Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1937 — Page 1

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BAKER TRIAL TENTATIVELY SET MONDAY

Judge ‘Not Sure of Legal Status of Disqualifying Myself.’ TWO PROBES CONTINUE

Wayne Coy at Home; Ready To Take Stand at Any Time.

SCRIPPS = HOWARD

24 Killed in Firecracker Plant Blast

By United Press MANILA, P. I, March 15.— Scores of persons, mostly women, were killed and injured today when two explosions, followed by fire, destroyed a firecracker plant in the Pasay suburban district. Police said they believed a group of men, resenting the employment of the women, were responsible for the explosions. Twenty-four bodies were recovered from the debris. Twenty-one persons were taken to hospitals. Physicians said four of them were dying. Police and firemen believed additional bodies were in the smouldering ruins. Lim Chong, proprietor of the plant, was missing and believed killed.

Heavy Bond; Criminals Active Here Over Week-End.

Court today tentatively set March | fare director's close associate, Peter | under $2000 bonds on Grand Jury inMr. Coy, State Welfare Director, | — Baker and Cancilla, He was released N. Meridian St, from head injuries | House following an argument over

22 as the trial of Joel A. Baker and | er FOUR QUIZZED IN dictments charging them with maliinformed authorities he would be from Methodist Hospital Saturday | received March 1 when he was] the Welfare Merit Bill.

Judge Frank P. Baker of Criminal | the deposed Marion County Wel- | Joel Baker and Cancilla are free cious mayhem and assault and bat- | GROCER'S DEATH tery with intent to murder wayne | Coy. able to testify any time against Joel Held Under and is recovering at his home, 3715 struck by Cancilla in the State! ‘Not Sure of Legal Status’

Three men and a woman were | held on vagrancy charges under high bonds today for questioning

Judge Baker also Said today he in the slaying of John Charles

was “not sure of the legal status of disqualifying myself” for the trial. “I believe it would have to be by agreement. of counsel for both parties involved,” he said. Judge Baker

Goldstein, grocer. Mr. Goldstein, 57, who lived at 32 E. 10th St, was wounded fa-

tally by two bandits during an at-

previously had said “I will not sit | tempted holdup Saturday. in the trial of Joel Baker and Can-| Meanwhile, gunmen, cilla as far as I know now.” | purse snatchers and pickpockets In tentatively selecting next Mon- | took a toll of $300 cash and $450 day for the trial, Judge Baker said: | jewelry and personal property over “That is the date I have in mind | the week-end. Police held three for beginning the trial, but IT haven't | suspects on vagrancy charges. been able to get in touch with the| The three Negro men were to be prosecutor today.” | estoneN oY detectives today in . | the Goldstein murder case were Bar Declines Offer | held under $5000 bonds, the woman The judge left his office at 11:25. | under $1000 bond. Prosecutor Herbert Spencer had not| One of the men, who is 22, was appeared at his office at 12:30 p. m. | arrested at 16th and Illinois Sts. Judge Baker also announced that | last night by two motorcycle ofthe Indianapolis Bar Association | ficers who described his action as

burglars,

had declined his offer to select three persons as a panel from which to choose the trial judge. A letter dated N%rch 10 and signed by Russell Willson, Bar Association president, read: “The board of managers has considered your request that it submit to you the names of three Republican lawyers in Indianapolis from whom a judge might be selected to try any case against

Peter Cancilla that might result in |

your court from the Wayne Coy attack. “After careful was the sense of the board that it should not take such action. Among the reasons for this decision was the fact that committee now has this matter under investigation with instructions to report with mendations proceedings as warranted.

consideration,

Investigations Continue

“Of course, if the board should order disbarment proceedings stituted, a conviction in the criminal case would be important in such proceedings. It was the board's judgment that under such circumstances it should not maxe any suggestions as to choice of a trial judge mn any criminal action.” Meanwhile, State and Federal investigations of the lobby continued. The Legislature's Investigating Committee, now in recess, awaited reports from a detective and Deputy Attorney General before calling another session. Records seized by County and City

authorities in a raid on Cancilla's |

law office were returned today by

Ray Seidel, special investigator for |

the Prosecutor's office. Cancilla’s attorney, Andrew Jacobs, earlier had threatened legal action. The records were studied by the Grand Jury, Baker, declined to comment whether he would ask a separate

trial for his client. (Turn to Page Three)

MISS EARHART AT CON

the grievance |

such recom- | respecting disbarment | shall deem are |

in- |

intimidation |

W. C. Bachelder, attorney for Joel | on |

Mr. Jacobs also |

| “suspicious.” Amr unsuccessful raid was made on a house in the 800 block Torbett St. early yesterday in an effort to apprehend the killers. Two other men were questioned and released. Mr, Goldstein died in City Hospital an hour after he was shot in the head by one of two Negro | bandits in front of his grocery at | 1302 N. Senate Ave. Witnesses told police Mr. Gold- | stein boarded his automobile with

| Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Brim. 1262 W. | 33d St. when the men stepped up (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS

Says: March 15—

There's no gettin’ away from it. We're a pretty self-centered lot. We

don’t worry a whole lot about any- |

thing that doesn't affect us. We'll] sit down at breakfast and {skim over the headlines of the | morning paper telling about thousands starvin" to death in the foreign countries and | maybe we'll give ta little weak (sigh, but we'll get up from the table in a rage and storm out of the house and sulk all day if the bacon ain't crisp or the eggs ain't done jest right. I went into a Chinese laundry the other day and I happened to overhear a man talkin’ to the proprietor. The man was sayin’ “Now I don't want'ta be mean about this, but there's one thing I can't stand for and that's carelessness.” He says “What in the world is gettin’ the matter with you fellas? | First you lose Manchuria and then [you lose two of my best handkerchiefs.” ! (Copyright, 1937)

TROLS OF PURDUE’S F

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OLLYWOOD, |

MISS EARHART WAITS END OF OCEAN STORMS

‘Woman Flier May Delay Takeoff of Trip Until Tomorrow.

'UNDISTU

RBED BY DELAY

‘Three Men Are to Accom:

pany Her on First Stages Of Gruelling Trip.

| By United Press | OAKLAND, Cal. March 15.— | Amelia Earhart Putnam probably [will delay her round-the-world flight {until tomorrow afternoon, her husband, George P. Putnam, said today after studying weather charts. | “Under present conditions a start ‘today might mean head winds 600 {miles or more, and then beam winds for a similar distance West,” he | said. | There was a possibility that she | may take off tonight for Honolulu, {2400 miles away, which is the first | goal on a 27.000-mile flight with at {least one stop scheduled in each of {the five continents. { A strong westerly wind still | lashed the coast and a Pan-Ameri- | can Clipper plane that took off for | Honolulu Saturday night and then turned back to Alameda | grounded. J. A. Riley, meteorologist

{at the Oakland Airport said a low | | pressure area was holding virtually |

| stationary over the Honolulu route, ‘and he doubted that Miss Earhart | could start her trip for another day lor more, Three men will accompany her as | far as Honolulu, one of them will

go as far as Darwin, Australia, the |

still was |

MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1937

FOUR MILLION

More Authority

By United Press i

For I.C.C.Urged| B By Senate Body RUSH 10 EAT WASHINGTON, March 15.—The | TAX DEADLINE | Senate Railroad Investigating Com- ! sm ——

| Commerce

YIELD MAY DOUBLE '36

Offices Here to R ...xain Open Until Midnight, Says Will H. Smith.

(Editorial, Page 10)

By United Press Four million Americans today performed some quick addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and then hurried to the Postoffice to

. suggest to the | get their 1936 income tax in the | Shikemmitiee hi necd Tor poco | mail before the midnight deadline. |sderation ol Lhe eXisuMing '3W Pro-! Imternal Revenue Bureau offices | viding Yor 1. C. ©. approval of the all over the nation were deluged | acquisition of control of railroad | with a late rush of taxpayers. companies in common Interest ang | By the time all returns are | for I. C. C. supervision of the activ- | yahnjated, it is believed, 6,000,000 ities of those so acquiring control,” | jngividuals and corporations will the report said.

| | with an additional $840,000,000. It was estimated that a third of the | 6,000,000 returns had been filed by | Saturday night.

WEEK-END CAR | | In Indianapolis an [staff of deputies assisted late-comers [in filing their returns at the Inter{nal Revenue offices on the third

|floor of the Federal Building. The | office will be open until midnight to-

{ have provided the National Treasury |

augmented

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

‘Governor Adds His Support to Roosevelt Plan

| | | | |

self on record today as favoring | President Roosevelt's Federal Court [reorganization plan. This action came after Senator |O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) asked the | Governor to support his proposed | constitutional amendment affecting the judiciary. | In telegrams to the President, Postmaster General James A. Farley, the Indiana Congressional delegation and Senator O'Mahoney, the | Governor said: | “I Dpelieve your (Senator O'Ma- | honeys) proposed amendment to the | Constitution will make more diffi[cult the Administration's effort to | stabilize our economic welfare. “Our people in Indiana want new | blood in the Court and immediate | action. We shall encourage the | President.”

CHRYSLER WINS COURT DECISION

Strikers Ordered From ' Plants by 9 A. M. Wednesday; Murphy Busy.

| | i | i | | | | {

| By United Press | DETROIT, March 15. -— Circuit | Judge Allen Campbeli today granted | an injunction ordering 6000 sit-down | strikers to quit nine Chrysler plants within 48 hours as Governor Mur- { phy of Michigan sought new ma-

Governor Townsend placed him-

‘Two Indianapolis Residents ' Among Them; Taxi Driver Fatally Hurt Here.

| half-way mark, and then the wom- |

|an flier will set on alone.

She al- | ready has crossed both the Atlantic | |and Pacific oceans alone in planes |

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

|and if the present venture succeeds, | | she will be the first woman to have

| circled the globe by air. | The delays did not disturb her | usual calm and poise. “It's too bad {about the weather, but I'm not on

any schedule and there's no harm |

, done,” she remarked.

CONFERENCE SOUGHT Works Board, Civic Leaders | And State Interested.

Louis Brandt, Works Board president, announced today that he was |attempting to arrange a conference {between members of his board, the | State Highway Commission and [West Side civic leaders to discuss | widening of W. Washington St. (from White River to | limits. The City is to ask for State aid in the project, which includes | straightening of the County's most | dangerous intersection—W. Washington St. and the Rockville Road lat the Big Four Railroad overhead. West Side civic groups have campaigned for this improvement for | several years. Recently they asked | the Works Board to be represented lin future negotiations. | The City is to begin widening W. | Washington St. between Belmont | Ave. and Tremont St. within the | next few days, it was said.

LOCAL MAN VICTIM OF MONOXIDE POISONING

The body of Kenneth R. Hawkins, | 25, was found today by his father, | Herman, in the garage in the rear |of their home, 541 N. Oakland Ave. | A victim of monoxide poisoning, | young Hawkins had driven into the | garage and left the motor of his | automobile running, Dr. Norman Booher, Deputy Coroner, reported. The sound of the motor awakened (the father. The body was on the | front seat of the car. | Kenneth was last seen by his | brother, Ernest, at the latter's place of employment, 476 Massachusetts Ave. at 11 p. m. last night. -Dr. Booher said death apparently was accidental.

LYING LABORATORY . .

CITY STREET PROJECT

the City |

TRAFFIC ARRESTS Speeding Preferential Street ..... Reckless driving ..... OUI Improper lights ... “ Improper parking ............

Indiana's traffic toll for the week- | end stood at eight today, two of the | victims Indianapolis persons. A taxicab driver was Marion County's 40th victim of 1937. Thirteen other persons were injured, none seriously, in 10 week-end accidents here. Two Indianapolis residents, State Board of Education employees, were reported in critical condition in Methodist Hospital following an accident south of Greenfield Saturday.

Local Woman Killed

By United Press NEW YORK, March 15.—Stocks | rallied today after an early decline. | Volume was light. | TU. 8. Steel, which touched 1203, came back to 1223. Several railroad issues mounted to small net gains and all rose above early lows. Several utilities, including Consolidated Edison, came into favor with small gains.

| Delicious Steaks! Balanced Meals. | Charley's Restaurant, 144 E. Ohio St. —Adv,

SHE IS READY TO C

STOCKS SHOW INCREASE

night. the deadline. Collector wil | Chinery for settling industrial dis-

. iy | putes. H. Smith said. While several hundred members

| Administration tax experts, scan- |, the United Automobile Workers | ning the trend of returns over the | of America paraded before Wayne | last few weeks, felt certain that the | county Court House and lined its | March collections would yield the | corridors the Judge determined that | anticipated $840,000,000, which would | sit-down strikers were in unlawful | be nearly double the figure for the | possession of the closed plants. corresponding 1936 period and | «The defendants must be out of | almost $150,000,000 above the “boom” | the plants by 9 a. m. Wednesday,” income tax production of March | judge Campbell ordered. 1 1929. Corporations and individuals _ Second Such Order | the higher income brackst rarely | The injunction was the second | file before the final day so they do | order of its kind to be granted a ‘not lose interest on funds set aside |Yecent industrial disputes. A similar (Turn to Page Three) during

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| mandate granted at Flint { the recent 44-day General Motors | strike was not carried out by | Genesee County officers. Attempts | to execute the injunction resulted in a riot in which more than a score strikers and officers were injured.

MERCURY ISTOGOUP : SLOWLY, IS FOREGAST corer Seto” svi

| officers today to discuss plans for permanent machinery to settle industrial disputes, and to review present difficulties that have made | 80,000 workers jobless in the auto- | mobile industry. He summoned the Attorney Gen-

Winter Hangover to Remain Tonight, Prediction.

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the prosecutors of three industrial counties, and other officers to a meeting in Lansing.

Remington to Fight NLRB Decision

By United Press NEW YORK, March 15. — The

Remington Rand Co. announced tnday that it will begin a fight in the

The winter hangover, which has kept Indianapolis in overcoats and overshoes, is expected to continue tonight, the Weather Bureau pre-

(Turn to Page Three)

COURT PLAN LOSES IN U. S. BAR POLL

dicted, and the lowest reading Tomorrow, according to the Bureau, will be cloudy with slowly ris- | conditions were said to be rather | —— | typical for early and mid-March. REBEL SHELLS DROP | marbles, kites and robins as a sure | |sign of spring, is to be relased on Midwestern states Wednesday—St. | By United Pres | Patrick's Day. | MADRID, March brew got its name from the corrup- |as the Loyalist forces northeast of {tion in pronouncing Einbock, a Ger- | the capital pushed back the Rebels [type was made as early as 1100. Two were killed and five wounded : in the shelling of the city. The | vals, apparently without any definite | objective.

should be between 20 to 25 degrees. ing temperature. Present weather Meanwhile, bock beer, listed with | IN HEART OF MADRID (the retail market in 14 Eastern and | ———" | Historians believe the brown-hued | shelled the center of Madrid today Iman city where the best beer of this | driving in from that direction. | shells dropped at one-hour interALLEGED HEAD OF BIG

By United Press CHICAGO, March 15.—The Amer- | ican Bar Association announced to- | day that members in each of the 48 | gy rnited Press states and the District of Columbia | BOSTON, March 15.—Harry Peltz, had voted disapproval of President |39 alleged partner in a $5,000.00 Roosevelt's plan to increase mem- | New York narcotic ring, has been bership of the Supreme Court. under arrest here since Friday, U. The ratio ran more than 14 to 1S, Attorney Francis J. W. Ford rein Maine, Nebraska, South Dakota | vealed today. and Vermont, the report said. | Mr, Ford said the arrest had been The total vote was 16,132 to 2563. | kept secret because additional arIndiana's vote was listed as 298 rests were expected to he made in to 46. | New York before nightfall.

IRCLE GLOBE . .

eral, the Judge Advocate General, |

Federal courts against a sweeping |

DOPE RING NABBED!

| Crossword

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PRICE THREE CENTS

RT REFUSES 8 NEW ATTACKS ON WAGNER ACT

Lines on F. D. R. Plan | Cases

Are Clarified, Stokes Says.

3-WAY PACT SEEN

Amendments May Play Part Final Draft.

By THOMAS L. STOKES

Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, March 15.

—The lineup in the battle | over President Roosevelt's | Supreme Court proposal has become sufficiently clear to permit a forecast of the ulti-

mate outcome, * The eventual result, in this reporter’'s opinion, will be a compromise out of which the President will win some increase in the Court's membership, but not as many or in the manner proposed.

Coupled with this, it is becoming apparent, will probably be constitutional amendments fixing an age limit for the Court and curbing in some degree the Court's power. The amendment would meet two practical considers. They would satisfy members of Congress who desire to go on record for some curb on the Court, and they would meet the demand that the Court issue be submitted to the people. |

Three-Way Compromise

The ultimate compromise seems | likely to shape up as follows: 1. An increase in membership of | the Court to 11 or 12, but on a per- | manent basis and not under the] condition of the President's pro-| posal, which would leave the Court's | size unchanged if those members past 70 retired.

2. A constitutional amendment

changing the number of justices re- |

quired to veto an act of Congress, perhaps a two-thirds rule. 3. A constitutional amendment fixing a compulsory retirement age, probably at 75, though some are

| His insistence upon the plan as it | Federal statute.

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suggesting 72. This forecast is based on interviews with members, a knowledge of their personal views and feelings and political necessities, the consensus of the majority that they must do something about the Constitu-tion-and-Court issue, and the reac-

| tion to various counter-proposals.

Could Win on First Issue

It takes into account also the known willingness of Mr. Roosevelt to yield somewhat in the end. | The President, in the writer's | opinion, could win his fight on the | straight issue as originally pro- | posed. But it might prove costly. | stands, in view of the hostility of some of his regular supporters, would leave wounds that might amage his future program. { The President certainly realizes | (Turn to Page Three)

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| Merry-Go-R'C 10 | Movies 4 | Mrs. Ferguson. 9 | Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Music. . ... vv 15 | Obituaries .... 5 | Pegler { Radio ........15 | Scherrer ..... 9 Serial Story...16 Short, Story...16 Society «..... 13 Sports «6 In Indpls. .... 3 |State Deaths.. 5 | Jane Jordan ..12 | Sullivan . 9 Johnson 10 | Wiggam 15

«e216 | Curious World 15 | Tditorials ....10 Fashions Financial Fishbein Flynn Forum Grin, Bear It.16

SUPPLIES ARE PACKED IN PREPARATION FOR THE DASH

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Presented New Aspect From Those Pending.

‘RECESS

7 to 2 Decision on Tax Power Only One Made Today.

IS TAKEN

| By United Press WASHINGTON, March 15. —The Supreme Court today refused to consider eight new attacks on constitutionality of the Wagner Labor Rela« tions Act which already is under determination by the

High Court in other cases. The action was of possible sige nificance by virtue of the fact the Court already has under considerae tion five cases testing the act. The group of cases refused cone sideration by the Court today, how= | ever, presented a slightly different legal aspect than those on which are gument has already been conducted, Each of the eight appeals ree jected today was an effort to obtain an injunction to halt National Labor Relations Board hearings as pro= vided for under the Wagner act.

Court Observers Puzzled

The actions were commenced in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. This Court granted a moe tion by the Labor Board to dise miss the requests for injunctions. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed this action. Court observers were puzzled by the possible meaning of the action today. They pointed out that the action | was subject to so many conflicting | interpretations that too much sige nificance could not be attached | to it. For the third successive decision | day, the Court today failed to present written opinions in any of the several important pending cases. It was thought possible that some of these decisions may be completed during the two-week recess which | began today.

Rejects Old-Age Pension Test

In line with previous decisions the Court again rejected an effort to test constitutionality of the old-age pensions feature of the Federal Soe cial Security Act. It refused a test case in which | Norman C. Norman sought an ime | mediate constitutional determina=- | tion without waiting for a ruling by the Circuit Court of Appeals. However, the Court accepted ane other test of the constitutionality of the Alabama State Unemployment Act, passed as a corollary to the The case involved the Gulf States Paper Corp., and was a companion suit to the Southern Coal & Coke Co. case which the Court accepted last week. The Court decided on.y one case by opinion in its brief session. It was a ruling on the right of tha Federal Government to impose ine come taxes on the salaries of ems ployees of municipal water supply The seven-to-two decision revealed an unusual and unprece= dented alignment of the Court. The two dissenting justices were Brandeis and Roberts,

M’NUTT PICKS LOCAL MAN FOR AID, REPORT

Times Special

WASHINGTON, March 15.—Leo Gardner, Indianapolis attorney and former Democratic member of the Indiana. House of Representatives, was reported here today to have been selected by High Commissioner McNutt for the post of legal counsel in the Philippines.