected

by State.

Victor Crickmore, indicted in’ the alleged fatal stoning of John M. Penny, grocery truck driver, today :declined to testify in the trial of Harry F. Peats, and Emmett Joseph Williams, on trial for murder in the same case, unless the charges against him were dismissed.

DR. MORGAN URGES DOG. IMMUNIZATION

Value to Humans Cited by City Health Officer.

Dr. Herman Morgan, health board secretary, today answered critics of the proposed ordinance

for dog immunization against rabies, and assured dog owners of the plan's value. “There are objections to smallpox vaccinations, too,” Dr. Morgan said. “Immunization against rabies is a recognized preventive. Vaccine is prepared under government supervision by leading pharmaceutical companies. “Other cities have eliminated danger by this means. It is far more sensible to give a dog one preventive shot than to give a human being 14 shots after he is bitten. “If the dog is unfortunate enough to react to vaccine the reaction will last only a short time, while the human being has 14 chances to the dog's one for reaction.” Dr. Morgan pointed out that common reactions among human beings include hives, intense itching, lassitude and depression. Dr. C. F. Stout, veterinarian in charge of rabies work for the city, said today he believed the proposed immunization erdinance is the only way to eradicate the difficulty. case

Crickmore was called. to the stand by the defense. Herbert M. Spencer refused to drop the charges against him. An unsigned “statement,” which Crickmore is alleged to have made to authorities in the Indianapolis Athletic Club was read by the state,

| but Special Judge Earl P. Cox or-

dered it stricken from the record. Crickmore was named as one of four persons who threw stones at the Penney truck near Belleville on March 7; 1935, in alleged confessions by Gerald Haywood and Mrs. Mary Freels, star state witnesses. Haygood and Crickmore are scheduled to face trial later.

Victim's Mother Testifies

Mrs. Richard Penny, Ecorse, Mich., mother of the dead man, testified that in the spring of 1936, A. W. Metzger, Indianapolis manager of Kroger Grocery and Bak-

not: having any trouble with the truck drivers’ union. Nellie Barth, 3602 Kenwood-av, secretary to Jackiel W. Joseph, Kroger attorney, testified that she took down the alleged “confession” made by Haygood on Jan. 13. Later the statement was admitted -in evidence on a motion by the defense.

Judge - Cox earlier dismissed a defense motion for mistrial. The

the truck driver's widow, which appeared in. an Indianapolis news-

Mrs. Penny has not testified durin ing the trial. Judge Cox admonished the jury not to. read newspaper accounts of the trial and HO to talk With any sue.shoyt the

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SHOWDOWN ON LEWIS’ LABOR REVOLT NEAR

|A. F. of L. Council Is Due

to Vote Tomorrow on Suspension.

COMPROMISE REJECTED

Members of ‘Court-Martial’ Waver Over Delaying Final Action.

BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff Corresbondent WASHINGTON, July American Federation of Labor ‘executive council’s “court-martial” of 12 insurgent unions moved into its final stage today with members still wavering between whether to suspend the rebels or delay a final verdict. Having - turned a ‘chilly shoulder to the only compromise suggestion from rebel leader John L. Lewis, the 18 members of the federation council prepared to complete this after-

noon a series of hearings at which:

the insurgent leaders were invited, but refused to appear, and to vote probably tomorrow on whether to: 1. Delay a decision on demands for suspension of thé rebel Committee for “Industrial Organization unions, as proposed by George Harrison, head of the council’s unsuccessful conciliation committee.

Consider Suspension 2. Suspend the 12 unions, with a

membership of more than 1,000,000 |

out of the federation’s 3,000,000, as demanded by a strong faction of the council because the Lewis group seeks fo organize industrial-type unions as opposed to the craft union policy of the federation. The council has enough votes for suspension if peacemakers fail to block such action.

3. ‘Adopt a resolution condemning

the C. 1. O. activities and recommending that the convention act to crush the Lewis movement. ‘In addition, one other avenue proposed by the C. I. O. leaders was

open to the council, but unlikely to

be accepted. It was learned that Mr. Lewis

| himself made the C. 1. O. compro{mise proposal to Mr. Harrison when |Orles Ha with he tt ni i st, pleasant. occupation : dematids | could have They had biti ‘day pleasure jaunt down the Missis- ; sippi and were about to pitch their | tents near the gay city of New:

regard to the counecil’s {that he disband-his committee. Mr. Lewis refused to disband his group and, in reply, suggested that the council agree to a compromise whereby certain mass production industries would be designated for trying out the industrial-type union method, thereby specifying a certain field for.the C. 1. O. and a certain field for the present federation leaders. Mr. Harrison answered that his committee had no power to nego-

tiate and was instructed merely to |’

act in connection with the demand for dissolution of the C. I. O. - It was indicated to Mr. Lewis, however, that the proposal would not be sat-

isfactory to ‘various craft -union |

leaders dominating the federation, because of - conviction that the (Turn to Page Three)

$50,000 SUIT FILED; CITY CO-DEFENDANT

Four Bring Action After Safety Zone Mishap.

A total of $50,000 damages for alleged. injuries received when their struck a street car loading safety zone was asked by four .persons in suits filed in Marion Superior Court today. The City of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis Railways were named co-defendants. The accident ed April 26 in the 500 block, E. Washington-st. Mrs. Anna Evans seeks $25,000 damages, charging she lost the use of an arm and received internal injuries. Her husband, Lewis H. Evans, and Mrs. Irene Wagner demanded $10,000 damages each, and Charles A. Wagner, driver of the car, which was. demolished, asked $5000 dam-

paper yesterday, was contemptuous. | ages

The loading zones are constructed of steel and concrete. The complaint, filed by Attorney Edward O. Snethen, charges there were no warning lights on the safety zone at

the time of the accident. :

CIGARET BLAMED

14—The |

FOR 2 GRASS FIRE

Nearly 60 acres of blackened land along Kessler-blvd at 56th-st today mutely reproached some careless motorist who flipped a cigaret ‘into a field of blue grass and timothy hay (above) yesterday and

ignited it.

Frantic work of volunteers saved the home of Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox from fire as they beat out the flames within two feet of

the garage.

Park department employes joined three city fire department companies to fight the flames, after the Cox home was threatened and the fire moved toward other homes several rods distant. It was checked

before it reached them.

JULY 14

IN PIaNE NiiSToRY

5 The Indianapolis Times is carrying a daily feature on an important event in Indiana history, each story appearing on the anniversary of the event.

INETY years ago this day the First Indiana Regiment was encamped at iNew Orleans waiting to be shipped to Mexico to fight Santa Anna for Texas, which had

been annexed to the United States

in 1845.

Orleans on the batlefield where Andrew Jackson had beaten off the British in 1814. But the brave Hoosiers were about ‘to be disillusioned.

The glorious battlefield here they |

(Turn to Page 12 MARKETS AT A GLANCE

By United Press

Stocks Tise to: new ‘highs since 1931. 3 Bonds higher, led by rails; U.S. Governments irregularly higher. Curb stocks higher, led by utilities. Chicago stocks higher. Call money 1 per cent. Foreign exchange mixed; sterling lower, francs firm. Cotton . futures 7 to 9 points higher. Rubber futures off 1 to 3 points.

BATTLE LOOMS

ON PROHIBITION

Dry Issue Likely to Sway Votes in Presidential ~ Campaign.

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Speeial Writer

WASHINGTON, July 14.—Prohibition is likely to be an undercover

issue in the presidential campaign {which will Bway important blocks of By he time they reached. New vote 4

a is pea liv regarded

as a dead issue, but to many .ar-

dent drys it is still the paramount question. Likewise, the gIement which was instrumental in killing national prohibition is wary of any threat of jts return. Gov. Landon’s dryness and the paradox of widespread sale of beer in his own state was called to altention a few days ago by the Democratic minority in the Kansas Legislature, which offered a futile ges-

ture by advocating a law to define |

the alcoholic content of beer. “Kansas has a “bone-dry” law which is even stricter in its penalties and its reach than the Volstead Act. When 3.2 beer was legalized by Congress, the Kansas Supreme Court left it up to county juries to decide in each specific case whether such beer was “intoxicating in fact.” Several juries decided it was not, so ‘ (Turn to Page Three)

State Swimming Places Surveyed for for Pollution

Don’t Bathe. in Insanitary Water, Official Warns; Safety| Rules ‘Are Given.

A survey of northern Tniliana ‘lakes to determine their. fitness as swimming places is being made by the State Health Department and the survey is to be continued throughout the state,” B. 4A. Poole, Sanitary

engineer, announced today. Pollution of the water by bathers is the chief health danger in artificial swimming pools, Mr. Poole said, while in natural bathing areas —streams, lakes, ponds, large gravel:

pits, quarry holes, dette major by health hazard is that of pollution,

by sewage

beach are separate from those /o! other beaches, and the 5 dangers can be determined 3 Complete

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COOLER

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RELIEF FOR CITY REPORTED NEA 10 MORE DEA

Downpour in - Northwest States Comes Too Late to Save Crops.

IN DAKOTAS

Death Toll Mounts Past 1000 Mark as Mercury Stays Over 100.

By United Press

CHICAGO, July 14.—Cooling showers fought against a

wall of hot air in the Midwest |

today, promising relief by tomorrow from an unprecedented heat wave that has taken at least 2087 lives and caused upwards of $400,000,000

property damage. “Thundershowers now falling over the Dakotas and Nebraska will reach Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana and Ohio by tomorrow afternoon or might,” Forecaster J. R. Lloyd of the Chicago Weather Bureau, promised. “Another mass of cool air is moving down from Upper Michigan and the two combined undoubtedly should break up the heat wave.” The welcome forecast came as nine Midwestern states endured another day of blazing heat. Hospitals and morgues in Detroit, Chicago, and the Twin Cities were jammed with dead and dying heat victims. It was the eleventh day of 100 degree temperatures for a large part of the drought basin. In Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, where the heat originated July 2, comparative cool temperatures prevailed after rain splashed over the parched countryside. Temperatures in - those states early today included 56 at Rapid

| City, 8. D. 50:at Cheyenne, Wyo.

‘50: at: Miles City, “Mont, and 62 at

= PS ADMITS HIS PART IN KIDNAPING

Pleads Guilty to Abducting

William Hamm, Jr.

By United I'ress ST. PAUL, Minn, July 14.—Alvin Karpis, last ‘of the leaders of the notorious ‘Barker-Karpis gang to come -into court, today pleaded guilty to charges of kidnaping William Hamm Jr. St. Paul brewer. Karpis changed his plea from not guilty shortly before he was to stand trial in the case. He had been considering the ‘change of plea almost constantly since his capture in New Orleans May 1. Passing of sentence was deferred.

Do crud Bue DRISING

Break (in Temperature Due Late Tomorrow, Says Weather Bureau.

CROP DAMAGE HEAVY,

Several Heat Victims Arg Reported in Serious Condition.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

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(Another Weather Picture, Addie tional Stories, Page 3)

Somewhere over the Mid= west plains there rides today to the relief of heat-plagued Indianapolis a cool, low pressure atmospheric area that is due to arrive late tomorrow, 3

But 1t is to be no complete sole tion to the record eight-day above 100-degree temperatures, the Weather Bureau warns. At best it will reduce temperatures only inte the early 90's. : While the city awaited even a slight relief, four more citizens died of prostration, Six deaths yesterday and four today brought the total heat wave victims to 24 in Indianapolis. The week ending yesterday was the hot= test in the records of the local weather bureau.

Average Is 91.6 Degrees

A high pressure ‘area that shot temperatures in the Colorado Wyoming dust howls ‘down to 50 ‘grees today is moving slow] : ward and js expected to stri sizzling MidWest tomorrow, Armington, local meteorologist, The new 4rea may bring sho to relieve Marion County's with ing 42-day drought, the Weather Bureau said. With an average teme perature of 91.6 degrees, the July 7 to 13 was the hottest in the Bureau's history. The three other hottest weeks in the bureau's history are July 6 to 12 1881, 88.9 degrees; July 21 to 27, 1901, 87, and July 20 to 26, 1934, 90.6. The warmest temperature ever recorded officially: here was 108 on July 22, 1901.

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| Woman Overcome at Home

The heat deaths reported Inte yesterday were:

MRS. LOUIE RUGG, 902 Pennsywania-st, Apartment ; was found dead this morning: at her home.. The coroner gave heat as the cause. She was 72. ISAAC POINDEXTER, ‘Negro, died in City Hospital this morning, He was taken there yesterday, trated by the heat. He was 84 lived at 706% Indiana-av. | TOMMY MILLER, otherwise known as Walter Hudson, Indiz olis globe trotter and former weight fighter in upper n brackets, was found dead Craig Hotel room, 328 E. Wash ton-st. ‘Heat was given cause. He was 73. FRENCH HOLLINGSHEAD found dead in his room at ford Hotel, 107% S. Hiitole-st. morning. He was 84. JOHN WURZ, 67, of 2717 s) st, night watchman, was found d in his place of employment, el Georgia-st, last night. MRS. JOHN RYAN, 68, of 2268 Alabama-st, was overcome while af her home. PHILIP LOMBARDO, 52, of S. East-st, a Pennsylvania Railr employe, died early today Methodist Hospital. He was

150ms yesterday. In the Ir

yar WILLIAM C. BROCK, 44-

. |old barber, died in an ambu

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en route to Methodist Hospital f his home, 1005 N. Delaware-st.