Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1938 — Page 1
OF 20 LASHES
es Battinare Printer’s Spouse Refused Admittance to ‘Whipping Scene.
"PLANS TO GET DIVORCE
Culprit’s Groans Grow, Then ~ Fall as Cat-0’-Nine Tails Whines About Back.
“ BALTIMORE, March 1 (U., P.).— Sheriff Joseph C. Deegan tied Clyde Miller, convicted wife-beater, to a whipping post in’ Baltimore City Jail today and lashed his back into a mass of red welts. © Miller, a thin, tense figure when he was bound to the post, sagged with every thudding blow of the cat 0’ nine tails and moans burst from his lips during the last dozen of 20 blows ordered by Judge J. A. Sayler. ‘Mrs. Miller, who had sworn that she would witness the flogging and like it, was refused admittance to the jail. “The flogging of the Baltimore printer marked the first time the old whipping post had been used in seven years. “Millia was convicted of beating his wife after he himself had been mauled in a tavern rumpus Thursday night by two men with whom “ he said his wife was cing.
Stumbles Through Gates
.- Three guards led him into the central corridor of the old jail. - He stumbled through the barred ‘gates of the cell corridor and stood before the whipping post—a thick square stump six feet tall with arms stretching out on each side so that ~ it resembled a crudely drawn black ~ €ross. 2
“A gray blanket, the only covering oni er’s hack, dropped into a “guar Ps hands. He went up two steps to stand against the post, his Jaw tightcned and his face white. Awkward guards, unaccustomed fo such wunishment, began to fumWit the straps at.11:04 a me
‘against ‘the sides of the fraps were clasped over his wrists— vhich were bandaged— around his waist, his knees and over ech ankle. ~~ Mille drew a long breath and ~ leaned 1eavily against the post, his back a glistening white spot in the
~ * gloomy shadows.
Sheriff Brings Whip
5 The: was another two minutes of sile ce before Sheriff Deegan, a six-foc -two-inch man weighing 225 pound arrived. He came from the ‘W ’s office, carrying the cat-o’-nine~t ils. An aid pulled the whip out straig ' ; until the three-foot wooden - stock vith ifs nine, two-foot-long leathe strands was pressed softly 8 ¢ Miller’s back. - She ff Deegan swung. The heavy ~ strancs thudded so softly against “pr isoner’s back that it seemed dly had been touched. But the leather fell away there = # dark streak across Miller’s
he Sheriff lashed with the regu-
vy of a pendulum. she fifth stroke there was a id si eak across Miller's back. On ep si th, he groaned. His dark head against his shoulder and his
wisted. on the 12th stroke his groans | 4 across the corridor. i - red welts—a mild forerun- : the huge ones that rose an hotr-—-spread across his his siim body sagged linpthe post. 0 lashes required only two % But at the end Miller mped against the post. He as the 20th stroke fell.
. /Wife 1 Turned Back
: Elizabeth Miller, the wife + Miller beat so brutally doc- § Tore forced to take five stitches : face, did her utmost to wit- - 13 whipping. She appeared at : nd rang the bell. But
jot be admitted. ss still half closed, her jaws and her face still sore from ‘¢ i inflicted by her husband, +. not protest. ‘Miller beat her last Thursqe and was sentenced to the
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Boy’s Kidnapers Silent
To Appeals
of Father;
Report $60, 000 Is Asked
Peter Levire
New Rochelle Police and G-Men Won't Interfere, . Abductors Told.
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., March 1 (U. P.).—Murray Levine, prosperous
attorney, attempted to negotiate to-
day with the kidnapers of his. 12-year-old son, Peter, who disappeared
last Thursday and is being held |
for ransom, reportedly $60,000.
The kidnaping was announced of- |
ficially by Fnilip S. Tilden, New
; ot ; | of. the:
Charles A. Lindbergh Jr, 1, 1932.
Peter, a blue-eyed junior high
school pupil, last was seen leaving school, half a mile from his father’s home in this New York City suburb, at 2:15 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) Thursday. After a series of denials that he was even missing, police said that he had been kidnaped and that G-Men had been notified. Mr. Levine, described by friends as well-to-do but not wealthy, opened an avenue of safety to the kidnapers, assuring them that Federal and local authorities had prom-
ised to permit him to negotiate |
without interference. Appeal Is Broadcast The following appeal on his behalf was broadcast by radio over the Greater New York Metropolitan area: “My son, Peter, 12 years old, has been missing since Thursday afternoon. I have made every effort to keep this from the public because of my desire to do everything I possibly can to meet the demands of those who may be holding my boy. “The authorities, local and F eral, have promised me that to be permitted to negotiate i accomplish the return of my son without any interference on their (Turn to Page Three)
GAS CO. CORRECTS COKE SALE FIGURE
Thomas L. Kemp, Citizens Gas & Coke Utility general manager, today issued a public correction and apology for an incorrect statement issued by the company Saturday that sales of coke decreased $20,656 in 1937 compared with 1936. ‘Mr. Kemp said that coke sales actually increased by that amount and explained the error was made in transcription of the report.
* Times-Acme Telephotos. Murray Levine 3
PERSHING'S RECOVERY
DEEMED ‘PROBABLE’
General Continues to Gain, Talks With Son.
TUCSON, Ariz, March 1 (U. P.).
—Gen. John J. Pershing’s uphill fight against an ailing heart and kidney disease which threatened death 48 hours ago, continued today
and his physicians guardedly pre-
dicted his recovery. The 77-year-old commander of the American Expeditionary Forces spent a “very good night and slept for six and a half hours,” - Dr.
m | Roland Davidson, his physician, re-|
ported at 8:30 a. m. “He seems mucn better this morning, and is conscious,” Dr. Davidson’s bulletin said. “While all danger is not yet passed, if the improvement of the last 2¢ hours continues and. there is no relapse, recovery is quite probable.” The General's improvement began yesterday when he took food by mouth for the first time in four yS.
ORANGES RECEIVED | FOR JOBLESS HERE
+ Six hundred thousand pounds of
oranges have been received here
for distribution to the unemployed. the Governor's Commission on Uns4. employment Relief said today. They}
were furnished by the Federal Surplus Commodities’ Corp.,
| charges in Munecipis} Court Hs : afternoon. ;
TUESDAY, MARCH 1
TRUCKER F RST MOTORIST HELD
State Police: Adopt Policy of Gradual Enforcement of, Titleholder Act.
16 DRIVERS DRAW FINES
City Notes 79 Per Cent Cut In Traffic Fatalities Last Month.
Me, 1 3 « While Indianapolis officials reported a 79 ‘per cent decrease in traffic fatalities last month, te Police today began a: «gradual en forcement” of . auto license plate, windshield titleholder and truex directional signal laws. die In Municipal Court, 16 erring motorists were fined an average of
driver was given a 60-day ‘State Farm sentence and fined $56 by Judge Charles J. Karabell. He was George Wells, 214 S. McKim St, charged also with failure to: stop after an accident.
One set of 1937 license a today gave police a busy. hal! hour. One of the North Side radio cruisers broke down and another was ordered sent to the squad. Then began a flood of phone calls from citizens asking: “Why don’t you get 1938 plates on your cars like we have to do?” Investigation disclosed that new plates had not yet been placed on the replacement car. Immediate~ ly, four other cruisers were informed by radio to find the car, .still being driven by a garage employee. : The four cruisers located the offending car and escorted it back to the garage, where brand new 1938 plates were installed.
‘Charles Kellum, 34, of 4044 Boulevard Place, was first victim of the titleholder and truck signal law enforcement. He was arrested by State Police in the 100 block S. West St. early today, He was to face ths
ings on (urn to Page Three)
FDR. to Use Profits for Public Good
WASHINGTON, March 1— (JU. P.) —President Roosevelt will devote all the net profits from: newspaper syndicate and magazine publication of excerpts of his state papers “to a useful public purpose under Government direction,” Secretary Stephen T. Early said today. : Mr. Early said that “not a penny of the net proceeds will go into the pockets: of the President or his collaborator, Justice: Samuel I. Rosenman, of New York.” He added that in; “order to carry out the purpose, Cone. . gressional authorization would be necessary Mr. Early ‘spoke freely concerning publication of the President’s . papers in book, magazine and newspaper syndicate form. He was vehement in his declaration that reports - were “grossly exaggerated” that Mr. Roosevelt had: contracted to :sell the ° documents for, a sum in excess of $100,000 or anywhere near that figure.’ =
(The Indianapolis Times - will begin next month exclusive publication here of “President. Roosevelt’s Own Story of the New Deal” as contained in “The Public. Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt,” the President’s forthcoming five volume
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ONGADGET LAW:
$1244 each. ‘An’ alleged drunken |
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1250 Roosevelt Ave. last night. Story, Page Three.)
Youth Accuses Officers; Police Veteran Resigns
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Chief Denies Patrolman’s Claims of Being ‘Pushed “Around” Since 1924.
Declaring he was “tired of being
Morrissey dented the patrolman’s charges. The patrolman said that. because of injuries recelved in a police emergency car crash in 1924, he is unable to perform radio cruiser duty to which he was assigned two weeks ago. He also said he was unable to finance required new “uniforms. Mr. Normann, said he was assigned to cruiser duty despite protests that, because of his previous injury, riding in a ‘car eight hours a day caused him extreme suffering. - A few years after he was injured, he said, he was assigned to inside work at Police Headquarters. first
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‘STATE OF ALARM DECLARED IN GRAZ
| Test of Nazi Strength Feared
In: Arrival of Official.
(Other Foreign New: News, Page Three)
VIENNA, ‘March arch 1 (U. PHA state of alarm was declared in Graz late today as Nazis mobilized armed formations ;awaiting the arrival of Minister of Interior Arthur Von Seyss-Inquart and a showdown on
| the Nazi test of strength.
Semimilitary: formations were concentrated at the respective head-
| quarters of the SA and the SS Nazi | storm troopers .in .the face of the.
Government's shift of thousands: of troops from Vienna ¥) Graz and rera of the air force. Authorities kept the scheduled hour of Dr..Seyss-Inquart’s arrival
| a secret after they learned the Nazis 1 were | fedived this Would prejudice Hegokie-) : i Jacket and green sh
an ovation. They
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Leslie Smith, 1241 Roosevelt Ave., said he fired sqveral shots at a purglar he caught trying to rifle a cash drawer in a filling station at “I emptied my shotgun at him but “he kept on running ., . I'm sure I must have hit him,” he said.
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around by the chief,” Pa-|
ie 0, V ) his resignation to Chief :| Morrissey today. Chief
Ripple Feb. 8 and that the two
| Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, Tech
‘mother, said that he left the home
| an auto accident and was in Meth-
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Times Photo.
Charges of ‘Unbecoming
Conduct’ Are Studied By Safety Board.
ne Basety Board this afternoon : dvisement atar |B
pes RS ‘officers. Joseph Reddick, 17, of 911 E. Main St., Broad ‘Ripple, testified that he and a girl” were parked in Broad
officers stopped at his car and threatened to “tame me down.” He said - Patrolman O'Mara ordered him out of the car and talked to him and Patrolman Hayes talked to the girl. “I asked him if he wouldn't forget ‘the whole thing,” the boy testified. “He said. ‘it is our bread and butter’ and it had to be done. Then O'Mara asked me how much of my time was it 'worth.:I said, I don’t know.” He asked me if it was worth $10. After we agreed on $10 we arranged a meeting for the next night in front of a poolroom.” ~The hoy said he tried the next day (Turn to Page Three)
LOCAL BOY MISSING; POLICE SEARCH. ASKED
(Photo, Page Three)
Police were asked today search for Kenneth Helton,
to 945
senior, who has not been seen by his family since Sunday. Mrs. Kathryn Helton, the youth’s
Sunday saying he was going tc ‘a friend’s home. He did not arrive there or return home, she said. Mrs. Helton said that last May Kenneth, who is 17, was injured in
odist Hospital from then until Aug. 13. Mrs. Helton said he has not been well since then and said she thought . his. physical might have had something to do with his disappearance. Relatives in Cincinnati have not seen. or ‘heard from him, she said. He is blonde, has blue eyes and is 5 feet 5 inches tall. When he left home he was ‘wearing brown trousers, hat-and- Shoes, 3, a oh and black.
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President Calls Halt In His Program of Reforms.
| WARNED BY AIDS
Devotes His Energies To Re-election of Followers.
L. STOKES 1 Writer
By THOMAS
Times Speci
dent Roosevelt has declared a quiet
"| armistice on new reforms until ‘after
the Congressional elections in November. > He has advised his leaders, it is learned, that he expects to propose no additional economic or social legislation at this session of Congress. He still plans a general mes-
sage on the monopoly problem,- but
this ' will be submitted for study rather than for action. The message probably will not come until late in the session. | On the program for enactment at this ‘session are the Government reorganization bill, now beginning a rough road in the Senate; the bill to ‘eliminate hardships in the undis-tributed-profits tax, which the House will take up later this week; the naval building bill, still being studied by the House Naval Affairs Committee; a wage-hour bill, if possible, and the regular departmental appropriations bills, Discouraging Picture House leaders have painted for
| Mr. Roosevelt a discouraging picture of the, prospects of wage-hour
legislation, telling him plainly that the obstacles appear too numerous. but he, is still hopeful of getting some sort of measure. The Senate passer a bill last session and only
day appointed a seven-member subcommittee to write a ‘compromise wage-hour bill in the next two weeks. : Subcommittee . Chairman Robert (Turn to Page Three)
RELIEF FOR 500,000 T0 BE ADDED BY WPA
States to Increase Dole by 15 to 25 Per Cent.
; WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P.). —The WPA announced today that
it had authorized states to begin an immediate increase of relief rolls to add 500,000 persons. Assistant - Administrator Aubrey Williams said, after a White House conference, that he expected relief: rolls to reach 2,500,000 this month: Officials said most states would increase their relief load by 15 to 25 per cent this month under the $250,000,000 additional relief appropriation passed by Congress. Relief rolls now contain approximately two million names, the high--est in almost a year, officials said.
MEEK MARCH COMES
INTO CITY LIKE LAMB
TEMPERATURES 26 10 a. m.... 11-a. m.... 12. (Noon). 1p m,...
March came in like a lamb today. There was practically no wind and the temperatures were climbing} steadily. It will be .even warmer
39 42 44 4
‘} tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said.
G.0.P.LEADERS MAP PRINCIPLES . mile a
PIGEONS: THREATENED |
WITH OUSTER . .
: | niture from.the house.
[the general welfare,
Favors Repeal of New Deal Laws.
BACKS BUSINESS
Government on Right Track Now, He Declares.
WASHINGTON, March 1 (U. P.),
! | —Bernard M. Baruch, close adviser WASHINGTON, March 1.—Presi- B :
of President Roosevelt, today de clared “he opposed repeal of any New Deal legislation, although he advocated modification of some Administration measures. Mr. Baruch explaingd: his. position after Chairnian Byrnes 8. of the Senate. committee investie gating" unemployment and relief, said press ‘reports indicated that Mr. Baruch blamed New Deal poli=
cies for the business recession. “I don’t think that you can find any place in my testimony where I advocated repeal of any of the laws,” Mr. Baruch said. : “The only thing I suggested was modification of the tax laws to turn loose the pent-up energies of men and a clear statement on mone opoly,” the witness said. “A continuation of the lack of a clear statement. on monopoly and continuation ‘of the tax legislation would place the Administration in the position of restraining business,” He added.
On Right Track Now
“If the Administration will proceed along the lines on which it apparently is proceeding: theres ae bé much fo complain about,” Tr. B
x, Prog a ok § ost od aru ye day 10; modification of the ey pokes and undistributed profits taxes. The witness also said that all business had not kept its “stables clean.” He contended there had been a hesitancy on the part of business to confer with Government leaders and attempt to work out the difficulties arising out of legislation.” “You agree with the general prine ciples set forth by this Adminise tration,” Senator Hatch (D. N. M) asked. “Yes,” Mr, Baruch replied.
Business Parley Scored
“You are not pessimistic concerning the future of business.” “Mr. Byrnes asked. ; “There is no use sticking our heads in the sand,” “Mr. Baruch said. “If we don’t change that tax policy of restriction—which was not designed as restrictive but has turned out-to be so—business will have trouble.” Baruch/ then reiterated . his po ieh Administration was headed in the right direction in the tax, smodification pending before Congress. Yesterday Mr. Baruch advocated modification of the undistributed profits and capital gains: taxes and blamed “with regret” present une employment, Government , poli= cies, rather than on acts of bysi-
ness. : Assails Business Critics. Hinting displeasure at recent ate tacks upon “big business” by Ase. sistant Attorney General Robert H, da n and Secretary of” Interior
ee: “To the extent that there are abuses in big or little business, let us regulate and drive them out of exe istence. But to reach a few malefactors or a few chiselers who do not acc to the requirements of Jet us mot ‘throw away the benefits of our economy or.b our house down to kill a few bats in: the attic.” Declaring’ that some monopolies are natural and unavoidable, Mr,
ment has ample power to regulate them directly,. “I have always doubted either the necessity or, wisdom of the attempt to regulate them by having Government come pete with. them.” :
BLAST IGNITES HOME
William Smiley, 40, was recovering today from severe burns on his back
received late yesterday when fire damaged his She«Story frame home at 1118 Madeira St. Loss was esti mated at $700 by firemen. Smiley said the blaze was FF by explosion of kerosene he
| was pouring in a kitchen oil stove.
He was burned as he removed fur-
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Banker: ‘Denies - He
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Baruch said that, since the Govern- .
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