Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 224, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1930 — Page 1

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COUNTY READY FOR PROBE OF SALARYORDER Jury to Seek Facts About •Missing’ Record of Pay Boost. OFFICIALS TO TESTIFY Action Is Taken After War of Court Reporters for Increases. Primed with facts shedding light on the “missing” county record which gave eight Marion county court reporters a S3OO annual salary raise, artillery of the office of Prosecutor Judson L. Stark today was trained toward an approaching grand jury probe, which, it was reported, may implicate at least five county officials. Stark announced he will take personal charge of the investigation, with Vinson Manifold, grand jury deputy prosecutor, assisting, to bring before the quiz body testimony in a chain of evidence showing an alleged “deliberate” destruction of the record.

Hearing Is Postponed Date for the supreme court hearing of a writ of prohibition, obtained recently by counsel for commissioners. preventing Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin from enforcing an order for the salary boosts, was postponed today to Feb. 6. It was to have been held Wednesday. Smoldering quarrels between judiciary of eight major county courts and a group of county officials. who form the Coffin political faction, flamed anew Monday. Criminal Judge James A. Collins and se\*n other judges took up the fight for court reporters’ salary by hurling accusations at County Auditor Harry Dunn. County Attorney Clinton H. Givan and county commissioners that the record has been “destroyed.” Raising of the reporters’ salaries rest with Commissioners John E. Shearer, George Snider and Charles O. Sutton. These members are charged with signing a draft in January, 1929, approving the raise, on which judges predicated eight individual orders, increasing each reporter's pay from $2,400 to $3,000. Salary Increased County council, although allowing the $3,000 salary last year, declined to continue the salary allowance through 1930 and appropriated only 52.400 for each reporter. Salaries have been rejected until differences are settled. Grand jurors will be summoned before Collins Wednesday morning for i. f ruction in the investigation, with Tries G. Fitch, 2317 North Del? street, acting as foreman. I while, county officials under ~ion were retaliating to the judiciary's accusations with charges that the outbreak is a “political play,” with this vear’s election In view. They back .ueir remarks with knowledge that the judges probably will be candidates for re-election. "Political Play” “This reputed scandal has all the earmarks of a political play.” Shearer said. “It appears to me they are attempting to bring themselves to the ‘front’ for a reason.” Dunn explained the situation by asserting the order which Judges claim they saw, was one in which commissioners expressly disapproved the raise. He said a tentative draft, calling for the salary boost never had been signed by commissioners, and it was this order, he said, which the judges saw. Chamberlin, following conferences last week with Dunn and Givan, said Dunn admitted the record was destroyed. Dunn “Rolled Around” He quoted Dunn as insisting the latter had "been rolled around in politics until he didn't know where he stood” and “knew definitely that the record load been destroyed.” Reporters’ salary raise question has been a bone of contention in the Coffin county council through three recent sessions. Inferences that Givan, advisor to the Coffin group in matters of law as well as political maneuvers, has accurate knowledge of the record's disappearance, also have been made by the judges.

BANKERS GIVEN TERMS 12 Looters of Flint Institution Get Six Months to 20 Years. Bu United Press FLINT, Mich.. Jan. 28—Twelve of the fifteen former officials, who plundered the Union Industrial Bank of Flint of $3,500,000 to play the stock market, were sentenced today to terms ranging from six months to twenty years in Jackson prison on embezzlement charges. Charges against the other three were dropped for lack of evidence. Fire Damages Lodge Home Bv United Brest VINCENNES, Ind., Jan. 28.—Fire caused $5,000 damage to the Masonic lodge building here Monday lur.ht. Defective wiring was blamed. hourly temperatures 6 a. m.... 29 10 a- m 22 7 a. m.... 28 11 a. m 21 8 a. m.... 24 12 (noon).. 22 oa. m.... 22 Ipi m..... 22

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Busy as a Bee Paging a red-haired woman from Beeville, Tex., who, as alleged representative of the-Red Ant Gas and Oil Company, Beeville, put the "bee’' on several Indianapolis and Kokomo citizens for some SIO,OOO worth of fake oil stock. Such is the allegation of Earle Coble, chief examiner of the state securities commission. Posing as “Mrs. Florence Huntington” and “Mrs. Florence E. Hanford,” the woman obtained several SI,OOO customers in Indianapolis and Kokomo, although most investments were in smaller amounts, Coble said.

SON AVENGES FATHER'S DEATH Kills Slayer While Latter Is Being Shaved. Ill i r nitnl Press TEMPLE, Okla., Jan. 28.—1n silence broken only by the staccato bark of his six shooter, Jim Graham evened up the score with Harry Adair as the latter sat in a barber’s chair being shaved today. Adair once was convicted of killing Graham’s father, the city marshal here. The son made no threats. He bided his time. No words were needed when Graham walked into the barber shop. He waited calmly until the barber had finished shaving Adair and lifted the towel from his face. Then he started shooting. Adair was killed instantly. INJURIES ARE FATAL Jesse Mann Is Twelfth Victime of Autos Since Jan. 1. The twelfth traffic fatality in Indianapolis since Jan. 1, Jesse E. Mann, 50, of 722 North Delaware street, died at his home at 5 this morning from injuries suffered Jan. 5. Mann was struck at St. Clair street and Park avenue by ar truck driven by William Metz, 23, of 900 East Eleventh street, Apt. 2. The widow, a daughter, Mrs. John Masters of Greensburg, two sons, Wilbur Mann of Greensburg and Arthur Mann of Madison, Wis., and three brothers, A. C. Mann of Pairland; C. O. Mann of Indianapolis, and Theodore Mann of Ft. Wayne, survive. REAR ADMIRAL DIES Thomas Snowden Passes After Long Illness. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.—Rear Admiral Thomas Snowden. 72, died at his home here Monday night. Snowden, division and squadron commander of the Atlantic fleet, during the World war. had been :11 almost continuously since his retirement from the United States navy in 1921. He devoted almost his entire life to a naval career, spending more than forty years in the service. He was graduated from Annapolis in 1879. SENATOR DENIES CHARGE Caraway Accused of Making Speech to Importers for SSOO. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—A veiled charge that Chairman Caraway made a speech before importers “for SSOO, or something like that,” caused a heated argument at today’s session of the senate lobby Investigation committee. "You know that isn't so. that It is a lie,” Caraway shouted at Arthur L. Faubel, secretary ©f the American Tariff League, the witness, who had made the charge. ACQUITTED OF BRIBERY Chicago Night Life Figure Freed in Slot Machine Case. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Jan. 28.—James (High Pockets) O'Brien, colorful figure in Chicago night life, was acquitted today of conspiracy to bribe jurors in the so-called million dollar slot machine case by a jury that deliberated ten minutes.

COMMUNISTS DEFY COPS ON MARCHING

Bu United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28 Danger of another clash of Communists and police was raised today by decision of Communist leaders to defy a police order regarding marching in the funeral procession of Steve Katovis, shot by a policeman. A protest mass meeting was to be held by Communists at Union Square at noon and later a large group, estimated at possibly 10.000, was expected to attempt to follow the coffin of Katovis from Union Square to Fortieth street Police had prescribed another route which

HEAVY DEATH TOLL IN FLOOD AREA FEARED . Relief Fliers Assert Many Houses Without Signs of Inhabitants. ANOTHER PLANE SENT Red Cross Establishes Food Depot for Sufferers at Evansville. Bv Times Rvccial VINCENNES, Ind.. Jan. 28—Relief, rushed overland and through the air, today was believed to have reached the majority of stricken families in southwestern Indiana’s flood areas, according to H. B. Williamston, national Red Cross representative in charge of flood relief. New reports of isolated groups came chiefly from the regions near the mouth of the Wabash river, in Indiana and Illinois, and south of the Indiana line, in Illinois, along the Ohio river, he said. A fourth national guard plane, piloted by Lieutenants Howard Maxwell and Wilbur B. Morgan, was ordered to the base at Evansville today by Adjutant-General Manford G. Henley, after a conference with Major R. F. Taylor, commanding the One hundred thirteenth observation squadron, to which planes are attached. Express Death Fear After flying above the flooded regions since Thursday, national guard fliers today expressed fear that death may have taken a heavy toll during recent floods. In several homes in which signs of life were visible from the air when the fliers first observed them, no signs of human habitation have been seen in the last two or three days, according to the major and other pilots. Two families, believed to have sought refuge in the home of Daddy Blackburn, near Mt. Vernon, are believed to have perished when the house was submerged by high waters, according to reports from Mt. Vernon. Food Depots Started The Red Cross today established food depots in Evansville from which the pilots will obtain parcels to be dropped to marooned families. Dr. William F. King, director of the state health department, will be in Vincennes today in conference with H. B. Williamson, national Red Cross representative, in charge of flood relief. After recession of flood waters, leaving huge ice cakes in Posey county lowlands, the Wabash began to rise again this morning, flooding the low country. An ice gorge, eight miles in extent, had formed near the mouth of the lower Wabash, according to reports, damming the stream. It threatened destruction of a score of homes and barns in bottom lands. Appeal for Rescue An appeal was sent today to Evansville for an outboard motorboat to rescue twenty persons stranded on Cutoff island, opposite New Harmony. Two men who went into the flood regions several days ago are missing. Captain Earl W. Sweeney flew Clyde Baird, Vincennes, to Claypool Hill, where fifty-six families are isolated. Making a perilous landing on a hilllside, Captain Sweeney left Baird to establish a food depot in the colony. RELIEF FUNDJ!I3,IOO Red Cross Is to Continue Flood Aid Drive. The Indianapolis fund for Red Cross relief of flood victims in southwestern Indiana today had mounted to $13,100, with oontribui tions of more than S7OO since Monday, according to William Fortune, chairman of the local Red Cross ; chapter. The drive will continue, he said, with broadcasts from WKBF and WFBM here, and over radio stations in the state.

would take the procession to Queensborough bridge. Several hundred mounted and foot police were ordered to oppose any attempt of the machers to follow their announced route. It was said at police headquarters that the Communists would not be permitted to ‘‘march all over town" in the ‘‘glorification of Katovis’ body." Katovis was shot when he was on picket duty in a market workers’ strike. Communists who attempted to demonstrate in front of city hall Saturday were driven away by police who charged the crowd, swinging their fist* and batons.

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Lone Eaglet? Bv United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 28—The Daily Mirror in a copyrighted story today said that Colonel Charles A. Lindberg and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, expect to become parents on or about April 23. In view of that anticipation, the story continued, Lindbergh has reserved a suite for his wife in the Harkness pavilion of the Presbyterian hospital here.

FIRE TRUCK AND BUS IN WRECK Broken Leg for One Only, Collision Casualty. En route to a fire at East St. Clair street and the Union railway tracks, a pumper truck from fire station No. 1, at 443 Indiana avenue, collided with a Peoples Motor Coach bus at Michigan and North Meridian streets today, injuring one fireman. The injured man, Humphrey Williams, Negro, 451 Indiana avenue, suffered a broken leg when he was catapulted from the truck as it crashed with the bus. Both truck and bus were damaged badly. A dozen passengers in the bus were shaken by force of the collision. Fred Morton, Negro, 2059 Boulevard place, was the driver of the fire truck and J. L. Rankin, 1157 Marlow avenue, was at the steering wheel of the bus. Rankin was not arrested. The fire, at the James warehouse, occupied by the National Jobbers and Brokers Company, 720 Davidson street, caused $3,000 damage, $2,000 of which is covered by insurance.

SILENT ON SLAYING Gunwoman, Lover Refuse to Enter Any Plea. Bv United Press NEWCASTLE. Pa., Jan. 28. Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague, sweethearts branded by the state as the killers of Corporal Brady Paul, state highway policeman, were arraigned before Alderman William A. Marshall today and refused to admit or deny their guilt. Neither District Attorney John Powers nor defense attorneys were present at the peculiar hearing before the alderman, attended only by Dague, Mrs. Shroeder, a deputy sheriff and a county detective. Alderman Marshall, after a few perfunctory questions, held the pair without bail for a further hearing within five days.

GALE SWEEPS COAST Storms in Europe Sink Many Small Craft. Bu United Press PARIS, Jan. 28.—Storms, which crippled half a dozen steamships, sunk more than a dozen fishing boats, and caused wide damage on land, developed tornado force early today, after sweeping along the Riviera. The storm extended along the entire length of the Moroccan coast-, where three coastal vessels were sunk. There was snow at Fez and Sefrou. Nine fishing boats were lost at Ferrol, Spain, and the wreckage of three other vessels was swept ashore there as gales made it difficult for ships to enter port. FIRE MENACES - TOWN Cigaret Butt Is Blamed for Blaze at Riverton, Iff. Bv United Press RIVERTON, 111., Jan. 28.—Fire, believed to have been caused by a smoldering cigaret butt, threatened to wipe out the business section here today and was frustrated only by arrival of fire fighting apparatus from Springfield. Four business structures and a residence were destroyed. Loss was estimated at $50,000. No one was hurt. Residents of the town of 2,000 aided firemen.

Indiana s Sunshine Girl Gets Great Opportunity “I consider the Sunshim Girl contest of the Indiana theater as one of the best opportunities for Hoosier talent to display itself that we have had," said Walter D. Hickman, dramatic critic of The Times, who is assisting the theater’s search for footlight and screen stars from this state. “The management has not confined entrants to those who can sing, those who can dance or those who can specialize on any particular thing. But, instead, it has thrown open the doors for entertainers of all kinds, with a few limitations as to age and time, and quite naturally want unmarried girls.” It was pointed out that many of today’s most popular screen and stage stars owe their success to an early opportunity just as that which will be afforded in the Sunshine Girl contest. In addition to being given opportunity of proving that they can make good before a public audience in the state’s largest and finest theater, the five winners will be given cash awards, totaling S2OO, commensurate with their appearances in the week’s regular stage presentation. The contest is for every girl in Indiana and participants from every section where conditions permit of their appearance at the preliminaries are invited. The contest is for the benefit of amateurs only and professional actors and entertainers will be requested to refrain from attempting to enter. Entry blanks to the contest are on Page 8 in this issue of The Times.

U. S. ENVOYS WIN CRUISER PARLEYPOINT Auxiliary Ships Limitation Will Be Subject of Plenary Session. PRESS TO BE ADMITTED American Delegation Will Talk First on Chief Naval Question. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 28.—The American delegation to the naval conference today won its demand for presentation of the case of auxiliary warships limitation first at the next plenary session Thursday. The chief delegates, meeting at St. James palace, also decided that the plenary session would discuss the main conference question in alphabetical order of the countries proposing. The American delegation won a second victory when it was decided to admit certain representatives of the press at the plenary’ session Thursday. Secretary Henry L. Stimson first had urged the press be admitted and offered to give up three seats occupied by American technical experts to permit attendance of reporters.

Differences Discussed An official announcement said discussion of the conference agenda was continued today and the meeting Thursday will set up a committee of principal delegates to study the question further. Reijiro Wakatsukl, chief Japanese delegate, told the press that the Franco-Italian differences had been discussed and that British delegates presented their viewpoint on France’s proposal to have the conference define categories of warships before taking up other questions. Tlie agreement on alphabetical discussion of the main questions means the American delegates will speak first, probably presenting the United States case for auxiliary limitation, that Is, for limitation of cruisers, submarines, torpedo boats, etc., prior to discussion of battleship limitation. Difficulties Arise Discussion of cruiser problems first, had been one of the chief demands of the American delegates in arranging the agenda. The announcement said it had not yet been decided how many press representatives would be admitted. Stimson insisted at least three American news agencies be given seats. It was understood further difficulties in forming the list, arose at today’s meeting when the British suggested the conference proceed with discussion of each country’s tonnage requirements by categories.

RENEW RACE RIOTS Filipinos, Escorting White Girls, Are Beaten. Bv United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28.—Race rioting between whites and Filipinos in California had flared up again today after a few days of apparent truce. Three more arrests had been made. Two Filipinos were jailed after the first San Francisco riot Monday night. They were charged with disturbing the peace after being beaten slightly in a street battle with whites, because they were accompanied by white girls. Their assailants escaped. Reports from Watsonville, in the heart of the Pajaro valley, where the rioting started, were that the Filipinos secretly were arming in anticipation of further attacks. Authorities ordered a resumption if the regular patrol of streets by police, American Legionnaires and Spanish-Amerlcan war veterans.

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AH! ‘DIVINE’ WATER

Zelli Prefers It to Liquors

BY HARRY FERGUSON. United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Jan. 23.—Monsieur Joseph Zelli, whp knows his champagne as well as any night club proprietor in Paris, has come to the United States to get a decent drink of water. For ten years, M. Zelli has been conducting the night club in Paris to which all Americans go even before they see the Eiffel tower. He specializes in good champagne, English jokes and low, sweeping bows. Few American tourists can resist the combination, says M. Zelli, and that accounts for the prosperity that enabled him to open night clubs in London and Capetown.

M. Zelli, on his first visit to this country in fifteen years; in other words, his first visit since prohibition, sipped a little bootleg whisky, frowned and tactfully pronounced it: “Poison.” “But the drinking water,” he said, fondling a glass full of it, “ah, it is divine. It is the best I ever have tasted. No bottled waters in Europe compare with what gushes right out of the taps here. It is as good as champagne. And it is free. What a country!” m m m M. ZELLI’S interest in hard liquor is purely business sense. He dees not sell them in his night club, but specializes in wines and finds few Americans call for whisky. He finds most tourists from the United States are not persons who go around informing Frenchmen how much money their country owes ours, but simple-hearted folk who want to eat dinner in a restaurant where they can ask for soup and get it without making signs at the waiter. “So I crack my jokes only in English,” said M. Zelli triumphantly. "I am supported by Americans. I should have closed the first week if I had depended on French trade. I would prefer to be in America, but really I could not serve my guests poison." Americans who have been to Paris probably will recall the warm glow that spread over them when M. Zelli made his trim bow as they entered and ordered a waiter to take them to the “royal box.” It now develops that every box in Zelli’s is a royal box. but Americans do not know that. “It probably would not matter,” said M. Zelli, “if they did know it. I make them like it.”

MORE COLD COMING 15-Degree Drop of Mercury Tonight’s Forecast. Drop in temperature of almost 15 degrees by tonight was forecast today by J. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist. The thermometer, which stood at 29 degrees at 6 a. m., showed a 7 degree decline in three hours. There is little likelihood of snow, Armington said. Weather throughout the state generally will be fair and colder Wednesday Employment Shows Increase B WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—President Hoover has been informed by the labor department that employment during the week ended Jan. 13 increased by 3.3 per cent over the previous week and jobs are more plentiful in all lines of work, it was stated at the White House today.

BISHOP BLAKE TO WED MISSIONARY

The Rev. Edgar Blake, 60, resident bishop of the Indianapolis area, Methodist Episcopal church, and Miss Mary Jane Eaton, 45, Circleville, 0., were to be married at 2 p. m. today at the home of the bride’s sister in Columbus. Miss Eaton, a foreign missionary since 1917, for several years was principal of the Crandon Institute for Girls in Fnme. Bishop Blake has been directing the Ohio conference of the church since the death of the late Bishop Theodore S. Henderson. The couple was to leave at once on a honeymoon trip through the south, returning to

Presentiment Wife Sees Flier Depart From Course, Then Told of Death.

Jlv United Press Kansas city, mo., Jan. 28. Like wives of men of ships at sea, women of the air lanes must have stout hearts. Every day for six years, Mrs. Rose Laudeman stepped to the door of her home at dusk and watched her husband Dyke, bring his airplane in. He always flew over their home from the hills in the west and roared a salute with his motor. At sundown Monday, Mrs. Laudeman stepped to her porch for her husband’s greeting. His ship came as usual out of the clouds as a speck, grew to the size of a bird, but did not veer from its course for the salutory dip over home. Laudeman was heading his plane direct for the airport. Mrs. Laudeman was troubled. She remarked to relatives, who watched with her, that Dyke might be having trouble. She watched the ship until winter mists, buildings and slopes hid it from view. Then she turned back into the house to put final touches on the evening meal. A few minutes later she and her son Robert 0., were told Dyke Laudeman had brought his last ship home. He was dead with four passengers within sight of port.

CUT WHEN AUTO SKIDS Mrs. Mabel Davis Suffers Slight Injuries to Head. Btruck by a skidding automobile at Delaware and Sixteenth streets Monday night, Mrs. Mabel Davis, 40, of 1509 North Pennsylvania street, was cut slightly on the head. Paul Leisure, 37, of 315 West Thirty-second street, blind, was cut by broken glass when a truck in which he was riding collided with another truck in the 1100 block Udell street Monday night. Leisure ws* treated by a physician and taken home. THREE TRAINMEN KILLED Engine Crew Victims as Locomotive Explodes in Ohio. Bu United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 28—Three trainmen were killed today when a New York Central locomotive exploded at Arnold, sixteen miles north of here. They were Roy Taylor, engineer; William Berry, fireman, and a brakeman, named Dennison. All three were from Columbus.

where they will be at home at the Marott hotel after Feb. 15. The Rev. W. C. Hartinger, superintendent of the Columbus district of the M. E. church, was to perform the ceremony. The bride’s sister, Miss Katherine Eaton, was the only attendant. Bishop Blake was married previously. His wife died several years ago. He came to Indianapolis In May, 1928, after having been resident bishop of Paris for eight years. For eight years before his election as a bishop, he was secretary of Methodist Sunday schools, and formerly was a pastor of the church at Man-

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PLANE CRASH KILLS PILOT, FOUROTHERS Big Ship Bursts Into Flames as It Falls to Earth at Kansas City. RESCUE EFFORTS FAIL Failing Motor Believed Cause of Tragedy Close to Landing Field. BY REX R. GOAD United Pre* Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 28. A black mark on the snow In an open field here marked the place today where five persons were crushed and burned to death in a flaming airplane. Pilot Dyke Laudeman, apparently struggling with a failing motor, had made an effort to land his Travelair six-passenger carrier at a time when he could see the swinging beacon and red markers of Farfax airport, his goal, just a mile away. The airplane, which flew from Wichita, Kan., late Monday, was behind schedule and darkness had closed in when the trouble developed. Laudeman, losing altitude, according to witnesses, swung away from a building, then went into a vertical bank to crash from about 150 feet. The crew of a switch engine near the scene said the craft was enveloped In flames before it fell. The motor was broken In half, both sections digging Into the hard ground. Framework Is Twisted The steel framework and undercarriage were twisted and charred. Everything else, Including the bodies of the pilot and his four passengers, was burned. The dead were; Pilot Dyke Laudeman, Kansas City, Kan. Passengers: Miss Margaret Dice, St. Joseph, Mo. C. R. McKinnon, Chicago, recently assigned as branch manager of the Rjbbins & Meyers Electric Company, St. Louis. James Eggert, 709 Woods Theater building, Chicago. William Flynn, manager Globe theater, Kansas City, Mo. The plane was operated by the Central Air Lines, a subsidiary of •the Universal Aviation Corporation. Paul Goldsborough, vice-president of Universal, with offices in St. Louis, will arrive today to investigate the crash. Bhip Veer* Suddenly Attendants at Fairfax airport were preparing the field for a landing and the siren was screaming as the plane became a glowing spot against the night sky. It was flying low and roared toward the field from the south. P. H. Brown, an associate of McKinnon, stood in the Universal waiting room and watched the approach from a window. Suddenly the ship veered, then went from control. It struck the ground with terrific Impact. There was disagreement as to whether it started to burn before or after the crash. Witnesses said there was a terrible moment when the craft darted downward, a crash and flames. It was over quickly, leaving them powerless to explain the causes. Workers rushed from the Gould casting plant with fire hose, but water was futile. The wings and fusllage burned their Imprint Into the snow and were consumed, leaving only a black pattern. Bodies Grouped Together Police went to the scene from here with ambulance.* and when the fire was cooled sufficiently began the difficult task of removing what remained of the victims. The bodies were grouped together. Pilot Laudeman and Miss Dice had spread their hands before their faces as if to protect their eyes from the blaze. The plane left Wichita at 3:30 p. m., with five passengers. One oi these, registered as “Mr. Hassler,” left the ship at Topeka. It was the second section of the scheduled run. The first section landed safely shortly before the crash of its companion plane.

HOME IS RANSACKED Family Touring in Europe Victim* of Wholesale Theft. Police were notified today that the home of Mrs. Mary Bheerin, 4330 Central avenue, which has been locked up while the family is In Europe, has been entered and ransacked. Curtains and drapes were folded as if ready to be taken away and a radio Is missing. The robbery wa* discovered by Walter Kuhn, a son-in-law, who visited the house. WOMAN DROPS DEAD Greensburg Visitor Is Victim of Acute Indigestion Attack. Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. McDavitt of 1955 Ruckle street, Mrs. Catherine Wheeler, 55, of Greensburg, dropped dead today of acute indigestion. A daughter Katherine, and a son rsporee Wheeler of Kokomo, survive

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