Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1942 — Page 5
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determined woman Whose politics are far to the left of those on which the president successfully appealed to the people for their confidence.” Mrs. Roosevelt smiled: : “I never answer Mr. Pegler,” she said. She was en route from Seattle, _Wash., where she visited her daughter, 'Mrs, John Boettiger, to ington. A few minutes after the
roared up to the runway, a ‘tendant announced that} Roosevelt would not get o
time,” the attendant explained. Mrs. Roosevelt was sitting i seat nearest the door of the
Too Tired to Talk
pulled off her. shell-rimmed | spectacles and said, “Yes,” she was Mrs. Roosevelt. She was reading a mimeographed
report. “A civilian defense report?’] a reporter queried. “No, I'm out of that,” she said. “This is from the national resources boar ”» : The first lady appeared little tired and not in a mood for talking. ' She said she hadn’t seen [Mayris Chaney since before the latter also resigned her OCD post. Like Mrs. Roosevelt, the rhythm dancer also was hotly criticized. But Mrs. Roosevelt obviously didn’t feel like talking about that. Her plane roared away.
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C losing Arguments As Payne Defense Rests
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Mrs. Wittschens fell to her knees on the icy sidewalk. Mrs, Payne denied that she the smaller woman, but
sulting remarks.” After describing the ghsanti; Mrs.
Payne underwent a short re-exam-ination by Prosecutor Sylvan Tackitt on her testimony concerning her movements the night of July 5, 1941, when Mr. Mattingly was killed. Mrs. Payne, who professes to have experienced amnesia at the time of the crime, told Mr. Tackitt yesterday that she remembered ‘“absolutely nothing” between the time she saw the Mattinglys drive by her
she “came to” at the police station. Denied Handing Over Guns
Mr.8Tackitt asked her yesterday: “Isn’t it true that after Mr, Mattingly was shot, you returned to
your niece, Mrs. Myrtle Henderson, and said: ‘Keep these for me, Myrtle. I've just done something I've long wanted to do.”” Mrs. Payne’s reply to that question yesterday was a definite: “I did no such thing.” Mr. Tackitt said tg Mrs. Payne this morning: “I wish you would explain to this jury—if humanly possible—why you conveniently forgot everything else on the night of
that you did not hand your guns to Mrs. Henderson and did not say to her that ‘I've just done something I’ve long wanted to do.’ ”
Knows Nothing of Killing
The defendant appeared more flustered than at any time since she took the stand yesterday to give the intimate and revealing details of her love life with Mr. Mattingly prior to his “flight” {rom her home on July 10, 1939. After a moment of meditation, during which her derk and mystic eyes surveyed the jury of 11 men and one woman, Mrs. Payne said: “I know absolutely nothing about Doc Mattingly’s killing, except what I read in the papers after I was arrested. If I said what you said 1 said to Myrtle, or handed her any guns, as you say I did, I have positively no recollections of it.”
Testifies on Sanity
the murder but clearly remembered |
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Mrs. Payne on the Stand
revealed her love life with Mattingly under defense examination, parrried Tackitt’s questioning on the period between 5 and 9:30 o'clock
member.”
She testified that sometime around 5 o'clock her telephone rang and the voice of someone she didn’t recognize said: “This is the filling station. Your friend (Mattingly) is in town.”
‘Thrilled,’ She Says
“I was thrilled,” Mrs. Payne told the jury.” Mr. Tackitt concentrated his examination upon questions designed to show that Mrs. Payne had hired a taxicab, driven to a spot near the Gus Nickas home, crept to the Nickas kitchen window and pumped five bullets into Mattingly’s back. Later, he intimated, she went to a filling station, called a cab and was delivered to her home at 411 N. Lincoln st. Yesterday's session marked the
13th day of Mrs. Payne’s trial in which the prosecution is asking for a life sentence. Defense attorneys have asked acquittal on the grounds that Mrs. Payne is not guilty and that she was of unsound mind on the night of the killing.
Mrs. Payne told an intimate and revealing story of her long associa-
Dr. ier, who examined Mrs. Payne a§ to her sanity on Feb. 16 of this r at the request of defense counsel, testified that she was of sound mind on that date. He said that after studying the case history of her shattered romance, he came to the conclusion that she had been suffering from a psychosis prior to the night of the killing. In this state of mind, Dr. LaBier said, “Mr. Payne got a dis-
|torted view of a multiplicity of ob- { jects.”
After defining seven forms of in-
fsanity, Dr. LaBier told the jury jupon direct examination that “or-
dinary distraction can unbalance a person’s mind if caused by thwarted love or some similar emotional shock.” : “In my opinion,” he added,” a combination of the injuries Mrs. ‘Payne suffered in an auto accident in January, 1939, and her broken romance with Mr, Mattingly were contributing causes to her unsoundness of mind on the night of his death.”
“Your Friend in Town”
Westerday, Mr. Tackitt questioned the defendant in detail on her movements between 5 p. m. and 9:30 p. m. the night Mattingly was slain. Mrs. Payne, who had previously
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tion with Mr. Mattingly. . Under examination by her own attorneys, it represented her all-out effort to convinice ‘the jury that she had suffered a mental breakdown after Mattingly had abandoned her on July -10, 1939, following. an auto accident involving both in January of the same year.
Divorced in 1924
In his cross-examination, Tackitt said: “All the while you were chasing this naive country boy, you were a married woman, weren't you, Mrs. Payne?” Mrs. Payne smiled. “No. I wasn’t living with my husband. We were separated.” “But still married,” Mr. Tackitt insisted. “No,” Mrs. Payne replied doggedly. “I said my husband and I were separated.” Later she stated that she had never loved Mr. Payne, fron whom she was divorced in 1924, snd that she refused to: make a home for him because “I' didn’t want to make a home for that man.”
Helped His Career
Her affair with Mattingly developed rapidly, Mrs. Payne testified. She and her “protege” lived successively in one-room, two-room and three-room apartments. Eventually Mrs. Payne bought an imposing - stone residence on N. Lincoln st. She and Mattingly lived there as man and wife. Meanwhile, she said, she did “everything within my power” to help him up the ladder of success. She bought his clothes, bought him an automobile, paid the rent for his law office and paid his stenographers. In cross-examination, Mr. Tackitt had the defendant identify Mr. Mattingly’s signature on a number of checks. They were made payable to clothing stores in Bloomington, to thé General Motors Acceptance
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:|Corp., and to various young women $| identified as “Mr. Mattingly’s stenographers.”
Her Life a Nightmare
“These would indicate,” Mr. “that Mr. Mattingly
“Yes,” Mrs. Payne:replied, “but I
: gave him the money to put in the | bank to back up those checks.”
Mrs. Payne insisted that she had
:| given Mr, Mattingly extreme care
and devotion throughout “many
& | years of affectionate understanding” E | before Mattingly disappeared from
her home on July, 10, 1941.
Her life thereafter, she said, was a nightmare in which she spent thousands of dollars and most of her waking hours seeking out Mattingly in the hopes of effecting a reconciliation. Her efforts to reconcile with Mattingly were futile, Mrs. Payne testified and she came back to
with the stock answer, “I don’t re-
WABA
IN STUDY CAMP
15 Seniors rs Review “Four Years of College in Rustic Surroundings.
Times Special THE SHADES, Ind., March 5.— Fifteen Wabash college seniors are walking the hills and ravines of this state park, thinking, talking and studying over the results of their four years at Wabash, They comprise the first of three such groups who make up the 11th annual senior study camp, a feature of the senior year which is unique among midwestern institutions. James J. Paterson, assistant dean, is director. In May the seniors must take a comprehensive examination over all the subjects that Wabash has taught them. They're preparing for that and they're discussing the worldly problems that young men in college invariably talk about. The camp life here starts with an early breakfast and then four hours of study. In the afternoon a faculty member leads a hike over the hilly trails, or more likely across country.
Hour of Recreation
Then comes an hqur of recreational reading, ping-pong or cards and dinner. Dinner is followed by a two-hour discussion period during which. the seniors unload anything that may be on their minds—the faculty, the war, etc.
held regularly on the campus. They are devoted to the “problems of citizenship in the modern world” and such prominent Wabash alumni and friends as John K. Ruckelshaus and Evans Woollen Jr., Indianapolis attorneys, have addressed the students. : 2
Show on Tour
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, March 5—Fifty-five Wabash college men will go to Jackson Ill, tomorrow to present the school’s annual varsity show at the MacMurray college for women. 2 This is the fourth year that Wabash men have gone over to entertain the girls. Continuity for the show was written by Frank Barnett, Peoria, Ill; John Parkhurst, also of Peoria, will be master of ceremonies, and Woodward Rimine, South Bend, Ind., will direct the glee club. Next Monday an a capella choir composed of 22 MacMurray girls will come here to reciprocate.
[Who Knows?
Woman Denies She Is Hoosier Soldier’s Mother.
STOCKTON, Cal.,"March 5 (U. P.) —Californians scratched their
heads in bewilderment today when they read the story and so will you. To begin with Pvt. Harry Beehler, 33, of Gary, Ind. stationed at Camp Roberts, said last week he had arranged a reunion with his “mother,” whose funeral he believed he had attended seven years ago. He explained he had thought a woman killed in an automobile accident in 1935 was his mother. By chance, he suid, he found that his mother was alive—that he had attended a funeral for another woman. :
THE “REUNION” was held during the week-end. Private Beehler sent a note to the newspapers saying he had “met his mother” and wanted no publicity. But today Mrs. Laurettia Schuetze denied she is his mother. Instead, she said, she is his step mother. She said her meeting with him during the week-end was their first in two years and that she said she had written to him frequently. “We met and talked a while,” Mrs. Schuetze said. “Then he went back to camp Roberts and my husband, my daughter and I returned to Stockton. I can’t understand how that other story got about.”
FAMILY WEIGH 1400
DARK HARBOR, Me. (U. P)— The family of the late Capt. and Mrs. Charles R. Pendleton carries a lot of weight around here. The two sisters and five brothers, whose average height is 6 feet, weighed a total of 1400 pounds when their weighs were tabitlated at a re-
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By Science Service WASHINGTON, March 5~The dangers of allowing mice and termites to inhabit your airplane is the subject of a. safety bulletin issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board. A recent fatal ancident. the bulletin declares, in which a mouse was prominent, “presents a good object lesson by which to focus attention on the importance of watching out for pests around your plane.”
Here are the details of the accident as reported in the CAB bulletih: “During a normal maneuver, the covering on the right wing failed. The plane crashed nose first in a plowed field. The right aileron fabric was found to be badly deteriorated along the piano hinge; the work of a small animal, probably a mouse. During the removal of the wreckage from the scene of the accident a mouse jumped from the fuselage.”
COURTESY PAYS AT HENHOUSE EAST LANSING, Mich. (U. P.).— Prof. C. G. Card, head of the Michigan State college poultry department, says hens are more productive if poultrymen knock on the henhouse door before entering.
HEALTH PERILS|
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several weeks ‘on military health problems relating to the civilian ‘population.
“The military has been receiving splendid co-operation from civil authorities in Indianapolis and Marion county in our social and health problems,” he stated.
Co-operation by Blue
Another military problem is expected to arise when the new army camp near Columbus is opened with thousands of soldiers spending short furloughs in Indianapolis. Prosecutor Blue said his office already has completed arrangements to co-operate with other agencies in the health and social movement. “We will appeal for general public co-operation in this campaign,” he said. “We can accomplish ‘a great deal if we have the co-oper-
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In East Indies, Stinson Say
WASHINGTON, March 5 (U. P). —Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson asserted today that Great Britain and the United States will
continue their “intense support” of the Dutch in the East Indies and that our air aid there has increased heavily during the past week. “Neither Great Britain nor the United States has altered in any way the attitude of intense support to the Dutch in’ the present battle,” he said. “Not only has that support not been diminished but during the last week we have increased our air support materially.” - He made the brief statement when reporters sought to determine whether the withdrawal of British Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell as su-
preme commander of the united
forces in the southwest Pacific, indicated that the British and we were relinquishing the Java campaign. Army’s Two Main Goals
He would not amplify his -remarks. : Mr. Stimson was questioned concerning the recent sweeping reorganization of |the army which
ation of the public in general.”
merged ground forces under a single command, grouped air activities under a single head, and established a unified service of supply. He said that the reorganization, which becomes effective, Monday, had two objects: : First, lift a great amount of administrative details and red tape from the shoulders of Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, so he
can concentrate on the strategy of
the war and, second, to give air power its much needed recognition, “The second great object was to give the air corps its proper recogs nition,” Mr. Stimson said. “It recog= nizes the character of this war. This is very largely an air war,
Air Corps Given Equality
“The reorganization puts the air corps in a position ‘of importance that it is going to fill. This is to fight this war and not any past or obsolete wars.”
He said that the new, compact air-ground general staff would have only 98 members. The present gene eral staff organization has 500.
The air corps will have an equal share with the ground forces.
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