Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1937 — Page 20

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| World War veteran, took Bonus the Government must keep at work Bond No. 13645258, to the || |in one capacity or another. The 1 amount ot $50, down to Red | | second class comprises experts borCross flood headquarters. | |rowed from the executive branch rn “I put this aside for a rainy }| Seemt————— of the Government.

day.” he said. “I guess it's The Chief Executive said he saw

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officials. “Credit $5 each to me, my

3 RH | practice of borrowing trained men Bill Forbidding Use of from executive departments should | be discontinued as long as the | executive branch of the Govern=

Soviet Prisoners May Have || rained all right—down in | Yooes Opposition to House | no reason why the Congressional | |

Scientists Say.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Not|

since the hysteria of Salem's witchcraft trials has the world seen any- | thing like the spectacle provided by the mass confession of Soviet prisoners, Psychiatrists in this counury, reading with amazement the veport-

wife. and my children, Patrick, Frederick, James, Bernard, Marion, George, Francis and Helen,” he said.

PAIR CHARGED WITH THREAT TO CABMAN

WPA Workers.

| By United Press | WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt said today he per- | sonally would oppose action by Con-

| gress forbidding use of executive |

| experts or relief workers to aid Sen- | ate and House investigating com- | mittees if such a rule would hamper work of the groups.

After refusing to pay their $1.50 | Senate investigating committees

| ment was not disrupted.

Senator Joseph T. Robinson (D. | Ark.). majority leader, sat close to | Mr. Roosevelt as he discussed the | subject. Mr. Roosevelt said he had | not discussed the issue with Senator Robinson, and laughingly hoped the Senator would not murder him for his statement. | Senator Robinson has said he ( would oppose the House-inserted proviso.

ed statements and attitudes ol Se taxi fare, James Earl, 30, of 29 S. | are fighting a House-sponsored pro- cea apa adn Jefenens at Boon. A at Tremont St, and Leon Kessler, 34, | viso in the $890,000,000 Relief Defi-| EXCHANGE SPEAKER NAMED bg a pi Ea beings of 556 S. Harris St., today were held | ciency Bill which forbids use of | W. L. Kirkpatrick, Indianapolis ie ent D light Ny Do They point | under $2000 bond on vagrancy | WPA workers in Congressional in- | Varnish Co. superintendent, is to out that men in their right ings, [CHEE Tuey are aliegte w have | vestigations. ‘ speak at the meeting of the EXRe waserd of death, 40 threatened William Wilson, 28, of | Mr. Roosevelt pointed out, how- | change Club at noon today. He is a ‘this ve ' 507 E. Washington St., cab driver. |ever, that he wculd be bound by | to discuss the varnish business.

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fessions of whole groups of persons accused of witchcraft can any parjous attacks on their minds and emotions by their accusers, until | the attack and the witches admitted | COMB IN I0 0 F R ted consorting with the devil and | A 1 N F E exercising powers impossible to humans. “Nightmare Minds"? L e WwW a S prisoners accused of betraying their [ Rr country are in some such nightmare | psychiatrists who can judge only by reports reaching this country. = what has brought the 17 accused | } Tem od * " ih tf ® 4 to a state wherein they confess Er L an n ¥ Y in ; i alien to the history of revolutionary ig 3 = tactics of their country. i SN ; Sa N WN Psychiatrists cautiously preferr- : Pe 3 ALL ing to be nameless have noted in \ iE \ 2 3 FOR foreign press dispatches suggestions \ aN ONLY that indicate symptoms of drug ad- RN : 3) i L is possible, by one theory, that in VF ; the long months during which these For Men mav have come under the influence | . J - of drugs. If deprived of the accus- W Asher Now Sold in the Greatest Combination Offer We Have Ever Made, x becomes acute and he is in a ready Y ound state to be influenced by powers of It is only by postulating some 1--New Apex Washer 1--Twin Laundry Tubs mental extremity that mental ex- \ 1—Willow Clothes Basket 1—Table Top Cover type now on trial could become sO 1—Pad and Cover 19~ Boge: Riles disintegrated in personality as they Terms $1.00 Per Week 1—Clothesline rs Bc mass confessions, they point out, re ; . . : concerned men of less stable mental Also at }2} N, Ill..St.—Open Evenings BLOCK'S—Fifth Floor, that the mental disintegration of such prisoners might have been in- | Y ° N access to them. This could occur | J “AN \ : TEN-PA L. without the knowledge or participa- | 04S & \ NRosal lf i Noa Spr | gs 0 aA 9 ; gmall DoW | { : Sm x ht Hysteria | a, N ; > Ri Charcot Brough 3 | IN : -’ \ : § Payne oy History shows that the French : l 0 y) . NS 2 Capitol Clot a state of hysteria in numerous pa- | 3 tients in the French Institution of | influence he was exerting, Charcot | ® watched inmates go through three | stages of hysteria. He reported to | science the mental disintegration of these patients, and his work gained | teria. It was only much later that | * . psychiatrists realized that no such | ea n ° classic picture of hysteria was to ? ‘ e BF ép Ei i BR a : % ép n for the insane. It became evident that Charcot himself had unwit- $44 Value Now Only ONLY line of treatment, inducted the condition in the patients. so-called witches to a state of hysteria in Salem and in European unconscious of the mechanism they were using so powerfully to wear witches. i Anthropologists are familiar. with For Both Cleaners EL Per Week hysteria. Natives in Africa have ; been known to admit fantastic and i ; ing Charge of sorcery. Here again hysteria is R the explanation, for by his wild be-! egular 14.50 Royal Hand Vac desperately and irrationally to es-| cape from his mental problems. | Brand new, fully guaranteed Royals at a TWO HELD HERE ON ers will perform every sweeping, dusting opVAGRANCY CHARGES eration on the floor and above it. Excellent,

Only by looking back to the conallel or near parallel be found in the - - history of crime and mental pathol- | yr NM on { Is E n ¢ S Pp ec 1 = ogy. The confessed witches, as moedern psychiatry understands it, were ‘ in a state of hysteria induced by . suggestion, nerve breakdown, insid- a [11 av Fi] Vv * ® personality finally gave way before | preposterous crimes. They admit- | The possibility that the 17 Soviet | state of mind and emotion is seen by AN D A REGU LAR $ 5 Probably no one ever will know | melodramatic plots which sound diction among the defendants. It prisoners remained isolated they 3 \ 3 wl The Famous. Nationally Advertised APEX | ; an tomed dose, the plight of the addict OUTFIT IN IDES suggestion, I CLU DE Men perts can see how prisoners of the 1—Folding Ironing Board I-Foldeig other tack appear. A previous Instance of Small Carrying Charge 1—Box Starch 1—Box Climalene and emotional type. sited ‘ It is possible, it is pointed out, | N OUR duced by one or {wo persons with | tion of anyone else. vers nt Delve psychiatrist Charcot brought about Salpatriere. Unconscious of the| fame as a classic description of hysbe duplicated in other institutions tingly, by suggestion and by his Likewise the persons who brought witchcraft epidemics certainly were % down the resistance of the accused a somewhat similar phenomenon of been ki Regular 29.50 New ROYAL Plus Small Carryimpossible deeds under accusation ; 3 havior the native is merely trying Ca aa wonderful combination price. The two cleanreliable mechanism. Exclusively at Block's.

Two men and a woman were held on vagrancy charges today while | police investigated the report of | Roney Maddox, 41, of 407 S. East St., that he had been slugged and | robbed of $37 last night near Black- | ford and New York Sts. Those held were John Ford, 3704 W. 10th St.; William Hines, 114 | Koehne St., and Ruby Nolan, 1307 | Bridge St. Police found $2185 in their possession.

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Grotto’s annual monarch’s ball in| the Indiana Ballroom last night. |

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Irvington Chapter 364, Order of Eastern Star, is to meet in the Masonic Temple, E. Washington St. and Johnson Ave, at 8 p. m. Monday,

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