Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 31, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1926 — Page 1

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REED GRILLS WHEELER IK VOIEPROBE Activities of Anti-Saloon League Partially Revealed by Dry Boss. BITTERNESS FEATURES Fails to Show Spending in Penn State Primary. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June IT. —Financial, political, judicial and legislative activities of the Atni-Saloon League were partially told to the Senate Primary Investigating Committee today by Wayne B .Wheeler, chief of the drys in Washington. Under close examination by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, wet leader and chairman of the investigating committee, Wheeler divulged: The national organization gathered between $150,000 and $200,000. in 1925. State Funds State organizations raised their own sums individually and disbursed them. In perhaps 100 court cases the League has dug up facts for prosecuting authorities—chiefly to protect prohibition agents who they believed had been “framed.” Wheeler’s salary now is SB,OOO a year and his career as a prohibitionist started in college in 1893, when he worked for expenses. Bitter Grill The examination rivaled in bitterness if not in sensations the examination of William Jennings Bryan, evangelist, by Clarence Darrow in the Dayton evolution trial. It did not. progress 'far enough to get into salient facts which Reed was seeking—questions of how much the drys spent in the Pennsylvania primary. Wheeler did not have a record of the financial activities of the League, and he gave only the 1925 estimate. Reed demanded that he wire officials of the League who had the books s.nd furnish the committee with a report on every cent that came in and went out since 1920.

10 MEN DIE! FIREWORKS BLAST Celebration at Church Ends Fatally—Two Hurt. BV United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., June 17—Two men were killed and a third man and a girl were seriously injured in a fireworks explosion during a religious celebration at Shooks Field, Brier Hill, Wednesday night, it became known today. The celebration was under the auspices of St. Roce’s Catholic church and three of those killed or Injured had come here to supervise the pyrotechnics display. Frank Poluso, 18, and Joseph Vital, 2#, both from Newcastle, Pa., were killed and Peter J. lodice, 24, Youngstown and Miss Beatrice Forbes, 20, Newcastle, were injured. Shortly after the blast occurred, Rocco Casella and Paul Magliny, both from Newcastle, were placed under arrest. The two men had contracted to stage the display, it was said. WIDOW TO GET VAN CAMPESTATE Real Estate Jointly Owned — No Will Filed. Mrs. Rosamond McD Van Camp, widow of the late Raymond P. Van Camp, formerly president of the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company, who died May 30, was named administratrix of her husband’s estate today by Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash. She provided $24,000 bond to cover the personal property listed et $12,000. Real estate, said to have been owned jointly, was not listed. „Busl ness interests were not included. No will was filed, leaving everything to ihe widow. MEXICO ARRESTS CATHOLIC Bu United Press MEXICO CITY. June 17.—Ruts Orvananos, attorney for Archbishop Mora, head of the Catholic Church in Mexico, was arrested by govern ment agents Wednesday just as he was boarding a special train which was ready to leave with 250 delegates to the Eucharist Congress In Chicago. The charge was not re tea'" lA' TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 65 10 a. m 80 7 a. m tit) 11 a. m 82 8 a. m 70 12 (noon) .... S3 9 a. m 75

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Woman Routs Thief With Dishrag* A NegJo burglar was routed today by Mrs. Albert Brickhouse. 469 Warman Ave. She threw a soapy dishrag at the intruder. Motorpolicemen Baker and Baker -said Mrs. Brickhouse. who was washing dishes, heard a noise m the adjoining Opening the door she discovered a large Negro ransacking the room and collecting jewelry. The Negro refused to heed her cry to "get” and she hurled the wet rag at him. On the run, he wiped his soapy eyes.

APPROPRIATION REQUESTS FOR SCHOOLS IDE Run High, but Will Be Cut Down to Be Near Levy, Says Business Director. Requests tor appropriations in the 1926-27 school city budget from various departments were turned over to Business Director Ure M. Frazer by departmental heads today, it was announced. Frazer said tentative figures run high, but when the budget is considered by the finance committee it will be sufficiently ctu down to be near the sl.lO levy, the rate of the 1925-26 budget under which the board still is working. Department heads each year recommend appropriations as large as possible. Frazer said the finance committee will pare the requests first into “necessary amounts” and later to “essentials.” He said there was no chapce that the $1,800,000 building program recommended by the instruction committee to the buildings and grounds division for next year could be met. He said about 50 per cent of this might be taken care of. The Shortridge High School $1,000,000* appropriation already Is provided for in the present budget. Frazer declared it wall take ten years to have proper housing conditions in the school city. He said until every portable is torn down and new and ample buildings erected, the conditions will not be desirable. Phone Boy to Wed Du Pont Heiress Bu Times Special , WILMINGTON, Del., June 17. Richard Dorsey Morgan of Wilmington, a clerk in a telephone exchange, who earns $l5O a month, is to marry Elizabeth Frances Du Pont, a member of the wealthy Du Pont family. Their engagement was announced Wednesday by Mr. and Mrs. Philip Francis Du Pont, parents of the girl. SCHOOL REMONSTRANCE Hearing on Bond Issue Held by State Tax Commissioner. A remonstrance against a $55,000 bond issue for constructing anew school building at Clifford, in Flatrock Township, Bartholomew County, was heard today by State Tax Commissioner William A. Hough. Hough announced the board would inspect the site before making its decision. The tax board today directed Allen County commissioners to receive bids on the Woodburn County unit road, for which a $323,000 bond iseue is proposed. House Hears Beer Flowed in Primary Bu United Press WASHINGTON, .June 17.—Good beer could be obtained in Pittsburgh at all saloons which had Pepper-Fisher signs in the windows between May 1 and May 18, the period of the recent primary campaign, K. M. I pdegraff, a former prohibition agent told the House alcoholic liquor traffic committee today. Updegraff also testified that affidavits of liquor purchases were falsified as to dates with the knowledge and consent of the prohibition administrator Baird and J. P. Cavanaught, chief of the Pittsburgh dry agents. GOTHAM SHIVERS Bu Times Special NEW YORK, June 17. The camphor balls were shaken out of winter wraps and furs and furanc-e fires became popular Wednesday as the temperature here dropped thirty degrees in eighteen hours. The athletic mercury slid to 54 at 7 a. m., giving the day the distinction of being the coldest June 16 in a decade.

Dared Her to Marry Him; Regrets It "You’re a coward if you don't marry me!” Thus dared Frank O’Neal. 117 N. Noble St., according to Mrs. Margaret Goolsby, 608 E. Market St., who was slated today by Detectives Lambert and Moore on charges of bigamy and contributing to the neglect of her 17-months-old child. Mrs. Goolsby took O’Neal's dare and married him last August. despite the fact she had married Robert Goolsby, 333 S. Rural St., in Franklin in 1922, ;t was charged. 44 in today O’Neal evidently egret ted his action. The woman was arrested on his complaint.

CARDINALS GREETED BY THOUSANDS Catholic Congress at Chicago Informally Opened as Princes Arrive. WELCOME IS UPROARIOUS Boats, Factory Whistles and Chimes Join in Din. R v United Press CHICAGO, June 17. —Nine princes of the. Catholic church were embraced today by a tenth member of their order. George Cardinal Mundelein, and with this brief ceremony, the largest gathering of people in America's history, the twenty-eighth International Eucharistic congress, was started on its way. The congress will net be opened officially until Sunday, but with the arrival today of nine visiting cardinals, including the papal legate, John Cardinal Bonzano, the festivities were informally inaugurated. Before the congress is ended, 1,000,000 pilgrims will have paid reverence to the blessed sacrament of the Eucharist. Arrive at 9:45 The regally appointed cardinal special which bore the cardinals from New York to Chicago, moved slowly down a lane of cheering thousands, some standing, others kneeling in reverence. The train halted at 0:45 a. m. at a specially constructed platform along the shore of Lake Michigan. Cardinal Bonzano, the highest Catholic dignitary to trod American soil, stood on the observation platform with a group of other cardinals, bowing to the huge throng. Tremendous Welcome As the first cheer swept over the crowd, which had assembled at every vantage point overlooking the tracks, steam whistles in the railroad yards, fog horns on the lake boats and (Turn to Page 2) BOON FOR FARMS SEEN Rivers and Harbors Bill Defended in Hearing. Bu United Piets WASHINGTON, June 17. —Farmers along the Illinois River will save $1,500,000 a year in lower transportation rates on theip crops if the Illinois navigation project involving diversion of water from the Great Lakes is approved by Congress, M. G. Barnes, chief engineer for the State of Illinois, told the Senate Commerce Committee today. Barnes and Representative Madden, Republican, Illinois, defended the diversion project at the committee hearing on the rivers and harbors bill.

CHILDREN WIN CLEMENCY Judge Suspends Blind Tiger Fine and Sentence. Seven children of Calvin Ball, 527 Allegheny St., charged with blind t<- er. dav moved Muncipal Judge Paul G. Wetter to be lenient with the defendant. Three months’ sentence and SIOO fine were suspended. Richard Brasher, 317 W. TwentySeventh St., was fined $25 and sentenced thirty' days on a charge of driving under influence of liquor. He was fined $lO on a drunk charge. The following fines and sentences were imposed on blind tiger charges: James Soenksen, Chicago, SIOO and thirty days, days suspended; Lawrence Davis, 1205 E. Thirteenth St., SIOO and sixty days; Charles Smith, 516 S. West St., SIOO and thirty days, clays suspended. PARENTS SEEKING "SON Charlottsville Youth Last Seen After Speedway Race. Parents of Paul Niles, 20, Charlottsville, Ind., today asked police to aid in search for their son. Niles was last seen May 31, when he was picked up oh the National Rd.. east of the city, by a motorist with a Missouri license. He attended the Speedway race. The youth’s car was found deserted in a field, where he stopped to change tires. Robert Sleight, 4-k of Bedford, who recently visited his mother in Chicago, was also reported missing. I>Ot TOR LOSES SUIT Bu United Press MT. VERNON, Ind.. June 17.—Dr. W. R. Hurst of Evansville, today was ordered to pay SSOO damages to Rosalie Reeder, young Evansville girl because he left a gauze pad in an operation wound. ITALIAN AIRSHIP BURNS Bu Times Svecial ROME, June 17.—Fire partially destroyed the dirigible N-3, recently purchased from Italy by Japan, and threatened for three hours Wednesday afternoon to spread to other dirigibles sheltered nearby at the Ciampino airdrome. BALCONY FALLS: 8 DIE Bu Times Special NAPLES, June 17. —Eight persons were killed and thirty Injured, four probably fatally, as the result of the collapse of a balcony from which Captain Aurelio Padovani. former leader of the local Fascists, was addressing a crewd here Wednesday Cri 't iln I’adovanl was killed.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1926

Too Good a Time on His Parole Thomas Kempy, 43. FYanklin, who celebrated a parole from the Indiana State Farm by getting drunk and being arrested twice by police, today was on his way back to the farm. City Judge Paul B. Wetter dismissed charges of drunkenness against Kempy today when officers expressed the desire to return him at once to the farm. Kempy received a parole to visit at the home of sick rela tives.

COMMISSION SEES FINANCE RECORDS OF REALTY FIRM Adair Company Official Reveals Millions Back of Bonds. i Financial records of the Adair Realty and Trust Company of At lanta, Ga., whose license to sell bonds in Indiana was suspended by State Securities Commissioner David H. Jennings, were offered to the commission today by officials of the barred concern to refute charges of misrepresentation filed by the State Chamber of Commerce. E. A. Erwin, Adair compaany ex ecutive vice president, and William A. Sutherland, counsel, were to appear before the commission and insist on an early disposition of the case, which they claim is costing the concern “hundreds of thousands of dollars" through unsavory publicity. "The procedure has been unfair to a firm whi<Hi has been in business for sixty-one years, which has assets of $2,500,000, which guarantees every bond it sells and sells no bonds which will not be insured by the Globe Indemnity Company of New York,” said Erwin. “We have gone farther than any other concern in safeguarding the interests of investors. We sell no issues which are not insurable. Before any investor in these bonds could lose a dollar the project itself must first fail, then our concern, with its two and a half millions, must fail, and the great insurance company with its unlimited assets must fail. lam interested in (Turn to Page 13) HERRincls DOWNJRIAND Refuses to Enter National Union Cabinet. Bu United Press PARIS, June 17.—Edouard Herriot has refused to enter Aristide Briand’s proposed cabinet of national union, it was semiofficially announced today. Herriot was said to be expecting President Doumergue to offer him the premiership in the event of Briand's failure, and already to have beguu drafting a cabinet list.

DEMOCRATSOPEN STATECAMPAIGN Senatorial Aspirants Busy on Firing Line. With both senatorial candidates on the firing line and State Chairman R. Earle Peters drafting organization plans at State headquarters,, the Democratic State campaign was in full progress today. Albert Stump, long-term senatorial nominee, delivered a nonpartisan address before the Exchange Club of Muncie today and will speak at Portland Sunday night and before the Indiana Telephone Association at Lake Wawassee Tuesday night. Evans Woollen, nominee for the short senatorial term, is touring the Third congressional district. Peters soon will announce permanent State committees. twoloseTives • IN lOWA CYCLONE Nail Driven Into Spinal Column of Woman. Bu United Press CLARINDA, lowa, June 17.—A cyclone which struck here late Wednesday killed two persons, injured a dozen others and caused a property damage estimated at $200,000. • More than a score of houses were shattered by the winds. The dead are J. P. Douglis, 80, and Dennis Usher, 14. Mrs. John C. Morrison, one of the injured, is not expected to live as the winds blew a nail into her sfnnal column. A company of militia is patrolling the wind-swept region.

ID KILLED. 50 HURT AS TRAINS HIT Limited Crashes Into Express, Brought to Stop by Engine Trouble. FLARES PASSED, BELIEF Practically Every Passenger Aboard Injured. Bu United Pres* PITTSBURGH. June 17.—The Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh limited tore into a standing PittsburghWashlngton express at Gray station, near Blairsville, Pa., today and smashed four sleeping cars, killing at least eighteen persons and injuring approximately fifty. The Pennsylvania Railroad, on whose lines the trains were being operated, announced fifteen known dead and said the death list might mount even higher—probably to twenty-two. The I lead The official list of dead follows: E. A. McConnell, Altoona, Pa., engineer of the Limited. A. McLee, New York City, baggagehian of the Limited. N. L. Hollingsworth, Greensburg, Pa., fireman on the Limited. \V. S. Gordon, Uerry, Pa., engineer of the Limited. Dr. C. B. ( arter, Wilkinsburß. Pa. C. B. Bowman, Columbus, Ohio. E. G. Dona hey, Pittsburgh. A. R. IMnsmore, Columbia, S. C. Peter Spaitos, Massillon, Ohio. Thomas M. Porter, Washington, Pa. ('laink 1 Smiles, Cincinnati. T. F. Farrell, Orange, X. J. Mrs. W. B. Dunwoody, Wilkins, burg, Pa., and her two children, aged 5 and 7 years, respectively. Nine of the dead, including the two children were taken to the morgue at Latrobe. The injured were taken to a Latrobe hospital as soon as relief trains sent to the scene could move them. G. M. Sixsmith, division traffic manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, said that the accident was caused by the Cincinneti Limited running by a signal flare. The fuse was burning on the tracks after the collision, he said. He placed the time of the wreck at 12:45 a. m. Sixsmiih said the Washington train was forced to stop by a broken hose coupling. Engineer H. M. Kincaid said a signal man wa's sent back of the cars to place red flares. He said the flares were lit and the crew of the Washington train were making repairs ore the broken coupling when the Chicago, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh Limited crashed into the standing cars. Sleepers Overturned Three sleeping oars were telescoped and the fourth overturned. Hardly a passenger on these cars, according to reports received at headquarters here, escaped without at least some minor hurt. There were screams for help and confusion as the passengers struggled to free themselves from the wreckage. Relief Work A relief train sped to the scene from Pittsburgh. In the meantime, uninjured passengers, largely from the Cincinnati train and those of the trainmen who were not hurt, bent to the work of rescuing. Five bodies were removed from one car. Other dead were found in the wreckage of the other cars or were members of the train crew. Shoot, Says Sister, 5; Lad, 6, Kills Chum Bu Times Special BALTIMORE, June 17.—Virgil Boehler, Jr., 3 years old, was instantly killed Wednesday by his 6-year-old playmate, Frederick Parker, in a childish quarrel at the home of the older boy. The boy killed his playmate after his sister, Edith, 5, climbed on a chair, reachec into the top drawer of a highboy and handed her brother a pistol, telling “fiim to shoot.

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Moths don’t seem to realize how much clothes cost.

MRS. CARL FISHER SUES FOR DIVORCE

Mrs. Jane Watts Fisher. (This photo graph was taken several years ago.)

TWO EXPEDITIONS LEAVESATURDAY One Goes to Arctic —Other to Tropics. Bu United Press CHICAGO, June 17.—two Field Museum expeditions, headed in opposite directions—one to penetrate the frozen wastes of the sub-Arctic and the other to enter the jungles of South America —are prepared to leave the United States Saturday. Commander Donald B. MacMillan, famous Arctic explorer, and a party of Fii Yd Museum scientists will sail northward ffom Wiscasset, Me., on the “Bowdoin" to collect zoological, geological, anthropological and botanical specimens for the museum here. The expedition, financed by Frederick H. Rawson. Chicago hanker, is known as the “Rawson-McMil-lan sub-Arctic expedition of the Field Museum for 1926. Almost at the same hour the Capt. Marshall Field Brazilian expedition will sail from New York for Rio de Janiero. There the party will split for carrying on exploration work in Brazil, the Andes Mountains and the lower reaches of the Amazon River. WILLPRESENT HOMEPROJECT Detention House Proposal to Come Before Council. The proposal of selecting anew site for the County Juvenile Detention Home will be presented to the county council at a special meeting June 28, County Auditor Harry Dunn said today. Dunn said the county commissioners, who have inspected several downtown sites, will present an ordinance asking for a bond issue to cover costs of any site which may be selected. The commissioners have declared the present Detention Home at 1102 N. Capitol Ave., is a fire trap and disgrace to the county. The present home is rented for $325 a month. The county grand Jury at a recent inspection of the horpe deplored its condition. An appropriation to cover the costs of the last primary election also will be made by the council, Dunn said. TYVO RECEIVE DEGREE Rolland L. Dove, Layman Ave., and M. Comble Smith, 2728 Ashland Ave.. were in the class of 325 seniors upon whom Ohio Wesleyan University conferred the bachelor of arts degree at its eighty-second annual .commencement Wednesday. CORNER STONE LAID Bu Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. June 17. —Muncies dream of anew $219,000 Y. W. C. A. building was near realization today. <*'orner stone ceremonies were held Wednesday. Mrs. G. A. Ball piled the trowel.

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Action Against Former Local Capitalist Brought in Paris. Suit for a divorce from Carl G. Fisher, lndiaitapolls Speedway Realty Company president, former Brest-O-Lite Company head and Long Island, N. Y., millionaire, has been filed by Mrs. Jane Watts Fisher in Baris, according to a United Press dispatch Both formerly lived in Indianapolis, where they were married Oct. 23, 1903. The capitalist in recent years

has maintained his residence at Long Island and in Florida, where he has large interests. ’ Mrs. Fisher, who has been in Paris for some time, charged incompatibility in the suit. H£r last visit to Indianapolis, it was said, was about a year ago to attend the burial rites for her husband's mother in Crown Hill cemetery. The elder Mrs. Fisher had a residence on the Meyers Rd. Mrs. Fisher, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Watts, was born tin Indianapolis in 1885. Fisher w.i* born at Greensburg in 1874. The Watts lived near Capitol Ave. and Thirtieth St. at one time. The mother now is living somewhtre in California, it is understood. The Rev. Neal McPherson performed the Fisher marriage ceremony, according to county records. Mrs. Fisher attended the old Fourth Ward School at Blackford and Michigan Sts., recalled. Early In his career, Fisher operated a bicycle shop on Illinois St., between New York and Vermont Sts. Mrs. Fisher formerly worked in the office of an Indianapolis throat specialist, it was said. HELD IN CHECK CASE Frankfort Man Alleged to Have Issued $3,500 Fraudulent Paper. Charles Studebaker, 51, of Frankfort, today was charged with issuing a fraudulent check. Studebaker was returned here from Gary, after it is charged, he issued a $3,000 check on the Maple Road State Bank, In which he had deposited an alleged fraudulent $3,500 check. BLIND STUDENT HONORED Bu United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., June 17. —Clifford Troll, 19, a blind student will be class orator at commencement exercises for Roosevelt High School of Minneapolis tonight. PLAN RUN BOW CONVENTION Plans for entertaining the annual State meeting of the Rainbow Veterans’ Association, were considered at a meeting of the Indianapolis chapter, Wednesday night. Members of the committee in charge: Sidney S. Miller. Daniel I. Olnssbrenner, Paul Fechtman, Howard Maxwell and Edward P. Cook. SAPP HAS ONLY ONE MAN TO BEAT Rotarians in Deadlock With Hoosier a Candidate. Bu United Press DENVER. Colo., June 17.—The Rotary international convention here was In a deadlock today over election of a president with honors, about even between Arthur H. Sapp of Pluntington, Ind.. and Harry H. Rodgers of San Antonio, Texas. When votes were counted at noon. Thomas J. Davis of Butte, Mont., the third candidate, was low man an dwas dropped. Another ballot was taken. To win, the candidate jniust have a majority count. *

Forecast Generally fair tonight and Friday, probably preceded by thunder showers this afternoon or early tonight; cooler.

TWO CENTS

CHURCHMEN DAP POLICE COPDITK Assert Remy’s Charges of ‘lnfluence’ Are True In Letter to Chief. SAY IT’S NOT PERSONAL Extensive Federal Investigation Revealed. Asserting that Prosecutor William H. Remy’s charge that the police department is in the grin of politics cannot be denied, hut denying that Remy personally attacked Police Chief Claude F\ Johnson in a speech last week, the Men’s Club of the Downey Avenue Christian Church today made public an open letter to Chief Johnson. This w;is the latest development in the conflict between Chief Johnson and Remy, which began last week when Johnson took offense at Remy’s remarks before the Men's Club. In the meantime it was revenlen that a F’ederal investigation of til* liquor law enforcement situation has been under way here for some time. Ward Has Evidence Evidence and information obtained through Rernv’s office has been turned over to United States Attorney Albert Ward. The quiz was started by representatives of E. CYellowley of Chicago, district prohibition enforcement administrator and Ansel R. Harris, deputy administrator in Indiana. Prohibition Agent W. O. Holman has been placed in charge. Yellowley has been here several times in connection with the Inquiry. It was said. He suggested that the Federal Government and not the Marion County grand Jury, take up the charges. Department of Justics agents also were seeking James * Polk. Marian Apts., and his wife, in an attempt to get some definite information on bribery charges Involving William J. Kenney. Remy’s special Investigator, accused of accepting a bribe to “fix” liquor cases. Polk completed Investigation o.f activities of Tom Casey and Louie Webber, 105 Maryland Bt., who will be sentenced by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell on liquor law violation charges after Keeney stated the case. ” r hen the two men went on trial Wednesday, Polk was not to be found. The Men’t Club open letter to Chief Johnson was written by George William Brown, dean of the College of Missions faculty and teacher of the club, on authorization of the executive committee. Johnson Criticised Johnson is criticised, in the oom munication. for removing two de tectives assigned to the prosecutor's office. The purpose of the letter was to inform the chief exactly what Remy said in his speech. It stated. Following the trial of the two men, Judge Baltzell ordered a Federal In vesligation of bribery charges. It (Turn to Page 2) GRAND JURY QUIZ ON BOND REPORT

Perjury Law Violations by Bondsmen, Charge. Alleging flagrant violations of the perjury laws of the State, Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack today, declared he would present data to the Marlon County grand Jury which may result in the indictment of a number of local professional bondsmen ‘and bondswomep on perjury charges. Niblack said he has devoted several days to looking up the property owned by bondsmen and the number of bonds they have signed. He sajd he discovered many are on bonds far in excess of the amount of the value of the property they hold. Bondsmen when signing bomb must swear that the property the.) own is in Marion County, fret from Incumbrance and twice th* value of the amount of t>ond, Niblack said. “This is a scandalous situation and will be investigated to the full eat extent." said Niblack. Prosecutor Wlllim H. Remy, who authorised the probe, declared it will be more difficult for bootleggers to appeal their cases, if bondsman are forced to meet all requirements of the law. ( GARY BUILDING HALTED Lockout Slope All Work on $10,000,000 Program. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., June 17.—The city’s record $10,000,000 building program wan at a complete standstill today. The tieup follow'ed action of the Gary building contractors' ansocia tion In declaring a lockout against all organized labor because the union men refused to work on Jobe where factory glazed window aash was used. The unions claimed the factory glazed saah wan produced by unor ganized tabor. N