Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1937 — Page 3

THURSDAY, AUG. 5, 1937

~ CANGILLA SUPPORTS BAKER DENIAL HE ORDERED ATTACK ON COY IN STATE HOUSE ROW

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fent to the State House,” Baker continued. Spencer asked: “You work for a lot of bills in the Legislature, don't you?” “Yes,” Baker replied. that you wanted me to work

“For one for,

Recalls Meeting Judge

Baker denied that he saw Arthur E. Rose and Charles Marshall, state witnesses who testified yesterday | that they saw Baker in the State | House, and said that he did not | see Mr. Coy in the Speaker's office. | He said he met Judge Dewey | Myers as he was leaving the State | House, and talked to him about | the Judge losing the state delegate fight. Cancilla was with them, he | testified. Baker testified that they had | one drink in the taproom, and said: | “The only conversation I had | with Judge Myers was whether the | Judge would get reappointed.” Cancilla testified that Baker did | not coerce him or even sugges$ that | he hit Mr. Coy. { “I hit him on my own hook and sorry I had hit him,” Can- |

too.” | | | {

1 was cilla testified. Mr. Karrer asked: “Did you in-| tend to kill Coy when you struck] him?” “Of course not, I had no such in- | tentions,” Cancilla said. | Saw Coy March 1 | Cancilla testified he met Coy in| the State House corridor on March 1 and said: " ‘Wayne, I would like | to speak to you. Is the Welfare Bill still in committee?’ Coy told me he didn't have time to talk to me. I replied, ‘You're a cheap politician.’ | He shoved me against the wall and | called me a --- -- = ---- and I hit him once.” Asked by counsel if he grabbed Mr. Coy around the neck and hit | him several times, as State witnesses had testified, Cancilla answered, “No, nothing like that, I didn't do | that at all.” | He testified that he had been convicied on an assault and battery | charge here once before, and was | fined $50. He said he was arrested | In Buffalo, N, Y., about 18 years ago | on a larceny charge. “I was tried and convicted later retried and acquitted,” testified. Cancilla testified that he saw | Judge Dewey Mvers in the corridor | on the third floor of the State] House, March 1, close to the House | side. “I =ald, ‘Dewey, why don't you | come over to the club for lunch?’ | He said, ‘I'm too busy, it’s so late | when I get off the bench. Then I invited Myers over to the Harrison | Taproom to have a drink with me. | Joel Baker ran into us on the way | over. He approached us after I had | run into Judge Myers. I said, ‘Let's | all go have a drink,’ and we all went over to the taproom.” | Attorney Karrer asked: “Did | Baker at any time tell you to ‘go | get that guy’ in Judge Myers’ pres- | ence?” | Cancilla replied: “There never |

and he |

was such a thing said. We talked few minutes before noon, he said. | continuously, day and night, during |

about the defeat of certain delegates | to the State convention.” “Did Baker say anything about | having to go see somebody?” Karrer asked. “Yes, Baker said, ‘T've got to go |

bver and see that fellow,” Cancilla | cloakroom there.”

testified. Mr. Karrer asked, “What did you say, if anything?”

“Finished My Drink”

Cancilla said he answered, | “‘You've got plenty of time.’ I hadn't finished my drink, and wanted to before Baker left. I think he was going over to see the Speaker) of the House.” Mr. Karrer asked how long they remained at the taproom, and Cancilla said; “Oh, we were there only a few minutes. Baker said ‘IT am going to leave’ and I said ‘I'll go| with you’ We walked over to the State House where Baker went into | the Governor's office and I went up- | stairs.”

Karrer asked when he saw|

Joel A. Baker .

MEETINGS TOMORROW \

Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash- | ingtor |

n, noon | ptimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, |

| time,

| an overcoat?” Hagemeier asked.

land.

Baker next, and Cancilla answered: “Not until 12 days later.” Cancilla also denied that he knew Coy would be in the State House when he left the taproom. “I didn't even know who was,” he testified.

Coy

Denies Statement

Karrer asked: “Did you say when you left the Harrison Taproom ‘I've got a little job to do.” Cancilla answered “I did not.” Mrs. Sarah Kirby, waitress, and | State witness, testified yesterday

that Cancilla made the remark to her as he left the taproom. He also denied the State's evidence that he returned to the taproom after the attack. “I certainly didn't go to the taproom with 150 people chasing me. I walked out of the State House, called a taxi and went to Washington and Delaware Sts. I walked two or three blocks and then went home. 1 then left the city and went to Buffalo, N. Y. While there I heard that I was indicted and returned immediately. I stopped at Anderson and got a taxi.” Cancilla testified that he had been

| cutor Spencer for about six months. |

Known Him Nine Years Mr. Karrer asked: run around with him

“You used to during the

| campaign, did you not?”

“Yes, I've known him for nine years,” Cancilla replied. “Did you ever work with Wayne Coy?” Karrer asked. { “Yes, I worked with him at the Democratic State Convention,” Cancilla replied. “You hadn't been unfriendly with Coy prior to the fight, had you?” Karrer asked. Cancilla replied, “No.” He said he lost his job as deputy prosecutor because Prosecutor Spen- | cer enforced a law that had been in| existence for 40 years prohibiting a aeputy prosecutor from practicing criminal law. “Met Coy in 1932”

Cancilla also denied Baker had in- | troduced him to Mr. Coy in 1935 by | saying “this is my man and putting | his hand on my right arm.” | “I met Coy in 1932 for the first when Coy was the head of the Clemency Department,” Can- | cilla said. On cross-examination, Ch ief | Deputy Prosecutor Oscar Hage- | meier asked Cancilla “if it wasn't | the State Welfare Merit Bill you | were talking to Coy about?” Cancilla said “no, it was the Police Merit Bill.” Telling of his activities on March 1, Cancilla said he met Baker in| front of the County Weifare office | about 10:30 a. m.,, and that they went over to the Harrison Taproom and had two drinks. Went to State House “Then we went to the State | House,” he continued, “and returned | to the taproom for another drink.” | They returned to the State House a

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“Didn't you know the Legislature |

adjourns at noon? What were you | going to do that you checked your | coat?” Mr. Hagemeier asked. { “I was going to stay there awhile and then go back to my office,” | Cancilla answered. Mr. Hagemeier overcoat into evidence. Cancilla said he left Indianapolis |

introduced the!

| the night of March 1 or early the!

next morning, without his overcoat. | He said he drove his own car and that he bought an overcoat at Rich- | man’s.

on { “Are you sure you didn't borrow | |

“No,” Cancilla replied. | Cancilla said he drove to Day- |

{ ton, 9. with his wife and took a

train from there to Buffalo, N. Y. |

| “I don't know after he called me |

Fifteen-year-old Lillian Boone lay in City Hos-

| pital today, another traffic accident victim. She was | hurt about the face and hands when she rode her

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Bicycle Ride Sends Her to Bed in H ospi tal

bicycle into the side of an auto yesterday. Her condition was reported as fair today.

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He said he read about his indictment in Buffalo newspapers. Mr. Hagemeier said, regarding Cancilla’s conviction on a larceny charge 18 years ago “The record shows that you were convicled and sentenced and later put on indefinite probation, and

that the second time you were tried |

was on a new indictment. Is that right?” Cancilla replied, “No, I did not understand it that way. I understood I was retried and acquitted.” Mr. Hagemeier asked: When you stopped in Anderson, didn't you spend some time talking to a man

| named “Scampy’?”’

“I did not. enough to get a taxi,” Cancilla replied.

Sorry for Slugging

Mr. Hagemeier asked Cancilla if he hadn't been with Joel Baker

the 1937 session of the 1 egislature. Cancilla answered, “Just a couple of nights.” Cancilla repeated that he was in the State House making inquiries about the Police Merit Bill. Asked if he was making the inquiries for himself, he said, “No, for Sheriff Otto Ray. I was just getting some information for him in a friendly way.’

“You say you were sorry you slugged Coy,” Mr. Hagemeier asked. “Yes,” Cancilla said. “You never went to see Coy the hospital,” Mr. Hagemier said. “I was afraid to,” Cancilla said. “Were you afraid Coy would strike you from his sick bed,” the Deputy Prosecutor asked. “No, I was afraid the State Police might get me.” “Did you say you hit Coy because he pushed you up against the wall?”

Hagemeier asked, and Cancilla re- |

plied, “Yes.” “Did he shove you pretty hard?” “Well, he shoved me about two inches to the wall.” “Did it hurt you?” “No, it was more shock than anything.” “Did you strike him gently?”

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“Is it not a fact that you have broken other men's jaws?’ Mr. Hagemeier asked. “No.” “Didn't you break Tipton Blish's jaw?” Andrew Jacobs, Cancilla’s attor-

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nev who was sitting at the defense table, arose and said he ‘‘advised | his client not to answer that ques- | tion.” Judge Emmert permitted the | question to stand. [| “I did not,” Cancilla answered. | “You know you broke his skull in some way, don’t you,” the deputy asked. | “I did not,” Cancilla answered. Says Voice Not Cancilla’s | First witness for the defense today was Stanley C. Bohanan of ocala, Fla. He testified that he was living in Indianapolis on March 1 and was in the State House at the time of the fight. He said that while waiting for the elevator about 30 feet from where | Mr. Coy and Cancilla were standing, he heard the words He said he had known Cancilla for some time, was familiar with his voice and that the voice was not Cancilla’s. He said he turned and saw the

B didn’t see Cancilla grab Coy around the neck.” On cross-examination, he said he was in the State House lobbying for a racing bill and denied that he had aSked Baker for his support on the ill, Defense attorneys started presentation of their evidence late yesterday after Judge Emmert overruled their motion for a directed verdict of acquittal. Defense attorneys argued for im-

the State had “failed Baker had anything to do with the asault on Mr. Coy.” Judge Emmert, picking up some notes he had made, referred to the testimony earlier in the day of Judge Myers. “Testimony Sufficient” “The testimony of Judge Mvers is sufficient to send this case to the jury,” Judge Emmert said. “Judge Myers testified that he heard Baker tell Peter Cancilla to ‘go get that guy’ and a few minutes later Coy was struck by Cancilla.” Defense attorneys that Judge Myers “didn’t say what guy.” Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer said: “Well, when ‘bank bandits plan a robbery they don't always say what bank they're going to rob either—it’s usually a mutual understanding.” Judge Emmert also referred to Mr. Coy’s testimony. “Mr. Coy testified that Baker remarked to him a week before the as-

| sault that ‘you (Coy) won't live long

enough to see that kind of legislation passed’—it all ties in together,” Judge Emmert said. State Rests Prosecutor Spencer rested his case after the testimony of Coy, former State Welfare Director and now Administrative Assistant to Paul McNutt, High Commissioner

| to the Philippines.

in the early gossip as a potential

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| claim that while the Supreme Court | fight and “saw only one bl Ie 2 y Ow aw | battle brought the VanNuys-Town- |

pointed out

PARTY DEBATES VANNUYS' RIVAL

Administration Is Grooming ‘Dark Horse’ for Senate Race, Is Belief.

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candidate, still would prefer a Federal court appointment to the Sen-

Claim Strife of Long Standing State Administration chiefs also |

send clash to a head, the strife has | existed since the senior Senator's election. They charge Mr. VanNuys has not supported many of the New Deal’s important measures. While Governor Townsend has avoided a direct statement that he proposes to enter a candidate against Senator VanNuys, his secretary, Dick Heller, practically read the Senator out of the party in a

Governor Townsend has said that | he “doubted Senator VanNuys could |

Statement May Be Bluff Wording of Senator VanNuys' an- | nouncement yesterday and his re- | fusal to amplify his remarks lead | some political observers to believe | he is considering running as an in- | dependent candidate. Some of the Senator's friends here | claim it is only a bluff, however, and | that Mr. VanNuys may capitalize on the threat in an attempt to bring | the State machine behind him by |

| convention time, |

‘DRUNKOMETER" BRINGS ARREST OF DENVER PAIR

Man and Wife Held After Test; 44 Drivers Pay $315 in Fines.

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Mr. and Mrs. Gordon had been drinking. According to Dr. Rollo Marger of Indiana University Medical School, inventor of the device, it contains a purple liquid which turns colorless when contracted by an alcoholic breath. The degree the liquid bleaches indicates the degree of drunkenness, he said. Meanwhile, Marion County's 1937 traffic toll today dropped below the 1936 level for the first time in three months with 94 fatalities recorded against 97 the same date a year ago. “Indianapolis is winning its battle against the traffic menace,” said Capt. Lewis Johnson, Traffic Bureau head, as he noted the reduced toll and continued arrests of erring motorists,

Drive Is Credited

Capt. Johnson attributed the decrease to the current drive on traffic law violators. He said that the toll fell fast during July, and particularly during the past two weeks of the campaign. He pointed out that 12 were killed in July last year and only six this year. “Continued strict enforcement and public co-operation will insure the campaign's success,” he declared. “We are not through yet. We hope to get Indianapolis motorists and pedestrians to the point where we will need to make no arrests.” The Captain said that letters have been received from citizens complimenting his department. He emphasized that motorists are not entirely responsible for traffic accidents, but that careful pedestrians can do much to lower the toll. He also declared that enforcing speed limits will not “jam” traffic in the city. He claimed that autos are moving faster now than before strict enforcement began.

73 Are Arrested

Traffic arrests yesterday numbered 73, including six charged with speeding and three with drunken driving. Forty-four drivers were convicted on 47 charges by Judge Pro Tem. Silas Lipman in Municipal Court today. They were fined a total of $315 while $202 in was suspended. There was only one conviction for speeding, the defendant being fined $5 and costs. Judge Lipman withheld judgment in the only alleged drunken driving case called. Edward Benedit, Negro, of 2324 N. Illinois St., was the defendant. Judgment was withheld also on charges of being drunk, failure to have driver's license, auto license and certificate of title against him, Preferential street running was the most predominant offense. Eighteen persons were fined a total of $137 on that charge while $91 was suspended. Ten red light runners were fined $86 and $20 was Ssus-

pended. Three reckless drivers paid |

$15 in fines, with $30 costs suspended. Five other persons were injured in six other accidents reported in Marion County yesterday. Fifteen-year-old Lillian Boone of 1123 Charles St., who rode her bicycle into the side of an automobile yesterday, was reported in a fair condition today at City Hospital. Two persons were injured yesterday when the car in which they were riding struck an abutment hidden by weeds on the Millersville Road east of Keystone Ave. William J. Tomlinson, 37, of 721

fines and costs |

Senate on

Letters to Senators Termed Insult by McNary.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—A petition signed by 43 Senators suggesting a special session of Congress to convene on Oct. 15 to consider general farm legislation was read in the Senate today.

By Uniled Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Minority Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon today charged the American Federation of Housing authorities with “the boldest attempt I've seen in 20 years” to influence legislation in the Senate. The charge, prompted by criticism originating with Senator Clark, (D. | Mo.), interrupted debate on the | pending $700,000,000 Wagner Hous[ing Bill. The housing organization, which

Langdon Post of New York had prepared a statement which Senate page boys placed on the desk of every Senator before the Chamber convened. The statement urged recconsideration of the amendment of Senator Byrd (D. Va.), which limited the Housing Bill costs to $1000 per room or $4000 per family unit. Senator McNary termed the statement an “insuult” and said that if there were no rules to cover the situation he would propose one at the next meeting of the Rules Committee. Delays Wages-Hour Bill Meanwhile, Speaker Bankhead said that Hose consideration of the Wages-Hours Bill will be delayed unti! iate next week. Speaker Bankhead said House leaders have revised their program somewhat and now hope to bring the Wagner-Steagall Housing Bill to the floor ahead of the WagesHours Bill. Solution of a last-minute Congressional jam over farm legislation eppeared in prospect when President Roosevelt told a delegation of cotton states representatives he would agree to a loan program for this season's farm crops providing assurance wah nad that a general farm bill would be considered early at the next session of Congress. Administration leaders were encouraged by the 17 to 2 vote by which the House Labor Committee approvel the revised Wages-Hours Bill. They viewe it as bringing Congress closer to ajournment—now expected around Aug. 21.

St., was arrested on charges of drunkenness, drunken driving and improper lights after the automobile he was driving struck a parked car in the 2100 block E. Riverside Drive.

MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE

Accidents Injured

W. 32d St., who was driving, suf-| fered fracture of several ribs, and | Miss Mary Henninger, 14, of 2202 | N. Drexel Ave. suffered severe face |

cuts. Both were treated at Hospital. .

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Robert Beck, 19. of Lebanon, suf- |

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was thrown from the motorcycle |

which he was riding.

James Belcher, 24, of 1268 Eugene |

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Burke, Court Bill Foe, Is ‘Love Feast’ Sponsor; F. D. R. Asked.

By LYLE WILSON

United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. — Peace | overtures within the Democratio Party promised today to diminish | somewhat but not to end the tene-

| dency to the conservatives to pull | away from the Roosevelt Adminis«

tration, Chief development toward party harmony was a series of speeches being delivered in the Midwest by | Postmaster General James A. Fare | ley, who also is chairman of the

| Democratic National Committee, | Mr. Farley is broadcasting a denial of party reprisals against Demo= | cratic Senators who helped to scute | tle President Roosevelt's plan for | reorganization of the Supreme | Court | Shortly before Mr. Farley delive lered such a speech yesterday in | Akron, O., Senatr Democrats ane {nounced plans for an Aug. 10 hare {mony dinner liere to honor Senator | Barkley (D. Ky.), White House cane didate for Senator leader. Senator | Barkley was elected over Senator | Harrison (D. Miss.) by a margin of | cue vole. President Roosevelt may attend the dinner. Vice President Garner | will preside and reporters will be | barred. It will be a stag affair to which all Senate Democrats except Senator Hattie W. Caraway (D, | Ark.) have been invited. | The dinner is notable chiefly be~ cause one sponsor is Senator Burke | (D. Neb.), and because if Mr. Roose= | velt attends it will give him his second opportunity of the summer {to meet with congressional Demoeerats in the informal privacy of a | convivial occasion, | Senator Burke was the most vige | orously outspoken Democratic op= | ponent of Mr. Rosevelt's Supreme | Court plans. Mr. Barkley, whom | he now proposes to honor publicly, | was known when his candidacy | was advanced to favor action on | Mr. Roosevelt's program and Mr, Harrison, supported by Mr. Burke and other anti-Court Bill Demoe crats, was expected to push Cone | gress toward adjournment regards | less of the Court if the leadership | came his way,

WOMAN FORGERY SUSPECT BONDED

| Ry United Press MARTINSVILLE, Aug. 5. —- Mrs. Vivian Dorsett, held here on a charge of forgery, has been released | under $1500 bond signed by her | brother-in-law, Herschell Dorsett, | and her two attorneys. Mrs. Louise Botts, of Brazil, served | part of a sentence in the Women's | Prison after being mistakenly iden tified as Mrs. Dorsett. Mrs. Botts | later was released.

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