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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1937

COY TO GO UNDER KNIFE AGAIN; HUNT FOR BAKER AND CANCILLA IS PUSHED BY AUTHORITIES

“Hysterical,” Says Rep. Downey i Testifying About Fears

of Kidnaping; Received

Declares; Attacker’

Call From ‘Kidders,” He

s Records Seized.

(Continued from Page One)

”

of “all angles

and report to Washington by telephone. It has

been reported that G-men already are in the search.

Resignation of the Marion ® County Welfare Board, which |

originally appointed Joel Baker, was expected in some official circles. Reports by Joel Baker was in Florida brought discussion of legal phases of ex-| traditing him. Some Committee members expressed belief that Indiana could not extradite fugitives on misdemeanor charges. Atty. Gen. Omer Jackson, however, said he believed there are extradition agreements between gov-| ernors of states. { Called ‘Miss Farran’ If extradition is based upon | lobbyist violation charges, Jewel | Stevenson, deputy attorney general, | said proceedings could follow the | felony law. Committee members pointed out that if Joel Baker is not found now, | they could recess and reconvene | later. Rep. Martin J. Downey told the | investigators last night that he | called a "Miss Farran” at a hotel in an effort to locate Joel Baker to demand return of the Welfare Merit | Bill he “lent” to Baker and which | Baker kept. Senate Secretary Norman w. | Gordon told the committee of an | attempted burglary of the Senate files last Sunday, the day before Cancilla assaulted Mr. Coy. Ralph McClain, Senate engrossing ‘clerk, previously had referred to the at- | tempt to break into the file ‘case. Answering criticism of his plans to leave the city today Jor a Florida | vacation, Mavor Kern explained he had not seen Joel Baker for two months and that he will be in touch with city affairs “as I always am | when I'm gone.” He said he had not | talked with Joel Baker “more than moment for about six months.” ‘Why, Boetcher, I Suppose’ Asked whom he wouid ieave in charge of the city's responsibility | in the Baker-Cancilla case, he was | indefinite, saving, “Why, Walter | Boetcher (City Controller) will be, I suppose.” He said the trip was | a “family matter” he had planneq two weeks ago. In a raid vesterday on Cancilla’s apartment at 1530 N. Illinois St, county and city authorities said they found a book inscribed '“—to Pete, | from Ken Woolling.” Mrs. Woolling, 6930 Washington Blvd, is a member of the County Welfare Board that | originally appointed Joel Baker. The book was “Democratic Despotism,” by Raoul E. Desvernine. Apartment to Be Sealed

The officials said they did not take the book to the grand jury room | along with letters they confiscated. Cancilla’s downtown law office also was raided. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer said both the apartment and office would be sealed on his order, Meanwhile, Oscar Hagemeier county's probe of the Coy attack, said he was ready to present his evidence to the grand jury. All records seized in yesterday's two raids also are to be turned over to the grand jury, the prosecutor's office announced. An affidavit charging Caneilla with assault and battery with intent to kill has been issued. Addition of a perjury charge was urged by the Senate vesterday when it was learned Cancilla had falsified his | Rpplicaiiont for driver's licenses.

{

Deputy Prosecutor in charge of the

| sociation to consider

three legislators that |

erating costs,

| right I'll get | I thought he would do it.” | Marion), | terrupted:

| vette), | Downey

A meeting of the Board of Man- |

agers of the Indianapolis Bar Asthe

recom- |

mendation of the Grievance Com- | mittee that Cancilla be disbarred |

is to be called for next week, Russell Willson, dent said. The $63.977.487 General

in amendments, included

the middle of | presi- |

| Appro- | | priations Bill for 1937-39 State op- | passed by the Senate | |and sent back to the House for con- | {currence

an appropriation of $5500 to pay ex-

penses of the investigation. Among the items was $500 to pay

la reward for Cancilla’s arrest. at the hearing last |

Rep. Downey,

night, related details of his associations with Joel Baker and Cancilla |

for five days preceding the assault |

on Mr. Coy.

| He testified he was with both Joel Baker and Cancilla at dinner Feb. |

24, and met them again the night after he had “loaned” Merit Bill to Baker.

Met Joel Baker at Hotel

Mr. Downey said he met Joel Baker and Cancilla again on Friday night, Feb. | Claypool Hotel where they few drinks.” “Saturday I met Joel again and I asked him for the bill,” he testified. “Baker said, ‘Oh that's ail it back to you,” and Senator Edward C. Haves committee member,

(D. in-

“Didn't vou know Joel Baker had a bad reputation?” the Senator asked. Mr. Downey replied that he hadn't heard anything against Joel Baker and that he trusted him. “Do you mean to say that you never heard that he (Joel Baker)

| Was a crooked politician?” Senator

Hayes queried.

Heard Things “Pretty Fast” “No, I didn’t exactly,” replied Mr. | Downey. “But soon after Mr. Cov was assaulted I began to hear all

| kind of stories—people came up to (me and said ‘that's an awful bunch

youre dealing with.’ Then I began to learn about things pretty fast and

| I got scared and became hysterical.”

Rep. Joseph A. Andrew committee member,

(R. Laasked Mr. if he wasn't familiar with

Joel Baker's record as Criminal

| Court Chief Probation Officer and |

as City Purchasing Agent. “Didn't you know what was com-

mon knowledge in Indianapolis be- | | fore you loaned Senate Bill 173 to |

Joel Baker?” Mr. Andrew asked. “No I hadn't heard it,” the wit= ness replied. Says Bill Taken From Pocket Mr.

tioning by committee members, ie-

| lated that he saw Joel Baker in the | | State House Feb. 25 an dthat Joel

Baker asked to see Senate Bill 173. “I had a lot of papers in my pocket and Baker took several out of my pocket,” he testified. “He

took Senate Bill 173 and put the

rest back in my pocket.” “Was Cancilla there at the time?” a committee member asked. “Yes, I think he was standing somewhere near,” Mr. Downey replied. “Didn't you know that Cancilla was Joel Baker's bodyguard?” asked Rep. Andrew. “No, I knew he was a friend of

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MARRIAGE LICENSES |

(Incorrect addresses frequently are | given to the Marriage License Bureau deliberately, The Times in printing the official ist assumes no responsibility for such addresses.)

Man to Norma dianapolis Le Rov Bovd to Frances Jones Frank E, Gould, to Grace Marine, ve

20, of 532 Division St 183, of R. R. 1, In-

29, of 1632 CI hl 420 E,

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in Pearce Johanning,

George Lee Worthington ) Michigan St. to Mabel Brown, 28, of 105 S. Catherwoad Ave. Caldwell Morris, 23. of 1919 Boulevard | Place, to Marie Thomas, 24, of 2101 Boule-

vard Place Pd Jackson, 54, of 1309 Lafavette St. Sth Heller. 37. of 1327 Lafavette St. ‘80 o 27435 Sangster Ave. 2745 Sangster Ave. |

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Ha Mil Carrie Hieks a) \ Silas Sheppard, 33, N. West St., Jessie Williams, 25, of Indianapolis sil es D. MeIntvre, 23, of 3860 N. Delaware St, to Dorothy Shepard, 20, of 2138 N. Talbott St. { Ralph Binford Reese, of 4730 Park Ave. te Louise E. Suhre, 2617 N. Gale |

St Park Druhot, 23 of 3610 Balsam St. to Margaret Kavse, 24, of 940 N. Oriental] St. Donald Lewis, 23, of Martinsville, Ind. to Gladys Thacker. 18, of Indianapolis.

BIRTHS

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Girls Ralph. Aljulia Saxton. at 341 Darnell. Arthur, Lillian Martin, at 1808 N. Ar- | senal. | Dossie, Lola Lansing, at 244% Manlove { William, Hattie Derrett, at 53 N_Beville. | Lawrence, Mary Jones, 1420 W. Ray. | Omer, Dorothy Cassity. at €t. Vincent's. | Gordon, Mary Trout, at St. Vincent's, [ Urban, Ethel Renner, at St. Vincent's Richard, Anna Wingender, at St, yl

cent's John, Elizabeth Stout, at St. Vineent's, Reid, Carol Eddy. at St, Vincent's Rov, Helen Torrence, at St. Franeis. George, Clara Allen, at St. Francis i Thomas, Elizabeth York, at St. Francis Vernon, Imogene Greene, at St. Francis. | Herbert, Mary Laudick, at St. Francis. Boys

Danel. Marjorie Fowler, Clarence, Viola Travis, at 241 Eastern Louis, Lula Caldwell, at 325 W. 11

wins | Grady, at 2119 Lexing- |

at 2460 Guilford. | th, | Priscilla Curlin,

Holloway, at 1120 |

at 843 N. David- |

, Fdna Gansman, at St. Vincent's. Letha Ford, at St. Vincent's Kenneth, Evaline McClain, at St. Vincent’s Harry, Mary Bowman, at St. Vincent's, n Paul, Anna Jenkins, at St. Criss, Catherine Scarpone, cent's Joseph, Mary Silver, at St. Robert. Marv Dwyer, at St. Leo. Ella Martin, at St. James, Laura Hundley, at 3543 Fletcher. Emil. Mary Schroeder, at St. Francis Wilbur, Clementine Boehle, at St. Franeis Marion, Beatrice Tex David, Francis Hockett, Michael, Ruth Bovie at

Jefferson, Laura Charles Fielding, Lena Butrum,

Vineent's, at St. Vin- | Vineent's. Vincent's,

Vincent's, |

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Francis, Franeis, Francis.

DEATHS

Carlton A. Tourtellot, 89, at 1540 Padk 1 Ave... influenza. Reuben Robertson, 87, at 24 N. Ritter, | acute cardiac dilatation, Guy E. Smith, 57, at 2055 N. Delaware, & coronary occlusion Rosanna Morgan Spink, 96, at 126 Highland, broncho-pneumonia,

| Washington,

| somewhat warmer tonight; | creasing cloudiness with possible showers

| Sunrise

becoming unsettled

| and

| fair and co

| Little Rock. Ark.

John Virt, interstitial nephritis, John Paul Wolsiffer, | Southern, chronic Anna Copple, 68, | monia Corie Coulter, 37, neoplasm, James Bollington, 69, at City,

{ure Calvin Lucas. 2, at Riley, scarlet fever. Ellis F. Smith, 65, at Methodist, lobar pneumonia Elizabeth Diliman, 62, St. hypostatic_ pneumonia, Carrie Greenwav, 37, mitral insufficiency Martin T. Ohr, 78, at 1740 N. chronic myocarditis John Brogdon, 78, City, Benjamin Padgett, 40, 730 B® coronary occlusion. Lewis Kemp, 68 at 2735 N. Dearborn,

chronic interstitial nephriritis Louis Cook, 74 at City,

56 myocarditis at City,

at 1411 lobar pneuat Long, intracranial

skull frac-

at Vincent's, Delaware,

at broncho-

| pneumonia.

Guy at

| monia

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ing a meal

celebrating the Democratic

Joel's and an attorney,” the wit-

| ness replied. “I Was a Chump”

“Weren't you suspicious?” Mr | Andrew asked. “Do you think you | were dumb or wise?” “I know now that 1 chump,” Mr. Downey said. Mr. Downey then testified that all Monday morning he tried to get the bill from Joel Baker. Asked if he knew Baker had it in his pocket, Mr. Downey said he “believed he saw it in his pocket.” "I asked him for it and he said somerhing like ‘Aw, go to hell I had to go down tc the Governor's office and thought I would get it later,” he testified Mr, Downey said when he returned from the Governor's office | he heard about the attack upon Mr. Coy.

Reports Mystery Phone Call

was a]

“I looked all over the corridors for (Joe) Baker but couldn't find him—then they began to tell me | about Joel Baker and Cancilla. I really got scared.”

Mr. Downey said he got a telephone call that night from some | mysterious person who ‘called me | a so-and-so and I got hysterical fand don't remember what all was | said.” Rep. Winfield Denton (D. Evansville), committee member, asked { why Mr. Downey became so frightened only a few minutes after the attack upon Mr. Coy when he had | been with Joel Baker and Cancilla | previously. { “Well, I never anticipated any- | thing like this would happen and | | after that I didn't know what Joel | | Baker's friends might do to me,” the | witness testified. | “Had you done anything to make | you think they would kidnap you?” asked Mr. Denton. “No, I didnt know what would | happen to me,” he testified. Mr. Downey testified he made [arrangements for House members to break open his desk and get im- | portant papers if “anything hap- | pened to me.”

{ Tried to Locate Joel Baker

For more than half an hour Mr.

Downey related how he tried the [last three days to locate Joel Baker | to get the missing bill. | He told about calling a girl he knew only as “Miss Farran” at a local hotel. He said he remembered | hearing Baker or Cancilla call her last week. “Miss Fairran said she had no idea where he was and said I had no | right to call her about it,” he said. | “TI also called Mrs. Baker and she | told me Joel would be home in haif | an hour. I called several times later but there was no answer, “I have been plaved for a sucker I hate to admit it, but it's true.” Asked about reports that he carried a gun after the Coy attack, | he explained that he did get his gun | "because I was really scared.” He | testified he only carried it two days | after the trouble. | During testimony about meeting | Joel Baker, Mr. Downey was asked if Baker was drunk. | His answers were that Joel was intoxicated or had a few drinks, Has ‘Practically Resigned’ Committee members asked whether Joel Baker knew Mr. Downey had [Senate Bill 173 in his pocket when | [they met in the State House last |

| Mr. Downey insisted that he didn't | [know he was going to meet Baker | when he left the House with the |

| bill in his pocket and that he didn't |

[think Baker knew he had it. | Near the close of the testimony, |

o | Rep. Andrew asked if Mr. Downey | 7 | intended to resign as chairman of

the House Judiciary A Committee. | “I practically have resigned,” he | said, explaining that he had turned | over his duties to other members. | “I haven't considered handing in al | written resighation.” Rep. Downey said today that he! | would not resign. “I haven't done anything worse | "than other committee chairmen,” he | | said. | | Other witnesses were [Stein (D. Bloomfield); Senator Jo- | yo F. Sexton (D. Indianapolis), | and Norman Gordon, secretary of | | Senate, | Speaker | Downey for | Joel Baker, “I might have done the same thing my self,” he testified. Mr. Stein said he saw Joel Baker | and Cancilla together at the State | | House several times but that he | | didn’t talk with them about Senate | Bill 193. Saw Pair Together | The Speaker said he heard Mr. | | Downey express fear for his life the day after the Coy attack. “He said he was scared, but I was | | busy and don't remember his exact | | words.” Senator Sexton testified about ||

Speaker |

Stein defended Mr. “loaning” the bill to |

One could afford to be a bit particular in select= | at the Democratic Victory Washington—with the price set at $100 a plate? Here are three of the chief figures at the dinner Party's victory

| talked about I men’s pay

| a very gruft manner,’

| an attempt into the Senate engrossing room. |

| Thomas | vestigator

1936 elections, Dinner in master General

in the to President Wiist

and Chairman Joseph P. Tumulty,

Acme Telephoto

and the fourth anniversary of President Roosevelt's taking office. Left to right are Post-

James Farley, President Roosevelt, former secretary

son, all are _Sudying menus.

Sengte Patsy Gross Tas ax Bill:

Action Sought

(Continued from Page One)

on n Pari- Mutuels

vestigators. The measure was spon-

| cored by the Farm Bloc and “home-

rulers.” 6. Passage by the House of a Senate bill to repeal the State Nepotism | Act. The measure was introduced | after Governor Townsend appointed his son to a state position. It is not know whether will sign the repeal bill.

Merit System Action

7. Temporary failure in the House |

of efforts to revive the Indianapolis police and firemen’'s merit system revision bill. The House yesterday struck out all provisions of this Senate measure but the enacting cause and advanced reading.

day morning. In the debate Rep. Edward P. Barry apolis) said: “If you read the testimony of the Legislative Investigating Committee in the papers vou know the forces | that are trying to strangle this bill. | I don't particularly care for merit system, but Indianapolis

on the merit bill, (D. Indian-

| wants the merit plan and this bill

should be put back into its original

| state.”

Approximately $2,000,000 would

go to cities and towns under pro- |

visions in the vehicle tax distribution measure. An adopted in the Senate would transfer $1,250,000 of the vehicle tax collections to the State general fund. The other motor vehicle wx bill,

| seeing John Dalton, demoted police- |

man, and Sergt. John Dugan at the State House.

He said Dalton stopped him and | the police and fire- |

bill. “Dalton told me to vote right in ’ Senator Sex- | ton said. “I replied that I would take no orders from policemen, asked Dugan to take him away. Dugan never said a word.” Blythe Hendricks, Safety Board | secretary, said the board would take

no further action against Patrolman |

Dalton in view of testimony at the committee hearing that he intimidated legislators, “Any action of a disciplinary nature would originate sdown in the Police Chief's office,” he explained. “We are really an appeal board. Every case before us since I've been

here has been on appeal from the |

Trial Board.” Mr. Gordon testified concerning

last Sunday to break

He said a door appeared as if an ice pick had been used on it. County authorities today studied Cancilla’s books, records and letters seized in taneously late yesterday. Armed with a charging Cancilla with without a license, City Detectives Morris Corbin and John Sullivan, and Al Lynch, prosecutor's investi= gator, raided his office, seventh floor, 130 E. Washington St. The warrant was issued by Mu-

| nicipal Judge Charles J. Karabell. Cabinets and desk drawers con | | taining the books and records were |

confiscated and taken to the Marion | County grand jury room for in| | vestigation.

Apartment Searched

Detectives Jesse McCarthy Aulls and County Ray cilla’s apartment at 1530 N. St. Letters were confiscated. The officers said they found news- | papers of last Monday, the day of | | Cancilla’s assault on Mr. Coy, and | that stories of the incident had | | been clipped, but left in an adjoin ing room. William Kontney, custodian, said | | he had not seen Cancilla for about | | two weeks. He said he had not seen

In=

| Mrs. Cancilla since late Monday aft- |

| ernoon when he saw her hurrying | south on Iliinois St. Following

the raids,

sealed. | the Prosecutor's office,

Miss Dorothy Perry, office man-

ager of the law suite in which Can-

Rug Shampooing 8x12 Domestie. .

Laundry and Dry Cleaning

the Governor |

it to third The kill has been made a | special order of business for Mon- |

the |

amendment |

two raids staged simul- |

and |

Seidel visited Can- | Illinois |

given Senate approval today, base a weight tax on trucks on tire size and truck weight. It would bring revenue | State totaling $1,500,000, it was es- | timated. Governor | this money would be used for road and bridge maintenance.

| $90 would be set for trailer | under the amended House bill, | was explained. All fees for light weight trucks would be reduced slightly under provisions in blanket fee Senate amendment. | The bill met stiff opposition from small truck operators and groups, but beth are included in the bill.

Anti-Betting Provision

The House wrote an anti-betting provision into a Senate bili dealing with bar examinations and passed the scrambled measure, 71 It was sent to the Senate for concurrence in House which would | gambling tickets a felony.

| dianapolis) moved to make publi{cation of horse race resuits a felony | punishable by a | prison sentence. After his motion failed, 18 to 27, | | Senator Sexton said: t “Well, anyway we know now there are 27 votes for Bill in this body.”

Teacher Payment Bill

Observers said the action in both | houses was done in a Toit of

cilla had his offices, told the officers | that she had seen Cancilla last at (11 a. m. Monday, the day of his attack on Wayne Coy. She said that when he went out | he called to her as she was taking dictation from another

hour, | She was not alarmed when he did | hot return in that time, she said, | explaining that frequently he would | “get tied up” outside and not return when he said he would. She said she first learned of the | attack when she read about it in| the newspapers. The raids followed another of speedy action by the Legislature lon measures. to push the inquiry | into the disappearance of the orig=| inal County Welfare System Merit! Bill. Senators Urge Reward The Senate Cancilla Committee report, recommending a reward «of $500 for his arrest, was while both House and Senate passed a Subpena Bill fixing penalties for | persons who ignore subpenas issued | by legislative investigating com-= mittees. Penalties and fines ranging from

| $100 to $1000 and imprisonment for | search warrant | lobbying |

not less than one month nor more than a year, or both, The Cancilla Committee in its re= | port not only recommended the

posting of the reward, but urged he|

be charged with perjury and cited Cancilla’s criminal record in Buffalo | and an arrest here. Cancilla Arrest Cited

The report cited that Cancilla was [Mresied in Buffalo July 22, for criminally receiving stolen prop= | | erty and given a suspended sentence | at the Elmyra Reformatory. | The report cited also that he was arrested here in June, 1928, for vagraney and that last December he said he was never convicted when he applied for a driver's license. | While the Legislature strength'ened powers of the investigators, the State Welfare Board appointed Thomas IL. Neal, County Inheritance Tax Appraiser, as County Wel- | fare Director. He succeeds Virgil | sheppard, temporary appointee, [ named Wednesday after Joel Baker was removed.

would |

to the |

Townsend said |

A maximum fee of approximately | trucks | it

the |

to 17.

amendments | make possession of |

Senator Joseph T. Sexton (D. In=|

one-to-five-year |

the Pari-Mutuel |

employer | that he would be back in half an|

day |

adopted |

1921, |

UNION LEAVES TIMKEN PLANT AFTER TREATY

Ended at Concern’s Ohio Factory.

(Continued from Page One)

| Ployees in 40 stores in the Detroit | area. Parleys in Adjournment

United Automobile Workers’ conferences with representatives of the Chrysler and General Motors Cor- | porations were in adjournment | until Monday. In Saginaw, Mich., Robert Travis, union organizer, said he knew the! identity of four men who tossed a! tear gas bomb into a group of 200 Malleable Iron Co. workers at an | informal meeting last night on the | | U. A. W.'s plan to solicit member- | ship among employees of Saginaw | plants making products for General Motors. The Committee for Industrial] Organization will meet in Washing- | ton Tuesday to chart a campaign which John L. Lewis, its chief, hopes will unionize several million | | unorganized workers. In Pittsburgh, the company union of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. studied means of counteracting the success of a C. I, O. unit which re- | cently signed a contract with the | | corporation covering: collective bar- | | gaining for its own members.

Other Strikes Called

At Des Moines, Ia., demands of | Western Union messenger boys for | an increase of nearly 50 per cent {in pay were being considered today. | Demonstrations were renewed in the Remington-Rand strike at MidS| dletown, Conn., today as seven | workers and a policeman reported their homes had been bombarded | with stones and paint. At Sarnia, Ont., police guarded the Holmes Foundry today after 60 strikers, among those ejscted from | the plant by nonunion workers, had been arrested and found guilty of | trespassing. In New Castle, Pa, demands for | higher wages and a 40-hour week | were made today by 450 members of the National Pants Co. where a sit-down strike began. At New Kensington, Pa, a union local in New Kensington and Arnold plants of the Aluminum Co, of | America decided to cast off | American Federation of Labor affili- | ation and Join the ©. I. . 0.

| |

farm |

sarcasm” to force the Pari-Mutuel | Bill out of committee. | In passing the Senate Teacher | Payment Bill, the House carried out the terms of an Administration= Farm Blo¢ compromise reached earlier in the session, Rep. Winfield K. Denton (D. | Evansville) protested a section of the bill which would require school cities to reduce their budgets by the exact amount of state aid they would receive. Minor Administration ments to the Alcoholic Beverages Act are expected to be opposed | by the House Lake County dele- | gation which has asked for a “com= | | plete liberalization” of the law. | Having passed their major legisla= tive hurdles, the two Biennial Ap-

amend-

propriation Bills are expected to be |

[enacted within the next few days. | The $16,692,000 measure to pay 1037-30 State social security costs | has been sent to the Governor, while the pill to appropriate $63,977,487 tor general State biennial operating | expenses awaits House concurrence | in Senate amendments. The Senate last night unanimously passed the social security budget | without change.

Opposed by G. O. P.

propriated for the last biennium by $13,606,504, met a determined Re= | publican opposition. Senator William Jenner (R. Pa- | oli), minority floor leader, termed | | it “an unwarranted fraud perpe= | tuated on the people of Indiana.” By amendment the majority, how= ever, | propriation by $473,250. The bill | now would raise the present state | | property tax levy of 15 cents on each $100 of taxable property by | approximately 1% cents,

| All Amendments Lost

attacked the in= | creases for personal service in the | Gross Income Tax Division, the Adjutant General's Department and | the Attorney General's office, and said they had not been explained during this session. Included in the

| Senator Jenner

the Cancilla-Baker probes. the items was a $500 | Peter A. Canecilla's apprehension. The Republicans sought to bring this bill down to the 1935-37 level, but all their amendments were voted down.

Retirement Fund

| The principal inerease last night totaled $251,000 to provide an an- { nuity and retirement fund for State college and university faculty members. Another increase was for the Automobile License Department where the amount appropriated was raised $81,000. Separation of the Ft, Wayne State School for Feeble= Minded Youth and the Muscatatuck Colony for Feeble-Minded at Bute lerville added $10,400 for payment of salaries of the superintendent and members of the board of trustees. The appropriation for the new State Labor Division exceeded by approximately $60,600 the amount budgeted during the last biennium

Among

SAVINGS CITY-WIDE

% Member Federal Reserve System

Fletcher Trust Company

COMMERCIAL BANKING

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

* TRUSTS BRANCHES

———=== | total ‘a shorter work week to 1200 em- to aling

its |

the additional |

increased the total House ap- |

appropriation | bill was $5500 to pay expenses for |

reward for |

for various boards and bureaus dealing with labor problems. These separate boards and bureaus have been combined under the new division. Included in this budget and not listed during the last biennium was la $723,800 item for the Alcoholic Beverages Commission, Salary adjustments, [in the lower brackets, department Fring increases and a building program are responsible for large |

| Under provisions cf the bill, all capital outlays would be regulated by | the Governor, following a precedent established two years ago. Department operating expenses of | | $30,866,000 would be charged against | | revenues, while new approximately | would be charged against | ticipated $15,776,199 balance, accord- | ing to Budget Committee recoms- |

| mendations accepted by the Senate. | law |

The Administration's liquor | amendments, reported out of the House Public Morals Committee | yesterday, include: Retention of the 2 a. m. Sunday | closing provision of the present law. | The Senate previously had fixed the hour at 1 a. m. Fixing the six months April 15 and Oct. 15 as the period | during which summer resort hotels | land taverns located outside incorpo- | rated cities may sell alcoholic bev- | erages. Their license would be 75 per cent of the fee levied for similar

{ licenses in the nearest incorporated |

| eity or town Reduction “of the assessed valuan. requirements of resort | lishments seeking liquor licenses | from $7500 to $5000. Principal changes which some House members will attempt to write into the bill from the floor would provide a single $700 li- | cense fee for the sale of liquor, beer

| and wine instead of the triple license |

| system; change the setup of local | control boards, and revise | method of distributing permits in [late County.

|’ The 1 cgislature

Yesterday SENATE

Passed a House bill to place in- |

| come producing property of relig= | | fous, educational, fraternal and charitable institutions on the tax| | rolls after a seven-year grace period.

| Advanced to third reading with | amendments a House-approved Highway Tax Distribution Bill to | base a truck weight tax on tires. Concurred in House amendments | to the bill to re-enact the State [ Milk Control Law. Approved the Cancilla Investi- | gating Committee report which | recommended that Peter A. Cancilla { be charged with perjury and that 2 $500 reward be given for his ap- | prehension. | Passed a bill to relieve banks and trust companies from assessment | of omitted property under

| retroactive to 1934. Concurred in House amendments to the Slum Clearance Bili, one of four introduced in the Senate. Killed by indefinite | ment a bill to give the State Health | Board regulatory powers over tene-

| ments, HOUSE

Killed a Senate bill to create a

State Real Estate Board of Ex- |

aminers.

Passed a bill to provide that sub- |

(penas may be issued by General | Assembly committees and set up | penalties for failure to appear or | testify before committees. Passed a bill to provide that the | State Police Superintendent | issue revolver permits Circuit Court judges. Passed a Senate bill to mandate

| employers to provide medical aid |

for injured workers for 90 days and to increase disability allowances, | Failed to give a constitutional | ma jority for the second time to a bill which would have made the | Supreme and Appellate Court Re- | porter appointive instead of elective.

of a Wabash River toll bridge.

Passed a Senate bill to authorize | Councils to declare emer |

tres. Passed a Senate bill to set up | property rights of farmers on line fences.

divorces granted where nonresidents was obtained by sonal service. Passed a measure to permit ap propriations for municipal band concerts. Passed a Senate bill to permit corporations to issue blanket mort | gages. Passed a Senate measure to con= fer police powers on prosecutors’ investigators. Passed a Senate bill to consoli= date an Attica school district, Passed a Senate measure to require signatures of a majority of property owners in a public ime provement remonstrance. Passed a Senate bill to exempt express company employees from carrying revolver permits, Passed a Senate measure to restrict location of a burial ground near residences, ’ Passed a bill to exempt persons with honorable discharge from the United States Military service from securing licenses to peddle, hunt or fish, Passed a Senate bill to bring community livestock sales under the 1936 Livestock Act.

BANDITS SHOOT

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particularly |

— Glove Dispute increases over the last biennium. |

constructions, $3,806,000 | p, Withers, the an- |

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Passed a Senate bill to legalize | notice on | per- |

STORE ROBBERY

Open Fire When Owner Defies Them but Bullets Fail to Find Mark.

Two bandits who held up Oliver drug store owner, at 1243 Oliver-av, fired two shots at ‘him and then fled after looting a cash register, were sought today by police,

( “Put the money in this,” one of the bandits said, tossing a black bag to Mr. Withers, police reported, Mr. Withers hurled the bag back and one of the bandits fired twice, [but missed, police were told. The other bandit ordered two Dale Lisby, 505 Marion and Buster Bishop, 530 Warren to lie on the floor in the rear Mr. Withers said. After looting the cash register the bandits fled out | the back door. The loss was not estimated.

Trolley Operator Held Up

yeorge Gorman, 3214 MacPhere son St, said he was walking at | Douglas and Walnut Sts. last night {when he was confronted by a thug who grabbed him arm,

| Police said Mr. Gorman pleaded that he did not have much money, but the bandit took about $2 from him, Robert Liese, 26, trackless trolley operator, reported he was robbed (of an undetermined amount of [money and then slugged last night [by two bandits. Mr. Liese, 430 Massachusetts Ave, [told police his trolley jumped the | wire at 25th and Martindale Ave, (and when he got out to fix it, one |of the bandits shoved a gun in his | back,

| eustomers, St., St,

Drivers Robbed

Wayne Dooley, 28, of 50 N. Ham= ilton Ave.,, was one of three taxi | drivers who reported they were held | up and robbed. Mr, Dooley said that he had driven a passenger to 11th and Brook Sts. when the bandit stuck a gun in his back and asked for money, police reported. The bandit ordered Mr. Dooley out of the cab and tried to start the car but failed and fled. Roy Burk= hart, 29, reported he was robbed of a small amount of money by a man | and woman. George Gordan, 35, was robbed of 87, he told police Neff King, 1631 Southeastern Ave. told police burglars entered his store at 1630 Southeastern Ave. and took articles valued at $36.

Homes Are Entered

Robert Stephenson, caretaker of a home at 15256 Brookside Ave. said burglars entered the home, but nothing was stolen. | Burglars broke into the home of | Charles Jones, 616 Lexington, and | stole $35, police were told. | Prowlers were reported by Miss | Mayme Johnson, maid at 3715 N, Meridian St., Apt. 5, and Dr, Oliver W. Greer, 3015 Park Ave. Mrs, Peg Dolan, Chicago, told police she lost her diamond brace let, valued at $1200, in the downe ({ town gisurict.

MORGENTHAU SILENT ON PARIS LOAN TALK

By United Press WASHINGTON, March 6.-—Trease ury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., conferred with President Roose= velt today immediately after dise cussing a pending French loan and operations of the tri-partite mone tary agreement with official repre | sentatives of the French and British | governments, Mr. Morgenthau refused to discuss what transpired at his meetings held privately today with diplomatic emissaries of the two other parties to the three-nation fiscal agreement negotiated last September, | However, he indicated that both the loan which France is expected to float on Monday and the opera tions of the tri-nation understande ing were reviewed carefully,

BOB BURNS

Says: March 6.~If

you want to air a man’s charace ter, git him out in the open air, That's the reason why. before you make an important business deal with a man, you oughta take him out huntin’, fishin’ or golfin’, There's somethin’ about the open spaces that seem to bring out their true nature, A city man come down home one time and he started courtin’ my Cousin Artella. She thought he was jest grand because he had such polished manners. There wasn't nothin’ about etiquette he didn't know. She was so fascinated by his parlor manners, that she was jest sure that he would make her a wonderful husband. So one day, they went on a pice nic and while they were catin’ their basket lunch under , tree, she looked up and saw a bull rune nin’ towards 'em. She jumped to her feet and screamed. He jumped to her side and says, “What's the matter, honey?” and she says /‘Here comes the worst bull in the country!” And he says, “Well, don't stand there, doin’ nothin’ , , . help me up this tree!” (Copyright,

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