Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 February 1942 — Page 5
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Lagion of 5th Columnists | Also Helped Japs to ‘Quick Victory. (Continued from Page One)
guns when our men are mowed down
~ whenever the Japanese feel like it?”
Nevertheless, the Imperials fought bravely and skilfully and might have held out if even part of the often-promised allied aerial reinforcements had arrived.
Complacency Appalling The complacent refusal (of the colonial bureaucrats to recognize the obvious was appalling. On April 18, 1941, almost eight months before the attack, I wrote a dispatch that the jungle of the Malaya Peninsula, did not,’ in the opinion of military men, offer sufficient protection against an attack] on Singapore from the. rear. The military censor at Singapore appioved the dispatch only because, as
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he told me, it was so “absurd” that I would appear “ridiculous.” During the next few months it became knowp that there were paths through the thickest jungle which could be used for military
a operations—that the jungles were
not impenetrable.
Many ‘Time Servers’ Many of the colonial bureaucrats were mere “time servers.” Their idea was to get out of Malaya as soon as possible with as much as| possible. Many lacked wequalntance with native problems and native officials and were vastly ignorant of the true
situation. They were interested mainly in their comforts and pen-
sions. Many believed that the Japanese flood could have been stemmed by the natives early in December if there had been anyone to encourage them or even anyone to whom they could turn for leadership.
Said Island Would Hold
But administrative officials. displayed little interest in building up a native organization, or of encouraging natives to prepare for their own protection. At the psychological hour when the natives might have been rallied they found the local British officials had quit their posts and hurried south toward “safety.” ’ As the war moved southward down the peninsula toward Singapore, the inability of thé British command to
_|cope with the situation became more > land more apparent, but the official
spokesmen became more and more
. |insistent that Singapore Island it-
self would be strongly defended. The battle in Malaya as reported
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the impression of a bitter, hardfought defense. Actually, it was retreat planned from day to day. Each day the imperials fell back 10 miles or so “on schedule.” In the end, the British: forces which got away to Singapore Island without being heavily attacked by the Japanese, got there because they tricked the enemy into searching for a defensive line that did not exist.
JAP BOMBERS KILL FILIPINO. REFUGEES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17 (U. PJ). —Reinforced Japanese guns and air squadrons are blasting at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's thinly-held Bataan lines with rising fury and enemy fliers “substituting bombs for pamphlets,” have killed 23 women and children refugees in one attack, it was announced today. Today's communique said that “heavy enemy artillery fire” from the eastern shore of Manila Bay around Cavite naval base had again blasted at the U. S. forts dominating the entrance to Manila Bay. Enemy planes, the communique said, attacked a refugee camp in the undefended village of Cabcaben, on the Bataan east coast five miles north [of Corregidor. The bombs killed he women and five children, and wounded 13 women and nine children—45 casualties, all Filipinos. “For| several days enemy airplanes have heen dropping poorly printed leaflets on refugee camps behind our lines,” the communique said. “These pamphlets, in English, Spanish and Tagalog, professed great friendship for the Filipinos and exhorted them to co-operate with the invaders and join the greater Asia co-prosperity sphere. “Yesterday bombs were substituted for pamphlets.”
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I |ANNEXATION OF SUBURBS URGED
Consultant Also Prescribes Unified Government for ‘Growing Pains.’ (Continued from Page One)
either burn low ‘volatile coal or install stokers,” he said. “Voluntary ‘co-operation plans have been tried for years. They have never worked anywhere. . “St. Louis came to.it first. Pittsburgh is coming to it by degrees. They are ‘abating smoke successfully.” In a master plan where City and County governments are consolidated, or at least co-ordinated, there is no place for the archaic township system, he said. “Your City is passing through a phase of development which a great many cities already have experienced,” Mr. Reed continued. They haven’t solved the blight and suburban problems, either. Maybe you will. Predicts Annexation
«Ultimately, I think, you will come to the obvious and practical soluconsolidation and annexation all over the metropolitan area. But it may not be until after a long time and a great deal of trouble.” Mr. Reed said that hope of property owners in blighted areas that someday business or industry would buy in and rescue fhem from the predicament of holding once-valu-able but now worthless property. was a vain hope. “Business never occupies more than 6 to 8 per cent of the municipal area,” he said. “Indianapolis business and industry probably exceeds that percentage somewhaty but it can’t go much beyond it.
Must Revise Streets “Where your blight has progressed far, you must remodel—revise your street plan, remodel buildings and homes—make blighted areas desirable again. It can be done and it’s the only way to save valuation.” The reclamation of blighted property must be accompanied by intel ligent zoning of developments in the suburbs, the consultant warned, Otherwise, your suburbs may become only the blighted areas of the future, he said.
Extends Services “The extension and improvement of municipal services — sewers, streets, recreation, police and fire protection—all these things must be done by a unified governmental setup. “There is a good deal of opinion
better than the Mayor-Council form of City government. That may be. I do think that a progressive Mayor-
and will do it if the citizens demand it.”
‘COME ON DOWN HERE,’ MIAMI BEACH URGES
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Feb. 17 (U. P.) ~The city of Miami Beach today urged families in Akron, O.,
Mobile, Ala, and Pontiac, Mich., to rent their homes to defense workers and to come here and live on the income, City officials said they intended %0 launch an extensive radio and newspaper advertising campaign in
shortages of houses for defense workers.
give families in these cities an op-
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AUDUBON SCHOOL 38
By JOHN L. BOWEN Times Staff Writer BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Feb. 17.— Jurors hearing evidence in the first degree murder trial of Mrs. Caroline G. Payne, opening here Thursday in Monroe Circuit Court, will be asked by her attorneys to distinguish between a “diseased mind” and a “will overborne by ungoverned passion.” Defense counsel contends that there is a legally important differance. It is the bastion from which they will fire their rhetorical broadsides in an effort to free Mrs. Payne from charges that she killed her one-time fiance, Charles O. Mattingly, Indianapolis, attorney-ex-aminer for the Indiana Public Seryice Commission.
Shot While at Supper
Mattingly was fatally wounded shortly before 10 p. m. on the night of July 5, 1940, by five .380 caliber bullets fired through the kitchen window at a Bloomington home
- {where he and his wife were taking
dutch supper with friends. The State accuses Mrs. Payne, a power in Bloomington political and business circles, of firing the five shots. Youthful prosecutor Sylvan Tackitt, who announced today that he will demand life imprisonment for Mrs. Payne, will charge that the shooting grew out of her jealousy over Mattingly’s marriage to Lurayne Oberholtzer, his secretary. This marriage occurred on May 5, 1940, months after Mattingly and Mrs. Payne had broken a romantic relationship of many years.
Claims Mind Unsound
On Feb. 7, defense attorneys Q. Austin East and J. Frank Regester filed a special plea on Mrs. Payne's behalf. Consisting of only 37 words, it reads: “The defendant herein for special plea herein, says that at the time of the alleged commission of the alleged offense as charged against her in the indictment in this cause, she was a person of unsound mind.” Yesterday, Mrs. Payne underwent 21 minutes of examination by two court-appointed alienists. Dr. Albert L. Crane, proprietor of Clearview, private sanitorium near Evansville, spent ten minutes with Mrs. Payne testing her sanity for the prosecution. Dr. Russell LaBier of Terre Haute, defense psychiatrist, spent eleven minutes in Mrs. Payne’s cell. Both doctors refused to comment on their findings. Mrs. Payne granted this writer a brief interview after the alienists’ departure.
Gracious in Interview
Pointedly but with inherent graciousness, she turned aside questions regarding the coming trial but confessed to a “little nervousness.” “I'm sure,” she said, “that you would be, too, if you were in my 'shoes.” A grateful smile lighted Mrs. Payne’s face when she was told that “you look charming despite the wear and tear.” It was a smile marred by a single imperfection, the absence of three of Mrs. Payne’s upper left teeth. The missing teeth, as well as a
Willpower Was: Impaired, Mrs. Payne to Tell Jury
Mr. Mattingly suffered on Jan. 29,
Mrs. Caroline Payne
livid two-inch scar oftentimes discernible in her forehead, are the result of an auto accident she and
1937. This accident, defense counsel says, was the first event in a series that ultimately led to the “deliberate jilting” of Mrs. Payne by Mr. Mattingly.
Reach Into Old Rulings
Worry over her accident injuries and her subsequently shattered romance produced a condition of unsound mind which relieves Mrs. Payne of responsibility for “the alleged commission of the alleged offense” on the night of July 5, her attorneys maintain, To buttress their pleading, Mr. East and Mr. Regester have reached into Indiana Statutes and Indiana Supreme Court rulings as far back as 1911, To counteract a prosecution contention that Mrs. Payne could distinguish between right and wrong, defense will submit a Supreme Court ruling in the case of Plake vs. State (Page 433) 121 Indiana Reports, 1911, In this case, the court said: “A person may have sufficient mental capacity to know right from wrong and be able to comprehend the nature and consequence of his act, yet be not criminally responsible for his act; for if the will power is so impaired that he cannot resist an impulse to commit a crime, he is not of sound mind.
Claim Mind Diseased
“If the lack of will power is the result of a diseased state of mind, there is mental unsoundness within the meaning of the law; but if the will is simply overborne by ungoverned - passion, thers may . be. criminal responsibility.” Says, the «defense: Mrs, Payne is mentally unsound because of a diseased mind brought about by physical and emotional anguish. Says the prosecution: Mrs. Pdyne’s will was “simply overborne by ungoverned passion.”
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Halts Enforcement Today
The State Barber Board's, regulations, fixing minimum prices .for haircuts and shaves at 50 cents and 25 cents respectively was to have gone into effect in Marion County yesterday. The Board is empowered to fix minimum prices and shop hours under 1939 and 1941 laws. The injunction suit, similar to actions now pending in 14 other counties of Indiana, charged that the prices and hours regulations are “unreasonable and detrimental” to the business of the 20 plaintiffs.
Clay Order Permanent
A permanent injunction against enforcement of the regulations in Vigo County was issued recently in Clay Circuit Court. Barbers who brought the suit here included Frank M. Stiers, Henry A. Hollingsworth, Emil H. Mertz, Earl C. DeFord, Max A. DeFord, Lon B. Godby, Ben Cosand, Floyd E. Trees, Harold M. Ridge, Aaron L. Newby, Paul D, Price, William O. Rushton, Pat C. Andrews, Howard E. Weid, Danijel C. Pierson, William K. Pierson, Von Arnot, William B. Russell, | Leo L. Landers and Roy Kazee.
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Members of Brightwood Chapter, Daughters of America, will present a flag to Audubon School 38, 2050 Winter Ave., at 1:45 p. m. tomorrow, an hour earlier than previously had been arranged. Mrs. Elva McVey, council mem-= ber and past state councillor of the D. of A,, will present the flag, which will be accepted by Mrs. H. T. Kern, school principal. A program by the P.-T. A. will follow. Mrs. Jessie Bernlohr is chairman of arrangements.
JUROR IS CITED ON CONTEMPT CHARGE
The first case in many years in which a juror was cited for contempt of court for failing to appear was. heard in Municipal Court 2 today. The juror, Victor Osborne, 1125 8. Illinois St., allegedly left the city during the hearing of a lawsuit in ‘Municipal Court 2 more than a week ago, causing a mistrial. The juror, if convicted, would be subject to a jail sentence or fine.
GARFIELD GOP CLUB TO GIVE CARD PARTY
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