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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
SENTENCED TO CHAIR
Bandit Found Guilty of Muir
der at Lagrange.

LAGRANGE, Ind, Oct. 13.-Her-
bert johnson, 81, was found guilty
by Lagrange county circuit court
jury here today on charge of first
degree murder, and was sentenced
to die in the electric chair next
Feb. II.
johnson was charged with MUIR
dering Bert Frye, Seibert, Ind,
storekeeper, during holdup last
June.
Judge Clyde Collins, prescribed the
death penalty, although the verdict
left it optional.
THANK you, judge" was the only
comment Johnson made.
The jury deliberated the case four
and one-half hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
DRATTLE of pretty, dimpled,

DRAIILE or a pretty, olInpIeo,
4 golden-haired, 3-year-old child
the pawn at stake in the litiga..
ton involving her future-was
the only light touch to the SOM
Der facts laid before Judge Will
liam Pickens in superior court
three today.
The child's grandparents sought
to vilify the character of the
baby's father and his parents in
order to gain possession of the
child.
Little Donna Rose Pogue's
grandparents and their attorney
painted the father, Edward Pogue,
Is, as a man who carried a gun
while visiting friends at night,
drank, visited poolrooms and as
Sociated with women of bad re-
pute.
The child's father countered
with the statement that his
father-in-law, Roy Towel, had
threatened to shoot him if he
visited the baby while his mother
in-law, Daisy Towel, attempted
to keep him from the child.
Both sides agreed that a year
ago Edward Pogue and his wife,
then alive, had resided in perfect
amity at her parents home.
The young mother was stricken
with tuberculosis and her illness
caused her death in July.
According to her parents. the
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pus, charging that Pogue would
not let them have the child.
Attempts at obtaining an ami
cable settlement failing, Judge
Pickens was called upon today to
re-enact the role of Solomon.
Witness after witness paraded
across the stand to show that
both the grandparents and Pogue
can provide proper homes for the
child.
Final arguments are to be
heard late this afternoon.
In the meanwhile, Donna Rose,
blue beret askew upon her blond
head, steadily is drawing upon
the milk bottle which she car
ries about the courtroom in her
chubby hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
Girl 8, Prattles GleetulN as
Fight for Custody Is Waged

dying mother and her husband
had agreed just before she died to
leave the custody of Donna
Rose with her grandparents, the
Towels.
Almost a month later Pogue.
who had gone to reside with his
parents in haywood, sought to
obtain possession of the child by
writ of habeaS corpus in SUI
perior court two.
AT the hearing Judge Joseph R.
Williams decided that the father
and grandparents could have pos
session of the child on alternate
weeks.
= With the passage of another
month, the Towels also filed a
petition for a writ of habeas cor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
YEGGMEN WRECK LIZTON
BANK, WAGE GUN DUEL,
and FLEE WITH $4,000
President Is Awakened by
Blast, Opens Fire From
His Home.
LEAD RIDDLES HOUSE
Shattered Safes Hurled
Across R0om, Running
Ceilings, Walls.
BY HEZE CLARK
Times staff Correspondent

LIZTON, Ind, Oct. 13.-BlaSting
two safes and wrecking the interior
of the State Bank of Lizton, five
bandits early today staged a gun
battle with the president of the in
Stitution and fled in two automo-
biles with $4,000 in cash and Sc
curities.
This little town of 200 residents,
twenty-five miles northwest of In
dianapolis, still was in an uproar
hours after the yeggs fed.
The bandits worked in the bank
more than an hour and a half,
using eight charges of nitro
glycerin to blow the safes.
Sections of the safes were blown
to various parts of the bank.
One wall of the three story build
ing bulged under the force of the
explosives. Windows in the bank
were shattered.
President Opens Fire
Awakened by the first blast, Mar
ion Bailey, president of the bank,
who lives across the street from the
institution, opened fire on three
bandits in front of The bank.
The yeggs had barricaded them
selves behind grocery store bread
boxes and bank furniture piled on
the sidewalk in front Of the build
ing.
Bailey, who is H. and his brother
in-law, James Young, 30, became
targets for fusillade of shots from
the bandits guns. -Four of the
outlaws bullets bored into the side
of the house, another barely missed
Young and Bailey, and a sixth
ripped through a wall of the house.
Persons in the vicinity of the
bank armed themselves, but did not
dare turn on lights or open an at
tack after the exchange of shots
between Bailey and the thugs.
Cut Telephone Lines
Before entering the bank, the
yeggs stole a ladder from a grain
elevator near the town and cut the
main telephone and telegraph lines.
The place was without communica-
ton for several hours after the
crime.
Believed to be safe-cracking ex-
perts, the yeggs tried to muffle
the explosions with coats and
tarpaulins they stole from the Big
Four station, where they also OBJ
tanned crowbars and tools.
Two of the bandit cars were
parked near the bank, while the
robbers worked inside.
George Huber, cashier, who
estimated the loss, was awakened
by the exchange of shots, and was
armed, but did not make the trip
to the bank.
Instead he left his home and
drove to jamestown, five miles
distant, to sound the first alarm of
the Swallowing.
Damage Is Heavy
One large safe blasted by the
bandits contained only bank rec
ordS, while the other held securities
and money The loss in money and
about $4,000 to the bank building is
covered by insurance, Huber said.
Carrying $4,000 worth of currency
in his pockets, c. F. Martin, presi-
dent of the state bank of James,
town, appeared before the debris
was cleared, and told Bailey he was
prepared to support the banks
opening.
Banking took place today in a.
grocery owned by Milo Dowden in
the same building with the wrecked
bank
State criminal operatives al
tempted to find fingerprints in the
Wreckage and all parts of the state
were searched for the bandits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
Troops Move North

PEIPING, China, Oct. 1S.-Chi-
nese troops moved northward from
the Yangtze river today, apparently
in anticipation of possible warfare
with Japan, it was learned by for
elgn military attaches here.
A Manchurian communique issued
here at the same time, said that
japanese airplaneS bombed three
trainloads of Chinese soldiers at
TahuSian today. Casualties were
not determined.
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the closed door? Who fired the two shots Mary heard?
Two murders, robbery and daring criminal in
rigue followed the Jupiter rubies in swift succession
Mary Hardness found herself swept into the of
these amazing events.
Gems of PERIL tell the story Mystery, adventure
and romance combined in this absorbing serial,
which starts Wednesday in The Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
GETS HOSPITAL POST
Lafayette Man Named on Board OF
State Institution.

Governor Harry G. Leslie today
appointed Wallace D. Wolfe, La
fayette, to succeed Moses Epstein
as a member of the board of trus-
tees of the Logansport state hos
pizal.
Epstein, who has resigned the
hospital post and his place on the
state purchasing board, has been
i'll. His term expires April, 1885.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13

woman lay murdered daring jewel theft had
been committed Somewhere, not far away the per-
petrator of both crimes was hiding
On the night that to have been the gayest and
happest of Mary Hardness life tragedy descended on
the household in which she lived.
Whose voice rose in that frightened scream behind
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
Life Sentence Is Upheld

Supreme court today confirmed
the conviction of Arthur Cox, Co
lumbus, sentenced to life imprison-
ment in 1929 for kidnapping. Cox
was found guilty of the charge after
he seized 7-year-o ld-girI and
abandoned her in an alley when
pursued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13

Princeton, Ind, and attended
the same church fifteen years
ago.
Il thought you were one of
the most promising young men
Of our community" Baltzell
continued d, "and I never
dreamed we, would meet under
such circumstances"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
BOSTON COOL To AIMEE
Third Revival Meetings Fails L
Meet Expenses; JobIess Suffer.


BIZ United Press
BOSTON, Oct. 13.-Aimee Semple
Mcpherson Hutton preached to a
holiday crowd of about 10000 at
Boston Garden Monday night, but
receipts still fell far short of ex-
penSeS.
If those in the audience gave the
10 cents apiece the Saturday and
Sunday night audiences averaged
the collection totaled $1,000. And
Aimee claims expenses for each re-
vival meeting are $4,000. Thus far
therefore, Mayor James M. Curleys
victory in getting the evangelist to
agree to donate half the profits to
Boston'S jobless has been hollow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13

member of his
Sunday school
class to serve
four months in
Jail when the
d efe n d a n t
pleaded guilty
TO a liquor
charge.
I'm disap-
pointed in
you, and also
in m Us elf"
Judge Baltzell
told Joe Ad-
cock, a friend
Of the judge
when the two
men lived at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
FAMOUS RUM CASE ENDS
Prohibition Test Trial, in Which
Judge Clark starred" Is Over.

By United Press
TRENTON, N. j., Oct. ia pro-
hibition test case which attracted
nationwide attention when Judge
William Clark ruled, in trying it,
that the eighteenth amendment had
not been ratified legally, has ended.
Federal Judge Borquin of Mon
tana settled the case of william
Sprague and William j. Howey of
Sussex, N. j., charged with having
possessed and transported fifty half
barrels of beer Illegally when he
fined them $3.50 jointly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
FLIER GOES TO JAIL
Don Moyle of Toxic to- Seattle Fama
to Serve Drunk Term.

to Serve Drunk Term.
By United Press
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13.-Hero or
also ran, Don Moyle prepared to-
day to hear the doors of the county
jail clank behind him.
Moyle, "jail or glory flier. who
with Cecil Allen attempted a non
stop fight from Toxic to Seattle.
was ordered to appear before Jus
tice B. Rey Schauer to report him.
self ready to begin serving a thirty
day jail sentenced imposed as part
Of probation granted him after he
pleaded guilty to a charge Of driving
while drunk.
He was sentenced last July. but
Judge Schauer granted a continue
ance to permit Moyle to undertakes
the flight. Judge Schauer said the
sentence would stand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
AKRON ON SPEED RUN
Giant Airship Scars Away From
Dock at Early Hour.

AKRON, Oct. 13.-Eight 56O-horse
power engines drove the U. S. S.
Akron through northern Ohio skies
today in the giant airship's first
speed test. The Akron scared away
from her airdock at $40 a. m.
Naval officials said the flight
would last until late afternoon. The
sky liner has calculated maximum
speed of eighty three miles an hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
CITY LEFT 'BANKLESS
BIZ United Press

Third and Last Institution in Nor
gantown, w. Va, Is Closed.
BIZ United Press
MORGANTOWN, w. Va, Oct. Is.
-Morgantown, a city of $4,000 per-
sons and seat of the University of
West Virginia, today was without
banking facilities.
The city's last bank, the Second
National today failed to open liz
doors. A board of directors notice
said the bank closed to conserve
assets. National bank examiners
were in charge. The Bank of Mo
nongahela failed here a year ago.
The Bank of Morgantown failed
two weeks ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
Purse Grabbed by Footpad

A footpad Monday night grabbed
the purse of Mrs. William Welsh,
1888 College avenue, as she stood
on the sidewalk in the 500 block
East Eleventh street. she reported
today to police. The purse con-
tanned SO, she said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
WGN JOINS COLUMBIA
Chicago Tribune Station Added tn
National Network.
By United Prea.

by Uhtted Pre8s
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.-Negotiations
nave been completed whereby WGN.
the Chicago Tribune station, will
serve as an added outlet in Chicago
Tor programs Of the Columbia
Broadcasting System.
While the Tribune will continue
to own and operate the station. a
number Of hours each week have
been allotted to the network on a,
long term contract. Other Colum-
ola programs will be carried in Chi
cago by station WBBM.
WGN has been on the air under
its present call letters since 1924.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
BungLer
Leo, a Failure at Love,
Even 'MeSseS Up His
Suicide Attempt.

By United Press
CHICAGO, Oct. 13.ZLeo Lynch,
" q, and Caroline Spolinger,
"a, were sweethearts for five years.
Then Leo met Katherine Curran.
Several nights each week after
that Caroline sat at home alone
while Leo wooed the other girl.
For months, Caroline said moth
ing. Finally she spoke.
katherine must be a nice girl"
she told Leo. I'D like to meet
her"
Reluctantly, Leo agreed, and
Monday night invited both girls
to his apartment. All were lit
tie embarrassed at first. 1t was
Caroline who opened the discus
sion of the subject uppermost in
all their minds.
Were all here now" she said,
"and I want my answer. Leo,
whom do you love, me or Kathe-
rine?"
Leo looked first at one, then the
other, then at the floor. I'm
sorry, Carrie" he said, "but it's
Katherine"
II. Il
CAROLINE turned to her rival
~ "And now, Katherine" she
began, "let's have the truth from
you. I know you're engaged to
another fellow. Are you going to
give him up for Leo"
1t was Katherine's turn to stare
at the floor.
mo" she said, I'm glad you've
opened my eyes. I guess I don't
love Leo that much. guess I'll
60"
AS Katherine walked toward the
door, Leo stepped to desk.
wait" he said, I'll settle this
myself"
While his two loves looked on,
the young man drew a revolver
from the desk and shot himself
through the abdomen.
At Grant hospital, it was said
he probably would recover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
BOXERS HOME BURNED
Fire Marshal Asked to Probe Blaze,
Believed Incendiary.
BIZ Times Special

By Times Special
NEWCASTLE, Ind, Oct. IS. -
State fire marshals Office has been
asked to investigate fire believed
to be of incendiary origin, which
destroyed the house and barn Of
Eddie Staten, middleweight boxer,
near here, Monday night.
Staten, who has been appearing
in the prize ring several years, said
he had no known enemies. Loss is
estimated at $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-13
Baltzell Puts
Church Friend
Behind Bars
By United Press

By United Press
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Oct. Is.
Federal Judge Robert C.
Baltzell sentenced a former
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Too Much Law Means Too
Much LaW-Breaking

In discussing the political mania in
this country for trying to remedy all
problems by the passage of NEW
law" by the establishment of new
regulatory board or commission or
by handing out public funds in an
endeavor to benefit one group of
citizens at the public expense, a keen
student of economic affairs recently
said:
1--WE allow disapointments in I'M
achieved detectives to ruin our per-
spective; we become disguised with
further attempts at reconciliations of
differences between parties and ac-
cept the other alternative of legis-
lative enactment to impose superior
force on unreconciled parties, which
leads only to bad faith, long delay in
judicial Interpretation and economic
distress with all its consequent hat
reds and fears. And so the cycle be-
gins anew. We need patience and
much fortitude to undo the stupidity
of the past"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
The Maryland Legislature adjourn

The Maryland Legislature adjourn
ed at midnight Monday, after a
ninety day session, during which
much legislation was passed, some
good, much of little importance.
In common with other sessions
that have gone before it, the time
wasted would enable our law makers
to cut at least thirty days off of a
session, to the advantage of the tax
payers, as well as credit to the law
making body.
AS a rule the first two or three
weeks are frittered away before any
real work is accomplished, and
then mass of work crowded
through in a few days, before adj
iournment. Just why this pro-
cedure' is followed the members
themselves do not explain, but it is a
known fact.
1t always has been, and no doubt
always will be, despite anything and
everything that is and has been said
against this time-worn plan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10

Registration of motor vehicles in
Maryland was increased by l, 729 last
year, compared with 1929, according
to the Bureau of Public Roads, De-
partment of Agriculture. A total OF
283, $40 passenger cars, taxis and
buses were registered, trucks and
tractors numbering 1882.
While the number of registered
motor vehicles increased in Mray-
land, total registrations in the forty
eight States and District of Columbia
decreased from 26, 523, 779 in 1929, to
26, sol, 443 in 1880.
Registered automobiles, taxes and
buses numbered %, O42, $40 for the
year, a decrease of Is, 749 from the
1929 figures Of %, 121, 589. Registra-
ton of 3,48O,93 motor trucks and
road tractors showed a gain Of
lO1, O85 over 1929.
The States and the District of CO.
lumbia collected in registration fees,
licenses and miscellaneous taxes last
year total of 1855, 7O4, $50, which is
$7,861, 317 more than was collected
in the previous year.
Collections from Maryland totaled
90, 437, 1876.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS


This is to give notice that the
subscriber of Cecil County has
obtained from the Orphans Court
OF said County, letters testamentary
on the personal estate Of
MARAGRET j. HOGG
late OF SAID County. deceased. All
persons having claims against the
said deceased, are hereby warned to
exhibit the same. with the vouchers
thereof duly authenticated,
on or before September 10th, 1891
they may otherwise by law be ex-
Guided from all benefit OF said
estate. All indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate
payment to the subscriber.
Given under my hand and seal
this 9Th day of March, 1881.
JAMES Nice. Triple,
347 N. Charles ST, Baltimore, Md.
Executor of Margaret J. Hogg, decd.
Test: Robt. J. McCauley. Register.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
STATE CONFERENCE OF so.
CIAL WORK

For the first time in its history the
Maryland State Conference of Social
Work will meet in Cumberland.
Eastern Shore, Western Shore, Balti-
more and the Mid-State section have
all had their turn, and now the Con-
ference turns its face toward the
mountains. The dates are April 10Th
to 21st.
The Cumberland Committee on
local arrangements under the chair
manship Of Mrs. A. M. Lichtenstein
has arranged for the use of the Rec
reational Hall of the Center Street
Methodist Episcopel Church. The
accommodations are such that all the
activities of the Conference will be
held there. The Cumberland Cham
Der of Commerce is lending its full
lest suppot.
Delegates from every county in the
State, and even some from nearby
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
counties and the District of Columbia
will participate in an interesting pro-
gram. The Program Committee un-
der DR.. George H. Preston, State
Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, is
arranging a discussion of the
methods by which welfare agencies
and institutions, governmental and
charitable can be more effectively
used to deal with social problems.
This covers the following range of
topics: s
The Place of Religion in Welfae
Program; "The Care of the Transient
as Part of Welfare Program;
"The Use of Institutions and Case
Work by Juvenile Courts" Aims
houses and Out Door Relief" pres
ent Day Social Welfare Tools"
"The Family Agency as a Social
Welfare Tool" ''The Institutions
Use of Case Work." Cease Work
in Schools; ''How Far Should a
Community Fund Control Institu-
tional and Social Agency Programs?
Such outstanding leaders as Frank
Bane, Director of the State Depart
ment of Public Welfare of Virginia
and the Richmond School of Social
Work; David Holbrook, Director of
the National Social Work Council of
New York City; DR.. Bruce Robir son
OF the Department of Child G lid
ance of Newark, New Jersey, and
Kenneth Pray, Director of the Phil :
delphia School Of Social and Health
Work, have been invited as speakers
and are eminently equipped to add
interest and stimulation to the Con-
ference.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Safety First Campaign Shows
Results

During 1880 ten states conducted
Save-A-Life motor vehicle inspec-
ton campaigns. Close to 3,500,OOO
cars were examined as to brakes,
lights, horns, steering mechanisms
and the like. More than million OF
these had defective brakes 1000, 600
had unsafe headlights, $4,000 had
defective steering, and thousands
more had other defects of smaller
importance. The faulty equipment
was corrected, with the result that
during the month in which the cam
paigns took place and the month fol-
lowing, most of the states enjoyed
decrease in accidents.
The value of inspections, like the
value of laws requiring examination
of drivers, is not open to doubt.
There is every reason to believe
that large proportion of automo-
biles using the highways are defec-
tive, and that brakes, steering or
lights might fail in an emergency.
It may be that the most hopeful
sign in the automobile accident fir
mament at PRESENTS the vast amount
of scientific attention being given
the problem. The fntire nation is
observing those states which, in
spite of a rising national accident
record, are reducing fatalities and in
juries. The near future should bring
us a long way toward solving the
highway accident problem.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
Look Out For Gaso-
line Air

1t is gasoline mixed with air
that provides, by explosion, the
power to run your automobile.
Whenever gasoline mixes
with air in your home a vapor
is formed that is dangerously
explosive. A pilot light on a
gas range or an electric spark
produced by friction is suffi-
cient to set it off.
Avoid using gasoline for
home cleaning work; there are
efficient cleaning fluids that are
not explosive. Ask any druggist
CHAS. 8. PYLE
INSURANCE
RISING SUN 8: MD.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
NOTICE!

The thirtieth annual meeting
of the stockholders of The
Home Building & Loan Asso-
citation of Cecil County will be
held at 500 o'clock P. NJ,
April Is, 1881, at their Office in
The National Bank Building,
Perryville, Md, for the election
of Directors and such other
business as may properly come
before the meeting.
JOHN A. HARTENSTINE,
Secretary
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1931-04-10
BEYOND THE. RESTLESS

llUE
Evangelist John Moses Baker
Baltimore, Maryland
There is a home eternal,
Where some day we shall meet,
And sing Gods praise forever;
Beyond the tide, the restless
tide,
That's breaking at our feet.
In that bright land of glory,
No storm-tossed waves will
beat;
In the home of many mansions
Beyond the tide, the restless
tide,
That's breaking at our feet.
Wien safe at home in heaven,
Our Saviour we shall greet;
To be with him forever;
Beyond the tide, the restless
tide,
That's breaking at our feet.
The angel choir singing,
And music, oh so sweet;
Some day we'll join that choir;
the tide, the restless
tide,
That's breaking at our feet.