Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 211, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 January 1929 — Page 1

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SLEUTHS LINK BANK CRASH WUHJURDER .Tangled Maze of Theories Faces Investigators in Sullivan Cases. SEEK ‘FLUSH’ CITIZEN Belief That Financier Took Own Life Held, Despite Coroner’s Verdict. A theory gained ground here today of a link between the mysterious disappearance last year of James X.ang, veteran Sullivan (Ind.) banker, the wrecking of the Shelburn State bank, and the murder or suicide of Edgar D. Maples, vicepresident of the Peoples National Bank and Trust Company at Sullivan last week. When Lang disappeared, a short--Bge of $75,000 in funds of the Citizen Trust Company, of which he was president, was discovered. The theory, only a slender thread, that the three affairs might have been connected, grew out of receipt by one of the detectives investigating last week’s tragedy, of a letter from a former Sullivan citizen, now in Chicago, The letter suggested that the detectives find a former Sullivan citizen interested in several minor business ventures, who suddenly showed signs of affluence and made trips to Havana shortly before Lang’s disappearance. Suspect Is Downfall The letter suggested that this man may have had something to do with knocking Lang from the pedestal of civic trust he held in Sullivan and might have been the 'man who was trying to borrow $4,000 form the Peoples bank through Maples the night before Maples was found dead in the bank. The investigation, according to Sullivan dispatches, appeared to be going around in circles, with conflicting stories about clews being put out by various officials interested. Officials of the Peoples bank are insisting upon crediting the theory of the coroner, who officially ruled that Maples was murdered. The bank could collect practically all Mapes’ insurance policies to cover $75,000 in bad paper if Maples were murdered. If he were a suicide policies for only about $25,000 would be In effect, it is said. Supporting the murder theory, Information has been put otit that blood stains were found on a wash basin in the bank at the time Maples’ body was body. Scoff at Theory A different set of investigators, however, now declare that that blood was not on the wash basin at the time Maples’ body, shot through the forehead, was found. They say someone who helped handle the body had washed his hands there. This same set of investigators say they have established definitely that there was no possible connection of Jessup Bolinger, president of the Shelburn State bank, with Maples’ death. Bolinger has confessed that he forged the bad notes which Maples had accepted in the regular course of business at the Sullivan bank. Bolinger's bank was closed the day Maples’ body was found. Some officials had declared that Bolinger had his car out of his garage early on the morning that Maples died. Other investigators say positively that they examined the doors of Boflngrr's garage Wednesday noon, only a few' hours after the Sullivan tragedy, and found them still coated with the sleet which had formed Tuesday night. Differ About Wound Bolinger had been rescued from this garage Wednesday morning by his father, who suspected he might attempt suicide and through the garage window saw him topple over when monoxide gas affected him. The garage doors were closed and Bolinger had started his motor. Stories as to the nature of the wound in Maples’ forehead also differ. Those supporting the murder theory declare the wound indicated the bullet was fired from several feet away. Others state that the first examination disclosed powder bums inside the gaping wound, indicating the muzzle of the weapon has been placed against the forehead. The coroner’s verdict stand as murder, however.

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By United Press BELLEVLE, 0., Jan. 22.—Fourteen persons were killed and sixteen were injured when an interurban ear craslied into a Greyhound bus near here today. Five of the injured are expected to die. The crash occurred at a grade crossing, apparently when the bus stalled in the path of the speeding interurban. The traction car was operating on an express schedule and was reported to have been traveling ai high speed.

ARREST THREE IN STORE BURGLARIES

Solve Eight or Nine City Robberies Involving Loot of $3,000. With three men under arrest. Detective Chief Jerry Kinney today announced .that detectives had solved recent grocery and meat market burglaries in which nearly $3,000 worth of loot was obtained. August V. Cummings, 27, of 3659 Rockville road, has admitted robbing eight or nine stores in the past two months, according to Kinney. He is held on charges of automobile banditry, grand larceny and burglary. Admits Buying Loot William L. Tatman, 38, of 325 South Sherman drive, Kinney said, had admitted buying the meat and grocery loot from Cummings and that, he suspected It was stolen. Tatman is held on a vagrancy charge under high bond. Earl Sparks. 29, of 258 Minkner street, was with Cummings on one of his visits to the Tatman grocery, Tatman told police. Sparks also is held on a vagrancy charge. A relative of Tatman who worked in the Tatman grocery is being held for investigation, but no evidence has been obtained he was involved in the robberies, Kinney said. Part of the S2OO loot taken from the Thqmas J. Heady meat market, 4115 East Michigan street, was found at the Tatman grocery, according to detectives. Served Prison Terms Cummings, who. according to police, has served sentences in the Indiana state prison and Kansas and Utah prisons, is said to have confessed looting the following stores: Herman Darrow grocery. 2313 East Michigan street; Ralph Anderson meat market, 3807 East Michigan street; Bennett Brothers grocery, 4313 East New York street; Henry O. Martin meat market, 2635 West Michigan street ; Patrick Hammond meat market and grocery, 308 North Rural street; general store of William Perkins. Edgewood: Carl Schneider grocery, 349 West Thirtieth street. Detectives who aided in the robberies solution were William Rugenstein, Arthur Fields. Charles Golnisch, Robin Taylor, William Brickley and Patrick Finneran. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 32 10 a. m 34 7 a. m 33 11 a. m 35 8 a. m 33 12 (noon).. 35 9a. m 33 Ip. m 35

WAITS SENATE TRIAL Oklahoma Governor Is Suspended. B\i United Pres* OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 22. William J. Holloway. 40, former school teacher and attorney, took up the task today of administering the affairs of the state of Oklahoma, thrown into confusion by the impeachment of Governor Henry S. Johnston. Holloway was inducted into office as acting Governor immediately after the Oklahoma senate voted, 38 to 5. to suspend Governor Johnston pending his impeachment trial set for Jan. 28. Holloway has served two years as Lieutenant-Governor of Oaklahoma. During the administration of Governor J. C. (Jack) Walton, who was impeached, Holloway served as acting Governor for five months in the absence of Martin Trapp, Walton's successor. ABSOLVE SENATOR PINE Oklahoman Cleared of Charges in Jackson Barnett Fund Case. Bit l nitrd Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—The senate Indian affairs committee has adopted a resolution absolving Senator W. B. Pine (Rep., Okla.>, of charges made against him by Indian Commissioner Burke in connection with the Jackson Barnett Indian fund case, the United Press learned today. Three Stone Workers Fart Bit l Hih il I'rests BEDFORD. Ind.. Jan. 22.—Three local stone mill workers were injured in two accidents here. James Tabor was hurt seriously when he fell against a saw. Hugh Ikerd and H. H. Ellison were injured when a large stone fell, part of it striking than*

Roll Call on West Revealed (Other details, Page 6) (Copyright. 1929, by United Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—'The roll call by which the senate secretly confirmed the nomination of Roy O. West of Illinois to be secretary of interior was obtained today by the United Press. This is the first time in years that a roll call taken in an executive session of the senate had been obtained for publication. It follows: Democrats (For 22) Ashurst (Ariz.), Bayard (Del.), Blease (S. C.>, Bratton (N. M.), Broussard <La.), Bruce (Md.), Caraway (Ark.), Copeland <N. Y.). Fletcher (Fla.), George (Ga.), Glass (Va.>, Hawes (Mo.), Hayden (Ariz.), Kendrick (Wyo.), Overman <N. C.), Pittsman (Nev.), Ransdell (La.), Smith (S. C. Seek (la.), Stephens (Miss.), Thomas (Okla.). Tydings (Ind.). Republicans (For, 32)—Bingham (Conn.), Burton (O.), Capper (Kan.), Curtis (Kan.), Dale (Vt.), Deneen (111.), Edge (N. J.), Fess (O.), Gillett (Mass.), Glenn (III.), Gould (Me.), Greene (Vt.), Hale (Me.). Hastings (Del.), Jones (Wash.), Keyes (N- H.), McLean (Conn.), McNary (Ore.), Metcalf (R. I.), Oddie (Nev.), Phipps (Colo.), Reed (Pa.), Robinson (Ind.), Sackett (Ky.), Schall .(Minn.). Shortridge (Cal ), Smoot (Utah), Steiwer (Ore.), Vandenberg (Mich.). Warren (Wyo.), Waterman (Colo.). Watson (ind.). Democrats (Against, 15)—Barkley (Ky.), Black (Ala.), Dill (Wash.), Harris (Ga.), Harrison (Miss.), Hefilin (Ala.), McKellar (Tenn.), Neely (W. Va.), Sheppard (Tex.), Simmons (N. C.), Trammell (Fla.), Wagner (N. Y.). Walsh (Mass.), .Walsh (Mont.). Wheeler (Mont.). Republicans (Against, ID—Blaine (Wis.), Borah (Idaho), Brookhart (la.), Couzens (Mich.), Frazier (N. D. Johnson (Cal.), Mac Master (S. D.), Norbeck (S. D.), Norris (Neb.), N.ve (N. D.>. Pine (Okla.). , Farmer-Labor (Against, I)—Shipstead (Minn.), Influenza Deadly in Tokio By United Press TOKIO, Jan. 22.—Influenza is taking an average of thirty-five lives a day in Tokio, it was announced.

Verily, All Things Do Conte Out in the Wash By Vnitnl Prcsx SHANGHAI. China, Jan. 22.—Three years ago a tiny little island, some ten by fourteen feet, suddenly appeared in the Whangpoo river near the Garden Bend off the Bund. Wang Chi-Ho, a Sampan coolie, claimed it. So did the settlement police. Wang moved Mrs. "Wang and the five little Wangs to a rude hut he built on the island and told the police, in effect, to go hunt other islands. His island was in the river, he argued, which belonged to the Chinese and not the settlement. Now Wang has moved. Paddling his Sampan home he saw his house floating down the river. The island had disappeared beneath the water again. Mrs. Wang and the five young Wangs were rescued by Sampan coolies.

COLD WAVE IS ON WAY; MERCURY TO 5 ABOVE

A cold wave, forcing the temperature down so about 5 above zero will strike Indir.’ Wednesday, J. H. Arming United States weather bureau head, predicted today. The temperature drop likely will begin tonight, changing todays rain to snow during the night, he said. Northwest winds bringing chilling breezes from western Canada w’here

QUAKE SHAKES CITY Italian Municipality Frightened by Three-Minute Tremor. Bi' United Pn ss PERUGIA. Italy. Jan. 22.—A strong earthquake lasting three minutes shook Citta Di Castello today, frightening the inhabitants. The people remained indoors, however, because of the intense cold. The thermometer was at 14 below aera

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AIR-RAIL LINE MAY PASS UP CimPORT Plans Being Drafted for Use of Mars Hill as Passenger Center. MUST GET ACTION SOON Delay by Municipality Will Be Costly, Interpretation of Report. Unless moves toward acquisition of a municipal airport are rushed to completion, Indianapolis may have a “white elephant” when it does acquire the field, it was learned today. Need for a municipal field large enough for the biggest planes first was seen last July, in connection with plans of Transcontinental Transport, Inc., forty-eight-hour, coast-to-coast, air-rail passenger line, to make Indianapolis a stop on its route. T. A. T. plans to start its route April 1. Unless it obtains assurance tllat the field will be ready shortly after that time, and is able to enter into a contract with city officials for use of the field, the Transcontinental wall erect a $35,000 permanent passenger station and an equally expensive hangar at Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill. The company already has made arrangements temporarily to use the Mars Hill field, owned and operated by the Indiana National Guard. Plans to Build Hangars Local business affairs of the T. A. T. will be handled by Curtiss Flying Service of Indiana, which also is considering plans to build permanent hangars at Mars Hil! because of the immediate need for such structures.. If the two companies establish permanent buildings at Mars they will not remove later to the municipal airport, it is asserted. Various other aviation companies which will operate T. A. T. feeder lines to other cities will locate at the same field for convenience. Other companies will go with the "crowd" and the city will suffer a serious loss of revenue at the municipal field. Captain H. Weir Cook, general manager of the Curtiss company, refused to comment on the situation. Sites Given Approval First steps to acquire the airport were taken last summer when Mayor L. Ert Slack asked the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce to obtain options on all available sites. This was done after consideration covering a period of several months. The committee recommended Site 30, located west of Ben Davis and north of the National road. Later, at request of the mayor for reconsideration. the committee also recommended Site 8. immediately south of Site 30, which the city .officials approved. The city council has approved advertising of intention to issue bonds for the field. The resolution to acquire an airport will be advertised for three weeks beginning Wednesday and if no remonstrance is filed the council will pass a bond issue within the next four weeks.

the mercury stood at 30 to 35 degrees below zero today, will bring the big drop Wednesday, he said. The rainfall over the state varied from a trace to half an inch Monday night, but was not heavy enough seriously to increase the flood menace. Armington said. The colder weather Wednesday will freeze surface water and streams swollen by the heavy rains last week likely wl’l not rise to a serious flood stage, he said.

TO AN OLD KING’S GLORY—39 COURT LADIES SLAIN!

B.u Science Service •PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 22.—The expedition digging at the royal cemetery of Ur of the Chaldees appears to be on the verge of a freat discovery. A burial pit containing bodies of thirty-nine court ladies, aK slaughtered to make a royal funeral, has been found, according in

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h ■ m. nary senior class pin from HH Miss Mam Frances Cray in the an- : ; Jp* IRIWIBk nual Technical high school class day exercises this afternoon. m/' ' it Center —Pearl Steers and Earl ' > v igffe If IFesf, who read the most books in • f $ four years in Tech. $ Wm - Below—Max Mansfield . Juni .M class president, receiving the gavel ,* from William Nelson, January class - president. > , s > 'V,>> - Wfg)' • rmi?**"* \ ‘ *." . - - , , mii.mii.iii.il-..™ \ JlfP iiiui GOESTOHOUSE Amending Act Is Assigned liv .-.mending o. (he < man- 9D ' - lo p>.;lii propor- Rllllf H JfH 'Hra|2ng|3? ■i-’iiai representation •••otinc Jjra Ki V' for Indianapolis o ! ;- eommission- f||| / ‘r' „ ' r... and clarifying and strengthen- ' i t|§| ' ing the present law, -.va.-. introduced ; || lodn> in the hour* ol represent arives by Frank J. Noll Jr. of IndianIt -Anr. a Hem dto the eommntcc yr'" A on cities and town:-. j M Representatirc Harold ft. Donnell of Paris introduced a bill providing congress candidates be :

MANAGER LAW GOESJOHOUSE Amending Act Is Assigned to Committee. The amending of the city manager law T to provide the proportional representation voting system for Indianapolis city commissioners, and clarifying and strengthening the present law, was introduced today in the house of representatives by Frank J. Noll Jr. of Indianapolis. It was assigned to the committee on cities and towns,. ‘ Representative Harold R. Donnell of Paris introduced a bill providing congress candidates be placed upon the state ballot instead of county. Abolishment by referendum in November, 1930, of the offices of county agent, highway superintendent and county attendance officer is sought in a bill introduced by ftepresentative John W. Shaffer of Worthington. The duties of the highway- superintendent would be taken over by the county commissioners.

MILK WAR HALTED Farmers and Dealers Agree to Arbitrate. 81l T nitrd Press CHICAGO. Jan. 22. —Chicago s milk war was halted abruptly today when dairy companies and farmers reached an agreement to arbitrate their differences over prices to be paid for raw' milk. The agreement came at daybreak. after an all-night conference between representatives of the farmers’ association and milk dealer’s officials, at the offices of Dr. Arnold H. Kegel, city health commissioner, w’ho brought the conflicting parties together. The most spectacular of the many raids made by the farmer pickets, since the strike started Jan. 14, occurred Monday night at Lake Villa. A mob of farmers swarmed aboard two Soo line trains and spilled 150.000 pounds of milk which was being shipped in four cars from Wisconsin to Chicago. Probe Auto Fire Death NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Jan. 22. Hamilton county authorities continued investigation today into the death of Loten Stuart, w'hose charred body was found in a WTecked automobile near here.

a report just received from C. Leonard Woolley, director of the joint expedition of the University of Pennsylvania museum and the British museum. This pit in all likelihood is the .ntroduction to the burial chamber of a mighty ruler. The kings grave found at Ur last year contained nine court larjifir The mere iaqpressive as-

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yVy/LO STUART, principal JJI (above), receiving a lan- / ** uary senior class pin from Miss Mary Frances Cray in the annual Technical high school class day exercises this afternoon. Center —Pearl Steers and Earl West, who read the most books in four years in Tech. Beloiv—Max Mansfield, June class president, receiving the gavel from William Nelson, January class president.

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Extinction by Death Is Feared

BY EUGENE LYONS, United Press Stuff Correspondent MOSCOW, Jan. 22.—Life and thought of the Sixteenth century,, scientists here believe, have been preserved by a colony of Russians cut off from the rest of humanity for about 400 years. A well-equipped expedition, headed by Uri D. Chirikhin, is being sent by the Academy of Science in Leningrad to find the little “lost world” somew'here in the uncharted wilderness of Yakutia. northeastern Siberia. It is hoped the expedition will yield valuable information about the customs and daily life of Russia several centuries ago. aue LEGENDS about the existence of such a chip of humanity nave been prevalent among the natives of northernmost Siberia for at least 100 years. Only two apparently trustworthy reports, however, have reached the civilized world in this generation. Before the revolution, a political exile, M. Zinzinoff. claimed to have penetrated the icebound fastnesses to the lost colony. He told of a people speaking ancient Russian. totally unaware of anything that has happened in the world since the sixteenth century and scarcely aware of the existence of other human beings. More recently a Yakut named Arosin came out of the north with a tale of a Russian tribe leading a clean, moral and religious life. Both reports agreed in placing the colony somewhere far toward the mouth of the Indigir river,

semblage of women just discovered is far more splendidly adorned with headdresses of gold and semi-precious stones, necklaces of gold and lapis, silver combs and ribbons of gold. SLx men also were sacrificed at the funeral, in the Sumerian burial rites of 5,000 years (ago. Remains of a canopy with ridge pole decorated in gold and colored

where it empties into the north Polar sea. n n tt AROSIN reported that the colony contains only about 200 persons. The theory advanced in scientific circles here was that the original settlers must have been far more numerous to have survived so long in the course of centuries against unfavorable natural conditions. Now apparently the tribe is on the verge of extinction and the expedition may arrive just in time, before the last member of the tribe disappears.

FIRE LOSS $75,900 Flames Damage Business District in South Bend. By United Press SOUTH BEND. Ind- Jan. 22.—Fire of undetermined origin swept a quarter of block of business stores in the downtown section early teday, causing damage estimated at $75,000. The first alarm was sounded at 3 a. m. Seven hose, companies had the blaze under control in five hours. Explorer Awarded Medal Bit 1 nited Prenti PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 22—Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, explorer of the desert of Gobi, received the Elisha Kent Kane medal at the Geographical Society dinner Monday night. It was awarded for distinguished work in exploration.

mosaic were found in the pit, where it once had been placed over the bodies of the courtiers. After the victims and burial offerings had been placed in the gravepit. earth was heaped over them and stamped down and above that servants and livestock were slaughtered a 1 added to the tragic burial k

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DEBATE BOOST IN JAIL TERMS FOR RUM SALE Draft Aimed at Bootleggers Who Pander to Youth Stirs Hot Fight. AMENDMENT DEFEATED Block Attempt to Cut Year Sentence as Proposed to 60 Days. A ‘'bootlegger bill” plunged the Indiana senate into its first heated debate today and mingled facetious references to liquor drinking legislators with condemnation for homebrewing, liquor-drinking parents who instill in their children disrespect for prohibition laws. Senate bill 10, defining the sale or bartering of liquor to a minor as a felony, punishable by imprisonment of from one to two years, precipitated the argument when its author, Senator Carl M. Gray, Democrat, of Petersburg, offered an amendment to include the “gift” of liquor to a minor in the same category as the sale. Senator John L. Niblack of Indianapolis. protested the present penalty, six months’ imprisonment and SSOO fine, is severe enough. Offers Amendment Seconding Niblack’s idea, youthful Senator Thad S. Adams of Danville moved to amend the bill so that liquor sales to a minor would remain a misdemeanor rather than a felony, but proposing to increase the minimum sentence from its present thirty days to sixty days while leaving the maximum at six months. “If we increase the maximum and n\pke a felony of this crime, we will hare a hard time obtaining convictions,” Adams said. Gray retorted hotly that a bootlegger who sold seven boys and girls liquor was found guilty by a southern Indiana jury and let off with a SIOO fine and only 30 days in jail. “There is a marked distinction between selling liquor to, boys or girls and to adults,” Gray said. “A man or woman over 21 knows what he or she is doing w'hen he or she buys liquor, but boys and girls don't know. I'm now offering to the mothers and fathers of this state the opportunity to protect their boys and girls.” Blames Parents Senator Niblack interrupted, “If the mothers and fathers would quit making home brew and drinking in front of their children it might help some.” Gray’s motion to include the gift of liquor to minors in the provisions of the bill carried, and when he withdrew’ his motion to table Adam's proposal, a roll call, the first of the session on any measure, was called. Adams’ amendment was lost with 22 ayes and 28 noes. Senator John S. Alldredge of Anderson. second on the roll call, explained he wa# voting “no” to Adams’ amendment “to save the young life in our colleges ” Senator C. Oliver Holmes of Gary explained he was voting “aye” because “you can not legislate away a parent’s responsibility for his children.” Holmes added that by making his sale to minors a felony, an unreasonable number of life sentences under the habitual criminal act would follow because third conviction of a felony may be punishable by life imprisonment. Senator Alonzo H. Lindley of Kingman gave an unusual explanation for his vote “no.” Goes to Third Reading “Our criminal practice in this state,” he said, “is so utterly absurd that anything more should crystallize sentiment for revamping the whole structure.” Defeat of Adams’ amendment was followed by a motion from Niblack to amend the bill so that parents of- children to whom liquor is sold, who, themselves make home brew, have liquor stocks and drink before their children “shall not sign affidavit for arrest of bootleggers.” On motion of Senator George W. Sims of Terre Haute the motion was tabled. But another followed from Senator Chester A. Perkins of South Bend. It included with the children’s bootlegger, subject to the same penalties, all members of congress, the state legislature, state and government employes “who shall acquire intoxicating liquor in any manner except as prescribed.” This motion, also was tabled, and the bill, carrying Gray’s own amendment to include liquor gifts to children, advanced to third reading, when a renewal of the fight is expected. Nineteen bills saw introduction today in the state senate which adjourned at noon to reconvene Tuesday at 10. APPROVES LEGION PLAN Hines O. Ks. *10.000.000 Program for World War Veterans. l:u United Prt** WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—General Prank T. Hines, director of the United States Veterans' Bureau, today approved in principal the $lO.000,000 program for care of war veterans the American Legion has asked congress to legislate.

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