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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
DILLINGER CANISTER IS CAPTURED
IN RAID ON MINNEAPOLIS FLAT
BY SQUAD OF FEDERAL OFFICERS
Three Young ExtortiOnists Get
Long Terms in Federal Prison
2 College Students Given
Five Years: Brown
Receives Seven.

The weight of the drastic federal
eXtortion law, enacted following the
Lindbergh tragedy, today was felt
by three elf-confessed blackmailers
who threatened the life and safety
Of three prominent indianapolis
citizens.
Reeves Brown, Methodist hospital
employe. who pleaded guilty to send
ing threatening letters to Mrs. IrV-
ing w. LemauX, was sentenced to
serve seven years in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.
Carlos Mcneil and James Woods,
Paragon, Ind, former university stu
dents, were sentenced to five years
each at Atlanta penitentiary for
attempting to eXtort $4,000 from
Eli Lilly, local philanthropiSt. They
pleaded guilty.
Federal Judge Robert c. Baltzell,
in pronouncing sentence, said that
since Brown had been involved in
two eXtortion cases his prison term
was longer. The three prisoners
accepted the judgment stolidly.
COnfesses Jackson Plot
Brown only yesterday confessed
to threatening Chester Jackson,
Standard Grocery Company head,
two years ago. He was arrested
Monday for attempting to eXtort
$1,000 from Mrs. Lemaux by
threatening the life of her athlete
son, Irving Jr.
While Mcneil and Woods sat nat
tily attired and proudly Indifferent,
Val Nolan, United States district
attorney, made a dramatic plea for
the maximum sentence of twenty
years.
These two young men, college
trained, had a higher responsibility
than Brown, because of their educa-
ton. We do not know what they
might have done if they had not
been apprehended.
Pretty Fiancee Attends
"EXtortion and kidnapping is the
most vicious crime in the federal
category. 1t terrorizeS citizens and
scandalizeS the public. While Nc
Neil and Woods were not members
of a kidnapping ring, with their edu-
cation and intelligence they might
have become desperate underworld
characters.
McNeils pretty sweetheart, who
refused to give her name, a relative
of a Michigan City judge, watched
proceedings with bright eyes. She
wept when the sentence was an
nounced. Mcneil said that he had
entered into the extortion plot in
order to obtain money to marry the
girl.
Arthur Robinson Jr, son of the
senator, serving as attorney for the
youths, presented a petition signed
by Paragon citizens urging Glenn
ency. S. C. Kivett, Martinsville,
was the other defense attorney.
Brown Is Detected
A contrast to the arrogance of
the youths was Brown, a small,
stopped figure sitting dejectedly
with his head bowed. He heard
with apathy Mr.. Nolan say that
he did not have the opportunities
for right living that the boys had.
Judge Baltzell, in reference to the
case, said: 1--WE can not tell when
the next man will carry out these
terrible threats. The federal courts
must protect the citizens"
Lewis R. Raes, charged with
stealing goods from mail train,
was sentenced two years in the
federal reformatory, Chillicothe, O.,
ano Lawrence B. Conner, charged
with violating the Dyer act, was
sentenced to one year and day at
Chilicothe,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
MERCURY HITS 81;
RECORD IS EQUALLED
Fair and Continued Warm,
Is Forecast.

A temperature of 81 at l p. m.
today equalled the record for the
hottest June q. The mark was set
in 1914 and reached again in 1881.
indianapolis quivered under the
pitiless rays of the sun as the rec
ord seemed likely to be smashed
before the afternoon ended.
Although II per cent humidity
was reported at a. m. this rate
had decreased to 81 per cent at
noon.
Fair and continued warm is pre-
dicted for tonight and tomorrow
Thunder showers which we're eX-
pected to cool Indianapolis last
night passed. over the city eastward,
leaving Indianapolis sitting with
the heat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
ROOSEVELT TO
BAR VISIT DUE
TO ROBINSON
Fears Presence in State
Might Dignity His
Fight, Is Hint.
BY JAMES DOSS
Times staff Writer

President Roosevelt is reluctant
to come to Indiana in August to
address the Indiana Democratic
Editorial Association, it is reported,
because he does not wish to dignity
Senator Arthur R. Robinson's fight
to return to the United States SEN
ate.
Plans were made some time ago
to obtain the Presidents presence
at the French Lick meeting of the
editors. The dates were set for
Aug. 3 and 4, or Aug. 10 and IL, to
suit the presidential convenience.
However, it is reported, it was
pointed out either by second think
ers among Indiana Democrats, the
President himself, or his advisors,
that to visit Indiana might be con-
strued as a tacit admission that the
party'S hopes here are not so bright
because of the hold Robinson ap-
pears to have on the state.
A Roosevelt visit here less than
ninety days before the election, it
was argued, would do more than
anything else to put over Sherman
Minton, the Democratic senate
nominee, and the entire state ticket.
However, it is an open secret that
President Roosevelt is very anxious
to have Robinson retired and for
the chief executive to come here
might be considered an admission
that the national administration
thinks Indiana is a doubtful state,
Consequently, it is regarded un-
liely that the visit will be made, SO
the editors plans for a principal
speaker are hanging fire. Senator
Alben Barley, Kentucky, who is
'some shakes" as spellbinder, APP
pears to be the most likely choice.
Colonel Edward House, who was
President Wilson's chief advisor,
is another possibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
u. S. NAVAL EXPERTS
CONFER WITH BRITISH
England's Proposal to Augment
Fleet, Is Topic.

BE United Press
LONDON, June 27.-British and
United States naval experts con-
ferred in an atmosphere OF tension
today over contemplated naval in
creases by Britain.
The meeting. held in the prime
minister's room at the house Of
commons, lasted two hours. The
American delegates entered the
room apparently somewhat per-
turbed, but emerged in a calmer
mood.
1t was assumed that the British
explanation of the naval program
was fairly reasSuring. The Amer
lean delegates then proceeded to the
United States embassy, apparently
to report to Washington
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
Weintrdut Jailed After
MupHdL Fraud Conviction

"despicable" conduct toward her be-
fore the alleged embezzlement, and
the defense denouncing her and
others of her type" vehemently.
Both George Tolen, Shelbyville,
and Clyde c. Karrer, the defendants
local counsel, made much of a trip
Miss Gentry made to Chicago with
Weintraut, when the pair were re-
ported to have registered as man
and wife at a Chicago hotel last
fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
Forced Injured FASTENERS to
Play, Trainer at |. u.
TeStifieS.

Charges that Harlan o. (PaD
Page forced Indiana university foot
ball players to remain in the game,
despite injuries, were made at the
closing session of the federal court
trial yesterday of Mr.. Pages $4,000
damage suit against the university
for alleged cancellation of mis- coach
ing contract
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
N0RMA'S LAWYER RAPS
STATES KEY WITNESS
Girls Accuser Should Be on Trial,
Counsel Shouts.

BE- JHifCd Press
DEDHAAI. Mass. June 27.-Saul
Messenger of Brooklyn, N. Y, the
governments key witness, and not
Norma Brighton Millen, should be
on trial as an alleged accessory in
the Needham bank robberies. de-
Tense counsel told the jury today in
final argument.
Norma. 19-year-old parsons daugh-
ter. sobbed and shifted smelling
salts as Attorney George A. Douglas
tried to show that the murder
accessory indictment should have
been against Messenger rather than
herself.
If the district attorney didn't
know how to indict Messenger.
could show him" Douglas shouted
as he thumped desk with his fist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
ROOSEVELT BROADCAST
SET FOR TOMORROW
President to Be Heard at $50 P. H.,
Indianapolis Time.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt
will address the radio audience at
$50 Central Standard time) to-
morrow night. This address, the
first in many months, will be free
from politics. White House attaches
said. The subject of the address
was withheld.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
HARTMAN is GIVEN
4-YEAR SENTENCE
Banker Goes to Prison for
FaISifying Records.

By United Press
NEW YORK, June 27.-Joseph w.
Hartman, former president of Har-
riman National Bank and Trust
Company, today was sentenced to a
term of four and one-half years in
federal penitentiary for falsifying
records of his bank.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
ANGRY CARD PLAYER
SHOOTS TRIO IN GAME
Partners Failure to Lead TrumpS
Causes Act; Two May Die.
BIZ Lnited PreSs

by JWEItU ITts8
GARY, Ind, June 27-Thinking
more of housework planned for to-
day than of her pinochle game, Mrs.
Theresa Markovich failed to lead
trumps through the bidder.
To John Sikora, her partner, it
was an unforgivable crime. With
out a word he drew a pistol and
shot Mrs. Markovich three times.
Then he turned and shot George
Radulovich and Michael Jurak, the
remaining players.
He was subdued by two witnesses.
Physicians said Mrs. Markovich and
Radulovich may die
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
Well Known Here

Milton C. Work, who died last
night, was well known in Indian
apolis, having visited here several
times. At one time, he wrote a Sc
ries of bridge lessons for The Times,
and on another occasion gave a Sc
ries of talks and demonstrations at
L. S. AyreS & Co. auditorium.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
KIDNAPERS NAB WRONG
VICTIM, SET HIM FREE

Chicago Tavern Owner Given Good
Food, Wine During Captivity.
By United Press
CHICAGO, June 27.-After twen-
ty hours in the hands of kidnapers,
Andrew Sciacca, wealthy apartment
and tavern owner, was home today
with story of captors who piled
him with delicate foods and wines
and set him free without payment Of
ransom.
1T was all mistake" Sciacca as
sured police. They we're looking
for somebody else"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27

Their deaths raised the auto
toll in Marion county this year
to sixty-twO.
The dead:
William George Sherman, D, Of
2I3S South New Jersey street, pas
senger in the auto killed instantly.
Miss Lena Davis, 81, of 1915 North
jefferson avenue, another passen-
ger, also killed instantly.
John Davis, %. of 1873 South
Eighth street, Beech Grove, owner
and driver OF the auto, died in city
hospital Immediately after being
admitted.
The injured man is Homer Berry,
%. Of 2243 Madison avenue, the
third passenger. who received severe
head wounds and body bruises.
All had been at the Green
Lantern. a rOsdhouse aboue one
half mile west of the city limits,
police were told by Miss Martha
Davis. 624 North New Jersey street,
z sister Of the dead girl
Wanted More TO Drink
Miss Martha Davis and a friend,
Miss Dorothy Williams, 734 North
New Jersey street. identified the
dead girls body after the crash.
They told police and DR.. j. E.
Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, that
they, too. had been at the Green
Lantern earlier in the night-the
accident occurred shortly after /
and had asked Miss Lena Davis 10
accompany them home.
She had refused. saying she want
ed more 20 drink police quote Miss
Martha Davis as telling them, and
had remained to come home with
the three men, whom she had met at
the Green Lantern.
The Davis girls were not related
TO the driver of the car.
Young Sherman's mother said she
vas sure he had not been drinking
MOtorman Not Injured
Mr.. Davis was going east on West
Washington and was almost TO
Blackford street when he suddenly
turned sharply left and drove al
most directly into the path of the
trolley. driven by Frank Neidlinger,
81. Of 929 West Thirty-firSt street.
Mr.. Neidlinger was not injured.
Mr.. Berry explained to police and
Or. Wyttenbach that his friend had
turned to enter a gas station on the
other side of Washington street.
Mr.. Davis body was thrown seven
~ feet bv the force of the impact
Miss Davis. thirty feet. Mr.. Sher-
mans body was IN the car when
police and the fire department
rescue squad arrived.
Mr.. Berry was walking. dazed
some distance east of the wreckage
which had been pushed approx
mately $50 feet by the car.
Services Arranged
Mr.. Davis. a native of County
MoneGhan. Ireland. who was
brought 10 this country at the age
OF 3, was an empIONe OF armour
& Co.
He Is survived by his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Davis, three sis
tiers Elizabeth. Mary Jane and
Catherine Davis. and three BROTH
ers. Robert. James and Edward Da-
Wis. Services are being arranged at
the W. d. BeanblOSsOm funeral par
lorS 1921 West Ray street.
Miss Davis was born in Lawrence,
Ind. and had lived here most of her
life. She is survived by her father,
Philip A. Davis. four brothers, Ev-
erett. Morris. Theodore and Thomas
Davis. and two sisters. Miss Martha
Davis and Mrs. Ramona Pomona.
All except Mrs. Pomona. a resi-
dent Of Detroit. live in indianapolis
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
JESUITS PLAN SCHOOL
IN WEST BADEN HOTEL
100 to Study Theology in Famed
HoStelry This Fall.
By United Press

By United Press
CHICAGO June 27-The Jesuit
order, the Society of Jesus, was to
take over the West Baden Qnd0
Spring hotels today, the Rev. Charles
H. Cloud, provincial of the Chicago
district, announced.
The order has acquired the hotel
holdings as a school for students Of
philosophy and theology within the
order. More than 100 students will
be assigned to West Baden this fall
with 300 ultimately being stationed
there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
TRAMM TAKES LEAD
Florida Senator Appears Winner in
Democratic Race.

TALLAHASSEE Fla. June 81
United States Senator Park Tram
nell virtually was assured today of
Democratic denomination as returns
from 1887 precincts out OF 1924
gave him 96.742 votes to e2.Ol4 for
his opponent, Claude Pepper. Talla-
haSSee attorney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
Lamont's Son Arrested

By United Press
JERSEY CITY, June 27.-Corliss
Lamont, son of Thomas w. Lamont,
partner of j. P. Morgan, was ar
rested today on a disorderly con-
duct charge while picketing fur
niture factory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
THREE LOSE LIVES AS AUTO
RAMS STREET CAR; ONE HURT
Two Men and Girl Killed in SmashUp
Following Gay Party at Roadhouse;
Pair Meets Instant Death.
CAR RUNS INTO TROLLEY HEAD-ON
Tragedy Raises Auto Accident Toll in
Marion County to SiXty-Two for
Year; All Victims in TWenties.

Returning home from gay dancing party in subur-
ban roadhouse three young Indianapolis residents rode to
swift death early today and fourth to severe injury
man and woman killed instantly when their auto
mobile crashed head-on into Stockyards trolley in front
of 734 West Washington and second received
injuries which proved fatal within few minutes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
SEYMOUR GIRL BROWNS
First Aid Fails to Revive Lake KAex
Victim.
Bu Lrited Pres

By United Press
VINCENNES, Ind, June 27.-Mlas
Pauline Fletcher, 10, Seymour, Wa
drowned in Lake Knox, west Of Oak.
town, early today while swir>SSIas
with group of friends. The booy
was recovered twenty minutes latet
but resuscitation failed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
6 PASSENGERS KILLED
IN FERRYBOAT CRASH
Rivalry Between Crews Leads TO
Tragedy in France.

By United Press
LORIENT, France, June 27-Ri-
valry between ferryboat men, which
spread to their passengers and
caused daily side bets on a race
across Lorient harbor, cost the lives
of six men in a ferryboat collision,
port authorities announced today.
Two others were missing.
The six dead were among thirteen
imprisoned between decks when the
ferry motorboat Prosperite was
sunk 100 yards from its jetty by
the ferry motorobat Marie Ange.
Six others we're injured
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-27
SERVICE ACCUSED
SEC, 100000 Generalization Charged
by Investigator.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, June 27.-Write-
ups of 6,250,0OO in properties of
three of the Cities Service Group of
utility companies operating in
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and
Nebraska we're reported to the fed
eral trade commission today by In
vestigator Robert E. Barnes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE one hundredth anniversary of the burning
a OF the British houses of parliament will be OBJ
served by mathematicans on Oct. Is. Why mathe-
matcianS Should be interested in this event is
OF the interesting stories in the history of sci
ence For here was the burning of a public build
ing brought about not by revolution, riot but
by the progress of science.
For many centuries. in England and elsewhere
the common practice of keeping numerical records
had been by means of nOtches tally sticks. This
continued TO be the method at the British treasury
long after most places had given it up. Finally it
was dropped and in 1884 parliament voted TO de-
stroy the tally sticks
Accordingly. on Oct 10. 1884 the task of burn
ing these sticks was begun IN stove in the base
ment Of the house OF lords. The stove became over
heated and by evening the famous building was "a
white hot furnace"
Soldiers and firemen fought the flames without
success. Only ancient Westminster Hall survived.
Rebuilding the houses OF parliament cost Great
Britain 100000 pounds So perhaps that is a bill
which ought to be charged against the development
of arithmetic and methods of bookkeeping.
THE burning of the British parliament serves to
Il remind of the fact that modern arithmetic
has not always been with OF course tally sticks
were hopeleSSly out Of date in 1884 and it is a sad
commentary on the way things done in politics
that these sticks were still in use in 1926 Remember
that Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Won Leibnitz
had invented the calculus the years prior TO 1890
Charles Dickens, the famous author, satarized
parliament in his address on Administrative Re
form. Official routine" he said. inclined TO those
notched sticks if they were pillars OF the Consti-
tuition"
few centuries earlier. however. arithmetic still
was IN bad way. Professor Tobius Dantzg tells the
story Of The German merchant of the fifteenth cen
fury who asked professor where TO send his son
Tor an education in mathematics. The professor re-
piled that If the wished TO learn only adding
and suoStractng. q German university would do but
II he wished him TO learn multiplying and dividing
he had better 90 TO Italy where more advanced in
structiou available
Multiplication was carried on in those DAYS by a
lengthy and involved process. a problem which can
be solved in five minutes today took three hours
then.
It IS interesting 70 note, however that in the 100
L years from 1884 10 1884 the trend has been from
counting devices 10 mental arithmetic and back
again 10 counting devices
The adding machine the slide rule, tile various
calculating machines and the automatic book
keeping machines Of one sort and another have sup
planted much Of the srithmetical work that had 10
be done formerly in the world OF business indus
try and science.
Even calculus has succumbed to the Machine
Age IS there IS a machine which viii solve prob
lens in calculus which too difficult and involved
to be attacked by mental methods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
Your Health
by DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN.

NTE like to think that men are much stronger
W than women, yet Investigations indicate that
serious diseases, involving organs that occur
in both the male and female, afflict men oftener
than they do women The cause of this inherent
weakness IN the male is difficult to explain
In the considerations that have been given to the
subject one authority said that since boys are
larger than girls at BIRTH nutrition and the birth
process are more difficult and that this might ac-
count for the greater weakness Of the male
1t might also be thought that nature makes less
provision for the safety Of the male than for the
female, realizing that the male is less important in
the natural scheme Of reproduction.
the chemical activities Of life go on more rapid
ly in the male than in the female
TAKEN altogether, the evidence is good that the
male resists disease less we'll than does the fe-
male. Some Of the factors which have been thought
Of importance are those related to indulgence in all
cohol, likelihood of exposure, and overwork.
These, however, are of small importance in COM
parlson TO the fact that the constitution of the male
is somehow inferior
More specifically, men are afflicted with trouble
IN their stomachs and intestnes much more than
are women The tendency of an ulcer is the small
intestine to perforate is twice as great in the male
in the female.
Men suffer far more frequently from cancers Of
the lip the larynx, the tongue and tonsil than do
women Men suffer more frequently from tubercu-
losis Of the lungs from pneumonia. and from all
sorts OF disturbances of the blood vessels.
IA OIAEN on the otner nand, seem TO suffer more
w than men do with valvlllar diseases of the
heart and with chronic arthritis
Women also suffer great deal more than men
with backache and this is definitely related to the
strain that is put the feminine structure by the
nature OF the build Of the body and by the problems
Of childbirth.
OF special interest is the fact that women suffer
lar more than men do from exophthalnic goiter and
from functional diseases Of the nervous system
From the point OF view Of suicide the statistics show
that four times as many commit suicide as do
women, but women make many more suicidal at =
tempts that fail.
The studies Of the distribution Of disease are
not only interesting but Of great practical value in
determining the of diseases Of various kinds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-13
They Wouldn't KnOU

HAL > where you radical fellows come in You
u have just as much right to a natural curiosity
In this matter as we have. For instance there was
a speech in Green Bay Wis. and that was all for
the ProgreSsves Of the west the La Toilette fringe
and the rest of the bOiling-poin politicians A
little while after that there came freside chat for
the industrial east, economic truce and chance
Tor the business man to go out and make a nickel
without being stopped by the cops
you say business men. particularly Wall Street
brokers', have no knowledge of economics ANYWAY
but We are not bereft of memory. We have a little
elephant blood. And all through a fireside chat
We still kept hearing the echoes of Green Bay and
Its olive wreath for all the La Follettes.
so I say again, let the President put on record
the system he intends to follow 1t be all straight
line bucks or shoe string forward passes or even
mixture of both But we don't want to see him
suddenly go Carlisle Indian us and stick the ball
up under Tugwell's shirt where none of us can
see it,"
That sounds very pretty" said the young man
across the table who had taken part in the con-
verSaton up to this point. 1t sounds very pretty
but only few months ago a man in California un-
dertook to do precisely what you are asking Upton
Sinclair drew up plan a schedule of PLAYS and
said, This Is what I'm going to do when am elected
Governor. You Wall Street boys didn't say That's
nne ana dandy Now at least We know the worst
On the contrary you all rushed to the locker room
picked Up your Clothes and said We Just won't play
ball with that fellow. We're all going home"
Copyright. 1884. by The Tines