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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
.LINDDERGH HUNT
AT STANDSTILL;
SAILOR QU|zzED
Saw What Appeared to Be
Baby Clothes Drying on
Ships Deck.
By United Press

By United Press
HOPEWELL, N. J., April o.
Search for the kidnapped son Of
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh was at standstill today with
no progress reported from any of the
points where clews have been in
vestigated.
The three Norfolk .negotiators,
through their spokesman, Rear Adj
miral Guy H. Burrage, were in
active. This simply is a new period
of watchful waiting" the admiral
said.
At the Hopewel estate of Colonel
Lindbergh there were few visitors
during the last twenty-four hours.
One called was a seafaring man
from Martha'S Vineyard, Mass. He
was understood to have told a story
Of watching mysterious ship of
the New Zealand coast, presumably
q rum runner, and that one day he
saw drying on the decks what he be-
ieved to be an infants clothes.
Colonel Lindbergh was reported
by a neighbor to have left his es-
tate Friday morning, but it was not
established whether the f1ier had
left his home or not.
In the state police bulletin Fri
day night, Colonel H. Norman
Schwartzkopfa refused to disclose the
name of the police department
which had given information con-
corning Harry Fleischer, Detroit
purple gang member and his New
York aid, Abraham Wagner.
Both were sought for questioning
as their actions following the kid
mapping March l have been called
suspicious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

VXTHEN you were at the age
w that ear-waShing was just
a plain nuisance, and ties the
garb of "sissies," did you ever
lean against fire alarm box and
wish you could pull the alarm,
just to hear the fire siren?
Confess? You did! Although
you know now how your own
children are taught never to pull
a fire alarm box.
Well, one of the city's oldest
jobs is that of a man who got
this wish. He can pull fire
alarm box any time he wishes to.
In fact, that's his job. But he's
denied the greatest thrill of that
boyhood wish-hearing the fire
siren each time he pulls one of
the 486 alarm boxes in the city.
TINE man, whom the CENT of
Il Wishes make a boy again in
his daily job, is Herbert Aker, 843
Bosart avenue, employe of the
Gamewell department in the city
hall.
Aker's job is to test every fire
alarm box in the city once each
month.
But he can't give those boxes a
swapping "yank" and wait for the
hose cart to whine its hurried way
down the street. He first must
open the box and tap in telegraph
code to the Gamewell operators
that he's testing the specific box,
With the code call made, he
'yanks" the lever and makes his
test.
Repair of boxes and wiring are
other jobs of Akers, but travelling
from alarm to alarm making tests
forms the major portion of his
duties.
LIE has been around fire sta
L l. tions since he was 6.
SOOOo ~ wac O114y HAUL dl
that I became a fireman and later
on a member of the Gamewell di-
VISION" Aker says.
He has tested fire alarm boxes
and placed them in readiness for
their emergency calls for ten
years.
Aker is married and has one
child, a girl.
so with girl in the family
there's no danger of any one fol-
lowing in my footsteps" Aker said.
(To Be Continually
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
.ALIENISTS' USE
TO SLOW DOWN
HONOLULU TRIAL
Prosecution to Employ as
Many Experts as Honor
Killing Defense.
BY DAN CAMPBELL
United Press stan Correspondent

HONOLULU, April Swift con-
clusion to the honor Staying trial of
four Americans appeared remote to.
day as a new conflict arose over
introduction of medical testimony
for defense of temporary insanity.
Prosecutor John Kelley, who
engaged Clarence Darrow in a four
day battle over the melting pot"
jury, announced he will demand the
services of as many alienistS as
appear for the defense.
Admittedly unprepared to meet
this type of defense, Kelley made
his announcement when he learned
two prominent Los Angeles pSychia-
trists had arrived here with the APP
parent intention of serving the de-
Tense when the trial resumes Mon
day.
He'll Ask Delay
IF Clarence DarroY uses them
for the defense, I'll most certainly
ask for a continuance in order to
bring equally famous alenistS from
the mainland" the ruddy-faced
prosecutor said. It had hoped to
finish the territory's case in three
days, but if the defense is going to
change its tactics, I'll ask the coun-
ty supervisors for money to hire
our own experts"
Montgomery VIM, associate de-
Tense counsel, guardedly admitted
Drs. Edward H. Williams and James
OrbiSon were here to bolster the
case of Mrs. Granville Fortescue,
New York society woman: her navy
officer Son-in-law, Lieutenant
Thomas H. Massie, and two enlisted
men, Edward j. Lord and Albert
o. Jones.
Doubt Pleas Efficacy
But while the possibility of an
insanity plea has been discussed for
several weeks, speculation continued
as to whether this would be adj
vanced for all the defendants.
They are charged jointly with the
murder of Joe Kahahwai Jr., young
Hawaiian. who, a month before his
death, was tried on charges of at
lacking blue-eyed Thalia Fortescue
Massie, the neutenant's wife. The
jury disagreed.
Prosecutors conceded the. nkeli-
hood of an insanity plea by Mrs.
Fortescue, mother of the attack
victim, and Lieutenant Massie on
the theory that sudden fury robbed
them of self-control.
They questioned, however, that
the jury of seven whites and five
Polynesians and orientals could be
convinced of this in the cast of the
enlisted men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
BANK R0BBERIES DROP
Only Two Are Reported to Criminal
Bureau During March.

Two bank robberies were reported
during March, five bank robber sus-
poets were captured and six bank
robber suspects were in Jail awaiting
trial during the month, according
to a report issued today by E. L.
Osborne, chief of the state criminal
bureau. One bank robber was sem
fenced to prison during the month.
A total of 2,179 fingerprints were
received by the department, bringing
to 1885 the number of prints now
on file.
Thirteen cases were closed and
thirteen cases opened by the de-
partment, according to the report.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
SALESMAN is ROBBED
OF 100000 IN GEMS

Gentlemen Bandits Bind Victim in
New York Hotel Room.
BIZ United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9.-Two
gentlemen bandits" who apparent
ly knew their victim we're hunted to-
day for the theft of more than $780,
900 in gems from Bernard Landau,
New York jewelry salesman.
The gunner followed Landau to
his room in a prominent downtown
hotel Friday night, bound him with
adhesive tape and escaped with 273
mounted and unmounted pearls,
sapphires, emeralds and diamonds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

lent. President Cleveland warned
the country again and again that
the pension system made the high
protective tariff necessary and held
the general level of taxes at an alb
normal plane.
God Help the Surplus"
The spirit at that time is illus
trated best by a remark attributed
by William H. Glassen, in his study
of pensions for the Carnegie Foun-
dation, to James Tanner, United
States pension commissioner.
Tanner had been G. A. r. lob
byist for years and himself was a
disabled veteran.
II will drive a Six-mule team
through the treasury" he ex-
claimed. God help the surplus!"
BY the time Civil war pension
costs began to fall off, the Spanish
war veterans were taking up the
slack, and more.
WAVAA Chilly lLlUO LIE
World war the Wilson administra-
ton decided to block the pension
evil in advance. The war risk in
surance act was passed, to take
care of the whole problem, putting
it on an actuarial basis.
Congress Upsets Plans
Congress completely has upset
these plans by authorizing expendi-
lures far in excess, both in money
and liberality, to the veteran I'M
injured in service, of anything the
world ever has known.
In the past, the nation has been
able to meet the increasing demands
Of its ex-soldiers through windfalls
that came into the treasury by ex-
panSion of the frontier and industry.
Today there is no frontier, and in
dustry is expanded to the limit.
Monday: War Risk Insurance; It's
Purpose Defeated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
Yep TURNS H0MEWARD

German DirigibIe Leaves Brazil on
Seasons Second Return Flight.
By United Press
PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, April g.
The Graf Zeppelin was en- route to
Friedrichshafen today on the return
flight of the second commercial trip
of the season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to-
H. Y finch, GIG East sixty-third street,
Ford sedan, M-152, from state Playground
entrance.
apartment II. 1925 Chrysler sedan, stolen
from 726 North East street.
Washington Auto Sales Company, 2441
Central avenue, M-1-279, from 81 East
Ninth street.
Dorothy Siegal, 72o North West street,
1880 Chevrolet sedan, S4-014, from 729
North West street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

Oklahoma Bandits Answer
Raid With Gunfire.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
BIXBY, Okla, April 9.-Erve
Kelly, former Mcintosh county
sheriff, was slain today in a ma
chine gun battle with two men be-
lieved to have been Charles pretty
Boy Floyd, notorious fugitive, and
his lieutenant, George Birdwell.
The battle occurred at 8 a. m. to-
day in timbered area near here.
Kelly, A. B. Cooper, Burns de-
tective, and Deputy Sheriff Long OF
Bixby, had gone to the reputed
hideout in search of Floyd, accused
in almost a score of Oklahoma bank
robberies, and suspect in several
Sayings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
KIRKLAND STAYS in Pen
PendIeton Trustees Deny Release Is
Contemplated.
By United Press

By United Press
PENDLETON, Ind, April "a
reiteration of the stand that Virgil
Kirkland, convicted in connection
with the death of Arlene braves,
Gary, will not be released soon from
the Indiana reformatory, was made
by trustees of the institution at a
meeting here Friday.
Following recent rumors that
Kirkland, sentenced to one to ten
years, would be paroled in June,
after he has served his minimum
term, the board investigated, and
intimated Kirkland would not be
released.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
MECHANICS TO MEET
District Farley of Junior Order Will
Be Held Tonight.

Councils in the eighth district of
the Junior Order of American Me-
chanics will meet at tonight in the
hall of Washington council No. SO,
Morris and Lee streets. Stanley
Bowel of Rising Sun, state
councillor, will be present.
In charge Of the meeting will be
Paul Ford, district deputy. Councils
which will be represented at the
meeting are indianapolis, Bright
wood, Pleasant Hour, Washington,
West Park, and Capitol City, all of
indianapolis, and Beech Grove,
haywood, MooreSville, and Mobiles
vile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

Il will follow the custom of the country, but
at any rate haven't got any liquor yet"
He was less definite about the knee
breeches which it is customary for ambassadors
to wear. They were scorned by Melons prede-
cessor, Charles G. Dawes.
Optimism for the economic future of Great
Britain and the United States was expressed by
Mellon.
THE British" he said he believed, "have
cause to be much encouraged to the future. In
America we are also getting down to funda-
mentals"
Citing the new tax bill in the United States
he commented
1T will impose heavy burden of new taxes
at time such a load is not easy to carry, but
1t is necessary step on the long road to full
omen of encouragement for the future"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
SALT FATAL TO BABY
Pneumonia Makes Tragedy
of Childish Prank.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, April Baby Sam
uel Charlup, 9-months infant,
who was fed a quantity of bath
salts by neighborhood children so
he would make faces, died in a
hospital of lobar pneumonia late
Friday.
The pneumonia was brought on
by Irritating effect of the salt in
the child's lungs. Samuel's throat
and mouth also were inf1amed in
tensely.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles reported recovered
by police belong to:
Edward Haus, $50 West Moreland ave-
nue., Hupmobile roadster, found at Ire
mont avenue and West Michigan street.
M. P. Griffin, Chicago, Chevrolet coach,
638-125 Illinois, found at Washington
street and Capitol avenue.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
POIity Institute Opens May 10

POIity Institute Opens May Is
By United Press
RICHMOND, Ind, April 9.-Third
annual Institute of Polity, founded
and directed by Chester D. Pugsley,
will be held at Earlham college
here, May Is and IA, officials of the
school announced. The institute,
as heretofore, will be devoted to
consideration of relations of the
United States with Latin American
countries and nations of the Orient.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
Yergs Crack Safe. Get SIS

Safe crackers obtained $75 in the
office of the Chillson Sales Com
pany, 1872 North Meridian street, it
was discovered today when the place
was opened by the janitor, Eddie
Parkham, 35, Negro, of 1908 Sheldon
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
FLOODS KILL HUNDREDS

Two Thousand Homes Destroyed in
Bessarabia, Pennsylvania.
By United Press
BUCHAREST, April 9.-An in
creasing loss of life, totaling
several hundred was reported today
from flooded areas of Bessarabia
and Pennsylvania. Two thousand
homes were destroyed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

of certain persons obtaining money
from police and fire department
applicants, with the promise they
would use pull" to obtain the ap-
pointmentS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
Rn United Press

by UWtIGU FTtSS
WASHINGTON, April g.
Henry Bruce Clark, IL, for
nearly three weeks made his
home under an apartment
house stairway, living on bread
and milk f1lched from nearby
doorwayS.
He said he ran away from
home because "Ain't nobody
cares for me-"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09
Mellon to SerUe Liquor;
Visit King in Knee Pants

LONDON, April 9.-Andrew w. Mellon, United States
ambassador arrived Friday and in his first interview
Gated he would liquor at the embasSy
PROBABLY wear knee breeche at court Regarding serving of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

Monday: War Risk Insurance; It.
Purpose Defeated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-09

The Civil war brought a repetition
on a larger scale Of this same con-
. slant liberalization of pension
policies the more remote the var
becomes. In the los a group of
lawyers specializing in veteran leg
islation began lobbying for more
money.
One, George Lemen, who made
$4,000 month handling soldiers
claims, even founded a newspaper
to promote the cause. The Grand
Army Of the Republic joined forces
with him and formed a steam roller
which nothing could stop.
President Garfield pleaded in vain
that he believed one-sixth Of all
the Civil war pensions were fraudu-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
WALKERS REPLY TO
SEABURY'S CHARGES
GIVEN T0GOVERNOR
New York Mayor Assures
Roosevelt He Is Not Dis.
loyal or Corrupt

Albany, N. Y, July 29.-(P}-Gov-
ernor Roosevelt had before him Fri
day the reply of James j. Walker,
mayor of New York, to Samuel Sea-
bury's complaint he was unfit to re-
main in office. It was delivered
Thursday and the governor began its
perusal at once.
In $1,000 words Walker gave his
reasons why Seabury, legislative in
quisitor into the New York city adj
ministration, and others who sought
the mayors removal, were wrong in
believing he had used his office for
personal gain.
"Since the day of my BIRTH" Walk
er assured Governor Roosevelt, Il
have lived my life in the open.
Whatever shortcomings I have are
known to everyone-but disloyalty to
my native city, official dishonesty or
corruption. form no part of these
shortcomings"
Denying all accusations, he assail-
ed the counsel to the Hofstadter leg
islative committee, informing Cover
nor Roosevelt in one instance that
Mr.. Seabury deliberately falsifies
the meaning of the record"
He also accused Seabury of with
holding from Roosevelt part OF the
significant evidence gathered by the
committee.
He said the investigation was
conceived, born and fostered in po-
liticS."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
GAS FATAL TOBOYS
IN CANADIAN MINE
Entered Pit When Man Said
They Could See Moon in
Broad Daylight

Mimic, N. B., July 29.-(R)-Three
boys who had been told that they
could see the moon in broad daylight
If they climbed to the bottom Of an
old mine shaft are dead and two
miners lost their lives trying to res
cue them.
Four youngsters made the expert
ment, clambering down rickety lad
der in an abandoned shaft not far
from town Thursday. The first one
down choked as gas seeping from the
worked-out vein overcame him. He
lost his hold on the ladder and drop
ped 40 feet into a pool Of water at
the bottom.
Two of the others had started right
behind him. They, too, lost conscious
ness and fell.
sx-year-old Joe O'Leary, the fourth
had fingered little. He saw his
friends drop and fled terrified, COM
ing back with his father and several
other men.
Two Of the men started down the
ladder. Both succumbed to the gas
and fell. BY this time crowd had
gathered about the head of the shaft
and a hundred men had been mo.
bilized for the rescue. One OF them
was lowered on rope and stayed
down long enough to tie line about
one of the bodies.
It was hauled to the surface, but
the rescuer also was unconscious
when he was lifted out. While a doc
tor revived him other men went doWr
and by evening all the bodies hae
been recovered.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
n. D. COMMUNISTS
TO MEET SATURDAY
Will Indorse Candidates for Ma.
tional and State Offices
at Minot

Minot, N. D., July 29.-(P)-In.
dorsement Of candidates for national
and state offices. as well as for the
legislature in the 18th district of
Ward county. and the holding OF an
anti-war demonstration are scheduled
when Communists Of North Dakota
gather in Minot Saturday.
Endorsement Of candidates. who
will be placed upon the ticket next
November, If enough signatures arc
obtained to nominating petitions, Is
the order of business at a meeting to
be held at 2 p. m.
Ella Reeve Mother" Bloor Of Mi
not, 70-year-old member Of the ma
tional central committee, said that
some Endorsements already are quite
definitely decided upon. These, she
said, includes Frank Witty of Burke
county for United States senator:
Andrew Omholt. Minot. for governor;
herself for congress: B. J. Holland
Of Forbes, Dickey county, for lieuten-
ant governor and Roy Daziel Of Glen
burn for secretary Of state.
The anti-war meeting is to be held
Saturday evening at lot in the
southwest part Of the city.
Mrs. Bloor said that commence
ment exercises for the children.
Communist camp at Brush Lake. in
northeastern Montana, were being
held Friday. More than 100 children
have been attending the school, which
opened about a month ago on Mrs
Bloor's 10th birthday anniversary. Il
addition to honors paid her at the
camp on her birthday, Mrs. Bloor re-
ceived q cablegram from politica
leaders in Moscow. extending con-
gratulatiOns.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
Nelu Yorker Completes
Directorate of X. F.. e.
Charles A. Miller, Republican
Banker of Utica, Selected
by Hoover

Washington, July 29.-fPl-Its re-
organization completed with the Sc
lection of Charles A. Miller. Utica,
New York, as the last director, the
s3,8OO,OOO,t reconstruction finance
corporation plunged ahead Friday
with its relief program.
Announcement of new loans. pend
ing completion OF the directorate.
was believed imminent. Illinois al
ready has received $4,000 900 from the
$500, 100000 fund for relief advances
to states, and numerous applications
are pending.
Miller, Republican banker and
lawyer who has been regional CON-
mittee chairman for the reconstruc-
ton orporation in the second fed
eral reserve district, including New
York, will be elected president Of the
relief agency. An Ohio Democrat
Atlee Pomerene, is scheduled to be
chairman.
The announcement of Miller's ap-
pointment was made after all direc-
tors of the corporation but Jesse H
Jones, Houston, had conferred with
Hoover. They said nothing about
Pomerene's election as chairman ex.
cept that 1t had not yet taken place
Filling the vacancy left by the re.
tirement of Charles G.. Dawes as cor.
poration president, Miller is head o.
Utica savings bank, is a graduate
of Harvard and was elected presiden
of the New York State Bankers as
ISOLATION 1909. His appointment
still leeves Democrats with nom
inal majority on the relief agency
directorate-four members to the Re
publicanS' three.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-29
EXPECT Big CROWD
AT FAIR IN MANDAN
II. c. DePuy OF Grafton Sched-
uled to Speak at Missouri
Slope Exposition

H. G. DePuy of Grafton, Demo-
cratic candidate for governor. will
address a crowd which will gather for
the final days festivities at the Mis-
souri, Slope state fair at Mandan Sat-
urday.
Friday was "Mandan day" at the
fair and many Of the citizens Of that
city mingled with the throngs OF Wis
itors at both afternoon and evening
entertainments.
Saturday has been set aside as
Missouri Slope day and fair officials
expect the largest crowd since the ex-
hibition opened Tuesday. Attendance
at the fair has been gratifying, ac-
cording to the secretary, who said
that gate receipts were becoming In
creasingly large each day. Attend
ance records were larger Thursday
than at any other day during the
week.
All exhibits have been judged and
the awarding Of prizes was to be COM
pleted Saturday.
A feature Of Saturday afternoons
program will be automobile races
which are scheduled to start at 3 p. m
(Mandan time).