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The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25
WAR STARTED
On Racketeers By Garment
Workers. Union

New York.-The international La
dies Garment Workers Union has
started a war on labor racketeers.
Employers have been mulcted out of
100000 a year, and trade union
officials are assaulted when they
combat the evil.
The unionists, headed by Interna-
tional President Schlesinger and Sec
retary-Treasurer Dubinsky, asked the
district attorneys office to aid in the
fight
With the successful ending of the
dress strike last spring, gangsters
represent to manufacturers that they
can protect" them against the union.
Other racketeers, representing them
selves as petty union officials, extract
tribute on the pretense that they can
make union conditions non-operative
David Fruhling, member of the
union who has been active against the
racketeers, was stabbed by five men
while on his way to the union head
quarters. The union offered a reward
of $4,000 for the arrest and convic-
ton of the assailants.
All decent elements in the dress
industry are united against racke-
teering," said President Schlesinger.
Employers who are intimidated by
gangsters into paying tribute or who
believe they can evade union condi-
tions by dealing with a lawless ele-
ment, only contribute to a disorder
which all legitimate factors are seek
ing to end"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25
ORGANIZING THE SOUTH

Fine progress already made with
inadequate resources shows beyond a
doubt that Southern workers can be
organized. They've had enough of
low wages and excessive hours of la
Dor, and are ready to join a union
and have something to say about the
conditions under which they toll.
All the Southern organization cam
paign needs for a smashing success
is stronger support. Workers reach
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25

started a wave of optimism, and con-
fidence in banking and thrift. Again
labor unionists are providing for old
age, homes, sickness, vacation, unem-
ployment.
Labor leaders have announced that
they would stand by The Central
Trust Company, doing business with
this institution, as they formerly did
with The Brotherhood Bank.-The
Chronicle.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25
POLICE CLUB STRIKERS

Flint, Mich.-State police dubbed
employees of the Fisher Body Cor
poration who were holding a mass
meeting against wage cuts.
The workers ask for restoration of
rates and sanitary conditions. The
company claims there has been no
radical wage cut.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25

well as private corporations, was
made by the senate committee on
agriculture and forestry.
The Alabama Power Company Is
buying a fraction of this power and
the municipality of Muscle Shoals has
endeavored to buy some of the vast
ed power. but have been blocked, it
is charged, by the power trust.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25
RESOLUTION FAVORED
FOR MUSCLE SHOALS

Washington.-Fav report on
joint resolution authorizing the sec
retary of war to sell power from the
Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals to
states, counties and municipalities, as
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1930-07-25
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
EXPEDITION FINDS BURIAL
SITE OF ANCIENT GIANTS

earthed the petrified remains Of a
youth feet inches tall, the Skel-
etonS of four othr children of lesser
stature and several jars filled witt
human ashes.
The Importance of these diScove-
rieS was the fact that definitely es-
tablished the scene of operations as
a great burial ground, according to
DR.. Byron r. Cummings, lean of the
University of Arizona archaeology
department and leader of the expe-
dition.
Their confidence renewed by the
discoveries, the scientists at once
turned their attention to uncover
ing the skeletons of adults-the rel
les upon which they will rely to
establish their belief in the exist
ence of a hitherto mythical race of
giants.
j. L. Coker, the Sonora mining
man who guided us to the excava-
ton site and pointed out the three
giant skeletons, more than eight
feet tall, he found a few weeks ago,
surveyed a wide area which he said
held possibilities for added discove-
rieS
The rowing band of wild Yaqui
Indians are our only source of wor-
ry. They all are armed, and the
party is compelled to keep a sharp
lookout for them at all times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
Appendicitis Attack Hits
Young Star of Films
at Toledo.

TOLEDO, Dec. Is. - Charles
Buddy Rogers, film star, under
went an operation for acute APP
pendicitis in Toledo general hos
pital at a. m. totay. An hour
later he was reported resting COM
fortably" and in no imminent dan
ger.
Rogers was seized with an atatck
early Friday, two hors before he
was scheduled to depart for .Hol-
lywood after completing vaude-
vile engagement. He had returned
from a night club with his secre-
tary when he became violently i'll.
A physician ordered him removed
Immediately to the hospital, where
his identity was concealed on the
registration books under the name
of his secretary, Max Schall.
His condition grew worse stead
lily, an dearly today his physicians
prescribed an operation.
1t was performed by Drs. Fred
M. Douglass and Wade Stone, who
declared the actor had been suf-
fering from chronic appendicitis
for months, evidently concealing
his condition in the desire of con-
tinuing his vaudeville tour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
BOND DEFAULT
IS CHARGED TO
REALTY CHIEFS
Active Search Is Started
for Partners in Deal
Promotion Scheme.

Records seized Thursday after
noon in the offices of the Indiana
Estates Company, COILS Meridian
Life Building, today gave impetus
to active search for the missing
heads of the company.
William McElroy Dozier and Nell
j. O'Keefe, partners in the concern,
were bonded to the Citizens Co
Operative Realty Company as a
preventive measure against fraud
and dishonesty.
Harvey Grabill, attorney for the
Citizens Company, today notified
the American Surety Company that
the pair had defaulted on their
bonds.
Cash Is Seized
AS another development, Vern
Headlee, architect and builder, who
on Thursday filed an attachment
against the company's assets, an
nounced he had employed Lester
Morris, 642 Bankers Trust Building,
to represent him. Paul P. Scharffin,
4O3 Inland Bank Building, has filed
the attachment suit in his behalf.
Deputy sheriffs, working under
the attachment proceedings, have
seized, so far, $646 in cash in banks,
the Office furniture and records in
the Meridian Life building, the pa
vilion and its furniture at the Morn
ingside subdivision, one upright piano
and new player-grand piano &C
cepted as a down payment on a lot
and which now is in storage.
A safe deposit box in the Fletcher
Trust and Savings banks in the
name of the company was found
Friday to have been emptied.
Receiver Petition Filed
Headlee's claims amount to APP
proximately $3.50.
Receivership petition instituted
Friday before Judge Linn D. Hay
in superior court two was granted
against the Indiana Estates Cor
poration, the Indiana Estates Com
pany and Dozier, O'Keefe and
James F. Huteson, financial hacker
of the concern, individually.
Horace Holmes, attorney, and son
Ira G. Holmes, was named receiver,
under $1,000 bond.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
Rebels Are
Defeated in
Spain Clash
By United Press

By United Press
MADRID, Spain, Dec. 13.-The
government of Premier General
Damaso Berenguer claimed today a
revolutionary movement started
twenty-four hours ago on the Fran
co-Spanish border had been
crushed.
Loyal federal troops, operating
Huesca against the rebels from the
little Pyrenees town of Jaca, de-
feated the insurgents III running
fight along the Ayerbe road.
Official reports said more than 100
of the revolutionists had been cap
tured and the remainder were flee
ing in disorder, while unofficial Dor
der advices said "a number were
killed or wounded" in fighting in
the Jaca region.
The government announced that
it would be memorable in its pun
isfment' of the revolutionaries, who
were said to be led by Colonel Julio
Mangada, Major Galen and Major
Rubio of the Jaca garrison.
The rebel forces, defeated near
Ayerbe, fed back to the fortified
regions of Jaca, unofficial reports
said.
More loyal government troops
were crowding into the scene every
hour and the most reliable indica-
tons were that the uprising would
be completely crushed within a
short time, although the rebels had
sworn to fight to death"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
HouU the Market
Opened

By United Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-United
States Steel common stock, the
premier industrial on the New York
stock exchange today broke to a
new low level since 1928, at 1874
off points from the previous close.
The market followed steel down.
Industrials broke to new lows for
three years; rails for five years.
Many issues made new all time
lows.
Blocks of 1000 to 10000 shares
were thrown upon the market.
Dozens of issues made new lows
for the year or longer. Highest
grade industrials were driven down
and New York Central led the rails
to lower ground making a new low
since 1925, at lis, off IA. Interna-
tional Nickel opened 10000 shares
at 15s4, off q, and other coppers
reacted sharply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
ARSENIC FIND
OUTLINED TO
PRYOR Jury
Or. Harger Testities as
Trial Is Recessed
Until Monday.

Presentation of states evidence
against Ernest Pryor, 32-year- old
alleged Martinsville wife poisoner,
stood at the halfway point today
as the trial was recessed until Mon
day morning.
At adjournment Friday the state
had available more than score of
witnesses whose testimony it was
said will bolster that of witnesses
already heard, pointing to Pryor as
the perpetrator of the plot to sIay
his child wife" and marry her
cousin.
Judge James A. Collins, who is
on the bench, warned jurors to re-
frain from discussing the case. and
permitted them to 60 to their homes
until the Monday converting of
court.
Testimony heard Friday, includ-
ing that of expert scientific wit
nesseS, friends of the Pryor family
and authorities responsible for I'M
raveling the alleged crime, consti-
tuted clinching points of the states
case,
Arsenic Find Outlined
Probably most important was that
OF DR.. r. N. Harger, toxicologist for
the Indiana university school of
medicine, whose microscopic study
OF the vital organs of Mrs. Thelma
Pryor, he said, established conclu-
sively the girl died of arsenical poi
soning.
The defense case, based on an
insanity plea, and the theory that
arsenic existed in fluid used to en-
balm the girls body. was partially
shattered with DR.. Harger's declara-
ton that no trace of arsenic was
found in any of the five fluids used.
A faint trace, DR.. Harger said, was
found in a chemical solution used to
seal an inciSion on the dead body.
This solution would be responsible
for a negligible trace of arsenic in
the vital organs, he said.
Dr. Harger testified 218 grains of
arsenic were found by him in the
parts of vital organs submitted for
tests. He computed the body of
Mrs. Pryor contained at least 4.36
grains of arsenic.
Although the defense has not re-
vealed its line of attack on the
states case, it was expected several
alibis will be offered, including the
contentious that the arsenic was
administered accidentally and that
Mrs. Pryor died of suicide.
Spread Rumor Is Charge
Evidence showing Pryor's alleged
crude scheme to pave the way for
the killing by spreading a rumor
that his wife had only short time
to live because of an illness, was
heard Friday from the stand.
Morgan county witnesses testify
ing to details in this scheme were
Albert Francesconi, chef at the
Home Lawn sanatorium and his
wife, Mrs. Marie FranceSconi; Will
liam E. Finchin, a Martinsville life
insurance agent; H. E. Rose, who
sold pryor $4,000 insurance policy
on the young wife shortly before
her death; Ed S. Kriner, manager
of the Home Lawn Sanatorium;
Jesse w. Cure, Martinsville under
taker: Mrs. Lota Worthington,
neighbor of the Pryors, and
Austin B. Sweet, Morgan county
coroner.
Prosecutors William r. Ringer of
Marion county and William Bray of
Morgan county, indicated the state
will require at least three more days
for presenting their case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
QUITS new CABINET
Member of Steeg Ministry
Declines Portfolio.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
PARIS, Dec. 13-The cabinet
formed by Theodore Steeg, former
Governor General of Morocco, en-
countered its first obstacle in the
early hours of its political life to-
day.
Steeg's ministry, replacing that of
Andre Tardieu, scarcely was COM
plete when the new under-secretary
of aviation, Etiene Richie, resigned.
81 accepted portfolio with the
understanding that the radicals had
lifted their exclusion order against
Tardieu and the Republican-Demo-
cratic Union" Richie wrote the
premier.
II now find that was not true.
Hence do not desire to participate
in the cabinet"
Politicians believed Riches resig-
nation was only the first of many
troubles Steeg would encounter be-
fore he leads his cabinet before the
chamber Of deputies, where a vote
of confidence is considered doubtful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
ALLEY DEATH GUN
is HELD BY POLICE
Finding of Missing Weapon
Starts New Probe in
Whitaker Case.

In possession of the gun from
which a bullet ripped through the
heart of Clarence Whitaker, &c, de-
tectives today began anew their in
vestigation of the death which has
baffled them more than week.
In the yard behind her home,
where she has walked daily since
Whitakers body was found in an
alley nearby, Dec. 5, Mrs. Barbara
HartenStein, 1143 Oliver street,
picked up the revolver late Friday.
There was one empty cartridge
and five empty spaces in its
chambers. The weapon, blue steel
gun, was rusted, and the barrel was
caked with mud. 1t is believed to
be a gun borrowed by Harold
Whitaker, 21O7 North Pennsylvania
street, twin brother of the dead
man, from another brother in
Beech Grove.
Hold Suicide Theory
1t had been missing from Harold's
apartment since the body was found.
Detectives Roy Peats and Morris
Corbin hoped to identify it as that
weapon early today.
Although a five-foot fence and
about thirty-five feet separated the
gun from the spot where the body
was discovered, and despite the fact
that, while lying in the open when
Mrs. Hartenstein picked it up, the
gun was not found during several
intensive searches of the neighbor-
hood, detectives today said its find
ing strengthened their theory of
suicide.
Verdict Is Withheld
Whitaker had threatened his life
after an auto accident last fall in
which he was injured seriously,
relatives said. He last was seen in
his twin brothers apartment the
night before he died.
Two or three circumstances of the
death conflicting with any suicide
theories are to be probed before
Coroner C. H. Keever will return a
verdict, he said today. He withheld
formal opinion on the death until
an investigation could be completed
and the missing gun found.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

campaign previously reported
were 1853.
New donors of Friday and to-
day are:
Employers of the Indiana Electric
Corporation. 800 Traction Terminal
building two children.
Pep Unlimited Club Of WIEN feared
for Eve children and took four more).
Two mothers. two.
Petite Club.
Don't want name published 1.-TWO boys).
Mr.. and Mrs. o. r. Schlensker, 4g90
North Illinois street.
EMPLOYEES Of the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road feared for two children and want
another.
Downstairs store employees az L. S.
Ayres Co. three boys and three girls).
Employees Of the city engineers Office.
Room 207. CITY hall -
Friendly Ladies' Club two ekildren).
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

Hundreds more are being checked
by the Christmas Clearing House
for The Times.
And yet today, hopelesSness that
the city's Clothing Santies would
reach every child, caught touch
of lfe's eraser-the brotherhood
of man-as more than TWO HUN
DRIED persons and organizations
had pledged themselves to outfit
a buddy" or a Sis"
q
DURDENED down with bundles,
- shopping for their own young
sters, they call at The Times 70
pledge their hearts so child after
child may be taken out Of pow
erty's paTnshop.
Married coupses. spinsters, bach
elors. grandds&s. and grandmas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

Nor do the donors stop at car
ing for just those assigned them
"Ws've cared for two children
and want four more" was the vol
untary request Of employees and
officers of the Indiana Insurance
Company and Smith Brothers
Agency.
And if you want to be one Of
those aiding in clothing Christ
mas for the city's poor. Just
phone, write or call the "Clothe-
A-Child" editor.
A child will be given you. You
investigate his worthineSs. You
At "he" or she" to suit yourself
in garb. You get the thrill and
we-why, we get a kick" out of
knowing what yog're doing.
Pledges to the -Iothe-A-Child"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

form the TWO HUNDRED who
phone, write or call in person.
The deathbed brought one
pledge today by telephone.
A woman called the "Clothe a
Child" editor. Her voice was
fevered.
It want a little girl about 10 or
II. Two years ago my daughter
died. Each year I help some girl
that was just her age. She was
past 10 when He took her." the
fevered voice said.
The name and address of a
child was given and the phone
voice strummed at the wires that
carried her answer, I'll care for
her ike she was my own Helen"
So it goes, this gi,ea9 of love to
make children a BIT happier
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
THREE YOUTHS
ARE EXECUTED
Cry Baby Bandits Die in
Electric Chair.
BIZ Enited preaa


OSSINING, N. Y, Dec. 13.-The
three cray baby" bandits, the CID
este % and the youngest 10, went
to their deaths in the electric chair
at Sing Sing prison Friday night
one bewildered, another repentant
and the last with CHEEKY bravado.
The three boys-James Bolger
10; James Butler, 20, and Italo
Ferdinand, 22-were executed for
the murder of James Bauer, West
bury( L. - druggist, during a
holdup, few hours after Cover
nor Franklin D. Roosevelt had re-
fused to extend a one-day reprieve
Butler was the first to die. At
tended by a priest, he walked into
the execution chamber in daze,
automatically repeating after the
minister the Lords prayer.
He kept mumbling the words of
the prayer even while the guards
were adjusting the straps. Ferdi-
nandi, died with the picture of his
girl pinned to his prison shirt over
his heart. Before his arms were
strapped, he claSped his hands in
an attitude of prayer and said:
"All have to say is, God forgive
me for what I have done. God bless
my dear mother and father and
sweetheart
Bolger, youngest of the trio,
walked up to the chair with firm
step, and smiling broadly.
Gentlemen, he said as he took
his place in the chair unassisted,
Il die like I lived-with a smile on
my face"
AS the electrodes were being
snapped into place, he noticed a
guard standing among the witnesses.
Hello kid he called cheerily.
"Goodby, boy" the guard answered
as the mask dropped over Bolger's
face.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

crushing offensives at the ends.
An interesting development Of this
game is the definite lack of betting
on its outcome.
A great many midshipmen dollars
will be riSked against as many ca
Diet dollars, for. by tradition, stua
dents at the service schools bet on
an even money proposition.
Most of the betting done around
New York has been on a to
basis, with Army the favored team.
But, apparently, the professional
gamblers have summed this game.
preferring to stay with such things
as boxing and hockey.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

MY stockings are out at the
WI toes. I haven't no good
shoes. Mama says Santa won't
bring me no gloves. i. l want to
go to school. but the clothes I
got kids laugh at :.
These medley of written heart
cries are spindle-high on the desk
of the "Clothe a School Child for
Christmas" editor of The Times.
In a desk drawer a batch of
papers list names and addresses
of boys and girls.
Boys and girls who write those
letters and are yet TO be cared for
by Indianapolis good folk conf
pose the list.
There are 200 odd children,
waiting, waiting, on that list.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
MiIhon-Dollar Cro1ud viii Watch Arr1y-Nauy Gam


business details with a Salvation
Army committee and started prac-
tice for the game.
The result Of this effort will be
brought to a climax at 1 p. m. to-
day when the kickoff for the Army
Navy game-the first one since 1927
will occur.
Forgetting for moment all about
the marching cadets and midship-
men, the smartly- clad crowd of $50
ticket holders and the bands and
cheers, one may consider the game
as an athletic contest, and as such
it should be interesting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
BY CHARLES HOLLOWAY
United Press staff Correspondent

SOYOPA, Sonora, Mexico, Dec.
l3.-Five large skeletons, the first
evidences that a rarce of supermen
once roamed this vast waSteland,
were unearthed today by an inter
national expedition of scientists.
Working rapidly for two nights
and day, the little band Of Ameri-
can and Mexican Psychologists I'M
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13
BUYING SENDS HOG
PRICES UP AT YARDS

Swine reacted to buying this
morning at the Union stockyards,
prices going up in a range of $8.l5
to $3.50. The latter figure held as
an early top. Receipts were esti-
mated at $500; holdover we're 104.
Cattle were quotably steady with
receipts of 100. Calves and vealers
were unchanged at $1,000 down.
Calf receipts were 100.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

The rival coaches, Major Ralph
I. Sasse of the Army and William
Ingram Of the Navy, appear to be
agreed as to the probable winner
Ingram believes the Army Ger
tainly deserves to be the favorite."
Sasse generalized by saying he ex-
pected "the hardest battle of the
year."
That is saying lot since Arm
already has played Notre Dame.
Based on their records alone, Army
certainly should be a prime favorite.
Army has lost only to Notre Dame
and was tied only by Yale, and Army
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-12-13

bit better than that of the Army.
kim, Haberg and Cannon are thor
oughly dependable Navy backs.
Ray Stecker at half and Kilday
at full back have been splendid
Army ball carriers.
Navy, however, appears to have
the edge in back field requirements.
Already one can see the rival
players greeting each other in the
best Captain F1agg and Sergeant
Quirt manner. ana when they come
together after the first whistle they
will fight even as Flagg and Quirt
fought over Charmaine.
Always bitter rivals, Army and