Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1939 — Page 11

TEXANS ATTACK ODAMISL ON HIS TORTGE EDICT

| Orly Killer Approves 30-Day

“Reprieve; El Paso Paper ‘Begs Forgiveness.’

Re i TR AUSTIN, Tex. Feb. 3 (U. P)— Governor O’Daniel, whose campaign platform was the “golden rule,” was denounced by legislators, ministers

and newspapers today for having

postponed the execution of a Negro _ So" that he might suffer 30 more days. Governor O'Daniel reprieved Winzell Williams, whose execution previously had been set for today, because he wanted. him to “stare death in the face” 30 days more as additional punishment for killing his employer, an elderly white dairyman. . . ‘The only: public comment favoring the Governor's action came from Williams, who said: “I'm prepared to go, but I'm thankful that the Governor has put it off 30 days.” : Rep. J." E. Winfree, chairman of the Committee on Penal Institutions, arose in the House of Representatives and denounced the Governor’'s statement as “the most heinous, the foulest, and the most inhuman to emanate from a man in this . state during the last two decades.” Pt. Worth pastors condemned the reprieve as a fantastic means of “torture.”

Prosecutor Charges “Straddling”

District Attorney Andrew Patton of Dallas, who obtained Williams’ conviction, accused the Governor of “straddling” in an attempt to stay within his anticapital punishment advocacy and at the same time avoid the criticism of Texans shocked by the slaying of a white man by a Negro. “I can neither reconcile this act with any teaching in the Bible nor within the beliefs of anyone opposed to capital punishment,” Mr. Patton said. “I have never known a Governor to use this instrumefitality as a medium for a defendant to be tortured.” Newspapers generally deschied -Governor O’Daniel’s motives as a

disgrace to the State. ‘Typical com-

ments follow: The ‘Dallas Dispatch-Journal: “One can only feel regret that the Governor of a great State would

propose a form of torture for one| _

who 1s already sentenced to the extreme penalty of the law.” The El Paso Herald-Post: The people of Texas are shocked at Governor O’Daniel’s reprieve . Texas stands. abased before the world. Texas begs forgiveness for the act of her servant.”

“This Thing Will Haunt Him”

The Ft. Worth Press: “We feel sorry for O’Daniel. Not 30 days, “but for all his days—and all his nights—this thing will come to haunt * him. . , It will use

many people to make a new ap-|

praisal of our Texas governor. While Texas governors may reprieve “condemned men, the law does not permit them to commute death sentenges. The State Pardon and Parole Board, which has this power, reviewed the case and refused clemency because it considered the crime “too brutal.”

CLAIM BOYS’ SCHOOL

1S HURT BY POLITICS|

National ‘Group Criticizes Boonville, Mo., Place.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 (U.P.).—The Oshorne Association today blamed _ partisan politics and patronage for “conditions in the training school for boys at Boonville, Mo., criticized as “one of the worst” found during a survey of 13 similar institutions in seven states. The association, a national organization founded by the late Thomas Mott Osborne, noted penologist, surveyed conditions in institutions for delinquent juveniles in Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, Jowa, Kansas, North Dakota and South Dakota. The association approved institutions for juvenile delinquents in Iowa and Minnesota, but made many recommendations for the improvement of those in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. In the Boonville Boys’ School, the association’s report said, representatives found outright admission that each change in the governorship resulted in a change in the admin.istration at the institution.

DR. BENES ON WAY TO CHICAGO U. JOB

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Feb. 3 (U. P.).—Former President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia,® with his wife and nephew, were en route to New York today aboard the liner Washington. Dr: Benes will lecture at the University of Chicago. Scotland Yard men guarded his

departure from London and his ar-}-

rival at Southampton.

HELD IN PURSE THEFTS A man held today by police in connection with the theft of three purses, containing’ $7.50, from the Jordan Conservatory .of Music, 106 E. North St., yesterday. The purses, two of which were recovered empty in a nearby alley, belonged to Mrs. Pearl Barrett, Greenfield; Miss Jean Pickett, 1613 College Ave. and Miss Marcella Reynolds, 5766 N. Pennsyl- ~ st. 'YVY ~

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6 OBSOLETE VESSELS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P.)— The Navy Department announced today it will receive bids for the sale of six obsolete naval vessels, all of which have been reduced to _hulks, in the Department offices here Feb. 28. The vessels are the. destroyers Gwin and James K. Paulding, the minelayer Lansdale, the destroyer U. S. S. Mercy, the ocean tug Patuxent and an ambulance boat.

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Train Believed 10. to Have Hit

Charles H. Atherton.

The body of Charles H. Atherton, 51 E. 34th St., was found early to-

day on the Belt Railroad tracks near the E. Michigan St. crossing.

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vas decapitated and police sal he Spvarsnlly had been killed sy |

Mr. Atherton was 42. He livea| servi with his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs: Harry L. White. They tod ‘police he had been employed | for. 20 years by the Paramount Hardware Mfg. Co., and had left his home after the. evening meal without saying where he was going.

Police found his car parked and|m locked in front of 801 N. Sherman Drive, about two blocks from the accident. ‘Mr. Atherton is survived by his sister, Mrs. White; another sister, Mrs. Viona H. -Beitch, 819

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