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1 Richmond Defendants File Rehearing Petition With Supreme Court.
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end a blind eye to the accused .in| JY . @dvance of condemnation.”
In passing upon the exclusion of the film from the trial evidence the
Supreme court stated:
“The ‘record discloses that the was excluded because its seuence and chronology had been destroyed by cutuing and rearrange- ' ment.” Mr; Jacobs’ ‘petition charged that
~~ the “record disclosed no such fact ~ nor was such the case” and further
~ alleged that the ground for exclu- _ sion of the film “is manifestly preddcated upon a total misconception of . the truth as reflected by the record.” ~ The defendants’ petition asserted ~ that it is “idle to speak of judicial discretion” in excluding the film. = Assails Discretion “If this be discretion then legal discretion is A with auto- . cratic absolutism,” * Jacobs charged. : The petition also charged that the ‘supreme cowrt failed to pass- upon
many questions raised during the
Pa
ma
trial, although the state constitution provides that the supreme court
“shall give a statement in writing
of each question arising in the record and the decision of the court thereon.” a arding { this the supreme court
“We cannot Bring ourselves to
1 believe that the framers of the
constitution had any such situa- ‘ tion in mind when they enjoined upon us the obligation to ‘give a statement in writing upon each
question arising in the record.” ;
Charges Misquotes
Mr. Jacobs’ petition "charged ‘that the “constitution is even mis-| ‘quoted ‘in the court's opinion wherein the words ‘of each ques-
~ tion’ is misquoted as ‘upon each
Question.’ ” The defense attorney stated that the constitution prescribed the ‘court's duty to give a “fair and reasoned opinion upon each of these questions are presented.” Originally 82 persons were ar-
* ‘rested in connection with the riot
Po
on charges ranging from assault ttery to conspiracy to comMit murder. Thirty-seven of them
went to trial on charges of re-
sisting officers with deadly weapons.
All the defendants were found not guilty of using deadly weapons and 23 were found not guilty of
~ any charge. ng +* Fourteen Convicted Fourteen of the original 37 were
~ finally convicted of officers
| |. which parries Br ranging to 1 sod
ays;on the. One of the given a court when At! orney Gen-
ore “Larek, by the su-
on James A. Emmert advised the
~ eourt that Lorek “was not even ~ mentioned by any witness.” “The fact that Lorek was con-
§ victed when he wasn’t even shown 4 to be alive on the day of the alleged : offense illustrates about how much ~ consideration . other defendants in
the. case received,” Mr. Jacobs
charged.
ILLNESS IS FATAL
TO EDWIN MANOUGE
(Contiriued from Page One) A. Manouge, and two grandchildren,
- Nancy and Edwin C. Manouge, all
of Indianapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. David Kearney and Mrs. George Metzel, both of Cincinnati. ‘The body will be at the Blackwell funeral home after 10 a. m. tomorrow. Funeral services will be at Joan of Arc church at 9 a. m. Monday. Burial will be in Calvary
OWoN FoR SARGER URNS DANGEROUS NEW YORK, May 29 (U. P).— Mrs. Dora Steinwurzel, 69, was shopping , for onions last night.
cart on the lower East side, one large Bermuda fell to the sidewalk. Mrs. Steinwurzel stepped on it, Slipped and broke a wrist.
FIREMEN START FIRES DUMONT, N. J, May 29 (U. P.. pur- youths, 15 and 16 years old, re arrested oil charges of starting e fires in recent months. Three “them, members of the local dehse couricil auxiliary fire departat, told police they started the ps-to get some experience.
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Hero of '65
Oscar N. Wilmington
City Will Honor War Dead With Parade, ‘Services
At Cemeteries. (Continued from Page One)
N. Wilmington, 9%, who is assistant adjutant general of the Indiana department of the G. A. 'R. He lives at 1516 Brookside ave. The other Civil war yreteran is
Charles O. Nixon, 98, 2136 N. New Jersey st, who is unable to participate in the parade. Mr. Nixon has been blind- for several years as the result of an automobile accident. Mr. Wilmington, a native of Indianapolis, enlisted in the 57th Indiana regiment at Lawrence and served four yegts. He was commissioned a lieutenant and now is one of the few surviving. officers of the Civil war. Mr. Nixon went through the Civil war in the 9th Indiana regiment which was commanded by Col. Eli Lilly. He was captured by the /Confederates at Franklin, Tenn, in November, 1864, and spent a few months in a prison camp before being released by an exchange of prisoners. In addition to the memorial as-
as' far as the Speedway is concerned. I found Al out chopping weeds by the 14th hole and he let me inside the track. Frankly, Johnny, I was shocked. It was just a huge, walled interior, completely deserted except for a few golfers on the last nine. Where you would expect to hear a hum of intense activity and the roar of powerful motors, there was only the song of birds. ? ». » ..
Grass on Track *
WHERE RYB es FIRED &- mons i go e is grass fully three-quarte: Rois of a foot high growing through. the cracks in the brick. Remember the pits, Johnny, where you marveled at how the grease monkeys changed a tire,so fast and adjusted those kinks in the engines? It's just a weed patch, nothing else. I walked into famous “Gasoline Alley” where drivers expended all their energy in tuning up their mounts and where many a heartache has left its mark. It was a “ghost town,” Johnny, and you can still see evidence of that terrible fire which raged there during that last race. The garages have all been rebuilt and they are filled with em-
provided the precious fuel for the roarding monsters of the hrick and now power tanks and the planes that are killing Nazis and Japs. ‘
Train Breaks Silence
A WAIL from a nearby train broke the silence and the continuous chattering of the birds. ‘Then suddenly overhead several small cabin planes floated lazily by. They looked like midgets compared to a huge medium bomber and two P-33 Lightning pursuit planes that whistled through the blue. But you would know more about planes like those, Johnny. The grandstands are a shambles, Johnny. Maybe your folks had written you about the flood we had here the past few weeks. But maybe they didn’t tell you about the mark the "water left at the Spedeway. High water marks are visible in back of the grandstands and the rows and rows of chairs are overturned. Those are the chairs
you used to fret about, Johnny
For Your Convenience
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WAVES OF FORTS RAIDING EUROPE
French Coast Believed to Be Target for Big
Bombers. (Continued from Page One)
southern Italy and that a big allied convoy, including: large troopships, entered the Mediterranean
Wednesday. A German communique claimed
that two British motor torpedo boats were sunk and several damaged in a clash with German patrol vessels off Dunkirk today. The big bombers based on England were idle last night but a force of allied planes roared toward occupied-France over the southeast English coast today and the Kalundberg, Denmark, radio went off the air. The last time Kalundberg was forced off, fortresses were raiding Germany. Destroy Six Gunboats
The British’ fleet ‘alr arm destroyed six of 12 enemy gunboats] in the channel and R. A. F. medium and light bombers swept across the Dover straits last night and early today. Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, leader of Jugoslavia’s guerrilla forces, cabled allied military commanders advising them his fighters were ready to help an invasion force and were “looking forward” to the destruction of the axis. The striking power of the allied air forces, which will spéarhead any invasion, was reported by the British radio to have been acknowledged by Reichsmarshal Herman Goering’s Esserier National Zeitung.
sociation’s rites, special services will be held at Crown Hill cemetery. The grounds will be open from sunrise to sunset for persons to decorate family graves. There will be no services at Washington Park as previously an-
'Dear Johnny'-Grass Graws Between Speedway's Bricks
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‘mile track by sitting in the same
T good seat when they were opened.
pty gasoline drums “that once -
nounced.
Remember you used to exclaim: “How can a guy expect to see a race around a two and a half
spot all the time?” That tunnel near thé pagoda that leads to the track is completely filled with water and the asphalt walkways make a hollow sound when you walk on them. The ground is watersoaked underneath. » » ”.
No More Early;Birds
HOW. the early
That was when W. 16th st. became America’s Broadway for a day—when thousands poured into Indianapolis from all corners of the nation to pay homage to sport—that .of speed, danger and roaring motors. They used to sit for a month at a time outside those gates and the street was turned into an annual festival every day and night. But now, Johnny, a handful of cars now and then will pass by and occasionally a driver will look longingly at the high board fence around the track thinking of days gone by. In town, things are different, too. You would miss the out-of-town license plates that we used to watch go by. And the hotels aren't overflowing with people looking forward to a big day tomorrow. They are jammed with people who have work to do in this grim business of war. » » o
Haven’t Forgotten
BUT WE back here, just like you, Johnny, haven't forgotten the “roaring road” that was famed throughout the world. Just before I left, Al Rickenbacker told me of .a letter he had received from a fan down in Louisville, Ky. ‘The man wrote Al he was to be in Indianapolis over Memorial day and that he would be out at the track propmtly at 10 a. m.—the time when the race used to start. And there are plenty others like you, Johnny, who remember, too. Letters have come in from all the fighting fronts from other Johnny Jones who want to know what's stirring around the track. Yes, Johnny, we miss the smell of castor oil and the dirt and grease, but we've all got a bigger job to do today. After that's over then there will be time to think about another “500.”
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Blood Plentiful But Tommy Dies
CHICAGO, May 29 (U. P.)— Tommy James, 2)%-year-old boy who received more than 200 offers from blood donors in 13: states, died last night ‘at Children’s memorial hospital of a streptococcus viridans infection, The boy; who maintained a precarious hold on life for more than six weeks, underwent three transfusions from persons: who had recovered from the infection, but efforts to save him were unsuccessful.
THREE JAP BASES BLASTED BY ALLIES
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, May 29 (U. P.).—Allied fliers, methodically destroying enemy strength on the northeast New Guinea coast, attacked three Japanese airdromes in the Wewak area with 19 tons of bombs, setting 16 fires apparently in_ grounded planes, a communique said today. Yesterday’s attack was the fourth in three days on the chain of major Japanese bases along the New Guinea coastline. Wewak is 475 miles northwest, of allied-held Buna and above the ‘targets of the previous two days—Lae and Ma-
dang. Continued s and heavy weather hampered e Liberators and Flying Fortresses that bombed Boram, Dagua and Wewak airdromes for an hour. The weather cut other raids to only three singleplane affairs.
Hoosier Heroes Seaman Dies
When Motor Craft Sinks
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man and an aunt, Mrs. Catherine Billerman, both of Indianapolis.
un # EJ Missing CAPT. AND MRS. Paul Ragsdale, 88 N. Whittier pl, have been notified by the war department ‘that their 23-year-old ‘son, 2d Lt. John Paul Ragsdale Jr. is missing in action. Lt. Ragsdale has been serving as a navigator aboard a flying fortress and has participated in several bombing raids on the European continent from Britain. He has been missing, the war department said, since May pi Only a few weeks ago.he was commended for expert navigating in bringing a fortress through a severe storm over the English channel on its return from a bombing mission. | He is a graduate of Shortridge high school and attended the University of Michigan for two and one-half years where he won two Hopwood prizes for excellence in creative writing. He entered the air forces Jan. 29, 1942, at Lafayette, and was sworn into service March 2, 1942, at Santa Ana, Cal. He received his commission and the wings of a navigator at Mather field at Sacramento, Cal. . Capt. Ragsdale, a veteran of world war I, is in service again and is stationed at Ft. Hayes, O. » = ”
Honored
THE WAR DEPARTMENT today announced the award of the distinguished service cross posthumously to Capt. James K. Stepro for an act of heroism in Tunisia. Capt. Stepro’s widow, Mrs. Ruth Stepro, lives at Beachwood, Ind. Capt. Stepro, according to his citation, “led his tank company in an attack against a very strong enemy position which included a large number of tanks. He was the first to locate, and take under fire from his own tank, the hostile forces. . . . When finally Jorced to withdraw he calmly issued the necessary orders to his
drawal by fire from his own tank. He then . . . dismounted under fire, sent his tank out of range and remained on the battlefield under heavy enemy fire to direct uation of the crews of his burning tanks.” . 8 »
Prisoners (Germany) THE WAR DEPARTMENT announced today that 1st Lt. Floyd
M. Saxton, son of Mrs. Floyd D. Saxton, Gary, Ind. is ag prisoner
FRANK WIDNER.
in Germany:
st.- Chief Beeker admitted he sometimes dined there and complimented the place Jon its “good spaghetti.” Mayor Tyndall's agent to the S. Noble ' st. neighborhod represented the chief’s presence in the tavern as a “matter-of-fact practice among | “After all,” he pointed out, “what kind of police chief would he be if he didn’t mix around with the boys a little?’ Some of that business comes in the line of police work, you know.” - The citizens’ petition, requesting that the tavern be padlocked as a nuisance, wa$ sent to the state alcoholic beverage commission;
Chief Calls Spaghetti Issue A 'Political Stab-in-Back’
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tal units. Back at city hall late yesterday afternoon, Mayor Tyndall's special delegate in the Beeker-spaghetti-neighbor quarrel said the general regarded the incident as “a tempest in a teapot.”
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pendent on Germany for practically everything, and Germany can't take care of her own needs. ; So watch the Russian front. Germany must strike soon, while her war machine is stronger than it will ever be again, and before the allies can strike “her. 2 = = ¥ = SOME OF Gen. Marshall's friends urge him not to accept the job of commander in chief of united nations forces, if it’s offered. They think he has more to say about the war as chief of staff here than he would have as generalissimo abroad. But if rumors of Marshall's departure prove true, speculation as
informed sources say. o ” = ” » ” JUDICIAL vacancy left by resignation of Justice Fred M. Vinson mdy be handed to Rep. Jere Cooper of Tennessee. Cooper has gone down the line for administration tax policies; some of his colleagues say tax conferees would have got together much earlier if he hadn’t been so wedded to treasury theories. And his two predecessors as head of ways and means tax subcommittee got judgeships. = = »” # ”
Gasoline Still Scarce in East
OVERHAULING of gasoline rationing in the hard-pressed East is in prospect, with more rigid rules on essential driving, recheck of individual allowances, intensified drive on cheaters. Easterners can resign themselves to a continuing scarcity. For Midwesterners, extension of the pleasure-driving ban may not be far off. Some officials think the pinch will be nation-wide eventually. Others say enough cars will drop out of service to relieve it, as the war continues. : But don't forget recent Ickes proposal for pilot plants to make petroleum products out of coal. Ickes foresaw the East.coast shortage, called for pipelines long before others awoke to it. » tJ » = » San Francisco bay is now world’s greatest naval base, says Adm. Horne; and there's plenty to indicate navy intends to make San Francisco its major base for many years to come. 8 ” o » » »® PRESSURE from property owners’ groups may force OPA to broaden powers of area rent directors to deal with cases when rents have been fixed too low to let landlords meet expenses. » J » » ” 2 POLITICS: Wendell Willkie’'s backers say he may enter Ohio presidential primary against Governor Bricker; will risk probable defeat by Bricker machine for the chance to make speeches in Ohio and smoke out the governor on international issues. Strategy would be to weaken Bricker in national convention. ’ You can discount reports that Senator Taft's recent speech in Pennsylvania was a bid for his own nomination. He's still plugging for Governor Bricker, will stay put. But don’t count Dewey out. He's in a good strategical position. By not being a candidate, he steers clear of factional tieups. He'd be a likely compromise if a Willkie-Bricker battle developed between isolationists and interventionists. (And no convention ever loses sight of a man who is governor of New York.) Strategy of Dewey friends is to get uninstructed delegation from New York. Indiana Republicans report increased interest in Dewey. As to the Democrats: Most frequently mentioned vice presidential candidate is Jimmy Byrnes. It was true before his: OWM appointment; will be more so now. Southerners are working hard to get second place on the ticket. . And Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, head of the WAACs, is said to be eyeing a Texas congressional seat—for after the war, of course. 2 » # ®
Increase in Allotments?
LOOK FOR a new drive to increase allotments to- soldiers’ dependents, as proposed in the Lodge bill. “way when the draft starts taking fathers.in large numbers.
crease allotments when it thinks necessary. Inequities in allotments are already evident. In some rural sections of the south allotments are more than adequate, while in the east, where food and housing cost more, dependents can’t get along on what the government allows them. 2 f J # 2 » » WPB PREPARES to invigorate tin-can salvage drive, a conspicuous flop so far. Officials concede their system for house-to-house collections has been the weak link. . » = "” » t 4 2 NEW HOUSE hearings on SEC reforms will get under way in fortnight, with some members challeneging SEC's ideas on regulating proxies and issuance of municipal securities. Lohg sessions were held last year; these should be short.
to a successor centers around his deputy chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Joseph" T. McNarney. Choice lies between him and Lt. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, -
Campaign will get under
Federal security agency may renew its fight for authority to in
Ernie Pyle Gets Two More
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Feathers In His War Bonnet
HEALTH ENGINEERS AID IN FLOOD AREAS
State health board engineers have carried out some well chlorination work in the county and are offering advice on other sanitation measures, Chief Sanitation Engineer J. L. Quinn said today. He said two state inspectors had in some instances “made house to house inquiries” in areas where families are being rehabilitated, and were offering advice on disinfecting methods. Food and drug inspectors, he said,
SATURDAY,
attempt to insure addvale health precautions where stores are resuming trade.
MALTA HAPPY OVER BOMBING OF ITALY
LONDON, May 29 (U. P.).—Field Marshal Lord Gort, governor and commander in chief of Malta, said that Malta is jubilant over the present allied blasting of the Italian stepping stone islands. He said, in a speech at Malta, that the island has been transformed from “a beleaguered foriress into a vengeful citadel awaiting the opportunity to exact full retribution” for the merciless air raids it
are surveying all food-selling establishments in the flooded area in an
had suffered.
and the bright lights of New York City. He tells how they live and how they die, what they eat and when they sleep, what they think and what they feel. In his short daily columns, the reader lives right with his army son, brother or friend for a few minutes. “For the last six months,” Time's article reads, “Ernie Pyle has padded around North Africa, talking with infantrymen, artillerymen, pilots, truck drivers, nurses, doctors and writing a uniquely refreshing column in the identical manner in
U. S. for many years.”
According to Time, hs writes , always igoring the obvious.” His style is described as “smooth, homespun, easy to read.”
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umns carry frequent mention of Hoosier and Indianapolis fighting men. Significant of his popularity in Indianapolis is the fact that Times’ readers this month contributed $11,395.42 to buy -cigarets for Ernje Pyle’s North Africa fighting companions. Pyle started in the newspaper business in La Porte, progressing swiftly until he became managing editor of the Washington (D. C.) Daily News in 1932. By 1935, possessed with a desire to hit the road, he started out as a roving reporter. ifice then he has covered the U. S., Canada, Alaska, South and Central America and now England, Ireland and North Africa. According to Time’ s writeup, Pyle’s present plan is “to stay in North Africa awhile, to decide where he will go next only when he knows where the news will be hottest next. He is restless already.”
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