Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 December 1938 — Page 6

NYDER'S TRIAL § INTERRUPTED BY MARRIAGE

Former Mate of Miss Etting Waits for Chance to Tell His Story. "LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14 (U. P.) —

Ruth Etting, famous blues singer, ‘ and Myrl Alderman, the boy friend

whom her divorced husband recent-

¥ 1y shot, flew to Las Vegas, Nev., to-

In a surprise move, Miss Etting . and Alderman left Los Angeles in ~ the midst of the trial of her divorced husband, Martin Snyder, charged with attempting to kidnap

~~ and murder Alderman. ; ~~ While Snyder fidgeted outside a

courtroom here waiting to tell a Jury why he allegedly shot Alderman, the couple sped to an airport, g ded a Paul Mantz plane and flew to Nevada. ~~ Yesterday, Snyder saw the blue . scar on the abdomen of young © Alderman, and he chuckled outside - the courtroom when a process server - handed Alderman an order to testify ~~ in Mrs. Alma Alderman’s $150,000 alienation suit against Miss Etting. ~~ It all added up, Snyder said, to the fact-that love—as many a poet has said—is a funny thing.

“ Prosecution Nears End

~~ “Awful funny,” the bald-headed Snyder muttered as he hobbled ~ away. He expected the prosecu- ~~ tion to end its case today and give him a chance to tell how his “undying love” for the square-jawed

| blond he called “Mumsie” led. him

~ to invade a pork-chop dinner party at Alderman’s home last Oct. 15. ~. There, according to testimony, he © shot Alderman, struggled with his own daughter, Edith, and threatened to murder Miss Etting. Snyder, who wore a spotted necktie which looked as if it might have been a Christmas gift, and a scowl which appeared to be permanent, ~ said the prosecution had his case all wrong. He claimed that he was so deeply in love with Miss Etting, despite their divorce last year, that when. he heard she intended to marry Alderman, he remonstrated.

Claims Self-Defense

The argument waxed hot in the _ luxurious music room of the Etting home (Alderman used to be Miss Etting’s pianist when she sang baritone on the radio) and then somebody—identity yet to be revealed—attacked Snyder with a gun, he claimed. He said he was forced to shoot in self-defense. : The three witnesses told a different story. The statuesque and 40-year-old Miss Etting testified that Snyder beat her, pinched her arm, cursed her, and made life miserable during their marital career. She told the jury that she'd rather be dead than live with him ‘again and she clung to her assertion, during rigid cross-examina-tion, that he brandished a 38-caliber revolver and shot Alderman. even while she begged him to do nothing for which he might be sorry. .. Edith Snyder, who was pretty in a dark and wan way and looked surprisingly like her father, took up the tale which could send him to prison for 115 years, should he be convicted on six counts of attempted murder, technical kidnap and gun law violation.

Pleaded With Father

Miss Snyder, who is Miss Etting’s secretary, told the jury she thought Alderman had been killed and that Snyder started chasing Miss Etting with the revolver. “I begged him not to,” she said. “I pleaded with him not to harm her % I told hith Ruthie was all I

“I picked up the little gun Miss Etting had,” Miss Snyder ' said, speaking shakily and avoiding her father’s gaze, “and shot at. him, but the bullet went into the floor.” The handsome Alderman, blond“ish, slick-haired and 10 years Miss - Eftting’s junior, told the jurors how . Be was shot. He even peeled off his © coat, unbuttoned his shirt, unhitched his undershirt and bared his - husky torso to point out the place . where the bullet entered his abdo-

men. “And it came out here,” he said, © indicating another small scar, about six inches away.

Process Server There

When at last court adjourned for the night, Snyder wiped his glisten- ~ ing bald spot with a silk handker- . chief and limped into the corridor— where he had his first smile of the day. Waiting was a process serve ~ two documents. * ~~ One was an order to show cause ~ why he should not support his wife . and their year-old child even

| though he had filed divorce action.

: other ordered Alderman to ~ make a deposition the day before | # Christmas in connection with his - wife’s love balm suit against Miss ~~ Etting.

~ LUPTON ESTATE PUT. IN TRUST FOR WIDOW

Mrs. Mary Lupton was named sole beneficiary of the estate of her hus‘band, Marshall Lupton, former president of the Beveridge Paper Co., under terms of a will on file in Probate Court today. Mr. Lupton died last week. ~ The estate is to be placed in trust with Mrs. Lupton receiving all the income. The value of the estate was estimated.

Ruth

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Boy Friends Will Get a Break In I. U. Dames’ Ball Saturday

BLOOMINGTON, Dec. 14—It’s the woman who’ll pay at the Dames Ball on the Indiana University campus this Saturday night. For this traditional dance, the coed must ask the boy-friend for the date and then pay all expenses, including dance tickets, taxis and refresh-

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RAPS LABOR ACT

AS BEING UNFAIR

Teetor Would Change It to Give Both Sides ‘Equal Break.’

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Modification of the Wagner act to give employers an equal break with employee and to repeal of the last vestige of the undistributed profits tax should be on the “must list” of the coming Congress, Lothair Teetor, president of the Perfect Circle Co., Hagerstown, Ind., declared here today. : Mr. Teetor came to Washington to tell the Senate Finance Subcommittee his experience with profitsharing and to condemn any plan to bring about profit-sharing or anything else by so-called “incentive taxation.” In doing so he stepped on the toes of Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) upon whose motion the subcommittee hearings are being held,

“I Like Vandenberg’

‘I like Senator’ Vandenberg very much,” Mr. Teetor said. “I even think he might make a good Republican Presidential candidate. But I do not see how he could have been so opposed to the undistributed profits tax and at the same time approve incentive taxation to force profit-sharing.” Eighteen months of profit-sharing in his company’s Indiana plants, beginning in 1936, was quite successful and may be tried again some time, but he doesn’t want the Government to order such action, Mr. Teetor declared. The plan was abandoned- when a striking C. I. O. union in the New Castle plant demanded that the 10 per cent profit-sharing go for wave increases, he explained. At the present time all of fhe Perfect Circle plants have “independent unions,” Mr. Teetor explained.

Urges Coercion Curb His idea of modification of the Wagner Act is to forbid coercion by unions as well as employers and let the decision to organiz be made by employees who are convinced and not coerced by anyone, Mr. Teetor asserted. : As a Republican, he explained pleasure at the election results in Indiana and predicted further victories in 1940. Business in Indiana is “just fair,” he said, and all of his plants are

now working on “about 75 per cent capacity.”

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Appearing in the classified ad section of the Daily Student, campus newspaper, this week were the following: “I am open for bids to the Dames Ball. Applicants must be beautiful, blond, and must furnish tux. I am tall, dark and handsome. Reach me in care of Dean Gavit’s office, 6811. Bob Wrege.”

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CARTER CALLS WAR PERIL TO DEMOCRACY

FT. WAYNE, Ind. Dec. 14 (U.P.). —Boake Carter, famed journalist and radio commentator, last night praised the Government’s efforts

the Americas and warned against becoming involved in a European war. :

Speaking as a “foreigner” who chose America as his country, Carter declared that dictatorship will follow America’s entry into war, “because in event of war, the President will have to assume dictatorial powers in order to control the economic structure in the time of emergency. But afterward ... free enterprise would never come back.

HEADS HOSPITAL BOARD FT, WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 14 (U. J) —Dr. Fremont E. Fribley of Ft. ayne was re-elected president of the board of the Methodist Hospital here last night, and S. F. Depoy of Warsaw was named vice president for a second time. Other officers elected were the Rev. Howard J. Brown, Ft. Wayne, secretary and F. W. Greene, Albany, assistant secretary, ;

toward consolidating relations among

ENMITY CNAM PENSION RANKS

Townsend Insists on Own | Plan; Possibility of , Split Foreseen.

By LEE G. MILLER Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—The gaunt progenitor of old-age pension

| sentiment in America, 71-year-old

Dr. F. E. Townsend of California, is determined that if Congress is to pass anything resembling the Townsend Plan it shall pass his own version and no other. Therein lies the possibility of a

. | split among Congressional pensions

ites which would destroy whatever chance exists of obtaining such legislation. 3

tains offices here, his national headquarters being in Chicago. The rival General Welfare Federation, on .he other hand, is centered here. It was

_|active in the last Congress and is

preparing to renew its drive in January. Both groups are backing : the “General Welfare Act.” The difference is that the Townsendites support the measure as originally introduced early in 1937, while the federation supports a muchamended version to which Dr. {Townsend objects.

Two “Welfare Acts” Townsend headquarters announced in Chicago today that their measure would be introduced in

January without major change. The federation, on the contrary, will introduce a radically different meas-

4ure. Both presumably will be called

“General Welfare Act,” which will prolong the existing confusion. The enmity between the two groups is suggested by the satisfaction with which Townsendites emphasize the defeat at the polls this year of two leading sponsors of the Federation’s plan—Rep. Crosby (D. Pa.) and Rep. Boileau (Prog. Wis.). It was Mr. Boileau who offered the first set of major amendments to the General Welfare Act. These proposed changes, which the Townsend group repudiated, would have abandoned the Townsend 2 per cent transaction tax in favor of a 2 per cent gross income tax, dropped all mention of a $200-a-month objective and omitted the requirement that the pensioner spend his monthly pension within 30 days.

Changes Drafted

The General Welfare Federation not only champicned the Boileau

worked out other proposed changes. Of the. latter, the principal one would exempt from the gross income tax all income spent for wages, for taxes, for interest on loans, and all income from export sales. While the strength of pension sentiment in Congress is an uncertain quantity, the division of this strength between the rival plans is even more hazy.

CONTROL FREIGHTER FIRE KEY WEST, Fla., Dec. 14 (U. P.). —A fire in the No. 3 hold of the Southern Pacific Lines freighter

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BIG BILL THOMPSON OUT FOR MAYOR AGAIN

CHICAGO, Dec. 14 (U. P.).— William Hale (Big Bill) Thompson, who hippodromed his may to Mayor of Chicago three times, began’ beating the drum for his fourth try at the office today. : Thompson announced his candidacy last night to- 2000 precinct workers who had urged him to run

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EMPEROR’S LEG BROKEN

PARIS, Dec. 14 (U. P.).—A dispatch from Saigon, Indo-China, sid today that 25-year-old Emperor Bao Dai of Annam had suffered a broken leg in a hunting accident on the Annamite Plateau, 400 miles {rom Saigon and that a rescue airplane had left for the scene.

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