Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1938 — Page 3
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Witness Says He Paid - it ’ 4 Hines $500 a Week || g For Protecting Gang
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|Battered Bodies: Difficult to Identify, Declare Kin Of Convicts.
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Weinberg Tells of Meeting With Tammany Leader |# Stripp ing-of Auto:Here; And of Drop in Arrests After Schultz Ce © pou . . Bandit Sought. Started Regular Payments.
NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (U. P.)—George Weinberg, former racketeer — — who turned state’s evidence, today accused James J. Hines, Tammany ir Se bog i We ron : district leader, of receiving $500 a week from the multi-million-dollar ; an . policy’ machine of Dutch Schultz for political protection. Then the deputies said they fired His testimony linked Hines more definitely to the lottery operations their revolvers at the ground sev- &. than any submitted so far in the trial by District Attorney Thomas E. | eral times as a warning to halt. a. i Dewey. It reiterated and expanded Weinberg’s own evidence last week. When this- was ignored, Deputy 13 ® Stevens, who was driving, continued |
Weinberg testified that: He paid Hines “the $500 firing his revolver, while Deputy v 0 HENDRICKS Britton began riddling the other | | 1
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Other prisoners were in the cells. .| with the bodies. The cells were in -| the “isolation' block,” : customarily used for disciplinary purposes. Violence Claimed
While Coroner Hersch and his - Physician, Dr, Martin Crane, ine that the men had met death: ‘| by violence and that the circum- | stances were ‘suspicious,” prison officials insisted that the deaths had been due to accidents and that the men were “radical agitators” who hed been ring leaders in the hunger strike.
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he was supposed to get.” ; After he talked with Hines about car with bullets from a 30-30 rifle. | “too many arrests” in the Harlem White was shot in the back of * police - division, arrests dropped the head, another bullet shattering fom apposnauy 20 to “four, his left arm. Hill was shot through At the beginning of 1932 the the chest and left thigh, and
Schultz combination was netting about $32,000 to $45,000 a day and grossing about $64,000 a day. Hines once “took” $2000 from the racketeers when Schultz had approved payment of only $1000; and ' that when Weinberg objected, J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, attorney for the mob who turned state’s evidence, said “never mind; just make it $1000 on the records and I'll make the other $1000 good—but hereafter don’t give him more than $1000.” Schultz agreed to confer with vis to take charge of his “legal” ork after he “got” Vincent. Coll, gangster riddled by machine gun bullets while he was in a: telephone booth, “off his back.” While Weinberg testified, Hines watched intently, his gaze flashing from the witness to Mr. Dewey as the questions and answers shuttled back and forth. The Supreme Court proceedings veered suddenly from drab routine to the sensational. While Weinberg was droning out details of the policy operations, beating over ground that had been covered by himself iaNy week and by succeeding witnesses, Mr. Dewey injected the name of Hines and asked: “Did you meet him regularly?” “Yes,” Weinberg replied. “What did you do?” “I paid him the $500 a week he wes supposed to get.”
HUNTINGTON BANK PRESIDENT. DEAD
Times Special < . HUNTINGTON, Aug. 23. —Funeral services were being planned today for John R. Emley, president of the First National Bank for nearly 20 years, who died at his home near here yesterday after a year’s illness. He was 68. - Mr. Emley was president of the Indiana State Bankers’ Association in 1912. He was active in the Rotary Club, the Elks ‘Lodge and civic enterprises. :
2 IDENTIFY EASTON AS DIXON SLAYER
MICHIGAN CITY, Aug. 23 (U. P.) —The State called more witnesses to the stand today in its attempt to prove conclusively that Orelle Eaton, 25, Valley City, N. D,, fired the four fatal bullets int State Trooper Ray Dixon near La Porte, last June. A The jury of 12 men late yesterday heard the State’s star witness, Ralph Hennings, South Bend news photographer, and Walter Sanders, 19, identify the slim North Da-
58; Funeral to Be Held Here Thursday.
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of The Indianapolis Times Staff he covered the D. C. Stephenson story, from arrest to conviction.
Previously he was on the editorial staff of the old Indianapolis Sentinel, and at one time was a member of the Indianapolis Star staff. While he was on The Times, he broadcast sports events. He was believed to be the first person ever to broadcast a basketball game or tournament and for years he and his brother described the state finals basketball tourneys for radio listeners.
came publicity and advertising director of WFBM and while there originated the broadcasting of baseball games from ticker reports to simulate eye witness accounts. Mr. Hendricks also was the first to dramatize the 500-mile race on the radio. NS Graduated from Princeton University in 1902, he was a member of an old Indiana family, His great uncle, Thomas A. Hendricks, was Governor of Indiana, UT. S. Senator, and Vice Presideni under Grover Cleveland. Mr. Hendricks, who was a bachelor, is survived by his mother and brother. : . Members of the City Administration expressed sorrow at Mr. Hendricks’ death and lauded him as a conscientious public servant and a warm friend. “He was a fine fellow,” Mayor Boetcher said. “He made a good secretary and we all felt that he was the kind of man whose advice was valuable. It is a great loss to the city. “He was well liked and congenial and had a lot of friends. He was the knd of public servant the city is proud to have in its service. _ Theo H. Dammeyer, Safety Board president, said: “The Safety Board has lost a very efficient, conscientious secretary. Very polite and friendly, he always became a dear friend to anyone who came in close contact with him. He was deeply interested in sports.” a——————————————————
12,500 TO INSURE CROPS LAFAYETTE, Aug. 23 (U. P.)— Charles Gregory, state crop insurance supervisor, said, today approxmiately 12,500 applications for wheat crop insurance will be iiled
kota Tarmhand as the killer of Mr. Dixon.
by Indiana farmers before the Aug. 31 deadline.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here Is the Traffic Record
County Deaths Speeding ..... 0 (To Date) 1938 e000 0000S 7
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City Deaths (To Date) 1938 [EE EER ENN J 43 1937 sec essen 66
- Aug, 22 Accidents Injured Dead ....c0.0
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MEETINGS TODAY
American Logion, state convention, Clay1, headquarters, morning. PO In. luncheon, Claypool Hotel, noon.
Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel. DOerestor Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, DO miversal Club, luncheon, Columbia
CO sersity of Michigan Club, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon rE Omega, I iiana Stamp Club, meeting. 215 E. New
. 8 D. M. Eatheran Service Club, luncheon, Canary ttage, noon. apolis Home Builders’ Association, qindianspolls Athletic Club, 6:30 p. m.
MEETINGS TOMORROW Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Lions Club, luncheon, ‘Hotel Washington, BO Beverage Credit Group, luncheon, Hotel
\ % oon. *Co-Bperative (Club of Indianapels, » umbia , noon. a Men's Discussion Club, dinner, Y.. Cc
. C. A., . m Purdue Alumni Association, luncheon, verin, noon. Hoe itin District American Legion, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon.
‘luncheon, Board of
MARRIAGE LICENSES
(These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)
Bradford Johnson, 30, of 531 W. 29th Ann Johnson, 30, of 1116 N. Pershing f 25, of 818 N. Hardin 1s , of 2502 N. Harding St C. Hester, 22, of 233 E. Briggs, 1
Ww. 34, of 603 N. Cali- ; Be Gatlin, 32, of 1927 Bellefontaine St
Walter Edward Via, 44, of 5730 E. Washington St.; Ruby B. McCoy, 31, of 119 N. ster . Kenneth Winey. 25, of 605 E. New York gt. Ivy Antle, 25, of 312 N. Cleveland
ve. John R. Tinnell, 26, of 1816 Howard St.; ‘Mary M. Sexton, 24, of 1343 Kappes St. ES ——— :
St.; Ave.
e h St.; Jeannette . 8t. Joseph St. Roy Montgomery, rnice B.
BIRTHS Girls
Daniel, Margaret Deving, at St. Vin- ; s. ] Wilfred, Francis Kinghorn, at St. Vin- tt! cent’s. >
Martin, at St. Vincent’s.
cent’s. Robert, Betty Curtis, at St. Vincent's. Charles, nnie Bretz, at St. Vincent's. Vincent, Clara Iozzo, at St. Vincent's, Jos Irene Simko, at St. Vincent's. he e Levy, at St. Vincent's. Millard, Dorothy odist.
Driving -..... 5}cent
+ | south portion tonight, : | treme south portion
Leo, Hila ] Waites, Stephanie Sormane, at St. Vin- ipl
Pi Westenbarger, at MethSan
Abraham, Esther Rayford, at 1115 N. Pershing
Herbert, Rudell Duke, at 956 W. 30th.
Boys Frank, Helen Eck, at St. Vincent’s. ° Harold, Bessie Layne, at St. Vincent's. Gerald, Jeanne Simmons, at St. Vin-
1t’s. Fhelma, Clyde Dant, at Coler : Robert, Elsie Grieve, at Methodist, EG Martha Wright, at 328 $. EmerHubert, Rosalie Robertson, ist 1941 8. Richard, 6% Coleh ore : Beatrice Bledsoe, af 2151 N. Harland, Lorene Mace, at 557 N. Haugh. 2 Ny £620 5th ’ , a bs . Burks. Elline Holland, at 2719 Shriver. Earl, Bethel Neuner,-at 1624 N, Tacoma. Twins Royal, Katherine Patterson, at City.
DEATHS
Frank M. Fitch, 63, at . chronic: myocarditis. = 3360 Ciuilford, Dova E. B
fo . Beem, 57, at City, diabetes melJohn. Collins, 54, at Centra, India; - pital, chronic 13 FOr . Indigna Hos
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United States Weather Bureau
FORECAST—Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight, becoming fair tomorrow; cooler tomorrow.
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Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1.... .35 Excess since Jan, 1 A
00 .60 seegess 8.97
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Unsettled with local thundershowers in central and north portions this afternoon or tonight, and in extreme south portion tomorrow, becoming fair tomorrow; cooler in northwest and west-central portions tonight; cooler tomorrow,
Illinois—Unsettled with local thunderstorms in central and north portions this afternoon or tonight, and in exfreme south portion tomorrow, becoming fair tomorrow; cooler in central and north portions tonight; cooler tomorrow. Kentucky — Partly clohdy with = local showers tomorrow and in north portions tonight; slightly warmer in extreme east portion tonight; slightly warmer in extreme east portion tonight: slightly cooler in north portion tomorrow.
Ohio—Showers, with slightly warmer in artly cloudy and cooler tomorrow, possibly showers in ex-
Lower Michigan—Generally fair in north, thundershowers in south portion this afternoon or tonight; cooler tonight; tomorfow generally fair, cooler in south por-
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather, Amarillo, Tex. ....... Clear 30.0 Bismarck, N. D. ..... Boston oes
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individual of his personal responsibility and his efforts properly to discharge it.
Vigilance Held Need
“To make America safe from enemies within requires constructive and constan tendeavor and can only be accomplished by an understanding and acceptance of individual obligation to the community, state and nation. One of the great objectives of the American Legion is to inculcate a sense of such individual obligation. “With every citizen a disciple of Americanism in his or her own community, any fear of encroachment of subversive influences on American principles and institutions would be without basis. «Unfortunately, the great tendency is for the individual to become selfcentered and to give but passing, if any, thought to the national concern. Too many of our citizens have wrapped themselves in cloaks of lethargy in their relationship to affairs in their community, state and nation. “Americanism should originate in the home and become constant in development under the nurturing influence of the church and school.” During his address, Commander Doherty reviewed accomplishments of the National Legion this year.
Further Progress Cited Commenting that an adequate na-
| tional defense is the surest guaran-
tee of peace, he reported that means ihave been made available for “an upbuilding of the Army and its equipment requirements,” and Congressional approval has been given a bill authorizing construction for the Navy of 46 warships, 26 auxiliary vessels and 950 airplanes. He added that further progress has been made in obtaining Governmental protection for widows and orphans of World War veterans, disability compensation laws have been liberalized, Armistice Day has been given the status of a national holiday, and the Ludlow War Referendum Amendment was defeated. Advance membership of the Legion this year is the highest in history, he said, with the possibility of the million-member mark being reached again, “despite widespread unemployment.”
Other Offices to Be Filled
Other officers to be eelcted were northern and southern vice commanders, treasurer, chaplain, ser-geant-at-arms, a national executive committeeman and an alternate national executive committeeman. Once elected, the officers will be installed and the 20th annual convention adjourned. State Commander Russell R. Rhodes, Peru attorney, who last night at the Commander’s banquet told Legionnaires that the nation “should be prepared to defend it-
self against any possible contingency,” also spoke again today. “We do not presume to know the outcome of the restless and unsettled conditions in the rest of the world, or whether ‘or not the United States will be able to avoid entanglements. We sincerely hope to be-able to maintain a dignified neutrality,” Mr. Rhodes said last night.
Opposed to Experiment
“We do know that America should not experiment with other theories of government now being tried elsewhere; that communism, naziism and fascism are not consistent with our American concept of liberty and
freedom to worship God as we please; that only by steadfast adherence to those American principles, which have made America great, are we best able to guarantee the continuation of our freedom. “The American Legion believes that the bulwark of democracy-is the national Constitution; that the attention of our citizens and especially our children, should be focused upon it and that they better understand its American value.” Commander ‘Rhodes said . that through the national Constitution Week and the Legion’s essay contest “our people now .better know, realize and appreciate the benefits of liberty and happiness it affords, and are less apt to listen and subscribe to-the scarlet ideas of those who would have us discard its protection.”
Day of Rejoicing
Armistice Day, he predicted, will become a national holiday by act of Congress. “For us,” he said, “it is a day of rejoicing; one to be always remembered, as it marked the end of war. For'others, it is well that the memory of the costs and sacrifices of the war should not grow dim ahd make possible ‘our easy advent into another needless and useless conflict.” “The Paris caucus cannot claim credit for the birth of the American Legion. Our Legion was born when war was declared. However, the men of the Paris and St. Louis caucuses are entitled to everlasting glory for having directed its baby feet unerringly on the path which, for 20 years, has been strewn with the flowers of honor and proud achievement. : “Not so the returning soldiers of many other nations. In Italy. it was fascism: in Russia, communism; in Germany, naziism. In Spain, even the Middle Ages might blush with shame in comparison. ’
Take Pride in History
“In America, you and I can, and do, swell with pride in the history our Legion - has written, for we have, each of us, left our finger-
prints on its pages.”
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another bullet grazed Bibbs’ scalp.
“Auto Strikes Pole
which swerved off the left side of
turned over five times, deputies said, landing right side up. The car, which officers said was owned by White's wife, was demolished. All three men ran, White escap-
| ing, while Bibbs and the badly in-
jured Hill were ceptured as they attempted to hide In a nearby cabbage patch. Later White, also badly wounded, was. captured by Deputy Wechsler, aided by State Patrolman Herman Chouinard, as he walked - near Hannah Ave. and Bluff Road. Deputy sheriffs placed all four suspects under arrest on vagrancy gharees, with bond set at $5000 Searching White’s home, the deputies said, they found two crates of spring chickens. Mr. Blankenship was to attempt later today to identify these as the chickens stolen from his home during the night. Numerous reports of chicken thefts from farms south of the city, and also of cars being taken outside the city and stripped, have beén received at the Sherifi’s office in recent weeks. L It was found that the car being stripped at Bluff Road and Troy Ave. was owned by Mabel Addle-
| man, South Bend. Two wheels re-
moved from the car were found in the car occupied by the alleged
| thieves, deputies said.
Overlooks Locked Box In the East Side holdup yesterday, the bandit obtained more than $100 from the safe and cash drawer of the Irvington branch of the Gua antee Tire & Rubber Co. 5606 E. Washington St. He missed several hundred dollars more which was in a Aotken box in the safe, officials said. The bandit ran from the store with his loot and attempted to start
street. When it would not start, he fled on foot about a block, forced his way into an auto driven by Alvin G. Swank, #015 E. Michigan 56. and forced My. Swank to-drive for an hour and a half, then ejecting him from the car southwest of the City. Mr. Swank’s car was found early today near City Hospital. Fingerprints on it are being checked by police. a Other petty crimes reported during the night included theft of articles valued at $110 from parked
IS. Miss Cloe Taylor, 1043 W. 36th St., reported her purse, containing articles valued at $42, was stolen from a “40 and 8” bus. Joseph Zappia, 941 Fletcher Ave., reported theft of his billfold containing $20.
| Legion officials the longest State
Department demonstration ever staged in Indiana. :
Parade Honors Announced.
Prize winners were announced by ‘the committee, William R. Dexheimer, chairman; Rudy Kyler, secretary, and William F. O'Neill, treasurer. 5 The Fireman's Post won the prize for having the largest percentage of members in the parade or on parade duty. For the greatest number in the parade, Indiana Bell Telephone Post won the award. The Tillman H. Harpole Post was judged the best marching unit; the Madden-Nottingham Post, the most unusual, and the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. Post, the best uniformed. Float awards were given fo Wayne Post No. 64, best junior unit; Big Four Post, the Y. M. C. A. Post and the Jodianapelis Power & Light Co.
Wins Auxiliary Contest
At today’s business meeting of the Legion Auxiliary, Mrs, Grace Peele, Centerville, was elected Southern District vice president in the only contested election. Other eandidates were Mrs. Mabel Miller, Vincennes, and Mrs. Indianapelis. - James Ahern, Indianapolis, was elected Twelfth District commander: at today’s business meeting, Other district leaders named’ were: District 1—John Muldovan, East Chicago; District 2—Ted Koontz, Monticello; District 3—Henry Biebmark, Michigan City; District 4— Fred Lynch, Kendallville; District 5—Russell Johnson, Huntington; District 6—George Burns, Craw=-| fordsville; District 7—Ross Males, Brazil; District 8—A. R. Skelton, Tell City; District 9—Al Brown, Brookville; District 10 -- Arthur’ Lemmon, Greensburg, and District 11—Lawrence, Bryant, Pendleton.
Veterans’ Employment Holds Up, Says Hines COLUMBUS, O., Aug. 23 (U. P)). —Government placement of veterans. in jobs in private industry has heid up well in the face of ad-
verse business conditions, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, Administrator
ws
| of Veterans’ Affairs, told delegates
to the 39th annual national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars today. = ‘Reviewing various aspects of Government interest in the welfare of ex-soldiers, Gen. Hines said: “Placement of veterans in-indus-same ex-
ployment. erally attributed for this
a car he had parked across the|
Gertrude Joyce, |
‘institutions.
steadiness of veterans in the face of : “promot i by ‘those in- |
* White, reported to have been| driving, lost control of the car,|’
the road, struck a utility pole and |
A wrecking crew member uses an acetylene torch to free the motorman of a New York subway train which crashed into the rear ~ of another yesterday. The motorman died at the hospital.
scoped inte the rear of another.
Daniel B. Conlin, senior State
prison inspector, undertook one ine vestigation. William J. Donovan,
senior investigator of the State De-
partment of Welfare, was assigned"
by Welfare Secretary Charles I. Engard to undertake another. An: autopsy will be performed today to establish definitely the cause of death. Suicide Claim Dropped " William B. Mills, prison superine tendent, first said the men had killed themselves. Later he refused to comment on the reports of Mr, . Hersch and of other persons who viewed the bodies in the morgue, After withdrawing his first state ment of suicide, Mr. Mills said that
| the men had been agitators who
Times-Acme Photos.
One woman victim of the crash is helped to a waiting ambulance
by two policemen after the subway. train in which she was riding tele-
Schools Could Curb Insanity, Dr. Muhl Says on Visit Here
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venting mental and emotional disturbances of children, Dr. Muhl said: A “If we had proper training for teachers so they could regognize early symptoms, the child's emotional pattern could be cleared without visits to psychiatrists and adjustments could be made. Teachers need education in child psychology and personality development infinitely more than the innumerable courses in pedagogy now required for their training.
/Need Great in Schools
“Every school should have a psychiatrically trained teacher who has first had teaching experience and then has had psychiatric social work training with experience in psychiatric and child guidance clinics. Such ‘visiting teachers’ in the San
Diego schools have done marvelous work. Even the school attendance officer there is. a psychiatrically trained social worker and former teacher.” This country will never have enough psychiatrists because the training is too rigorous,’ but the solution lies with lay people who will work under the direction of psychiatrists, she explained. * ~ “Through parent-child relationship groups parents could study parent-child problems in courses of lectures given: by the state. - You can’t throw all the burden on the school and teacher,” she asserted.
Training for Lawyer
“Through preschool age groups children can be taught the muscular co-ordination which makes for such balance that they get stimulation for thinking through directed play. It is also important to have friendly understanding between parents and teachers,” she added. Dr. Muhl believes it desirable, too, that those who enter 4he legal profession should have actual training in psychiatric clinics to become familiar with the types of cases that come up. . : “We don’t have an actual criminal type,” she said. “We have people who commit offenses against the criminal law. A murderer-may be one of six or. seven types and an in-/ dividual commits murder for any one of a dozen regsons.” She particularly stressed the need for trained workers in hospitals and
Dr. Muhl, who is “horrified” at all the the things she has written, is author of some 50 magazine articles and two books: “An Approach to the Uneonscious” and “Multiple Patterns of the Unconscious,” which is just finished. She is proud of the latter because Dr. Adolf Meyer, chief of the psychiatric diivsion of Johns Hopkins University, wrote the introduction. : Educated in Indiana
_ She is_the ‘daughter of .the late Mr. and Mrs. Siegmar Muhl of In-
_dianapolis and received her early
education at st. ~ Academy,
ticket in’ Tenne.
postgraduate work in criminology in Vienna. She was in the U. S. Medical Service at the U. S. Government Psychiatric Hospital in Washington from 1920 to 1924. For two years she was chief of the, Division of Special Education of the State of California where she organized work with deaf, blind and crippled children, children handicapped with speech defects and mental hygiene work in the five bureaus lnder her jurisdiction. Before taking 'a trip around the world last year she was made a fellow of - the American College of Physicians.
WPA ‘SLUSH FUND CHARGED BY BERRY
Unseated Senator Claims $125,000 Assessed.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U, P). —Senator George L. Berry, unseated in the recent Tennessee Senatorial primary, charged today that Tennessee WPA ' employees were assessed $125,000 in the bitterly fought campaign. The millionaire Senator filed his charges with Chairman Morris Sheppard (D. Tex.) of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Investigating Committee. Senator Berry was defeated in the Democratic primary by Tom Stewart, supported by the Shelby (Memphris) County machine of E. H. Crump. ; Senator Berry charged that the Tennessee primary involved “the worst kind of gutter politics.” Charged that “thousands of men and women . . . . presented themselves in the Primary booths, prepared to give oath to support the nominees as required under the law, but were denied this privilege” and refused permission :to vote. + He accused Col. Harry S. Berry, state WPA administrator, and Rhoton Clift, assistant adminis-
‘trator, of being in fact “the cam-
paign directors of the coalition ” on which Mr. Stewart was a candidate. : Senator Berry asserted that information on heavy WPA campaign assessments has been placed before WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins and other Federal officials “without avail.” ° g 3 i
Senator Berry suggested that
| Colonel Berry and Mr. Clift be
placed under oath and asked about the $125,000. He directed attention of the committee “to the fact that solicitations and collecions were made in the city of Washington among Tennesseeans employed in the Federal service, both in and out of the civil service category.”
George Demands Relief Free From Politics |
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 23 (U.P)—
used the hunger strike as an “excuse to make trouble.” He offered no theory as to how they died except to suggest that they might have killed one another fighting. The prison had, been upset for almost a week by the hunger strike of 650 of the 1481 convicts. The strikers were locked in their cells. Slowly, in groups, they surrendered to their appetites, until Sunday afternoon only six were left, the four dead men and the two live convicts who, presumably, were with them when they died. These six, it was said, had not touched food since last Wednesday night. : But, though the strike was broken peace had not been restored to the prison. Sunday night there was bedlam, with convicts screaming and rattling their tin cups and: plates on their cell doors. Officials said that the “ring leaders” tore up their mattresses and broke the fur- | niture in their cells. It was said that nearly all the convicts joined in the demonstration. The uproar could be heard beyond the high ‘walls. Guard Violence Denied While this was going on, some thing was happening to the cone victs in the isolation block. Yesterday morning dead ‘wagons were sent to convey the bodies to the morgue where Dr. Crane examined them and said that one was blue and the other black. He also found bruises in which blood was cone gealed, hanging flesh, and “nasal ° congestion” which he said was typical of persons who had been . killed by gas, steam or hot water,
TOMATO PRIZES T0 BE AWARDED
Banquet to Honor Champion Picker and Grower in State Festival.
More than $400 in prizes are to be awarded tomorrow in Indiana's tomato festival. ; The champion ' Hoosier tomato - picker will receive $50 in a contest to be held on the Omer Green farm near Southport at 10:30 a. m., and the grower of the finest hamper of tomatoes shown at the Claypool Hotel exhibit is to be awarded $50 also. Other awards will be given to growers who place in the contest. Judges for the picking contest are H. C. Krannert, Inland Container Corp. president; Hassil E. Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau president, and C. D. Alexander, Chamber of Commerce president, :
Governor to Speak ;
The prizes are to be awarded at a banquet in the Claypool’s Riley Room tomorrow night following an address by Governor Townsend. Herbert Eickhoff, contest committee chairman, will present the picking prizes and Miss Peggy Walsh, Indiana’s tomato queen, is to award the show prizes. The contest and show are being sponsored by the Chamber of Come merce, in co-operation with the Indiana Farm Bureau, the Indiana Canners’ Association, the extension division of Purdue University, the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau. These organiza= tions have formed the Indiana Tomato Tournament for continuing the festival as an annual event,
ee capers wim WEIRTON EXAMINER NAMED WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 (U. P., —The National Labor Relations Board disclosed today that James C. Batten, Arcturus, Va., had been chosen as trial examiner to conclude hearings in the Weirton Steel Co. case. ‘Hearings will resume in Pittsburgh Sept. 12.