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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Jack McGurn, Killer for
Al Cdp0ne, Assassinated
in Chicago Bowling Alley
Gang Executioner Is Shot
in Back When Trio
Opens Fire.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-Machine
Gun Jack McGurn, No. assassin
Of the Al Capone gang, was assas-
sinated early today. Three gun
men shot him in the back. Though
he had many underworld enemies,
police could not Immediately find
a reason for the killing.
McGurn was shot down in a
bowling alley on. the Northwest
side, scene of many of the bloody
gang wars in which he acquired his
sinister reputation. A few hours
later police arrested his wife, the
beautiful Louise Rolfe, his blond
alibi" in the Valentine Days mas
sacre of seven years ago.
If the gunner had acted an hour
earlier McGurn would have died
on the anniversary of the most re-
voting crime Of Chicago gang his
tory-the execution of seven gang
sters at one time. He was the
chief suspect, but Mrs. McGurn's
alibi saved him from trial. Today
she was held for questioning.
Bursts Into Tears
my God, how bad is he," the
gangster's wife cried when Sergt.
Frank Donahue found her at
home.
Hes gone," Sergt. Donahue said.
Mrs. McGurn burst into tears.
She explained she had received
an anonymous telephone call from
a man who said, Jack has been
wounded"
Questioned about McGurn's re-
cent activities, his wife said he had
"a piece of a book in Melrose Park"
Police said he had been operating
as gambling bookie.
Since AL Capone's enforced re-
tirement, McGurn has been living a
quiet life. Until recently he
operated an elaborate gambling re-
sort with Ralph Capone, AIS
brother. Police found $685. on his
body.
Is Shots Fired
McGurn had gone to the bowling
alley with two companions. They
were awaiting their turn at an alley
when the three gunner entered
William Aloisio, proprietor, said they
fired Is shots. Two hit McGurn
one behind the ear, the other in the
back.
McGurn was born as Vincent
Gebhardi in Chicago's Northwest
Side, where alcohol cookers -four
ished during prohibitions hey-day,
He was about "a years old.
After a short career as a prize
fighter under the name of McGurn,
he adopted that title permanently
and rose to fame as AL Capone's
most favored killer during the lush
easy money dry era.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
GREENLEE DOOMED
FOR GOVERNOR IN
PLEA BY MINT0N
State Democratic Editors
to Hear Barley at
Session Tonight.
RECORD CROWD Is SEEN
Kentucky Senator Expected
to Pitch Into Critics OF
Administration.

A slashing attack on critics
of President Roosevelt is an
ticipated tonight when United
States Senator Alben w.
Barley, Kentucky, delivers
the principal address at the
midwinter banquet of the In
diana Democratic Editorial
Association at the Claypool.
Indiana's Senators, Frederick
VanNuys and Sherman Nlinton, and
Gov. McNutt are to speak, but SEN
ator Barkley's defense of New Deal
policies is the scheduled highlight
of the meeting.
The large advance sale of tickets
led association officers to hope for
a new attendance mark for the
midWinter sessions.
HoOsier Press Ends Sessions
The Hoosier State Press Associa-
ton, comprised of publishers of the
Indiana Democratic and Republic
an Editorial Association, the Indi-
ana Weekly Press Association and
the Indiana Daily Newspaper group,
closed its sessions yesterday after
going on record as being opposed
to consolidation or abandonment of
any Indiana townships. Confidence
in the township and county forms
of government was affirmed by res
olution.
Gov. McNutt recently gave ap-
proval to plans for township con-
solidation as recommended by his
Governmental Economy Commits
sion.
The Hoosier association also urged,
in recommendations for coming
social security legislation, that in
dustries with good records of steady
employment be permitted 20 estab-
lish and maintain their own unem-
ployment insurance reserves, as pro-
vided in the Federal act.
Gorrell's Paper Honored Again
Ned Gorrell of the Winamac
Democrat was awarded the Flor
ence Morgan Grim cup for the
second year in succession.
The cup is awarded for the best
weekly published in the state.
Speakers at yesterdays sessions
included: Russ Westover, comic
strip illustrator; Thomas Temple
Hoyne, Chicago customs controller;
Wray Fleming, Indianapolis customs
collector and association president;
Albert j. Beveridge Jr: Tom Wal
lace, Louisville Times editor; H. L.
Monarch, Richmond; Earl D. Baker,
Indianapolis Times business man.
ager; c. M. Davis, of L. S. Ayres
& Co.; James L. Kilgallen, Inter-
national News Service reporter. and
Edwin v. O'Neel, of the Hagers-
town Exponent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
DOLE RETURN FEARED IN RULING
GIVING VETERANS WPA PRIORITY:
LOCAL OFFICIALS NOT DISTURBED
Coal Raid
II Held in Creston, Ia,.
After Foray on Fuel
Yard.

By United Press
CRESTON, Ia, Feb. 15.-Eleven
~ men, arrested after 100 men
raided the Burlington Railroad
coal yards, today contended they
were driven to appropriate" coal
as the result of the fuel famine
in the state.
Authorities said there was
plenty of coal for every one in
Creston. They claimed the men
could have obtained fuel by ap-
plying to relief headquarters.
G. G. Palmer, special agent for
the railroad, conferred with COM
pany officials today on possible
charges to be placed against the
men who have been held in coun-
ty Jail without charge.
Coal Needed, Men Say
"I had only two buckets of coal
left to keep my house warm for
my wife and four children" Ray
Tillotson, one of the prisoners,
said. Il couldn't stand by and see
my family suffer"
Ralph Harm, whose wife is ex-
pecting a fourth child, explained
there was nothing else to do"
Earl Fezetei said his 4-month-
old baby was i'll in chilly home
Sheriff j. r. Ewing and Mayor
Ray Emerson inspected homes OF
all of the men and reported that
coal supplies were low in only
three homes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
U. S. Maps Last Ditch Fight
Against Decision of
Quaker JuriSt.
ORDER BY F. D. R. UPSET
Practice Is to Certify
Workers From Relief
Rolls of Needy.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. IS
The Philadelphia Federal
Court decision giving war vet
Grams job preference under
the $4,000,000,000 work-relief
program, held out the posi-
bility today of forcing a re-
turn to the dole in some Sec
tions until the case is finally
decided by the United States
Supreme Court.
The ruling, which the New Deal
will fight with all its legal strength, +,
also added insecurity to the liveli-
hood of 100000 needy now at work
and their 100000 dependents.
The decision rendered by Judge
George A. Welsh, is effective only
in his own district. He decided that
any able-bodied war veteran pre-
Senting honorable discharge papers
to a work-relief Office should be
given job, even it it means the
discharge of regular WPA work.
er to make room for him.
The Works Progress Administra- p
ton, since inception of its program
last April, has been assigning work
on only one qualif1cation-relief roll
status regardless of former service
records. The policy was ordered by
President Roosevelt.
Future Status in Doubt
Work-relief officials said the
$4,000 WPA workers in PHILADELPHIA
would receive their bi-monthly paw
checks tomorrow. After that, &C
cording to Deputy Administrator
Corrington Gill, their status will be.
doubtful.
If Judge Welsh's order still is in
effect, WPA will be restrained from
paying out its funds in his area
OF jurisdiction. The needy, many
Of them impoverished, will require
funds.
WPA may be forced to return to
NNAA Wv AOAAOA W hCCp Ito CIldIkGS LII
food, shelter and fuel. Similar ac-
ton might be necessary in other
sections if more Federal judges rule
similarly to Judge Welsh.
Road Funds Are Exempt
Meanwhile, MIR. Gill announced,
WPA and the Department of JUS
tice were planning to fight Judge
Welsh's ruling. If he refuses to
grant stay of execution of his
decree, the government will carry
the case to the Circuit Court of
Appeals
The suit, brought by BENJAMIN
Sprang, Philadelphia veteran after
being refused job, eventually will
go before the United States Supreme
Court. One of Mr.. Sprang's attor-
neys, H. E. Gardner, will file SINH
lar suit in the District of Columbia
Supreme Court within 20 days.
Granting of an Injunction in that
tribunal would make it nationwide.
1t would apply to all work-relief
expenditures with only the $780,
100000 allocated for roads excepted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Mans Hands, Feet Frozen
No Relief IN Sight

By CntJe0 PToSS
CHICAGO, Feb. 15.-The fourth
successive cold wave of the worst
winter of the centurys numbed
America today. Temperatures
ranged down to 38 degrees below
zero.
Snow and strong winds were fore
cast for most of the Northern states,
bringing the threat of another par
alyzing blizzard.
An airplane expedition was to
drop further supplies to a dozen iso-
lated communities in the frozen
Black Hills of South Dakota.
Fred Height, who flew medical aid
and food to marooned ranches yes
terday, reported ranch houses buried
in drifts. He saw dead cattle buried
in snow on the hillsides.
No indication of relief was given
by forecasters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
DRIVE ON SUSPENDED
CAR DRIVERS OPENS
Names to Be Posted With
Police Courts.

Guy Caldwell, now serving a CO.
day term at the Indiana State Farm
for drunken driving, has new
troubles today. A warrant for his
arrest on charges of operating a
motor vehicle after suspension of
drivers license has been issued.
Caldwell, who is 40 and lives at
422 N. Chester-st, is the first victim
of campaign to halt driving by
previous offenders, according to
Municipal Judge Charles Karabell.
Caldwell's license was suspended
July l, 1885, and he was arrested
for drunken driving Jan. 81, 1886.
AS a part of the traffic drive. a
list of motorists whose drivers IL
cenSes have been suspended is to
be filed in the traffic department
and in each of the municipal, courts,
according to Benjamin Friedman,
director of the financial RESPONSE
bility division of the State Auto
License Bureau, who conferred with
Judge Karabell yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
30,966 File for Bonus

World war veterans OF Indiana
have filed 30,966 applications for
full payment of their bonus with
baby bonds. The applications rep
resent approximately $15,000,000 in
bonds to be issued and cashed after
June Is.
Study of the applications by the
Veterans Bureaus regional Office;
has necessitated the employment of
five additional workers. The work.
ers took civil service examinations
to qualify, John H. Ale, regional
manager, said.
Very few adjusted compensa-
ton certificates have been received
for full payment upon which no
loans have been made" Mr.. Ale
said.
He estimated that the applications
represented less than one-half of the
$4,000 veterans who are expected to
request bonus payment.
They are coming in slower than
was expected. Several factors en-
ter into the slow pace of the appI-
cations, and one is that the vet
eral knows he can not cash the
bonds or possibly receive them un-
til after June Is, and so he is not
hurrying to file," Mr.. Ale said.
Veterans can not receive loans on
their policies after they have ap-
piled for full payment of the GER
tificates.
only yesterday we had a case of
a veteran dying and his widow in
destitute circumstances. The vet
eran had applied for bonus payment
but the widow can not receive the
full value of the policy with the
death of the veteran unless she
waits for the issuance of the bonds, y
MIR. Ale said.
He estimated that within three
weeks the first applications under
the Indiana Offices Jurisdiction
would be certified to the Washing
ton bureau for final check by the
Veterans Administration, the War
and Navy Departments, and the
United States Treasury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
VENEZUELA THROWS
OUT GOMEZ POLICIES
New Deal Promised After
Day of Rioting.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
CARACAS, Venezuela, Feb 49,
The iron dictatorship of Gen. Juan
Vicente Gomez, which endured %
years and was his monument, was
believed smashed today, less than
two months after his death.
A day of rioting in which four
persons were killed and Is injured
ended with bitter enemies of the
Gomez regime in key posts and with
President Eleazar Lopez Contreras,
to whom Gomez willed his power,
promising the country a new deal.
Gen. Gomez, fabulously wealthy
bachelor father of family of 80
offspring ranging from infancy to
middle age, planned that his dicta-
torship-started when Mussolini
was 25year-old Socialist and Hit
Ter was youth of 19-should
carry on.
But Lopez Contreras from the
moment he became provisional pres
ident in December showed a strong
disposition to disapprove any ex-
ceSses of the Gomez period, and to
placate the people by reforms.
A press censorship law issued by
Gen. Felix Galavis, governor of the
Caracas district, brought yesterdays
riots. Thousands of people turned
out in demonstration in support
of publishers who refused to issue
their papers. A general strike spread
quickly from Caracas to other
towns. Soldiers here fired upon
demonstrators. Mobs looted and
burned property of Gomez adher-
entS.
Conditions were reported quiet
today. Damage done by mobs seek
ing to avenge the shooting was esti-
mated at 100000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
FRANKFORT HUNGER
STRIKER ENDS FAST
Don't Let Me DE- Radio
TeChnician Pleads.
Times Specidl

Times Special
FRANKFORT, Ind, Feb. 15.-
my God, don't let me starve to
death!"
With this cry George Everett
Farrell, 30-year- unemployed In
dianapolis radio technician, gave UP
his 286-hour hunger strike last night.
He is in local hospital.
Weakened and emaciated, his skin
dry and feverish, lips cracked and
parched, Farrell lost 18 pounds since
Feb. 2, when he said he last ate and
drank.
A warning by physicians that he
could not live only two days more if
he continued the strike is believed
to have prompted him to break the
fast.
Farrell claimed The ordeal was a
protest against alleged unjust distri-
button of the $24,700 estate of his
grandfather, George Humberg, re-
tired Jackson Township farmer
who hanged himself in 1882.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
LEADERS BELIEVE THEY
CAN BLOCK INITIATION
New Deal Supporters in House
Claim Addei Strength.


WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Eouse
Administration leaders claimed
strength today to prevent action
this session on inflationary and
other legislative proposals lacking
New Deal apprival.
InflationiSts seeking passage of
the s3,000,0 100000 Frazier Lemke
farm mortgage bill lost ground as
leaders secured
withdrawal of additional names
from the petition to force House
vote on the measure.
Rep. Patrick Boland of Pennsyl-
vania, Democratic Party whip, an
nounced the number of names on
the petition had been reduced from
2l5 TO 200. 1t would require 218
names to force the bill to the floor.
The House is very evidently
against inflatien," Mr.. Boland said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Township Attorney Doubts
Decision Will Cause
Trouble Here.
MOST NOW AT WORK
Majority Are Engaged in
Private Employment, Says
Leo X. Smith.

Possibility that Indiana and
Marion County World War
veterans may be given prefer
ence in jobs on WPA projects
would not materially affect
the state and Indianapolis re-
lief rolls.
This belief was expressed today
by Leo X Smith, Center Township
Trustee attorney, and John H. Ale,
United States Veterans Bureau
manager for Indiana, upon receipts
of reports that Philadelphia Fed
eral court had granted ex-service
men right f-way" on WPA jobs.
Even if the Supreme Court up
held the Philadelphia decision 1 do
not believe it would add to a ma
terial extent to the WPA pay rolls
and force other workers-non- vet
erans-back on the township trus-
tee and direct relief" Mr.. Smith
said.
Disabled Veterans Pensioned
1.-THE able bodied war veteran has
been certified for WPA employment
either a job on WPA or is working
by the township trustee and in the
majority of cases would say has
either job on WPA or is working
in private employment" Mr.. Smith
says.
He pointed out that veterans not
on work relief who are disabled
through service-connected injuries
receive a monthly compensation
from the government.
If they are disabled by reason of
civil life ailments they would not,
in many instances, be able to take
proffered WPA employment, he
said.
Record Notes War Service
Miss Hannah Noone, Center
Township trustee, certified persons
for work relief to the Marion
County WPA office without regard
to their war record, it was learned.
But Mr.. Smith points out that
each certif1cation carries the nota-
ton of whether the family head or
a single person is war veteran.
This fact, despite WPA rules, not
to show preference, has not mill
tated against the veteran. His war
record, coupled with his ability to
work, as well as a man who is not a
veteran is taken into consideration
along with his need for employ
ment," Mr.. Smith said.
10000 Veterans in State
Mr. Ale said the state has an esti-
mated 10000 war veterans, with
$4,000 of that number residing in
Marion County.
"Other than the Indianapolis
area, wouldn't think the state
would be affected vitality by the
Philadelphia Federal judges ruling
if upheld by the Supreme Court
and applied to the entire nation"
said Mr.. Ale.
Mr.. Smith estimated that not
more than one-f1fth of the county's
$4,000 war veterans could be classed
as needy veterans.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
SNOW BLANKET
TO COVER ICE:
COLD TO STAY
Mercury Is to Descend to
5 Above Tonight, Is
Forecast.

Icy pavementS, with probably a
fresh layer of snow, are on the bill
for city motorists this weekend.
Although the mercury is expected
to climb some today, it will not go
above 20, according to the Weather
Bureau. The sun, which came out
early this morning, is to linger
awhile, and then probably will yield
to cloudiness.
Light snow hurries, already re-
ported moving in from the West,
may reach here before night.
Mercury Drops to
The thermometer dipped to 5
above early this morning, but
climbed to 10 by 9. Tonight's lowest
reading is to be S above, the
Weather Bureau forecast.
Slush, which handicapped motor
lists and pedestrians yesterday
turned to ice last night, adding ex-
ira hazards, and several accidents
were reported.
Two men are in City Hospital to-
day with frozen hands and feet. Ar
unidentified man was found by q
Waterman at the Brookside Lum-
Der Co., 1411 Commerce-av, lying ir
a doorway. His condition is de-
scribed as critical. There were nc
Identification marks on his cloth
ing.
Mans Hands, Feet Frozen
John Keene, so, of FOG N. Black
ford-st, was found lying in Camp
Sullivan last night. His condition
was described as fair at City Hos
pital, where he was taken with
frozen hands and feet.
Ice-bound srivers probably woulc
present flood threats in case of g
sudden thaw, it was said.
According to j. H. Arlington
weather bureau head, the rivers
have been at such low levels that
heavy precipitation or a sudden
thaw would be the only cause for
flood warnings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
Times Writer Discovers FiImdOm
Is Main Street With Face Lifted

Main Street with its face lifted!"
That's the way Norman Siegel.
Scripps- Howard special writer, sizes
up Hollywood as he explores it for
TIE indianapolis Times.
It's typical of the vivid, unusual
style in which Mr.. Siegel's Holly
wood stories are written. They be-
gin Monday in The Times.
They are to run on the Amuse-
ment Page every Monday and Tues
day during the next two weeks.
Mr.. Siegel has taken into Holly
wood brand-new viewpoint and a
fresh, brilliant style of writing.
He isn't taking the FPual routine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-15
VOTE IS NEAR
On FARM BILL
Senate Convenes Early to
Give Approval of
AAA Substitute.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. - The
Senate was called into session an
hour earlier than usual today to
give perfunctory approval to the
administrations substitute AAA
farm-relief bill.
More than score of Senators
were out of the city as the Senate
neared the climax of a 12-day de-
bate largely taken up by speeches
on the Constitution and the Su-
preme Court.
AS the farm bill approached pas
sage, President Roosevelt was re-
ported to have informed Democratic
leaders at the Capitol that he does
not inten dto press at this time,
either for Constitutional amend
ment or legislation restricting the
Supreme Courts power to invali-
date acts of Congress.
Action Is Demanded
A group of younger Democratic
Senators, aroused by the eloquence
of Senator George w. Norris (R.,
Neb), for curb on the court, is
demanding action on some of the
score of measures before the Sen
ate Judiciary committee.
Chairman Henry F.. Ashurst
of the Senate Judiciary Committee
and Chairman Hatton w. Summers
of the House Judiciary Committee
have been recent White House call
ers. While they have not discussed
their conversation with the Presi-
dent, it is understood they received
the impression he thought the time
inopportune for action on issues in
volving the Constitution or the
court.
Neither has participated in the
controversy over the court.
The farm bill probably would
have passed the Senate yesterday
if it had not been for a new out
burst of oratory about the Supreme
Court.
Precipj.ated by Dickinson
1t WIS precipitated by Senator L.
j. Dj ckinson (R., la, who said in
assai ing the farm measure that
majority rule should govern the SUI
preme Court as well as other
branches of the government.
That aroused Senator Norris. He
repeated with even greater vigor his
earlier statements that unless a
court decision was unanimous it
left a doubt as to the wisdom of the
verdict He asked Senator Dickin-
son if he would like to be tried for
murder if only a majority of the
jury was required to find him
guilty.