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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
A HINDU MYSTERY
WHAT A RACKET!
Prince Abb Gives Up; and
His Name Is Plain
Roy.

For disruption of his Hindu living
burial mystery Prince Alibi today
had no alibis except the ignorance
of the sucker audience that paid
him dimes to watch a living man
entombed.
Murmuring mystic syllables over
Luther Woods, 20, Negro, 1041 East
Twenty-sixth street, Prince Alibi
hypnotized Woods Saturday night
in full view of hundreds of other
Negroes at Northwestern avenue
and Twenty-fifth street.
Then, CARRIED in a crude coffin,
Woods was lowered into a grave
and buried. For a small sum the
curious could peer through pipe
and watch him, sleeping until Sun
day when another rendition of the
mystic formula, Prince Alibi said,
would restore him to life.
But the crowd was dubious, and
its doubts were infiamed when two
brothers of Woods appeared and
demanded immediate resurrection
of their undead, but well buried
brother.
Prince Alibi made dash for a
street car, and chung to window.
Police pulled him off. He con-
fessed he was Roy Burton, 327 West
Twenty eighth street, not Hindu
prince of magic, but merely work
ing a racket.
They didn't see the hamburgers
and pop fixed for Luther at the
other end of the coffin" he ex-
planned to police. He is being held
on a vagrancy charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
MUM ON BANK RAID
WinkIer Refuses to Name
Robbers in So, 100000 Job.

BIZ United Press
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, Aug. 10.-The
promise Of Gus Winkler, reputed
big-tinle bank robber. that he would
"tell all" failed to materialize and
today officers were as much in the
dark as ever concerning his activ-
tiles.
Winkler, slowly recovering from
injuries suffered when his car over
turned near here. refused to give Max
Towle, county attorney from Lincoln,
Neb., information about $2,500,000
bank robbery there, although he
said he knew who staged the raid.
1.-THE three men arrested for the
robbery are innocent" Wiukler told
Towle. 81 didn't figure in the job,
but I know who did and I know
where the bonds were taken"
When Towle protested he did not
wish to prosecute innocent persons
and asked Winkler to name the
guilty men, Winkler refused.
YOU wouldn't believe me if did
tell you," he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
into FRYING PAN
Not Chicks, but Three Men
Who Stole EN-.

Sixty chickens and a $40 check
led three men into the arms of po-
lice today.
Frank Smiser, 2315 East Tenth
street, handed the check over to a
man who called himself John
Jones" when he appeared with five
dozen fries. Thinking over the deal,
Smiser stopped payment of the
check and called police.
officers went to an east side bank
and held three men who entered
to have the check cashed. John
Jones" turned out to be James King,
%, Of Marion, who, police say, ad-
mitted stealing the chickens in a
town west of Indianapolis.
The others gave names and ad-
dresses as Luke Harmon, %, of 4507
East Seventeenth street, and Will
liam King, 81, of 4508 East Seven
teenth street. All are charged with
vagrancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
HODCSON RITES
HELD AT HOME
Veteran Contractor Buried
at Crown Hill.

Funeral services for James Hodg-
son Sr., IA, were held this after
noon at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs David Mcclure, 171S
Central avenue, followed by burial
in Crown Hill.
He had been i'll about six months
and died Friday night at the Nc
Clure home.
Mr.. Hodgson was head of the
firm Of James Hodgson & Sons, 1873
Lemcke building. He was a native
Of England and settled in Indian
apolis in 1887, where, with his
sons, he built the business bearing
his name.
Many leading college and COM
mercial buildings of the state were
erected by the concern.
Mr.. Hodgson was a member of
Oriental lodge, F.. & A. M, Scottish
Rite, Murat Shrine, Mason Con-
tractors Association, Associated
Builders and Contractors Associa-
ton and Central Avenue M. E.
church.
Survivors are a son, James Hodg-
son Jr., the daughter and four
grandchildren. Another son, Will
liam H. Hodgson, died several years
ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
FIREMEN IN SESSION
1900 Attend Convention of
Association at Evansville.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Aug. TO-
The fifteenth annual convention of
the Indiana Firemen's Association
opened here today to continue
through Wednesday. Attendance is
about 1900, and in addition to fire.
men, mayors and other city officials
are here.
Paul v. McNutt, past national
commander Of the American Legion,
will speak Tuesday morning. A
barbecue dinner will be served at
5 p. m.
The program Wednesday will
open with a memorial service. Judge
Walter E. Treaner of the Indiana
supreme court will speak.
There will be a demonstration of
fire fighting equipment at l p. m,
followed by boat ride on the Ohio
river. The annual banquet and
smoker will be held at p. m.
Frank H Miller, Terre Haute, is
president of the association.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
BURGLARS LOOT HOME
Get SIS and $3.50 in Clothes From
North Side House.

Burglars entered the home of 1,
J. Pritchard, 5741 Winthrop avenue
by breaking glass in the bath room
window, and took IS in money and
clothing valued at $3.50.
Miss Evelyn Allison, Bloomington
reported theft of clothing worth
$3.50, from her auto parked at Capt.
toll avenue and Market street.
A robbery attempt was frustrated
Sunday night when Ceste Mavriies
40, OF 1873 North Illinois street, an
ice cream vendor, shrieked when
burglars tried to hold him up in
the 300 block Chadwick street. The
thugs, two Negroes. fed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
JUDGE BRANDS
LESLIE ACTION
MERE COMEDY
Williams SCOTS as He
DefieS Extradition
Order Here.

Granting Of extradihon papers by
Governor Harry G. Leslie for trans
fer Of a Marion county resident to
Kentucky on child neglect charges
was described as mere comedy" by
Judge Joseph R. Williams today in
superior court.
Judge Williams defed the extra
dition order, obtained by Kentuckya
Governor. by releasing Robert l.
Smith. r. r. Z, Box 206, from tha
Marion county Jail.
Smith was told to return to his
farm and continue supporting his
four boys, who appeared in court
to help their father in his fight for
liberty.
Charged With Neglect
The court granted Smith his
freedom on a habeas corpus petit
ton, which charged he was "unlaw-
fully restrained in Jail for neglect
and as fugitive from justice by
reason of child neglect"
Smiths wife, against whom he
has filed suit for divorce in Marion
county, filed an affidavit for his
arrest in Whitley county, Ken
lucky. She charges Smith with
neglecting his young daughter.
The eXtradition order was OBJ
tanned after Superior Judge John r.
Kern ordered Smith released from
jail last week.
The Whitley county CKentucky1
sheriff went home today without
his prisoner, and carried So, which
Smith directed him to give to the
daughter.
Just Mere Comedy"
Il don't think this man should
be returned 20 Kentucky. He has
four children here who must be
taken care Of" Judge Williams de-
cided.
"This extradition matter is GET
ting to be just mere comedy be-
tween states" the Judge declared.
Extradition papers are allowed
with the Governors 20. K" with
out investigation from the Cover
nor's Office, in cases where the pris=
oner does not demand a hearing, ID
is said. Such orders are issued on
police officers statements.
Smith has been living and work.
ing in this county for two years and
his wife has not sought support for
the other child until the divorce
suit was filed, evidence indicated
at the hearing.
There is no justice in throwing
four boys on charity in this state
in order to care for one child in
Kentucky" the judge said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
HUNT MISSING BOY
Police Probe Mystery of
Youths Disappearance.

Mysterious disappearance of
Clarence Organ, II, of Garfield adj
dition, from a neighborhood movie
house Sunday night, is being probed
today by police and deputy sheriffs.
According to report of relatives
to police, the youth attended the
theater with his brother-in-law,
Daniel Wilcox, 20, of GAL Bell
street. During the show, Organ
said he was going to get drink of
water and failed to return. police
were told.
Relatives at the Bell street adj
dress declared two uniformed Off
GERS came to the residence late Sun
day and said the boy had been in
jured in an auto accident. No trace
OF such visit by authorities or
any accident i'll which Organ might
have been involved is recorded at
police headquarters or the county
road patrol office, officials said,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10

Crossing Crashes Take
Ten Lives in State; Auto
Collisions Four.
By United Press

The weekend violent death toll
in Indiana today was reported al
eighteen, with ten Of the victims
killed in railroad and interurban
crossing crashes.
Auto accidents took four lives
and one auto race driver was killed
Two persons were heat victims and
two drowned.
The dead were:
Owen Hamm, %, Greencastle;
Marie Hoopengarner, 10, Van
Buren,; Ruth Mercer, ID, Van
Buren,; Genevieve Wilson, 10, Van
Buren,, and Eva Turner, Is, Van
Buren,, all killed when their auto
was struck by an interurban at a
crossing five miles east of Green
castle.
At a railroad crossing near New
Albany, Walter Evans, SO; his wife
Norma, q, and her brother, Will
liam Lewis, II, were killed when
their automobile was struck by a
train. They lived near New Al
hany.
Two Die at Edinburgh
Two brothers died after their
auto was struck by an interurban
at a crossing south of Edinburgh.
The victims were Richard Chessire,
IL, and Bernard Chessire, Is, living
near Edinburgh.
William Stengle, AZ, Dayton, O.,
was killed in an automobile crash
at Indianapolis.
Three-year-old Evalene Lovelace
Greenwood, was injured fatally in
an automobile collision near Column
bus.
Russell Bush, 10, Bloomington
was killed near Vincennes when he
fell from a truck and was run over
by the machine.
When an auto overturned on
U. S. road SO near Lebanon, Mrs
Katherine Mclaughlin, so, Louis
vile, was injured fatally.
Race Driver Killed
Al Burrell, %, Columbus, O., auto
race driver, was killed while driv.
ing his car over a Fort Wayne race
track at speed Of ninety miles ar
hour. His car struck the machine
ahead and overturned.
Edward Russell, 81, Anderson, fell
dead in the yard at his home, q
victim of heart disease believed in
duced by heat.
Louis Rock, SO, was a heat victim
at Petersburg, his home.
Mrs. Margaret Ter Doest, As
leaped from a railroad bridge over
Sugar Creek, near Charlottesville
as train approached and wa;
drowned in the stream below.
Merrill E. Christy, 43, Chicago
was drowned in Lake Michigan
while swimming west of Michigan
City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
John w. PuIIen Suicide on
Butler Campus; Had
Been III.

Drinking a quantity of poison,
John w. Pullen, 81, of 41S Bucking-
ham drive, former officer of a north
side bank, committed suicide on the
Butler university campus Sunday
afternoon.
Mr.. Pullen had driven to the cam
pus with members of his family and
told them he was going after a
newspaper he had left in the auto.
He was found dying soon after, but
medical aid was futile.
DR.. Emil G. Winter, deputy
coroner, said he had taken carbolic
acid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
EX-BANKER ENDS HIS
LIFE WITH POISON

Mr.. Pullen had been in i'll health
and resigned as president of the
Citizens state bank about six
months ago. He also was affiliated
with the Maple Road state bank.
He recently had recovered from
what was considered suicide at
tempt when he was found lying be-
meath his auto, the motor of which
was running, in the garage in the
rear Of his home. n
Funeral services will be held at
2:30 p. m. Tuesday. Burial will
be in Crown Hill cemetery.
Mr.. Pullen was a member Of the
West Michigan Street M. E. church,
the Scottish Rite and the Murat
Shrine. Survivors are the widow,
Mrs. Laural Pullen; a son Oran and
. sister. MrSy Elizabeth Wood of
Muncie.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
Killed on Tracks

By United Press
THREE RIVERS, Mich, Aug. 10,
Mate Beadwell of Fl. Wayne, Ind,
was killed instantly and his wife
seriously injured today when a New
York Central passenger train
crashed into their automobile, which
stalled on the tracks.
Mrs. Beadell was admitted to
Three Rivers hospital in critical
condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
Old FiddIers to Compete

An old fddlers' contest will fea-
ture the fourth annual celebration
OF the Tibbs Avenue and Eagle
Creek Civic League to be held Fri
day. and Saturday nights at 370O
West North street. Proceeds of the
fete will be used for the construc-
ton of a community house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
BUSINESS UPTURN SEEN

Retailers Association Head Predicts
Improvement in September.
By United Press
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1O.-A sharp
increase in retail sales during Sep
TENDER was predicted today by j
D. Curreathers, Oklahoma City
(Okla) merchant, and president OF
the American Retailers Association
which opened its semi-annual con-
vention.
"The average consumer is under
stocked" he said.
GAS soon as fall comes, these con-
sumers will be in the market tc
buy" Curreathers said. He urged
merchants to be well stocked with
necessities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
CoNFESSES TO MURDER

Police today held Willis Moten,
alias Reed, IS, Negro, for Mississippi
authorities after Moten confessed
he killed another Negro there after
an argument over a woman.
Moten said words with Willie
Brown, in Charleston, Miss, led to
the murder, after a woman took
Moten's money and then went of
with Brown.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
ESCAPES BANDIT TRAP
Earl Park (Ind.) Man Outdistances
Gunman in Road Holdup.

Two large sedanS roared back
wards and toward Flackville on
State Road SO early today.
In one was w. G.. Timothy, Earl
Park, Ind, and in the other two
Negroes, brandishing revolvers, who
had attempted to halt Timothy'S
car northwest of the city.
Timothy told deputy sheriffs that
he showed his car in reverse tc
escape the bandits and they pur-
sued him in reverse. Timothy said
that he was able to outdistance the
highwaymen and turned his car to-
ward indianapolis to escape.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
0. F. HAMMER NAMED
MOTOR GROUPS CHIEF
Takes Over Operation of Indiana
Organization; Officers in City.
Operating as a state and trans

continental touring
information or
ganization the In
diana Motorists
Association today is
headed by o. F.
Hammer.
Recently elected
to the post, Ham
mer has taken
over operation OF
the association at
the off ces, 300
North M e r idian
street. H a m mer
was one of the
org anizerS and
former president of
a large Chicago
motor club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
MISSING FAMILY Is
HUNTED IN INDIANA
State Wide Search Is Asked of
Officers by Neighbors.


Anxiety over the failure of J. J.
Blum of Chicago and members of
his family to return to the resi-
dence of his mother, Mrs. Catherine
Blub, 726 Cottage avenue, after
leaving for an auto drive Sunday
afternoon, caused neighbors to ask
statewide police search today.
Police said they found the resi-
dence with windows open, despite
the terrific rain Sunday night.
Blum, his mother, his two chill
dren, Catherine and Marie, and
Mrs, Cecilia Ritter, an aunt of
Blum's left in id-afternoon Sun
day, neighbors told officers.
Homes of relatives where the
group might have gone to avoid the
storm revealed no trace of the fam
lily, police said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
ONE FOR RIPLEY-CITY
HAS STEAMSHIP CO.

White River May-and May Not
Get Some of Business.
Indianapolis-the greatest inland
city in the world-now has a
steamship company.
Incorporation papers filed today
by Jacob F. White, local attorney,
set out formation of the Globe
Steamship Company. with 1875
shares of 500 par value stock for
operation of the company.
Purpose of the steamship firm
will be to operate boats in the
Great Lakes and adjoining wa
tiers" and build merchant vessels.
White is out of the city and it was
not learned whether White river
will get some of the business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
AUTO CRASH KILLS
Two Americans, Canadian Perish
in Wreck In LaurentianS.

Two AMERICANS Canadian Perish
in Wreck in LaurentianS.
By United Press
MONTREAL, Aug. 1O.-A Dayton
co. couple and Montreal man
were killed in an automobile acct
dent near st. Agatha, in the Lau-
rentian mountains late Sunday. The
dead are:
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles G, Brun,
Dayton.
R. Labonte of Montreal.
The accident occurred when the
automobile in which the Americans
were travelling tried to pass other
cars on a hill and crashed into a
bus. Brun and Labonte, the latter
a bus passenger, were killed in
stantly. Mrs. Brun died soon after.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
ISSUE TAX HIKE ORDERS
Edicts. to Be Delivered TO Six of
Seventeen Counties.

Six seventeen counties in which
the state tax board ordered levy
increases, will be given blanket
orders for the increase because they
refused the boards demands for
township raises.
All seventeen have replied TO the
request. Tax commissioners viii
issue the blanket orders at once.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
7 BARELY MISS DEATH
Auto PIunges Over 12-EoOt EN-
bankment at Anderson.

By Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. 10
Seven persons had fortunate es-
capes from injury when an auto
mobile driven by Henry Killian,
Pontiac, Mich, plunged over the
end OF dead-end street and down
a twelve-foot embankment to the
tracks OF the Anderson Belt rail-
road.
Other occupants Of the automo-
bile were Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Powell
Of Pontiac and their four children.
and Mrs. A. D. Dudderer, st. Louis,
Mo. The party was returning from
a vacation at Poplar Bluffs, Mo.
Several persons have been killed at
the scene of the accident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
SET U. S. LINES PLAN
Ocean Steamer Company Will b
Refinanced Literally.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.-A plan
for reflnancing the United States
lines on liberal terms" which may
permit Paul w. Chapman, present
owner, to retain possession Of the
Leviathan and its sister vessels, has
been formulated by shipping board
officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
JAPAN HOLDS FLIERS
Pangborn, Herndon Held Under
Surveillance at Toxic.

BIZ United Press
TOXIC, Aug. 10.-Still intent on
a nonstop flight from Toxic to
Seattle, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh
Herndon Jr., American around-the-
world filters. chafed under Surveil-
lance today while they awaited re-
lease of their plane by japanese
authorities.
The ship was ordered seized on
the filters arrival from Khabarovsk
Siberia, when camera was found
aboard. 1t was said to have con-
tanned films giving birdseyeview Of
one Of the strategic fortified zones
of Japan. The filters situation was
complicated because they had no
permit to land in Japan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10

The Indiana Motorists Associa-
ton has provided travel information
to thousands of tourists from In
diana, various parts of the United
States and foreign countries, officials
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
STIMS0N FORMS PLAN
War Debts Adjustment Scheme Is
to Be Presented Hoover.
By United Press

7
LONDON, Aug. 1o.-The Daily
Mail said today that Henry L. Slim
son, secretary of state. had prepared
a plan for adjustment or cancella-
ton of world war debts.
Stimson and Premier j. Ramsay
Macdonald discussed international
finances and the war debts question
at StimSon's shooting lodge in Scot
land over the weekend, the Daily
Mail said, after which it said Slim
son prepared his plan for presenta-
ton to President Hoover.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
MASKED KILLER FLEES

InvadeS st. Louis RO0ming House
and Shoots Woman to Death.
By United Press
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 10.-A man with
handkerchief over his face rang
the bell of a lodging house today,
forced his way past the woman who
anwsered, and went directly to a
rear bedroom where John Cole and
his wife were sleeping.
"Get out of the way" he shouted
at Cole. He then fired three shots
at Coles 32-year-old wife and killed
her.
He escaped in an automobile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
BAR ELECTS BACHELOR
indianapolis Attorney Renamed as
State Association Secretary.

State Association Secretary.
Thomas C. Bachelor, Indianap-
oils, was reelected secretary and
treasurer of the Indiana State Bar
Association at meeting of the
board Of governors held here Satur-
day.
1t was decided that the annual
mid-winter meeting of the associa-
ton will be held in indianapolis,
Jan Is, 1882
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
$1,000 LOOT OF YEGGS
Thieves Break Into Kokomo Office
in Heart of Downtown.
By United Press

By United Press
KOKOMO, Aug. 10-Thieves en-
tered the Office of the Midwest
Finance Corporation. in the heart
OF the Kokomo business section.
broke open a safe and escaped with
1920, it was discovered today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
LAGRANGE BANK CLOSES
Eighteen Year-Old Institution Shut
by State Examiners,

by State Examiners,
Doors of the La Grange County
Trust Company, founded eighteen
years ago by Clyde Walb, former
Republican state chairman, were
closed today by examiners of the
state banking department.
E. Q. Grady is president of the
Institution. and Rollo L. Walter,
state senator, secretary. Last re-
port of the bank listed liabilities.
$35o,0Oo; deposits, 100000, and sur
plus and profits, $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-10
JIMMY IN GERMANY
Mayor of New York Is
Greeted at Bremen.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
BREMEN, Germany, Aug. 10
Mayor James j. Walker, smiling
and in good spirits, was warmly
welcomed by German officials today
on his arrival from New York for
months rest and bath cure.
Walker looked fit and up to his
statement that he does not %care a
hang" about the Seabury investiga-
ton in New York. He walked back
on the sun deck with the welcom-
ing committee, where Senator
Kock, representing the Bremen SEN
ate, toasted the mayors health in
champagne.
LONDON, Aug. 10.-The Daily
Express today printed a report from
Southampton qouting Mayor James
j. Walker of New York as saying
he was through being mayor.
I'm finished with the job of be-
ing mayor" Walker was quoted by
the Express correspondent.