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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
Warmer Weather Is in
Sight, Says Arlington

Zero weather still prevailed in
indianapolis this morning. but re-
lief was in sight. as weather bu-
reau officials forecast slowly rising
temperatures today and tomorrow.
The mercury was expected to
reach about Is degrees above zero
this afternoon. probably not drop
ping below 10 degrees tonight and
possibly climbing into the rwenties
or even thirtieS tomorrow.
Crest of the cold wave has passed
this section and today it was being
felt in the gulf and Atlantic sea-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
Light Company Demands
Rate Hearing Dismissal

Attorneys for the Indianapolis
Power and Light Company will try
today to checkmate the. public
service commission investigation of
their rates, which have been charged
by Sherman Minton, public coun-
selor, as being excessive at the rate
of 100000 a year.
Oral argument on the company
motion to dismiss is to be heard by
the commissioners this afternoon.
Hearing on the rate case was set
for Thursday.
Attorneys Will H. Thompson and
Fred Bates johnson will argue for
dismissal on the grounds that the
suit is not properly brought under
the utility law.
Both are considered experts in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

The courtroom was crowded
as the prisoners, preceded by
a crowd Of police officers
armed with rifles, walked
them along the collonade
leading from the cells to the
superior court room.
r Clark. wearing a white shirt open
at the neck, had removed the band
age from his head for the first time
today. Pierpont was manacled to
him and Charles Makley brought
up the rear of a procession. Pier
pont was neatly dressed, as was
Makley.
Unlike Dillinger, the three pris-
oners today did not put up hight
as they we're manacled in the cell
room. q
All three seemed more concerned
about avoiding cameramen than IN
hearing the court proceedings which
brought them back to Ohio and al
most certain death in the electric
chair.
AS time for the hearing APP
preached. a crowd began to fill the
attractive, patio of the court house
overf1owing into the streets. Cow
bows, Mexicans, townsfolk, many OF
them dressed in picturesque SOM
breos and riding clothes damned
around the yellow stucco building.
Sheriff's Office Crowded
Sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, police
officers, Indiana state policemen
and federal agents crowded the
sheriffs office on the first floor of
the building.
A rattle of muSketry sounded out
as the stack of submarine and auto
matte rifles, taken from the Dillin-
ger terror mob" were sorted out
preparatory to removal.
Leg irons and manacles were rat
tied by the Indiana state police as
they got them ready to place on the
three gangsters.
A crowd of more than 200 taxed
the capacity of the small justice
court as time for the hearing ap-
preached. Movie apparatus was set
up and cameramen tried for choice
positions.
Doors Heavily Guarded
Heavily armed guards were placed
at each entrance to the courthouse
and along the stairway heading
from the cells to the courtroom.
A large black sedan stood in the
rear of the prison to escort the
terror mobsters" to the railroad.
At a window overlooking the
patio we're Mary Kinder, Opal Long
and Anne Martin, the women with
the gangsters.
Mary Kinder was taken from the
cells on the top floor of the court
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
Throw Him Out, Shout Delegates as Former
Member of Red Party Is Questioned
by President John Lewis
Pandemonium Reigns as Illinois Man Is Oral
Third Degree by International;
Speaker Admits Using Alias.
BY ARCH STEINEL
Times Staff Writer

Communism reared its head today in the convention of
the United Mine Workers of America and before it
eed down delegate given third degree into admitting
membership one time in the Communist party and threat
ened with being expelled from the union and thrown out bod
lily from the convention.
Throw him out" Take him out the back door, were
the shouts as L. Lewis president of the international
union forced John F. Sloan, Westve Qll) delegate of
local $500 to admit his membership at time in the Com
munist party of America.
Pandemonium reigned Sloan answered from the
floor mcrophone the pointed questions to his record
member of the Communist party while member of the
min union.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

house, and ebtween two deputy
sheriffS escorted to the automobile in
which Pierpont, Clark and Makley
were already seated.
With deputy sheriffs and Indiana
state policemen guarding then on
all sides the automobile was whisked
through crowd of the curious and
to the Tucson station, where the
men were Immediately placsG
abard the train.
Extraordinary precautions were
taken at the station, where railroad
detectives were supplemented for To-
cal and Indiana police.
Glare at Leach
The three gangsters glared at
Captain Leach as the trip to the
station began, but said nothing.
1t remained for a Tucson police-
man, angry because he did not re-
ceive a reward, to start fight with
Leach.
You're just what the gangsters
said you are, big crook" said the
local cop, but Sheriff Bolton inter
vened before any real trouble
started.
Following protracted wranglings
among police and attorneys from
Wisconsin and Indiana, with each
side fighting for possession of the
prisoners, the case seemed to have
been settled when John Dillinger,
leader of the convict band, was
taken snarling and fighting from his
cell and placed in an airplane bound
for Chicago
He was given into the custody Of
Chief Nichols Makar of the East
Chicago police and Sheriff Carroll
Holley of Lake county, Indiana, who
rode eastward with him in plane
piloted by Dale Meyers.
Another airplane bearing r. G.
Estill, Lake county prosecutor and
Hobart Wilgus, partner of the slain
Lake county detective, Pat OMalley,
for whose death Dillinger win
answer, headed east over the gray
Arizona mountains after Dillinger's
plane.
Battles With Officers
Dillinger was moved out of the
Pima county jail SO quickly last
night that he and his gangster pals
were taken completely by surprise.
His cell door was opened and
Chief Makar and Sheriff Holley or
dered him to prepare to go back to
Indiana.
The gangster scowled and flew
into a towering rage. Striking
wildly right and left, he attempted
to fight off a half dozen Tucson
officials who accompanied the East
Chicago authorities to the cell block.
Sheriff Bolton looked on as Dill
linger fought in vain to keep his
hands and legs from being shackled.
When the manacles and leg irons
had been put on, he turned to
Sheriff Bolton.
Il thought you were a good sport"
he observed, sarcastically, but
you're just like all the lousy cops"
III see you soon, john" said
Pierpont, and it won't be in place
like this"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

All the show needed was barker
to cry, Step this way, LADIES' and
gentlemen" and a few signs like,
Don't feed the animals"
So revolving was the spectacle
that well-dreSsed man and woman
who had stepped into the heavily
barred cellroom left abruptly when
they saw the crowd gaping at the
gangsters.
Pierpont especially was resentful.
His keen eyes ranged over the
crowd, angrily.
An indianapolis merchant in
Tucson for his health stopped be-
fore the trigger mans" cage. An
other Hoosier," said Pierpont, de-
riSively.
II can tell you damn HOLSTERS.
These other people stop and look,
but you Hooslers just stand and
cape"
Around the corner from Dillinger
and Pierpont, Makley, his broad,
red face wreathed in smiles, en-
joyed the show thoroughly. AS
usual, he seemed good natured and
in high spirits.
In the next cell to Makley, a
youth named TEX ratified tin
cup and shouted in deep Texas
drawl:
Sheriff Master of Ceremonies
Step right up, folks. I'm Pier
pont, the trigger man I eat EN-
alive. Drop a penny or so in the
old tin cup. Us gangsters need
smokes"
Almost doubled-up with laugh
ter, Makley encouraged the Texan
by singing out whenever the crowd
was large enough.
Hey, Pierpont show 'em how
fierce you are. Now growl for the
ladies! Alta boy!
Around and around milled the
mob. Mexicans, Indians, white
townsfolks, cowboys in from the
range and millionaire tranSientS
here for their health.
Sheriff John Bolton, in nifty
gray suit and a tan Sombrero, acted
as master of ceremonies. He escorted
the important townsfolks on the
circle of the cells with great pomp
and ceremony, pointing out the
gangsters and relating with gusto
their exploits.
Dillinger, a fixed scowl on his
face, refused to converse with the
sightseerS. Clark, his head still BAN
daged as a result of the blow he
received when he was captured, lay
sprawled on his cot, disdaining even
to notice the sordid parade.
When news reached the popular
sheriff that Dillinger henchmen
might raid the Jail to deliver the
convicts, the parade ceased. But as
one officer Said
who knows who's been here al
ready or what they might have
done?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
State WHISKY
TAX HIGHEST
Levy Can't Be Lowered
Without Legislative
Move, Says LutZ.

Indianas So per gallon whisky tax
is the highest in twelve states
where such taxes are levied and it
can not be lowered without special
legislative action, according to an
opinion from Attorney-General
Philip Lutz Jr., The Times learned
today
Combined with a So gallon fed
eral tax, the state tax will make
whisky cost more here than else
where and may lead to bootlegging,
it has been predicted.
In addition to the tax, wholesale
liquor prices are higher here than
those quoted by the federal alcohol
control commission, Times survey
disclosed.
With the So tax added, prices of
necessity will exceed those of the
other states.
Danger of the bootlegger's return
is cited in the current issue of state
government, magazine of the Ameri-
can Legislators Association.
Intent Is Questioned
1t was estimated that in twelve
states where tax is levied on whisky,
it will mean levy of from 215 to
cents a drink, at least half of which
could be lodged through bootleg
channels.
By-the-drink sales are banned in
Indiana, however, although this
rule could be modified by the state
excise director, while the attorney
general held that the tax can not
be changed by such rulings.
The 81 a gallon levy was put on
by the 1888 legislature which passed
the liquor control law even before
beer was legalized. The whisky levy
was to procure revenue from pre-
scription whisky and was not sched-
uled for a poSt-repeal tax, it has
been pointed out.
But Governor Paul v. McNutt's
desire to avoid calling a special SEES
sion resulted in the So tax being
placed on beverage Whistles, since
the rate could not be changed ex-
cept by new law.
Maryland Next Highest
Maryland has the next highest
state levy at $1.10. Those with 81
levieS are Delaware, New Jersey,
New York, Pennsylvania and Wis
consin.
Other state rates are Arizona,
Colorado and Missouri, 80 cents;
Minnesota, so cents, and MasSachu-
sets, 40 cents.
Since congress has not made pro-
vision for distributing any portion
Of the federal tax to the states,
State Government remarks that
they the states can not be
blamed, if. from financial necessity,
they impose a substantial tax of
their own. Throughout the years,
during which repeal has been I'M
der discussion, the states have
looked forward to a financial bene-
fit in case the liquor traffic was
legalized."
With a tax load Of over So per
gallon, the way is paved for an en-
terprising bootlegger to return to
work, it is pointed out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
BY BASIL GALLAGHER
Times staff Writer

TUCSON, Ariz, Jan. 3O.-Shielding their faces with
handkerchefs from battery of cameras Harry Pepont
Charles Makley and Russell Clark Indiana members of the
terror mob today heard the verdict which sends them back
Ohio face the death penalty for the murder of Sheriff
Jess Sarber
Heavily manaced and chained to each other the prison
faced Judge Fred W. Pickett in superior court here where
they formally extraded to Ohio and writ of habeas
served the sheriff of Pima county by the prisoners
attorney John Van Busk delay the extradton of the
prisoners dismissed
Judge Pickett ruled that the extradon papers handed
to the sheriff by Philip Lutz Indiana attorney general
sufficient and remanded the Prisoners to Sheriff John Beon
who in turn handed them Captain Matt Leach and
the Indiana authorities.
The two-day trip back to Indianapolis started at
l. :55 indianapolis time)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

board states, J. H. Arlington, me-
teorologist, said.
Reports early today showed ther-
mometer readings of % at Jackson
vile, Fla; "a at Mobile, Ala, and
81 at Tampa, Fla, while residents of
Calgary and Western Canada basked
in the relative warmth of Al degrees.
Rise OF from 20 to 40 degrees in
temperature readings was reported
this morning throughout the north
west.
Damage resulting from the gale
which swept the city Sunday after
noon and night today had been re-
paired. for the most part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

utility practice, Mr. Thompson be-
ing rated as among the best in the
country, it is said.
Mr.. Minton, who launched the
case concurrently with expose Of
company affairs by The Times, will
oppose dismissal He contended, in
asking that a rate investigation be
launched by the commission, that
the valuation upon which rates now
are based is excessive by at least
S24000,000.
A shorter method to reduce
rates has been devised by Mr. Min
ton in getting the company to show
cause why their rates should not be
reduced, thus putting the burden of
pro If upon the company.
This will be challenged as illegal
in the arguments today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30

constitutional committee, attacked
the Communist party with Com
munism has no place in the United
Mine Workers and we won't tolerate
it."
Cheers greeted his remarks. Sloan
was hood" as he returned to his
seat.
The union voted today to limit
membership at international con-
ventionS by amending the con-
stitution IN such a way that the ex-
penses of delegates are paid for by
the international body at the rate
of each delegate for 500 members,
instead of each 100 members.
Miss Frances Perkins, secretary
of labor, was scheduled to address
the convention at this afternoon.
She was scheduled to arrive in the
city by train at 2;20 p. m.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
BYRD CREW BATTLES
TO SAVE PROVISIONS
Disruption of Four-MiIe Ice
Front Is Menace.

By United Press
S. S. JACOB RUPERT, BAY OF
WHALES, Jan. 30.-Via Mackay Ra-
dio)-Forty-four marooned men,
bers of the second Byrd Antarctic
expedition fought desperately to-
night to save the expeditions win
ter food supply, which is threatened
by diSintegration of the long ice
front of the Bay of Whales.
The broken pressure ridge and
crevasSes west of the expeditions
baSe-Lttle America-was the scene
of the battle of Byrd's men, engaged
in dramatic struggle with the ele-
mentS in the Antarctic for the last
few days.
The four-mile ice front of the bay
appears to be diSrupting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
CITIZENS ORGANIZE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
NonpartiSan Commission Is
Goal of Group.

Edgar H. Evans, 3445 North Penn
sylvania street, president of the
Acme Evans Milling Company, yes
terday was named chairman of the
Citizens School committee that
again will seek to elect non-par-
tisan group of school commissioners
in the election this year.
Mr.. Evans served as chairman Of
the first citizens organization formed
in 1921 and vice-chairmen of the
1925 committee. A secretary will be
named soon, Mr.. Evans said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
PierpOnt, Mary Kinder
Get Marriage License;
None Will Tie Knot
Sweetheart of Kill Crazy Gunman Breaks Into SobS as
She Is Told He Is to Be Taken to Ohio to Face
Charge of Numbering Sheriff Sarber of Lima
BY Times staff Writer.

TUCSON Aiz 3oA soft foated the patio of the
midnight disclosed
a girl shouted against window on the second floor.
the first time nearly quiet the Jail which
has confined John Dnger his
the milling whites MeXcans beged
the sensational roundup of the notorious midwest
With Dnges departure for East Chicago yesterday the glamour
the
The writer police
fate the Indiana convc the pillars
the courthouse armed guards pcreSquy
stood with hotguns ready for feared a the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
SWEET-TOOTHED BANDIT
LOOTS CANDY COUNTER
Robber Adds $40 Watch to Haul of
CONNECTION Bars.

A sweet-toothed Negro bandit,
who took the trouble to holdup j. F.
Berry, Negro, proprietor of drug
store at 1904 North West street,
escape with six scent candy bars.
80 cents in change and watch val
ued at $40. After taking the watch
and change, the bandit made Perry
lie on the floor while he looted the
candy counter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
TOWNSHIP is SUED
FOR RELIEF SUPPLIES

Grocer Asks $3.50 for Food Furnished
in 1892.
Francis j. Harley, grocer at 612
Virginia avenue, filed suit in SUI
perior court 4 yesterday for judg-
ment of $3.50 against Center town
ship for poor relief supplies pro-
vided in September and October,
1882. County officials explained that
no bond issues have been sold by
the county to pay poor relief claims
for the two months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-01-30
DILLINGER ON WAY TO INDIANA
BY PLANE; MATES ALSO TURNED
OVER TO CAPT. LEACH AT TUCSON
Pierpont, Clark and Makley Start Trip to
Midwest by Train; Ohio to Get
Gangster Trio. S
EAST CHICAGO AWAITS MOB CHIEF
Arizona Police Are Angered by Action Which
Gives Gunner to Hoosier Author
tiles, Deprives Them of Reward.


LITTLE ROCK Ark, JAN 30-John Diinger's plane
landed at the American Always field at 1919 p today
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09
SUPREME COURT
RULES ON CASE
MONTANA SUPREME TRIBUNAL
SUSTAINS VERDICT FOR BROWN
OIL COMPANY

The Montana supreme court re-
Gently upheld the district court for
Yellowstone county in directing a
verdict for the Brown Oil company Of
Billings in a suit involving the sale
and cancellation of filling station
coupon books.
Under the name of the G. g. @. Bus
mess Builders, c. H. Cooke and John r.
entered into a contract with
Harold Sayer of Billings, a lessee Of
one Of the oil company's stations, to sell
coupon books to be used in payment of
at the station.
The oil company required Sayer to
sever connections with the c. & @. firm
and to refuse to redeem the coupons,
holding that the arrangement was a
violation of his contract with the Brown
company and resulted in discrimination
against other filling stations.
The c. & @. firm subsequently filed
suit.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09
Hog Processing Tax
Regulation Revised,
Penwell

Revision of the present regulations
with respect to the rate of the proc
essing tax on hogs is announced by
lewis Penwell, collector of internal
revenue for the district of Montana.
The information supplied Mr.. Penwell
by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
provides as follows:
In order to effectuate the declared
policy of the agricultural adjustment
act, an adjustment of the rate Of the
processing tax on the first domestic
processing of hogs as of Jan. l, 1884;
Feb. /, 1884, and March l, 1884, is
necessary.
Accordingly, as of Jan. l, the rate of
he processing tax on the first domestic
processing of hogs shall be 81 per hun
d~redweight, live weight, as of Feb. l,
hat the rate of the processing tax on
the first domestic processing of hogs
shall be $1.50 per hundredweight, live
weight; as of March l, that the rate Of
he processing tax on the first domestic
processing of hogs shall be $2.25 per
hundredweight, live weight.
This modification of the regulations
educes the original contemplated rate
f tax on the first, domestic processing
f hogs, effective Feb. l, 1884, from 81
per hundredWeight, live weight, to ST.
0 per hundredweight, live weight, and
puts into effect another rate as of
March /, 1884, of $2.25 per hundred
weight, live weight.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09
Youth Ordered
to Leave State

A suspended Jail sentence of 90 days
was imposed in justice court at Pas
adena, Calf, recently on William Har-
rison Olsen, 10, former Pasadena stu
dent, after he pleaded guilty of sending
a threatening letter in connection with
mysterious killing of DR.. Leonard
Siever, society Dentist" last Decem-
Der.
Justice J. Russell Morton suspended
the sentence on condition that the
youth leave the state within 10 days.
j. G. Olsen, the boys father, told JUS
tice Morton he planned to take his son
back to Ekalaka, Mont, and put him to
work in a drug store there.
Prosecutors told the court investiga-
ton showed Olsen had no direct know
ledge of the Siever case.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09

lines chair. Any woman that can do
that, and look it, has nothing to learn
from the cat family for supple grace.
Dinkel vas slowed IN his starboard
quarter between her knees, with his
neck arched a little, and looking at
Casey, whose gun kept on looking at
me the way any thing or person that
has something it wants to get rid of
looks at the animated target. Casey
was not careless or chummy. He kept
a well spaced deadline between us
without seeming to think about it.
Knife-face was still dismantling the
ship a little. He was not leaving my
end of the get-rich-quick scheme en-
tirely to Casey, either. Once or twice
I got the feeling that he was pretend
ing to be careless. Perhaps he thought
that they might be able to swing it
without me just as easily after all. And
that lonely mesa, shaped like a coffin
on top a smaller chest, was a grand
place to get rid of anybody you didn't
strictly need. We might have been on
the moon.
It was plain that he nearly had fin
ished his takedown job, as he seemed
to be figuring on how long 1t would
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-02-09

Published by Special Advancement with The
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate.
Inc.
IN TWO PAkTswPART TWOj
With the new idea soaring into me
like a welding torch I made up my
mind to do my last stunt. It might
not get us anywhere but it was better
than acting as their bell hop and hav-
ing Hunny wonder always If perhaps
I might not be in on the lousy deal.
Back yonder I said that we Lost Bat
talon flyers learned to think quickly.
We learned also to think clearly. While
Casey was pointing his gun at me with
one hand and reaching for a match to
light his cigaret with the other I made
up my mind to have a try at Knife
face. Whether Casey got me or not
didn't matter, as Knife-face wasn't so
absorbed in his work as to forget that
I was there.
In a picture where the villain has got
the drop on the speedy hero it doesn't
look so hard to distract the bad mans
attention for the split second needed to
kick him in the wrist, or something.
But with a perfectly sober, cool head
ed holdup this couldn't be done. He
doesn't look up to see the little birdie.
OF course, with two of them it's twice
as hard.
But here I wasn't hoping to get
away with the pair. I wanted only to
get the man that had just made the
dirty crack about not wanting to give
up Hunny for any hundred thousand
bucks. And I wanted Hunny to know
that I hadn't any part of it. What
might happen then didn't seem to mat
ter. Stunt flyers are apt to get this
sort of blind one track idea . and Of
ten for nothing better than to make