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HOBBS BANK AGAIN LOOTED BY ROBBERS Holdup Is Second in Week; Unmasked Pair Get 31.500, Escape. SHOOT INTO CEILING 'Came Back to Get What We Left,’ One Shouts as They Enter. Two unmasked bandits, one behoved to have been in the trio who April 5 robbed the Farmers State frank of Hobbs, Ind., near Tipton, Jnd., and took $1,500, this morning rame back to the back. While they fired their revolvers at the bank ceiling, one shouted: “We left part of it and we came Jwk to get it.” The bandits made two employes Pnd a customer lie down in the back loom, took approximately $1,500 and plied south in anew blue green Ford #oupe. Police Watch Roads Indianapolis police and sheriff Squads spread fanwise north of the City in the usual effort to stop the bandits if they came this way. "Buck Hartman, a customer, was 5n the bank with H. E. Castor, assistant cashier, and me when the bandits came this morning,” said Raymond Heflin, bookkeeper. “It was about 8:40. “Each man fired once toward the celling as* they came in and then one of them yelled about their having come back to get the rest of the money. I think they were the same bandits who robbed us last week, but I couldn't be certain about it. “They covered us with their revolvers and took all the money they could find in the vault and on the counter. Then they took us to the back room, made us lie down on the floor and warned us: “ ‘You stay there for five minutes.’ Alarm Is Given “We kept quiet until we knew they had gone out the front door and then we got up and gave the alarm.” Heflin said the bandits were well dressed in dark blue suits and light shirts. They were not wearing topcoats. At the very time the alarm of the n obery was being spread today Everett Walker, arrested in Logansport a week ago Monday, was pleading guilty in circuit court at Tipton. Ind., to participation in the Aptil 5 bandit job at Hobbs. Judge C. W. Mount sentenced him to life imprisonment and Sheriff Jesse Devauit left at once for Michigan City with him. Meanwhile. Briney Stenitt, arrested with Walker, asked for a change .of judge and Judge Brenton A. Deiol of Frankfort was selected. He will be tried later. Sheriff Devault said he believed tme of the two men in the robbery today was the third man in the Jlobbs robbery of April 5.

FIRST NON-STOP HOP IS MADE TO ALASKA 650-Mile Dash Marie Freni Seattle in Fight rjuiirs. F’l United, i'rr_„ JUNEAU. Alaska, April 16.—The ftrst nonstop airplane flight here from the United States was completed today, when Ansel Eckman, Seattle aviator, arrived with two passenger*, Robert E. Ellis and Jack Hallerton. The trio m. de the 650-mile flight from Seattle in approximately eight hours. They used a Lockheed Vega monoplane, p oneering a contemplated passenger route between the XJmted States and this territory. GOLF COURSES TO OPEN Mayor, Commissioners to Start Season Saturday. City parks and golf courses will be opened formally Saturday if weather conditions are favorable. John E. Milnor. park president, announced today. The park commissioners and Mayor L. Ert Slack will play golf Rt one or more of the public courses as an official opener. Employes have been busy several weeks placing the courses and parks in condition for summer. Playground programs will start about June 15. according to Recreation Direct Jesse P. McClure. FILM STAR RELEASED Alma Rubens Leaves State Narcotic Farm With Mother. 2fy United Prtss POMONA. Cal.. April 16.—The (sheriff's office hen reported today that Alma Rubens, screen star, has teen released from tire state narcotic farm at Spadra where she had peen under treatment. Alma was said to have left the institution in the custody of her toother, Mrs. Theresa Rubens. Dies’ Picking Flowers for Mother B < Unit nr Hr •.. KNOXVILLE. Tenn., April 16.His back broken in a 100-foot fall from a precipice while picking spring flowers for his widowed mother, Lee Clift, 14, died in a hospital here today. _

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Manslaughter Is Charged and Bail Set at $10,000; Suspect Denies He Hit Cleveland Man. Bji l’vitr/1 Pn NEW YORK. April 16.—Samuel E. Bell, Baltimore oil operator, was held in SIO,OOO bail today on a charge of manslaughter in connection with the death of Arthur Morgan Smith, wealthy Cleveland business man. Smith died Friday after he had attended a fashionable party at the home of Mrs. Rboert W. Schuette on Park avenue. Witnesses testified that Smith drank considerably at the party and that he descended in the elevator with Bell and Mrs. Robert L. Brown, a society leader of Lexington, Ky. Outside the hotel. Smith attempted to enter the taxicab of Mrs. Brow r n and Bell, and the latter finally shoved him aside. Smith was arrested for drunkenness, but the following day was released because he was ill. He died a few hours later. An examination showed he had a fractured skull and a taxicab driver said that when Bell shoved him, Smith fell against the curbing. Yesterday Bell sobbed the story of the party and the events that followed, expressing over and over the fear that Smith’s death would ruin his own career as an oil producer. Just Pushed Hini “He was drunk,” Bell said. “I just pushed him away. The next day I heard he was dead. I would die if I could bring him back. “Mrs. Brown and I had dinner together at the Plaza hotel and she decided that she wanted to go on to Mrs. Schuette's. When we arrived, Mr. Smith, Mrs. Schuette, and her other guests just had finished dinner. Everybody seemed to be feeling jolly.” Bell admitted taking several drinks and said Smith was intoxicated before the party broke up. Smith followed Mrs. Brown and himself to the street after the party, Bell said, and insisted on escorting Mrs. Brown to her hotel. “He caught me by the collar as I started to enter the cab,” Bell declared. “He pulled me back and said he was going to take Mrs. Brown home. I started to get into the cab and I pushed him to one side. Praises Mrs. Brown ‘‘He grabed me again and I pushed him away. This time he seemed to stumble, but I did not see him fall. In shoving him. I touched only his shoulders. I am positive I did not hit him.” Bell denied having any personal interest in Mrs. Brown, other than that of an acquaintance of long Standing. “She is a woman of the highest integrity and one of the most wonderful friends I ever had,” he said. "My life will be ruined by all this trouble and I don’t know what to do about it.’’ At the office of District Attorney Joab Banton it was said that Mrs. Brown told her story frankly, saying she did not see Bell strike Smith. She said she was astonished to learn of the Cleveland man’s death.

DRY LAW FIGHT ON Three Modification Bills Pending in House. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 16.—Three important prohibition bills, designed to modify the dry law, were pending in the house today. Rep. Sabath iDem., 111.) introduced a bill which would prohibit dry agents from firing on homes and molesting small violators. Citing the killing of Mrs. Lillian De King of Aurora. 111., in his measure, Sabath scathingly denounced the dry law. Representative La Guardia (Rep., N. Y.) introduced a bill which would legalize 2.75 per cent beer and permit the same alcoholic content for fermented fruit juices. A second resolution by La Guardia virtually would repeal several provisions of the prohibition law and allow states to fix the alcoholic content of beverages. WSAI PLEA GRANTED Cincinnati Radio Station Is Given Full Time Right. B/l United Press WASHINGTON. April 16.—The federal radio commission today granted Station WSAI owned by the Crosley Radio Corporation. Mason. 0.. full time on the 1330 kilocycle channel with 500 watts power. The assignment was made tentative .y until May 1. on condition the station could use the channel “without creating intolerable interference.” SYBEL CARMEN DEAD Noted New York Actress Expires in Paris. Bn United Press HOLLYWOOD. Cal., April 16. Sybel Carmen, noted New York stage actress, died oL heart failure in Paris last night, a cable to her husband, Maurice Revnes, screen producer, said today. __

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Arthur M. Smith, wealthy Clevelander, is dead and Samuel E. Bell, rich oil operator, is held by New York police, charged with striking Smith and fracturing his skull during an argument over escorting a woman home in New York City.

BABE RUTH TO Bride Will Be Former Star of Follies. l:u United Pres* NEW YORK, April 16.—Babe Ruth authorized Christy Walsh today to announce for him that an “announcement as to plans for my immediate future” will be made tomorrow at 10 a. m., and that his wedding to Mrs. Clair Hodgson, former Follies girl, will not take place today. The home run king visited Mrs. Hodgson today at her apartment. Reporters and cameramen besieged the place, seeking word as to when the Babe expects to be married. In desperation. Babe called up Walsh and authorized the statement in the hope of ridding himself of the inquisitive press men. Clerks in the license bureau were closing their ledgers yesterday afternoon when Ruth entered with a demure blonde, who hardly reached to his shoulders, clinging to his arm. “We want a license,” Ruth said to City Clerk Michael Cruise. After they had filled out the blank and handed it back, it showed that the future Mrs. Ruth was 28 years old, mother of a daughter by her first marriage. Frank Hodgson, her husband, died in 1924. Every one knew immediately, of course, that she was the former Clara Merritt, daughter of an Athens (Ga.) lawyer and one of the more familiar figures in the Ziegfeld Follies of days gone by. Her face was on billboards all over the country during the World war, when she posed for Liberty loan posters. PATROL BOAT CHARGED WITH RECKLESS FIRING Say Bullets From Rum Chaser Sprayed Miami Waterfront. Bn United Press FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., April 16. —The coast guard investigation into the alleged reckless firing along the Miami waterfront by a picket boat Sunday entered its second day with Boatswain's Mate James R. Ingraham in the role of defendant. Witnesses told how the picket sprayed the Miami waterfront with bullets as it dashed in pursuit of a liquor boat. Buildings were pierced by the slugs and several witnesses told of bullets imbedding themselves in the walls of their rooms. FETE FISTIC DEACON Hammond Church Members Greet Fighter Who Served Term. liu United Press HAMMOND, Ind.. April 16. Members of his congregation tendered an elaborate reception and banquet to Charles Thorpe deacon of the Christian church rs Hammond. when he returned from serving ninety days on the state penal Pendleton. Thorpe was sentenced after being found guilty of assault and battery on one of the church members whom he beat up last July. The fight grew out of a factional row which had split the congregation into two groups.

TIMES AND JUNIOR LEAGUE OFFER DANCE PRIZE

'T'HE TIMES and the Junior League will give girl dancers of Indianapolis the opportunity of a lifetime in the next two weeks. A chance to exhibit their skill before some of the best judges of dancing in this section of the country; another chance at a scholarship with one of Indiana’s foremost dancing teachers, and a

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INDIANS READY 1 AND FIT FOR | OPENING FRAY - . . . Huge Crowd Expected to Cheer Betzel’s Men in Tilt With Brewers, PARADE STARTS IT OFF Burwell Slated to Labor on Mound Against Rosy Ryan.

Opening Day Lineups BREWERS Badgro, cf Strohm, 3b Miller, 2b Pick, ss Griffin, rl McMencmy, c Luce, If Ryan, p Hauser, lb INDIANS Warstler, ss Connolly, 2b Matthews, cf Metz, 3b Layne, If Sprint, c Barnhart, rs Burwell. p Monahan, lb Umpires—McGrew, Rue and Snyder,

BY EDDIE ASH Times Sports Editor Everything counts, beginning today, and the diamond pastimers “do or they don’t” starting at 3 o'clock this afternoon and continuing until near sundown on Sept. 29. The wheels of the American Association turn once more, in fact, for the twenty-eighth season, and the opening day celebration in Indianapolis no doubt will surpass anything of its kind in the league. The Hoosier capital sticks to the old-fashioned baseball ways in giving its team a rousing send-off, and whereas some cities have dispensed with parades, this town goes right ahead and makes ’em bigger and better. Battle lines for this afternoon as indicated by the rival managers, were to see Bill Burwell and Rosy Ryan in the key position on the field, each being a right-handed pitcher of experience and cunning and accustomed to operating before big crowds and much noise. Parade Starts It Off Captain Harry parade marshal, started the street event moving at 1:30. Formation was at North and Meridian streets and vicinity, and the line of march south on Meridian, around Monument Circle, and then west on Washington street to the ball park. The parade was in five sections, with a band in each division. Judges viewed the parade at Missouri and Washington streets and were to determine prize winners for the following trophies: Em-Roe cup—For the largest delegation of an organization in the parade. Koenig and Friedrichs trophy— For the most novel float. Alfred Rowe trophy—for the most beautiful fler i. Judges were Senator Arthur R. Robinson, Governor Harry G. Leslie, Mayor L .Ert Slack, and Paul Q. Richey, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Indians Get Drill Manager Betzel of the Indianapolis A. A. champions sent his athletes through a last practice Monday, consisting of batting drill chiefly, and the Indians were followed on the field by Jack Lelivelt’s Milwaukee boys. The infield was left untouched to preserve it for today’s opener. Washington park gates opened at noon and if the weather moderated the club officials believed the Tribe champions would be greeted by a huge assemblage of rooters. There was a heavy advance sale of tickets and there were many good unreserved seats left for the “first come.” About 300 fans were in line when the gates opened.

CONSIDER CITY MEN Carter and Barnard May Get Washington Posts. B/i Times Special WASHINGTON, April 16.—Two Indianapolis attorneys are receiving serious consideration by President Hoover and Attorney-General James Mitchell for positions in the department of justice. They are Solon J. Carter, former judge, and George M. Barr.z'c.', formerly a member of the public service commission. Carter was recommended by William J. Donovan, former assistant attorney-general, for that position. It is second only in importance to the position of attorney-general. Barnard is being considered for one of the other assistant attorneygeneralships.

third chance, to appear in the Junior League Follies at the Murat May 2. 3 and 4, all this is within their reach. Contestants need not be members of the league. The Times-Junior League dancing scholarship contest will be held in the Lincoln room of the Lincoln hotel at 7:30, Tuesday

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MISS FLORENCE KILLILEA, 27, the only woman owner and operator of a professional baseball team, in Indianapolis today with her athletes, the Milwaukee Brewers, is in the business to stay because she likes it and makes money out of it. This was her declaration today in her suite in the Severin as she awaited the opening game of the American Association season between her boys and the Indians. “Love of the game and good business form the dual reasons for my continuing in active control of the club. They say 111 sell at the end of this season—but they’re wrong,” she declared as she fingered a bracelet.

“Jack (Jack Lelivelt, manager of the club) tends to the baseball end of the business. Louis Nahin, business manager, handles the business part. “I leave it in their hands and it a matter of player policy, expenditures for new players, and other things come up we three have a conference and decide what is best.” In explaining her “triumvirate control” of the club Miss Killilea said: “I trust Jack’s judgment about ball players. No woman can know a ball player as well as a man —for they don’t play the game. I might have my ideas when a pitcher is cracking, but Jack would know be".er than I.” She Loves Sports Her schooling in journalism at the University of Wisconsin prior to her father’s death, abetted by her father’s occupation, has given Miss Killilea her keen love for sports. “Why I’ve even covered a prizefight while attending journalistic school,” she said. But her sudden lift into fame through her ownership of the club has made her wary of interviewers. “I had one ask me once if I’d marry a ball player. I said I would not say ‘yes’ and wouldn’t say ‘no’ and they printed it. It would have been better had I said either ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ So you see I’m hard to manage now 7 .” Increase In feminine interest in baseball has been noticeable, Miss Killilea said. Talked at Bridge “At bridge parties they ask me about such and such a player and what I think of So-and-So. The radio has done that for women. They’ve tuned in on the games with the result that they’ve become familiar with baseball terms. “No, the fact that I’m the head of the Milwaukee club won't bring additional ladies’ days this year. I have several plans to carry out—one was that of my father’s. He proposed to give season passes to the best football team in the Milwaukee schools during the season. As it is I’m going to be conservative this year—and just because they expect so many innovations from me.” Miss Killilea said she planned to visit each city of the American Association circuit during the season. She will return to Milwaukee following the present series and join the team during its series at Toledo. She celebrated her twenty-seventh birthday this week. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 10 a. m— 46 7 a. m 38 II a. m 47 Ba. in.... 41 12 (noon).. 48 9a. m.... 42 Ip. m 50

night. April 30, when all competitors will appear before five judges, yet to be chosen. The winner will receive a scholarship entitling her to two terms of lessons with Miss Louise Powell, widely known throughout the state for her many successful presentations in Indianapolis and other Indiana theaters. She will be given her choice of courses in

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CHIEF ORDERS WARONPOOLS Stop Baseball Gambling, Worley Directs. Simultaneous with the cry, “Play ball!” at Washington park, Police Chief Claude M. Worley today declared war on baseball pools. An hour after the pronouncement, Sergeant Frank Riley arrested Ed Lord, 65, proprietor of a cigar store at 519 North Illinois street on a charge of keeping a gambling device. Several cards of baseball pool tickets were found in the place, police said. “With the opening of the baseball season, the operation of baseball pools will start on a large scale,” Worley told lieutenants and sergeants assembled in headquarters. “I want every man in the department to be on the alert and arrest all violators. Poolrooms, drug stores, dry beer joints and cigar stores are places where pools most generally are sold. They must be given your attention continuously from now on. I shall hold each lieutenant and sergeant, as well as district men, responsible for violations in their respective districts.” Worleyalso told officers, “Any time I have to send a special squad out from headquarters to raid baseball pool joints the officers and man on that beat will be called before the board of safety to explain.” GRAPE PROBE WELCOME California Senators Declare Industry Is Within Laws. Bn United Press WASHINGTON April 16.—California’s two seha ors will welcome an investigation of that state's grape industry by Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran, they said today. Both Senator Hiram Johnson and Senator Samuel M. Shortridge predicted an investigation of the grape industry of California would show it is not in violation of the prohibition laws. Truck Sounds Fire Alarm PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 16.The driver of a truck apparently had mo idea he was responsible for speeding fire engines today. His truck side-swiped a fire alarm box and juggled it sufficiently to sound an alarm.

tap, acrobatic or ballet dancing. Besides this tempting prize, she will appear in a feature number of the Follies as a reward for her skill. Mrs. Robert C. Winslow is chairman of the committee in charge of the scholarship competition. Watch The Times Wednesday for further details of this conmk

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HOOVER FARM AID PROGRAM GIVEN NATION Comprehensive Plan of Relief Is Outlined in First Message Sent to Congress, in Special Session. LIMITED TARIFF CHANGE ADVOCATED Farm Bloc Gets Little Satisfaction Out of Utterances; Brookhart and Capper Call It ‘lnconsistent.’ Text of Hoover’s message on Page 1, Section Two. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 16.—President Hoover’s first congressional message was read by clerks in the senate and house today, causing considerable stir, especially among mid-western farm senators who supported him in the last presidential campaign. The message set forth the President’s views about farm relief and tariff revision. Couched in general terms only, it advocated creation of a federal farm board to provide credit facilities for agricultural marketing and to control “surpluses created by climatic variations or by harvest congestion.” It strongly opposed the fee or tax system of handling surpluses and made no metnion of the debenture plan upon which the senate agriculture committee is now working.

The message suggested tariff revision should be held to agriculture schedules and to rates affecting industries really suffering from insufficient tariff protection. It strongly cautioned against general revision. Other recommendations of the chief executive were: Reorganization and revitalization of the federal tariff commission, to bring about quicker decisions. Elimination of the administrative red tape in customs regulations under the existing tariff law. Repeal of the national origins immigration formula. Reapportionment of the house of representatives. Provision for the decennial census in 1930. Will Redeem Pledges “I have called this special session of congress to redeem two pledges given in the last election—farm relief and limited changes in the tariff,” was Hoover’s opening sentence. The 2,000-word message was one of the briefest ever sent to congress from the White House. The farmers’ seven-year battle cry, “equality for agriculture,” was answered by the President’s advocacy of a federal farm board “of strength and importance equal to that of those which we have created for transportation and banking.” In a word, the President’s program calls for “reorganization of the marketing system on sounder and more stable and more economic lines.” In detail, it conforms closely to the bill approved by the house agricultural committee. In general scope and practical aims, it is the McNary-Haugen bill of the last two sessions minus the equalization fee.

Emphatic on “Don'ts” Hoover was even more emphatic in what the bill should not contain than in what It should. “Certain vital principals must be adhered to that we may not undermine the freedom of our farmers and of our people as a whole by bureaucratic and governmental domination and interference,” he warned. “We must not undermine initiative. There should be no fee nor tax imposed upon the farmer. No governmental agency should engage in buying and selling and price fixing of products, for such courses can lead only to bureaucracy and domination. “Government funds should not be loaned, or facilities duplicated, where other services of credit and facilities are available at reasonable rates. “No activities should be set in motion that will result in increasing the surplus production, as such will defeat any plans of relief.

Marketing Plans Praised The plan should be worked out, he added, through “farmer-owned and farmer-controlled agencies.” “The most progressive movement in all agriculture has been the upbuilding of the farmer’s own marketing organizations, which now embrace nearly 2,000,000 farmers in membership and annually distribute nearly $2,500,000,000 worth of farm products. “To strengthen and not undermine them, all proposals for government assistance should originate with such organizations and be the result of their application." Hoover’s recommendations for sweeping changes in the administration of the tariff laws was a surprise to political observers. Likewise, his admonition against general tariff tinkering was more vigorous than had been anticipated generally. Reading of the message in the senate required about twenty minutes and then an executive session

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ver's nominations were referred to committee. Two nominations, former Vice-President Dawes to be ambassador to England, and Joseph I. Dixon to be assistant secretary of interior, were confirmed speedily. Resolutions of regret at the death of members of both houses then were adopted and the senate adjourned until noon Thursday. The President's message was received with scattering applause in the house. Members of both parties, however, vigorously clapped when the clerk read the Hoover statement that the sess*on should be confined largely to tariff revision and farm relief. The farm bloc, which generally has supported the President, appeared to be surprised that the message did not go further in the matter of farm relief. Farm senators sat with solemn faces while the message was read in the senate and then issued public comments indicating their mild dissatisfaction. Brookhart Is Displeased The women’s gallery of the senate was crowded with D. A. R. representatives, but the other galleries were only sparsely occupied. The attitude of the farm bloc was expressed by Senators Smith W. Brookhart, Republican, lowa, who campaigned throughout the west for the president last fall and Capper, Republican, Kansas, a Hoover supporter and nominal head of the bloc. Brookhart said the message was inconsistent in certain particulars and failed to live up to his expectations. Capper said it was all right “as far as it goes.” Chairman McNary of the Senate agriculture committee pointed out the document did not mention the debenture plan, which his committee is planning to tack on the Hoover bill unless it receives more discouragement from the department of agriculture than was contained in the President’s message. Democrats are Caustic Generally the Republican leaders who usually are eager to commend presidential speeches were reluctant to comment. The Democrats and Smith supporters among the Republicans were caustic in their comments. The senate agriculture committee will report a farm bill tomorrow, expecting to bring it up for consideration on the floor of the senate next Monday, McNary said after the reading of the special message. McNary did not indicate the nature of the bill to be reported.

SEWER BID REJECTED Firm’s Estimate on Fall Creek Job Is $45,800. The board of sanitary commissioners today rejected the bid of the Krenn-Dato Construction Company of Chicago on the Fall creek interceptor sewer between Pennsylvania and Ruckle streets. Their bid of $45,800 was higher than the engineer’s estimate of $30,000. RACKETEERS SENTENCED Candy “Ring" Smashed as Sixteen Go to Jail. By United Press CHICAGO, April 16.—Prison sentences ranging from nine to three months and fines of from $3,000 to SSOO were imposed upon sixteen Chicago candy racketeers today by United States District Judge Walter C. Lindley. The defendants, former members of the Chicago Candy Jobbers Association, were convicted last week on charges of violating the Sherman anti-trust act in a prosecution conducted by Mary G. Connor, the former New England girl, who became an anti-trust expert in the at-latow-geiwal's department