The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 44, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 4 March 1937 — Page 1
DENTIST HELD IN CHLOROFORM MYSTERY
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Film Beauty Executed as Spy? in r iflK > ■ ■ ■Ji 1- IFU w JrV Wk V, ’ CjOHr ;• - L \ • — —————— Rosita Diaz ■ ' ' Death before a firing squad after a hasty Spanish rebel court-martial which found her guilty as a spy was reported to have been the fate of* Rosita Diaz Spanish screen beauty who has made several films in Hollywood. ‘ ~ 7 ' i News Flashes < , I, , . RESCUE MAN FROM LAKE WAWASEE SYRACUSE, Ind., Mail 4. (INS)—Philip Korn, aged 57, Fort Wayne grocer, narrowly escaped drowning in Lake Wawasee last evening. He was rescued by his companions who used a rope provided by Mrs. Grace Macy, wife of Wales M. Macy, who saw the man break through the ice near her home. The party had been ice fishing. GENERAL ELECTRIC RECOGNIZES C. I. O. NEW YORK, Mar. 4.—General Electric has agreed to bargain collectively with John L. Lewis Committee for Industrial Orgihjzation on new work and wages for its 60,000 employes. A large portion of the nation’s steel industries recognized Lewis and his C. I. O. yesterday and boosted the pav of several hundred thousands. INDIANA POETESS EMBARRASSES LINDBERGH CALCUTTA, India, Mar. 4. (INS)—CoI. Charles A. Lindbergh blushed with embarrassment today when an Indian poetess compared his accomplishments with those of BudCHICAGO OPENS CELEBRATION CHICAGO, Mar. 4. (INS)—The Chicago Jubilee celebration, marking the 100th anniversary of the granting of the city’s charter got underway at noon today as a 100gun salute was fired and Mayor Edward J. Kelly announced the seven-month festivity underway. FOOD RIOTS BREAK OUT IN SPAIN LONDON. Mar. 4.(INS)—Food riots have broken out in beleagured Madrid and the food shortage there is becoming critical, the London Daily Telegraph reported today, in an “uncensored” dispatch from Valencia. ILLINOIS FLOOD WATERS RISE GALENA, 111., Mar. 4. (INS)—Flood waters, rising at the rate of a foot an hour, today menaced Galena after a night of heavy rain. PRESIDENT SPEAKS TONIGHT WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 4. (INS)—President Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak to the nation over radio tonight at 9:30 p. m. He is expected to lay the groundwork for a more detailed statement of his judiciary and other objectives in the “fireside chat” scheduled for next Tuesday. '
Clergyman Is Held For Sex Offense
CHICAGO, 111., March 4. (INS) The Rev. Albert B. Rutt, 67, acting pastor of a branch of Aimee Semple McPherson’s Four Square Gospel Church, will be turned over to the new sex of-’ sense bureau today on charges brought by a young man; Rutt, a married man living at 6056 Ingleside was accused of accosting Clifton J. Ryding, 22„ of 1520 W. Sixty-fourth street. Ryding, an elevator operator, said the clergyman approached him at Sixty-third and Halsted sts. Ryding called a nearby policeman, and Rutt was taken to Englewood station. ""
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Rutt’s fingerprints were taken, and it was disclosed that he had served thirty days in jail in 1919 on a shoplifting charge. Rutt denied the youth’s charges, -aying he might have bumped into him, but did not annoy him. Rutt said he had been serving as pastor of the First Church of he Four Square (gospel, 6633 Normal blvd., since resignation of the Rev. R. L. Shuff. He expected to be sworn in as permanent pastor within a Jfew days, said Rutt, who returned to Chicago six years ago after a stay in California. —ji— l.j.u .»'l rcjT uih ■ iriBBSBSWBFrM
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STATE AIRS LEGAL GAMBLING ☆ * ☆ ' ★ ☆ ★ ■ ☆ Syracuse Faces Housing Shortage
NEED FOR NEW HOMES CITED BY OFFICIALS Evident Growth Os Community Should j Encourage Building There is an evident need for the construction of a number of new dwelling houses or apartments in Syracuse, is the observation made by Warren T. Colwell, president of the Syracuse Wawasee-Com-munity Chamber of Commerce. With the apparent progress that is being made locally in the ex-I pension of business and industry in Syracuse, there is an opportunity for making sound real estate investments in Syracuse and immediate vicinity, Mr. Colwell said. There is definite evidence here almost qyery that the I community is growing and more people are coming into Syracuse, to make this their permanent heme. This week, he added, there were several inquiries directed to th Chamber of Commerce officers for information regarding housing r conditions, and in some instances new families came here and have found difficulty in establishing satisfactory 1 i v i n g quarters. . , This means that progress, is being made in the promotion and expansion of the community, the Chamber of Commerce president continued, both by the organization and by individuals and institutions in the town. The development on Main street is attracting wide interest, and when this large business property is opened there wiJ be more families to house. There is also the new incoming j industry which will bring new people here and which should expand and grow, he stated. All of these things, together with the expansion of established business and industry already in the community will move Syracuse forward in a definite tren<L upward, Mr. Colwall, maintained. This | creates a need for new hom*«, new building and new inve~ • ments, he concluded, and offers ati excellent opportunity' for investors. j . 'il 1
Journal Comes To Readers Printed On Goss Press
The Journal comes to its readI ers this week in an entirely new dress. Printed on a new automatic Goss Comet Press, the Journal is now complete in its metropolitan style, having eight columns instead of seven. This make up is easier read, provides a column more of news matter on each page and brings the paper up to date in every respect. Numerous mechanical and editorial changes are necessary in making a change of this kind. There were more than three score small details that had to be thought of, worked out and organised before the new press could be operated. The installation of the new equipment has. in itself been a tremendous task, the press weighing twelve tons required two weeks work for erection, after being moved here from Ohio. The addition of this press together with numerous other new equipment td the plant, gives Syracuse the most modern weekly newspaper shop in the state. The need for the press has been evident in recent weeks when the Journal appeared late. A year ago, the Journal had a circulation of only four hundred copies. These could be printed on the 01d,1.1, 1 1,.. AI ■-~-gp-;;':,-Z-T7'fcS
THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1937
Young Dentist Admits Part In Operation CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.,Mar. 4 (INS) —After a grilling that lasted over five hours, Dr. Richard G. Miller, well-to do local dentist, i confessed to the “accidental" slaying of IS year-old Cleo Sprouse, i school girl, who was found chloroformed, lying partly clad in a cemetery. Miller was rushed to Richmond to jail as authorities denied fears ,of mob violence. Before the train left the station there was a large mob assembled, and audible threats were heard. uenying vehemently that he was responsible for the girl’s condition, the mild-mannered, bespecaied, dentist declared the operation took place on a lonely .part Os Stony Point road near here, in a borrowed car. Dreading discover y of her •condition and having no one else to turn to, the pretty high school girl asked him to peiform the operation “as a favor,” the dentist was quoted as saying. The signed statement, given out by J. E. Payne, police dispatcher oi Henrico County, solved what had promised to develop into one of Virginia’s most fantastic murder cases. Breakdown of the dentist came after Uive hours of relent less hammering and continued grilling on the way to Richmond. The dentist was quoted as saying he placed the bedy there after . nightfall Monday. She was dead then, he said. When the girl died of the anaesthetic, Miller related, he waited until nightfall to drive back into town and remove the body from the car. She had removed an undergarment, Miller said, and he dropped it in the leaves behind the wall. i A chloroform can, balanced opening down over the girl’s mouth and nostrils, which were packed with saturated medical cotton, provided the clue, officers said, that led' to Miller's arrest. I A Charlottesville druggist reported the dentist complained the can disappeared from his office. Questioned, Miller told of suspetting Cleo, a patient, of taking ! it.
time hand fed press in about an hour. At that time only four pages were printed. Now the Journal is printed in eight pages each week and has a circulation of over four thousand copies. It became impossible to do the press work on the larger paper in a single day, and just last week, 17 hours press work alone was required to issue the Journal. This week the job was done by the automatic press in an hour and a half. z The Journal plant has had steady and consistent growth in the past seven months and is doing much to publicize the community and Northern Indiana’s Lake country. A year ago ificre was but one employe required to publish the smaller and sparcely circulated newspaper. Today the Journal has the second largest payroll in Syracuse, employing ten persons, and has became an industry worth recognizing in the town. The addition of the Goss Press as details of operation are worked out, will bring a bigger and better Journal to it readers and will solve a mechanical problem that I has caused countless hours of de-
◄ Journal Girl Reporter Interviews New Qouernor At State Capital ◄ Governor M. Clifford Townsend ► Vm CT J "fl dMWWKwBk ,/ wIMI
By EVELYN H. CONN !. A few days before the Honor- : able M. Clifford Townsend took , . ■ office as the Governor of Indiana, i I it was my verv »re?t pleasure to j esent to him the ambitions and , plans of Mr. W. E. JuQng, prominent Lcfee Wawasee resident and one of the leaders of Kos'ciusko i County’s civic enterprises. i The room into which I was i I shown was merely temporary ; ’ quarters, preparatory to his rer moving to the large, beautifullyappointed office reserved as the sanctum of the Chief Executive. ( of Indiana. ) I . The present Governor of Indi- j i L ana is a stockily-built gentleman of average height, with straight j. black hair, a very engaging smleh ’ that brings but his lovely, deep j i ’ dimples and gray-blue eyes that , ’' shone with friendliness as I shook i I hands with him. ; 1 I was instinctively drawn to : ' j him. His sincerity, and his open, ; unassuming manner nut me com- , ‘j letely at ease and I immediately : I I felt that 1 was in ,he presence of 1 I a man who inspired trust and edn- ' fidence rnd . a genuine desire to 1 earn that trust and cofidence. “Now, what have you to tell ] ' me?” he invited. And so I told 1 him of Mr. Long’s ambitions, witti i * - - -i -7*--
• Police Stampedeu » By Cop’s Boner t SEATTLE, , Wasti., • Mar. 4.—L I When he found a door ajar at the ■ rear of the Federal Reserve Bank, 1 L Merchant Patrolman Robert .Rob-' . erts suspected something should, be J done about it. .. J - ; Just inside the door what ij.i, i . . ,r: ~~ ..
reference to further acquainting i sympathy with the working man’s problems, and that because of his background and his experience in diversified felds, he has a deeper understanding and a closer contact with the type of people who citizens of Iridium with the beauties and advantages df their state; of his wish to make those adv an-1 tages known to the people of other States, thereby increasing the number of vacationers and firing | the interest of industrial com*- ■ panie§; and above all, his very em-nest desire to aid in the recog- i nition of Indiana as one of the' most progressive .states in the! Middle West. The Governor seemed very much impressed with what I had j told him and said that he believed it to be one of the finest efforts I on the part of any individual to aid in publicizing Indiana’s great' nriural and eultvated wealths. ' . From the little I know of Gov- i ernor Townsend’s accomplish-1 ments; of his rise from frnier, factory worker, Comniissi’onjeif. of the - j Division of Agriculture, and Lieu-tenant-Governor to the position of High Executive of the state of Indiana, and from his plain, “earthy,”, affable, charming manner, I" feel that this, gentleman
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will at all times be entirely in are the foundation and backbone of this state. Further rounding out the per- I sonality of this man is his grand | sense of humor. I liked the way his eyes twinkled when he was asked to pose with me for a picture.* From my conservation with him I also was impressed with the fact that Governor Townsend is undeniably a man who does things, I rather than talk about them. He possesses a resolute spirit and a determination to “see things through” that has characterized ; all great men who have, by dint ; of hard work and patience, pulled themelves up by their bootstraps ' to positions of prominence. As I was thanking the Governor , for his' kindness in granting me i the interview, he shook my hand > warmly and again assured me that ! it wasrhis pleasure. I like Governor Townsend tre- , mendousiy. I like his depth and I his sincerity, and I truly believe that Indiana has a Leader in whom they can place implicit trust, a Leader who will tret everyone’s problems as his own and who will give all he possesses to justify the peope’s faith ip him. *
City Sues Car-Owner VANCOUVER, B. C., Mar. 4 (INS) —It is quite common for a I person to sue a city for damages, | but the city of Vancouver rei versed the process in a $63 action I against Frank F. Doye and Gor- ! don C. Tudge. Their ears col- | lided at a intersection, and one of I them snapped off a lamp post-
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LEGISLATURE CONSIDERING BEHINfi BILL Passage Questioned By Political Writer And Observer By EUGENE J. CADOU International News Service Staff Correspondent INDINAPOLIS, Ind., Mar. 1. (hxb> —Gambling was a topic ot major concern as the current session of the Inuiana General Assembly began its last week today. Although the House has passed a pari-mutual race track betting mh, that measure will undergo a stormy career Jn the Senate this ,veek avd, if not stopped in that body, will run the gauntlet of couaideratton of Governor M. Clifford Townsend, who has twice announced that he is opposed to the bill. - r The pari-mutuel bill is one oi the most unimpeded gambling treasures e\er submitted to the Legislature. It would legalize horse, dog, automobile, turtle and all types of race track betting, according to its opponents. . Much Opposition Ministerial, civic, Parent-Teach-ers,farm: women and other asso iations are opposed to the bill.; These groups have prevailed sol far in legislative affairs, a In fact, son* of them were able to , prevent the state gross .income tax department from taxing bingo games amd other’gambling enterprises conducted by churches fraternal organizations and. similar institutions. A bill to prevent theaters and other amusement houses from conducting bank night undertakings likewise is accumulating cobwebs in the House public morals committee. One Armed Bandits Also, there, has been little legislative effort to prevent the almost universal operation of slot machines in Indiana, and on the contrary, there is a Fill in the House, submitted by some of the Lake County representatl res, which would legalize the machine once termed bj- Al Feeney, "one armed bandits." Since Feeney was discharged as State commissioner of public safety, after he had raided the Gieyhound Club at Jeffersonville and other resorts which maintained slot machines, the State police de-na>-‘ment has operated under a policy of refusing to confiscate aic machines, un.ess a request for raids is received from county officials. The State authorities also have refrained from curtailing the operation of dog race gambling in sever t«L Hoosier communities. Gambling Pro and Con Although race track gambling probably will not be legalized by the present General Assembly, a score of “bookie” shops are active within a few blocks of the Statehouse in Indianapolis and in many other Indiana communities, Recording to propcents of the parimutuel bill, Otfier forms of gambling, countenanced generally in the larger cities of Indiana according, to the pari-mutuel advocates, include pools of scores of baseball games, figures on bank clearings, numbers drawn by ariouv methods and apparently immune games of old- , fashioned poker. The current parimutuel measure. would utilize governmental revenues obtained to finance old age pensions. However, opponents of the bill have charged that the gamblers and racketeers would garner the lion’s share of gambling receipts, while the government units would bear the onus of legalized race track