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OBREGON FOES DENY DEATH IS DUE TO PLOT Bitter Political Opponents Protest Horror at Leader’s Murder. KILLER HELD FANATIC President-Elect Shot Down in Case as He Confers With Advisers. (Second Obregon Story on Page 2) BY gTf. FINE, (United Pres* Staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, July 18.—The body of Gen. Alvaro Obregon, presi-dent-elect, today will be taken back to the Sonora home from which he rose into national prominence sixteen years ago. General Obregon’s assassination Tuesday by a supposed religious fanatic, as he sat at luncheon in a suburban restaurant, has almost stunned the country, already grieving over the tragic death only a few ago of its leading aviator, Capt. Emilio Carranza—relative of the man whom Obregon ousted from the presidency, and who was shot while fleeing to the seacoast. So far there has been no political repercussion to Obregon’s death. His bitter opponents in politics have hastened to protest their horror at his murder. U. S. Envoy Views Body President Calles, whom he was to succeed Dec. 1, for his second term as President, invited the public to accompany Obregon’s body from the National Palace, where it lay in state this morning, to the railway station to be placed on a special train for transfer to Sonora. Ambassador Dwight Morrow, accompanied by the staff from the United States embassy went to the ambassador suite in the National Palace at 10:30 a. m. to view the body. They left the palace a short time later. Thousands waited silently in front of the palace throughout the morning for their turn to walk into the building to view the body. Obregon will be buried at his home at Cajeme, where his widow is said to be prostrated. His funeral will not miss by far that which is to bring young Carranza’s body to the capital from New York. Police questioned Obregon’s assassin, whose name they believe to be Jose Juan Gonzales, to establish the motive for his act. From his talk so far, and from the fact that an alias he gave when arrested after he had emptied his pistol into Obregon’s body, it is believed that the assassination was the result of the religious dissension that has existed for more than two years. Calles May Serve Two Years It was expected that the assassin would be court-martialed and executed immediately after police concluded their cross-examination. Amid the national mourning, the permanent congressional committee that conducts legislative business when Congress is not in session met today to discuss the problem of the succession to the presidency. Obregon was to have served six years, the length of the term having been extended from four years a few months ago. President Calles, under the law, cannot succeed himself as president, though he could be elected after someone else had served an intervening term. It was rgarded as possible that Calles might be asked to serve provisionally—perhaps for a full two more years—until congress could call an election. Mass Mexican Troops Calles moved swiftly today to prevent the assassination from becoming the spark that would destroy his government. Troops were massed in barracks, public gathering places were closed, during the night three high police officials were replaced by more loyal men and a censorship was clamped down on the press. For past ffew days Obregon had been conferring over policies of his administration—and he announced his stand on many important questions, particularly the delicate church issue only two days ago. He had called Col. Ricardo Topete, Senator Valdez Ramirez, former Foreign Minister Aaron Saenz and his campaign diretcor Col. Juan James to the restaurant for a luncheoneon discussion of national affairs. There was a lively crowd in the little restaurant. The assassin, Juan, approached with a caricature. It was of Colonel Topete. The assassin requested permission to show it to Obregon. The former president glanced at the caricature. Attempt to Kill Slayer The assassin pushed a small revolver into Obregon’s back and fired. Five wounds were found in the general’s back and one across his cheek. Topete rushed to the assassin, seized him and was aided by friends. After he had been saved from the fury of Obregon’s friends, whose first impulse was to slay him at once, the assassin made this statement: “I have done what I came to do, I killed Obregon because I wanted Christ to be king and to reign completely, not partially.”

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Turkey Hen, Stealing A way to Nest in Woods, Started John D. to Riches

AUBURN, N. Y., July 18.—A turkey started John D. Rockefeller on the road to independence, he recalled today. Rockefeller spent the night at Moravia, amid the familiar scenes of his boyhoou in the Finger Lakes district. _ “I started my first business transaction in a little woods across from Cascade.” he said. “When I was nine years old I noticed a turkey hen stealing away into the woods. I hunted her nest for days and finally found it. Mother said I might have the hen and chicks for my own and she fed them curds from the milk and kitchen scraps. “One of my life’s hardest tasks was keeping those chicks from drowning In heavy rains, but that fall I sold them and earned my first money. I put it in a china dish on the mantle as the start toward independence. “Finding the turkey taught me my first lesson in recognizing property which otherwise would have gone to waste,” Rockeller said. “I nursed that property along and it Rockefeller distributed his new dimes to men, women and children at Owego, 9 Moravia and Richford. “I’m coming back every year as long as I live and am able,” the millionaire said. “But if my infirmities prevent my return, I have had motion pictures taken of all of these scenes and I will have that to refresh my memory.”

LOWDEN SWING TO AL SMITH RUMORED; PAIR MAY CONFER

Bent by Sun Bu United Brett PARIS, July 18.—Extreme heat in the last few days has warped Eiffel Tower so that it is six inches off plumb, it was learned today. The intense heat cf the sun has affected the steel girders so that the great tower has bent toward the east. Engineers said, however, that when Eiffel Tower was built an allowance had been made for expansion of the steel and that the’ tower still was safe.

RAPS BONDSMEN IN FORFEIT SOIT Remy Brands Prisoners’ Aids as ‘Leeches.’ Professional bondsmen in their alleged alliances with lawyers were characterized as “leeches and bloodsuckers” today by Prosecutor William H. Remy. The tirade arose during a hearing on bond forfeiture before Criminal Judge James A. Collins, in which Bondsman Albert Farb, 1236 E. Ohio St., was, defendant. The SSOO bond had been forfeited and the case was in court on motion to set aside the forfeiture, which was overruled and Farb’s property ordered levied on. “These leeches and blood suckers must be run out of Indiana,” said Remy. “They form a disgrace to the community.” Remy, later amplifying liis courtroom statements, promised full support of the bar association in its present investigation of allegedly irregular practices of lawyers and bondsmen chiefly in municipal courts. Farb was on the SSOO bond of Jack O'Connor, 626 E. Sixty-Third St., charged with assault of a girl. The bond originally was set at SI,OOO, but was reduced before Farb was admitted on the bond, May 15.

Mother Gives Instruction in Child Rearing

PARENTS who are reading The Times will be offered a series of instructive articles on rearing children, beginning Monday. Mrs. Olive Roberts Barton, sister of Mary Roberts Rinehart, the author, will write the articles. For five years, Mrs. Barton was a school teacher in Pittsburgh, Pa„ and active in social service work. After becoming a wife and mother, she began writing stories and books for children. Newspapers sought Mrs. Barton's services for articles on education and she soon became one of the best known writers for women on subjects of general Interest. Hourly Temperatures 7a. m 72 11 a. m.... 84 Ba. m— 75 12 (noon).. 86 9 a. m.... 82 1 p. m.... 87 10 a. m.... 83

BEATEN BY POLICEMAN, CHARGE OF CAPITALIST

Edward G. Sourbier, 3604 Washington Blvd., local amusement capitalist, whose offices in the Lyric Theater, a former member of the board of safety, today planned to seek legal redress against the policeman who knocked him down and beat him severely, he contends, at the Washington and Pennsylvania St. intersection about ten days ago. "I shall consult by lawyer today to see what can be done,” Sourbier said. "Surely citizens have some right to be treated courteously when police are enforcing a traffic rule for which there is no statute.” Sourbier’s version of the story is that the day after the intersection stop rule for pedestrians went into effect downtown he started to cross the street and refused to obey a traffic officer’s order to return to the curb. The officer then beat him, he says, and still displays a swollen

Eastern Friend of Farm Aid Leader Springs Political Bomb. Bu United Prett NEW YORK, July 18.—Democratic headquarters here was surprised today by a re pore that former Governor Lowden of Illinois, candidate for the Republican presidential nomination In Kansas City, may confer with Governor Alfred E. Smith. The report came from P. Moffat, Lowden manager in New York and former minister in Nicaragua. “I think a startling announcement may come from Governor Lowden,” Moffat said to day, at Democratic headquarters, where he came to confer with George Van Namee, Smith manager. "T am sure Lowden would be tickled to death to confer with Governor Smith. He feels so keenly about the farm problem that I am sure he’d be willing to confer with any one who would try to solve It. Lowden withdrew from the convention at Kansas City because of dissatisfaction with the party farm aid stand. WOMAN KILLS SELF ‘Come Quick, Mama Has Fainted,’ Calls Girl, 5. “Mama has fainted, come quick,” Anna Uranna, 5, called to Mrs. Emma Fitzgerald, 2621 W. Walnut St, as she ran into the Fitzgerald home this morning. Mrs. Fitzgerald found the girl’s mother, Mrs. Lewis Uranna, 31, dead in her home, 2615 W. Walnut St. 3he had shot herself with a .32caliber revolver. Police found a note in the house indicating that ill health had prompted the suicide. Mrs. Uranna had been 111 for four years and a few months ago underwent an operation, they learned. Her husband works in a foundry at Danville, 111. The note declared that her husband was in no way responsible for her death. The child was taken to the brother of the dead woman, Anton Kow, 927 N. Warman Ave.

HOOVER CANCELS WELCOME PLANS ON DEATH NEWS

Bu United Prett ABOARD HOOVER SPECIAL TRAIN, FREMONT, Neb., July 18. —Elaborate reception plans made by his home State of California wire cancelled today by Herbert Hoover, Republican presidential nominee after he received word that C. D. Henry, Mrs. Hoover’s father had died. Since leaving Superior, Wis„ Tuesday night, the Hoover train had sped along with several stops eliminated in order that Mrs. Hoover might stop off at Placervlile to see her 80-year-old father. But at Omaha Hoover gently broke the news that the race with death had been lost. San Francisco and nearby cities immediately were notified that all welcome plans must be postponed

ankle and a badly bruised shin as a result of tne encounter. It occurred at 10 o’clock in the morning and there were hundreds of persons on the street. He does not know the officer’s name, he says, but would rather see him discharged from the force than sue for a money settlement. According to Police Chief Claude M. Worley, Sourbier already has consulted him and the board of safety regarding the affair. He says Captain Lester Jones of the traffic department has the officer’s name and that he (the chief) approves of the officer’s action. He says that Sourbier had refused ’o obey the intersection order on the previous day and when he repeated the offense the officer carried hin. back and set him on the curb. He alleges that Sourbier was insolent to the officer.

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Giddap! Bv United Prett NEW YORK, July 18.—An elephant and a donkey, living symbols of the major political parties, will race from here to Washington, It was announced today by J. B. Marteli, Republican, and Frank A. Russo, Democrat. Marteli, who 1. s access to three elephants, will ser'e as mahout In the race, while Russo will coax the donkey. More than SSOO already has been put up on the race, which will start Aug. 1 from Times Square.

STEPHENSON IN LA PORTECOURT Life Convict Present at Conference Hearing. i United Prett A PORTE, Ind.. July 18.—D C. Stephenson, life term murder convict and former Indiana drugon of the Ku-Klux Klan, spent an hour in La Porte today while Cucult Judge John C. Richter received demurrer filed by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilllom against Stcphson’s suit In which he is seeking a mandate against Warden Waiter H. Daily to permit him to have private conferences with his attorneys in the Indiana State Prison. The demurrer was accompanied by an affidavit by Warden Dally that the former dragon has had 133 conferences with attorneys since arrival at the prison in 1925. Attorney Robert H. Moore, Gary, counsel for Stephenson, admitted his client had had many coherences, but stated that all were attended by prison officials so that nothing private could be discussed. Judge Richter set hearing on the demurrer for next Monday at 10 a. m„ when Stephenson again will be brought to La Porte. Gilllom represented the State at today's hearing. Stephenson today appeared In good health, but somewhat more slender than when he made his previous excursions from prison.

until after the Aug. 11 notification. Farm belt leaders of Minnesota, lowa and Nebraska today boarded the special train to discuss the unwritten phases of agricultural relief to be embodied in the acceptance speech. Arthur Nelson, former mayor of St. Paul and senatorial candidate of the Republican regulars, against Senator Hendrik Chipstead, Minnesota Farmer-Laborite, disembarked from the train early this morning after urging the nominee to amplify the party platform by promising the farmers every mode o t farm relief outside of the McNary-Haugen bill. < Governor John H. Hammill of lowa came aboard for breakfast at Missouri Valley, lowa. He gave Hoover the sentiment of the corn belt. He was to be followed later in the day by Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska. Hoover has Deen giving serious thought to the farm relief provisions of his acceptance speech. He discussed the matter with President Coolidge in his two-day visit at Superior. He holds much the same views as the President but he wants to suggest a definite mode of agricultural relief which will hold in line the normally Republican States of the farm belt. PLAN BYRD UNDERWEAR Experts Develop Special Type for Explorers. Bu United Press TROY, N. Y., July 18.—Experts of the knit underwear industry met here to decide what would be the best type of under garment for Commander Richard E. Byrd to wear to the South Pole. They settled finally on an altogether new type to be known as "Byrd Standard,” which will be made especially for explorers and aviators.

ICE BREAKER AGAIN TO RACE ARCTICDEATH Second Rescue Attempt to Start Immediately After Ship Docks. HOPE 12 STILL ALIVE Six of Italia’s Crew and Six Amunusen Men in Northern Wastes. BY EUGENE LYONS United Pres* Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, July 18—The ice breaker Krassin, which already has brought sixteen men out of the Arctic alive after most of them had given up hope of reaching civilization, will not quit Its errand of mercy until one last search has been made for twelve others lost in that ice-Dound area. The Krassin, with its cargo of rescued explorers, was ordered by the Soviet relief commission to continue to Advent bay to refuel, so that the second great search could be started immediately. Twelve men still are lost in the Arctic. They may be dead. Six men may have died in an explosion aboard the dirigible Italia as it floated away after the crash on May 25. Six others may have died when Roald Amundsen led his airplam expedition into the ice area. Believe Twelve Alive But observers on the Krassin sai.l there was reason to believe these twelve might still be living—and Russia will not give up hope until the sturdy Krassin again has bucked ice floes and gone through the territory that might now hold those twelve. Six were those who floated away with the envelope of the Italia. The other six were in the Latham seaplane that Amundsen commanded on 'the relief expedition that left Tromsoe, Norway, June 18 and has not been heard from since. The commander of the Krassin has heard reports from survivors that he is carrying to civilization, that a cloud of amoke was seen to sv ?ep up from the envelope after the crash. He has heard reports that there was an explosion. But he believes there still is a chance that the men are stranded on some ice floe not far from where the Viglieri group was found—waiting arrival of a rescue airplane of a ship. Scientific Ends Win The flight of the Italia, despite its catastrophic end, will not be without value to science, it was learned here from messages relayed by Prof. F. Behounek, Czecho-Slo-vakian scientist, among those rescued with the Viglieri group. Behounek. according to messages relayed from the Krassin, will publish observations of great importance concerning polar atmospheric conditions, magnetic fields and the topography of the country over which the Italia passed on its polar trip. Report Plane Trace Bu United Prett COPENHAGEN, July 18.—An Oslo dispatch to the Berlingske Tidend today said that the navy department had been advised two fishermen had discovered wheel tracks on Bear Island that might be a clew to the Latham airplane In which Roald Amundsed went to rescue of members of the dirigible Italia. The tracks, the dispatch said, were twenty meters long, on the highest point of the island. The fishermen followed the tracks to a dangerous hill, from which there is a sharp descent into the sea. Near where the tracks terminated the fishermen claimed to have found a coat, a cap and three pieces of wood. The fishermen believed the wood might have been from the Latham plane, although the dispatch did not indicate the reason for this belief. SEIZE $1,000,000 GEMS Polish Police Raid Exchange of Alleged Smugglers. Bu United Prett WARSAW, Poland. July 18.—Police in a lightning-like raid on the jewelry exchange today seized $1,000,000 worth of gems alleged to have been smuggled. Some dealers either swallowed their assortment of rubles, sapphires and other precious stones or threw them from windows.

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Motor Policeman Paul Miller (above), shot by bandits at Twenty-Fifth and Station Sts., Tueiday night, and his partner, Motjr Policeman Roy Banks, who fired at the fleeing assailants.

DIVORCE GIVEN MRS,ALLISON Wife of Capitalist Wins Decree in Florida. Mrs. James A. Allison obtained a divorce from the IndianapolisFlorida capitalist in Miami, Fla., June 27, it was learned here, today. Allison is spending a few days at the beautiful Allison estate on Cold Spring Rd. He said he plans to return to Florida in about a week. Mrs. Allison is at the Marott Hotel. Details of a financial settlement in the case were not made public. The Allisons w;re married about twenty years ago. Allison was one of the founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and is interested in other Indianapolis enterprises. Os late years he has spent most of his time supervising his Florida interests, returning to Indianapolis at infrequent intervals. U. S TO HEAR HOOVER OVER RADIO NETWORK 30,000 Million or More to Listen in on Acceptance Speech." Bit Tnit id Brt HH WASHINGTON, July 18.—’Thirty million or more persons will hear Secretary us Commerce Hoover's acceptance speech over the radio, Aug. 11, under broadcasting arrangements now under way. Republican headquarters announced today that 38 stations have already signed up for the hook-up which will'cover the country from coast to coast and bofder to border, and will equal or exceed the 60-sta-tion hook-up employed for the Kansas City convention. The full list of stations will be announced in about ten days. The notification ceremonies will begin at 5 p. m. (Pacific Coast Time), which is 8 p. m. eastern standard and 9 P- m. eastern daylight. Man Dies in Auto BLANFORD, Ind., July 18.—John Raines, 40, auto salesman from Paris, 111., was found dead in his car here, a victim, -Coroner Paul Casebeer announced, of heart disease with acute alcoholism as a factor.*

BOY BARES OPERATION OF AUTO THIEVES; NAB WOMAN

Arrest of a 15-year-old boy has led to several others being held at headquarters under high bond and through the youth’s confession police believe they have broken up a combination of automobile thieves operating extensively in Indianapolis and Toledo, Ohio. The boy is Oscar Smith, 1040 W. Morris St. He was caught by Patrolmen Andrew Knight and Ernest Haught. attempting to steal a car at Capitol and Kentucky Aves. on Tuesday night. After questioning the boy, police brought Mrs. Isabelle Engelking, 42, of 817 S. Missouri St., to city prison,

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MACHINE GONS ARE ISSUED TO POLICE SQUADS IN WAR I ON THUGS; TRAIL SUSPECTS Worley Orders Battle to Death in Effort to Stamp Out Banditry Wave, After Policeman Is Shot Down. ROBBER SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS Two Men Leap From Barn Loft and Knock Woman Down in Escape; Scores St c New Man Hunt. While Motor Policeman Paul Miller lay near death at city hospital today, the victim of bandit’s bullets, Police Chief Claude M. Worley equipped police emergency automobiles with machine guns, and ordered a war to the death against the gangs of thugs which have spread terror here in the last week. At the same time, all available police in the city, divided in posses headed by Worley, were ordered to search the northeast section of the city and Dearborn woods, hot on the trail of the two bandits who shot Miller Tuesday night. Clew to their whereabouts came at noon when the pair leaped from a barn loft at the home of Mrs. Ivy Sullivan, 42, of 2434 N. Keystone Ave., knocked Mrs. Sullivan unconscious, and fled. They had been hiding in the barn since the shooting, police believe. The woman went out to feed her pet rabbits. Hearing a noise in the loft, she ordered whoever it was to come down or

she would call police. Two men leaped from the loft, one with a bloody shirt, thought to be the bandit who was wounded by Miller. They slugged the woman and it was some time before she was able to go to the home of a neighbor and call police. She was taken to city hospital in a hysterical condition. The death shower of 100 bullets a minute which the machine guns can fire will be the police answer to the wounding of Miller, Worley declared. The guns, Thompson sub-machine guns, were borrowed from Adjt. Gen. William H. Kershr.er of the Indiana National Guard. They are about the size of a rifle, but shorter and can be fired from the shoulder or waisi. “If they want bullels, we’ll give 'em bullets," Worley declared. Experts in handling the guns will be assigned as extra men to each police emergency squad, he said. Miller Near Death In the meantime, city hospital staff doctors used all their skill and knowledge to ward death from Miller, Vho was shot at 11:10 Tuesday night by two rough-looking men who had been loitering around the Schaller and Cole drug store, 2502 Station St. Miller and Motor Policemen Roy Banks had been sent to investigate the actions of the men. The wounded policeman has only a “fighting chance’ to live, according to Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent. Miller was shot in the chest, abdomen, hip and elbow, four bullets entering his body. Dr. Thomas B. Noble Jr. performed an operation at 2:30 a. m. which stopped internal hemorrhages. Transfusion Performed Then at noon today Dr. Noble performed a transfusion, transferring a quart of blood from Miller’s brother-in-law, Herman Kale, into the weakened officers’s veins. The blood of Miller’s three brothers also was being tested and they may give blood for another transfusion. Asa third occurence in the policebandit war today, Robert Longstaff, 21, of 329 E. Tenth St., robber wounded in the battle with police on the National Rd.. Tuesday morning, died at city hospital at 1:10 p. m. Longstaff was shot by police Tuesday morning in the gun battle on National Rd., twelve miles east of the city, in which his pal. Edward Reiter, 23, was killed. He was unidentified until late Tuesday, when his father, Joseph Longstaff, alarmed by his absence from home since Saturday, went to the hospital. Bert Cole, one of the proprietors of the Schaller & Cole drug store, phone the call to police headquarters which Miller was answering when shot. Cole had notice the two

where she is held under bond. A stolen 1927 Ford touring car was found in the rear yard of the Missouri St. address, police said. The woman had a bill of sale for it and said she paid Dillard Hines, alias Snyder. S2O for it. Hines, police were, told, lives at Greensburg, Ind. Floyd Gray, alias Pete Engelking, 21, of 817 S. Missouri St., was arrested by Patrolmen George Tipps and Cecil Neal, and is also held on vagrancy bond in connnection with the case. The Smith boy is said to have told of stealing cars here and disposing of them in Toledo. &

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men loitering near the store and feared a holdup at closing time. The emergency squad under Lieut. Fred Drinkut was searching the grounds of J. I. Holcomb, Cold Spring Rd., for a prowler at the time and Miller and Banks was sent from Substation 6 at Vermont St. and Sherman Dr. As Miller and Banks drove to the drug store at the corner of Station and E. Twenty-Fifth Sts., they noticed two men sitting in the entrance of a grocery at 3628 E. Twen-ty-Fifth St. “Go into the drug store and see what they’ve got while I question those men,” Mille rtold Banks. Leap Behind Post According to witnesses, the two men jumped from the grocery steps behind a post as Miller got out of the police car, only a few feet away. Miller was about five l'eet from them when they started firing. The first shot knocked him to the ground, partly on his face. One of the thugs, wearing a flaming red sweater, leaped astride of him and fired several shots directly into his body, Miller declared when he gained consciousness at the hospital today. “The dirty cowards, the dirty cowards,” was all Miller would say when he was taken to the hospital. Miller drew his revolver as he lay on the ground and fired three shots as the men ran west on Station St. They fled north in the alley between Station and Gale Sts. Reports Five Shots Fired According to Harley Cook, 4005 E. Michigan St., and Mary McConnell. 5311 E. Thirty-Fourth St., witnesses of the shooting, the bandits fired five shots. One of the bullets struck Cook’s car. He was driving toward the corner and the gunmen fled past him. Cook said. Banks heard the firing as he came out of the drug store and shot twice at the fleeing men. One of the gunmen is believed to have been wounded. Jon Cutter. 2873 N. Olney St., saw one of the fleeing men fall and rise just after they had turned into the alley. There was a pool of blood in the alley. Sent to Hospital Banks sent Miller to city hospital in an ambulance of Moore <fc Kirk, 2506 Station St. Police Chief Claude M. Worley took charge of an emergency squad which went to the scene. Other squads were called into the section and a dragnet thrown about the Big Four railroad yards to the north, but search failed to reveal the gunmen. Miller is 36. He joined the police force June 14, 1921, and had been assigned to Substation 6 two years after having served at the Broad Ripple substation. He and his wife, Mrs. Eula Miller, live at 2129 Ringgold St. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Miller. live at Bridgeport. Two brothers. James and Frank, live here and another brother. Charles, lives at Kokomo Police are holding one youth suspected of being a member of the bandit gang vanquished in Tuesday morning’s gun battle on the National Rd., in which Reiter was killed and Longstafl shot. The gang had robbed a half dozen motorists near here and Anderson. Other members of the gang are being hunted. Police got varying description l , of the gunmen. All, however, ,aid they were very rough looking One was said to be about five feet etgnt •inches tall, weighing about 155 pounds and wearing a tight clue serge coat. The other was said to nave a light shirt and hat, although Miller said one of the men wore a red sweater One was of light complexion and much in need of a share, and the other very swarthy, others said. m J ft