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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
TRUST
REPORT MADE
Resources $29,151,0 900,
Says WooIlen at Luncheon.

Total resources of the Fletcher
Trust system as of Dec. 81, were:
$29, Isl ,40372 including deposits of
sac, 543, 1884, Evans WoolIen, pres
ident of the Fletcher Savings and
Trust Company, told directors and
officers of the various Fletcher
Trust institutions at luncheon today
at the Indianapolis Athletic Club
The statement of condition in
cluded trust funds invested, $780,
668,377l1; trust funds uninvested,
$149, 1874; customers securities,
So $40, 1864; corporate trusts, $780,
016,00000, and real estate trusts of
$5,513,650.00. Total resources of the
Fletcher Joint Stock Land bank
were given as $16,494, 702.6S. Loans
to farmers of central Indiana and a
few Illinois counties, total $15,-
648, 498.76.
John H. Donlon, Chicago, spoke
on Bank Cooperation" and Hugh
NICK. Landon, vice-president and
chairman of the executive commit
tee, discussed the company's bust
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
DEATH WINS IN RACE
TO SAVE CHILD'S LIFE

Plane and Train Used in Rushing
Aid to Texas Boy.
BIZ United Press
TEMPLE, Tex, jan 14.-Death
won a, spectacular race with man
and machine here last night.
Airplanes, rushing oxygen inhal-
ing apparatus here to save the life
of Preston A. (Sunnie) Childers, i'll
with influenza, we're forced down
by silowstornns in Missouri and
Ohio. The instruments were trans
ferred to trains, but arrived here
after "Sunnie's" death.
The child was the grandson of
DR.. A. G. Scott, prominent surgeon.
Or. Scott said he was confident
the inhaling apparatus would have
saved the boys life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
BANK QUIZ ORDERED
Grand Jury to Probe Wild
Failure, Poor Farm.

Specific instructions to reinvesti-
gate the j. F. Wild & Co. State
bank failure of 1927 and to probe
conditions at the county poor farm
we're given the new grand jury to-
day by Criminal Judge James A.
Collins.
The jury selection was completed
when Edward c. Ossenforth, 8l6
Parker street, employed by a cream
separator company, and Emil H.
Kottkamp, 1863 Union street, cleo
trical contractor, qualified. The
court had been attempting to COM
plete the jury for two weeks.
Vance z. May, 2025 South Me-
ridian street, was named foreman
Other jurors are Harry F. Hohlt, r,
R. o., gardener; Elnore G. Shirley,
Acton, farmer, and REESE A. Max
we'll, q West Pleasant Run boule-
ward, partner in a scale and weight
company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
METER RACKET HITS
UTILITY FOR $4,000
Reads Electric Bills, Turns Machine
Back, Saves IS Merchants.

Reads Electric Bills, Turns Machine
Back, Saves IS Merchants.
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. IA new rack
ct came to light in this racket-rid-
den city today.
It is known as the electric meter
racket and has been operated at a
large profit by Louis Newman. %.
Newman confessed that he had a
clientele of ninety-f1ve merchants
on whom he made monthly calls.
Every time he called on merchant
he went into the basement and
turned the electric meter back so
that when the meter reader came
the meter would indicate that the
electricity bill of the place was
smaller than it actually was.
The Commonwealth Edison Com
pany estimated that the merchants
who conspired with Newman de-
frauded the utility concern out of
from $4,000 to $4,000. Newman
said he divided the savings with the
merchants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
LOVERS FLEE FATHER;
LEAP OFF ROOF; | DIES
Jump 80 Feet After Chase; Girl Has
Fractured Skull.
BIZ L-mited Prcsa

BIZ United Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan, IA
Death today separated Hilaria Saul
sedo, 81 and her sweetheart, Frank
Tomallo. 81, who poined in a thirty
foot leap from an icy roof to escape
Hilaria's father.
Hilaria carried on a courtship
with Frank against the will of her
father, Santiago Sausedo. The low
ers sought refuge from his wrath by
leaving home. The father pursued
them. The chase led to the roof
of a three-story building. Frank
and Hilaria attempted to leap across
to the roof of an adjoining build
ing. Both fell to the pavement.
Frank died in a hospital today
Hilaria suffered fractured skull.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
TWO BANDITS GET $40

Thomas Mingo, 1926 Pleasant
street. reported to police today the
loss of SAB Sunday night when he
was held up by two men at Lexing-
ton and Olney streets.
Ningo said he got Of street car
ar tie corner and took q few steps
wnen two men got out of a parked
automobile and robbed him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
100000 LOVE THEFT
SUIT TRIAL BEGUN

Start Selection of Jury to Hear
Charges Against Piano Salesman.
Selection of jury to hear the
100000 alienation of affections suit
of Vasile Vitelaru, baker, 104O South
Fleming avenue, against Charles NJ.
Bates, SO, piano salesman, 1886 Ash
land avenue, was begun before Su~
perior Judge William o. Dunlayy
today.
Vitelaru charges that Bates be-
came acquainted with his wife. Lou
Use, when he sold her piano. Bates
made frequent visits to the yitelaru
home later and enticed Mrs. Vite-
laru to flee with him June %, 1927,
deserving her husband and 4-year-
old daughter, the complaint alleges.
Vitelaru since has obtained a di-
vorce. Bates denies the charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
FEW FIRES REPORTED
$500 Damages Done by Blaze in
Home; Garage Burns.

In spite of the cold weather there
were few fires here over the week.
end.
Damage at the home of D. B.
Head. 1871 Hall place, Sunday aft
ernoon. from fire started by an
overheated furnace, was estimated
at $500. Flames destroyed a garage
of Lawrence Yonkman, r. r. r,
Box 152. southeast of the. city, with
damage estimated at $500. A truck
also was destroyed. In several other
fires the damage was placed at less
than $50.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
HORROR TALE
OF ITALIA TOLD
IN new BOOK
Left Scientist Halt Naked
to Die, Companion Is
Charged.

BIZ United Pres
NEW YORK, Jan IA word
picture of two men Of the Italia
expedition on an Arctic ice cake
one. Captain Filippi zappi, warmly
clad In three suits and the other
Captain Alfred Mariana, half-naked
and helpless. waiting to die and be
eaten-was painted in book, The
Krassin," written by Maurice Pari-
Jaime, a French journalist, the
translation of which was published
in this country today by the Macau-
lay company.
The book takes its title from the
Soviet ice-breaker that went to the
rescue of the crew of the Italian
dirigible, Italia, which crashed
while on a flight to the North Pole.
Lay Down to Die
Zappi, Mariana and Finn Malm-
gren, Swedish scientist, set out to
find aid after the airship, COM
msnded by General Umberto Mobile,
met disaster. Malmgren, according
to statements of zappi after his
rescue, had a grave hacked out of
the ice, handed his food and sur
plus clothing 70 his two companions
and sat down in the grave to die.
zappi and Mariana pushed on
and we're next heard of when the
steel-prowed Krassin cut its way to
the ice cake on which they f1oated.
There, according to the book. lay
Mariana, thinly clad, and zappi
stood over him wearing three suits.
Mariana, looking up at Zappi, had
said, according to Parijanine:
when I die you can eat me, but
not before"
Apparently Well-Fed
Parijsnine was not on the Kras-
sin, but persons who we're, con-
firmed Mariano's statement, the
author claimed.
The writer challenged zappi'S
statement that Malmgren lay down
in an ice grave to die; he wrote that
Zappi apparently was well-fed when
rescued end that he wore clothes
belonging to Malmgren and to
Mariana.
The Italian government is investi-
eating the Italia disaster this week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
PUBLICITY DEMANDED
ON BIG TAX REFUNDS
Senator Mcclellan Will Ask Action
by Congress.
BIZ Times Special


by Congress.
BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Senator
Mcclellan of Tennessee will make a
new effort to force publicity on big
income tax refunds made by the
treasury when the first deficiency
appropriation bill comes before the
senate this week.
He secured approval yesterday
from the senate judiciary commit
tee for an amendment providing
that all cases involving over $4,000
shall be certified to the board of tax
appeals, and that the board shall
draw up regulations for refund set
Elements
At present, the treasury makes
it's own regulations. Qualification to
the board would make the case rec
ords public, Mcclellan explained. At
present they are held secret by the
treasury, except for the report of
settlements made once a year to
congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
Stone Operator Dies

Ia Ifmfs Nncci0f
BEDFORD, Ind, Jan. 14.--Funeral
services were held today for Robert
Reed SO, prominent stone operator
in t. Bedford Bloomington district,
who died Saturday of pneumonia.
He had been for many years presi-
dent of the Reed-Powers Stone
Company here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
railway Coach DRAFT Charged

BIZ United Press
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. a.
Charges that his predecessor in Of
flee made illegal purchases OF
1897 900 worth of railway coaches
from two United States firms have
been made by Manual J. Claps,
Argentine administrator of state
railways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
HUGE AREA TO BE SAVED
Reclamation of 1a5.0O0 Acres in
Everglades Started.

By United Press
CLEWTSTON, Fla, Jan. 14.-Re-
clamation of a great area of swamp
land started today, when the mill of
the Southern Sugar Company was
opened formally here.
The company has obtained $4,000
acres of E7arglade property and B.
G. Dafllbezg, the president, said the
company planned string of sugar
mills extending between Clewiston
and Canal Point.
The second mill will be completed
by 1929.
Many acres of sugar cane are I'M
der cultivation now and Dahlberg
said an additional $4,000 acres
would be planted next year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
POLICE REFUSED POOL

Don't Need Training to Swim Is
Ruling in Milwaukee.
BIZ United Press
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 14.-A SWIM
ming pool is unnecessary to train a
police patrolman. the city council
decided today, in crossing off a pool
from the proposed plans of new
public safety building.
j. G. Laubenheimer, police chief,
asked for the pool to teach life saw
ing and to keep his force physically
fit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
BANDITS BIND VICTIM

Lynn Filling Station Attendant Tied
to Pole on Cold Night.
By Times Special
LYNN, Ind, Jan. 14.--Dick Jones,
today is apparently unframed as a
result OF being tied to a telephone
pole in freezing temperature after
which he walked eight miles, follow
ing robbery Of filling station
where he was employed as an at
tendant.
After robbing Jones of $3.50, two
bandits forced him into an automo-
bile and driving eight miles into the
country and tied him to the pole.
He managed tc free himself and
walked back here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
| KILLED PUSHING AUTO

BIZ United Press
HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan IA. -
Uriah Howard Hench, So. of this
city, was instantly killed last night
when an automobile which he was
pushing out of the garage, toppled
over on him.
Mrs. Anna Spencer, who was in
the machine, suffered possible frac-
tured ribs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
YALE STAFF INSURED
ON $5,000,000 POLICY
Group Plan Covers All Members
From President to JanitOr.

BIZ GJ,frd pr~gs
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Jan. IA
The staff Of Yale university, from
president down to humblest janitor,
is insured under a group insurance
plan involving 100000.
The first months premium was
paid in full by the university, an an
nouncement said today, but after
Jan. 10. part of the premium must
be paid by the individual or the pol
icy will become void. The University
will continue to pay "a substantial
portion" of the premium, the an
nouncemept said.
It is believed to be the largest
group insurance of its type negoti-
ated in the state.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
Six Below in Indiana

81 9pSYSsfAiI & CENTER, Ind, Jan. IA
The United States weather bureau
here reoprted the temperature at
zero at 8 a. m. today. 1t was 6
below zero Sunday, according 10
the renort.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
CAPITAL WEDDING SET

Assistant Navy Chiefs Daughter
Marries yiseount's Son Today.
BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.-Miss
Elizabeth M. D. Robinson, daughter
of T. D. Robinson, assistant secre-
tary of the navy, will be married to
Jacob Blaise de Sibour here this
afterneon at her fathers home, it
was learned today.
The bridegroom is the son of
Visoount and ViScountess Jules
Henri de Sibour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY is
OVER EARS IN WORK
Great Demands Are Being Made on
Government Bureau.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. IA. The
Geological Survey is making a topo-
graphical map and water resource
inventory of the entire United
States and for these purposes the
states of the Union have contributed
s750, 900. George Otis Smith direc-
tor, said today in his recent annual
report.
Popular interest in the work of
the Geological Survey, Smith said,
has put upon the survey ''increas-
ing demands" that are gratifying,
wen though embarrassing"
Chambers of commerce. mining
and development associations and
engineers are asking for federal in
Vestigatiops in aid of mining and
other developments, it was stated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
HELD ON Lo0TING COUNT
City Police Believe Man Robbed
South Side Mail Boxes.

Fred Hartman, alias Fred Cum
ningham of indianapolis, held at
Danville, Ill. is believed to be the
man who looted half a dozen street
mail boxes on the south side about
six weeks ago, according to Detec-
tive Chief Jerry Kinney.
Hartman was arrested in a Dan
vile bank when he acted suspicious
" and several checks made out to
different persons we're found on him
Hartman also is wanted here on a
vehicle taking charge, Kinney said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
British warships to Visit U. {

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan 14.--Secre-
tary Kellogg has informed the war
department that the British war
ships Helicopter and Colombo will
visit the United States this spring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
CRACK TRAIN CRASHES
None Hurt When Engine and
Seven Passenger Cars Overturn.

BIZ United ProSs
PLEASANT HILL, Ill, Jan. IA
The locomotive and seven cars of
the Hummer" crack Chicago & Al
ton passenger limited bound from
Chicago to Kansas City turned over
when the train ran through a
broken rail near here today.
Officials of the railroad said no
one was seriously injured and that
all the passengers were sent on their
way by special train.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
Beats Quinine
For Colds
RELIEF IN 30 MINUTES

Quinine causes roaring head, pina-
pies, nausea. And it ISN'T the best
treatment for colds or grippe. It
you want to lose that achey, draggy
feeling in a hurry, if you want your
cold to fade overnight, try Laxa-
Pirin. It contains aspirin, laxatives
and other valuable elements. No
uuinine. Thousands now use it
Pleasant, safe, and there is posi-
lively nothing like it for quick re-
suits. Just as wonderful for head
ache. neuralgia, lumbago, and gem
eral pains. Insist on genuine Laxa-
Pirin. All druggists. 25c.
GHa:Hs6
Aspirin Combination
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-01-14
PASTOR RAPS DARRoW

Rev. w. A. Shullenberger, Attacks
Noted Attorneys Theory on Man.
The Rev. w. A. Shullenberger,
pastor of the Central Christian
church, attacked the nleehanistic
theory of Clarence Barrow, famous
Chicago attorney, in a Sunday SER
mon on "The Ninety Eight Cent
Man"
The Rev. Mr.. Shullenberger con-
tended that although man disinte-
grated into dust, lit is dust led by
an ideal-the image of Cod"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-12-26

the farmer because of the huge num-
bers, of those engaged in agriculture
must be given some special device
whereby he can gain the benefit of the
tariff imposed as a protection on his
products or else he must sell his sur
plus outside the tariff walls on the
world market.
1These unfair conditions must be
remedied if agriculture is to survive,
and it is unthinkable that agriculture
should not survive. Thirty millions
of our people live on farms, and with
out their efforts in raising foodstuffs
and other raw materials the manu-
featuring industries of this nation
could not run for a single day.
THE finance committee have helped
the tariff bill considerably but still
there is wide, disparaging gap be-
tween the Industries of the country
and agriculture"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-12-26
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
Editorial Comment From Other News
papers, Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the AskOv American.)
TWO HUNDRED DECOYS

| TRANSLATED from Diet Danske Uge-
blad," Danish language weekly
published in Minneapolis.)
Two hundred editors, who publish
newspapers in smaller towns through
out Minnesota and adjoining states,
! have recently undertaken jointly to
tell congress at Washington what the
farmer of the northwest wishes to
have accomplished in the way of tariff
legislation. In one of the leading pa
pers at Washington, the capital city,
large advertisement has appeared
wherein congress is beseeched to pass
the tariff bill at once and as it stands,
with its few advanced rates on farm
products, and also with the increased
rates on Industrial products contained
in the Hawley and the SmoOt pro-
posalS. The advertisement is signed
by 200 editors out here in Minnesota,
and the surprised reader must gain
the impression that these editors are
mouthpieces of the great majority of
farmers in the northwest.
Such an impression is as false as
possible. No one can doubt that if the
farmer wishes congress to do anything
at all toward uplifting or relieving
the old and estimable pursuit of soil
tlling, it must be to obtain complete
parity with other national pursuits
And that can never be gained by
means of any laws written by Hawley,
SmOot or cOnsorts.
What these 200 editors from small
towns in Minnesota have tried to do
is to please their lords and masters.
1t would not, of course be too much
to expect the small town newspaper
to put up good hot battle on behalf
of the farmer, but such is not general
ly the case. The editors have tried to
please the big merchants, the great
manufacturers, the merged bankers as
we'll as the other consolidated powers
who from time to time cast the
crumbs from the banquet table of
organized enterprises into the adver-
Using columns of the small town pa
pers.
Not a single one of these editors can
prove that they speak on behalf of a
greater circle of farmers in their
neighborhoOd. Not a single one Of
them has called meetings of farmers
to discuss or gather the current SEN
timent among farmers. They have
merely permitted themselves to be
used in an attempt to fool members of
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-12-26
CANALS IN MINNESOTA
Mile Laos County TimeS)

While there is so much talk of a
lakes to the ocean waterway, and a
deep water channel from the twin
cities to the gulf. it might be well
to revive that plan for establishing
a system of canals in Minnesota
known twenty years ago as the ''Mer-
shOn plan" MershOn was an engin-
eer who took the levels and declared
the feasibility of the canal system
that in addition to cheap freight rates
would also develop 100000 horse
power from waterpowers that would
be created by the canals. The system
consisted of barge canal from Lake
of the Woods down the western side
of the state to Lake Traverse and
connecting with the Minnesota river.
Another big canal for ships to ex-
tend from Lake Superior at Duluth
down to the ST. Croix river and then
across country touching at the towns
of Hinckley, Mora, Milaca, ST. Cloud
and reaching the Minnesota river near
MOntevideO. The Mississippi river
w Dc CdHdllZeu from Sl. ClOuQ TO Cne
Twin Cities. The system was all
worked out with feeder canals, res
ervoirs for storing water. and dam
projects at necessary points. Ele-
vations of the routes were taken and
showed that the fall from Lake of the
Woods and also from Lake Superior
to the Minnesota river is a total of
about 1855 feet.
Mershon stated that such a system
could be built for about S25,000,000
which is one-fourth of the amount
that it cost to build the Erie canal
in the state of New York. He es-
timated the power development would
yield $12,500,00O annually alone to
say nothing of the transportation
phase of the canals. To establish
such system would require an
amendment to the state constitution
and here is where the state legisiat-
ure baked, and did not submit it
to the people. Instead they worked up
the drainage scheme for northern
Minnesota that has resulted so dis
astrously and is costing the state
more than it would have cost to
build the canals which would also
have taken care of the drainage prob
lem at the same time and utilized the
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-12-26
WHERE ARE THE OLD ONES.

This is a good question for the
criminally inclined to ask himself
when he prepares to go out on his
first "stick-up" He has to be pre-
pared to take it as he would give it to
the intended victim-for surprises
will happen and the best laid plans
will go wrong sometimes.
1t seems that most all criminals
or more commonly called bandits
the group we are speaking of-are
comparatively young. Where then,
are the old timers? Do they go
straight after leading several years
of desperate crime? Do they give up
the racket and live a retired life?
Maybe some do but we venture to say
the majority do not. Many have
either been killed during their depre-
dations or are in confinement. The
penitentiaries are full of old and
hardened criminals They are crowd
ed with men waiting their time to die
behind the gray walls that have him
dered their freedom since their breach
of the rules of society.
OF course as we said before there
may be old bandits but the greater
number brought to justice are in the
prime of life.
The ways of crime must then be a
good way to die young Like the hunt
ed animal, someone is always ready
to shoot or kill at sight. Does it pay?
Can a man fool all the officers of the
law all the time? One little slip will
take all the profit of his ill-gotten
gains.
The newspapers carried the an
nouncement last week of a 26-year-old
bandit, armed with blackjack and a
revolver, being shot down with his
own gun after being disarmed by a
Duluth grocer who was much smaller
than he. This is one instance where the
odds seemed to favor wrong to win
over right, but right won as it al
ways does sooner or later. The grocer
need have no pangs of conscience for
Kidding society of such a parasite.
He has served his fellows well.