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CITY AWAITS TMKUKG OF YULEJELLS Special Church Services to Start With Masses at Midnight. NEEDY RECEIVE CHEER Carol Singers to Traverse All Sections; Merchants Are Satisfied. Indianapolis was under the mistletoe today, eagerly awaiting the Jingling salutation of Old Saint Nick, to open two days of Yuletide merry-making. The deeper significance of Christmas with its injunction, “Peace on earth; good will toward men,” will be borne out in special services in all Protestant and Catholic churches of the city, beginning with midnight masses tonight at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, St. John’s and St. Theresa’s Catholic Churches. Christmas sermons in Protestant churches at the regular hours Sunday will be accompanied by special musical programs and the participation of children. Charitable, fraternal and civic organizations have worked for days in an effort to see that every family has a Christmas basket. Clearing House Aids Through the agency of the Christmas Clearing House, 335 N. Pennsyl(Vanla St., names of needy families were received and distributed to persons and organizations desiring to help the needy. More than 3,800 Indianapolis families whose needs were listed with the clearing house will be served by eighty organizations and scores of charitable individuals, Herbert S. King, clearing house manager, said. Established to prevent duplication of gifts to some families while others were overlooked, the clearing house prevented close to 1,000 such duplications this year, it was reported. While most of the donations were provisions for holiday dinners, gifts of clothing and toys were included in many instances to brighten the day for expectant youngsters. Salvation Army Gives Cheer Seven hundred needy families received Christmas baskets, each providing a chicken dinner for a family of six, at the Salvation Army citadel, 24-26 S. Capital Ave., this morning, after a brief greeting by Gov. Ed Jackson. Christmas cheer and gifts have been carried to orphans, mission children and boys and girls in other Institutions of the city by civic clubs during the last three days. Children in hospitals have been entertained and visited by Santa, in the widespread effort to carry Christmas Into every nook and crany of the city. Long before the sun peeps up on Christmas, carolers will be heard in every part of the city. Nine brass Quartets have been engaged by the park board to traverse every section of the city by auto from 4 a. m. to 7.

Carols to Be Song Carols will be sung Christmas morning by boys and girls from many organizations solicited by the park board, including the Boys' Club, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, Girl Reserves, Christamore Settlement, Lauter Memorial and the Flanner Guild. Girl Scouts will sing tonight at the City and Riley Hospitals, and from 7 to 9 p. in. the instrumental quartets will play familiar Noel tunes at Riley Memorial, City, Methodist, Christian, St. Francis and St. Vincent Hospitals. Keeping its program of "carrying Christmas to everybody in the city," the park board has erected lighted Christmas trees on the Monument Circle, in Brookside Park, 'ThirtyFourth St. and Central Ave., Irvington, Fountain Square, Rhodius Park, University Park and all lire engine houses. Late Christmas shoppers have until 6 this evening to wind up their downtown shopping. That was agreed upon as the closing hour by the Merchants’ Association. Neighborhood stores will remain open until a late hour tonight, while householders stock up for the two days’ holiday. Chain stores, however, announced today they would be closed throughout the city all day Monday, giving their employes a holiday. Drug stores were not in agreement, and it appeared many would be open at least part of Monday. Despite the delay in Christmas business occasioned by the moderate weather that extended into December, downtown department stores agreed that business this year exceeded that of a year ago. For the most part Christmas shopping was crowded into three weeks, climaxing in throngs which which Jammed downtown streets every day this week. Railroad, traction and bus terminals were crowded today with the year’s heaviest influx and exodus of holiday sojourners. Christmas carols sung by the boys’ choir of Christ Church in the Columbia Club dining room tonight at 8, will be broadcast over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company's station. A Christmas dance i will be held in the club’s ballroom reginning at 10 p. m.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 196

THRILL BANDITS SHOT BY BAKER, FOUR ARRESTED Two Youths Seriously Wounded by Bullets Fired by Pie Company Owner; Confess Long Series of Hold-Ups. Bullets from the revolver of Walter J. Slate, 42, of 2901 Central Ave., owner of the Butter Crust Pie Company, 3510 Madison Ave., today temporarily had ended the “thrill’ ; crime career of five youthful bandits. Two of the bandit gang, which, according to confessions, held up and robbed six filling stations since Dec. 7, are seriously wounded in city hospital. They are Charles Mengus Jr., 18, of 445 Sanders St., and George Adams, 21, of 245 E. Minnesota St.

Two, Robert Cline, 21, of 2442 Daisy St., and James Monroe Dicks, 22, of 813 S. Missouri St., are held in city prison, and the fifth, John Schilling, 21, of 272 Caven St., is believed fleeing to Chicago. Dicks was not in the attempted holdup of the Butter Crust pie bakery Friday night, which ended the crime career of the gang, but the other youths implicated him in the other holdups and he has confessed. Confesses Bobberies Cline, driver of the auto in Friday night’s holdup, also has confessed to the six robberies, Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said. Parents of the youths can give no reason for their criminal activities except desire for “thrills” and “bad company.” Mengus, Adams, Cline, and Schilling planned last night’s hold-up while attending a motion picture show. Mengus stole the Chrysler auto used, property of T. E. Houston, Franklin, Ind., from the Plaza parking space, 121 E. Maryland St. . Enter With Guns Cline drove the car to the front of bakery and the others went in a little before 6.

Mengus, carrying an automatic pistol, and Adams a .38-caliber revolver, went into the office und ordered Slate and Roy Lucas, '616 N. New Jersey St, a salesman, to “stick ’em up,” demanding money. Slate directed them to a cash register, but there was no money there. Then Miss Marie Richter, 411 N. Delaware St., bookkeeper, came into the room and was forced to tell that she had put the money into the safe. Menaced by the bandits* revolvers, Slate opened the safe and, following orders, put the money, SSOO or S6OO, on a table in front of the safe. Stops to Light Cigaret Adams tossed his revolver to Mengus and lighted a cigaret, preparatory to counting the loot. Slate, standing in front of the safe, was screened from Mengus by the large open door of the safe. Snatching a revolver from a pigeonhole in the safe Slate fired at Adams, only a few feet from him. Adams dropped to the floor. Miss Richter slipped from her chair between Slate and Mengus, and crouched on the floor while Slate opened fire at Mengus, one bullet entering his abdomen. Mengus fired back, his shot piercing the back of the chair on which Miss Richter had been sitting a second before. Wounded Bandit Flees Then Mengus fled to a corridor, Adams crawled through a window to the front of the bakery, breaking the glass, as Slate fired several more shots at him. Schilling had gone In the bake shop in the rear with a shotgun and held up the employes there. Emory Slagle, 1202 Lawrence St.; Earl Daily, 924 English Ave.; Verl Armstrong, R. R. 6, Box 101, and William Lanham, 1143 St. State St. When he heard the shots in the office he ran down the corridor past the office door and fired at Slate, one bullet striking Slate’s left shoulder, inflicting a slight wound. Schilling dragged Mengus to the auto and the three fled. Cv’lapses at Honse After taking Schilling to where he had left his Ford coupe, near Parkway Ave. and Wright St., Cline left Mengus at the White Rose filling station at Pleasant Run Blvd. and Shelby St., which the youths had held up a few days ago. The attendant called police. Cline was captured later at home. Adams staggered to several homes in the neighborhood, begging some one to hide him, and finally collapsed at the home of Fred Krukemeier, 3440 Madison Ave., as Krukemeier opened the door.

CABLEGRAM FROM INDIANAPOLIS WILL BEAR JOY TO LONELY BERLIN MOTHER

BY WILLIAM E. HALLBERG A JOY - BEARING cablegram will reach a lonely home in Berlin tonight at about the same time the Christmas candles begin winking through windows to guide good Saint Nicholas and his reindeer. It will bear news of the gift which Frau A. Muethal desired more than anything else in the world. It will tell her that her boy, Kurt, is coming home. What matter if he comes from the cell of a prison in the United States?

HOOSIERS FLEE AS RIVER RISES • No. 3 Head—See Puzzle Kankakee Up Near Indiana and Illinois Line. Bn United Press SHELBY, Ind., Dec. 24.—Rising waters of the Kankakee River caused by an ice block in the channel near the Illinois-Indiana line today had driven more than 100 families from their homes between Shelby and Schneider. The ice gorge has backed up the water of the channel for several miles. The breaking of the dykes near Schneider early today threatened the Monon and New York Central railroad bridges. Dynamite was considered as the only possible measure to relieve the condition at the Illinois end of the river. Loss to farmers, whose com fields have been flooded, will amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars, farm experts estimate. EXPECTS NO SNOW White Christmas Chance Is Slight, Says U. S. Santa Claus failed to get his order for a white Christmas in early enough and Weatherman J. H. Armington said today that he is afraid he will have to disappoint the grand old fellow. “The chances for snow tonight or Sunday are best described as slim,” said Armington. “If it does snow there will not be enough to cover the ground. I’m afraid this goes for the whole State. “However, it probably will not be a gloomy Christmas from the weather standpoint. Sunday should be about like today, cloudy with the sun breaking through brilliantly every now and then. Temperatures will be crisp, like today, running from 20 to 30 degrees.”

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Translated, the cablegram reads: ‘‘Frau A. Muethal, Wismarplatz 4, Berlin: As soon as the consul obtains German passports, your son will be returned to you. Merry Christmas.—United Press.” The German version was prepared by Col. Richard A. Lieber, director of the State Department of Conservation. The cable is being sent today by the United Press. Governor Jackson pardoned 24-year-old Kurt exactly one month ago today. Kurt has been waiting for his passport and will sail soon.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, DEG 24,1927

WILBUR STUNG BY CRITICISM; DEFENDSNAVY Handling of S-4 Operations Was Competent, View of Secretary. MANY IDEAS VISIONARY Safety Suggestions Tested and Found Useless, He Declares. BY RAY TUCKER (Copyright, 1927. Scripps-Howard Papers) WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Nationwide criticism of the Navy’s handling of the S-4 rescue operations was answered today by Secretary Wilbur in an exclusive interview with the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of the Bureau of Naval Operations, was present when Wilbur talked. Hughes furnished much of the data with which Secretary Wilbur answered questions that the public has been aslcjng since the tragedy. Wilbur defended the Navy’s conduct in its battle for the lives of the men who remained alive after the S-4 sank. He said that most of the criticism had been based on misinformation and misunderstanding. Wilbur seemed relieved when he explained the 1 Navy’s viewpoint. He is considering means by which he can place the Navy’s position before the Nation. Many Ideas Impracticable In view of his order for a court of inquiry, Wilbur at first was hesitant about discussing details of the rescue operations. But it was suggested that these were questions which people everywhere were asking. “It is only natural that the country should be moved by this disaster, as I have been,” said Wilbur. Almost all the safety suggestions advanced since the S-4 sank were declared by Secretary Wilbur to have been “thoroughly considered by the greatest naval experts of this country, including the designers of the S-4, and found impracticable.” These, he said, included such proposals at attaching grappling rings or “eyes” to submarines, so they can be lifted by surface vessels equipped with cranes. There is no crane, he said, capable of raising a 1,000 ton vessel like the S-4. The largest burden that can be brought to the surface in this manner, he added, was 350 tons. ‘Ring’ Plan Not Feasible Both Wilbur and Hughes said that if a submarine were fitted with ten rings distributed about the exterior, this requiring ten cranes to cooperate in the lifting process, there would not be room on the surface for all the rescue vessels of this type. The Kearsarge, a crane-ship, is four times as big as the S-4. “Do you believe the absence of the Wandak, the 3-4’s tender, was the primary cause of the ramming of the S-4?” Wilbur was asked. “It had nothing to do with it,” he snapped, “even had the Wandak been there, the Paulding might have misunderstood its warning signals. There are many unfortunate circumstances always attending a disaster like this.”

Wilbur on Way to Scene Bft T'nltrd PROVINCETON, Mass., Dec. 24. Secretary of the Navy Curtis B. Wilbur was expected here today to inspect personally the salvage work on the sumbmarine S-4, which sank when rammed by the destroyer Paulding a week ago today. Criticism of the Navy for its activities in attempting to rescue the six men imprisoned in the torpedo room of the S-4 was increasing when Secretary Wilbur suddenly announced in Washington that he was going to investigate personally. A few hours later he was on his way here, after giving up Christmas plans to be with his family. HITS ‘FORCED MORALS’ Rabbi Urges ‘‘Make Him Happy” Instead of “Good.” Decrying attempts of reformers to make men moral by censorship and attempts at legislating morals, Rabbi Samuel Baron of Un ontown, Pa., spoke at the Indianap>lis Hebrew Temple, Delaware ant' Tenth Sts., Friday night. “Uy duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying I have tr make him happy, rather than good,” he said.

A FEW days ago came a letter to Governor Jackson from Frau Muethal. She had not been notified that her son had been freed and did not know that soon she. could clasp him in her arms. With the help of a friend familiar with English, Frau Muethal wrote the Governor to defend her boy’s fall as having been an aftermath of his World War experiences, and to plead that he be returned to her. Frau Muethal explained that her boy had been wounded three

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BANDITS, BURGLARS HOLD CELEBRATION

Bandits and burglars made the pre-holiday season a carnival of crime Friday night. Money and foodstuffs made up the loot in the dozen places reported robbed. Besides the spectacular hold-up which resulted in capture of the bandits at the Butter Crust ‘Tie Company, a drug store and grocery were held up and SIOB taken. The R. C. Snoddy drug store, 1368 N. Olney St., was entered by a gunman who refled the cash drawer of $63, cowering Clerk Myron Bebbles, 1635 Linden St., and three customers. The Standard Grocery, 902 Eng-

MRS. GRAYSON IS MISSING ON FLIGHT

Ru United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—'Through a blustery cold wind, the seaplane Dawn, trans-Atlantic airplane of Mrs. Frances W. Grayson and piloted by Lieut. Oskar Omdal, today was believed winging its way towards Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, from where a start on a transoceanic flight is expected to be made. The Dawn took off from Roosevelt Field, L. 1., at 5:05 p. m. yesterday. Once last night it was sighted, apparently flying true, across the Massachusetts coast. It was expected to land at Newfounland this morning. It was the third attempt at ft trans-Atlantic fight for the Long Island real estate woman. The last attempt ended when the big seaplane whirled out to sea, was gone for about two hours, and then returned because of adverse weather conditions. Fear Felt for Safety Bti United Prefit ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, Dec. 24.—Hours overdue and completely silent since soon after its start from Roosevelt field, New York, at 5:45 p. m. yesterday, Mrs. Frances Grayson’s trans-Atlantic amphibian airplane Dawn was being watched for anxiously throughout Newfoundland today. Mrs. Grayson, Pilot Oskar Omdal, and Navigator Brice Goldsborough had expected to complete the first stage flight of a little more than 1,100 miles to Harbor Grace flying field in not much more than twelve hours. Fear for their safety was unavoidable, particularly as they had planned to keep in wireless communication with the earth beneath during all their flight, and no word had come from them. It was thought possible they had

times with the German army, and “was buried, too, whereby he got a collapse of the nerves. “I have no words to describe to you what I have gone through on account of this,” the mother continued. “My only thought, my sole desire is to have him back, and the fulfillment of this dream would make me the most happy person in the world. I am a widow, and he is the only being, after my husband’s death in the war, that keeps me alive.” The word spread through the

lish Ave., was held up by a pair of bandits, who took $45 from the cgsh register. Pursued by three men as they left, the bandits turned and fired, halting the ( hase. Foodstuffs, mos;ly of the Christmas dinner variety, made up the loot of numerous burglaries. R. L. Ui.\versall, proprietor of a meat market at 2646 Harding St., had SSO worth of butter, eggs and chickens taken. August Pottenseaker of the Standard grocery, next door, lost $56 worth of groceries. George Shirk, Standard grocery 3214 E. Twenty-Fifth St., reported eggs, apples, walnuts and oysters stolen, valued at S3O.

landed somewhere along the route, and might be reported safe later in the day. REMUS PLANS FETE Prepares Merry Christmas for Fellow Prisoners. Bit United Press CINCINNATI, Dec. 24.—Becoming reconciled to the fact that he must remain in jail over Christmas, pending his final sanity hearing on Wednesday, George Remus today prepared to give his fellow prisoners a merry Christmas. The former bootleg king’s last chance for liberty vanished when Probate Judge William H. Lueders denied a petition to release him on bond. The petition bore the signatures of the twelve jurors who found Remus not guilty of the murder of his wife, Imogene, “on the sole grounds of insanity.” Remus has received hundreds of Christmas greetings from friends and strangers, most of them women, from throughout the country. “Things might be worse,” he told jail attaches. STOLEN CAR REPORTED Boy Rents Garage, Steals Tags, Invites Owner on Sale Trip. Mrs. Emma Simpson, 2326 W. McCarty St., told police a young man who rented her garage from her admitted Friday night the automobile he was driving was stolen and asked her to go to Terre Haute with him to sell it. She refused. WTie nshe arrived home she found he had* taken license plates off of her automobile.

Statehouse that a letter about Kurt’s pardon could not reassure his mother until long after Christmas. So the Statehouse employes got up a “Merry Christmas list” and raised the fund for the cablegram. a a a THE message telling Frau Muethal of her son’s pardon was timed to reach Berlin tonight when St. Nicholas, according to German belief, starts his trip over the housetops. Evidence that young Kurt was deranged mentally prompted Gov-

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HICKMAN STORY EXPLODED; MAN HE CALLS KILLER WAS IN JAIL AT TIME OF CRIME

Youth Clings to His First Tale, Despite Grilling at Pendleton. OFFICERS ARE ON WAY Oregon Officials Balked in Every Effort to Change Boy’s Confession. Rv United Press PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 24. Tenaciously clinging to his story that Andrew Kramer slew Marion Parker, William Edward Hickman today resisted all efforts of Pendleton police to obtain a confession of the murder before he was returned to California. Proximity of Los Angeles officials, en route here to take custody of Hickman, had goaded local authorities to clear up the one remaining baffling point since Hickman’s capture and arrest Thursday afternoon. Even the information that an “Andrew Kramer” who admitted knowing him and resembled somewhat his description of the alleged accomplice, had been in jail in Los Angeles since August, failed even momentarily to shake the story of “The Fox.” He immediately launched into an even more detailed recital of Kramer’s part in the kidnaping and murder plot. Slips Up in Talk Pendleton police, however, were encouraged in, their belief that Hickman had murdered the girl by a slip-up the talkative “Fox” made yesterday while conversing with one of his jailers. Hickman said he told Marion he once had worked in her father’s bank. “It is an entirely probable theory that Hickman killed the girl, because he had told her too much about himself and feared detection if he returned her to her parents alive,” Buck Lieuallen, State motorcycle officer, who aided Police Chief Tom Gurdane in arresting Hickman, said, in admitting police were making strenuous effort to obtain details of the actual murder. The fact that California officers were nearing Pendleton and that probably before nightfall Hickman would start the long journey back to Los Angeles to stand trial for first degree murder did not seem to effect him. He maintained the same indifferent attitude. Detectives Due Today Headed by Asa Keyes, district attorney of J os Angeles County, detectives of Los Angeles were scheduled to arrive here about 4 o’clock this afternoon. The visit of the southern California officials probably will be very brief. They have advised Gurdane that they plan to start the return trip with their notorious prisoner shortly before midnight. If these plans are carried out, Monday or early Tuesday probably will see Hickman back in Los Angeles. The exact time of arrival will be kept secret, to prevent mob violence. Gurdane and Lieuallen have reiterated their intention of accompanying to Los Angeles the young man who made them nationally famdus.

Is Model Prisoner Gurdane said today that Hickman had been a model prisoner. He took his arrest and confinement philosophically, receiving a multitude of interrogators without once losing his temper. Even when officers have examined him at length on all details of the dreadful crime, Hickman remained calm. The black rings under Hickman’s eyes, so noticeable when he was brought here Thursday, have grown fainter. The “Fox,” who had driven more than 2,000 miles in four days in his attempt to escape the farreaching hand of the law, has been sleeping nine hours a night since his capture. DRUG CHAIN EXPANDING Goldsmith’s to Open New Store at Ohio and Meridian Sts. The Kuhn drug store at Meridian and Ohio Sts., will be opened Jan. 1 as store ten of the Goldsmith Brothers Drug Company chain, Sol Goldsmith has announced. The firm also has taken a fifteen-year lease on the corner store room of the new Fountain Square Theater building at a rental of $75,000 and will open a drug store, soda fountain and luncheonette about March 1,

ernor Jackson to pardon him. He had been sentenced in South Bend March 8 for robbery to a maximum of twenty-one years. The mother’s letter to the Governor was accompanied by a certificate from the Berlin police department, testifying to Kurt’s good character while he was an apprentice in one of the largest banks there. The German consul at Cleveland, Dr. H. Borcher, convinced, as were others, that Kurt went wrong because of bad associates, assisted in winning the pardon.

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Los Angeles Police Cease Search for ‘Murderer’ Named by Youth. PROMISE SPEEDY TRIAL Great Precautions Taken to Avert Mob Violence on Return. United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—The movement of justice was speeded up here today as police abandoned their search for Andrew Kramer and prepared to bring William Edward Hickman to a quick trial on charges of kidnaping and murdering Marion Parker, 12. After thorough investigation, police announced they practically had discarded the theory that “Kramer” ever lived in reality and were concentrating their efforts on completing the case against Hickman. Police said their theory that Marion was murdered and her body dismembered in Hickman’s Bellevue Arms apartment materially was strengthened by discrepancies found in Hickman’s confession. Damaging Evidence Found They listed the following as tending to bear out the theory: Portions of Brazil nuts found In the coat wrapped around the girl's body matched parts later discovered in Hickman’s rooms. Thread used to sew open the girl’s eyelids matched thread found in a dresser drawer in the apartment. Though Hickman stated he had no knowledge of the disposition of the girl’s body, pages used to wrap parts of her anatomy were from newspapers discovered in his Bellevue Arms rooms, police said. A towel stuffed in the torso of th body bore the name of the Bellevue Anns. Speed Trial Plans Every possible arrangement so, speedy justice is being completed. Supreme Court Judge Carlos will set the date of Hickman’s trial when the latter pleads before him as soon as he is returned here. If he is convicted, which is regarded as a certainty, he will die inside the 90-day limit set by law. Every precaution will be taken to protect Hickman from mob rule from the time he enters the State boundaries until he has paid the extreme penalty, authorities said. O. Andrew Kramer, who, police believe, Hickman attempted to blame for the killing of the Los Angeles school girl, has been in the city jail here since last August and could not have participated in the kidnaping and slaying.

Prisoner Is Bitter Kramer was a former cellmate of Hickman when the latter was in jail here on charges of check forging. He resembles, somewhat, the mythical character whom Hickman charges with the killing and dismembering. Kramer, questioned in his cell, bitterly scored the youth for attempting to lay the crime on him. “This Hickman,” Kramer said, “is just one of these good little boys gone wrong. He’s a Sunday School crook with a lot of tough notions he picked up from reading story books. “No brains, that’s his trouble. He thinks he’s hard, but he hasn’t any more gumption than a guinea pig. “He shows what kind of a guy he is when he tried to hand a rap like this on a fellow that was in jail all the time. I wouldn’t have gone in on a job with him for ten times the $1,500 he grabbed.” Brothers Have Alibi Two brothers of Kramer, Alber; and Frank, also were said to have perfect alibis, police said. June Dunning, mentioned by Hickman as the woman in the case still was being sought today. Police said this woman may know some details of the case. She may have helped Hickman plan the kidnaping, police said, although they did not believe she took an active part in the killing. Hickman was said to have been seen in the company of a woman before the kidnaping and it was believed this woman was “June Dunning” whom he named as an accomplice. LIVESTOCK NEARLY STEADY AT YARDS Porkers Unchanged; Cattle Up, Steady With Week’s Best Hogs closed an eventful week at the Indianapolis Union Stockyards today with prices up with the week’s best. The top was $9 and bulk s*.9o. Receipts were estimated at 2,500 with 354 holdovers. There were few sales at the Chicago stockyards and the market was steady. Most animals were going at, $8.35 to $8.65. Chicago receipts werei about 6,000 with 2,000 held over. J Cattle were strong /it the locsfl yards and up to the high point the week. Other stock was and nominal.