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Evening star., 1928-06-03

Sinopoulos, who have been in New
York for several days. viii return today
Evening star., 1928-06-03

The Minister Of Poland and Nine.
Ciechanowska will leave Washington
next week and go to Manchester, Mass,
70 spend the Summer.
Evening star., 1928-06-03

nrK. Charles L. Steel Of Pfiippl. W
Va. Is visiting hEr and Mrs. y. w. Cal
~ sFaeE- residence. 2gS East Capitol
street. HRS. Eteeg as sister Of Mrs
Evening star., 1928-06-03

Mss Dorothy Anne Boyle returned
from STeetbriar College yesterday and
Joined her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VII
liam " Boyle, az theft home, 1924 La
mont street. Miss Boyle received the
ls2s-2s scholarship at Eweetbriar this
Evening star., 1928-06-03

AEg. and AGrs. Robert Marshall q
CheTey1y have returned from q ghoTs
wsSss 20 New York City.
Evening star., 1928-06-03

Hiss Irene o. Oliver of Hot Springs,
Va, Is making a extended stay At the
Grace Dodge Hotel
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My Ma, Kid!
Uncle, 9, Takes 49,
Months Old Baby on
Long Train Trip.

BIZ United Press
" ANSAS CITY, Mo, Dec. 28.-
N The once popular tune,
you've been more than a mother
to me-" had a realistic meaning
today for 9-year-old Edward Hur-
ley of Grand Island, Neb.
Edward was travelling from
Grand Island to Cove, Ark. with
his 13-months-old niece, Barbara
Jean York, as his companion.
Edward and Barbara Jean
boarded a train here for the last
lap of their trip which will end
late this afternoon. Somehow, he
managed to get on the train
carrying Barbara Jean, her pill
lows, blankets and a large hat bag.
All this luggage was only part
of his troubles for the baby niece
had a cold and was inclined to
cry. During a short stay here be-
tween trains, he obtained medical
aid for the baby and also an all
day sucker, which was bought
with money given him by paSsen-
gers.
Edward will visit his aunt, Mrs.
w. T. Plunkett, at Cove, Ark,
until spring. The baby's father,
Louis York, works in the oil fields
at Big Springs, Tex, and next
spring the boy and the baby will
make the trip to Texas.
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Vanished
Search by Whole Town
for 4-Year-0Id Boy
Fails.

BU United Press
NRRVILLE, o., Dec. 28.-A
~ continuous search by virtual
ly all of Orrville's population
failed today to reveal a trace of
4-year-old Melvin Horst, who van
ished suddenly Thursday night,
possibly the victim of abductors.
Melvin disappeared from in
front of his parents home about
$50 p. m. Three hours later no
trace of him had been found and
the village firebell, sounding an
alarm, was rung.
Almost every man in town
turned out. Carrying torches and
lamps, the Searchers tramped
fields and gulleys within a radius
of three miles looking for the lad.
Melvin was last seen playing in
front of his home when his faith
er, Raymond Horst, returned from
work. After searching the neigh
borhood, Horst summoned police.
Radio station WADC, Akron,
broadcast description of the boy.
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ARMED GUARDS KEEPING
WATCH AT BANDIT TRIAL
Policemen on Stand Tell of
Bloody Gun Battle in
HOhIt Robbery.

While policemen described the
bloody gun battle they fought with
two bandits in the F. w. Hohlt &
Son dry goods store the morning of
Dec. 8, half a dozen guards con-
tinued to maintain vigilance in
criminal court during the trial of
Lloyd Amos in criminal court today.
Amos, Is, of 617l5 North Illinois
street, was captured in an automo-
bile outside the store while other
police were shooting it out with
Otto Price and Carl Kittrell, whom
they killed.
Guard States Witness
Presence in the courtroom late
Thursday of suspicious character,
who had followed Herman Armt1eld,
Kokomo, star state witness, for
three days, caused the extra precau-
tions by the guards who were pre-
pared to battle with any gangsters
so bold as to attempt to wreak ven
geahce on Armfield, the former
member of the gang, who informed
police of the holdup plot.
Over objections of Amos attorney
the state, through Detective Arthur
Field, introduced confession and
statements made by Amos i'm
mediately after his arrest in which
he was purported to have admitted
he suggested the raid, that they
met the night before at the home
of Kittrell and completed plans, met
at Kittrell's early the next morning
and that he drove Kittrell, Price
and Armfeld to the store, 1899 Ken
lucky avenue, the next morning.
May Rest Today
According to the confession, Amos
let the trio out a block from the
store, cleaned his windshield and
then drove slowly along. He had
just reached the front of the store
when the battle inside started, and
other police swarmed toward him
and made him surrender.
Amos lawyer, A. c.. Manning of
Kokomo, repudiateS this confession
and contends that Amos did not
know a holdup was planned, but
merely drove his friends to the store
as an accommodation that morning.
The state was expected to rest
this afternoon. Other witnesses to-
day included w. F. Hohlt, one of the
store proprietors; Lieutenant Roy
Pope, who was slightly wounded and
Detective Harry Trick, who told de-
tails of the holdup attempt.
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Included in the 81 200 loot
was $1,000 Of substatiOn post
office receipts.
The burglary came just eight
months after the stores safe was
looted Of $4,000, May 13, and the
new safe which withstood the mai4
assaults of the yeggs was installed.
Familiar With store
Apparently familiar with the in
terror of the store and the workings
OF the business Office, the yeggs wena
through the carefully planned burg
larry with machine-like precision.
They apparently hid one member
of the gang in the stores garage and
gained entrance when he unlocke !
the side door on Scioto street.
Pushing away a store truck, they
apparently drove their own car int
the garage, closed the doors and
descended to the store basement on
a freight elevator.
Then they hid behind a stairway
in the engine room until Everett M.
Garrison, 60, of the Denison hotel,
watchman, passed them on his
rounds of the building. This was
about l a. m.
Watchman Bound, Gagged
Two yeggs stepped into his path,
leveled pistols at him, and marched
him into an adjoining room, where
they bound his feet and hands with
picture wire and gagged him by
wrapping adhesive tape over his
mouth and eyes.
During the binding operation, the
other member of the gang joined
his two accomplices and he and
one of the other gang members
went to the main floor of the store,
leaving one man to guard Garrison.
In the optical department on the
main floor they surprised James
Hughes, 48, Negro, 1148 West
Twenty-f1fth street, the custodian,
covered him with pistol, and
marched him down the stairway to
the basement, where he received the
same treatment as Garrison.
Blow Safe Door
Telling the bound watchmcn that
seven members of the gang were
working in the store, two Of the men
went into an adjoining room, where
the huge safe is located.
Using a large quantity of nitro
glycerine, which they exploded with
battery and wire attachments, the
yeggs blew the outside door of the
safe to bits, pried open the interior
steel doors with crowbars, obtained
the $1,000, and sorted and pocketed
it leisurely before their attempt to
gain entrance to the safes interior
A huge pile of checks was sorted
from the money and left on a near
by table.
With acetylene torches, the yeggs
then resumed their task Of gaining
entrance to the safes interior. So
secure did they believe themselves
that they used nothing to deaden
the sound of the blast and the clang
of crowbars.
After burning three huge holes
in the top of the safe, the yeggs gave
up their attempt and went to the
stores main floor, where they made
their unsuccessful effort to get into
the jewel safe.
Burning three holes in this safe,
and apparently attempting to blow
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OF NATION OPEN
ANNUAL MEETING IN CITY

also on the morning program. Ar
thur L. Cross, University of Michi-
gan, presided az the former and
William E. Lingelbach, University
of Pennsylvania, at the latter.
Papers in the English history di-
vision were read by Frederick G..
Marcham, Cornell university; John
U. Nef, University of Chicago; w.
T. Morgan, Indiana university, and
Thomas P. Martin, library of con-
gresS.
Those on the program in the Sec
tional meeting on history and other
social studies in the schools includ-
ed August C. Krey, University of
Minnesota, and j. D. Hicks, Uni
versity of Nebraska. The latter led
the discussion on a paper present.
ed by Krey, entitled Thirty Years
After the Committee of Seven"
The paper told of the $4,000 gift
from the Carnegie Foundation to
finance a years research.
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YEGG GANG LOOTS PETTIS STORE;
2 WATCHMEN BOUND and GAGGED;
ROBBER HAUL ESTIMATED AT 81 600
Expert Cracksmen Work Leisurely for
Hours; Blow One Safe, Fooled in
Efforts to Open Two Others.
s., 900 POSTOFFICE MONEY is TAKEN
Thieves Apparently Familiar With Operation
and Interior of Business Offices and
Workings of A. D. T. Boxes.

gang of three yeggs, working expery for more
hours bound two watchmen, blew safe, and OBJ
tanned $1,000 in the Pets Dry Company store Thursday
night failed obtain the big prize of their venture the
stores Thursday receipts and the pay roll estimated at more
than $4,000,
They also failed to burn their through the stores
level safe which contained diamonds and other gems valued
a thousands of dollars.
using nrogycern to blow the double exterior doors
of the huge supposedly burgarproo sae which contained
the pay receipts and obtaining the $1,000 in boxes and
money bags shelves just inside the door, the yeggs burned
three holes the strong box in their effort to get the big
nrzn
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Stories of Conventions on Page Is.

Learned historians from through
out the United States were in IN
dianapoliS today attending the
forty-third annual meeting of the
American Historical Association and
allied bodies at the Claypool.
The opening session, a joint
meeting of the association with the
Mississippi Valley Historical Asso-
citation, got under way this morn
ing.
Some 600 savants, representing
the history departments of almost
every great American university,
are on hand for the gathering,
which will continue through Mon
day.
Tonight at general session to con
vene at $3.50 p. m., President James
H. Breasted will deliver his annual
address on 1.-THE New Crusade" The
noted scholar from the University
of Chicago will be succeeded in the
presidency by James Harvey Robin
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son, author of "The Mind in the
Making"
Among the outstanding plans to
be taken up and pressed forward is
the $1,OOO,O00 endowment drive for
financing historical research. Ivy
Lee, New York, is chairman of the
committee in charge.
Charles w. Ramsdell of the Uni
versity of Texas presided at the
joint meeting this morning.
James A. James of Northwestern
university presented paper en-
titled "Oliver Pollock, Flnancier of
the Revolution in the West;
Charles Roll, Indiana State Normal
school, Terre Haute, one on "Indi-
ana's Part in the Nomination Of
Lincoln in 1860" and w. H. Ste
phenson, Louisiana State university,
one on James Fl. Lane" this morn
ing.
Sectional meetings on English
History" and History and Other
Social Studies in the Schools" were
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'LEGGER Slain
BY HIJACKERS;;
WITNESS Held
Check Story of Shooting
Told by Urban Pope,
Victims Companion.
KILLED ON HIGHWAY
Attacked While Driving
Liquor Load Here,
Police Told.

Police today checked bootleg cir
cles and the story of a hijackers'
battle told by Urban Pope, 81, of
1125 Shannon street. for clews to the
Staying of Benjamin Franklin Whit
tington, alias James Carroll, 1921
North Pennsylvania street, formerly
of Clinton, Ind.
Pope, rum-runner who was SEN
fenced to twenty months in federal
prison in March, 1927, as the leader
in the Pope liquor conspiracy case,
declared that several men in blue
Stutz sedan shot Carroll, alias Whit
Tington, twelve miles north of Leb-
anon on the Lafayette road as they
were returning from Chicago with
a load of liquor.
Find Body in Car
Carroll fell from the car during
the shooting, Pope said.
He escaped, Pope said, with the
use of device on his car with
which he could leave such heavy
smoke screen behind him on the
road that pursuers had to slow
down to drive through it.
After shaking off the hijackers,
he turned around on side ROAD
and got CarrolPs body, he said.
Then he drove here, throwing away
the liquor load as he drove, and
called police.
Police, however, are working on
the possibility that Pope and Car
roll we're doing the hijacking and
that Carroll was hanging on the
running board of the car when shot.
Pope denied he ever carried gun
in his car, saying he used his smoke
screen to escape hijackers, but po-
lice found some revolver cartridges
in the car and a clip of automatic
shells in his house.
Sergeant Oral Chitwood and squad
found CAROLS body huddled in the
rear seat of Pope's Auburn sedan in
front Of his home when they
answered the call at II p. m. Pope
at first said he and Carroll had been
visiting friends southeast of the city
when Carroll was shot. Lawrence j.
Donahey, rooming at Pope'S home
and Pope were held on orders of
Coroner G. H. Keever, pending in
veStigatin of the Staying.
Pope said the hijackers who
killed Carroll shot from the right
side Of his car. Police found two
bullet holes in the right door of
Pope'S car which they reported
seemed to have been fired from the
left side or from inside the car.
Sought by Police
Detectives Emmett Englebright,
George Hubbard and Clarence Col
der, who Nrove to the scene of the
shooting as described by Pope,
found blood and glass on the Lafay-
cite road a short distance in Gin
ton county.
BlOodstains and footprints lead
ninety feet into wheatf1eld, where
there was a large blood spot as if
some one had been laid there. They
found auto tracks in the field $50
feet north and several unexploded
and several exploded 30-30- -caliber
mushroom rifle cartridges.
Police believe the slain man is
man federal men have been seek
ing for several months as Jimmy,
the king" a booze gang leader.
He is survived by bride of seven
months, Mrs. Lorene Wilmington,
or Carroll, a waitress in a down.
town coffee shop, who said she had
not seen her husband for several
days. She said she knew her huS-
band had been rum-runner and
had urged him to stop.
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HUSBAND OF GUN GIRL
CHARGED WITH SLAYING

and started for Canton to surrender
her.
En- route the gunwoman was shot
and killed. Heldman claimed she
committed suicide. After an inves-
tigation he was held under $4,000
bond as a material witness.
The warrant was sworn out by
Coroner T. c. McQuate, before DON
aid Smyth, justice of the peace.
The county grand jury will re-
ceive the charge when it convenes
on Jan. 2. Heldman, meanwhile, is
still held in lieu Of bail.
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Bg United Press

BU UNltCu Pf6S8
CANTON, o., Dec. 2S.-Wilbur C..
Heldman, Lorain, furnace salesman,
formally was charged with murder
today in connection with the death
of his wife, Margaret, the phan-
tom gunwoman, who was shot to
death after she confessed killing
Vernard Fearn, Waco coal dealer.
Fearn, with whom the gun girl
admitted intimacies, was shot to
death on the night of Dec. 6, accord
ing to the husbands story. A week
later, Mrs. Heldman confessed and
her husband bundled her in his car
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MOST PRECOCIOUS FROG
FOUND BY EXPLORERS

Species Discovered in Bermuda
SkipS TadpOle Stage.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 28.-The worlds
most precccious fog, one that
emergeS directly from the egg as
a froglet, emitting entirely the tad
pole stage through which other
members of its family pass, has
been found in Bermuda by the
Crane Pacific expedition of the
Field museum.
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the doors with q charge of soup"
the yeggs gave up the effort.
While working on the gem strong
box, the yeggs took pains to deaden
the attending noise by obtaining
expensive blankets from the coun-
ters and covering the safe with
them. Several of the blankets were
burned by the explosion or the
torches.
Little Jewelry Taken
Unable to gain access to the jewe'
strong box, the yeggs went to the
stores jewelry department and
swept a quantity of inexpensive
jewelry from a counter and returned
to the basement. The entire mount
of jewelry taken is valued at not
more than $100.
After tightening the thongs that
bound their two prisoners the yeggs
left the store in the same manner
they had entered, driving their ma
chine casually from the garage
without bothering to close the
door.
While in the store the cracksmen
had registered the twenty-six A.
Z. T. watchmen's boxes in the store
regularly and showed their familiar
ity with the store by leaving un-
touched the twenty-seVenth box,
which would have sounded a bur-
glar alarm.
A discarded Chicago newspaper,
on which were figures describing
the order in which the A. D. t.
boxes should be registered and set
ting forth the location of the bur-
glar alarm box, also pointed to their
knowledge of the stores interior.
Six Other Safes in Store
For ten days, until last night, the
entire store receipts had been taken
to the bank and virtually no cash
had been left in the safes at night.
Six other safes in tn store, none
of which contained money, were
left untouched. A seventh safe,
however, contained a large amount
of money.
Soon after the yeggs had de-
parted, the bound Negro custodian
twisted loose enough to reach a
knife in his pocket, with which he
cut himself and Garrison free.
Garrison telephoned police at
a. m, half an hour after the yeggs
departed, and an emergency squad
sped to the store.
To Sergeant Leroy Bartlett and
members of his squad, Garrison and
Hughes told their story Of the bur-
glary.
Garrison, who has been a watch
man at the store for more than
twenty-three years, was making his
o'clock rounds when the two ban
dts accosted him.
"Stick 'em up" the yeggs, both
short young men, ordered.
II could do nothing but obey"
Garrison said.
Told He Wouldn't Be Hurt
Ordering him to keep quiet and
you won't be hurt" the yeggs be-
gan their work of binding him.
The bandits said little until after
was brought to the engine
room and bound. Then the two
short men left, and the tall yegg,
left to stand guard over the pris-
oners, proved quite a conversation
alist.
I'VE have seven men in this gang,
and we're going to clean up big.
We came to this burg in an air.
plane and we're going to be in one
again before any one knows what's
here" he said.
"I used to work here about four
years ago." he continued. II got
only $14 a week salary then, and
I've come back to get the rest of
it now. Say, we had a man in this
store all day yesterday" he volun-
teered.
Before leaving, the yegg-guard
took a pocketbook containing $50
from Garrison.
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Smoker Fatally Burned

BIZ United Press =
LOGANSPORT, Ind, Dec. 2S.-
Charles Wilson, 80, farmer, was
burned to death after he had fallen
asleep with cigarette in his mouth.
The body was found today by a.
brother who stopped at the home to
call Wilson for work.
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EXTRA
Shnm11keY
MmStGO
tOFaYn1

State supreme court today
ordered the Rev. E. S. Shu-
maker, superintendent Of the
Indiana Anti-Saloon League,
back to Indiana state farm to
serve his sixty-day sentence for
contempt, thereby holding the
pardon issued by Governor Ed
jackson to DIR. Shumaker Oct.
Is, illegal.
DR.. Shumaker was taken to the
state farm the morning of Oct. 10.
A telegram from the Governor, par
doning him, was waiting at the farm
when he arrived in custody of the
sheriff of supreme court.
1t took half day to complete
the technical matters incidental to
the release at the farm, during
which time DR.. Shumaker sat in
the admitting room with dozen
bootleggers and others convicted of
petty crime.
Shumaker Held Guilty
The annual report of DR.. Shu-
maker for 1925, published in 1926,
in which some supreme judges
were termed "wet," was the basis
of the original contempt action.
Attorney General Gilliom filed an
information, the court referred the
matter to five leading lawyers act
ing as friends of the court and a
majority of these lawyers held that
DR.. Shumaker was guilty. On Aug.
6, 1927, the court found DR.. Shu-
maker guilty and later sentenced
him to serve sixty days on the farm
and fined him $3.50.
A month later, Gilliom petitioned
the court to increase this punish
ment, alleging, with the publication
of correspondence between DR.
Shumaker and Senators Arthur r
Robinson and James E. Watson.
that he again had committed con-
tempt through an alleged effort tc
get political pressure brought upoIl
the supreme judges to free him.
Court Reaffirms Action
Almost a year later, the court
reaffirmed its action in the original
case, but did not add to the SEN
tence.
On Oct. 18, this year DR.. Shu-
makers attorneys gave up the fight
to get a new hearing and the COM
mitment to state farm was issued
that day, with the subsequent de-
nouncement the next day.
Gilliom Immediately filed a brief
alleging the Governor had no pow
er to pardon a person in contempt
of supreme court in such a case as
this and moved that the judgment
be carried out.
DR.. Shumaker's attorneys last
week, in a final effort, filed an ad-
ditional brief, arguing that the SUI
perintendent had passed beyond the
power of supreme court Dec. 18,
when the calendar period of his
sixty-days sentence, which he had
started to serve when pardoned, ex-
pired. The attorneys cited a de-
cision Of Justice David A. Myers in
support of the contention.
GiIIiOm Hits Back
Gilliom this week countered this
with argument that there was no
parallel between the Shumaker case
and the case upon which Judge
Myers ruled.
He held that in the former case
a court itself had had hand in
the releasing of the prisoner before
his term expired, whereas in the
Shumaker case Governor Jackson
had pre-empted power and figura-
lively taken the prisoner away from
supreme court, with no action what
ever OF the court to lend legal color
Denies Engagement
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Denies Engagement

BIZ United Press
CANTON, O., Dec. 28,-Miss
Adelaide Chase, playing in "On
Call" at the Waldorf theater, New
York, denied today that she was
engaged to Harold E. Fighter, AL
bany bureau manager of the United
Press. Her denial was contained in
telegram to her father, Russell
G. Chase, here.
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CONFiSCATE BAD FOOD

$4,000 Spoiled Goods Hauled From
Wholesale Grocery.
By United Press
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. %. - City
food inspectors confScated and de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of spoiled
canned goods and other foods from
Nathan Comensky's wholesale groc-
cry here, then sent him the bill for
hauling the stuff to the city dump.