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‘PAY salaries; IS PLEA MADE BY EDUCATORS Teachers, Superintendents of South Bitter Over ‘Destitution.’ GROUP TO VISIT LESLIE Political Issue Pointed Out in Failure of State Aid Plan. BY BEN STERN Times Staff CorresDomlrnt BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Dec. 27. “Give us this day our daily bread,” was the plaint of seventy-five southe n Indiana teachers and superint r dents, who met in the city hall here today to discuss methods v : ereby they would receive back j v from bankrupt state aid school t porations. The chairman, D. L. Maylie, princ ■ oal of the Stinesville high school, id also chairman of the Monroe c mnty teachers organization, was e rpowered to appoint a committee o five to meet with Governor Harry ( . Leslie Jan. 4 and lay before him t ir grievances. ''.'ales of destitution resultant from .bility of township trustees to pay 1 ck salaries for one, two and three : ars were told by the teachers. I aylie declared that there is owing 1 :n $2,000 back pay, and that he <, n not borrow any more money Irani the bank. Paying Interest He said he is paying 8 per cent on loans against his unpaid salary. “I can see in this failure to pay the teachers one of the best political Issues ever turned up in Indiana, but we will not resort to politics,” Maylie said. “When we sent out the letters calling this meeting, we wondered if the teachers could obtain sufficient money to pay train or bus fare, or buy gasoline with which to come here.” Bitter criticism of the promises made by Roy T. Wisehart state superintendent of. public instruction,, of an early payment of state aid was voiced by Maylie. “Some jellyfish, yellow-backed teachers have accepted these promises and didn’t come to the meeting. We have been receiving promises for three years. I am sick and tired of them,” he said. Maylie also bitterly critised the inefficiency of Harry Kirk state aid auditor, calling him “Pussy-footed Kirk.” Six Months to Check He declared that newspapers had stated that Kirk had said that state aid would be issued as soon as claims were filed and checked. “It takes Kirk six months to check one claim, he can't even figure them up correctly. Wisehart has said that those who come first will be first served on payment of claims. I’ll be there in the morning.” Maylie continued. Sixty teachers declared the state owed them SSOO each or more, and seven said that the state owed them SI,OOO or more. E. C. Dilley, of Solsberry, Greene county, declared that the state owed him more than $1,500 in back pay, and that the eighteen or twenty teachers whom he represented had more than $25,000 coming in back pay. Has to Pay Taxes “I have to pay taxes on the $1,500 which the state owes me,” Dilley said. “I would like to see school dismissed early this spring,” said Dilley, “Perhaps then I could go out and earn enough money so that I could teach again next winter." Immediate steps to be taken by the state in solving state aid problems include a questionnaire being sent out by Governor Harry G. Leslie to township trustees, and early distribution of new state aid funds by Roy P. Wisehart, state superintendent of public instruction. Fund distribution will start about Jan. 25. Wisehart announced. It will be handled on the plan of “first come first served.” This will give the townships an opportunity to get the money before making expenditures and save bank interest, he said.

LAKE CO, PAVING LET Hammond Firm Awarded 580,842 Contract for Upstate Roads. Henry Downey Construction Company, Hammond, received an SBO,842.60 contract from the state highway department for paving in Lake county. The project includes three miles on Roads 30 and 41 between Dyer, Schererville and Highland. One mile will be widened from 18 to 22 feet, and two miles of new 22-foot pavement contsructed. BLAST KILLS ONE MAN Two Others Injured a a Creamery's Acetylene Tank Bursts. Ru United Press WAUKESHA, Wis., Dec. 27.—Emil Braman was killed and two other men were injured when an acetylene tank exploded today at the factory of the Creamery Package Company. The explosion blew off both Bram&n's legs. Otto Adrian lost both hands in the blast and John Frans was burned painfully.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 197

'Hot Dog ’ Mayor Proves Friend of the Commoner

liu I nited Press DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 27. Mayor J. Waddy Tate, who rode into office on the electorate’s partiality to the “hot dog,” surveyed a year of public life today and his record as a champion of “the common man.” Mayor Tate released 150 city prisoners to join their families for the Christmas season. Other in his record follow: Removed spikes from the railings around the city hall so

POLICE AUTO TURNS OVER Six Unhurt in Accident; Icy Street Blamed. Four policemen and two newspaper reporters escaped without a scratch when a police Stutz emergency touring car, speeding at fifty miles an hour, skidded on icy pavement and overturned at Sherman drive and Massachusetts avenue at noon today. Striking a bump in the road, the big machine swerved through a fence, missed two telephone poles and turned over on its left side. In the car were Sergeant John Sheehan, Thomas Aulls, driver; patrolmen Albert Kelly and F. C. Davis, John Slaughter, Times’ reporter, and Bud Innis, Indianapolis News’ reporter. Deputy sheriffs, close behind in another car, also aided Sergeant Sheehan’s detail in righting the emergency car. It w’as not damaged seriously, and the emergency and the sheriff’s car continued to Law ? rence, to investigate a report that three Negroes, answering descriptions of a trio sought here for many burglares and holdups, were eating in a restaurant there. Searching the suburb’s cases the police and deputy sheriffs were forced to return to the city emptyhanded.

MOBSMEN GIVE UP Deputy Marshal Is Among Alleged Lynchers. Bu United Press JACKSON. Ky.. Dec. 27.—Five of six men charged with malicious shooting in warrants sworn to late Thursday by Chester Fugate, 35, just before he died from wounds inflicted by a mob, surrendered to police here today. The men all were relatives of Green Watkins, a farmer, whom Fugate shot and killed last week. The mob subsequently took Fugate from the jail here, stripped him, fired nine bullets into his body, and threw him into a snowdrift. The accused are Bent Howard, deputy marshal; L. K. Rice, Allie Watkins, Samuel J. Watkins and Earl Howard, all of near Quicksand. The sixth man, Leo Watkins of Hazard, notified officers he would surrender. The killing of Watkins was said to have resulted from a family feud. PEDDLER REFUSES TO TRADE ON INFIRMITY Blind Man Insistent Brooms He Sells Be Bought on Merit. Bu United Press peddlers of one kind or another are commonplace in any city. Their principal sales appeal is pity. But try and buy C. D. Kaufman’s wares out of pity and see how far you get—the sale will not be made for the energetic blind traveling salesman sells his handsome product on its merits, not on sentiment. Kaufman resides in Williston, K D. He has been blind since youth but with admirable industry and determination overcame his handicap. For years he has been engaged in the manufacture of brooms. Once each year he travels throughout Montana and North Dakota and the excellence of his product has won him a wide and profitable trade.

‘USE PREVENTIVE,’ PLEA AS MENINGITIS TOLL HITS 30

Use of a preventive by every resident in Indianapolis was urged | today by Dr. Herman G. Morgan. ; city health commissioner, as the re- \ port of five additional deaths boosted the total spinal meningitis fatalities to thirty. Three additional cases were admitted to city hospital and a fourth was reported, making the total number of cases forty-seven. Dr. William A. Doppers, hospital superintendent, reported. Additional deaths, all In city hospital: Lillian Stevens, 31, Negro, 2408 Carolina avenue; Crawford Davis, 22. of Franklin; Alfred Schutte. 31. of R. F. D. No. 3, Box 120; Charles Caricio, 7, Negro, 2710 Oxford street; Mattie R. Carter 63, nf 1361 Ewing street. All known carriers of the disease have been Quarantined to preyent

loiterers might sit down. Ordered removal of all “keep off the grass” signs from public grounds. Ordered parks kept open twenty-four hours a day for “spooners.” Sold all the zoo’s boa constrictors and other reptiles to buy a herd of donkeys so poor children might enjoy the bridle path pleasures of the rich. Installed a refrigerator in his office in which he keeps red soda and lemon sour for callers.

BUSSELL RYAN GETS PARK JOB Prominent Lawyer Named Raub’s Successor. Russell J. Ryan, prominent Democratic lawyer and city election commissioner in the recent city campaing, will become park board and recreation attorney Jan. 10, succeeding Edward B. Raub Jr., resigned. Ryan was appointed by the present park board after conference with Reginald H. Sullivan, mayor-elect, who takes office Jan. 6. The position pays an annual salary of $3,000, but does not require full time employment. Raub, a member of the law firm of Matson, Carter, Ross & McCord, will become manager of the Lafayette Life Insurance Company investment department. He is a son of Edward B. Raub Sr., city council president. Ryan is one of a number of Wabash college graduates who are to receive city berths during Sullivan’s regime. Sullivan is a Wabash man. Ryan is a member of the law firm of Ryan, Ruckelshaus & Ryan. He was county attorney in 1925, having served as a major in the One Hundred Fifty-ninth infantry in the World war. He is a member of Murat Shrine Scottish Rite and Second Presbyterian church. Mrs. Rhoda A. Hanley, Negro, 839 West Twenty-fifth street, gave the park board an application with the signature of E. Kirk McKinney, Democratic city chairman, and was appointed matron at J. T. V. Hill community house. LINDYS LEAVE ON TRIP Flying Colonel and Wife Depart for Western Destination. Bu United Preen CURTISS FIELD, VALLEY STREAM, L, 1., Dec. 27.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh started today for an unannounced destination in the west. They were flying Colonel Lindbergh’s Curtiss Falcon biplane, and were uderstood to be en route for an inspection trip. WEATHER UNSETTLED Ice-Coated Pavements Create Hazard for All. Unsettled, cold weather is booked for a short showing in Indianapolis today and Saturday, according to J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist. Abnormal temperatures Thursday and today melted much of the snow on city streets, although freezing last night coated the pavements with ice, creating a hazard to pedestrians and vehicular traffic. WOUNDED COP~VICTOR Kills One Bandit and Captures Mate in Gun Fight By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.—Although wounded by a holdup man, Patrolman George B. Marshman returned the fire today, killed one of the robbers and captured another. Marshman surprised the bandits as they were holding up a garage, and was shot in the hip. He killed Neil Storm, 25. Leo Potts, 23, member of the naval reserve, surrendered after an exchange of shots. At Central Emergency hospital it was said that Marshman’s condition was serious.

spread. Schools will be permitted to reopen Jan. 6, unless the epidemic continues to spread, Dr. Morgan said. expressing the view that there would be doubtful benefit from bani ning all public meetings. Orville Campbell, 31, of R. F. D. No. 16, Box 333; Rosetta Lester, Negro. 1040 North West street, and Pauline Muellner, 8, of 821 Villa avenue, have been admitted to the city hospital contagious ward where a special corps of physicians and nurses are battling the malady. Irwin Harvey, 62, was reported stricken ill at his home, 3138 Kenwood avenue. He was not removed to the hospital. Dr. Morgan explained that the cause of the malady is known and the germs can be killed easily If the public will co-operate by use of nasal and mouth washes.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1929

WHITE HOUSE BACKS BORAH DRYCHARGES Hoover Law Commission to Support Accusation of Incompetence. PASS UNOFFICIAL WORD Coming Report to Include Shakeup, Suggestions, Strong Patrols. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. The administration has been remolding the personnel of the nation’s law enforcement army quietly during the last few weeks and further changes are contemplated, it was learned authoritatively today. Five administrators have been shifted within the last few weeks and a sixth has been dropped without any other explanation than that it was “for the good of the service.” The assurance that further changes are contemplated has been passed along from the White House, by the grapevine route, to the congressional drys who recently rallied behind the statement of Senator Borah (Rep, Idaho) that “personnel from top to bottom” is what is wrong with prohibition enforcement. Bolstered Publicly These assurances will be bolstered publicly when the law enforcement commission submits a report to congress early in the new year, as exclusively reported- by the United Press, Dec. 25. The report will support Borah’s contention and make recomendations for corrective legislation, including proposals to enlarge the border patrol and diminish the number of ports of entry, as well as the plan to relieve court congestion by enlarging the power of the lower tribunals. The manner in which the swift developments came within the last few days to stir a political prohibition furore over the holidays, is one of the strangest of official Washington stories. It came just as preparations were being made for celebrating the tenth aniversary of prohibition, Jan. 16, and also as the Anti-Saloon League leaders were writing the agenda for their annual convention at Detroit next month. Harris Starts Things Senator Harris, dry Democrat from Georgia, started the affair before congress adjourned last week, introducing a resolution to demand a report from the law enforcement commission before congress acts to appropriate prohibition enforcement funds for next year. Harris was called to the White House and later, the same day, Borah issued his statement. Almost simultaneously the United Press learned the law enforcement commission was contemplating just such a report on the prohibition situation as Borah outlined in his attack upon the enforcement personnel. Norris Steps Up Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—There never has been a “a fair and honest” attempt to enforce prohibition, Senator Norris, dry Republican of Nebraska, said today. Political influence has played too big a part ir. the selection of prohibition enforcement officers, Norris asserted. He charged that in some instances bootleggers have named the dry agents for their districts.

UNCOVER RUM RING 100 Chicago Firms Are Watched by Authorities. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—The flow of industrial alcohol into the hands of bootleggers via the back doors of supposedly reputable business firms had brought about a vigil by prohibition officers at the doors of more than 100 Chicago firms today and intimations of an alcohol bootlegging ring of national proportions. Millions of dollars’ worth of alcohol had been traced by investigators from concerns which withdrew legally into bootlegging channels during a six-month watch along the industrial alcohol “front,” it was revealed. A liquor syndicate whose operations touched as far as New York on the east and Denver on the west was uncovered, investigators said. Fanner Asks Bankruptcy Voluntary bankruptcy petitions were filed in federal court today by Henry S. Dickey, Hamilton county farmer, and his wife, Mrs. Ruth Dickey. * Negroes Held for Grand Jury Ben Gorwins, Negro, 354 Indiana avenue, and Mrs. Bertha Demetroff, 2610 Sherman Drive, arrested by federal dry agents on liquor charges several weeks ago, today were held to the federal grand Jury under $2,500 bond each by John W. Kem, United States commissioner.

BEES’ KNEES ARE KNEES

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BY ARCH STEINEL IF any one ever tells you it’s the spider’s brassiere, you believe ’em—for they may have, just like the “bee’s knees,” and the bees sure have knees. Now ever since the anatomy of giraffes and elephants, qualified with the “snake’s hips” in adulatory comment, we’ve tried to find out whether a bee really knelt on a knee when he kneels. He does! George S. Demuth, editor of the Gleanings in Bee Culture, of Medina, O, today put knees on bees for us a few moments before he addressed the Indiana State Bee Keepers’ Association in the house of representatives at the statehouse.

According to Frank Wallace, state entomologist, Demuth knows more about bees than any other man in the world. Without honeyed phrases, he explained that a bee has six legs. “The legs have joints and so the bees must have knees,” he asserted as he delved into the life of the nation’s most misunderstood insect. 000 AND if you think that’s old stuff, Demuth will tell you, how the honey-bee has been touched by the divorce virus of we moderns. Good old-fashioned queen-bees CLEAR TUNNEY IN BALM SUIT Plea for Judgment Against Woman Is Granted. Bn United Press BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 27. Gene Tunney today was given judgment over Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, who had sued him for , $500,000 for alleged breach of ! promise. Mrs. Fogarty decided against ; pressing her suit, but Tunney’s : counter-action, demanding judg- | ment, was granted by Judge Carl Foster. Tunney did not appear in court. He was believed in Greenwich with his wife, the former Polly Lauder, at the home of his mother-in-law, Mrs. George Lauder Sr. The former champion was represented by Attorney Raymond Hackett, partner of Homer S. Cummings, Tunney’s legal representative.

JAPAN, CHINA SPLIT Severed Relations May Be Envoy Fight Result. Up United Press TOKIO, Dec. 27.—Virtual severance of diplomatic relations with China is planned by the Japanese government, it is understood, in event the Chinese Nationalist government persist in refusing to accept Yukichi Obata as Japanese minister. Japan’s first move, it is said, will be to request the recall of the Chinese minister to Japan and thereafter refuse to accept a successor. Japanese consuls will continue to carry on the routine work in connection with problems that might arise. BESSiifTO WED TONIGHT Film Celebrities to Be Present at Hollywood Ceremony. Bp United Press HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 7. —Bessie Love, film actress, will become the bride of William Hawks here tonight in a church wedding to which several hundred guests have been invited. Blanche Sweet will be matron of honor and the bridesmaids will include Bebe Daniels, Carmel Myers, Norma Shearer and Mary Astor. KILLED TO HEAR ‘POP’ Soldier Admits Fatal Shooting of “Buddy” Christmas Eve. Bu United Press BROOKLYN, Dec. 27.—Because he wanted to hear his gun “pop,” Louis Galvano, 21, a private in Company E, First engineers, U. S. A., at Ft. Dupont, Del., shot and killed his “buddy,” private Arthur Kline, on Christmas eve, he confessed to Brooklyn police. Too Many Rubies Bu United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 27.—There are so many women in Atlanta named Ruby Jones that Ruby Jones —of many—recently was refused permission to open a bank account here, and had to go to Norcross to avoid additional confusion.

Not So Perfect By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—William Murray, business man, dealt himself thirteen hearts in a bridge game and lost the bid. He stammered out a bid of seven on the perfect heart hand. The next player, Earl Merritt, holding twelve clubs to the King and the Ace of diamonds, passed. Then Murray’s partner, Eric Turner, with twelve spades, including the Ace and Queen, and the Ace of clubs, bid seven spades. Turner fulfilled his contract by trumping the lead of the fourth man, James Adams, who had twelve diamonds and the King of spades, and then taking Adams’ King with the Ace.

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fell head over heels in love only once; but now, Demuth says, in abnormal cases queens have been known to find a couple of Rudy Vallees, in a hive with the resultant divorce and remarriage. The drone, or male bee, is the unluckiest creature since Adam was a biblical name. He can’t sting. When the queen is tired of him, she gives a couple “buz-zits” to her working bees and they either toss Mister Drone out on his suspenders or sting him to death. He can’t sting back, so it’s either die by starvation or knifed in the back. No! Hon! bees are good for something else besides making honey for biscuits. A good colony of bees, says De Muth (that’s about 50,000 nectarneckers), act as marriage priestess to flowers and fruit-trees. In plain Americanese they’re the justices of the peace for the daisies, the dandelions and the crabapples. They carry the male over to visit the female flower, introduce them, hold a regulation ring ceremony and

wish “them happiness ever afterward and that all their troubles may be little ones.” 000 “TJEES,” declares Demuth, “are -D older than Adam and Eve. They were on this earth centuries before we were. Asia is their birthplace.” And mother can have hope for us now after the many expressions of “you move too slow for any use,” for Demuth says that slow motion is the one method to prevent bees from stinging you in taking a comb of honey from a hive. “A quick movement angers them and they sting. But a slow, easy-

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going method of handling will prevent stings.” Demuth should know. He’s been keeper to more than 1,600,000,000 bees in the last forty years. If you don’t believe him, try it out on your own beehive. BANKERJSJUTCIDE Stock Market Believed Cause for Act. By United Press BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.—Sewell S. Watts, 60, a partner in the investment banking firm of Baker, Watts & Cos., was found shot to death today in his garage. Clutched in his right hand was a new revolver with one cartridge exploded. It is said Watts lost heavily in the stock market collapse last November. Police who were called to the garage after Watts’ body was found, summoned Coroner Link, who gave a verdict of suicide. SUSPECTS^OUT ON BOND Feed Store Owner and Clerk Held in Montezuma Still Freed. Mario Bonocarsi, Clinton wholesale sugar and feed store proprietor, arrested by federal dry agents several days ago in connection with a huge still confiscated near Montezuma Ind., has been released from jail on $15,000 bond. Vittorio Bonnuchi, his clerk, was released on SIO,OOO bond.

GARAGE SWEPT BY FIRE, DAMAGE NEARLY $20,000

Damage of between $17,000 and $20,000 resulted from fire at the Ted Madden garage, 1717 Pierson street, this morning, when a short circuit in a light cord set fire to a bucket of gasoline. Eight automobiles were destroyed by the flames and the building, a one-story concrete structure, was gutted. Damage to the building wrs $2,000, covered by insurance. Insurance adjusters were unable to give definite figures on damage to the automobiles, but estimates placed this damage ia excess of

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GUNFIRE BALKS STOREBANDITS One Thought Wounded in Attempted Holdup. Police this afternoon looked to hospitals and doctors offices throughout central Indiana for possible clews to the identity of two bandits whose attempt to hold up a Standard grocery at 1658 East Raymond street this morning was frustrated by gun fire. Shotgun bullets sprayed their automobile as they made their getaway. One of them is believed wounded by a bullet fired by Frank S. Fields, 44, of 1656 East Raymond street, manager of the grocery. Fields was beaten about the head with a revolver butt by the man at whom he shot. Fleeing the scene in a large touring car, the bandits became the target for a shotgun load of No. 4 shot fired at them by Harry Donelson of 1653 East Raymond street. Fired at close range, the shot struck the automobile as it had difficulty in getting under way, due to icy pavement. His wife in the meantime telephoned police headquarters. The bandits got only $4 in small change. The bandit car went west on Raymond street. Its license plates were covered with mud and could not be read. SCHURMAN RESIGNS Action Is Accepted by President Hoover. Bu United Press BERLIN, Dec. 27.—President Hoover informed American Ambassador Jacob Gould Schurman today that the ambassador’s resignation had been accepted. Schurman, who is planning to return to the United States Jan. 3, canceled his prssage, but will leave late next month. The ambassador first asked to be relieved in March. He asked again in July, but it was understood his cable from the White House today was the first response to his requests. LOCAL WOMAN WILL BE BURIED SATURDAY Body on View to Relatives and Friends in City Mortuary. Funeral services for Mrs. Matilda Moor, sister of Mrs. Elizabeth Kelly, 2422 North Capitol avenue, who died Thursday night, will be held at the Flanner and Buchanan mortuary at 3 p. m. Saturday. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the mortuary Friday afternoon and evening. Survivors are the sister, a nephew and nieces, Walter C. Kelly and Mary A. Jakobi, both of Indianapolis; John P. Jakobi of New York City, Sadi and Leonard Jakobi of Los Angeles and Mrs. Anna Jakobi Walters of Portland, Ore. S2OO in Merchandise Stolen Burglars entering the Haines Ziviaen department store at 820 East Sixty-third street Thursday night took merchandise valued at about S2OO.

Cars destroyed were as follows: Packard sedan, owned by Robert Brown of 1733 North Meridian street: Oldsmobile, owned by J. J. Langdon, R. R. 4; International truck, owned by Robert Skaggs, Thirtieth street and L. E. & W. railway; Studebaker sedan, owned by C. A. Dean of 2320 Coyner street: Chevrolet coach, owned by Richard Hermesrey, Admiral apartments; Ford secan, owned by Edwa McGwinn, 2709 North Meridian street; Maxwell sedan, owned by Detective Guaranty Association; Chrysler sedan, owned by Dr. C. E. Cm at lS3i Hortii Meridian street

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LOCAL BANDIT TRIO SOUGHT IN KENTUCKY Airplanes Aid in Hunt for Bank Raiders, Killers of President. TWO BELIEVED WOUNDED Gangsters Thought to Have Escaped From Woods During Night. Bu Times Suecini SMITH'S GROVE, Ky„ Dec. 27. A posse of 2,000 grim and infuriated Kentuckians spread over hills and valleys and beat through dense woods today seeking three Indianapolis bandits, afoot, two of them wounded, bearing SI,OOO in bank loot. Meanwhile, airplanes from Louisville circled about searching for traces of the bandit trio, also wanted for the murder of J. Robert Kirby, 45, president of the Fanners’ bank of Smith’s Grove, who, with a volunteer posse, contested their escape, after they had robbed the Oakland (Ky.) bank. Fleeing on foot, after the stolen car they used in the holdup crashed into a barricade at Hays, the bandit trio is believed to have escaped during the night through a cordon of possemen drawn around a woods near Hays. Traveling on Foot They are believed to be traveling on foot across the country; since the posse pentrated the grove at dawn today, but found no trace of them. Search of the tangled undergrowth was continued on the possibility the three had taken refuge in some thicket while others of the posse of 2,000 began a search across country. Under military organization, with Erigadier-Generai H. H. Denhardt of the Kentucky national guard, in charge, the giant posse had undertaken a systematic patrol of the L. & N. railway lines and of all possible means of exit from the section. The country is honeycombed with caves and all the entrances were being searched on the theory the trio had taken refuge in some of them. Armed possemen entered one cave at dawn today but found no trace of the bandits. Tear gas bombs and national guard rifles have been issued to the posse members and an entire company of national guardsmen Is assisting while two other companies were being mobilized this morning to go to the scene. Three bandits entered the Oakland bank Thursday morning and escaped with SI,OOO. Word was flashed to surrounding towns, and at Smith’s Grove escape of the bandit car was contested by a volunteer posse, of which President Kirby of the Farmers bank was a member. The posse fired on the bandit car and the shots were returned, Kirby being fatally wounded and Charles Beard, 22, being wounded in the foot. Car Is Disabled

The bandit car was disabled by the shots of the posse and later was found abandoned. A machine gun also was left behind. Previously the bandits had been prevented, by close pursuit, from escaping to another car bearing an Indiana license, issued to Elmer Grayson of 722 Madison avenue, Indianapolis, which had been parked for a get-away after a switch of cars. The automobile used in the holdup was stolen at Nashville, Tenn. Grayson’s car had not been reported stolen to Indianapolis police, it was learned on a checkup. Investigation at Bowling Green identified the three men as residents of Indianapolis. They had been at Bowling Green since last Monday, evidently spying out the surrounding territory in anticipation of the robbery. Clothing belonging to the three was found in the abandoned car with the Indiana license. Brush Fires Built Two of the bandits are known to have been wounded in the exchange of shots at Smith’s Grove. Afoot and wounded, it Is believed the three might part company to facilitate escape. Posse members had orders from Brigadier-General Denhardt to shoot to kill at the first sign of resistance. Sheriff T. L. Ferguson of Bowling Green, commanding one division of the posse, had charge of the building of brush fires about the wooded section during the night to prevent escaped of the bandit. STATE TROOPER KILLED Another Pensylvania Officer Wound- ' ed tn Battle With Bandits. fit/ Vv't+d Prt’x* NEWCASTLE, Pa., Dec. 27. State Trooper Brady Paul, 26, was shot to death and Trooper Ernest Moore, 26, was wounded in a battle with bandits today. There was a woman with the bandits, it was reported. They made their escape in a car stolen from a man on the highway, leaving him their machine, a small model, which l>ore an Ohio license. Hourly Temperatures r. m 38 10 a. m 38 7a. m 38 11 a. m 40 8„a. m,.... 37 12 (noon).. 41 $ 4 27 l ••••!§