Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1922 — Page 1

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HlfSlH LETTERBOOSTING RAY IN CONTEST Mayor Denies Signing Missive or Authorizing Use of His Officiai Signature. MUST WORK AT CITY HALL Employes, Executive Avers, Will Attend Duties Before Seeking News Subscriptions. Policemen, firemen and other city employes cari solicit subscriptions for thè benefit of Couneilman Otto Ray in thè Indianapolis News circulation contest, but they must not do it ■iurìng hours they are supposed to be on duty, Mayor Shank said today. He ordered Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff and Fire Chief John J. O'Brien to notify immediately all men in their departfinents of his wishea. The mayor denied having written, sic ned or consented that his signature might be attached to a letter urging people to subseribe for thè Indianapolis News for thè benefit of Ray or ary one. “All I've done is to say I thought policemen and firemen owed it to Ray to help hlm.” said thè mayor. Report at City Hall Asked what he thought of thè letter Ray sent to policemen and firemen telling them to turn in subscriptions and get supplies at thè office of City Ccntroller Joseph L. Hogue. thè mayor said: “I expect we'll have to stop that too." Ray said a report policemen had been assigned during working hours to help him was untrue. "I have just been going down to headquarters at roll cali time and picking out a eouple of good men to help me aster they are off duty." said Ray. The Letter in Question The letter which Mayor Shank denied signing or authorizing his signature to be use.! on. follows: "CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS "Office of thè Common Council "Theodore J. Bernd. President. "Dear Sir and Friend —We thè un xiersigned are interested in helping lotto Ray be a winner in thè New: 'Prize Contest. Cren though you have aireadv given your subscription to some other entrant in thè prize con test, this will not interfere with you and your frlends giving Ray an additlonal (renewall subscription to i*ecome effective upon thè date of expiratlon of a present subscription. "The reguiar profits of thè News carriera will not be affeeted by subscriptions given to Ray as a contesiar.t. Paid in advance subscribers wili receive a book from which they will ■each week tear out a coupon of 12 eents value each and pay It to thè News carrier boy instead of money. The carrier will cash these coupons at thè News for full face value. thus enabling him to realize his customary money returns from thè newepaper sules and at thè same time enable Ray to receive eredita in thè prize contest. Ray will receive equal eredita for both new and old renewal subscriptions, but it ls imperative accordlng to thè rules of thè contest that each subscription shall state whether it la a new or old one. "A year’s subscription gives Ray 14,000 credits. In additlon to our own subscription if all of us give our •am est efforts in Ray’s behalf, there is no doubt but what he will go over thè top. "It will be appreclated by us if you will go among your frlends and acjuaintances and seeure as raany subrcrlptions for Otto Ray as possible. "The contest ends Dee. 9, but be ■ure to turn all thè new subscriptions you get before Nov. 9. as there is a special prize to be given on that date for new subscriptions. I Sisned > ma A. !.. BRAMBLEtT. couneilman Vlrst districi. "BEN H. THOMPSON couneilman Sccond districi. "lAOTD D. CLATCOMBE. couneilman Third dlatrict. "WILLIAM E. CLAUER, couneilman Third diatrict. '•WALTER W. WISE. couneilman Fourth distrlct. "THEODORE J. BERND. couneilman Fifth districi. “HEYBEN W. BUCHANAN. couneilman FlXtu distrkt. "JOHN E. KING, couneilman Sixth distiict. "SAMUEI, LEWIS SHANK. mayor." “P. S.— Return subscriptions and money to Joseph Hogue, city controller, city hall. Tf you wish additional conteatants’ recei|>t books or subscription hl.-mks they will be furnished you by >lr. Hogue or Otto Ray. phone Ifirexel "07*. Aster getting as inany subscriptions as possible be sure and return contestants’ leccipt cover and amali stubs for Ray's record.” fourTurors selected FOR MINE MURDER TRIAL MARION. Ills.. Nov. 15.—Four of thè twelve men who are to sit as thè jurors in thè first Harring massacre trial were selected in Circuit Court here today. Thirty-seven men were exami ned.

THE WEATHER

HOURL.Y TEMPERATURE. • a. m 39 10 a. m 43 T a. m 3S 11 a. ni 45 8 a. m 39 12 (noon) 47 9 a. m 4?

Meredith Nichqlsons Story of Indianapolis, “A. Hoosier Chronicle”StartsThursday in The Times. Doni Miss It.

UNINVITED GUEST BUSTS WA YINTO ‘STORK SHOWER ’

They were giving a stork shower for Mrs. Willie Carey of Douglas St. The guests were meni bere of thè Mr. and Mrs. Willie Carey set. Mr. Willie Carey is promlnent in police circles, his name appears frequently on thè city prison register. Sounds of thè party were wafted on thè breezes that fanned thè 400 block of Douglas St. Joe “Duinmy" Ford heard thè gay noise and realized that he had been snubbed. He had not been invited to thè stork shower. Considering himself a member of thè set, “Dummy” decided to attend thè party. His knock on thè Carey door was answered by Viola Kress of Blackford St. When Miss Kress saw who was knocking. she slammed tho door and Mr.—Ford promptly kloked lt in. In establishlng his presence at

NEGROSTRANGLES DEICONESSNURSE Miss Esther Sconce, 24. a nurse at thè Deaconess hospital, was brutally strangled by a colored man who entered her room in thè nurses' home adjoining thè hospital building, at 12:30 a. m. today. Miss Sconce awakened when she felt thè fingerà of thè man dose about her neck. She tried to scream, but thè man's handa closed tight across her throat and thè frightened nurse struck him in thè face with her fists. Heats Man Off The blows Ftaggered thè man. Using all her strength, she hit hlm a blow squarely in thè mouth. His fingerà sliDped from her throat and he fieli against thè dresser by thè bed. Miss Sconce began screamlng and thè man fan from thè room through a hallway to an open window. He reac-hed thè sire escape and climbed down, maKJng his escape. Sergeant Dean and thè emergency squad investigated. They sound thè prowler had climbed thè sire escape and entered thè nurses home by raising a screen and a window at thè second iloor. There were prints of thè man's hands and shoes on thè bed. Miss Seonce's throat was badly marked and bruised. Miss Sconce described thè man as being about 25 years old. five feet nlne inches in height and weighlng 150 pounds. He had llght yellow pkin and a mustache. He wore a brown shirt and brown trousers and cap •lisa Sconce followed thè man to thè hallway as he ran from her room and tho lights in thè hallway gave hti a chance to see her assailant. Some months ago other nurses in ine Deaconess Hospital nurses’ home were attacked by a prowler who entered their rooms. The police failed to find thè prowler. STREETSUBWAY ISNOTLIGHTED Women are afraid to walk from their work on thè south side through t'ne Delaware St. subway under thè tuack elevation becau#- it is unlighted. City Civil Engineer John L. Elliott. in charge of track elevation for thè city, was informed today. He admitted thè subway has been unlighted for almost a year. No relief can be promised for less than three or four months. Elliott said. For severa! months thè city and thè Merchants Hc-at and Light Company have been experimentìng in thè Me ridian St. subway to find thè tight kind of lighting System for all subways. The utility had one pian finititeli and an estimate of it cost complete. but it was lost and thè work is being repeated, Elliott said. In another month thè new System shouid be irxstalled in Meridian St., he said. If lt is successali other subways shouid be lighted in two or three months thereafter. according to fidili ott. Controversy over who shall pay for thè installation has held up progress. Elliott said. The city holds thè railroads must stand thè expense, but thè railroads do not. Ldghting of each subway will cost between $5,000 and SB.OOO. Elliott estimated. TWELVE KILLER IN LATER ORANE Bp Vnited Preso SANTIAGO. Chile, Nov. 15.—Twelve prisoners were killed and a squad of soldiers buried beneath falllng walls when a new series of earthquakes oecurred in thè Copiano district early today. The soldiers were searching among ruins for victlms of last Saturday’s terrific quakes. GOSHEN MAN SHOOTS WIFE AND DAUGHTER Bp I niteii Press GOSHEN, Ind.. Nov. 15.—Louis Wltt, 70. shot and fatally wounded in? wife. 45, and his stepdaughter, Elizabeth Tctziaff. 14. today. aecording to thè poiiee. Witt was said to bove quarrelled with his wife about money.

thè party he is said to have knocked over a four-gallon container of ice cream. Miss Kress is said to have slapped his face. A shot was fired, but none of thè guests was hit by thè bullet. Willie Roach, a neighbor of thè Careys joined thè festivities. A pleasantytime was being had when an enclosed car drove up to take some of thè guests away—a car marked in gold lettera "Police Patrol.” Miss Kress will teli Judge Wilmeth why she ls said to have committei assault and battery; Willie Roach will answer a charge of disorderly conduct; “Dummy" Ford was awarded two charges, assault and disorderly conduct. Mrs. Carey’s revolver was taken to headquarters because, it was said, sire had no permit to own a weapon.

HeavyHattie Heap Ha ppy Bp Vnited Xeics NEW YORK, Nov. 15. —llattie, thè 45-year-old lady elephant in Central Parg, is feeling mueh better since head keeper Jim Coyle gave her a wee nipple of Scotch —four quarts, to be exact. The old girl refused to get up for breakfast Sunday morning. Her illness caused great disturbance at thè Zoo until a doctor wcnt over her tummy with a siedge hanimer, tapplng lightly for thè teli-tale sounds which mean various things to a doctor. “Tummy ache is all,” said thè veterinary. "Get her on a light diet — about nix quarts of bran mash. Then give her a little snlfter of rum—not more than a gallon. Slie’ll get well.” GERMANLEADERS SEENCRALITIRfI By Vnited Presi BERLIN, Nov. 15.—Gertnan leaders today sought a combination of politicai groups sufficlently stallie to produce a premier. The Wirth govemment reslgned aster nineteen stormy months of office. Refusai of thè United Socialista to Join a eoalition which included thè Gcrman Peoples party, which ls backed by Hugo Stinnes and other conservutive elements, was tiie immediate cause of Wirth's downfall. Eight persona were killed and many injured in food riots Tuesday. Tn Cologne. whiye four were kii’ed. thè police were oalled upon to break up an ailoged communist demonstra tion, thè autlioritie* seizlng pamphlets advocating a generai strike. It ls estimated flfty thousand aro unemployed in Cologne. Mere ’s How One Mayor Docs It Bp Vnited Press YOUNGSTON. Ohio, Nov. 15. Mayor George Ree te assaulted a reporter for thè Youngstown Telegram today when thè reporter oalled at thè mayor's home tn interview him concernlng alleged vice conilitions In Youngstown. The Telegram. in a series of investlgatior.s. had charged that gambling dens operated almost withln tlie shadow of police headquarters. ANTI STRINE BILL ISCOMING EARLY (Copyright. 1922. by United Press) WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.—An ariti strike bill will be Introdueed by Senator Cummins, lowa, early in thè extra session of Congress whicli meets Mondav. This will be thè keynote nreasure in a program of industriai legislation which Cummins, as chairman of thè Senato Interstate Commerce Committee, will oropose. HAMMER CASE T 0 JURY Bp Vnited Press LOS ANGELES, Cai., Nov. 15.—' The “hanuner murder" gocs to ihe jury today. The jury wlilch will decide if Mrs. Phillips is guilty of thè murder of Mrs. Alberta Moadows is composed of nine men and three women.

NEW LAW PROPOSED FOR REGULATION OF INDIANA MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES

Want to be married? Or dlvorced? Better do lt now. There's a move under way to make both more difficult. A measure is being framed for introduction lfi tlio next Indiana legislature to take some of thè laxity out of thè State’? present iaws regulating marritige and divorce. Mrs. Edward White, deputy attorney generai of Indiana, is thè author of thè proposed law. It ls planned to be introduced by Miss Elizabeth Ralney who has been elected a member of thè legislature. Mrs. AYhite is hopeful of having thè sanie law adopted in other States and fìnally by Oongress. The proposed law coverà thè following points: That before a marriage can be perv. rmcd there must ho two competent

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 1922

POLICEMEN MUST NOT SAY THIS ABQUTSRPEffiS Cops or Firemen Who Talk Against Officers Liable to Expulsion. SAFETY BOARD RE-FORMS Mayor Determined to Stop Practice of ‘Talking Things Over on Street Corners.’ Policemen or firemen who talk about their superbir officers or say anythlng to tho detriment of their Service will be lirought before thè board of Public safety on charges of Insubordination. The board of pubiic safety. upon ruggestion of Mayor Shank ut a special meeting today, agreed to lssuo a generai warning to this effect. Ruies of both dopartmenta provido for sudi procedure. Elmer F. Gay, who replaced Edward G. Sourbier as Republicati member of thè board, took his oath of office this morning and took part in thè meeting. He lndoreed thè present polldes of t iie mayor and thè board, partioularly as to strict enforcement of thè liquor laws. If policemen or firemen have oom plaints to rnake eitlier about their superior officers or thè servire they can avoid detnotion or dismisaal by taklng thè mattar up with thè chief or their immediate superior who wili take tho complalnt higher if it is lmportant enough, thè hoard agreed. This is how tho mayor propose* to stop tiie practice f "talking things over on Street corners." Want Gossip Uniteti Gay told thè mayor he would re fuse to listen to complaints whicli did not come through thè chlefs, and suggested thè mayor do thè sanie. The mayor replied that possibly ho had been a bit too lenlent in this regai'd and that henceforth he intended to follow tlie policy rigidly. “They are not doing me a favor when they hunt me up and bother me witli these potty coiuplaintn,” said thè mayor. To promote better understanding between tiie board and men In thè departmenta, tho mayor suggeeted that once a month all police and sire e.-vptairi* and tlie two chlefs meet with .it le. “t meni! eros tlie board and thè mayor at thè city hall and talk over i onditlons generally. Tho board agreed this was a good idea, and Eresi dent E. 1,. Kingston said he litui me*, with sire captains se verni times. Firo Chief John J. O'Brien said thè pian ha<l brought good resulta In his de partment. The mayor suggested that Cliief Rlklioff rotate thè five captains on straight police duty on thè various shifts and inside and outside duty. The hoard consented. Tr.affic Captata Michael .1. Glenn is not affeeted by this. Kaving it was "thè only pleasure 1 get out of being mayor." Rhank dlrecteil that Ite be consultar! upon every promotion or demotlon. Tho board agreed. Upon thè mayor’s statement that Police Chief Herman F. Rikhoff has endangered liis health by hard work. thè board granted Rikhoff three weeks vaca tion at his own con ventenne. Inspector White probably will tie chief in liis ulisence. STATE FAILS T 0 REJECT JURYMAN WITH SCRUPLES Bp Vnited Press MARION. Ili., Nov. 15.—Tlie denth penalty will net be demanded by thè State In thè trial of five men accused of partieipatlon in thè Herrin mine massacre, it was indleated by prosacuting attorneys today. Whlle every venireman is nsked his opinion on capitai punishment, a statement that he would not vote for tlie death penalty, does not bar li ! ni. Only three jurors of tho first panel were in tho box as tho third day's examlnation of veniromen got under way. ASSERTS HE WAS ROBBED AND THROWN FROM TAXI John Mathews, living nt thè Rroadway Hotel, told tho police he was robbed of $24 and buried from a taxi cab by two men at 3 a. m. today. The polire investigated and then arrested Mathews on a charge of drunkenness.

witnesses other than thè offlciating person, regardless of customs. rules and regnlations of any religious society, denomination or sect. No person shall Ire joined in marriago until a license shall have been ottained from thè officiai authorized hy thè Siate to do so, nanrely, thè marriage iicense clerk of thè county in which they reside or interni to be marrìed in. Advance Applications Application for license must be mado by one of thè parties to thè marriage at icast two weeks before th* license is issued. unless in a case of an emergency. tho judge of thè Circuit Court grants thè issutng of thè license immediately. AppHcnnts must noi be married

POLICE TAKE SIX AS BANDITS

Chile’s Most Beautiful Woman I _j i

Regina do Bettincourt. daughter of an attaché of thè Chilean embassy in London, has lieen selected as th c most beautiful woman in Chili by E. O. Hoppe, famotis artlat photogmidier. The Cliilean beauty ls thè wife of tire Earl of Lisburne.

BRITAINELEGTIN6 NEH WNMENT Bp Vnited Press LONDON, Nov. 15.—Great Rritain is today elccting a new House of Gommoni. There will be 615 seats in thè new Common. This is nlnety-rsix less than in thè old parllament, due to thè tei rnination of thè south of Ireland reprcsentatlon. followlng th'- establishment of tlie Irisii Uree State. The Protestarli north of Ireland. hoivever, will stili ho represented in thè Coni mons because thè Ulstcrmcn have refused to abandon their intimate imperiai relationship. N'ortli Ireland has thirteen constituencies, Engiand has 492, Scotland seventy-four and Wales thirty six. Fifty seven seats. induding IJoyd George'*, are not being contested. r or tlie rOmalning 558 seats there are 1,286 candidate.* in thè fleld. They are divlded lnto six groups: Conservatlves. or Bonar Law Unionista; National Liberala, or Lloyd George s party; Independetit Liberala, or As qulth’s party; Labor party, or moderate wing of thè workingmen; Independent Lihor party, or radicai working class supporterà; Independents, embracing all who hold ailegienco to none of tlie foregoing. About tliirty women are among tlie candidate*, iieaded hy Lady Astor, and induding Lady Wintringham, Lady Cooper, laidy Howard Stepney, and Mrs. Arthur Bourchier. tho actress. VESSEL SIGNALS ASKING RELIEF Bp Vnited Press BOSTON, Nov. 15.—Tho S. S. Ilern-aita,-a shipping board vessel is in dlstress and adrift in tnid-Atiantlo. according to S O S signais intercepted here today. A few mlnutes aster tlie Hemaita’s signais were heard tire, shipping board steamship Saucon replied sho was steamlng at full speed to thè resoue. LAUNDRYMF.N T 0 MEET The fall meeting of thè Indiana Latindrymens Assoclation will be held at thè Hotel Lincoln tomormw. C J. Eichel of Evansville. president of thè association, will preside.

to any one at thè tinie, must be of thè legai uge, same color and free froni any contagious disenso. and must not be a nearer relative than second couain. When application is nude for license, thè county clerk shall enter thè names of thè contracting parties on public record and shall post thè names of thè parties in his office so any person believing thè statements of thè application to be untrue or insufflcient. may file with thè clerk and court, a petition setting out grounds for objection. Legai age, boys 21 years and girl 18 years without cotisent of guardians. Boys 18 and girla Ifi must bave consent of guardian. No one under thcse ages shall be given a license.

CHARLES SCHWAB HERE IN INTEREST 0F STUTZ Charles M. Schwab, New York flnan- I der and stockholders in thè Stutz Mo-1 tur Car Co., will ire thè guest of honor at a testimonial dinner tonight 1 to be given In thè Travertino room of thè Hotel Lincoln. XV. N. Thompson, president of rhe company and other officiai wili attend. Precedlng thè dinner, u meeting will he held at thè Stutz factory at which a program of enlargement wili ire <!iscussod before and by npproxlmately 100 dealer* and distributore. WANTS GAS TAX TBBBILD ROSDS "A gasoline .ax law shouid be passed in Indiana to encourage roadbuiiding program and caro for tlie malntanenco of thè State road fumi." stated I.uko W. Duffey. Stato representatlve elect. In his aadress. “Tlie Good Huads yuestion," before tlie morning Hession of thè nlneteenth annua! convention of tlie County Commissioners' Assoclation of Indiana, in session at tlie Hotel Severin. Mr. Duffey stated that roads in thè future must he built commensurate with traffic demanda and tlie taxpayers' nblllty to pay. He also expressed himself as favorable to a salary raiae for county commissionerà. H. O. Gamian followed with a discussimi of “Making Roads Safe for Traffic." Mr. Garman also advocated a gasoline tax. sa.ving that a veliicle shouid pay in proportion to thè number of miles traveled and thè load carried over thè highways. Mr. Garman attacked thè method used by interurban conrpanies in discrediting highway transportatlon. 110 said that lt was their ultimate airn to discoli rage road building projeets. COLORED BURGLARGETS REFORMATORY SENTENCE (ìeorge Francis, 28. colored. was tlned SIOO and costa and sentenced to from one to fourteen years in thè Indiana riformatori’ hy Judge James A. Collins in Criminal Court today. Ho was disfranchised for one year. Francis confessed steaìing merchandise vaiued at $2,000 from a sture owned by Maurice Tadel, 308 Indiana Ave.

Marriage license clerk shall, once each year, on a prepared blank. give thè names of thè parties obtaining licenses to wed, including all facts required. l’rovides New Grounds Grounds for divorce include adultery, except wlien offense has been committed with thè consent of party: cruci and inhuman treatment, mental or physical: abandonment or failure to provide for period of one year or more; incurable inr> nity: conviction of lnfamous crime for which person is imprisoned fìve years or more. l'pon thè granting of a divorce an interlocutory deeree shall be entered in favor of thè plaintiff and sliall become effectiye only aster thè lapse of one year. Enti! sudi heoomes final, neither party may marry.

Entered ig Serond-class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis Publislied Daily Exeept Sunday.

WOMAN IS BRAINB OF ALLEGED ROBBER BAND HEADED SDNNY Bili Seventeen-Year-Old Girl Is Held as One of thè Active Members of Crew of Holdup i Experts Now in Custody. SHANK PERSONALLY LEADS OFFICERS Accused Believed to Have Taken Part in Bold Robbery of Alert State Bank Several Months Ago. A woman was thè brains of a gang of bank robbers who held up one bank and who were responsible for some forty other robberies in Indiana, thè police announced today. The loot of thè gang is said to total hundreds of thousands of dollars. The woman, Mrs. Marnie Isley, 39, living on thè road, was one of six persona alleged to be conneeted with thè robbery arrested today. This brings thè tota-l number of arresta up to twelve, induding '‘Sonny” Dumi, notorious Chicago police ckaractcr, who is lighting extradition.

Jl.lfl CIRRATE BELIEIIED LIKEL! On thè basi of a valuation of $lB,000,900, thè Citizens Gas Company can earn 7 per cent with a gas rate of sl.lO, according to testimony given in thè gas rate case before William I*. Kappes, master in chancery, by Lawrence Carter, accountant for thè Public service commission of Indiana, today. At present thè company is receiving $1.20 under thè terrns of an inJunction issued in Federai Court in Aprii. It ls generally understood that thè commission will be satisfied if'a rate not in exeess of sl.lO eventually is ordered by thè court. miyoltoint ■ SMDKY FURNACES llow many smoky furnaces are ojierated in Indianapolis and where are they? The mayor’s smoke elimination conimittee today decided to learn this before it makes plans to rid thè city of them. Mrs. John M. Judah, fornter president of thè Smoke Abatement League: Mrs. Felix T McWhirter, president of thè Woman’s Department Club; Mrs. W. H. Hart, president of thè Housewives' League; Mrs. G. W. Gordon. | chairman of thè board of health conimittee of thè League of Women Voterà: Mrs. G. Q. Dunlap, chairman of the community welfare department of thè Woman's Department Club, and Mrs. E. C. Robins. chairman of thè civic committee of thè Parent-Teach-ers' Federation, promised to distribuì e questionnaires through their organizations to distriets to be mapped out by Lawrence V. Sheridan, executive secretary of thè city pian commission. and member of thè mayor's committee. The representa ti ves met with thè committee today. CHESTTOTALHAS REAGHEO 5287,518 A total of $74.596 additional has been donateli to thè Community Chest, it was reported at thè community cliost luncheon today. This is in addition to thè $192,513 al ready reported. making a gra nd total of $267,509. FEDERAL SLEUTHS FIND BIG RING 0F BOOTLEGGERS Bp Vnited Press CHICAGO, Nov. 15.- —The operations of a $5.000,000 bootleg organization were disclosed here today. Federai authorities claimedIndictments were filed against for-ty-four employes of thè Pullman company. alleged distributore of thè booze. HELD FOR COLLECTING FOR UNDELIVERED COAL Charged with collecting money for : coal he never delivered. Alex Bramii. ■ 25, of 935 Beecher St.. was arrested I today. and was placed in jail in de | fault of borni of $5,000.

Forecast Fair tonight and Thursday. Colder tonight.

TWO CENTS

Included in thè six additional mem bere of thè gang under arresi Ì3 Mia Opal Isley, 17, daughter of Mrs. Isley, The others are Charles M. Perdue, 62. of 1141 River Ave.; Walter L. Perdue, 51, of thè same address; Albert Isley, husband of Mrs. Isley, and a man giving his name as John Cox, alias Kemp. The bank robbery with which thè gang is conneeted is that of thè Alert State Bank, which was looted aster employes and customers had been held up. Each of thè persona arrested waj held under a high bond. Formai i charges have not been completed. Mayor Shank took an active pari in rounding up thè bandita. The I mayor. Inspeetor of Detective Muli lin, Detectives McGlenn and Deßossette and DeWitt Parker, another al leged member of thè gang arrested some time ago. left police neadquarters in a fast automobile. They went to thè Isley home near which Parker said thè bandits had hidden $70.000 in bonds, a part of their loot. The bonds were not there. "We have every member of thè gang now.” Inspector Mullin said. "It i,s thè biggest robbery case ever handled by thè Indianapolis police." Among thè robberies which thè gang is charged with being responsible was thè robbery of thè Alert State Bank last August. An employe of thè bank is said to have identifìed Parker positively as one of thè robbers. Among other “jobs” with which they ara charged are thè cracking*' of a safe at thè Eagles’ Clubrooms: thè robbery of thè Em-Roe sporting goods store and numerous other offenses. Six alleged members of thè gang were arrested some time ago. They are Cecil Johnson, 2039 Hazel St.; William (Sonny) Dunn. Chicago; John Bogish, Chicago; DeWitt Parker, Indianapolis; Robert Prater, Indianapolis and Louis Schulingburg, Chicago. Dunn, thus far, has successfully fought extradition. It was stated at police headquarters that Johnson, also known as Harry Miller, is a friend of Miss Isley. It is believed that additional faets eonceming thè robberies were uncovered through this connection. THEATERPARTNER ISIS RECEIVER Appointment of a receiver to administer thè affaire of thè Park Theater was asked in a suit filed in j Circuit Court today by Howard Dunn, ' a member of thè partnership of Dunn & Black, which has operated thè theater sirice Oet. 22. Glenn E. Black, thè other partner, was made defendant. Dunn charged his partner with mismanagement of thè business. He also alleged that Black used more than his share of tlie fìrm's profits for personal benefit and that he paid theatrical troupes unreasonable suins to wreck thè business and force Dunn out. FRANCES KENNEDY T 0 APPEAR AT EXPOSITION Frances Kennedy, aster her usuai appearances at thè Palace Theater Thursday night, will be rushed to thè Englewood Orafts and Products Exposition. in thè new community hall of thè Englewood Christian Church. to contribute to thè evening's entertainment. Herb Jennings. manager of thè Pai ace. readily consented to "loaning” thè high-salaried funmaker to thè Englewood Church. She will arrive at thè community hall about 9 p. m. Thursday.