Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1921 — Page 1

THE WEATHER Partly cloudy, probably showers and thunder storms tonight and Saturday.

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WINNIPEG IS GOOD CITY BUT NOT BALANCED Spillane Finds No Unemployment Now, but Foresees It. LUMBER VERY LOW General Industry Im--1 proved Since July, Say Merchants. By RICHARD SPILLANE. WINNIPEG, Sept 9.—There is no unemployment in Winnipeg. So declares Edward Parnell, mayor. In fact, there are more jobs than men. In proof of this he read telegrams from General Manager Murphy of the Canadian Pacific asking for 500 trackmen at 25 cents an hour and General Manager Warren of the Canadian National, saying he could use four hundred to six hundred at the same rate and also required machinists and boilermakers. All the mayor could supply was five men. And yet the Dominion and provincial authorities and the municipalities expect considerable unemployment this winter and are io meet to discuss methods of relieving pos slble distress. The explanation is that barverting the erops takes up the labor slack today, but with lumbar and general industry at very low production there is no likelihood of work for all who return from the agricultural districts to the cities. Manitoba has a good wheat crop well above the average In size and of tine quality. Beef prices are poor and hgb rates aggravate this situation. The bankers' association has taken action on tae cattle- matter by issuing instructions to extend generous credit to stock raisers where they have anything approach.eg reasonable security. There also has been some modification of railroad rates on cattle. While Western Canada gave promise a month ago of remarkable grain jlelds this watVt changed considerably oy extensive hailstorms. The damage vas not so great as reported at firs' and fair returns are certain from neati. all sections except the dry districts of southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan. WIXMPEC BCSTNF.SS IS POO ELY BALANCED. Winnipeg is a great town. There the East and the West begins. The produce of a farm belt that stretches 1.000 miles west pours through Winnipeg and the supplies for a vast farm region are purchased iri Winnipeg. The city has been through various booms and later depressions: has had its share of growing pains but is a hustling, bustling place today, part English and part American, but wholly Canadian. It does a big business but is poorly balanced. It has a tremendous asset In 500,000 horsepower of hydro electric energy on the Winnipeg river at distances varying from 32 to 75 miles from the city, yet it has comparatively few manufacturing plants of size. The city has a power plant of 47.000 horsepower and the Winnipeg street railway has a 37.000 horsepower plant. They cell power to consumers at varying prices. In some Instances comparatively large consumers get power at the almost unbelievable low rate of one half cent per kilowatt hour. The city sells power to nearly 40,000 consumers, and In many housee it is used for light, cooking, heating, etc. This municipal enterprise lias been a fine financial success. Os industries, flour and grist mill products are by far the largest. Next come slaughtering and meat packing dairy products, bag manufacturing, lumber and foundry and machine shops. There is only one tannery and one dye works, despite the great traffic in cattle. The Union Stock Yards are the largest in Canada and have capacity for 10,000 cattle, ( 6,ooo hogs and 4,000 sheep a day. DUE TO BECOME MANUFACTURING CITY'. Some day when Winnipeg utilizes its water power fully it is certain to be a big manufacturing center, but at present it seems content with the trade of western Canada. But If it is content with the trade, it protests against some of the forms under which it Is compelled to do business. There is bitter complaint of the banking system. The banks of Winnipeg and western Canada generally are branches of the great banks of eastern Canada. The Winnipeg people say the banks of western Canada are managed by men sent from the east who have no direct Interest the country and who look forward to promotion that will take them back east. The real management of the banks, they declare, is remote from the regions served. They want Manitoba banks for Manitoba: they-want bank* of their own. At present, however, they are not in position to furnish them. They say the American system is much better. They would like country hanks, such as dot our West, conducted by men close to the soil. They are not satisfied either with the Ottawa government. They predict an agricultural majority, or at least, agricultural control, of the next parliament. “We are so far from the seat of government.” they say, “that we should be put in the strongest possible position to help ourselves. Things could not be worse than they are today In legislation affecting us. Ottawa is out of touch with us and is not disposed to learn of our needs. Conditions in this respect could not be worse. Ottawa is not dis- ; (Continued On Page Six.) \

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Forecast /or Indianapolis and vicinity for the twenty-four hours ending 7 p. m., Sept. 10, 1921 : Partly cloudy weather, with probably showers and thunder storms tonight and Saturday; not much change In temperature. HOURLY TEMPERATURE. L6a. m. 68 7 a. m. 69 8 a. m. .... 70 9 a. m. , , 72 10 a. m. . 75 IV a. m. is 1 (nooajt ... 78 tkP- SI la," ’ '"1 KL Sm" 1 Utf \ 1* a ~ -63- —■'

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BANDITS ROB BEECH GROVE BANK

ONE DEAD, 8 HURT', 300 HELD, $1,000,000 BOOZE, DR UGS SEIZED ON SHIP Prohibition Raiders and Sailors Clash Aboard Greek Steamer Anchored in Brooklyn Harbor. DRY OFFICER COMMITS SUICIDE NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—One man dead; a second dying, eight wounded, nearly three hundred arrests and seizure of drugs and liquor estimated to be worth one million dollars, was the result today of the fiercest battle between prohibition agents and liquor smugglers New York has witnessed since the country “went dry.” It was fought aboard tbe Greek steamer King Alexander, anchored in! the harbor off Brooklyn, beginning before dawn with an attempt of two j prohibition agents to trap the smugglers and resumed in daylight with every member of me crew fighting desperately against the raiders. Tbe latter included also members of the city’s narcotic squad, for the vessel had a large quantity of “dope” aboard.

At one time police fired on Federal agents, mistaking them for smugglers. Cocaine, opium and liquor estimated to be worth $1,000,000 were seized, one of the largest confiscations in the records of the department, according to Wallace Collins, United States District Attorney. In a washroom of a ferry house, after the smoke of battle had cleared away, was found the body of Prohibition Os-

Little Alma Reed is ‘Best Baby ’ in Indiana Scores 999.7 Out of Possible 1,000 Points — Portland Baby *Best Boy /

Little Alma Heed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth K. Reed. 4717 Winona street, Indianapolis, carried off the honors at the State Fair in the, Better Babies contest, scoring 900.7 out of a possible 1,000, and was awarded the sweepstakes prize of $25, together with the first prize of sls for best girl baby between tlie ages of 24 and 3fi months. Local twins also claimed the purse offered for the best set of twins. Barbara Louise Kendrick and Jean Josephine Kendrick, 4905 Brookville road, being the winners out of the nine Tft*fs entered. Brookes Tormohlen of Portland won the hoys’ sweepstakes $25 prize, with a score of 993.9 points out of the thousand. Lively interest has been manifested in the contest, about 200 babies being entered. The children were examined from a mental and physical standpoint, a thousand points being the perfection basis. Specialists in various lines of medical work were engaged to make tbe examinations in the rooms arranged on the second floor of the women s building. Dr. Ada E. Schweitzer of the State board of health was the director of the contest, and I>r. James C. Carter was the specialist in charge of the physical examinations. Miss Alma Lips was in

ASKS REPAIR OF BRIDGE AT ONCE Committee Urges Need of Kentucky Avenue Improvement in Resolution. City and county officials under whose direction the Kentucky avenue bridge has been closed to heavy traffic today received copies of a resolution adopted by tbe Contractors' Transportation Assoc latlon. In which they are called upon t' make the sf-'-ture passable. The which is signed by A F. Averitt, I. Martelli and G. W. Me Clintock, is as follows: “Whereas, Kentucky avenue is the most direct and the most substantially constructed transportation avenue, for at least 69 per cent of all sand and gravel used in city Construction work, and “Whereas, the Kentucky avenue bridge has been closed to motor truck transportation, but is still used by electric interurban cars, and “Whereas, tbe closing of the bridge is forcing detours in the transportation of 69 per cent of all sand and gravel, of 60 per cent of ail hogs and cattle to the stock yards, and of much other building material produced in or delivered to a large portion of northwest Indianapolis, and “Whereas, these detours are adding at least SIO,OOO per month to the cost of transportation of such commodities, therefore, be It “ResolvecL-that this association appeal to the authorities of the city of Indianapolis to completely close the Kentucky avenue bridge to all traffic, and to begin at once to restore it to transportation by repair or replacement, and that if interurban cars are permitted to pass over this bridge, during process of repair motor trucks also should be permitted to pass over it.”

FIRST STRIKE ON LANDIS DECISION Workers Quit on Federal Reserve Bank Building. CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Work on the new Federal Reserve Bank building here was seriously handicapped today when the hoisting engineers, ornamental iron workers, steamfltters and plumbers employed there walked out because of dissatisfaction with the recent wage award by Judge Landis. Strikes of hoisting engineers, employed on other buildings here were reported. Bride of 2 Months Is Found Murdered Runnemede Highlands, N. J., Sept. 9. Mrs.lsabella Dobson, a bride of two months, wa* found murdered today In her home here. Police are searching for her husband, George Dobson, who is miasing, Mrs. Dobson evidently had been beaten to death by repeated blows of a man’s flats. A blanket had been ibtffwn fires ttm bud/ which was mute*

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Entered as Second Class Matter. July 25, 1914, at PostotHce, Indianapolis, Ind., under act March S. 15,9.

fleer Frank J. Fitzpatrick, one of the raiding Federal officers. Evidently mentally unbalanced by the strain of the fight, he had sent a bullet into his brain. Some of the combatants declared they Saw a body floating in the river after the fight, but that it vanished in the water after but a moment. The harbor police are trying to verify this report. One of tbe eight wounded sailors was said to be at the point of death.

eharge of the nurses, who were sent from the various hospitals and the Public Health Nursing Association, to assist in the work. The prizes offered included sls 'first prize sl2 second prize, $lO third prize, $7 fourth prize, and $5 fifth prize for contest- under division 1 and 2: $25 first prize, S2O second, sls third, $lO fourth, tor contests under divi ion 3, aDd sweepstakes for boys and g;rls, $25 each. The babies anil their places are as follows, according to the announcement made this morning: DIVISION. Bojs, City, 15 to 54 Months. Arno D. riiefk'-r, 1230 Speedwav avenue: lloyse Addison Fllsner, 443 West Twenty-Eighth street; Robert Walter Padgett, 523 Bernard, avenue; Robert Warren Randall. 2130 South Delaware street ; J.-hu Joseph Danahay. 2925 East Washington street ; Ralph McDonald. 183$ North La Salle; Henry Lutterworth, 2457 North Delaware street; John Walker. 2217 North Talbott street; Robert Johnson. 4565 Broadway; Wilbur Keen, r.'l North Gray street. Anthony Donadio] .’."2 West New Y'ork street; Lowell O Brien, 75 Keystone avenue: Wilbur Keeney, 951 North Delaware street • Leonard B Stevens, 2601 North Delaware; Charles Arthur Carlisle, 613 Esst Fifty Second street; Delanor Fossetti 1025 North Hartford; Sydnc-v O. Kmo< k 1310 Churchman avenue; p HII i Hiclnnnn 104'i 4 ilia avenue; Allen Guthrie 1128 North Illinois street; Charles Frank Wendull. 2432 West Walnut: Robert Morns Sanford, 242 Mlnkner: Frank A (Cot. Untied 011 Page Fifteen.)

WRANGLE OVER BILLIONMARKS French Minister of Finance Wants 52 Per Cent of German Reparation Money. LONDON, Sept. 9.—Paul Doumer, French minister of finance, today began a series of conference* with Sir Robert Horne, chancellor of the exchequer, re g:triling the division of the first payment of one'billion marks, received from Germany. It has been agreed that 530,000,000 marks should be paid to Belgium and that tbe remainder should be divided after first paying the expenses of the armies Vs occupation. This decision created apolitical crisis in France and resulted in Doumer handing in his resignation, which the French Premier refused to accept. France today, therefore, asked that the sum of $430,000,000 be redistributed among the allies, and that she receive 52 per cent of this sum. On her behalf Doumer also urged that the value of Saare valley coal mine* should not be charged off France’s expenditure upon the French army of occupation. . The l ; rench also seek a rearrangement Regarding the Austro-Hungarian anti Bulgarian debts. Paderewski Ceases to Be Big JLandholder LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 9.—Exit Ignace Jan Paderewski as a California landholder. / Tho musician-statesman’s 2,544-acre ranch noar Pasco Robles lias been sold "at auction to J. E. O’Donnell, Los Angeles oil man. He bid It in at $187,000.

Crime in Nation 8 Fold Greater Than in Pre- War Periodßecords Show

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—A nationwide wave of law violations today taxed the energies of several Government departments. Attorney General Daugherty is giving personal attention to the situation with the assistance of Government detectives, members of the Cabinet and a special committee of lawyers. Crime, especially offenses against the Federal Government, has increased approximately eight times since the prewar period, records of the Justice Department and of the Federal Courts show. Nearly . 100,000 criminal cases brought by thp Gpvetnmem and its-treats age

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1921.

TIGS IS PIGS’ THEORY GETS RUDE SETBACK Judging Fat Swine at Fair on Today’s Program. BULLS MARCELLED Wavy Effect Produced by Currycomb Is Explanation. By FRED S. KNC OLE. It was announced today that the various attractions at the Indiana State Fair would remain on exhibition until noon tomorrow, the last day of the fair. In the afternoon, the attraction will be the automobile races on the mile dirt track, with music by the Purdue band. The paid admissions at the fair yesterday amounted to 48,413, while for Thursday of last year they were 52,833. Shows of fat barrow swine, and judging concluded in all departments, were the special features on today’s program. It has been contended la light literature that “pigs Is pigs;” but a belief in this is shaken by the resplendent pigs that are shown at the fair. It seems Impossible that they are truly representative of their kind —the sort one sees lazily and contentedly wallowing in small seifs of mud. PIGS DE LUXE WITH NO MCI) PIDDLE NEAR. They are pigs de luxe, one might say, scrubbed and furbished, as they lie on beds of straw or waddle before their judges, and tbe question subconslously arises in ones mind as to whether they (Continued on Page Two.)

MINERS END WAR AND SHERIFF IS AFTER LEADERS Illinois Physician to J3e Arrested on Charge of Inciting Riot. ELIZABETHTOWN, 111., Sept. 9.-The offensive in the Hardin County “mine war" shifted today from the hands of tile union mirier forces to those of the dept.v sheriffs guarding Elizabethtown and Roslclare. Sheriff D. N. Cox’s forces began to carry out plans to capture leaders of the union miners. A party of deputies left here before daybreak in 8U eCort to capture I>r. J. P. Joiner of R 'Slelare, a physician who abandoned his home and practice to lead the union miner forces. The sheriff’s posse planned to lay siege to the house of Dr. Joiner’s father, several ifliles northeast of here, where the union leaders was reported to be spending the night . Deputies carried a warrant for I)r. Joiner's arrest, charging him with inciting to riot. Troops Ordered Out of Logan Co.> W. Va. WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Federal troops havo been ordered out 'of Imogen Connty, W. Va., Secretary of War Weeks announced toduy. The troops will be transferred to Kanawha and Boone Counties for the time being, Weeks stated.

President, Treasurer of City Humane Society Charged With Dissipation of Funds by Organization's Secretary

Court action that promises to reveal to the public some of the secrets of the Indianapolis Humane Society—the unique organization without a membership—was begun in the Superior Court yesterday. Mrs. Dortha Lantz, secretary of tho society, filed a complaint against the society ; Ward H. Roberts, Its president, and W. S. Frye, Its treasurer. In the complaint she asks that defendants Frye and Roberts be required to give an accounting as to funds raised by popular subscription for the erection of an animal shelter home “and as to other funds now wrongfully and illegally held by them as preteniied officersthat a receiver be appointed to prevent the same from being further dissipated, wasted and destroyed, and for $5,000 damages on behalf of the public snd the members of the society. The filing of the complaint follows an

waiting trial in Federal Courts. The Department of Justice is spending nearly $20,000,000 a year in maintaining courts and the number is insufficient to cope with the situation. Attempts to defraud the Government generally follow the lines of raising checks, counterfeiting coins and bank notes, presenting false petitions for compensation to the War Risk Bureau and the like. Mail robbers obtained in loot approximately $6,000,000 worth of checks, certificates, bonds and other securities iu the last ten or twelve months, according to , {Continued pa FiitpojjJ

1 KILLED, 8 HURT BY RACING CAR; DRIVER IS HELD Touring Car Containing Seven People Struck by Speeding Roadster. ■ One dead and eight injured, is the toll of an automobile accident at 12:30 o’clock this morning at Indiana avenue and Blake street. Fred Schneider, 13, 2113 North Alabama street, driver of one of tbe automobiles is held under three charges—manslaughter, driving on the left side of the street and speeding. THE DEAD: JAMES 11. GI.AZE, 43, 2320 Schurman avenue. THE INJURED. MISS MARY WHEELER, 21, 1051 North Pennsylvania street. Severe scalp wound and hand hurt. MRS. MINNIE GLAZE, wife of dead man. Severe scalp wound and injuries to her legs and back; contusions serious, probably fractured. VIOLET GLAZE, 11. Severely cut about face and knees. MERL GLAZE, 20. Cut and body bruises. IRA SIMPSON, 21. 737 North Persh ing avenue. Shoulder injured, knees and hands cut. MISS MARY SPRY, 19, 123 West Walnut street. Shoulder hurt and cut and bruised about body. MISS VIRGINIA rOOXSE, 19, 12tt West Walnut street. I.ip out and severely bruised about the body and head. FREd SCHNEIDER, the death driver.

Injuries to knees and hands. He is held in detention at the city hospital. Schneider was driving a roadster on Indiana avenue, and is alleged to have been nielng with a touring car. The seven persons in th<f machine driven by Glaze had been to the home of Guy Glaze, a son of James Glaze, who lives sixteen miles southeast of the city on the Shelbyville road. They had celebrated the birthday party of

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Violet Glaze and were en route to their homes. As the small touring ear. northbound In Blake itrect. reached Indiana avenue, if was directly In the path of two machines which are said to have been racing southeast iu the avenue. The big racer swerved, but Sqhueider’s roadster struck Glazes machine with terrific force, knocking it about fifty feet. Schneider s automobile turned completely around and was headed north whn the police arrived. The driver of the louring car with which Schneider is said to have been raring did not stop. Sergeant Clifford Richter and Detec tiveg Manning and Church investigated the accident and arrested Schneider, ordering him detained in Iho detention ward at the city hospital Schneider's injuries are not serious. The polio say he has been arrested before, for traffic law violations. Miss Wheeler was taken to the office of a physician and then removed to her home. All of the others were taken to the city hospital In ambulances. Schneider today denied he was racing along Indiana avenue, ht t said he was driving about thirty miles an hour. He said the touring car flashed past him on the right side of the street near Blake etreet and he believed the lights from the mnehine blinded Glaze to such an extent he did not see tlie roadster. It had been planned to hold a second birthday party for Violet Glaze tonight st the home of Ruby Evern, 10, 1013 South Meridian street. Violet and Ruby an* cousins and today Is Ruby’s birthday and yesterday was Violet's birthday. Funeral arrangements have not been made for Mr. Glaze, lie had lived in Indianapolis ten years coining to this city from Zlonsville.

I Investigation of several months’ duration In the course of which much was uncovered that it not made a part of the Btratllug oonplalnt. Ii is understood that the suit was made necessary at this time | by the action of Roberts iu attempting to prevent the regular monthly meeting of the society’s directors for the month of September. MISUSE OF FI NDS CHARGED. | The investigation on which the complaint was based has revealed: 1. That out of a total of $5,415.32 contributed by the public tp the society for the building of a shelter homo for animals more than hall’ —$4,350.09 —was paid out as alleged “expenses” of the campaign in direct contravention of the bylaws of the society which provide that ‘‘money shall only be paid out on written order, signed by the president and secretary." 2. That previously to the undertaking of this “drive” in which more than half the money solicited was spent in the solicitation, the sum of $1,700 solicited for the same purpose, had been illegally diverted to other uses and that $1,700 received from the War Chest "for building purposes had been used to replace thiß money which had illegally been diverted. 3. That for the last two years the money which found Its way into the treasury of the society from the War Chest, the Community Cheat and the pockets of contributors to the humane work has been expended in an illegal manner without the consent of the secretary, on whose written order only v could the money have been legally expended. OFFICERS FAIL TO FAT DUES. 4. That although Roberts and Frye have been holding forth as officers of the society they and others have not been paying dues which are required by the bylaws of the society in. order to qualify as members and a* a jhaitir of fact, no dona have been - tak.exrfrom raexffbnrS.-bui

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SCHOOLS HIT BY THE LACK OF HOUSING Conditions Throughout Nation Far Below Normal. TART TIME’ PLAN High Price and Scarcity of Building MaBlamed. NEW YORK, Sept 9.—The housing shortage is seriously crippling the Nation’s schools. Practically every large city in the country is confronted wiyi the problem of meeting record enrollments of pupils with inadequate facilities for sheltering' them, according to telegraphic advices received here The situation has resulted in various makeshifts, such as “part time” systems, hasty erection of flimsy structures and the use of portable buildings. Overcrowding of the schools, it was shown, is giving future citizens their education on a sort of installment plan. The lack of school space is due to high pricff ar.d scarcity of building materials difficulty of the municipalities in obtaining funds and failure of builders to complete structures within contract time. Only seven out of 35 cides reported conditions near normal. ONE PUPIL IN EIGHT WITHOUT A SEAT. In New York City the total school at tendance is expected to be more than SiOO.OOO. There will be about 810,000 in the elementary schools, an increase of j 12 5 per cent over last year. Between (Continued on Page Fifteen.)

HUSBAND KILLS WIFE, LAWYER ON CROWDED CAR Shoulders Way to Couple and Empties Revolver Before Many Spectators. DEDHAM, Mass.. Sept. 9.—Mrs. Elena Wells and her attorney, A. I.ouis Ait raeyer, were shot to death in a crowded street car here today. The matvwho did the shooting said he was Charles A. Wells, the woman’s husband. Witnesses said the man boarded the car quietly, shouldered into the crowd and then began shooting. Mrs. Wells and Athueyer were seated near the front of the car. Two bullets struck the woman. She died Just as she was carried into the hospital. One bullet entered Atlmeyer's beud. lie also died at tlie hospital. The assailant, revolver in hand, jumped from the moving cur and started to run. Five passengers pursued him and caught him before lie had run 100 feet, lie fought desperately, but was overpowered and taken to the police station. State and National Bank Calls Issued WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—The Comp troiler of the Currency today Issued a call for the condition of National banks as of close of business Tuesday, Sept. 6. State Bank Examiner C. W. Camp today issued a call for statements from all State banks as of the close of business Sept, 0.

contributions have been placed in a socalled building fund and S2OO a month supplied by the Community Chest has been used by the society to pay running expenses and regarded as the “dues” of the members. 5. That the secretary has not been provided with a list of members who have paid dues and has now no record of who constitute tlie members of tbe society in good standing. 0. That a large sum < f mon'ey has been "loaned" to a committee appointed by Roberts, of which he Is the chairman, which committee has caused a shelter home to be erected on the Pendleton pike and has never made an accounting to the society of the expenditures on this project. The story of the campaign for funds in which more than half of the money (Continued on Page Eight.)

Mother Safest Guardian for Child When Couples Separate, Robinson Holds

(Editor’s Note—This Is the fifth of a series of articles dealing with the divorce evil, its problem and its remedy as reflected in the official records and opinions of the local judges.) BT WALTER D. HICKMAN. In granting the custody of children In divorce cases, Judge Arthur K. Robinson of Superior Court, Room 4, has decided that the mother In nearly every case where the children are under 10 years of age should have their charge. “I tiink that children of tender years khoild be awarded' to the-mother an*

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NEGRO, 3 WHITE MEN MAKE HA UL OF $30,000; ESCAPE IN MOTOR CAR Four Employes and One Patron Covered by Revolvers While Vault Is Rifled. CAR LAST SEEN ON MICHIGAN ROAD Four heavily armed men held up the Beech Grove State Bank, Seventh avenue and Main street, at 11 o’clock today and escaped with between $21,000 and $30,000. 4 Following the robbery the mandits made their flight in a Hudson touring car and the last report received by the small army of police thrown into the Beech Grove neighborhood which came from Bethel avenue, was that they were seen in the neighborhood of Sherman drive and the Michigan road. There was some confusion as to the direction the bandits took from this point. The police received information later that a car in which there were four men matching the descriptions of the bandits was seen in the vicinity of Brightwood on the Pendleton pike. Lieutenant McMurtry and a squad of detectives were rushed to that part of the city in automobiles to make an investigation. Three white men and a negro, all carrying revolvers, committed the hold-up, the boldest in Indianapolis since the robbery of the South Side State Bank and the East Tenth Street State Bank several years ago. The fact that today is pay day at the Big Four railroad shops at Beech Grove with a consequent large addition to the cash on hand in the bank is believed to have proved the lure that brought about the robbery.

Polite Bandit Waved Scared Girl to Chair Bank Teller Describes Holdup in Which She Faced Guns of Robbers. “It is an experience I shall never forget," Miss Helen Newman, teller of the Beech Grove State Bank, said today in describing the hold-up in which four bandits escaped with between $25,000 and $30,000 in cash. “One of the bandits came to my window and asked me to change a $lO bill,” she said. “And then the cashier came from his room and asked if there was someone who wished to see him. “ ‘I do.’ the bandit said, and he drew his revolver. The ruan pointed his gun at me and ordered me to put up my hands I was so frightened I was slow in doing it and he repeated his order. I tried to pnt up my hands and I was so frightened I couldn’t get them higher than my head. "The bandits marched us into the back room and as I stepped down a step Into the room I hit my ankle and became very sick. One of the robbers, who seemed like a very polite man, saw that I was ill and told me to sit down. He waged his revolver toward a chair ami 1 sat down.” This is the only detailed statement that was obtained as Henry Schoenrock, cashtier, Issued orders that Miss Christine Markham, another employe of the bank, and others connected with the bank, should make no further statements to newspaper men.

COAL MEN FIGHT REMOV AL TO CITY Indicted Chicago ‘Barons" Hire Legal Aids. CHICAGO, Sept. 9. —A bitter fight between the I’nltcd States Government and the seventeen “coal Larons" of Chicago, Indicted gome months ago by a Federal grand jury In Indianapolis, loomed today. District Attorney Charles F. Cl .me announced he would institute a court fight to have the Indicted coal men removed to Indianapolis for trial. The latter, headed by Francis S. Peabody. head of tbe Peabody Coal Company, have engaged a galaxy of legal talent to oppose the removal proceedings. “I shall go into court a week from Monday,” District Attorney Clyne said today, “and ask for an order for their removal.” The coal men were indicted on a conspiracy charge. NATIONAL GUARD SEEKS MURDERER ‘Shoot to Kill’ Order Given — Three Officers Slain. HI BRING, Minn.. Sepi 9.—The nibbing National Guard company Joined in the search for John Webb, murderer of three police officials. Troops and deputies were ordered to shoot to kill the moment they sight Webb. Webb shot and killed Chief of Police Daniel Hayes, sChief of Detectives Gene Cassidy and Traffic Officer William Kohrt last night, when they attempted to arrest him on a charge of ravaging his 13-year-old daughter, Alice. A posse of more than a thousand men was said to be boating the woods near Wilpin. Indications were that Webb had escaped. One report was that a man of Webb's description was seen in West Duluth In a speeding automobile early today.

less she Is so thoroughly bad that It Is unreasonable to trust her own children with her,” Judge Robinson said today in discussing thesdivorce menace. “In some rare cases both the man and the woman are worthless and in these cases the children must be sent to Institutions.'’ In giving the mother the preference over the father In cases where the children are of tender years, the court feels that the “love of the mother for her children is generally stronger than that of the father in the average case.’! The court has found that there is leaa /hence {Continued on Fag*

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THREE ENTERED RANK, ONE STAYED IN CAR. The bandit car drew np to the curbing in front of the bank at 11 o'clock and two white men and the negro alighted and without delay entered the bank, another white man remaining on the driver’s seat. The motor was left running. Pedestrians on the street and attaches of nearby stores saw the car there, but thought nothing of it. One of the white men approached the teller’s window aDd, throwing a tea-dollar bill down on the marble ledge, asked Miss Helen Newman, the teller, for some' change. The other man and the negro sauntered toward the door leading to the rear of the screen. Miss Newman counted out five one dollar bills and a five dollar bill and shoved them toward the bandit. As she did se the other two appeared behind the counter, both with drawn guns In their hands. They ordered Miss Newman and Miss Christine Markham, an employe of the bank, to hold up their hands. One of the men carried two revolvers. Mathew Rutledge, an employe of Clapp Bros. Grocery, next door, came in at that time and was covered promptly by the negro and forced to the rear of the bank. Just then Henry Schoenrock, the cashier, and Charles Kissing, a fanner living near Ben Davis, who had been in a conference in the cashier’s private office, entered tho main room and they also were covered. TORE TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS LOSE. One of the bandits tore the telephones from the wires and filled a small sack, with loose currency and bills that he found in the open vault. In the meantime one man kept watch on the door while tbe other kept the bank employes covered. When they had gathered up all of the money in sight two of them edged, through the front door and entered the waiting car. waiting only long enough for tbe ‘rear guard” to catch up. As the last bandit leaped on the automobile, it darted west in Main street. C. M. Clapp of the Clapp Bros, grocery, hearing of the hold up, jumped into hU car, which was standing iu a side street,, and with Mr. Schoenrock gave chase in the hope they could trail the quartette. They were unarmed. The bandits’ car proved too speedy, however, and as the pursuers came outon Main street they were in time to see the bandits turn north Into Tenth avenue. The car proceeded north on Tenth avenu* to Albany street and west on Albany to Sherman drive. The flight led past St. Francis' Hospital In Sherman drive and then the trail was lost. Later reports said the bandit car wu speeding down the Michigan road. Lieutenant McMurtie and the bile detective squad and Sergeant Burk; and the emergency squad, together several detectives and patrolman werp rushed to the scene and are now scour-i ing the countryside in the hopes of pick 4 ing up the trail. NEARLY C’PSET CAR IN MAKING TURN. The bandits in making the turn at Tenth avenue and Albany street came within a hair's breadth of turning over. Marshall Longacre, a school boy, toid| the police that he and other boys werq leaving a school house at this corner when the car approached at a terrifid rate of speed. He said the car went lnt<*. the ditch, hut that the driver succeeded In righting it. Edward Klasing, son of Charles Klaalug, gave the police a fairly good dep scriptlon of the bandits. He said h| was standing In front of the bank wait(C ontinued on Page Fifteen.)

BANDITS MURDER AUTO SALESMAN Body, Handcuffed, Found inj River Near Chicago. CHICAGO, Sept 9—-A mysterious mundor linked with the disappearance of young men and $5,400 in cash was revealed today by the finding of a haacuffed, battered body In the Desplalasa! river at Maywood. The body Is believed! to be that of P J. Daugherty of ton, missing salesman for the Packard Motor Car Company. Daugherty, with Carl Ansnna, another salesman, left his company's office to liver anew car last night. He wqs collect $5,400. No trace qf either man whs found today until the body was recovered.' The river is now being dragged for trace! of Ausnus’ body in the belief that botiti men were murdered by bandits seeking either the car or the money. Mystery surrounds the identity of the man who bought the car. The murder of Daugherty, who cams here three weeks ago from Boston, was one of the most brutal in police annals. He had been rendered helpless by regular tion police handcuffs. A fine rope was slipped 'around his neck with a hangman’s noose. He had then been horribly beaten/about the head with a club- Hi* throav was hUq .... . j