Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1937 — Page 1

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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937

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SUBPENA JUDGES BAKER, COX, SLACK

DECATUR CENTRAL

WILL ME

FRANKFORT OUSTED

Washington Put Out

In Close Game of Tourney.

FINALS TONIGHT

Shortridge Is to Play Ben Davis in Other © Contest.

By JOHN THOMPSON Although the only upset of the local sectional benched Washington's fast five from further competition, the other two members of the city's “Big Three,” Tech and Shortridge, are to play in semifinal games this afternoon. Tech is to meet Decatur Central, the snappy little team which put Coach Rolland Jones’ Continentals out last night by a score of 28-25, in the 2 o'clock tilt. Shortridge will play Ben Davis at 3 o'clock. The Giants were runners-

up to Decatur Central in the Mar- |

ion County tourney. The winners of the semifinal games will meet

STATE SENATE | PASSES GROSS TAX MEASURE

Change in Motor Vehicle,

: . Collection System Also | Rossville Upsets Last Wins he 0. K.

ET TECH;

91-90. BETTING BILL UP AGAIN

| so x 33rR vErFRT anes RIVALS Jockey: for Position; [ELKHART WINNER City Manager Loses in | Martinsville, Vincen- Vest Vola, nes and Logansport (Editorial, Page 0)

| Administration bills to revise the | gross income tax and to change the motor vehicle tax distribution and collection systems passed the SenBy United Press late today. They were returned to With one exception—Frankfort— | the aise for concurrence in | - y op AIPUiN _ | amendments. ron ey sao ob |” Menu, Partautel advo H. S. A. A. basketball tournament eates ang opponents jockeyed for {and prepared to enter the semi- | Strategic positions. The Senate LGnRl See Bt G4 SeCIIONAL CEAELS | Finance Committee still refused to | Frankfort, defending champions, | report the House race-betting bill. | fell before the inspired Rossville Under new Gross income tax pro- | team, 21 to 20, at its home sectional | Visions, retailers exemptions would tournament last night. ‘be increased from $1000 to $3000. | Pretournament ratings favored Religious, educational, charitable, the Hot Dogs of Coach Everett | fraternal and labor organizations Case as the outstanding contender |and state banks would be exempt. among the 781 quintets enrolled for the annual March hardwood classic. Among the leading challengers to | thed developments: | come through unscathed in opening | 1. Refusal of the Senate to sus- | encounters were Central (Ft. | pend the rules and rush to passage | Wayne), Martinsville, Elkhart, Lo-|a measure which would have au-

Still in Running.

| City Manager Defeat

tonight at 8 o'clock to decide the | Indianapolis representative at the | Anderson regional next week-end.

gansport and Vincennes. Semifinal sectional engagements | With the lead changing five | MI pe Diaved ls Jlacon Wha times in the eight minutes of the XS, [aa tonests scheduien for

first quarter, the Washington-De- | Might catur Central game put the 4500 | fans on the edge of their seats from | the very start. | After George Butler, Decatur flash, had tossed in two field goals,

Rossville Led From Start The “Giant Killers” led from the {very start of the contest when they | {grabbed an 8-3 margin. Howard ; Miller, Rossville center, controlled and Miller ¢ SS | : : iy d , er and Eagen had tossed i the tip during the entire game and m two, he first four minutes : : nnd tor ended with Washington ahead, 6-5 | this was one of the main factors The blond forward, Moore hit fr | BSuring in the upset. ) » hit trom | Glen Witsman, North Central

the field and put Decatur back in | Conference leading scorer, brought

thorized cities to establish the city manager form of government. Senator Thomas A. Hendricks (D. Indianapolis) was the only member of the Marion County delegation to vote for suspension. Senator John Bright Webb (D. Indianapolis) opposed it, and the rest of the delegation left the chamber and did not vote. 2. Passage by the House of an amended Senate bill to prohibit this Legislature from tampering with the 1933 State Reorganization Act, Under the amendment, which must be concurred in by the Sen-

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WOMAN FOUND DEAD ON FLOOR IN HOME

Mrs. Lucy Walker, 1134 N. Mount , was found dead on the bedroom floor today by her husband William, police reported. She was 52. He told police she had been ill health for some time.

MIXED WEATHER FOR WEEK-END FORECAST

TEMPERATURES 31 It 4A. tro.. 42 12 (Noon) 44 1 pom... 48 Ap Mm...

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6 a m... 56 a. 59 a. 61 9 a. 61 1 It will be fair tonight and warmer, the Weather Bureau predicted today, but tomorrow will be cloudy, and showers are possible in the late afternoon or night

MARKETS AT A GLANCE

By United Press Stocks strong and active, and rails at new highs. Bonds higher, U. S. Government issues at new lows, Curb stocks higher in active trading. Chicago stocks irregularly higher. Foreign exchange higher Cotton at new highs since 1930. Grains higher, wheat up as much as a cent a bushel. Rubber at new highs since 1929.

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ate, the State Public Welfare Department was exempt from the bill's provisions. 3. Passage by the House of a Senate measure to raise state teach-

er payments from $500 to $700 an-| nually. |

{the Hot Dogs up close with his first (Turn to Page Six)

COURT PLAN FOES OUTLINE CAMPAIGN

Senator Wheeler to Lead Nation-Wide Drive. |

Fear Legislative Jam

| First attack under the new | | strategy

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

is to come from Senator | | Burke (D. Neb.) in a radio address | { tonight, replying to the President's | i Thursday night defense of the plan. Books Senator Wheeler canceled his | Bridge Railroad Finance Investigation for | Broun the present and devoted his entire | Churches energy to the Court controversy. Clapper . | He drafted a speech which he will | Comics .......1% Music | make Wednesday night in answer | Crossword . +... 14 1 Obituaries .... | Curious World 15 | Pegler ....... +110] Pyle Radio .....:. Scherrer Serial Story . Short Story .. Society Sports . ‘ State Deaths.

9 | Johnson ......10 4 | Merry-Go-R'd 10 10 | Movies . 2 | Mrs. Ferguson 9 . 9! Mrs,

to Mr. Roosevelt. The Supreme Court met, mean- | Editorials | while, in its secret Saturday con- | Fashions | ference. It considered decisions on | Financial vital New Deal legislation which | Fishbein | may be handed down Monday. | Flynn “Not a Senate vote has been | Forum Bs changed by the President's speech,” | Grin, Bear It 14 | Senators Wheeler and Burke agreed In Indpls .... 3 {after a new check. | Jane Jordan .. 4

| the Baker Investigating Com- |

the State Pubic

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Roosevelt 9 | proximately 15 (remained in the Aladdin Industries 2 lamp factory today in defiance of .10 ja Madison Circuit Court order for 9 | their eviction. >

Judge Baker Judge Cox

Judge Slack

Verbatim Testimony

id ._ | bothering me in the closing days of | jis committee. A—Joseph F. SeX- | tho cession. I called on John Du-

Q—You are a member of the Gen- | an he: was close by 19 take a) | eral Assembly and State Senator| a was that the end of the con- | from Marion County? A—That iS| yersation and the end of the inci- | right. : dent? A-—Yes, sir. Q—Senator, did you hear a con-| Q_was Senator Clearey there at | versation between Senator Clearey | the time? A—No, sir. Senator Fitzand the policeman here of Marion | gerald came out and came over to County by the name of Dalton? | me and said “what are they doing?” A—TI did not. | and words to that effect and, “oh,” Q—Did you have a conversation I said, “don’t pay any attention to with Policeman Dalton? A-—I did. | that, Fitz, it is no concern of mine. Q—Concerning this particular | I am not bothering about it” and 1 matter of Senate Bill 173? A—No, | dismissed it from my mind. sir. | Q—Senator Sexton, do you know

| cer? —-— Q—What was it concerning? Joel Baker? A-—I do.

Verbatim testimony before

mittee last night follows:

A—| Concerning the minimum pay bill | fer Indianapolis policemen and firemen.

Q—Will you tell us what that conversation was? A—Well, I was | called out of the Senate Chamber to the telephone by one of the pages and as I left the telephone booth after talking, Policeman Dalton stopped me and told me that he wanted me to vote right on the minimum pay for policemen and firemen which was then pending in the Senate. I told him that I had my mind made up as to the bill, having read it, and told him that I was for the principle of the bill, but not for the bill as it was proposed and he then in a very gruff |

Timken Strike Settled; Union Forces Quit Plant

By United Press Settlement of the strike at the!

| Timken-Detroit Axle Co. in Detroit, Mich, | the

was announced today by United Automobile Workers | Union. Sit-downers were to evacu- | ate the plant this afternoon in a “victory parade” and operations will be resumed Monday. Terms of the settlement included recognition of the union as the sole

| bargaining agency for a six-months

period, and a minimum hourly wage

ALADDIN STRIKERS DEFY COURT ORDER

+10 | By United Press

ALEXANDRIA, March 6. — Ap100 sit-down strikers

A temporary restraining order is-

9 | sued by Judge Charles E. Smith at 1% Anderson was read to the group in

| the plant last night by Sheriff Harry

Gossett. They heard the order in silence

|and Sheriff Gossett made no at-

tempt to enforce it.

| Q—Have you seen him around the

Senate Chamber during this session? A—In the corridors quite frequently. | Q—Who, if any one, was he with? | A—At all times with Peter Cancilla. Q—Are you acquainted with Peter Cancilla? A—Yes, sir. Q—Did you ever have anv conversation with Peter Cancilla? A— Yes, sir. Q—Did you ever have any conversation with either Joel Baker or Peter Cancilla during this session? A—Neither, Q—Has any one ever approached or talked to you about Senate Bill

tin Downey. A—Yes, sir, just having met him during this session. Q—Have you ever talked with Martin Downey or Peter Cancilla during this session. A—I have not. Q—You know nothing about the history of the loss of the Senate Bill 173?

the paper. Q—Is there any information that you might have concerning this bill?

| A—I know nothing about the bill.

Q—Senator Sexton, you made the statement that vou asked John Dugan to take Dalton—Policeman Dalton—away? A—Yes, sir. Q—What was the occasion for that remark? A-—I was being bothered and did not think I had to be cuestioned by a policeman and Dugan was my friend and acquaintance and J said take Dalton out of here and he did it and John Dugan never opened his mouth to me and assisted me in quieting

| Dalton.

Q—And had Dalton solicited you either for or against any other legislation during this session? No. Q@—Had any other police officer done so? A-—Quite a few have talked to me about the Minimum Pay Bill. Q—Had any of them discussed this Public Welfare Bill with you? A—No, sir. Q—Had any one ont of the Public Welfare office of Marion County

A—I did not even know it | was lost until it was reported so in |

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ever approached you in connection with this Senate Bill 173? A—No, sir. Q—Either directly or indirectly? A—No, I have never talked to anybody about anything pertaining to 173. Witness excused.

173 during this session? A-—No, sir, not to my knowledge. Q—Are you acquainted with Mar-

EDWARD H. STEIN

of 75 cents for men and 65 cents for | @—State your name to the Comwomen, according to union officials. | Mittee. A—Edward H. Stein. . Management representatives were |, @— You hold what official posi. not available for immediate com- | tion with the General Assembly? ment, | A—Speaker of the House of Repre-

Another strike settlement was an- | Sentatives. ’ nounced at the Coshocton, O., plant | Q—As Speaker of the House of of the Indianapolis Glove Co. | Representatives, you received from Attorney C. M. Ross, mediator, | the Indiana State Senate Senate Bill said officers of the Glove Workers |173, ordinarily known as the Wellocal, American Federation of |fare Act? A—I did. Labor, had accepted the latest offer | Q-—And you received it upon what of the management and that it had Sate? A—I don't recall just what been forwarded to company offi- I . ces In Indianapolis. The Ya Q--Do We have an official receipt ment provides a 5 per cent wage | Nere: A—We did have it. Q—What increase | is that date? (Committee decides ce : ; | Friday, Jan. 28.) Chicago taxi drivers threatened ! Q—And in the regular order in to put 3660 cars in storage unless | the course of your business as officials of the Yellow Cab and |Speaker, you passed it to whom? Checker Cab Companies agreed A—I assigned the bill to the Comto their demands tor adjustment) mittee on Judiciary A. of working conditions. Police were | Q—And then it goes to your desk prepared to prevent violence while {and is taken charge of by what drivers who already have struck | clerk? A—The file clerk. concentrated on enlisting others | Q—Now, do you know Joel Baker? in their movement. | A—I do. One hundred fifty “5 and 10”"| Q—And do you know Peter Cangirls went back to work in two !cilla? A—I do. FP. W. Woolworth stores in Detroit Q—Had you seen them this session after a week-long sit-down strike [of the Legislature? A—I have. | which brought higher wages and | Q—Were they together when you { (Turn to Page Four)

C0Y TO UNDERGO NEW OPERATION: BOARD MAY QUIT

The Rev. Tripp, Mrs. Kenneth Woolling, F. O. Belzer on List to Testify in BakerCancilla Case.

"RESUME HEARING THIS AFTERNOON

Fugitives Joel Baker and Pal Cancilla in

| Florida, According to Persistent but

| Unconfirmed Reports.

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Three Marion County judges and four Welfare Board members are among 17 subpenaed as witnesses today while the State intensified its hunt for fugitives Joel A. Baker and | Peter A. Cancilla, reported to be in Florida. The fact that Wayne Coy, State Welfare Director assaulted by Cancilla last Monday, must undergo a second operation for head injuries, increased the serious aspects of the intimidation case. The Legislature's investigating committee was to re-

| sume the probe at 2 p. m, Among those subpenaed were: |

Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker, Circuit Judge Farl Cox and Superior Judge L. Ert Slack. “I'll be glad to go over and testify,” Judge Cox said when told a subpena for him had been issued. All members of the County Welfare Board except Mrs, Karl Ruddell were called. They are, besides Judge Slack, chairman, the Rev. Linn A. Tripp, of the Church Federation, F. O. Belzer and Mrs. Kenneth Woolling. Also on the subpena list—in addition to Joel Baker and

| Cancilla—were Henry Goett, county grand jury deputy | prosecutor; Virgil Sheppard, who served as temporary | County Welfare Director after Joel Baker's ouster by an emergency legislative act; Patrolman John Dalton, formerly detective sergeant attached to Criminal Court, who was demoted after threatening a Senator; Detective Sergeant John Dugan, former. investigator in the County Prosecutor’s office; J. C. Spencer, Gus Lay, Bernice Church and Antoinette Hart, County Welfare Department employees;

Mystery Woman Enters Case And “Mildred Patsy Farran or Pollock,” a reported friend of Joel Baker's. Detective Dugan and Patrolman Dalton were served | with subpenaes at the Police Station. They were to appear | before the Committee this afternoon. | Governor Townsend at 9:40 a. m. signed a bill rushed through yesterday to strengthen the Investigating Commite

Henry Schricker signed the

|tee’s powers, and Lieut. Gov. bpenas shortly after. Meanwhile, U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan, in Washington, studied possibility of using the Federal charge of “fugitive felon” to bring G-men into the Cancilla hunt. Mr,

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CANCILLA’S RECORDS LOADED INTO POLICECAR . . . . .

The business papers and documents of Peter A. Cancilla were taken yesterday from his office, 130

E. Washington St, loaded inte picture above shows them being

a police car, and taken to the Marion County Grand Jury Room. The loaded under supervision of Al Lynch, prosecutor's investigator.

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FECTS SENMED

Workmen from the building had to get a truck to trundle out of the seventh floor offices a metal four-drawer file that contained the correspondence and papers of Cancilla. During a busy time of the afternoon one of the passenger elevators was put into freight service for the raid,

APARTMENT ALSO RAIDED

At the same time a raid was made on the Cancilla apartment, 1530 N. Illinois St., under the supervision of Ray Seidel, prosecutor's investigator, seated in the picture above. 4