Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 August 1938 — Page 12

"PUERTO RICAN OFFICIAL HITS ~~ FREEDOM TALK

Independence Would Mean Exploitation, Resident Commissioner. Says.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P).— Resident Commissioner Santiago Iglesias of Puerto Rico today denounced . Cuban = agitation for Puerto Rican independence and declared independence would help “big interests” enslave Puerto Rican workers and farmers. = Referring to a resolution drafted by Rep. Jose A. Pascual of the Cuban Chamber urging - Puerto « Rican independence, Senator Igleslas said, “those who are asking for independence of Puerto Rico are acting as the worst enemies of the island ‘and its people.” “The petition if granted will result in the destruction of the agricultural and industrial production of Puerto Rico, and it will serve the desires of the exploiters of Cuba and some other independent "nations nearby.” He charged that independence agitators “are conspiring to embarrass the general welfare of the people of Puerto Rico and destroy the freedom and democratic institutions which we enjoy under the American Flag.”

POLICY CONFESSION SPARES POLITICIANS

Davis Turns State’s Evidence in Dewey Probe.

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 (U. P).— A number of prominent local politicians apparently have been spared public revelation of their association with policy racketeers through the confession of J. Richard Davis, it was learned today. These politicians include Tammany Hall district leaders and at least one Republican district leader, it was said. The politicians, it was understood, were named in telephone conversations tapped by District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey in compiling evidence against Davis as one of the heads of the $100,000,000 racket. But when Davis turned state’s evidence the wire-tapping records were nullified because fhey did not name Tammany District Leader James’ J. Hines or his co-defendant, Martin Weintraub, who go on trial Monday.

NEARS 93D BIRTHDAY Times Special : WALTON, . Ind, Aug. 12.—Mrs. Malinda Swafford of Walton will obserye her 93d birthday anniversary Aug. 22 in Indianapolis. The celebration will be held in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roxie Merrell.

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U. P.. —The Interstate Commerce Commission today. notified the Motor Carrier Industry it will now begin rigid enforcement of Motor Carrier Act provisions requiring Commission approval of truck line mergers or acquisitions.

“In view of the fact that these provisions are now better understood than they were in the early days of regulation, it is clear that the time for leniency in the enforcement of its provisions has passed,” the Commission said.

SWAIN GETS 3D EXECUTION STAY

State Supreme Court Judge Grants Injunction for Condemned Youth.

MICHIGAN CITY, Aug. 12 (U. P.).—James Reed Swain, 18-year-old Evansville Negro, faced electrocution last night for the third time within a month—the second within two days—and was saved when Indiana Supreme Court Justice James D. Hughes granted a temporary injunction’ postponing the execution. Warden Alfred Dowd called off the trip to the chair at 11 p. m,, a

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Swain was to die for the murder of Christ Bredenkamp, 70, Evansville, grocer. the warden, informing him that an appeal of R. L. Bailey. Swain’s atlorney, had been granted. ° The Negro youth will have at least another month to live since the injunction is returnable in the Supreme Court, Sept. 19. Arguments will be presented then in an attempt to make it permanent. The injunction was granted on an appeal from court action which yesterday quashed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus obtained by Bailey two nights ago to save Swain from the chair. When word of the postponement was taken to Swain in his cell in death row, he said only three words —“Thank the Lord.” Previously he had declared, “If I must go, I'll just have to go like a man.” Governor Townsend granted the first stay of execution fromthe original death date of July 19 to allow time for a State Clemency Commission hearing on an appeal for commutation of Swain’s sentence to life imprisonment. The appeal was refused. Yesterday Judge Russell W. Smith of La Porte Superior Court upheld a motion by the State to quash a petition for a writ of habeas corpus which had . been. obtained on grounds that Swain’s committment papers were incorrect.

RABBIT FLAT ‘VULGAR’

WOCUS, Ore., Aug. 12 (U. P)i— Yesterday this town's name was

Rabbit Flat. Today its name is Wo-= |

cus, which means “water lily.” Residents thought Rabbit: Flat too vulgar. Wocus, they decided, gave the

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9 HANGED FOR KILLING 6-MAN|

Father and Brother of Slain Agent Watch Robbers Go to Gallows.

LEAVENWORTH, Kas. Aug. 12 (U. P.).—Two New York bank robbers and parole violators, Robert J. Suhay, 25, and Glen John Apple-

outdoor court of the Federal Penitentiary today for the slaying of a Federal agent in the Topeka, Kas., postofiice. In the front line of the semicircle .of witnesses stood HE Baker, State Senator of Yuma, Ariz, the father of Wimberly W. Baker, 27, the agent who was killed when he attempted to arrest them in the postoffice on April 16, 1937. Both met their death calmly— with the unconcern that Applegate expressed a few days ago when he refused to see a minister.. “Most of my friends are in hell, anyway,” he said. Neither had any comment when they reached the scaffolding. Applegate had to be awakened from a nap ta be led to the gallows. Neither ate. Both drank several cups of coffee. The men faced “each other and shook hands after mounting the 13 steps of the scaffold. Suhay glanced around, looking at the clear night | sky above the recreational court ‘where in the day time the Federal prisoners relax from their routine labor. He. glanced back to

been. kept. Agents See ‘Hangings

Sen, Baker: stood alongside Dwight Brantley, chief of the Kansgs Cty office of the FBI. B. B. Baker, 18, a brother of the agent, and L. B. Reed, also of the Kansas City FBI office who had been on many assignments with Mr. Baker, were among the witnesses.

sprung the double trap.

N. Y., bank of $18,000 in cash, the two had been hiding in Topeka and called for their mail under assumed names at the general delivery window of the postoffice. They were too nervous to give Mr. Baker a chance. They shot him when he approached, then fled, Suhay suffering a bullet wound in the arm from the gun of Carl J. Martin, 4nother agent who was with Mr. Baker,

gate, 46, were hanged: together in an |

the isolation ward where he had

An | unidentified executioner

Wanted for robbing a Katonah,

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SYOSSET, N. Y,, Aug. 12 (U. BP). —Mrs. Andrea Luckenbach Dobbs,

daughter: of Commodore Edgar F. .Luckenbach, shipping magnate; to- |

day sought an accounting of the estate of her dead mother from her father. Mrs. Dobbs and Mr. Shckenbach have been estranged ‘since she left his Sands Point, N. Y., estate a few months ago to marry William

Dobbs, an egg salesman and gen-|

tleman rider.

Mr. Luckenbach said he was op- |

posed to the marriage chiefly because of his daughter’s youth. The .Surrogate’s Court petition filed by Mrs. Dobbs estimated the estate at “more than $20,000.” :

4-H GIRLS’ BAKING PRIZE Won 4 BY BOY

Times Special FLORA, Ind, Aug. 12.—A boy won the 4-H Club girls’ baking contest. The winner was Gene Lowe, 13, of Burrows. He represented his township in the Caroll County contest. ‘First place winners in the event follow: Marjorie Draber, Mary Alice Seward, Joan Griffith, Bonnie: McCatty, Vera Bell * Pope, Martin, - Helen Martin, Dorothea Wray, Mary Margaret Fouts, Dorothy: Bowman, Betty Lane, Alta Zook, Mary Louise MecCloskey, Norma Roll, Mary Catherine Grantham, Doris Rhinehart and Helen Wagoner.

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