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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25
Hosiery Strike Settlement Is Hailed
as UndicatiOn for COmpnnu Union

ArniStice in the labor troubles at
the Real Silk hosiery mills today
was hailed by the head of the En-
ployes Mutual Benefit Association
as vindication of the companys
attitude throughout the seven weeks
strike.
While hundreds of strikers gath
cred at union headquarters, 1863
West Ninth street to register for
group unemployment, following a
2-to-1 vote by strikers last night to
settle the strike, Charles E. Leeke.
president of the company union,
issued statement.
I'm glad the strike is ended"
said Mr.. Leeke 1T is too bad it oc-
CURED, because it was a loss to all
workers and there was no real ex-
cuse for the strike. The national
labor board completely upheld the
position of our E. M. B. A.
THE agreement signed speaks for
itself, but the government certainly
backed up the E. M. B. A. from be-
ginning to end.
I'm the settlement of this strike
those who return will be put to
work, but since there is not enough
work for all, the work will be
shared by those now coming back,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25
ILL YACHTSMAN
OPERATED UPON
Navy Destroyer Is Speeding
Robinson to Hospital in
Canal Zone.
By United Press

By United Press
BALBOA, C. T., May 25.-The de-
stroyer Hale started its dash to the
Canal Zone from the Galapagos
islands at 7:30 a. m. today, bearing
william A. Robinson, American
explorer, who is in a critical condi-
ton after an emergency appendicitis
operation.
Despite the desperate nature OF
his illness, the navy surgeons who
flew to his rescue nearly 1000 miles
out in the Pacific reported by
wireless that Mr.. Robinson's condi-
ton was favorable.
They held out hope that he would
survive until he is taken to the
Gorgas hospital at Ancon. The slim
destroyer was going at high speed
Half way it will be met by the
Buchanan, faster destroyer, ano
Mr.. Robinson may be transferred tt
it if it seems advisable.
Mr. Robinson's. young bride, g
former Red Gross nurse, was with
her husband on the Hale anc
helping take care of him. Mr. Rob-
inson is expected to reach Ancor
about Sunday midnight.
Mr.. Robinson underwent an emer-
gency operation last night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25
DHLINGER GUNNER
STAY 2 OFFICERS
AT EAST CHICAGO
Policemen Are Moved Down by Outlaws
Machine Gun Barrage Without
Even Slightest Warning.
NORTHERN INDIANA is UP IN ARMS
Brutal Killings Bear All Earmarks Of Hoosler
Desperados Ruthlessness, Say
Upstate Officers.

United
EAST CHICAGO, Ind, May 25.-New murders-the
Shaving of two pocemen-were charged today against John
Dllinger
Frenzed hundreds of police and federal agents, con-
WINGED the ruthless outlaw the vicinity spread over
highways seeking vengeance and flnal showdown with
the man who has defied the law for months.
Last nights murder police said bore all of the Dnger
earnarks In cold booded ruthessness.
The East Chicago patrolmen were moved down by a
scvhe of machine gun bullets without the slightest warning
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in the 1926 race but became i'll .
few days before qualifying, and
Frank Lockhart drove the mount for
him and won.
In 1927, Kreis drove a Cooper
Special He drove a front drive
Detroit Special in the 1929 race. He
did not enter the 1881 classic. Driv-
ing a Studebaker Special in the
1882 race, Kreis failed to finish.
Last year the southern race driv-
err piloted the car in which Billy
Arnold won the race in 1880. The
car was wrecked, in 1882, by Arnold.
Fred Frame bought the car,
Kreis was known on the track for
his partially to front-drive cars.
Last year Kreis qualified at 114.370
miles an hour, and started in third
place in the fourth row. His car
numbered 2, i'll the 1888 classic, wag
Frame Miller Special. Kreis
abandoned the 1888 race at the six
ty-second lap because of engine
trouble.
Officials still were at loss early
this afternoon TO determine trle
cause of the tragic crash. The track
was in excellent condition, yester-
days rain washing most of the
grease from the bricks. There were
no puddles on the track and the
bricks appeared to be dry.
It is believed mechanical trouble
led to the wreck. Kreis was known
as an excellent, careful driver. Some
witnesses said the steering knuckle
appeared to have been broken. 1t
was reported that the steering or
tie rod on the right front appeared
to drop loose as the car shot to the
wall
Hahn, curly-haired little Cali
fornian, was one of the most popu-
lar youths around gasoline alley. He
was about "a years old, and came
here with the car three weeks ago.
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The deadly fire almost
knitted their bodies in two.
Patrolmen Martin O'Brien
and Floyd Mulvihill had pur-
sued an automobile out OF
East Chicago toward Gary.
The car slowed down while pass
ing through a dark, lonely section
AS the policemen came alongside
the deadly machine gun blazed from
the car
The police died with their guns
still holstered. Apparently they did
not even see the machine gun, which
spurted bullets from the. bandit car.
Almost in the same spot, just five
months ago, Patrolman William P.
O'Malley was killed by Dillinger in
a hold up of the East Chicago First
National bank. Dillinger was await
ing trial for that murder when he
''toy-gunned" his way out of the
Grown Point jail.
MuIvihiIl Star Witness
Mulvihill was the witness ex-
pected to send Dillinger to the
electric chair for the murder of
O'Malley. Father of six children,
Mulvihill was within few inches
of O'Malley when he was machine
gunned, and had positively identi-
fed Dillinger as the slayer.
O'Brien, father of three children,
and Mulvihill. police force veteran,
were especially assigned to watch
the Gary highway for suspicious
looking automobiles-specifcally that
of Dillinger.
For more than a week federal
agents and police of Indiana and
Illinois had concentrated a search
for the hunted outlaw in this region.
Every grapevine report from the
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Armed with machine guns,
sawed-off Shotguns and protected by
bullet-proof vests, the police eXpe-
dictionary force refused to confirm
the report that they had been chas-
ing John Dillinger. They left In
dianapolis at midnight.
The local police were led by de-
tachment of federal agents from
Cincinnati. 1t is known that the
department of justice men were
working on hot tip" that
Dillinger was eighteen miles south
of Greensburg. Ind. A car purported
to be driven by Dillinger gangsters
and bearing Ohio license plates was
reported seen in Indianapolis yes
terday.
The raid, it was learned, was
made on a tourist camp southeast
of Greensburg. Dillinger, it was
learned. has been in Ohio recently
Police followed a dozen fruitless
LEADS" yesterday as Dillinger gang
sters we're reported at least half
dozen times in various parts of the
city.
Detectives and uniformed police
secured the northern section of the
city late yesterday following a COLI
sion between car thought to have
been driven by Dillinger gangsters
and a car driven by George R.
Kantz, 242 Parkview avenue, at Col
1ege avenue and Seventeenth street
Later in the day a woman who re-
fused to give her name called police
headquarters and reported that she
had seen two cars pull out of a
driveway on Walnut near Pennsyl-
vania street. The informant told
police that a man transferred two
packages containing what she be-
lieved to be machine guns from one
car to the other.
Check of the license plates on one
of the cars, Ind. 22-642, was said by
police to have been stolen from A.
G. EfroymSon, 1857 North PennSyl-
vania street.
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PETE KREIS, BOB HAHN
ARE KILLED IN CRASH
OVER SPEEDWAY WALL
Racing Machine Plunges Off Track on South
Turn, Bringing Death to Pair of
Speeders Almost Instantly.
AUTO is COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED
by Impact; Driver Dead When
Officials Reach His Side

Death rode the treacherous southwest at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway today snufng out the lives of
two casting pail of gloom preparations for
the annual 500-me classic next Wednesday.
Those killed Pete Kres, So, famous racing pilot
and his riding mechanic Bob Hahn, of Chino, Cal
They died almost instantly when their went over the
retaining wall and cut in two when hurtled against
tree the back yard of j. W. Stephenson speedway care
taker. =
Kres driving eght-cyhnder MllerHartz special
owned by Harry Harz He had been the track only about
ten test Spectators said he made his first
lap at about 100 miles hour and going about 80 miles
hour when he appeared to lose control of the racing
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Price OF Progress

His voice husky with emotion.
Colonel Rickenbacker, indianapolis
Motor Speedway president, today
paid tribute to Pete Kries, famous
racer, and Beb Hahn, his mechanic.
who we're killed at the Speedway
today.
Colonl Rickenbacker, himself a
former race driver and America s
Ace of Aces in the World war,
spoke at the Indiana Bankers AS
ISOLATION convention in the Clay
pool, substituting for Edward A.
Hayes. American Legion national
commander.
There's price we pay for prog
ress. Everything isn't rosy for one
in charge of the Speedway" he said.
1--WE paid price today. We had
a most unfortunate accident this
morning. But it seems it must be.
We're doing all we can to make
those fellows safe-the men who'll
chance any danger for the sake Of
progress
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There was no immediate retaliation
with gas bombs, however, and guards
stoically patrolled the debrls-cov-
cred streets, bayonetS fixed.
Quiet ruled over most of the mill
tary zone about the plant today, IN
contrast to the deafening din that
swelled over the area yesterday
when thousands of riosers fought
troops in a series of battles that
left two civilians dead from bullets
and two score injured.
Hope for settlement, resulting
from the workers demands for
union recognition and higher wages,
was increased when Adjutant- Gen
eral Frank D. Henderson arrived to
hold conference between leaders
of both sides and Toledo business
men.
A strategy board of four took
over direction of strike mediation
today. These were Charles P. Taft,
Cincinnati, son of the former Presi-
dent, sent here by Frances Perkins,
labor secretary; Ralph Lind and
Ansel Cleary, Cleveland NRA and
labor chiefs, and e. H. Dunnigan,
labor department conciliator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-25
STRIKE RIOTS SPUR
WAGNER BILL VOTE
Senate May Get Labor Bill
Before NightfaII.
BIZ United Press

81 CHted Press
WAS HING TON, May 25. -
Aroused by strike riots, the senate
labor committee went into executive
session today determined to place on
the senate calendar before nightfall
the Wagner labor disputes bill, a
measure aimed at settling labor
troubles by arbitration.
The committee expected to report
the bill favorably in a few hours.
Only word from the White House
was needed to speed the bill through
congress.
President Roosevelt has been rep
resented as wanting the measure
passed this session. Should efforts
in arbitrating some of the strikes at
Toledo, San Francisco and Mime
apolis fail to bring settlement, it
appeared the word to speed the bill
would be sent to Capitol hill.
None of the committee would adj
NIT he was under pressure from
the White House, but it was appar-
ent that speedy action would be
forthcoming.
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THE great trouble is that our
money and our bank deposits are
not moving" he said.
Business confidence is low be-
cause of the extremely radical legis-
lation we have been having in
Washington for some time. 1t
creates a widespread fear among
business men of further radical leg
islation."
Attacking the Initiation virus he
termed the President as the doc
tor" and said HE does not seem
to understand the slowly working
nature of this initiation virus
Imitation may help the debtor
classes he continued, but it hurts
the creditor classes. The principal
creditors in the United States are
not the bloated bondholders but our
great insurance companies, savings
banks, colleges and welfare institu-
tions.
Suggests Remedies
I'm the absence of a great war
Or world economic recovery, the best
hope of avoiding another breakdown
of our currency and consequent
serious imitation is to be found in
vigorous, old-fashioned measures"
The measures he cited were a
balanced budget, end of guaranteed
bank deposits, tariff reduction; with
drawal of government from compe-
tition with private enterprise and
restoration Of the federal reserve
system.
DR.. Kemmerer was introduced by
John T. Beasley. Terre Haute. presi-
dent of the Indiana Sound Money
committee of the bankers associa-
ton.
C. B. AFFORD, editor of the Amer
lean Banker, also attacked the
present administration of banking
under President Roosevelt.
Market Bill Assailed
He termed the federal deposit in
surance corporation and the stock
exchange control bill as "cure-alls."
Our greatest problem of tomor-
row will be avoiding the illusion
that they are all we need, and that
confidence needs no dash of sus-
picion to keep things sound"
He pointed out trends toward
Communism in attempting to solve
our modern problem of recovery.
Shortly before his address the
administration was defended in it's
guarantee of bank deposits by H.
N. Stronck, Washington, D. c., as
sistant to the director of the fed
eraI deposit insurance corporation.
Officers to Be Named
This afternoon the bankers ses-
sion divided into two groups with
the state police radio and bandit
control, in addition to the bankers
code, occupying one group, while
mortgages formed the highlight of
discussion of the federal agencies
and bank representatives.
Officers of the state association
were to be elected at the closing
joint session this afternoon.
A sports night" will be held to-
night at the Antlers This after
noon women attending the conven-
ton were taken to the Indianapolis
Speedway.
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SHOW is CONTINUED

Because of the tremendous
interest displayed by Indianap-
oils housewives, The Times
electric refrigeration show will
be held over for two more adj
ditional days, tomorrow and
Sunday. The display room will
be open daily from 2::30 to $50
at 1925 North Meridian street.
Patricia Cook, expert on
frozen desserts, will continue
her preparations and demon
STATIONS. Serving will be a
featured part of the program.
Louise Purcell Schilling's juve-
niles, who have attracted con-
siderable attention, will enter
tain with floor show attrac-.
tons.
See the beautiful displays
before it is too late either visit
the exhibit tonight or tonnor-
row or Sunday.
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Savings bank in a suburb.
One of the wounded bandits was
in q critical condition.
A third member of the gang, run
ming into barrage of bullets as
he fled from the bank, crumpled on
the sidewalk and was carried to the
car in which the outlaws made their
escape.
Five men and a woman we're in
the car, a small black sedan, which
drew up to the bank shortly after
opening time.
The slain bandit, who had an
nounced to the four employees in the
bank that this is a stick-up," fell
with several bullets in his body
when a bank guard, permanently
stationed in a steel booth above the
cashiers cages, opened fire.
In the steel booth was Jacob De
Young, whose son was killed Feb. 10
when a bandit gang attempted to
hold up the bank in similar
manner.
Guard Fires Again
After killing the first bandit De
Young fired again, dropping another
of the gang.
The bandits, frantic in their eff
forts to get out of range of De
Youngs gun, ran to the street
where they were met by more fire
from two vigllantes concealed be-
hind telephone poles and nearby
buildings.
The third bandit, carrying a
sawed-off shotgun, fell to the
ground clutching at his abdomen.
One of his companions, disregard
ing the bullets flying at him from
two sides, stopped and tossed his
wounded companion over his Shout
der and carried him to the waiting
sedan.
The bandit lying near death ir
hospital was described as about
3d. One bullet entered his eight
hip and came out in the center Of
his back. Another shattered his
elbow
Raid Follows Murder
The raid on the South Holland
bank closely followed the murder
of two police officers at East Chi
cago, Ind, last night. The two
communities are less than twenty
miles apart.
Shortly after the frustrated hold
up the black sedan was sighted at
One hundred fifteenth and Halsteo
streets speeding into Chicago, po-
lice said.
Although Dillinger was believed
to have slain the two police officers
at East Chicago, authorities secuted
a report that he might have driven
to the Chicago suburbs for another
daring foray.
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underworld confirmed a belief that
the Indiana killer had returned to
his native haunts and committed
regularly between Chicago and a
half dozen Indiana cities.
O'Brien and MuIvihill were par
ticularly watchful last night. They
had received a report that an In
dianapolis motorist had reported
that one of four occupants of car
with which his automobile collided
reSembled the most wanted man in
America.
Police all over America were
quickly alert.
Just before midnight Mulvihill
and O'Brien, both of whom knew
Dillinger and most of his gangsters
by sight, roared out of East Chicago
behind a suspicious looking car.
At a desolate spot two miles south
the fleeing car slowed to halt. The
machine gun roared.
Chopped With AK"
An employ of the city water
works, half block distant, was first
to reach the spot.
"O'Brien and Mulvihill looked like
they had been knocked off their feet
and chopped with an ak. They were
almost cut in two by bullets, he
said
Neither even had his gun out OF
his holster. They had just stepped
from their car and probably weren't
close enough to the other car to see
into it.
THE other car was gone"
Police of Chicago, Gary, Ham
mond, South Bend and a score OF
other cities were warned by radio
and teletype to watch for the
killers car less than five minutes
after O'Brien and Mulvihill dropped
to the pavement.
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on the southwest curve.
The front wheels of the
front-drive car shimmied,
Kreis appeared to regain con-
troll, but skidded higher and
higher on the apron, until his
wheels grazed the outside con-
crete retaining wall.
Checkup by A. A. A. officials re-
vealed that the car grazed the wall
about thirty feet, the concrete be-
ing scraped for that distance.
Then che car climbed the wall and
skidded along on top of it about
seventy-five yards, shearing off
wire fencing and posts.
At this point. halfway between
the southwest and southeast curves,
the car left the wall, hurtled down
the f1fteerl-foot incline. turning over
completely twice, careened on past
one tree about fifty feet, and
smashed broadside against another
tree.
Car Sheared in Two
The car was sheared in two, the
seats and rear wheels being pinned
against the tree, and the motor and
front wheels hurting on about
thirty feet. The motor continued to
roar until the gasoline in the car
buretor was exhausted. The car hit
the rec at the drivers seat
Kreis, who was thrown clear of
the wreckage a few feet, was dead
when the first rescuers arrived, ap-
parently having died almost in
staTtly.
Hahn's body was wedged between
the tree and the left rear wheel.
He still was alive when picked up,
but died minute or two later.
Both bodies were terribly man
gled. The car was completely de-
moliShed.
Stapp Goes Into Spin
Shortly after Pete Kreis and
Hahn were killed, Ebert (Babe)
Stapp, Los Angeles driver, and his
riding mechanic, spun around three
times on the track, a few feet from
the spot where Kreis was killed, but
both escaped unhurt.
The right front axle of Stapp's
Dunning Special was broken in the
spin. Stapp's car is powered by a
semi-stock De Soto motor, and is
the only six-cylinder car entered i'll
the 1884 classic.
The car driven by Stapp today
was put out of last years race when
steering knuckle broke during the
qualifying trials.
Kreis was unmarried and was in
the contracting business in Knox
vile, Tenn, with his father and
brother. The family firm special
lied in levee and railroad building.
The driver first appeared at Indi-
annapolis Speedway in 1925, when he
raced a Duesenburg into eighth
place. He entered a new Miller car
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3 DIE AS HUGE BUS
HITS AUTO AND TRUCK
Wrecked Vehicle. Filled With Merry
makers, Catches Fire.

By United Press
RICHMOND. Va, May 25.-Three
persons were killed and at least two
score injured today when a huge bus
struck a passenger automobile and
then crashed into tobacco truck.
The accident occurred in a
binding rainstorm at midnight. The
bus, chartered by crowd of Negro
merrymakers, was en- route from
Petersburg to Richmond.
The wrecked busload Of screaming
Negroes caught fire after it crashed
into the tobacco conveyor. The
countryside was lighted for dis
lance of five miles.
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IA ARE DENIED PAROLE

Three Others Win Clemency at
Commission Hearing.
The state clemency commission to-
day denied fourteen petitions,
granted three paroles and continued
one case.
The case of Clifford Pollard, sem
fenced in Marion county in 1925 for
f1rst-degree murder, was continued
at the request of his attorney.
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By United Press
TOLEDO, May 25.-Resumption
of the bloody hostilities of Thursday
at 1.-The Electric Auto-Lite plant
threatened today as crowds began
to swell again in the Elm-C Cham
plain street sector shortly before
noon.
The rioters gathered at three
points-two street intersections
block from the ROTH battered plant,
and on one vacant lot across from
the factory in the rear of a row of
houses. Their numbers constantly
increased.
Commanding officers of the troops
laid plans for a new offensive If
thee strikers. persisted in attempts
to push nearer the plant.
Brickhats flew through the air to
land in the ranks of the troopers.
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$3.50 RANSOM SOUGHT
FOR STOLEN STALLION
Horse Thieves Take Animal Owned
by Kentucky Judge.

By United Press
LOUISA, KY. May 25.-A stall
lion owned by R. C. Moore, former
county judge, stolen sometime
Wednesday night, was being held
for $3.50 ransom, it was revealed to-
day.
A note found in the empty barn
said that directions for payment of
the ransom would be sent later.
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Posse of City Officers Stage
Vain Hunt for Dillinger Mob

Weary and disearened by futile raid sixtyhv miles
Indianapolis
Mike MoIry and federal agents returned INDIANAPOLIS
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CARL OADINGS ARE liked

Increase Of 9,403 Is Indicated for
Week of May 10.
By CHitCd Press
WASHINGTON, May 25.-The
American Railway Association today
announced carloadings of revenue
freight for the week ended May 10
totalled 611,142 cars, an increase of
9,403 over the preceding week, and
75,423 cars over the corresponding
week in 1888.
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FAIR VACANCY FILLED
Chicago Man Appointed to Post
Held by New.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, May 25.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt today appointed Ed
ward F. Dunno of Chicago to be
Century o. Progress Exposition
commissioner, succeeding Harry S.
New, resigned.
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Bankers Hear Attack on
Roosevelt Money Policies
Professor Walter Kemmerer, Princeton, Financial Expert
AssaiS Initiation: Markets Bill Criticised.

Decrng nhaonary of President Roosevelt
authority addressed luncheon the Indiana State Bankers