Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1929 — Page 11

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CORN PLOWING DELAYS TRIAL OF VAN HOOK sixty*Two Brazil Veniremen Questioned. Eleven Are Accepted. OPINIONS ARE FORMED Alleged 'Deputy’ Killer of Attorney Nervous as Case Drags. RV BEN STERN Times Staff Correspondent BRAZIL, June 11.—" Speedy justice." for which John Van Hook, "gun-toting. lead-slinging' Terre Haute deputy constable, pleaded when he asked for a change of venue from Vigo county for the slaying of Austin Sweet. Terre Haute attorney, April 11. was lamentably lazy today. Sixty-two Clay county farmers frankly declared that they were not interested in justice and were ready to show’ cause as to why they should not sit on th* jury to try the Van trial. In endless refrain each prospec-ti'-e juror declared that his mind "•as already made up as to the guilt ip the case. They showed absolutely no interest in the question of Defense Counsel Bernard Craig of Brazil as to whether they believed “a. man was innocent until proven guilty,” but on the other hand were not loth to declare in the Clay county courthouse corridors that "this is corn plowing time.” Defense Approves Eleven Each prospective juror professed -launch faith in w hat he read in the papers as to the guilt in the case, but in spite of this the defense has selected eleven jurors, who. however, must undergo the scrutiny of the prosecution. Court, was dismissed Monday afternoon at. 4 o’clock when Sheriff Thomas E. Tiffee ran out of prospective veniremen. He appeared today, however, with a fresh stock of twenty-five men, none of whom cared to fulfill their duties as citizens and do jury service while corn plowing is waiting. The only living being that evinced any interest or desire to stay in court is Foxy, the dog of uncertain pedigree belonging to Miss Cynthia Burk, court reporter. Foxy sleeps comfortably in tront of Judge Thomas Hawkins' bench and need not listen to the monotonous challenging of the jurors. And while each member of the venire attempts to evade jury duty by declaring his mind is made up as to Van Hook's guilt, the little deputy constable nervously chews his gum and eyes his peers with apparent disfavor. Second Murder Trial Trial for first degree murder is no new experience for Van Hook. Eighteen years ago he was on trial for the shooting of Fred Martin at a. miners' union meeting in Shelburn.

At that tin*, as he is prepared to do now. Van Hook pleaded self ! defense and after two days delibera- j tion the jury’ acquitted. Everything has been prepared for the self-defense plea. The state, on the other hand will; fell of the enmity of five years : which existed between Van Hook and the dead attorney. The prosecution will declared that 1 this enmity began in the 1925 elec- j tion when Van Hook circulated j allegedly false reports concerning | Sweet and two of his friends, who were candidates in the election. They will tell of open clashes between the two when Sweet appeared as an attornev in justice of the j peace courts and of the verbal tilts that occurred. And then the state will use its greatest weapon— That no such position of deputy constable is recognized under the Indiana statutes and that Van Hook was a trespasser when he appeared in Sweet's office accompanied by two game wardens. Armand Hill and ieland Randall, with a warrant for the arrest of Sweet, bis son. and Franklin Taylor, a Negro janitor, for fishing without a license. Sweet, according to the state's witnesses, refused to permit Van Hook to serve the warrant, but declared that, he was willing for the wardens to do so. After an exchange of unsavory phrases. Van Hook left the room. He was follow ed into the corridor by Sweet, who' went, into a lengthy description as to Van Hook s alleged ancestry. Blows Foll>w Epithets Blows followed the epithets and Van Hook attempted to strike Sweet with a mace. In the scuffle the mace was lost and Van Hook shot Sweet in the forehead, the bullet coming out of the top of the attorney's head. Sweet died a few minutes later in the hospital. The prosecution will attempt to show that the 1925 statutes did not give constables the power of appointing deputies, because these deputies abused the power of their badges by browbeating debtors of installment- companies, arresting alleged petters and haling motorists in the justice of peace courts on trumped-up charges. 'Tliat Van Hook had no official status aid had deliberately shot down Swiet." The defense, on the other hand, is asking every prospective juror as to whether he believes in "law enforcement.” hope to show by this that in serving the warrant Van Hook was enforcing the law and was lulled while performing a public fluty. I

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‘WAITERS’ IN BLUE! But Past Is Golden to the G.A.R.

BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Correspondent Tyj-ARTINSVILLE. Ind.. June 11.— iVJL in Martinsville they have a , 10-eent store on one of the “main j drags.” The store has a window 1 with funny little lead soldiers in it. The soldiers look bent, fired of ! standing there and just being watched. •Just a "square away from the w indow, on the courthouse law n. are i men in gold hatcords dulled by much fingering. They arc men I gentled by age. They look bent. | too—like bent blue suits —as they | sit on the benches and puff pipes and hit pebbles with tobacco quids. They seem tired, too. and mostly | use canes when they walk—just like j the little lead soldiers. They are the G. A. R. of Indiana celebrating their gulden anniversary encampment in Martinsville. a a a THERE -you are. you little rascal.” and "Hev! Comrade, where are you going?” is the banter —sometimes boyish—that floats from bench to bench, blue suit to blue suit, gold cord to gold cord. BOY. 17, FACES MURDER TRIAL Alleged “Orchard Killer*' Case Opens Wednesday. Cm Tim' Special GFEENSBURG, Ind.. June 11.— Herschell Curry. 17. charged with first degree murder in connection with the slaying of Hubert S. Taylor. his employer, in the latter’s orchard on March 5. will go on trial for his life here Wednesday. Judge John W. Craig of the Decatur circuit, court has ordered a, special venire of twenty-five drawn. The suit was venued here from the Bartholomew circuit court. Young Curry confessed the slaying of Taylor by shooting and clubbing him with a shotgun while the latter was working in the orchard. At a grand jury investigation from which grew the first degree indictment. he entered a plea, of not \ guilty. The trial was set for the May term : of court, but was postponed when attorneys for the youth refused to i take the case because of financial arrangements.

20.000 VISIT KROGER FIRM’S WONDER PANTRY New Baking Plant Opened to Public: Gifts Presented. The Kroger Grocery and Baking Company opened its mammoth million-dollar warehouse, bakery and dairy building to the public Sunday. It was estimated that more than 20.000 people were shown through the building located at. 1011 East St, Clair street. The plant was officially opened by Ed Hunter, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. E. J. Overberg. general manager, acted as hostto the throngs who attended. Every pe-son who visited the model "Wonder Pantry'’ was presented with a loaf of bread and a carton of cottage cheese. FIGHT GLADDEN BONG Await Court Action; County Superintendent Sworn In. Court, action to straighten the tangle over the surety bond of Fred T. Gladden, recently elected county school superintendent, was predicted today. Gladden submitted a $5,000 bond pprovided by Charles Flowers. 420 Continentaal Bank building, which county commissioners have refused to recognize. Commissioners said that if the bond was to be effective. it would be necessary for Gladden to pay the $46 premium. Under the law the county pays the bond premiums, but commissioners refused to do so because they were not apprised of the bond company selection. Gladden was sworn in Monday afternoon by County Auditor Harry Dunn, but the premium has not been paid. Gladden takes office Aug. 16. Lawrence Orr, chief of the state board of accounts, has ruled the bond satisfactory.

MOTORCYCLE OFFICER DIES FROM INJURIES Accident Believed Cause of Passing of John T. O'Brien. John T. O'Brien, 23. of 3106 Ruckle street, a motorcycle policeman. died Monday at Methodist hospital. It is believed complications from injuries incurred last summer, when his motorcycle collided with an automobile on North Delaware street, caused death. O'Brien was born in England and came to this country with his parents when a child. He lived with them in this city for twenty vears, and in 1927 joined the police department, of which his father is a member. He attended SS. Peter and Paul cathedral. Surviving are his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Martin O'Brien, two sisters. Misses Helen and Sarah O'Brien, and two brothers. William and Martin Jr. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. State Podiatrists Meet. E' rimes Special FT. WAYNE. Ind.. June 11— Approximately 100 podiatrists from Indiana cities are attending the three-dav session of the Indiana Association of Podiatrists here, which will dose today.

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near the registration tent in the lea of the 1857 courthouse with its ominous Civil war mortar for the official encampment "greeter." But the quips seem carried on a taut wire as more somber tones declaim. "there was 1,700 of us in the state at the start of 1928 and now there’s but 1.300. What’ll the end of this year bring?” Near a tree a few Boy Scouts have forgotten their duties as guides in the untoward sight of seeing a Negro “a-wearin’ ” the blue. "My massuh was a Know Nothing, then the Whigs took him. then the Democrats, theh the Republicans. and finally the ground got him.” jokes John G. Rowlett, Negro, 93. of 803 Talbott street, Indianapolis, who was a freed slave at the time of the Civil war. "Yassuh, ah served at Nashville—got my hair parted three times there—ah, by bullets youngstah.” a a a HUNDFED-dollar bills for 5 cents. That’s right, son. I said a hundred-dollar confederate bill for \ 5 cents,” and A. E. Ponsell. 83, of j Richmond, Ind., salesman of rings and “reb” money at the last fifty encampments, tried to calm an awestruck tow-n urchin who fingers a thin paper bill. "Geewillukins, ’at can’t be. A hundred dollars for a. nickel,” replies Young Overalls. ’ They ain’t no good, yuh can’t get nothing with ’em.” interrupts Smarfy, his overalled pal. They "c-mon to an adjoining shade tree, where Russell’s friend from Richmond and G. A. P. "buddy.” John H. Campbell. 83. sells regimental badges. “Every year there’s fewer badges sold. Been to fifty of these encampments and there won’t- be many mo:e to go to,” says the seller of emblems. YOU wonder a.nd they’ll point out the Opitimist, to you—and the oldest member of the state’s Grand Army men. He is Ira Webb. 97. of 1515 North New Jersey street. Indianapolis. “Why I’m good for forty years more and forty more encampments. Played a tuba, in the Eleventh Indiana —but haven't played much lately since one of my buddies went on.” Ira has a euchre “rep” he wants to live up to. And near Ira, alone, sits Andrew J. Stephens, 82. of 210 Walcott street. Indianapolis. He was the lost and found man for the police department for thirty-one years and he hunted all that time for his old tent-buddy in the One Hundred Eighth Ohio and has never found him. Each national encampment, state meeting, sees him eying newcomers for a familiar race of the “buddy” he bunked with and who was wounded on Sherman’s march to the sea and left lying on the battlefield. “But he never comes—and now the years have passed and he, Gottlieb, may be—” sen IN Martinsville they have a, 10cent store on one of the “main drags.” The store has a- window with funy little lead soldiers in it. Life passes by the window—and rarely stops The soldiers look tired and bent. They are waiting—to be taken out of the window?. Just a “square” away on the courthouse lawn are men in gold hatcords. Bent, tired men. who sit on benches and wait for their “Gottliebs.” as Andrew? Stephens, the lost and found man. waits—wait, as the little lead soldiers, to be taken out of the window.

I. U. AWARDS EIGHT HONORARY DEGREES

Five Hoosiers in Select Group: Valuable Awards Made, £l/ Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. June 11.— Honorary doctor of laws degrees, the highest gift of Indiana university, were awarded to eight men distinguished in science and letters and other fields Monday afternoon in connection with the hundredth anniversary commencement here, in which 1.100 seniors were graduated. Men honored were; Clark Wissler. curator. American Museum of Natural History, New York; Evans Woollen. Indianapolis, financier and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination last year; Dr. Lafayette Page, Indianapolis surgeon; Dr. John Finch Barnhill. Indianapolis surgeon and president of the American Laryngological. Rhinological and Otological Society; Frank C. Ball. Muncie manufacturer and philanthropist: Janies A. Woodburn. professor emeritus of history at Indiana university and authority on history; Lewis Madison Terman, professor of education, Leland Stanford university: Charles Harris, professor of German. Western Reserve university, Cleveland. Announcement of awards won by students throughout the year were as follows: Foster Prize —Miss Florence Louis Manlev of _ Bryan Oratory Prize—Herman C. King f sWeetser. and John Hunt of La Forte. McMahan Frlze—Joyce C. Tobias of Remington Norton Mavor Latin Prize—Mary Elizabeth Hutchinson of Th.orntcwn. Gimbel Athletic Medal—William Moss of Jasonville James Darwin Maxwell Medal—Mary Emil Roth rods of Bmomington. Locke Prize of ?s<V—Margaret carter of Forest and J. Fdzar Wise of Net castle. S-ntners English Frize—William Patrick of Indianapolis. Wes’ern Conference Medal—Wilrner T< ■ v Rinehart of College Corner. O \.,ti Omega Sociolog'. Prize—Mrs. Katherine East Cali of Anderson. Niezer Medals—Emmanuel Raugh of Eva-usvtllf: Beniamin Cohen of Indiana Harbor Bernard Frick of Evansville: Joseph Heflerman of Washington: Kerman King of Sweetser and Harold E. Wright of Indianapolis. Alexander Hamilton Institute Prize of sloo—Mildred Helen Johnson of Vincennes and Eugene Denham of Logansport. Delta Sigma PI Key—Joseph Waymire of Alexandria.

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POLICE START GAMING DRIVE AT NEWCASTLE Poker Den. Operated Under Guise of Social Club, Raided, 16 CAUGHT IN FIRST RAID Rose City Officials to Attempt to Have Charters Revoked, Eu Times Svccifil NEWCASTLE. Ind.. June 11. Sixteen men and boys, facing various charges of gambling, from visiting a gambling house to operating one, were paraded before Mayor Syrod Hays in police court here Mondav. It was the result of the opening of a wide drive by Newcastle police, under the direction of Chief Ingle A. Laird, on gambling in the Rose City. It was also the answer of the police to the challenge of the gamblers. Recently local police arrested several local pool room operators, and several alleged gamblers caught playing poker in the poo! rooms. The operators and those caught gaming were all fined. Immediately operators of two pool rooms went to the state of Indiana and secured charters for “social clubs,” which were started in well-guarded second-floor office rooms. Operations Protected

Here, for several weeks, operators have conducted their games, under the guise of operating a chartered private social club. Police planned for several days ways and means of legally entering and raiding the places. Saturday night, about 9 o'clock, when two poker games were in full tilt in the “Henry County Social Club,” officers, led by the chief, and armed with search -warrants and tear gas cartridges, crept to the door of the club Asa ‘’member” left, the police shoved open the door and dashed in. Several of those caught declared when arrested that they would plead guilty, and some put up cash bonds, which they said would be forfeited. The “Henry County Social Club” was operated under a charter issued by the state. At least one other ■such club has been operating here, but it was said today that its operator. who is known to have amassed quite a neat little fortune, is preparing today to enter other fields of endeavor. Will Appeal Again Chief Laird and Paul Benson, prosecuting attorney of Henry county. appealed to the state some days ago, it is said, to have the charters revoked. They declare they were informed that this could not be done unless charges of gambling, or other law violations were proved. They were further informed that charters for similar clubs had been issued in practically every city of any size in Indiana. Now that they have what they believe is iron-clad evidence, officials here are expecting no trouble in gaining revocation of the charter of this club. Police admit that it required some preliminary arrangements to gain entrance to the club before evidence could be destroyed.

Ravdin Medical Medal——Merle Whitlock of Indianapolis. Cup of Phi 'Delta Phi (Law)—Henry Lynn of Evansville. Shield of Gamma Eta Gamma (Law) — Roy Lynn of Evansville. Clara Javan Goodbodv Fellowship—Arra McFarland of Ft, Wayne. A. W. S. Scholarship—Mary Dorothy Bass of Fairland and Jessis Borer of RossVille. 111. , _ . Biough Prize of sloo—Mary Bass of Fairland. Mary Book Scholarship—Vera Reeve of Vincennes. Polk Scholarship—William Pelz of Evansville. Order of Coif fLaw)— Roy Lunn, Evansville; Henry Lynn. Evansville; Marvin Huffman. Huntington. Alpha Omega Aloha i Medical)—Harry Hamilton Alexander. Princeton: James Clayton Brown. Burnettsville; Leßoy Baker Chambers. Velpen: Clyde Gray Culbertson. Vevay; Edward Kerth Denver, Evansville; Paul Levin Fleener. Huntington; Paul Jones Fouts. Richmond: John Howard Griest, Indianapolis; Charles Emil Kenyon, Carmel; Noel Sam Mcßride, Terre Haute; Elwood Jones Meredith. Moreland: Clifton Ernest Merritt, Orlando; Ralph Vernon Plew. Linton; Ben Butler Raney. Linton: John Dewey Rogers. Gosport; Russel Frederick Sanders, Centerville; Samuel Robert- Snodgrass, Franklin: Lucian Allen Stamper, Springport; Richard Edgar Stout. Bloomington: Abraham Wainston. Indianapolis; Donald June White, Indianapolis: Merle Eugene Whitlock. Indianapolis; William Vincent Woods. Sheridan and Reuben Orlando Zierer. Batesville. De Pauw Honors Three Bii Tim< ; Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. June 11.— Honorary degrees were conferred on Dr. William Niles Wishard and Bishop Edgar Blake, of Indianapolis, and Dr. George Throop, chancellor of Washington university, St. Louis, Mo., at the ninetieth annual commencement exercises here Monday morning. Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Scranton, Pa., delivered the commencement address before 3.000 people. President G. Bromley Oxnam awarding degrees to 295 seniors.

Attackers Ask New Trial Bn Timet Special ANDERSON. Ind.. June 11.—Attorneys for Bur man Shannon. 24. who was haled into Madison circuit court a few hours following his arrest on a change of assaulting an Anderson high school girl and sentenced to five to twenty-one years in the state reformatory, have filed a motion for anew trial. Shannon says he did not realize the severity of the crime to which he entered a plea of guilty.

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Ora Chandler

LA! LA! HOW NICE! Defend Morals of French Girls

PARIS, June 11.—French authorities probably will be asked to punish authors who create a false opinion as to the morals of the girls of this country, it was understood today in connection with growing public opinion favoring a campaign aganst naughty books and pictures. Although France has declined to follow the lead of Italy in banning beauty contests and regulating skirt lengths, it is known that influential circles feel French women too frequently are detracted by some writers and that the time has come for official action. Both native and foreign writers are blamed for the flood of novels in the last few years dealing with the undesirable characteristics of the post-war generation.

These books have been allowed to circulate without hindrance, but many sources believe they have created a false opinion abroad regarding the modern French girl. The sensation seeking readers are not qualified to judge the value of truth in the so-called disclosures, it is said. Campaigners against these authors contend that considerable harm has been done and they assert that- most tourists, instead of buying real works of art, leave France with an armload of modem novels in which the younger generation is depicted in untruthful colors. Careless reads who are not familiar with the French mentality get the impression that the French girl is immoral without taking the pains to investigate and learn that the average. French girl is a model of innocence and modesty, it is sa.id.

BOOST RAIL MERGER Indiana Cities, Groups Get Permission to Intervene, B,n Times Special _ WASHINGTON. D. C.. June 11.— Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. the cities of Bloomington and Lafayette, and Manufacturers’ Association of Chicago Heights, Illtoday were granted permission by the interstate commerce commission to intervene in the application of the Baltimore &, Ohio railroad for permission to make mergers which would enlarge it to a 14.000-mile system. The interveners are interested in the B. & O. plan to take over the Monon railroad, running from Chicago to Louisville, which has already I been protested by many Indiana ! cities. BANDITS STEAL CAR, COLLIDE WITH WAGON Thugs Hold Up Couple. Force Driver To Danville. Bu Times Special CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., June 11, —police of Crawfordsville, Veedersburg and Danville, HI., are searching for two men who stole an automobile owned by Newt Busenbark from the streets here Saturday afternoon drove to a point on state Road 41. south of Veedersburg. where the car was wrecked in a collision with a wagon load of wheat and then held up and robbed a Veedersburg couple and forced the latter pair to take them to Danville. Paul Thomas and Helen Simerman. the two people who were robbed, gave authorities an accurate description of the bandits. The Busenbark car was damaged beyond repair when s .t collided with the ' grain wagon. The wagon was owned by Leroy Clore, of Veedersburg.

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AWAIT SALARY FIGHT Justices May Sue for New Hike in Pay. The salary boost granted Edward Dietz, Center township justice of the peace by the last legislature, probably will be the target for litigation by other justices, it was said today. The assembly bill raised the salary to $4,700 annually, but this was said to apply only to Dietz. Attorneys for other justices have advanced the theory that the increase applies in all townships. William H. Cooper, Warren township trustee, was advised not to pay $4,700 to the Rev. M. S. Marble, recently appointed in the township, by Claude H. Anderson, attorney. Marble is expected to file a- suit. CITY CRUISER URGED Chamber of Commerce Men Will Write to Washington. In an attempt to h? . - e one of the new naval cruisers named ‘‘The Indianapolis," 1 Paul Q. Richey, Chamber of Commerce, president, has requested chamber directors and committee chairman to w rite letters urging this to Rear Admiral Richard H. Leigh, chief of the bureau of navigation. The letters will be sent direct to Representative Louis Ludlow who will deliver them in person to Rear Admiral Leigh.

VETERANS TO MEET Terre Haute to Entertain Annual U, F, W. Camp, Bn Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., June 11.— Veterans of Foreign Wars of Indiana w’ill gather here Thursday for the eighth annual encampment. The vanguard of visitors is expected to arrive Wednesday, with delegates from every post in the state assuring attendance. The ladies’ auxiliary is to meet also, the camp '■ontinuing until Saturday. Drum and bugle corps have been promised from Indianapolis. Kokomo. Liberty. Bloomington. Bedford, Richmond and Ft. Wayne. During the past year the organization has added four posts, in Angola, New Albany, Warsaw and Valparaso. At least two national officers are to attend. National senior vice-commander-in-chief, Major H. N. Duff of Lansing, Mich., and Captain Robert B. Handy Jr., of Kansas City, adjutant general, have .wired reservations.

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FAMILY HUNGRY. FORGES CHECKS Unemployed Muncie Man Asks Time to Pay. B.u Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. June 11.—Hungry, out of work, with a wife and 9-year-old son depending on him. Donald Sullivan, 32, resorted to forgeries, he told local authorities, willingly admitting the misdemeanors and offering to repay his victims as soon as he obtains funds. Sullivan cashed two worthless checks for $27.50 and $34.20. He said he came here from Cleveland, about six months ago and went to work at a local factory. He was laid off there, secured employment elsewhere and was again released. Since then he has been unable to find steady employment, he said. Sullivan, an ex-service man, has relatives in Macon. Ga.. his home, and hopes to obtain money from them to repay the men whose names he forged. It is the first time he has been arrested, he stated. One of the victims will not press charges, it was said today. The attitude of the men whose names he used and the other store to cash a check has not been learned.

CYCLONES m FIVE Tornadoes Sweep Minnesota and Wisconsin. Bn United Press ST. PAUL. Minn., June 11. Trnadoes which swept central Minnesota and northern Wisconsin Monday night, killed at least five persons, injured an undetermined number, and caused extensive property damage, a check revealed today. The violent winds, accompanied by hail and rain, struck Kingston about 7 p. m. and then moved on to Cokato, twenty-five miles distant, Many farm homes and other buildings were wrecked. J, W. HURT WINS BANKER MEDAL IN PISTOL SHOOT Holds Highest Score in Annual Contest at Ft Harrison. James W. Hurt, representing the Marion Couny Bankers’ Association, was winner of the Indiana Bankers’ Association's gold medal for pistol marksmanship at the fourth annual state shoot held Monday at Ft. Benjamin Harison. Hurt’s score was 207. The Kosciusko county team won the silver loving cup for the highest team score on the range with 599. Tipton county marksmen took second place with a score of 582 and third went to Delaware county with 562. The Tipton county team won rifle contest and silver loving cups with a score of 501. My. Snyder of Noble county was the best individual scorer in the rifle tournev with a score of 172. DRUNK IS ‘DELIVERED’ Anderson Youth Finds Intoxocated Man in Yard. P.’i Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. June 11.—Anderson police had a drunk delivered to them. Norman Cultis found a man tying in his yard, dead to the world. He first tried to take the inebriate home, and failing, took him to police headquarters instead. Police escorted him the remainder of the way to Jail and locked him up. . , . . .

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BANK THEFTS TRACED TO SLAINBANDIT Series of Burglaries and Holdups in State Is Solved, WOUNDED MAN BETTER Escaped Convict Shot by Deputy Will Be Taken to Pendleton, F.v Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. June 11.— Four bank burglaries and a. series of auto thefts and holdups had been traced today to the bandit pair who fell before the well-directed gunfire of Deputy Sheriff Harold B. Cobb of Franklin. Ind., near here Monday morning. The bandit who was killed by bullets through his head and body was identified Monday night as Floyd Bowen. 21. of Terre Haute. His father. Irven Bowen, of Terre Haute, made the identification ip a local morgue. Bowen’s companion. Earl Spencer, 23. of Franklin, remained in a. critical condition in a. Greencastle hospital this morning, his head pierced by a battered bullet, His condition permitting, he was to be removed today to the hospital at the, state reformatory at Pendleton. Identified as Robbers

State and county officials who investigated the bandits’ activities Monday said today they were the two who robbed the bank at, Lyons, Ind.. on the nights of May 19 and 21; robbed the Corbin State Bank at Sanborn. Ind.. and the Bank of Bellair. 111.. May 22. Homer Adkisson. cashier of the Bellair bank, positively identified Bowen and Spencer, authorities said. A week-end of auto banditry led them to the filling station north of Greencastle, where Deputy Sheriff Cobb came upon them. Officers say they stole an auto owned by Newton Busenbark. Crawfordsville grain dealer and state representative, from its parking place in Crawfordsville Saturday afternoon and wrecked it, on a side road near Veedersburg Saturday night. Hold Up Couples Then they held up Paul Thomas and Miss Helen Simmerman of Veedersburg, robbed Thomas of $8 and forced the two to drive them to Danville. There they held up Leslie Churchill of Danville and ’ Evelyn Allison of Longview, 111., robbed Churchill and forced him to drive them near Veedersburg. where they commandeered his car. a Hupmobil'e “B" Sedan, in which they w-ere seated when Cobb discovered them Monday morning. Spencer escaped from the state reformatory Oct. 27, 1927. after serving seven months of a, one-to-four-teen-year sentence for'grand larceny. Bowen's father said Spencer lived w ith them in Terre Haute at various times in the last two years. Owen Bowen, a. brother of the dead bandit, is serving a. sentence in the state reformatory for auto bandit,ry. and an uncle, Wade Bowen, is under sentence in a California penitentiary for forgery, the elder Bowen j said. ! Comparison of fingerprints of the dead man with records ot the , bureau of criminal investigation j and identification disproved the early theory that the bandit was Floyd Watson.

Governor Harry G. Leslie today agreed to permit Owen Bowen, serving a term of from one to ten years at the state reformatory for automobile banditry, to attend his brother’s funeral at TeiTP Haute Wednesday if the Vigo county sheriff will accept responsibility "for the prisoner's return. TWO SIO,OOO SUITS ARE FILED IN GROTTO CRASH Complaints Made by Mrs. Cecil Hodges and Mrs. Anna M. Kenton. Two additional damage suits of SIO,OOO each were on file in county courts today against Arthur W. Brady, receiver of the Union Traction Company, as a result, of tIVJ Sahara Grotto tragedy at, the Emerson avenue crossing when twenty persons were killed Oct. 14. 1927. Two similar suits were filed Saturday and several more arc to be filed since the Madison county court directed filing of the litigation in Marion county. The complaints were filed by Mrs. Cecil Hodges, administratrix of the estate of William M. Hodges, in superior court four and Mrs. Anna Marie Kenton, administratrix of the estate of Ralph W. Parker, in circuit court. It was alleged that the crossing warnings were inadequate and the traction car was negligently operated. WORLD BANK LAUDED J. P. Morgan Declares Institutioni Will Solve War Problems. £</ United Pr- is NEW YORK. June 11—J. F. Morgan. unofficial American delegate to the reparations conference, believes the bank of international settlements is the greatest, instrument; for promotion of peace that tho Paris conference devised. "It is the one thing that the conference was able to discover which would solve the problem of international settlements arising Qflt. of thfl war," Morgan said.