Joplin Globe (Newspaper) - February 4, 1938, Joplin, Missouri THE WEATHER warmer In tad north Saturday mostly cloudy with moderate cloudy Friday and mild with warmer Friday In east cloudy Saturday mild to partly mild temperatures Friday and ' VOL. NO. 153. menu supports part of wright defense story Inbe FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS District Edition Publication Office Fourth Street Psychiatrist Says What Killer Saw Might Have Rendered Him Unconscious Before He BACKGROUND MADE HIM SUSCEPTIBLE TO SHOCK Defendant Earlier Takes Stand and Tells of Putting Up Wife's Engagement Ring as Los Feb. 3.-OP)-A psychiatrist to the aid of Paul Wright today in an effort to bolster the defense plea that the airport executive killed his wife and John his in a unreasoning A person whose adult life corresponded to that of a shell-shocked world war a tuberculosis a man who submitted to a sterilization for the safety of his young wife with whom ho was in unknowingly slay her and his man friend upon finding them in unusual Dr. Samuel Marcus The psychiatrist said the shock of such a scene render the man temporarily He might not know what he had done until he saw the results of his act. A Dr. Marcus testified as a defense witness at the murder trial of former airport The state charges that and with murdered his 29-year-old wife and John 32, when he found them at 1 a. m. on a piano bench in the Wright Dr. Marcus expressed his opinion at the end of a hypothetical question propounded to him by Jerry defense The question required an hour and 20, Lawyers said it was the longest hypothetical of that nature they could Most of it was a review of all defense some of the Wright's this lengthy preamble disposed Giesler then asked your could that by reason of the sight which he have received such a mental shock as to have rendered him unconscious at the said Dr. he have still a distance of 29 got his returned near the piano fired the gun six times without having awareness of his could An Explanation further questioning by Dr. Marcus said such a man might not have realized what he had done until he regained normal consciousness with a pistol In hand and bodies at his At Dr. Marcus gave an extended explanation of states of mental disassociation resulting from psychic trauma induced by Wright gave Glendale police an account of the telling of going after his automatic returning and pulling the To support the defense contention that Wright did riot actually remember all Giesler asked Dr. he reconstruct what he believed must have in view of the circumstances in which he found Prosecutor J. Miller objected to this as leading to Giesler rephrased his such a person be apt to reconstruct what must have on being confronted with physical Another prosecution objection was and Dr. Marcus individual coming out of unconsciousness resulting from shock always tries to reconstruct what occurred in the abhors a Nature abhors a lapse in The mind tries to fill it. had many cases of my own to Many of these efforts were Such cases are well known in psychology and are recorded in books can cite as many cases as the prosecution Cross-Examination the Leavy took up he you ever nave a patient walk Into your in an unconscious state for Dr. Marcus paused an instant and said Leavy tried to show this must have been a case of physical Dr. Marcus finally declared psychic FRIDAY FEBRUARY 4, 1938.-SIXTEEN Showdown With Nazi Party Demanded by German Army Hitler Reported to Have Approved Organization of Streamlined Cabinet to End Most Government Has Faced in of Air Force and Army Expected to Be Given Same Rank as Feb. Adolf Hitler was reported today to have approved the formation of a streamlined cabinet as the solution to the most serious crisis the nazi party has faced in Well-informed circles said this solution would mean the quiet absorption of the vanished power of Marshal Werner von resigned minister of by Colonel General Hermann Wllhelm the No. 2 Cabinet Rank for Cabinet rank would be given to the heads of the navy and air allowing the war ministry to disappear along with Von now on a honeymoon from which he is expected not to In this new Goering technically would be listed as air ranking equally with Colonel General Werner von commander-in-chief of the as war minister and Admiral Erich Raeder as navy But as Hitler's right hand man and head of economic defense position as coordinator of the nation's military and industrial economy would give him the dominant voice in all national defense In connection with this plan there was some talk of the removal of General Ludvig Beck as chief of staff to make room for General Walter von army corps Von Fritsch May Be It was also possible that Von Fritsch might be replaced later by some general not directly involved in the controversy between the army and nazi political leaders that broke with the resignation of Von Von Fritsch acted as army spokesman in suggesting that Von Blomberg resign because of his marriage to 28-year-old Erika a carpenter's The backed by his was said to have made the crisis the occasion for a demand for a showdown on the whole question of relations between the armed forces and the nazi The general public still was unaware of the stocks break lows of october LEADING ISSUES DOWN TO OR T. & T. TUMBLES en page New Feb. 3.-UP)-The stock already loaded down with nervousness over the general business was unable to withstand an additional selling wave in Telephone & Telegraph stock today and the prices of leading issues broke to or more a Many new low prices since 1935 were particularly among industrial and utility one of the most widely held issues listed on the bombs are rained on supply train AMERICAN AMBULANCE UNITS IN CARAVAN IN SPAIN ESCAPE France the Spanish Feb. 3. - - An American and French supply and ambulance train proceeding to the aid of the Spanish government was while and France sought to halt aerial bombardment of objectives in the Spanish civil Four American ambulance units in the caravan escaped harm when insurgent planes rained 10 bombs it as the cars were drawn up a off j in a main street of 15 At one it was sold a Down 14 Points In In Wall Street the selling pressure on this stock was attributed to over the forthcoming federal communications commission report on this which is being prepared after a two-year study of the Bell telephone The 14-point decline In this stock of which there are 18,685,000 shares the past week has wiped out around market value in this The Associated Press average of 60 stocks on the exchange closed at off the lowest since 1935-breaking through the low points in the heavy selling of last October 19 and November 23. In the midst of the a membership on the New York stock exchange sold for off from the last previous sale and the lowest price for a seat since 1918. In 1929, memberships sold as high as The dwindling volume of transactions in recent months has brought a continuing lower price for exchange Volume today was 1,088,350 shares against 583,910 Bond prices likewise slipped generally and commodities were lower for the most excepting Tulsan Dies Relatives of Lee 59 years of who died at Freeman hospital yesterday after collapsing in a bus station at 317 Joplin will arrive here this a war died at 10:30 hajf an hour after he had suffered a He was en route to a hospital for His body was removed to the Hurlbut Undertaking Company establishment miles below the French Three Spaniards Three Spaniards were reported killed and 12 others The caravan had come from France and government reports said the trucks were transporting food and Ing contributed to the Spanish government in Barcelona by French Pursuit planes from the government airport at engaged the raiders and were said to have shot down one Barcelona defense ministry ordered government airmen to refrain from attacking insurgent cities and towns behind during negotiations abroad to end such but an unofficial insurgent spokesman at Salamanca indicated Generalissimo Francisco Franco would reject the proposed France to Undersea Pirates Feb. 3.-UP)-French warships patrolling the Mediterranean sea outside Spanish territorial waters today were ordered attack and if any submarine discovered In the steamship The foreign office said these instructions were issued as a result of conferences in London after the sinking of the British freighter Endymion with loss of ten The announcement said a decision has been reached movements and actions of French and British patrol ships in the Mediterranean under the Nyon accord of last Secretary Anthony Eden in London yesterday laid proposals for tightening the Mediterranean patrols before the French and Italian HOURLY TEMPERATURES A maximum of 63 degrees was reached at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon when the temperatures reach a peak after a steady climb from a low of 30 degrees at 8 o'clock yesterday The temperature began falling slowly and at midnight it bad the 51-degree A year ago the 35 and the minimum 29. Hourly is. l p. 2 a p. 3 a. 3 p. 4 a. 4 p. 5 S p. 6 a. A p. 7 a. 7 p. 8 a. 8 p. 9 a. 8 p. 10 a. 11 a. Noon M. 10 p. ill p. 53 COLORADO TRIPPERS WILL VISIT JOPLIN Colorado Feb. 3.- good will tour through Oklahoma was planned today by the Colorado Springs Chamber of Officials said the from April 24 to May 1, would include nearly all towns in and stops would be made at and Mo. A good will party from Colorado Springs provided an hour of lively music in front of the Chamber of Commerce 112 West Fourth on a visit here two years When a crowd they were persuaded to join in group singing to the accompaniment of a small orchestra traveling with the small business group approves recovery plan Conference Calls for Long-Term Loans and Repeal of Profits Wagner Labor Act. TWO-DAY SESSION ENDS IN AN UPROAR Delegates Protest Adoption of Reports Without Discussion Fail to See Feb. 3.-(#)-The business adopted big resolutions of them pointedly criticizing the Roosevelt then adjourned in commotion and When the a posse of angry delegates was unceremoniously hustling a colleague out of the hall and police were resolutely heading another in the same Scores were demanding the right to talk and dozens were standing on chairs and press shouting and Many stood about in little groups and in unparliamentary language complained that the conference had approved recommendations to the president without discussion and without considering minority reports from its Score Gather After A score or more of the dissatisfied gathered in an upstairs room at the commerce department to continue their protests and provide a trying time for their M. A. Cincinnati At one particularly vexatious Moers darted out of the room with the announced purpose of a to enforce his The Resolutions which were approved were prepared by 10 committees and submitted by their some of the committees had wandered far from their assigned Duplications and contradictions were So the 10 chairmen were constituted a and given the task of condensation and After a meeting with Secretary of Commerce began their It had been intended that the chairmen take their recommendations to President Roosevelt in a few hours the White House announced that Roosevelt had such a heavy accumulation of mail and state papers to deal with that it would be impossible for him to receive the group The it was would be presented A Plea for Vividly recalling the turbulence of yesterday's Fred Roth of the pleaded with the delegates at the outset today to conduct themselves business The appeal had its and in not the conference approved the committee they made these Provide long-term loans for small business through government insurance of such loans or through a government Repeal the undistributed profits tax and modify the capital gains Repeal or rigidly amend the Wagner labor relations act. Simplify tax labor unions assume equal responsibility with the employers in carrying out End government interference cn page 4) Every Morning Monday PRICE FIVE CENTS rescue vessels on way to camp of 4 russians Two Soviet Ships Set Out to Save Scientists Perched on Ice Floe Off Greenland IMPERILED GROUP DRIFTS IN STRONG WIND Only Silk Tent Shelters Them From Zero 1,000 Miles From Original Feb. 3.-UP)-Two Soviet vessels picked their way through perilous seas tonight to four Russian scientists perched on an ice floe measuring 100 by 160 feet The imperiled campers who started meteorological observations eight months ago near the North Pole reported by radio they were drifting in a strong current and with a strong north northwest wind off the middle Greenland coast They had come more than 1,000 miles from their original Radio Operator Ernest Krenkel messaged that the wind had died down from gale He gave the position of the camp as about 150 miles east of Sheltered by Tent The campers were sheltered against zero cold by a silk tent with an emergency radio mast for a tent They had moved to the floe when their original icefield camping ground broke The captain of the small steamer the nearer of two rescue reported his ship was steaming northward through fog and a sea dotted with broken ice. The planned to pass Jan Mayen some 300 miles from the Greenland cruising around it to the north and then west to reach the The icebreaker Taimyr sailed from Murmansk with three planes lashed to her decks to make a rescue attempt should the fail or to assist if the rescue were delayed until the Taimyr could cover the 1,000 miles from Murmansk to the 3-Month Supply of Rescue operations were being directed by Dr. Otto J. who expected to leave for Greenland waters aboard another the within two or three Still other rescue operations were in the I. T. one of the original party of 11 that flew to the began inspecting planes for a possible attempt to pick up the Ivan leader of the has advised the rescuers there was a three-month supply of food on the floe and that all instruments and records were He that the floe offered no landing space for SECRETARY PERKINS TO BE QUIZZED TODAY Feb. 3.-UP)-Secretary Perkins agreed to appear tomorrow before the senate commerce committee which requested Information and her views on two controversial 1. Her reported opposition to compulsory mediation of labor 2. The attitude of the labor department toward requests that Harry west coast maritime labor be Committee spokesmen Bald Miss Perkins had asked that the meeting be behind closed Victims of Naval Air Crash voters to polls in kansas city NEW ELECTION MACHINERY PUT IN MOTION TO TER Kansas Feb. 8.-UP)-Modernized election set up by the new election board which Governor Lloyd C. Stark recently was set in motion today registering thousands of voters for the March municipal A few minor disorders and some complaints of confusion marked registration in 460 precincts by verification of preliminary applications and the answering of Officials New to Handling the work were scores of judges and clerks who were new to the The election board made sweeping especially in wards where the 1936 vote frauds were alleged to have Shannon C. chairman of the incumbent democratic organization's legal complained there was confusion in the Second and Third wards which either was or represented gross J. E. chairman of the election immediately sent deputies to those wards to iron out the Deputy election commissioners reported removal of a republican registration official who was carrying a pistol and the complaint of another republican official that four men in a cruising automobile threatened him with The registration will continue through Woman Feb. 3.-(fP)-Mrs. M. E. about 75 years whoso husband operated the Cherokee newspaper died tonight in a Mr. and Mrs. Milford came to in 1884. Milford had been captain of a pony express line including a link from to N. M. Two daughters One of Naval Planes in Crash Three naval died when the planes in which they were riding collided during maneuvers off the California coast Left to right Lieutenant Elmer Glenn commanding officer of the 11-P3; Cadet John second pilot of the 11-P3, and Lieutenant Carlton officer of the 11-P3. Eleven of the 14 men aboard the two planes were D. B. McKay machinist was among tho three His legs was This naval 11-P4, shown in a take-off at San collided with another ship during maneuvers off the California causing the death of 11 navy Fourteen were in the two relief task is growing HUGE SUM MAY BE ASKED OF CONGRESS TO TIDE GROWERS OVER Feb. 3.-UP)-Congress may be asked to appropriate a large relief sum to tide farmers over the administration officials disclosed Secretary of the Treasury announced that the relief task may call more money than is now Because of lack of the number of farm families depending on farm security administration grants has more than doubled in the last six months and that agency's funds are near Distress on Increased rural officials has occurred principally in North and South Nebraska and In certain Dakota more than half the farm population is on The total of families receiving grants increased from 53,000 last July to 109,000 In and many more families have been added to the list since Still more are expected to exhaust their food and money reserves before the new growing season provides them with their own These families receive an average of per In their support cost who was assisted in the discussion of relief financing by Budget Director Daniel W. said he did not know yet how much more money would be needed for farm He said ho and Bell would not oppose any needed JOHN LEWIS BOOMED FOR THE PRESIDENCY Feb. 3.-UP)-Two thousand shouting delegates to United Mine thirty-fifth convention heard John L. Lewis boomed for the presidency Frank lieutenant governor of Colorado and predecessor as president the expressed hope that some day the union would place one of its members in the White He added that the union had the material In When the delegates cheered this Hayes said he wished the convention was the democratic national Just before the convention adjourned Lewis said the union's policy for the next two years would be to support logical course of action to protect our The convention directed Lewis to demand a 30-hour week in the 1939 wage and hour negotiations with the soft coal The miners picked for their 1940 JUSTICE OBSERVES 76TH BIRTHDAY Feb. 3.- Justice James Clark celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday anniversary today by sticking to his supreme court He spent the day sitting in the court room listening to attorneys argue He appeared to be In good health and in excellent The bachelor oldest member of the court in point of was appointed by President Wilson In two giant navy bombers 11 fliers killed Sky Cruisers Crash During War Falls Into Pacific in Other Breaks ACCIDENT OCCURS DURING HEAVY RAIN Four One of Whom Are Picked Up in for Bodies of 10 San Feb. 8.-UP)-A midair night which destroyed two giant sky bombing took its eleventh life today and raised the death toll to 18 within four weeks in sea maneuvers of tho navy's newest sky In the midst of night battle exercises 70 miles at during a heavy rain squall last battleship and destroyer officers saw two of the world's most powerful sky cruisers One burst into The other fell in splintered of the 14 men aboard them were picked One died Three survivors are under treatment aboard the fleet hospital ship Rain squalls hampered search for the 10 other Craft of Latest The aircraft were of the latest type long-range Bky similar to squadrons recently flown to Hawaii and A with Beven vanished 26 days ago off the southern California coast in night Death roll of last night's tragedy included Lieutenants Elmer Glenn Cooper and Carleton Barmore both of Aviation Cadet John and the following Crew Maurice El Paul John Gregory Julian Chula and George Gordon Joe Earl Marion William Woodruff and J. H. all of San Calif. Ninety-eight warships and 260 fighting planes of the United States fleet were on five days battle exercises off the southern California coast at the time of the With divided forces the ships moved into night battle There were 40 sky cruisers in the Rain squalls and choppy seaa made the dangerous maneuvers even more tense than Crash Witnessed by It was 8:37 when the ness of the night was pierced by flaming collision of the two sky Officers and men aboard four battleships and 20 destroyers witnessed the worst plane disaster in American naval history as the bombers came together south of San Clemente The commanded by tenant crashed in ItB crew of seven Tha commanded by Lieutenant spun hurtling into tha choppy a mass of splintered War maneuvers of the force at the scene ceased from the dreadnoughts sped to the under glare ot a hundred The flagship Pennsylvania's picked up four They were taken to the battleship which sped to the hospital ship miles Hester died aboard the The three survivors are D. B. and V. O. with broken and L. S. with a fractured Their homes are in San Calif. By radiogram late today from the U. S. S. Admiral Claude C. commander in chief of the United States said that no further trace of the wreckage or possible survivors had been seen and the search was discontinued at Cooper Native of Little Feb. 3.-<#)- Lieutenant Elmer Glenn 32, commanding officer of the U. S. navy patrol the which fell In flames in the ocean off San last was a native of Ark. Mrs. Cooper and their small son live at San Calif. The naval officer was educated in the public schools of attended a preparatory school at and was graduated from the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis In 1927. Pension Benefits Feb. 3.-VP)-Senator congress today to provide pension benefits for Bailors killed or wounded in the Japanese bombing of the United States gunboat 06 2 51
