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SENATE PROBERS BLAME ‘MASSACRE ON CHICAGO POLICE

Excessive Amount of

Force Was Used, | Ohio Riot Cleared |

Report Says.

All but One Striker in

Of Gun Charge.

RAZES KINGAN STORAGE UNIT

‘Three Firemen Hurt While . Battling Blaze; .$60,000 In Hides Lost.

THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1937

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AWAIT WALL COLLAPSE

‘High Water Tower Is Used.

After ‘Roof Blows Off

ed as Second-Olass Matter gy GR Indianapolis, Ind.

MILD

PRICE THREE CENTS

BILL

PROGRAM

IS ACCEPTED BY

F. D. R.

FORCE

Bitter Five-Months’ Battle Ends With Com-

promise Among Rival Leaders at

Judiciary Committee Meeting.

‘NO MEDICAL AID' CLOSE FORD CASE i es Building. SENATE VOTE DUE THIS AFTERNOON

Chicago's Defense of Motor Firm Plea for - 5 8 \ . IE NR -

Action Censured By Group.

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By United Press WASHINGTON, July 22.— The Senate Civil Liberties Committee today charged its inquiry into Chicago's fatal Memorial Day outbreak showed that 10 deaths resulting from the clash between police and striking steel workers “were clearly avoidable by police.” In a report of its investigation submitted to the Senate today, the Committee declared that “the force! employed by the police was far in excess of that which the occasion required,” and added: “Its use must be ascribed either to | gross inefficiency in the performance of police duty or a deliberate attempt to intimidate the strikers.” The report was accompanied by a resolution introduced by Senator La Follette asking allotment of an additional $50,000 to continue the |

Committee's investigations of al- | leged violations of eivil liberties. |

‘Invites Repetition’ |

Signed by Committee Chairman | La Follette (P. Wis.) and Senator | Thomas (D. Utah), only other mem- | ber of the committee, the report | criteized the investigation of the violence conducted by Chicago and Cook County authorities. Of the | investigation conducted by city | authorities, the report said: “The action of the responsible | authorities in setting the seal of | their approval upon the conduct of | the police not only fails to place re- | sponsibility where responsibility properly belongs but will invite the | repetition of similar incidents in| the future.” The La Follette Committee report was made public just two days after | a Chicago coroner's jury, after in- | quiring into conduct otf police in the | South Chicago steel clash, returned a verdict of “justifiable homicide” in connection with the death of the 10 demonstrators, Concerning the investigation conducted by Chicago Police Cominissioner James P. Allman, the report said:

Police Criticized

“The entire effort of the police | was directed, not toward an impartial investigation of the event, but to an attempt to build up a case against the marchers.” The report criticized conduct of | police after the clash occurred and | (Turn to Page Three)

MURDER THEORY IN CRATER CASE PROBED

Bu United Press NEW YORK. July 22.—Investiga- | tion of the disappearance of Su- | preme Court Justice Joseph Force | Crater seven years ago was reopened today by District Attorney William | C. Dodge as the result of published | statements that Mrs. Stella Crater | believes her husband's activities as | a Tammany Hall Judge led to his death. | No evidence that the jurist is dead | ever has been uncovered by police in the long investigation. {

BOB BURNS

Says: July 22. <A

lotta people can’t understand why in the world it takes eight or 10 | weeks to make a picture that only | runs for a little | over an hour. | The main rea- | son for this is because they have'ta take a! lot more pictures than they can actually use so they can] have somethin’ to draw from in | case he stuck.

| It's like an uncle who was haulin’ a wagon- | load of sand one day and he was | going across Mosquito Bog and the |

wagon got bogged down. My uncle

Dismissal of NLRB Action Denied.

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 22. Richard B. Hardman, city solicitor of Massillon, O., told

‘the National Labor Relations

Board today that “about 165 men” were arrested on July 11 after a steel strike riot, but that only one could he

A three-alarm fire, causing damage estimated by Kingan & Co. officials at $100,000, still smouldered

noon.

a shell of brick walls | They were expected to collapse at lany time.

at the firm's cold storage ware- | house at 526 W. Ray St. this after- |

| After several hours of flames, only | remained. !

| Three firemen were injured slight- |

| at $15000 was caused by a blaze

| |

charged with carrying weap- | which destroyed or damaged nine |

ons, Ile possessed a knife with a 3!y-inch blade. Mr. Hardman testified as Board continued its hearing

charges by the Committee for Industrial Organization that the Re-

public Steel Co. violated the Wagner | act,

The riot mentioned by the witness, in the wake of a strike against Re-

public and other independent pro- |

ducers, resulted in death of three workers. ‘ Mr. Hardman said the Massillon Law and Order League asked Jim to check those arrested to determine if any were aliens illegally in this country. He said he had éxamined the men with the assistance

| of a Labor Department immigration

official and found none deportable, although he “suspected” five. Mr. Hardman said he had warned the Law and Order League and Republic officials against their insistence upon deputizing special police, because “they were too excitable and it takes a certain temperament to be a police officer.”

Labor Board Rests Case Against Ford

Bul nited Press DETROIT, July 22.—The Nation-

| al Labor Relations Board rested its

case charging Wagner act violation against the Ford Motor Co. today. John T. Lindsay, trial examiner,

| overruled a defense motion by At-

torney Louis J. Colombo St. to dismiss the complaint, Harry Bennett, Ford personnel director, took no part in the May 26 tie, a day.

newspaperman

The witness, Arthur Ogle, testified | he was in Mr. Bennett's company

during the time of the battle, in which 15 members of the United Automobile Workers of America were beaten as they sought to dis-

the into

which occurred 11 days ago |

riot, nor did he witness the bat- | testified to- |

| tucky Ave. Monday. Firemen Forced Back Heavy smoke forced firemen back from the entrance when they an- | swered the first alarm about 2 a. m,, | and they were forced to wait for 30 | minutes until the roof of the three- | story building blew off. Then the | high water tower was brought into action and helped bring the raging blaze under control. The blast, heard for several blocks,

| shot flames skyward 100 feet, wit- |

| nesses said. Cork walls and saw- | dust floors, insulation for the air- | tight storage rooms, became tinder after the roof was forced off, Assistant Chief Roscoe McKinney said. making the flames difficult to handle. All windows had iron bars, and | the firemen were forced to cut through heavy brick walls when they first arrived, he said. 12,000 Hides Destroyed

Approximately 12,000 beef hides were stored on the two floors of | insulated storage rooms. according to Fred Butler, Kingan & Co. chief engineer. He estimated the value of the hides at $60,000. G. A Kirkwood, Kingan & Co. | insurance representative, said loss of the building and machinery, es(Turn to Page Three) | - —— di

DEATH PROBE OPENS; * POLIGE HINT SUICIDE

Body of Bowling Alley Manager Found in Park.

Coroner's and the police homicide squad aids were to investigate this |afternoon the death of Thomas | William Sargent. 39, of 3023 Now- | land Ave., whose body was found in | Brookside Park today.

buildings in the 1300 block Ken-

The one-vote margin which gave

of Kentucky (left) victory over Senator Harrison of Mississippi (right) in their spirited contest for the

EARLY TRIAL FOR CANGILLA URGED

Should Follow at End of Baker Case, Judge Emmert Says.

Trial of Peter A. Cancilla imme-

diately after a verdict is reached

{in the case of Joel A. Baker, had |

been asked today by Special Judge | James A. Emmert, Shelbyville, after

he ordered a special venire of 100 | names drawn for the Baker trial, | scheduled to open Monday, Baker, depesest Marion County Welfare Director. and Cancilla, his

associate, are under indictment for assault and battery with intent to murder Wayne Co, former State Welfare director, Mr. Coy, who now is administrative assistant to Paul McNutt, Philippine High Commissioner,

| Hugh is | Administrator.

| to board the Clipper plane in |

| Manila tomorrow for a series of | flights that will bring him half way around the world to-* testify at Baker's trial. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer | last week signed his personal note | for $1917.00 to pay for round-trip airplane tickets for Mr. Coy.

{ Cost Considered |

| said.

| torney

ia} | names were enough for the special |

~Times-Acme Telephoto majority leadership of the Senate, was not allowed

to dim their friendship one iota, judging from the cordial smiles they exchanged after the election.

Senator Barkley

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Tokyo Whispers Chiang Acts in Secret for Peace

Japanese-British Clash Threatens Over English Aid | To Fleeing Coolie Prisoners.

(Copyright, 1937, by United Press)

TOKYO, July 22 -—-The Government was informed at midnight that the North China situation is quiet and that some optimism is felt that

Reform of Lower Courts to Be Pushed in Revised Measure; Final Action Promised Within 10 Days’ Time.

“Now, for Court Reform,” an editorial, and Gen. Johnson, Page 14, Rep. Summer's warning and another story, Page Five.

By United Press

WASHINGTON, July 22.—The five-months’ battle over

| President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Bill ended today with

Administration acceptance of a mild judiciary program— not touching the high tribunal. The dramatic announcement came behind the doors of the old Judiciary Committee room in the capitol where Vice President Garner was reported to have pleaded with tears in his voice for Democratic Party harmony.

order can be restored in the disturbed area outside Peiping without major fighting between the Japanese army and the well-trained units of | Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Chinese government in Nanking. | On the eve of the opening of the special session of parliament the | secretaries of the powerful Minseito and Seiyukai political parties visited | Premier Prince Fumimaro Honoye and said their parties would support . ~® his China program and continue general co-operation with his Su-per-Party Cabinet, A Until the China situation is settled, they promised the Premier, the political parties will support ail major points of his program. This That ma ybe the result of a |jncludes drastic Government conwarning sent to breweries, dis-|trol over national economy and tilleries and liquor wholesalers by | finance which will move Japan A. Barnhart. State Excise | farther along the roads toward be- | coming a totalitarian state—similar He warned against the use of [to Germany and Italy.

ORDER MAY PUT END | TO DRINKS ‘ON HOUSE’

No more drinks on the house.

Meantime the Domei News

Holding the whip hand, Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.) leader of the fight against the Court Bill, co-operated in : * reaching a settlement along the lines outlined yesterday SLAYING INQUIRY by the opposition. | Senator Logan (D, Ky), supporter [of the Court Bill, was instructed by

| the Committee to move on the Sen ate floor this afternoon that the

AT. STANDSTILL

Robbery Motive Discarded In Death of 12-Year-Old Helen Schuler.

| pending measure be recommitted to { the Judiciary Committee, with in« structions to redraft it within 10 | days. It was then agreed by all but two or three members of the Commite tee that the measure would be re written on the basis of the House-

| alcoholic heverages as prizes | contests, and points out that free liquor is contrary to the law.

CHILD, 9, PREFERS

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| Agency reported from Nanking that | Generalissimio Chiang secretly had informed Gen. Sung Cheh-yuan, chairman of the Hopei-Chahar political council, that a formula was being worked out which will enable [Sung and Nanking to accept a “local” cettlement of the: North

(Photo, Page 26) passed Sumners Bill affecting only | procedure in the lower courts.

Although Sheriff Ray had pre- | ire. . dicted a break “very shortly” in the | The decision—expected quickly baffling Beech Grove slaying of 12-|!0 end the long Court Bill fight and year-old Helen Schuler, his inves- | lead to an early adjournment of tigation appeared at a standstill | Congress—was disclosed after a twothis afternoon. hour meeting of the committee. In

Garner, Majority

| the promise of inheriting $500,000,

China quarrel.

MOTHER TO FORTUNE

Rejects Half-Million for Black Puppy Dog.

British Reported as ‘Disturbed by Reports

By United Press PARIS, July 22-—British anxiety over the Spanish civii war was ascribed by French sources today to

news that Germany has established |

airplane and submarine bases at | points of great strategic value in| Spanish Africa. Both Oeuvre, organ of the dominant Government Radical Socialist Party, and Echo De Paris, Right

By United Press CHICAGO, July 22. —FElaine Harnett, 9, prefers her mother's love, a black puppy dog, and the chance to play with her baby brother to

she decided in the court of Judge Walter La Buy, who left the problem of her future up to her and to her alone,

He said he had discarded robbery |2ddition to Mr.

as a motive. With both women | Leader Barkley attended the session, principals, who accuse each other| AS the crucial Judiciary Commitof the murder in. hospitals, his|!6®_Session was going on Secretary plans to bring them together were | of Interior Ickes, in a press confer=balked temporarily. ence, proposed that Congress submit The Coroner's inquest brought no | Some form of constitutional amendnew developments [ment concerning the Supreme Court The Grand Jury probe into the to the states for ratificaton. He strange shooting affray progressed. urged submission of the amendment In St. Francis Hospital Was Mrs. | despite the decision against legisla~

Lottie Schuler, who was wounded | !1Ve Supreme Court action. by the same gun that killed her Garner Hurries From Room stepdaughter a week ago. In City Hospital, Mrs. Etta Jones. charged with the murder and wounding, was reported recovering! from injuries received when she

As the Committee meeting cone cluded, Vice President Garner hurried from the room, waving back reporters. and headed for the Sene ate chambers just before noon with-

tribute handbills to employees. |

Police said they found a suicide His testimony was in refutation | note in his pocket. Its handwriling of that given by a Labor Board | Was identified as Mr. Sargent's by

| witness, John Godelski, who said he | relatives.

had observed Mr. Bennett in an | Mr. Sargent was manager of the

automobile congratulating company | St. Philip's bowling alley and was

venire, but Prosecutor Spencer insisted that 100 be drawn. “Many prospective jurors may

Elaine had lived with her grand-

Wing Conservative newspaper, pub-

jumped or fell 12 feet to the con-

lished detailed reports asserting that information of the alleged bases was received here and at Lon-

mother, Mrs. Mae Kirkpatrick, for six years. Early in June of this

crete jail floor yesterday afterncon. Sheriff Ray described it as an unsuccessful suicide attempt.

out disclosing anything except that | “progress” was being made on a settlement.

have to be excused from service | year, her mother, Veronica Harnett, and we'll need 100 to get a jury,” | 30, asked that the child be sent Mr. Spencer said. home. A quarrel with Mrs. Kirk- , | patrick developed. Police settled it.

(Turn to Page Three)

| employees for their “good work” a

few minutes ceased,

after the fighting

WARMER WEATHER DUE

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

| reported missing by his wife when | he failed to return home from work | last night. | She said he carried large sums of money from his business place, but no money was found on his person. His wife, Mrs. Mary E. Sargent, | started to look for him about 3

Judge Fixes Number

Judge Emmert fixed the number at 100 without further argument. | Two hours later Jury Commis- | sioners drew 100 names from a | glass-enclosed cage. In addition, there is the regular July Criminal |

(a. m. today. At 4, she found his | auto parked on Brookside Parkwa>, | South Drive. At 10:30 a. m., the | body was found by James Jordan, a passerby, near where the auto was to | abandoned. Survivors are his wife, a small

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The temperature is expected climb to 85 degrees or better here | this afternbon, the weather bureau; son, William Edward, his parents, predicted. Tonight and tomorrow | Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Sargent, 1210 should be fair, the bureau said, with | Oakland Ave. and a brother, Ed-

| gets | _

similar temperatures.

ward, 417 Oakland Ave.

Court petit jury panel drawn last week. The regular panel will be seated in the box first. Many of the regular panel members are expected to be eliminated, however, after the prosecutor and defense attorneys exercise their respective peremptory challenges to 10 each. After the regular panel is exhausted, names from the special venire will be called.

looked around and found out that | j

all of his sand had sifted through | the bed of the wagon. He says, “Well, I declare! Here I am stuck | in the mud and nothin’ to unload!” ! (Copyright, 1987) |

Ten years ago Harold E. Dahl enrolled in a Spanish course at Butler University. Today he was completing his course in a little Rebel jail at Sala-

manca. A burst of machine gun fire interrupted his “soldier-of-fortune” career as a pnember of the Spanish Loyalist air corps several days ago. He “bailed out” landing uninjured in an orchard. Mr. Dahl attended Butler during the first semester of 1927-28, records show. Spanish was his “major” subject. He was pledged to Delta Tau Delta Fraternity, but was not initiated. He later attended James Millikin University at Decatur, Ill, where he became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. ‘ Mr. Dahl, whose home is Champaign, Ill, enrolled in the United States Army Aviatiom Corps in Texas and was graduated as a pri-

Former Butler Student Jailed in Spain; Captured as War Bird for Loyalists

mary flying cadet at Randolph Field He later was trans-

four years ago. Field, Long

ferred to Mitchell Island. It was reported his salary with the Spanish air forces exceeds $1500 weekly. It is being paid to his wife, the former Edith Rogers, who is at Cannes, France.

BRIDE WILL OPPOSE BRENT ANNULMENT

HOLLYWOOD, July 22.—George Brent, film leading man, asked annulment of his two-months-old marriage to Jocelyn Howarth, pretty Australian actress, in a suit on file today. Mr. Brent said he and his wife, who eloped to Tijuana May 10, did not comply with Mexican marriage laws. His wife's lawyers indicated they would oppose the suit, Mr.

Brent is a former husband of Ruth Chatterton.

| the Hindenburg disaster attributed

| spark which ignited a mixture of

Mrs. Harnett and Elaine's father, Earl, separated. The mother took the problem to Judge La Buy. To this court came | William Gaertner, 72, brother-in-law of Mrs. Kirkpatrick. “I am worth, conservatively, a! half million dollars,” he testified. “I intend to leave it all to Elaine, but not if she lives with her mother.” Judge La Buy pondered the problem, then announced he would let Elaine decide for herself. Elaine did not hesitate.

HINDENBURG BLAST BLAMED ON STATIC

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 22.—Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced today that the formal report of the Commerce inquiry into

REPORT BRADY GANG SEEN AT TOLL BRIDGE.

‘Positively Identified’ By Toll Keepers.

Trio

By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind, July 22.— | Employees on the Evansville-Hen- | derson Toll Bridge over the Ohio | River reported to police today that | Al Brady and his bandit companfons crossed the structure en route | to Kentucky today. Confronted with pictures of the | hunted gangsters, J. L. Knight and | Willie Algood, toll Keepers, and | Superintendent Larry Jones posi- | tively identified the men who passed across the bridge as Brady, James Dolhover and Clarence Lee Schaffer Jr. They said the gang, which is the object of a widespread manhunt in Indiana and charged with four murders and a series of bank and jewel robberies in Ohio and Indiana, stopped their car at the bridge, paid the toll and continued toward Henderson. After the car had gone the employees said they “realized who the men were.” y

‘FORGOTTEN’ WOMAN FREED By United Press CHICAGO, July 22.--Mrs. Daisy Tegtmeyer, Cook County Jails “forgotten woman,” was free under bond today and hopeful that she would recover ,under hospital treatment from the strain of four years in jail and 24 legal appeals. Mrs. Teglmeyer was jailed July 27, 1933, for refusing to account for $30,000 of an estate for which her late husband had been trustee. The charge | was contempt of court.

the fatal fire to an electro-static| | free hydrogen and air. The board found no evidence to support the possibility of sabotage.

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But a minute later Senator Wheeler and Senator McCarran (D. Nev.) emerged into the crowded corridor, announcing as they shoved toward the elevator that the long battle had ended. “Senator Logan will move this afternoon to recommit the bill,” | Senator Wheeler said, adding that only two votes were cast in the Committee against such a plan.

Mrs. Jones received a broken arm and head lacerations. The Sheriff said she leaped from a catwalk in County Jail after he had told her he would confront her | with Mrs. Schuler and would probe her past life in Louisville. Bess Robwins, Mrs. Jones’ attorney, charged that Sheriff Ray “forced Mrs. Jones to sit alone in a darkened room at the crime's

scene, contributing to her broken down physical condition,” and that her client fainted and fell from the catwalk. The Sheriff claimed 11 statements from other women prisoners in the Jail purporting to show Mrs. Jones had jumped from the catwalk. Earlier, Sheriff Ray charged, Mrs. Jones had attempted to throw herself and a deputy sheriff into the path of a car as she was being led to the jail after being photographed at the Bertillon Department in po-

lice headquarters across Alabama St. |

Miss Robbins also denied this attempt.

MYSTERY PLANE OVER ATLANTIC REPORTED

By United Press . NEW YORK. July 22.—A “mystery plane” was reported today to be flying the Atlantic toward Europe. The British merchantman Ranee radioed the Radio-Marine Corp. that an unidentified airplane had passed over it at 7:04 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), last night. The Ranee then was about 500 miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland. The Ranee'’s master said the plane was headed east, apparently bound for Europe.

EDMONTON, Alberta, July 22.— An unknown foreign flier will attempt a round-the-world solo flight within a few days, according to Capt. James Bell, manager of the Edmonton airport. Capt. Bell said that agents of the unidentified aviator had advised him to that effect last night. He said Edmon108 Das to be used .as a refueling

“The measure will he sent back to the Judiciary Committee with instructions to report back within 10 days with a bill calling for ree forms in the lower courts.” Senator McCarran said the changes would be purely “procedural” and would not in any way affect the high tribunal; nor will (Turn to Page Three)

GOLDWYN APOLOGY

By United Press { HOLLYWOOD, July 22.—Samuel | Goldwyn, movie producer, today ad- | dressed a public apology to Mrs, Franklin D. Roosevelt for making it appear that she had been added to his payroll as an advertising writer, In a statement released by the studio Monday night, it was announced that Mrs. Roosevelt would write a “plug” for “Stella Dallas.” Mr. Goldwyn said. “I want to apologize to Mrs, Franklin D, Roosevelt for the publicity statements recently circulated that. she has been engaged as one of my advertising writers. “This is not true. Mrs. Roosevelt, through her literary agent, Mrs. George Bye, of New York, was told the story of ‘Stella Dallas’ and, as a result, wrote a beautiful editorial entitled: ‘Stella Dallas Inspires a Discussion of a Mother's Vital Problem.’ “Mrs. Roosevelt graciously permitted me to buy this editorial and use it in a series of advertisements,

engaged as an advertising for me.”

“At no time, however, was she ever,