Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1942 — Page 1
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stimony That Mrs.. Payne cA med Pleased” at Death ? Stricken Out.
“Pe JouN L. BOWEN NF Times Staff Writer
fie ~ prosecution, fighting ‘ Caro- * Pdyne’s’ defense of teminsanity on the night S JO Mattingly was slain, a statement into testimony
eased” when informed that Mr.
- Author ‘of -the statement, Tater], stricken - from the record by order of Special Judge Charles B. Staft, was } Ployd F. Cook, Monroe county puting attorney at the, time slaying. ° Father a Witness Nir, ‘Mattingly, attorney-examiner
for | the Indiana public service com- |, . mission, was shot to death the night |: of
5; 1041° by five bullets fired
through the window of a kitchen at
the home where he and his Hite :
ore having supper. : 4 Ar , Payne, Mattingly’s owiete
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m ; commission secre- * Lurayne “Oberholtzer Witt- : ‘was one of five persons to § Doear a morning as the prosoe tion the close of its wit- § list. | They included Charles
R. Obefhaltzer,” Mrs. Matt Iather; . Mattingly ‘is to tal Latent a oe ciate Ton wines before he close of wane
An Unplessunt Meeting | s'was at the prosecution cdun= sel table this morning without (her twp months’ old daughter, Char1a , who nestled in her lap through p's session. driving {snowstorm made it inble ‘to bring the child to court is morning, Mrs. Mattingly said. _ declare however, that Charnr would be at the prosecution ble this afternoon. “Mrs. ‘Mattingly listened with in tnterest to the testimony of
: One. of the unofficial courtroom visitors at today’s session of the i of Caroline G. Payne in Bloomington was to be two-month-old
(above), widow of Charles O. Mattingly. Charlayne is shown with ‘her mothe) at yesterday's session,
y's | foriiia, damaging vegetable crops in
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Mri. Lurayne Oberholizer Mat-
| Stockyard Cow i Lg ee Be Gefs.a $700 Lift I" GOST Fay Turner $1006 | help) ‘another man at the Union stockyards to load a cow into a truck. The cow was Eo) reluctant that Mr. Turner dashed out of his office in the Union ‘Stockyards’ Exchange building, and forgot about his |billford, containing 14 bills of $50' denomination, on his desk. ....Wrhile the. cow was. ‘being per‘suaed - fo get onto the. truck, a - thief slipped into Mr. ‘Turner’ s office and stole the $700.
Mr. Turner lives ‘at Mp : Ww. 15th sh. \
OFFIGIAL NEWS our; U. S. HAD D COLD WAVE
“0 Below in: N in Northwest;
_ California Fruit: Hurt. : LOCAL FEMPERATURES
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you've been shivering the last few days, you haven't been alone. The ban on weathér news has been lifted - sufficiently ‘for the wegther bureau to let it be known that the cold wave: has been general over most of the country. There was frost throughout Cali-
the Imperial valley “and freezing sonfe “citrus fruit in :the Los
Tlemperatur as low as 40 degrees below. zero were recorded in the northwest.
TINY: MAR® GUIDES YANKS TO E. INDIES
BATAVIA, Java, Feb. 26 (U. P.).
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PRISONER SAYS AID OF LAWYER WAS SOLICITED
Face Bar Association.
A’ veteran , pqliceman was .suspended and a former deputy prosecutor may face ‘charges before the
result of alleged soliciting of lawyer’s services in the city jail. The case was brought to the attention of Judge John IL. Niblack in municipal court when a man whom he had sentenced for drunken driving said, in a formal affidavit, that one of the: court’s bailiff’s— Charles O’Donnell—-had approached him in the city jail and secured for him the services of the lawyer.
_ Chief ‘Investigates
Judge Niblack gave copies of the affidavit to Chief Morrissey and to the bar association. Chief Morrissey said he had suspended O'Donnel! and was: making an investigation. In his statement, Ernest Fishburn, 36th. st. and Michaelfer road, said: that: the night: of Feb: 7 he was arrested on charges of drunkenness and ‘drunken driving. He said he was kept in: jail’ until aver the "week-end and on‘ Monday morning O'Donnell, "in . wniform, Sate Bh RE pat his offense was an any, money. i Following his relpy that he had a] “little. money,” Fishburn said the officer. told him:what-he needed was INGU an. attorney and that he would call one for him during his lunch hour. He said the officer ‘wirhed him not to say anything “about this to ‘anyone.” ‘ Gave Lawyer $25, He. Says
Fishburn’ said that in court. that afternoon O'Donnell nodded both to Fishburn and to the lawyer who was sitting “in the front row.” He said the lawyer* asked *for* a, postponement of the case and they went to. get the defendant’s belongings, which included $72 in cash. He said he gave the lawyer $25 and was told to come up to his office a few days later. . . Fishburn said he kept the appointment and at that time the lawyer said he would have to. have $75 more in order to “see some witnesses.” When Fishburn said the only witnesses were the man he had struck, with whom he had settled, and the officers, the lawyer was quoted ad saying the “officers are the ones I'm talking about.”
First - Time, - O'Donnell Says.
The day’ of the. trial, Fishburn said, the lawyer approached but was told he “didn’t have any more money” and the lawyer left. Fishburn said he thought it was a “crooked deal” when the lawyer talked of “seeing the officers.” The defendant was fined $40 and costs and sentenced to two days in jail on the dfunken driving charge and was fined $1 .and' costs for drunkenness. Judge Niblack, when he took the a: few
against - soliciting. O'Donnell told him. this “was the first time?” he had done it.
SUB SIGHTER in
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U, P.). —Donald Francis Masen, the navy petty officer who reported cryptically after ‘an encounter with a Uboat ‘that he had “sighted sub, sank same,” has been advanced ‘in rating to aviation chief machinists mate, the navy announced today. Mason, whose home is in Rochester, also was commended for
Ex- Deputy Prosecutor May|
Indianapolis ‘Bar Association as the|.
"THURSDAY 3 FEBRUARY 26, 1942:
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fo reach the United States after the recent serial strafing.
‘THIRD DEGREE PROBE FINISHED
Br eA
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‘Barracks and Officers n.3 Counties.
gy EARL, RICHERT A An’ ifvestigation, - ordered by Gavernor ; .Schricker, ‘of : alleged “third degree” practices of a number of law enforcement: officers in Western Indiana is nearly finished, it was learned today. Walter Lewis, aeputy ' attorney general, and Ralpn Huffman, an investigator in the attorney general’s office, who have been working ‘on the. case for nearly 4'nionth are typing a report -of - their -findings now for ‘submission .to - Attorney General George: Beamer: Centers at Lafayette Post The investigation reportedly centers about the activities of a, few
state police officers at the Lafayette post, and. certain members of
|sheriffs and city _ police forces in
Montgomery, Tippecande and- Cass counties.» « Mr. Beanier declined to comment on the’ case ‘today but said that if the evidence obtained by the two men bore out’ complaints of “third degree” practices, “proper action will; be taken.” State House sources believed that the fact that the two investigators had, spent nearly a month on the investigation showed that’ they. had found “some fire in all the smoke.”
-Ordered After Complaints
+ The. investigation - was’ ordered: by the governor: after he had received a’number ‘of complaints concerning treatment of Paul Hitch,. 39-year-old laborer, who was convicted at Crawfordsville last’ December of the fatal shooting of Scott Gerald (Bunny) Carter. "At Hitch’s 12-day trial, eight wit-
marks of physical violence after he had signed a confession to the slaying reportedly at the West Lafayette state police barracks. “ On the other hand state police
officers testified at ‘the trial that|
Minn, meritorious conduct in action.
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I's "Devastating, This Tokyo ‘News’
“SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.. | tr ote bt | I ==or-fiad y néard?
fed “listening post here heard 4 ion radio, in its usual round-about manner, repore 3 today ‘in “a dispatch from.
“rhe A. S.«war, départment on officially - announced hi Santa Barbara was devastated by enemy bombardment, admitting a submarine suddenly appeared on the waters at ‘a point 20 miles west of Santa: Barbara and, bombarded military , establishments in the ‘Deighborhood of Elwéod.| “Fhe U.. 8. war. department, however, was reticent about the “damage probably for fear of ‘the impact on tHe mind of the American public.” ' ‘The fact’ the U., s: war. darts ment said* damage approximated $500 apparenily means. little. to Tokyo radio. It just oozes ciphers.
6 SOLDIERS DIE AS TRAIN CRASHES BUS
26 Others Hurt on‘Way fo Oklahoma Base.
: > i» ENID, Okla., Feb: 26 (U. P.)= Six enlisted army men were killed early today and 26: were injured: when the bus.on which they were riding. was struck by a Rock: Island train near heré during a blinding| storm. Of the 26 injured, 13 were. hospitalized. Two men were not expected to live, authorities. said, . Capt. C..W, Hammond, public Jo lations officer for the army corps flying school here, said - the men were returning: to. the base when the accident occurred. = bus,. Wendell|
The driver of Thomas Smith, a ¢ , also was injured..
tlds ls War News Inside Economics of War . . Page 3] Fighting Details ........ 6 ‘War ‘Moves’ Today . AXE ERATE 10 UU. S. Air Successes . S000 PNP» 2%
15 Planes; ‘Probably Operated by Evemy Agents,’ Caused L. A Blackout, Stimson Says
mar nnd
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Acme Telephoto This phvio radioed from Rangoon, Burma, where British are applying the torch to destroy all tary supplies in the face of advancing Japanese- columns, shows. a térror-stricken native clutching: his baby after the child’s mother had met death during an. enemy alr’ raid, The yisture is one of the’ rst
IWAVELL URGED
BATAAN RESCUE
{Maohrtir Rejected: Offer
of Expedition to Save . Him; Stimson Says. NW ASHINGION, Feb. 26" . PD.
: —Seoretiry of ‘War Henry Li Stim-
son -disclosed today that British Gen. Sir. Archibald P.- Wavell, suof ‘allied forces in the southwest Pacific, offered to speed to the aid of Gen. Douglas MacArthur : at - the outset. of’ ‘the Bataan peninsula campaign. Gen. Wavell cabled Gen. MacArthur as soon ,as the American forces retired to Bataan. He offered personally to rush at. the head of a- rescue: force, Mr. Stimson said. Gen. MacArthur rejected the offer because -he felt: that Gen. Wavell’s life : was “too precious” :to jeopardize, Mr. Stimson told a press conference. At: the same time, Mr.” Stimson revealed that Gen. Wavell suffered a broken rib ‘as’ he wag leaving Singapore by plane during the. final British stand against the Japanese there, He said that Gen. Wavell landed at Singapore, ; during. its last 36 hours of existence under British rule,- amid a hail of artillery fire. He ‘said that the acéident occurred when the allied commander's plane was taking off from the field, unif” fire ‘which apparently damaged .. The: secretary paid tribute -to-the “magnificent fight” being waged by united rations forces in the defense of Java, and said’ they are’ inflicting “appalling loss” of life on the Japanese. ? :
2 CLAIMS F. D. R. JR. “ACCORDED FAVORS
| Treated as. Others in Navy,
3 Congressmen Reply.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). Rep. William T. Pheiffer (R. 'N. Y) charged ‘in the: house today that Lieut. Franklin .D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the President, is being “avared treatment”
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United Press
ing new blows at the axis in the Mediterranean today but
on the ‘Japanese in addition
from Java.
i ,000-ton i cruiser heavily damaged by a British wegian coast while R. A. F.
three big Nazi warships that out of action for an indefinite
and captured enemy positions Fighting continues.
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Mandalay.
ican flying fortresses were reported
On the War Fronts
LONDON: British report Prinze Fugen torpedoed, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in. German drydocks, badly damaged; admit unprecedented ‘Nazi U-boat campaign ‘spreads sea war ‘around world; three Italian supply boats sunk in Mediterranean; - place convoy losses at one half of one per cent; unusual - activity rumored along English channel coast; R. A. attacks Kiel, - |
JAVA: U. 8. submarines torpedo four Japanese ships, two
warship; ‘Dutch warships attack Jap supply depot: in - southeast ‘Sumatra; communications with - Australia restored; U. 8S. ‘flying
convoy.
n| BURMA: ‘Rangoon devastated » » by
Seotelind/earihs Siw and AypamG
including, 2 transports, probably torpedo Jap
fortresses attack new Balt invasion :
CHUNGKING: Chinese. expect Japs| to attack Siberia within twoip, cu, months. Delaying offensive on}
5 JAP
INSUB ATTACKS
MacArthur's Men Drive Foe Back From. Advanced Lines; Rangoon Ablaze as . British Act to Defend Mandalay.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS
Foreign Editor
American and British armed forces struck punishe
the Pacific, ‘the Atlantic and Japanese invaders hammered
forward in their offensives against Burma and Java. Land, sea and air fighters of the United States took a leading role in new attacks that inflicted what Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson described as “appalling loss” of life
to the sinking or damaging
of seven U-boats in the ‘Atlantic. Dispatches: from the main. fighting fronts showed:
American flying fortresses’ battered a newly-arrived Japanese invasion ‘fleet, including cruisers and destioy= ers, off the southeast coast of enemy-held Bali, ohly a mile U. 8. submarines torpedoed two endmy transe ports, an auxiliary ship, a freighter, and probably : A warship in two days of attack on the inyaders.
A V. Alexander, first lord of admiralty, disclosed that
of the Prinz Eugen class was’ gubmarine attack off the Nore reports said the battleships
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had been knécked out for some time and were laid up at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. ‘Three Italian convoy ships: were sunk in the Mediterranean. The war af ses, mot spread entirely around the world, took a more encouraging .turn in one respect when Mr. Alexander told the British house of commons that
escaped from Brest would & period,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces on the Bataan pening sula in a surprise attack drove back Japanese forces in an advance of several miles, ;
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American ‘and British planes downed 21 Japanese air craft but the enemy offensive pounded through the Sittang river front in a drive against burning Rangoon as the British swuiig ardund to form a east-west line defending
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American Flying Fortresses Attack Java Invasion Ships.
By HAROLD GUARD United Press Staff Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Java, Feb. 25 (Via Telephone) .—Amer«
reliably to have attacked strongly &
force Off Bali today, and an official enemy invasion vessels i 8. tW0-day, under-waier offensive.
Official information regarding he new serial attack off the ‘southeast. coast of Bali was withheld, but B was understood that ‘the American bombers were on patrol duty when they sighted the enemy ships, ine cluding cruisers and destroyers, i (This indicated that the Japanese were reinforcing or attempting fo: reinforce their troops, estimated at
.|around 3000 men, on Bali, in prep.
aration for a direct assault across the mile-wide Bali strait agaist’
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