Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 November 1942 — Page 5

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Roach Powder Blamed in Deaths of 47 in Salem,’ Ore., Asylum.

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mates deathly ill, killed 47 and may yet kill as many as 12 more, was identified by pathologists as sodium fluoride following an examination of the viscera”of several of the victims and of the scrambled eggs.

Storerooms Kept Locked

Detectives discovered that a quantity of roach poison made up largely of sodium fluoride was kept in the hospital's fruit cellar. It is always locked and detectives found that it was locked Wednesday evening. A. B. McKillop, a member of the hospital staff, is chief cook, and Mary O'Hare, another staff member, is his assistant. They have a number of inmates as helpers. )Wednesday afternoon, McKillop opened several cans of quick-freeze *egg yolks, contributed to the hos‘pital by the federal government, and poured them into bowls. He was preparing the supper of the 460 inmates rational enough to work around ‘the hospital who get a “worker’s “diet.”

Negligence Is Discounted |

The bowls were unwatched for a moment while he went to the storeroom for powdered milk to add to the yolks to make a scramble-egg batter. Returning, he met Miss O'Hare and while he made his batter and cooked the eggs, she rolled and baked. biscuits. The food was then carried to the five wards of the working inmates. McKillop didn’t cook all the bat- ' ter, What remained was subjected | to chemical analysis and showed no trace of poison. This seemed to rule out any posibility of negligence.

Officials Open-Minded

Dr. John C. Evans, superintendent of the hospital, had hesitated to say whether the poisoning was intentional or due to carelessness. Capt, Walter Lansing of the state police ahd Dr. Frank Menne, University of Oregon pathologist who identified the poison, said they remained open-minded regarding an intentional poisoning theory.

FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 9042 _ -

Appointed to City Posts

Sidney S. Miller

Roy E. Hickman

Siliey Miller, Roy Hickman Are Named by Gen. Tyndall

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legal organizations, including the American Bar association, Mr. Miller is married and has four children, the oldest of whom, Samuel, is in the marine corps and now is stationed in London, England. He lives at 6422 Park ave. Mr. Hickman is the president of Hickman Oldsmobile, Inc., one of the largest dealers in that make of automobiles in the nation.

He was born on a farm in Morgan |

county in 1890, graduated from the schools of Morgan county at the age of 12, spent some time on the farm, and when he was 15 came to Indianapolis “on his own.” He has been a resident of the v¢ity since that time. : » In accepting the appointment as city controller, Mr. Hickman said he ‘welcomed the opportunity to serve the city in which, 37 years ago, he hegan his career as a teamster with the J. V. Baxter Construction Co. He soon became a foreman and in that capacity and assisted in the work of excavating the site on which the present City Hall stands. He then became associated with the National Biscuit Co., working

as shipping clerk and city salesman. He entered the automobile business as a salesman in 1919 and

in 1930 he became’president of his own dealershipy In 1939 and 1940 he was one of the 12 members of the General Motors advisory council. He is a member of the Columbia club, Highland ‘Golf & Country club, Logan Masonic lodge,” Sahara Grotto and the Methodist church. He is married and lives at 315 W. Hampton drive. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickman, live at 2026 Woodlawn ave. His father has been G. O. P. precinct committeeman in the 16th ward for the last 30

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Sergeant Tops Pay in Commons

LONDON, Nov. 20° (U. P.).—Col Victor A. Cazalet, urging increased pay for Britain's fighting men in the house of commons today, said that while showing some American soldiers over the house the other day, he asked a master sergeant what his pay -was. “I was most surprised to hear that he received more than does a member of parliment,” Cazalet observed. “I'm not saying that this shows a wrong valuation.”

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DRAFT OF LABOR AT ONCE URGED

Head Says ‘Pussyfooting’ Must Cease.

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place selection in the hands of se lective service boards .

“The voluntary system would be abolished, both for the armed forces and for workers, excepting with the approval of local boards,” he said. “Under my bill no new agency would be created; no enormous expansion of any bureaucracy would occur as suggested by the manpower commission, “It would do something immediately necessary, namely, head off the war manpower commission’s attempt to absorb the selective seryice system.” He said his bill would amend the selective service act and make deferment “selection for work” as well. Mr, Fenlon urges his colleagues that until such time as congress passes a national service act, the local Legion posts co-operate in securing the manpower necessary for agriculture and war employment. This move is one of three objectives recommended to the Legion by the employment committee. The other two include co-operation in pu. -war planning studies to. avoid mass unemployment and the affording to every veteran of the armed service the Legion's complete aid in securing employment upon receiving their honorable discharges.

Job Offices Need Cash

Mr. Fenlon pointed out that the United States employment services “have mot been functioning to the degree desirable” because of the lack of sufficient funds to permit a staff of competent and sufficient pe.sonnel.”

He advocates that in the next

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Over Bridges Campus Talk

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the one which has been customary |

cluded Harry Bridges as a speaker face to every man who wears the at Armistice day exdkcises in Em-|uniform of America in this war. erson hall was made in misapprehension of the facts. “The university's official observ-|general of the United States, orance of Armistice day, 1942, was dered ‘that the alien Harry Renton

“To keep the record straight may I inform you that on May 28, 1942, | the Hon. Francis Biddle, attorney

{Bridges be deported to Australia

lat the expense of the government’

since 1919, namely a special morn-| ave charges duly set forth. ing service in the Memorial chapel, a building created to the memory of those’ who died in the last war. This service is traditionally open to the public as well as the student body in honor of the day.

“That the American people may, not be misled, I further want the record to show that on Nov. 5 the | Department of Massachusetts of} the American Legion protested, against this alien's appearance on|

“Mr. Bridges’ talk was unrelateds your campus on Armistice day, and

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Commander Waring’s reply: “I have your telegram. speech before Chamber of Commerce I said in|lenge, the right to exercise license part: ‘It is difficult to believe that the twenty-fourth anniversary of Armistice day on Nov. 11, Harvard university permitted Harry Bridges, that west coast alien now under order of deportation as a Communist, to speak at Armistice day exercises in Emerson hall’ “This will correct you on the false assumption on which your telegram is based. “I further said: ‘Such action by Harvard university is a slap in the

Roane Waring’s Reply

to Armistice day, permission being granted to him to speak at the. request of the Harvard Teachers’ Unin accordance university policy buildings shall meetings sponsored by recggnized| {hat Bridges’ groups of the faculty. “In short, the occasion on which Mr. Bridges spoke had no connection with - Armistice day and he Boston this alien was billed as an came as one of many speakers Who | Armistice day speaker. from time to time express their views freely in Harvard halls.”

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that on Nov. 8 the Veterans of] Foreign Wars and Disabled Ameri- | can Veterans also registered protest, and that these protests were pending at the time Kirtley PF. Mather, professor of geology, stated! ‘political views and alien status are irrelevant.’ | “I desire the record further to show that in ‘the newspapers of

‘Free Speech Not Issue’ “The issue of free speech 1s not the issue here. The American Legion recognizes the difference between liberty and license and challenges, and will continue to chal-

under the guise of free speech by | anyone who has sought to sabotage America’s war effort. “There are many alumni of Har-| vard university who are members, of the American Legion who join! with the other members of the| American Legion and with the great | body of American public opinion in regretting that the name of a venerable seat of learning has been prostituted by its association with an undesirable alien.”

Legion and Harva Split

2007 SUIT KILLERS GUILTY IN 20 DEGREE

NEW YORK, Nov. 20-(U. P.). -— Neil Simonelli and Joseph Annunziata, the “zoot suit” killers of their former high school mathematics teacher, were found guilty of second degree murder early today by an all-male jury in Kings county court. The jury received the case against the 16-year-old Simonelli and the 19-year-old Annunziata at 4:12 p. m. yesterday and returned the verdict

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murder verdict with its automatic death sentence.

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government appropriation bill, provision be made for adequate staff] and salaries to help this essential procuring service function to the best advantage possible. * al Even the physically, handicapped can, he feels, help reliee the manpower shortage. j “Unfortunately during the period of the glutted labor plarket, indus- | try and the government practically ignored their services. Now, be- | cause of a scarcity of manpower, | they are fully realizing that there! are innumerable jobs that can be] ably filled by the ‘physically handi- | capped.” Study Post-War Problem

The Legion committee, which he heads, has gone beyond the present situation in their work, It is co-!

operating with various government | ;

agencies and business groups in|

studying methods to avoid mass un- |}:

employment after the war is over. ‘It is hopeful that the Legion will | co-ordinate these studies eventually and release selected studies to posts

for action in their own communi-|}

ties. Although the selective service set-

E up provides for the returnihg of a >

man to his original job, the Legion anticipates that in. some cases changed circumstances ‘may not make that possible. The employment committee, Mr. Fenlon points! out, believes it is the Legion’s business to help assure jobs for veterans of the present war after their demobilization. And that the time to do it is now. each post name a competent em-

will co-operate with the representa-

| tives of other community agencies | a

in returning men to jobs. * Favors Gas Rationing

The executive committee approved |}: yesterday thegreport of the transpor- a | tation committee which called for support for the government's gas | : tf

and tire rationing program. |

went further to ask not only indi- 3 vidual co-operation of Legion mem-= | bers but an educational campaign |};

in support as well. The committee | suggested that state cornmittees ask local posts to name war transportation committees. i Maj. Gen. Louis B. Hershey, national selective, service director, spoke briefly at yesterday after'noon’s session. He lauded the work | of the local draft boards and briefly outlined the manpower problem.

MAJORITY VOTE FOR AMENDMENTS URGED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (U. P.).— A resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for ratification

gress instead of by a two-third vote of the senate alone was introduced

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