Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1938 — Page 3

PLOT TO SLAY FATHERISLAID TOHOOSIER, £5

Officers Claim Confession of Rensselaer Man After Taking ‘Payoff. (Continued from Page One)

the go-between, whose name was withheld. “Keep Mouth Shut”

Last Saturday night Myers met a}:

- man at a party and asked him if he would like to make some “easy money.” The man replied that he would. “Well,” Myers said, “it may mean a one-way ride if you get caught. Otherwise, there is $1000 in it for you if you can do the job or get someone who will. If you don’t want to do either, take $25 and keep your mouth shut.” The man said he’d think it over. On Monday he went to a Rensselaer minister and told the story. The minister then told the elder Myers, who in turn notified John E. Hopkins, prosecuting attorney, and the sheriff. State Police were immediately called in. The informant told State Police that Myers proposed a plan to get two Peoria, Ill, hoodlums to ~ommit the murder, either by getting the father in his car, slugging him, taking him to the Kankakee River bridge 25 miles north of here and running the car into the river, or taking him near Chicago where he would have been shot and left in the auto to make it appear like a rob-bery-murder.

Disguised as Thugs

Police laid their trap. Ed Rose and Freemont Lemler, State troopers, disguised themselves as thugs and went with the informant to talk over the plan with Myers. They went for a ride in the country and haggled over the murder Myers twice cutting his previous figure. The “thugs” grudgingly gave in at $750, and said they'd get it

from the fourth person in the party |}

—the go-between. Last night the trap was sprung. Myers went downtown, handed a

check for only $700 through a win-|: down to the go-between, and turned |:

to walk away. State Patrolmen James Boston and Francis Vogel grabbed h Myers tal that the check be

held up 10 days so the property|.

* could be sold. He allegedly admitted that another attempt to buy his father’s death had fallen through. In 1935; police quoted him as saying, he paid a gunman $100 cash to murder the aged farmer. He never saw the man again. That was why he wanted to pay by check this time, he said. Myers said he had had trouble with his father two years ago when he worked one of his father’s farms. The elder Myers allegedly did not realize any profit on the land and took it away from his son. Police said Myers probably would be arraigned Friday on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. The ‘maximum sentence under "such. a charge is 25 years. Myers, who came from Peoria, Ill, five years ago when a. bank released him, is married and has a son, Paul, a freshman at Purdue University. He has worked at odd jobs in Renesselaer.

COAST BANANAS GROWN

TULARE, Cal, Nov. 25 (U. P.).— Possibilities. of a new California fruit growing industry is that of bananas. John Rose has successfully ‘experimented here with a tree that was 174 inches tall when he planted it 18 months ago, and is now 18 feet high, with a diameter of 18 inches and has already borne two ripened “bunches of bananas.

CLAIM STABBING CONFESSION BERKELEY, Cal., Dec. 8 (U. P.). —Police said today that Rodney Grieg, 21, had confessed to stabbing blond Leona Vlught, 19, to death with a hunting knife on a lonely “lover’s lane.” He allegedly said 2 stabbed her “for no reason at all.”

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record County Deaths |Speeding .... 11

price, |

around the corner—and practically cle.

COUNCIL CONSIDERS FINANCE MEASURES

Tax Loans, Bond: Refunding Up at Speciai Session.

City Council was to meet at 4 p. m. today in special session to pass ordinances, dealing mostly with finance. Ordinances to come up include one calling for the usual tax anticipation loan of $750,000 to run the city until tax collections in March, a similar loan of $160,000 for the City Health Board, a $600,000 re-

funding of City Hall bonds issued in 1909, and a transfer of $12,020 .to the equipment fund of City Hospital. The Council also will consider an ordinahce amendment to prohibit truck traffic on Boulevard Place tom 38th St. to Westfield Boulevard. .

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Running Preferential Street. 5

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City Deaths (To Date)

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MEETIN GS TODAY

ooIndianapolis Real Estate Beard, lunchWashington, Nii Club of aapeils, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. American Business Club, luncheon, Columbia Os. Credi t Goup,

Fine luncheon, Men's Gril er the William Block Co., noon

Sigma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, noo Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. neo van Club, luncheon, Murat Temple,

RO adiana Motor Traffic Association, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon Radio Sugineers Guild, meeting, Hotel Antlers, &

Dp. Cub, “iuncheon, Severin Hotel, noon. RR League of Indianapolis, _ luncheon. Architects. “and Builders Build-

¢ Indianapolis Camera Club, meeting, 110 .E. Ninth 8p we bv 13 The(a Pi, luncheon, Canary Cottiiance I Francaise, meeting, Hotel Washington, 8p

~ MEETINGS TOMORROW Exchange Slab luncheon, Hotel WashCimist t Ciub, luncheon, Columbia Club,

n. utier Alumni Club of India lis, luncheon, Canary Cotiage. 11:30 napol's

m. th Associati » state mestin Butler University, all day. ve O doers Assve i Board or Trade,

ation, luncheon, Phi Delta Theta, Nhicheon, Canary Cottage, noon. cl ta Tau Delta, luncheon, Ol Stamp Club, meeting, Hotel Ant-

tei $5. apoiis Symph Orchest Co n ony Orch - cert, Murat Po SE a, von co Kappa | Sigma, luncheon, Photel WashingSalesmen’s Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash-

Erinieratt Club, dinner, Hotel Washing-

ton, 6:30 p, m. American Society of Civil Enzineers,

dighen Hotel el Washin gon, 3:3 te anapolis Federation o vie y meeting, Hotel Washington, 7:30 p cagues

. MARRIAGE LICENSES (These {ists are from -officiai records _in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names or addresses.)

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GATE-CRASHERS AT BALL GAMES GET MANY A BRUISE.

Sw. SUT RAILROAD: GA GET HEADLINES IN NEWS

National Safety Council Martha Alice Lawson, 21, of 442 N. Denny

Charles W. Wesf, st. Blotse TT: sf, 19, of 2714 N.

i de . orge C. Richardson; 23, of ‘N. Aas Road; Edyth of 753 5 Wallace 8. = Sane 24, ernon S. 1ton, of 344 Std Ruth Evelyn Caldwell, 13, of Bae

Charles. M. Riley, 21, of 607 Birch Ave,: leanora U. Merchant, 20; rdianapolis, Oscar Jackson, 55. Indianapolis; Geneva Reece, 43, Bridgeport.

BIRTHS Boys

Edward ee at Jasthodist, Co.

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Clara, E Rebecca, Herbert

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at Metho ist. Mary Anne Harbison, gis

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Charles, Beatrice Williams, 332 Morgan, 1314 S Agnes. Lewis, al Balm George, Etta Cuiaiensh," 2502 Wood. George, Anna Mens: He

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Russel, Pearl Rogers: 1024 Goodlet, Robe. tL. Georgia rtin, 630 W. 13th. Richard, Dorothy Banner, 8s 9th. fom, Millie Sar ders. 1618 nd

t St. Vin E's eo aries, Elizabeth Atkinson, at St Vin:

Harold, Agnes Rushton, at Colema William, May Carver, at City. n,

DEATHS Susie M,

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mellitus

SEDGE coals Crouthers, 3s, of 2139 College Ave.; Buckner. 2315 Columbia Ave on. Rust, 2, of 831 Ps A

* There's no forgetting it now. Christmas is just

.Holiday decorations hung today from every

pillar and post all over the CirPoss.

Spencer May Decide Next Week if Indictments Were Forced.

Hearing of evidence on the plea of 72 Primary election workers that Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker “coerced: the Grand Jury fn indicting them,” on charges of election law violations, is scheduled in Criminal Court next Thursday.

Judge John W. Spencer Jr. of Evansville, special judge in the case, said he will be in Indianapolis Thursday to preside at the hearings. If"Judge Spencer sustains the defense plea, charges against the election ‘workers would be dropped auto-

pneumonia

Biome, 63, at Methodist, bron-| Port Rose Eile Na amein, 66, at City, diabetes 8

matically.

John Herbert, 79, at 744 N. Emerson, cardio vascular renal disease Richar . ‘Shaffer, 70, at 3470 Salem, cardio vascular renal disease Mary Ellen. Jones, 62, at 2029 Hovey, broncho-pneumonia. Thomas Roberts, 54, at City, lobar pneu-

nia al in F. English, 82, at 1429 Lawton, STiBHUSEIcTOSIS, a Thomas, 66, at 1242 W. 19th, car-

dio" eho renal disease William at 435 N. Colo-

C. Davis, 6°, ratio, pLerebral hemorrhage. oran, 45, at 4341 Central, hypostatic’ ‘pneumonia. zie Miles, 53, varicose vein Wil i Butler,

at City, rupture of

68, at City, broncho-

OFFICIAL WEATHER

By U. S. Weather Bureau, INDIANAPOLIS. FORECAST —Cloudy

{ with, rain tonight and possibly tomorrow -| morning; colder tomorrow: lowest temper-

ature tonight 35 to 40 dgrees. Sunrise ...... 6:55 | Sunset

TEMPERATURE —Dec. 8, 1937—

eases 4:20

Bona 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitati since Jan. 1 Excess deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Ciouny, rain tonight and possibly: Friday morning except rain turning to snow in extreme north portion; somewhat colder tomorrow except in extreme northwest portion. Illinois—Rain in south portion and rain jurning to snow flurries in north portion; somewhat colder in northwest and west~ central portions tonight; tomorrow mostiy cloudy, somewhat colder in south portion.

Lower Michigan—Snow in north portion and rain turning to snow in south portion tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature. Ohio—Occasional rain, somewhat colder in southwest and west-central portions tonight; tomorrow cloudy and somewhat coldJOR preceded by. snow flurries in east por-

Kentu ¢ky — Cloudy, occasional rain in east ‘and central portions; slightly colder in extreme north portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair and somewhat colder.

WEATHER IN OTHER SITIES AT 7 A. M. Stat, Tr. Dar T

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William Mears, 62, at 225 N. P ‘| Ta rite arkview T my

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Times Photo. around the monument. Above,

workmen place festive Filetide holly on one of the

Baker Jury Case Hearing Set; Ruling on State Recount Due

Writs Ask Supreme Court To Make Permanent Ban on Recheck.

The Indiana Supreme Court is expected to decide within the next few days whether to make permanent its temporary writs prohibiting vote recounts in seven counties on the Senatorial and State ticket races. Reply briefs filed by attorneys for U. S. Senator VanNuys and successful Democratic State ticket candidates asked that the writs be made pérmanent. In separate cases Republicans sought a recount in the Senatorial race and in the State races in Clark, Franklin, Vermillion, Lake, Marion, Vigo and Vanderburgh Counties. In its temporary writs the Supreme: Court halted any recount actions by

-|the Circuit courts of these counties

until a final decision is made. Office Not Involved

The temporary writ on the Senatorial race was issued Nov. 22 and on the State races Nov. 25 Only State race not involved in the litigation is the Secretary of

State contest in which James M. Tucker, Paoli, a Republican, was certified in the offici¥l returns as winner over Edward Koenemann, Evansville. Mr, Tucker already has taken office. The brief filed with the Supreme Court in behalf of Senator VanNuys said that the Federal Constitution provides that the U. S. Senate is the sole judge of its own membership, and that recount actions in scattered local coutts would result in a conflict of jurisdiction between the State and Federal Governments. In asking a permanent prohibition of recounts in the State ticket races, attorneys for jPemocratic State can-didates-elect ‘claimed the Indiana statute of 1881 should be construed as requiring a state-wide recount of) votes and not a check by scattered]

5 counties.

The State Act of 1921, these attorneys said, which apparently authorized recounts by individual counties without provision for a State-wide recheck is “local and special in character, and therefore Sonflieis with the Indiana Constituon ”

Claim Motive ‘Partial’

“The recount sought is a partial one. If there is to be a contest ior a seat in the U. S. Senate, fair piay requires that contest be waged before a body having jurisdiction to recount the entire vote in the State. Surely no one ought to want to be elected to a seat in the U. S. Senate .| without a full (determination of the controversy. “It is hard to understand why the respondent Willis wants to flee from the constitutionally conferred jurisdiction of the very body to which he claims he ‘has been elected. “Inasmuch as any jugm®nt entered by the seven Circuit courts of Indiana in the recount cases pending before them would bé mere nul-

possibly would, disregard, the relator (Senator VanNuys) ought not to be put to the substantial expense and bother in defending actions, the

AS AUTO TOLL

ing in front of 1224 N. West St., and | critically injured, police said.

‘|result of a crash on U. S. 32 north

140, of Bloomington, Ill

: | time last year.

|State Highway Patrol, |driving the car containing Gov. lChandler and two other persons,

‘| before leaving for Frankfort.

lities which the Congress could, and |him

CLIMBS TO 113

“And Man, 41; Others + Hurt Critically.

(Continued from Page One)

A third accident victim lay seriously injured at City Hospital as the

of Carmel. He is Paul G. Bodley Sr.,

‘The two deaths brought the Marion County traffic death toll to 113, as compared to 144 at the same

Governor in Auto

Mrs. Canary was struck by a car driven by Frank S. Murphy, 721 Bosart Ave. according to police records. Funeral services will be held at 8:15 a. m. Saturday at the Kirby Mortuary. Burial will be at Washington. Survivors are a son, Michael Canary, and two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Cullom and Mrs. Carl Pratt of Indianapolis. Mr. Wyatt, the other overnight traffic Pudivindl fatality, was an employee of the Delco-Remy plant at Anderson, and was en route to Indianapolis to do some Christmas shopping when the crash occurred. In the accident involving Mrs. Peters, deputy sheriffs said she apparently started across the street after alighting from a bus.

Sergt. Dan Gray of the Kentucky who was

said he swerved the car in an at-

traffic. The other passengers in the car were Frank D. Peterson, Kentucky State division of accounts and control director, and Newton Combs, Lexington lumber company executive.

Stayed at Hospital :

. Governor Chandler ordered medical attention for Mrs. Peters before going to the Indianapolis Athletic Club to speak at the annual football banquet of the Indiana University Club of Indianapolis. Members of the Governor's party remained at the hospital while he spoke at the banquet. The Governor then returned to the hospital

The other criticaily injured person, Mr. Raines, was struck by a car driven by John L. Wilde, 20, of 630 Perry St. according to police. In the accident near Carmel, State Police reported that Mr. Bodley, a hitch-hiker, was picked up by a caf

16 W. Michigan St. They said Mr. Pancake’s car went out of control, overturned and caught fire. He escaped serious injury.

POLICE ARREST 14IN NEWSPAPER STRIKE

Three Are Injured in Two Picket-Worker Fights.

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U.P.).—Police arrested 14 persons today in two clashes between C. I. O, pickets and employees of the struck Chicago Evening American and Morning Herald and Examiner. * Two women and six men were taken to the police station after a brush between circulation truck drivers and several hundred pickets outside the newspaper building. Earlier two strikers and- four men

were arrested after a hand-to-hand fight outside a branch office. Employees of the two Hearst newspapers who are members of the American Newspaper Guild, a C. I. O. affiliate, walked out Monday charging that the management had engaged in “mass firing” and refused to bargain collectively. Those arrested in the larger of the; two skirmishes were: Don Stevens and Richard Seller, International Guild representatives; Harry Wohl, Chicago Guild president; Sada Stevens, wife of Don Stevens; Virginia Gardner, a Chicago Tribune reporter; Nate -Aleshovsky, a striking copyreader of the Herald and Examiner; Charles Cain and David Keniston. . All were locked up. Police said three of their number were injured. One was kicked, another struck on the head and another injured his finger on a picket's sign.

10 MISSING, 2SAVED IN JAP PLANE GRASH

Rescues Pair. .

TOKYO, Dec. 8 (U.P.).—An air liner from Formosa crashed into the sea near Kyushu today with-12 persons, all Japanese, aboard. : The steamship Miyake Maru wirelessed "that it had rescued two of those aboard. It was feared that the others died. : :

WEST COAST SCION HELD AS KIDNAPER

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8 (U. P.) — Austin T. Holmes, 22, stepson of the former owner of the fabulous Silver Queen mine, was charged today with kidnaping. © He was accused of foreing Elden King, a cab driver, with a pistol, to. drive him 100 miles into the Mojave Desert. The driver finally slammed on the brakes, throwing Holmes against the front and disarmed

Police said Holmes admitted tak ing the cab to the home here of his estranged wife and child, planning to- uy them. But he could hot en-

orders in which would be a inere

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Must ‘Gamble On Slim Chance to Save Child.

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (U. P).— William Lewis, who works in a

must gamble, some time before Christmas, on the life of his 8-year-old daughter Dorothy. The odds will be at least 10 to 1 against him. Dorothy has a malignant tumor on her right thigh bone. Unless her right leg is amputated, she is almost certain to die within io months. If it is amputated, the chances are 10 to 1 she will die anyhow. The doctors must have Mr. Lewis’ answer by Christmas if they are going to operate. Brown-eyed Dorothy doesn’t know about it. Neither do her sister, Anna, 14, and her brother, Willie. They have been saving pennies to buy her a wheel chair for Christmas. Louise, 17, the eldest sister, knows, and if’ Dorothy must die, she said, “I want her to die in my arms.” The children have no mother. She died only two months ago. Mr. Lewis is finding it difficult to make up his mind.

ELECTION SLATED BY SCIENCE GROUP

The Indiana Branch, Society of American Bacteriologists, will elect officers at a dinner meeting at 6:30 p. m. tomorrow at the Spinks Arms Hotel,- S. A. Campbell, secretarytreasurer, announced today. . Speakers are to include H. M. Powell of the Lilly Research Laboratories; S. E. Hartzell and E. H. Parfitt of Purdue University, and B. A. Poole of the State Health

STATE ARSENAL AT STOUT FIELD

300 Pounds of is of Shells Taken; FBI, State Police . Join in Hunt.

(Continued from Page One)

theft, said the machine gun shells also could be used in rifles. He said he had no idea what the purpose of the theft was.

erty of the State. They are used by State officials on a skeet range on the field, according to Capt. Carpenter. The machine-gun bullets were the property of the Federal Government. The ammunition stolen was worth about $100, Capt. Carpenter said. The total value of the ammunition stored in the magazine amounted to several thousands of dollars. Capt. Carpenter pointed out that the shotgun shells and machine-gun bullets would be easier to dispose of than gunpowder or gas bombs which were also stored in the magazine. The machine-gun bullets, however, are dated and stamped with the Federal Government seal and should be easily traced, it was pointed out. The magazine is located apart from other buildings because of Government regulations which forbid emmunition and inflammable material to be stored in regular buildings, Capt. Carpenter said. Gen. Straub sald he would take immediate steps to post a guard over the magazine, but that he

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