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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20
LINKED TO MURDER
Youths Held as Suspects in
HoIdup Staying.

Two youths, held by police after
a robbery attempt Sunday night,
today were undergoing questioning
by detectives as suspects in the
Staying of William Layton, 2020
Bellefontaine street. May /.
Shift in the investigation followed
claimed Identification of Edward
Saylors, 10. address unknown, one
of the pair, as the gunman who
shot Ora May. Sc, of 2519 South
Pennsylvania street, bakery truck
driver, in the hand in an attempted
holdup May l.
Darrell Jones, II, of Danville, was
arrested Monday night and Saylors,
his alleged companion, was nabbed
Tuesday afternoon. Jones was. ar
rested after he had been shot in
the leg by woman whose house he
and Saylors are alleged to have at
tempted to enter after the attempt
ed robbery of a taxi driver.
Layton had closed his barber shop
and was Ell route to his home when
two youths in an auto robbed him
of SIS. Layton was wounded fatally
in a scuffle.
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When the jurors returned, Mrs.
Nixon Nirdlinger smiled confidently
at her mother, Mrs. James H. Nash
of st. Louis. The latter ran across
the room and chung to her daugh-
ter. Both broke into tears when
the court pronounced the acquittal
AS soon as she was acquitted
Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger was taken to
cell under the court room and
changed her clothes.
She hoped to have the forrnalities
of freeing her completed in time to
have dinner with her two young
children neither of whom has been
told of the killing of their father.
They think he is away on a trip.
Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger said:
ct never will go back to the scene
of the shooting, where the martyr
dom of my marriage was finished. /
only want to rest now with the
children.
st am so happy" she said. Il
knew they would do the right thing.
1 only want my children. We will
sail as soon as my passport is fixed"
While the trial was IN progress
the two children played on the
beach in the sunshine.
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En- United Press
TOURS, France. May 20.-Brig-

En- United Press
TOURS, France, May 20.-Brig-
L adier-G General Robert H. Dun
lap, here to study the French
language, was strolling with Mrs.
Dunlap behind the Chateau La
Fariniere at Cino Mars Tuesday,
when woman's scream for help
rang out.
They looked up and saw the
fifty-foot cliff a few yards away
begin to crumble. Cut in the
face of the cliff, after the fash
ion of this countryside. was a
peasants cave-like dwelling.
The general sprang to the
woman's rescue without hesita-
ton. Her husband followed. pace
behind.
Just as they entered the hut.
hundreds of tons of rock and
earth crashed down from the
cliffside, burying them deep.
Mrs. Dunlap ran frantically to
the village for help. Word was
flashed to Paris.
The embassy sent its air at
tache, Major Robert L. Walsh,
by airpl7ne to direct the rescue.
The French army sent troops,
tanks electric floodlights and
trucks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20
INSISTS FALL
KILLED ARLENE
Doctor Testifies for Virgil
in Valparaiso Trial.
By United Press

By United Press
VALPARAISO, Ind, May 2O.-An
extrabural hemorrhage, similar to
conclusion of the brain, caused
Arlene braves death, not the al
legged criminal attack by Virgil
Kirkland, DR.. F. E. Dittner, de-
Tense medical expert, testified to-
day at Kirkland's trial on murder
charges.
He was the first of the medical
experts through whom Kirkland's
attorneys will fight to prove that
Arlene was killed by injuries in a
fall they contend was accidental.
Mrs. Evan MADEIRA, who was with
her husband at the drinking party
where Arlene became unconscious
and finally died; Alex Thomas,
Gary policeman, who talked to
Kirkland in a lunchroom during
the party, and Thomas son lowell,
also testified
The lengthy, highly technical
pathological testimony of doctors
drove most of the crowd from the
courtroom, and only a handful of
persons heard DR.. Dittner's expert
opinion that Arlene was killed by
a head injury.
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SCAN MOVES TO
annex UTILITY
District Trustees to Confer
With Sullivan.

Steps for the city's assuming
property Of the Citizens Gas Com
pany were to be discussed this aft
ernoon by trustees of the city util-
ity district, meeting with Mayor
Reginald H. Sullivan.
The conference was called fol-
lowing removal of legal barriers to
the acquisition Monday, when the
United States supreme court refused
to review the federal court decision
upholdirlg the city's claim to the
property under the 1905 charter.
In the meantime, attorneys are
seeking to set a date for hearing
of a suit filed III March, 1890, by
Allen G. Williams, as a taxpayer,
seeking to enjoin the Citizens COM
pany from spending money for
plant Improvements, and asking APP
pointment of a receiver.
The suit has been held in abey-
ance pending supreme court action
in the federal court suit contesting
the city's right to acquire the COM
pany.
Purpose of the suit, attorneys ex-
planned, was to halt any improve
n1ent expenditures by the Citizens
company, which might increase the
cost Of the company to the city.
Efforts today were being made
to set the hez@engs for IL a. m.
Monday in superior court two, be-
fore Judge Joseph r. Williams.
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Hourly Temneratures
IS LIE TRYING TO SAVE WOMAN IN LANDSLIDE

and liquids fed her through a
tube.
TTER daughters knelt at one
H side and kissed her hand.
Injections were given to ease her
pain.
At II a. m. the body Of Dun
lap, terribly crushed, and an arm
severed, was found.
Just beside him was the body
of the farmer, Denis Briant, So.
His wife, who is IS, looked on as
the bodies were recovered.
For twenty-four hours she had
been doubled on her knees In a
space a yard square.
At noon, eighty cubic yards Of
rock had been removed and she
was lifted out and taken to
hospital, where her crushed leg
was amputated.
MAJOR WALSH arranged to
wi take General Dunlap's body
to Paris, from where it probably
will be sent to Washington for
burial.
General Dunlap was 81 years old
and veteran of several ware. He
had been on a mission to study
at the French war college and was
temporarily in Tofxs.
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CIVIC LEADER DEAD
Mrs. NJ. !. Hoover Expires
at Daughters Home.

Mrs. Medora I. Hoover, 70. died
early today at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Arthur Negley, Sc
North Pershing avenue, after five
months illness.
Funeral services will be held at
Flanner g. Buchanan rnortuary at
2 Friday afternoon. Surviving her
are the daughter, two grandcllil-
dren, sister, Mrs. G. E. Ward of
Decatur, H., and two brothers, Drs.
Oscar and Othello Hoover, of Indi-
annapolis.
Mrs. Hoover long was active in
civic and cultural affairs Of the
city, as member Of the Riley Hos
pital Cheer Guild, New Century
Literary Club, D. A. r., Eastern
Star, Marion County Agricultural
and Horticultural Society, and the
w. G.. T. u.
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Defend LAST
WILL AS VALID
Brooks of Sound Mind,
Attorneys Assert.

Defending validity of the 1890
will of Bartholomew D. Brooks,
Indianapolis business man, against
contentious of charitable organiza-
tions who would receive 100000
under an earlier will, defense at
torneys today advanced new con-
Predictions in the probate court
hearing.
They called to the stand, Robert
w. Fleisher, president of the Cen
fury Paper Company, who, testify
ing as an expert, declared scissors
were used in cutting paper on which
the 1880 will was written.
Attorneys for charity organiza-
tons have insisted knife was used.
In efforts to break down plaintiffs
evidence that Brooks was of un-
sound mind, the defense introduced
testimony of DR.. Edward Bachfleld,
indianapolis dentist, who said he
and many other persons PANIED
gold in Brown county. Plaintiffs
alleged statements credited to
Brooks, before his death, that he
had panned gold in Brown county
were proof Of his mental deficien-
cjeS
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YIELDS
frozen BODY
OF EXPLORER
Chief of German Party to
Central Greenland Is
Found Dead.
GAVE LIFE FOR AIDS
Left Camp in 65-BeIow
Weather Because Food
Was Running Low.
By United Press

By United Press
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, May
20.-The frozen body of Professor
Alfred Wegener, chief of the Ger
man expedition to central Green
land, has been found.
A dispatch today said EskimoS
sewed the body within skins and
started transporting it back, but
their destination was not men,
toned.
Professor Weeeners sledge was
found some days ago, with his skis
sticking i'll the snow some distance
closer to the coast, and it was as
suned he was dead.
He had departed from the ex-
petitions inland base in 65-degrees-
below-zero weather last fall, with
only a single Greenlander as COM
panion, because there was mot
enough food to last the entire
group over the winter.
Went Out Year Ago
The Wegener expeditiom went out
year ago under auspices of the
Emergency League of German Sci
ence to make scientific observations
with view to improving weather
forecasts and accommodating for a
transatlantic air service.
The latter task paralleling that
of the British Arctic air route ex-
petition whose inland winter rep
resentative, Augustine Courtauld,
recently was rescued after being
buried in his hut.
A forerunner of the Wegener ex-
petition, sent out also by the Ger
man Emergency League, had pre-
pared the ground for its work by
locating the most favorable ap-
proach for the inland ice. Profess
sor Wegener's party was to operate
in three separate groups and remain
until next fall.
Experienced Arctic venturer
Professor Wegener was an ex-
perienced venturer III travel and
study in the Greenland wilderness.
Preparations for the winter had
been made with care and no anxiety
was felt at the time the relief ex-
petition, headed by Dr. Weiken
and Holzapfel, went in this spring
when weather permitted.
They found Drs. Georgi, Loewe
and Serge, who had wintered at the
central station, in good health, but
reporting that Wegener had left
Nov. with one dog sled for the
coast, where they had never arrived.
The central station was $50 miles
inland.
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JAKE THE BARBER GIVES
UP ON FRAUD CHARGE:
DENIES WALES IS VICTIM
Alleged SwindIer of Many
Millions Fights Return
to England.

By United Press
CHICAGO, May 2O.-John (Jake
the Barber) Factor surrendered to
the United States government today
to fight extradition to England on
charges of swindling British stock
investors out of millions.
While waiting hearing, the 80
year old salesman, once a barber
on South Halsted street, related how
he used his London profits to win
an audience with the prince of
Wales by breaking the bank" at
the La, Torquet casino in France.
The dapper barber hnancier adj
mitted he left England a year ago
with large sums realized from stock
enterprises, but declared his opera
tons were legitimate, and merely
smiled at mention of 100000 as
the amount he took away
EAST One" on British
Il pulled a fast one on the Brit
ish public" Factor said. 81 made a
lot of money in England, and I've
got some of it left, but it all came
legitimately.
Il was in London a short time,
operating brokerage business, buy
ing and selling stocks. Other Brit
ishers do the same, but was smart
er than they, and England'S jealous
of my luck
Factor, who said he has a IT.
year-old son, but has more the APP
pearance of a prosperous young
La Sale street broker, conflded that
he. and the prince of Wales became
quite friendly"
CANDLES With Prince of Wales
Il went to the La Torquet casino
in France and broke the bank by
winning $650,000 at chen1in de fer"
he explained.
"a few days later the casino
manager asked me to play with the
prince.
"Chemin de fer is a game in
which there are no bankers or deal
erS, so it isn't true that I won from
the prince. We sat beside each
other, at the same table. I con-
tinued winning and the prince lost.
1.-THE prince asked me to tell him
the secret of my good fortune, went
to the bar and drank together and
talked.
THE prince was charming, but
don't think he had very good card
sense
Laughs at Gang War Stories
Factor laughed genialIy at stories
inSinuating that he and Jack Oegs)
Diamond, New York gangster, were
engaged in a feud because Diamond
had lent money for Factors stock
operations which had not been re-
paid.
81 don't know Diamond, and I
don't know any gangsters," Factor
said.
mo one ever has tried to kidnap
me, and / haven't tried to make
any alliance with Scarface AL Ca
pone. It's all rot. as the British
say"
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across the rocks, shouting Dun
laps name.
Mrs. Corcoran Thorn, cousin
OF Dunlap'S, who had flown down
from Paris with Walsh, stood by
Mrs. Dunlap ard comforted her.
The farmers daughters stood of
at one side weeping.
At mid-morning, cries were
heard from under the rock. The
workers dug frantically and pres
emily they discovered the farmers
wife, held fast in the debris.
She was conscious but in great
pain, and directed the work as
the rescuers dug carefully around
her. A flashlight was passed IN
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trucks dragged away the debris,
continued slight landslides ham,
pered the operations and en-
dangered the workers. Ten tons q
rock were removed during the
night, but dawn found them still
digging.
n f.
HEAVY army tanks rammed
Il l. at the rocks and army en-
gineers directed the laborers with
pick and shovel. During the night
there was temporary excitement
when dead horse. harnessed to a
wagon. was uncovered, but there
we're no bodies.
AT intervals, Walsh climbed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20
FROST DUE TONIGHT
Overcast Skies, Colder, Is
Forecast for State.

Warning to truck growers and
gardeners to protect what crops
they can against light frost tonight
was broadcast today by the United
States weather bureau as the Their
mometer threatened to drop under
cold, overcast skies.
Frost will hit in the Indianapolis
region nowhere but in low, exposed
places, according to j. H. Ar1ning-
ton, senior meteorologist at the
bureau.
In northern Indiana it may be
more general and more intense.
Warmer weather will be back again
by Friday, the bureau predicted.
Tomatoes, beans and corn are
most susceptible to cold, Arlington
said. The temperature may recede
as low as 40 degrees tonight.
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DIVORCED IA TIMES,
HE'S STILL HOPEFUL

Ell Faso Plumber Believes Mate Can
Be 'Won fo- Keeps"
By United Press
Ell PASO, Tex, May 20.-Bruce
Steele, Ell Paso plumber, today was
confident that despite the fact he
has been divorced fourteen times he
not only can win another wife
quickly, but that he can win her
for keeps" If he wants to.
Women who love me, keep on
loving me-" declared the plumber
after Fannie K. Steele had been
granted her third divorce from him.
on grounds that he went around
with other women, including some
of his former wives"
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ARMY PLANE, TROOPS
CAPTURE 'LEGGERS

Still Deep in Woods of u. S. Reser-
walton is Picked Out.
By United Press
ABERDEEN, Md, May 20.-Arnny
aircraft and infantry units went
into grim action Tuesday at Aber-
deem proving ground to capture a
still deep in the woods ON the gov
eminent reservation. Two men, al
legged distillers, were arrested.
After a soldier had reported see
ing the still. a scout plane scared
over the wooded tract, spotted the
apparatus, then signalled the loca-
ton to a company of troops.
The troops closed in, seized the
still, and arrested Percy Brazil, 81,
Tarboro, N. c., and William Isaac,
26, Roanoke county, Va.
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Yellow Kid Jealous

bV Jrtted PTes8
CHICAGO, May 20. - Joseph
yellow Kid We'll announced his
supreme disgust" today at all the
publicity Jake the Barber Factor
has been getting as alleged king
of the confidence men," and 'as-
serted international swil1dler de
luxe"
Everybody knows the type of
people he worked on, only slow
witted persons" said We'll. Nov.
in all my career I never took ad-
vantage of a person whose brain
was not as agile as mine. 1 want
to keep my title. I've served time
for it. It's mine"
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U. S. DESIGNER
DIES; STUDIED HERE

Allen II. Stem Succunbs to Three
Weeks Illness at st. Paul.
Allen H. Stem, who designed the
Grand Central terminal in New
York City, died last night in Miller
hospital, st. Paul, Mimi, after an
illness of three weeks.
Stem was born in Van Vert, O.,
in 1856. He studied art in Indi-
annapolis and did architectural work
here until he went to st. Paul in
1884. He designed the Denver and
st. Paul auditoriums, the Michi-
gan City (Ind) library and nu-
merous terminal stations for the
New York Central and Northern
Pacific railroads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20

Norman B. Hamilton, 5348 Car
rollton avenue. began service on the
Marion county grand jury today,
succeeding Walter A. Ford, who re-
signed because Of injuries received
in an automobile accident. Hanail-
Ton will serve until the jury IS dis
charged in July.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20
TALK MAIL RATE HIKE
Parcel Post Rates May Be Boosted
to Make Up Deficit.

Moves to increase the parcel post
rates in zones l, 2 and 8, in order
to make up nine-year deficit in
the operation of the department.,
we're discussed today by Robert H.
Bryson, postmaster, with Jess C.
Hartman, director of parcel post,
and R. E. Dakin, post Office in
spector.
According to the officials, the
government last year lost $751;
100000 in the operation of the ma
tional division. The three-zone rate
boost will be accompanied with a
slight decrease on parcels in zones
to 8, they said.
The postmaster general has the
power to boost or reduce the rates.
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TINE digging went on all through
the day and all night.

TINE digging went on all through
i the day and all night.
A dismal rain fell on the bleak,
nj ddy scene.
Mrs. Dunlap stood steadfastly
by, refusing to move or seek shell
ter. At intervals she called her hus-
bands name, but there was no re-
ply.
The entire population of the
countryside came to the scene and
helped in the digging. Rescuers
penetrated a deep crevice in the
mass of earth but found no traces.
Part of the heavy rock had to
be blasted, andt as the tanks and
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H.
trapped a
ndr
froncauy the all night
the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20
RULES ON GAS PUMPS
State Fire Marshal Not to Interfere
with Tanks Installation.

state Fire Marshal Alfred E.
Hogston today ruled that his office
viii not sinterfere with installation
Of extra tanks and pumps at filing
stations, provided the rules Of in
stallation laid down by the depart
ment are observed.
No permission for such installa-
ton is required from the depart
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-20
urges Board Power Extension

By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Exten-
sion of the powers of the federal
farm board, including the authority
to create its own cooperative bank
ing system, was advocated today by
one of its most active critics, Sena-
tor Smith w. Brookhart (Rep., Ia
in a speech over the NBC network.
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dle-aged husband tried to strangle her.
She repudiated vigorously insinuations that
she had lover, an unnamed swimming instruc-
tor, and that she married the wealthy Phila-
delphia theatrical man, Fred Nixon irdlinger,
for his money.
Favorell the prosecuting attorney, addressed
the jury without apparent effort to make a
strong presentation He admitted that the life
of the Nixon irdlingers had been unhappy, but
said there is always divorce as a way out. None
has the right to take justice into his own hands"
The defense lawyer, Marcel Bonifacic, cried
with oratorical gesticulations:
"Charlotte's married life Was a calvary of
continuous quarrels based on jealousy. On the
murder day Nixon -Nirdlinger said: Will you
sell me the children?' to which Charlotte re-
Piled No, they are more precious than gold
to me-
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Train Kills Woman

By United Press
VINCENNES, Ind. May 20.-Miss
Bonnie Smith, g. former vincennes
school teacher. was killed, and her
sister. Mrs. Olivia Carruthers, in
iured critically, when a train struck
their automobile at a crossing near
: here. They were returning from
8 church meeting.
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Trap Shooting at Night

Do IfHEt8 hpecllI
COLUMBUS. Ind. May 10
Nearly 100 marksmen took part IN
the inauguration here of trap
shooting at night An audience Of
1000 witnessed the event.
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DOG OWNERS WARNED
ON TAX DELINQUENCY
Prosecutor May Bring Charges on
Failure to Pay Assessor.

Many dogs upon which taxes are
delinquent are running loose In
Marion county, it was announced
today at the assessors Office.
Prosecutor Herbert z. Wilson
may bring criminal charges against
dog owners who fail to pay the tax,
he indicated
Figures disclosed by John G. Nc
CloSkey, Center township assessor,
show that $1,000 less taxes have
been paid on dogs this year than
for the previous year. The figure
this year is s10,2os and last year
sl1,162.
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GIVES WIFE "A BREAK
Let Him Stay In Reno" Chicago
Judge Says of Alleged Thief.

Judge Says Of Alleged Thief.
By United Press
CHICAGO, May 20.-When Albert
Sizer failed to appear in Judge
Joseph Sabath's court on charge
of stealing a diamond ring, SABBATH
learned that Sizer was in Reno
seeking a divorce.
The judge ordered Steers arrest in
Reno delayed because his vile
should be glad to get rid of him.
He ordered, however, that Sizer
be arrested and returned here after
he gets the divorce"
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GOLFER SWATS HUBBY

Cleveland Society Woman Charged
With Assault for Eye Backing.
BY United Press
CLEVELAND. O.. May 20.-As-
sault and battery charges were
lodged against Mrs. Corrine H.
Evers, Shaker Heights society
woman, today after she allegedly
BACKED her husbands eye during an
alteration on the Ridgewood golf
course.
The husband, William H. Jr, a
young engineer, also charges that
his wife threw eggs at him when
they returned home. Mrs. Evers
denies the charges.
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Free Beauty Queen
in Trial for Killing
Wealthy Husband
French Jury Quickly Acquits Mrs. Nirdlinger;
Denies Charge of Illicit Love.
BY MARY KNIGHT
United Press staff Correspondent

NICE France May 20NIr Charlotte Nirdlnger,
beauty who shot and killed her jealous husband during quarrel
acquitted by French jury today
The American girl dressed The killed
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nothing the Italian lovers The only Italians who
husband paid dollar to dance with his wife"
-Nirdlnger, one-tme
beauty pageant winner the grounds of Only
delberation the verdict coming just
appauded wildly the verdict