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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20

course. His tables and his ken
nels where he kept his pack of
hounds are abandoned.
n II
XXTITHIN the closed mansion
w are art treasures that Mar
land imported from abroad. Above
the huge stone fireplace in the
main living room hangs an eight
een-foot canvas of a hunt scene,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Marland and
their friends depicted in the pam
Drama.
Though 81, he is as active and
vigorous as man of 40. His
stake on which he hopes to make
a comeback in the oil business is
a claim for a $1,600,000 income
tax refund against the govern
ment.
He knows the oil business prob
ably as we'll as any man alive and
he believes he can build up an
other great company, his time
without the aid of "the money
trust"
A dreamer, perhaps there comes
back to him sometimes the mem
DRY of the day when he brought
in his first oil we'll in the old
graveyard of the Ponca Indians.
Old Chief White Eagle was
there the day the gusher roared
in. In the sign language, Chief
White Eagle told Marland he was
making bad medicine"
If White Eagle had lived long
eonugh he would have seen his
prophecy come true.
At least, Marland probably
thinks so today as he looks back
on the millions that once were
his.
Next: The story of Lew Wentz,
the richest man in Oklahoma,
who started with nothing, has
accumulated many millions and
strangely enough-is still making
more. A bachelor millionaire
whose hobby is the welfare of
crippled children.
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SALES TAX FLAILED
Too Complicated for State
Use,' Says Starr.

A sales tax should not even be
considered as state revenue raising
measure, George w. Starr, director
of the Indiana university bureau of
business research, told Rotarians at
the Claypool Tuesday.
He recommended the income tax
as the most equitable and easiest to
collect.
In no instance, in my opinion,
should the sales tax be used as part
of the fiscal system of a state gov
ernment." Starr declared. "As a
federal tax it theoretically, and 1
believe practically, may be adapted
as form of revenue. But as state
tax it involves too many complica-
tons"
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RoIIo N. Walter to Face
Court Today in La Grange
Embezzlement Case.
By United Press

BIZ United Press
LAGRANGE, Ind, April 90
State Senator Rollo N Walter went
on trial in Lagrange teuben circuit
court today on charges of bank en-
bezzlement in connection with
closing of the Lagrange County
Trust company, of which he was
secretary and treasurer.
Walter made a laSt-minute at
tempt to have the trial delayed until
September term of court, on the
ground that his wife is seriously i'll.
Special Judge James L. Hartman,
Elkhart, overruled the motion.
The trial is the elimination in
court of a political feud linking
several other officials and dating
back to the closing of the bank.
Dispute over indictment of the bank
officials and Attempts to GUST Pros
ecutor Ralph L. Foster from office
split this community.
Indicted with Walter were his
father, B. S. Walter, vice president
of the bank, and E. 0. Grady,
president. They were charged with
accepting deposits when they were
aware that the bank was insolvent.
Foster launched an investigation
of the banks closing. 1t ultimately
resulted in the indictments. Mean
while, however, two attempts we're
made to remove Foster. Petitions
were filed with Attorney General
James M. Ogden, but he ruled the
matter was not in his jurisdiction.
Foster himself then became the
target of the grand jurys action.
He was indicted on two charges of
selling liquor and accepting brides
from bootleggers. Similar charges
we're preferred against Orville Nell
son, deputy sheriff.
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month and sufficient credit for a
drilling outfit.
His father had been a steel mill
owner in Pittsburgh and he had
been graduated in law at the
University of Michigan before he
was Fl, meanwhile studying a
little geology.
In Oklahoma, he met George L.
Miller of the famous Miller
Brothers 101 Ranch. Miller took
his visitor to an old Indian grave
yard nearby, to show him how
the Indians buried their dead
above the ground.
In the cemetery. Marland no
ticed a peculiar outcropping of
rock which indicated the posi-
bility of oil. He decided to drill
in the old graveyard and, after
considerable dickering with the
Ponca Indians, got a lease.
Marland hit. His we'll opened
the famous Ponca oil field and
started him on the road to riches.
N
TIE drilled more and more pro-
4 Il ducing wells. In those hectic
days he slept on the derricks.
went for as long as a week with
out taking his boots off, ate his
meals out of a tin dinner pail.
Luck was with him, He con-
tinued to hit Oil.
In few years he made millions.
He built the great Maryland Oil
Company with tank farms, re-
flneries, huge Office buildings and
erected 1000 homes for his en-
ployes in Ponca City. He had TO-
900 persons on his pay roll and
his ref1neries ranged from Okla
homa to California.
Inherently generous, he gave a
$4,000 hospital to Ponca City,
gave $4,000 to the American Lee
gion for an orphans home, helped
build the city's auditorium,
erected educational Institutes,
gymnasiums, etc, for his en-
ployes and gave them an oppor-
tunity to share in the profits.
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G0FPeriI

There is no more ardent
supporter of providing golfing
facilities for the masses than
A. G. Sallee, park board super
intendent, but, Sallee said to-
day, the line has to be drawn
somewhere.
Sallee said he has received
complaints from residents in
the vicinity of Brookside park
that their lives are endangered
by golf balls hurting toward
their heads from the vicinity
of the park.
Investigation revealed that a
group of youths was using an
open space in the park as
practice range. One family
living near the park reported
that a golf ball was driven
through the window of their
house, narrowly missing mem
bers of the family.
Sallee has ordered the prac-
tice halted, threatening arrests
if the youthful golfers persist
in using the park for a driving
range.
He suggested. instead, public
golf links be patronized.
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too much tennis.
Lucille Gleason wrestling with
a huge pot of coffee :. and Lii
liam Bond delaying her own lunch
to serve others j.. wonder why
some restaurant doesn't outfit it's
mattresses in riding costumes &.
they would be a nit. . Ruth
Weston cutting into two swell
looking cakes and claiming
to be their creator whoever
made them knows her business
and maybe it was Ruth.
Photographers trying to frame"
Russell Gleason by taking hat
kind of pictures Of him with Lii
han Bond and Dorothy Dix &.
and thinking they might make
Mary Brian jealous we're
afraid Mary is too fully aware Of
just how high she stands in Rus
sells eyes an exhibition in
polo and jumping with Jimmy
Gleason and Maynard doing most
OF the riding and so back to
town.
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PLANE BRINGS
VISITORS TO
L|NDY'S HOME.
Man and Woman Fly From
Kansas City: Mission Is
Unexplained.
'JAFSIE' HAS MISHAP'
Condor Falls Out of Boat
While on Another MyS-
terry Trip.
By United Press

4
HOPEWELL. N. j., April 90
The police and private nego-
tiators continued their search for
the kidnapped son of Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh today. the flfty-f1rSt
day OF the search, with no apparent
progress, although airplane visitors
Tuesday aroused considerable inter-
est.
A plane from Kansas City, Mo,
brought two callers at the Lind
bergh home. Their identity was
not disclosed, nor was their mission
revealed. The plane landed at the
Princeton airport and man and
woman alighted. They asked the
way to the Lindbergh estate and
were driven there by Richard A.
Newhouse, manager of the flying
field. 1t was learned later that the
couple stopped overnight at Pitts
hurgh.
The woman was described as
about As years old. The man
appeared about the same age.
"JafSie" Falls Into River
While activity was at a low ebb at
Hopewell, DR.. John F. Condor (Jaf-
sie) still was continuing his mystic
rious trips, the latest ending in a
mishap. The retired school teacher
was returning from a siX-hour trip
in a rowboat when he fell overheard
near pier. Nearby boatmen
pulled "Jafsie" from the river. He
was taken home in a car when he
refused medical attention.
The boat trip presumably was
taken by Condor in connection
with his activity to establish con-
tact with the kidnapers. His only
answer to queries concerning his
negotiations was:
Yes, I got message"
Sailor Is Detained
1t was not known if Condor met
any one on his boat trip, but he
probably could have received a
message from some passing boat
without attracting attention.
He rowed from City Island, in
EcoO llNCAs W 0dAOCl O4CCh AA1lCb,
a distance of several miles.
Reports from ship authorities
that Henry (Red Johnson, sailor
sweetheart of Betty Cow, the Lind
bergh nurse, had been deported by
immigration authorities aboard the
North German Lloyd liner Europa
Tuesday night, were denied Off
cially today by officials at Ellis is
land, where johnson still is in GUS
tody.
Johnson, a Scandinavian, is seek
ing permission to return to Europe
Of his own accord, to escape the
humiliation Of being deported, it is
understood. The Ellis island Off
Gals have no orders for immediate
disposal of his case.
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has arranged to conduct a city
championship here as part of a
national campaign for selection of
a marble king.
It's good, clean, refreshing sport
the very thing the boys and girls
of this city are entitled to.
The winner of the tournament
here will go to Ocean City, N. j.,
as the representative Of Indian
apoliS, where he or she will COM
pete with boys and girls from all
parts of the United stat S.
All expenses will be paid by
The Times, Proper chaperonage
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Attainment of skill with the
tools at hand.
THESE are but a few Of the
Il valuable lessons that will be
learned by participation in the
play here and at Ocean City
The games will be more than
mere shooting marbles. They viii
be real tests of skill, gained only
by practice and concentration.
And The Times believes these
are things the boys and girls of
Indianapolis want to acquire.
There are so many fiippant and
idle things thMa sauS 70 di~*~@~t
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will be provided for the winner
who is sent from this city.
MO matter who wins, or is
l made eligible to seek the
national crown. the boys and girls
of. Indianapolis will profit by
participation in the contest.
Here are some of the lessons in
store for the entrants in the tour
nament:
Tackling large achievements,
because winning the city cham
pionship is large Achievements.
Learning to be sportsmanlike,
because these games are played
under rigid rules.
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the attention of school children.
1t is worth while to offer con-
test that not only provides recre-
alton, but affords the youth of
the city an opportunity to ASST
initiate lessons that will be worth
while in later life.
!. The Times commends this con-
test to the interest and attention,
not only Of the boys and girls Of
the city. but parents as well.
1t hopes that mothers and
fathers will lend their influence
and support to this move to place
keen sportsmanship and play be-
fore fl.esr r1silesraa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
SENATOR is TRIED
ON BANK CHARGES
Cabbage Aid

Three million cabbage and
tomato plants have been
planted at the Indiana state
prison, and will be distributed
to communities for gardens to
be planted and cared for by
the unemployed in an effort to
help feed the H6osier needy
next winter.
Announcement of this pro-
gram was made at the Office of
Governor Harry G. Leslie
by John Norman, Knox board
chairman of, the prison at
Michigan City.
The garden movement is be-
ing fostered by the state I'M
employment relief commission.
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BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer

Copyright. 1882. NEA Service. Incl
DONCh CITY, Okla, April 20.
Il The spectacle of a man
who headed a $1O0,0O0,00O cor
poration few years ago getting
ready to run for congress this
year on platform of fighting
1.-The money trust" and Wall
Street." greetS Oklahomans to-
day, as E. w. Marland, former
head of the great Marland Oil
Company and now virtually
broke, turns to politics.
Most famous of all of Okla
homa's vanishing oil million
aires"-whose era has been out
NODDED by oils new economic
order-Marland looks back now
to the time when he headed his
gigantic company. was worth
$30,000,000 in his own name, had
an income of 100000 a year.
For ten years he paid Uncle Sam
an income tax that averaged
$1,000 a day.
At the same time, he looks
forward to using the halls of con-
gress to expose the money
trust" that wrecked him and
dreams, at 81, of staging a come
back in the oil business.
Marland, who started with moth
ing, is Convinced that the power
of the money trust" must be
broken, and that the rights of
millions of little investors in
American industries must be safe
guarded by laws to curb monopo-
listic mergers of corporations and
Wall Street control. That is why
he wants to go to congress.
You are impressed by the trag-
edy, as well as by the riches, that
oil can bring when Marland greets
you in his Office here.
1t is a tiny place in the gate
keepers lodge of his $2,500,OOO
mansion on the. outskirts of Ponca
City. The mansion now is shut
tered and closed and taken from
hin-like everything else-by his
creditors.
He makes his home in a small
outbuilding on the spacious
grounds, living in the shadow of
his former glory.
n 4 Il
THE story of Marland's life
i clearly illustrates the great
gamble that is oil. Starting from
scratch, he built up in a relatively
few years a huge company that
spread clear across the United
States.
Year by year it scared until it
became a 100000 concern,
making fortunes for Marland and
others.
Necessarily, such a program of
expansion required the borrowing
of millions of dollars-and, &C
cording to the story told here,
Wall Street bankers were so eager
to lend to the successful Marland
that they solicited him to make
Cnem ms bankers.
1t wasn't long after that be-
fore the bankers were in control.
They moved in. Marland moved
out. His mortgages were fore
closed when the business suddenly
shrank several millions in one
year, his retirement forced, and
his Marland Oil Company merged
out of existence.
There is no more colorful story
in the bizarre annals of vast and
sudden oil fortunes than that of
Marland
He came to Oklahoma in De-
cember, 1908, with just enough
money to pay his board for a
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REWARD IS GREAT FOR LAD WHO WILL WIN CITY MARBLES Ct

A INVOLVEMENT was made
4 n Tuesday of The Times an
nual marble tournament for the
boys and gIrIs of IA or under.
Baseball often is spoken of as
the national game" but in some
respects the honely paStime of
'mibs" is even more Of an Ameri-
can game.
What boy has not at some time
in his life aSpired to be a clever
marble shooter? Very few. And,
in these modern times, many girls
aspire to the same degree of mar
BILE proficiency.
1T IS for this reason The Times
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PETTIS ROBBER
ASKS RELEASE
Hindman'S Plea One of 1928
to Come Before Board,

Tim Hindman, convicted partici-
pant in the PettiS Dry Goods Com
pany safe robbery four years ago.
is one of nine Marion county con-
victs seeking parole or pardon from
the Indiana State prison at a meet
ing of trustees, April %. The board
will hear pleas of 1913 other pris-
onerS.
Hindman was convicted in March,
1929, and was sentenced to five to
twenty-one years with four COM
panionS, two of whom have been
discharged, after serving three-year
terms. They are James c. Brown
of indianapolis and De Witt Par
ker of Chicago. both convicted of
conspiracy to rob.
James E. Burke of Chicago was
the fourth member of the gang.
Other Marion county convicts
seeking paroles are:
Vincent Perdieu. serving ten years for
conviction of auto banditry in 1928; Claude
Parker, bank robbery. ten years; Jack
c'Connor, criminal attack, fve to twenty-
one years; oscar Cartwright, murder life;
0ien Samuel, burglary. ten TO twenty;
William Brison. criminal attack. Ave TO
twenty-one years: Thomas Gunnell rob
berry. ten to twenty-one years. and Harold
Newboldt. criminal attack. FIVE to twenty
one years.
Communication Of sentence is asked by
Gunnell. Brjnson and OConnor Others
are seeking parole.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-20
PORTER TAX SETTLED
Estate of HOosier Novelist Pays
State Total of S1,661.OS.

The famed Limberlost estate of
the late Gene Stratton Porter, Hoo
sier author who died in California,
has brought the state $1,66108 in
inheritance taxation, it was revealed
today.
Schuyler Mowrer, special admins
traitor for the Porter estate in
Noble county, Saturday made a set
tlement with state officials on the
Indiana estate valued at $4,000.
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Mixing with his fellows on the
field of play, as later he will be
obliged to mix with them in bust
ness.
Struggling on even in the face
of adverse odds.
Bravery in the face Of keen
opposition.
Playing the game to the very
end.
Acquisition of courage, because
it does take courage to enter
such games with dozens of play
mates looking on.
Avoid bitterness in defeat.
Generosity IL fire v~aauiS'1Ad
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INSURANCE RACKET IN
CITY DRAWS WARNING
Better Business Bureau Describes
Fraudulent Collections.


Warning that a fraudulent insur-
ance racket is being perpetrated
against relatives of dead persons
was issued today by T. M. Overley.
head Of the Better Business Bureau.
One person has been arrested and
has confessed to obtaining money
fraudulently from scores of rail-
road men here and in Peru, it was
said.
Overley pointed out that rep
resentativeS" of fake companies are
calling at city homes where persons
have died on pretense of collecting
premiums on insurance policies.
When informed of the subjects
death, the agent" pretends to be
surprised and then offers to collect
insurance on payment of a small
Zee. Several persons have been
duped by the racket, it was said.
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Lewis Candidacy Doomed

Organization of Lewiston
Prosecutor Club has been perfected,
it was announced today, for the
purpose of supporting John o.
Lewis for the Republican nominal
ton for prosecutor. Club officials
include John F. Engelke, former
deputy prosecutor, chairman of the
executive committee, and Perry
Wilson, secretary.
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C. OF C. PRESSES ITS
DRIVE FOR MEMBERS
Seeks Funds With Which to Finance
Business Program.

seeks Funos with Which to Finance
Business Program.
An army of workers in the Indi-
annapolis Chamber of Commences
membership campaign, which
opened Tuesday, today renewed
its efforts to raise membership
funds with which to finance the
chambers business building pro-
gram.
Seventy-two memberships were
reported at the dinner held Tues
day at the Spink-Arms by the
nineteen teams composed Of 100
workers.
The workers were to make their
second report at a luncheon today
at the Spink-Arms.
No definite goal has been set for
the campaign, which viii continue
thrnaleA FriAav.
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FORCES FOR PEACE
DECLARED STRONGER
Plans for 1,OOO-Acre Canada-U. s.
Garden Revealed at Meeting


Garden Revealed at Meeting
The worlds peace forces are
stronger now than at any other time
in world history, members of the In
diana world peace committee de-
clared Tuesday night at the semi
annual dinner-meeting at the
Spink-Arms.
Despite the japanese actions,
peace forces have come to real
grips" with the war system, declared
E. E. Stacy, executive secretary.
DR.. Stanley Coulter, president
emeritus of Purdue university re-
vealed that plans are under way for
a 1,000-acre peace garden to com
memorate the more than 100 years
Of peace between Canada and the
United States.
Half of the garden will be in North
Dakota, said DR.. Coulter, and half
in Canada. The garden, he said.
Ill Be a display for the entire
world.
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CHURCH SESSION SET
District NJ. E. Farley Scheduled
Monday at Roberts Park.

Monday at Roberts Park.
Meeting of the Indianapolis dis
trict of the Methodist Episcopal
church will be held Monday at the
Roberts Park M. E. church with DR..
Orien w. Fifer, district superin-
tendent, presiding.
Communion at 10 a. m. will open
the session. DR.. Fifer, N. G. Tall
bot, w. D. Gvose and Guy o. Car
penter will be in charge. A bust
ness session will follow.
Luncheon will be served at 1915
at the Y. w. c. A. Business and
discussion sessions will be held in
the afternoon.
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DELEGATES ARE CHOSEN
Four Elected to Attend General As
SembIy Of PreSbyterianS

-Four EIected 70 Attend General As
sembly Of Presbyterians.
commissioners from the Indian
apolis presbytery to attend the gen.
eral assembly Of the PRESBYTERIAN
church in Denver, May Is, were
chosen Tuesday at the annual
spring meeting in the Tabernacle
Presbyterian church.
Those elected were the Rev. T. j.
Simpson. pastor of the washington
Street Presbyterian church; the
Rev. Robert j. McLandreSs, Indiana
director of religious education; Earl
Cocmbs OF Clay City and M. d.
Lupton Of Indianapolis.
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FORD LAUDED FOR
CHARITABLE WORK
BALLOT GUARDS NAMED
Six Democrats, Five Republicans to
Watch Printing Process.

Six Democrats and five Republi-
cans were appointed today by the
county board of election commits
sioners for 24-hour duty as watch
ers' during the printing of ballots
for the primary election, May 3.
The eleven men, whose names
were not divulged, will serve until
the printed ballots have been de-
livered to Glenn B. Ralston, county
clerk.
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oil KINGS DAY OF GLORY GONE


The new economic order in the oil
industry which has been marked BY the
recent price advance to 81 a barrel. also
has marked the passing Of the old DAYS
Of Americas greatest gamble" when
huge fortunes arose almost overnight.
This-the second story in a series Of
five on the oil industry--is the story of
one Of the most coIorful figures Of that
era who since has lost his millions.
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HOLLYWOOD
BY DAN coco"
THOMAS OOOOH
Intimate Glimpses and Inside
Stuff ON the Movie Colony

HOLLYWOOD, April 2OLooking excitement in film town.
picnic Jimmy Ken Maynard
all decked out brilliant blue riding breeches Jimmy wearing
the usual ranch garb "overhals and big hat and hx
window the ponies somping IN their stalls
wholly indifferent admirng guests Neil Hamilton walk
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Colleen Is Back

Il NWELVE friends az the depot
i to cheer Billie Dove off on a
weekend excursion. George
Cukor getting estimates on re-
decorating his house so that it
will match an enormous white
chair given to him by Bill Halnes.
Il. Colleen Moore back in town
-. as a star of the legitimate
stage this time wonder if she
will el r make any more pictures?
launching at the Brown Derby
with Hardie Albright and Kath-
ryn White Bebe Daniels also