Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 212, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1929 — Page 3

.TAN. 23,1929.

SWAMP IS SET AFIRE TO BURN OUT GANGSTER Pursuers Close in to End Wild Chase by Train and Auto. Bit United I’renn NYACK, N. Y., Jan, 23.—Sought by a posse of deputy sheriffs, state troopers and national guardsmen, Vincent De Metro, New York gangster, today hid behind trees and rocks in a burning swamp near New York City. In De Metro's wake were left a constable so badly beaten he is not expected to live, a 60-year-old man who put the gangster to flight and a railroad conductor nursing a battered jaw. Train Is Halted De Metro appeared at Orengeburg State hospital here while employes were being paid. Special Officer Walter Edtmonsen, in uniform, approached him. De Metro fled, driving off in a laborer’s auto, with Edtmonsen following in his own ma- , chine. At Tappan, the fugitive leaped onto a train moving out of the station to Weehawken. The officer fired at him, the bullet passing through a window, hurting no one. Conductor Edward Stewart grappled with the gangster, who floored him. The engineer had thought the pistol shot was a torpedo signal to stop, and halted the train. De Metro was caught between Edtmonsen and two officers, Edtmonsen taking the gangster with him in his car. Judge John W. Hill in Piermont held De Metro for assault and attempted robbery. Botes Off Finger Constable Theodore Berwaldt was ordered to take De Metro to New City jail. Just outside of West Nyack, De Metro smashed his handcuffs down on Berwaldt’s head, and turned the automobile into a telephone pole. The car overturned. Berwaldt reached for his revolver, but before he could produce it, De Metro bit a finger off his right hand. Under the wreckage, De Metro found a wrench and beat the constable insensible, fracturing his skull and gouging out his right eye. Sheriff John McNee organized a posse, and ordered the swamp set afire. After flames roared through the heavy grass and cat tails, the posse entered. Jersey troopers guarded boundary line roads. Bear Mountain bridge was closed and the Bear Mountain park police started a search in the preserve. De Metro took the handcuff key I from Berwaldt’s pocket, released! himself and waited until Leon R. I Dunkley of New York City drove by. j De Metro jumped onto the running I board of Dunkley’s auto, struck j Dunkley with a wrench and ordered j him to drive through West Nyack. Passing West Nyack. Dunkley refused to go farther and put up such a fight that De Metro fled into a swamp. SHORT ILLNESS ENDS IN DEATH OF PIONEER Former State Inspector Pies in Indiana Christian Hospital. Cory Mull, 71, of 2507 Ashland avenue, formerly employed by the Indiana inspection bureau, died Tuesday night at the Indiana j Christian hospital, after an illness ! of several weeks. Mr. Mull was born in Indianapolis. He was with the inspection bureau for seventeen years, retiring ten years ago, because of ill health, j Mr. Mull was a past master of j Oriental Lodge. F. and A. M. and 1 member of the Scottish Rite and j Shrine. Mrs. Ruth Mull Poynter. daughter, ! with whom he lived, and a grand- j daughter. Miss Margaret Ruth Poynter. survive. Funeral service will be held at j 10:30 o’clock, Friday morning by the Oriental Lodge at the Ragsdale and Price funeral chapel. Burial will be : in Crown Hill cemetary. LOCAL MAN ACCUSED Faces Charge of Stealing Woman's Purse at Evansville. Bit I iiitai Pros* EVANSVILLE. Ind., Jan. 23. Lou B. Davis. Pathe Exchange Company representative, Indianapolis, was granted a continuance when arraigned in city court here today, charged with stealing a purse containing sls from Miss Alma English. telephone operator, at a local hotel. Davis was arrested Tuesday night just as he was boarding a train. His baggage was searched and according to police, a purse which Miss English identified was found. He was released under SI,OOO bond. EXPLAINS TRAM PLAN i Kiwanis Club Hear City Engineer’s j Proposal for Changing Car Lines, j Kiwanis Club members heard City ! Engineer A. H. Moore explain his plan for rerouting street cars to! avoid downtown congestion at a luncheon today at the Claypool. Moore proposed that lines which j make a downtown loop be connected | with lines in the opposite section of | the city, making only through j routes. The business men of the j city are divided on the plan, it is j said. i

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ARRANGE FOOD SHOWFOR CITY Exhibits to Be Opened by Manufacturers. Indianapolis’ second annual pure food and Household appliance show, to be held at Cadle tabernacle, Feb. 18 to 23, will give manufacturers and distributors an opportunity to meet the public and display their wares in a most advantageous manner, says Edward Vaugh Richardson, manager. The show is being held this year under the auspices of the Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association of Marion County, Inc. The show’ is open to producers of foods and manufacturers and distributors of household appliances. Choice space is now available and numerous salesmen are in the field with floor pians of the bogth arrangement. The management will distribute tickets to exhibitors in proportion to the amount of space bought. The tickets will be given out by the exhibitors. Vaudeville acts, music, a healthy baby contest, a cooking school and souvenirs will be daily features. The show will be open daily from 1 to 11 p. m. excepting Monday. PRESS CENSORSHIP IS CHARGED TO HOOVER Senator Avers Blue Pencil Used on Latin Trip’s Dispatches. Bit-United Perns WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Charges that President-Elect Hoover maintained a press censorship aboard battleships while on his South American tour, were made in the Senate yesterday by Senator Pat Harrison (Dem.. Miss.) He said the censorship was maintained through George Barr Baker, one of Hoover’s “secretaries.” It was the policy of the Hoover staff to read all newspaper dispatches before allowing them to be sent over the ship’s radio. A navy regulation requires the commanding officer to inspect all messages filed on the ship’s radio.

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BUDGETS CLOD LAWMAKING IN CONGRESS MILL Senator McKellar Argues Plan to Relieve Mellon of Tax Refunds. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Appropriation bills continued to clog the legislative machinery of congress today. The senate debated the first deficiency appropriation bill and the house continued consideration of the District of Columbia measure. Senator McKellar (Dem., Tenn.) occupied most of the senate’s time for a plea for adoption of his amendment to transfer from the treasury department to the board of tax appeals the power to make tax refunds exceeding SIO,OOO. Secretary of Treasury Mellon opposed the measure. Cruiser Bill Next The McKellar amendment may be subpected to a point of order and ruled out before it can come to a vote. It is the last important amendment to the deficiency bill : and once disposed of the measure is expected to pass without further delay. It contains an amendment toy Senator Harris, (Dem., Ga.) increasing the appropriation for prohibition enforcement by $24,000,000. The cruiser construction bill will become the next order of business. Prolonged debate and perhaps a filibuster is expected on this measure, the most controversial of all the business still pending before congress. Probe Patronage Sale The senate interstate commerce committee took testimony from the last witness scheduled to appear at its hearings on the Watson coal bill and will start consideraiton of the measure in executive session some time this week. Chairman Brookhart of the senate postoffice sub-committee investigating alleged sale of federal patronage In the announced the inquiry will be* extended to Texas, Florida and Arkansas late this month. The house ways and means committee continued tariff hearings.

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Rejuvenation Judge Wetter Lops 16 Years Off Man’s Life; Sends Him to Farm.

Rejuvenation while you wait. With a few tw’ists of his tongue and a little mathematics. Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter today lopped sixteen years from the age of Ben Kampus, w’ho gives his address as "the fairground.” Kampus was before Wetter as a vagrant. He told the judge he was 81, but added he was born in 1864. Judge Wetter did some hasty figuring and informed Kampus his mathematics was faulty, that he was only 65. “Thanks very much, yer honor. I guess I never knew how r old I was. I ahvays thought I was 81.” Wetter fined Kampus SSO and costs on the vag-ancy charge and he was taken to the Indiana state farm to serve out the fine. By the time he’s released spring will be here and his residence at the state fairground will be more pleasant. /

MINES NEED SALES Orders for Coal, Not Laws, Stressed by Bureau Head. The state department of mines and mining, w’hich was active in support of mine measures in the 1927 general assembly, has no legislative program this session, Albert C. Dally, chief mine inspector, said today. “What the miners and mine operators need right now’,” he said, “is not legislation, but orders for ten or twelve million tons of coal.” Os the 208 coal mines in Indiana only one-third are operating, and these only a couple of days each week, Daily said. “Indiana mines are in shape to produce a grade of coal to compete with any produced in the United States,” Dally said. “But 1928 production in the state dropped to 11,250,707 tons, the lowest figure since 1911, when 9,571,289 tons were mined. The peak year for Indiana was 1918 when 28,795,682 tons were mined.” Tw’o years ago the department of mines and mining was interested in the enactment of two bills, one which required the rockdusting of gaseous mines and the other optional use of the open-flame lamp.

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32 PRISONERS ASK CLEMENCY Governor’s Pardon Refusals Doesn’t Stop Them. . Governor Harry G. Leslie's “hardboiled” refusals to grant pardons or paroles to burglars and bandits has not deterred a new’ crop of criminals from seeking release from Indiana state prison at the Jan. 31 meeting of prison trustees, sitting at a pardon board. Leslie canceled executive clemency for several bandits extended by Governor Ed Jackson in the closing days of his administration. The docket for the January pardon meeting shows thirty-two new’ petitions for clemency to be considered. Os these, ten are from robbers, five from burglars and one from an auto bandit. Two murderers seek release for the first time. Marion county prisoners seeking release: Frank Duffy Jr., robbery; Ted Horn, robbery; Jefferson Elrod, robbery; Noble Claycomb, vehicle taking and robbery; Roy White, robbery. * INJURED BY TROLLEY Confused in a maze of traffic at Illinois and Washington streets Tuesday afternoon, Miss Beulah Pittman, 17, of 1844 West Maryland street, rushed from the rear of one passing street car into the path of another and suffered severe cuts and bruises and two broken ribs. Miss Lillie Ervin. 31, of 205 South Noble street, stepped from behind a parked car near Liberty and Market streets, late Tuesday afternoon, and was knocked down by an auto. Her injures were minor. Albert Trosky. 4965 West Thirteenth street, the driver, was not held.

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KILL MARINE MANAGUA. Nicaragua. Jan. 23. Private Everett A. Rector of the United States marines, was killed in action against outlaws in the northeastern part of Yali, marine headquarters announced tonight. Rector was killed Monday. Set City Manager Hearing Indiana supreme court has set Jan. 30 for hearing oral arguments on a number of suits contesting thfe constitutionality of the city manager law originating in Evansville, Michigan City and New Albany.

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