Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1937 — Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 12,

1937

, GANCILLA CAPTURED HERE; IN CITY ALL TIME, HE SAYS, ASSERTS COY ‘HIT ME FIRST

On Way to Surrender, Says Lawyer After

His Arrest by City Police Squad On Massachusetts Ave.

he had disappeared with the Senate | Welfare Merit Bill “lent” him by | Rep. Martin Downey (D. Hammond).

‘You're Going to Get Hurt’

While Cancilla was standing with | officers outside jail bars, news| photographers appeared. “Don’t do that,” he cautioned | them. “I don't want my picture | taken up here with these bars. T'll| pose for a picture downstairs or out- | side.” He pointed his finger at a Times | photographer, pulled his coat up | over his face and warned him. “Yes | and you're going to get hurt.” The Times photographer snapped | Cancilla as the prisoner covered his | face from view, Cancilla turned to another photog- | rapher and said, “You understand | how it is. I'm a lawyer. I don't want my pictured used in disbar- | ment proceedings.” Cancilla told Sergt. Kinder that if he had to be arrested, he'd rather be arrested by him. He carried a billfold containing $100. In the said to group of detectives: ‘You raided my office, didn't you? I saw that in the newspapers, too. Did you take that pint of liquor out of my desk drawer? Did you pay my rent?” Cancilla heartily.

‘Interested in Police Bill’

turnkey's office, Cancilla |

and detectives laughed |

| vacation

said he would “raise hell” about Prosecutor Spencer raiding his apartment and office. | Asked if he had a gun, he said: | “No, the only gun I ever had was the one the Army gave me.” One of the questioners. who asked that his name be withheld, said | that Cancilla told them: "I was| not lobbying against the Welfare | Merit Bill, but I was interested in | the Police and Firemen's Merit | Bill.” While Cancilla was being ques- | tioned, Ray Scidel, County Prosecutor's investigator, brought in sand- | wiches and coffee to the prisoner. | Superior Judge L. Ert Slack,| County Welfare Board president, is to leave tomorrow for Hot Springs, | Ark. for “two or three weeks’ rest,” | he announced today. Judge Slack urged Joel Baker's original appointment and has defended his administration. “My physician advised me to take a few weeks’ rest for my health,” | he explained. “I've been feeling badly for some time.”

Cancilla

Says Term Expires

| prosecution

| require

| him word.

| Willson

Lewis and Howard Batchelor, attorneys, to sit on the bench of his court during his absence. Board members who could be reached today refused to comment

| on the indictment and surrender of

Joel Baker. They were L. Ert Slack, Board president, F. O. Belzer and Mrs. K. K. Woolling, Mrs. Karl Ruddell and the Rev. Linn A. Tripp, other mempers, could not be contacted by telephone, Senator Charles H. Bedwell (D. Sullivan), Committee chairman, said Joel Baker could refuse to testify and stand on his constitutional rights.

‘Pleased’ Says Andrews

Joel Baker, however, indicated by his comment he would appear before the Committee.

Rep. Joseph Andrew (R. Lafay-

| ette), committee member, said: “We

much pleased. If the is as prompt as the Grand Jury action, we will be high-

are very

{ ly pleased.

“I believe the Committee should the attendance of both Baker and Cancilla. The hearings should not be completed until Joel Baker and Cancilla have testified.” “You'll Have to See Chief” City

Walter C. Boettcher, Con-

| troller and named acting mayor by

Mayor Kern when he left for in South Carolina and Florida, said he had not heard from

| the Mayor.

“I'v been so busy I haven't sent There isn't any necessity for it, anyhow.”

Possible disbarment action against |

Cancilla by the Indianapolis Bar Association has been postponed pending a report by the Grievance Committee, which is investigating the attack, according to Russell president of the Association's Board of Managers.

“In any event, no drastic steps

will be taken until Cancilla is ap- |

prehended and he is given a trial,” Mr. Willson said. “After all, you can't dishar a man just because he was in a fist fight.”

Surrenders to Sheriff

Joel Baker appeared at the Sher-

iff's office late yesterday with his

wife, his attorney, Mr. Bachelder, and Kenneth K. Woolling, whose wife is a memper of the County Welfare Board which named Baker County Welfare director. “I understand you have a war-

Joel Baker and

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| on the mayhem indictment. Testimony Given by Witness Testimony given before the Legislative Investigating Committee last week by a hotel taproom waitress was that Joel Baker was with Can{cilla before and after the attack. While Joel Baker was surrender-

| Federal] Bureau of | office here, and James Northam, | deputy attorney general, were in | conference with U. S. District At- | torney Val Nolan.

$1500 on the assault charge and $500 |

PRINTERS ON MIAMI

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Woolling Swear to Bond

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Joel Baker and Kenneth Woolling are shown swearing to the $2000 bond signed by Woolling shortly after the former County Welfare Di-

~ NEWSPAPER STRIKE:

|

a ing Harold Reinecke, chief of the] Investigation | By United Press

Sit-Downers Leave Plant on Threat of Arrest. |

MIAMI, Fla, March 12.—Part of the day force of printers at the

Miami Daily News refused to go to]

| work today after sit-down strikers |

| Immediately after the conference | | the FBI filed an affidavit before the |

U. | cilla with violating | Flight Statute.” | The indictments against Joel | Baker and Cancilla were returned | after the Grand Jury studied evi-

the

S. Commissioner, charging Can- | “Federal |

in the night crew left the building under threat of arrest on disorderly conduct charges. Roscoe Glenn, head of the local |

| union of the International Typog-

| at work

| dence brought out in the Legisla- |

| tive Committee's investigation.

{ Neal to Be Sworn In

raphers, said that no printers were in the News’ composing | room. Hal Leyshon, editor, announced, however, that the paper woud publish afternoon editions as

| usual today and that a new me-

| chanical staff would be found to re- |

| Among witnesses the Grand Jury | | heard were Miss Sarah Kirby. hotel |

| taproom waitress; Dr. Joel Whitaker {and Dr. Harry L. Foreman, Coy's physicians; Frank Murray, | South Bend; Anderson Ketchum, | State Tax Board; Charles Marshall, | State Welfare Department official; | Hallie Myers, House doorkeeper, and | John Hoff, Senate doorkeeper. | Other witnesses were unidentified. Thomas L. Neal, former Marion | County Tax Appraiser, was to be | sworn in as Marion County Welfare | Director this afternoon by Circuit

Judge Slack declined to comment | rant for me,” Joel Baker said as he | Judge Earl R. Cox.

on reports he might resign as Board | approached Chief Deputy Henry |

president. |

“I have no comment to make on | indictments and then accompanied | Sheppard,

any matter in connection with the | Welfare Board,” he said. “I think! my term expires April 1. Wait until | then and see what happens.” Judge Slack appointed David M. |

Mueller. The deputy produced the the four to the County Jail, where Mr. Woolling signed the bonds. The four left together. Bonds were fixed earlier by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker,

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY \ Seventh District Federation of Clubs, | ard meeting, Claypool Hotel, a.m { Gasoline Association, meeting ~heon, Claypool Hotel, 1:30 p. m.

n Rho, dance, Hotel Severin,

and and 3. Theta Mu 9:30 p.m Indianapolis Pressmen’s Union 17, meeting. 7:30 p.m American Chemical Society, dinner, Hotel Severin, 6:30 p. m Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance Division, meeting and luncheon, Hotel Severin, 10 8. nm. and 11:43 a. m, Indiana A,

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Congress of P.-T. board | meeting, Hotel Severin, 10. a. m Columbia Club Board of Directors, lunch- | Columhia Club, noon | Tau Delta, luncheon, Columbia |

Welfare luncheon, Columbia Club, noon Jewish Welfare Fund, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon Electric League, Club, noon. Exchange Club, ington, noon, Kappa Sigma, luncheon, ton. noon

Society,

luncheon, Columbia | |

luncheon Hotel Wash- |

Officers Association, luncheon, Trade, noon Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Roard of | Trade, noon Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, noon,

Board of Trade, |

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Alliance Francais, luncheon, Hotel Wash. ington. .1 p. m ‘ Mid-West Council of International Relations, luncheon, Claypool otel, 12:15 | m P Kappa Sigma, dance, Cldypool Hotel, 2 | \ ‘lub, Hotel | Washington, nn, Kroger Truck Drivers, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p. m

MARRIAGE LICENSES

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

John N, Stewart, Melvina Van Meter, Henry Young, 46. of 1301 N. West St.: Beulah Baker, 48. of 1301 N. West St Victor Harold Lyle, of 839 Holmes Ave Edna L. Davis, 28, of 735 N. Belmont Ave Louis Francis Metzeer., 33. of 2314 N, Capitol Ave.; Mary Elizabeth Tevis, 27, of 2854 B. 13th St

BIRTHS Boys

Wilie Robeson, at 1212 Earhart Catherine Woods, at 712 8

m Indiana Shoe ( luncheon, X

dinner,

20, Pittshoro:

Lillian 16. of 1347 Earl Av

James, Fredrick Illinois. Hollis, Marie Kennedy, at 2839 Burton. Myron, Svlvenia Dorsey, at Methodist Marguerite Haney, at Methodist, Thomas, Carson Toole, at Methodist. William, Mary Naylor, at Methodist. Ira, Elizabeth Nicholson, at Methodist, Louis, Virginia Witham, at Methodist, Paul, Ida Houk, at Methodist. Oran, Murial Lakin, at Methodist. George, Dorothy Tove, at Methodist. Brandt, Margaret Steels, at Methodist, Dallas, Louise Jones, at Methodist, Eimer, Doris Ravencraft, at Methodist, Claude, Lucille Kincaid, at Methodist, Mason, Virginia King, at Methodist, Arthur, Edna Hayes, at Methodist. Ray, Leona Hunt, at 8t. Vincent's, Charles, Ruth Polk, at St. Vincent's, Willis, Mary Flinn, at St. Vincent's, William, Rosella Sayre, at St. Vincent's James, Laverne Commons, at St, cent’s | Harold, Norman at St. Vincent’s Merle Vincent’'s James, Pearl Newberry, at Ravmond, Esther Barnes, gent's,

Troy

Vin- |

Newman, St.

Belva Hattabaugh, at

St at

Vincent's St. Vin- |

Girls Ernie Hughes Helen Hunt Martha Stevenson, at Methodist Paul, Elizabeth Holtsclaw, at Methodist. Farrell, Mary Havey, at Methodist. Harold, Mary Mabee., at Methodist. Merritt, Audrey Mills, at Methodist Aimon, Mary Nugent, at St. Vincent's. Carl, Sylvia Suding, at St. Vincent's, | Rolland, Virginia Muir, at St. Vincent's. | William, Priscilla Hiland, at St. Vin- |

at St.

at 657 Birch. Methodist.

Russell, Virgil, Earle,

at

Patricia Bretzman, Vingent's Charles, Edith Conway, at 8t. Vincent's. eehlvin, Louise Wiedenhaupt, at St. Vinnts.

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Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, | on

| coronary

| coronary

| rain or snow: | perature;

| Sunrise

| Bismarck,

| Minneapolis

| New

DEATHS

Bertha Franz, 76, at 1817

at St.

Brookside,

i arteriosclerosis

Jovee Lomax, 1 month, Vincent's,

lobar pneumonia

Albert Bangham, 66, at City, diabetes Sarah Elizabeth chronic myocarditi William A. Rodm sclerosis Rosella Scott,

89, at 30 N. Oakland,

61, at Methodist,

68,

general

| septicemia,

Emma pulmonary Margaret nicious ane . John Andrew Carson, 73. at 1045 Hosbrook, cardio vascular renal disease Stephen Pinkerton, 1 month, at Riley, Methodist,

65, broncho-pneumonia Christian Kimmich, 72, at 520 E. Ver1126 Wood-

Richardson, embolus Graham, 55, at City, per-

at Methodist,

| broncho-pneumonia

William J. {are, at

mont, acute cardiac dilatation Anna Held Ernsting, 66, at lawn, pulmonary tuberculosis Gabriel Bowry, 4, at Riley, brain abscess. Louis Kenyon, 52, at 912 Church, lobar

60, Methodist,

Jackson, 72, at 24!; 8.

Mary Irene Simpson, myocarditis Elmer H

at Illinois, 1617 N. Alabama, 1049 45 Kentucky,

City,

| coronary occlusion.

Samuel Green, 73, coronary occlusion, Carrie Hopkins, 32, occlusion F. Everson, 686, occlusion, Heldt, 30

at at Ben at

William at

| tuberculosis

Mary E

‘o Alexander, 58, at 1509 N. Capi0

mitral stenosis

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau a.

INDIANAPOLIS cloudy tonight;

FORECAST Partly tomorrow probably light not much change in temlowest about 30,

6:01 | Sunset 5:49

TEMPERATURE —March 12, 1936—

31 2p M..oiiiis 33

BAROMETER 30.51 fp Mo 8

«a m....

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7 a. m. Total precipitation since Jan, 1 ... Bxcess since Jan, 1

MIDWEST FORECAST Indiana — Partly cloudy south, north, snow flurries extreme north tonight; Saturday mostly cloudy, probably light snow north and rain south portion; rising temperature extreme southwest. Ilineis—Mostly cloudy, snow flurries extreme north tonight; Saturday probably snow north, rain south portion; slowly rising temperature south portion. Lower Michigan—Snow flurries probable tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature, ~ Ohio—Mostly cloudy with little change in temperature tonight and Saturday, followed by rain or snow Saturday night and possibly in extreme southwest portion late Saturday afternoon. . Kentucky—Cloudy, probably rain in extreme west portion tonight and Saturday

and in east and central portions Saturday:

not much change in temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 3 Station Weather Amarillo : PtCidy ... Snow . Clear .. Cloudy .. Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Snow Car PiCidy ..Clear Rein Cloudy Snow .. Clear . . . ptClay . PtCidy

Jacksonville, Kansas City Little Rock Los Angeles Miami, Fla

Fla . Mo Ark

Mobile, Ala New Orleans York ad Okla, City, Okla. ... Omaha. Neb. . . Pittsburgh Portiand, Ore cis San Antonio. Tex. .. San Francisco St. louis Shinpa, Fla. Washington, D. C. ....Snow

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$2000 |

an, 81, at Long, arterio- |

Maple,

| He was appointed by the State | Welfare Board to succeed Virgil named acting director | after Joel Baker's ouster.

SIT-DOWN STRIKES REACH DOG HOUSE

——— Bi United Press

OMAHA, Neb, March

men are in the doghouse today in |racing

| this city’s first sit-down strike,

Mr. |

place striking workers. Mr. Glenn said he was conferring | both with the News’ management | and the strikers, who demand high-

| er wages.

{of the News Publishing Co. an-

Dan J. Mahoney, vice president | |

| nounced that he had been advised |

| Union, that the strike was “un- | clever ruse today as he was leav- |

| | |

|

| By

in a telephone conversation with | Charles P. Howard, International | President of the Typographical |

|

1-POUND BABY DOING WELL, DOCTORS SAY

authorized.” | |

United Press NEW YORK, March 12—Continued survival of a prematurely born baby, small enough to fit into | the palm of an adult hand and | weighing one pound or less, amazed doctors at Park East Hospital today. | The child was born to Mrs. Max

toward Bellevue Hospital |

| of

[ but | states, as Dickstein says,” Mr. Kuhn

| who

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rector surrendered to Sheriff Ray yesterday.

PO AAAI 44 Times Photo.

Left to right are: Sheriff

Ray, Baker, Deputy Sheriff Richard Stewart and Mr. Woolling.

DENIES LEADERSHIP OF FASCIST PLOT

Py United Press DETROIT, March 12. Fritz Kuhn, former chemist of the Foxd Motor Co. and national president the Amerika-Deutscher Volksbund, today denied charges by Rep. Samuel Dickstein (D, N, Y.), that

he is the leader of a plot to estab- |

lish a Fascist in the United States. “It is true that I head a uniformed organization of 200,000 men,

was are not confined to 14

government

explained. “We have 80 local units in 42 states. “We are sympathetic with the Hitler Government because we think it is best for that country, but here as Americans we are working with

| more than 120 other organizations

opposed to Communism in any form and also are fighting the Jew-

BANK MESSENGER, 72, VICTIM OF BANDITS

| ish boycott against German goods.”

Bu United Press BALTIMORE, Md. March 12.-— Bandits robbed a 72-year-old messenger of a $1014 payroll by a

ing the Equitable Trust Co. Bank. The victim was Columbus Phelps told police he was going through a revolving door of the bank when a man in the compartment behind him jammed the door,

| leaving only a few inches of space | open to the street.

Then, Phelps said, a man on the street squeezed into the compartment he occupied and grabbed the money. Both bandits escaped.

SUSPECT TO BE ARRAIGNED

12. —Pive | Post. Mr. Post, a WPA worker, was | By United Press

FT. WAYNE, Ind. March 12.-—-

with his wife in a taxi cab when it | Robert C. Graf, 34, Amboy, was to The men, employees of the Ne- became apparent they would never | be arraigned before U. 8. Commis-

tbraska Humane Society, hold pos- | get there in time. He changed his | sioner William D. Remmel today in

| session of a cage for homeless dogs. course

| while officials of the society wonder | what it's all about. |

for the nearest which proved to be fashionable Park | Bast.

hospital, | connection with an alleged attempt

to extort $6000 from Merl Powell,

wealthy Miami County farmer,

WENDEL KIDNAPING

Years to Life.

By United Press

NEW YORK, March 12.—Three of | eralizing” Court might be achieved but he ex- |

five men indicted for the kidnaping of Paul H. Wendel, former New Jersey attorney, and torturing him into confessing the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, faced sentences today of from 20 years to life imprisonment. After 54 minutes a Brooklyn County jury found Martin Schloss= man and Harry Weiss guilty, It was their second trial, the first jury having disagreed. Harry Bleefeld, one of the original defendants who turned State's evidence during the first trial, also awaited sentence. No date was set. Ellis H. Parker, Burlington County detective, whom the convicted men claimed was the “brains” of the kid-

| nap plot, and his son, Ellis Jr., also

were indicted. Governor Hoffman of New Jersey refused to permit their extradition to New York.

LLOYD GEORGE RAPS BRITISH WAR POLICY

Bu United Press LONDON, March 12. David Lloyd George assailed the Government’'s economic policy today and suggested that Great Britain might lose the next war if she spent huge sums on armaments while neglecting the “fodo front” at home, Lloyd George warned that Britain was “less prepared than we were in 1914.” He ridiculed what he charged was the contempt of economists for agricultural problems. Britain's farm population producing food for the nation, he said, has sumped from 7 per cent of the total inhabitants before the World War to a preesnt low of 4.6 per cent,

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immediate action that they might cause “the pendulum to swing in the other direction” further than liberals now advocated, did not indorse the president's proposals directly. He favors them only as a last resort.

Claims Myth Built Up

Appearing as the Administration's third witness before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Devaney declared that “certain leaders in the legal profession and certain interests” have built myth about courts in general the Supreme Court in particular, “A majority of the Court in the last four years has been exploiting the mystery which so largely enveloped the Court,” he asserted. “There has been a deliberate effort not to let the country understand what the real function of the Supreme Court is, and how, for a long stretch of years, the Supreme Court has been exercising that function.” “The people have been taught to believe that when the Supreme Court speaks, it is not the Justices who speak but the Constitution, { whereas of course, in most of our | vital constitutional cases it is the individual Justices who speak and not, the Constitution.” Mr. Devaney recently resigned as

|of the Supreme Court to invalidate | | acts of Congress fail of approval. | by which | “lib= |

|

Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court to become head of the new Lawyers Guild. Senator Norris is inclined to favor {the President's court plan only if

‘Face Sentence of From 20 | other legislative measures such as

| his proposal to require a 7-2 vote

He discussed methods the President's objectives the viewpoint

of of the pressed belief amendments necessary to deal with farm labor problems.

were and

Discusses Several Methods

Prominent among these methods, which he discussed without any particular recommendation, were: Limitation of the power of the lower courts to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional-—or complete removal of that power—-which would also deprive the Supreme Court of that power, Operation of a new court having exclusive and original jurisdiction on constitutional questions. Limitation of the term of office of court justices. Authority for Congress by a twothirds or majority vote to override Supreme Court invalidations of acts of Congress.

Some Law Is ‘Necessity’

“Some law, national in its scope, regulating the hours and condi tions of labor, is a positive cessity,” Mr. Norris said. But, he argued, under Supreme Court decisions “it is very doubtful whether Congress has the con-

NORRIS WARNS

ne- |

Fat Man Dies

Body of 739 - Pound Indiana Native to Go To Medical School.

{By United Press | FLOMATON, Ala, March 12— | The former manager of the fattest American—T739-pound “Happy Jack” Eckert—made plans today to turn his body over to a medical school, Mr. Eckert, a showman for 50 | years who toured Europe under the | sponsorship of P. T, Barnum, died | last night of injuries received in | an automobile accident Feb. 6. He | was 62.

| |

Too heavy to walk, Mr. Eckart lived and performed in a truck which served as a combined theater and [ home. [ Mr. Eckert was the son of a Ft, | Wayne, Ind., cigar maker. He | weighed 19 pounds at birth. He is | survived by a sister, Miss Katherine | Eckert of Ft. Wayne.

up a dangerous | and |

stitutional authority to pass an | effective law on this subject.” “An amendment to the Constie | tution, giving this power to Cone | gress, is a practical necessity. We {have been trying to deal with the | employment situation and in { my humble judgment we never | will settle this question permanente | ly until we have a national law, | “Congress has tried in vain to | give relief to agriculture. The Sue« | preme Court has nullified all such | attempts. If the decisions of the | Court remain, then it is absolutely | imperative that Congress be given [authority by an amendment to the | Constitution to meet this situae tion.” | Warns Amendment Foes | “We are asking only,” he said, | “that the powers given to Congress

| by the Constitution should be exe

| ercised. . . + We are striving only | to ‘make the Constitution more | democratic.” “Our Constitution ought to be

construed in the light of the prese ent-day civilization,” he said, “ine | stead of being put in a straite jacket made more than a century ago” “It is fair,” he said, “to conclude that Congress, without any amendment, has the authority: “To take away from inferior courts the power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional. If Congress exercised this authority, it would naturally follow that the Supreme Court would likewise be deprived of authority to declare such act unconstitutional, because the authority to do so depends upon its appellate jurisdiction, and there would be no way for such a case to reach the Supreme Court.

Could Take Away Jurisdiction

“To limit in any way it saw fit the power of the lower court in | acting upon constitutional ques It could take away all jure

| tions. isdiction of the present inferior courts and set up a new court have {ing exclusive and original jurisdic | tion of constitutional questions. “To require that in all cases, in whatever court the question might be raised, the Government should be | made a party toc the suit, and given | an opportunity to be heard.”

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