Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1940 — Page 2
NORRIS, MATTOX | SENT T0 PRISON
‘Two Plead Guilty to Forgery, Violating Securities Law In Auto Dealings.
~ Fred D. Norris, 42, and Virgil G. Mattox, former officers of the Guarjanty Finance Co., pleaded guilty in (Criminal Court today to indictments charging each with violation of the State Securities Law and forgery.
Criminal Court Judge Dewey E. Myers immediately sentenced each to one to five years in prison on the securities count and two to 14 years on the forgery indictment. The sentences are to be served concurrently at the Indiana State Prison. Norris, former president of the auto finance firm, and Mattox, former secretary - treasurer, were charged with having set up approximately $125,000 worth of fictitious notes in the accounts of the finance company and having falstfied the financial status of the company to the State Securities Commission when registering securities. The forgery indictment charged both men with having forged a conditional sales contract and note which authorities declared was one of many such pieces of credit paper which they set up in company accounts. The Guaranty Finance Co. was placed in the hands of a receiver two weeks ago, shortly before the two men were indicted by the Marion|M County Grand Jury.
WOUNDED MAN FACES CHARGE/IN SLAYING
. MUNCIE, Ind., March 18 — Police indicated today that if Cecil (Rabbit) . Mosier survives an allegedly self-inflicted bullet wound he_will be charged with the murder of Mrs. Dorothy Millis, 35, as the climax of a quarrel Saturday night. He is in a critical condition with @ bullet wound near his heart. Po-
lice said he shot Mrs. Millis at her ‘home and then turned the guh on himself. The quarrel, they said, was
‘Careful, Dear. .. Don + Smear My Lipstick,’ Dahl s Wife
Admonishes Him as He Returns Home From Spanish Prison
NEW. YORK, March 18 (. P)— Harold E. (Whitey) Dahl, 30-year-
old American aviator and former twice :
Butler University student, shot down while flying for Span-.
ish Loyalists, sentenced to death, |
reprieved and imprisoned ghree
years by the Nationalists, was bagk | home today but still in trouble. ‘f/f
His blond wife, Edith, who is looking for work as an entertainer, greeted him with an embrace and permission to kiss her on the cheek
when he arrived yesterday on oes i
American Export Line freighter Exiria. She is credited with saving
him from a firing squad, by 'ap-}
pealing to Generalissimo Francisco
Franco with a note and a photo-
graph of herself. Mr. Dahl is wanted by Police Chief Arthur ‘C. Hohmann of Los Angeles for allegedly passing seven worthless checks before he left America to fight in Spain in 1936. Clad in a shabby’blue serge suit, without overcoat or money, Dahl spent a fidgety half hour on the Export Line's Jersey City dock before his platinum-blond wife appeared. She walked right into <her hiss band’s arms and while photographers’ flashlight bulbs : popped: and murmured in his ear: ; “Be careful, dear, and don’t smear my lipstick. I don’t: want to smear you.” Those were the first direct words between the couple who last had seen each other in June, 1937, when Mr. Dahl went to Paris on leave from the Loyalist flying forces in Spain. In July, a month after their leave-taking in Paris, he fell be-
taken prisoner by Gen." Franco's Moors. _ Today he said he never would go
‘to war again except to defend his
country. “I really had no business. in. Spain,” he said. “To be perfectly honest, I went there a little bit ignorant. I didn’t know what was happening in Spain.” He said he was paid $1500 a month while fighting for the Loy-
tween the lines in Spain and was
alists with a $1000 bonus for every
Exiria,” Anthony P. Kerlicher, Moline, Ill, a coal miner, said. Shivering beside the rail with Kerlicher as the stubby freighter
{moved slowly up New York Harbor,
were Rudolph Opara, 23, Euclid, waukee; Cohen Haber, 25, New York City, and Lawrence F. Doran, 32, Los Angeles. '“They all were in terrible shape when they came aboard,” a ship’s officer said. “They look thin now, but you should have seen. them then. “They told us they had spent two years dreaming of sitting down again to an American meal. And when ' they #finally got it, they couldn’t eat it.” Like Mr. Dahl, all had been under death sentence but had obtained last-minute reprieves. Mr. Dahl was tried by a military tribunal Oct. 5, 1937, and condemned to be shot at 6 a. m. Oct. 8. ’ “I practically knew what the re-
8 | sult would be before the court-mar-
Harold Dahl . . . He Says ‘I fondly had no business in Spain.
plane he shot down. . He said he downed six and got paid for two. He is broke now and claims the Loyalists owe him $2000, Five released members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American volunteer contingent with the Loyalists, also were aboard the Exiria, all thinly clad, “broke” and showing obvious signs of more-than two years imprisonment in Spain. “Our first taste of meat in more than two years was aboard the
/| tial was over,” Mr. Dahl haid.
“We were charged with ‘delicto de rebellion’—rebellion against the government. Seven of us were condemned to death, three Russians, three Spaniards and myself. “Late on the night of Oct. 7 I heard that General Franco personally had telephoned and ordered a reprieve.” Mr. ‘Dahl said he did not: know whether letters written by his wife to Gen, Franco had influenced the reprieve, Mr. Dahl and his wife said they had no definite plans for the future. “I've been in show business for years and I expect to continue in it,” Mrs. Dahl said. “Whitney may write a book about his experiences, but that will be up to him.”
NLRB HEARING SET FOR NEXT THURSDAY
A scheduled hearing on a petition of certification as representative of a majority of employees at the Republic Creosoting Co. of Indiana will be held Thursday. The hearing
was fo have been last Friday. Creosoting Workers Union 20483,
about money.
an A. F. of L. affiliate, and the Re-
public Company Employees Association, independent, postponement so that they may intervene with membership claims.
The United Chemical Processing |-
Workers Local - Industrial Union
1026 of the C. I. O., filed the orignal,
petition. The hearing will be at the State House, according to Robert
H. Cowdrill, regional director of the NLRB.
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THE GREATER OLYMPIA CIRCUS, annually a feature attraction in the Chicago Stadium and other large indoor arenas, will perform in the State Fair Grounds Coliseum for nine days and nights, April 6 to 14, the Coliseum management announced today.
will be removed from the Coliseum and dirt and sawdust will be hauled in to make an arena for the circus. Aerial apparatus will be suspended as high as 100 feet above the floor, There will be elephants, performing horses, clowns, tight rope performers, in addition to many acts the management says can’t be staged in the tent circuses. Among featured attractions will *be “The Three Voyses,” _ areial bar act. from ‘Denmark; “Pee Jay,” the daredevil who dives with a bicycle; the Haitto troupe —tight wire artistsp Pallenberg's bears; Alf Loyal’'s dogs; Tiebor’s seals; Power's elephants, and many other attractions. : The Zacchinas, brothers, will be shot the entire length of the stadium from a cannon.
{INDIANA WPA JOBS
TO ESCAPE APRIL CUT
A 6900 cut in Indiana WPA roles to meet the April quota of 60,000 will be absorbed without “arbitrary layoffs,” State WPA Director John
.|K. Jennings said today.
Works Progress Administrator F. C. Harrington on Saturday ordered the national roles to be cut to 2,120,000 for April, a reduction of 205,000 from the March quota. He said
lit was in line with WPA's effort to
keep the enrollment at an average of two million for the 1939-40 fiscal year to avoid exceeding fhe limited Congressional appropriation for work relief. Col. Harrington authorized 2,348,900 jobs for March, but on March 6 only 2,323,000 were on the Agency's rolls. There now. are 66,000 workers in Indiana, Mr. Jennings said. This is 4000 less than the March quota, which was not filled, he said, because of a lack of properly sponsored projects. “At this time I do not contemplate the necessity of making any arbitrary layoffs,” Mr. Jennings said. “There are enough people leaving WPA for employment, because of the 18-month clause and ‘other reasons so I don’t think we will have to cut the rolls.” Mr. Jennings said that if it was
{found necessary to reduce the num-
of workers, the reduction would be made on the basis of need.
NEW WAY TO TEACH BLIND EXPLAINED
A new method of teaching blind children will be demonstrated tomorrow at the Indiana State Blind School. Dr. Berthold Lowenfeld, staff member of the American Foundation of the Blind, will demonstrate his “talking book” method of instruction. He is seeking to determine whether the “talking book” is preferable to Braille. The book consists of a series of phonograph discs which describe by words and imitative sounds any given subject. ‘A blind child can, learn what a saw mill, a steel mill or a factory is like by the descriptive sounds and narration from the records.
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Bill to Bar Indiana Product In War Building Before House, Senate.
Times Special ; WASHINGTON, March 18.—Rep. Eugene B. Crowe (D. Ind.), member of the House Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, today launched an attempt to kill, a bill
bloc” which would prevent the new 25 million dollar War Department Building from being constructed of Indiana limestone. Senator Sherman Minton (D. Ind.) announced that he will fight a similar measure which has been presented in the Senate. According to Rep. Crowe, John McShain, Inc., Philadelphia, already has a contract to construct the first unit of the War Department Building, awarded on a low bid of $4,377,000 for limestone construction,
Costs Less Than Marble
‘The Federal Works Agency announced that final action would be wifh-held until President Roosevelt returned to Washington from his cruise March 4” Rep. Crowe expiained. “That was done, and the President gave his approval to limestone, which will cost about $1,250,000 less than marble. Now the attempt is meing made to checkmate this through legislation. This seems to be a rank injustice, for if Congress can’come along and upset any honestly awarded Government contract, nothing but chaos can ensue from doing business with the Federal Government.”
Hobbs Backs Bill
Rep. Sam Hobbs (D. Ala.) introduced the House bill and Senator Kenneth D. McKellar (D. Tenn.) the one in the Senate. Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.), who represents the limestone district adjoining that of Rep. Crowe, is lining up G..O. P. opposition to the measure. Senator Minton predicted ifs defeat.
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20 Hurt, One Critically, in 45 Accidents Here Over Week-End.
Thousands of - motorists took to the country yesterday and jammed all highways into Indianapolis preview of spring brought the h gh-
Although 45 accidents were reported to Indianapolis police, and 20 persons were injured, only one was reported to be in a critical condition, There were no Marion County nor Indianapolis traffic deaths and only two in Indiana. ~The dead: - - WALTER HAINES, 55, of Belle Union, Putnam County, killed. early yesterday when his car collided with a truck near Danville. CLARENCE L. WALTERS, - Bedford, secretary of the a Limestone Institute and former president of the Bedford Business College, killed when his car collided “head on with another near | Oolitic. i Reed Blackburn, 49, Bloomington stone worker, ‘was charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of Mr. Walters and was held in jail in default of $1000. bond. Injured Critically Here Warren Howard, 21, R. R. 7, Box 237, was injured critically when two cars collided on S. Tibbs Ave. outside the city. Others injured in the same crash, but not so seriously, were Edward Hartman, 19, and Gene | Beasley, 18; Maywood, and Howard Huddleston, 21, R. R. 7 Box 90. All were taken to City Hospital. John Breen, 30, of 1911 Ruckle-St., was charged with drunkenness a d varancy when the car he was Phi ing struck Arthur Lowden, 33, of 15 N. Arsenal Ave, at Market and Illinois Sts. Mr. Lowden was treated at City Hospital for an injured left wrist. Police held Breen under $1000 “bond. A two-car crash at St. Clair and East Sts. yesterday resulted in slight injury to Clarence McKinnan, 33, of 401 N, Illinois St., Apt. 15. George Rice, 52, Thorntown, Ind. a passenger in a car driven by Lawrence Wetherald, 26, of 1650 Arrow Ave, received scalp lacérations yesterday in a wreck at Nevada St. and Arrow Ave. Dorothy Dwyer, 33, of 2102 N. Meridian St., Apt. 6, was cut on the nose and right cheek. The second car was driven by Walter E. Jackson, 42, of 2023 N. Illinois St., Apt. 4, police. said. Faces Three Charges Police charged Harry Huston, 26, of 4817 Rockville Road, with drunkenness, Jrunken.uriving and reckless driving after the car he was driving struck an automobile operated by Granville Wilkerson, 23, of 843 N. Tacoma Ave. on W. Washington St., 3009 block. Mr. Wilkerson and a passenger in his .car, Ethel Mahone, 18, of 843 N. Tacoma Ave., received face cuts and were taken to the City Hospital. Mr. Wilkerson was charged with failure to have a driver's license. Five-year-old Sandra Lou MecMillion, 253 N. Oxford St., was cut on the head when She ran into the rear fender of an automobile at Rural and Michigan Sts.
COLDWATER, Mich, March 18 (U. P.).—Three Indiana men were injured critically last night when their automobile crashed into a New York Central signal block at the same place where two men were
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