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G. 0. P. MS iHUBERT WORK | AS CHAIRMAN Interior Secretary Takes j Butler’s Place to Direct | Hoover Campaign. |. R. NUTT IS TREASURER fjew Party Chief First of J Administration Out for c Nominee.

fBY JOSEPH S. WASNEY United Press Staff Correspondent r WASHINGTON, June 21.—Secretary of Interior Hubert Work of Pueblo, Colo., today was named Chairman of the new Republican national committee. Work will direct the Hoovev-Cur-fts campaign. He succeeded William M. Butler of Massachusetts. J. R. Nutt, president of the Cleveland Union Trust Company. |hird largest financial institution in the country, was named national treasurer. James Franklin Burke, general Counsel of the Republican committee, announced the new party officers today. Native of Pennsylvania Ralph E. Williams, Oregon; Mrs. A. T. Hert, Kentucky, and Daniel E. Pomeroy, New Jersey, were named as vice chairmen in the order Jiamed. Representative Franklin Fort, Kew Jersey, is to be secretary. Dr. Work—he is a physician—is nearly 68 years old, a native of Pennsylvania, and one of the first Administration leaders to come out for Hoover. He succeeded Will Hays as Postmaster General in 1922 and Albert B. Fall as Interior Secretary in 1923. He practiced medicine in Greeley and Pueblo, Colo., and has been president of the Colorado State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The selections are those of Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce and Republican nominee, reached in conferences with more than 100 party leaders in the week since he V’as nominated at Kansas City. Ratified at Meeting They were ratified and made public today at meeting of twenty-four special delegates named at Kansas City for the purpose. Hoover arrived at the meeting, held at Willard Hotel here at 12:15 p. m. and a motion to elect officers was made immediately after he appeared. Before the meeting, those close to jfche nominee pointed out that no hiatter who were selected as officers, the Hoover campaign would be an organization affair and Hoover personally would do all the directing. Hoover is described as a “gang 4nan” who believes in having mass organization with all on an equal fcasis. Titles mean nothing to him Hoover will hold his first press (conference since receiving the nomination and make the announcement of the new officers this afternoon. Later, probably tomorrow, Hoover is expected to. decide how long he will continue to hold his Cabinet post and his future personal plans. Curtis Works Hard He already has tentatively decided it would be logical to receive the official notification at his Palo Alto, (Cal.) home, but this will not be decided definitely until later, depending on the wishes of the Committee. Curtis meantime is campaigning Individually for the Republican ticket. He has been visiting the Senators and Representatives in Washington, working hard to win over support of the congressional farm bloc and other members of Congress who have been opposed to Hoover. BANK BANDIT SHOT BY CASHIER IN MISSOURI Michigan Robbers Captured After • *. Hold Up Is Frustrated. fPI) United Press CHARLESTON, Mo., June 21. Marion Watts, alias, Marian Wilson, 05, Ann Arbor, Mich., is in a serious Condition here of wounds received , tvhen an attempted bank holdup by •?lVatts and R. Ford, 45, of Pontiac, Mich., failed Wednesday, l Watts was shot by Harley Nelson, Assistant cashier of the New East RPrairie Bank, who refused to obey [ instructions to “stick ’em up,” ’ dropped behind the counter and shot Watts as he was leaving the building. Police here reported that both men had signed confessions. The two Were captured here Wednesday. (SEEK NEW ASH CANS Council Asked to Provide Better Equipment. The sanitary board today directed Attorney J. J. Daniels to send to the city council an ordinance calling for ash and garbage containers that will neither leak nor break the backs of collectors. The ordinance will require a water proof galvanized container not greater than twelve gallon capacity. Ash cans not larger p than thirty gallon capacity will be required.

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Hubert C. Work, named chairman of Republican national committee today.

SLAYER ENTERS PLEAJFJjWLTY Remy to Ask Acceptance in Grocer’s Murder. Prosecutor William H. Remy today announced tflat he would recommend Friday in Circuit Court at Lebanon, where Ollie Balthrip 20, Indianapolis Negro, is scheduled to go on trial the second time for murder, that Balthrip’s plea of guilty be accepted and a jury determine whether Balthrip shall die in the electric chair or be sent to prison for life. Balthrip is accused of murdering Charles Conrad, 62, when the Standard grocery of which Conrad was manager, at 2316 Clifton St, was held up. Three other Negro youths are charged with murder as result of the killing. At Balthrip’s first trial at Lebanon, the jury disagreed after thirtytwo hours’ deliberation. Attorney H. B. Pike, Marion County pauper attorney, defending Balthrip, offered the guilty plea before the first trial, but the court refused it, the judge declaring he did not wish to be compelled to sentence a man to die on a guilty plea. If the guilty plea is accepted, Balthrip may be sentenced either to death or life imprisonment. LINDY STAYING* Associates Deny He Plans Trip to Europe. Bn United Press NEW YORK, June 21. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh will not sail for Europe with a delegation from the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce, his business associates said today. The Pennsylvania Railroad had announced that Lindbergh was on a special train from St. Louis, and would go abroad to study European air lines for the Trans-Continential Air Transport, Inc., in his capacity as technical director. Later railroad officials admitted that Lindbergh was not a member of the party. C. M. Keys, head of she Transcontinental line, said Lindbergh was not planning an European trip in the near future. DIVORCED FROM CAROL Princess Helene Granted Decree From Ex-Crown Prince. Bn United Press BUCHAREST, June 21.—The court of appeals granted Princess Helene of Rumania a divorce from former Crown Prince Carol today.

HELP RUSHED TO SHIP PERILED BY MUTINEERS

Bn United Press COLOMBO, Ceylon, June 21. Twenty British navy seamen, in command of Lieutenant Whitcfield, left Trincomalee tonight in the auxiliary collier Slavol to escort to Colombo the Australian steamship Jervis Bay, silent for fifteen hours after her commander radioed for help to cope with desperate mutineers. Lieutenant Whitfield is to take charge of the vessel, which, with 60C passengers and a crew of 120, is due here Monday. The seamen are from tl e cruiser Enterprise, which had been in communication with the Porth Jervis. The steamship’s last message said that eight desperate stowaways were

' MRS. WOODROW WILSON, AS PARLEY ‘FIRST LADY,' TO DEDICATE HOUSTON HALL

BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent HOUSTON, Texas, June 21. They are going to make Mrs. Woodrow Wilson the “first lady” of this Democratic convention. Houston is preparing to welcome the widow of the war President when she arrives here Saturday, and extend her that hospitality for which this part of the world is noted. From the time she steps from the train

SHIFT POLICE FIELD FORCES IN VICE WAR Worley Places Capt. Jesse McMurtry in Charge. DECLARES ‘LID IS ON’ Orders New Men to Clean Up City of Gambling Houses. Following his declaration that “the lid is on” gambling and other vice in Indianapolis, Police Chief Claude M. Worley today announced important shifts in ranking officers. Capt. Walter Claffey was shifted to a desk inside and Capt. Jesse McMurty, former investigator for Prosecutor William H. Remy, put in charge of forces in the field. Lieutenants Roy Pope and Ed Helms were brought inside to desks and Emergency Lieutenants Victor Houston and Otto Petit put in the field with orders o “clean up.”

Chief Makes Tour The chief disclosed that he went oh a personal tour of downtown districts at Wednesday midnight. “If any one is undermining me in the field I’m going to find it out,” he said. The chief said he found nothing going on at two downtown resorts known as the big gambling dens. Sergt. Clifford Richter arrested nine men at the apartment of Fletcher Tynan, 1128 N. Illinois St., Wednesday night and charged them with gambling. Three decks of cards were seized as evidence. Tynan was charged with keeping a gambling house and blind tiger. Raid “Pool’’ Dealers A1 Cunningham, 1308 N. Illinois St., one of the nine, was charged with carrying concealed weapons. Among others arrested were Frank Clark, 1927 Ghent Ave; Meyer Cohn, Grand Hotel; Mike Raptick, 111 S. Pennsylvania St.; Earl Smith, 1536 N. Illinois St. Several alleged baseball pool dealers were brought in during the day by Sergts. Harley Jones and Orel Chitwood. They were charged with keeping gamig devices. The names and number of books police said they had were given as follows: John Smyrnis, 455 E. Washington St., 25; Ed Sharp, 745 N. Noble St., 3, and T. C. Ramsay, 1125 E. Tenth St., 33. Louis Simon, 219 W. North St., was fined $5 and costs by Munici-, pal Judge Paul Wetter for pool selling. Clifford Hughes. Negro, 1019 N. Illinois Sts., was discharged on a charge of selling pool tickets following a raid because police did not have search warrants.

COOLIDGE HOOKS SIX

This Time Catch Really ‘Official*

BY ROBERT MOOREFIELD United Press Staff Correspondent SUPERIOR, Wis., June 21.—A1l doubt of President Coolidge’s adroitness with hook and line has been dissipated. The summer White House announced officially Wednesday night that the President’s creel incased six Brule River trout when he returned from a fishing expedition that lasted from early morning until late in the afternoon. Summer White House officials considered the feat of sufficient importance to summon to the executive offices here all the correspondents who could be reached either by telephone or messenger. An official bulletin was issued on the catch.

The largest of the six fish landed by President Coolidge, the official bulletin said, was a Lochlaven, weighing 1% pounds. The next largest was a Rainbow, that weighed 114 pounds. Attendants at the executive offices who received the announcement by

held, with passengers and volunteers from the crew guarding them constantly, but that they had tried to bum the ship and incite others to mutiny. Bn United Press LONDON, June 21—The steamship Port Jervis, after a silence of sixteen horus since she last appealed for help to deal with mutineers, was in radio communication with Perth, Australia, from the Indian Ocean at 9:50 tonight, the Cocos Island cable station, in the Indian Ocean, telegraphed the United Press. “We can hear the Jervis Bay speaking to Perth now,” the Cocos Island station said.

until the end of the convention she will be the honored guest at numerous functions. During the convention sessions, she will sit in the section reserved for distinguished guests to'ooserve her first national party meeting. Mrs. Wilson will be the guest of Jesse Jones and Mrs. Jones in their luxurious bungalow apartment atop the multi-millionaire’s new Lamar Hotel. It is about uhe coolest spot in this city, In

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928

Women Give ‘White Cap ’ Confession Bloomington Polioe Say Three Admit Guilt in Mask Attack. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, Tbe Times BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 21. This city’s "whitecapping” case probably will be tried Saturday before Judge Herbert A. Rundell in Monroe-Owen Circuit Court. The trial has not been definitely set, as Judge Rundell is now holding court at Spencer, but he has indicated he will be able to come here Saturday. Charles Sutton, one of the six persons arrested after a masked party beat Warren and William Hamm, brothers, has been released. His wife, Rachel, also accused, declared her husband was not in the party. Others held are Mr. and Mrs. Guy Livingston and Mr. and Mrs. Darling Groomer. Prosecutor Gets Aid Warren Hamm has retained Attorneys John O’Donnell and Simpson Robertson to assist Prosecuting Attorney Donald A. Rogers in presenting the State’s side of the case. Despite pleas of not guilty entered by all defendants in Police court before Acting Mayor Fred M. Wilson, at preliminary hearings, Police Chief F. H. Hancock announces confessions by the three women accused, and exhibits signed statements by two of them—Mrs. Groomer and Mrs. Livingston. 'Although the women indicated the attack resulted from Warren Hamm “not taking care of his children,” the only specific charge was that he took a two and a half-months-old baby to relatives in Owens Countv after it had been threatened by its mother who recently faced a hearing for commitment to a hospital for the insane. William Hamm was attacked when he came to his brother’s aid. Suppression Desired There is a disposition in some quarters here to “hush up” the case and minimize the “white cap” angle, although the charge is conspiracy to riot and the affidavit supporting it contains the following: “Feloniously and purposely conspire, combine and confederate together to do said unlawful acts (the attacks upon Hamm) while wearing masks and while being otherwise disguised.” LOAN CHARTERS” GIVEN State Board Authorizes Two Savings Associations. State charter board has granted charters to two savings and loan associations, Fortville Savings and Loa* Association and to the Morristown Savings and Loan Association, both capitalized at SIOO,OOO. The charter of the Francisco State Bank. Gibson County, capitalized at $25,000, has been renewed.

private long distance telephone from Cedar Island lodge, neglected to ascertain what bait was used. The President was accompanied on the expedition by Col. E. W. Tarling of the executive secret service staff. Colonel Starling, himself a notable fly caster, has been in a quandary trying to detect just why the thousands of trout on the Pierce estate, privately raised and kept on reduced rations to aid the President in his trouting assidously have held aloof from Mr. Coolidge’s line. It was on Colonel Starling’s recommendation that the President chose Cedar Island lodge for his summer home, and it is no secret that his choice rested almost solely on tales of trout fishing in the region. That the President will have other forms of diversion was indicated by the fact that he is considering invitations to make a tour early in July of the Minnesota iron mine district, as well as a two-day Lake Superior cruise. Hindenburg Greets Bremen Crew Bn United Press BERLIN, June 21.—President Hindenburg today received Hermann Koehl, Baron Von Huenfeld and Major Fitzmaurice of the trans-Atlantic airplane Bremen.

the direct sweep of the sea breezes from the gulf. * tt tt THE apartment is one of the talking points of this city, and a show place for the few who are invited. It is described as a bit of Park Ave. transferred miles away to this bustling little city on the plains. The apartment occupies the whole top of the hotel. There also is a combination roof garden

KIDNAP GANG FLEES WHEN GIRLSCREAMS Second Abduction Attempt in Two Days Thwarted; Four Escape. WORLEY TO CLEAN UP Drastic Action Ordered to Protect Women at Night. As police searched for Leslie Bright, 26, of 126 E. Pratt St., said to be the man who kidnaped and attacked Miss Nora Lee, 16, of 4115 E. Twenty-First St., Tuesday night, another attempt to spirit an Indianapolis girl away in an automoblie took place Wednesday night. Miss Floria Muffler, 1825 S. State Ave., reported the kidnapnig attempt to police. The intended victim was some girl whom she did not know, but who lives on Naomi St., she said. The girl was taken home by another man in a car. Miss Muffler was sitting on the porch at her home and watched four men follow the girl in their car for two squares. As they came opposite the Muffler home they halted the car and attempted to force the girl to enter. She ran away screaming and Miss Muffler called police. Worley Orders Clean-Up Officers were unable to find either the girl or the would-be kidnapers. Asa result of the second kidnaping case within twenty-four hours. Police Chief Claude M. Worley has ordered stern treatment for any men caught annoying women. “In some other cities tney call these men who cruise around in automobiles annoying women ‘gas hawks,’ ” said Worley. “We mean to stamp out such things in Indianapolis and make the streets safe for Indianapolis girls and women who must be out at night.” Bright, charged with being the kidnapper of Miss Lee, is believed to nave left the city. Youth Under Arrest

Lewis Goebel, 2727 Stewart St., said to have been with Bright when Miss Lee was forced from the machine in which she was returning to her home with another girl and a youth is under arrest. He and Bright are said to have declared they were officers. Goebel says he left the machine before Bright drove into the country with the girl, returning her to her home several hours later. Arrest Indiana Girl Bn Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., June 21. Miss Veda Deaver, 17, reported kidnaped by a stranger in an auto belonging to W. Z. Zook, is under arrest at Akron, Ohio. A telephone message from Akron police to Sheriff T. E. Ramsey here merely said the arrest had been made, giving no details. According to Zook, the kidnaper took possession of his car and the girl as they were returning from the home of George Eakin, where they had spent the evening. The abductor jumped on the running board of the car, Zook said, and forced him to drive to the home of the girl’s father, Jesse Deaver. There he forced Zook out of the machine and, entering the house, compelled Deaver to accompany him. The three left in the car, Miss Deaver driving. After driving a mile, the father was put out and the kidnaper and the girl drove away. Zook said the stranger was unmasked and armed with either a knife or revolver.

PASTOR-MARSHAL PUTS MONEY AGAINST FOES Edinburg Officer Posts $lO to Farmer Fearing Law Enforcement Bn Times Special EDINBURG, Ind., June 21.—Any farmer who is refraining from coming here to transact business because of rigid law enforcement can make $lO by informing W. C. Milburn, Edinburg’s preacher-marshal. The marshal made the offer today in the face of criticism that his zealous attention to duty is hurting business in the town. Petitions have been in circulation for several days asking removal of two town board members deemed responsible for the minister’s appointment to the police position. He has hit back at his foes by declaring liquor interests are seeking his removal because he insists on strict law enforcement.

and gallery to sit on these hot summer nights and enjoy the breeze which is a salvation after a blistering day: The roof garden and gallery are decorated in old hand wrought Italian iron. The drawing room is done in eighteenth century English and French style and the dining-room in American colonial. The latter room is filled with antiques of the period gathered from collections all over the country. Throughout

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JOHN WANTS A JOB

Young Coolidge Also Is in Love

Florence Trumbull and John Coolidge * BY BOYD LEWIS, United Press Special Correspondent PLAINVILLE. Conn., June 21.—John Coolidge is in love, but taking a cue from his father, the silent man in the White House, he isn’t saying anything about his plans or his intentions until he is ready to go through with them. John may have proposed to Miss Florence Trumbull, the Connecticut Governor’s daughter, or he may have been as reticent with her as he is with the great American press. Like so many other college graduates, his first interest is in getting a job. “But maybe after I’ve got a job—,’ and the President’s son left the thought unfinished. He* was interviewed at Miss Trumbull’s home here and said he had no future plans.

“But I’m to see my father in Wisconsin in a week or so and he may have some ideas,” he told the United Press. “I guess dsd has some suggestions for me. He told me he’d like to talk things over pretty soon. I haven’t decided when I w r ill go out to Wisconsin, but probably it will be in about a week ’’ He has been visiting at the Trumbull home since his graduation at Amherst. Despite a characteristic New England reticence, John is remarkably affable in the face of what at times must be a trying public curiousity regarding his personal affairs. “The public is mighty interested in your plans for the future,” he was told. “Yup, I suppose so,” chuckled John. “I only wish I knew myself.” He admitted hearing reports that the Morgan banking firm had indicated it might employ him, but said he had received no offers indicated it might emyloy him, but said he had received no offers. “Mighty sorry I can’t tell you all about my plans—more than one reason,” he said. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 67 10 a. m 72 7a m 68 11 a m 72 Ba. m 69 12 (noon).. 72 9a. m 70 Ip. m 72

THREE BADLY HURT IN CRASH OF AUTOMOBILES

E. H. Stolzenbach, 35, of 935 E. Drive, Woodruff Place, salesman, is in a critical condition in city hospital, and Miss Frances Dillman, Riley Hospital nurse, and Dr. Leon Whetsell, Bloomington, are injured seriously, as a result of an automobile accident Wednesday night. At noon today Stolzenbach was given blood transfusion in an effort to save his life. Whetsell, with Miss Dillman and three other Riley nurses, was returning to the hospital before 10 p. m., when the accident with Stolzenbach’s car occurred at Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette Rd.

the apartment also are some modern pieces to add comfort. They are in harmony with the general scheme. tt tt tt ON the walls are some fine paintings, collected by the multimillionaire “angel” of the Democratic party. The guest room which Mrs. Wilson will occupy is done in French empire style. There is always a profusion of

Beau Hoover Bn United Press WASHINGTON, June 21. Herbert Hoover, Republican presidential nominee, dresses according to his preaching—by simplified practice. He buys his suits by the half dozen, his shoes by the dozen, his collars by the gross and two or three hats at a time so as to eliminate wasted time. His friends, however, want him to dress a little more stylishly and they are now trying to persuade him to abandon his double-breasted suits, high collars and white shoes for more stylish attire.

BANK DIVIDEND READY Defunct Tuxedo Institution Prepares to Pay Depositors. Payment of a first dividend of 15 per cent to depositors of the Tuxedo State Bank, closed in January, will be made as soon as application can be made for court approval, George M. Barnard, receiver, announced today. Other payments will be made as rapidly as assets are liquidated, Barnard said.

Both cars were driven at a high rate of speed, police reported. Stolzenbach’s machine jumped a ditch and was hurled 100 feet by the impact. Whetsell’s careened into a ditch after swinging around three times. Both cars were demolished. Those with Miss Dillman and the doctor were Miss Harriet Pyle, Ruth McFarland and Bemardine Harris. They were bruised. The four women were thrown clear of the cars. The men were pinned in side of them. Traffic along the roads was tied up.

flowers throughout the apartment. Mrs. Wilson’s public appearances here will begin next Sunday. when she will dedicate the giant coliseum where the convention will be held, which is looked upon by visitors as a veritable “miracle” structure. It was built in sixty-four days. The dedication is expected to be made the occasion of a rally which will set the tone of the convention next week.

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WARSHIPS TO GO IN SEARCH OF AMUNDSEN France Orders Two Battle Vessels to Arctic Waters at Once. • FLIER TO DIRECT HUNT Plane Which Dropped Food to Nobile Will Start New Cruise. BY ERIK BERNDSEN United Press Staff Correspondent KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, June 21.—Rescue forces in the North combined today to save two noted Polar explorers, General Umberto Nobile, who has been located, and Roald Amundsen, who is missing in a fragile seaplane some place in the treacherous ice country. Relief headquarters here today were convinced Amundsen met with misfortune after his start by air to search for Nobile. Major Maddalena. Italian ace who located the Nobile party and dropped food to them, will command the Amundsen relief expeditions.

Start Hunt for Amundsen Maddalena will fly in his big seaplane, the same in which he circled over the Nobile encampment Wednesday, to the south of Northeastland, where it is thought Amundsen’s plane might have been forced down. It is probable another Italian relief plane would aid Maddalena, who will start immediately his reconnoitering cruise. French Minister of Marine Leygues today ordered the French destroyer Quentin Roosevelt, now at Oslo, and the cruiser Strasbourg, coaling at Cherbourg, -to go to northern waters to hunt for the French Farman seaplane in which Raold Amundsen has bpen missing for nearly three days, advices here said. French Crew in Plane The Farman plane is commanded and piloted by Commander Rene Guilbaud of the French navy, and the assistants in the plane are French fliers. Leygues also asked the polar explorer Dr. Charcot to fit the polar steamship Pourquis Pas, now at Cherbourg, and take it at once to Kings Bay to join the Quentin Roosevelt and the Strasbourg. Amundsen left Tromsoe, Norway, Monday, It was likely Amundsen’s plane has been forced into a landing some place in the treacherous waters. This would be dangerous as the ice now is breaking up, and the frail seaplane might be crushed. Meanwhile, every attempt was being made to rush aid to Nobile and his five companions, stranded on ice far from Foyn Island. Maddalena sighted the little group of six, huddled about their radio sending station and the silken tent that had been painted red to attract attention. He flew low and dropped about 650 pounds of food, amunition and supplies to the six men who have been stranded since May 25. Nobile’s party, clad in fur clothing, leaped about on the ground apparently to show they were in good physical condition. Dog Teams On Way Maddalena’s party saw the red tent and the rubber boat, but did not see the gondola that was smashed off the main part of the dirigible. The flying party said they believed the ice around the encampment would be easy to break with an ice breaker, but said there was not sufficient open spaces to permit a seaplane to land, and then take-off again. Six men and three teams of dog teams are now streaking across the ice- towards where the camp last was reported.

Make Rescue Plans Bu United Press ROME, June 21.—Plans were formulated today for Gen. Uumberto Nobile and the four uninjured men of the dirigible Italia’s crew to meet the giapt Russian icebreaker Krassin at Foyn Island and return to civilization. The fifth man at Nobile’s little camp—Chief Engineer Natali Cecioni, who has a broken thigh—will be rescued, it is hoped, by a small seaplane. Throughout Wednesday night and this morning radio messages were relayed between Nobile, the supply ship Citta Di Milano, and the government here. Nobile acknowledged receipt of the provisions dropped to him Wednesday by Major Maddalena. It was agreed after the radio conference, it was announced today, that Nobile can remain at his present camp until the Krassin due to leave Bergen, Saturday, arrives at Foyn Islandr the nearest land point. Nobile and the four uninjured men, it is hoped, can proceed afoot across the ice to the island. Files Bankruptcy William W. Graves, R. R. H, Box 219-0, transfer superintendent, filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Federal Court Wednesday, listing liabilities of $2,754, and assets of $360.