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MOBS CAN’T RULE IN STATE, WARNS LESLIE; ORDERS DANA MINE RIOTERS BE PUNISHED

Declares Present Sheriff to Be Replaced If He Fails Duty. DEMANDS PROSECUTION Attorney-General Given Instructions to Aid in Probe. “There will be no mob rule in Indiana. This Dana affair is one of the most terrible things in the state's history. We are going to see that the rioters are brought to justice and it never shall happen again. If the lo•al officials can not handle 1 Lie situation the state will.” In this language, with the added threat nc would name anew sheriff if the present official failed in his duty. Governor Harry G. Leslie today laid down the law about the attack by a mob of alleged union miners on seventy-five workers at the Bono Coal Company workerowned mine near Dana, Ind., last Friday. He issued instructions to Vermillion county officials to do everything in their power to prosecute the rioters and warned any and all mobminded men of the danger of resorting to such tactics in Hoosierdom while he is Governor of the state. Probe to Be Made To see that these instructions are carried out he further ordered At-torney-General James M. Ogden to assign two of his deputies to aid Prosecutor Homer Ingram of Vermillion county in carrying on the investigations and prosecutions. Ogden and Marie Wall, one of the deputy attorney-generals, sat in the Governor’s office with Leslie while he again heard the complaints of the delegation from the worker-owned Bono mine, first details of which were given the Governor Tuesday. Present today, upon orders of the Governor, were Sheriff Harry Newland of Vermillion county, the prosecutor and Ernie E. Boetto. Clinton automobile dealer and Leslie's Vermillion county manager during the primaries. The latter had accompanied the two officials to the hearing, the prosecutor and sheriff having been ordered to appear by the Governor. All Get Chance to Talk Dispensing with the evidenceblocking attorney tactics that often mark a formal court hearing. Leslie gave all present a chance to talk. The result was that the sheriff admitted he had done nothing but disperse the mob which had severely beaten, not only the Bono miners present but several others whom their comrades said are still unable to appear. The sheriff denied that he took two hours to arrive at the scene of the rioting, that he had said that if the Governor sent troops he could • go to hell,” or that he had declared that he couldn’t interfere with the mob because they “are the boys who elected me." The biggest point of difference between the mob victims and the sheriff's testimony was the matter of time of his arrival. He said he got there about forty-five minutes after being first notified. The miners declared that it was more nearly two hours. Expected No Trouble He admitted that he was in Chicago with a farm bureau excursion the day before but declared he didn’t know the fight was to be staged and expected no trouble. "I was busy when they first called me Friday morning and told them to call a deputy at Clinton,” the sheriff, who was at the Newport jail at the time, told the Governor. Whereupon he was told by the Governor that it is the sheriff's duty to assign deputies. The sheriff and prosecutor were given a list of thirty-seven names of members of the mob and they checked off those they knew. This list had been provided by the Bono miners, when they called on the Governor Tuesday. Today they again recited all the details "of the affray and displayed their black eyes, knocked out teeth and told of rib fractures. The sheriff said he was so busy with the wounded that he didn't have time to arrest any of the mob and also that he wasn't equipped to handle such a crowd. Prosecution Is Demanded The prosecutor said he had done nothing about the matter, but at the close of the hearing both he and the sheriff asserted that they are ready and willing to arrest and prosecute those involved. •T think that every man who participated should be prosecuted to the limit,” Sheriff Newland declared. "They are guilty of more than rioting. They robbed the safe and stole other belongings from these men." Hourly Temperatures •u. m 60 10 a. m 72 7a. m 63 11 a. m 73 Ba. m 67 12 inoont.. 74 8a- m-.... 70 lp. m 75

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The Indianapolis Times Generally fair and warmer tonight; followed by increasing cloudiness and warmer Thursday.

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‘Miracle’ Wall Ru I'nilnl Press NORTH BERGEN, N. J., July 3.—What was described as “an outline of the head of Christ” appeared on the high white wall of the New York and New Jersey crematory Tuesday night. It was discovered by a watchman who reported it to officials of the crematory. They advised him to wipe out the silhouette but he said he tried and failed. Police likewise could not remove it. By midnight 5,000 persons had gathered in front of the wall and one person had placed flowers below the silhouette which was about three feet high.

AUTO CRASH FATAL TO FILM ACTRESS

Babies Die in Mystery Ailment Ru T'nited Press TRENTON, N. J„ July 3.—A mysterious malady that has killed three children here, turning each of them green, has stricken twenty other children and a single adult. Dr. Alton S. Fell, city health officer, has started an investigation as a precaution against an epidemic. Although a chemical analysis has failed to show poisonous mineral in the milk drunk by the victims thus far examined, the theory that poison milk caused the illness has not been abandoned. The latest death was that of Gloria Dunning, 6 weeks old, who was stricken at her home here Tuesday afternoon and died luesday night. On Monday, Shirley Shaddow, 2’i years old, and Jean Shaddow, 7 weeks old. sisters, died at the Chambersburg hospital a few hours after they were stricken. In each case physicians said the symptoms indicated intestinal poisoning.

CLARA BOWS FATHER IN MARITAL TANGLE Screen Star's Young Stepmother to Seek Divorce. Bit United Press HOLLYWOOD. July 3.—The impetuous romance which united Robert Bow, father of Clara Bow, the film star, and Tui Lorraine, a 21-year-old dancing girl, apparently i$ headed for the divorce courts. Mrs. Bow, who was a “girl friend” of Clara's before she became the star's stepmother, announced to the movie world that she and Bow separated two weeks ago and that she intended to cite mental cruelty as the grounds for a separation. “I am young and like to dance and play, but my husband wanted to stay at home all the time,” Mrs. Bow- complained. *4TH' TO BE CLOUDY Rain Not Expected to Mar Holiday. Despite the prospect of increasing cloudiness and warmer temperatures, Indianapolis “very likely will get through the Fourth without much, if any. rainfall." said J. H. Armington. weather bureau chief, today. Northern Indiana probably will not be so fortunate, while southern Indiana has the best chance for ideal weather, Armington said. “Generally fair and warmer tonight. followed by increasing cloudiness and warmer Thursday,” was the formal forecast for Indianapolis. Thundershowers are predicted late tonight or Thursday in northern Indiana, but the weather bureau does not expect tire disturbance to extend below the middle of the state. White river had receded this morning to 11.2 feet from its 12.6 foot crest of Tuesday morning.

BALD HEADS CAN CARRY WHOLE FOLLIES CHORUS IN VEST POCKET BY NEW INVENTION

Hu United Press CHICAGO. July 3.—With an orange ray. a movie camera and a trick apparatus small enough to be carried in the vest pocket. Albert A. Grenac. Chicago inventor, proposes to outglorify Ziegfeld and put the Follies into every living room, via television. talkies in three dimer*sions and color. So certain is Grenac of being able to carry out his stupendous

Fireworks Blast Loss Is SIO,OOO Fireworks and premature Fourth of July celebration today were held responsible for a SIO,OOO fire, and burns and cuts on. a 4-year-old child’s head. Defective electric wiring is said to have set off fireworks stored in the rear of the Ralph Broeking Pharmacy, 2101 Central avenue, shortly after 1 a. m. The stock of the store was destroyed and a family in an upstairs apartment forced out of their home. As firecrackers, Roman candles, rockets and bombs went off beneath their bedroom, Mr. and Mrs. O. Evans, who occupy the flat above the pharmacy awoke and sparsely clad, fled from their apartment to turn in a fire alarm. Robert Tinder, 4. Harvey, Illvisiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles O. Gullion, 4135 Boulevard place, was burned and cut on the head Tuesday afternoon when a cannon cracker exploded near his head. It was the first Fourth of July casualty report to police.

Gladys Brockwell Rose From ’Stage Baby’ to Prominence. Ru United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 3—Death has cut short the career of Gladys Brockwell, who rose from a “stage baby” to prominence in the theater

and on the silent and talking screen. The actress died in a Hollywood hospital Tuesday night from injuries suffered last Thursday, when the automobile in which she and Thomas J. Brennan. Los Angeles advertising man were riding, plunged over a seventy - five - foot cliff on a southern California highway. Brennan was injured seriously but

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will recover. Although she suffered a fractured skull and other severe injuries, death w-as caused by peritonitis resulting from an abdominal injury.

U.S. MARSHAL’S ARREST ON LIQUOR CHARGES TO BE PROBED BY OFFICIAL

S. T. Hickman Is Held at Brazil on Charge of Intoxication. While Deputy United States Marshal S. T. Hickman of Indianapolis was arraigned at Brazil, Ind., today on a charge of intoxication and possessing liquor, the federal prohibition administrator’s office here promised an investigation. Hickman pleaded not guilty this morning before Circuit Judge C. W. Hutchinson, who fixed bond at SSOO on ach charge and gave him until Friday to get attorneys. At noon Hickman had not yet provided bond and was in jail where he had been since Tuesday night when two Brazil policemen arrested him after they had been told a man was doing some dangerous driving east on National read. The officers declared, according to a United Press dispatch, that they came upon Hickman wobbling his car from side to side of the road. They said they found a pint bottle, half filled with alcohol, in the car. Hickman insisted, according to dispatches, that the alcohol was for external use and he was not intoxicated. The officers insisted he was drunk. Mood Jones of Terre Haute, a friend of Hickman, got the Brazil police chief out of bed at 1 this morning, begging that Hickman be released. The chief said he told Jones to get out of town and attend to his business or he would get in trouble. James G. Browning, acting deputy prohibition administrator, asked if the Jones “five and ten” law would be invoked, said he would make no

dreams, he had hidden his inventions. already perfected, he says, and has gone to Washington to get patents. BBS GRENAC does his inventing at Rainbow Rest camp on Koontz lake. Indiana, a war veteran institution, and is financed by friends. If successful. Grenac and his associates said, they expect to or-

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1929

BETTING MAY START TONIGHT AT DOG TRACK ‘lnvestment Brokerage’ Plan Expected to Go Into Effect. THREAT BY SHERIFF Til Lock Up the Whole Bunch, Rabbit and All,’ Says Winkler. An attempt to start the “investment brokerage” system of betting on dog races will be made at the new track of the Indianapolis Kennel Club, Ltd., on Allisonville road a mile north of city limits tonight, it appeared certain this afternoon. Sheriff George Winkler and a large force of deputies were ready to carry out the sheriff’s threat made to an emissary of the kennel club “If you start the envelope system of betting or any other form of gambling I’ll lock up the whole bunch, rabbit and all.” Godfrey Yeager, secretary and attorney of the club, announced that promoters are having a conference late this afternoon to clear up legal details which it is believed will block the sheriff’s attempt to stop the investment brokerage or “envelope” system. Yeager said the final decision as to whether or not the attempt to operate the envelope windows, under the grandstand, which have been dark since the track was opened last Saturday night, would be made at this afternoon’s meeting. However, it was learned that several men to operate the “investment” windows have been employed, perhaps as many as a dozen. Under the envelope system the bettor does not wager the dog will win. but buys an “interest” in the dog for the period of the race, and if the dog wins he receives a share of the purse. The purse consists of the total of the money “invested” in all the dogs in the race. Investments may range from $2 up. DRIVER WHO KILLED 3 SENT TO PENITENTIARY “Sorry I Can’t Make Penalty Heavier," Judge Tells Motorist. CHICAGO. July 3. William Sweeney, whose automobile killed three boys as he drove it while intoxicated, was under sentence today to from one to fourteen years in Joliet penitentiary. “I am sorry I can not make the penalty heavier,” said Judge Harr/ B. Miller after Sweeney pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

statement until he conferred with George R. Jeffrey, district attorney, who is out of the city. A. O. Meloy, United States marshal, Hickman’s immediate superior, said he would make a personal investigation. “If Hic’-.man is guilty, there is only one thing for him to do, because an officer of the United States court can not violate the law,” Meloy said. “However. I can not make any definite statement until I verify the facts. Hickman has been such an excellent officer, loyal, and with such a splendid record in the seven or eight years he has held his position, that it is pretty hard to believe he would be guilty of such a charge.”

TRUCK HITS NICKEL PLATE TRAIN; CRASH KILLS DRIVER

Virgil O. Bear. 24, of 910 Ewing street, driver for the National Bread Company, 835 Daly street, was killed instantly when his motor truck was demolished by a south-bound Nickel Plate engine and caboose early today at Forty-sixth street. Members of the train crew told Coroner C. H. Keever that Bear saw the train about 100 feet from the crossing and tried to stop, but the heavy truck skidded off the pavement and across the tracks in front of the locomotive. The truck was splintered and bread and buns were strewn along the right-of-way. Bear's body was hurled 100 feet along the tracks. Examining the truck chassis, Coroner Keever said brake mechanism on one wheel was rusted and

ganize factories to manufacture his product with stockholder-em-ployes working six hours a day, five days a week. The inventor-veteran claims he can use any standard camera and lens, and with addition of his small, secret device, can make talking motion pictures in three dimensions and color. With his television machine, on which he also is asking patents, Grenac

Finance ‘Pie ’ for Fa ir Sex, Savs Ex-Actress Broker

Peggy Cleary, who failed as a movie actress and succeeded as a stock broker, is shown here at her desk. She insists that women are better investors than men. CHICAGO, July 3.—Confident that “a keen woman can outsmart a man any time,” Miss Peggy Cleary, member of the New York Stock exchange, has extended the scope of her operations by plunging into one of the world’s trickiest trading centers—the Chicago wheat pit. At 29, this petite ex-movie actress believes trading in stocks is preeminently a woman’s game. In five years, she asserts, women will be trading with men on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and proving that high finance is no more the field of one sex than of the other.

“It is not true that we are more excitable than men, or that women take their losses with less sportsmanship,” says Miss Cleary.. “I have seen the men simply wild in panic when women were calm and self-possessed. I have both men and women among my clientele, and I find the women more conservative than the men. “TjUT the old-fashioned prejuJtS dice bout women still exists. Only the other day in New York I was sitting at the telephone getting some tips. Two men were near me in the room and one of them remarked, ‘When they start telling a woman to buy it’s time for men to sell.’ I bought and they sold. They lost.” Whether the men like it or not. says Miss Cleary, the women of America are fast getting hold of the nation’s bank accounts. She believes women own 60 per cent of the nation’s stocks, and are paying more than half of the taxes on incomes of more than a million and a half, and says they own majority stock in some of the biggest industries in the land. b tt a IT was about six years ago that Miss Cleary went to Hollywood, resolved to become a famous moving picture actress. Like many another aspirant for Hollywood fame, she found the going a bit tough. She stuck it out for three years, playing small parts now and then. Then, at last, deciding that she could never make the grade, she abruptly crossed the continent, went to New York and took a job as a $25-a-week clerk in a Wall street office. Two 3'ears later and she had bought a seat on the Exchange. AWARD STREET PAVING William D. Vogel Gets $73,250 College Avenue Contract, William D. Vogel today was awarded the contract for the concrete paving of the College avenue road from Seventy-first street north to the county line, three and onefifth miles, on a low bid of $73,250 by county commissioners.

broken. The train was In charge of Charles L. West, Peru, Ind., engineer; Jess Bell, Peru, conductor, and Chester Richardville, Peru, fireman, and was making a return run from Tipton, Ind. The engine stepped about one-third of a mile away from the crossing. Mr. Bear is survived by the widow, Mrs. Gladys Bear; a daughter Phyllis; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. H Bear, Louisville, Ky.; two brothers, Lloyd Bear, James W. Mathis, Indianapolis, and six sisters, Mrs. Opal Lindsay, Indianapolis. and Mrs. R’lby Crist, Mrs. Dorothy Foltz. Misses Letha, Alpha Leiah and Omar Reita, all of Muncie. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

claims he can broadcast any image that comes into the lens of his camera, whether it is day or night. The orange ray is the secret of it all. Grenac says, and he is keeping it a mystery until such a time as he gets his patnets perfected. MOB HERE are a few of the things, besides transporting the follies to the finwde, that his

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Cleveland Endurance Plane Must Stay Two and Halt Days More. Bit United Press CLEVELAND, 0.. July 3.—Sixty hours, or two and one-half days from their goal, Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell, pilots of the endurance plane City of Cleveland, this afternoon continued to soar above Cleveland airport in quest of anew endurance flight record. Riding the clouds at an altitude of 2,500 feet in the blue monoplane, the two aviators at 1 p. m. had been aloft 114 hours, 21 minutes and 9 seconds. Their immediate aim is to exceed the existing record of 172 hours, 31 minutes and 30 seconds achieved by the Texas aviators, Reg Robbins and Jim Kelly, at Ft. Worth, Tex. Ru United Press MILWAUKEE. Wis., July 3.—The Untin’ Bowler, the Chicago Tribune plane blazing anew air trail from Chicago to Berlin, landed in Lake Michigan here at 8:45 a. m., central standard time, today for a brief stop.

LESLIE DENIES REFUSING BROTHER’S POVERTY PLEA; SHOWS STUBS OF CHECKS

Declares He Sent Several Hundreds to Aid Kin; Sister Dies. Stories in Chicago and Gary (Ind.) newspapers that his brother, William Leslie and the brother’s wife and four children, have been in dire want for several months were met today by Governor Harry G Leslie with exhibition to newspaper men of check stubs showing the Governor has spent several hundred dollars in the last few months for relief of the family. William Leslie’s wife died in a Gary hospital Tuesday night of blood poisoning, resulting from a slight injury suffered six weeks ago in a bakery in which she had temporary employment. According to a dispatch from Gary, William Leslie, 53, declared he lost his job as a plumber the day his brother was elected Governor, because his employer was a Democrat and would not have the brother of a Republican Governor around. He said he had written to the Governor for aid three times, but had received no reply so a few days ago sent a telegram saying, “It’s too late now.” The Governor disclosed that he

machines will do, Grenac says: 1. Give him control of broadcasting of all ball games, boxing bouts etc., because he, with an unlimited audience, will be able to bid with promoters. 2. Put all telegraph companies out of business by synchronizing broadest stations and insuring secrecy of messages, documents and conversations.

FAMILY OF SIX HACKED TO DEATH IN BEDS BY FIEND; FATHER’S HEAD SLASHED OFF Entire Detroit Police Force Is Mobilized to Hunt for Killer; Slain Baby Found Across Dead Mother’s Breast. BASHES IN SKULLS OF 4 CHILDREN ‘Most Horrible Deed in History of City/ Declares Coroner; Seek to Link Deaths With Previous Ax Slaying. B’J United Press . _ , . DETROIT, July 3. —The entire Detroit police toree was mobilized this afternoon to search for a fiend who slashed the head off Paul Evangelist, 43, erstwhile carpenter, herb doctor and “healer,” then hacked Evangelist’s wife and four children to death in their beds and escaped, leaving a bloody trail smeared over the family’s small home. The bodies were found in the Evangelist home shortly before noon today by Vincent Elias, a real estate dealer who was a friend of the family. The bodies of Evangelist and his wife were in their bed on the first floor with the body of 18-months-old Mario across his mother's breast. On a chair near the bed was the head of the “healer - ’ in a tableau remindful of the stories of St. John the Baptist. They were nude, but upstairs in their twin cribs the bodies of Angeling 7, and Margaret, 5, were found in their night dresses. On the floor by the beds was the horribly mutilated body of 4-year-old James Evangelist. nrnc emoo rod rtVPT f IIP t.Wft

Hermit Is Strangled in Own Beard Bu United Press TOLEDO, la.. July 3.—An 80-year-old hermit, Scott Rouse, was strangled to death with his own beard by robbers who invaded his dilapidated shack near here seeking his horde. For sixty years, the aged recluse had shunned the world because of a youthful disappointment in love. The fence around his hovel bore a sign, “women, keep out.” Late Tuesday an indian boy, John Winn, came down from the Sac-Fox reservation to visit the old man. He found Rouse dying with his long white whiskers stuffed into his mouth. A small safe, battered open with an ax and emptied of its contents, was found at his side. The old man had mistrusted banks since one failed in this county many years ago.

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had first heard his brother had lost his job last spring when he went to Gary for a banquet. A friend told him. Instead of sending money direct to the brother the Governor has been sending checks to the friend, who saw that the relief was properly administered. In addition to sending money the Governor more than a month ago arranged for care of the two smallest children in the home of his sister in Lafayette. The other two children were Mrs. William Leslie’s by a former marriage. Funeral services for Mrs. William Leslie were held In Gary this afternoon. Dogs Killed in Rabies War. MARION. Ind., July 3.—Prevalence of rabies here necessitated the days and caused a warning by Police Chief Lewis Lindenmuth to dog owners to keep all dogs confined.

3. Comer the newspaper picture transmission business by selling instantaneous picture service to newspapers and issuing news reels in three dimensions and color just as the events happen. Grenac is on optician by trade, was bom and reared in Chicago and served in the Spanish-Ameri-can and World wars.

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Blood was smeared over the two rooms in which the bodies were found and blood finger prints w r ere on the floor leading to the street. City’s Most Fiendish Act. “This is the most fiendish act T have ever seen in all my experience,’* Dr. James Burgess, Wayne county coroner for eighteen years, said after viewing the bodies. “A single perverted maniac must have killed them, although it seems impossible that some of their screams w r ould not be heard. ’’ The killer apparently had a demon’s craving to cut off the heads of Evangelist and his wife, but was content to bash in the children's skulls. Mrs. Evangelist’s head was also almost severed, and one of the little girl’s arms was also cut off, evidently by a miscalculated blow. Evangelist was said to have been at the head of an Italian religious cult. Linked With Ax Killer He was arrested in 1923 for a slight infraction of the city’s plumbing regulations, but had no other police recoi J. Coroner’s physicians said Mrs. Evangelist was soon to become a mother again. Possibility that the sextet’s murder was connected with the killings of a mother, and her three children less than two weeks ago was being investigated by police. The mother and children were killed by an ax, no trace of a weapon could be found in the Evangelist home, but police were detailed to search the neighborhood. One of the girl victims had a four-inch deep wound in her skull, which might have been inflicted by the blunt end of an ax, but the other wounds were caused by a sharp instrument.

ALLEGED PROMOTER IS HELD IN MAIL FRAUD Wanted in Louisville for Garage Signs Deal. William R. Phillips. 38, Louisville, Ky., alleged promoter of a “burial insurance” plan, arrested Saturday on suspicion by Detectives Tutt and Jordan at the Claypool, today was to be rearrested on a federal warrant and held for removal to Louisville. Their suspicions aroused by Phillips’ unsatisfactory answers to questions, Tutt and Jordan found he was wanted at Louisville for using the mail to advertise garage signs which he is alleged ta have failed to deliver after receiving money for them. Phillips said he had failed in the contracting business in Louisville and started for Florida two years ago, being held at Biloxi. Miss., for questioning in the violent death of his former stenographer and her mother, but later was released. URGE DISMISSAL OF $50,000 SUIT IN COURT Three Defendants File Appearance# to Rogers’ Charges. Special appearance and motio®§ for dismissal for want of jurisdicti® of the subject matter were filed im federal court today by Senator James E. Watson, M. Burt Thurman and George V. Coffin, in the $50,000 damage suit of William Rogers. Similar motions have been made by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, Albert Ward and M. L. Clawson. Two other defendants. Earl Klinck and Russell Duncan, have not filed motions. Rogers seeks damages for alleged conspiracy of defendants to coerce him into repudiating his testimony before the Reed investigating committee relating to alleged klan membership of Watson.

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