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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-06


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S1.O6l4. Corn-No mixed. 642sc. Oats
No. white. 52ssc.
Evening star., 1934-12-09

boxes had been forced open and rifed. few
copper farthings-worth half Q cent each in
American money-lay scattered about on the
floor. Hidden In q crevice In the wall was the
equivalent of 5000 In bills
So the Portsade police called In Scotland
Yard. The Scotland Yard men found traces
of blood on the floor and on the stairway. A
button. which might have been pulled or fallen
from some ones overcoat, lay nearby. But
they had nothing to prove that Joseph Bedford
had been murdered
Enter, at this point, Sir. Bernard spilsbury.
Nov Sir Bernard spilsbury, who looks like
a studious member Of Parliament or an
amiable frequenter Of garden parties, Is prob
ably the greatest nemesis to murderers in
all England. His Official title is patholog1st
to the home office, and Scotland Yard sum-
mons him whenever there is any kind Of
medical mystery in connection with crime
a supposed crime.
Working always with quiet, scientific pre-
csion, Sir Bernard has sent many and many
a murderer to the gallows He first attracted
Evening star., 1934-12-09

posted the equivalent Of SIS, 900 in . bank.
Anyway, old Joseph Bedford had been killed
The crime was discovered about O'Clock on
the evening of November l3. when q bobby
who was making his rounds chanced to notice
that some Of the old mans stock OF odds and
ends was stin standing on the stands in front
Of the shop The bobby knew that the old
man usually took his stun inside pretty early,
closed up and went to bed: so he went up to
the door and tried the handle, found it locked
and then peered through the glass into the
shop, flashing a light in as he did.
The policeman was astounded to see Joseph
Bedford coming feebly down the stairs at the
back Of his shop, blood streaming down his
face. AS the policeman watched, the 80-year-
old man toppled to the floor and lay still.
Forcing the door in, the policeman hurried
to his side. The old was dead
At first it looked simple. Old Bedford
feeble with years, half blind and almost deaf
had probably stumbled and received a shock
which, at his age had killed him.
Then, however, it developed that although
every door and window in the place had been
securely fastened. all the drawers and cash
Evening star., 1934-12-09


Now the British have q way Of getting prae-
tically all Of the evidence they need In q mur-
der case, before making arrest That they
are % successful In this Is at least partly due
TO Sir Bernard. His years of experience coupled
with his grim, uncanny ability to reconstruct
. tragedy after studious examination of the
victims body, have made him as relentless q
bloodhound as the law ever put on a slayer's
trail.
So much for Sir Bernards background He
was called to Portslade the day after the
tragedy was discovered; and his coming sealed
the doom OF two unsuspecting young men who
had slept that night. presumably as soundly
as uncaught murderers ever do sleep.
Sir Bernard Spilsbury then went to Port
slade and made thorough examination Of
Joseph Bedfords wasted old body He soon
announced that death had been caused not by
. fall, but by series Of blows on the skull
At this point sheer chance stepped in to
help the manhunt
Six miles west Of Portslade is the larger
town Of Worthing. and a week after the
murder the Worthing police arrested two
These men gave their names as Frederick
Parker, 2l, and Albert Probert g.
These men had come to Worthing, seemingly,
o day two after the murder. They had
gone to a shop, where each man bought new
suit, shirt, tie and collar, changing clothes in
tne SnOp ana taxing the OLD clOtneS away Win
them when they left.
Search Of their lodgings revealed a suit case
containing, besides the old clothing, auto
matte pistol and book of sweepstakes tickets.
with counterfoils Of those which had been sold.
One bore the name of buyer in Portslade.
Furthermore, there was a spot on the coat of
Probert's discarded suit which looked like
bloOdstain.
DACK to Portslade shifted the investigation.
- shopkeeper was found who said the two
young men had come into his store on the
day of the murder and had tried to sell him
a sweepstakes ticket. Another man testified to
having seen them in the vicinity of Bed
fords shop.
The Worthing police began asking the
prisoners questions. Finally Parker broke
down and said:
1--WE knocked out an old man in Portslade.
We took money from the till. We walked in
and spoke to the old man turned and locked
the door No one was passing, and I brought
a pistol into play just to scare him-the gun
wasn't loaded held him and the other chap
went around and knocked him out
He added that the job wasn't worth doing:
as they had only got five pounds (about $25
at par) out of it; and he asked, How is the
old man?"
The old man. he informed dead.
Parker and Probert were held for murder
Parker then got panicky, and talked some
more He said that he had been reluctant 30
take part in the job, and that he had refuso1
Continued on Fourteenth PAGE
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Englonds
"Medical Sherlock Holiness
BY MILTON BRONNER.
LONDON, December 8, 1894.

LONDON, December 8, 1894
THE inhabitants Of the quiet little Eng
1 hsh city of Portslade were in stew
of excitement, that November morn
1 ing in 1888. murder had been
committed in their town. and since
the town was English, and a sleepy
little place to boot, this exceedingly
unusual occurrence 1t had everybody talking.
BY American standards, there was nothing
especially striking about the crime. Just
aged shopkeeper struck down by some thug
who had ri1ed the cash register and made his
getaway. The shop was poor one, the VIC
tim without prominence and the crime
had been seen by no one.
But POrtslade-being as was said, English
and quiet-wasnt used even to commonplace
murders. So PortSlade was all excited and
honest citizens were beginning to wonder audi
bly, If any man was safe nowadays.
The victim old man named Joseph
Bedford. He had lived in PortSlade for half
century and he had been 80 years old when
he came there. Nobody knew much about
him; there was rumor that he had proposed
marriage to childhood sweetheart years ago,
in the heyday of Queen Victorias reign, and
had been rejected; nobody knew for sure and
nobody cared much. He kept little shop-a
regular old curiosity shop, such as Dickens
described in his famous novel of that name
"here he sold pots and pans and assorted
Evening star., 1934-12-09
@OLDCURIOSITY
SSHOP

bric-a-brac, and he lived by him.
self In . tiny bed room over the
store.
His wants had been few and
his habits had been frugal, SO
Joseph Bedford had saved .
good deal Of money. He used to
keep it all slowed away In his
house-until, at last, some one
managed to persuade him that
this WAS foolish. Then he de.
Evening star., 1934-12-09

"C POtNNs
man Uas astOund.
ed to see Joseph
Bedford coming feebIy
II dOtUn the stairs, blood
streaming doson his face. As
the policeman matched, the old
man toppled to the floor"
attention to himself before the war
when. Is . Junior patholoeist. he got
the evidence which resulted in the
arrest and conviction Of the notorious
DR.. Crippen. Since then he has made
. fine art Of the study Of criminal
pathology.
He Is, in fact, q sort of medical
Sherlock Holmes. When the police
have q body exhumed he is there.
When the coroner holds an inquest
Civ barnard ;e <horo
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
UNIFORM SIGN
MOVE MEETING
WITH SUCCESS

Phil w. Knights, city engineer
reports a splendid cooperation by
merchants and business men in
the city's efforts to obtain uni
formity in the height and projec-
ton of signs over public property.
The new sign ordinance was
drafted at the request of merchants
who desired regulation of visibility
and construction. The new ordi-
nance is meeting with almost un-
animous approval since objections
to it have been raised in only two
cases which related to the moving
of very small signs, Knights said
Paper banners, sticKerS, bills, and
other advertisings Of bankrupt
stocks. gone broke" sales, price
lists, or other items will be prohib-
tied over public property in the fu-
ture, the city engineer stated Such
signs must be painted on properly
designed wooden or metal struc-
lures of the type and with the
clearance specified in the ordi-
nance.
knights is of the opinion that
when all changes have been made
the appearance of the streets will
be considerably improved and a
much more equal distribution of
visibility will result.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
MANY LIVES
SACRIFICED
IN HURRICANE

MEXICO CITY, June l3. W.R-
The seasons first hurricane SEEM
ed to have dissipated today after
wreaking a tragic toll of life in Ell
Salvador and Honduras.
There were high WINDS along the
Tamaulipas state coast of the Gull
of Mexico where the center of the
hurricane hit yesterday, but they
had lost force and little damage
was reported.
TEDUCUGALPA, Honduras, juno
13. U.Pl-A muddy field, dotted
with ruins of buildings and corps
es, was all that remained today
of the prosperous town OF Ocotepe-
que
Survivors of its $4,000 popula-
ton, ragged and hungry, searched
the ruins for bodies of relatives
and for food
Disjointed reports of damage
done by the hurricane that swept
the country indicated that though
Ccotepeque was hardest hit, II was
but one of many towns and VII
lagos in which whole families were
wiped out.
Estimates from Ocotepeque were
that more than 500 persons we're
known dead and II was feared the
total would reach 1000,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
EXPLANATION
OF HULL NOTE
MADE PUBLIC
Did Not Open Way For Pay
ment Of Obligations In Goods
And Services.
W AS MERELY SUGGESTION
U. S. Willing To Listen To
British Proposals For Meeting
Part OF Installment.
WAS MERELY SUGGESTION

WASHINGTON, June 13. U.P)-
A warning that the way has not
been opened for debtor countries
to pay the total of their war debts
to the United States in goods and
services was sounded by the White
House today.
Apparently fearing that the note
dispatched to Great Britain by
Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
suggesting that Britain make some
proposal for at least partial pay
ment of her debt in goods or SER
vices, might be misinterpreted, the
White House said this country was
in no position nor did it propose
to accept full payment of the
debts in goods or services.
Such procedure, it was stated,
would be economically impossible,
just as it was felt it was i'm
possible to transfer in cash the
total sums owed on the debts.
There is no inclination. it was
stated here, to open the American
markets without discriminating to
foreign products as a means of
assisting the debtor governments
to make payment.
What was intended, it was stated,
was to suggest to Great Britain
that administration officials here
would listen to any proposals
Britain might have for making
part of her payment in goods or
services. The intimation was left
that similar consideration would
be given to like proposals by other
governments.
This was interpreted as leaving
the door wide open to the debtor
governments to come forward with
definite proposals for making par
tial payments in goods and SER
vices, with the intimation that the
balance of the debts must be paid
in cash.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13

LIE AIDING IN
REGISTRATION

With the primary election still
over two months away and registra-
tions being made daily at the court
house. c. w. HinderkS, deputy
county clerk has made an effort to
tabulate the registered voters in
the county according to party af-
filiations.
Hinderks stated yesterday that
this has been a rather difficult
task as SO many persons still con-
tinue to register either at the court
house or with delegated registration
clerks throughout the valley. For
that reason the computation he has
Just completed while authentic as
to the records at present in the
county clerks office will not be Of
ficially complete until all other
names are turned in at that office.
Present figures show there are a
total of 1897 persons registered at
the court house. Of these, 9,874 are
Democrats, 7,135 Republicans, SO
Socialists, 43 Prohibitionists, eight
members of the Liberty party and
778 declined to state their party
affiliations.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
FORCE To Be
EMPLOYED IN
FIGHTING LONG

BATON ROUGE, La, June 13.
U.P) - Thirty thousand citizens
were pledged today to armed up
rising against Sen. Huey P. Longs
political administration in Louis
lana.
Demonstrators from every parish
of the United States thundered
affirmation to a threat ito write
more of the history of the state
as it has been written in the past
in blood"
The threat from an angry crowd
which surged within and for a
block around the community house
voiced the oral warning" protest.
ing proposed passage of "usurping"
laws.
The pending bills would levy new
taxes, set up state department
with control over local budgets and
establish a state police force with
power to invade cities and make
arrests on equal footing with local
authorities.
Chairman William H. Hodges of
Bossier Parish pronounced to the
inflamed gathering stirring his
tory of Longs "tryannical reign
of corruption" in which men have
been kidnapped and at least one
slain"
The meeting decided OIL appoint
ment of leader in each parish
to use whatever force necessary
to return governmental affairs to
the people of this state"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
COUNTY JAIL
INMATES To
De WORKED
Recent Suggestion Made By
Press Finds Favor With Coun-
ty Supervisors.

Idleness among prisoners at the
county Jail will be thing of the
past according to the terms of a re-
solution adopted by the board of
county supervisors at their meeting
yesterday afternoon, in line with a
suggestion in an editorial appearing
in The Press last Saturday.
This resolution provides that per-
sons who are now or hereafter will
be confined in the county Jail under
a final judgment of Imprisonment
rendered in a criminal action in any
of the justice courts or superior
court of the county under judgment
of conviction of misdemeanors, shall
be and are required to perform GER
tain labors.
The scenes of this labor will be as
follows: on all the public roads, al
leys, avenues and highways of the
county, at the county garage; in the
county Jail; at the county farm;
on the grounds and in the building
of the court house; on the grounds
of the county airport and at the
rock quarry located at Superstition
mountain.
The resolution further provides
that for each month in which any
and all persons so performing labor
as above required in cheerful and
willing obedience to these rules and
regulations, and when the conduct
of these prisoners shall be reported
by the sheriff to be positively good
five days will be deducted from theil
terms of sentence.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
STATE INSPECTORS VALLEY
LABOR CAMPS GREATLY IMPROVED

the camps during the campaign and
the old insanitary structures de-
molished and a general cleanup was
effected at all of the places visited.
The sanitary disposal of garbage
was taken care of through the in
stallation of approved covered pits
and several screened cookhouses
were erected at the larger camps to
replace unsuitable makeShifts.
There is yet considerable room
for improvement in valley labor
camps, particularly in the way of
proper housing and our future ef-
forts will be directed to raising the
standards in that regard. Make
shift bush housing that had sprung
up in several sections of the valley
is not permitted under the labor
camp sanitation law.
"The success achieved by our state
division in the present campaign
through the cooperative efforts OF
camp owners, indicates a realization
on their part that sanitary camps
and good living conditions are bull
wark against the forces of labor un-
rest and we now find that the old
attitude of anything or anyplace
will do for a camp, is fast disap-
pearing in Imperial Valley"
The state agents will return to
the valley in the fall to see that
conditions in the pea and lettuce
camps meet proper standards before
the harvest commences.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13

State labor camp inspection work
in Imperial Valley has just been
completed by L. T. Mott and F. j.
Rugg of the division of immigration
and housing. This cleanup campaign
was undertaken early in the spring
by the state division operating un-
der the labor camp sanitation act,
and covered all camps where work.
ers have been employed in the vege-
table and melon sections of the val
ley. Some 300 camps we're inspected
in the survey that dealt with sanl-
tary and housing facilities and the
state representatives report that
conditions have been vastly improv-
ed over former years.
I'VE have had the cooperation OF
camp operators from small indepen-
dents to the large growers state
the inspectors, land upon instruc-
tions from our division these oper-
ators have discarded approximate
ly 200 bush novels and similar
shackS that were being used for
housing field laborers and their
families throughout the area. Per-
sons Accommodated in this type of
housing numbered in excess Of 600
and these homes were replaced with
tents or other suitable housing by
camp owners. In many instances
bad camps were entirely abandoned.
ApprOXimately l25 new, properly
constructed toilets we're placed in
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13

REVOKE TWO
CARDPER|N|T TS

Licenses to conduct card games
at Winterhaven previously granted
to Roy G. Orr and George M.
Pratt were revoked after a hearing
before the board of supervisors yes
terday afternoon. The two men
had been called before the board
to answer charges that they were
conducting illegal gambling games
in their establishments, preferred
by Sheriff George Campbell who
stated that on visit to Winter
haven on June 2 he had found
gambling going on in the two clubs.
The hearing developed into quite
a session with accusations being
made against other persons that
they were also conducting illegal
games in the same town and should
also be prosecuted.
In the evidence brought before
the board it was stated that the
games were being run, not with cur
rency but with merchandise tokens
which were exchanged by the mer-
chants for full value in trade. IL
was said that similar games had
been conducted in other cities OF
the state and were not considered
as being against the law.
Elmer Heald, district attorney,
read passages from the law to the
board n which it was pointed out
those games which the state leg
islature considers as illegal and
therefore to be prohibited. Games
such as were being conducted at
Winterhaven were said to be in
cluded in this state ban and there
fore some action had to be taken
to secure their suppression.
Harry Horton who appeared for
the two defendants told the board
the whole action was in the nature
of a frameup by other interests in
Winterhaven which were endeaVor-
ing to secure complete control OF
the situation for their own advant-
age. AS a result Tom Worthington
and j. LaPlate were cited to appear
before the board on next Tuesday
afternoon at which time Horton
SAYS he will have witnesses on
hand to prove his contentious.
The vote on the revocation OF
the licenses showed Supervisors
Preble. Graham, Vencill and Os-
borne voting yes with Supervisor
Best not voting.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
.ROLPHS LAST WILL MADE PUBLIC
Late Governor Leaves Simple Document Dis
posing Of His Estate

SAN FRANCISCO, June 13. (U.P)
The will of the late Governor
James Rolph, Jr., dated April ID,
1926, was made public here today.
The document was short-written
in the governors hand-and ended
with the words: Thanks, goodbye,
good luck. Good bless you all
The document read:
San Francisco, April Is, 1926.
I'm the name of God amen.
st hereby cancel the only one
other will and testament hereto
fore made by me and 1 do now by
this act make this my last will and
testament.
IT hereby appoint my only son,
James Rolph III, to be the sole exc
cutor of my estate to serve without
bonds.
st hereby give to my darling wife
one-half of whatever die possessed,
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
NEW REPORT
On D|LL|NGER

NORTHFIELD, Mimi, June 13.
U.P)-John Dillinger was reported
seen here today by transient who
said the Indiana outlaw gave him
a cigarette.
Donald Murray, 80, jobless tax
icab driver, said he swung off a
freight train at a. m.
"There was an automobile
parked near the tracks" Murray
said, "Dillinger was in the front
seat with the driver. I'd know
him anywhere. I've driven him in
my cab in Chicago dozens of times.
He had wrinkle between the eyes
and sneer on his mouth.
"Isn't he supposed to have dyed
his hair red? Well, it has faded,
then.'
"How could you recognize any
one at 3 O'Clock in the morning?'
Murray was asked.
"Oh,o he said, 1.-The guys in the
machine turned on the lights when
l walked up. Dillinger did all the
talking
Editors Note:-It couldn't have
been John. Superstition alone
would keep him away from North
field for that is where Jesse James
and his gang met their Waterloo
back in the seventies.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-13
Fl TS bLANES
POLITICS FOR
JURY REQUEST
Plea For Special Prosecutor To
Investigate Company Collapse
Denounced.

LOS ANGELES, June 13. UP)-
The request of the county grand
jury for a special prosecutor to in
vestigate the collapse of the ST.
100000 California reserve corpora
ton was inspired by politicians
with access to the grand jury,
Buron Fits, district attorney,
charged today.
George Gregory, brother-in-laW
of Fits, was head of the company
when it collapsed and for that
reason the grand jury asked u. S.
Webb, attorney general, to take
the Investigation out of the district
attorneys office and to appoint a
special prosecutor.
Fits today laid the grand jury's
action directly to a bitter feud
between him and Raymond l..
Haight, former state corporation
commissioner and now a Republi-
can candidate for governor.
The grand jury is entirely with
in its rights" Fits said. But it
is regrettable from the standpoint
of efficient and unhampered ad-
ministration of my own office that
the action was originally inspired
by politics and has been engineered
by local politicians having access
to the grand jury"
Wayne Fisher, foreman of the
Jury. said that in view of the law
the jury had no other course than
to seek outside aid in the investi-
CATION"
Meanwhile Attorney Gen r
Webb had the request of the grand
jury under consideration. He indi-
Gated his office would investigate
the petition thoroughly to deter
mine the advisability of such an
action as there was much in the
petition to be checked