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ONDAY, MARCH 8, 1087 MONDAY, MARCH 8,

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NEW COY THREAT REPORTED;

PROBERS QUIZ

MYSTERY GIRL,

INQUIRY WILL BE EXPANDED

County Welfare Board's Resignation Is Possible; City Councilmen Split on Demand For Police Investigation.

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pointed the ousted Joel Baker, would resign in order to dis-| associate itself from responsibility with the latest revelations of intimidation by the Baker-Cancilla ring.

State and city police and the Sheriff’s office went into the eighth day of their unsueccessful search for Cancilla and Joel Baker. Rumors that the

| State Board of Accounts, said the | audit of Joel Baker's books prob-

| | | {

| ably will not be completed until the

| end of the week.

| Russell Wilson, president of the |

| Indianapolis Bar Association Board of Managers, said he plans to call

two fugitives had been seen in | ® meeting of the board sometime |

Florida have not been confirmed.

Rep. Andrew, committee member, indicated that the committee might recess at the conclusion of today’s session,

"There is a feeling of the mem- |

bers,” he said, “that they would finish hearing available witnesses today, then return when other nesses show up.” He referred to Joel Baker and Cancilla.

Mrs. Kenneth Woolling, County

Welfare Board member, was report- |

ed unable to appear today. It was said at the residence that she was under quarantine due to a case of scarlet fever in the family.

Doubts Committee Will End

Most committee members agreed

that available witnesses would be disposed of today. They said the investigation would recess tonight until Joel Baker is apprehended. “I doubt clude its hearing tonight,” Rep. Allen C. Lomont (D. Ft. Wayne) said. “We have too much to do. We may not recess until Baker i found.”

Rep. Lomont said Joel A. Baker's |

records, seized Saturday, which he examined yesterday, consisted of personnel applications, card incexes of employees and precinct and delegate lists with markings to indicate Baker organization members, Consider Extradition committee is three theories to obtain Joel Baker's extradition from Miami, Fla.,, where he is reported in hiding, James K. Northam, Attorney General assigned committee, said. The testimony of a witness that Baker and Cancilla gether a short time before and after the assault and Baker's alleged threat to kill Virgil Sheppard if he interfered with the county department might result in charging Baker with conspiracy to assault, Mr. Northam said. A letter found among the papers confiscated from Joel Baker's files was heing considered as the basis for an alternative charge. Mr, Northern did not divulge the third theory. He said the committee was considering a further search to locate possible safety deposit boxes in which Joel Baker might have placed other papers. William P. Cosgrove, chief of the

The considering

to the

wit- |

the committee will con- | \ he would discuss the matter with |

Deputy |

had been to-|

| this week to consider Peter A. Can- | cilla’s standing in the organization. | City Safety Board members said that the investigation made bv { Chief Morrissey last week virtually | constituted a probe by the Board itself, Safety Board May Act

“It’s the regular procedure,” Ed Fillion, Republican member com- | mented. | Mr. Dammeyer said he had heard of lobbying and intimidation | charges against only one or two | members of the police department. “The merit law in this case leaves | the matter up to the discretion of { the Chief and Trial Board,” he ex-

| plained. “However, the Board can |

! make recommendations which necessarily would have to follow the { Chief's report.”

tion proposed by City Councilman !

| Schumacher to institute an official

investigation had not been brought |

| to their attention. James Scott, Board member, said

| Mr. Dammeyer this afternoon. | Spencer Ready to Advise Jury

Meanwhile, Prosecutor Spencer said he was prepared to go before | the Marion County

| Committee finishes testimony , turns its evidence to him. | He sald he will look turther into | the possibilities of charging Joel A. Baker with being an accomplice in the attack. He would, he said, have to interview witnesses and look at the Baker Committee's transcriptof testimony. And he said he intended to “see hat I can do” about prosecuting

and

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the disappearance of the Welfare |

Bill. He said that if Joel Baker was | indicted as an accomplice in the {attack he could be returned to | Marion County. Prosecutor Spencer said he did | not believe there is much the Grand

{Jury could do about the threat Vir- |

| was with Joel Baker at the time of |

| Cancilla’s assault on Mr. Coy. She | returned to her room at the Harri-

| son Hotel. she said. | She said she saw Joel Baker and

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY Co-

luncheon,

Board

Indiana University Club, Jumbia Club, noon, Scientech Club, Trade, noon. Service Club, luncheon, Hotel Lincoln, noon, Irvington Republican Club, 5446'> E. Washington St., 8 p. m. Building Owners’ and Managers’ Association, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Delta Upsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. North Side Realtors, Hotel Washington, noon. Central Labor Union, meeting, Plumber's

luncheon,

ail, p. m, Phi Beta Kappa, meeting, Rauh Memorial Library, 8 p. m Indianapolis Community Fund, Rilev Room, Claypool Hotel, 6:30 p. m Vervus Club, meeting, Claypool 1 University Extension,

lecture, Indiana

m. P National Association of Women, ing. Hotel Washington. 8 p. m. Salesmen’s Ciub, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon Indiana Casualty Fieldmen, Hotel Washington, noon.

meetluncheon,

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Rotary Club, noon Alpha Tau Omega. Trade, noon, Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel, noon. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

luncheon, Claypool Hotel,

luncheon, Board of

noon Universal Club, iuncheon, Columbia Club,

League of and Builders’

Indianapolis, Build-

noon Construction luncheon, Architects’ ing. noon. University of Michigan Club, Board of Trade, noon Purchasing Agents’ Associations, eon, Hotel Jashington, noon. Home Builders’ Association, Hoosier Athletic Club, 6:30 p. m. Exchange Club Board of Control, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Allied Investment, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Lawyers’ Association, Hotel Washington, noon. Indianapolis Hunting and Fishing Club, meeting, Hotel Washington, 8 p. m

lunch-

dinner,

luncheon,

Indianapolis Medical Society, lecture and | 3]

demonstration of cases, City Hospital, p. m.; Hotel Antlers, 8:15 p. m.

DEATHS Maude Daughtery,

55, acute cholecystitis. Infant Alian, 2 months, at Methodist,

at St. Vincent's,

anemia, ; George Thomas Townsend, 14, at Riley, thrumatic heart disease, Ford Eaton, 36, at Long, lobar pneumonia, Emelie Schistzhauer, 793, lobar pneumonia. Margaret Denges, 83, at 28 E. 16th, paralysis. cos Walter Hanford, 56, at 431 N. Illinois, chronic myocarditis. : Rachel Boggs, 59, at Long, thyrotoxicosis. Rose Ebles, 55, at City, pulmonary ems

olus. Lucy Hollingsworth, 63, at Methodist, intestinal obstruction. : Joseph 2Zunk, 22, City,

Wright, 59, at City, heart disease. Ellenia Baldwin, 71, neumonia. P Anna L. Mullen, 56, at 307 N. Keystone, carcinoma, . William Oliver King, 65, at Methodist, mitral stenosis. Joel . Harting, 61, at 5511 Run Parkway. chronic nephritis. Beth Ann Fuson, 78, at 1954 N. LaSalle, carcinoma. : . Minnie May Beyle, 43, at Methodist, epidemic meningitis. Carl Dunham, 47, at 2543 Hillside, chron.

ic myocarditis. Cora Bell Judkins, 58, at City, chronic myocarditis. Elizabeth Robinson, 41, at 965 Hosbrook, hemiplegga.

at pulmonary

rheumatic

at Long, hypostatic

Pleasant

BIRTHS

Girls

Wayne, Pauline Merritt, at 1427 W. 25th. |

Harry, Gertrude Bernhardt, at 934 N Belle Vieu Place. ian, Alice Stewart. at 2018 Salle. Curtis, Ruth Pool, at City. Floyd, Nellie Lamb, at City.

meeting, |

dinner, | Hotel, |

p. m. : cs: { Indiana University Extension Division, |

luncheon, |

at Methodist, |

i Charles, Ada Waldo, at City. | Edward. Leon Dickerson, at City. Raymond, Virginia McKissick, | Ira, Juanita Carney, at Coleman, { Cleland, Vivian Cook, at Coleman. Arthur, Jessie McKinney, at Coleman. | Ralph, Louise Briston. at Methodist. Howard, Lucile Bauerley, at Methodist. Richard, Mildred Knox, at Methodist. | James, Vivian Wagner, at Methodist, | Marvin, Madia Sheiton, at Methodist. Hilton, Mary Marquis, at Methodist. { Gola, Marie Emery at Methodist. { Donald, Myra Hartzell, at Methodist, 1 Lucille McMasters, at

Benjamin, St. | Francis, y | Harry, Mildred Martin, at | Edward, Jean Joslin, Boys

Perkinson,

St. at St.

Francis. Francis.

Milton, Mildred Pennsylvania. Lorene Persinger, at

at 2254 S

1213 N. Kenneth, Elnora Siick, at 5703 Shelby Russell, Thelma Young. at City. | Carl. Nadine Martin, at City | Thomas, Sarah Skaggs, at City, | Augustus, Alma Powell, at Citv. Paul, Lillian Bunnell, at Citv. William, Agnes Dixon, at Coleman. Glen, Mabel Doan, at Coleman. { Earl, Julia Lundy. at Coleman. | Patrick, Harriet O'Brien, at Coleman. | Robert, Ruth Thomas, at Coleman. | George, Mazo Weiser, at Coleman. | Henry, Mary Semler, at Methodist. | John, Vera Wilson, at Methodist. | Urbon, Beatrice Stahi, at Methodist. | Jesse. Anna Pritchett, at Methodist. Robe®t, Eugenia Bates, at Methodist. | Edgar, Thelma Crofton, at Methodis . Walter, Mary Roberts, at Methodist. William, Ruth Susemichel. at St. Francis, Robert, Marjorie Bunch, at St. Francis. |

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau...

| | INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest tem-

perature tonight about 28.

Sunset 5: "

| TEMPERATUE { —March 8. 1936— | 18

BAROMETER 29.85 5 ERR

Sunrise .

| | 6:07 |

fa. m..... 29.93

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 9 | Excess since Jan. 1.......... 3

| | .00 .86 .45 MIDWEST FORECAST Indiana—Fair tonight and Tuesday, except cloudy north portion tonight; colder tonight and south and extreme east portions Tuesday. Illinois —Fair tonight and Tuesday: colder tonight and extreme south portion Tuesday. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy and colder tonight. snow flurries probable near Lakes Huron and Michigan: Tuesday gen-

erally fair, somewhat colder extreme southeast.

Ohio—Generally fair and much colder tonight and Tuesday, except snow flurries in northeast portion tonight: cold wave in northwest portion tonight. Kentucky—Fair and much colder tonight and Tuesday.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 3 A. M. Station Bar. Amarillo, Tex. 30.32 Bismarck, N. D. Boston

| Chicag | Cincinnati | Cleveland, O. | Denver “sr | Dodge Citv, Kas. {| Helena. Mont. ..... Fla.

| Jacksonville. | Kansas City. wa | Little Rock. Ark. .... | Los Angeles .. Miami, Fla. { Minneapolis ....... Mobile, Ala. New Orleans | New York srunas | Okla. City. Okla. ....C Omaha, Neb. .... | Pittsburgh

| Portland. Ore. N. La |

San Antonio. Tex. ... Clear Tampa, Fla. PtCldy Washington, D. C, ....Rain

Board members said the resolu- |

Grand Jury | with the Cancilla assault and battery | case when the Baker Investigating |

at City. |

- | Cancilla,

"| morning of the assault he saw Joel

Temp, | 36

From his former qffice in the Marion County Welfare Board quarters, 123 E. Market St. the personal files of Joel A. Baker, deposed director, were seized Saturday by the Baker Investigating Committee, They are being perused by the committee in executive session. In the

stated.

{ Grand Jury Prosecutor, was questioned about the dismissal of a | not been drinking when she saw | grand jury considering banking { him last Monday. | cases.

“I never talked to Mr. Baker after | Marshall Tells of Assault the attack,” she said.

| He said that he did not know Inquired at Tap Room | ing returning prominent bankers. Asked if he knew why Frank Baker dismissed the grand

On her way back to her room, she testified, she inquired at the tap room if Joel Baker had been | there because she said he had told | her he would meet her there and buy her a drink. She said she wanted to see Joel Baker after the attack “to find out what it was all about.” She said! that about a half hour after she had returned to her room, Rep. | Downey called and asked if she | Knew where Joel Baker was. Miss Farran said aiso her reason | for wanting to see him last Mondav were “personal.” The witness said that Joel Baker recommended her for a job in the | Lieutenant Governor's office dur- ti " : ing the 1935 session of the Legisla- | testimony 5: did Dulion. ture and that she worked in the | room at the Harrison Hotel, told the county auditor's office a year and a | committee that Joel Baker and | half before employed at the wel- | | fare office.

{ Says Lights Were Turned Out

Her attorney, Mr. Barrett, leaped to his feet when Rep. Andrew askec smiled. and said: | her where she received the money |

“I've got a little job to do.” | to pay for her hotel room. Some time afterward—Miss Kirby

He was cautioned by James K.| cid she believed it was after the

| Northam, Deputy Attorney General | attack—the two came back and had | that the committee would not rec- |

J SoH | four quick drinks, she said. They | ognize objections. were laughing and talking, she Miss Farran said she

took the gaid, and when they left they went hotel room because the lights were up Market St.

turned out at her home. i Saw Downey and Cancilla

She denied that she had been in 1 y . s » 5 : y ~~ |a Claypool Hotel room several weeks | She said Rep. Downey and Cancilla and Joel Baker had been

{ago when Joel Baker allegedly | | threatened an officer. drinking in the hotel once previously and had had

She denied she called a newspaper ! gether on another occasion.

| office twice last Tuesday to inquire | about Joel Baker. She said she | A she “had a girl friend I. C. Spencer, County Welfare De- > partment office manager and a for- { mer employer of Joel Baker, testi- | fied that Joel Baker told him “not | Prosecutor, in charge of the Coun- | oT Shou the Weltare a ty’s investigation, said it would take | Cody Wel ve pes a 9 be until some time this afternoon to] he had three ig SO

| assemble the prosecutor's records on | ® ; ; which have beer Sub-| Joel Baker following the Cancilla

| penaed by the committee. attack, . : Rep. Ropkey testified that on the | He said Joel Baker told him that | if the Welfare Bill was passed em- | ployees of the county department { would lose their jobs.

| Testimony of Miss Bernice | Church, secretary to Joel Baker, re-

been printed in the press, but that he did not remember it. Charles Marshall, State Welfare Board administration director, described Cancilla’s assault upon Mr. Coy. John PF. Dalton, Indianapolis | ened Senator Martin Cleary after the Coy attack. Detective Sergt. John F. Dugan, | who was

| when Dalton talked with Senator

| at between 11 and 11:30 a. m. on | the day of the attack on Coy. | She said that as they left Cancilla looked at her, winked and

Ropkey Tells of Bill Oscar Hagamier, Chief Deputy

| Baker and Rep. Downey together and that the Representative put papers, resembling a bill, into Joel | | Baker's pocket as they stood out- | side the House chamber. [sulted in the confiscation of Joel | Later in his testimony he said he | Baker's personal files from the was wrong about the incident and | Welfare office. | that since “I come to think of it, it Miss Church sal4 that Joel Baker | was several davs before.” | kept many of his personal papers He testified that he asked Rep. in the files. Downey: “That was a bill?” and the ! She said Cancilla visited Joel | Baker at his office about two or three times a week. She said she had seen Joel Baker when she thought he had been “intoxicated or drinking.” She said that as far as she knew

| Representative replied: “Yes.” Rep. Ropkey testified that Rep. Downey told him, “you probably would have done the same thing as | I have done.” | | He said Rep. Downey told him |

| that Joel Baker was the head of a | stories that Joel Baker required | department and had a right to know °€rtain pensioners to repay him |

Scout executive, who termed him- | (} eatened to kill him duri - ah ing a conself “the minority member of the | versation Feb. 27 in the State House | County Welfare Board,” testified | !

| “One or two of the applications | received were read by L. Ert | Slack (Superior Court judge and

Eduard Herriot, former premier and World War political figure, was ill today with acute bronchitis. Attending physicians said he had a high fever.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

She said she objected to the bill | department's activities,” Judge Cox

Henry O. Goett, Marion County |

| whether the jurors were consider- | indictments against |

Judge

jury, Mr. Goett said the reason had |

| patrolman, denied that he threat- |

with Patrolman Dalton | | Cleary, gave substantially the same |

Sarah Kirby, waitress in the tap-!

| Cancilla had been in there drinking |

dinner to- |

PAGE 3

-—Times Photo.

| front seat of the car is Joseph Sullivan, State Welfare Board employee: in the back seat (left to right) are Virgil Sheppard, State Welfare

Board employee:

John Hoff, Senate doorkeeper,

and Mrs. Bernice

Church, secretary to the County Welfare Director.

BAKER PROBE

HAS SWEEPING

RAMIFICATIONS

Swing Democratic Balance of Power In County.

May

(Continued from Page One)

the pair returned, laughing,

more drinks. Sheppard's Life Threatened

| Mr. Coy. Twice before Joel Baker

had threatened Mr. Coy, a witness |

testified. Baker also threatened to

kill Virgil

turn the Welfare Merit Bill,

for |

ment patronage that Cancilla struck |

| [in Judge Baker's court. Joel Baker | in |

{ formerly was probation officer the same court. Meanwhile Prosecutor Herbert M. | Spencer said he and his | deputy, Oscar Hagemeier, | ready to present their case in the slugging to the county grand jury.

| Records Are Scized

| companied by city police, fiscating records and letters. | are re | over to the grand jury. A book found in the slugger’s apartment, inscribed “To Pete, from Ken Woolling,” was left at apartment. Mrs. Kenneth Woolling,

6930 Washington Blvd., is a mem- | ber of the County Welfare Board | | and has been subpenaed by the leg- |

{ islative investigators. Mrs. Karl

| Ruddell, fifth member, has not been | It was over a hill which threat- | ened Joel Baker's Welfare Depart- |

called. With the investigation reaching | into all phases, the Indiana League | mand for the “end of gang-con-trolled politics in Marion County” will be answered before the probe is halted. And Senator William Jenner, minority leader, has threatened: “I'll blow the lid off” hitewashed. “Everybody knows things are bad,”

Downey also feared violence, he told | Said Senator Jenner.

associates, and armed himself, The Legislature passed an emer- | gency bill, ousting Joel Baker from his job.

For the first 36 hours after the

| attack, law enforcement officers vir- | tually stood by, waiting for Can- | retary of the Treasury Henry Mor- |

lcilla to surrender. When they did swing into the hunt, their quarry had fled. The Legislature voted a $500 reward for his capture. The Bar | Association met, discussed the at-

[tack and referred a move for Can- | of |

Five members of the County Wel- | fare Board which appointed Joel | Baker declined to comment when his job without a hearing. All but one has been called by | the legislative committee. Only | one, Mr. Belzer, appeared. He said

| that Joel Baker's appointment was |

urged by Superior | Slack, chairman, at the Board's

| first meeting. Mr. Belzer said the |

| board's functions practically were | negligible.

| Judge Slack, who has

turing

1967 MILLION FEDERAL ~ FINANCE PLAN SET UP |

| Bp United Press

| genthau Jr. today announced March | 15 financing plans involving about | $967,361,000 which for the first time

| since the Roosevelt Administration |

| came into power do not include a request for new money. The program involves:

1. Offering of an additional issue |

| of 214 per cent Treasury bonds, maDec. 15, 1953, but redeem-

| able at the option of the Govern- | ment on and after Dec. 15, 194%, in

| 2

too, was gone—reported in Florida. |

exchange for a $502,361,000 issue of 3 | per cent Treasury notes, maturing |

| April 15.

{ Bak rom | | told Baker had been forced Irom | Smetintely after

| about $165,000,000

2. Special Treasury bills aggre-

gating $300,000,000 which mature | March 15 and | interest on the |

| public debt due the same day, will | be paid from quarterly tax receipts.

Judge L. Ert |

POSTAL CLERKS MEET

Executives of the United Nation-

al Association of Postoffice Clerks |

| at a meeting in Hotel Washington

said he |

| “never heard any complaints about | | Mr. Baker's conduct of the Wel- |

{fare office,” was subpenaed.

It |

| was Judge Slack who allowed Can- | | cilla $3000 early in January for his |

| six weeks of service as receiver for | Co. |

| the Dearborn-Tenth Realty | Clyde Karrer, Cancilla’s attorney, | also was allowed $3000. Judge Slack

| was appointed by Former Governor |

| McNutt. | Circuit Judge | named the board

Earl Cox, which

| Joel Baker, also was called. Earlier | | he had scored the State Board and |

removing consulting himself.

Judge Baker May Testify |

! Criminal Court Judge Frank P. | Baker. who last week said, “Cancilla | can get out of this mess any way he

| can, I will have nothing to do with {it,” also was called to testify. Judge | Baker was a character witness for | Cancilla when Joel's bodyguard was convicted and fined for slugging an | Indianapolis Times reporter a year land a half ago. | An official of Judge Baker's court, | Special Investigator John Dalton,

| intimidating legislators.

| The Rev. Linn Tripp, County Wel- |

| fare Board member active to secur- | ing Joel Baker's appointment, also | subpenaed, is a social service worker

| Board chairman), and then Judge Slack made a strong plea for Joel Baker's appointment,” Mr. Belzer said.

At a later board meeting, according to Mr. Belzer, Mrs. Kenneth Woolling, a board member, made a | motion that Joel Baker be given full authority to hire and fire. Mr. Belzer said this measure passed, although he opposed it. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox testified that he had never discussed the | Welfare Bill with Joel Baker or Cancilla. “Did you have a conference with | | Cancilla and Joel Baker in the pres-

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Joel | either | his | he disclaimed any con- |

| |

| | | | | |

LYONS, France, March 8— has been demoted to patrolman by | French | Police Chief Morrissey for allegedly |

who | selected |

vesterday, selected Logansport for the 1937 state convention, July 4 and 5. O, M. Stevens, Kokomo, national organizer, spoke. Mrs. Earl Carr, Muncie, presided at a meeting of the auxiliary.

chief | were |

the |

of Women Voters is hopeful its de- |

if the offair is |

WASHINGTON, March 8.—Sec- |

COUNCIL SPLITS France Bids ON DEMAND FOR INQUIRY BY CITY

| By United Press | PARIS, March 8.—Premier Leon Blum rushed completion of a series of bills today that will authorize his Government to issue a billione dollar national defense war loan. The bills will go simultaneously to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate tomorrow, with a governe mental request for immediate ace Senm———— | tion. It was expected that the loan The absence of Mayor Kern wayjq be on the market by Thurse should be no cause for delaying day.

To Buy Arms

Schumacher Asks Probe but Mrs. Dowd Warns Against Haste.

(Resolution Text, Page Two)

; . i.» | is made in the text of the bills idation of legislators by city police |B, provide that United States officers, John A. Schumacher, Re- |oyrrency will be accepted for the

| publican City Councilman, said to- | war loan subscriptions, and that | day. :

| loans subscribed with American dol« “ S ion I filed with the [lars will be repaid with American oid Jie resomiion 1 is passed by dollars when due. British pounds

| which = would prevent » [from transferring funds to Paris to reascn why they should oppose it. Too Much Delay Charged |

| purchase there the defense bonds. The Bank of France, meanwhile, . : | following an agreement with the “The city apparently is so much | Government lifted all restrictions | involved in this affair that my res- on gold transactions pending ape

olution and the resulting report ., a) of parliament in the form of | should be made a permanent record an approbation decree tomorrow.

of the proceedings of the Sommer Council of Indianapolis, e said. | DEFENSE BILL FOES WILL DEMAND CUT,

He said he believed there has been | By United Press

| too much delay already. ° WASHINGTON, March 8.—A dee | termined effort to curtail drasticale

“I had been waiting for some one | in a more logical position to take this necessary step, but no action was forthcoming. I feel too much | time has been wasted already,” he | said. | ly the 1938 billion dollar national | defense appropriation when the Naval Supply Bill reaches the Sene ate floor was foreseen today. First indication of the attack on the $526,000,000—first part of the

Chief Morrissey said: “I will welcome the most thorough defense program—came in a statee ment by Senator Nye (R. N. D.),

| investigation of my department's leader of the Senate “Munitions

activities.” y ; . | Committee” Bloc. He said he is our own skirts. I am proud of our opposed to increasing the Navy's {Police and Fire Depariments andi, provided in the appropriation, | with the merit system, within a few | He said that legislation would be years they should be among the best | introduced—which would deprive (in the country. I want to see the .jyate shipyards and munitions City get into it if our merit system | makers of millions of dollars an=

is involved. We don’t want the de-|ya))y py nationalizing production partments contaminated. They seem er armaments,

| of warships and oth to be going at it in the best way | Ts uns dng ohie

Domine, The Mavor probably hes WORKER. 61, MARRIES 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL

| anyone to say people are hiding be- | hind the City skirts.” | Mrs. Nannette Dowd (Democrat) | —Unless they can show me that an |p 17, i100 Press UMATILLA, Fla. March 8.—R. P, Scates, 61-year-old orange ‘grove worker who married a girl of 14,

| urgent necessity exists, I will not | favor suspending the rules. We have | said today that it was love at first sight.

agreed on this rule. In two weeks | | the whole thing probably will he all | | cleared up. Often after you cool off, The bride, blond and blue-eyed Dollie Butler, said “yes” after a | courtship of two months. The

| your judgment is better. I don’t think Mayor Kern has intended | shirking his duty. I don't know how | far they have gone into the investigation, but let them go as far as ry ie 1 ‘ t | they like. I think Chief Morrissey | newlyweds Were hwneymooning 3 | has already gone into the matter, | their home here today. A notary { public married them last night. Oren Favors Resolution { Mr, and Mrs. Willie Butler, pare | TVis ; [ s of the girl, gave written pere | William A. Oren (Republican)— | ents © e | I will support Schumacker’s resolu- | mission for the marriage. County tion. I think the police should be |Judge A.J. Herlong at Tavares, Fla., cleared of suspicion, or criticized for | Se em there was no legal | wrong doing. There is no need of | °° ot : : | having the Police Department under | _Scates is a widower and father of a cloud of suspicion, and I'm for | Si¥ children. i bringing the matter out in the open. E TATO : The public is entitled to know. ! Edward Raub (Democrat) — No | RACER AND SP C R | comment. KILLED IN ARGENTINA

Walter Boetcher, city controller {and acting mayor—No comment. ' | Adolph Fritz (Democrat)—I have not read the resolution and I have | no comment to make. Blythe Hendricks (Democrat, Safety Board secretary) — The | Safety Board has had no meeting since the incident, but it may be taken up tomorrow. Unless the matter is brought officially to the board's attention, no action is neces- | sary. If Officer Dalton should appeal from Chief Morrissey’s action in demoting him, the Board would | consider it.

Departments Praised

Other Council members said: Dr. Silas J. Carr (Democrat) —If the City is involved, we should clear |

By United Press BUENOS AIRES, March 8. — A | race driver and a spectator were killed and seven persons were ine jured in two crashes at Olavarria Speedway yesterday. Ricardo Collier, considered a& second-rate pilot, was crushed to death and his mechanic was crit= ically injured in one wreck. Another machine broke through the guard rail and into the crowd, killing ong | onlooker and injuring six others.

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