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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-07
MUTT SAYS NORRIS
IS NOT I'm PARTY
Didn't Condone Secret War
on Nebraskan by Lucas,
Nye Group Told.
By United Press

BY CHttCd Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. Joseph
r. Mutt of the Republican nation
al committee told the Nye commit
tee today he did not condone the
secret prediction campaign against
Senator Norris CRep., Neb), but
that he believed Norris did not be-
long in the party.
Mutt said Robert H. Lucas, execu-
tive director. chad no authority and
would have been advised against"
his concealed attack upon the in
Surgent Nebraska Republican.
Mutt said that his action in loan
ing Lucas $500 to take up the note
with which Lucas financed the
anti-Norris campaign was purely
a personal matter" He said that
he did not consider it putting him
back of Lucas in the Norris matter.
Attempts to take the drought re-
lief bill from Speaker Longworth's
desk for action by the house failed
again today.
Reference to conference again
was blocked by Representative La
Guardia (Rep., N. ", who insisted
the bill should be sent back to COM
mittee to provide aid for city suf-
fererS. Democratic members sought
vainly to get immediate considera-
ton by the house.
The bill was sent back to the
house Monday after the senate, on
motion of Senator Caraway dem,
Ark had added SIS, 100000 for hui
man food to the $45,OOO,O0O already
authorized in the administration
measure.
Senator Joseph T. Robinson
(Ark), minority leader, received a
telegram today from Governor Par
nell of Arkansas, appealing for con-
tinued help from the Red Cross and
the federal government, as we'll as
additional appropriations for food.
The deadlock on disposition of
the governments Muscle Shoals
power plant was broken today when
a conference between committees of
the two houses of congress reached
tentative agreement on government
distribution of electric power from
the great plant on the Tennessee
river.
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state organization, who therefore
became a sort of side dish the Gov
ernor hadn't ordered.
But, anyway, the bargaining went
on.
knowing the League has ready for
introduction registration bill, SIM
liar to the one he pocket vetoed
at the last session, the Governor is
reported to have come out fatty
with his plan.
He will favor some sort of 'in-
expensive registration measure" but
any registration is expensive and
primaries are more so. So the
quetion aries will the league refrain
from agitation for the primary and
in return receive an o. k. from the
Governor on a registration measure?
1t is reported the women made no
such promise. They are for their
registration bill and for the pri-
mary idea, although not having a
definite bill in mind regarding the
latter.
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nounced purchase of the west side
institution following a special meet
ing of the trust company's directors
at noon today.
Under reorganization Of the bank,
located in Haughville, George P.
Terrence, vice-president of the Link
Belt Company, and a director of the
bank, will become its president, and
directors will be Stowell G. WATSON,
manager Of the National Malleable
Iron and Steel Castings Company;
John w. Pullen, formerly president
of the Citizens bank; Woollen, and
Leland Crawford, treasurer of the
Fletcher Savings and Trust Com
pany.
Discussing reopening Of the west
side bank by the Fletcher system,
Luther F. Silnons, state banking
commissioner, said:
1.-THE taking over of the Citizens
State bank of Haughville by F1etch-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-07
ULYSSES G. LEEDY, NOTED
DRUM MAKER, DIES HERE

Ulysses G. Leedy, SO. of 5206
Grandview drive, former nationally
known drum maker and prominent
in music circles for many years,
died today at the Robert Long hos
pital.
He was taken to the hospital Fri
day. Death was due to heart trou-
BILE.
Mr.. Leedy first entered business
in indianapolis in 1893 after he had
made drums for members of bands
with which he had Travelled for sew
eral years. In 1903 the company
was incorporated as the Leedy
Manufacturing Company and grew
to be one of the most prominent
percussion instrument firms in the
world.
Two years ago Leedy sold his in
terests to the Conn Instrument
Company of Elkhart. However, Mr..
Leedy then aided in organization
of the General Products Corporation
of indianapolis, now operated by his
son, Edwin H. Leedy.
Mr.. Leedy was born in Hancock
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county in 1867. His parents moved
to Fostoria, o., when he was and
Mr.. Leedy received his schooling
there.
His first regular engagement as a
drummer was with the Great East
ern band at Cedar Point, o. After
several years on the road Mr.. Leedy
was trap drummer at the English
opera house for ten years.
Mr.. Leedy was prominent in Ma
sonic circles, being a member of
Scottish Rite and knights Templar
in addition to the Masonic lodge.
Surviving him, in addition to Ed
win H. Leedy, are the widow, Mrs.
Zoa Hachet Leedy; another son,
Eugene Leedy, now studying IN
Paris, France, and two daughters,
Miss Mary Isabelle and Miss Doro-
thy Leedy, both of indianapolis.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed, but services proba-
bly, win be held at 2:30 Friday aft
ernoon at the residence. Burial will
be in Crown Hill cemetery.
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Governor Leslie constantly
has declared he has no inter-
est in legislative trading and
that he is in the executive
branch of the Indiana govern
ment.
The league women are talking to-
day of Mondays exception to this
Leslie rule.
The Governor himself took all the
steps toward trading, it was learned.
He called the league and asked
that Mrs. Thomas Sheerin, preSi-
dent of the Indianapolis League of
Women Voters, and Mrs. Frank D.
Hatfield, member of the state board
of the Indiana League, confer with
him at the gubernatorial mansion
last Monday.
They did call, 1t was admitted at
Leslie's Office today, but they were
accompanied by Mrs. S. N. Camp
bell, second president of the
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CITY MAN IGNORES HEIRS,
LEAVES WOMAN 100000

Court battles to retain an estate
that the late William Henry Stout,
local wholesale fruit dealer, left her
in opposition to heirs, was opened
in probate court today by Mrs.
Louise B. Woerner, former Indian
apolis woman, to whom Mr.. Stout
left all his possessions.
Mr.. Stout died in Van Mugs, CAL,
after residing there seven years with
Mrs. Woerner and her husband,
Frank Woerner, former indianapolis
lawyer The lasting affection of Mr..
Stout for Mrs. Woerner resulted in
his leaving an estate of about $780,
600 in real and personal property
to her when he died Monday, Frank
B. Ross, attorney for Mrs. Woerner
said today.
Ross asked Judge Smiley N.
Chambers to name a special admin
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Last Honor
Paid JoffYe
at Funeral
By United Press

By United Press
PARIS, Jan. France mourned
her Savior" Marshal Joseph Joffre,
with all the splendor due one of the
generations outstanding heroes as
the old soldiers funeral procession
passed through the streets of Paris
from Notre Dame cathedral to the
Invalides today.
Joffre's body was placed in a cir
cplar sacristy inside square tent,
draped with black and violet, at the
1nValideS. Battle flags were ar
ranged in the formation of mount
ing guard. A Napoleonic bronze
stood in each of the four corners
around the marshaPs resting place.
The three remaining marshalS Of
France - Henri Petain, Hubert
Lyauty and Louis F'ranchet D'Espe-
rey-with Walter E. Edge, United
States ambassador, bore the mar
Shal'S funeral pail.
Joffre'S body will remain at the
Invalides until a mauSoleum is con-
structed on his country estate near
Paris.
A million persons lined the route,
followed by the marshal's cortege in
its journey across the city. Many
thousands stood silently for hours
waiting for the procession to start.
The grateful farewell of France
was voiced by Minister of War Louis
Barthou in a funeral grafton at the
Invalides.
Requiem mass was celebrated at
9:02 a. m. at Notre Dame cathe-
dral, where Joffre's body had re-
manned during the night.
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Somehow, some way, those seven
coons and bear couldn't be rein
carnated out Of thoughts into pull
sating fieshy growls, and so they
never arrived at the point of sale
although Ben collected the sales
price.
Eighteen months in the federal
prison at Leavenworth," pronounced
Federal Judge A. B. Anderson.
ID PLEASED from prison, Reese
N showed off in his ark again and
in September, 1925, one bear said
"open sesame" never to return
either to Ben or the man who paid
him for the bear. Leavenworth open
sesamed," for Ben for two years.
Freed of the bear" jolt Skipper"
Ben dug deep into the hold of his
Ark and drew out five female minks.
A Nebraskan bought the nninks for
SIS. They never arrived in the
prairie state.
Again Skipper" Ben dry docked
at Leavenworth penitentiary.
Several months ago he was per-
mitted to return to his Ark. He
scraped the barnacles off her,
brushed out the cobwebs, and with
every mental engine purring set out
to sell pair of red foxes to John
l.. Flinchpaugh, Kirksville, Mo.
IT sold the foxes to him and col
lected $40 for them" related Skip
per- Ben today in the Jail.
INTO I didn't have any foxes, but
IN knew where I could get a
good pair. But it seems, it seems, he
wanted A-No-I foxes and of course
that'd take more time to get. I could
of got him mo. rs, or three'S or
four's," explained Ben in all serious
ness.
But when Flinchpaugh wants his
foxes, he wants them regardless of
sizes and so he reported Skipper"
Ben's "ark-ic" methods to postal
authorities.
Ben was bound over to the federal
grand jury Tuesday and remanded
to Jail in default of $4,000 bond.
I'm through with animals" said
Ben. st never owned one in my life,
but I'm through with them"
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EdwardSviIIe (III.) Fugitive
Arrested Operating
Theater Here.

Routed from the small movie the
alter that marked the last vestige of
an admittedly embezzled fortune,
Frank B. Sanders, As, of 1910 Ash
land avenue, today faced charge
of embezzling $153,000 from a bank
at Edwardsville, III.
Detectives arrested him Tuesday
at the Mecca theater, Noble street
and Massachusetts avenue, where,
posing under the name of Frank
Barnes, he was cleaning up the
playhouse for Tuesday nights show.
Sanders, when arrested, admitted
he had embeZzled the money from
the Illinois institution and that he
had spent, squandered and lost"
most Of it. He said he had owned
two other theaters in Illinois after
fleeing from EdWardsville in June.
but because he feared his identity
would be learned, came to Indian
apoliS four months ago.
Cashier for IL Years
He told detectives he didn't have
any money" and was trying to
maintain himself and wife through
operation Of the theater.
According to information from
Edwardsville, Sanders was the
trusted cashier of the institution for
twelve years and dominant BUSH
ness man there for several years.
He was respected and, even after
the bank steal had been discovered.
officials declined to prosecute him.
During the delay in starting
prosecution, Sanders fled the city.
Since then the hunt was continued
with $1,000 reward, offered for his
arrest He had been reported in
several cities of the country and in
Italy since filing of the indictment
IN the Illinois court, June 9, 1890.
Returned for Trial
Immediately after his arrest.
Sanders was returne to Edwards
vile by Harry Odum, deputy sheriff
OF Granite City. H., for trial.
Sanders said that after fleeing
from Edwardsville, he took part of
the funds to start two theaters in
Illinois. Mrs. Sanders, broken
after the arrest Of her husband. told
local police whatever profits San
GERS had obtained from operation
OF the small theaters had been
spent in their moves about the
country.
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LESLIE DEF|ED BY LEAGUE
OF WOMEN VOTERS; SCORN
REGISTRATION BILL TRADE
Veto Won't Stop Their Fight, Leaders Tell
Governor, Declining Offer for Swap
to Hamstring Primary
CONFERENCE RESULTS IN DEADLOCK
Officials Summoned by State Executive to-
His Mansion in Effort to Gain
Promise of Hands Off

Lay off any attempts to bring about extension and
enon of the primary and I'll be for kind of regstra-
ton bill"
This, in brief and bunty, the legislative trade
offered by Governor Harry G. Leslie to the Indianapolis
League of Women Voters, it was disclosed today.
Threats of the Governors veto of registration proved
avang it reported His visitors said to have sug
geed that might be passed the veto and that the peo
pie of the state have the last say in such matters
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the sale are Hiram j. Halle of New
York and Natoma corporation, who
will receive $3,210,411 each. Alex
ander F. Reichmann, attorney, will
receive 81 400, 700, and Frank L.
Belknar, attorney, will receive $685.
$50. Other stockholders viii receive
smaller shares.
Behind the announcement of Mrs.
Armour'S fortune is one of the most
amazing stories in the history of
American finance.
Years ago, j. Ogden Armour, then
at the height of his financial career
as a meat packer, became interested
in oil Cracking experiments.
During the World war, Armour
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istrator of the estate, which if al
lowed, would set aside the guard
ianship of the Fletcher Savings and
Trust Company established several
years ago for Mt. Stout. Ross said
the inheritance left by Mr.. Stout
comprised a legacy left him years
ago.
According to court information,
eight heirs, among them Erwin C..
Stout, 124 West Forty-frst street,
a nephew, and Mrs. Ross Hoberg,
400 North Pennsylvania street, half
sister, are preparing to contest the
will, which has not been filed
formally with the court.
Mr.. Stout had retired from the
fruit business here several years
before his departure to California.
Woerner was a prominent Indian
apoliS attorney.
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pany for $22,2400O0. Mrs. Armour
owned 400 of the 1000 shares of
Universal Products and viii receive
$8.216,058.
Included in the sale was the
Dubbs cracking" process of pro-
ducing gasoline 1t was the patent
for this process that the purchasing
companies wanted chiefly, it was
said.
P. C. DubbS Of Chicago, who in
vented the cracking" process which
Armour backed for several years
without success, viii receive So, $780,
CAS- of the money derived from the
sale, It was said.
Some others who viii benefit BY
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In 1926, Mrs. Armour lent her
husband 100000, which, it was
said, he needed to fulfill an obliga-
ton in the west. He gave her the
400 shares of Universal Products
stock as security. 1t was said he
originally had invested between
100000 and 100000 in the
cracking" process experiments.
After Armour's death in 1926, his
creditors refused to place any value
upon the stock which Mrs. Armour
held. Now she has sold it sor more
than eight million dollars. Her
100000 investment has yielded
something more than 800 per cent
in four years.
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z POLICEMEN
ARE WOUNDED
BY GUNMAN
Search North Side District
for Man Suspected of
Shooting Officers.
TRAPPED, BUT ESCAPES
Companion Is Held, but
Maintains He Had Been
Kidnapped.

Although several squads still
searched the district north of the
state Playground, police early this
afternoon believed that Carl Tate,
25, of 1850 Caroline avenue, had
slipped through their net and es-
capped.
They sought him as the gunman
who shot down two policemen in a
gunfight in an alley near Thirtieth
street and Northwestern avenue
early today.
His companion then, and another
man, George Mears, 6181A Virginia
avenue, are held at police head
quarters for questioning. Mears,
who owned the auto in which Tate
is believed to have escaped after
the shooting, admitted he had
loaned the car to Tate Tuesday
night, police said.
COrnered, but Escapes
He escaped after two detectives
cornered him behind his parents
home, and is believed to have been
wounded as the detectives and two
patrolmen fired more than a dozen
times as he ran up an alley in the
early morning gloom.
At 9 a. m. Mrs. r. H. Wilke, 4414
Baltimore avenue, saw Tate be-
tween two sheds near her home, but
did not know then that he was
sought by police.
When underworld's guns blazed
against the law early this morning,
the second time here since Saturday
night when Detective Carl Heck
man was slain, Patrolmen Ferdi-
nand H. Finchum, 90, and Owen
Tevelin, SO, were victims.
F'inchum is in a critical condition
at city hospital with bullet wound
in the abdomen. Tevelin was struck
in the thigh, and taken home after
the flesh wound was dressed.
At the hospital late today blood
TRANSMISSION was. made to enable
Finchum to live. After two brother
policeman had offered their blood
and it was refused after tests, Joseph
Shepard, night reporter on the In
dianapoliS Star, offered his blood
and it was accepted.
Shot During Search
Inspecting alleys because of re-
cent robberies in the neighborhood,
Finchum and Trevelin drove into
the thoroughfare where the shoot
ing took place, and saw two men
stink against wall.
Ordering the men to stand still
they searched them.
Look what I found on this guy, %
Finchum said, taking flashlight
and two chisels from pockets of the
man believed to be Tate.
Then 1 felt something sting me
in the leg, and heard the shots, "
Tevelin narrated. st was holding
Thayer. We got out our guns and
tried to get the other guy, but he
ran away"
Making their way to garage
near by, taking Thayer with them,
the patrolmen called headquarters,
and search for the gunman was
begun.
At police headquarters Thayer
maintained he was innocent of any
completely in an intended robbery,
declaring he was a taxi driver who
had been kidnapped by two gunner
and taken to the spot where the
shooting took place. The other man
was searching him there when po-
lice arrived, he asserted.
His story obviously was false, de-
tectives declared. Several times, they
said, he mentioned the name of
Tate, but police refused to reveal
how they obtained information that
Tate was the man they sought in
the shooting.
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United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan Sale for more
than $22,000O0o of an oil cracking"
patent which long has been re-
gardcd as worthless today restored
Mrs. Lolita Sheldon Armour to the
commanding position in American
finance once held by her husband,
the late j. Ogden Armour.
The news that Mrs. Armour and
a number of other persons suddenly
had acquired unexpected millions
became known late Tuesday night
when the Shell Union Oil Corpora
ton and the Standard Oil Company
Of California announced purchasing
the Universal CT Products Com
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FLETCHER TRUST BUYS
CITIZENS STATE BANK

er Savings and Trust Company is a
happy solution of the situation,
which might otherwise have worked
a great hardship on many people
in that section of Indianapolis"
When closed, the Citizens bank
carried approximately five thou
sand accounts for business houses
and individuals in its territory
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plunged" and obtained large gov
eminent contracts for delivery of
meat to Europe. He then was re-
puted to be worth $150.000,000.
The end of the war brought about
his financial downfall. as his COM
pany was caught with millions OF
dollars worth of high priced meats
on their hands and no market for
them.
1t was said that Armour's personal
fortune shrunk at the rate OF
81 100000 a day for months after
the ArmiStice. When his estate was
closed in probate court a year ago,
an insolvency Of 81 .905.000 was
shown. y
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noon hit a new,
optimistic cord in
indianapolis bank
ing.
The Citizen S
bank, closed by the
state banking de-
partment Dec. 80,
will be reopened
Thursday, under
full protection and
control of the CITY,
wide system of
FL e t C h er Trust
banks.
Evans Woollen,
president of the
Fletcher ha11k on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-07
FLIERS At BERMUDA
PayIoad Plane Ends First
Leg of Sea Flight.
By United Press

By United Press
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Jan. =
The seaplane Tradewind, carrying
Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieutenant
William S. MacLaren on projected
flight from New York to Paris, ar
rived here at p. m. today from
Norfolk, Va.
The cabin plane carrying the red
haired widow and her flying in
structor made a quick and easy
flight from Norfolk, which it left
at 6:09 a. m.
Purpose of the flight project is to
demonstrate the feasibility of a reg
ular commercial air route between
Europe and America via Bermuda
and the Azores. Mrs. Hart and
MacLaren are carrying the first
"payload"
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RENEW WAR ON CRIME

Extraordinary Grand Jury Sworn
in at Chicago to Probe Police.
By United Press
CHICAGO, Jan. IAN extraordi-
nary grand jury to investigate the
chicago police department. was
convened today by Chief Justice
John P. McGoorty of the criminal
court, and charged with the sole
duty of breaking up ''the triple ass
lance of crime, politics and police -
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JOBLESS DOUBLED
SINCE LAST APRIL,
SAYS COL. WOODS
Number Now Near 100000, Senate Group
Is Told by Hoover Employment Chief.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. Char
man Arthur Woods of the Presi-
dents emergency enjoyment COM
mittee, told the senate appropria-
tons committee today that unem-
ployment was doubled in the United
States since the April 1 census.
He attributed to poverty and lack
of jobs direct relationship with
crime.
Woods said the April census fig
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ures had shown 100000 completely
unemployed.
He estimated the number now to
be between 100000 and 100000.
He said, however, there was evil
dence of the beginning of an in
dustrial evolution in dealing with
the unemployment problems"
Where employers formerly had
discharged men on wholesale
scale at the first intimation of de-
preston, Woods said there now was
tendency to keep them on the pay
roll, on part time if necessary.
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PENNSY PLACES ORDER
Request for 100000 Tons of Steel
Rails Made Today.

b United Press
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. r. The
Pennsylvania railroad today placed
with four large American steel
manufacturers. orders for 100000
tons Of steel rails. it was announced
at general Offices of the Pennsyl-
vania. At prevailing prices today's
order wa approximate $8.500.Oo0.
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INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, ]
ARK DOCKS AGAIN
Skipper Trades Craft for Jail Cell
ONO

Skipper"
Ben l.. Reese,
enScOnced IN
his chair on
the bridge OF
has latest
barge, the
"JGiL-CeU,"
awaiting trial
By the
government
for
out-Noahing
Noah
2Uhen 1T came
to releasing
animals from
an ark
and collecting
money
for them.
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Wounded Man Gains

PRINCETON, Ind, Jan. 7.-Clar-
ence Hunt. wounded by police who
sought TO arrest him on banditry
charge, is expected TO recover. John
and Julia Hunt. his parents. and Joe
and Conrad Ward have been taken
into custody in connection with the
kaae.