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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 313

THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind,

PRICE THREE CENTS

JOEL BAKER AND CANCILLA INDICTED

TEXTILE DRIVE IS OPENED BY

C. I. 0. CHIEFS

Headquarters Are Set Up in New York by Hillman.

FAST ACTION Is

400 Organizers to Go Into. Industry's Major Mill Centers.

BULLETIN By United Press DETROIT, March 11. — Disagreement between General Motors and United Automobile Workers’ representatives today broke up their negotiation conferences as both parties were drafting “permanent peace” terms.

HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 11.—The | biggest labor organizing effort ni American history got under way today under the direction of | ney Hillman, Amalgamated Cloth- | ing Workers Union president. Selection of a national headquar- | ters in New York for the new Textile Workers Organizing Committee, and probably a dozen subheadquarters scattered among the 26 states in which the textile industry is important, started with Mr. Hillman's return to New York todav. Enlistment of from 400 to 600 organizers to start at once among the 1.131,000 workers involved is the next order. Then will follow development of technique, selection of the most vulnerable divisions of the industry, and a combined campaign of educatiecn and enrollment of members.

Results Expected Quickly

C. 1. O. unionists directing the drive for the old-established United Textile Workers’ Union expect to produce results in the form of agreements quickly, possibly by midsummer. Their fast progress in the steel and automobile industries is counted upon to give their cause great strength even before they start. The resourceful Mr. Hillman, who was born in Lithuania 50 years ago this month, will build his force around the experienced organizing staff of his own union, which is pro-

viding most of the $500,000 already |

available for the textile drive. The industry has seven major subdivisions, each in reality an industry by itself Mr. Hillman's T. W. O. C. Board of Strategy will select. the most vulnerable of these for immediate action. The T. W. O. C. may decide to start first in silk and ravon factories or in woolen worsted. or in (Turn to Page Three)

19 TO FACE TRIAL IN ANDERSON APRIL 20

By United Press ANDERSON, Ind, March 11.— Nineteen members of the United | Automobile Workers will face trial April 20 under an agreement reached today between Judge C. E. | Smith, Prosecutor Cecil Whitehead | and attorneys for the union. The group includes 13 U. A. W. A, workers from Flint, Mich., indicted by a grand jury here Feb, 19 on charges of riot, trespass. The indicted men are now free under bond.

BOB BURNS Says: March 11 —

Most everybody dreams of the things they'd do if they had a lot of money, but somehow or other,

OLLYWOOD,

when you place the money in their |

hands, their ideas seem to change altogether. 1 read an article today where some newspaper man had checked up on quite a bunch of Sweepstake winners and he found out that not one of ‘em did the things with their money thai they sad they'd do when they first heard they had won it. 1 only know of one man who actually did with his money what he always dreamed he would and that was because he was so unselfish. He didn’t care for money for himself, but was always thinkin’ of his poor wife, who had struggled along by his through the years. It always purt near

complainin’. Finally a company found oil on his north forty and he came home with a suitcase full of bills. He walked in the house proudly an emptied the bills on the din-

ing room table and he says, “There |

you are, Honey—now you can go buv yourself some decent clothes.” She looked at the money and then she looked at him and she savs, “I'll do nothin’ of the kind —I'll git the same kind of clothes the other women wear.” (Copyright, 1937.)

SOUGHT

Jury Convicts

Chang Soo Lee On 2 Charges | w———

By United Press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., March 11. —Chang Soo Lee, Korean houseboy,

rean fed poison to the Reeves, for- | mer Indianapolis residents, because | he feared they might persuade Mrs. | Churchill to eliminate an expected | | bequest to him in her will. The conviction on the | charge was made possible when the | | court instructed the jury | Chang could not be found guilty of | attempted murder unless the State | had proved that he administered | lead and arsenic poisoning to the | Reeves “maliciously and with intent { to kill.” | Pending sentence, Chang was re- | manded to the County Jail at East | View. He faces a maximum term of from two and one-half to five | years in prison on each count.

ITALIAN ARMY

IN SPAIN BARED

21,000 Helping Rebels on Guadalajara Front, Say Prisoners. By TRVING B. PFLAUM

United Press Staff Corresnondent

MADRID, March 11.—Forty-one |

lesser |

that

LOCAL MAN, 2,

KILLED BY CAR;

COLDNEAREND

George Kimbrew Is 26th Pedestrian Victim So Far This Year.

STORM BRINGS HAZARD

The State charged that the Ko- |

‘Traffic Is Slowed by ley Streets; Mercury Rise Is Forecast.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

Accidents Injured

TR AFFIC ARRESTS

Running red light Drunken driving Preferential street Faulty lights No driver’s license Running through safety zone.. Improper parking

LOCAL TEMPERATURES nh... 18 70%. mm... kWh... 21 na mm... 24 12 (Noon)

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(Another Story, Page Nine)

Winter's epilogue of ice and snow

today had accounted for injury to several Indianapolis persons, had | made traffic hazards out of city |

| streets, and had provided a last fling |

more Italian prisoners were cap- |

tured on the Guadalajara front to- | Marion County’s 39th this

| at winter sports for the children. Traffic, complicated by the icy streets, claimed one more life— | year. |

day, war office officials announced. | | George Kimbrew, 53, of 1114 W. 27th |

Permission was given foreign newspaper corps to look at the prisoners. The men said that three Italian divisions, aggregating 21,000 men, were operating on the Guadalajara front or in reserve behind the lines. The prisoners, among the first captured by Loyalist troops in Gen. Francisco Franco's fifth offensive against Madrid, said that they had not encountered a single Spanish soldier in their sector on the northeast of Madrid. In addition to Italians, the prison-

rout and malicious

side all |

tore his | heart out whenever he thought | of his poor wife wearin’ that same | calico dress for 10 years without |

ers said, there were groups of ar[tillery men composed entirely of | Germans. One of the prisoners identified himself as Sergt. Dante Placido, formerly a student at Aquila, Italy. (Turn to Page Three)

13 HURT SERIOUSLY IN

[ St, a pedestrian, was the victim. Twenty-six of the ocounty’s 1937 victims have been pedestrians. The Weather Bureau predicted that it would be somewhat warmer tonight with a minimum of between 25 and 30. The sun raised temperatures early today about three degrees an hour and gave promise of melting most of the ice coating before the day was over.

Struck by Truck

Mr. Kimbrew died early today in City Hospital of injuries received when he was struck by a truck Tuesday at 1125 Roache St. Mr. Kimbrew, police said, stepped from the curb into the path of the truck driven by Carl Neutzman, 18,

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Battles Death To Give Mother Happy Birthday

of 1322 Roache St. His skull was fractured. George Garland, 8 of 3732 E. 28th | St. was treated at City Hospital for | injuries received yesterday when he | stepped from a trackless trolley into {Turn to Page 1 Three)

CALIFORNIA RIOTING rownseEnD To HEAR

Alameda Police joe Squads Put

On 24-Hour Duty.

{ By United Press | ALAMEDA, Cal, March 11.—Po- | lice riot squads were ordered on 24hour duty without relief today to suppress any further violence at the | Sulitornin Packing Corp. where 13 | were injured seriously in an hour- | long battle last night. A crowd of 300 pickets fought with | police who were trying to protect | 20 automobile loads of nonunion | workers. The battle broke out as | workers left the plant after a day lat the jobs. | Thirteen men required hospital treatment after the melee and scores of others were cut and

bruised. Every one of the 24 police- | | men on duty when the riot started | It was the second out- |

was hurt. break at the plant within the week.

MORRISSEY MAKES ~ POLICE FORCE SHIFTS

KILLER'S LI S LIFE PLEA

A final plea to save Chester Arnizevosi, 24, La Porte, from the electric chair in the State Prison | shortly after midnight is to be heard by Governor Townsend at 3 p. m. today. Kenneth Osborne, La Port, attorney for the doomed man, is to appear and ask for executive clemency. The youth was sentenced for the robbery-slaying last July 27 of Ignatz Paushoski, recluse, in a La Porte park.

petitions to save the

man's life.

AMELIA CHECKS UP

Police Chief Morrissey today ap- nam, publisher, who accompanied |

| pointed Detective Sergeant George | her here from Los Angeles, said this | Hubbard acting lieutenant of detec- was the “end of the line” for him.

tives.

Miss Earhart was confideni that

He is to replace Lieut. Rov Pope, [unless weather conditions were ex-

{who was transferred to the | formed division as lieutenant. | Lieut. Pope takes the place of! | Sergt. John Sheehan, who has been |

{rank as sergeant.

on scheduled time, March 15. Capt. Harry Manning, who will | fly with Miss Earhart as far

{hank today to assist in preparations.

Polish-American organizations in | Ia Porte County have prepared | condemned |

FOR WORLD FLIGHT

J 11.— | | Amelia Earhart Putnam was at the |

a globe-circling |

in a flower box. It was, he thought, | | just the present his mother would | like, It was just out of Bobby's reach. | He tried to climb the shaky pedestal. The box fell and Bobby was! beneath it. His mother found him | there and as she knelt beside him, ! | Bobby reached his hand to her. In it he clutched the red poinsettia. “For you,” he said, “For—your | birthday “Just get well, Bobby,’

' his mother |

| said to him at the hospital today. |

“Just get well and it will be the | happiest birthda) birthday I ever had.”

TOWNSEND ACCEPTS NEW BOND FOR FRY

‘Action Discounts Rumors on Reappointment.

Approval by Governor Townsend | of a new $10.000 bond filed by Paul | Fry today checked rumors about the State House that he would not be | reappointed State Excise Administrator. It was learned that the bond to | | cover & new term starting next | | Monday was filed two days ago. The Governor also approved new | | $10,000 bonds posted by three mem- | | bers of the Public Service Commis(sion, Sam L. Trabue, Perry L.| | McCart and Moie Cook.

DIZZY DEMANDS $50,000

(Other Details, Page 24) DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. March |

| my $50,000 figure,” Dizzy Dean, St. | Louts Cardinal pitcher, today failed

as |to come to terms during a confer- | truck was | acting lieutenant, and returns to his | Australia, was due here from Bur- ence with Sam Breadon, Cardinal { impact in descending made a 2-foot |

| president. {

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Joel Baker.

COUNCILMAN IS

WiLL EXTRADITE

ROBBERY VICTIM

Masked Bandits Take $330 From William A. Oren in | Drug Store.

William A. Oren, City Councilman and Plan Commission member, was

the victim of a daylight holdup today when two masked, armed bandits entered his drug store at 2025 W. Washington St, and escaped with $330. The official reported that shortly after he opened the store this morning, the two bandits entered and announced a “stickup.” At the point of revolvers, they | forced Mr. Oren and Eath Covington, porter, of 941 Camp St., into the prescription room in the rear of the store, They ordered Mr. Oren to open the safe. While he was doing so, five or six | customers entered the store. Each | time, Mr. Oren said, the bandits | crouched on the floor and ordered | him to yell through a small opening that the store was not yet open for business. After thev got $300 from the safe, the Councilman said, the bandits searched him and obtained another $30, then fled out the front door to | a waiting automobile.

‘PARK BOARD SETS DATE FOR HEARING

The Park Board today set 2 p. m. Tuesday as the date for a public hearing on the proposal to erect a commercial building at 49th St. and A variance of the Zoning Code was granted Monday by the Zoning Board. North Side residents who objected are to be | | heard Tuesday.

BLAST ROCKS TOWN, KILLS TRUCK DRIVER

By United Press

PLEASANTVILLE. Pa., March 11. ~The explosion of 60 quarts of ni- | | troglycerine, as it was being hauled | in a truck today, killed one man. shook this community of 600 per- | |at their base. Fragments of the body of the

found 400 feet from the scene of |

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Text of the Indictments

Text of the Baker-Can-cilla indictments follow: MAYHEM

“Joel A. Baker and Peter A. Cancilla on March 1 did unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and maliciously, with intent to disfigure one Wayne Coy, cut and slit the lower lip of said Wayne Coy by striking at and against said lower lip and teeth of said Wayne Coy with their fist contrary to the form of the statute and against the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana.”

ASSAULT AND BATTERY

“Joel A. Baker and Peter A. Cancilla on March 1 did unlawfully and feloniously in a rude, insolent and angry manner touch, beat, strike and wound one Wayne Coy with their fists and by beating, striking and wounding said Wayne Coy with their fists with the felonious intent then and there and thereby him, the said Wayne Coy, unlawfully, feloniously, purposely and with premeditated malice to kill and murder, they, the said Joel A. Baker and Peter A. Cancilla then and there

| having the present ability so to

do, then and there being contrary to the form of the statute and against the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana.”

"ROOSEVELT TO TAKE TWO WEEKS’ S’ VACATION|

|sons and clipped off a dozen trees FP) United Press

WASHINGTON, March 11.= | President Roosevelt leaves his judi-

uni- | tremely adverse she would take off | 11.—Shouting “I won't budge from |truck driver, August Bond, 50, were | ciary reorganization fight in the

| hands of Administration lieutenants

ALIAS PETE CONCILLA G- MEN NOW M AY

ENTER HUNT ON ~ MAYHEM COUNT

IC ounty Grand Jury Also Charges Assault and Battery With Intent to Murder; Prosecutor Spurs Search.

‘REPORT OUSTED OFFICIAL IN MIAMI

State Authorities to Confer With Nolan Who Prepares to Present Evidence to Federal Commissioner.

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Joel A. Baker and Peter A. Cancilla were indicted by the Marion County Grand Jury today for malicious mayhem and for assault and battery with intent to murder Wayne Coy, State Welfare Director who was slugged by Cancilla in the State House, March 1. The two separate indictments were returned after the Grand Jury studied evidence brought out in the legislative investigation of the Baker-Cancilla intimidation lobby, and after U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan announced he would bring G-Men into the Cancilla hunt if mayhem charges were filed. “As soon as I have verified the return of the indict. ments, the complete file of this case will be placed before the U. S. Commissioner,” Mr. Nolan said today, “a warrant will be issued to the U. S. Marshal, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be placed on the trail wherever necessary.” State officials were to confer this afternoon with Mr, Nolan.

Official Notification Is Given

The District Attorney’s office was notified officially a few minutes later by Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer. The Prosecutor also notified City and State Police and Sherifl Ray. He urged them to intensify their hunt for the fugitives. Three Indianapolis persons told an Indianapolis Times reporter in Miami, Fla., Tuesday, that they had seen Joel Baker there this week. Prosecutor Spencer’s office at noon today wired author ities in Miami and Miami Beach requesting arrest of Baker and Cancilla if found. Two Indianapolis newspapers Tues | day received messages purporting to come from Baker and saying he would return late this week to face legislative investigators. | Peter Cancilla, who fled after the Coy slugging, also has been reported in Florida. Marion County authorities who raided two Cincinnati places Sunday were told they were 12 hours late. Mr. Coy still is in Methodist Hospital, recovering from a second operation for serious head injuries inflicted by Cancilla.

Witnesses Link Joel to Attack

Testimony to the Legislature's Investigating Committee, which recessed Tuesday because of failure to find Baker and Cancilla, linked Joel Baker with the Coy assault by showing Baker was with Cancilla shortly before and after the attack. Witnesses also mentioned Cancilla as a close associate and bodyguard of Joel Baker. Baker was ousted by an emergency legislative act as Marion County Welfare Director after the assault on Coy and after disclosure that he “bor rowed” and kept the original Welfare Merit Bill. Judge Frank P. Baker, Criminal Court judge who received the indictments from Grand Jury Foreman John M, Corlin, made no comment from the bench. Judge Baker last week announced he would disqualify himself if the Cancilla | case were brought before him. Bonds were set at $500 each on the mayhem charges and $1500 on the assault and battery with intent to kill ‘charges. Several unidentified wit-® : nesses gave previously un- | Jury would have to return indicte

| ments under Federal statutes be= revealed testimony before the | fore G-men could act. Whatever Grand Jury.

| Federal authorities do is up to Among the witnesses heard were

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the explosion. The motor of the | taday for a two-week rest in Warm hurled 350 feet and its | Springs, Ga. He will go direct by special train to his woodland cottage at the —" | Southern resort while Administra=-

hole.

Campaign on Court Compromise Opens in Senate; O’Mahoney Offers Two-Thirds Vote Amendment

(Editorial, Page 16)

By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, March 11.—A campaign for a compromise in the Supreme Court hght got under way {in the Senate today under direction | of Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.), who has been an Administration | stalwart in Congress. Instead of President Roosevelt's | proposal to remake the Court, the | Senator advocates a constitutional | amendment requiring a two-thirds | vote by the Supreme Court and | lower Federal courts to declare acts 'of Congress and State Legislatures

| he is introducing today, provides for ratification by state conventions rather than by Legislatures. Adoption of this compromise, which he believes would be fairly easy, would serve in the senator's opinion to put a check upon the Court and also to mollify current disputes,

which he fears may endanger the New Deal legislative reform program. “Everything that has happened since Feb. 4 when the President proposed his plan indicates a division ——. the forces that have been upplans President | tions

“I think it would be a tragic thing if that division is not healed now if it is possible to do so. If permitted to continue I feel it will jeopardize the entire liberal program of the President.” The senator believes his

would draw support from both liberals and conservatives in Congress. | He pointed out that 41 legislatures are now in session and that if the proposed amendment were approved promptly by the necessary twothirds in Congress, it could be submitted in time for the legislatures to order conventions this year. Approw or 36 of such state conven-

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| tion leaders present his side of the | plan to enlarge the U. S. Supreme | Court to the Senate Judiciary Com- | mittee,

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of the Supreme Court to overturn | acts of Congress and the legislatures—or six votes in the present nine-man body-—would only follow the rule so often proclaimed by the , 0 |

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Court itself, namely, that statutes should not be nullified unless they are unconstitutional beyond all rea- | sonable doubt, according to Senator | O'Mahoney. Attorney General Homer Cummings, when asked by Senator O'Mahoney about his plan, said he had no objection to such a change but that it must be considered separately from Mr. Roosevelt's proposal. He thought it would encounter the same difficulties as would any of r an ts that have

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Frank Murray, South Bend; Anderson Ketchum, State Tax Board, Charles Marshall, State Welfare Department official; Miss Sarah Kirby, hotel taproom employee; Richard M. Macy, bartender; Dr. Joel Whitaker and Dr. Harry L. Foreman, Mr. Coy’s physicians; Hallie Myers, House doorkeeper, and John Hofl, Senate doorkeeper. Two statements given Mr. Spencer and his deputy, Oscar Hage= meier, by Mr. Coy also were read to the grand jury.

Up to Nolan, Says Spencer

“We are ready to try the cases in County Court,” Prosecutor Spencer said after the indictments were returned. “Whatever the Federal Covernment plans to do is up to them. It is my opinion that the Federal Grand Jury first would have to indict Joel Baker and Cancilla il evidence disclosed by the County Grand Jury ‘warrants Federal action, “Then if Val Nolan (U. 8. District Attorney) sees fit, he could act according to any evidence brought out " the Grand Jury. How‘Grand

Andrew on Way Here

Rep. Joseph A. Andrew (R. Lafayette), member of the Baker Ine vestigating Committee, was returning here this afternoon, after an earlier telephone conference with James K. Northam, Deputy Attor= ney General and acting as counsel for the Committee. Mr. Northam notified all Commite tee members of the indictments, Confer With Coy Unconfirmed rumors were circu= lated at the Court House that Cane cilla might surrender soon, Prose=

cutor Spencer said. A few hours after Cancilla slugged Mr. Coy in an attempt to intimidate the State Welfare Director to stop passage of a welfare merit bill, a man purports ing to be Joel Baker called the In dianapolis Police Station and said Cancilla would surrender the next day. Prosecutor Spencer and Deputy Oscar Hagemeier conferred yesters day with Mr. Coy in Methodist

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