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FOUR YEARS IN PRISON IS WALB'S SENTENCE; WEAVER IS GIVEN THIRTY MONTHS Pair Convicted in Wrecking of La Grange Bank Will Be Sent to Leavenworth Without Further Delay. FEW HOURS GIVEN TO VISIT FAMILY Judge Scores Defendants as Faithless to the Trust They Owed Stockholders and Depositors. BY CHARLES E. CARLL Times Staff Correspondent FT. WAYNE, Ind., April 27.—Clyde A. Walb, former Republican State chairman, today was sentenced to serve four years in Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kas., for his part in wrecking the First National Bank of La Grange, Ind., of which he was vice president. Valentine D. Weaver, white-haired former president of the bank, was sentenced to serve two and one-half years in Leavenworth. Sentence was passed by Special Judge Walter Bindley in Federal Court here. Walb and Weaver were charged with violating the national bank laws and conspiracy to violate the national bank laws in an indictment with twelve counts. '

Upon each of the first ten counts Walb was given a fouryear sentence and two years upon each of the last two counts. All sentences run concurrently, however, so Walb will wipe the slate clean with four years behind bars. Weaver was given two and onehalf years upon each of the first ten counts and two years upon the last two. He gets out in two and one-half years since his sentences also are concurrent. The court assessed no fines, although he ordered court costs assessed evenly between the two defendants. Refuses Liberty Till Monday Weaver requested his liberty until Monday to visit his family. Judge Lindley refused, but granted both men until 1 this afternoon to be with relatives. Then the trip to Leavenworth, by way of Danville, 111., was to begin. Deputy United States Marshal John Gotlin of Ft. Wayne was in charge of the prisoners. Judge Lindley remarked that he would be willing to recommend parole for both men as soon as they have served the required one-third of their time. This would make Weaver eligible for parole next February and Walb eligible in August, 1929. Walb and Weaver stood passively in front of the bench while the court scored them as “faithless to their trust” and passed sentence. Weaver was more at ease than Walb. Walb stood with hands in his trousers pockets at first, but appearing to sense that this was not quite the poise for such a courtroom scene, took them out and decorously clasped them behind his back. “You men owed the depositors and stockholders of that bank your fidelity,” said Judge Lindley, “and yet you cooperated in an actual theft of the bank’s property.” Calls Walb “Aggressor” The judge declared he viewed Walb as “the aggressive party.” “In my opinion, Weaver never should have been president of that bank. I don’t think he was fitted for it. "Os course I must give you a sentence that will mean something. I must do this to deter other men from doing as you have done. “This has to be done regardless of the pain to your families, the innocent sufferers.” Jury Wastes No Time Weaver pleaded guilty Wednesday, just after the State had completed its testimony. Walb was found guilty by the jury, which deliberated only ten minutes after receiving the case Thursday afternoon. The jury took only two ballots, the first standing 11 to 1 for conviction and the second being for conviction upon all twelve counts of the indictment. The first information about conditions in the bank, resulting in the convictions, was given to the public by The Indianapolis Times last fall as part of the uncovering of Indiana political corruption. Walb blusteringly denied the facts, since proved to the State chairman, saying he was doing it purely because he desired to devote all his time to his extensive business interests. Calm as Verdict Comes Walb heard himself pronounced guilty Thursday without a crack in the front which he has maintained. He twirled an unlighted cigar in his fingers and dropped his head slightly. Neither he nor his attorneys would comment. Weaver, however, walked out of the courtroom like a man freed from a weight. His spirits had been noticeably brighter since the day he changed his plea to guilty. His son, Hobart, former cashier of the bank, sat with him throughout the trial. Weaver’s health is regarded as precarious. He suffered

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two slight strokes of paralysis last week. Close of the case was rapid. The defense introduced only four witnesses, including Walb. The defense rested early Thursday afternoon and Judge Lindley allowed each side only one hour for argument. This was completed at 4:20. Action Is Rapid The court’s instructions lasted until 5:10. The jury was back in the courtroom and the whole proceedings over before 5:30. The court had instructed the jurors to return a sealed verdict and report at 9:30 this morning, but the decision was reached before the judge and attorneys had left the courthouse, so it was received instanter. The trial started here Monday morning. The Government rested its case Wednesday after Weaver withdrew his plea of not guilty and took the stand against the codefendant. The evidence covered illegal transactions in the bank from 1922 until it was closed by bank examiners Oct. 27, 1927. The evidence showed that the men had placed the names of wealthy La Grange County citizens on the notes that Walb might take cash out of the bank for his personal account. That of the Walb Construction Company, and the La Grange Hardware Company, of which he was part owner. Admitted False Entries Weaver admitted signing the notes and making false entries in the bank books to hide the shortages from bank examiners, he also confessed to using part of the money to finance the Better Service Company, of which he was part owner. Before the defense rested its case, a motion for a directed verdict of not guilty was filed. It was based on the contention that the government did not show the defunct bank was a member of the Federal Reserve system. Judge Lindley reopened the case to admit this evidence and the motion was overruled.

HILL OUT ON BAIL Waits Third Trial in Death of Mother. Bu United Press pTTAWA, 111., April 27.—Harry Hill, 21, former Knox College student, charged with the murder of his mother, Mrs. Eliza Hill, wealthy eccentric, was released on $20,000 bond today by Judge J. A. Davis pending a third trial. Judge Davis set Sept. 4, as the date for the new trial.

DROP ATTEMPT TO SPEED FLOOD BILL

By United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—Senate leaders today abandoned efforts to rush the Jones-Reid flood control bill through the Senate and decided to send it to conference. Leaders were unable to get unanimous agreement for adoption in the Senate of amendments which the House made to the measure. As soon as the Senate convened, Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee asked that Vice President Dawes appoint conferees to meet with House conferees. The Senate conferees were named at once. They are Republican Senators Jones of Washington, McNary of Oregon, and Johnson of California, and Democratic Senators Fletcher of Florida, and Ransdell of Louisiana. In view of this step, a meeting of

‘Permanents’ Bu United Press BOSTON, April 27.—Bobbed hair is more of an institution than a fad, and it is here to stay. President C. W. Godefroy of the National Hairdressers’ Association said. “I cannot conceive the bob going out any more than I can look to the day when men will go back to wigs and long hair,” he told the New England Ladies’ Hairdressers Association. “They say long hair is coming back, but women who have never clipped their tresses before are bobbing now. The college girl of today sets the style in hairdressing.” Godefroy said the boyish bob was definitely out in favor of longer bobbed hair.

TAX CUT BILL TO BE RUSHED Measure Will Be in Senate Next Week. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—The $203,000,000 tax reduction bill agreed upon by the Senate finance committee instead of the $289,000,000 measure passed by the House will be reported to the Senate next Tuesday and brought up>for action Thursday, Chairman Smoot announced today. The committee considered minor features at today’s session and will be ready for final vote Monday, Smoot said. All important features were voted upon yesterday and the final ballot will be only a formality Republican leaders in the House are understood to approve the Senate tax reduction proposals although the measure they passed early in the session called for a $289,000,000 cut. The new bill provides for a 12M per cent corporation tax, a reduction of 1 per cent; repeal of the automobile tax; retention of the estate tax; an increase in corporation tax exemptions from $2,000 to $3,000; and downward revision of surtaxes in the intermediate brackets. HONOR MRS. DICKEY Flower Mission Pays Tribute ol Late Worker. Tribute was paid to the memory of Mrs. Lavalette Dickey by the Indianapolis Flower Mission Thursday, when she died at the home of her niece, Miss Valette Miller, 5155 Central Ave. Mrs. Dickey had been a member of the organization for forty years and was one time president and vice president. She went about on errands of mercy fostered by the mission and was a constant visitor at the Flower Mission Hospital. Her vacant chair at the meeting was banked with roses. The next meeting will be a memorial in her honor, it was announced. CARTER TO GO ON AIR Will Broadcast Over WOWO and WFBM in Campaign. Solon J. Carter, candidate who is seeking the United States Senate nomination on the Republican ticket, will broadcast over WOWO, Ft. Wayne, from 10 to 10:15 tonight. He speaks there earlier in the evening. Tuesday from 8 to 8:20 p. m., he will broadcast over WFBM, the Indianapolis Power and Light Company station, here. Wednesday noon the candidate will speak at the E. C. Atkins Company and Thursday noon at the Diamond Chain plant.

Rains Mud By United Press WARSAW, April 27.—A fivehour rain of mud that filled streets ankle-high caused terror at Lemberg and Cemowitz today. Scientists found the principal ingredients of the rain was clay, carried by the wind presumably from the earthquake region in the Balkans.

the Commerce Committee called for this afternoon to seek agreement on the House amendment was abandoned.

SPEED AGE SETS NO CUP TOO FAST FOR MAN’S BODY

BY THOMAS CARROLL Chief Test Pilot. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (Written for Science Service) HIGH speeds “nearing the limit of endurance of the human body” are being frequently reported in aviation. Automobile speed tests also give rise to similar expressions. Anything over two hundred miles an hour seems sufficient to excite the phrase. And it would be just as untrue if the speed were a thousand miles an hour as though it were twenty-five.

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FLAYS INDIANA FARM HEAD AS LOBBYLEA9ER Charges Settle ‘Cyclops’ in Move to Embarass Coolidge. RELIEF FIGHT POLITICAL Dawes Nomination Back of McNary Advocacy, Says Congressman. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING Times Speclil Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 27.—William H. Settle, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation, was branded inferentially as “the grand cyclops of the McNary-Haugen lobby” by Representative Aswell of Louisiana, Thursday, in an assault upon the motives of the Midwestern leaders who have been here all winter demanding a farm relief bill containing the equalization fee provision vetoed last year by President Coolidge. Aswell declared that the McNaryHaugen lobbyists didn't want real farm relief, but wanted a bill that the President could veto so that they might nominate Frank Lowden or Vice President Dawes, preferablly the latter, for the Republican nomination for President. Threatened by Lobby Settle has declared for Senator Watson in Indiana and the charge has been made that Watson simply is trying to hold the Indiana delegation in line for Lowden or Dawes. Five members of the Agricultural Committee, Aswell declared, who wanted real farm relief legislation that the President could sign, were threatened by the lobby, led by Settle and scared back into line for* an equalization fee bill They include Representative Purnell of Indiana, ranking Republican members of the Agricultural Committee, it is believed. "The members of the lobby burst into our committee room one morning, led by the grand cyclops from Indiana, and he talked out loud so every one could hear him, and told the strongest of the five Congressmen that if he did not get back into line he (the cyclops! would go out into his district and hang his hide on a fence rail,” Aswell said. Aim at Coolidge Representative Clarke of New York, who is a member of the agricultural committee, broke in to confirm Aswell. “There were three members of the committee who heard that statement,” Clarke said. Aswell resumed: “The one man the grand cyclops named did not get frightened, but the other four dashed back into the reservation, ar.cf said it was all a mistake, and said, give us the equalization fee or give us death. "I am told the lobby has instructed these gentlemen, whom they own, to stand up here today and tomorrow 1 and the next day and boldly declare their independence of a lolfby, and you will hear from them. “The lobby wants to pass a bill that will put the President in a hole. You tried that last year and he dynamited you and the whole bunch.” The other jnembers to whom Aswell referred, besides Purnell, are said to be Representatives Adkins, Illinois; Williams, Illinois; Anderson, Minnesota, ar.d Thompson, Ohio.

BOMB CHICAGO SHOP Cleaners’ War Blamed for Latest Blast. Bu United Press CHICAGO, April 27.—A bomb, placed in an adjacent vacant building, wrecked the tailor shop of Hyman Glazov, on the west side, early today. Glazov, his wife and two children, living in the rear of the tailor shop, were thrown from their beds but were uninjured. The front of the building was wrecked. Police said they believed the bombing was an outgrowth of the cleaners’ and dyers’ war. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 33 10 a. m.... 41 7a. m.... 34 11 a. m.... 42 8 a. m.... 37 12 (noon).. 43 9 a. m.... 40 1p.m.... 44

Speed itself has no effect whatever. At least we have found none at three hundred miles an hour. True, if parts of the human body are exposed to the direct •wind of such speedy passage, unpleasant consequences must be expected. But this is not in contemplation, for the person attaining these speeds is carefully shielded from the wind. a tt a THERE is no doubt that the human body would not stand such speeds were it shot from a

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Two of the thirty-eight blue ribbon children in the annual competition of the Indianapolis Free Kindergarten Society for child health day, Thursday, at the Y. W. C. A., are shown here. On the left, Jeanne Mutz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mutz, 705 N. Riley Ave.; at the right, Melvin Herschell Unger, son of Aaron Unger, 3030 Ruckle St.

SCORES PERILED IN STREET CAR CRASH

Two Injured, 100 Hurled From Seats in Morning Collision. More than one hundred passengers on two street cars were hurled from their seats and shaker, up early today when a Brightwood car skidded into the rear of an E. Washington car at Alabama and Washington Sts. Two injured passengers were taken to city hospital. Frank Pur.st, 19, of 1010 S. Keystone Ave., was injured on the legs and John Patterson, 50, of 1504 E. Washington St., was injured on the back. He later was removed to his home. Both Injured were among five passengers standing on rear platform of the E. Washington car stopped to unload passengers. Patterson was pinned in the wreckage under a large beam. There were about forty passengers on the Brightwood car and sixty on the E. Washington. Patrolman C. Brown, C. W. Wilson, C. Taylor and Gezas just had alighted from the Washington car and aided in freeing Patterson and clearing the wreckage. The front of the Brightwood car telescoped into the other car nearly to the point where the conductor stands. Traffic was blocked fifteen minutes.

TAKES HOOVER STUMP Robert Taft to Speak at Evansville May 2 for Secretary. Robert Taft of Cincinnati, son of Chief Justice William H. Howard Taft, will speak in behalf of Herbert C. Hoover’s presidential candidacy at Evansville Wednesday night, May 2, Hoover headquarters here announced today. Utility Valuation Increased The State tax board today valued total holdings of the Indiana Service Corporation of Ft. Wayne for taxation purposes at $9,980,000. The 1927 valuation was $8,975,000. The increased valuation was due to increased light and power business of the corporation which has spent $1,436,000 for improvements to its light and power plant in the last year.

gun of from a catapult, but in any ordinary means of flight or locomotion there is no element of aceleration comparable to that. The human body does not stand acceleration well. This is well known and proved. Rapid acceleration or deceleration drives or draws the blood away from the nerve centers producing momentary blindness or other malfunction of the body. Fortunately, it is almost impossible to continue the force for more than a moment and the

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‘Dark Horses 9 By United Press BOSTON, April 27.—Harry F. Sinclair, Gene Tunney, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, J. Pierpont Morgan and King George of England, were among the many who received votes in the Massachusetts presidential primary vote Tuesday.

PLAN CIRCUS PARTY County Spelling Winners to Be Guests. Edward V. Richardson, circus director, will be host tp Marion County champions of the Indiana Spelling Bee Saturday afternoon at the Police and Firemen Circus. The winners were guests of The Indianapolis Times and Wallace R. Allen, manager of the Palace Theater, Wednesday afternoon, for “The Student Prince,” and the circus comes as an additional treat for the children. All county winners in Indiana will gather May 4 in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School, for the State meet which is under the direction of The Indianapolis Times. At that time they will be guests of some downtown theater for an afternoon party. BUNDERBURG APPOINTED Again Named to Education Board by Governor. Governor Ed Jackson today announced reappointment of Clifford Funderburg, Huntington County school superintendent, to the State board of education for a four-year term.

Jolson Prized By United Press NEW YORK, April 27.—A1 Jolson is worth $1,000,000 to motion pictures. At least, in the eyes of the Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., for whom the black-face star works. A policy was taken out for that amount, which will revert to the corporation if Jolson dies.

after-effects seem to be conspicuous by their absence. The first symptoms of the effect appear in an amber tinting of the vision, as though you had clapped on a pair of amber glasses, followed, if the acceleration is maintained, by darkness. The recovery is rapid and complete. The effects are made negligble by either of two extremely simple means, by wearing a corset-like belt such as is worn by polo players, or simpler still, by letting out a good husky yell.

CREW OF BREMEN IS RACING BY AIR TO ATTEND FUNERAL RITES FOR MARTYRED FUER

Dip Flags of 6 Nations in Solemn Tribute at New York. THOUSANDS VIEW BODY Streets Bedecked to Greet Ocean Aviators Draped With Crepe. BY CARL D. GROAT United Fress Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 27.—Six nations united in a common bond of homage to a gallant American aviator today when the body of Floyd Bennett lay In state at the 71st Regiment Armory for an hour and a half before being taken on to Washington for burial among the Nation’s honored dead in Arlington cemetery. Flags of the United States, Germany, Great Britain, France, Canada and Ireland, which had been raised to honor the German-Irish crew of the trans-Atlantic airplane, Bremen, were dipped in salute when. Bennett's body arrived from Quebec. They were dipped again as the military and police escort carried the body of the flier back through the bedecked streets to the Pennsylvania station, where it was placed aboard a special train for Washington. Thousands See Body In the brief hour that Bennett’s body lay in state at the armory countless thousands of representatives of all countries passed by the bier. # Then*the doors were closed while his mother, his widow and other close relatives and associates of Bennett knelt in silent prayer beside the casket. The funeral train left shortly after 10 a. m. Besides Bennett's body, it carried his relatives, Commander Richard E. Byrd, whom he had niloted over the north pole and delegations from the North German Lloyd line, the Irish Free State, German and Irish societies and 1 representatives of the City of New York. Bennett had lost his life on an errand which he hoped would hasten the release of the German-Irish fliers stranded on Greenly Island. 1 The streets through which his body was carried from Grand Central Terminal to the Armory and; then to the Pennsylvania Station! presented a strange combination of decorations. Flags Draped With Crepe The flags which had been put up as part of the welcome planned for the German ocean fliers were pulled down to half-mast and some of the gayer decorations were draped with; crepe. Four seaplanes circled ahove the station as the train pulled out and the bell in the station tolled. Streets leading from the armory to the station and the area around the station itself were congested by the hundreds of thousands of persons who had hurried uptown for a | glimpse of the body or of the procession. The train bearing the valiant aviator’s body arrived at Grand Central station from Quebec at 7:30 a m. and was met by a large crowd of mourners. 1 The body of the man who died of pneumonia in a Quebec hospital, after' a daring flight into the northlands to aid the stranded trans-At-lantic fliers, was placed on a military gun carriage to head a procession to the Seventy-First Regiment Armory where it lays in state. Through streets decorated for the now postponed reception of the German-Irish voyagers, the solemn procession followed the flag-draped casket.

Bare neads Reverently Behind the gun carriage came a detachment of mounted police, followed in turn by a company of the 71st National Guards, a company from the Regular Army and a detachment of sailors from the Brooklyn Navy yard. In the street beyond the station th(k procession had been joined by a Navy band which played a dirge as the cortege moved into Park Ave. Streets from Grand Central to the Armory were lined with people who bared their heads reverently as the caisson passed. By the time the cortege had reached the Armory hundreds of thousands of persons had poured into the area and it was only with great difficulty that police cleared a path for the procession. As the body was being carried into the building the Navy band played “Nearer My God to Thee.” Flags dipped, policemen saluted and the soldiers and sailors in dress uniforms presented arms. Across the street in an upper story window a woman was weeping. Allowed Fleeting Glimpse True mourners and the idle curious alike formed a single file and passed in through the ThirtyFourth St. entrance of the armory. Rich and poor, well-dressed and shoddy, taxi drivers, business men, mothers carrying babies and young girls made up the motley throng.

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Rules of Navy Limiting Homage to Enlisted Man Lifted. BURIAL TO BE IN RAIN Atlantic Fliers Will Place Wreath on Grave of Relief Hero. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, April 27.—A funeral train bearing the body of Floyd Bennett and a relief plane carrying the German and Irish crew of the Bremen sped toward Washington today. The plane carrying the Atlantic fliers left Lake St. Agnes, Quebec, early this morning, and by 1 p. m. had pased over Newburgh, N. Y,, headed directly south down the Hudson River. Clarence D. Chamberlin, who accompanied the Bremen crew in another plane on the flight from Murray Bay, landed at Hartford, Conn. He announced that the plane carrying the trans-Atlantic fliers would proced direct to Washington without refueling. While the plane was being refueled Chamberlin wen to a microphone set up by National Broadcasting Company and station WTIC and made a brief address announcing the fliers’ plans. Chamberlin left for ashington as soon as his plane was refueled. Rest With Heroes Bennett, Navy warrant officer, who flew across the North Pole, was to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in the Virginia hills just across the Potomac River, with many heroes of the past. And Baron Gunther Von Huenefeld, Major Fitzmaurice and Capt. Hermann Koehl, westward transAtlantic fliers, for whose succor in Labrador Bennett gave his life, were to lay wreaths and flags upon his grave. The train will arrive at 3 p. m. from Quebec, where Bennett died Wednesday of pneumonia. The plane carrying the noted aviators will arrive probably an hour later. The ocean fliers will hold themselves almost incognito in respect to the dead.

Pay Respects Quietly They will pay their honor at Bennett’s grave, quietly return to the city and leave tonight or Saturday to await the acclaim of New York’s thousands on Monday. The German and Irish airmen were to be escorted here by three Army planes from Bolling field. The welcoming planes were to meet the relief plane at New York or Albany. Rain started falling here this forenoon, and the forecast was for continued drizzle this afternoon um the cortege goes to the grave. Navy rules limiting the homage that can be paid an enlisted man were lifted in Bennett’s case, so that the official funeral could exceed anythnig since the Navy buried George Dewey and “Fighting Bob” Evans. Coolidge Not to Attend Eighty petty officers as body bearers and six naval lieutenants as pall bearers were to meet tjie train bearing Bennett’s body. President Coolidge, unable to attend the funeral because of business, had a White House limousine sent to the station to carry Bennett’s widow. At Ft. Meyer Chapel, some 200 bluejackets, all that were available in the District of Columbia, were on hand to join the cortege into Arlington Cemetery. The escort of twenty-four bluejackets that was to meet the funeral train was drawn from the President’s yacht, Mayflower. Broadcast Services By United Press NEW YORK, April 27.—The arrival of the crew of the Bremen at Bolling Field, Washington, will be broadcast by more than forty stations of its system, the National Broadcasting Company announced. The burial of Floyd Bennett at Arlington National Cemetery will also be broadcast over the same network. Similar broadcasting plans were announced for the eighteen stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System, headed by WOR of Newark.

TRUCK DRIVER ACCUSED Warrick County Authorities Allege School Children Hurt. By Untied Press EVANSVILLE. Ind., April 27. Warrick County officers today prepared to return Clayton Elliott, 18. to Boonville, •where a warrant charges him with responsibility for a truck crash in which several school children were injured last week. Police said the children were boarding a school bus when the truck which Elliott allegedly was driving strucx another truck, pushing the latter into the school bus. Elliott was charged with speeding and failure to stop while a school bus was receiving passangers.