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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
SHOVEL MOUTH
FOSSILS FOUND
Scooped Food Like Dredge,
Says Noted Explorer.
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Bu United Press
PEIPING China, July 25.-The
discovery Of fossil remains of an
finals with jaws so large that they
scooped up their food like dredges,
was announced here today by DR..
Roy Chapman Andrews, leader of
an exploration expedition in Mon
golia.
The animals were trapped $780,
600 years ago in the treacherous
marshes of q huge inland sea and
were in a perfect state of preserva-
ton, DR.. Andrews said. They be-
longed to the mastodon family and
are known to science as platy5elo-
dons or shovel-jawed elephants.
The platybelodons had jaws ex-
tending for more than five feet and
roar1ed the marsh lands shoveling
up their food.
DR.. Andrews said thirty speci-
mems of the platybelodons were
found in Mongolia, including babies
and adults. He said the expedi-
ton would remain in Mongolia I'M
til October.
DR.. Andrews was here today on
brief visit to Peiping and planned
to rejoin the expedition inmedi-
ately.
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TTunSfe1~O
/ zOOPUStO1S
Announced
The Rev. DunIavey AS
signed to Chicago; the
Rev. Cox to South Bend.

Announcement of transfer of the
Rev. Edwin w. Dunlavey, Roberts
Park Methodist Episcopal church
pastor, to the Woodlawn Park Meth
odist church of Chicago, effective
Sept. l, was made today by DR..
Edgar Blake, resident bishop of the
Indianapolis area.
DR.. Gilbert S. Cox, present pastor
of the Woodlawn Park church, also
will be transferred to the First
Methodist church of South Bend,
Aug. l, Bishop Blake announced.
Mr.. Dunlavey came to the Roberts
Park pulpit seven years ago and
recently received unanimous invi-
tation from the Chiacgo church.
Successor to Mr.. Dunlavy has not
been selected yet. and will not be an
nounced until there is opportunity
to consult with the Roberts Park
pulpit committee, it was announced.
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Hurricane Takes Toll
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BIZ Untte0 ETeSs
TREVISO, Italy July IS. - The
Montello and Montebelluna zones of
northern Italy resembled a battle
field today from the ravages Of a
hurricane adding to the already
great devastated areas Of the coun-
try.
Twenty-seven persons we're known
dead on latest reports from relief
workers who set to work Immediately
after the hurricane swept over the
country Thursday morning. Hun
dreds of others were injured, and
homes and buildings lay scattered
over the countryside.
The hurricane struck in the midst
Of preparations here to join in re-
lief work for southern Italy, which
was laid waste by earthquakes early
Wednesday. and forced this entire
section TO convert its money, food
and medical supplies to its own use.
Santa and Eurosia, two hamlets
in the district, had 300 houses COM
pletely destroyed between them,
while many hundreds Of other
buildings. chiefly farnlhouses, werG
damaged in Thea outlying regiont
where the derce Winds RACED
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RELATIVES SEE
WOMAN STARvE
Look on as Victim Slowly
Dies of Food Lack.

BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, July 25.-Two men
who, police charge, watched disin-
terestedly at the bedside of wom-
an relative while she slowly starved
to death, were held today for ex-
animation at the psychopathic ward
Of the county hospital.
Police broke through the door of
Jacob Pfeifer'S home Thursday
night and found Miss Dina Schrei-
mer, 55, gasping for breath in a
bundle of rags on a bed. Pfeiffer,
78, and Joseph Shea, 81, sat near
by, silent, noroSe figures.
Miss Schreimer was taken to the
county hospital, where she died
early today, apparently victim,
DR.. S. o. Myerson said, of slow
starvation.
"She weighed only thirty eight
pounds" DR.. Myerson said. "A
woman of her height and age should
weigh about $50 pounds"
Miss Schreimer was an aunt of
Shea and sister-in-law of Pfeiffer.
They admitted they had watched
her die, but said she refused to take
food. She had been without food
for months, they said.
Pfeiffer was released several
months ago from the asylum for the
insane at Kankakee, police said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
MeIfi Gets Relief
BY EDWARD A. STORER

MELT, Italy, July 25.-Relief
for the city of Melf, three-fourths
of which was reduced to ruins in
Wednesday nights earthquake
tragedy, came today with the ar
rival Of trucks and workers bring
ing provisions and clothing.
The death list as Melfi and in
surrounding towns and villages
continues to creep up as reports
filter in from the more inaccessible
localities, but all estimates of lives
lost and property damage are ap-
proximate.
The four physicians of Melt,
called from their beds by the catas-
topic, nave become heroes to the
survivors who watched them work
through the frightful night.
Before outside help arrived they
had extricated forty bodies from the
ruins and had assisted scores of sur
vivors from the wreckage.
Descriptive of the fate of many
families, Tony Farnolo, & peasant
who lived for five years in New York
and who speaks excellent English,
told me he owed his life to an i'm
pulse.
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A moment later he related, the ex-
plosion occurred and the street was
Uttered with torn bodies and debris.
Fearing the police would arrest
him in connection with the blast,
Krumesc made no mention Of what
he had seen, he said.
In 1929. Robert G. Tbring, news
paper writer, wrote of being on the
spot in San Francisco the day the
bombing occurred. Thring said
three men, suspected and named at
the time of the bombing, deposited
the suitcase on the street corner.
One was Spaniard or Mexican and
another an Italian, while all three
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DETROIT HONORS
VICE CRUSADER
Thousands Pass Before Bier
of Slain Attorney.
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b. United Press
ETROIT, July 25.-Undaunted
by the heat, thousands of men and
women today stood in line to pass
the flower covered bier of Gerald E.
Buckley, the radio man who fought
the battles of the poor and needy
and known to most of them only as
a voice.
All night long, police kept the
long double line moving, as people
came to pay tribute to Jerry Buck
ley. 1t was estimated $4,000 had
passed his coffin at noon today.
Meantime, police continued their
hunt for the three gunner who
riddled Buckley's body as he sat in a
hotel lobby Wednesday morning.
Search also went forward for the
woman who is believed to have
lured Buckley to the hotel lobby by
means of a telephone call.
Buckley was killed shortly after
he broadcasted results Of the cleo
ton that ouSted Mayor Charles
Bowles, whom he opposed.
The police department, goaded
into full action by a criticising
public and press, pressed forward in
raids on speakeasies, saloons, gam
bling houses and vice dives.
More than $50 were arrested in
raids Thursday night and today.
Today handbooks we're closed, and
most of the city's thousands OF
speakeasies and saloons were dark.
John Gillespie, center of many a
political fight, and chief lieutenant
of Mayor Charles Bowles in the re-
cent recall election, today resigned
as commissioner of public works.
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ExSaior Says He Sac Bombing Asserts Mooney Innocent

Stuart and Market streets in San
Francisco. 1t was near this inter
section that the bombing occurred.
Pointing out the spot on his post
card diagram, Krlmesc said he was
sitting on a box in front of a store
on Stuart street. watching the pa
rade pass. He sPw three men whom
he insisted we're Mexicans, lettering
across the street. In moment, he
said. they disappeared. hurrying of
around the corner and up Market
street.
simultaneously, he saw suitcase,
standing on the curb opposite him,
where the 'Mexicans" had been
lettering. he said.
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the disaster. He was sailor at
that time, he said, and being out
of work was hanging around" San
Francisco.
Krumesc. a stock young Hun
garian, who takes pride in his re-
cently-acquired American citizen
ship, told his story in the living
room of his home, where he lives
with his wife and two small chill
dren.
He has been employed for several
years as caretaker at the home of
q wealthy Cleveland man.
Taking pack of postcards from
a drawer, he laid them out on the
living room table to represent
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MIRACLE RAIN
NECESSARY TO
RESCUE CROPS
State Must Have 24-Hour
Steady DoWnpour, Says
Weather Man.

Steady downpour of from twenty
four to thirty-siX hours, a, midsum-
ner rarity in the middlewest, would
De necessary to save Indiana'S grow
ing crops, chiefly pastures and corn
j. H. Arlington, senior meteor
ologist at the United States weather
bureau here declared today.
Predicted thundershower for GER
tain areas of Indiana tonight and
Saturday will bring no noticeable
relief from drought, he said. There
are no indications of other rainfall
than from occasional showers.
Eight-Inch Deficiency
Rainfall deficiency at present is
almost eight inches, throughout the
state, while in extremely dry Sec
tons along the Ohio river, and at
the northern boundary of the state,
it is much more than that figure.
Temperatures climbed steadily
today, the thermometer registering
SO degrees at l this afternoon.
Hope was diminishing today In
southern Indiana for revival of
field crops.
Honey Yield Slashed
The honey yield in the state.
normally about 100000 pounds, is
expected to be reduced to 100000
pounds, because bees have been I'M
able to live and produce with
scarcity of green heritage on parched
ground.
All rivers and lakes in the state
are low, Arlington said, although
still above the all-time low records.
North central Indiana, while
suffering intensely from heat and
lack of rain. has Jared better than
other sectors
Cooler weather may follow show
ers Saturday, Arlington said.
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defy SCIENCE IN RULING ON MIXED BABIESN
Parents Traded

BILE" the case, was "astounded" to-
day that the physicians and parents
should fly in the face of a studied
scientific verdict but was not GER
tain what he could do about it.
I'll investigate further" Kegel
said, ito see if this verdict is a
matter of public policy"
But the Watkins and the Bam-
bergers were satisfied. Even Wat
kins, who first charged the babies
were mixed, was won over at the
conference.
Were satisfied said Watkins,
the unemployed traffic manager.
We've got our baby and the Bam-
bergers have theirs. 1t was all a
mistake"
Mrs. Bamberger, who never ad-
mitted that Charles Evans Bam-
berger really was William Watkins
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Billings, convicted Of completely in
the San Francisco Preparedness day
parade bombing, July %, 1916, may
emerge from their cells and testify
in person at the hearing on Billings
pardon application Tuesday.
Personal appearance of the two
prisoners would create a faithful
reproduction of the dramatic trials
o. 1916 and 1917 in which the pair
was convicted on charges Of hav-
ing murdered the ten persons killed
when blast OF dynamite disrupted
me parade. ssA. 49,
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Jr., breathed a sigh of relief that
"all this publicity and to do is
over" Her husband is brick layer,
There never was any doubt in
my mind that the babies were in
the right homes" she said. "a
mother can always recognize her
own child"
On her certainty and the shapes
of the babies heads, the physicians
based their final verdict. The scien-
fists based their decision upon
minute examination of the infants
skin, hair, eyes, anatomical make
up, blood count and refeXes.
Baby Watkins egg-shaped cram
ium was convincing evidence, the
physicians said, that no mistake had
been made. 1t was natural, they
pointed out, that Baby Watkins
temporarily should have a head Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
POLICE DELAY QUIZ
Wounded Mans Condition
Remains Critical.

Improvement in condition Of
Douglas D. Hall, 4132 Park avenue,
who was shot in what police be-
lieve to have been a hijacking bat
tie. was awaited by police today be-
foro he is questioned at length in
the case.
He maintains his story that two
hitch mixers he picked up near La
fayette, ltld.. robbed him and shot
him near Lebanon, throwing him
on to the roadside. The bullet, from
a rifle, shattered his thigh and
ranged upward into his body. His
condition ct Methodist hospital con
tinued critical today.
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BnTnned Press

Eu nfffd PTcEg
CHICAGO. July 25.-The Bam-
berger-watkins mixed babies case
was settled today on the word Of
family physicians and a mothers
instinct TO recognize her own child.
Ignoring the verdict Of a jury Of
scientists who decided that the
Bamberger baby really was the
Watkins baby and that the infants
had been switched at Englewood
hospital, the mothers, fathers and
a half dozen physicians met secret
~ at the Keystone hospital.
IN less time than it had taken to
assemble the scientists. not to men
ton the hours OF examinations and
arguments, the mothers and doctors
decided that each mother had her
own child.
They based their settlement on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
THREE Die FOR
BANK MURDER
Officers SIayers Calmly
March to GaIIoWS.

BIZ Tinted Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, July 25.-A
gallows trap was sprung in the exc
cution chamber of the county Jail
here today and three men, convicted
of numbering a patrolman during a
bank robbery, fell simultaneously
through a yard-square opening to
their death.
The trap, which hurled Tony
Gollypop) Mangiaracina, Cal Ma
sello and John MESSING to q COM
mon fate at the end of three ropes,
was released at Cos this morning.
The crime attracted nationwide
attention because the Republican
national convention was in session
in Kansas City.
The murdered patrolman was
James II. (Happy) Smith, traffic di-
rector near the Home Trust Com
pany, which was held up.
The doomed men, whose arms
were dashed behind them immed-
lately after the reading of the death
warrant in their cells, were lined
up single file on the trap. Three
black squares were painted on the
gallows floor. The men stood on
these, close together.
Father Frank G. MCGOWAN gave
them their last religious consolation.
Death masks were adjusted quick
ly. At a signal, five electrical but
tons were pressed in another room
and the trap fell automatically.
The met walked erectly to their
death. All we're smiling.
Nasello and Mangiaracina asked
that Messipo make their last state
ment.
'Good-by folks, we have no hard
feelings" MESSING spoke distinctly.
The hoods were adjusted and the
men said their good-bys.
"Good-py gang" each called just
before the trap fell.
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Bu Unifed Press
CLEVELAND, July 25.-A man
who claims to have witnessed the
Preparedness day bombing in San
Francisco, and who describes the
disaster in detail was found by the
United Press in Cleveland today.
He is Adam KrumeSc, Sc, ex-sailor
and globe-trotter.
He has signed an affidavit swear
ing to the truth Of his story.
Be believes Warren K. Billings
and Thomas Mooney, serving life
terms for the bombing. are inno-
cent.
Krumesc said he was directly
scrosd the street from the scene Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
$4,000 BOOTLEG GASOLINE
SUIT IS SETTLED BY OGDEN
AND BODDIT FOR $4,000
Agreement Reached With Chicago Men for
Payment of $4,000 Cash and
$4,000 Within One Year.
PROSECUTIONS ARE NOT DEFINITE
State Officials Refuse to Talk About Taking
Criminal Action; There Will Be
Some Says Attorney-General.

Attorney-General James M. Ogden and State Auditor
Archie Bobb today settled the $125O00 bootleg gasoline
suit launched by the state, for S25OOO only $4,000 of
which paid cash and the $500 to be paid year.
They settled with attorneys for the Chicago who
admitted Ogden sad that they thought they getting
by without gasoline tax payments through brides to state
employees.
In the background looms the possibility for these
men get back the Hammond refinery put into receiver
ship of the state and again do business at the old stand
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The appalling toll of dead
and injured has in no way re-
duced, as communications
we're almost completely re-
stored.
The estimate of $500 dead
still stood, and the govern
ment's official tabulation, ris-
ing slowly, neared the 1000
mark. The number of in
jured was many thousands.
The morale of the entire region,
shattered by widespread death and
appalling destruction, was further
depressed by slight earth tremors
Thursday and the continuance of
heat and violent winds which the
peasants describe as "earthauake
weather"
Condition of the houses still
standing in Lacedonia and Aqui-
lonla is so dangerous that authori-
ties today ordered complete evacu-
alton OF those localities by the sur
vivorS.
The province of Benevento also
suffered heavily in loss of life.
though probably to lesser extent
than Avellino.
The lightest casualty list will be
found in the province of Naples.
Rumblings still are being heard
at zungoli, and the collapse of sew
eral houses IN tie Slight shocks of
thursday intensified the terror of
the still-dazed survivors.
Feeding Problem Pressing
The problem of feeding the sur
VlVorS is pressing. At Montecalvo
this correspondent found the entire
living population congregated in the
public squares, hungrily awaiting the
government rations expected from
Benevento.
We want bread" is the first cry
OF these people at the approach Of
an automobile or truck over the
rough, broken roads from the pro-
vineial capital.
Provisions began arriving at Mon
tecalvo and other destroyed towns
Thursday evening.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

BENEVENTO, Italy, July 25-ltaIy, led by the king in
person and the pope through special envoy worked swiftly
today to relieve the Guferngs of million homeless in the
regions devastated by Wednesdays earthquake.
The king arrived by train at Roccheta-San Antonio
headquarters of the relief work. and started Immediately
an automobile tour of the stricken country.
Hopes of the distracted populace raised Immediately
by the royal presence and the peasants and towfo in
him the tangible evidence that the government would feed
and cloth hem rebuild their homes bury the dead and
for the injured
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the shape Of the babies heads
whereas the scientists had employed
their knowledge Of anthropology
dermatology and other sciences that
relate to mankind, including "moul-
age" the mysterious criminal-catch-
ing science introduced to Chicago by
DR.. Ferdinand Watzek, the crime
detector
With little excitement and strict
secrecy the case was unravaled at
the early morning conference.
For more than a week the case of
the mixed babies Of Mrs. Charles
Bamberger and Mrs. William Wat
kins, born the same day in Engle-
wood hospital, had engaged the best
minds of Chicago academic circles.
Or. Arnold Kegel, health commits
sioner. who undertook to "unscram-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-25
AUTO DEATHS GAIN
Mortality Rate Is Up 2.6
Over Last Year.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, July 25.-An in
crease in the automobile accident
mortality rate occurred during the
past year, the commerce department
revealed today in computing a rate
of 26.6 per 100000 population in the
f1fty-two weeks ending July II, COM
pared with a rate of "a per 100000
in the previous year.
Deaths from automobile accidents
during the year ending duly II in
seventy-eight cities, which report
regularly, totaled $3.50. For the
same period last year, they were
1912. During the month ending
July IL, there were 651 deaths in
these cities, compared with 635 in
the same period the year before.
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ACE TO ENTER PLEA
War Hero Purse SnatCher
Believed III Mentally.

BIZ United Press
LOS ANGELES, July 25.-Al-
though police said they were un-
willing to oppose a motion for
parole, Captain George r. Clifford,
British aviation leader during the
World war indicated today he will
plead guilty to a charge of purse
snatching.
Clifford's war record, showing he
Drought down more than a score of
enemy planes. led police to believe
he was suffering from a mental ILL
ness. He vas accused of stealing a
purse containing SIS from a Los
Angeles woman.
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linked in the background of the en-
tire business, which is said to have
flooded northern Indiana with some
100000 gallons of tax-free gaso-
line, but he claims he never was in
terested in any oil company.
He also denied rumorS that the
Lake county Republican organiza-
ton was being. financed even in
part by the bootleg gasoline racket.
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that shape because he was his
mothers first born.
On the other hand, Baby Bam-
berger's head was round, as it
should be they said, because he was
the third child in the Bamberger
family and, therefore, had less diff
ficulty in being born.
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How it happened that the wrong
tags apparently we're placed on the
infants before they we're taken from
the hospital, was explained as prob
ably cue to loss of the original
pieces Of tape while the babies were
being loathed by nurses.
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belonged to a Pacific coast group of
anarchists, it was claimed.
Questioned closely as to the rea-
son for his fourteen years of silence,
Krumesc said he did not know until
about July 10 of this year that any
one ever had been punished for the
bombing. This he attributed to the
fact that he often was on the sea,
and did not read a newspaper from
one end Of the year to the other.