Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1920 — Page 1

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WORKHOUSE LOOTED, AUDITOR’S OFFICIAL RECORDS DISCLOSE Comparison of Inventory With Institutional Receipts Reveal That Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Goods Are Missing. LAXITY IN MAKING INVOICE IS SHOWN Thousands of dollars’ worth of property formerly belonging to the Marlon County workhouse Is unaccounted for, according to records In the office of County Auditor Leo Feeler. The workhouse was abandoned and on June 4, 1918, an Inventory of the assets was placed on file with Mr. Fesler and immediately afterward the property was distributed to the other county institutions. The heads of the institutions filed a receipt for the goods they received with the auditor.

A comparison of the itemized receipts with the Inventory, however, shows a startling discrepancy and reveals that the workhouse evidently afforded soma of tho favored political workers valuable • ->t before all of the property was apporA Mr. Fesler turned the inventory -eceipts over for an examination _ered the information that “yon i they come pretty close of tallyI .KIODAB OF ■ jAh IS MISSING I The papers, however, vary and reveal ■that much valuable workhouse property tanging from seven carloads of coal and *eam of horses down to a can of lted Seal lye are missing and that there is no (record of their disposition. Among the farm equipment that wss need at the workhouse and which was listed on the Inventory the following 'Atoms are unaccounted for: 'Tv o horses. One farm wagon. One hay rack. One steel plow. Twelvo hotbed glasses One carriage. * One delivery wagon. Three sets of harness. One drill. k Twenty-four wheelbarrows. I Six rakes. Twelve manure forks. Five bars of solder. The Inventory showed that the workhouse possessed twenty-two hogs, but only twenty-one were receipted for by the county Poor farm. The big stock of foodstuffs the workhouse had on hand at the time It was abandoned was evidently tempting, for in nearly every instance the receipts of groceries fail to tally with the inventoried list. For instance, the institution had threefourths of a barrel of chipped soap, yet former Sheriff Charles O. Dodson signed a receipt for one-half of a oarrel. Among other items placed in the inventory and failing to show on the Institutional receipts s re: Three-fourths of a barrel of salt. Fifty bushels of beets. Twenty bushels of carrots. Twenty-five pounds of lima beans. Forty-four pounds of hominy. Half barrel of soda. One-fourth barrel of granulated sugar. Eighteen bottles of mustard. One-half gallon of extract of vanilla. Five pounds of cinnamon. Ten pounds of red pepper. Seventy-five pounds of barley. Ten quart Jars of grapes. * One and one-half buckets of mackerel. Sixteen boxes of Jelio. Ten cans of sage. Thirteen cans of milk. , , (Continued on I'age Twenty.) (flevenue Revision Not Expected Soon WASHINGTON, Nov. 2d. —Scant hope exists for any revision of the present revenue laws before the special session of Congress to be called by President- ' elect Harding after March 4, Senator Henry Lodge, Republican leader in the Senate, said today.

Wilson Gets Message From Arctic Explorer WASHINGTON, Nor. 26.—-A message from Dr. Fridjhoff Nansen, the Arctic explorer, to President Wilson, was received at the White ndtise today. Officials expect the text will be made public later. The message is understood to praise the President’s efforts in forming the I/eague of Nations and to declare that the League Is a going concern. Nansen has taken a prominent part in the meetings of the League assembly at Genera. WEATHER Forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m.. Nor. 27: Rain late tonight or Saturday; slowly rising temperature. hoikly tkmpekati be. 6 a. m 33 7 a. m :x 8 a. m 34 9 a m 35 10 a. m 35 11 a. m 35 12 (noon) 36 1 p. m 80 2 p. m 86

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NEWBERRY TO RESIGN, REPORT Michigan Senator Has Lost 40 Pounds Since Jury Declared Him Guilty. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 26.—Dispatches received here state that United States Senator Newberry of Michigan will resign his seat in the Senate before Feb. 1, 1921, no matter how the question is settled by the Supreme Court next January. Ills friends con. tend that he would have resigned long ago but for the fear of pleasing Governor Sleeper. Senator Newberry and Governor Sleep er, it is declared, have not been the best of friends for a long time. Newberry thinks it would give Sleeper unalloyed pleasure to name a Newberry successor to the United States Senate. Such a pleasure is not for Sleeper if Newberry can prevent. He can do this by retaining control of his seat in the Senate until after midnight Doc. 31, 1921, at which time Sleeper cesses to be Governor of the State of Michigan. Governor-Elect Groesbeck stands high in the esteem of Senator Newberry, who would like Groesbeck to have the appointment of a Senator from Michigan. That Newberry has worried considerably is testified to by the fact that he has lost as least forty pounds in weight since the day the Federal Jury declared he was guilty of wrong doing in the senatorial election. REORGANIZATION BILL PREPARED McCormick Measure Looks to Government Reform. WASHINGTON Nov. 26.—An extensive reorganization of the departments of the Federal Government is provided for in a bill of Senator McCormick, made, public today. The bill will be Introduced as soon as Congress convenes, The measure provides for ten instead of nine members in the cabinet, establishing two departments after abolishing the Department of the Interior. One of the departments proposed, that of public welfare, was advocated by Harding during his campaign; the other, public works, would combine all the engineering activities of the Government. Other provisions are: Enlargement of the Department of Commerce so as to be of greater usefulness to business: transfer of the Secret Service and Abe alien property custodians to the Justice from the Treasury Department; abolition of the office of Comptroller of the Currency and transfer of his functions to the Federal Reserve Board; discontinuance of the Council of National Defense.

Soldier Found Dead; Head Top Blown Off EAGTaE PASS, Texas, Nov. 26—rrtvat* Robert E. Wood, Company A, 46th Infantry, recently arrived here from Camp Jnckson, S. C., was found dead under a railroad bridge here today. The top of Wood's head had been blown off. An array rifle was found beside his body. $52,000 Loot Taken in Two Robberies NEW YORK, Nov. 26.- Two daring hold ups netted a gang of thugs $2,200 In cash and $50,000 In promissory notes today. In both cases—one occurred In Manhattan, the other in Brooklyn—aged watchmen were knocked unconscious. In the Manhattan burglary three men blew a safe In the office of a taxicab firm on Sixty-Fourth street and got away with SI,OOO in cash and $50,000 worth of notes which aie of no value to them. In Brooklyn four masked men flourishing revolvers robbed a towel simply firm of $1,500 after knocking down lnd tying to a chair the watchman, Jamesvlllyn, 63. It took him two honrs to work loose a conple of the ropes, using his teeth. He may die.

M’CRAY TO LET APPOINTMENTS WAIT FOR TIME Governor-Elect Says He’ll Not Fill Major Berths Until Legislature Adjourns. WILL ATTEND MEETING No major appointments will be made at the Statehouse until after the Legislature ndjourns. Governor-elect Warren T. McCray announced today. "No appointments will be considered or made until after the Legislature adjourns," he declared to each of tho steady stream of office seekers who besieged him in his room in the Claypool Hotel. This announcement means that unless Governor Goodrich makes some changes between now and .Tan. 10, when Mr. McCray will take office, the present organization will continue until tne middle of March. Mr. McCray declared he had nothing to say concerning the coming Legislature. “I am keeping entirely out of speakership fights or the organization of the houses," he said. "They have large majorities in both houses and they should be able to organize without my assistance.” He said he is planning to make a study of the sixteen amendments to the constitution which will be presented to the assembly for action the second time. Mr. McCray will attend the conference of Governors and Governors-Elect at Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 1, 2 and 3. When asked whether he had anything to discuss at the conference he said he intended "to see if something can be done to stabilize the price of farm products.” "If we remove the buying power from the farmers everything will suffer,” he said. When asked as to his plan for bring lng about a stabilization of prices hq said he did not desire to break into print on that subject at this time. The Governor-eleet will return to his hoWie in Kentland tomorrow afternoon.

STEEL PRICES CUT BY INDEPENDENT Jones and Laughiin Lower Charges—Wages Untouched. PITTSBURGH. Nov. 26.—The Jones A I.nughlin Steel Company, the largest independent company in America, today adopted anew selling price on certain finished steel products and will name adjustments on others. The new prices, which ere effective im mediately, follow: Bars, *2.35; structural shapes, $2.45; plates, $2.65; base Pitts burgh. Prices for wire and cold-rolled steel will be adjusted at once, it is announced. The Jones A Laughiin prices are brought to a level with those now being quoted by the United States Steel Corporation. Independents never go below U. S Steel quotations. This reduction is the first to be msds by auy of the independents In the Pittsburgh district and for the commodities ntmed, is down to what is known as the industrial board's prices established March 21. 1919. The Jones A Laughiin Company has not during the past year been asking the top prices which many other tndepend ents have beeen receiving. The reason announced by the company for the reduction of prlcea la the law of supply and demand. It is also announced that there will be no wage reduction at the present time. Prices in the fintshed commodities on which reduction was adopted by the Jones ft I.aughlin Steel Company, have been so varied and Irregular during the last six weeks that no detlnlts basis exists for making a hard and fast comparison. In general, it may be said that bars have been selling at $3; Pittsburgh structural shapes at $3; Pittsburgh and plates at anything from $3 to $3.25. In the highest steel cireles here it was said that within the next day or two every Independent steel concern would follow the example set by the Jones & Laughiin Company.

Steam Barge Lost Crew Reported Safe KINGSTON, Ontario, Nov. 26. —After they had been given up as lost, word reached hero last night that Captain Harry Randall aud the crew of their team barge, John Randall, were safe. Their little coal carrier, however, was sunk off the Ducks, where the vessel endeavored to put in for shelter for a big storm on Nor. 17. Merge Employment With Industrial Body Decision to operato the Stnte Employment commission as a division of the State Industrial Board wns reached at a meeting of the latter body today. The rCtuploymeiit Commission as a separate State body was abolished by the last special session of the legislature and since then its duties have been cared for hy the_ Industrial Board. Charles Fox, Democratic member of the Industrial Board, will have chargo of the new division. He will work out plans for its operation and present them to the next meeting of the board, which will be late in December.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1920.

Eddie O’Donnell, Injured in Race Car Crash Fatal to Gaston Chevrolet, Dies

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GASTON CHEVROLET (Above). EDDIE O'DONNELL (Below). SCANDAL SNARE GRIPS BOLLING, SANDS SWEARS Banker Testifies Before Shipping Board Quizzing Committee. NEW YORK, Nor. 26. The con .died check* which Tucker K. Sands, former vice president of the Commercial Ns tlonul Bank, Washington, declares he used lu distributing a $25,000 fee from the Downey Shipbuilding Corporation, were called for today by the congressional shipping hoard prober*. Sand* testified he had there checks at Washington and that they would prove he made payments !o K. Wllmer Bolling, brother-in-law of President Wilson; Lester Staler, former secretary of the ■hipping hoard, and John I'raner, agent of the Downey corporation Sands was given one week in which to gather hts personal hooka and papers which will be introduced as substantiating evidence to Sands* story that this money was paid himself, Crnner, Staler and Bolling for services rendered in obtaining a large ship building contract. Sands declared that he protested to Wallace Downey, head of the ship build ing firm, for giving him notes instead of cash. “We expected to receive cash,” said Sands, “but Downey insisted that his notes were good and I accepted them.” Edward L. Malmar, cashier of the Corn Exchange Mnnk, New York, who was the first witness, fold the commission that two notes, one for $10,600 and another $10,600, signed by Wallace Downey, had passed through the Corn Exchange Bank. The witness was not naked to whom these notes were made payable, but he wns requested to provide data showing loans made by the Corn Exchange Bank to the Downey Shipbuilding Company from March 1, 1917, to March 1. 1919. He was asked also to supply the committee with records showing the monthly stalus of the Downey account. Sands’ chi rge was that the reputed SIO,OOO bribe to get a fat shipbuilding contract, was offered to him. Bolling and Lester Slsler, formerly secretary of tho shipping hoard. Jacob Nelman. assistant cashier of tho Hanover National Bank, woo was next called to the stand, testified that the two Downey notes mentioned by Maltnor also passed through his bank, which, he added, acted us agent for the Tacoma Park National Bank of Washington, D. C. Tucker Bands, who then resumed his testimony, Introduced a note dated (Continued on Page Nine.)

Wife Witnesses Crash at Los Angeles That Sends Husband and 2 Others to Death. I.OS ANGELES. Nov. 20. Eddie O'Donnell, the racing driver who was terribly injured yesterday at the Los Angeles Speedway, when Gaston Chevra* let, famous driver, was killed instantly, and Lyle .Tolies, a mecuaniehin. was fa tally hurt In u collision, died at 7:30 o'clock this morning at the California Hospital here. O’Donnell’s death was the third as a result of the crash between hi* machine and that of Gaston Chevrolet in a 250mile race here. John Bresnahan, Chevrolet's mechanician. was injured. O’Donnell sustained a fractured skull and both arms were broken In a collision with the race car driven by Chevrolet. The two cars rolled down the incline together, landing In a heap on top of the drivers and mechanicians at the bottom of the track Gaston, youngest of the three Crevrolet racing brothers, won greatest fame In the 500-mile Indianapolis speedway race this year, his average time for the event being 88 16 mile* an hour. Itoscoe Maries, leading every lap, finished first in the speedway races here yesterday Eddie Miller won second place and Eddie Hearne third. if Chevrolet had finished the race he would have been the 1920 American champion because of the number of points ho had won during the season. Maries, by his victory, won $15,000. His time fir the 200 mile contest was 2 hours 25 minutes 20 seconds. Miller received S6,OU> for second honors. Eddie Jlearue got $.2,000 for being third, and Tommy Murphy, fourth, received $2,000. WILL BRING BODY HERE FOR BURIAL The body of Gaston Chevrolet, who was killed In an automobile race at Los Angeles yesterday, will be returned to Indianapolis for burial. Funerul arrangements have not been completed. Mr. and Mrs. Chevrolet lived st 649 Berkeley Court. Chevrolet was 28. He was married In 1915 and his wife has seen nearly every race in which he has (Continued on Page Nine.)

MAINTENANCE BOND NEEDLESS BURDEN-GEORGE Not Called on in Five Years He Has Handled Hoad Work in County. In no -use during tho last five years lias a contractor been forced nuder the much discussed maintenance bond* to correct defects in road construction, George, president of the Marlon County commissioner*, declared today. Mr. George declared his belief that the maintenance bonds, for the lack of which the commissioners have been suh. Je. ted to much criticism, are unnecea-. sary and simply add to the burden of the taxpayer. Ho pointed out that tho State high way commission and the Federal Government do not require maintenance bonds in read constrti- (lon. “My five years' ext>erlenee on the hoard has convinced me that a maintenance bond 1* unnecessary,” Mr. George said. "Marion County la the only county in the State, with one exception, demanding such bond*. “Since I have been on tho board we have never been compelled to force a contractor tinder a maintenance bond to correct dcfc.-ts In road construction. We had one case of faulty construction, but a specific amount wn* deducted from the contract prb'o aud held until It wns corrected.” Mr. George pointed out that in every case contractors can he forced to carry out the terms of their contracts. "The county is protected without a maintenance bond. It makes an additional burden to the contractors, but It is the taxpayers who foot the bill. The taxpayers are protected by the contract and the specifications. No road Is any better than It* specifications. The Inspector la there to enforce the specification to the letter,” said Mr. George. It is thought that when a special com mlttoe reports on new specification* for road building to he followed by the commissioners next year In awarding con tracts, that one of the recommendations will bn that maintenance honils be not required of the contractors. MEETS HOSPITAL COMMITTEE. Dr. T. Victor Keene is attending a meeting of the hospital committee of the American Legion at Washington. The commute is considering problems Incident to the care of men ill or crippled from the war and will make recommendations to the Government.

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OIL KING, SHOT IN HOTEL, DIES; WOMAN SOUGHT Haze of Mystery Surrounds Case Which Victim Called Accident. WIFE CLINGS TO FAITH ARDMORE, Okla., Nov. 26.—Jake 1... Ilamon. Republican national committee--man from Oklahoma and millionaire promoter, died today at a private sanitarium here. He had been shot through the body last Saturday while in his apartment at a locai hotel. The immediate cause of death was acute dilation of the heart. Hamon walked to the sanitarium here Sunday and said he had accidentally shot himself while cleaning a gin preparing for a hunting trip. His story wns accepted without question until Monday, when a warrant was Issued for the arrest of a woman who bad acted as his bookkeeper and secretary for several year*. She was charged with shooting Ilamon, and also, on information filed In court, of a statutory offense. The woman, whose name is Clara Smith Hamon, has not been located. She obtained the name of Hamon through marriage to a distant relative of the oil king, according to reports here, hut it was said she had never lived with her husband. Hamon and the woman bad occupied adjoining rooms at a hotel here for several weeks. Mrs. Jake Hamon was in Chicago with her two children. Shortly before her hnsbaud died, Mrs. Jake Hamon expressed the fullest confidence in her husband. "I feel deeply grieved that any other construction should be placed on the incident.” she said. She had rushed to Ardmore with her two children as soon an she heard of her husband's injury. The rise of Jake Hamon from a penniless promoter to one of the richest independent oil men in the world and a leader (Continued on Page Thirteen.) BROWN TAKEN TO REFORMATORY Slayer of Sister of Providence Under Strong Guard. Warned by Sheriff Robert Miller that he would be taken to the Indiana State Reformatory either "on his feet or in hi* coffin," Ollie Brown, convicted slayer of Sister Mary Blanche McCormick, a Sister of Providence, who was killed when struck by a taxi driven by Brown last April, was taken to the Jeffersonville reformatory by Deputy Frank Kemp and Ed Schubert of the police force, today The sheriff said that Brown had boasted to other* lu the Jatl he would not be tuken to the reformatory. Brown submitted recently to tho transfer from the jail when he was handcuffed and chained. Brown is considered a desperado, having escaped on July 5 from the Marion County Jail with numerous other Jailbreakers ami having escaped front the penal farm. Brown was arrested in Oklahoma and returned to this city for trial. A Jury found Brown gulity of manslaughter and fixed the sentence at from two to twenty-one year*. Brown was considered one of the leaders In the bold Jail delivery last July, but he denies this. The sheriff claims that loaves of bread containing saws were sent to the Jail for Brown, bnt the saws were discovered by Jail attaches. 72 ‘DRY’ SALOONS HIT BY ORDERS Federal Court Restrains Chicago Bar Operations. CHICAGO, Nov. 26.—Federal Judge Landis today Issued temporary restraining .orders against seventy-two owners of “dry" saloons, who are alleged to have violated the Volstead act. The orders were issued on the grounds that the places were public nuisances, coming within the meaning of the Volstead law, whteh empowers Federal Judges to close pleacos and “abate the nuisance.” Under the order the saloons will be allowed to keep open, hut will be brought into court for contempt if liquor Is sold.

Dismisses Charges Against Three Men On recommendation of Detective Pressley. Judge Pritchard in City Court today dismissed vagrancy charges against Leo Kennedy, 1621 East Vermont street ; Leo Hurley, 248 Randolph street, and Wilbur Adams, 607 Bevllle avenue. The men were arrested Nov. 17 as suspects in connection with the robbery of the cash register at Peter Bogris’, flower vender Im front or IT North Illinois street. According to Hurley. Kennedy received a telephone cal! for Bogris at a nearby Jewelry store. While Bogris answered the cnli, $9.25 was stolen. Kennedy later was arrested. When Hurley and Adams went to the city prison to give bond for him they told the detective they had all been together and that they bellevod Kennedy Innocent. The detective then arrested them both as suspects and held them under $2,000 bond each

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SLAIN FOR HIS ROLL, THEORY ADVANCED IN TAILOR’S DEATH

MAX RANBATZ. That Max Ranbatz, a tailor, whose body was found in a woods between the canal and White River, was murdered became more evident today. It was learned that he was in the habit of carrying a large amount of money on his person. He was shot in the back of the head and no weapon was found in the neighborhood. SOME DO AND SOME DON’T

Morals Squads in a Few Districts Are Attempting a Clean-up. Some of the lieutenants In charge of the six morals squads now operating In the city are getting results, while others are still to be beard from. Lieutenant McMurty and his squad paid a surprise visit to the ‘levey district” on Illinois street, between Washington and Marlei streets, at 3 o'clock this morning, halting and searching twentyfive loafers its the vicinity, many of them known gamblers and thieves. The gamblers were warned, the police say, that if they are again found in that location at that time in the morning they will be sent to police headquarters on chargt-s of vagrancy. Lieutenants W nollen and Jones and Patrolmen Stonehouse, made a visit to Tohn Halfmann’s case across from the gateway of the Indianapolis motor speed way, and Halfmann was arrested on the charge of operating a blind tiger. Halffmann formerly was a saloon keeper at 340 Massachusetts avenue. The police received a report that real whisky was being Bold near the speedway ai $22.50 a quart. POLICE TOO EAST EOK UAL KM ANN. When the police entered Halfmanu s case he ran out of the rear door, bnt the lieutenant was a little too fast for him. He saw Halfmann take a bottle of Crab Apple brand bottled In bond whisky from under his apron and attempted to hide It back of the shed. That was all the whisky found at the case, but the police say they found three full quarts and two partly filled quarts of the same brand at Halfmann s home, 60 West Fifteenth street. Speedway City. Lieutenant Cox and a squad of oo lice arrested Archie Young, 42, negro, in a raid on the notorious gambling place, 522 Indiana avenue, last night. Young was cherged with keeping a gambling bouse. Eleven negroes found in the place were charged .vlth gaming and visiting a gambling house. Edward “Chip" Lewis, negro, 2901 (Continued on Page Thirteen.)

Files Claim Against C. W. Fairbanks Estate Probate Judge Mahlon Hash today was considering a claim of Alveda M. Bryan tor s3stl against the estate of the late Charles Warren Fairbanks, at one time vice president of the i'uited States. The plaintiff claims that site repaired a bead bag and that the administrators of the estate claimed that the price was too high. Says Jap Smuggled Into U. S. for S9OO TOKIO, Nov. 26.—T0k10 newspapers today printed stories containing what purported to be confessions by E. Murakami and K. Knuratsujl, who admitted they had been engaged with two petty Japanese officers, lehida and Ivatsuda, on Pacific steamers in a plot to smuggle Japanese into America. According to the confessions, S9OO per man was the price of smuggling a Japanese into the Fnited States. The stowaways entered the boats on which the smuggling gang operated across the Pacific disguised as members of the crew and were concealed in large cargo boxes.

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BODY, BULLET WOUND IN HEAD, FOUND IN WOOD Known to Have Carried Largs Sums Upon His Person. ONLY $22 IN POCKETS ! That Max Ranbatz, 37, of 1246 Union I street, whose body wns found Thanks- ; giving day by two hunters in the wood* ■ between White River and the canal near j Thirty-Seventh street, was murdered for i his money is a theory that is being laI vestigated by the police today, j Ranbatz always carried a large sum of money, according to Mrs. Dora Chaplik, 1422 Union street, at whose bom* he formerly roomed. Twenty-two dolj larg found in his pockets probably ws* j only a part of his week's wages and | the large sum was carried in another I pocket, the police believe. Ranbatz, a Polish Jew, was shot in the i back of the head with a .38-caliber bul-< ; let. Besides the robbery theory the po* ; lice are investigating the possibility thal the man was accidentally killed by A stray bullet from the weapon of soraq| hunter or some person doing targe! practice. CHIEF PERSON ALLY ' IN VESTIGATES. Chief of Police Kinney personally tool* j charge of the investigation of the deatll of Ranbatz. After visiting the neighi borhood in which the body was found, b said he wns unable to determine whethe* the shooting was accidental or intentional. He said persons in the neighborhood stated that there was shooting! going on all day in the hollow between the two streams. The police do not believe that Ranbatg * committed suicide, os no weapon w* found near the body and because he wa* i shot in the back of his head. Ranbatz. it was learned, had received 1 his usual weekly pay Wednesday night instead of Thursday from the Kahn Tailoring Company, where he was employed as a presser. The pay day was earlier this week because of Thanksgiving day. | “He wns a very nervous man, and always feared being robbed,” Mrs. Cbap-ifc snid. “He was quiet, but nervous. Some. I times he would go to work and forget his money. When I would go to mak j up hig room I would find a large roU of paper money. I don't know how much it was, as I never counted It. I would return his money to him and ask 1 him why he didn't put it in the bank. He would always answer that his pocket | wag the best bank. i “He always carried large sums of ! money. I am sure it was not less thsn i $606, and maybe much more,” declared | Mr*. Cbapllk. Max Ranbatz has two brothers, John, of 814 South Illinois street, thia city, and another living ia Poland. He was married about a year bsfoiw coming to the United States and he ha* lived in Indianapolis, according to peo* pie who know him, about seven years. Why he should have gone to the lonaly woods in the hollow between White Rive* aud the Canal is one of the mysterie* that surround the cose. After moving from the Ch&plik home about two months ago, he rented a room at the residence of Sam Shampaign, 1246 Union street. He did not board there. Mrs. Shampaign said Ranbatz cams home Wednesday and asked If he could eat supper with the family. Mr. Sham* paign told him he could. During the supper Ranhatz told them’ he had been paid Wednesday instead of Thursday, and he said he planned to meet a man and buy some clothing ea Thanksgiving morning. “He did not tell us the name of th* roau or where he was to have met him,” (Continued on Page Eighteen.)

Learn to Keep Well by Eating Proper Foods As many materials go into the building of the body ns in the building of a house. Anew official bulletin has just*beea issued which gives all the latest scientific facts about the selection of food#. Our Washington information P.ureau will secure a copy for any. one who send# 2 cents in stamps for return postage. Frederic J. Haskin. Director, The Indiana Daily Times Information Bureau, Washington, D. C. I enclose herewith 2 cents in stamps for return postage on a free copy of "What the Body Needs.” Name Address City State k . ,