Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1939 — Page 3
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| Italo- German Efficiency Called Challenge to U. S.
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long as human nature remains un- As regards advertising, he said | | changed, the desire for personal that without its revenue, newspa-| $175 000 to Build gain will continue the mainspring| pers either would descend to a sta-| ; of human enterprise, and that the tus where they would have to sell Recreation Hall laborer who excels with hand or their news and editorial columns or | y brain must be compensated accord- depend upon Government subsidies | rm Lo R ingly, if his fellows are to profit by which would mean Government con- | By DANIEL M. KIDNEY 4 the extraordinary genius with trol like that exercised in Russia, | © Times Staff Writer {which nature endows a few of its | Ttaly and Sera, THe A hrges y J I . in| | favorite sons and daughters. that advertisers dominate the press Stor i EG 00) To 5 rio “In this situation American jour-| he believed, arise from: tion hall at the Indianapolis Vet-| nalism will, I believe, prove to bel upirst, high-placed politicians erans Hospital has been introduced | {in the future what it has always | whose real desire, more shortsighted | by Rep. Louis Ludlow (D. Ind). beeh in the past—the people's ref- | than vicious, is to see the GovernThe bill, prepared in response to} {uge and champion in times of stress| ...t exercise some sort of a brake| a deluge of telegrams from Indiana . 1 |and readjustment. on what he naturally regards as a | “The effsctiveness and the dur-| i. oyitical press.
American Legion posts, was referred | N to the War Veterans Legislation | | |ability of American democracy has “Second. from & small group of Committee in the House and Chair- | ‘been challenged,” Mr. Howard said. sinkish-to-red propagandists whose | man Rankin (D. Miss.) has promised | 3 “But not by the chaos which is | Spiritual home is in Russia—a Russ | to give it prompt consideration, Rep SE : 8 Russia. Not by the program of the| aa of whose real conditions they | Ludlow said. | extreme left which for years we| ie latgely ignorant, but of which | Meanwhile, Rep. Ludlow and | were led to believe was liberalism | they know enough to avoid the | Bernard Batty, Indianapolis, ap-| advanced to radicalism, but rather | {BY os they would a pesthouse.” peared before the House Library] from the extreme right. In Italy Some of the “liberal” periodicals, he said, are obsessed with a belief |
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Mrs. Antonio Giacobbe, of Philadelphia, holds her head after taking poison in a second attempt at suicide. Charged with
Committee on behalf of the Min-| and Germany Fascist totalitarian- | the murder of her husband and
ton-Ludiow bill to create a Benja- ism, equally as repugnant as com-
min Harrison Memorial Commission. | Would Appropriate $2500
The duty of the commission would be to work out plans for a Benjamin | Harrison Memorial Park at Indian apolis. The measure would appropriate 82500 to cover expenses of an investigation and report Myr, Ratty is executive directo the Arthur Jordan Foundation and! curator of the Benjamin Epon Home at Indianapolis In appealing for passage of bill. Rep. Ludlow paid te “to President Harrison as a great statesman and a great administrator “But above all,” he said, “he was a great citizen whose conscience never slept and who had a keen| realization of his obligations to s0- | clety | Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, New York City. and her daughter, Mrs. James Blaine Walker Jr., are interested in the bill. and called on Senator Minton this morning.
Confers With Hines
Rep. Ludlow also conferred this morning with Brig. Gen, Frank T Hines. chief of the Veterans Administration. and was told that the general has asked President Roosevelt to include the recreation hall as a WPA project The Congressman also is seeking to have it included in the regular hospitalization program for the fiscal vear 1940 and with these three approaches, feels confident of success, he said Tomorrow he will lead a dozen of his fellow Congressmen as withesses before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which is to open hearings on the Wai Shy] Amendment, the measure which Rep. Lud jow hat been | fous ng in the House
SMOKE ABATEMENT | LEAGUE TO REPORT
A review of the Indianapolis Smoke Abatement League's progress in the last vear was to be given | at the organizations 10th anniversary luncheon today at the Canary Cottage John F. White, E. O Roy O. Johnson and Pa son, charter members of are to be honored at luncheon Steps will be taken at this meeting to further the league's cause toward establishment of an ade-| quate smoke abatement program through the Mayor, Board of Safety and the City Council,” Mr. Johngon said Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary and president of the organization, said Our organization has been the means of calling to the public's attention the necessity of smoke prevention in Indianapolis In continually pressing for an adequate smoke control program we are thinking not onlv of the health! factor but of the economic welfare of the city as well.”
BRIEFS AWAITED IN SINGER- UNION CASE
SOUTH BEND, Mav 10 (U. P) Attornevs today were given 15 davs to file briefs in a National Labo: Relations Board hearing of unfair labor practice charges against the Singer Manufacturing Co. by Local 917 of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America. The hearing ended abruptly late vesterday after three and one-half davs. Only testimony taken during the hearing was from company minutes of conferences with the union during negotiations The Singer plant has been closed for nearly four weeks
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PARIS, May 10 (UU. P).--The Duke and Duchess of Windsor have definitely abandoned the idea of visiting the United States and the New York Worlds Fair, it was learned today They have arranged to return to the French Riviera and afterwards may make a sea cruise, although the latter is not definite. If they do make a cruise, thev will not touch any of the Americas
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suspected of being a “customer” of a bizarre murder-for-insurance ring, she tried to shoot herself, and when thwarted by police, drank a poonege ii
MURDER RING'S | TOLL MOUNTING
Death Guild Specializing in Homicide For Fee Reported.
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to make more arrests
Physician Is Held
Dr. Horace D. Perlman, 50. already is in custody as a suspected purvevor of poison and “prospects” for the svndicate, and it was intimated that he had implicated another physician and a druggist. Chief highlight of overnight developments in the case was the report, unconfirmed bv detectives, that the syndicate whose most reliable murder weapon was arsenic and whose customers were mostly women
(tired of their husbands and willing
to poison them for their insurance and estates. had an important competitor in the death industry, The rival group, death guild, operated for quick profit and murdered for a stipulated sum without bothering with insurance Other new developments were: Evidence that the arsenic ring has been operating since the arrest of their members Alleged confession at Reading, a. by Samuel Crispino, a hat (maker. that he was on the fishing [hoat from which a victim was thrown overboard off Sea Isle City, N. J. but “looked the other way.”
Report Woman's Confession
A complete confession, according to authorities, by Mrs. Millie Giacobbe, 30-year-old reputed “arsenic widow” who twice has attempted suicide since her arrest, that Paul Petrillo, South Philadelphia tailor, “witch doctor” and director of one branch of the syndicate, poisoned her husband, Antonio.
Disclosure that the ring's banker, | holding an estimated $100000 of
the death profits, was under surveillance, Arrest of Mrs. Mever Smigel _ Shenkman, 40. for questioning in connection with the death of her first husband. bringing the total of alleged “arsenic widows’ under arrest to 13
SHOCK KILLS WIFE OF STORM VICTIM
BOONVILLE, May 10 (U, P)Shock caused by the death of her Charles Elzer. who as crushed to death Monday night when his barn fell on him during a miniature tornado, today proved fatal to Mrs. Anna Elzer, 60 Double funeral services will be held Friday afternoon. Mr. Elzer was feeding cattle at his barn when a heavy hail and rainstorm struck Warrick County. During the peak of the storm the barn collapsed.
CREW, PASSENGERS SAVED COLOMBO, Cevion, May 10 (U P) —The British steamship Canton arrived today with the passengers and crew of the Danish passenger motorship Alsia, which caught fire and was abandoned, a blazing wreck, 20 miles south of Barber) [ Island, Ceylon.
BAYONNE BEATS HAGUE BAYONNE, N. J, May 10 (U.P) Bayonne voters today had repudiated domination of local polities by Mavor Frank Hague of Jersey City, electing an anti-Hague ticket in the municipal election.
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and not be misled by the malicious propaganda of those who despise a SUCCESS of the Bolshevik millenium.
free press because they recognize it | “1s it not fair to ask when and ne| as democracy 's first line of defense.” | what right such as these rate the Outlines Journalism’'s Task | pt ‘ivilege of passing judgment on the | Sous lise task, Mr. Howard liberalism of American journalism? said, If the word liberalism still symbol- | “The task of expediting a con-|izes tolerance and progress, if it] structive program of rapidly ad- still designates that course nig vancing political and economic evo- |lated to render the greatest service, lution. For no open-minded ob-|to the greatest number, of the most | server can any longer doubt that underprivileged, this crew has long! ‘only through some evolution of our since disqualified itself as either) political, economic, and social critic or judge, because it does not | | processes do we have a chance to know the meaning of the word. escape dangerous involvement in; “In normal times no great danger | some form of world revolution. would be involved in the activities “In international affairs we are of these borers from within. Their witnessing a titanic struggle be- | perversions of the truth would be tween the have and the have-not|recognized for what they are— nations. On a smaller scale, but planned efforts to undermine con- | springing from the same basic urge, [fidence in the press as a necessary this identical contest is either de- preliminary to the destruction of | veloping or is in full swing within our democracy. But these are not] every great nation on earth.” normal times. Less so will be the Sees Some ‘Havwire' Criticism years ahead.” Reviewing the place of journalism; The old personal journalism of amid present conditions, and dis- Bennett, Dana and Greeley has been cussing current criticism of news- | supplanted. Mr. Howard believed, by | papers, Mr. Howard said: “Perhaps the columnists, who are “a great] | American journalism has become stimulant to reader interest but mildly intoxicated, and slightly [often the editor's greatest head-| puffed up by its own importance. |ache.” a thus Necome 3 Perhaps “The headache resulted from the it's meeting its come-uppance. If fact that, in most instances, while s ence wi pp Re the columnist was in the paper he| 0, the experience will certainly not ’ tl be fatal. More likely it will be | 2S hot of it. He was a free agent] both chastening and stimulating.” |given carte blanche to express his | S EB. . ; He believed that “much of the °VR ideas, irrespective of the] current eriticism of American editorial policy of the paper. In| journalism is of the havwire va-| Cur own papers, the columnist’s copy | i is edited to avoid libel or offense to]
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