Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 324, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1927 — Page 2

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160 May Be Death Toll on Train Bandits Raided

V. VANDAGRIFFT ' DENIES MESSAGE 1 ABOUT OIL BOOM Securities Commission Records Show Name of New Board Member. Virgil Vandagrifft, new president Os the board of public works, could not remember today whether a year ago he had sent to the Ken Saw Petroleum Products Company a telegram reporting the results of an “oil instrument’’ owned by a Mrs, Slusher in locating wells for the 2,400 stockholders of that concern. A telegram signed with his name !s one of the exhibits in the office of the State Securities Commission which after investigation stopped the sale of “units,” in syndicates fostered by that company. The telegram was reproduced and sent to the stockholders as reporting progress and the prospect of producing a gusher. When the new appointments wefe announced by the mayor when he rather abruptly fired Roy Shancberger, Lemuel Trotter and Oren Hack from his official family, the name of Vandagrifft had an unfamiliar sound. Probe “Office” But it was announced that he was associated with the mayor on various enterprises, chiefly the Cotton Belt Land and Development Company. The first official body to bring documentary evidence of the fitness of Vandagrifft is the securities commission, which investigated the KenHaw Petroleum Products Company, whose offices at 534 Merchants Bank Bldg., is the -same address as that given to the Cotton Belt Land and Development Company of which Vandagrifft is listed as president. Some time ago the Ken-Saw Company started selling “units” at $125 for the purpose of raising funds to sink a well. The securities commission suggested rather emphatically that such sales bo stopped and from that time on, under the advice of attorneys, the funds were raised by "short term notes” over which the securities commission has no jurisdiction. Send Out Letter Tt was iri this investigation that the securities commission found the name of Vandagrifft. The commission was interested in the oil well and among the documents submitted was a circular letter sent out by the Ken-Saw company to its stockholders, which said: “Mr. Vandagrifft could not leave for the field until the last of last week because we needed him to help with the finances. “You will remember Vandagrifft used an oil instrument of considerable merit owned by Mrs. Slusher to help prove out the geology of the well. “THIS IS ONLY A LOAN, AS \YE CANNOT SELL STOCK.” This letter was sent in March, 1026. X “Await the Guslicr” On March 28, 1026, a telegram, now in the possession of the commission, was received by the Ken Saw company, signed with the name of Virgil Vandagrifft, which said: “Owing to weather conditions and Mrs. Slusher witli us did not get to well until yesterday afternoon. Instrument showed the same condition as before. Mrs. Slusher says If the hole can be cleaned we should deliver a gusher. Will bit the ball * Monday morning.” As far as the reports of the securities commission show, the advent of the gusher has been postponed. The new president of the board of public works today said that ho had had no active connection with the company other than to lease or sell It some oil lands. The files of the securities commission contain a purported report of a stockholders meeting of the Ken Saw company, at which “V. Vandagrifft” was listed as presiding end at which an enthusiastic report of sure discovery of oil was 'given by a driller. Mellon Denies Split Bn United Prett WASHINGTON, April 21. Secretary of Treasury Mellon said today there was no split between Mellon and Vare factions in Pennsylvania as far as he knew. It had been reported the two groups split over defeat of an old age pension measure the Vare group supported.

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PROFESSOR HELD AS ‘PEEPER’ EXPLAINS Purdue Man Says He Was Only Trying to Find Number of House While Seeking ‘Cigaret’ Data.

Bit Timet Bnecial LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 2f Prof. Dean McCluskey, 35, director of the division of educational research at Purdue University today offered an explanation of circumstances which led to his arrest as a "Peeping Tom.” He was at liberty on SSOO bond.

VERMONT PARTV ON BRIEF VISIT Governor Weeks Heads Tour—Breakfast Given. Hoosierland and the Green Mountain State became firm friends today when Governor Jackson welcomed Governor John E. Weeks and distinguished officials and business leaders on the "Vermont Special,” which arrived at 7:30 a. m. Met at the Union Station by a delegation of Chamber of Commerce officials, the eastern visitors were taken to the Chamber for breakfast. At table were: Governor Jackson and Mrs. Jackson; Governor Weeks and Mrs. AVeeks, Dr. Ray Ernest Smith, representing the mayor of Rutland, A’t.; Mrs. Fred N. AVhitney of the Vermont State welfare department: H. L. Kelton, of the City Club of Fairlee, Vt.; Lewis S. Brigham, manufacturer and Randolph E. W. Clark, secretary of the Fellows Falls Chamber of Commerce; Adj. Gen. Herbert E. Johnson and Mason S. Stone, commissioner of education of Vermont. Brief speeches were made. Chamber President Dick Miller, presiding. The visitors left at 11:45 a. m. for St. Louis, Mo.

EDUCATION BOARD MEMBERS CHOSEN Governor Names Mrs. Holland and Miss Whitacre. • Following his custom of making all important appointments late in the day, Governor Jackson Wednesday night announced that Mrs. Beryl Holland. Bloomington, and Miss Martha Whitacre. Richmond, are the new members of the State education board. They will succeed Miss Etelka Rockenbneh, New Albany, and Airs. Nellie AVarren, Indianapol’s, May 1. Miss AA'hitacre is mathematics instructor in Richmond High School. Mrs. Holland is the wife of Dr. .1. E. Holland. Second district Republican i vice chairman. There were a number of appli-! cants, including Oscar Williams, secretary of the Indiana Teachers' Association. ‘FIST KILLER’ INDICTED Paul Kelly Charged AYith Muni r of Kay Raymond in Love Duel. Bu United Prett LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 21. Paul Kelly, screen juvenile, who confessed beating Ray Raymond to death with his bare fists, must sL.nd trial for first degree murder. Dorothy Mackaye, noted actress and wife of Raymond, musical comedy headliner, Avas in a state of collapse today. She and Kelly admit it was their friendship which prompted the fight which caused Raymond’s death. An indictment against Kelly was returned last night by a grand jury after investigating the death. SON SHOOTS HIS FATTER Was Beating Isis Mother, Youth Charges. Bu United Pratt SOUTH BEND. Ind., April 21. Frank Ivonopinski, 52, was recover-\ Ing in St. Joseph’s Hospital here today from gun-shot wounds inflicted Wednesday night by his nineteen-year-old son, Theodore. The son said he shot his father after Konopinski in a drunken rage bad beaten his wife and rushed to beat him. ‘Peaches’ Released Bn United I'rett CHICAGO, April 21.—Frances "Peaches” Browning, appearing here as a cabaret dancer escaped punishment on a disorderly conduct charge when she apologized to a policeman, who had charged her with “insulting” him. She was held after objecting to having her escort, A1 Mann, arrested for speeding.

Oh, Cal! This One*s on Your State The “Vermont Special” pulled into the Union Station and with the crowd waiting to greet Governor John E. Weeks of Vermont was Virgil Vandagrifft, new board of works president. A man rushed from the station. dropped his grip at Vandagrifft's feet, and grasping his hand, exclaimed excitedly: “Well, well. Governor Weeks. How are you? Glad to see you. Haven’t seen you for a long time. Would have known you anywhere, though. Vermonter myself you know.” And before Vandagrifft rould explain he was only a works board president, the man had grabbed his bag and scrambled aboard his train.

L’nder the Indiana statute he may be sent to the Indiana State Farm. His trial has been set for April 29. Prof. McCluskey was caught by Fritz R. Molt, a Purdue senior, after a chase at midnight. Molt was on Miss Maxine Mills, 207 Fowler Ave., near the Purdue campus, Avheu the young women’s mother called down from upstairs that there was a man on the porch peeping in the window. Molt dashed to the door and caught McCluskey after a chase of several blocks. Auto Found Several other students collected nnd Molt was taken to a fraternity house, where he was about to be paddled when hU identity was discovered. They took him to his home a mile away and later found MeCluskey's auto parked near the Phi Kappa Psi house. In an interview Professor MeClusky said that he had been performing some of his, studies in higher education at his university office and had left for home at 11 p. m. The night being so beautiful, and, needing exercise, he said he decided to leave his car at lbs university parking grounds for the night and walk home. AValking east on Fowler St., he saw a couple emerge from an automobile and enter the Mills home. The co-ed looked to be the girl whom some Lafayette persons had requested him to investigate on the charges of smoking against the dean of. women’s rulings, and he said he walked back and forth in front of the Mills home, trying to ascertain the number of the house. Not being able to see from the sidewalk, he ventured up to the porch. Suddenly Molt jumped from the house. Was Frightened “T was frightened,” the professor ! said, “and 1 ran. I know that I j should not have done so, but I did. j Then when lie caught me I became more frightened and ran again. "This means that my career is ruined,” he sobbed. “I know that the evidence is all again.- 1 me, but I j am a victim of circumstances. I was | only looking for the street number and was not peeping.” When asked about his automobile, 1 which lie said lie had left at the uni- i versity and which was found near the spot to which he ran. he could not account for its being moved, “unless it had been stolen and ditched.” The keys, however, were found in his pocket and the transmission of the machine was securely looked. Professor McCluskey was employed by the university last year at; head of the department of education-1 al research. His work was to super- j vise the intelligence tests given to freshmen who enter the university and to conduct similar tests throughout the student body. University of-j fieials refuse to divulge their plans i concerning the case.

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong lo: Carroll Starkey, 41 X. Holmes Ave., Chevrolet, 537-843. from Ohio St. and Capitol Ave. Albert T. Harvey, 225 11. Morris St., Chevrolet, 14-677, from Georgia and Illinois Sts. Ronald True. 2327 Ashland Ave. Chevrolet, 504-769, from that address. Harold Egan, £434 BrooksiUe Pkwy, Chevrolet. 521-285, from New ork and Illinois Sts. I. V. Clark, 427 Keystone Ave., Ford, 2-535, from 110 S. Noble St. John Young, 309 Prosypect St., Ford, 400-698, from 952 High St. Jasepr Brannam, 1418 'Williams St., Ford, 208-75, from Washington St. and Capitol Ave. Harold W. Geisel, 3734 Ruckle St., Chevrolet, 510-008, from Fall Creek Blvd. and Central Ave. R. E. Turner, 4301 Carrijlton Ave., Hupmobile, 7,-355, from Virginia Ave., and Washington St. Frank Horuff, 5130 X. Meridian St.. Chrysler, 507-487, from that address. • Omar Tyson, 321 Bright St., Chevrolet, 534-221, from Senate Ave. and Ohio St. BACK HOME AGAIN Automobiles reported found by police belong to: John T. Kirkham, 543 N. Elder Ave., Chevrolet, found at 5800 Lowell Ave. C. R. Eggleston. 340 W. Maple Rd.. Hudson, found at 726 N. Capitol Ave.

WALKERS NEED TRAFFIC ORDINANCE FOR SAFETY Interval for Pedestrians Can’t Be Provided Without Increasing Police Powers, Chief Declares.

Probability of a city ordinance designed to give pedestrians a “fair break” at downtown intersections loomed today. Police Chief Claude F. Johnson said an ordinance permitting the police department to control pedestrian traffic would be necessary before the proposal to give an interval for pedestrians between the stop and go for motor cars. Safety board member John George V ednesday declarer) the present arm signal system on trial is “confusing to motorists and hazardous to the pedestrians.” Confusing Now George said he would like to see the plan tried out giving a period for pedestrians while autos arc halted. He contends the present plan is confusing because it does not immediately establish a signal clear to drivers. “I have received no complaints on the present system and felt we were getting along pretty well. I am open-minded on the subject and

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U. S. FORCES AID IN GUARDING RED PEI EMBASSY Move of Strategy for Safety of Foreign Quarter in Capital. Bu United Prett LONDON, April 21. Michael Borodin, soviet adviser to the Hankow government and long a storm center in Chinese affairs, has been arrested, a dispatch to the Daily .Mail said today. Bu United Prett PEKIN, April 21.—The western portion of the grounds of the soviet embassy were occupied today by military forces of the powers as a defense measure. The grounds are on the edge of the legation quarter. Troops of the United States. Great Britain. Japan, France and Italy, jointly occupied the grounds. Reports that the chief guard duty would fall on Americans arose when soldiers started making a breach near the southwest corner of the southern wall of the compound, apparently with the intention of making anew gateway connecting the embassy ground with United .States Marine guard headquarters. Prepares to Tell Moscow A soviet cosular official, ranking Russian left in Pekin, inspected the situation to report it to Moscow. Native police who have occupied the grounds since the raid, prepared to evacuate as troops of the powers entered. ( The embassy has been closed to Russians since the raid, as a result of which the soviet government recalled its ambassador. The grounds were occupied, quietly. apparently by prearrangement. Although no' formal announcement was made, it was said unofficially that the powers Intended an indefinite “defense of the western wall of the embassy premises as constituting an ultra-important point in the legation defenses.”

NEW HOPE SEEN Agreement Reached for Strip Operation. Bu United Prett TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. April 21. Renewed hope nas seen today for early resumption of bituminous coal mining throughout the central competitive area following announcement that Indiana strip mine owners have reached an agreement with district 11 of tlio Indiana Branch of the United Mine Workers Union. Signing of a two years’ contract between strip miners and operators followed a week's conference here. It is the first agreement to be reached between bickering groups throughout the central area where approximately 200,000 miners have been on strike since April 1. Exact terms of the Indiana contract have not been announced, but it is believed that the wage scale is that of the Jacksonville agreement which terminated March 31. The agreement included a $7.50 a day wage. Strip mines produce about 20 per cent of Indiana's coal. FINDS ‘RIVER OF DOUBT’ Explorer Confirms Report of Roosevelt in 4911. Bu United Prett NEW YORK, April 21.—Commander George Miller Dyott. head of the Dyott-Roosevelt exploring expedition. has confirmed the late Theodore Roosevelt's discoveries along "The River of Doubt.” Commander Dyott returned yesterday from the second expedition ever made by white men in that region. He brought tales of adventure along a course through the Brazilian jungle from the southward flowing Paraguay River to the northward flowing Madeira, which followed- the path taken by Roosevelt in 1914. Commander Dyott said the late President had accurately charted a river longer than the Rhine.

would be glad to study any suggestions,” said Police Chief Claude F. Johnson. . The hand semaphore plan was suspended for thirty days pending trial of the arm system, recommended by Traffic Captain Lester E. Jones. Mayor Interested Johnson declared he likes the Los Angeles plan, which is similar to the system on trial, but provides a pause in traffic for the pedestrian to skip across the intersection. Mayor Duvall has interested himself in the move to “give pedestrians a chance." He expects to tour the city and survey conditions. "The electric signal supplement with a bell on the change works fine in many towns, but some folks object to the noise. We've got to get together and work out something satisfactory,” said Duvall. “I understand Johnson and the safety boaqd is studying the situaton. I would favor an interval for pedestrian traffic exclusively,” said the mayor.

BOY, 2, WANDERS SAFELY OVER 45-BLOCK COURSE

Masters Traffic Hazards Calmly as Frantic Neighbors, Police Search. There was no parental spanking for Earl Causey, although lie’s not yet 3, and perhaps lie needed it. But Earl isn't going to run away again! Not after having seen fortyfive blocks of the city, over which his little feet carried him Wednesday afternoon. And now that it’s all over, Earl’s quite happy and. as the youngsters in the neighborhood say, is “getting a kick out of it." . AVliile the little fellow laughs, the neighborhood is getting back to normal, after a very exciting evening. Ail evening so filled with excitement that few there were in the vicinity of the C. H. Causey home, 2801 Shelby St., who thought of the evening meal until long after Earl had fallen asleep on the Causey davenport. Cone Is Reward When Earl was returned to a very frantic mother and an equally frantic father a little after 7, Wednesday night, he held in one little palm two pennies, while the other hand clutched what remained of an ice cream cone. Candy in his pocket was the rest of his reward for an afternoon of wandering. It was four hours after he ran away from home that two big policemen gtAe him back to the welcoming arms of a father, a mother, grandmother and the aunt. in whose care he had been left while his mother attended a funeral Wednesday afternoon. And the first thing the little wanderer did was to “razz” the polieemcn. because they had not taken him for a longer ride in the police car. “We’ll get you in the patrol wagon next time,” the blue coated gentlemen told him. only to be taken aback with the “That’ll be fine!” answer of the little fellow. Left With Aunt When Mrs. Causey left the house to attend the funeral, she left Earl in care of his aunt. Miss Willa Mae White, 18, at the Causey-White home. The outdoors appealed to Earl, and, wearing a gray hat, gray coat and tweed suit, he went to the porch to play. He wandered a block away, in defiance of his aunt, only to be returned by her. But a few minutes later he was gone again, the aunt believed biding in the neighborhood. When Mrs. Irene Miller. 2756 Shelby St., looked from a car window at Cottage Grove Aye., she saw Earl, his hands behid him, walking backward down the street. She reported this to Mrs. Elizabeth White, the grandmother, a few minutes later. Then the search was on. and children and adults in the nenghborhood

joined in. It was Mrs. White who found the trail. In the 700 block. Virginia Ave., she learned from an automobile salesman that he had found a boy leaning against a pole. "My mother's down there,” the boy, standing in the rain, had told him. The salesman gave him some pennies and lie walked away, later buying candy at a drug store. At a filling station at East St. and Virginia Ave., a filling station attendant told Mrs. White that a boy, answering Earl’s description, had chatted with him and then walked away. Then Mrs. White, in desparation, went to police headquarters. She learned that police bad joined the search. She went home. To Confectionery It was at the Belt crossing, 2100 block S. East St., that Earl was picked up by a pedestrian, whom he told he was lost. Earl was taken to the W. H. Dragoo confectionery store. "Guess he belongs In the neigh- ; borhood,” the finder told Dragoo leaving Earl in his custody. An ice cream cone appeased Earl while Dragoo called police. Earl had covered about forty-five blocks in liis four-hour escapade. He had crossed numerous streets, through traffic, had crossed bridges, waited at the Belt crossing “while , the poles went down to let a choo-clioo pass”; waited at Fleas- | ant Run Blvd., and at Fountain Square to "let ’climes go by”; retraced his steps when lie found a street crossing flooded, and finally bad reached the Belt tracks again, where he was found. “I saw Garfield Park—l wasn’t lost. T would have been home if daylight had lasted longer.” Earl told his parents as his water-soaked shoes and clothing were removed. Then he fell asleep—without his supper. CONFER ON S. H. S. BIDS Engineers Seek Compromise Agreement to Settle Tangle. Final efforts to unravel the tangle of the State tax board and the city school board bids for heating, ventilating and plumbing of the new Shortridge High School, were made this afternoon by AY alter Horn, tax board engineer and Jacob H. Hilkene, superintendent of school buildings and grounds. The conference was called by the tax board. If a cjynpromise agreement is not reached by the two engineers. the tax board will demand new bids. The fight centers around the school board's refusal to consider types of ventilation different from the “di-rect-indirect” system, manufactured C. C. Shipp. , PAY HEARING IN COURT Police Women in Mandamus Suit to Compel Payment of Salaries. Hearing on the mandamus suit of fifteen Indianapolis police women for their pay since Jan. 15 was to be hold this afternoon before Superior Judge Byron K. Elliott. The women were discharged by the board of safety as no provision was made in the 1927 budget to pay them. They refused to quit without charges | being preferred. Ira M. Holmes is their attorney.

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KRISHNAMURTI AID 10 SPEAK Kunz to Lecture Saturday, Sunday at Athenaeum. Fritz Kunz, lecturer of international reputation and representative of the “Star of the East,” of which Krishnamurti is the head, will speak at the Athenaeum Saturday at 8:15 p. m. and Sunday at 11 a. m. His talk, he says, will cover the subjects of unexplained phenomena of nature and the reconciling of science and religion, subjects being "Occultism and Spirituality,” Saturday, and “How to Die,” Sunday. Krishnamurti’s followers, drawn from forty-one rations, believe him to be “the vehicle which will be used by a great spiritual world teacher in the near future.” Krishnamurti came to America last September with Dr. Anna Besant. 80-year-old president of the Theosophical Society, and attended the theosophical convention in Chicago. He then went to fljia. Cal., where a community center and university is being founded by his organization. as one of the four great world centers. The three others are in Holland, India and Australia.

BURGLARS GET VARIETY Jewelry, Clothing, Silver and Guinea Pigs Reported Stolen. A burglar entered three homes Wednesday night, during absence of residents, and stole loot valued at $l9O. Mrs. Rose Berry, 335 N. Denny St., said a $75 diamond ring, a $25 watch and S4O cash was taken from her home. Frankfort Hull, 331 N. Denny St., said a burglar stole a SSO diamond ring from his home. V. C. Smith, 5824 Guilford Ave.. reported a burglar took clothing valued at $145, a $65 cameo pin, six silver dinner knives worth SSO, and a $25 ring. J. Copulen, 1444 Gimber St., said forty guinea pigs valued at SSO were taken from his property. THREAT TO U. S. ENVOY .Japanese Student Held at Tokio as Menace to Ambassador MacVeagli. Bu United Prett TOKIO, April 21.—Arrest of a Japanese student who had threatened to assassinate United States Ambassador Charles MacVeagh, was announced Wednesday by police. The student apparently was insane and was said by police to have threat- J ened to destroy the embassy as wel ] as to kill MacVeagh. His grievance seemed to be against I the United States for bringing some sort of imaginary pressure against Japan. PROF. TAPY TO SPEAK Wabash College Man Engaged for Address at Luncheon. Prof. George H. Tapy of Wabash College will speak for fifteeen minutes at the second luncheon meeting I of the Chamber of Commerce, April 29. Secretary Ed Hunter announced todal. “The Decalogue of Salesmanship” will be Professor Tapy’s topic. An open forum discussion of local chamber affairs will follow. Dick Miller, chamber president, will preside at the first meeting Friday, and will explain the purpose of the open forum moye. SUES FOR ANNULMENT Edith Wliithall Charges Husband Was Already Wed. Edith D. Whithall, 40. of 3345 Park Ave., filed suit in Superior Court Three today for annulment of her marriage to William Whithall, Los Angeles, Cal. The complaint sets out that the couple wed on Feb. 25, 1926, at San Diego, Cal., but that the husband was married at the time. LITA SEEKING ALIMONY Bu Lnitcd Prett LOS ANGELES. April 21.—Lita Grey Chaplin today was to make another attempt to get "into the money bags of her famous comedian husband. Charlie Chaplin, according to an announcement by her attorneys. A )>etition for alimony for Mrs. Chaplin will lie filed in Superior Court today, her representatives said.

Survivors Describe Horror Caused by Bullets and Flames. AMERICAN COUPLE SAFE Believe Fatalities Reached 100 Mark. Bu United Prett MEXICO CITY, April 21.—Survivors, including Americans, of the massacre of passengers on a Guada-lajara-Mexico City train at La Barca arrived today so unnerved and shaken by their terrifying experience that they were unable to give wholly coherent accounts of the shambles. Mr. and Mrs. X. Dock with, American resident of Guadalajara, and Mr. -.and Mrs. Watson and the latter’s laughter were among the survivors who reached here today. The Watsons arc British. “It was horrible beyond words.” Dockwith said. Statements of survivors indicated that the attackers did not deliberately burn passengers aboard the train but that some wounded persons wero unable to leave the cars when the raiders ordered all out before setting them afire. Believe 100 Killed The Dockwiths and Watsons said there was a crash of rifle fire toward the front of the train and that they plainly could hear the cries of the wounded. Their group was badly shocked, but agreed that about 100 persons had been killed. Other eyewitnesses said that after the shooting ceased, the raiders entered the train, looting and robbing, and then ordered all passengers off. Coaches were fired immediately and some of the wounded persons were believed by the survivors to have been unable to escape. Most of the Pullman passengers saved some of their luggage, but many surrendered their valuables to the raiders, who also sacked the express car, obtaining 200,000 pesos in gold destined for the Bank of Montreal and the Bank of Mexico. After firing the train, survivors said the raiders rode away crying, “Viva, Cristo Rey” (Long live Christ, the King). The raiders were white frocked men of the peon class, survivors said, led by the famous bandit known as “El Catoree,” who once was a member of Chavez Garcia’-, band which terrorized the state of Miclioacan during the Villa revolution. Some of the survivors said priests accompanied the raiders. None of the ten foreigners aboard the train was wounded. The foreigners included Americans, Britishers and a German woman, Mrs. Curt Levin, who was suffering from a severe hbart attack when the relief train with some of the dead and the survivors arrived at 2:20 a. m. today.

Young Soldier’s Story First Sergeant Filberto Cabera. a 22-year-old soldier wounded during the engagement, told the United Press the following story: “When the firing started. Captain Banuet ordered the soldiers to reply immediately. We started firing at the flashes of the rebels' rides at a distance of from fifty to seventy yards. Lights in the second of the second-class cars were extinguished so that the rebels would not have such a good target. “Our ammunition began to run low and several of the men were ordered to the ground outside tliq cars. After three hours all our ammunition was gone. Then the rebels, crying ’\ iva Cristo Rev.’ surrounded the train, shooting and stabbing soldiers to death. Hides l nder Corpse “Only four of us escaped, two in civilian clothing, one who lay beneath the corpse of Captain Banuet, and myself. I told the rebels that I was only a chauffeur. “They poured oil on the coaches and fired them, leaving the wounded to burn alive. They carried me to their camp a kilometer (five-eighths of a mile) away, and finally I was released. Most of the rebels were mounted. I rode with a priest in a Ford.” "Federal troops put. up an heroic defense.” one passenger said. "Many of them took shelter behind the toppled engine and fired until they were shot or stabbed when the raiders surrounded the train. It was a useless defense. The raiders had plenty of ammunition and were protected by a stone wall along the right-of-way. They carried their reserve ammunition in two automobiles and frequently repaired to them for fresh supplies. “Down With Calles” "The rebels were strong and healthy and mostly young men. They carried no banners, but compelled all the passengers to cry ‘Viva Cristo Rey,’ and also to shout ‘Down with Calles.’ “Several of the rebels explained,” this* passenger said, “that President Calles was the cause of all their trouble because he has tried to deprive us of our religion.” 5 ACCIDENT ARRESTS Delinquency and Intoxication Charges Follow Mishap. / Five arrests grew out of an accident at 7000 E. Washington St., at 1 a. m. today, when a car driven by Claude Stetlor Jr.. 17. of 219 X. Liberty St., overturned when forced off the road by an auto which sped on. ftrs. Mattie Hiatt. 42. of 636 E. Miami St., badly cut about the face, is in city hospital charged with intoxication, vagrancy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Mary Beard. 17, of 443 E. Tenth St. was sent to the Detention Home as a delinquent, Claude Stetler, 38. of 219 N. Liberty St., was charged with ■ intoxication and his son. ClaUde Stetler ,Tr., with driving while intoxicated. John Rose, 23. of 2617 X. Olney St., who was taking the elder Stetler and Mrs. Hiatt to the hospital, was charged with intoxication when Lieut. V o Houston stopped the car at 46 W. Ohio St.

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Fifty-Five Bodies Accounted for After Tragedy in Mexico. CHURCH PLOT BLAMED President Calles Hurls Accusation. Bu United Prett MEXICO CITY, April 21.—Fifty, five persons were known dead and more bodies were expected to be recovered today from the ruins of a wrecked and burned train which President Cales charged in an official statement was attacked as part of a church plot. Two priests, Veg Podrazza and Angulo; a lawyer named Loze, associated with the League for the Defense of Religious Liberty, and the bandit “El Catoree” led the attacking rebels who burned the train and shot the passengers, Calles said. The cars were soaked in oil and set afire. Passengers were shot down as they fought their way out of the flaming prison. Four Wounded Die Fifty-one bodies were taken from the wreckage and four wounded died en route to Yuroeuaro from the scene of the hold-up near I.a Barca, between Limon and Feliciano in the State of Jalisco. Railway reports indicated the death list might be as high as 160. Passengers on an incoming train which passed near the scene brought reports of 222 casual*J| ties, of which two-thirds were ties. Members of the crew of the same train, however, estimated the total dead at fewer than 100. The fate of Major Ponce De Leon and his wife, a daughter of former President , Obregon, who were reported aboard the train, could not be learned. Bullets Swept Train The rebel band wrecked the train by removing one rail from the track, it was reported. The engine and express cars were derailed, and as the train came to a bumping stop bullets from the rebels, invisible in the darkness, swept it from end to end. The Federal guard of fifteen soldiers and two officers returned the fire and put up a successful defense for three hours, until all were killed, Calles' statement continued. Other reports said the rebels overcame resistance in an hour. As soon as the soldiers were incapacitated the rebels soaked the cars in waste oil and set them afire. A barrage of rifle fire prevented passengers from repelling the Inccndiarists. Shot Into Flames As the flames lighted the sky, and frenzied screams of women nnd children in the cars rang out, the rebels kept up a sharp fire, picking off one by one the passengers attempting to escape through doors and windows, reports reaching the capital said. Some reports said, however, that none was burned t death, all the victims having fallei™ before tiie attackers' bullets. Secretary of War Amaro went to the scene to assume personal charge of the pursuit of the rebel band. How many federal troops were available was not known.

LITTLE THEATRE ELECTS Furscofl Succeeds John Reynolds as Society's President. Mortimer Fursoott was elected president of the Little Theatre Society of Indiana Tuesday evening. Fursoott succeeds John B. Reynolds, who beaded the society two years. Miss Eledena Luuter was re-elect-ed vice president and Myron Green treasurer. Mrs. Kurt Pavitzer becomes secretary, succeeding >'rs. James B. Steep. Directors are Mis. Eunice Jameson Pierce, Mrs. Everett Schofield and Dr. Thomas C. Howe. DROP APARTMENT PLAN The city will lose a 31.500,000 apart* rnent at .Meridian and Thirty-Eighth Sts. because of the storm of protest against the proposed $1,230,000 theater at the same intersection, Edwin G. Keriiper, secretary of the William F. Johnson Lumber Company, safe! today. Withdrawal of plans was an* nounced after Mark Margolis. theater promoter, withdrew his petition.

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