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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
STAYS WOMAN,
CHOPS UP BODY
Ohio Killer Uses 0uiCkIime
to Hide Crime.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
AKRON, o., July IA nu-
tilated body found in a berry patch
last night was identified today as
that of Mrs. Clyde Smith, 80, wife
of the marshal of North Randall
village.
Death had been caused by a bull
let through the skull. The head,
arms and legs had been severed,
and the entire body covered with
quicklime.
Marshal Smith identified the body
this morning by filling in the teeth.
Mrs. Smith had been missing
from her home since June 16. Her
car was found near cemetery Oh
June 10. There were no marks of a
struggle.
The marshal said he had not been
worried over disappearance of his
wife, because she frequently left
home to visit relatives.
Clarence Collins, Is, found the
body while picking berries just be-
fore dusk. The head, limbs and
torso had been distributed over
a. radius of several feet, hidden by
berry bushes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
ARREST TRIO IN
DETROIT DEATH
italians Held in Murder of
BoWIeS' Foe.

Hv United Press
DETROIT, July 24.-Three Ital-
ian suspects in the murder of Ger
aid w. Buckley, caustic radio critic
of Detroit, were arrested today by
Detroit police and state troopers
near Ann Arbor. They were re-
turned to Detroit.
Buckley was shot down in a hotel
lobby by three gunner early
Wednesday after he had finished
broadcasting the results of De-
troit's recall election.
He had taken an active part in
the campaign, opposing Mayor
Charles Bow1es, who was recalled.
Police said the men are Frank
Lipore, Riverside, Mich, and Frank
Forestieri and Anthony Musnesski,
both of Benton Harbor, Mich.
Police also are holding twenty
nine other men, rounded up in a
concerted drive Wednesday night
and today on Detroit gangsters.
Apprehensive over reporte d
threats, Detroit's political figures in
some instances were under guard
today.
Robert Okaman, outSpoken critic
of Mayor Bowles, was reported on
his yacht, with the crew armed.
Bowles was accorded a police
guard after runors became current
he might be killed.
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EDITORS CALLED
IN RACKET QUIZ
Newspaper Men Will Face
Chicago Jury GriIIing.

0 CHICAGO, July 24.-The Cook
county grand jury charged with in
vestigation of the gang murder OF
Alfred J. Lingle, Tribune police re-
porter, recognized charges today
that certain newspaper men are
racketeers and called ten newspaper
officials and two police officers as
witnesses.
The racketeering charges were
made by Harry It. Brundidge, st.
Louis Star reporter, in a series OF
articles, several of which were re-
printed here in the Tribune. Brun-
didge testified before the grand jury
early this week and is understood
to have named several newspaper
men.
After it was learned that Robert
M. Lee, city editor of the Tribune;
Harry Read, city editor of the Eve
ming American, and Harry Reut-
linger, assistant city editor of the
American, had been called to testify
today, States Attorney John A.
Swanson announced that ten more
witnesses would be heard Friday.
Those called are William F. Rus
sell, former police commissioner and
intimate friend of Lingle; Captain
John Siege, ousted with Russell;
Ted Tod, Herald and Examiner re-
porter; william Stewart, political
editor of the American, and Sam
uel Ettelson, corporation counsel;
Walter Strong, Daily News publish
er; Leland Reese, Daily News crime
reporter; Richard Finnegan, Daily
Illustrated Times managing editor
Jimmy Burke, former Times re-
porter; Roscoe Duffy Cornell, Her
aid Examiner circulation manager.
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MeIfi Badly Stricken
RY EDWARD STORER
ID I'D w 1AANAN . = 2 A"A1NN
United Press staff Correspondent

United Press stan correspondent
MELT, Italy, July 24.-This city
of $4,000 inhabitants on top of Mt.
Vulture has been badly stricken by
the earthquake.
The correspondent arrived to
find rs per cent Of the houses I'M
inhabitable.
The project of Potenza province
said so far he had officially listed
100 dead, 100 seriously injured and
200 slightly injured.
Whole blocks Of houses here lay
in ruins. Broken electric wires
twisted through the debris littering
the streets.
1t will cost many millions to re-
built the town.
The whole population is sleeping
and living out doors mostly under
trees.
I rode fifty miles to Melfi from
Foggia through the stricken region.
Refugees struggled along the roads,
some bound for Foggia, others APP
parently dazed and hardly knowing
where they went.
It was extremely hot and calm,
which the natives universally de-
scribed as earthquake weather"
The fear of another severe shock,
augmented by occasional trembling
of the earth, is very real and al
ways present in their minds.
When I reached Rapolla, a town
of about 1000 a mile and a half
from Melf1, I found twenty dead
and LEO injured. The bodies Of the
victims still were lying without
collins in a public wash house near
the roadside.
Bodies are being removed as
quickly as possible to avoid the
danger of an epidemic.
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Full Extent of Terrible Destruction Begins
to Be Made More Clear by Rescue
Work; Toll Expected to Mount.
LION PERSONS ARE HOMELESS
Cities and Towns in Five -Flourishing
Provinces Are Swallowed or Leveled;
New Shocks Are Felt.
BY THOMAS b. MORGAN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

BENEVENTO, Italy, July 24-Tfe full extent of the
terrible destruction wrought by Wednesdays earthquake in
southern Italy began to be made clear today.
One million persons estimated to be homeless in
the stricken region.
The casualties could not be estimated accurately but
approximately 3700 dead listed in unofficial counts,
while the government officially listed ITS dead and 1854
injured.
The terror of the homeless victims, for whom only
rough preliminary relief had yet been organized null
tiplied by the intermittent shaking of the EARTH making
them fear fresh disaster.
Two new shocks felt in this region at 9:15
and lis p. today They were not severe but strong
enough to cause already weakened houses to collapse.
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Announcement that the
king would leave his summer
palace i'll the Piedmont to-
night anc come to console the
sufferers by his presence was
received with relief by
authorities, assured that the
kings visit would do much to
calm the terrified populace.
Cities and towns in five once
fourishing provinces were crushed
today beneath the debris left by
the quake. OF some of these towns
nothing remains but a few survivors
wandering aimlessly and in daze.
Reports that came in slowly dur
ing the day from isolated centers,
and the stories of refugees from
stricken towns, increased rather
than minimized the extent OF the
disaster, and indicated that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
Air StOYaNay
Toledo Boy Hides in Tail
of Plane; Will Ride
Home lin Style

DETROIT, July 24.-Billy Jeay-
- ons, II, Cleveland. who slowed
away on an airplane Of the
Thompson Aeronautical line, to-
day was shopping in Detroit and
probably was going to talk over
the radio and tell his experience
tonight.
Early today Billy crawled aboard
the Detroit amphibian and hid
himself in the tail. Ten minutes
out. the pilot, Otis Beard, noticed
the tail was heavy and set the
plane down on Lake Erie to in
vestigate.
81 Just wanted a ride to Detroit
on a plane and I didn't have the
money for it," Billy explained as
he crawled out.
At Detroit a restaurant pro-
prietor took him downtown for
breakfast and other passengers
supplied him with an aviator's
outfit.
The Thompson line assured him
they would take him back home,
but not riding in the tail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
Here's Knockout Series
for Tom Thumb Golfers

of indianapolis people are turning otne Tom THUMB
their and thousands OF oteS are @
ing about the game and becoming converts.
in itself and besides helps your put
greatly If you're regular" golfer.
Times, hoping to help your miniature gof game VIII
articles by Shute In winch tS expert
have taken the pasme how they can
improve their play.
golfers the really good pue Shute de-
clares hole out in two puts
articles instruction to the beginner In putting
those read them bound
improve their game both in regulation putting and in Tom
Thumb golf.
watch this series in Fridays Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24

7TAROLD (RABBIT wARSTLER, Indians short
i stop, isn't in the habit of missing much be-
tween second and third, but he almost missed this
chance to wave goodbye this morning on his aerial
"trip to the big leagues.
Two taxis finally rushed him to Mars Hill air
port where he boarded T. A. T. air liner for ST
Louis to wear the crimson hose of the Boston Red
Sox against the Browns this afternoon.
Despite his hurry, Rabbit took minute of to bid
his family, Virginia, 8; Mrs Warstler and Bobble
farewell 70 ra few weeks Soon they will move from
Plainfield to join him in Boston.
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casualty lists would grow rather
than decrease.
Refugees from Ariano reported
that town of 5000 in ruins and that
the few houses remaining would
have to be torn down. The dead
there were estimated at 80.
Refugees from Melfi, where the
dead SO far we're listed at 200, said
one-fourth of the town was de-
stroyed. Thousands of survivors
were living in the open.
The towns of Villanova and
Mcntecalvo can be considered COM
pletely destroyed.
Zungoli and Sansossio were evacu-
ated, the inhabitants living in the
fields.
Military motor trucks, loaded with
blankets, tents and food, began to
push into the region today. Car
penters were busy collecting all
available lumber for reconstruction.
Suburb Is Swallowed
Two-t.1irds of the population of
Villanova-AlbaneSe, two days ago
town of 5000. have vanished.
Suburbs of Villanova, in particu-
lar that of Villanova Del Battista,
suffered even more complete devas-
tation than the main section of the
town. That suburb actually exists
no more. 1t is gone -wallowed I'D
or ground to bits in the jaws Of the
earthquake.
Villanova is situated on the top
of peak, dominating this province.
From it's summit one has a Sorrow-
fully impressive view, for miles in
every direction, Of the devastation
and desolation.
The earthquake spared not even
the more sturdily built homes. Clio
vanni Ventura, the mayor, and his
assistant, Antonio Ciccone, lie dead
in the ruins, an officer of the cara
bineers told me.
ViIIanOva Heavy Sufferer
Every building in Villanova is in
ruins. Roofs are crushed in and
walls have fallen. Those that re-
main standing lean perilously and
are cracked. The entire roof was
torn from the cathedral and the
building is unsafe.
Present information appears to
indicate Villanova is the heaviest
sufferer in this province. 1t Is To-
Gated on a mountain top, several
miles from railway, and is reached
only by unfrequented paths and
roads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
SHOWERS PROMISED
Mercury Probably Will Re-
main Unchanged.

Thundershowers were promised
indianapolis and southern Indiana
this afternoon or tonight, in the
forecast of the United States
weather bureau here this morning.
Temperatures probably will re-
main unchanged tonight and Fri
day, the forecast stated. Average
temperature Wednesday was nor
NAL. rs degrees, varying from SO de-
grees at a. m. to IS degrees at
8 D. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
MOONEY KEY WORN OUT;
HIDES UNTIL HEARING

Los Angeles, although it was thought
he might have used that objective
as a blind.
With him we're his two attorneys,
Hilary Cans and Charles Ruzicka
OF Baltimore.
Macdonald will not be needed
here until Thursday, when the SUI
preme court of California will give
a hearing to the man who claims
that the testimony he offered in
the trials of the two men was false
and that he was coerced into identi-
flying them by the San Francisco
police.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
LIFTS TREE RECORD
City Champ NearS $50
Hour Mark in Foliage.

Acknowledged champion non-drop
branch sitter. Palmer McCloskey,
IA, of 328 North Temple avenue,
neared the 250-hour mark today.
At this morning he had been in
the foliage of his tree 237 hours.
Nearest him were Warren Win
zenread, u, at 1923 North Sher-
man drive, and David Smith, Beech
Grove. each thirty-two hours be-
hind the leader.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
THING MAY BRING END
TO DOORS FROM BROOK
Proposed improvement at Newcastle
Will Cost $4,000.

BIZ Tfpes SDecf1L n.
Bowery brook, source Of odors which
caused citizens living along its
banks to protest to city officials, will
probably be made less objectionable
by placing of a large tile. The city
council has taken steps preliminary
to thing and final action will be
taken at the body's August meeting.
Plans call for use of six and
nine-foot tile. 1t is estimated the
work viii cost s58,340. 1t is pro-
posed to pay for work by a bond
issue which will obligate the entire
city rather than by assessments
against the owners of property af-
fected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
Drunken Driver Sentenced

q KOKOMO, Ind, July "a. - Con-
victed of driving his automobile
while drunk, Charles King, a con-
tractor, was sentenced to jail for
thirty days. fined SO and suffered
revocation Of his drivers license in
city court here. His attorneys an
nounce an appeal will be taken.
King admitted in court that he
drank two bottles Of beer. While
driving in the west part of the city,
Kings car struck a young woman
and endangered several children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
ALLEGED BRIDE
GIVER MUM IN
GAS SCANDAL
Sees Ogden, but Refuses to
Link Cooper to Tax
Frauds.
'HOLDOUT IS CHARGED
Grand Jury Only Answer
Says Attorney-General
After Conference.
'HoLD0UT is CHARGED

Louis II Joers, Michigan City, al
ieeed pay-off man in the bootleg
gasoline scandal. appeared as Sched-
uIed at the office of Attorney
General James NJ. Ogden this morn
ing. but refused to divulge anything
regarding alleged IDEALS" involving
Bruce E. Cooper, gasoline tax
auditor, resigned.
Joers spent several hours With
Cooper in conference in Cooper's
room at the Columbia Club,
Wednesday night. it was learned.
Cooper had sent for JoerS to come
here, before Ogden got similar
message TO him at Michigan City.
This gave the resigned auditor, who
formerly was a state senator and
formerly First district Republican
chairman, first chance TO talk with
JOers.
Accompanied by Counsel
Poole Harrison, Chicago oil man,
who has confessed to Ogden that he
and his partner. j. T. Conner, Chi
cago, financed the alleged pay-off to
dodge the Accent a gallon gasoline
tax. came to Ogden's Office accom-
panied by his attorneys.
They are B. c. jenkins and James
II. Parker, both of Gary.
Harrison was called into the at
torney-generaTs conference with
Joers and is reported to have urged
Joers, who really was his employe,
TO tell all"
Joers, however, continued to re-
fuse and the conference was termi-
mated. Ogden said.
Grand Jury is Resort
There remains nothing for us TO
do but take this entire matter be-
fore the Porter or Lake county grand
jury" the attorney general declared.
When this will be done, he refused
TO indicate.
New angle of the scandal reported
today was Joers' alleged "hold-out"
OF sums said TO have been paid
Cooper. 1t is alleged that Joers
charged the Harrison people, for al
legged Cooper payments, considerably
more than the actual pay Of"
Another is the disclosure, by Har-
rison, that Clarence P. Fate, securi-
ties investigator in the office Of the
secretary OF state. paid only $2.5oC
for the seven oil stations he obtained
for his son and Malcolm Clark In
northern Indiana.
These were learned when a tax
settlement was arranged with JoerS
in the state auditors office.
Gentlemen's Agreement
Harrison told the attorney-gen'
eral that there was a gentleman
agreement to return the stations t.
hum after the storm" Fate is il
Peru today. but Secretary of Stat
Otto G. Fifield said he doesn't be
lieve there was such an agreement
and Fate didn't take over the sta
tons until settlement had beer
made with State Auditor Archie
Bobbitt.
Both Ogden. Fifield and Bobbit
denied that the disclosures had in
volved the Republican organization
in Lake county in a Chicago-stylI
racket" in the northern Indiana
oil business. which had become
great source of revenue for poll
icians through defrauding the stat
of the Accent tax.
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make mirror for his wife before
leaving home. The screw driver
he declared he had used to make
a porch swing for his wife.
Clipping in a wallet established
his identity as. the mayor" OF
Lynhurst, who cleared the town
hall with a drawn revolver when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
Memories
B1 Tim es Special

Ba Times Special
GREENSBURG, Ind, July
24.-Ben Meeker, SO, half
brother of the late Ezra Meeker
of the old forty-niners, who
was a drummer in, the Civil
war, from a sick bed at the
home of a daughter, heard the
Batesville American Legion
drum and bugle corps give a
special serenade in his honor.
AS he sat up in bed to hear
better, his thin fingers twisted
and bent upon the bedclothes
in rhythm with the rolls which
he had once played. Tie con-
cert was given during the drum
corps attendance at a Green's
burg Legion program at New
point.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
BOY PURCHASES RUM
Nathan Benson Held for
ALLEGED Sale.

Sale of liquor to a 16-year-old
boy is charged against Nathan
Benson, "a, of 1888 Holiday street,
arrested Wednesday night.
He is charged with operating a
blind tiger and with contributing
to delinquency of a minor by
Sergeant O'Brien, whose squad
made the arrest. A small quantity
Of liquor was seized, police say.
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ARREsTED MAYOR lad EvERYTHING

the town board attempted to dis
annex from the town corporation
a tract of land added through ef-
forts Of Kellogg.
Kellogg was arrested while
sleeping at the roadside near here.
His destination, officers said,
seemed to be jut8 any place"
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uunitedPress

BY United Press
SAN FRANCISCO. July 24.-John
Macdonald. witness In the trial Of
Thomas Mooney and Warren K.
Billings. was in hiding" today, ex-
hausted by the excitement he caused
when he admitted his testimony was
false.
Macdonald, whose testimony
largely was responsible for the con-
vicition of Mooney and Billings as
the perpetrators of the 1916 San
Francisco bombing in which ten per-
sons lost their lives, left San Fran
cisco Wednesday, presumably for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24

womans mesh bag. a fountain
pen, pencil, q glass cutter, loose
corn. papers, crumbs and a screw
driver.
With quick suspicious Of
burglary, officers demanded what
kellogg used the glass cutter for.
He claimed he had sat glass to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
Lifelong Resident Dies

BIZ Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, July "A. -
Funeral services were held here for
Mrs. Mary Larue, lifelong resident
Of Putnam county. She leaves two
sons, Glenn Larue and Harry Larue.
and a daughter, Mrs. II. g. Guther-
idge, OF Wayerly, Kas
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Wednesday morning.

Wednesday morning.
In his pockets. when he was
searched at police headquarters,
officers found two wallets. two
check books. several catalogs, a
bar of soap. a wash rag, a razor
and package Of blades, a knife.
a plugged nsckel. . clasp from a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
YOUNG WIFE is SLAIN
Found Beaten to Death; Husband
Held for Questioning.
BIZ United Press

bU JWIttW Z teo
HARTFORD, Conn, July "a. =
Irene Diamond, young housewife,
was found beaten to death today.
Nearly three hours after the dis
coVery of her body, detectives found
her husband, Nathan Diamond, taxi
cab driver, and took him to police
headquarters for questioning.
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Death Follows Operation
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times SDect0I
HAGERSTOWN, Ind, July "a
Lawrence @. Macy, As, of Hagers-
town is dead following an operation.
He leaves his mother, Mrs. Lulu
Macy, near Economy; four broth
ers, Harry, Cambridge City; Byron,
Hagerstown; Frank, Pittsburgh, and
Forest. Dublin.
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! BANDITS GET JEWELRY
Lock Store Employees In Basement,
Take $4,000 in Gems.

BIZ United Press
CLEVELAND, O., July 24.-Three
bandits held up the downtown
Rotbart brothers jewelry store here
today and escaped with jewels and
cash estimated at $4,000. They
bound and gagged three employees,
locked them in the basement, and
leisurely rifled the store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
CRAWFoRpsVLLE. md. Jull

CHARLOTTESVILLE. md, July
~ 24.-EneSt kellogg. gun
toting mayor" Of LynhurSt. In
dianapolis suburb. lawyer. insur-
ance salesman. fire extinguisher
peddler. notary public. etc. gave
evidence Of his many occupations
wheel arrested here on suspicion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
Nurse Shot; Keeps Silence

CLEVELAND July 24.-For two
days Helen 10th, 20. student nurse,
went about her work with a bullet
wound in her side. choking down the
pain and saying nothing about her
injury. Since being taken to hos
pital a week ago, she has steadfastly
refused to tell how she came to be
shot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
WOMAN SLABS NEGRO
Forty Stitches Required to Close
Cash on Victims Chest.

Forty stitches we're needed to
close a cash across the chest OF
Reese Bowling, 50, Negro. 467is In
diana avenue. at city hospital on
wednesday night Miss Marie War
field. %, Negro. 2424 Parker avenue,
was arrested charged with welding
the knife. ,s-
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Father of Three Dies

By Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, july "a. -.
Funeral services were held here for
Hugh Smock, q, Madison town
ship farmer. He leaves his widow,
three children and three stepchil-
dren.
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Zee Sling Causes hines

PERU, Ind, July 24.-As result OF
humble bee sting on her right arm,
Mrs. Sam Allison, 48, is seriously Ill
at her home north Of here. The
arm is swollen and blue from her
elbow to shoulder.
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e. Ifntrk Spcct1f
ANDERSON. Ind. July "A
Madison County All Club viii
make a tour Of the eounty's lead
ing cattle farms to study calf rails
ing. summitVille is the starting
point
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-24
FRANCE REFUSES ALL
ON MARINE MEMORIAL
Holds No Living Sculptor Is Capable
Of Doing Work.

OF DOING nofhs
~ United Press
PARIS, July 24.-The French
Beaux Arts has decided. after look
ing over a score of projects, that
there is not a living sculptor capa-
BILE Of carving out of stones a monu-
ment to perpetuate the great turn
ing point of the early days Of the
World war, the first battle Of the
Marne.
After asking for models and
studying the submitted designs. the
government, through the Beaux
Arts. has decided to postpone for
the time being all plans to build
the monument. rather than erect
on the Marne banks an artistic eye
sore. or a monument which falls
TO capture for future generations
thu, spirit Of that epic battle.