Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1927 — Page 2

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CHINESE MENACE FOREIGNERS WHO FLED 10 ISLAND British Gunboat on GuardMob Abducts American at Shanghai. ( it Hi and Press xANKOW, Jan. 31. —Mobs were hacing foreigners remaining in mgsha, Hunan Province, south lvankow, and a British gunboat is guarding the island on which ■fy have taken protection, a report Jui Hunan said today. The Spanish Catholic mission :ra reported to have ordered the ithdrawal of its foreign staff from 11 parts of the province. Hu United Press LONDON. Jan. 31. United States Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton and Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, it was said today, would confer in a few days about China. Houghton reached England Saturday midnight after a holiday in the United States. CHINA MAKES TItOTEST Objects to Britain's Dispatch of War Equipment. Du United Press SHANGHAI, Jan. 31.—The Pekin government today protested to Great Britain against the dispatch of British troops, battleships, tanks and airplanes to China. A note addressed to Britain by the Pekin Foreign Office said such warlike activities violated the nine-power Washington treaty as well as Article 10 of the League of Nations. The Chinese owned British mail steamer Seangbee, en route to HonkKong from Singapore, wirelessed today for help following an attack by pirates. The meagre wireless statement reported the master and European passengers have been taken ashore by the pirates at Biftssbay, near Moy, China. Foreign warships were rushing under full steam to their aid. To the popping of firecrackers and gigantic parades, the Chinese New Year dawned today upon Shanghai, when thousands of foreigners, tensely awaiting the impending fall of the city before the invading armies of south China, feared the festivities would be transformed into anti-for-eign demonstrations. Kent Wells, associate editor of the American registered China Courier, was arrested on a British warrant charging him with failurii to pay taxes. A few hours later armed Chinese abducted him, and also seized Francis Zia, Chinese editor of the same paper. Brought before Marshal Sun Chunn-Fang, chief of the defending armies of Shanghai, they were charged with sedition and threatened with execution. Insistent demands by the American consul that they be released have been unavailing. CHINESE POLICY OPPOSED Borah and Olliers to Attack Administration for Using Force. Du United Preen WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The Administration faces another attack on its foreign policy. Hitherto it has been Nicaragua and Mexico. Now it is to be about China. Senator Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Itelations Committee, and Representative Porter, head of the House Foreign Relations Committee, want quick diplomatic action to meet the Chinese crisis. President Coolidge, after the cool Chinese reception of Secretary of State Kellogg’s statement of policy, lias ordered three of the best cruisers in the Navy to Hawaii to join the American armada of fifty-six war vessels already in or near Chinese waters. With anti-foreign riots and civil war menacing the lives and property of the 12,000 Americans in the yellow republic, the President has decided to provide protection first and talk terms after. Dog Saves Purse, and Now a House l!u United Preee ROONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 31. "Spot,” the dog that found his mas cr’s pocketbook. won new laurels ben he saved his master's home •nm fire. The family of William Koutz was Itting at the supper table when 3pot,” chained to his kennel, saw blaze on the roof. He lunged, -oke his chain and ran to ICoutz. Odin# him outside. Last year Koutz decided to get rid “Spot” because the dog stole eggs, le took him in an auto to West aden and threw him out and chased him away. When Koutz came home le found his wallet containing S3O was gone. Next morning he fouisrt “Spot" at the door wagging his tail, and With the wallet with the SSO in his mouth. So “Spot” stayed.

3 HELD AFTER RAID Big Moonshine* Haul Made on Farm Near Vincennes. Du United Per** VINCENNES. Ind.. Jan. 31. Three men were under arrest here today charged with violation of the liquor laws following a raid on a form south of Vincennes. Officers seized a 200-gallon still. 45 gallons of moonshine liquor, 35 barrels of and GOO pounds of sugar in the raid. The men arrested were Tony Chancellor, a tenant on the farm, and Herman Ayers and Eli Crane. Ayers and Crane were among the fifty persona arrested a year ago in a Federal clean-up of bootlegers aad blind tiger operators liere.

Sybil Bauer, Swim Star, Is Dead

Sybil Bauer

Hii United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—Miss Sybil Bauer, holder of many American swimming records, died early today, following an operation for intestinal disorders. She hud been ill for several months, but last week was reported recovering. She suffered a set-back over the week-end, however. Miss Bauer was a member of the last American Olympic team and was the star back-stroke swimmer among the women of the country. She was to have been married this spring to Edward Sullivan, New York newspaper man. Miss Buuer held twenty-three world records in the backstroke division in distances varying from the 100-meter to the quarter-mile events. Her swimming career was started at the age of 15 while a student at the Schurz High School here. After graduating from high school she continued her swimming at Northwestern University and then won many victories under the banner of the Illinois Athletic Club. Her last competition was at St. Augustine, Fla. Despite her illness, Miss Bauer had gone forward with her plans to marry in June. While she was in the hospital, her sorority sisters at Gamma Phi Beta had been assisting her in preparing a hope chest. Her fiance was at her bedside when death came. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.

Far and Near

MAIROBI, British East Africa.— Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, American explorers ill with pneumonia in the interior of Africa, are reported out of danger and progressing slowly toward convalescence. IjONDON.—Sir Robert Buchanan Jardine, famous owner ana breeder of race horses, died suddenly at his Scottish residence, Castle Milk ROME.—The report that Chancellor Marx of Germany soon would visit Italy to confer with Premier Mussolini was officially denied here. MAI lit 11).—Ext raordi nary police inrasures prevented a scheduled meeting of protest in front of the Mexican embassy, at which the “base imperialism of the United ; States” was to have been condemned. Several persons who insisted upon entering the embassy were arrested. ROTTERDAM. Holland.—The first of two submarines being built here for Turkey was launched in the presence of a large crowd. ROME.—Cardinal Sinrern has been uppoinled by Pope Pius to study pluns for resumption of the sessions of the economical council which was interrupted in 1870 when Ihe Italians seized Rome. TJie resumed council would be the greatest assemblage of Catholic bishops in history and would continue for months. PHILADELPHIA. Sir George Byron Gordon, director of the University of Pennsylvania museum and an internationally known archaeologist. died at the Jefferson Hospital Sunday from injuries received in a fall. He wag 56. BODY TAKEN FROM RIVER Youth Drowns While Swimming Horses Across River. Du United Pre* MT. VERNON, Ind., Jan. 31. The body of George Carroll, 17, drowned in flood waters of the Wabash River, was recovered early today. Carroll, a student In the Mt. Vernon High School, and a companion were swimming two horses across a deep slough filled with water, west of Mt. Vernon. Carroll's horse stumbled, throwing him into the icy water. He was an expert swimmer, but the cold water caused cramps and he drowned. He was the son of Hardin Cat roll, Posey County farmer. CALLS DOCTOR, DIES Mail Expires Soon After Physician Arrives. Ru Time* SneeUil ARGOS. Ind., .Tan. 31.—Summoning a physician by telephone to his residence two miles southwest of Argos. Baryney Laffert, 60, said he believed he was about to suffer a heart attack. A few minutes after the doctor’s arrival he lapsed into unconsciousness and expired.

AUTO ACCIDENTS IN STATE TAKE TOLL OF 6 LIVES Man and Wife Drown When Machine Upsets Near Anderson. Lured by the first spring-like day of the year, motorists flocked to the highways Sunday, clear of ice and snow for the first time in weeks, with the result that six in the State were dead today,victims in traffic accidents. Five persons were injured in Indianapolis. Ralph Hurst, 26, and his wife, Osa, 24, were drowned near Anderson when an auto plunged into Kilbuck creek. Four other occupants of the auto escaped Injury. Mrs. Glenn Carter, one of those who escaped, extricated herself from the submerged auto and swam to shore. The others leaped as the auto dived. Bridge Removed The accident occurred when Hurst drove down an old cut of road on the Anderson highway and failed to see that the bridge had been moved to straighten the highway. Autos driven by Cecil Smith and Earl Maple collided near Franklin, killing Smith’s 5-year-old son. Maple and Smith were on their way to Sunday school. Two at Vincennes Two men were killed and another injured when a speeding auto crashed into the side of a fast passenger train on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad at a crossing in Vincennes. The dead were Elmer Messer, 27, and Burrell Pinkstaff, 19. They were thrown under the wheels of the train and their bodies were badly mangled. Albert King, 47, was taken to a Vincennes hospital in a serious condition. Police said they found a jug of white mule in the wreckage of the auto after the crash. Auto Hits Tree John Regan, 22, of Lake Cicott, lost control of an auto traveling nearly sixty miles an hour at Monticello and was killed when the auto swerved and hit a tree. *

LEGION ASSAIL!; NEW SCHOOL BILL Fears Reducing of Age Limit Would Lower Standards. Strong opposition of the American Legion to the enactment of legislation lowering the age limit for compulsory school attendance in Indiana, as proposed in a bill now pending before the State, Senate, was expressed here today by Paul V. McNutt, Indiana commander of the World War Veterans’ organization. The Legion is opposed to the measure, which would amend the school attendance law of 1921, because it feels that the amendment would mean a definite lowering of school standards in the State, McNutt said. Under the proposed amendment, the superintendent of schools “shall, at the request of the parent whose child is 14 years of age and has completed the eighth grade, release the child from school on the written recommendation of the township trustee or a member of the school hoard.” “The American Legion is opposed to the proposed amendment,” Commander McNutt said, “as it means a backward step in education in Indiana and a lowering of general educational standards for all the children of the State.” ‘Human False Alarm’ Appears in 8 Homes Police and fire department officials today are seeking the “human false alarm” who Sunday ran into eight north side homes and told residents: "Your house is on fire.” The man out of the houses aR suddenly as be came In. while residents were phoning fire headquarters. The man appeared at these addresses: 1823 Highland Pi., 1129 N. Senate Ave., Twenty-First St. and Boulevard PI.. 2238 N. Illinois St--2445 N. Meridian St- 319 W. Nineteenth St- 736 W. Twelfth St. and 1033 N. West St. He was middleaged. but fire officials were unable to obtain a good description. Fire, originating from sparks from the chimney, caused $1,500 worth of damage to the frame dwelling of George Nelson, 143 W. Twenty-First St- Sunday.

‘Kissing Bandit * Arouses Town Bn United Preen AUSTIN, Minn.. Jan. 31. The “kissing” bandit.” who demands affection of girls at the point of a gun, was being sought by police here today as angry citizens demanded his capture and arrest. High school girls and teachers have become the particular target of this strange thief. Two teachers fought free from the man’s embraces, althDugh a third girl lacked courage in the face of a gun to refuse his request. Women have become so alarmed they do not venture out after dark unless escorted.

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Here are three Americans of the type that succeed well in Mexico as investors and colonizers. “Don Eniiliio" Puig, a Texan, is manager of tlte big hydro-electric project at Guadalajara; Frank Y. lieLouglilin is a capitalist and malinger of the Sun Oil Company, and If. F. Jones is president of the United Sugar Companies aj, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Mexico welcomes American industrialists who attend strictly to their own business, these men declare.

MINERS TO BROADCAST Union Rand tin Program Over W'KBF Tuesday Evening. For the first time in radio history a trade union band will broadcast from Station WKBF, the Hoosier Athletic Club, from 3:30 to 6:30 Tuesday. The wave length is 244 meters. The United Mine Workers Band of Monongnh, W. Va., is composed entirely of coal miners who dig coal when they are not making music. Gus Smith is vocal soloist. The band is under the direction of V. W. Eork. who has composed a number of selections. Charloß Cernello is manager. The program: March—" United Mine Worker* Forever" Voc*i Selection—‘ How fin You Do. ’ (jus Smith, sulolet. Overture—'Norma'' Bellini Selection from Gilbert mid Sullivan a Light Opera—"Pinafore.'' Mnreh—"On the Plekei I.ine" Hork A Trombone Corned} —"Slldua Trombonua M. L. Lake Herbert Woolnrd. soloist. Scleetipn front Sullivan's Opera—" The Mikado. Grand Fantasia—" Old Folks at Home '. March— Backward Step Iliorit CARS REROUTED SUNDAY Union Station Service Given on Pennsylvania Line. Route of Pennsylvania St. cars was changed Sunday so the cars will pass the Union Station, officials of the Indianapolis. Street Railway Company have announced. On I lie new route cars operate from Pennsylvania St., west on Georgia St. to Capitol Ave., south to Louisiana St., east on Louisiana to Illinois, north on Illinois to Georgia St., and east on Georgia St. to Pennsylvania St., where they will resume the usual route. This change has been made to accommodate patrons in th east and northeastern parts of the. city who have asked for direct service to the station, officials said. DRY LAW CHAMPIONED Church Lecturer Declares Prohibition Saves Babies of America. Dr. Gifford Gordon, Disciples of Christ lecturer, pleaded with the citizens of this country to save prohibition, not only for themselves but for the rest of the world, in an address at the Central Christian Church Sunday night. “Prohibition in the United States is in a measure successful,” he asserted, “and would be more so if given a fighting chance by the citizens. It has saved the babies of America. For many years before the Eighteenth Amendment medical science told the world the appalling effect of alcohol upon children prior to birth. Since th&t time 30.000 more babies are living in the State of Illinois alone.” “HELL-BENT” IMPERIALISM Rf f nitrd /'ror# NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—“ We are hell-bent on the meanest kind of imperialistic policy,” United States Senator Burton K. Wheeler (Dem.), Montana, said in a speech here yesterday. criticising Mexican and Nicaraguan policies of President Coolidge, and predicting war with Mexico if policies are continued.

COOLIDGE CLINGS 10 HOPE OF NEW ARMS DISCUSSION Reiterates Desire in Addressing Government Business Meeting. ttu United Preen WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—Despite wars and rumors of wars, President Coolidge still hopes for another Washington arms conference. This was made plain in his address Saturday night at the Government business meeting when he called upon the United States to lead the way toward International disarmament and harmony. “Asa Nation, we are advocates of peace,” the President declared. ”Nt only should we refrain from any act which might lie construed as calling for competition in armament, but rather should we lend our every effort to eliminate such competition. “We can not and should not divorce our own interests in this direction from the interests of other nations. Rather should be view the matter from the standpoint of the best interests of ail nations.” This statement is in line with numerous similar assertions by Coolidge since the Geneva conference on disarmament failed to progress. The President also stressed the importance of a relieved public debt as a military asset in his speech Saturday night. While condemning both extreme pacifists and militarists he made plain his position as favoring a middle course in preparedness.

News Quirks

MISSOULA. Mont.—William O. | Cogswell of the Hawaii tourist bu- j reau, took extraordinary pains to \ transport six snowballs from Mis- j soula to Honolulu, but. according to j advices received here he was sue- i tessful. He carried the snowballs in , a thermos bottle from Missoula to I San Francisco, where they were put into cold storage on the steamer : which took them to Honolulu. SANDUSKY. Ohio. —George Blake read the newspaper comic strips. His fatheV, Charles, beat him for doing so. The court decided it was not a crime to read the comics, but it was a crim“ to bPat he who reads. Charles was sentenced to serve five days in jail. DENVER.—John King recently applied for a license to marry Frances Queen. LONDON.—Directors o f the old Southwestern & London Railway line have Hung caution to the wind and will defend henceforth on these newfangled devices. They have rescinded the order, in force since the early days’ of the road, requiring all uniformed employes to wear red ties to use in emergency flagging of trains. CHICAGO.—New universes five billion-billion miles away have been found and photographed by Dr. Edwin Hubble of Mt. Wilson observatory. according to statements in the Astropbysical (Journal. published at the University of Chicago. NORTH BERGEN, N. J.—The 3,700 red fire engine of the disbanded volunteer engine company No. 2 is eating its head off in storage bills while tiie ex-fire laddies are trying to market It as low as $730. They paid for it largely out of their own pockets before professional firemen displaced volunteers in the township. CHICAGO.—The famous Gold Coast district —residence of the wealthy—was called the “slums” of Chicago by Horace J. Bridges, leader of the Ethical Society, who declared slums means a place where environment is not conducive to successful marriage and child training. BREMEN. Germany.—Wine 20ft years old is liclng dispensed here at 35 cents a glass from a 300-gal-lon cask in a cellar built in 1412. Although the wine was prime about the time of the American revolution, it now has an unpalatable, woody taste. ENGLEWOOD, N. J—A. T. Roberts is in the market for anew rear tire rack for his automobile. An east-bound passenger train clipped the old rack oft while Roberts was driving across the tracks of the Northern railroad of New Jersey. NEW YORK —Complaining that the number of suicides from the Sixth Avenue L at 110th St., is ruinous to their business, merchants whose shops are below the tracks have petitioned the Interborough to place wire nettings on both sides of its station. Eleven persons jumped from the station in the past year. BROOKLYN, N. Y.—“ Animals are as eternal as man, and Heaven Is as unthinkable without them as without flower* or God,” said the Rev. William Carter at the Throop Avenue Presbyterian Church. NEW YORK—Shocked at a remark made by one of his male guests at a party in the presence of women. Saul Fernandez bit off a piece of Juan Jacuevas's nose. He was arrested for felonious assault. ' NEWARK, N. J.—The Broadway Limited, Pennsylvania express, made its first stop here to permit Helen Stroub, seriously 111, to be taken to Mayo Brother’s Hospital. Her condition would not permit her being taken to New York to board the express, so Pennsylvania officials agreed to make the stop.

Three Americans Mexicans Like

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Aye, aye. sir! When girls studying engineering at Hunter College took over tiie motorship Tampa for a cruise around New York Bay, pretty Miss Sylvia Lerner served as captain. Here she is at the wheel.

POLICEMEN FIDGET IN BRAIN TEST 73 Patrolmen Vie in Examinations for 12 Department Appointments. Seated at school desks in the study hall of Shortridge High School, sev-enty-three Indianapolis policemen, who are now patrolmen, Sunday morning scratched their bends and fidgeted under what was considered by many a very rigid civil service examination. All seek to become police or detective sergeants. Twelve sergeants will be picked, six for the uniform side and six for the detective force. The examination was conducted by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, John F. White, civil service commission chairman, and A. B. Good of the board of safety. The test started promptly at 9 a. m. and it was after 1 p. in. before the last man finished. The students racked their brains repeatedly, endeavoring to remember what they had observed in a picture test. The test portrayed the of an accident in which a drunken driver had crashed through a railroad gate, barely escaped being hit by a train, ziggzagged down the road, ran into a vegetable wagon, killed a woman and then plunged over a steep embankment. A motorcycle policeman. shown in the t picture, was holding back a large crowd. This portion of the test served to determine the aspirant's powers, of observation. Another event which caused great annoyance to some was a radio broadcsting stunt bv Sergt. Frank Owens of the trafT.a department. Owens stood in another room with a microphono and broadcast the description of three bandits who held up a manufacturing concern in another city. The men were then required to write what they had heard. A spelling test on twenty words, compiled by Paul Moore of the Chamber of Commerce and Murray Dalman. school research director. Five arithmetic problems, the duties of a sergeant over men detailed to his district and questions pertaining to law enforcement completed the examination. CRIMES STIR CAPITAL Bn United Prrnn WASHINGTON, Jan. 3!.—Police, already engaged in clearing the mystery of nearly a dozen robberies of fashionable dress shops, had today anew mystery—robbery of tiie home of Representative Alien T. Treadway, prominent Massachusetts Republican. Returning from a theater last night, Treadway found burglars had stolen about SSOO worth of gold and jewelry from his residence, but apparently had been interrupted in their work as they had dropped a fur coat in their haste.

Burglars Choicy, Says Merchant “Lolisa’ goods so good, see the trouble some people take to get them.” This sign greeted customers of Louis Lohss, who operates a dry goods store at LaSalle and Tenth Sts., today after bandits smashed the front window of the place early Sunday and took sweaters, shirts, gloves and othther miscellaneous wearing apparel and the electric light globes in the window. The good? were worth S3O, according to police. .... Some of the stolen, articles were found In the alley in rear of the store, policy said.

Crime Loot Total Over Week-End Nearly s2o,ooo—TwentyThree Cars Recovered—Four Arrested. Bandits, burglars and thieves stole thirty-three autos, staged eighteen hold-ups and nine and made away with nearly $20,000 in loot over the week-end, police records showed today. Os the thirty-three stolen autos, valued by the owners at $18,035, police recovered twenty-three machines valued at $12,650. Bandits got $659 in cash and jewelry and $2,500 in checks in the eighteen hold-ups.

Four men accused of four of the hold-ups were arrested by police. The loot of the nine burglaries totaled $284. In his efforts to combat the wave of banditry, Police Chief Claude F. Johnson, called together his department heads and conferred on ways of curbing the hold-up men. “I believe we will be able to put them to rout in time, but what we have planned we wish to keep secret,” he said. Bandkry ( barged William H. Hollett, 39, of 2256 Adams St., and William Schafer, 18, of 2153 Station St., are held at the city prison charged with auto banditry. They were arrested by Patrolmen John Sheehan and Magenheimer at New York and Meridian Sts., shortly after two hold-ups were reported late Saturday. C. C. Guithner, 4526 Washington Blvd., told police he was at FortySixth St. and Washington Bivd. when a man with a blaciftack got out of an auto and took $4. He obtained the license number of the auto as It pulled away. Cecid Wayman. 556 Udell St., said he was at Udell and California Sts., a few minutes later when the same two men took 25 cents, some cigarets and street car tokens. He gave the same description and license number. The ttyo officers, stationed at Indiana Ave. and North St., saw the auto pass, detected the license number, commandeered a taxi cab and overtook the bandit car. In the auto was found two sets of caps, a blackjack, money, billfolds and a gun. Both Guithner and Wayman identified the pair. Negroes Held T"wo Negroes held up Arthur Kealing, 18, of Hammond, Ind., at Michigan St. and Kealing Ave., Saturday night, he told police. Later he identified Sam Logan, 40, and Frank Bottoms, 21, both Negroes, of 833 N. Emerson Ave., arrested by Motor Policemen Muller and Clark, as the men who held him up. Police could not find the diamond ring Kealing said was taken. The armed youths in a Ford roadster, staged two hold-ups and one attempt In which they were almost shot. Peter Works, 942 W. TwentyNinth St., told Lieut. O. D. Thomas he was entering the yard of his home when the pair alighted from the auto and told him to “stick ’em up." Instead, Works said he pulled his revolver from his overcoat pocket and snapped it, but it failed to explode. The two men seized him, took the gun and drove away without other loot. A few minutes before Edward Grice, Negro, 520 W. Twenty-Eighth St., was held up at 2615 Indianapolis Ave., by the men in the same roadster. They took some change, a stick pin, street car tokens and a good luck horseshoe. Grice commandeered a passing auto and attempted to trail the bandits, but failed. William R. Kendall, room 64, Y. M. C. A., said he was waiting for a street car at Forty-Eighth and Penn sylvania Sts., when the two men drove up in the roadster. They took $15.50 in money and a watch, valued at $35. Lieutenant Thomas and squad found two young men in a Ford roadster and took them before Grice, Works and Kendall, but all three failed to identify them.

Lone Bandit Earlier Sunday evening, a lone bandit drove in the filling station at Prospect St. and Madison Ave., had his tank filled with gasoline and after tendering a $5 bill to Paul W'achsman, 26, of 362 E. McCarty st., attendant, followed him inside the station, where the bandit drew a gun and ordered him to open the safe. He took the money box and S4O and drove away. Two bandits, drove into the station at Sherman Dr. and E. Washington St., and as Brandon Thompson, 24, of 3846 E. Washington St., attendant came out to greet them, one drew a gun, ordered Thompson to hand over the sls in his pocket. They drove away without getting out of their auto. At 4 a. m. Sergeant Volderauer and Patrolman Mitchell, signed the bandit car on Virginia Ave., and unsuccessfully tried to follow it. Charles Hill, 431 S. Chadwick St., told police two men who seized him at S. West and Georgia Sts., robbed him of a watch and $6. He said one chocked him while the other searched his pockets. Morris Gibson. 31. of North Salem, Ind., was taken to the city hospital by Sergeant Hanley, who said he found him at 333 W. Ohio St., suffering from a badly injured nose. Gibson said two Negroes slugged him and robbed him of 60 cents. William Dotcherman, 1125 N. Oakland Ave., driver of a Pilgrim laundry wagon, said two Negroes held him up at 817 Blake St. and took $7 Saturday night. Store Manager Robbed Adam Bowen, 302 N. Oxford St., manager of the Kroger grocery at 454 Parkway Ave., said he was getting in his auto Saturday night, when two men held him up and took a money sack and $l5O. William Susentniphael said he was walking along street near his home, 607 Orange St., at 1 a. m. Sunday when two men drove up in a roadster. One leaped out and pulled a gun. They took 75 cents, he said. Max Elkins, 3016 McPherson St. told police he was held up by two men in an auto that drove up aside

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him while he was walking at Illinois and Henry Sts. They took a SIOO watch, a diamond pin valued at SIOO, $4.50 in money and $2,500 in checks. When Chester Williams, 1444 Congress Ave., went out of the Pure Oil station at Twenty-First St. and Northwestern Ave., to wait on two men in an auto, one drew a gun and ordered him to hand over the money in his pocket. They got $35. Clarence King, 859 S. West St., said tiie same two men drove in the Sinclair filling station, White River Blvd. and Washington St., where he is attendant, and when one of them pulled a gun he leaped to the ( of the auto and they drove away without loot. Armanda Campbell, Negro, and Helen Nathan, Negro, both of 318 Toledo St., told police they were walking at Vermont and Toledo Sts., when three white men jumped from an auto and seized Miss Nathan and took $14.50 from her stocking. They were unable to catch Miss Campbell who ran. Stella Turner and Thel Reed, both Negroes of 515 E. Court St., told police they were on their way to restaurant when two youths held them up and took sll. Youths were under 15. Two Clews Detectives are following two clews in an effort to arrest the two bandits who figured in a gun battle with Edward Wiest, 2254 N. Illinois St., collector for the Standard Grocery stores, at one of the company stores at 2806 N. Capitol Ave., Saturday afternoon. Wiest is reported improving at St. Vincent’s hospital, where he was taken with a bullet wouhd in the left shoulder and right arm. The auto believed used by the bandits was found deserted south of the city, police said. The floor was covered witn blood stains. A doctor south of the city is reported to have treated a youth with a wound in the leg. Wiest came in the store as the two men took sls from O. E. Gentry, manager. Whipping out his revolver, Wiest exchanged shots with the bandits, and said he believed he wounded one. They ran to a waiting. auto and fled west on St. Wiest gave chase In his auto, but was eluded. Horace Murdock, 147 W. Vermont St., insurance agent, was taken to city hospital Saturday night with injuries about the head. Police were told a party called him by phone requesting him to come to a North St. address and collect. He left and later was brought home in a taxi. Friends say he usually had a large sum of money on his person, but police found only 60 cents. Police believe he was lured to the address and robbed. Lawrence Meyer, 6318 Beliefontainc St., Robert Smith, 5932 Broadway; Sooney Mercer, R. R. Box 107, and Robert Bair, 904 E. Sixtieth St., have a different idea of good samaritanship. Late Saturday night they stopped their auto near Fifty-Fourth and Meridian Sts., thinking two men were in distress. Instead the two men searched them and drew guns. One struck Smith in the face. They got no loot. CHURCH ROLL SWELLED 105 New Members Admitted in Capitol M. E. Campaign. One hundred and five persons were admitted into membership and twenty were baptized at the morning services of the Capitol M. E. Church Sunday conducted by Rev. Joseph G. Moore, pastor. This large increase, which is oneeighth of the total membership of ( the church, is attributed to the visitation campaign conducted in that part of the city two weeks ago by the Rev. Guy Black, evangelist, who is working in cooperation with the church federation of Indianapolis, Rev. Moore said.

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