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BULLETS LINK KILLER BURKE TO MASSACRE Confiscated Shells Similar to Those Used to Wipe Out Moran Gang. RECALL CORONER’S JURY Ballistics Expert Is Chief Witness After Test of Machine Gun. j ßu United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 13.—Major Calvin C. Goddard, ballistic expert, testified today that cartridges fired from a machine gun owned by Fred Burke, hunted gangster, were “very similar’’ to those used in the St. Valentine’s day massacre. Goddard testified at resumption of the massacre inquest, ordered by Croner Herman Bundesen. Burke’s machine guns were captured in his home near St. Joseph, Mich., raided when a man, alleged to be Burke, murdered a traffic policeman and fled just ahead of posses. The guns were brought to Chicago to determine whether riflings were the same as those found on the massacre bullets, many of which were found in the North Clark street garage where the seven were lined up and executed. Goddard, head of the Northwestern university criminology school, said the cartridges were marked “very similar” to the massacre shells and that a bullet taken from the body of James Clark, one of the victims, was etched like one Goddard fired from the confiscated guns. The two seized guns, numbers 2347 and 7580, were traced at the time of the massacre. The first one was found to have been sold to Marion county Illinois authorities and the second to Victor Thompson, who at the time said he was going to sell it to Elgin, 111., peace officers. PROPERTIES GO ON SALE Estate of Lucky Baldwin to Be Sold by Daughter. Bu i T nitcd Pres* LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23. The vast properties acquired by the late E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin will be listed for sale so that his daughter, Anita M. Baldwin, may be free to music and travel. The property is estimated to he worth from $20,000,000 to $25,000,000, It consists of oil holdings and real estate. The big ranch at Arcadia, where Baldwin made his home, will be sold at once.

UTILITY MERGER SLATED Maryland, Delaware Interests Are Named in Consolidation. Bv United Press BUFFALO. N. Y.. Dec. 23.—A plan for consolidation of electric utility Interests controlled by the Schoellkopfs of Buffalo, through a merger of the Niagara Share Corporation of Delaware and the Niagara Share Corporation of Maryland, has been announced here. Stockholders of both corporations Will be asked to approve the merger, It was said. THREE PERISH IN STORM Berlin Sportsmen Found Frozen to Death; Fourth Is Missing. Bv United Press HIRSCHBERG. Silesia, Dec. 23. Three Berlin sportsmen, trapped in a mountain snowstorm near here, were found today frozen to death. A fourth man was missing and believed dead. Tlie party had gone skiing in tile mountains when the storm started. They attempted to return to shelter, but were overcome by the severity of the storm. HE PLAYED TOO SOON Lad Cracks Skull coasting While Using Christmas Sled. Bv United Press ST. PAUL. Minn., Dec. 23.—For one brief moment today, 7-year-old Richard Nicolas was the happiest child in town. He had been such a good boy all year that Santa Claus bright him a sled, two days before Christmas. Richard rushed out to a nearby hill for a trial coast. On the first long slide he smashed into an automobile which cracked his skull. Physicians at Ancker hospital said his condition was critical. HYPNOTIST IS GRILLED Death Penalty to Be Asked for Alleged Attacker of Child. Bv United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 23. A man who sought to “bend all nature to his will” was taken before County Prosecutor James R. Page today to be questioned regarding his activities in sound-proof caves beneath his house and garage. Russell C. Arnold, 53, self-stylied student of hypotism and personal magnetism, faced an officer who on Tuesday at a preliminary hearing will ask that he pay with his life for attacking and beating a 14-year-Ql4 girl .

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The Times Will Put Net Classic on Air Again

THE 1930 Anal tournament of the Indiana State High School Athletic Association again will be broadcast by The Indianapolis Times over WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light Company station. Arrangements have been completed and The Times takes pleasure in announcing that Blythe Q. Hendricks, station manager, the most expert basketball announcer in the nation, lagain will be at the microphone during the tournament. I Hendricks has broadcast the tournament for The Times ever since it was decided to afford the fans of the State Wlttl the mOSt eX P ert service over the alr f The Times was the first newspaper in the nation K V % jMI ever to broadcast a basket tournament and thousands H of letters were received during previous net classics ft from fans w’ishing to express their congratulations on WL j3Pi the fine service and their appreciation. Ilk Hendricks’ colorful description of sports contests • jflHj has earned him a horde of followers and thousands tMmkt JM again will be tuned in to WFBM to catch every play anc j every move of the 1930 event Hendricks Every game of the great school meet will be broadcast over WFBM by The Times and Hendricks will be assisted, as in previous tomaments, by many of the most noted college and high school cage coaches. In former years such noted figures as Ward Lambert of Purdue, Pat Page of Indiana, Paul Hinkle of Butler and Dr. W. E. Meanwell of Wisconsin have aided in the broadcasting of the contests. „ , ... __ To keep up with basketball in Indiana, keep up with The rimes and WFBM. You can’t go wrong.

MILITARY RITES FOR GOVERNOR State Dignitaries Attend Patterson Funeral. Bu United Press SALEM, Ore., Dec. 23.—Fu1l military honors will attend the burial here today of Governor Isaac L. Patterson, who died suddenly Saturday night. The body will be laid to rest in the Mt. Crest Abbey mausoleum after funeral services this afternoon in the hall of representatives at the state Capitol. The active pallbearers will be the captains of the Oregbn national guard, with Governor A. W. Norblad, State Treasurer T. B. Kay, Secretary of State Hal Ross and other prominent state officials as honorary pallbearers. Norblad, president of the state senate, who succeeds Governor Patterson, worked his way through the University of Chicago law school as a police reporter on a Chicago newspaper.

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PILOTS SEEK COMRADE Two Fliers Near Spot 'Where Lielson Is Believed Lost. Bv United Press SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—Two pilots today had reached the immediate territory where Cdtrl Ben Eielson, Alaska airways pilot, was believed lost, and three more planes and pilots were bound for the scene of the search on the coast guard cutter Chelan. Overcoming poor flying conditions Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam reached the ice-bound trading ship Nanuk, near North Cape, Siberia, and had established a base from which to make flights in search of Eielson and his mechanic, Earl Borland. Crosson and Gillam took off from Teller, Alaska, Friday. BRIDE, 12, IN SCHOOL Conflicting Laws Govern Forced Attendance. Bti United Press ROCKPORT, Ind., Dec. 23.—Appearance of a child-bride of 12 years in the Silverdale consolidated school has brought a perplexing problem to school authorities. It is against one law to admit Helen Ramsey to school, and contrary 7 to another to permit her to remain away from school. One statute says that married persons shall not be required to attend, but another requires attendance of all persons under 16 years of age, without reference to marriage. Helen is enrol’M in the second grade. She was . \rried in Kentucky three months ago to a 37-year-old Warld war veteran, Shirley Ramsey, with permission of her father, who" at the time gave her age as 18. She has a twin sister. Mary, also in the second grade. FINANCE CHIEF NAMED Powerful German Industrialist Succeeds Resigned Minister. Bv United Press BERLIN, Dec. 23.—Paul Molden- ! hauer. powerful German industrialist and member of the People's party, was named minister of finance today, succeeding Dr. Rudolf Hilferding, resigned. TRAINS COLLIDE; 2 HURT Engineers Injured, Locomotives Wrecked in Crossing Crash. Bv United Press NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23.—A Texas & Pacific train and a Southern Pacific train collided on a crossing today at Avondale, twelve miles north of here. engines were wrecked and the engineers injured. No other casualties were reported.

BEGIN INTENSIVE HUNTFOR FIEND Outrages Against Women Arouse Cleveland. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Dec. 23.—A mad man who either clubs his women victims into insensibility or shoots them was the object of an intensive police hunt today. Within the last ten days, two women have been shot and two others beaten unconscious by the same man. Latest victim of the fiend, Mrs. Mary Pshock, 20, bride of three months, was shot through the abdomen and back when she refused to accompany the clubber on a walk Sunday night when he accosted her a short distance from her home. The other woman shot was Miss Beatrice Gallagher, 23. She was unlocking the door of her home Friday when a man called to her and then sent four bullets into her body. D. L. Cowles, ballistic expert, who examined the bullets taken from both girls, said they had been fired from the same gun.

Appropriation of $3,000 Is Needed; Fatality Toll Reaches 16. Mayor L. Ert Slack today called a special council meeting to comply with request of the health board for an appropriation of $3,000 with which to combat an epidemic of cerebro-spinal meningitis that has caused sixteen deaths in Indianapolis. The funds are needed for employment of three additional nurses at city hospital, to pay spray and culture squads, buy coal for persons quarantined and miscellaneous expenses incurred in fighting the disease. The council also may appropriate money from the mayor’s contingency fund for cleaning of city streets. Heavy snowfalll demands $5,000, street department officials said today. One new meningitis case reported today raised the total cases, including the fatalities to twentyeight. Mrs. Anna Alexander, 28, of 541 Hiawatha street, was the latest to be stricken ill. W. A. Jamieson, director of biological research at the Eli Lilly & Cos. laboratories, said today his staff would work this afternoon to analyze the specific germ of meningitis prevalent here. There are four types, he said. Six deaths from the disease were reported over the wek-end, as follows: Bessie Sarber, 5, Negro, 2472 Cornell avenue; Lawrence Wilmore, 22, of 161 Geisendorf street; Edith Emmons, 24. of 112 East Twenty-third street; Esther Givins, 3, of 125 North Miley avenue; McKinley Bone, 28, of 422 South Missouri street; and Florence Parker, 44, Negro, 1076 West Twenty-seventh street. DIES TO CHEAT ARREST Bandit, at Bay, Kills Self; Mate Surrenders in Gun Fight. Bv United Press DETROIT, Dec. 23.—One bandit killed himself and a second was wounded and captured in a dramatic gun battle here Sunday night. The wounded bandit was Herman Creech of Hamilton, O. Matthew Koenen barricaded himself in an alley and shot himself to death when police squads advanced. MANY INJURED IN RIOT Communist Session Breaks Up; Police Called to Halt Fighting. Bu I’nitrfl Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 23. —Many persons were injured today when a Communist meeting here broke up in a riot. Police were called to halt fighting which broke out among Communists and spectators. Fifty' Communists were arrested.

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SNOW BLANKET AGAIN COVERS HALFOF U. S. Rehabilitation of Traffic Is Resumed as Goal Is in Sight.. TRAIN SCHEDULE BEHIND White Christmas Prospect Bright for City, Says Weather Chief. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Almost all the eastern half of the United States, from gulf to Canada, got a new white suit of snow today for Christmas. The holiday snowstorm, contrary to all rules, was born in Texas. Swept east and northward, its fringes powdering the gulf coast summer resorts in some cases and the main storm dropping its load of Christmas cheer on Illinois, Wisconsin, southern Michigan, Indiana, Ohio,* Tennessee, West Virginia, western and southerri New York, Pennsylvania and southward through Virginia and the Carolinas. Traffic, just digging out of last week’s blizzard, was becoming entangled again. Trains carrying city folk back home for the holidays and rural folk to the city, ran late in. virtually all the territory affected. Highways, hardly broken after the blizzard, again were becoming blocked, tying up motorists but making a glistening path for Santa Claus’ sleigh. The snow this morning ranged from a foot or more in Arkansas to eight inches in Chattanooga. Eldorado, Ark., took the record with sixteen and one-half inches. Numerous deaths were caused In the British Isles by the storm, and France had a snowfall, even up to the edge of the Riviera.

Traffic Is Resumed With the entire state blanfteted with snow this morning, a white Christmas seemed assured. Traffic, tied up since a blizzard Wednesday, was moving again today. Almost all state and national highways were open today, and state highway commission employes said they expected to keep them open. No further high winds are forecast for Indiana before Christmas. Temperatures tonight will remain about the same as Sunday night, and will not drop below 15 degrees, J. H. Armington, meteorologist, predicted today. Tuesday will be slightly warmer. Light snow may fall in the north portion of the state tonight, but the precipitation will not be sufficient to hinder traffic further, according to the United (States weather bureau. Total precipitation here since Wednesday has been 5.7 inches, according to Armington.

BOYS ARE HEROES IN BLAZE AT HOME

AND WHAT A DREAM! Sees Flames Leaping About Room; Leaps; Near Death. Bv United Press KALAMAZOO, Dec., 23.—E. B. Lepper, 75, saw flames leaping about his bedroom. He jumped out the window. When he landed on the snow outside he opened his eyes dazedly, and screamed for help. Thirty minutes later a passerby found him and summoned help. He is near death from exposure. There was no fire. The “flames” were part of a dream. ARNOLDS IN SECLUSION Reported Settling Divorce Case Without More Sensations. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—The Arnolds prepared today to move out of their glass houses and quit throwing stones at one another, according to a reliable report. Ray H. Arnold, millionaire broker of New York and Washington, and his wife Bessie were believed to be preparing to settle their divorce case out of court, after the smallest details of their lives had been strewn across the court records here in one of New York’s most intricate divorce suits.

Dies Unhonored and Unsung

CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—One can wonder now what Patrick Nash thought when he strolled down from his attic room on West Monroe street to the little park nearby where stands the splendid statute to the policemen who put down the Haymarket riots more than forty-three years ago. Likely people wondered why the tattered old fellow stood shivering in the snow to look at the statue. No one would have guessed he was remembering the charge of the thin line of police into the mob of 2,000 on May 4, 1886. Patrick Nash was one of those policemen and he was wounded twice by fragments of bombs.

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Santa’s worked himself into a sweat today! In the top right photo he’s brushing a bit of perspriation from his brow as he mutters, “Well, it won’t be long now. I’ve got all your lists of presents in my mind. Donner and Blitzen, my two reindeer, are hitched—and I’m coming down your chimneys, youngsters, Wednesday morn.” The alias Santa in the photo is Tom E. Ayers, 913 Chadwick street. And Santa’s not the only one that’s perspiring,

A Big Feature Tim McGrath, for forty years a famous character of the boxing ring and known as pugilism’s pre-eminent humorist, has written a series of thirty articles for NEA Service and The Times, on old-time fights and fighters. This series will run exclusively in the Pink edition of The Times, starting Tuesday. McGrath’s articles deal with humorous and thrilling events of his long ring career. Watch for the first of this daily series in Tuesday’s pink edition of The Times,

Lad of 10 Battles Fire; Newsie Gives Alarm to Save House. A boy who attempted to fight fire in his home and a newsboy whose presence of mind probably saved the home from complete destruction, were juvenile heroes of the city fire department today. Alone in his home, Henry Shannon Jr., 10, son of Mr. and Mrs Henry N. Shannon, 4930 Brookville road, was unwrapping Christmas presents when flames licked through tissue paper he was putting into an open fire and set fire to a davenport. Despite the fact he was burned about the head slightly, the boy attempted to extinguish the blaze. Otto Stovall, 17, of 505 Bosart avenue, a newsboy who was passing the house, saw the flames and notified fire companies. When firemen arrived they found the Shannon lad still battling the flames with buckets of water. Damage to the house was $350. Shannon’s burns were not serious. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 15 10 a. m 16 7a. m 15 11 a. m 19 Ba. m 14 12 (noon).. 21 9 a. m 13 1 p. m 23

Today his attic room, where the chinks in the window panes are stuffed with wads of paper and scraps of carpet, keep some of the cold from coming through, was for rent. They took the 72-year-old hero’s body away Sunday. He had ben dead several days. Apparently he had suffered a heart attack and frozen to death before he could summon aid. After the Kaymarket riot, Pat Nash walked his beat hoping for the promotion that never came. He was a wounded hero, but he had no political fripnrifc

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for in the upper left photo H. B. Kellogg of the Hotel Edward is one of the myriad shoppers at the last minute for Christmas trees. Kellogg’s tree will grace the home of an indigent family he’s going to make happy. In order for Santa to reach every one, he’s compelled to start early. In the lower photo an East Raymond street family was snapped by the photographer as the youngsters played with toys brought them today by women employes of the board of works. I . .

BORNO ASSERTS HE ISTHROUGH Haiti President Also Denies Favoring Any One. Pi! United Press PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 23. —President Louis Borno made the following official statement to the council of state today: “I am not a candidate for reelection. I am not supporting any candidate. I am not recommending any candidate. The choice of a president is left entirely in the council’s hands.” Opposition to the Borno administration figured largely in the recent general strike and rioting. TRAINS BRUSH: 5 HURT Trainmen Injured as Passenger Is Sides wiped on Siding. Bv United Press HAYS, Kan., Dec. 23.—A westbound Union Pacific passenger train sideswipsd an eastbound passenger train, which had pulled into a siding at Gorham, ten miles west of here today. Five were injured. All were members of the train crews. Both engines turned over and a number of coaches were derailed. No passengers were reported injured, although a large number were shaken up by the crash.

ASK CONGRESS FOR LINCOLN FUND AID

Indiana Lincoln Union will try to obtain $500,000 from the present congress to finance the memorial project at Lincoln City, Spencer county, Paul V. Brown, executive secretary of the commission in charge of the project, set out in his annual report released today. Brown, acting director of the state conservation department, was in oharge of the $1,000,000 drive for the memorial two years ago. At that time the fifteen trustees of the Lincoln Union pledged the fund-raising firm of Hendricks,

Progress Great progress has been made in medical research in the last year, progress that is of absorbing interest to the public. Dr. Morris Fishbein, in nis regular column on The Times’ editorial page, will tell of these advances, in his next six articles. Don’t miss this series. It is authoritative and highly interesting. The first article appears Tuesday, showing how liver was used to check anemia.

GETS HOSPITAL POST Local Banker Selected by M. E. Finance Board. Appointment of Brandt C. Downey, Indianapolis banker and business man, as secretary of the finance department of the Methodist Episcopal hospital, was announced today by the hospital finance committee. Downey’s activities will be directed toward obtaining funds for development of the hospital, in accordance with a program to enlarge the institution to meet increasing demands for hospitalization, according to the committee. Downey was president of the Commercial National bank until 1923, when he entered the insurance field as president of the Brandt C. Downey Company.

Marts & Lundy of New York $40,000 to conduct the drive. Although the $40,000 was paid the drive netted but $200,000, Brown reported. Present financial statement of the Lincoln Union shows that $291,691 in cash and SIOO,OOO in pledges have been obtained since the organization was launched under the administration of former Governor Ed Jackson. There remains $96,000 in the treasury to start the new year. There will be no drive and the hope for funds lies with congress, Brown asserted. Will Hays, movie czar, was one of the originators of the memorial plan. It was taken up by Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department and Governor Jackson appointed the commission with Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle, South Bend, as president. The entire work now is being nandled by the observation department, Brown said. He paid tribute to the landscaping projects, done with the assistance of J. L Holcomb, Indianapolis manufacturer, who as chairman of the finance committee and building and plans committee, retains an active interact in tiis

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PROBET. A. T. PLANE CRASH FATAL TO ONE Coroner Keever Indicates ‘Accidental’ Verdict in Mars Hill Tragedy. FILM EXECUTIVE VICTIM Killed in Forced Landing as Wind Blows Ship Into Stump. Testimony was being taken today by C. H. Keever, coroner, in one of three investigations opened into the wrecking of an east-bound Transcontinental Air Transport-Maddux Aairline’s plane at Mars Hill airport Sunday evening during a snowfall, in which one passenger was killed and two injured. Coroner Keever indicated he would return an official verdict In three or four days, but that evidence indicated the tragedy was accidental. Other Probes On Other investigations were being conducted by T. A. T. officials and Inspector Charles Wethern of the department of commerce. D. W. Burford, 28, chief pilot of Columbus, testified before the coroner that the accident occurred as he landed the plane at the south boundary of the field. Visibility was poor, he said, and a sudden gust of wind, while the ship motor was cut out, caused the plane to float and strike a five-foot stump. He testified that he had had no intention of landing here, but attempted it because weather conditions at Terre Haute were unfavorable and because reports showed weather at Richmond and east was unsuited for flying. He attempted to cut the motor in again when the guest of wind struck the plane, he said, but was unable to lift the ship. Cabin Torn Away D. C. Law, Philadelphia, of the Warner Brothers motion picture technical staff, was killed almost instantly. Several feet of the lower part of the cabin were torn away. The injured passengers were C. Mahlon Kline, Philadelphia, president of Smith, Kline, French & Cos., wholesale druggists, and Miss Mary Fearnow, secretary to the T. A. T. assistant manager at St. Louis. Law died in a city hospital ambulance on the way to the T. A. T. office. He was taken to city morgue. The two pilots, courier and eight other passengers were not injured. The remaining passengers continued their journey to Columbus by Pennsylvania train. Because of weather conditions here and Columbus, it had been planned to halt the ship here and send all passengers on by train. First Accident Burford, formerly of Mt. Clemens, Mich., has been in employ of T. "A. T. two years, previously piloting a private mail plane for the Ford Motor Car Company. This was said to have been his first accident. Law and the two injured passengers occupied seats on the left side of the plane. When the plane, unable to stop on the snow, hit the obstruction, the stump ripped a tenfoot gash in the fuselage, crushing Law. He suffered a crushed left leg, several broken ribs, internal injuries and ,it was reported, a fractured skull. • Kline suffered a broken right arm, broken left leg and severe body bruises and internal injuries. Miss Fearnow was suffering mostly from shock. She refused at first to go to the Methodist hospital, where Kline was taken in an ambulance, but later permitted Charles F. De Voe, T. A. T. manager, to take her there in his car. The left motor was tom loose from Its mounting in the accident. Two landing flares were released accidentally in the crash and their glow at first gave the impression; the plane was on fire.

FEAR GIRL GANG VICTIM Disappears Under Eyes of Police Guard; Holdup Witness. Bv United Brest , , DETROIT, Dec. 23—The fate *f Celia Stachura, 18, who pinned her faith on the police and defied the underworld, remained a mystery to* day, three days after she disappeared from her home under the very eyes of a police guard. “Flowers on your grave by Christ* mas,” said a note she received shortly after she had Frank Hallas and Joseph Janicke arrested for holding up her and her escort, Frank KaJman. Celia Stachura is the second witness against Hallas and Janicke to disappear just before scheduled to testify. HOSPITAL BIDS OPENED Health Board Awaits Report of Consulting Engineers. Bids for construction of the pro--posed city hospital building were opened today by the” city health board and turned over to Robert Frost Daggett, architect, and C. R. Ammerman, consulting engineer, for tabulation and a report. The Service Construction Com* pup's bid at to*