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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
GUNMAN ride
INVENTOR DIES
OF PNEUMONIA
Natural Death Is Fate of
Frank MCErIane, Tough
est Gangster' in Chicago.
FORTUNE is AMASSED
One Time Charlie Ryan
of Rackets' PaImy Days
Had Brutal Career.
BIZ Tnited Press

By United Press
BEARDSTOWN, Ill, Oct. 8. -
Frank McErlane, the Chicago gang
ster who invented the "one-way
ride" died q natural death today
in the Schmidt hospital here.
McErlane, who bore the reputa-
ton of being Chicago's toughest
gangster, died from pneumonia,
held in bed by four internes.
Mrs. Florina McErlane, McEr-
lanes mother, was at the bedside.
He had flourished in the illicit
glamour of the racket era. He died,
delirious and struggling, rich man.
AS Charlie Ryan McErlane
posed here as wealthy Chicago
sportsman.
He owned a luxurious four-room
cabin cruiser in which he idled up
and down the Mississippi and Hill
nois rivers. He kept the boat ready
the year around.
McErlsne had been a patient in
the hospital since last Tuesday. His
illness began a week before. His
body was taken to the Simpson un-
certaking parlor, preliminary to re-
moval to Chicago.
His Record Was Brutal
In no chapter of Chicago's Grim
inal record is there a more brutal
tally than Frank McErlane
achieved. He is blamed for five
murders in the last ten years, His
name is linked with e. score of gang
crimes on the south side Chicago
beer front.
Only last October, McErlanes
wife and her two pet dogs were
found slain in an automobile.
Police said Frank did it; nobody
else is that cruel" But there was
no proof.
The investigation came while Al
Capone was being tried on an in
come tax fraud charge in federal
court
Perhaps the most striking example
of the sort of man McErlsne was
came two years ago in a room in
the German Deaconess hospital.
"Never Mind; I'll Get En-
Gang enemies had shot him,
breaking his leg. They took him
to the hospital.
AS he lay on his back, his broken
leg swinging from pulley, two
gunner entered after climbing a
fire escape. The would-be killers
opened fire. McErlane snatched a
pistol from under his pillow and
shot back
None of the bullets found their
mark.
The gunner fed as screaming
nurses rushed in.
Never mind who did it, Nicer
lane said. I'll get EN-"
A few nights later, an automobile
idled in front of the gangster's
house. A hail of bullets came from
machine guns. Again, gang provi-
/ dence protected McErlane.
A Man Gone Gun Mad
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

The ape-man hero of the African jungles
and bow and arrows as his only weapons :.
by machine gun bullets and heavy shells
into new conflict, has dispatched a force
remote from affairs of men, finds himself sw
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08

fighting ever alone with knife and spear
now swings into action in terrain swept
n imaginary Red army, sweeping the world
, British East Africa =. There Tarzan,
t into fighting fury as his home is ravaged.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-08
A Man Gone Gun Mad

Again police squads raced to the
south side on a report that a
maniac was shooting up the neigh
borhood.
The police found McErlane stand
ing in the street, a smoking sawed
off shotgun under each arm and
several pistols in his pockets.
I'm shooting at all these guys
around here who have been trying
to bump me off," he said.
Police knew McErlane as a man
gone gun crazy He was reported
to be the best pistol shot, except
ing Joe Salts, in Chicago's gangs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05
Books RecpiUed

ROOSEVELT: His Mind in Action BY Lewis
Einstein. Boston: Houghton Miffin Com
pany.
JOHN CHARLES FREMONT: An ExplanatiuA
Of His Career. BY Cardinal Goodwin pro,
fessor of American history at Mills College.
Stanford University Press
BEDFORD FORREST; the Confectionery
Greatest Cavalryman. BY Capt. Eric VIII
liam Sheppard, o. B. E.. M. c., author Of
"A Short History of the British Army etc.
Plates from engrsvings. New York: The
Dial Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-05

THE HUMAN BODY. BY Logan Clendenning.
M. d. Illustrations by w. c. Shepard and
Dale Beronius, and from photographs. New
York: Garden City Publishing Co. Star
Series.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
Marine Corps Orders

The following changes are announced:
Lieut.. Col. Howard w. Stone, on clos
ing of the recruiting district Of Atlanta,
Atlanta, Ca, detached from that dis
trict to recruiting district Of Macon.
Macon, Ga.
Maj. Roy D. Lowell, on reporting Of
his relief detached U. 3. 8. Reina
Mercedes, MA, Annapolis, Nd; to Ports
mouth, Va.
Mai. John Potts, on completion Of the
course detached the Army Industrial
College, Washington, D. c.; to GUAM,
tico, Va. -.
Capt. Oliver G. Hine, detached as
an assistant quartermaster, effective
June 20.
Capt. Roswell Winans, on completion
of the course detached the Army Indus
trial College, washington, D. c.; to
headquarters Marine Corps, Washing
ton, D. c.
First Lieut.. William H. Hollingsworth,
detached headquarters Marine Corps,
Washington, D. c.; to Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
PREDICTS INVOKING
GRAIN h FUTURES ACT
George S. Minor Sees Action
Against Chicago Board
of Trade.
BY the Associated Press

CHICAGO. May 26.-George S
Minor, general manager of the Farm
ers' National Grain Corporation, said
today there was no doubt In his mind
the Government would be urged at once
to invoke the grain futures act against
the Chicago Board of Trade for its sus-
pension of the Updike Grain Co. and
two Of its officers.
Commenting on the suspension, an
nounced yesterday by the board, Minor
declared it hardly seems possible that
Board Farmers National Grain Corpo-
ration and the cooperative movement
in general could influence the judgment
of business men in rendering such an
important decision"
Sees Large Damages.
Enforcement Of the decision, Minor
said, would cost grain producers many
thousands Of dollars in actual damages
and II do not believe they will mildly
submit without testing out just what
the grain futures act means. :
There is no doubt in my mind but that
immediate steps will be taken.
IT the act Is not sufficiently broad to
enable producers to have full Board OF
Trade and clearing house privileges
possibly Congress will see fit to amend
the law so as to fully protect farmers
interests in the marketing of grain that
they produce"
Revocation of the Board of Trades
license under the grain futures act for
alleged discrimination against CO.
operatives was asked of the Govern
ment last April by Farmers National
but at that time Secretary of Agricul-
ture Hyde said he would withhold ex-
preston until the disposal of the Up
dixie case
Farmers National purchased the Up
dixie Grain Co. last year to acquire
through it clearing privileges which
tha Board of Trade denied to the CO.
oSorative itself under a rule barring
corporations. The purchase was not
made public for some time and this
was the basis of the Board of Trade
charges against Updike.
Company Suspended
The company itself was suspended in
definitely on charges that its president,
Fred Thatcher, and its secretary and
treasurer, j. Fletcher Florentine, pre-
sumably with the knowledge Of officers
Of the Farmers National, concealed in
their statements that the Farmers Ma
tional was actually owner Of the stock
when registering their ownership
Thatcher was denied privileges for
five years and Florentine for two years
under the suspension ruling.
Chairman Stone of the Farm Board
said at washington last night the de-
cision looked to him like "a clear case
Of discrimination against the co-opera-
tives" and that "it is apparent that
Peter Carey (president of the Board
Of Trade) and his associates are get
ting desperate"
Evening star., 1932-05-26
Open Tomato Paste Plant.

Italians have opened plant In Ar
gentina for the production Of tomato
paste,
Evening star., 1932-05-26
possible separation from India by April

possible separation from India by April
!, 1884.
Although many Burmese have fought
against Burma cutting its mooring to
the Indian empire, asserting that Eng
land wishes to make Burma little more
than q protectorate for military. naval
and economic reasons, 1t Is believed the
majority Of the population will vote for
separation.
The Burmese differ in race, culture,
language, religion and ideals from the
Indians. They are Of pure Mongolian
origin and worship Buddha They are
cheerful, gay, optimistic people, while
most Indians are melancholy, mystical
and fatalistic.
Burma is one Of the richest terri
tories in the East, producing huge
quantities of oil, rice, teakwood, precious
stones and minerals.
1t is only slightly smaller than Texas
but has three times the population Of
that State.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
NEBRASKA TORNADO
KILLS 3, HURTS SCORE
Farm Buildings Wrecked and
Communication Crippled
by Storm.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
TRENTON, Nebr., May 26-A tor
nado sweeping across Southwestern
Nebraska yesterday caused the deaths
Of three persons and injuries to nearly
q score Of others
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. John New
port, both about 35, of near Cornell,
an inland village Is miles southeast of
here and Mrs. Ward Carey of near
Hershey, 60 miles north of here.
The injured are the five Newport
children whose ages range from to
IS years, Mr.. Feasel and his two
daughters of near Hendley, about SO
miles east of here, and several members
Of the Mrs. Annie Nealeigh family
Of near Cornell
The coronado and terrific rainstorm
crippled communication, damaged sew
eral homes in Cornell, and swept away
the buildings of the Newport Farm,
wrecking buildings on adjoining places
and uprooting trees.
Evening star., 1932-05-26

bandits with fast automobiles and
burglaries Of art objects.
The bureau was established by Lord
Tranchard, new head of the Yard,
London's noted police department, as
part Of a general overhauling. 1t will
be stated by q former army oficer, a
civil servant who worked at Scotland
Yard and detective from headquar-
ters.
All manner Of novel suggestions will
Be considered. the announcement said,
and no coslnter-crime project, no mat
ter how fantastic, will be ruled out.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
BURMA MAY SECEDE
FROM INDIA BY 1894
Population Expected to Vote to
Become Autonomous Brit
ish State.

RANGOON lP.-If Burma votes next
Fall to separate from India and be-
come an autonomous state under the
British crown, the government expects
to have Burma's new constitution ready
by April /, 1884.
This declaration Is made by Gov.
McInnes, who added that if the people
Of Burma decided TO secede from India,
the British Parliament would complete
the necessary legislation by the Sum-
mer of 1888
This would enable the elections to the
legislature under the new constitution
to be held in November, 1888. and make
Evening star., 1932-05-26
.EX.OFFICIAL FREED
IN KIDNAPPING CASE
Former Assistant States Attorney
Tried in Abduction of
Physicians Wife.
nv ths Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 26.-The first trial
growing out Of the many kidnapings
In the Chicago area has resulted in the
acquittal of Ward Swalwell, a former
assistant States attorney, of kidnapping
the young wife of a physician for
ransom.
The jury deliberated only six hours
last night before returning the verdict.
Swalwell was the only remaining de-
fendant of four brought into court as
members of nationwide kidnapping
ring"
The kidnap victim, Mrs. Georgia
Gecht, wife of DIR. Max Gecht, had
Evening star., 1932-05-26
MOONEY TO PUSH FIGHT

SAN FRANCISCO, May 2s (P.-
Plans for a new legal move to free Tom
Mooney, convicted San Francisco Pre-
paredness day bomber, were announced
yesterday by the Mooney Defense Com
mittee, which quoted Mooney as saying:
MY first step will be to demand a
new trial on the murder indictment still
remaining against me. If am guilty I
should hang. If am not guilty, ]
should be vindicated and granted
freedom"
Evening star., 1932-05-26

testified Swalwell, q friend Of the fami-
ly, took part in the ransom negotiations
for her release. Swalwell's counsel
waived his right to a defense and rested
only on a final statement the defendant
was an Intermediary, innocent Of any
part in the actual plot.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
AFRICAN QUEEN SCORNS
STYLES FROM PARIS
Prefers Balloon Trousers to Lat
est Fashion in Evening
Gowns

Adds ABABA [P.-Waizern Menen,
ponderously portly 1Queen of Queens
of Abyssinia, refuses to endorse all the
westernizing reforms Of Emperor Halle
Selassie I.
For example, she threw aside a COM
plete wardrobe from Paris and wears
instead the conventional dress for
women of Ethiopia.
This consists of balloon trousers tied
at the ankles, long silk tunic and a
'chamma, or thin, shawl-like gar
ment resembling the old Roman toga.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
SCOTLAND YARD FORMS
CRIME.PREVENTION UNIT
New Bureau to Try to Anticipate
Burglaries, Hold-ups and Loot
ing of Show Windows.

LONDON P.-Scotland Yard has
created a new department whose job
it is not to catch burglars. but to
get ahead of them.
The new bureau, which has q staff
Of three men, is expected to devise in
advance plans for preventing a class
Of crimes which have caused London
police much trouble recently-broken
and looted show windows, hold cups by
Evening star., 1932-05-26

DEALLY now-how often have you
N wondered why the subject of in
haling has been generally avoided in
cigarette advertising?
Why the mystery? Why the silence?
We all inhale-knowingly or unknow.
ingly! Each and every one of us breathes
in some part of the smoke from our
cigarette.
Do you inhale? ? Lucky Strike has dared
to bring up this vital question-for
Evening star., 1932-05-26

Luckies have the answer! Luckies assure
you the clean, pure cigarette you want
%. because certain impurities concealed
in even the finest, mildest tobacco leaves
are removed by Luckies' famous purify
ing process. Luckies created that process.
Only Luckies have it!
'Fifty million smokers can't be wrong!'
It's toasted
yoM Threat Protection -.g.n:t irritation -.g.n:t eeg91
Evening star., 1932-05-26
Check Samoan Census.

PAGO PAGO (R.-American Samoa
keeps its census up to date by adding
births and subtracting deaths from the
1880 count. The latest check-up showed
the population of the American terri
tory was 10,184.
Evening star., 1932-05-26
MISSIONARIES TO SPEAK
Two Visitors From Shanghai Due
at Capital Churches.

Miss Jennie Hughes and DR.. Mary
Stone OF Bethel Mission, Shanghai,
China, will speak tomorrow at a meet
ing Of the DR.. D. M. sterns missionary
class at Mount Vernon Place M. E.
Church South at pm. and New York
Avenue Presbytertan Church 1t q pm.
Evening star., 1932-08-07
Books ReCeiUed

WORKING FOR THE SoVIETS: An America
Engineer in Russia. By Walter Arnold
Rukeyser Foreword by Oswald Garrison Vii
lard New York: Covici-Friede, Inc
MACHINES AND MEN IN RUSSIA. BY Louis
Fischer. Photographs by Margaret Bourke 4
White New York: Harrison Smith.
SEVEN YEARS IN SOVIET RUSSIA BY Paul
Seheffer Authorized translation by Arthur
Livingston New York: The Macmillan Co.
AMERICAS SIBERIAN ADVENTURE: 1919
1920. BY William S. Graves, major general,
United States Army, retired. New York:
Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith.
SECRET SERVICE ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT.
BY Max Wild. New York G. P. Putnams
Sons.
UPHEAVAL. BY Olga WOronoff. Introduction
by Booth Harrington. New York: G. p. Put
MANS Sons.
THE RED JUGGERNAUT. By Lucia Ramsey
Maxwell. Washington, D. C.: The Library
Press
UNITED ROUMANIA. By Charles UpScn Clark,
Phi. D.. member of Roumanian Academy. With
illustrations and maps. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS. BY w. Q. Nc
Geehan of the New York Herald Tribune.
Drawings by Jules Halfant. New York: The
Dial Press.
HIGH TARTARY. BY Owen baltimore, anthor
of The Desert Road to TurkeStan." Illus
trated. Boston Little, Brown Co.
Evening star., 1932-08-07

empty theory of Juggling good sense over 1ntdI
matters of the soul and spirit. Well, have read
the book. 1t proves nothing It reveals nothing
for the very good reason that the world itsel
unites in the sentimentahty that marriage Is ar
untouchabie institution when anything like com
mon sense turns toward Ii In admonition OF
analysis or even comment. A good satire, bl1
mistaken in its approach and slightly oVerdont
In its ministrationS
MACHETTE. By Charles Merriam. DallaSI
Tex: The Southwest Press.
A DOCTORS case book, or the doctor /
diary this noval might be called were il
not for the fact that neither its chief figure no.
any lesser one Is of the AeSculapian ORDER
Mere chance took the matter In hand. divertind'
. perfectly sincere business adventure into I
social welfare engagement from which energy
innumerable facts and pictures OF the aref
under hand.
And this was the way of it. Down upon th@
Isthmus of Tehuantepec and all roundabout
sugar is the chief engagement. Charles Mer
riam went down there to work on his brother I
sugar farm. He wrote book instead. And
came about like this His hero arrives at Yer I
Cruz as open-mnded about job one deeplt
destitute of the commodity well can be. Any
thing will do, just anything at all. A job o1
sorts is given him Right away, looking around
he noticed peon with q bruised and infected 4
foot. No doctor near, 100 miles away, he offer
to clean up the foot himself. 1t worked
Cleanliness and attention wrought the miraclH
that brought broods of bruised and abrade4
poems to him. Stomach ache and tooth achN
also became ailments of the sovereign treatment
of cleanliness, of more careful eating, Of jus
the habits that we, up this way, reckon in al
part of the daily preparation to meet frown
ing world" In no time at all the youngSter be-
came Senor Doctor the most popular an
sought-after parsonage for miles roundabout.
An extremely busy story with but little q
talk about it, with no diversions for inspectinH
the scenery, the habits of the people, the at
fairs of sugar Save only those that move alon1
beside the new engagement of Senor Docto2
with his ailing throng. However, this is q lon Z
and close packed procession, from whose part
and Segments about every display OF huma
nature that has been developed by life come.
to the surface alert and active
A fine story of opportunity seized Not
much sized IN this case as accepted and pursue
in sincere and unpretentious honesty. Just onE
of the strange exchanges that now and thef
come to the surface. The young man, not
doctor at all but a beneficiary OF wholesom
habits of life. Placed by chance among thos
who have not met the first letter in the alphabe
Of cleanliness He gives them what he has. III
develops for himself an absorbing and usetu
engagement. purely personal story OF deea
interest and pointed suggestion
Evening star., 1932-08-07

of the sheer ravishmert of its beauty-these
cOmJins here to make sea stoty Of deep pleas
ure to readers in general. With ut the SYM
ho.ism of "Moby Dick" the adventure In and
of itself for picture and fact and the marshal
ing of sea events is clearly a work of distinc-
ton, book to read paltakifgly and in mood
of high enthusiasm. In a cherishing spirit, be-
sides fer the story of the wha,er is already
on the far horizon Of true adventures.
SAND IN MY SHOES By Katherine Ball Rip
ley New York: Brewer, Warren & Pitnan.
HEACH farming for seyen years at Samar
I cand. N. c. This, the heart of the matter
Story, chronicle agricultural report. what not
Call it any or all of these, according to the
kind Of reader tina: ou chance to be. Interest
ing it Is certain to be. For, in the first place
1t is about something. Much print is somewhat
lacking in this respect. Again, 1t Is COM
pletey S ncere reckoning. And here once more
it is of q quality not too familiar. II is a COM
plete story. Only seven years long, TO be sure
and not a chronicle of full success and utter
satisfaction. But what account of personal
enterprise is that?
The book stii unopened, one gives a minute to
wondering why SO many, at some particular
eFoss-road In their lives, choose the country as
their way of getting ahead. One takes scrap
of land for the raising of chickens, for the bee
and-honey industry. for thing another
that, seemingly without reason. beckons them in
"a back to the land call Couldn't possibly be
the long hslloo Of Adam, could it? After he
had been set to work tilling the soil? wonder.
Well. whatever the source of it, the lare Is
strong enough and frequent enough to excite
curiosity as to its source. But here is the
story of that peach farm of Samareand, In enc
of the Carolinas.
Here scberly sketcned. are the beauty of the
place in peach blossom time, the fear of storms
and insect pest. of hard work and the Joy Of
lending q hand to growing things. Staid re-
ports of neighborhood deings find place here
Reminiscent touches of the old South come ont
in social ways that have not changed and quite
markedly too in the surrounding Negro life
Perfect sincerity of intent clear sense OF pic
ture an immediate personal experience to re-
late that holds qualities of interest beyond Its
puEeIy personal reach and, above all, freedom
from even a single gesture for effect alone. All
here Such straight simplicity of accounting
serves to move this year term OF expert
nlent with the soil down in Samareand over
into the readers possession as part of his own
stock of adventures in living. very literal
realism, most pleasing one is the outstanding
effect of Sand in My Shoes"
DIANA LAUGHS. BY Florence Ryerson and
Colin Clements authors of This Awful Age
etc. New York: Ray Long and Richard r.
Smith Inc.
CHEER pluck not mirth, that finally laughs"
in this case. Another in the endless line of
domestic romances that nowadays pack the
highways and peep from the byways of current
fiction There's a reason why the old Vic
torian wooings no longer serve the uses of mod
ern novelists. They longer meet the pur-
poses of modern life. Mere surface stuff, those
Evening star., 1932-08-07

PIE COMING OF A NEW PARTY. BY Paul H
Dougias Forward by John Dewey. New
York: whittlesey House. McGrsw-Hin BOOK
Co. Inc.
The Washington times., 1932-02-02
DEATHS

Ellen spker, SO years, Garfield Hos
pitaI.
Minnie Miller, So years. 1125 Spring
Road n. W.
Alice searle, II years. Providence
Mary V. Milstead, rs years, 71s Tenth
st. S. E.
Alice Collins, "A years, Methodist
Home.
Alice Groves, 7s years. GallinEer Hos
pital.
Ella NJ. Andress, 70 years, Emerg-
ency Hospital
,.sS[S Sophia = F. Shut 70 years. ss1' Thir-
o,ISos Rose 81 M N Johnson % 81 years 1921
Mary P. shipman, so years, 1894 Eye
St. N. W.
willis wIllIs% g. H I RRayns' /" years. 1920
j., Nan Nan Weaver. Weaver, 54 years. George WASH
Rebecca Prince, so years. Gallinger
Hospital.
Henry O. Dehp. 40 years, sibley Hos
pitaI.
Morris silverman, 40 years. George
town Hospital.
Ruth Simpson. IA years, EmerE-
ency Hospital.
Richard Tucker, months. Childrens s
Hospital
William Warner, SO years. ST. Eliza
bsths Hospital.
James Simpson, II years, Freedmens s
Minnie E Giles, 10 years, GalIinger
James Smith, 2h years. chiIdren's
Hospital
The Washington times., 1932-02-02
BIRTHS

James F. and Jewel A. Msssinese,
boy,
Alfred NJ. and Carrie A. Purdy, boy.
Stewart ID. and Mary A. Lashley, boy.
John a. and Louisa N. Karr, boy.
Alvin NJ. and ,Rebecca Parker boy.
Porter F. and Edith S. McKeever,
boy.
Wilbur H and Frances Friedman.
boy.
Roy ]. and Ethel A. Long. boy.
Cecil D. and Mary E. Clayton, girl.
Edmund and Elanor Davis. girl
George s. and Lillian Lands, girl.
John S. and Mary Dunning. girl.
Robert P and Mary C. Butler. girl
William J. and Annie NJ. Helmuth,
girl.
Raymond L. and Martha V. Curtice,
girl.
Edward L. and Elizab beth H. Cannon,
girl.
George #. and Mary Bassett, girl
Crier L. and Ethel NJ. Dennis. girl.
James o. and Edna NJ. sutton, girl.
Hampton l.. and Nellie Thompson.
girl.
Albert E. and Frances Beck girl.
Charles S. and Alice Griffith, boy.
Theodore s. and Mary Gibson. boy.
Elisha and Dora Rolling. boy
Ralph and Jacqueline Green. boy
Cepsrs and Eva Rivers, girl.
Charles and Lee Eta Boldng. girl.
Joseph and Dorothy Turner girl.
William S. and Mary E. Holmes, girl.
Edgar and Madeline Gary. boy.
silas and Dorothy Hales. boy.
John H. and Mary M. Wilson. boy.
william and Ada Henderson, boy.
Frances and Annie Boston. girl.
william and Naomi Richardson. girl.
Oscar B. and Cornne A. jackson,