Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1941 — Page 18

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‘THE DUCHESS’ GETS REPRIEVE

“Governor Grants 30-Day Stay at Request of ~ Presiding Judge.

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal, June 20 (U. P.).—AR eleventh hour reprieve today saved Mrs. Juanita (the Duchess) Spinelli, 51, from the gas chamber. She had been sched- - uled to die this morning for the murder of Robert Sherrard, 19, the youngest member of her gang.: Governor Culbert Olson telephoned: Warden Clinton Duffy late last night that Superior Judge Ray Coughlin, who tried her, had requested a stay, of execution. . The Governor ordered her execution postpuned 30 days. ‘is When Mrs. Spinelli, who had resigned herself to death, heard the news, tears came to her eyes, and she fell on her knees and prayed. “Thank God, he has listened to my prayers,” she cried. “I hope he will find & way to get the truth. Maybe Mike (Mike Simeone, her common-law husband convicted with her) will tell the truth now.”

Clergymen Ask Reprieve

Governor Olson said he had also been requested by the foreman eof the jury that found her guilty and by the Men's League of Mercy of the United: States, with an office in Los Angeles, to grant her a reprieve. The league's petition was signed by a number of clergymen. : Had Mrs. Spinelli died today, she would have been the first woman legally executed in California. Prison officials said she would have been the first woman in the United States executed by gas. Governor Olson said Mrs. Spinelli would be returned to the State Prison for Women at Tehachapi, “and he would discuss the case with those. who asked that she be reprieved. : Mrs. Spinelli, weeping hysterically, was brought to San Quentin death row from Tehachapi yesterday. She refused to see reporters, “because I have been persecuted enough,” and issued this statement: “I do not want to talk to anyone. I don’t see where any statement from me will do any good now. The only thing I did was to state that I poured the whisky (with which Sherrard was drugged). I did this to save my daughter. I was the victim of a slave raider, Mike Simeone. “I have made my peace with God. The only reason I would want to live is for my family and to wipe out the stain against me.”

Came From Detroit

Governor Olson also granted a 30-day stay in the execfjtions of Simeone, 32, and Gordon Hawkins, 21, who were convicted with her. They were to have died June 27.

Her hame is Rosemary LaPlanche and she won a beauty contest in California without even trying.

E. J. BENNETT HEADS

A fourth member of the gang, Albest Ives, also was convicted but wa scommitted to a state asylum. It was chiefly on his testimony that the four were found guilty of murder. : The state charged that Mrs. Spinelli came here from Detroit and organized the gang, which killed Leland Cash,” who resisted when they held up his San Francisco barbecue stand. Sherrard “talked too much,” and they feared he “would inform on them. : Mrs. Spinelli put “knockout” drops in Sherrard’s drink, it was charged, ‘and the ‘gang sank him in the Sacramento River. Ives telephoned state police and they were arrested. 5 The daughter Mrs. Spinelli wanted to save” is Lorraine, 19, who is in

PARK SCHOOL BOARD

Members of the board of trustees of Park School Foundation have selected Edward J. Bennett to head their group next year. Mr. Bennett, who is president of the Indianapolis Stove Co., succeeds William C. Griffith.. f Other officers chosen at the meeting Wednesday at Woodstock Club are Otto N. Frenzel, vice president, succeeding ' Eugene C. Miller; Harold B. West, re-elected secretary, and William J. McWilliams, re-elected treasurer.

HOOSIER BOY, 10, KILLED

ELKHART, Ind., June 20 (U. P.). —Norman Schooley, 10, was killed last night when he was struck by a car driven by Merill Pletcher, Elk-

the San Diego Salvation Army . Home awaiting the birth of a child.

hart, on a county road north of here.

TALMADGE GUNS

‘gether and carry on

FOR YANKEES

Threatens to Lop Dean (lowa-Born) Off U. of Georgia Roll.

ATLANTA, Ga., June 20 (U. P.). —Governor Eugene Talmadge was. reported ready today to oust Iowaporn Walter D. Cocking as dean of the University of Georgia school of education as the climax to a row involving “foreign born” (i. e. north of the Mason-Dixon Line) educators.. : § he controversy, resulting from the State Board of Regents reelecting Dr. Cocking as dean by a vote of 8 'to 7 despite Governor Talmadge's opposition, - cén ters around the question as to whether Dr. Cocking advocated “racial equality” in schools. ; aly “Negroes ain't gonna attend the University of Georgia and fark my word ‘ain’t’,” Governor Talmadge said yesterday, admitting that he was riled and showing all the attributes of the Talmadge of five years ago, famed throughout Georgia as the “wild man from Sugar Creek.” “Somebody twisted my tail” was Governor Talmadge’s explanation for his being on the warpath against the Board of Regents and Dean Cocking. The Governor indicated that he would probably ‘use his budgetary authority to drop the noted educator from the state payroll and that other “foreign-born” educators might lose out too.

Believes History Teacher

Charges against Dr. Cocking were that in 1939 he had proposed to establish a school for both white and Negro students “to be taught largely by professors of the University of Georgia education department and where they would practice together and study educational, social, economic, financial and health problems.” The charges were brought by Governor Talmadge on the affidavit of Mrs. Sylla Hamilton, a history teacher at the University of Georgia. “Mrs. Hamilton is a high-toned, intelligent, Christian lady .whose word I believe,” Governor Talmadge said, - “Her father was a colonel in the Confederate Army, whereas Cocking is a native of Iowa where the racial question is not the same as it is in Georgia. “In .Jowa Negro children attend school with the white children. Negro and white students attend the colleges together there in the same classrooms, and attend all the functions—social and athletic—toeir studies together as equal. “This is the environment that Dr. Cocking was raised in.”

‘Enough Georgians’

“There are too many professors from without the state, raised under different environments from - the Georgia people,” said Governor Talmadge. : “We have enough competent, educated, Christian young teachers inf Georgia without jobs, who cannot get places in colleges in other states, to fill our needs. In approving the budgets for the state university system, I will take this into consideration.” > At the hearing before the Board of Regents, Dr. Cocking denied he ever advocated racial equality or proposed a school such as charged by the Governor. ; At the same time numerous educational « leaders throughout the country came to his aid, sending messages of support. Dr. Cocking formerly was state superintendent).

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» ° : ® Tarkington Ship . i 1 ; Fito # Aid to 'Bundles KENNEBUNKPORT, Me, June 20.—Booth Tarkington has opened his schooner. Regina, to the public this summer and the proceeds of the entrance fees- will go to Bundles for Britain. : The schooner, on which Mr. Tarkington' does some of his writing, -is moored here and a committee of Kennebunkport hostesses will take charge of the project which will open July 1 and be open daily except Sundays from 9:30 a. m. to 1 p. m.

SMITH ' LIBRARIAN AT INDIANA LAW. SCHOOL

Lewis Lutz Smith has been ap-

pointed student librarian of the Indiana Law School of Indianapolis. His dyties will be the supervision, cataloging and ‘instruction in the use of 8500 volumes of law books.

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Decatur (Ind) High School and took his pre=law work at Indiana University. There he was a member of Delta Upsilon.

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SCHEDULE NYA SCHOOL COURSE

Butler Sponsors Week-Long Series in Out-of-School Activities.

A special National Youth Ad-| ministration course of instruction designed to promote a co-operative program of education and work through schools will be sponsored by the Butler University College of

Education next week.

ministrator.

John A. Mueller; director of special youth services of Indianapolis public ‘schools, will have charge of the course and will be assisted by Robert 8. Richey, State NYA ad-

Monday's session will be devoted to a general study of the NYA activities nationally. Supervision and

Tomlinson Hall has been selected as the site for the second Marion County registration for the draft to be held July 1. All Marion County: youths who have ‘become 21 years old since last Oct. 16 are required to register as well as any men in the 21-35 age ‘imit who have been discharged from the Army since last October. Thirty registration tables will be set up in Tomlinson Hall and clerks will be on duty from 7 a. m, to 9 p. m. to register the youths. “It is not necessary for the registrants to go to tables manned by clerks of their local boards,” Vernon M. Scott, a member of the committee in charge of the registration, said. “The registration cards will be sorted and sent to the proper local boards following the registration.” "For the most part, clerks of the various local boards will handle

will be accepted. Anyone desiring, to volunteer to work as a registrar

registration but volunteer ‘workers.

guidance subjects will be distussed Tuesday and placement and super-

vision of young people on out-of-school programs will ‘be discussed

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should contact officials. of a local board, Mr. Scott said.

Over 3500 Marion County youths

are expected to. register on July 1,

2d Draft Registration Set = “July 1 in Tomlinson Hall

and between 21,000 and 25,000 are expected to register throughout the state. More than 414,000 registered in October. Registration throughout the state is being left up to each local board. It was decided to hold the Marion County registration in a centrally located place to avoid confusion. No official word has been received from Washington as to how the new registrants will: be placed in She jorder number list, draft officials said. Plans’for the coming registration were, worked out at a meeting of the 15 local board chairmen and Selective Service officials at the National Guard Armory last night. ~The group was entertained at a dinner at the U. S. Naval ‘Armory given by the Indianapolis Personnel Association. hae

SLAYER, 76, WAITS DEATH CANON CITY, Colo., June 20 (U. P.).—James (Mancos Jim) Stephens, 76, died in the State Prison gas chamber ‘ tonight for murdering a town marshal. He will be the old-

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KNIGHTS OF PYTHUAS BACK DEFENSE PLAN J

The Knights of Pythias, Indiana department, went “all-out” in its support of “the Government in its defense plans before adjourning the annual two-day convention yes= terday. Meeting in the K. of P. building, the organization set the installation date for the new officers for June 30 here at the K. of P. Building. Ine dianapolis. was chosen as the cone vention city. for next year’s sessions June 17 and 18. ; : The resolution supporting. the Government's stand on national defense said in part: “We will unani= mously support the policies of the responsible officets of our Govern» ment which in their. judgment are necessary to maintain our rights as a free nation and the rights of our neighbors of this Western Hemisphere.” The "resolution is being sent to President Roosevelt, Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Rep~ resentatives. : Retiring grand chancellor of the group, Fred Ratliff of Marion, pre-

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