Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1939 — Page 2

IN SLAYING OF

‘AVOCA WORKER

Sheriff to Bring Suspect Here Today for Lie Detector Test.

. BEDFORD, Feb. 15 (U. P)~— Sheriff Lincoln Dunbar will bring a “69-year-old Lawrence County farmer to the State Police headquarters in Indianapolis today for a lie defector test in his investigatioi of the mysterious murder of - Earl Roach, 41, Avoca WPA worker, farmer. and. inventor. . .+.Sheriff Dunbar said he also will ‘bring a four-foot club found near the. murder scene to be tested for fingerprints and blood stains and also ask for a scrutiny of the pocket knives of the farmer and his son, who’ also was being questioned, to see if they have any blood stains. The Sheriff said he probably will release the younger man this afternoon. _ Mr. Roach’s body—the skull fractured in 14 places,” his throat slashed and his chest and face torn by. shotgun pellets—was found yesterday near Springville by a searching .crew of 117 fellow WPA workers. He had been missing since Sunday morning Neighbors told Sheriff Dunbar ad Coroner R. E. Wayne that there had been a feud of years’ standing between the farmer and Mr. Roach over the boundary lines separating their adjoining farm lands.

| JENNER TO SPEAK . ATG. 0.P.1 MEETING

Senator William E. iia ¥. JeRner, State Senate minority leader, will speak on “American Fundamentals” at a meeting of the Marion County Republican Fundamentalists tomorrow night at the Hotel Linceln. ‘0. P. Kensinger, organization state chairman, ‘also will speak. Walter White will be master of ceremonies. Those faking part in the entertainment, under direction of Miss Marion Lee Vasbinder, are: | Miss Mary’ Kathryn Klaiber, Mis§ Willa Mae Bruhn, Miss Betty Lou McDonald, Miss Joan Allen, Walter, Robert, Charles and A, CG. White; Charles Adams, . Miss Rose Mary Brooks, Miss Lou Cooley, Miss Carolyn Holmes, Miss Pauline Hu.chison, Misses. Jane and Rose ..nna Hallenbough, Richard Jenkins, Davy Lee Johnson; Miss Mary Ewart Judson, Donald Mason, Miss Lavell McCurdy, Miss Evelyn Mae Morris, Miss Joan Seitz, Miss Susie Steele, Miss Carol Jean Westall, Miss Joan Mikels and Miss Marjorie Markham.

BARTON SENTENCE ~ ORDERED REDUCED

‘Governor Townsend today beswiedt td Criminal Court clerks executive orders for the commutation of the prison sentence of one Marion County prisoner and the parole of dnother local convict. ie Governor's order reduced from 10 to 25 years to 5 to 25 years the sentence imposed here in 1935 on: Paul Barton, . convicted of Ssseul and battery with intent to ro * The other executive order granted a parole to John Clark Jr. who was setitenced to 10 years in Criminal Court’ here in 1933 on a robbery ¢harge,’

REGULAR MAIL GOES TO SOVIET ARCTIC

MOSCOW, “Feb. 15 15 (U. P.).—Ex‘ploring parties, lonely reindeer herdsmen and radio operators in the Soviet Arctic and the wildernesses of Eastern Siberia will benefit ° from a new regular air mail service soon. to be established. Letters and papers will be dropped from the .air to an appointed landmark .and parachutes will deliver parcels. Propeller driven sleds, which - will scoot across the snow at 60.m. p. h., will make-deliveries to, remote villages and settlements.

== BENES NEARS CHICAGO ° CHICAGO, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia, arrives late today from New York to assume duties as a visiting professor at the Uni- . versity of Chicago. University officials said Mr. Benes will speak at a reception Friday night and will begin three months of classes Monday. -

EXECUTE MISSOURI SLAYER

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Feb. 15 (U. PJ) —John F. Williamson, 62, who once.served a sentence for murder in Illinois, was executed for a Missouri murder today in the gas chamber at State Prison. Williamson killed George Williams and was caught when he tried to sell some of Williams’ pigs in Ste. Genevieve County.

WANTS U.S. OFFICIAL AT RELIEF HEARING

Conroy Gets Set for Report On Lake County Setup.

Federal authorities have been asked to attend a Senate Committee hearing tomorrow night on reported charges that administration of relief in Lake County is “abounding in abuses,” it was announced today. Senator Elliott Conroy (D. Hammond), chairman of the Senate Committee on the Affairs of Lake County, said he had requested specifically the presence of Federal District Attorney James R. Fleming of South Bend at the hearing when the report of the Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief will be discussed. The Committee also will consider a Senate resolution which asks a special investigation into the relief administration affairs of Lake County by the State Attorney General, if irregularities are found by the State Board of Accounts. The resolution introduced by Senator Harvey J. Post (D. Hammond) asks the investigation if local authorities fail to prosecute “speedily” in event irregularities are found. Senator Conroy, in announcing he had asked Federal authorities to “listen in” on the meeting, declared “Let’s .have a real investigation while we are at it.” He said he also had requested the presence of Judge William J. Murray of the Lake County Criminal Court and Prosecutor Felix A. Kaul.

PRINTERS’ SUIT ASKS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.). —A suit for $10,421 was filed today against former Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, representing the Pinchot-for Governor State Committee of Philadelphia, by John R. McFetridge and sons of Philadelphia. The firm alleged that Mr. Pinchot owed the money for 1,800,000 printed “Win With Pinchot” platforms, 95,~ 000 election placards, 20,000 letterheads, copies of radio schedules, newspapers, from letters and other printed matter.

AGED ODD ‘FELLOW DIES Times Special ROCHESTER, Feb. 15.—Funeral services will be conducted here tomorrow for George W. Clayton, 78, the oldest Odd Fellow in Fulton County. Mr. Clayton, brick and stonemaker, had served on the City police ferce here for 18 years.

$10,421 OF PINCHOT

This “Snow White” is something of a dwarf himself—and how he goes for bottle feedings. The polar bear baby, believed first to be born in capiivity, lives at the zoo in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mayor Cuts City Holidays To 6 in Year

HUNTINGTON, Feb. 15 (U. P.).—~Mayor Foster E. Cutshall, successor to C. W. H. Bangs, declared today that workers in the City Hall had been seeing “too much red” on the calendar. He issued an order through the Board of Works that the City Hall will close on only six holidays during the year. The Mayor said, “The Administration is conducted to transact the City’s business and there is no reason to clone» down every time there is a red numeral on the calenaar.” The City Hall will close on New Year's Day, Decoration Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

FT. WAYNE STUDIES NEW HOUSING PLAN

Project Provides for 200 More Model Homes.

FT. WAYNE, Feb. 15 (U. P).— An extensive slum clearance program, which embodies “construction of 200 new model homes in Ft. Wayne, was being studied by City officials and business leaders today.

Pleased with results ‘of the cur-|

rent building project by the Ft. Wayne: Housing Authority, City officials, members of the FWHA, real estate dealers and business men in general are taking steps to engage in a huge building project. One hundred of the City’s worst ramshackle houses would be razed to make way for an equal number of low-rent houses under a U. S. Housing Authority plan under consideration. They would be constructed with the use of $1,500,000 earmarked for Ft. Wayne by the USHA at a cost of approximately $2000 each and would rent for not more than $15 a month.

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RADIO SQUABBLE

End of Bickering Sought; Roosevelt Once Called It ‘a Mess.

' By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. —Developments are piling: up for a real cat-ald-dog scrap in Congress over r e recent regulation policy,| - the future course of Federal rule, freedom of the air and related

The controversy has been broadened; into the political domain by a recent magazine article of a former New Deal lieutenant, Stanley High, charging that the Roosevelt Administration is seeking to extend its Soptrol over radio. He was challeng immediately by Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission, who disputed both Mr. High's findings and his conclusions.

' This and other phases of the many-sided radio problem will get their airing soon when a Senate Interstate Commerce subcommittee begins hearings on a bill by Sgnator Wheeler (D. Mont.) to scrap the present seven-man FCC and substitute a three-man commission. ' The object of this measure ‘is to put an end to the continued bickering in the present commission,

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‘with the “recen cast that couse of P00 ia ory : are likely to develop in into the wash- | ing of much dirty linen. 7 Oppose ‘Big Commission’ Both Senator Wheeler and Mr. McNinch,. in arguing for a ‘threeman commission, say big commissions contribute to a Siffusion. of responsibility. “Personal responsibility is Sook; y the Senator said. “Often we kndw

we can’t tell where or how, the’ ‘mishandling starts, or whete to put the blame.” Chairman McNinch said. a big

commission dividual struggles for. power, sil added: “The ultimate, result is" likely. to be a breakdown of regulation, pla aying into the hands of the industries be regulated and leaving the public interest unprotected.”

Critics of the Administration measure say it is not the size, but the men, which leads to friction.

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Opposition to the Administration bill will be led by ‘Senator White (R. Me.), coauthor of the two, radio regulating acts which Congress thus far has enacted. He is understood to be drafting a bill of his own which probably will propose increase ing the Commission’s size, He blames the Administration for the present “mess” in the Commission, and holds that it can be cured not by reducing the size of the Commission but by appointing men of a different type.

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