Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1928 — Page 1

SINCLAIR OIL FRAUD CASE IS GIVENTQ JURY Follow Evidence Instead of Lawyers, Judge Orders In Charge, MAGNATE IS CHEERFUL Defense Is Entitled to Benefit of Doubt, Says Jurist. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 21.—A jury of twelve men today began consideration of the guilt or innocence of Harry P. Sinclair, charged with conspiring to defraud the Government. Justice Jennings Bailey gave the case to the jury at 10:28 a. m. after charging it to follow the evidence rather than the lawyers. The issue is whether Sinclair plotted to gain the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve illegally from Secretary of Interior Albert B. Fall, to whom he later paid $304,100. Sinclair, sitting in the midst of his lawyers facing the jury, and Mrs. Sinclair, attractive blonde, were cheerful as the court convened. Both chatted with newspaper men, but would not discuss the case. Entitled to Doubt The oil man’s mother, Mrs. Phoebe Sinclair, who has seen her son rise from a drug store clerk in Independence, Kan., to be one of the world’s petroleum princes in twenty years, was also in the “Sinclair pew,” a front bench in the courtroom. The jury was unusually silent and intent, without even the usual rustling of lawyers’ papers as the judge opened his talk with an injunction that the jury itself must define the facts of the case “beyond reasonable doubt.” The defense. Justice Bailey said, is entitled to the benefit of doubt. “It is of no matter whether you believe the defendant guilty of any other crime than that charged in the indictment—conspiracy,” the judge said. Possibility of early agreement on a verdict was seen in the fact that the jury will have to remain locked up over Sunday if a decision is not reached by midnight. The case formally will be turned over to the jury for deliberation before noon today. Following Justice Jennings Bailey’s charge. This case is the seventh trial resulting from the Senate’s famous Teapot Dome investigation of 192324. Sinclair and three of his followers are the only men who have been adjudged guilty of crime in any of them. He is under sentence of three months in jail for contempt of the Senate and a six-month sentence for contempt of court in having the first Fall-Sinclair conspiracy trial jury shadowed. Three others were also sentenced in the jury-shadow-ing case. It is regarded here as likely that the remaining “oil cases” will be dismissed if Sinclair is acquitted. Former Secretary Fall, originally indicted with Sinclair for conspiracy to defraud the Government, was granted a Severance because of illness, and conviction of Sinclair probably would lead to an attempt to bring the 67-year-old Fall to trial. Dohcny-Fall Charges Pending Indictments charging bribery against Fall and E. L. Doheny, who leased the Elk Hills naval oil reserve at the same time Sinclair leased Teapot Dome, are also pending, but it is believed that since Fall’s leases have been held unauthorized by the United States Supreme Court that the charge of bribery could not be supported in law. The decision of the jury, if reached, will end a four-year case. Fall and Sinclair were indicted in April, 1924, a few weeks after the Senate committee closed its investigation and secured passage of a Senate resolution denouncing the leases as illegal. ATTORNEY WILL SPEAK B'nal B’rith District Chief Will Be Here Sunday. Attorney Ben M. Achenberg, Kansas City, Mo., district grand lodge president, will address a public meeting of the Indianapolis chapter of B’nai B’rith Sunday afternoon at Kirshbaum Community Center. Candidates obtained by the membership committee' of which Vice President Samuel J. Mantel is chairman, will be initiated. A musical program includes a cornet solo by Henry Marks, violin solo by Mitchell Levy and songs by Sam Kasseff. \ EDWIN MEREDITH IS ILL Former Cabinet Member From lowa Is in Hospital. Hu United Press BALTIMORE, Md., April 21.—Edwin T. Meredith of Des Moines, former Secretary of Agriculture, is at Johns Hopkins Hospital here, it was learned today. Nature of his illness was not disclosed.

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Tornado Tears Swath of Ruin Through Memphis; Seek Bodies

By United Press Memphis, Tenn., April 21.—Suburban residential sections of Memphis were swept by a tornado early today. All lines of communication were reported out of order and theer was no definite report of loss of life or property. Police said one death had been reported. The windstorm was accompanied by heavy

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For the first time in District of Columbia Supreme Court history, a girl, Mary Margaret Haltigan, 26, has been chosen for a jury to be locked up during a trial. The jury is to be housed in a hotel during the trial of an alleged rum runner for manslaughter. A special woman baliff was appointed for Miss Haltigan.

“I MEAN ‘NO",” SAYS COOLIDGE LETTER

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 21.—President Coolidge has put a crimp in the plans of Republican leaders working to draft him despite his “I do not choose to run” and other statements. This was the interpretation generally given by factions in the party

Markets Closed The New York Stock Exchange and the curb market will be closed for the two-hour session today in order that traders mighty have opportunity to catch up with the rush of trading of the last few days. The Chicago Stock Exchange also will be closed. Other markets, however, will be open as usual.

URGE CITY CLEANUP Junior C. of C. Campaign to Open Monday. The fourth annual Junior Chamber of Commerce clean-up and paint-up campaign will be opened at 9 a. m. Monday with a ceremony on the south steps of the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monument. Attention to the program will be attracted by fire apparatus sirens. Talks will be given by Mayor L. Ert Slack and other city officials. During the two weeks campaign a motion picture showing benefits of cleaning up unsightly spots will be shown at neighborhood theaters. Fire hazards will be pointed out by thirty inspectors under Horace W. Carey, fire prevention bureau chief. Cooperation TYf public school children and Boy Scouts has been promised. SOME HOGS RISE 50 CENTS; TOP $10.50 Material Weighing Upward From 170 Pounds Up 10 to 20 Cents. Hogs advanced in all weights 10 to 50 cents on the local market ending the week today with the top at $10.50, up $1 from the top of last Saturday, and $1.50 higher than the top of Wednesday, April 18, from which the upward march started last week. Weights upward from 170 pounds advanced 10 to 20 cents and lighter animals were up generally 25 cents. Material in the 170-180-pound class rose 50 cents. The bulk of all weights sold at $9.50 and higher. Receipts were estimated at 2,500. Calves dropped off 50 cents and other material was mostly steady. The Chicago market was slow around steady withs Friday’s average, with 5,000 fresh animals and as many holdovers. The top was $10.40. Motorist Dies in Crash By United Press HAMMOND, Ind., April 21— H. S. Downing. 40, Griffith, Ind., was killed and an unidentified man, his companion, was critically injured when their motor car crashed into a street car here Friday night.

rain. * Practically all wires into the city from the East and South were reported down. The storm skirted the city, striking first on the southeast side near the Mississippi, and circling east and north. The fairgrounds, play center of the triStaies, suffered heavy damage. More than a score of houses were unroofed, and several buildings demolished.

LEBANON BANK BUILDING AFIRE

$4,200 IN LOOT TAKEN FROM ANDERSON MAN Diamond Pin. Ring and Auto Stolen by Two Bandits. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., April 21.—W. C. McLain, proprietor of auto sales agency here, was robbed of a $2,000 diamond pin, a SSOO ring and a $1,700 automobile by two bandits at a point on the Chesterfield pike, four miles east of here Friday afternoon. The bandits were riding with McLain in the car, new sedan, having directed him to drive into the country on the pretext of a demonstration of the car which they said they might buy. ROB DRY GOODS STORE Bandit Gets S2O in W. Michigan St. Holdup. “Hand it over boy or you might get shot,” a bandit told Eugene Osborn, who operates a dry goods store at 3055 W. Michigan St., Friday night. Osborn said he gave the bandit S2O from the cash register.

here today to the letter Mr. Coolidge wrote to Francis Prescott, chairman of the Republican State committee at Boston, asking that “the sticker” campaign for him be stopped, forthwith. The letter follows: “Report has come to me that some persons in Massachusetts are proposing to writ’ in my name as a candidate for President at the primaries April 24. Such action would be most embarrassing to me, and, while appreciating the compliment that is intended, I request that it not be done. “My name is being used in other States in a way contrary to my wishes. I have heard that in New York it Jias gone so far as to be claimed such use is with my tacit consent. , “In my own State to give countenance to such movement would tend to compromise me and lend color to the misrepresentations that apparently are being made in other States. “I am, therefore, sending you this public declaration of my position and requesting that such attempts be discontinued.’’ 13 FACE RUM CHARGES United States Agents Make Raids in Four Southeastern Counties. Twelve men and one woman arrested by Federal dry r gents in liquor raids in four southeastern Indiana counties Friday are being held in the Marion County jail awaiting hearing before a commissioner. They are: James Linville, Mrs. Maggie Linville, his wife; Joseph Schroeder and his son, Joseph Schioeder, Jr., all of Greensburg; William A.' Byard and Michael Buckhave, Batesville; Charcoal Smith and George Menninger, Harrison, Ohio; Robert Buggini and Troy Hoover, Morris; John Salatari, Brookville; Calvin Skeen, Osgood, and John Walters, Lawrenceburg. Engine Hits Motorist A backing switch engine and a backing automobile collided Friday night in the Republic Creosoting Company's yards. Tibbs Ave. and Minneosta St., and today John C. Meisel, 42, employe at the plant, was minus an auto and wore his fractured arm in a sling.

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METHUSELAH WASN’T SO OLD, SCIENTIST DECLARES

By Science Service ■PHILADELPHIA, April 21. -*■ Methuselah didn’t live 969 years. The clan or tribe he founded lasted that long, bearing his name until it died out or was absorbed into another primitive tribe. Similarly, Adam’s individualage was not 930 years; that was the “lifetime” of his tribe. This suggsted explanation of the apparently unnatural ages of the Biblical patriarchs was advanced before the American Philosophical Society at its annual meeting here today by Robert P. Field of this city.

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Indianapolis and Frankfort Departments Send Aid. Hn United Press LEBANON, Ind., April 21.—Fire which began in the Farmers State bank building at 3o’clock this morning is still raging and it is feared the three-story structure will be destroyed. The blaze was believed to have been started by a defectitve flue. It had gained such headway when discovered that local firemen were unable to stem its progress. Hurried calls were placed for aid from Indianapolis and Frankfort fire departments and both responded. Fixtures in several offices in the building were destroyed and three business establishments on the ground floor burned. It was believed the fireproof vaults would protect the bank's funds and records. BOWERS IS FAVORED Jones Says Editor May Be Keynote Speaker. Sentiment is widespread for the selection of Claude G. Bowers, former Ft. Wayne editor, now editorial writer for the New York Evening World, as keynote speaker for the Democratic national convention at Houston, Texas, said Jesse H. Jones, Houston Chronicle publisher, and “angel” of the convention, while in Indianapolis Friday night, en route to New York. Jones, who assumed financial responsibility for the convention, conferred with Charles A. Great-hou.-e, national committeeman from Indiana, at the Union Station. Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas. is being advanced for the permanent chairmanship. Jones indicated. Final arrangements for the convention will be made at Washington April 30 when the convention arrangements committee, of which Jones is chairman, will meet.

CHIANG PRESSES ON Nationalist Army Sweeps Through Shantung. By United I’ri ss LONDON, April 21.—British as well as American officials have advised their Nationals to leave the interior of Shantung province and proceed immediately to Tsing Tao, the Shanghai correspondent of the Manchester Guardian reported today. The Toho Agency reported from Thinanfu that Gen. Chiarjg Kai Shek's vanguard was advancing rapidly along the Tientsin P .kow Railway and had reached Taianfu, which is the mountain stronghold south of Tsinanful, where Gens. Sun Chuan Fang and Chang Chung Chung are attempting to resist the Nationalists. Advices from Honan province said that Gen. Feng Yu Hsiang was advancing rapidly along the PekinIlankow Railway. COMEDY TO BE GIVEN “Absent-Minded Bridegroom" Name of Alhambra Farce. “The Absent-Minded Bridegroom” is the name of a Qomedy-farce to be presented by Indianapolis Caravan of Alhambra, Sunday night at the Knights of Columbus Hall. The cast is composed of members of the St. Cecelia Dramatic Association of Sacred Heart church. Proceeds from the play will be used for historical markings for Catholic church history here.

Field was led to this hypothesis by a parallel case which has been more fully elaborated in Old Testament history. Israel was the name of a person. The tribe he founded was also called Israel, and the name has finaly extended to mean whole nation and race. In this sense, Israel has lived something like 4,000 years, and has beaten Methuselah’s record four times over. tt u tt ACCORDING to Field’s interpretation, the apparently advanced ages at which the patriarchs became fathers of their old-

WALB-WEAVER BANK TRIAL TO OPENMONDAY Pair Faces Conspiracy, Ten Other Charges in Ft. Wayne. FORGERY IS ALLEGED Former State G. 0. P. Head Accused of Taking Funds for Own Use. By Times Special FT. WAYNE, lijd., April 21.—Trial of Clyde A. Walb, former Republican State chairman, and Valentine Weaver, former president of the First National Bank of La Grange, Ind., for failure of the institution, will open in Federal Court here Monday. Walb was vice president of the bank, but resigned along with Weaver before the indictments were returned, and after the charge was filed resigned his political office. . The trial will be before Judge Walter Lindle yof Danville, 111., Judge Thomas W. Slick of the northern Indiana district having declined jurisdiction Venire of 60 Called Sixty prospective jurors have been summoned by Deputy United States Marshall John Voegtlin. Homer Elliott, former Government district attorney, will defend Walb. They conferred at La Grange Friday. District Attorney Albert S Ward will prosecute the case. Walb and Weaver are charged with violating the national banking law and conspirrcy to violate the same law. The indictment consists of twelve counts, two of which allege conspiracy and the others aver specific violation of the banking law. It is alleged In the Indictment that Walb took over thousands of dollars for himself and his construction company—the Walb Construction Company—and Weaver is alleged to have converted money I he is supposed to have taken for i personal uses. $76,000 in Forged Paper Weaver is alleged to have h'dden : the thefts from examiners by | writing forged notes and in some j instances throwing personal money j into the breach. The forged paper In the bank at j the time it was closed was said to J have totalled $76,000. Other forgeries j listed in the indictment carry amounts ranging from S3OO to about! $6,000. The bank’s doors closed Oct. 24, 1927, after J. F. Ut\ Federal bank examiner, who served as temporary receiver after Department of Justice agents uncovered the alleged loss. The case went before the Federal grand jury at Indianapolis. Dec. 21, and the men were indicted, Dec. 31. Bill May Affect Case Complications may arise because of a bill in Congress that may become a law by Monday which carries tlfe provision that this division ana the Hammond and South Bend divisions shall constiute the northern district of the Indiana Federal Court. | If this goes through Ward will represent the southern district and anew district attorney the northern. This, it is said, technically would disqualify him for the trial. Ward said the attorney general’s office has indicated that since he presented the case to the grand jury he should try it. If this does not stand the case probably will be postponed until the northern district appointee can become familiar with the Walb-Weaver case.

RAP ‘UNION’ COMMITTEE Mine Workers Denounce Unit as Communist. By Times Special WASHINGTON. April 21.—The so-called “save the union committee,” instead of trying to save the United mine workers of America, is, in fact, seeking to destroy the union, a resolution adopted by the executive board of the Mine Workers declared today. The “save the union committee” and the Ohio-Pennsylvania relief committee, heretofore under fire of the Senate committee investigating the coal strike, were denounced by the board as controlled by communists prohibited from union membership. The two organizations are encouraged by anti-union coal operators, the resolution said.

est sons were in reality the ages at which the families of these sons left the patriarchal clans to become the nuclei of new clans on their own account. Thus Adam did not beget Seth at 130 years of age; Seth was bom a good deal earlier, and had a numerous family of his own. What happened during Adam’s j.3oth year was not the birth of a son, but the birth of a clan. Adam died at 130, and, at the srt.tling up of his affairs, his eldest son went forth and founded the clan of Seth, leaving the clan of Adam to flourish for 800 years, until the name finally died out.

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—Photo copyright. 1928. NEA Service, Inc. Transmitted by telephoto. The laughing Irishman, commandant James Fitzmaurice, the first of the trio of trans-Atlantic fliers on the Bremen to reach civilization, is shown receiving the congratulations of Miss Herta Junkers at Murray Bay, Quebec. Miss Junkers, daughter of Hugo Junkers, designer of the plane that successfully weathered the treacherous gales of the North Atlantic, flew to Muray Bay to direct efforts to repair the Bremen so it might fly on to New York. Note the Irishman’s smile.

MOTORIST ARRESTED FOR SOUNDING SIREN

Big Ben on Air By United Press ST. LOUIS. Mo., April 21. The midnight tolling of “Big Ben,” famous clock on the London tower, was brought into homes of the Middle West Friday night by a special radio hook-up through station KMOX here. Williamg West, engineer of the station, picked up station SFW, Chelmsford, England, on, his home set, and relayed to KMOX, where it was rebroadcast. Reception of the English station was exceptionally clear.

EDITORS FOR HOOVER 111 State Newspapers Back Secretary’s Race. One hundred and eleven Indiana newspapers now are indorsing Herbert C. Hoover’s presidential candidacy as compared with thirtyfive the week following his entry in the Indiana primary race, it was st; ts and today at Hoovers’ State headqum ters in the Claypool. *' rculation totals compiled by Cl IWard and Don Ewing, in cherge of the Hoover publicity, discii 7 that Indiana newspapers a\ vedly for Hoover have a circulation of 531,327, while those defending the candidacy of Senator James E. Watson have a circulation Os 402.261. Outside of Indianapolis, Hoover papers have a circulation of 335,261 to Watson’s 167,200, according to these calculations.

FAMED BEAUTY TO BE GUEST IN CITY

Miss Universe, 1927 winner of the International Pageant of Pulchritude, will arrive in Indianapolis at the Union Station at 2:25 a. m., Sunday. While in the city she will be the guest of The Indianapolis Times and will be introduce.', from the stage of the Indiana Theater at the Sunday night performance. She also will be presented to Indiana Ballroom guests during the evening. Miss Universe is coming tc Indianapolis in connection with The Times-Indiana bathing beauty contest, which will be held next

The same history repeated itself many times, as recorded In the genealogical chapters of the Book of Genesis. Field’s theory would call for a re-dating of the Old Testament, and a great extension of the time over the 4,004 years allowed by Archbishop Ussher’s chronology. Thus the antediluvian period was from 8,000 to 10,000 years, and the postdiluvian period from 4,000 to 6.000 years. Abraham is dated 2090 B. C. and the flood between 6500 and 9000 B. C., while Adam lived at about 15,000 to 20,000 B. C.

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Police Rigidly Enforcing City Speed and Traffic Ordinances. Frank Hennen, 861 Drexel Ave., faces a charge of unlawful use of a siren in municipal court today as the result of the first arrest in the police campaign to restrict use of sirens and red lights to police and fire department automobiles and city hospital ambulances. Hennen was arrested Friday night by Sergt. Cht rles Halstead and Motorpoliceman Lawrence McCarthy. Without widespread publicity police have been rigidly enforcing speed and traffic ordinances, records at headquarters show T . Several weeks ago, Police Chief Claude M. Worley called in his motorcycle officers and warned them that he wanted consistent work, not spurts and drives. In the last three weeks 157 speeders, and several hundred drivers charged with improper parking and failure to have lights, have been arrested. Friday night sixteen motorists were charged with speeding and seventeen drivers with other traffic violations. Mrs. Jennie Piggett, 2203 E. New York St., was charged ivith failure to stop after an accident. Jay Powell, 3105 College Ave., was charged with driving while intoxicated, speeding, operating a blind tiger and reckless driving. Buchard Carr. 120 E. Fiftieth St., was charged with speeding and having more than three persons in the driver’s seat of his automobile. Joseph Tracy. 2854 Adams St., was charged with driving while intoxicated.

Week for the naming of Miss Indianapolis. The famous beauty won her title at Galveston, Texas, last year under the same management that is staging the pageant this year. An automobile with a police escort will be waiting for Miss Universe at 2:25 p. m., Sunday, at the Union Station, and she will be driven directly to the Indiana Ballroom. U. S. TAXI RATES HIGH Survey Shows America at Top; Paris Is Lowest. By United Press LONDON, April 21.—Taxicab rates in Paris are lower than anywhere in Europe or Great Britain. The following table is based on two passengers to be carried 614 miles: Paris, 54 cents; Brussels, 58 cents: Berlin, $1.04; Rome, $1.08;’ Madrid, $1.10; London, $1.16; New York, $1.41. BUTLER TO GIVETHOW Will Present “Fairview Follies” at Murat Tonight. “The Fairview Follies,” first annual Butler University musical show will be given this evening at the Murat Theater under auspices of the Men’s League of Butler. The entire production is the work of Butler students, and all parts are played by students. The Butler band appears in one scene.

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FORD FLIERS ILL; RESCUE HOPDELAYED Balchen and Bennett Kept In Beds by Sudden Influenza Attacks. MAY TAKE OFF SUNDAY, : Giant Plane Stocked With New Parts and Benzol for Bremen. By United Press -A MURRAY BAY, Quebec, April 21. —The illness of both pilots has delayed for at least twenty-four hours the Ford relief plane’s flight to Greenly Island with repairs and supplies for the airplane Bremen. Floyd Bennett developed influenza during the night and was not able to leave his bed when called early today to make ready for the last stage of his northward flight. Later is was learned that Bernt Balchen, Bennett’s co-pilot, also was suffering from the same malady. The Ford plane, in which the twos pilots flew to Lake St. Agnes airdrome from Detroit yesterday, was loaded and ready to be taken up v when the report reached the field* that both fliers were ill. Their' haste in leaving Detroit and the day-long flight was said to have lowered their resistance. Plans for the flight to Greenly Island were revised on the basis of new developments. It is now likely that the plane will leave at 5 a. m. Sunday. Plane Stocked for Trip MONTREAL, Que., April 21. Bremen rescue headquarters at Lake | St. Agnes were early astir today, preparing for the getaway of the huge Ford plane for Greenly Island, before announcement was made that the flight had been postponed for the day. The plane had been stowed full of all sorts of gear to take to Capt. Herman Koehl and Baron Huenefeld at the island, so that their depleted wardrobe might be replenished and their trans-Atlantic plane repaired for its journey to New York. A few bottles of German beer, some cigarets, a couple of huge collars for the massive Koehl, and some cigars for Huenefelc’' were among the articles pi cked away, togethed with the more important items of a propeller for the Bremen and a quantity of benzol. Fraulein Herta Junkers, the organizing genius of the expedition, had looked well to details. Having done everything with true German precision, she allowed herself at the last moment the feminine prerogative of being a bit nervous, though wholly enthusiastic. It is the hope of Fraulein Junk-* ers and Major Fitzmaurice that the Bremen can be repaired in Greenly in short order for its trip to New York. Sees Little Gain in Flight BY MAURITZ A. lIALLGREN United Press Special Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 21 —The westward flight of the Biemen across the Atlantic “contributed little” to the technical side of aviation, the United Press was told today by a high navy official, one of the country’s outstanding aeronautical authorities. This expert nevertheless had nothing but praise for the personal courage ol Baron Huenefeld and his companions. “Success of the crew of th Bremen in the westward flight over the Atlantic in the face of tremendous hazards should prove an extraordinary stimulus for aviation,” he said. “The flight shows that pluck, determination and good equipment can overcome great hazards. “From a purely technical viewpoint, however, the Bremen’s trip contributed little to the science of aeronautics. It already has been demonstrated that flights of long duration are possible. Once this had been accomplished, there was nothing further to be gained by repetition,” he said. Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice faced dangers three times as great as those which confronted Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and others who have flown in the opposite direction, it was asserted. The expert described the westward crossing as “a much more serious proposition than the eastward crossing.” BANKERS GIVE BONDS Officials of Wild Institution Artj Released From Jail. John F. Wild and three other officials of the defunct J. F. Wild & Cos. bank were free today on SI,OOO bonds set by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on indictments returned Friday for bank embezzlement. Bond of Wild, pesldent of tha bank before its closing last July 30 and subsequent receivership, was signed by the Union Trust Company. J. D. Eastman signed bond for Otto P. Kern, cashier, while Charles Remster signed for John Craig Fisher and William F. McNairy, vie* presidents.