Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1949 — Page 5

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On Treason Charges, U.S. Records Show

No One Has Even Been Executed for

Specific Crime. Covered by Constitution By ANDREW TULLY, Scripps-Howard Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Apr. 14-Three and a half years after the end- of World War II, the scoreboard in the case of. the -People, of the United States versus their enemies from within reads: . | Seven convictions for treason,

Three convictions for misprision of treason—the withholding = =

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Local Soldier Killed

_ Five Congregations | In Belgium Battle

To. Meet in Services | S-Sst. Martin Rafaico, native of Indianapolis, who was awarded Five North Side congregations, will unite for services from moon|the Air Medal for heroic action {to 3 p. m. tomorrow in the Merid- on his first mission over Germany, __ |lan Heights Presbyterian Church. will be buried Saturday in Oak- ‘| - The churches in addition to the 1.nq40n following services : at: host are: the Broadway Evangel-|

Combined Services for Martin Rafalco

{10 a. m. in McCord Funeral Home g ==

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and Charles ; in the Old the Coliseum

of knowledge of treason.

“Three convictions for con-

spiracy to commit treason. In addition, two other Americans are awaiting trial; one on treason charges and the other. on charges of espionage and conspiracy.

{scheduled execution—his séntence! None of the persons wanted on 5€ treason - or associated charges Was commuted to life by have escaped capture. On the other dent. Roosevelt—Donay was sentwo treason convictions tenced to 615 years in prison and

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. = @» : have been set aside by higher fined $1000 withholding courts; three other treason indict-| knowledge of treason, and Mrs.| ac we ments have been dismissed for Bertelmann was interned for the §-e . Jack of evidence; two defendants duration.

have died and one has committed, Meanwhile, the natign had been : . » before - they could be shocked by the landing on a Long! les ere 3

Mexico. But a hotel clerk grew suspicious and called the FBI. Pon Commutes Sentence | Seven months lager, Stephan WN was sentenced to ha Then, on 0 { July 1, 1943—the day before his

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burial Saturday in Calvary Cem. etery.

Presi-| |

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brought to trial; and one defend- Island beach—and the subsequent

ant has been adjudged insane and swift apprehension—of eight Nazi! committed to a mental hospital. saboteurs. One of them was Her-! Although treason). the gct of bert Haupt, son of a German-| “levying war against the United American named Hans Max or “adhering to théir Haupt of Chicago. In November,

States” enemies . . . giving them aid and

Partner in Local

Funeral Home | Services for Francis H. Black11942, the elder Haupt was sen- well Sr. partner in the Blackwell

comfort,” is the only crime men-itenced to death and his wife, Funeral Home, who died yestertioned in the Constitution, no in-/ Mrs. Erna Haupt, was sentenced , in nis home. 3057 N. New dividual ever has been executed to 25 years in prison for harbor-|9%) ‘0 M8 ’ .

. for the offense. The leader of the Whisky Rebellion in 1794 "was

sentenced to death, but received wir,

clemency from President Wash:

ington. John Brown, the mystic Haupt was sentenced to life im-! of Harpers Ferry was hanged for prisonment.

treason, but under military rather than federal law. President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States was charged with treason “but was reprieved before trial. None in World War 1 Curiously, too, there were no civil convictions for treason during World War I, although there re several prosecutions, Thus the 1942 conviction of Max Stephan, the Detroit restaurateur who assisted an escaped German prisoner-of-war, was only the second in our history. : The prisoner, an ex-Luftwaffe -pllot named Hans Peter Krug,

——had-reached Detroit by crossing

‘the Detroit River from Windsor, Canada, in a rowboat. There he contacted a Mrs, Margareta Bertelmann, whose name had been found in a camp package. Mrs. Bertelmann called Stephan, who took over the fugitive, With the assistance of an exporter named Theodore Donay, Stephan financed a strange tour of the country for Krug. The German visited Chicago, Colum-

‘ing their fugitive som. Subse- | Jersey St, will be held at 10) {guently, both Haupt's and his a. m. Saturday in Kirby Mortuary |

{Calvary Cemetery, He was 44. | | Convicted with the Haupts in| Because of Holy Week, the {1942 and sentenced to death were requiem mass will not be cele-| {Otto Richard Wergin and Walter prated until 9 a. m. Monday in [Otto Froehling, also on charges [of harboring Haupt's son. On ap-| St. Joan of Arc Church. {peal, the .convictions were re-| Mr. Blackwell had been asso|versed, but on being reindicted, ciated with the funeral home since; {the two men pleaded guilty to De was graduated from the In-| 'misprision and each was sen- diana College of Mortuary Sci-| lence 25 years ago. The funeral

{tenced to five years in prison. Covi tos ot Age home was founded by his late

| Another man charged with giv-| father, John J. Blackwell. |Ing aid to the saboteurs Anthony A native of Indianapolis, Mr.| {Cramer of New York City, was|/Blackwell was graduated from {convicted in November, 1942, of/Cathedral High School. He was a | [treason and was sentenced to 45member of St. Joan of Arc Cath-| |years in prison. The conviction|olic Church, the Knights of Co-| {was upheld by the Circuit Court the Bt. Joan of Are Men's|

{dan with West Virginia

and the Meridian Street Methodist

* |Churches, ;

Speakers in order for the three

/hours are: the Rev. Russell Gallo:

Way, -associate pastor of the First Presbyterian Church; Dean O. L. elton, Butler School of Religion;

Francis H. Blackwell Sr. . . . {he Dr. Paul G. Macy, executive Dracelét given him by his mother. 34

{secretary of the Evanston Council! {of Churches. . - Belgium.

Richard Whittington. director of the choir of the host church, wil give the music during the first hour. Peggy Howell will sing dur-

ing the second hour; and the Me-

ridian Heights Choir, during the third hour. Betty Jo Fark will play the organ throughout. "he

{Rev. Roy B. Connor Jr. is host arm, breaking. it.

pastor.

W. Virginia Bank Robbers Kidnap, Bind 2 Officers

FOLLANSBEE, W. Va., Apr. 14

e's convictions were reversed, and at 10:30.a. m. in St. Joan of | (UP)—~Three bank robbers kid- uate of Technical High School

{but in 1944—on a.reindictment— rc church. Burial will be in NaPed two. Weirton. W. Va.. po-ang a former Indianapolis Times licemen and handcuffed them to carrier, Following graduation he

a tree near the small farming entered the Army and went over-|

community of Hanover, O., today. Lt. Al Rossell and Patrolman James Herman were found un-

(harmed at 6 & m. handcuffed to aerial engineer and turret gunner. a small tree near the farm of ,

George Betz, ered by Mr. to the barn to do the milking.

They were discov:

Mr: Betz sawed down the tree at

so that slipped free. Mr, Betz said Lt. Rossell and Mr. Herman were unharmed.

. ” r A LT. ROSSELL and Mr. Hérman said they approached a 1949 selicense

plates shortly after midnight be.

{of Appeals but subsequently Was!Club and the Holy Name Society |C2Use they thought the three oc{set aside by the U. 8. SBupreme'ie was a former Co of tha cuPants were drunk.

{Court and Cramer was freed. | Two years later, in August, 1944, three . Japanese-American|

{Indianapolis Athletic Club, i} Surviving are his wife,

when a federal court in Denver Blackwell; two daughters, Patricia | found they had harbored six Ger-|and Margo Blackwell; two broth-| man prisoners-of-war who had eS. John J. Blackwell and Thomescaped from a Colorado camp. 28 J. Blackwell, and three sisters, Two of the wrmen, Billie Tani- Miss Grace Blackwell, Miss Mary goshi and Florence Otani, were Blackwell and Mrs. Katherine Ma-

Mrs. made the women were convicted on charges Marguerite Blackwell: two sons. car. They disarmed the police of conspiracy to commit treason Francis Blackwell jr. and David men and drove towards Ohio.

When they got close to the car, one of the-men pulled a pistol and ‘wo officers get In the

Rites Planned Today

For Drowning Victim DEXTER, Apr. 14 (UP)—8ervices will be held today for Miss

Betz when he went

the handcuffs. could be Heights Chapter, American War

{and Mrs. Martin Rafaleo,R, R. 12,!

{killed on his second mission Dec. 24, 1944, when his B-17 exiploded : after being hit over Beligium. Five of his crew members {parachuted to safety but Sgt. {Rafalco stayed with the plane, His body was identified from a

He was buried temporarily. in

Lever Breaks Arm S-Sqt. Martin Rafalco, Air | | In his first mission the youth Medal recipient . . . to be | {volunteered to crawl down in a |b ried Saturday. | {bomb bay to close the doors thers: ‘arion La x baw > |brothers, Marion rov Rafalco, which were stuck. He was Dearly dtanapolis, And Harold Den thrown from the ship when the patalco, Lawrence, and his grand-| manually-operated lever struck his mother, Mrs. Jennie E. Olvey,| ! | Brightwood. ; | He returned to his post at a gun “~=———" turret until the pliot ordered him, {to receive treatment for the ‘broken arm. For his action he {was awarded the Air Medal .and

a Purple Heart. He received an-| othere Purple Heart citation ' posthumously, A lifelong resident. of Indian-| apolis, 8gt. Rafalco was a grad-

{seas with the Air Corps in July, 1044, He served with the Eighth Air Force: in England as an

i Memorial Service Set

Northeast Legion Post members will serve as an honor guard the cemetery. University

Mothers, of which his mother is {a member, will hold a memorial {service at 7:30 p. m. tomorrow. | Services Saturday will be con | {ducted by the Rev. Ralph Wade, {pastor of Friendwood Baptist Church. Surviving are-his parents. Mr. } ‘Box 354: a sister, Mrs. Mary DuBolg, Battle Creek, Mich.; two

“PROM KING” GETS LIFE BRYAN, O, Apr. 14 (UP)-— |Ervin. (Bud) Ingle, 15-year-old {“Prom King" slayer was sen{tenced to life imprisonment today (for murder while-robbing Mrs. {John Gabriel, 58, of her automobile to drive to a school dance. {

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bus, New York City, Philadelphia, |gsentenced to 20 months in prison/Cool, all of Indianapolis.

and fined $1000 each, while: the

d to two years and fined $1000. Spectacular Case

spectacular treason cases. Tomoya Kawakita, entered the Japanese Army, where

| prisoners-of-war, {several former American prisoners

testified the mild-mannered beSURE! . . . DAISY spectacled Kawakita used to beat KNOWS HER STUFF . , 20 to 30 prisoners a day. He was|

convicted of treason last Septem-| ber and sentenced to death, but! his case is now on appeal. As in the case of Kawakita, the Justice Department showed grim patience. It took time and pains-| taking detail work, but once the war had ended a varied assortment of Americans who allegedly

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CHARGE | had broadcast propaganda for the enemy were brought home for "We're Open Each Day trial. :

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