Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 119, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1928 — Page 1

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CITY WILL GET ' DAILY SERVICE NORTHBYAIR Capitol Airways to Start Passenger and Freight Line to Detroit. j FIVE PLANES BOUGHT j Other Routes to Be Opened ii Later to Cincinnati, Y Chicago, St. Louis. i Plans to Inaugurate daily airplane ; passenger and freight routes extending in all directions from the city were announced today by Lieut. Elmer H. Jose, president of Capitol Airways, Inc. Jose set Oct. 22 as the tentative date for start of comfortable cabin ' airplane service, with round trips ; daily, between Indianapolis and De- | troit, stopping at Ft. Wayne and 1 Toledo. Within a few weeks the company expects to offer Indianapolis citit zens and business houses similar service to Louisville, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis and Cincinnati. • First of five new Ryan Brougham monoplanes, sister ships to Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, purchased by the company, was delivered Saturday by Lieut. G. A. Jones, flying sales representative of B. F. Mahoney Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, Cal., which built Lindy’s . trans-Atlantic plane. Other Planes Ordered A second Ryan is to be delivered this week and three others within two weeks. The airport has accepted sales rights for the Ryan in Indiana, in addition to the Eaglerock ageßcy. The airport has purchased three new type Eaglerock biplane to be added to its present fleet of two Eaglerocks and one Swallow biplane for shorter, unscheduled freight and passenger trips. The company is bidding for air mail contracts on the routes. Capitalization of the corporation has been increased from $20,C00 to $250,000. Work on a second tenplane hangar was started today, and upon its completion, Jose said, a third is to be constructed. Floodlights and border lights for night landing will be installed in the next few weeks and available landing space increased to 110 acres. The new type Ryan Broughams purchased for the air lines are among the most comfortable planes available. Deeply upholstered, easy seats for four passengers, side by side in pairs, just a in an expensive sedan, are provided, in addition to the pilot’ seat in front. The ships are powered with Wright whirlwind J-5 engines, 220 horsepower. Routes of several transport lines planned include: Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Toldeo, Detroit; Indianapolis, West Baden, French Lick, Louisville; Indianapolis, South Bend, Chicoga; Indianapolis, Anderson, Richmond, Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland; Indianapolis, Connersville, Cincinnati. Will Continue School Besides the transport lines, the company will continue to operate its flying school. Capitol Airways, Inc., was incorporated March 20. Incorporators and stockholders included Elmer H. Jose, Mrs. Helen Jose, Lieut. Edward M. Johnston, L. W. Hottel, Indianapolis; Ray E. Davis, Homer McCray and E. E. McCray, Ken--1 dallville, and Stanley Chelmainaik, South Bend. ■ The company moved to its new airport, W. Thirtieth St., west of Lafayette Pike, three months ago. Officers are Jose, president; Da- ' vis, vice president; Hottel, treas--1 urer, and Johnston, seertary and ■ chief pilot. , Plans for an airplane factory to be located on the field next spring are being worked out, Jose said. MAYOR IS 54 TODAY

Attends Regular Office Duties to Observe Birthday. Mayor L. Ert Slack today observed his 54th birthday with ‘“a usual * day” at his office. \ Slack spent Sunday night with his parents at Trafalgar and celebrated the eve of the birthday of himself and his father, Elisha O. Slack, who is eighty. The mayor was born on his father’s twenty-sixth birthday. “I’m feeling fine,” was his only comment. FATALLY HURT BY BUS Motorcyclist Dies in City Hospital; Driver Arrested. John Oxford, 40, of C2O N. Ritter Ave., died at noon today in city hospital as the result of injuries received early this morning when he was knocked from his motor • cycle at Senate and Kentucky Ave;. by a West Indianapolis bus. ■ Lester Delks, 21, of 1124 S. Richland Ave., driver of the bus, was arrested on charges of assault and battefy and failure to show a drivers license. Ex-Army Officer Kills Self WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—Lieut Col. George Michael Holly, 52, United States Army, retired, ended his life in his home here today by inhaling gas. He was a graduate of the Ala- , bama Polytechnic Institute.

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New Planes Bought for Air Line

One of five new Ryan monoplanes which Capitol Airways, Inc., will put in regular passenger service between Indianapolis and Detroit late this month. The plane is a replica of Lindbergh’s personal “vehicle.”

SKIES WEEP WITH CARDINALS; TODAY’S GAME CALLED OFF

Rain Halts Fourth Conflict of World Series; Last Hope in SherdeL By United Preen ST. LOUIS, Oct. B.—Rain today forced postponement of the fourth world’s series baseball game between the Cardinals and the Yankees. Decision to postpone the game was announced by Judge K. M. Landis, baseball high commissioner, after a personal inspection of the playing field at Sportsman’s Park. Under the original plan it will be played here on the next available date, when tickets for the fourth game will be honored. Upon Sherdel’s good left arm, his whistling fast ball, hook curve, and change of pace depends the last chance of the Cardinals to escape the disaster of defeat in four straight gs.mes. The Yankees, riding the crest of a victorious wave, with scalps of three straight victories at their belts, have their pitching ace, Waite Hoyt, primed and ready for the next game. They have, however, the comfortable knowledge that they have beaten every pitcher Bill McKechnie has sent to the hill, and they claim that they are only just beginning to hit. Odds on Yankee With Hoyt opposing Sherdel once more and the Cardinals disheartened by successive defeats, betting odds of 7 to 5 favored the American League champions to repeat the triumph of four straight games which they scored over the Pittsburgh Pirates a year ago. The Cards easily might have survived the defeat of Sherdel in the opening garnet and they even felt that they could come back after the collapse of old Grover Alexander, but when the Yanks battered Big Jess Haines into submission, St. Louis all but gave up. Sam Breadon’s club will go through the motions of putting up a spirited game tomorrow. Sherdel has the heart of a lion and the same steady head for pitching which held the Yanks to four hits in the first game at New York. If Willie can stop the slugging American Leaguers and inspire his mates to get him a few runs and refrain from booting away their chances, the 1928 world series yet may be prolonged beyond four games. Cards Toss Off Chances It is a little late now, even for genial Sam Breadon, owner of the St. Louis club, to expected the Cards to come through and win themselves another world’s championship. They tossed away their chances of doing that in the first three games. The team didn’t hit in the first two games and their two supposedly most dependable pitchers yielded to the indomitable thrust of Yankee bats. Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig saw to that. Sunday’s game, played in the presence of 39,602 cash customers and several thousand others, was a sorry spectacle. Without detracting from the home run hitting of husky Lou Gehrig and the pitching effort of Tom Zachary, it must be admitted that the Cards themselves tossed away what seemed like their last chance to stave off defeat in this 1928 series.

SPIRITUALISTS HERE TO OPEN CONVENTION 800 Delegates to Attend Banquet Tonight. More than 800 delegates are expected to be present at the Claypool tonight at the banquet opening the thirty-sixth annual convention of the National Spiritualist Association. Tuesday sessions will be devoted to business with talks on the “Fundamentals of Spiritualism.” At the evening session John Slater will give “Spirit Greetings.” An important number on the pro•gram for Wednesday is the Report of the Bureau on Phenomenal Evidence; while Maude F. Torrey and Otto von Bourg will discuss “Spirit Greetings.” The convention will close Friday when officers will be elected. Wait Italian Naval Reply LONDON, Oct. B.—The Italian reply to the Anglo-French naval agreement probably will be received here tod&y or Tuesday, government officials said.

Taxless Town Bit Timee Special DECKER, Ind., Oct. B. Citizens here will be $1 on each SIOO valuation better off in taxes next year than residents of the remainder of Johnson township in which the town Is located. Decker officials, taking into consideration the high township levy, have decided to collect no town taxes' next year, for which the rate was $1 a SIOO.

CHAIN STORES SOLD Kroger Buys Control of Piggly Wiggly Line. By United Preee MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. B.—The sale of a controlling Interest in the Piggly Wiggly Corporation, operators of 2,600 chain stores, to the Kroger Grocery and Baking Company of Cincinnati, was announced here today by J. E. Maury, president of the Piggly Wiggly.

AL ‘POOR SPORT,’ CHARGES MRS. WILLEBRANDT; DENIES MAKING RELIGION WEAPON

BIG VOTE IS PREDICTED Indiana Expected to Cast 1,531,713 Ballots at Polls. Indiana is expected to cast 1,531,713 votes in the November election, according to an estimate compiled and announced today by Otto Lee, secretary of the State printing board. The estimate is based on reports made by county clerks and is made for the purpose of obtaining information on the number of ballots needed. Marion County is expected to cast 253,332 votes. HELD ASJAR THIEF Thomas IVloore Aided in Escape, Say Officers. As the aftermath of a daring motor car theft attempt Sunday night, Thomas Moore, 22, of 244 N. Walcott St., was arrested today and was identified as the man who was caught attempting to steal the machine of Paul E. Wright, 3736 W. Tenth St. According to Wright and a companion, Dallas Watterson, 3722 W. Tenth St., the pair apprehended Moore in the act of starting ■Wright’s motor car, which was parked at New York and Illinois Sts. They overpowered him and started to police headquarters when another car drove up and a youth covered Wright and Watterson with a pistol while the would-be thief made his escape. Wright obtained the license plate numbers on the second car and poli"'! traced the license as having been issued to Moore. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..,. 57 10 a. m.... 63 7 a. m.... 58 11 a. m.... 60 Ba. m.... 60 12 (noon). 58 9 a. m.... 62 1 p. m.... 61

BULLETS THIN GANG PATRONS OF CHICAGO OPERA

By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 8. Machine guns and policemen’s bullets have opened a wide gap in the “Diamond Horseshoe” of the Chicago Civic Opera. The apearance of the 1928 list of boxholders reveals that many such names as Tony D'Andrea, Samoots Amatuna, the three Genna brothers and Tony Lombardo are missing. These and other lords of the Chicago underworld who revelled in grand opera as a relief from

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1 17 ARE KILLED BY POISON STILL Seventy Others Are Sent to Hospital in New York. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. B.—Detectives I were searching the entire east side j today for a still whose poisoned j product killed seventeen men and ! sent seventy to hospital over the ! week-end. Most of the victims were deni j zens of the slum area, patrons of | the many “shock houses” that sell ; drinks at two for a quarter. They were found unconscious or I writhing in agony in beds in cheap j lodging houses or in gutters. All those in hospital are desperately ill It is believed that most, if not all, of the poisoned liquor comes froi v one source—a back-room still hi some tenement house. ORDER BANK REPORTS Call State and National Houses for Statement of Condition. The State banking commissioner today issued a call for the condi- | tion of all State banks as of Oct. 3. I By t 7 nitcd Prcire WASHINGTON. Oct. B.—The j comptroller of currency today tsi sued a call for the condition of al 1 I national banks as of Oct. 3.

Quotes Indianapolis Catholic Leader as Supporting Her Stand. By United Press HARINSBURG, Ky., Oct. B.—Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant United States Attorney-General, today accused A1 Smith of making an “unsportsmanly attack” on her in accusing her of injecting the religious issue into the presidential campaign. In an address to a Republican rally here Mrs. Willebrandt said Smith insinuated her appeal to a Methodist meeting in Ohio to support Herbert Hoover, Republican candidate, was because of Smith’s religion, but that such an accusation was “entirely ungrounded”. She made public a letter from P. H. Callahan of Indianapolis, head of the Association of Catholics, favoring prohibition, and supporting her in her stand on the dry issue. “I have read your speeches very carefully and I cannot find you had any criticism whatever of the Catholic church or referred to the religion of the Democratic candidate or his campaign manager," Callahan wrote. “I know from intimate acquaintances that the Methodist church has been fighting liquor and the liquor people for a generation or two, until now prohibition is as much of an institution to the Methodists as the parochial schools are to the Catholics. STATE FUNDS SHIFTED Srhortemeier Turns Over $16,000 in Unused Money. Secretary of State Fred E. Schortemeier has returned $16,502, the remainder of appropriations made to his department, to the State general fund. A total of $6,388 of the unused funds came from the bureau of criminal identifications and $6,880 from the auto license and police department.

their business of shooting each other down, have been removed from the scene by the war over alcohol. In the past they have added to the grandeur of the old auditorium by appearing at each new performance dressed as nearly as possible like the Insulls, McCormicks and Wrigleys. The gangsters, however, usually wear more diamonds than their fellow boxholders. “QCARFACE AL” CAPONE and J his brothers Ralph and Tony

LAST HICKMAN FIGHT DENIED BY HIGHCOURT Only Chance of ‘Fox’ to Escape Gallows Now Rests With Governor. STRUGGLE TO CONTINUE Lawyer Will Go Before Other Justices of U. S. Supreme Tribunal. V?v/ Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. B.—William Edward Hickman, youthful kidnaper and murderer of Marion Parker, 12-year-old school girl, today was denied a United States Supremo Court appeal of his sentence to the gallows. He Is scheduled to be hanged Oct. 19 at San Quentin prison. Justice George Sutherland, who has jurisdiction over appeals from the Pacific Coast, refused to gram an appeal from the California Supreme Court decision uholding the sentence. This appeal if granted would have automatically stayed the execution ending argument cf the case. Jerome Walsh, young Kansas City lawyer who represented Hickman, said after his conference with the justice in chambers that he intended to take Jjis plea before other members of the court, any one oi whom can allow such an appeal Justice Sutherland’s refusal does not bar such action, he said. Walsh applied for formal admission to the Supreme Court bar today, to argue to appeal if it is granted. This was virtually Hickman’s last chance to escape the gallows unless clemency is granted by the Governor of California. Walsh did not name the other justices to whom he would appeal, but said he expected to know finally whether success or failure was his by tonight. Justice Brandeis will be among those appealed to, it was believed. Walsh refused to disclose whatwert on in his conference with Sutherland, which lasted nearly an hout. His appeal, however, was based on what he believes are good points of constitutional law, ho said.

Saving ’Em Pit Times Special MONTICELLO, Ind., Oct. 8. —Two representatives of a Chicago newspaper who sought to take a straw vote here on Hoover and Smith, obtained only a few ballots. Only one man out of eight approached in a poolroom voted, one of the others saying, “You’ll see well enough in November how we are going to vote.”

DANGERSPLUG ON Sixteen Couples Remain in Marathon. With the field narrowed down to sixteen couples, all veterans of many marathon dance campaigns, the Indianapolis dance derby swung into its 112th hour at noon today. The remaining “hoofers,” schooled in theirt fade, are not jeopardising their chances of winning by indulging in any fancy steps, and the contest has settled down to a sleepy affair. Virtually all the remaining dancers boast they are capable of continuing at least 400 more hours. The last couple to fall from the ranks was Ralph Campbell and Jeanette Welch, both Indianapolis, after dancing ninety-eight hours. New vaudeville acts have been imported by the American Legioi* sponsors of the contest. HAAG~AUTO IN HOLDUP Muncie Bandits Use Car Owned by Druggist Slain Here. The automobile of the late Wilkinson Haag, chain druggist, murdered at the Green Mill barbecue place in E. Thirty-Eighth St. three years ago, again figured in a police investigation today. Three men using the car robbed a Muncie (Ind.) restaurant keeper of S2OO Saturday. Police here were notified several days ago that the car had been stolen from a Louisville (Ky.) salesman, who had purchased it from the Haag estate.

used to occupy boxes at the opera but Tony, a pioneer beer runner, was killed by a poUceman while attempting to steel a ballot box in Cicero several years ago. Now Scarface A1 and Ralph sit on the mein floor, surrounded usually by a bodyguard. That precaution usually costs them as much for additional seats, as owning a box. Among gangland’s dead box holders are; Michael Murlo, president of the Unione Siciliano. H<}

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Pastors Set Day to Pray Against Al City Methodist Ministers Slate Services for Nov. 4. Methodist ministers of Indianapolis today approved a motion to devote Nov. 4 to prayer for the defeat of Al Smith. Branding Smith as a nullificationist and a continuous user of alcoholic liquor, the Rev. Fredreick Stone, retired minister, at a meeting of the Methodist Ministerial Association, declared that if the wet candidate is elected the country will revert to conditions prevalent fifty years ago. The Rev. George Henninger, pastor of the East Tenth Street Methodist church, opposed the motion. “It’s not a matter of prayer now; it’s a matter of work. To pray for the defeat of the Democratic candidate would only precipitate trouble among Democratic members of our congregations,” argued Henninger. The motion was carried, with only Henninger voting against it. Linn A. Tripp, social service director of the Indianapolis Church Federation, adressed the body on “Social Service.” Tripp spiked the old idea that man’s service to his fellowmen is different from his service to God and declared that the outstanding social problem is not a theological problem but one of practical living. New officers of the association elected today are: The Rev. L. H. Kendell, president; the Rev. E. E. Jones, vice president, and the Rev. M. S. Marble, secretary-treasurer. BLIMP OVER TEXAS Los Angeles Arrives for Legiorl Parley. By XEA Service SAN ANTONIO, Oct. B.—The Navy dirigible Los Angeles arrived here at 9:40 a. m. today and drifted lazily over the municipal auditorium as the tenth annual American Legion convention opened. The Los Angeles left Lakehurst, N. J., Saturday night to be present for the opening of the convention.

SIX VOTING MACHINES ON WHICH PUBLIC MAY PRACTICE ARE PROVIDED

County and Election Commissioners Write Many Letters. County commissioners and election commissioners wrote more letters to each other today than ever before in their efforts to pin the responsibility of distributing voting machines for practice purposes prior to the election. It finally was decided to place six machines at public disposal for practice. Here’s the day’s events; Election board chairman Ira M. Holmes asked commissioners what happened to a letter they wrote last Thursday giving the board authority to use machines for practice. He found a copy of the letter, but Commissioner Charles O. Sutton told him it was not mailed. Cbunty commissioners’ drafted another letter. When turned over to Holmes he objected because it stated the machines were to be used “for election purposes.” He said that prevented the board from distributing machines before election. Holmes wrote a letter to county commissioners stating that the public demand for practice machines should be complied with. He asked for another letter giving the board full control of the machines. Finally another letter came forth from the office of the commissioners surrendering 275 machines to the board for “any purpose which election commissioners deem necessary.” There will be one machine in the Statehouse, another in the courthouse, another in the Woman’s Department Club, 1702 N. Meridian St., and the remaining three proba-. bly distributed in political headquarters. Found Dead in Bed A victim of apoplexy, Hugh McCaffery, 57, a brick contractor, was found dead in bed this morning by his wife at his home, 1649 N. Roosevelt Ave. He had been in ill health almost a year. Six children survive.

was the only president of that body in recent years to die with his shoes off. The others were all shot. Murlo died of an intestinal malady. Michael Scalis and Albert Anselmi, unsuccessful usurpers of the Genna leadership, will be steady opera patrons this year. Unlike former years they will not sit in the horseshoe or main floor. Business has been poor so they will have to satisfy their musical tastes from balcony seats.

20 PRISONERS ARE DEAD OR MISSING AFTER BLAZE IN CONVICTS’ DORMITORY

O, Cuspi-Dora Bm Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. B.—Mrs. Dora Meadows chews tobacco, Benjamin Meadows alleges in a divorce suit on file in Monroe Circuit Court here. She also cursed and otherwise abused him, the husband charges.

HURT IN CRASH OF STOLEN CAR Probe Link With Two Other Abandoned Autos. A man believed to be Marshall Bedford, Lafayette, Ind., was unconscious from a fractured skull in the Methodist Hospital today, while police investigated his connection with a stolen automobile in which he was injured Sunday morning. The machine, a large Buick, crashed into a tree near the home of John Lux, W. Morris St., near the Hendricks County line. Members of his family treated the driver and a man passenger and over the protests of the passenger, called Dr. E. L. Hade of Bridgeport. Dr. Hade sent the pair to the hospital. The second man disappeared. The Buick was stolen earlier on Sunday from Manning Norland, 5245 Central Ave. When the car crashed into the tree it carried the license plates of an Auburn stolen from Louis Freedman, Lafayette. Freedman’s car later was found by the Hendricks county sheriff two miles west of the accident scene, the gasoline tank shot full of holes. Another stolen Auburn sedan was found by the sheriff in a thick woods near Wildwood Camp, a mile west of the county line. It was stolen from Cleveland, the sheriff said.

STORM FUND $16,000 City Contributes to Aid Relief Work in Florida and Indies. The Red Cross fund for relief of Florida and West Indies hurricane sufferers reached $16,211, with contributions of $397 this morning. The Indianapolis chapter has forwarded a third check, for $2,000, to national Red Coss headquarters, bringing the total amount forwarded from here to $15,000. Citizens who have not contributed were asked to forward checks at once in order the campaign may be terminated. WAIT DUNN RULING Office Eligibility Involved in Injunction Suit. Ruling on the injunction case in which Frank I. McClain, surveyor’s office employe, seeks to have minutes of the September county council meeting declared void because Councilman Paul Dunn is alleged to be ineligible to hold office, will be given Tuesday by Superior Judge The ruling was to have been made today, but was postponed because attorneys for Dunn are out of the city. Believing perjury has been committeed in the case, Elliott has decided to send the transcript to the Marion County grand jury. McCain, in his complaint, alleged Dunn did not possess real estate, which made him ineligible for the office. Dunn, however, contended that he owned property, but had to dispose of it in 1925. INDIANA BOY WINS TRIP Fred Dixon, Economy, State’s Best Young Dairy Farmer. By Timm Special MEMPHIS, Term., Oct. B.—Fred Dixon of Economy, Wayne County, is Indiana's best young dairy farmer, picked by H. F. Ainsworth, assistant State club leader, Purdue University, Lafayette, as the State’s champion dairy calf club member for this year. Dixon will come to Memphis within a few days to spend a week at the National Dairy Exposition Oct. 13 to 20 as the guest of the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. In addition to paying all of Dixon’s expenses on his visit to Memphis, the Institute is also awarding similar educational prize trips to the dairy calf club champions of sixteen other States. DRESS BETTER ON CREDIT” H. & R. Clothing Cos., 29 E. Ohio. -^Advertisement.

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17 Injured Are Taken to Hospital Following Ohio Blaze. INQUIRY IS OPENED Hint Escape Plot May Be Responsible for Origin of Flames. By United Press COLUMBUS, Oct. B.—Although the check of the twenty Ohio State penitentiary prisoners missing in the fire that destroyed the dormitory of the brick plant at Junction City early this morning was still incomplete shortly before noon, seventeen men were believed to have perished and three were missing, according to prison officials. The three missing might have escaped over the walis, officials said, although it was believed possible that they, too, were among the victims. Prison officials were still unable to give the names of the dead. Search of the dormitory’s ruins revealed what were believed to be at least thirteen skeletons. Os the 288 prisoners, seventeen were taken to the penitntiary hospital in Columbus. Investigations Are Started While penitentiary officials this afternoon continued their search of the ruins, plans were under way for an investigation of the origin of the ! blaze. A State investigation was started by John E. Harper, Sttae welfare j director, John D. Bloodgood, State engineer, and J. D. Clark, assistant | superintendent of the welfare dell partment. Meantime, a telegram was received from Warden Thomas, who was attending a convention in Kansas City, to the effect that he planned to leave for Columbus immediately and would open an investigation as soon as he arrived. He said he would question all prisoners and guards of the brick plant. Although It was generally believed that the fire was caused by defective wiring or a faulty fllue, there was a ru morthat. a group <if prisoners, plotting an escape, starts! the blaze. The rumor, however, could not be substantiated, and officials said they had not uncovered any evidence of incediarism. The fire broke out in the basement, in which clothing was stored. I. N. Grafton, guard, first noticed the fire from the outside. He called another guard and they went immediately to the basement. As they opened the door, flames twenty feet high shot out. Temporary Structure William O’Malley, 35, Cleveland, serving six years for automobile stealing, smelled smoke shortly after 12:30 a. m„ he said. ’Malley, who is on’e of the brick plant bakers, was in the bakery. He rushed through the building sounding the alarm. The prisoners stormed the doors and windows. The brick plant's fire whistle aroused residents in Junction City and vicinity. They were pressed into service to guard the prisoners who were at liberty inside the stockade. Although stampeding and confusion resulted, brick plant officials were able to control the prisoners who escaped the fire. They were taken to nearby barns and garages. Most of the prisoners lost all their clothing. Truckloads of clothing were dispatched immediately from the State penitentiary at Columbus. Food to last several days also was sent from Columbus. The dormitory was a temporary structure built in 1919 and had been in use since.

STEAL BEEF OFF TRUCK Driver Plays Unwilling “Host” to Steak Party. J. C. Renn, driver for Brown Bros., meat packers, is doing a bit of “beefing” today. For Renn is playing host at a beefsteak dinner and he doesn’t even know who is on the guest list. He reported to police Saturday that a quarter of beef was lost fro;y his truck at Kappes and Mori Sts. An effort to locate his “guests” was futile, and Renn, whose home is at 56 N. West St., paid for the dinner party with a S2O bill. ROB PARK WORKMAN Two Negro Bandits Take $6.30 From Charles Nelson. “I’m hungry,” said one of two Negroos who approached Charles Nelson, 1449 Reisner Ave., park attendant, as he was working on the tennis courts at Garfield Park today. “So am I,” answered Nelson. “Well, we’re going to eat,” said the other Negro, and drew a revolver. They took $6.30 from Nelson.