Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1939 — Page 3

OR C. OF C. DENIES IT GAVE SHIDELER VIEWS

Character Winesses Did|

Not Speak for Group, k. “Says Letter to Nolan.

The Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce today stated in a letter to U. S. District Attorney Val Nolan that the organization had made no statements in connections with the case of William Shideler. “Mr. Shideler yesterday changed a plea of guilty to a charge of viola-

tion of the Federal Securities Act to}

a plea of not guilty. District Attorney ;Nolan said that he welcomed the thance to try the case and remarked that “The Junior Chamber of Commerce went off half cocked In this case.” He said some members of the organization were characterizing -the prosecution as a persecution. Judge Robert C. Baltzell allowed the change of plea. False Statement Charged

The Junior Chamber's letter, signed by J. Russell Townsend Jr, President, read: “Newspaper accounts of Thursday's proceedings in Federal Court in the William Shideler case indicate that you, as Federal District Attorney, made statements concerning the alleged activities of the Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Com- . Imerce in this matter. In particular you are quoted as stating, ‘The Junfor Chamber of Commerce went off “half-cocked” in this case’ and actu-| ally attempted to ald Mr. Shideler. “This is an absolutely false statement - and without the slightest foundation in fact. “Mr. ghideier is a formef member of our organization and resigned fom our Board of Directors over] 8 year ago, just prior to the State of Indiana proceedings against him. { ° “The fact that two of his friends who appeared as character witnesses are members of the Junior Chamber apparently has been construed by you to’ mean that they speak on behalf of the entire organization. This is a ridiculous ~assumption. From it one would gather that any statement you make is automatically the official view of any religious, fra- - ternal or civic organization of which you are a member.

Think Chamber Harmed

“The Junior Chamber of Commerce has taken no action what-|¢] soever in this case, nor will we. We are a group of younger men inter‘ested in the betterment of our City, States and Nation and neither the Indianapolis organization nor any of the 700 other Junior Chambers in the United States has any intention to obstruct processes of justice. “If the statements are as reported in the newspapers, we regard them as an unwarranted attack upon the integrity of our organization. We are convinced that harm has been done to the Junior Chamber of Commerce as well as to the Federal District Attorney’s office. “This information has been given to you verbally, but we wish to give you this letter which is now being released fo the newspapers and to the 25 member Junior Chamber organizations in Indiana.” Meanwhile, the District Attorney ’s office planned to ask the Court for a stay of execution for Frederick W. Shideler, William's father, 80 he could be in court for the trial which may be in January.- The elder Shideler was, sentenced to

seven years in prison and .fined|| $5000 which has not been collected. ||

| Bond Is Raised The father, who is 58 and had lived in Brendenwood, is now in Marion County jail. He was sentenced Saturday after entering a plea of guilty, but sentencing of his son, William, was postponed until yesterday pending a ‘probation investigator’ s| report. After the change of plea, Judge Baltzell | raised William Shideler’s bond from $7500, which had not been posted, to $25,000. In order to meet this bond he would need the signatures of two persons each owning $50,000 worth of unencumbered property. The father and son, officials of Shideler & Co., Indianapolis brokerage concern, had been named together in a 17-count indictment by the Federal Grand Jury which charged they used the mails to defraud and violated the Federal Securities Act. The final count charged

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it” one boy was reported to have said. | “Well, then, maybe it will burn,” spoke up another of the boys.

Screams and Runs

|The instructor then poured some of the shellac on the ground and tossed a match into it. When it blazed up he flung the can into the blaze. The explosion followed. Flaming shellac spurted onto the clothing of the victim, George tewart, of 2017 Langley Ave. The boy screamed and started to run. The instructor caught him and tore off the blazing shirt. { The boy's left arm was severely jurned and skin grafting on the burned parts of his arm and left side may be necessary, the mother, Mrs. Guy A. Stewart said today. The investigation was requested originally by Recreation Director Walden H. Middlesworth. The report was turned over to the Park Board by Chief Morrissey on Sep t. 5. In the detectives’ report, the 19-rear-old instructor is quoted as aying: “I did not mean to hurt anybody. I just wanted to see if the shellac in the can would burn.”

| Decline Comment

Park Board members meeting fo leafted through the police report but declined to comment on it. | Jackiel W. Joseph, Board president, said today he had not seen the report. He said he did not recall the accident. “I haven't seen or heard of any report of this kind,” he said. “I jcissed several meetings when I was laway from the city. But nothing has been said about it to me.” Members of the instructor’s family said the youth obtained the

job after a City employee promised to intercede for him,

Earlier this summer, Mayor Sul'livan and the Park Board declined to adopt a straightrout merit sys‘tem in the selection of summer playground supervisors, instructors and other personnel. Criticism had come from many civic groups over abuses in_.past years.

Hold to Position

The City Administration declined to move away from its position that the jobs belonged to Democrats, but announcement was made that the positions would be given ‘only to “well qualified” persons. At that time, Mr. Joseph declared that the examinations which would

conspiracy to the violations. On Nov. 4, 1938, they were indicte by the Marionr Grand Jury o charges of embezzglment, grand lar ceny and false:pretense. They ha been arrested a few weeks previously on State Security Commission af: fidavits. They have not been tried on these charges. ‘Never Delivered,’ Says Nolan

District = Attorney Nolan told the Court yesterday that he was prepared to try to prove that the Shidelers had defrauded investors of Between $75,000 and $100,000. Th: promised to buy securities for persons, many of whom were widow Mr. Nolan said, but converted t money to their own use and ‘“nev delivered any of the stock” he were supposed to buy. William Shideler’s decision to plea; not guilty surprised his attorne 7 George R. Jeffrey, who had advi him to plead guilty. Mr. Jeffrey mediately withdrew from the case The plea change followed a reto the Court by the probation officer, Capt. Adolph Kruse. It contained statements by Shideler & Co. customers, William Shideler’s wits and others. One was from a 60-year-old won - . an who sold magazine subscriptions by ‘telephone and who said she turned over stocks and bonds oF the Shidelers to sell and reinvest {in other securities. “I was always told Fred Shideler was out of the city when I called about it,” the rp - quoted her as saying. Capt. Kruse said Mrs. will im Shideler, the accused man’s wife, told him her husband earned only $10 or $12 a week while working i his father and that her ea were needed for their living penses. She said he later got a Bo # hotel securing rental ay: Mrs. Frederick Shideler, who is in court, said her son had changed his plea because “he wanted to answer things in that probation ¢- port which aren’t true.” | | |

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be given by the Recreation Department would be “just as good” as a merit system.

13 NORWEGIAN SHIPS SUNK, 2 BY U-BOATS

—A spy scare swept Norway today as three Norwegian steamships, first of the war, were sunk—two by German submarines, the third by a mine. The steamship Takstaas, 1830 tons, and Jern, were torpedoed in the North Sea. The Solas, 1638 tons, was sunk by a mine in the Skagerrak, entrance to the Baltic. These sinkings, and the sinking 01 ot the Swedish steamship Nyland yesterday caused belief that spies were operating in Scandinavian ports and informing the German admiralty of ship movements. Norwegian authorities tightened surveillance at all harbors. The Takstaas, on its way to.England with timber, was torpedoed at 8:30 a. m, today. The crews of all three boats were saved.

Bargain Frolic Offered Pupils

A SPECIAL MATINEE for benefit of schoolchildren will be held at the fourth annual fall festival of the West gMichigan Street Business and Professional Men's Association Saturday in Coleman Park. All rides and concessions will offer half-price rates to pupils between 1 and 6 p. m. Entries in the baby contest are to close tonight and the winner of the contest will be declared tomorrow night when finals of the Jitterbug contest also will be held. Officials announced that last night's attendance of 3500 set an

home before the police stepped in and solved the mystery, | | Mary Lou kept the rabbbit.

CARELESSNESS AT PARK BARED

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OSLO, Norway, Sept. 20 (U. P.).

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OFFER HINTED Moscicki Is Told “by Nazis To Break With Allies First, ‘Writer. Declares.

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passage to one of their allied coun-

1 tries.

‘They! Fee ‘forbidden to exercise any ‘governmental functions in Ru-

BB | mania and even their resignations,

—Tiimes Photo.

Here is 21-year-old Mary Lou More safe in the arms of Patrolan Ward Pettijohn and on her way home after a rabbit hunt which disrupted the academic serenity of ‘Butler University yesterday. Mary Lou stalked two white rabbits from her home, 804 W. 42d St., to the By the time she had caught one of them she had Fifty Butler students joined in the search for her

President might revert to the status of civil-

Moscicki and the others

ians and be permitted to leave the country |by resigning but that the situation was so delicate they might be unable to resign. Rumanian ‘ officials were said to have confined the 250 Polish Government refugees to a park surrounding their hotel at Slanik, canceling their permits to roam within a five-mile radium of the town, because of their overbearing attitude.

N . WARNED TO LEAVE EUROPE LONDON, Sept. 29 (U. P.).— United | States Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, in form letters to all Americans still in Britain, today reiterated his warning that they return to the United States immediately unless their presence here is necessary.

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Based on Russo-Nazi Split of Poland

By WEBB LER United Press Staff Correspondent "LONDON, Sept. 20.—Great Britain will. reject the Russo-German demand for an immediate peace de-

spite an implied threat ‘in the new Nazi-Communist agreement that

“| unless the Allies call off the war on

Germany’s terms, Russia may join in against them, it was indicated

‘today.

It was understood the. British Cabinet had met and discussed the Russiah-Germar. agreement and the King had given Mr. Chamberlain an audience on the same subject. Two London newspapers reported that Russia and Germany would 11 a peace conference to which a eat neutral power — presumably either Italy or the United States— would be invited. Early but apparently reliable indications were that Great Britain not only would reject any peace offer on the basis of Poland’s annihilation but would reaffirm its

determination to prosecute the war

until its primary aims had been achieved; the smashing of Hitlerism and 'the reconstitution of the Polish state. Reliable sources said that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain would make a statement in the House of Commons Monday on the RussianGerman agreement. Indications seemed to be that the

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new threat of Russia to join Germany would be ignored—or flouted —because British authorities felt: 1. That Russia gas not whole-| heartedly behind i implied threat. 2. That even if Josef Stalin sincerely - desired, he would be unable to aid Germany effectively either militarily or economically sufficiently to influence the course of the war

greatly.

3. That neither Hitler nor Stalin |

trusted one another sufficientiy to permit effective military co-bpera-tion. 4, That Hitler could not’ be too comfortable in seeing Russia standing at his back door looking into the Baltic through Esthonia.

French Also Expected: To Spurn Peace Bid PARIS, Sept. 29 (U. P.).—A semiofficial statement implied today that France would reject any GermanRussian peace proposal on the basis of . the present status in the European war. An authoritative source forecast that: Germany and Russia might make such a peace bid to the Allies some time today. Premier Edouard Daladier, Gén,

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studied the text of the Irouisns Ger: man agreement as soon as it was received here, and then got into} touch with the British Government. Official quarters insisted that the Allies which did not re-establish Poland as a sovereign state. |

As M. Daladier Consulted the Britlish Government, a semi-official statement. was Assued.

part “Well- informed ‘circles - in = Paris, commenting on the German-Soviet note, emphasize that Germany, after violently protesting that. the Versailles Treaty violated the rights of peoples, .considers . that the destruction. of ‘the Polish nation can be a solid base ‘for a durable peace. “How. can anyone argue that the destruction of Poland would wipe out all causes for conflict in Eastern Europe? What future lies ahead for other peoples? “Well-informed circles in Paris point out that the dismemberment of Poland is,only one of many problems involved in the present conflict. This conflict ‘has: its fundamental cause in: Germany's efforts to dominate Eurape.

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Goes With Father to Work, Then Heads for Home: : Now i in Hospital.

_ Twelve-year-old_ Ora Hight, 618 E. 15th St., was in City Hospital ‘today with serious. head injuries as the result of a ‘traffic accident last night.” He: was on the way ‘homie : after accompanying his father ® work. # Ora was one of several persons ine jured in 19 overnight trafic accidents. Police arrested 37 motorists. Ora, a 6B. pupil at School 2%, walked with his father, Garfield Hight, to the Nickel Plate Railroad signal tower at 16th St. and then started home. As he started across College Ave. at 16th St.. witnesses said, he saw a streetcar and stepped back to .the curb. When the streetcar was nearly past, he started across again, running against the side of a car driven by Alvin Nuttall, 1503 E. 52d St., police were told. At City Hospital, it was reported he had suffered a brain concussion, severe body: bruises and a possible skull fracture. His condition was

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