Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1942 — Page 2

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Defendan in Murder Tria

Describ d as Improving

| Health. (Contin from Page One) ense co 1 to assemble their tutory 2 ments over the weekd. The issue is the first that will

rom Mrs. Pdyne’s home on July 10, 939. He mae

3 Shots Fired

ith firing -Colt | au matic.

of July 5 she was of

forts in

bits, Thess include an automatic raced to Mrs. Payne's home and a cast of a foot-print found dow through which 1y killer fired.

the Bloomington Telenoon newspaper, testi- ] 8. They were: Mrs. gh, Harley Hendricks,

y of these employees ed in the routine repach made under direct examination | by defense attorneys Q. Austin t and J. Frank Re-

gester:

“Mrs. Payne was a kind and efficient worker] before the auto accident and tingly’s disappearance; she was a n, morose and nervous woman 2 Each witness testified that he thought Mrs, Payne was of unsound mind on the night of the crime.

Payne's forehead the night of the

e next important de‘scheduled fo testify

accident, is

is Dr. C. H. Mar-

chant, now a leutenant in the

U. 8. Army's Medical Corps at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Defense (ounsel,

focusing Mrs.

| Payne's ty defense about the ‘scar, announ today that Dr. /| Marchant been given leave by

the army testify and will arrive

‘here Monday.

| Left After Auto Crash

Marchant’s be that of Dr. J. W. Bloomington, who atPayne in the recupera-

d Mattingly and her vid Crutchfield, were

Seven defense witnesses, many of them Mrs. Payne's former associ-

| ates at the Telephone, took the ‘stand yesterday as the defendant's

counsel n of circ

ped for the jury a chain ces which they claim Mrs. Payne from a contented woman to a eepless, irritdble woman

| subject to nightmares.”

lisher on Stand

yute, prominent Bloomingleader and owner of ne; Mrs. Leona Duncan, Crutchfield, Herbert

wite of a elephone employee. ute testified that Mrs. served him as a bril-

early | ection with his paper. “She kind, thoughtful and . gracious tb everyone,” he said. “She was a py, contented person.”

ed His Career

Bradfute acknowledged that he 8 several years ago of a

his own law office in the ise.

| 2 “police board. The appene was made.

im of a friend’s home, y wounded by five bul-

, thre state; charges Mrs. Payne these bullets from a

She denies oing so andl her defense is that

The state has concentrated its vincing the jury that

‘to Dr, Dalton, six

between Mrs. Payne and

Blaine W. Iiradfute, Bloomington Telephone piblisher, is shown on the stand in Monroe county circuit court where he testified yesterday as the first defense witness for Mrs. Caroline G. Payne. He told" of the change which occurred in Mrs, Payne’s character after an automobile accident in 1939. ‘

shooting, Mr. Bradfute said: “It is my apinion that she was of unsound mind at that time and had been for many months previous.” In & short c¢ross-examination conducted by Prosecutor Sylvan Tackitt, Mr. Bradfute was asked to identify a letler he had written to Mrs. Payne a} the Telephope office while he was absent from the city. “I will ask you,” Tackitt said to Mr. Bradfute, “if this letter does ;|not contain the sentence, ‘I am happy in knowing that I have left my office in such capable hands.’” Mr. Bradfule said, “it does.” Mrs. Duncan and Mr. Crutchfield declared that they had made hundreds of such trips, often parking at the state house in Indianapolis “just | so Mrs. Payne could watch Doc come oul; of his office.” After many of these trips, Mrs. Duncan said, Mrs. Payne would roll and toss in her bed in obvious nightmares, crying out, “Doc! Doc!” Wept on Stone Bench Offen, Mrs. Duncan added, Mrs. Payne would get up out of bed at night, slip into. the backyard and throw hersell upon a stone bench, “weeping there until dawn.” Under defense examination, Mrs. Duncan declared that the automobile accident had left Mrs. Payne with a “hurting at the back of her neck,” “That actually was an injury to the base of the brain that made Mrs. Payne do peculiar things, wasn’t it?” Mr. Regester asked the witness. “Well, I guess 80,” Mrs. Duncan replied. “I know that it hurt Mrs. Payne so badly that she couldn't raise her arms sometime and I had to help her dress.” Mrs. Durican said that Mrs. Payne sometimes spent as much as $100 a month in telephone calls trying to contact Mattingly at Indiaapolis.

U.S. ‘FLYING TIGERS’ DOWN 88 PLANES

AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP HEADQUARTERS, China, Feb, 28 (U. P.) —American fliers today were credited with destroying approximately 88 Japanese planes in 48 hours of fighting over Burma. The American fliers, aiding the R. A. F. over Burma, were understood to have driven off repeated Japanese aitacks on Rangoon and escorted British bombers smashing at Japanes¢ bases. The most intense fighting was on Wednesday and Thursday, with later reporis fragmentary. The American “flying tigers” met .|12 Japanese bombers and 25 pursui planes over Rangoon on Thursjday and shot down nine and prob’lably four more,

TRAVELER TO SPEAK TO N. SIDE REALTORS

Chester R. Young, world traveler and photographer, will address a meeting of the North Side Realtors at noon Monday in the Canary Cottage. His subject will be “Europe Today.” Mr, Young also will show natural color motion pictures of scenes in

Mr. Ma ly, who had graduated European countries taken before, university law school during and after their igvasion. _ and set Joseph J. Argus is. chairman of the

realtors.

GARRETT MAN DIES IN FIRE GARRETT, Feb. 28 (U. P.’—Floyd W. Cast was, asphyxiated in the

.|living’ roorn of his home here yes-

terday by smoke from a fire which burned up Patough the floor, He wes 54,

NORTH FRANCE

British Air-Borne Invasion Gives Germany Hint of What Is to Come.

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planes attacked the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases, where the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are undergoing repairs, and bombed other objectives in north‘west Germany. Three bombers were

It was the second use in the war by Great Britain of parachute troops. Long ago, a handful of men were dropped by plane over southern Italy to destroy communications in a key area. But above all it was the first fullscale raid on the coast from which, military experts hold, Britain must sometime strike direct at Germany.

. Berlin Belittles Raid

As Britons! heard of ‘this first British challenge to the German army in France since France's collapse, Sir Archibald Sinclair, air minister, said in a speech:

“We must take Germany by the

of her. We must start not in 1944. not in 1943 but in 1942.”

The Germans recognized the raid in an official Nazi news agency dispatch, broadcast by Berlin and recorded here:

“On the northern French coast a number of British ‘ parachutists landed last night. After they had surprised a weak coastal post they retreated back over the channel two hours later in face of the pressure of German counter attacks.”

Military experts regarded it as noteworthy that the British communique revealed that the Germans were now using radio location of approaching airplanes. This process had been one ol Great Britain’s most jealously guarded secrets of the war for many

ing back barbaric German mass air raids. The fact that radio location was being used was firs) made public last June, at the time that the Germans, attacking Russia and feeling their plane losses also, stopped their raids.

, It had been long known that Britain was building up a powerful parachute army, equipped with every modern weapon.

All the men in the corps, and in the Commandos, are rigorously tested. They are volunteers from every branch of the fighting services, even the navy.

Fight With Any Weapon

A considerable number of them are tough Welsh miners. There are infantrymen, artillerymen, signalers, airmen, machine gunners, allied refugee soldiers in the corps.

They must be able to fight with any weapon and with their hands and feet. The well informed Press Association | said , what every Briton thought: “This attack, after the recent Cdmmando raids on Norway, will bring home forcibly to the Germans the vulnerability of the Jong coast line of occupied Europe which they have to defend.”

Experts had known for a long time that plans had been completed at operational headquarters in London for uce of air-horne ‘troops in the more dangerous of a series of sorties to be made on the coast of occupied Europe. These experts said today that there was a secret list of parachute objectives, worked out over a period of months, locked in a safe at these headquarters.

DEATHS IN TRAFFIC TRIPLE WAR TOLL

CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (U. P.).—~The nation sacrificed three times as many lives in January traffic accidents as in resisting Japanese assaults on Wake Island and Guam, the national safety council reported today. While Americans were reading wartime casualty lists, 3140 of them lost their lives near home in traffic mishaps, the council said. The figure, recorded in the face of tire and automobile rationing, sented .a 7 per cent increase over the January total for 1941, 22 per cent over 1940 and 26 per cent over 1939. “It is ironic that even.as the American people wholeheartedly unite in digging up every scrap of material needed to help win the war, they squander our most precious resource—human life—at a time when every ounce of manpower is vital to victory,” said Col. John Stilwell, president of the coun-

cil,

planes were downed, a U.S. aircraft carrier set. afire and another warship damaged. Its claims of successes against the American forces at Wake repre-

U. S. Naval Blow of Wake Is Reported by Japanese

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everything the Japanese could bring to bear. : Before they were - finally -overwhelmed by vastly superior numbers, they destroyed or severely] damaged one Japanese cruiser, four destroyers, a gun boat, and a sub‘marine. The marines had only 12 planes and seven were destroyed by the Japanese “sneak” attack which coincided with the raid on

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lieved already on the island. the allied defense planes and

airport in the Batavia area

Four more big bombing planes crashed in a second raid. Japanese plane fleets at-

Java time and again, only to be

the Dutch guns. 3 The Netherlands Indies communique said that Dutch forces still holding out in gallant fight in Celebes, had not only killed many Japanese in repulsing an attack by vastly superior enemy forces but nad launched a counter-attack in another area. In Sumatra and Timor aiso,

Japanese hordes by their skillful daring guerrilla attacks, it was asserted.

Says Vitamins

Aids Morality

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (U. P)— Vitamins foster morality as well as physical and mental health, it was revealed today. The disclosure was made by Dr. Roger J. Williams of the University of Texas, who, with his brother, Dr Robert. R. Williams, were awarded the Chandler medal of Columbia university for their contributions in vitamin research. “Recent studies, several of them in New York city, have shown without question that intelligence and morality go together,” he said. “The more intelligent a child is, the less is his tendency to cheat, lie, steal or become delinquent. . “The high correlation between intelligence and morality can lead us to but one conclusion. Since an ample supply of vitamins can foster a higher intelligence in human subjects, it also has the capability of fostering morality.”

HOOSIER POSTMASTER DIES LAWRENCEVILLE, Feb. 28 (U. P.).—Henry W. Johnston, postmaster for 17 years, died at his home

. Death’ was ‘attributed to a heart allment.

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A Weekly Sieaup by the: Washisigton - Staff of the Seripps-Howard Newspapers

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publicans voting nay. (Like many Democrats, they shuddered at the record vote which .would-have followed if preliminary count of noses

_ POLITICS: New concentrations of ta alae boom areas have politicians guessing about effect in November. :

Two earlier Smith “anti-labor” Pills, ‘passed snervosiiicly. by (Thomas takes his cue from White House; is past master at delay; but

he has finally begun taking testimony from federal labor agencies regarding possible need of legislation).

Congressional Ears to Ground y Ee - me :

Repeal of pensions-for-congressmen hasn't stilled fears |

Efforts of professional drys to use war again as lever tr prohibition are making no converts in congress.

Only a handful of Democratic congressmen showed up at party's polite Jini ations} appointive jobholders got letters that sounded like

gress because it’s spending money, voted for rehabilitation lcans, to buy - $7000-t0-$9000 farms for families displaced by war plants.

* Billion-dollar ‘rivers-harbors bill faces further delay. bloc has a state-by-state organization and is growing. Approval of Soo lock as separate item removed one of the pork measure’s strong-

Plenty of Erasers Promised

Merger of federal housing operations under John Blandford Jr. was ordered by F. D. R. to forestall threatened blowup in congress. Sent to showers: - Housing Co-ordinator Charles F. Palmer, who

Don’t worry about rubber-band and eraser shortage. Makers say scrap and reclaimed rubber will permit ample output. (But it looks bad for sagging ladies who weren’t forehanded about

‘For word of kin or chum captured by Japs, write:

Jap Invasion Fleet Routed After Direct Attack on Java

(Continued from Page One) invasion forces which the Japanese high command had be-

At least five enemy bombing planes were shot down by

crews had been standing by for thé crisis hour. The Japanese planes rained bombs on the harbor and an

them crashed and another was damaged.

tacked the naval base of Soerabaja at the eastern end of

driven back by the deadly fire of

Dutch forces inflicted losses on the

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METHODISTS 0. K. HOSPITAL ADDITION

Methodist hospital trustees have authorized the construction of an addition to the south building and pledged the entire facilities of the institution to the government in carrying on the war. The addition will house enlarged laboratory quarters and material, a

executive offices, and’ White Cross work rooms, it was announced at a meeting yesterday. The parlors, waiting rooms, and offices on the first and fifth floors will be converted in patients’ rooms if necessary. Four hospital emergency squads, composed of two doctors and four nurses, are ready to function under the direction of the medical committée of the city defense council Dr. John G. Benson, superintendent, said that young doctors, technicians, and nurses are being given up to the government. To meet this situation more than 300 women of the White Cross guild have enlisted as floor receptionists. : Bishop Titus Lowe, new board president, presided at the meeting. Other members attending included Harry F. Guthrie, Muncie; Prof.

E. R. Bartlett, DePauw university, and Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, and E. O. Snethen.

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