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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
FOREST
FIRE CHECKED
Change in Weather Helps
Army of Fighters to
Control Blaze.
BIZ United Press

By United Press
PORTOLA, Cal, Aug. 21.-A forest
fire that devastated more than 5000
acres of virgin timber and brush
land and caused $25O,0O0 damage in
the Plumas national forest probab-
ly will be brought under complete
control by noon today, rangers re-
ported.
While hours of labor still re-
manned before the fire threat was
removed completely, the tired crews
were given welcome relief as the
danger to the towns Of Sloat, Twin
Rivers and Portola was averted.
The forestry service headquarters
here announced definitely that none
of the 1900 men pressed into serv-
ice was missing. Reports that two
crews had been trapped were con-
tradicted when radio communica-
ton was established with the fire
lines.
Many OF the fre-f1ghters received
burns and other minor injuries. but
none was hurt so seriously as to be
confined to a hospital, the officials
said.
Several hundred CCC workers
were returned to their camps, TO
stand by for emergency call should
the fire, now confined to a single
small area near here, break out
anew. Ranchers went back to their
neglected crops and stock and itin-
Grants, taken from trains passing
through the area, were permitted to
go on their way.
The 1re-f1ghters won their battle
last night when the weather came to
their assistance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
HIGH BOND IS SET
FOR SOLDIER TRIO
Suspect and Pals
Face Grand Jury.

Melvin Blanton, %, Camden, o.,
whose escape from Governors is
land, New York military prison, last
month, is alleged to have led to a
series of robberies and holdups in
the midwest, was held to the grand
jury under $4,000 bond today by
Municipal Judge William Sheafer.
Blanton's alleged accomplices,
Charles Hamilton, Middletown, o.,
and Theodore Hubert, st. Paul.
Mimi, were held TO the grand jury
under similar bond. The three are
charged with auto banditry and rob-
berry. All three are fugitives from
army camps.
Blanton was freed from prison by
a civilian, said to be Hubert, with
the aid of a revolver and a rowboat.
The three men were arrested here
for a minor traffic violation, but
later we're recognized by detectives
in the police lineup.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Fred Kruger, Big Drug Man, Grabs
Lead in BrOWn Derby From DR.. Smith

flocked to put the "SteinbergerianS'
In the foreground.
Pulling a Cavalcade came jim
Clark, director of the American Red
Gross life savers at city swimming
pools, to grab off sixth place.
Jim'S gang did everything but
pull a Jesse James in order to
garner the votes.
Travelling fast in seventh position
was Clarence I. Baker, furniture
man, while Walter Pritchard. G. o.
P. mayor candidate, Sid Easley,
State Life Insurance building cigar
man, and George Ritter of the Ma
tional Biscuit Company, whipped up
to care for the other positions in
the first ten.
Remember today's ballot counts
but ONE vote and must be in The
Times office by 4 p. m. Thursday.
All undated coupons, counting
FIVE votes, are in the above
standings.
Contestants below 5000 ballots by
Saturday at 4 p. m. will be bounced
out o. the race.
Wro is the city's most dis
tinguished citizen?"
Vote on Page 3 and give us the
answer!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
ROOSEVELT TO PAY
TRIBUTE TO RAINEY
President to Attend Rites
for Speaker.
BIZ Tnite6 Press

by CntbeU PfeSS
CARROLLTON, Ill, Aug. 21.-
President Roosevelt will lead a dis
tinguiShed group of national and
state mourners at the funeral of
Speaker Henry T. Rainey of the
house of representatives, to be held
at Walnut Hill" his country estate
near here, late tomorrow afternoon.
Episcopal funeral services will be
conducted at the late Speakers
home after the body has laid in
state for several hours in the ro-
tunda of Greene county courthouse.
TO which it will be borne earlier in
the day from st. Louis, Mo-, where
he died suddenly of heart disease
Sunday night.
The Presidents special train will
arrive here via st. Louis, Mo, prob
ably about $3.50 p. m. Wednesday.
Immediately following the serv-
ices. the President will return east.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Daring Brooklyn Holdup Executed With
Military Precision; Bandits Miss
100000 in Hasty Retreat.
GUN MOUNTED ON CART
Desperate Posing as Junk Dealer Gives
Signal to Start Pay Roll Holdup;
Outlaws Elude Police.
By United Press

by LNVfU FTtSS
NEW YORK, Aug. 21-A gang of perhaps ten robbers
down on an armored truck three blocks from a divisional
police headquarters in Brooklyn today, pointed machine guns
and pistols at guards, and escaped with a cash sum which
police estimated at S427, 900.
1t was one of the bOldest and most sensational holdups
in the New York area in recent years.
The raid on the armored car was as cleverly planned and
executed as a military maneuVer. A machine gun was con-
cealed on a push cart in the street. The bandits carefully
their purpose until the signal was given for the
raid. Then they struck quickly and fled.
The armored truck pursued them, firing its own machine
gun, but they escaped. All radio cars in Brooklyn were called
in on the pursuit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
BATTERED LINER
REACHES PORT
Ship Survives Gale That
Injured 80, Killed One
of Crew.
By United Press

By United Press
GLASGOW, Aug. 21.-The Anchor
liner %Cameronia, her decks battered,
her furniture splintered and thirty
of her passengers suffering from in
iurieS after being hurled across her
cabins by SiXty-foot waves, arrived
today from New York to report the
loss of one life.
A seaman on duty on the storm
torn deck was washed overheard
during the Seventy-mile gale and
carried to death.
Meanwhile, below decks where, in
cluded in a heavy passenger list,
were members of the Pennsylvania
State college soccer team, scenes APP
preaching panic were reported.
1T seemed like the tail-end of a
cyclone" said William Ritch of San
Francisco. Mr.. Ritch had been
thrown across the dining salon by a
sudden lurch of the liner and re-
ceived a double arm fracture and in
juries to his ribs.
The full force of the gale struck
the Cameronia while the passengers
were at dinner Friday night.
Chairs and tables in the DINING
room we're smashed to matchwood,"
Mr.. Ritch related. Il was stunned
when the ship, heeling over, threw
into a pile of s%plintered furni-
ture. All around me there was
something approaching panic.
Women were screaming, and it
seemed hours before the ship righted
itself, although the worst of it was
actually over in five minutes. The
ship continued to roll amazingly,
and passengers were picked up from
beneath sofas, under tables, chairs
and smashed c~rockery."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
RELIGIOUS DIRECTOR
TAKES NEW POSITION
II. L. Pickerill Assigned to Duty at
Michigan L.

H. L. Pickerill, Indiana and
Michigan Disciples of Christ, re-
hgious education director, with
headquarters at the United Chris
tan Missionary Society. Irvington.
Will so TO Michigan Sept. l to be-
come full-time director of religious
education in Michigan and director
of student work for the Disciples of
Christ at the University of Michi-
gan. Ann Arbor.
Mr.. Pickerill will be succeeded by
John w. Harms, who has been en-
gagged in church work the last three
years in New York. Mr.. Harms
work will be limited TO Indiana and
he will direct educational activities
OF the Disciples of Christ in this
state as well as direct summer con
ferences and leadership training
schools for churches.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
MERCURY ON RISE
AFTER COOL SPELL
Readings Are Still Under
Normal, However.

The temperature today was climb
ing slowly from the cool 55.4 degrees
registered at 3:45 a. m. brought by
cool areas in the high pressure field
now lowering around Indianapolis.
For the first time in weeks, local
persons gladly piled blankets on
their beds. The temperature at $50
today, COS degrees, was 6 degrees
below the average.
The weather is a sudden reversal
Of the burning weather which has
gripped the midwest during this
month and July. The official weather
bureau forecast for today and to-
morrow is for occasional showers
and slightly warmer temperatures.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
ALF0NS0'S DAUGHTER
MAY ENTER NUNNERY
Infanta Grief Stricken Since Death
of Brother.
Copyright. 1884,. BY United Press,


PARIS, Aug. 21.-The Infanta
Beatrice. 25-year-old daughter Of
the ex-king Of Spain, may cover her
blond hair beneath the black veil Of
a nun and forever bar her blue eyes
from the world in sorrow because
Of the death of her brother, the In
fante Gonzalo, the United Press
learned today.
From a member Of a family close
to Alfonso it was learned that the
tragedy of her brothers death has
deeply affected her. Gonzalo vas
killed while riding in an automobile
which she was driving and bled to
death before his injuries could be
treated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
IN CASH IS STOLEN IN
10-MAN RAID ON ARM0RED CAR
TINY SPIDER SCORES
TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT
OVER GARTER SNAKE
BIZ Lnifed PfeSs

By CHlte0 PffSS
BALTIMORE, Aug. ala tiny
spiders cunning and patience tri-
umphed over a garter snake today,
ending a 120-hour battle between
the unevenly matched foes.
Spinning a web around its NOR
tai enemy, the spider STAYED off
death for four days before the
tide of battle turned. The snake,
writhing and twisting to free it.
self from the gossamer web, was
so weak on the fifth day that the
society for the prevention of ami
mails interviewed.
The snake was killed and the
spider credited with a technical
knockout.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21

Not to be denied, Golfer" Dave
Mitchell. with a flock of mail ballots
from South Grove and points bun
kerward. was at the saddle girth
of DR.. Smith.
And did the grocer boys deliver
today as the last undated ballot was
counted Just "glim" Fred w.
Steinsberger's fifth place total and
you'll see the president of the In
dianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers
Association can pitch ballots like he
losses bananas on a scale. Custom
ers Of the independent retail grocers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
City Man Is Elected
By United Press

DU thtAtW f't"
CINCINNATI, aug. 21-An Ohio
valley chapter Of the Club Man
ayers Association Of America, to in
clude Louisville. Indianapolis, Gin
cinnati and other nearby cities, was
formed here today. Fred H. Craw-
ford, Louisville. was elected presi-
dent, and A. E. Martin, indianapolis,
vice=HreSident.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Boys School Head to Talk

DR.. E. NJ. Dill, Indiana Boys
school superintendent, Plainfield.
will discuss Our Delinquent Boys
before the Young Mems Discussion
Club in the Young Mems Christian
Association at $40 tomorrow. An
open forum will follow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
FINANCE HOUSES HERE
GET HOME LOAN 0. K.
Six Institutions in City Win U. S
Approval.
By Times Special

ny 1 tMtS Sp6Ct0C
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21-Six In
dianapolis financial houses were &C
cepted today for insurance under
the federal housing program. They
were: Bankers Trust Company,
Better Homes Savings and Loan As
ISOLATION, Fletcher Trust. Company,
Morris Plan Company, Indiana Ma
tional bank of Indianapolis and the
Union Trust Company of Indian
apolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
BACK IN HOLLYWOOD,
FAIRBANKS RETICENT
Parties Questions Concerning Re-
Cancellation With Mary.

ny CHtttN fFtsb
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 21.-Douglas
Fairbanks, estranged globe-trotting
husband of Mary Pickford, returned
to Hollywood today after an abb
scence of more than fourteen
months. He refused 10 say a word
regarding a rumored reconciliation
with the actress.
Sartorially perfect, Fairbanks
leaped from the steps Of his private
car and got the jump on greeting
newsmen by exclaiming:
Il know what you are going TO
ask me and ! won't say a word
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21

Police sent out numerous
alarms for the bandit gang,
which fled in two or three
black sedans.
All bridges. main roads, ferries
and train terminals were guarded.
The holdup apparently hinged on
one bandit disguised as a junkman.
A few minutes before the money
truck, owned by the United States
Trucking Corporation, arrived be-
fore the Rubel Ice Corporation
plant, the fake junkman appeared
at the scene.
Slowly, he pushed his rickety cart
along the curb, but without calling
his wares. A piece of cloth covered
the carts contents.
In front of the ice plant he
stopped to rest, wiping the sweat
from his forehead. Aimlessly, sew
eral other men who appeared to be
lettering along the street APP
preached the cart.
Missed 100000 More
The money truck guards, John
Wilson and William Lillienthal, left
their machine, with John Allen,
driver, at the wheel, and entered
the plant to deliver a pay roll. The
truck carried about 100000 at the
time, but the bandits missed APP
proximately 100000 in their haste.
AS the guards reappeared, the
bandit leader apparently gave a
signal.
The men near the push cart
sprang into action, whipped back
the cloth over the cart and exposed
a machine gun. Its blunt, glisten-
ing nose swung around toward the
guards.
Two other men standing nearby
leaped upon the guards and dis
armed them.
Still another pair of bandits
pointed pistols at the driver of the
truck.
Loot Pay Roll Cash
Directed by curt commands backed
up by the machine gun and pistols,
the guards were hustled into their
own truck.
The bandits forced them to hand
over the case in the truck-except
for the sum which they overlooked
and then ran from the truck to
their own automobiles parked near
by.
Most of the money was in small
canvas bags. Allen quickly swung
the truck around in pursuit Of the
raiders. The bandit machine gun
was fired repeatedly at the fleeing
outlaw cars.
The truck had been delivering and
collecting pay rolls. Part of the
money it carried represented cash
collected from branch banks and
business houses in Brooklyn. 1t was
to be taken to Manhattan for de-
post.
The bandits apparently had knowl-
edge of the movements Of the truck
and knew about the hour it would
appear at the ice plant.
There was wild confusion at the
scene of the holdup and witnesses
disagreed as TO the number Of BAN
dts. Most persons, however, said
there were ten or twelve.
Wore Butchers Aprons
One 0. the bandits was inside the
ice plant. After the guards came
out, he ripped a pay telephone of
the wall and drew his pistol, follow
ing the guards outside.
In addition to the men around
the push cart, some of the bandits
we're across the street watching a
tennis game. When the signal was
given, they drew pistols and ran
across the street to the amazement
of the tennis players.
Police said that several Of the
bandits wore white butchers aprons.
In all, three machine guns were
used by the bandits, who took two
of the weapons with them when
they fed.
Police said two Of the bandits,
about Is or % years old, were blond.
Another one, about 80, vas dark
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Prison Abuses Probed
81 Hifcd Press

ATLANTA. Ca. Aug. PA spe-
cisl committee OF the city council
was appointed today 10 investigate
charges that q sweat box" was
being used 10 punish women prison.
erS 81 the city dairy farm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
SENATOR WEISS HEADS
BUREAU FOR SPEAKERS
County Headquarters to Be Opened
in State Life Building,

State Senator Jacob Weiss has
been appointed chairman of Mar
ion County Democratic committees
speakers bureau. it was announced
today. Senator Weiss will establish
headquarters for the bureau in the
State Life building.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
RESERVE POST FILLED
AdOlph Miller ReappOinted to
Twelve Year Term.
By UHited Press

BU JNItfd TfeSS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today reappointed
Adolph c. Miller, for a term of
twelve years, as a member of the
federal reserve board. Mr.. Miller was
reappointed from the Fifth federal
reserve district, having given up his
residence in California.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
THE STANDINGS

Added Starters with over LEGO ballots
and less han 2.1S0 follow: Frank ".
Quinn. barry Gold, Elias W. Dulberger.
Russell f. Gift, Jim Custard. Henry
Ostrom and Jess Mcclure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21

NJ NNlfh fffAN
BADEN-BADEN. Germany. Aug.
2l.-Dr. Karl Won Eisendecher. 90,
German minister 10 Washington
from 1875 to 1884, died today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Report From Manila Concerning Supposedly Tilted Sutton
Adds to Complications Involving Young
Pittsburgh HeireSS.
BuTHitcd Press

MANILA, F. l. AUG. 21-The entanglements created by the elopement
of l7-year-old CoIeta MurWhil in Pittsburgh, Pa became more in
voved today when it "a learned that Sidriano Paroles, her Manila
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Airport Funds Dropped

In addition 10 these reductions.
the city made no appropriation for
the operation Of the Municipal air
port IN 1885. which amounted to
$1,000 for 1884. The maintenance
cost for the airport will be met by
balances in the 1884 fund and an
ticipated revenues for 1895. 1t was
explained.
Increases in the budget are: Sink
ing fund. Sl0.l75; street improve
ments. sN.e40: mayors Office. $500:
Gamewell department. see25; health
department. sl02l7. and sanitary
department. S9.565.
Most OF the increases are due to
tho rise in the cost OF food and
supplies.
The personnel Of city departments
will remain about the same for 1885,
with no important changes sched-
uled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
Court Test Welcomed

Spokesman for the dairy have de-
clared repeatedly that they would
welcome a court test, protesting that
the AAA has no jurisdiction over
what they describe as the purely
interstate business of their COM
pany.
The suit is the first of its kind in
Indiana.
Federal courts have differed in
their rulings on similar cases in
various parts of the country and
there has been no final interpreta-
ton of the agricultural act by the
supreme court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-21
US. DEMANDS
INJUNCTION IN
DAIRY DISPUTE
AAA Suit Is Filed Here
Against Greenwood
Farms Firm.

The United States government to-
day moved in federal court to crush
the resistance shown here to its
agricultural adjustment administra-
ton by asking for an order which
would end all activities of the
Greenwood Dairy Farms unless that
organization came again under AAA
license.
The suit, filed more than three
weeks after AAA Officials revoked
the Greenwood license for failure
to pay the required fee for support
of the local administrator, is signed
by Val Nolan, United States dis
trict attorney here, and by Agri-
culture Secretary Henry A. Wallace.
That the papers had been ap-
proved in Washington before the
litigation was initiated here was
shown in the Washington notary's
seal attesting the validity of Secre-
tary Wallace's signature.
Injunction Sought
The government seeks an imme-
date temporary injunction as we'll
as a permanent prohibition and
Judge Robert c. Baltzell immediate
ly set $50 a. m. Monday as time
for a hearing on the temporary in
junction plea.
The suit asks that the Greenwood
organization be restrained from
handling, marketing. selling or
otherwise distributing" milk in the
Indianapolis area without a license.
1t makes no mention of the AAA's
right under the act creating it to
assess a fine of 81 900 for each
day of unlicensed operation.
The government explains that the
suit is brought in a court of equity
because sufficient remedies do not
exist in statutory law and claims
that continued unlicensed opera
ton would disorganize the entire
Indianapolis area dairy business
and set a bad precedent to the
country at large.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-18
WOULD DISARM GOOD CITIZENS

Two of the worst offenders in Congress
when it comes to proposing rotten leglsla-
ton are the Senators from New York,
Copeland and Wagner. In the case under
consideration, however Senator Copeland
is aided and abetted by Senators Vanden-
burg and Murphy and the bill is known as
Senate Bill No. 225S. The bill is supposed
to be aimed at criminals and, if enacted
into law, is supposed to make it more dit
ficult for gangsters and other classes OF
law-breakerS to arm themselves with ma
chine guns and other weapons.
The Times-News has not seen copy OF
the bill, but it has been written about and
discussed in the newspapers; and the at
tention of this newspaper has been called
to special article in the magazine, Field
and Stream, protesting against the enact
ment of the law. 1t is not probable that a
publication of this character would make
unqualified statements in criticism of this
bill without having the facts at hand to
prove them. Here are some of the state
ments appearing in Field and Stream:
me COPSIdHu OAd, IL PaSoCo', VIII AAe'1NN
it practically impossible for citizen to
obtain any kind of shotgun shell.
If this bill is passed it will make it prac-
tically impossible to obtain cartridges for
a rifle.
Under this bill good citizen may DC
arrested and punished for possessing am
munition which, without his knowledge
has been shipped and sold in violation Ct
the law. an 80
This bill would practically disarm the
law-abiding citizen and would not In any
way make 1T more difficult for criminals te
arm themselves, and would not reduce
crime. "'.
This is what Field and Stream reports
about the Copeland Bill, after exhaustive
examination. .,I p.
Every good citizen of the country stands
for the suppression of crime and crimi-
nails and believes that drastic steps should
be taken to deprive criminals of facilities
for arming with machine guns and other
high-powered artillery; but is is clearly an
extremely unwise policy to enact law
which will make it impossible for sports
men to buy ammunition for their guns and
will have the effect of disarming all law
abiding citizens, and at the Same time will
fail to accomplish the purpose for which it
is enacted.