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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01

Roy Partlow, alleged owner and
operator of penny baseball pool tick
cts, exposed in The Times Saturday
as the latest of gambling rackets
taking toll in the city, this afternoon
will answer police charges of pool
selling and keeping a gaming room.
Partlow, operator of a poolroom
at % West Ohio street, was arrested
following a police raid Saturday,
several hours after The Times called
.ttention to the appearance of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
Expect General Butler at
Youngstown Camp to
Urge GO Home
BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY
United Press staff Correspondent

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Aug. Food
enough for only one day-and that
on half rations-was revealed this
afternoon by an inventory of the
bonus expeditionary forces COM
missary.
Leaders professed not to know
where the rations would come from,
after exhaustion of the meager
supply for the 5000 or more men,
women and children campers.
Mayor Eddie NcCloskey, one-time
prize fighter and pants presser, has
been paying for or ordering on cred
it the supplies so far received.
Some Leave for Homes
Meantime, there was strong urg-
ing for the 'bonusers" to leave
Johnstown and go home or to the
209-acre Maryland camp, donated to
Commander Walter Waters by a
wealthy woman.
A start toward building up the
Maryland refuge was made, when
$50 men of the Colorado regiment
were sent secretly southwark as a
shock troop" to clear the land, and
make way for the bonus army
which last week, before bayonets.
saberS and fire, was cleared out of
Washington, D. G.
A squad of perhaps 100 left camp
for their homes further westward.
and the move to have the whole
army go home received impetus
from General Smedley Butler, re-
tired. marine chief, who said he
favored the plan. Butler was to
come to the camp today to urge the
men to return to their homes"
Reports that the Red Cross may
aid the women and children in the
colony were received with cheers.
Waters Is Acclaimed
Women and children have been
given every consideration by camp
commanders. They get their food
first and they have been allocated
TIE better tents in which to make
their homes.
Waters few here from Washing
ton Sunday and was acclaimed.
You have proved to the world
that you are men in every respect"
Waters said. Nov I have secured
for you a 209-acre place Just nine
teen miles from Washington, and in
two or three weeks we'll move in.
Until then you must stay in Johns
town"
The B. E. F. commander told the
men ne had purchased the land in
his own name for 81, from a kind
hearted Maryland women" On the
property log cabins will be built for
married men and barracks for sin
gle men.
This will be a safe refuge for
the destitute driven from Wash
ington at the point of bayonets and
tear gas, at the order of that great
humanitarian, Herbert Hoover"
Waters continued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
Not Troons Plea,

Governor Harry G. Leslie does not
consider the telegram sent by Sher-
if Joseph Dreher of Terre Haute a
formal request for troops in the
Vigo county mine area, he said to-
day.
The Governor said that the COM
munication was not clear and that
he could not consider is as a de-
mand for state militia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
TWO INJURED IN CRASH
Mother and Daughter Hurt When
Car Collides With Truck.

Car Collides With Truck.
Cuts and bruises were incurred
today by mother and daughter,
when the automobile driven by Mrs.
zella Steffey, 81, Of 2110 West Nc
Carly street, with her daughter Ha-
eel, IL, as a passenger, collided with
truck in the HOO block, Kentucky
avenue.
The crash occurred after Mrs.
Steffey lost control of the car when
it skidded in the street car tracks.
Clay Morris, Al, Wilkerson, Ind, was
the driver of the truck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
Bombing of Garages
Threatened Unless
BIackmaiI Is Paid
$500 to $1,000 Demanded
by GangSterS From Each
Downtown Operator.
FAMILIES ARE MENACED
Dynamite, Acid and Stencil
Bombs Promised If
Extortion Fails.

Threatening terrorism, de-
mands of payments ranging
from $500 to $1,000 have been
made on operators of Indian
apolis downtown parking ga
RACES by a group of Chicago
racketeers, The Times learned
today.
Injuries to members of the fam
lilies of the garage operators, use
of dynamite, bullets, stencil bombs,
and acid are threatened in eXtor-
ton letters, sent within the last
two or three weeks.
Police and federal authorities
have thrown every available man
into the investigation, in an at
tempt to trap the racketeers, while
the recipients of the blackmail let
tiers deny that any money has been
paid
However, 1T is known that police
have laid a net on the north side of
the city for more than forty-eight
hours, but the gangsters have not
appeared.
Families Are Threatened
The Circle Motor Inn was the VIC
tim of the largest demand of $1,000,
The Times learned. In one instance
families of garage operators were
threatened with injury or death.
The properties of the garages also
would be wrecked by explosives, it
was threatened.
In each instance, the notes, print
al in ink, carried the final warn
ing that there is no escape"
Although admitting receipt of the
letters, garage officials we're reticent
to give details of the threats.
Another letter read, in part:
1T will do you no good to tip off
the police, because your assessment
has been set at this $........
Bombing Is Promised
at will do you no good because
we are fixed to get your business.
We will use acid, stencil bombs and
other things to prevent people from
parking in your garage"
Then followed the assertion that
the threats were for the "protec-
tom of the recipients of the let
tiers. The letter further stated the
protection was against the
damned skunks" operating the
open-air garages, (which have all
the business"
One note asked that most of the
money be in gold, and detailed dis
tribution of the remainder in silver.
The money, in one case, was or
dered placed on the north side near
high tension wires"
Federal authorities, it was learned,
were informed of the threats about
three weeks ago. SO far, postal au-
thorities do not know whether they
can act, chiefly because the new
federal law providing penalty for
extortion by mail only recently was
enacted.
Trotcky Reveals Threat
Operator of roadhouse north
east of the city denied to The
Times he had received an extortion
letter similar to those received by
the garage operators, but said he
had heard about the garage
threats"
Sam Trotcky, operator of near
downtown garage and service sta
tion, revealed he had been threat
ened with a spray Of machine gun
fire" recently.
Garage operators who were not
threatened were inclined to lay the
situation on others who were losing
business. They could not account
for use of Chicago gangsters in
making the threats.
Garage operators, who received
the letters, admitted they feared
the threats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
SENATORS TARGETS
IN EXTORTlON PLOT
Barred BY KILLINGS
Black Book Is Missing; Found in Room With
Bodies of Notorious Criminal, Slain
Blond and Bogus Bills.
By United Press

YORK, Aug
disappeared
criminal platinum blond found death
The significance the obvious authorities said and nd
Gated the Conroy many
campaign
position.
Federal and city authorities
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
Weather Prophet Fifty Years

BIZ United Press
BOSTON, Aug. DIR. E. A.
Loveland. weather forecaster at
Boston, recently celebrated his f1f-
tieth anniversary as a government
weather man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
GARBO REMAINS HIDDEN
Refuses to Emerge From StateroOm
of Shin at Halifax.

Refuses to Emerge From StaterOOm
of Ship at Halifax.
By United Press
HALIFAX, N. S., Aug. 1. - Greta
Carlo, seclusive star of the screen,
continued to hide from newspaper
reporters when the Swedish-Amer-
lean liner GripSholm, on which she
is returning to Sweden for a vaca-
ton, docked at Halifax at l a. m.
today.
Miss Carlo was guarded carefully
from intruders by members of the
crew and did not leave her state
room while the ship was in port.
Captain Lunymark of the Grips
holm said that she was sleeping
and that she did not care to see
any one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
TOPPLES OVER CLIFF
StiIesviIle Youth Is Seriously In
jured in Twenty Foot Fall.

By Times Special
GREENCASTLE, Ind, Aug. l.
Claude Hampton, son of Glenn
Hampton, operator of garage at
Stilesville, is in hospital here in
serious condition after fall from a
cliff at Turkey Run state park Sun
day.
Young Hampton, attending class
picnic, fell twenty feet from cliff,
breaking both arms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01
Hourly Temperatures
Good Health
After 90

A series Of six articles
oy DR.. Morris FiShbein,
noted health authority
for NEA Service and
The Times, will interest
every relative or friend
of every aged person in
indianapolis, as well as
those who have passed
the three-Score mark
themselves.
This series points out
the dangers to the
health of the aged and
tells how to avoid them.
The articles are writ
ten in a simple Ian
guage that any one can
understand, and the
rules are ones that may
be applied easily.
Don't miss the first
of these Informative
articles in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-01

ments that he has sixteen per-
manent disabilities.
Evening star., 1932-05-17

,, Dlyidend rates in dollars based on last
siyylds1d ysEas. aTiy s1tTs .plas lysns n stoeP
stecs ssa0is ad,u:ish n cash or stock. Payable in
IN stock Plus 81 in stock. Plus IL
IN IN SOCK. Plus 2ss in stock Plus ZOE
N stock. m Plus 80 in stock n Plus aH. N
STOCK Paid last year-no regular rate. :"
Evening star., 1932-05-17
CURB SHARES GA|N3
IN ACTIVE TRADING
Public Utility and Petroleum
Issues Lead in Up
swing.
BY JOHN A. CRONE.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
NEW YORK, May 17.-After q mixed
opening today prices on the Curb Ex-
change improved at midday and the
betterment in quotations brought M
creased dealings. 20
Pivotal public utility and petroleum
shares made the best showing on the
upswing. Electric Bond g. Share was
about half point higher. American
Gas q Electric was up almost a point.
Cities Service rose fractionally STAND
ard OH OF Indiana, in which there was
good scale buying, ran up almost O
point. or
The renewed strength in the oil shares
was directly attributable to % the Sa2
preme Court decision upholding Oklac
noma proration, as this case will have
an important bearing on similar diS-
puteS in California and Texas; (2) the
reported progress en- worldwide staf5fI-
1zation made at the first meeting sof
international oil executives here. and
I'D the estimated reduction in crude
oil output last week, as well as several
crude and gasoline price advances aa-
nounced today. -sip
While these general moves in the
petroleum and public utility issues were
under way numerous other sections re1
Sponded to various bits of corporate
news. Mapes Consolidated beiatesiIN
responded to the extra dividend declafs-
ton with a rise Of more than 3 points.
Pure Oil preferred firmed as the coini
pany listed the price of crude 10 cents
a barrel. i1fQ
Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates had
discounted II months earnings of 81
cents a share on the common. Gulf
Ou corporation was up a point despite
announcement that its April Venezuelan
production was 1,620,825 barrels, against
l,628,699 in the same 1881 month. ~
A series of dividend declarations came
out today. Consolidated Gas of BaItf-
more, New England Telephone, National
Transit, Crown Cork g. Seal, Bril1o
Manufacturing and Associates Invest
ment Co. declared their regular quar-
terly payments. Gamewel omitted the
common dividend, but paid the usIiaf
quarterly on the preferred. ~. IL
Just previous to the official announce
ment that the auction of the stock, of
insult operating companies, Commons
wealth Edison and Public Service OF
Northern Illinois, had been postpoagd
for the fourth time-this time until
May 81 at noon-Commonwealth Edisnrl
jumped 4 points. ~
Food shares moved erraticaIly. Great At
lantic & Pacific Tea opened up 2 points,
but soon lost that gain. National Dairy
Products preferrtd "A" lost a point, while
Childs preferred recovered point. The
only news from food corporations dur
ing these moves came in the earning
report of Seeman Bros, which showed
March quarterly net of 76 cents share
against "a cents in the same 1881 per
riod and nine months net Of S2.63 q
share against 1881 in the correspond
ing 1881 period. Further recovery
was staged by both Of the Swift issues.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
PRODUCE MARKETS
REMAIN IRREGULAR
Cash Grains Fairly Steady,
but Prices Decline in
Many Lines.

Cash grains were mostly fairly steady
In market position the middle of May.
says the United States Department of
Agriculture, Bureau Of Agricultural
Economies, Market News Service.
Wheat and corn have been holding
prices more firmly this month, as COM
pared with miscellaneous grains and
feeds. Live stock prices declined fur
ther. Butter sold lower In some mar
kets and held steady in others, leaving
the tone unsettled. Cheese markets
are steady. Eggs are in lighter sup
ply now and show some tendency to ad-
vance. Potato markets are weak, al
though there was little change in prices
Of old stock, and shipments are mod
crate. Prices Of most lines Of early
produce have been declining rapidly
this month.
Prices at the three large Eastern but
ter markets declined from q to l cent
around the middle of the month, while
at Chicago the prices held unchanged.
Midwestern jobbers and distributors
operated from hand to mouth and
there was practically no buying Of but
ter for storage purposes. Eastern oper-
ators operated cautiously and only
small lots we're stored. Pasture condi-
tions have improved in all sections and
most arrivals showed considerable grass
color. Feed defects were also more
prevalent, so that medium and lower
grades were available.
Holdings of American cheese In the
United States on May l totaled So
$4,000 pounds, in comparison with
A, 1872. 900 pounds on the same date
year ago, and same date five average
stocks OF 39,905,000 pounds. Tone OF
the city markets, in general, was steady
on fresh cheese, and firm on cured and
held styles. Process cheese continued
steady.
Potato prices declined everywhere.
Old-crop round whites were lower In
Western New York at rs to 78 cents
and Green Mountains returned only
IS to IS cents in Northern Maine.
Onion markets were lower on arrivals
from Texas and California. Florida
tomatoes declined and Mexican stock
held steady in city markets. Cabbage
prices declined. Florida celery was
higher in consuming centers, while
California celery declined. Asparagus
sold mostly steady to lower.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
j. s. BOND ISSUES
YIELD TO SELLING
Junior Group of Corporation
Securities Shows Firmer
Trend.
BY r. H. RICHARDSON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 1.-THE down.
turn in bonds was definitely checked
today in the Junior group Of compora-
tion issues, but this development coin
cided with a new break in United
States Government long term issues
which carried active Treasury and
Liberty descriptions about point be-
low Mondays closing prices.
Some traders profesSed to be in pos
session of information from Washing
ton that stocks were a buy and that
bonds should be sold. This would in
dicate that an inflationary measure Is
expected, but since the financial COM
munity has long been reconciled to
some form of moderate imitation II the
budget is to be balanced, 1t was diff
cult to see what more could be looked
for in this direction.
At any rate pressure was exerted on
Government Bonds, in spite OF the fact
that the Treasury sold its last block
of 91-day bills at an average bank dis
count basis Of .43 per cent per annum,
a low record of cheapness for Treasury
3hs dropped about point before
the selling was checked. Losses of "a
to l point occurred in higher coupon
treasures. Liberty loans were firmer.
Volume increased on the decline so
that the theory that the Federal Re-
serve had ceased buying received little
credence.
The improvement in junior domestic
issues was largely in the railroad group
This was a natural reaction to the
better tone in stocks. Extension of the
exchange offer on Cotton Belt As re-
suited in a 7-point run-up in this bond.
Nickel PLATE IS, another issue near ma
turity, rose points. Gains of a point
or more were shown by Allegheny Cor
poration IS, Baltimore g. Ohio CONVEX
tible AVS, Chesapeake corporation SIS,
Erie A As, MisSouri-Pacific General Is,
Southern Pacific AIS and Southern
Railway As.
Industrials were ouieter. National
Dairy Products 5As and Chile Copper
SIS made good gains while small declines
occurred in youngstown Sheet g. Tube
IS and Armour 412s. Fractional ad-
vances were made by prime utility is
sues such as American Telephone 5s.
New England Telephone first IS, Bell
Telephone of Pennsylvania SIS and Con
solidated Gas SIPS, and high-grade in
dllstrialS like American Sugar Refining
6s and Standard Oil of New Jersey 5s.
In the foreign department Japanese
bonds were generally lower, although
Japanese Government 612s rallied
slightly.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
MARYLAND TOBACCO SALES.

BALTIMORE, May II (SpeciaD -
Sales of Maryland leaf tobacco last
month more than doubled the amount
sold in March, totaling 1881 hogsheads
containing 1,o22,815 pounds, compared
with BIS hogsheads and 487, $50 pounds.
The average selling price showed only
n slight increase, however, being 1880
cents a pound in April, against .157z
cents in March.
Receipts last week totaled 522 hogs
heads, against sales of 442 hogsheads,
leaving a stock in State tobacco ware
houses of 16,428 hogsheads and $40
hoesheads of ground leaves. Demand
continues active for all desirable grades
at the following quotations per 100
pounds: Frosted and inferior, 2.00a
4.5o; sound to good, common, 5.00a
1900; medium to good, l5.00a30.00;
good to fine, red, 30.00a3900; fancy,
SO. .00a40. 90; seconds, common to me-
dunn, 40oaI500: good to fine, 16.00a
$500; 1881 crcp ground leaves, 2.00a
1900; upper country, hurley, nominal.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
Receiver Appointed.
CHTCAGO Nav N fP-

CHICAGO, May II tPl.-Thurlow G.
Essington, Chicago attorney. was ap-
pointed receiver for the Missouri-Kan-
sas Pipe Line Co.
Essington was given full powers by
the Federal Court which appointed him
to investigate affairs of the corpora
ton in cooperation with receivers In
charge of the properties in the Statk
courts of Delaware. -,
The court order stated, however, that
If the Delaware courts do not agree
to the receivership instituted here,
then Essington shall be sole receivers
Frank P. Parish, president, and other
officials of the company have been in
dicted on charges of using the mails
to defraud in connection with financr
ing and stock sales Of the company.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
REVISlONS OF CAPITAL
PLANNED IN baltimore
Special Dispatch to The Star.


BALTIMORE, May 17.-Capital re-
vision is expected to be one Of the prin-
cipal topics considered by directors OF
the four big local surety and casualty
companies this week, according to ex-
pectations In financial circles.
The board of the Fidelity g. Deposit
Co. will meet this afternoon and tomor-
row the board Of the United States FL
deity g. Guaranty Co. will assemble.
No announcement of board meetings
has been made by either New Amster-
dam or the Maryland Casualty Co.
Inasmuch as many Of the leading in
surance companies have already an
nounced plans for capital revision, so as
to pave the way for writing down in
vestments to market values, it Is locally
believed that the Baltimore companies
will shortly take similar action.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
CHICAGO STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO, May II R.-Following
Is the complete oficial list of trans
actions In stocks on the Chicago Stock
EvrhanCa TO-DAY.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
Markets at a Glance

NEW YORK, May II (P.-StockS;
Easy; leaders renew decline. Bonds:
Irregular; rails rally mildly. Curb:
Firm; oils advance. Foreign exchanges
Steady; sterling easy. Cotton: Lower;
local selling: lower cables. Sugar:
Higher; firmer European markets. Cof-
fee: Higher; trade buying.
CHICAGO, May II P0.-Wheat
firm; bullish crop advices, Kansas and
Nebraska. Corn: Steady; frost advices
Iowa: steady foreign markets. Cattle:
Irregular. Hogs: Slow and steady.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
/ and Asked Pi
BONDS.
PUEBLO UTILITIES.
STOCKS.

Amer. Tel & Tel. C9).......... 969s .....
Capital Traction Co. 90 ......, 1884 l712
Wash Gas 1t. Co. (l8l ........ 85 90
N & w Steamboat (l2l ...... l35 loo
Pot Elec Power 6Ss pfd. ...... 1862 ITO
Pot Elec Power b12t pfd..... 1929 l04
Wash. Rwy. g. FL com. o.. 275 28o
Wash. RWy. g. e.. pfd. t5)..... 10 81
Evening star., 1932-05-17
Grain Market
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 17.-Wheat mount
ed today to around cents above last
weeks low, but the rise brought profit
taking sales and the top figures were
not maintained.
Crop damage reports as to wheat
came from widening territory, includ-
ing southern Illinois. Winter killing
enectS were reported more evident and
Hessian fly injury was likewise noted
Wneat closed unsettled, 15a1A above
yesCeroays nnish. Corn at u decline
to advance, oats UNCHANGED to u
higher, and provisions unchanged to
Is cents up.
Evening star., 1932-05-17
q. s. TREASURY CERTIFICATES
(Reported by chas. D. Barney Co.
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Washington Gas IS A-$3e0 at 9TH.
Potomac Electric 512% pfd.-5 at 1929.
Washington Rwy. g. Elec. pfd.-l0 at
79, 10 at 79.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas $500 at 10111
Potomac Electric 5kT5 pfd.-5 at 1929
Evening star., 1932-05-17
CHICAGO DAIRY MARKET.

CHICAGO. May II OP.-Butter, 17ls
020 tubs, steady; prices unchanged
Eggs, 26,754 crates, easy; extra flrsts,
13; fresh graded first, 1917; current
receipts. 11a1112: storage packed firsts,
IA: extras. 14l5. tlaF
Evening star., 1932-05-17
New York Cotton
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May I7-With less
rain in the Southwest and favorable
weather predictions for tomorrow, the
cotton market eased off 81 bale today
and lost about all Of yesterdays i'm
provement. For several hours prices
held steady but spot houses sold dur
ing the last hour and the market
weakened. Spots were reduced 20
points to 565.
Cotton range:
Nogales international., 1932-06-11
United States Cash Spent Arizona Far Exceeds Feal Taxes
ELKS LODGE TO
OBSERVE FLAG
DAY TUESDAY
Outdoor Program In
Front Of Elks
Building

Much interest is being taken in
the annual Flag Day exercises of
the Elks Lodge to be held Tuesday
evening June IA.
For the second consecutive year
the program will be given outdoors
in front of the Elks Building at Ar
royo boulevard and Grand avenue
and, as usual, the public is cor
daily invited.
A feature of the program will be
the presentation by Boy Scouts of
flags used by this country since the
birth of the nation.
DR.. Chester H. Smith of the Uni
versity of Arizona law school will
be the speaker of the evening.
The committee in charge of ar
rangements for the Flag Day OBJ
servance is made up of Judge w. A
O'Connor, DR.. A. L. Gustetter and
Harry r. Rellshaw