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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
FACE DEADLOCK
IN UTILITY CASE
Jurisdiction Is Denied in
Merger Motion.

Prospect for a deadlock on Com
missioner Howell Ellis order on the
$75,O00,000 insult utilities merger
doomed as the public service COM
mission went into session this after
noon.
The order, as written by Ellis, is
said to turn down the merger petit
ton on the evidence.
Deadlock may result from the
question Of jurisdiction.
Commissioner Calvin Mcintosh
announced this morning that q
has prepared a motion to dismiss
the merger because of lack Of juris-
diction based on the opinion he re-
ceived from Attorney General James
M Ogden.
The opinion, received before the
merger hearings, cites the Shively-
Spencer law showing that the COM
mission can not sanction mergers
involving unlike utilities in differing
localities.
With adoption either of the Nc
Intosh motion or approval OF the
Ellis order, the merger will be de-
MED.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
HAYES BODY
STRIKE ENDS
IN WAGE PACT
Sheet Metal Workers Back
at Jobs; PiCketer Is
Held by Cops.
PAY INCREASE GRANTED
Employees Praise Officials
for Spirit of Fairness
in ParIeyS.

Sheet metal workers we're back on
their jobs at the Hayes Body Corpo-
ration, 1901 West Morris street, this
morning, the wage disagreement
which precipitated their strike
week ago having been settled
amicably late Thursday.
Although some 200 of the other
600 employees of the plant had been
laid off temporarily, because of the
interrupted production, they will re-
turn to their old jobs as rapidly as
the production schedule is restored.
The plant should be in full opera
ton Monday, officials said.
Decision of the strikers to return
to work was reached Thursday aft
ernoon after 125 of them heard
wage adjustment proposals ex-
planned by E. j. Connolly, vice.
president, and Frank Turk, plant
superintendent, at the plant.
U. S. Official Conciliator
The officials and a strikers COM
mittee including w. r. Deubner,
G. H. Bennett and w. r. Elliott had
been brought together by Harry
Dynes, United States labor depart
ment conciliator.
Under conditions which provoked
the strike, sheet metal workers pay
averaged about SO cents an hour
with day wages ranging from $275
to $40, Deubner asserted.
eve returned to work under
promise of being able to make 80
cents an hour or better" Deubner
said today, "and we should be able
to earn around SO a day on the
five and one-half day week"
Connolly today said the men had
expressed willingness to accept the
new piece work basis if their pay
averaged 80 cents an hour or bet
ter. He asserted "only thirty-f1ve
or forty men" had gone on the
strike, affecting, temporarily the
jobs Of some zoo others.
The sheet metal workers COM
mended Connolly and Turk for their
spirit of fairness in the neotiations
and praised Dynes for negotiating
conferences which resulted in the
settlement.
Picketer Is Arrested
When Theodore Luesse, 315 San
derS street, discharged from the
company's paint shop four weeks
ago, picketed the plant this morn
ing trying to persuade workers not
to return to their jobs, he was ar
rested by Patrolnan Orville Hudson,
charged with violating the picketing
ordinance.
Search Of his pockets revealed a
booklet entitled Don't Tread On
Me-" detailing aggressive labor tao
tics" police asserted.
The sheet metal workers took no
steps toward utilization with the
American Federation of Labor or
with the Labor Union Unity League
whose two representatives here
Thursday were labeled REDS,
hooked up with the Communist
party" by Fred S. Galloway, 4121
Rockville road, long active in sup
port of the Federation of Labor.
Answering Galloway today, the
two Unity League organizers, N.
Kerr of Chicago, and Pete Chapa Of
Pittsburgh, declared their organiza-
ton is merely a new trade union
opposed to the American Federation
Of Labor"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
SUSPECTS ARE
BRANDED AS
LOAN SHARKS
Extracted as High as 240
Per Cent Interest,
Stark Says.

Search of the office records Of
three alleged loan sharks" jailed
Thursday on usury charges, to
unearth additional evidence in what
is termed wage purchasing"
scheme, was started today by Pros
ecutor Judson L. Stark.
With the arrest of three men as
operators of three local downtown
loan companies, 1edgerS, papers,
customer lists and prospect lists
have been confiscated and will be
used to show that the concerns, said
to be operated jointly, extracted
as high as 240 per cent interest
from clients, Stark said.
Warrants have been issued for the
arrest of three Louisville, KY, loan
office operators, whose names we're
listed in fixe affidavits filed Thurs
day in criminal court by Deputy
Prosecutor Harry Cause.
Trio Held by Police
Those under arrest are Amos G..
Haines, 623 North Temple avenue,
manager Of the Capitol Trading
Company, Dc North Pennsylvania
street; Jesse A. Haines, 2189 Station
street, manager of the Indianapolis
branch of the Union Trading Com
pany, 46 North Pennsylvania street,
and HanSford E. Pool, 1926 North
Oakland avenue, manager of the
local branch of Marshall & Co., %
North Pennsylvania street.
Warrants were issued against J.
F. Hanson, Atlanta, Ga, operator
of the Capitol Company, and L. B.
Mcdonald and P. c. Mathes, both
of Louisville, operators of the Union
Company.
Secret and extensive probe into
the activities Of the concerns has
been conducted in the past six
weeks, Stark said, and repeated
warming ousting the concerns from
the city have been disregarded.
The probe was conducted by de-
tectives, attaches of the Better
Business Bureau, Stark and Cause.
Slated at the city prison late
Thursday, the three defendants
found bondsmen awaiting them, and
we're released on bail of 81 900 each.
Pledged Future Earnings
Stark urged victims of the alleged
scheme to cooperate by turning in
their contracts as part Of the chain
of states evidence.
Aff1davits against HaineS, Hanson
and Pool were signed by Vernon
Enders, 214 West Twenty first
street, and James A. Branam, 205
South Oriental street, signed bills
against Jess Haines, Mcdonald and
MatheS. Both obtained loans rang
ing from $25 to $40 in amount,
averring they paid interest at the
rate of 240 per cent. Indiana stat
ute fixes the legal rate at per cent.
Plans used by the agencies re-
vealed that a prospective client
pledged future earnings for a given
period in return for a loan.
"Such a rate of interest as these
companies have been charging is
clearly Illegal and void" Stark de-
clared, land I offer free legal serv-
ice to any person who does not
wish to carry out the terms Of his
contract"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Wet Chiefs Belief That
President Weakens Is
Aired in Hearing.
VOTE DRIVES Barred
Congress Is Backing Away
From Prohibition, View
of Curran.
BY NATHAN ROBERTSON
limited Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 18-Ofi-
Gals of the Association Against the
Prohibition Amendment believe the
tide of public opinion against the
eighteenth amendment can not be
stopped" and that President Hoover
is beginning to doubt whether pro-
hibition can be enforced" the sem
ate lobby committee learned today
in it's investigation into lobbying by
wet and dry organizations.
Reference to the Presidents
opinion was contained in a letter
written by william H. Stayton,
chairman of the board of the wet
association.
Stayton wrote Charles S. Wood,
a vice president of the association,
that he believed mfr. Hoover wants
to take plenty of time to consider
it, but he is being abused a little
too much" about his attitude to-
ward the dry law.
Congress Not Indication
Henry H. Curran, president Of the
association, again told the commit
tee today the dry congress does not
reflect the country's attitude toward
prohibition.
He said the government is back
ing away" from it and cited two en-
forcement measures which have
been held up in congress this seS-
- both mould hnxyn
gone through in other years"
Questioned on Stand
Curran was questioned at length
about his organizations activity in
campaigns in 1923. Senator Walsh
Dem., MontO said the list showed
the association had supported fifty
six candidates for the house and
spent $17,500.
Curran said the association had
contributed to only two senatorial
campaigns, supporting former Sem
ator Bruce Dem, Md and Hunt
in Ohio.
The association succeeded in
electing only three new members
of congress, Walsh declared, nam
ing Pittinger CMinn.), Igoe Qll) and
Whitley IN. ".
He said the association candidates
were successful in only fourteen out
of f1fty-one elections and that
eleven of these candidates merely
were being reelected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
YOUNG BRIDE
WITNESS IN
. BANDIT TRIAL
Banana Kid Suspect With
Her When Alleged Hold
ups Occurred, She Says.
ROMANCE is RELATED
a. Year old Girl Welded
Hunt Four Days Before
Mate Was Jailed.

A pensive bride Of almost four
months. Mrs. Katherine Hunt, took
the witness stand today to tell a
criminal court jury that her hus-
band, Kenneth Hunt, styled by po-
lice as the Banana Kid, was with
her on at least two occasions when
he was accused of holding up
grocer and a taxi driver.
Unperturbed by rapid fire ques-
tons Of prosecutors, the 21-year-old
girl, calmly faced jurors to narrate
a romance of two months culminat-
ing Jan 81 with a marriage cere-
mony, performed in private four
days before her husband was jailed
on charges of auto banditry and
robbery.
State Closes Case
The defense opened its case Short
ly before noon. calling Mrs Hunt
as the first witness. This followed
closing of the states case, which
included testimony of numerous
witnesses that Hunt is the bandit
who perpetrated several sensational
taxi holdups, Boosting of his repu-
tation as the Banana Kid.
Among states witnesses called
today to Teiterate positive identifi-
cation of Hunt as a bandit were
Morris Olshan, grocery operator at
1902 Howard street, and Dallas
Dean, cab driver. both of whom say
thew were victims of Hunt on
Jan. 4.
Raymond Colston, "a, 2629 Brook
side avenue, taxi driver and victim
Of Hunt, proved strong witness
for the state. insisting ''he would
know Hunts face among a million"
He testihed Hunt relieved him of
his cab and purse last January in a
rural -obbery, firing two shots at
Colston as the latter hailed a pass
ing auto. The shots went wild, Col
ston said
Accuses Hunts Wife
Deputy Prosecutor PAUL Rhoadar-
mer laid startling evidence before
the jury today in testimony of
Morris Olshan that Olshan had been
approached by Hunts youthful wife
on two occasions to "be lenient."
His wife offered to pay back all
the loot if would lose my memory
when I took the witness stand, &"
Olshan charged.
The afternoon session of court is
expected to end by submission of the
case to the jury for verdict. Special
Judge Alvah Rucker ordered noon
converting of the case at 1870 to
complete evidence before evening
adjournment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
SIX DOCTORS
PROBE DEATH
IN INFIRMARY
Physicians Are Placed in
Charge of Ft. Wayne
Scandal Quiz.
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FIT. WAYNE, Ind, April ia
TT. Wayne physician, one of a group
of six selected to investigate the
death of Thomas Lakey, &c, whose
mutilated body was found in the
Allen county infirmary Wednesday,
unoffciaIly said the Disagreement
appeared to have been caused by
''gnawing Or biting"
At the same time, w. Homer
Young, superintendent Of the insti-
tuition where Lakey was an inmate
when he died, charged that the
affair was a frame up" against
him in the fight to remove him as
infrmary head.
He gave Prosecutor Walter E.
Helmke a pair of wire clippers bear
ing stains, which the superintendent
said might have been used to mutt
late the body. He said the stains
might be blood and not rust.
Early reports Of the findings of
the investigating physicians, how
ever, placed little credence in the
clipper theory. The doctors were TO
reopen the cuts on the mans face
to determine, if possible, the manner
in which they had been inflicted.
Young told an undertaker's as
sistant Thursday that he thought
the body had been attacked by rats.
Lakey had been in the inflrmary
for two weeks, said to be mentally
unbalanced. He was waiting COM
mitment to the East Haven Asylum
for the Insane at Richmond.
Although officially removed by ac-
ton of the commissioners, Young
retained his post, pending outcome
of his appeal.
Special Judge Jesse c. Sutton, De-
catur, has heard all the evidence
in the case and was expected to
give his verdict today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
BANDIT KILLS SELF
TO AVERT CAPTURE
.JaiIer Jailed

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RUSHVILLE, Ind, April 15.
The Rushville city Jail,
empty these many months, was
occupied again today by the
jailer, Ed Beatty, charged with
bootlegging.
Sheriff Claude Thompson
raided the Jail a few hours
earlier and found a quart of
liquor in one of the vacant
cells and gallon in the house
of Jailer Beatty nearby. The
jailer was placed in his jail
until he could raise bond Of
$500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
AUTHOR LIQUOR VICTIM

BH Hited Press
CLEVELAND, o.. April 18.-Hans
DhIlng, SO, said to have been an au-
thor and playwright of some recog-
milton, was found dead in his room
at a hotel here Thursday night.
The manuscript of an unfinished
play Wltha Norwegian setting was
found in the hotel room. Police
ascr1bed death to acute alcoholism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Steal Roofs

"They steal the roofs from
over your heads was the
complaint of Ralph R. Reeder,
roofing contractor, 2401 Cor
nell avenue, to police. today.
Reeder reported thieves seem
TO be following his workmen,
and that the thieves steal cop
per roofing off new houses be-
fore they can be completed.
Thursday night S35 worth OF
copper roofing was taken of
new house on Hampton
drive, he reported, and he
listed copper roofing thefts
totaling more than $500 during
the last several weeks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Moral: Be Rich!

"Only II cents, eh!" a hold
I'D man exclaimed as he
slugged william Payne, Negro,
2046 Martindale avenue, and
knocked Payne off his wagon at
Twentieth and Bellefontalne
streets Thursday night.
The holdup man asked Payne
for a ride at Sixteenth and
Illinois streets. When a lone
ner spot was reached he de-
manded Payne's money and
knocked him off the wagon.
Payne suffered a severe cut
on his head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18

''Dirty thieves" will be clean
ones if they use the loot taken
Thursday night from the Jo-
seph Pickrell grocery, 1913 South
Traub avenue.
Pickrell reported to police
today that the large portion of
$25 worth of articles taken
from his store by burglars was
soap.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
ORDER LEASE PROBE
Senate to Quiz Charges of
PoStoffice Frauds.
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BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, April 18.-An in
vestigation of all postofice leases
was ordered by the senate today.
The senate approved, without a
single objection, the Blaine resoIu-
ton authorizing creation Of a SEN
atorial committee of five members
to make the investigation.
The investigation was ordered as
a result of charges by Senator
Blaine Rep.. Wis., of fraud and
corruption in the leasing of 1900
postofhces all over the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
Couple Killed in Auto

BIZ United Press
GARY, Ind, April ia man
and his wife were killed at rail-
road crossing here today when he
drove his automobile past a truck,
halted at the crossing by an cleo
trio warning signal, into the path
of a fast freight train. The auto
was thrown against concrete post,
killing George c. Jackson, Canton,
o., and fatally injuring his wife.
She died en- route to a hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
ENGE' re ERROR SHOWN
Probate Judge Candidate Mistaken
on Iglehart's Position.

In a public address by John F.
Engelke, candidate for the Repub-
ucan nomination for probate judge,
he asserted that Eugene H. Iglehart,
formerly co-receiver for the j. F.
Wild bank, now is president OF
the Fletcher Savings and Trust
Company. Iglehart is not nor has
he ever been connected with the
bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
MAJOR is INDICTED
Army Man Charged With
Murder of Wife.
BIZ United Press

TOPEKA, Kan, April 1s.-Ma-
jor Charles A. Shepard Of the army
medical corps was indicted on a
first-degree murder charge returned
by a federal grand jury here today,
after it investigated the death Of
Shepard's wife in FIT. Riley, Kan.
last June.
Shepard, now held in Denver,
where he served on the staff Of
Fitzsimmons hospital, probably will
be tried in federal court at Kansas
City. Kan, next December. His
bond was fixed at $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
WEATHER FAIR, COLDER
Frost Possible in Low Places To-
night, Is Forecast.

Fair weather, but with decline In
temperature that may bring frost
to low places tonight was forecast
today by the United States weather
bureau here.
Lower temperatures probably will
prevail over the weekend, the
weather bureau reported indicated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
AUTHOR NEARLY BLIND
Visits Famous Swiss Specialist IN
Effort to Save Eyesight.

BIZ United PTess
PARIS, April 1o.-James Joyce,
author of the widely banned
Ulysses, has left Paris amid the
greatest secrecy to consult a famous
Swiss surgeon in a last effort to
escape blindness.
Before Joyce left he completed
final corrections on his newest
work, "Haveth Childer Everywhere.
Completion Of the volume was .
race against time and friends Of
the famous Irishman have watched
him for months in fear that his
eyes would fail completely at any
moment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
HERE'S CHANCE TO
VOTE ON DRY LAW

the
Literary Digest poll this city almost
follow
repeal.
Every Indianapolis qualified
plainly whether bring your to
Editor placed
ballot duplication
pcauion being taken eliminate repaer checking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
GIANT MERGER NEAR
Sears ROebuCk RumOr Is
Confirmed by Chief.
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Bn United Press
PHILADELPHIA, April 18.-Less-
ing j. Rosenwald, vice-president in
charge of the local Sears-Roebuck
interests, today practically con-
firmed reports of merger of Sears
Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery
Ward 81 Co., the two largest mail
order houses in the country.
THE report, as far as know. is
substantially correct" Rosenwald
said. But it is entirely unofficial.
as the matter has not been brought
before the board of directors"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
ASK IMMIGRATION BAN

Petition Asks Mexican Government
to Prevent Coming to u. S.
BIZ United Press
MEXICO CITY, April ia pc
tition from Mexican societies of Los
Angeles to President Ortiz Rubio,
asking that the Mexican govern
ment to restrict immigration to the
United States, was published here
today. The petition said there Is
not sufficient employment available
in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
HALLIBURTON PLANS HOP

Explorer Author Intends to Fly
From New York to Arabia.
BIZ United Pres6
HOLLYWOOD, April 1s.-Richard
Halliburton, young explorer and au-
thor of travel tales, is planning an
aiTplane flight from New York to
Arabia, via Paris, he said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
MAYOR GOES TO CHURCH
Sullivan Takes Time OF From Job
for Good Friday.

Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan cast
of the duties of the city's chief
executive today from IL to p. m.
20 attend Good Friday services at
st. Paul's Episcopal church, Of
which he is a devout member.
Good Friday is the most sacred
day of the year in the Episcopal
church. Sullivan granted permits
sion for all employees to attend
church on notification of depart
ment heads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
BURGLAR POSES AS
MODERN ROBIN HOOD
100000 Theft Suspect Tells Poiicg
He Divided Loot With Poor.

AC 0ANA0CN 6OOb WIN Il OUAs
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NEWTON, Mass, April 13.-The
sonber records of the Newton po-
lice department were enlivened to-
day by the story of an alleged bur-
glar who pictured himself as mod
ern Robin Hood.
Fred G. Hughes, At, who gave his
address as Hotel Sherman, Chicago.
and who was arrested Wednesday
night in connection with the theft
Of $4,000 in jewelry, told police his
activities as burglar had extended
into every one Of the forty-eight
states.
He claimed, however, that some
Of the money realized from the sale
Of stolen goods had been distributed
among poor children and down
and-outers."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
EDITORS DRY AID ASKED
Wickersfam Pleads for Exercise of
Prohibition Influence.
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WASHINGTON, April 10. 49,
George w. Wickersham, chairman
of President Hoover's law enforce
ment commission, appealed to the
country's newspaper editors today to
exercise their influence for obser-
vance of the prohibition law.
Wickersham, addressing the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, declared those abetting vio-
lation of the eighteenth amendment
are inviting revolution and pro-
noting anarchy"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
INSURED VICTIM OF
THUGS FOUND ALIVE
$4,000 Fraud Plot Suspected in
Disappearance Of Salesman.

BIZ United Press
PARIS, Tenn, April ia $4,000
insurance fraud plot was believed
revealed here today following the
finding Of Samuel T. Hollowell,
magazine salesman, previously
thought to have been shot to death
and thrown into the Arkansas river
by three youths.
After the disappearance Of Hollo-
well a month ago, insurance COM
panies traced him. When found
here Thursday night he told a sem
sational story of being slugged, kid
naped and taken to New Mexico
bad lands" where he said he
escaped from his captors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
FACES SWINDLE CHARGE
Man Weighing $50 Pounds Is Being
Returned to California.
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BIZ InitCd Press
PITTSBURGH, Pa, April Is. -
William A. Coleman, the largest
prisoner ever lodged in a central
police station cell. was on his way
to the Pacific coast today to answer
charges of swindling $1,000 from
Californians.
Coleman, who weighs $50 pounds.
is in the custody of Charles H.
Kelly. Pasadena superintendent of
police. who weighs slightly more
TRAN $50 pounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
BARRIERS FARLEY FOR
HEADQUARTERS SITE

City Plan Group Approves Purchase
of Delaware Property.
Plans for the Journeyman Bar
bers' International Union of Amer
lea headquarters building at 1141
North Delaware street were ad-
vanced today with the approval
Thursday by the city plan commits
sion following a public hearing.
The union is negotiating for the
property with Mrs. Robert Geddes.
Leo M. Rappaport, attorney, repre-
sented the union before the plan
body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-18
CRUSOE GOES TO JAIL
And If That Isn't Enough Robinson
Starts His Term on Friday.
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BEVERLY, Mass, April 18.-To-
day, which, appropriately enough, is
Friday, found Robinson Crusoe of
Kansas City, MO, starting a ninety
day sentence at the state farm. He
was arrested here yesterday on a
vagrancy charge.