Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1938 — Page 8

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2 MORE ACCUSED IN GELL DEATHS; OFFICIALS ARGUE

Factions Seek Control of Inquiry; Ferocity Charged In Steam Torture.

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PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25 (U. P.).—~Coroner Charles H. Hersch said today that “there may be more than guards involved” in the “roasting” deaths of four hunger-striking ‘. convicts at Philadelphia county prison, and intimated he might serve four more warrants on prison “higher-ups.”

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25 (U. P.).

—Coraoner Charles M. Hersch re- 2

vealed today that he had sworn to warrants’ charging two more men “with having participated in the roasting of 25 convicts in Philadelphia County Prison and that they would be served at once. Two prison guards already had been arrested and . charged with homicide. Four of the 26 prisoners . were dead when taken from punishment cells, their naked bodies so " disfigured that they looked as though they had been “parboiled.” Coroner Hersch refused to name the new men for whom he had warrants. His announcement was made against a background of rivalry between two sets of officials for control of the investigations of what occurred.

Official Factions Fight

Aligned on one side was Coroner Hersch and Assistant District Attorney John A. Boyle, who said that the convicts had been subjected to torture by steam “staggering in its ferocity.” On the other side, were Philadelphia police and prison officials who said that the four men had gone stir-crazy and had died drom wounds incurred in fighting among themselves. Coroner Hersch criticized Mayor Wilson for his sudden intervention in the case. The Coroner had sworn to two warrants yesterday charging Prison Guards Alfred Brough and Francis Smith with homicide. But before he could have them served, Mayor Wilson ordered his police to arrest them and have them arraigned before Magistrate Nathan Beifel.

Orders ‘Interference’ Stopped

Two hours later, Common Pleas Court subpenas were served on the police, requiring that the prisoners be brought before Judge Gerald Flood at once to answer to the coroner's warrants. Judge Flood granted them bail of $2500 each, then ordered police to turn over all evidence to the District Attorney’s office, and to cease “interfering.” Mayor Wilson replied to Judge Flood’s implied criticism by saying that it was “clearly my duty” to order the guards arrested. : Slowly, bit by bit, the full story of what occurred was coming out. It was revealed that instead of having spent only one night in closed cells super-heated by steam, the four dead convicts had spent two days and two night in them. It was first said that only six convicts had been subjected to this punishment for having participated in the “hunger strike” in the prison last week. It was now revealed that 26 in all had been.

BLYTHE HENDRICKS FUNERAL IS TODAY

Honorary Pallbearers Are Named for Services.

. Blythe Q. Hendricks, Safety Board |.

gecretary and former newspaperman, who died Tuesday at Culver, was to be buried at Crown Hill - today following .funeral services at 8 p. m. at Flanner and Buchanan . Mortuary. The Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, was to offigiate. Honorary pallbearers for the servIces were to be: Allan Hendricks, G. Barret Moxley, Edward J. Bennett, Donald B. Jameson, Dr. John Ray Newcomb, Howard Wiggins, Wallace O. Lee, Noble Dean, E. Kirk McKinney, C. Harvey Bradley, Francis W. Dunn, William C. Griffith, Frederick T. Holliday, Fred G. Appel, Elvan Y. Tarkington, Warrack Wallace, Charles Mayer, Garvin M. Brown, Sylvester Johnson, Henry O. Goett, Storey Larkin, Albert J. Lynch, Frank J. McCarthy, Harold C. PFreightner, Albert G. Feeney, Norman Perry, Maurice E. Tennant, Herbert R. Hill, Herbert Spencer, Joseph Goldstein, Adolph i Seidensticker, Russell. Covington, Booth - Tarkington, C. Walter MecCarty, Reginald Sullivan, James S. Stewart, Norman E. Isaacs, Dr. John MacDonald, H. C. Atkins, Dr. James S. McBride, Dr. Herman Morgan, Walter C. Boetcher, Ira P. Haymaker, Theodore Dammeyer, Joseph Shirk, Peru; Dr. Wallace Sarber, Frederick VanNuys, Michael F. Morrissey, Fred C. Kennedy, Hervey Perrin, Henry W. Bliss, R. B. Failey, Stephen Y. Hord, Walker C. Win‘slow, Edward M. Tutt, Robert C. Hatfield.

BAPTISTS OLD SESSION Times Special : BURNETTSVILLE, Aug. 25.—The . © 79th annual meeting of the Monti‘cello Baptist Association opened here today for a two-day session. + The Rev. E. Bixler Davis, South India missionary, will speak tomorTOW. -

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who yesterday won the tomato-picking champion= ship at Southport. He’s holding - Sumner Teckrone’s prize-winning basket day: s show, which, was attended by 2000 persons.

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Corn Husking Champion Wins Picking Contest at Festival

David Snyder, 26, three times Johnson County cornhusking cham-

picking crown as Indiana farmers,

canners and citizens returned to ‘work after attending an all-day tomato

festival yesterday. Governor Townsend and other persons interested in the canning industry spoke at a banquet last night at the Claypool Hotel. Miss Peggy Walsh, Indiana's “tomato queen,” presented awards to growers of the best tomatoes. First place winner was Sumner Teckrone, Lebanon. Picking contest winners received prizes presented by Herbert Eikhoff. Other winners included Paul Amos, Kempton, second, and Nelson Inabinitt, Smith Valley. The contest was held on the Omer Green farm,

near Southport. Mr. Snyder, who works on his

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father’s farm on R. R. 2, Franklin, said he had picked tomatoes since he was 12, and always had the ambition to be the state champion. He is married and has two children.

Other banquet speakers included Kenneth N. Rider, Indiana Canners’ Association secretary, and 8S.

Awards for best tomatoes were based upon judging yesterday afternoon in the Claypool lobby. Other winners are Lloyd Litteral, McCordsville, second; Ernest Vawter, Kempton, third; Byron Bray, Monrovia, fourth; Justus Kingen, fifth; Horace Michel, Tipton, sixth; Ray Weckler, Pendleton, seventh; George

Tints Indianapolis, eighth; Wallace Vanden Bosch, Monrovia, ninth; Elvin Coe, Tipton, 10th; William Bohannon, Lebanon, 11th, and Clarence Wildman, Monrovia, 12th.

AUSTRALIA EXCELS IN OUTPUT OF WOOL

CANBERRA, Aug. 25 (U. P)— Statistics presented to the House of Representatives show that during the 1933-37 period, Australia produced more than one-quarter of the entire world’s wool output. This was twice as much as the amount produced in the United States, with Argentina, New Zealand and South.

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Court of the Soviet Union, the high tribunal of a new Judicial system, it was announced today. - Parliament, at a meeting yester-

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The = Parliament elected Ivan Terentievich Golyakov president of the Court. Fifty years old—two years younger than Associate Justice Hugo L. Black,

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of a peasant family and spent his boyhood as a shepherd. He took an active part in the Bolshevik revolution and later, while serving in the Army, was promoted to chairman of the Army division of the ‘military tribunal. Since 1933 he had been serving as a member of the Collegium of the Supreme Court. The 20 people’s assessors, charged under the new Constitution with

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