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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
Acknowledgement Flooded
With Letters on City
Conditions.

Delayed with letters telling of
bootlegging, gambling and vice
in indianapolis. Attorney-General
James M. Ogden, who exposed these
conditions in Lafayette, stated to-
day that he stood ready to aid any
investigation here, if asked to as
sist by Prosecuts = Judson Stark.
Meanwhile, he is continuing in
vestigations in other cities. Today
he sent Robert West, Negro investi-
gator who aided in the Lafayette
expose, to Anderson. West left for
Anderson this morning, accompa-
MED by two white detectives.
One of the Indianapolis letters,
received today, gave addresses OF
numerals booze and gambling joints
here.
After Vests departure, Ogden
conferred with John Wilkey, fed
eral enforcement chief here.
After the conference, Ogden an
nounced that today is lull before
a storm and there may be startling
disclosures soon."
Included in the disclosures" may
be the naming of the alleged fed
eral "tip-off" men, it was learned.
Harry Anheier and Arthur Allen
are the two who functioned as fed
eral agents at Lafayette during the
Ogden probe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
SAUNDERS FOOD
CHAIN BROKE
Grocery Firm Insolvency
Admitted in Court.

BIZ T'pifcd Press
MEMPHIS, Tenn, July 15.-Clar-
ence Saunders, chain grocery store
owner, and head of the Clarence
Saunders Stores, Inc, a Tennessee
corporation with $50 stores in the
south, withdrew his denial Of bank
ruptcy and admitted insolvency of
the Tennessee company in federal
court here today.
The statement of the dynamic
chain store magnate, who once lost
control of the PIGGY Wiggly chain
in a battle with Wall Street, fol-
lowed a court hearing on a petition
for receivership. The petition
charges that he would be unable to
meet a 100000 obligation held by
Chicago and New York bankers and
due Wednesday.
Saunders said a slump in the
volume of business done by the
Clarence Saunders Stores, Inc, hurt
the company's credit.
Pressure of a Chicago bank1:sssSc
syndicate toward collecting 100000
due Wednesday on a $450,OOO loan
practically has destroyed the COM
pany's credit" he said.
Saunders indicated he would not
attempt to retain control of the
Tennessee corporation. He said he
would leave Memphis and go to
California and operate the Pacific
coast units of his company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
BOOZE CASES LEAD
Liquor Violations Provide
81 Per Cent of Trials.

Violations of the national pro-
hibition act provided g. per cent
of the cases concluded in federal
district court here during the fiscal
year which ended June 80, annual
records compiled by Mrs. Florence
Winkler, chief clerk in the Office of
George R. Jeffrey, United States
district attorney, revealed today.
OF the AL cases ended, 274 were
liquor cases, in 229 of which guilty
pleas were entered. Liquor convic-
lions totaled 265. A total Of 1888
liquor cases we're started and
seventy-seven still are pending.
Convictions in criminal cases in
creased from 354 in 1928-1929 to
Ais in 1929-1930. The summary OF
criminal cases:
Fifty-fve civil cases were won by
the government and fourteen were
lost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
The Times VIII Present
Home TOzem Radio Stars

Amos m Andy boop-adoop fame Roxy, Floyd
Gibbons and all have been paaded before you
in storm of publicity read all about their sartg Climbs
to fame how much money they make what they eat and what they
don't eat hundred times
Now it's the turn of talent the radio meght Over
the local entertainers night who give you
tell their
First on the starting series to Thursday in
The Times will Byrd organ whose programs are
feature WFBM
second Friday will concern the life and accomplishments
of the youngest band leaders IN
the country radio pioneers Of this city You
know better Connie"
feature artist will be Jimmy Boyer concert ORGANISE
and featured artist at WKBF.
Next there's to be other
until the Radio in indianapolis is completed
Watch feature Thursday about Dessa Byrd You'll
like written by John T. Hawkins Times radio editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15

81 United Press
LOS ANGELES. July 15.-C. C.
Young today acted to expedite the
return to California of John Mac
Donald. itinerant waiter and key
witness in the states case against
Tom Mooney and Warren K. Bill
ingS.
Macdonald, who made positive
Identification Of Mooney and Bill
ingS at the San Francisco murder
trials and since has signed affidavits
in reputation. will be questioned
further regarding his conflicting
statements, according to the Gov
ernor.
In a statement to the states at
torney at Baltimore. where Mac
Donald was located after a nation
wide search. the Governor said
California was willing to defray his
expenses TO this state. and added:
There is no question of greater
public Importance to the state of
California than a far-going. COM
plete and open investigation as to
whether the testimony Of MacDon-
aid at the trials of Billings and
Mooney was true or false. ac-
cordiugly have wired States Attor-,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
GOVERNOR TO RUSH
ON MOONEY

ney R. O'Connor of Baltimore as
follows:
81 have received a wire from
MacDonalds attorneys saying he
will return to California If trans
portation is provided. If MacDon-
aid will agree to appear as wit
ness before CALIFORNIA; advisory
pardon board in the Mooney case
and judges Of CALIFORNIA; supreme
court in the Billings case upon an
open hearing in a thoroughgoirg
and complete investigation Of all
questions involved in his affidavit
of 1921 and in his recent affidavit
before you, the state of California
will provide necessary transporta-
ton. Please so advise Macdonald
and his attorneys and inform me. !"
BALTIMORE, July Is. - John
Macdonald, the tied. frail witness
who helped send Tom Mooney and
Warren Billings t. prison, rested in
Seclusion today. while attorneys and
state officials tried to smooth over
the difficulties arising from his offer
to return 70 California and Tefu c
his testimony in the Prepa
day bombing trials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
What Big Ears

BIZ Science Serrice
OTTERVILLE, H., July Is.
The night is hot. Stephen
son Woolsey, farmer. is asleep
under an apple tree in his
front yard.
Comes dawn and Farmer
Woolsey wakes to see:
One-half dozen hungry
wolves sitting on their
launches around his cot.
What to do?
Woolsey jumps. So do the
wolves. But Woolsey jumps
the fastest, or so he said to-
night, and thereby escapes.
Wolves, incidentally, have
been numerous in this vicinity
for the last five years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
HINT MURDER
IN WOMAN'S
GUN DEATH
Body ELIMINATION Ordered
in Mrs. Josephine
Darcy Mystery.
NEW EVIDENCE Barred
Pistol Found Near Corpse
Not Fired for Months,
Says Expert.

Testimony presented to Coroner
c. H. Keever today, alleging that
the gun found on the floor near the
body Of Mrs. Josephine Darcy. SO,
of 927 North Bradley street, could
not have caused her death, resulted
in the coroner ordering the exhu-
nation of her body from Washing
ton Park cemetery, on suspicion of
murder.
Mrs. Darcy died at her home July
4 from the effects of bullet wound
in the right temple. Police, at first,
were of the opinion that she had
committed suicide.
The coroner'S order for sdisinter-
ment of the body followed inquest
testimony today of motor policeman
Arch Ball, police department bal
listics expert. There's no evidence
that the .38-caliber gun found near
Mrs. Dazey's body had been fired
within six months of her death,
Ball declared. .
Gun Is Tested
Ball said that on July 10 he made
test shots and a thorough examina-
ton of the gun with which Mrs.
Darcy is alleged to have slain her
self.
He testified that an empty cart
ridge shell found near Mrs. Dazey's
body showed no indentation similar
to that of the primer on the gun
found near her body.
He also testified the shell appar-
emily had been fired months ago.
Coroner keever, following Balls
testimony, said an autopsy would be
performed IN the skull and search
made for the bullet that caused
Mrs. Dazev's death, in an effort to
compare it with the four unused
shells found in the gun on the day
of the tragedy.
First Believed Suicide,
Mrs. Darcy was believed to have
shot herself over a recent radio suit,
in which 1eighbors sought an. ff1-
junction against the loud playing Of
the Darcy radio.
The coroner's inquest verdict il
being held up pending examination
of the body and the testimony OF
several additional witnesses.
Grant Darcy, the dead woman's
husband, found the body and the
gun, he told police. He broke the
chamber of the gun, he said; and
extracted the four unused shells and
the empty one before police arrived.
Darcy told the coroner he tam
pered with the gun to ascertain
whether his wife had shot herself
or had been struck With the gun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
TWO ARE INJURED
AS CAR RAMS BUS

Two persons we're injured one
seriously, today when motor car
crashed into a Brightwood bus of
the Peoples Motor Coach Company
at New jersey and st. Clair streets,
The injured, Mrs. Ruth Ruskin,
%, of Westmoreland. Cal, and her
husband, Samuel Ruskin, "a, were
taken to the city hospital. Mrs
Ruskin suffered back injuries and
her husband crushed fingers.
Ruskin's car struck a Brightwood
bus driven by Ben H. Wright, Il, Of
1882 UdeIl stree
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
THREE CHILDREN DIE AS
PARENTS FIGHT FOR LIFE
Poisoning Apparently to Blame for
Tragic Deaths.

Bu Oufted PT6SS
LAFAYETTE, N. j., July IS
Three children of the family Of Will
bur Stanton were dead, Stanton
was dying, and three doctors were
fighting desperately today to save
his wife and a fourth child from
death from an illness as yet I'M
named, but was apparently is some
sort of poisoning.
Despite doctors efforts, three OF
the children, Elizabeth, Is; Fanny,
II, and Alice, 4, died early today.
Stanton was in critical condition,
but the doctors had hopes of saw
ing Mrs. Stanton and another child,
william Cartwright, 2, who has lived
with the Stantons since his fathers
death a year ago.
According to relatives of the fam
lily, the Stantons went on an auto
mobile ride Sunday and bought
sandwiches and ice cream at road
side stand. Docto. efused to say
whether these may ave been the
cause of illness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
MRS. HARRIET NOBLE
FUNERAL WEDNESDAY
Widow of Fletcher Avenue Loan
Firm Head Dead at Home.

Last rites for Mrs. Harriet M.
Noble, 81, widow of Cryus B. Noble,
former. vice president of the Fetch
er Avenue Building and Loan AS
ISOLATION, who died Monday at her
home, 719 Lexington avenue, will be
held Wednesday at 1920 a. m. at
the family residence. Burial will
be in Grown Hill cemetery.
Mrs Noble was born in England
and was brought to this country by
her parents at the age of s. The
family located in Morrow, o., then
moved to Indianapolis and in 1869
Mrs. Noble vas married. She was a
member ot the Seventh Presby-
terrain chucth.
Two daughters, Mrs. George
Champe of Toledo, o., and Mrs.
Ernest c. Rppkey, Indianapolis, and
six grandchildren survive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
THREE CLAIM ESTATE
S15,OOO,O0O Holdings of Mrs. Flagler
May Go to Trio.

BIZ Jnffed Press
EVANSTON, ILL.,, July 15.-Three
claimants, in moderate circum-
stances, to the $15,0OO,0O0 estate of
Mrs. Henry M. Flagler, divorced
wife of the Standard Oil and rail-
road chief, have been found in the
middle west.
They are Mrs. Ruth Taylor Pom
thus, Evanston, wife of medical
student; George Taylor. Rockford, a
house painter, and William Taylor,
Nora Springs, Ia, harness maker.
Mrs. Flagler died in a New York
sanatorium last week, leaving no
will. Attorneys for Mrs. Pontius
said she and the other two claim
ants are the only heirs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
True to Death

By United Press
CENTERVILLE, Ia, July Is.
John Miller, in despair be
cause Of financial and domes-
tic difficulties. took his l3-
old daughter in his arms
and told her she was going to
lose her father.
Estranged from his wife, the
middle-aged farmer conflded
in his daughter his plans for
suicide and left in her keeping
his desires for funeral ar
rangements.
Miller cautioned his daugh-
ter repeatedly to tell no one
until the night had passed. He
sent her to the home of
neighbor and she kept her
grim secret until this morning,
when she asked the neighbor
to return with her to her ia
Tiers farm.
Miller was dead, victim OF
Strychnine and I've poison.
Papa said he didn't want a
snowy funeral" the little girl
said.
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The Ruskin car overturned Mrs
Ruskin's first thought VS. fer her
police dog. Tip. and she asked, de-
spite her serious injuries, where's
my Tip?"
The dog could not be found fol-
lowing the accident.
Six passengers on the bus at the
time of the accident were Jared by
the collision.
The Ruskins have been living at
932 Highland avenue duEng their
stay in this city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
PASTOR is BLACKMAILER
Ohio Minister Will Plead Guilty to
Attempted Extortion.

BIZ United Press
BELLEFONTAINE, O., July Is
The Rev. Frank E. Reddick, AZ,
pastor of the Methodist church at
Huntsville, near here, was in Jail
today, unable to explain the urge
that caused him to write blackmail
letters threatening two Huntsville
brothers with bodily harm" unless
they placed $4,000 at designated
spot.
Mr.. Reddick has confessed writ
ing the letters, according to George
Middleton, Logan county prosecutor,
and has announced he will plead
guilty when arraigned in magis-
trate court tonight on charges OF
attempted extortion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
SECRET naval
TREATYPAPER
GIVEN SENATE
Publication of Document
Forced Through by
Hiram Johnson.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 15.-Sena-
tor Hiram johnson Rep., Cali to-
day on the senate floor forced pub
LEGATION of the secret American pro-
posal made by Secretary of State
Stimson to the London naval con-
ference on Feb. 5, 1890.
Johnson obtained the paper from
Senator Reed rep, Pa at the
conclusion of the latter's speech ex-
planning the pact and urging its
ratification.
johnson said the proposals were
among the papers which had been
given the senate foreign relations
committee under seal of confidence
by Secretary of State Stimson.
When johnson asked for the paper,
Reed produced it.
Il want to put it in the Record"
Johnson said.
Placed on Record
Reed replied he would put 1t in
the record and sent it to the clerks
desk.
Johnson then outlined the course
Of negotiations leading to the Feb. 5
proposal. He said toe United States,
in the summer of 1929. had asked
for twenty-three cruisers of 10000
tons. mounting eight-inch guns.
ION Feb. g." he continued, adj
dressing Reed. did you and Secre-
tary Stimson and Mr.. Morrow visit
Prime Minister Macdonald and ask
for twenty-one cruisers"
Il don't remember the exact date"
Reed replied.
And" johnson went on, did MIR.
Macdonald say to you then: That
is more impossible now than it was
last summer
Something like that" Reed re-
piled.
johnson asked for the japanese
proposal of April 3. but was in
formed Reed did not have the
paper.
Refused Cruiser Request
The American. proposal was not
read Immediately, but johnson in
dictated that 2fser being refused
either twenty-three or twenty-one
large eight-inch gun cruisers, the
American delegation on Feb. 5, had
asked for eighteen such vessels and
had got them.
Reed became FESTIVE under John
sons barrage of questions.
Il decline to be roSS-examined
by the senator from California" he
said. The rules provide the SEN
ator must address the chair"
johnson then sarcastically de-
Scribed senators who had accepted
Reeds invitation to read secret
documents in his Office as men who
went hat in hand to sit at the
Pennsylvania senator's knee and left
his Office bowling their thanks.
Today's opening quorum call
found sixty senators present, eleven
more than the forty-nine required
to comprise a quorum. A vote is
expected next week.
Reed said the twenty-six battle
ships which would have been built
as requirements under terms of the
Washington treaty by the United
States, Japan and Great Britain
during the next six years would
have cost $1,000, 100000. This ex7
penditure. he continued. had been
avoided or postponed by the Lon
don treaty'S battleShip holiday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
ORGY
CHARGED TO
Phone Chief
Head of Southern Indiana
Concern Piles Up SAP
a Day Hotel Bills.
FIGHT RATE INCREASE
Attorneys Claim Patrons
Burdened So Griffith Can
Live in Luxury.

How President L. c. Griffith Oh
the Southern Indiana Telephone
Company lived in luxury at the
Blackstone hotel, Chicago, with the
bill totaling $42O5 day, and
charged this as operating expense"
of the company, was pictured graph
ically to public service commissions
erS Monday afternoon by Attorney
Clyde Jones.
Jones represents some of the
twenty-nine towns in which Crit
fiths company has petitioned for
rate increases.
Turning to Griffith, who was
present and appeared debonair
throughout the proceedings, Jones
shouted:
Pleads for Citizens
Here is a man of epicurean hab-
its and fastidious tastes. He goes to-
the best hotels in Chicago and
spends $42.05 a day He says he
is there to borrow money for his
company. For that and God knows
what other purposes.
Surely the suffering citizens OF
southern Indiana should not be
made to pay for such luxury. In
Jasper and Dubois counties they
long have felt the current depress
sion.
Should they, who barely are
making both ends meet, be made to
support extravagant tastes of this
man.. which are away beyond the
normal standard?
Griffith is not an operator at all,
in any genuine sense of the word.
He is financier, stock and securi-
ties salesman. Every cent that he
spends should pe checked off below
the line and not be included in
operating expenses at ALL"
Others Join in Attack
Jones evidence in the case had
shown other large Chicago hotel
bills, items tor expenditures at the
Columbia Club, and as much as SITS
a month for Grifith's car, or ca
at the Circle Motor Inn
Attorneys Asa Smith, Indian
apolis, and James Fortune, Jeffer-
sonville. joined Jones in attacking
the southern Indiana president.
what this telephone company
needs is retrenchment and what the
president needs is REFORM Fortune
declared.
The case is expected to be decided
shortly and it is regarded unlikely
that requested increases will be
granted. Commissioner Jere West
is in charge.
Towns served by the company in
clude Madison, Huntingburg, Birds
eye, Schellsville, st. Anthony, Ferdi-
nand, Jasper, Haysville, Ireland,
Dublin, Salem, Campbellsville, Mar
tinsville, Fredericksburg, Loogootee,
Shoals, Bushnell, Scottsburg, Lex
ington, Little York, New Washings
ton, North Vernon, Crothersville,
Henryville, English, Brownstown,
Vallonia and Medora.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
INVENTOR BEQUEATHS
MILLION TO Y. M. c. A,
DIR. Elmer A. Sperry Leaves Trust
Fund in Appreciation.

DR.. Elmer A. Sperry Leaves Trust
Fund in Appreciation.
BIZ United Press
NEW YORK. July 15.-The Young
Mems Christian Association was
100000 richer today, because it
once was the means of teaching
young man fresh from the country
principles of engineering which he
later used in developing a number
of inventions utilizing the principle
of the gyroScope.
The young man was Elmer A.
Sperry, who was to become famed
as the inventor of the gyro stabi-
lizer for airplanes and ships. The
gyro automatic pilot. the gyro COM
pass, and other devices promoting
aeronautical safety.
DR.. Sperry, who died a month ago,
left 100000 trust fund in per-
petuity to the organization as ap-
probation for his start, the inven-
tors will disclosed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
DEMOCRATS IN SESSION
Peters Confers With Committees On
Fall Campaign.

Plans for the Democratic cam
paign in the fall election were adj
vanced today when two committees
conferred with R. Earl Peters, Dem
ocratic state chairman, at state
headquarters in the Claypool.
The finance committee, headed by
William R. Krau of Elkhart, Thir-
tenth district chairman, met with
Peters this morning. The subcom-
mittee on organization, including
several state candidates and district
chairmen and vice chairmen, dis
cussed organization plans with Pc
tiers this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
Railroad Employe Dies

NEWCASTLE. Ind, July IS
Ernest H. Burgan, 80. for many
years an employe of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad here, is dead at his
home at Kokomo. He was night
ticket agent here for several years
and also worked at the local freight
Office.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
ROB BANK, WOUND TWO
six Bandits Get $4,000. Shoot Way
Out Of Town.
Bu Tnifcd Press
WHINTAR

By nffc1 Press
WILLMAR. MINI. July Is
Shooting their way out Of town with
machine guns. after $4,000 holdup
of the Bank Of Willmar. six bank
bandits escaped in the direction Of
the Twin Cities shortly before noon
today.
Two women we're wounded by bull
lets fired from submachine guns
used by the raiders and one gunman
was believed to have been hit by
police, VINO shot it out with the
raiders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
LIQUOR ON HOUSE BOAT
Police at Lafayette Aid in Destroy
ing Liquor Making Outfit.

BIZ T~ffcd preeR
LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 15.-La-
fayette police and Tippecanoe coun-
ty authorities, while investigating
robbery south of the city, found
still in operation On a house boat
moored in the Wabash river.
The operator of the liquor manu-
featuring apparatus escaped officers
by swimming across the river.
Officers dumped twenty barrels Of
corn mash into the water and de-
stroyed the boat BY burning it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
MOB RIOTING IN EGYPT

British Troops Summoned as Many
Fatalities Are Reported.
BIZ United Press
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, July IS
Grave rioting broke out here today.
Mobs surged through the streets,
burning motor trucks and commit
ting other acts of violence.
Europeans took refuge in the
bourSe.
British troops were summoned.
Numerous fatalities were re-
ported, as the rioting continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
OGDEN READY TO
PROBE VICE HERE
Smart SOuSe
BIZ | nitcd Press

BIZ njfcd Press
CHICAGO. July 15.-Praised
as Chicago's most intelligent
drunken driver, Matthew
O'Connel1, 81, was released aft
er he told Traffic Judge Pad
den that he stopped his automo-
bile voluntarily when he "be-
came too dizzy
Police charged O'Connell
weaved his automobile from one
side to the other Of a busy
street before parking at the
curb and falling asleep.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-15
PREDICT FOSTER RETURN
Chicago Detectives Certain Lingle
Suspect Will Be Extradited.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, July 15.-The
extradition Of frankie F. Foster,
Chicago gunman, indicted in the
murder of Alfred j. Lingle, was
foreseen after = short hearing today
before Superior Judge Walton j.
Wood.
Detectives Dudley and Scherping
of. Chicago, here to investigate the
Lingle case, we're so certain Foster
will be placed in their custody that
they made plans for taking him
back to Chicago on a late afternoon
train.