Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1937 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer tonight, becoming unsettled and warmer tomorrow with possibily showers.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1937
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PRICE THREE CENTS
FEAR KIDNAPED HEIRESS DEAD; ILLS STUDIED
Matrcn and Betjueath Property to Each Other.
INVESTIGATORS AT 0DDS
Demand for Ransom ‘In
24 Hours’ Cited in Death Theory.
{ By Enithd Press i STONY BROOK,! N. Y., {June 12.—The existence of ‘reciprocal wills in which Mrs. | Alice McDonell Parsons and ‘her Russian housekeeper ‘named each other benefici- | aries was disclosed today as ‘investigators voiced the fear | the scciety woman had been | slain ly kidnapers. | The documents disposing of the | estates. of Mrs. Parsons and Mrs. | Anna Xrupryanova in’ the event of | death were signed in April, 1936, As- | sistant District Attorney Harry C. | Brenner of Suffolk County, said. | Some investigafors cited the ran- | som ncie demanding $25,000 within | 24 hours—which expired at noon | Thurscay—in support of their belief ' that Murs. Parsons had been slain. Others said they were not entirely satisfie! that the case was an open
and siut kidnaping. These latter would hot discuss their theories.
Officials Split
Mea: while, a split developed in the| ranks of officials investigating
vestigation and established headquarte’s of their own. Local of1s :2id they were irked by what ¢id was the “patronizing” atde of the Federal agents. Sp fir as is known, Mrs. Kupryangva.: whose position fi the Parsons household never has been explained fully, was the enly witness to Mrs. Parsons’ departure from her Long l'ieadows farm estate. Wednesday. © Mrs. Kupryanova told police that Mrs. Farsons left in an automobile with 2 man and woman, presumably to shcw some property which she had offered for sale in nearby Huntington. She did not return, and several hours later a crucely penciled ransor: note demanding $25,000 was found in the Parsons car.
: Arrested Upon Tip
Acting on a tip, detectives went to New Tork City and took into custody .ilex Kuprianoff, 43-year-old factor: worker, who said that he had n arried Mrs. Kupiyanova sevcaral years ago, but had lived with her only a short time.. No charge was placed against him. . Mrs Kupryanova, whe has lived in the Pzrsons home with her 11-year-old soi Roy for six years, had been ‘ guotec by police as saying that-she had been married twice, first to a titled Russian and later to an Englishnian, both now dead.
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Week-end picnickers had better take “heir umbrellas along. The
Weati er Bureau sald today it might |
rain fomorrow afternoon or night. The temperature is expected to go slight'y over 80 this sfternoon despite increasing cloudiness, and it will Ee warmer tomorrow, the burcau said.
BRUCE IS ELECTED By United Press NICE, France, June 12. —William Bruct¢, Joplin,” Mo., was named a vice president of Rotary Internationa. at the Rotary convention today.
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ARMY WORMS AT WORK ON CORN STALK
N.Y. Man Who
Inspired Yule E d ’ . . itorial Dies "By United Press | NEW YORK, June 12.—The man | who motivated the writing of | famous New York Sun editorial—“Is There a Santa Claus?”—in 1897 is dead. . Dr. Philip F. O'Hanlon, 74, father of Virginia O'Hanlon, who wrote a letter to' the Sun. editor asking | whether there was a Santa Claus, | died of a heart ailment. His daughter, now Mrs. Douglas, was 8 years old when she became skeptical about Santa Claus.
he referred her to the Sun. Francis P. Church, a Sun editorial writer, received the letter and wrote
the editorial which has been reprinted countless times.
CROPS 600D AS WORMS ATTACK
Worst Plague in 20 Years Threatening Farm Prosperity.
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Things look pretty good for Marion County farmers, although they must battle the worst attack of army worms in 20 years. Horace E. Abbott, County Agri- | cultural Agent, reported the south- | ern half of the county is “alive with army worms.” If they don't eat up all the crops before thev can be checked, the summer crop outlook is favorable, he said. As farmers prepared to fight the invasion of the worms, which float through the air with the greatest of ease and alight in thousands to multiply vastly overnight and devour crops. Mr. Abbott broadcast the cheering news that: } 1. Marion County has the best pastures in several years. 2. New stands of clover and alfalfa are doing well as a result of favorable weather cenditions. 3. Wheat has been improved hy recent rains and a practically nonmal yield is predicted. 4. Fruit is “set favorably.” 5. First alfalfa cut was normal. 6. All vegetables including the canning crops are favorable. Mingled with the good word, (Turn to Page Three)
LOYALISTS LAUNGH COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
Bilbao Threat Spurs Prieto Attack in South.
By United Press MADRID, June 12.—With Bilbao apparently in grave danger from aviolent Rebel drive, Gen. Indalecio Prieto, Loyalist, started a big" oftensive: in the Cordoba region of southern Spain today. It was considered Gen Prieto's answer to the redoubled efforts of the Rebels to capture Bilbao and de- | signed to divert their attention and | lessen the pressure on Bilbao. The . Loyalists were reported to have gained control of the mountainous Sierre de la Grana. region, north of Fuentovejuna. The offensive seemed in line with Gen. Prieto’s statement Thursday that his reorganization of the Army, Navy and Air Force was nearly completed and he intended to start big-scale offensives. >
By United Press HENDAYE, French Spanish Frontier, June 12.—Sixty Rebel { bombing planes rained ‘death into | the pine woods between Derio and Zamudo, northeast of Bilbao today, creating a wall of flame as the Rebels made their first break through the outer ring of the EI | Gallo, or “iron ring” of the Basque , capital's defenses.
By United Press BERLIN, June 12.—Grim portentous warning was given by German newspapers to the Spanish Loyalist government today that any further attack on German war-
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JUDGE REFUSES PLEA TO QUASH BAKER CHARGE
Emmert Cites Prosecutor’s! Legal Right to Urge an Indictment.
'NEW ARGUMENTS
DUE
Bench Sets Arraignment i & |
Joel A. Baker and Peter A.|{Cancilla today lost their legal fi 1b to have dismissed an indictment
charging them with assault and battery with intent to kill Wayne Coy, former State Welfare fo
Former Welfare Head Cancilla, June 21./
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Special Judge James A. Emmert, Shelbyville, overruled their plea in abatement which charged Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer had’ ‘“unlawfully influenced”. the Marion County Grand Jury that returned the indictment. He set 4 p. m., June 21 for arraignment of the former Marion County Welfare Director and Cancilla. In overruling the abatement plea, Judge Emmert cited a recent Supreme Court decision which, he said, “gives the prosecutor the right | to urge an indictment if he thinks one should be returned.” Asks for Pleadings
The judge suggested arraigningthe defendants this morning. He said to their attorneys: “If you have any other pleadings, let's hear them now.” W. C. Bachelder, Baker's attorney, answered: “Yes, we will have some pleadings but we will need a little time.” The judge said: “The only pleading left open to you is a motion to quash the indictment. I will fix June 21 for arraignment. Be prepared to argue on a motion to quash at that time if there is any filed.” In a brief hearing this morning, ‘the defense sought to show the grand jury was illegally influenced. Although they had subpenaed all six grand jurors, defense attorneys used as witnesses only Prosecutor Spencer, Deputy Prosecutors Henry Goett and Oscar ‘Hagemeier, and Miss Rosemary Brennan, grand jury stenographer. Claimed Spencer in Room All testified that none but grand jurors were present in the jury room when the indictment against Baker and Cancilla was voted. The abatement plea charged that the Prosecutor and his deputies were in the jury room at the time. Prosecutor Spencer testified that he merely follewed the law governing his duties when he read the law to the jury. : The Judge has said he will make permanent at arraignment the July 26 trial date now tentative.
BOB BURNS pin pei
There’s a lot of men travelin’ around the country today givin’ lectures to businessmen. on how to run their business, but it would be surprisin’ to know how few of them lecturers | have got a business of their own. Most of ’em would starve to death if it wasn’t for what they pick up lecturin.’ A lady came through Van Buren one time, lecturin’ on “Economy\in the Home.” My stingy uncle, Uncle Skinny Flint, started courtin’ her because he figgered if he got a woman that understood economy like that he could save money. At their first meal he pointed to the table and he said, “You got twice as much food on the table as we can possibly eat.” His wife says, “Yes, I always do that so I can economize on the left-
ships will bring reprisals paling the ' shelling of Almeria.
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‘over dishes.” (Copyright, 1937)
* HERE’S ONE ENJOYING A MIDDAY MEAL
Harlow Movie
Despite Death
By) United Press HOLLYWOOD, June 12.— The picture “Saratoga,” in which Jean Harlow was playing a. leading role at the time of her death, may be finished with another actress, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios announced today. The decision not to junk the picture came after protesting letters from fans, the studio reported. Rita Johnson, New York actress, would complete the movie, according to tenta-
tive plans. To permit showing Miss Harlow in her last starring
role, the picture would be shown up to the last scene raade before she was stricken, then it. would be explained that Miss Johnson was completing the part. The studio has spent $500,000 on the picture starring Miss Harlow and Clark Gable. . Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Miss Harlow’s crypt, with space for three caskets, was donated by William Powell.
SPEED ASKED ON NUISANCE TAXES
Morgenthau to Be Called First in -Evasion Inquiry.
(Editorial, Page 10)
By United Press WASHINGTON, June 12.— Administration leaders today pressed action on their only two tax proposals of the session—extension of the so-called “nuisance” levies and investigation of alleged income tax evasion. : They planned to start the tax evasion inquiry next week with Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. as the first witness. Legislation to close tax loonholes was expected to be introduczd within a few weeks. Vice President John Nanc: Gainer named four Democrats, one Republican and one Progressive as the Senators who will serve on the joint committee. Garner placed Chairman Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) of the Senate Finance Committee first on the list, but did not formally name him as chairman. Serving with Harrison will be Senators William H. King (Turn to Page Three)
TRAFFIC SURVEY DIRECTOR CHOSEN
Hénry - A. Fillenworth to Lead Fact-Finders.
(Hoosier Forum, Page 10)
Chief Morrissey today announced that Henry A. Fillenworth, former member of the City Engineer’s staff, is to direct a fact-finding survey seeking causes of Indianapolis’ mounting traffic toll. The Chief said the project would get under way at once, > Meanwhile, Mayor Kern said he will take up with the Safety Board next Tuesday a proposed ordinance providing for semiannual inspection of Indianapolis-owned motor vehicles as a method of reducing traffic accidents. The ordinance was suggested to the Mayor today by Francis J. Powers, Albany, N. Y., Safety Lane Service Co. supervisor. Under, its provisions,” the Police
Department would be authorized to}
set up safety inspection stations in various sections of the city. Windshield stickers would be issued tc motorists whose cars passed the safety tests. ® If a car fails to meet the standards, the owner would be allowed 3a week to make the necessary repairs or adjustments, according to the proposal. At the end of the allot(Turn to Page Three)
May Be Shown |
INDIVIDUALISM
OF PHYSICIANS LOST, IS CLAIM
State Medicine Considered Inevitable OQutgrowth of Present Trend.
‘WHEN? NONE KNOWS’
Federal Care for Indigent Sick Forecast at Doctors’ Conclave.
By DAVID DIETZ
Times Science Editor ATLANTIC CITY, June 12.—Historians of the future will look back to the events of the. last week as a turning point in ihe history of American medicine. For in the American Medical Association convention just ended, rugged individualism lost its grip as the fundamental principle of medical practice in the United States. The future will see the development of some sort of state medicine. How soon it will come and how far it will go, cannot now be foretold. Four events led up to the present situation. They were: 1. Introduction [into the House of Delegates, governing body of the asscciation, of a resolution by the New York State Medical Society calling upon the association to set up a committee to formulate a national
| health policy for submission to the
Federal Government. 2. The dodging of this resolution by the House of Delegates and the passage in its stead of a resolution offering to aid the Federal Government upon invitation. 3. An address before the House of Delegates by U. S. Senator J. Hamilton Lewis (D. Ill), who said President Roosevelt had.authorized him to extend such an invitation to the doctors. 4. A meeting of the A. M. A. board of trustees to draft a reply to this invitation.
Social Security First
In all probability, the first change in the status of American medicine will come about through passage of some sort of amendment to the Social Security Act. It seems most likely that there will be set up, side by side with. the
‘private practice of medicine, some
sort of Federal: medicine service to meet the needs of the “medically indigent.” How this term eventually will be
defined cannot be said with cer-
tainty. : : Medical observers also see another force which is certain to play an important part. They point out that hospitals, research institutions and medical schools have depended in the past upon the gifts of the very rich for their endowments. As Dr. Charles Gordon Heyl of New York, retiring president of the A. M. A, said, “the hospital system faces no new givers of large funds, and reduced income from investments.” This means that support will have to come increasingly from the Government. Senator Lewis discussed some phases of this question. He warned that there are some people who would carry the socialization of medicine to the point where physicians would be licensed by the Federal Government and all practice controlled by the state.
8-YEAR-OLD ANGLER
HOOKS HIS OWN LEG |
An 8-year-old angler slightly deficient in control, hooked himself while fishing in the canal at Illinois St. today. Taken to City Hospital, Walter K. French, 24 E. 56th St., had the hook remcved from the calf of his right leg. He was not seriously injured, Police said it was the first fishing accident of the year.
CUTS OWN HEAD OFF By United Press MUNICH, June 12.—A farm laborer of 32 years, deciding to commit suicide, beheaded himself in the approved Nazi manner by putting his head under a chaff-cutter blade which he released by pulling a cord, a dispatch from Leutkirch said today.
COUNTY AGENT ABBOTT GETS BUSY
TOWNSEND MAY ASK STEEL PARLEY OF 3 GOVERNORS; MURPHY MOBILIZES GUARD
March on Monroe to Be Shunted From City.
BAN VIGILANTES
Governor to Attend Meeting 3 Miles From Town. = |
(Editorial, Page 10)
By United ‘Press DETROIT, June 12.—Governor Murphy announced today that a battalion of Michigan National Guardsmen and a detail of State Police would be sent to Monroe Sunday ‘‘to safeguard the peace” and to “guarantee the right of free speech and free assembly” to a union mass meeting near the city limits. Murphy himself will attend the meeting, to be held three miles north of the city limits, in a state park, but will not speak he said. Approximately 100 state police will be dispatched from. lower Peninsula posts to Monroe, the Governor said. Col. Bersey will mobilize his forces from the First Battalion, 125th Infantry, of Detroit. Between 200 and 300 National Guardsmen will be on the scene.
“The ‘vigilantes’ of Monroe will not be operating tomorrow,” the
J Governor said. “All possible traffic
wiil be kept outside of the city of Monroe.”
‘Discourages Attendance
He added that Martin, president of the auto union, had assured him he would discourage influx of union members from Ohio and Indiana to the mass meeting and “try to keep
the meeting a purely Michigan {
matter.” Martin, who announced the mass meeting Friday, had urged that it be a tri-state gathering with U. A. W. members from the neighboring stated joining the Michigan delegation in Monroe. Martin left the meeting with the Governor. early today in order to drive fo Muncie, Ind., where he will speak tonight.
Bittner to Speak
Union = headquarters here announced Van A. Bittner, regional director of the Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee at Chicago, and Homer Martin, U. A. W. president, would be the principal speakers at the meeting. “We will make certain there will be no invasion of Monroe,” the Governor said. “I hope all citizens will co-operate with us by keeping away from the town. The state park where the meeting will be held is located so it will not be necessary to pass through Monroe to reach it ”
Guardsmen and police will stop cars on the road and ‘so far as practicable” keep all visitors out of Monroe, the Governor said.
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pended for Moment By Davey.
By United Press CLEVELAND, June 12.—Potential trouble threatened in three steel centers along .the strike front today as the only conference to bring a peace was in adjournment. Situations were tense in Monroe, Mich., and in Canton and Youngs-
town, O., where both sides drew lines for possible new tests of strength.
The strike was extended to a fourth steel producer, Bethlehem, greatest of the independents, as a walk-out began in the corporaticn’s big Cambria plant at Johnstown. Pa. The management said the strike was “ineffective.” © Unionists puted this. :
Mediation Suspended
Mediation efforts of Ohio's Governor Davey with strike leaders and executives of two of the strikebound companies were suspended until Tuesday. At Canton, O., T. O. Harris, chairman of the Citizens Law and Order
teered for special police duty in aftempting to move freight in and out ofi four Republic mills. He said a headquarters was being opened today to mobilize between 2000 and 3000 citizens who will “bear arms in case of an emergency.” At Youngstown, seat of the Mahoning Valley's American “little Ruhr.” railroad police were. concentrated and the Mayor was author(Turn to Page Three)
PROBES WITNESS
Spencer Promises Action if Charge Is Proved.
Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer said today he is investigating reports that a prosecuting witness in the manslaughter case of Mrs. Florence = Simmons. Davis has been warned against testifying. Edwin Walker, 22, of 741 N. New Jersey St. a taxi driver, reported that three men approached him last night on Fountain Square and warned him not to testify in the case ‘or you will be made out a liar,” according to Mr. Spencer. Mrs. Davis was arrested June 2 after the car she was alleged to have been driving ran through a safety
killing 14-month-old Barbara Condit and injuring five other persons. The case is to be heard June 18 in
RETURN KENTUCKIAN | FOR KIDNAP QUIZ
Officers today returned Lester Riley, 26-year-old Kentuckian, from | tHe State Reformatory at Frankfort, Ky. for investigation by the Federal Grand Jury Tuesday in connection with the kidnaping of Paul Barker, Anderson taxi driver.
According to Paul F. Pfister, As-
sistant U. S. District Attorney, Riley and Joe Walsh, 28, also serving a term in Kentucky, are suspected of wrecking a stolen car near Ans derson, forcing Barker to drive them to the scene of the wreck, and then abandoning the driver, bound and gagged, while they fled in his taxi.
Municipal Court.
“If we find there is attempted in+|
timidation of witnesses in this case, the Prosecutor's office will take immediate action,” Mr. Spencer said.
AMELIA EARHART REACHES EL FASHER
Bi United Press EL FASHER, Sudan. June 12.— Amelia Earhart Putnam arrived here at 3:30 p. m. C. S. T. (8:30 Indianapolis Time) today from Ft. Lamy, French West Africa, on the eighth leg of her world-circling flight. : She made the 600-mile flight into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in four and one-halt hours in her twin-
They were arrested in Toledo two days later. .
motored plane.
AND FINDS A WHOLE HAND FULL
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NEW TROUBLE FACED INOHID vv ie AND MICHIGAN
Mediation Efforts Are Sus- Sion Pact for 440 |
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STORY OF THREAT’
zone at Noble St. and Virginia Ave.
Davey, Horner and Murphy May Be
C. 1. 0. WINS PACT
Inland Box Likely to
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Governor Townsend today said he was “considering the advisability” of asking Governors of three neighboring states to confer with him here on some plan for negotiating the nation’s steel strike. Those to be invited, if the cone ference is called, are: Governor Martin L. Davey, Ohio; Governor Frank Murphy, Michigan, and Gove ernor Henry Horner, Illinois. || The Governor is to make a formal
bility of such a conference later today. “I myself will be very glad to participate in any co-operative effort to bring about a strike settle= ment,” he said.
Hutson Favors Parley
After an hour-long session in the Governor's office, State Labor Commissioner. Thomas Hutson said, “I am entirely in favor of the Governor calling such a conference.” It was said the Monroe, Mich., situation may prevent Governor Murphy from attending a conference here. Mrs. Townsend first intervened in the strike situation yesterday when he conferred separately with Van A. Bittner, Steel Workers Organizing Committee regional director, and with officials of the Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Companies. Both have plants employing . about 14,000 men in Indiana.
Plan to Sign Pact
| Meanwhile, a wage agreement af- | fecting 440 workers was expected to be signed this afternoon by Inland Container Co. officials and United Paper Box Workers Industrial Union, Local 31, a C. I. O. affiliate, it was announced. The contract, reached last night after several weeks of negotiations, is to be submitted to the union membership tomorrow morning at 11 2. m, for ratification, according to Nick Marsella, C. I. O. organizer. Provisions include a general pay increase of 5 cents an hour - retroactive io June 1, another general wage increase of two and one-half | cents an hour effective Jan. 1, 1938,
+ extension of plant insurance to all’
employees of one year or over, and one week's vacation with pay for all of three years or over, it was reported. ! : There was a possibility that Homer (Turn to Page Three)
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