Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1936 — Page 3
AT HONTINETON AWAITING QUIZ
Alleged Killer of Three to Get Jury Hearing in September.
By United Press
HUNTINGTON, Aug. 10.—Harry'
E. Singer, 25, confessed slayer of three members of a Wabash County farm family, today was held to the grand jury convening Sept. 7 after . pleading guilty to the brutal crime in a Justice of the. Peace Court.
After his appearance before Squire | -
Joseph Melvin at Wabash, the red-
haired farm hand was brought here for safe keeping. Prosecutor Eugene Weesner said he would use Singer's plea of guilty to first degree murder charges as a basis for his demand for the death penalty for the allaged slayer. John Fielding Wesley, 56-year-old Kentuckian, his wife Viola, and their 12-year-old daughter, Margaret, were buried in a single grave in North Manchester today. Funeral arrangements were kept secret to forestall attendance by the morbid curious. Mrs. Wesley's mother, Mrs. Lee Foster, and her sisters, Mrs. Alice , Jones and Mrs. Colen White, all of Louisville, were among 75 persons attending the services conducted by the Rev. Homer Ogle. Mrs. Foster confirmed police theories that the name of Wesley by which the family was known in Wabash County was partially an assumed name. | She said Wesley’s true name was Kaufman, but that she was asked to address mail to “F. Wesley” after the family moved to Wabash County in 1929. She could not explain why the name was changed. Singer told State Police he killed the Wesleys July :1 after the daughter had discovered intimate relations between Mrs. Wesley and him. He buried their bodies in a five-foot grave in a cow lot, and started on a spending orgy which led to his arrest. He sold possession of the Wesleys and traded their car for a new machine.
ROCKY RIPPLE HOME DESTROYED BY FIRE
E. R. Richards Is Burned as Stove Explodes.
When a kitchen gasoline stove exploded early today, E. R. Richards was forced to [flee from his home at 5340 Riverview-dr. He was burned on the hands. Mr. Richards, in the front part of the house, carried their 4-month-old girl-to safety. The bungalow was destroyed. Only two chairs were saved, neighbors in the Rocky Ripple area said. Firemen were able to keep the flames from spreading to oihwr structures, but could make no headway against the blaze. Loss was estimated by neighbors at $3000.
— STATE TRAFFIC TAKES 9 LIVES
20 Hurt, in in Marion County in 19 Automobile Accidents.
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Taggart was arrested by es for failure to have a driver's license. Marcum’s condition today was described as fair at City Hos-
pital. | William rews, 47, of 2451 Co- | lumbia-av, Negro, was treated at City Hospital for leg injuries received yesterday when he was knocked d by an automobile driven by Carl H. Shade, 19, of 515 N. Hamilton-av, - at 25th-st and Martindale-av. At least 12 additional deaths, nine due to traffic crashes, were reported in Indiana. Two drownings were reported and one person was struck and killed by a train. Roland Frick, South Bend, accidentally backed his automobile over his 18-month-old son, Roger, causing fatal injuries. Wayne Andrews Hatton, 21, died from injuri suffered when his automobile | overturned ‘after it struck gravel near Lafayette. Dan Schaefer, 38, was killed and four other men were injured when their car overturned three times and plunged. down an’ embankment near Lawrenceburg. 17 Hurt Saturdgy Seventeen persons were injured in accidents here Saturday. James Wright, 60, of 326 S. Missouri-st, was reported in serious condition at City Hospital today after being knocked down by an automobile while crossing the street in the 400 block W. South-st Saturday night. The car was driven by John Shepard, 24, R. R. 4, Box 411. Miss Nellie Martin, 22, of 2457 N. Pennsylvania-st, was injured slightly when the| car she was driving overturned’ at 23rd and Pennsyl-vania-sts after colliding with one driven by Richard Curtis, 20, of 37 N. Dearborn-st, Saturday afternoon. . Ira E. Fl 37, of Peoria, Ill, and Elliott Flood, 48, of 2317 Unionst; were in City $ Hospital: today with injuries received in a ‘head-on
of Stop 11 road.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY
International Radionie Association, convention, Hotel Lincoln, all day. theran Church Synodical Conference, ar, Parish Hall Auditorium of St. aul's Lutheran Church, Weghorst and right-sts, all day. National Chiropractic Association, con. Yeauion, Hotels coln and Claypool,
Service Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, 2 Slentech Club, luncheon, Board of Indianapolis Oil Club, luncheon, Hotel Severin, no Junior Chamber of Commerce, meeting, Lincoln Club, meeting, p.m. Managers, | lunchnoon. i} Board of | Trade, noon Rile Memorial Association, luncheon,
ub, noon. i wR Realtors, luncheon, 'Archi-
North t Builders Buildin b Jun lion. funcheon, g, Doon. | Club, noo Central Labor Union, Plumbers Hall, 8 " Unity Club, U. Debartaent of Agriculture, luncheon, of Trade oon.
Salesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel W ington, noon.
MEETINGS TOMORROW ~ auRofary Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, no ian apolis Hame Builders’ Association, dinner, Hoosier 6:30 En Gyro Club, aaheoh. Spink-Arms Hotel,
Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, SP atruction
ju ncheon, Ar hits ts and Euilgens a iv - opniversat Club, luncheon, Columbia aD A nts’ Assieistion, luncheon, ote ington, Hoosier Republicans, p Lg Yuncheon. CoA luncheon, Hotel
al ‘Chiron actie Associatic , CONJention, Lincoln prac Claypool Hotel, ail | w
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(Incorrect addresses frequently are given te the Marriage License Bureau deliberately. The Times in printing the official list assumies no responsibility for such addresses.)
flliam R. Wahan i Department o ri fas N.
Ww Arms Hotel, oF Thai pda a Audes Pr titon i “Eo ie. 38. chitin, 18 of G3 N.' Walcott a’ Richard Jacob, 30. | Station- ; Cloth po RE Le M. Hoover,
pes Th Se f 2450 W. 44, of 31 De oi
Loyal, Nina Hall, Methodist. Fredri ck, Lois Manning, Coleman Edward, Gwendo olyn Br Brown, Coleman. Kenneth Mary Nelson, Mary araing, al. | Girls Arthur, Leona Gray. St. Vincent's. John, Rheba Kixmiller, St. Vincent's. Oras. Beatrice Pike, Methodist.
Sanford, Lucele Van Arsdale, Methodist. }
Robert, Elizabéth Goucher, Methodist
Harry Irene Hoffman,. Methodist. Harold, Mary Hauk, Coleman. n, Delores Johnson, Colem &haties. Marjorie Johnston, Coleman,
DEATHS John Robert McClure, 6; Riley, acute leukemia, hn Heck, 52, at 855 N. LaSalle, acute m SO acon Snitaker Bell, 94, at 201 N. Randolph, cardiac decomposition Ellen Frances Mahoney, 86, St. "Vincent's, chronic myocarditis. Bessie Holliman, 53, at 1847 Boulecardpl, Satis) oSigticie ency. oi ries E. Arbogast, 40, Veterans, acute olecyst Midred M. Edmonds, 47, at 3002 Fall Creek-blvd, ScCaley,
Lillian E. McCalley, ‘a4, at 3233 N. Meri- |
dian, thyrotoxicosi mS RM Ostrow, 45, ‘at 42 W. Georgia, car-
ecom ile Brevens, 67, City, arteriosclero- . Lucille Miller, ., at 426 W. 12th, car-
o iliiam Frank | Huerst. 30 minutes, St. Vincents, orem
Roger Ada Riley, tuberculosis. ms, Fg. ey: miliary
BUILDING PERMITS
dard Ol ¢ 408 Shae 3%; Mterations, $400. aigerations, ia-sta,
Mary's tg ont and’ New Xi an . y Hr E. 9th-st, roofob Horton, 3300 Broadway, repairs, 1703 Prospect-st,
a an & Dirk, Marion Material Co., 53¢ Buchansn-st,
aa Traits Finite 3 Lynn and VerOFFICIAL WEATHER
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crash Saturday on Road 35, south
Tickled
Having Fun
Prom left to right, these pictures are all of Col. Frank Knox, Chicago Daily News publisher, and Republican nominee for Vice
President. They were taken during Club Saturday.
& press conference in the Columbia
When he entered the conference room, Col. Knox met one and all with a handshake. Some one, facetiously, introduced Paul Smith, United Press staff writer accompanying him, as Senator Smith. The ' colonel mistook the identity, and shook hands with another person
standing nearby.
“How do you do, Senator?” he said.
A little startled, the man said,
He was a veteran Chicago Daily News
“How do you do?”
Then, during the interview, Col. Knox looked up at the Chicago Daily News reporter accompanying him and asked:
“Have you filed yet for the first “Yes.”
home?”
“When are you going to file again?” “I'll file an insert of your speech.”
“All right.”
en the colonel started the inteview, he said:
Wh “It’s so hard to start-—to keep away from being
bromidic. He didn’t bat an eye at the photographer’s flashes. He drummed his Angers. oh the arm of the chair more or Jess Constant
Indiana G. O. P.
Begins Drive;
Hopes to Get Out Big Vote
Party Workers Take Cue From Knox’ Address at Connersville.
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pose of which is to create class hatred. We are in a fight from now to Nov. 3 to preserve the American system of government and economics. “We are on a toboggan slide sland now to socialism. I stand as an advocate of a system of government in the United States which - has given the kindliest form of civilization.” After the luncheon, the party rested until 4 and then began the trip to Connersville, which already was in bunting and a festival mood in honor of Raymond S. Springer, G. O. P. gubernatorial candidate. Gov. Alf M. Landon, Col. Knox's running mate, sent a telegram to
YOUTH IS DROWNED IN MIDNIGHT SWIM
Jess. Edwards Loses Life in Eagle Creek.
The body of Jess Edwards, 26, of 1847 W. Morris-st, drowned while swimming at the Indianapolis Railways gravel dock in Eagle Creek last night, was recovered by a police rescue squad early today. Russell - Lockwood, 24, of 1837 Lambert-st, told police he and Mr. Edwards stopped at the creek for a midnight swim after an auto ride and that when they got half way across the creek his companion cried out that he “couldn't make it” and sank. iN Lockwood said he drove to a fire station about two miles away and called the police. Indianapolis Railways employes aided in the search for the body.
PUBLIC FUNERAL FOR ZIONCHECK ARRANGED
By United Press SEATTLE, Aug. 10.—Seaftle tomorrow will conduct a huge public funeral for Rep. Marion Anthony Zioncheck, the young Washington congressman who ended a spectacular career with a five-story suicide leap from his office in a downtown building. The Washington Commonwealth Federation, one of Zioricheck's strongest supporters during his political career, aided the congressman’s widow, Rubye Nix Zioncheck, in
the assemblage at Connorsville. It
read: “Please express my greetings to the Republicans of Indiana and through them to the people of the great Hoosier state. In the history of America, the name of Indiana always has stood for a special type of courage and initiative and ‘to be from Indiana is a mark of high distinction. I am sure that the native strength and. virility of the people of the Hoosier state will assert -itself in November. America is ripe for recovery and it is time to stop fumbling. “I am sure -the people of Indiana, and particularly the Republicans, agree with this sentiment. I express the hope that you may have a most successful conference and from this foundation move forward to victory in November.” Knox Final Speaker Then, in the evening, before a crowd estimated at 35,000, Col. Knox spoke, opening his campaign and endin gthe day-long program. Candidate Springer spoke in the afternoon. “Our Governor,” he said, “seems to have been smitten with the same madness for power as those at Washington and has forced through a willing Legislature laws that give him. personal power over the: very lives of our people and their welfare that heretofore has heen undreamed of in ou¥ state.” + He was discussing. the ‘centralization of state government by the 1933 act, and he that the Governor would be the only elective official in the state government today if it had not been for the state constitution. | “The act,” he said, “not only takes all power to hire and fire the 12,000 state employes from: regular constitutional officers, and gives it to the Governor, but it also makes him infallible in transferring money and appropriations from one department to another. “If the Governor desires to indulge himself, he may purchase an airplane and pay for it out of any fund he chooses, and, for any reason satisfactory to the Governor, he may have that airplane over the city of Louisville on Kentucky Derby. Day and the taxpayers will be unable from the financial reports of the state to determine the cost of those activities. “All of this means one-man government, and to that policy I am unalterably opposed. Such abuse of power and such betrayal of public trust should be repudiated by the voters of Indiana.” “Instead of decreasing the num-| ber of boards, ons and bureaus, they have been increased from 78 in 1932 to 99 in 1936.”
Going Back to Normal Col. Knox looked over the crowd, said by officials ‘of the celebration to have been even larger at night than in the afternoon, and said: “You are going back to normal in November. The people of Indiana are not going to vote for eight years of governmental St. Vitus
completing funeral and burial plans. | dance.
Federation officials believed tiie rites would be among the largest ia Seattle history. United States Senators Homer T. Bone and Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Narhingln will be among honorary
WPA Project Signs Fail to Mar G. O. P. Connersville Rally;
“The American system of free enterprize holds the promise of a new : order with a ers standard of living, free of poverty and insecurity. This must come through low costs and high production, and not class ha
PARIS MAY ASK U. S. JOIN PACT
| Germany Reported Insisting |
That America Also Agree on Neutrality.
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that of the other three occupants
two were Germans, the third a Spaniard. “The German embassy’s only comment was an emphatic denial that there were any Germans in the plane seized at Azuaga. Suspension of the Lufthansa service was explained as due to “local reasons.” An embassy spokesman sald it was hoped that the service might be resumed after a conference with the Foreign Ministry. "zuaga, where according to the Vicr Ministry the Junkers armed plane was seized, is 180 miles southwest of Madrid, and 80 miles southeast of Badajoz, the important rail-
way junction. on the Portuguese
frontier. The country around Azuaga sc~~1s to be a checkerboard of Loyalist and rebel holdings.
More Incidents Add to Threats of War
By United Press PARIS, Aug. 10.—International in-
cidents of a sort that might plunge
the powers into a serious crisis over the Spanish revolt continued to mul-
tiply today.
The German freight steamship
Bessel, ‘arriving . at Bayonne with refugees, reported that it was pursued, off San Sebastian, by an armed boat, flying the red flag, until the German torpedo boat Albatross appeared and chased it off. Capt. Robert Savile, British yachtsman, was killed off Gijon when the rebel cruiser Almirante Cervera shelled his motor yacht Blue Shadow. His wife was seriously wounded. The yacht went aground on a sand bank. The Blue Shadow. was. cruising off Gillon. First the gbvernment ‘on it, mistaking it for 3 TeL0) Sup. Then the rebels, takor & Loyalist ship, apparently fired point blank at it. par
The Italian embassy at Madrid’
awaited a reply to a strong protest against the alleged killing of three Italians at Barcelona and the wounding of a fourth,
Loyalists Purchase 15 French Planes
By United Press PORT BOU, France, Aug. 10.— Fifteen speedy {wo-motored airplanes, purchased by the Loyalist government, have arrived at Bar-
celona from France and more are
expected, uncensored dispatches said today. A dozen persons a day are being assassinated, the dispatches said, despite all efforts of the government and Workers’ Militia committees to restore order. -
British Protest Killing of Officer
“By United Press LONDON, Aug. 10. — Sir Henry Chilton, British ambassador, today protested to Spanish rebel authorities against the killing of Capt. Ru-
pert Savile, British yachtsman, by
shells from the r cruiser Almirante Cervera, and the wounding of Savile's wife. The British protest reserved the right to claim Sompensation for the incident.
$5 SAFE ROBBERY LOOT Yeggs knocked the combination
, 29, of 1379 Nor-dyke-st, manager.
‘has not been toward democracy.
‘panding. It is a picture of democ-
‘nals standing between the govern-
Study of Governmental Trend , Shows Democracy Giving Way to New Forms, Sullivan Says
(Mr. Sullivan’ Writes Thrice Weekly) BY MARK SULLIVAN : Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Aug. 10.--In America, nine out of ten of us, so far as we think in ferms of public affairs, keep our minds on the approaching presidential election. That is naturai enough. Yet to discuss whether Mr. Roosevelt will carry New York or Gov. Landon carry the Midwest, or how many votes the Union Party will get—all that, ample enough in the comfortable times when America could be self-centered—all that seems tragically insular, in the light of the great forces that are
abroad in: the world.
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Even those Americans who pay serious attention to world affairs at all
think mainly about whether or not
justification. But a more searching would uncover am underlying conflict pattern of the world’s travail. Until 1917, there were two forms of government and society. One was monarchy with varying limitations. The other was democracy, of which the United States was the outstanding example. Democracy was the newer form. It was the latest model. Before 1917, wherever in the world changes of government took place, they were in the direction of democracy. That the whole world would gradually take on democracy was perhaps the one conviction most generally held by per-. sons who thought about society and government. ’ ” # 8 8
in 1917 came something new. The communism was set up in Russia. It was thought by most persons to be merely a passing phase, an. incident of revolution into democracy. But while we waited for democracy to arrive in Russia, there came into the world another new thing, fascism in Italy. And 10 years later a variation of fascism took foothold in Germany. Since 1917, democracy has been in retreat, it is no longer the latest model. Although the world has been in a ferment of change, the change
Since 1917, the two forms of society and goverment that have been ex. tending the area they cover are communism and fascism. Just now the two are in battle to determine which shall have Spain. Is not that a correct outline of what is going on in the world? It is a pictyre of democracy shrinking in area, fascism and communism ex-
racy in retreat, democracy fighting 8 rear-guard action for survival— with fascism and communism ‘contending against each other for increasing areas of the earth’s surface. It is significant, and to Americans alarming and pathetic, that fascism and communism do not, at the moment, think it worth while to fight democracy. They seem fo take it for granted that democracy is through. Fascism and communism fight agdinst each other to determine which is to be the. successor of democracy.
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CHEVER wins, and wher"ever either wins, both bring denial of the fundamental characteristics of democracy. Both deny the idea of a free society, both deny any distinction between government and society—both insist that government and society are one, the “totalitarian state.” Fascism and communism both deny parliamentary government; both use dictatorship as the mechanism of government. Both deny the division of government into co-ordinate branches, both insist on the “authoritarian” conception. Both deny the supremacy of law, both conceive of government as government by men rather than by laws. Both deny the right of free speech, both deny freedom of the press, both deny freedom of religion. Both deny courts as independent: tribu-
ment and the individual. Indeed the broad underlying principle common to both fascism and communism is that the individual has no rights which government needs to respect. ° i ‘That the battle goes against democracy in the-world is certain, the map tells the story. San we be sure
“They Were Planted, Is Quick Retort of Angry Republicans
BY JOHN W. THOMPSON
the present situation in Spain will
lead to a general war in Europe. For dwelling on that there is abundant
inquiry into just what is going on of forces which is the fundamental
Tragic Play
Child Is Burned Seriously Trying to Light Match on Pants Leg.
ATCHES and soap bubbles led: 3-year-old George Thomas Lawrence into serious injury today as he was playing at
being “grown up.” e Thomas and Clifford Divine, who is only one year older but nevertheless is uncle of the younger boy, began their day blowing soap bubbles in the Lawrence back yard at 40 S. State-av. When they tired of that, they somehow got some matches. They decided to “play like” they were smoking - their pipes, instead of blowing bubbles. George Thomas had on long pants. He seized a match, determined to strike it with one long sweep up his pants leg, as he had seen many an adult do. The match ignited before he realized what has happened, and touched off his little. cotton suit. Both lads screamed and started running for the Eiichen door, Hin gugeil HE sprint to the. door fanned the blaze around the child’s right leg. His grandmother, Mrs. Leona Webb, heard the screams and looked out the kitchen door. . She called to Mrs. Eva Webb, the child’s mother, who ran from the front part of the house. When she saw her son standing at the kitchen door, clothes afire, she fainted and fell unconscious , on the kitchen fioor. Mrs. Leona Webb again called for help, and Mrs. Laura Meyers, the child’s aunt, ran from the front part of the house and put out. the flames. The boy was taken to City Hospital where physicians said his buss were second degree and serous.
BANDITS LOOT GROCERY Two gunmen who used adhesive tape masks and were believed to have committeed a number of robberies in the city Saturday night, held up the Standard Grocery at 1735. 8. Meridian-st, taking $82. They escaped in an auto.
‘that, even within the United States,
democracy holds its own? If this it not the true pattern of the present state of the world, I should like to be enlightened by some competent student. To be contradicted convincingly would be a relief. But if this is the true pattern, it is something for Americans to think seriously .about.
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OFFICIAL; DIES Former Vice President News Service Had Been Ml for Year. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 10—Robert
Bender, brilliant reporter of Woodrow Wilson era, and a forr
.| vice president and general
manager of the United Press, died ay i Mott Vernon Hose
Te had been ill for more than year but his condition did not bes come critical until Saturday night when he was S taken to the hospital from his home in Pelham Manor, N. Y. At midnight Saturday he was given a blood transfusion and seemed to rally. Another transfusion was necessary at noon Sunday. Shortly afterward he lapsed into ‘a coma and died at 2pm. Mr. Bender was 46. He is sures vived by his widow, the former Helen Gertrude Sterl of Abilene, Kas, an 18-year-old daughter, Beve= erly Alma, and a sister, Mrs. Charles Auhl of Denver, Colo. At the time of his death his wife and daughter were en route to his bedside from Cincinnati, O., where they had been visiting friends.
Born in Illinois
Mr. Bender was born in Gales burg, Ill, Dec. 1, 1800, the son of Victor E. ‘and Alma Colville Bender, He was educated in the grade schools of Council Bluffs, Ia., where his
:| father published the Councils Bluffs
Nonpareil, and in Knox College in Galesburg where he was graduated in 1911. Although he held important exe ecutive positions in the United Press, resigning as vice president only last Jan. 1, because of illness, Mr. Bender was best known as & reporter. "In that role, he had few equals in modern journalism. #is biggest ase signment was “covering” Woodrow Wilson, first during the eager, proms
ising period of the President's first
Administration when Mr. Bender was White House correspondent of the United Press; then as manager of the United Press Washington bu= reau during the tumultuous ‘war days, and later as United Pressstaff correspondent with President Wilson on all of his important travels, ine cluding his journey to the Paris Peace Conference and trips nto England and Italy.
Got Many “Scoops” 3 Mr. Bender rose to international prominence during the Wilson era
{by his “scoops” on the President
activities. The biggest of ‘these his exclusive story that President
Wilson would attend the peace cons ference at the ends’ the war, Later, after Mr. Wils¢ "had taken that unheard-of step, | Ww. Bender radioed from the 8S. George Washington an forecast of the President’s entire peace plan, During that trip to Europe, Mr, Bender received from President Wil son a memento which he could not tell about until after the Chief Ex« ecutive’s death. The day before reaching Havre, Mr. Wilson sent to Mr. Bender's cabin ‘a story about his attitude in the approaching peace conference. President Wilson had written the story himself, as he would write it were he a newspaper man. It ves the only time in history that President of the United States had assumed the role of pevspapes reporter on the biggest story in the world. Other stories for which Mr. Bend er is remembered include his beat on the appointment of Newton D, Baker as Secretary of War, a fore= reurgb yumi gu Bugpidgl Lo : Gen. Leonard Wood would be elim inated and Harding nominated in the Republican nl convention -1in 1920, a “scoop” on the news that Herbert Hoover would be a meme ber of the Harding Cabinet.’ al Mr, Bender's reportorial method was winning confidences, respecting them and going after news in & direct manner. The funeral will be at 11 a. m. tos morrow at New Rochelle, N, Y. The
body will be cremated and later ashes will be taken to Abilene, Kas.
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