Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 227, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1930 — Page 13

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BUILDINGS FOR BUSINESS USE NEARLY READY New Structures at Andersor Erected at Cost of $1,500,000. STEEL COMPANY GROWS Additions to Gary Works Giving Employment to 1,500 Men. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Time* Building for industrial and other business purposes was the most encouraging factor disclosed In a survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The second unit is to be built at the State Line Generating Company plant on the shore of Lake Michigan, near Hammond, which will increase the capacity to 644,000 horse power. From the start it was planned that the station should eventually be at least 1,000,000 kilowatts. The new unit will bring the output to nearly half that figure. At Anderson several new business buildings are near completion. The structures represent an expenditure of $1,500,000. The Anderson hotel building is expected to be ready for use about March 1. Other structures near completion include the new home of the Anderson Herald and the $300,000 State theater. A SIOO,000 addition to the postifflce will be ready March 1. Addition to Cost SIOO,OOO Final contracts have been awarded for construction of a SIOO,OOO addition to the Capehart Corporation plant at Ft. Wayne, with completion set for March 1. More than 1,500 men are employed in improvement work at the plants of the Illinois Steel Company in Gary and this force will be increased to 3,000 as the work reaches ! a peak. With the firing of the sec- 1 ond blast furnace in two weeks, the j company reached 75 per cent of normal production. Spring is to bring a thorough exploration of anew oil field neat Terre Haute. Leases for drilling have been taken on 1,000 acres of land, mostly in Honey Creek township. Drilling will start April 2. Conditions in various cities of the state are shown in the following summary: Anderson—The American Flayground Device Company has added floodlights to its production. The lights are designed for use on athletic fields, airports, amusement parks and bill boards. Newcastle Plants Busy Newcastle —The Chrysler automobile plant has 1.200 men at work and every other Newcastle factory is reported on a normal schedule. Elwood—The American Tinplate Company plant is near normal production with all its twenty mills in operation. Edinburg—Two factories here, the Amos and the Thompson veneer mills, have suspended operations. Officials announce a large stock is on hand and that it is not known when operations will be resumed. Terre Haute—This city is planning to bring the Donohue Publishing Company here from Chicago, and Mayor Wood Posey will head a delegation of citizens who will confer with company officials regarding removal. The company employs between 400 and 500 persons. Hartford City—The Citizens State bank here has been affiliated with the First and Tri-State National Bank and Trust Company of Ft.. Wayne. The two banks have assets in excess of $80,000,000. Output to Be Increased Arcadia —The John Ridge Manufacutring Company plans an increase in daily production from 5,000 to 15,000 units. Hit. Vernon —The Mt. Vernon Strawboard Company is shipping five carloads of strawboard monthly to the Ford Motor Company for use in the process of manufacturing glass used in Ford and Lincoln automobiles. East Chicago—A request for bids on anew postoffice and federal building here, for which congress appropriated $150,000. sets Feb. 24 as the last date on which proposals will be received.

DR. BUTLER DELEGATE Crime Body Officer Is Named by Stimson for Prague Session. Dr. Amos \V. Butler, one-time secretary of the state board of charities and now secretary of the state crime commission, has been appointed by Secretary of State Harry L. Stimson as United States delegate to the international prison congress at Prague, Czecho-Slovakia. in August. Upon appointment by President Coolidge, Butler represented the United States at a similar congress in London in 1925. He was one of the chairmen at that meeting ani was vice-president of the congress when it met in Washington in 1910. Fifty-three governments were represented in London and more are expected at Prague. fund helpers named Chamber of Commerce Group WiH Conduct Subscription Drive. Sixty-four captains and eight colonels for the Forward Indianapolis army, campaigning unit for the Chamber of Commerce, were named today by Harold B. West, general. They will campaign for subscriptions to increase revenues of the chamber by $70,000 annually for three years. The funds are to be used in intensive efforts to bring D ew industries to the city.

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Helen Twelvetrees By United Pres* LOS ANGELES. Jan. 31.—Helen Twelvetrees, stage and screen actress, has filed suit for divorce against Clark Twelvetrees, whom she married in New York in February, 1927. The actress, who scored a sensational success on the New York stage three seasons ago by her work in “An American Tragedy,” “Chicago” and “Elmer Gantry,” charged her husband with intoxication and cruelty. He frequently stayed away from home and would beat her upon his return, the complaint asserted.

YOUTH IS HELD FOR BLACKMAIL Extortion of $75 'Not to Teir Is Charged. Charged with blackmail, Norman Kassebock, 21, of 46 West Twentyfifth street, was bound over to the Marion county grand jury under SSOO bond by Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin today. John Hill, 3922 North Capitol avenue, testified Kassebock had extorted a total of $75 from him over a period of several months. According to Hill, he believed Kassebock to be a special police officer. Kassebock, Hill testified, threatened to tell Mrs. Kassebock that her husband had been guilty of Indiscretions with other women. Hill denied any guilt and told Judge Garvin he paid Kassebock sums of money totalling $75 just to "prevent a scandaL” On Jan. 21, unable to pay more money to Kassebock, Hill says he pointed out the youth to a traffic officer and Kassebock was arrested on vagrancy charges, Hill signed the affidavit charging extortion. Mrs. Hill was in court with her husband today.

TWO DIE FOR GRIME Gunmen Walk Quietly to Sing Sing Chair. By United Pres j OSSINING. N. Y.. Jan. 31. Michael Schlafoni, Brooklyn gunman, walked quietly into the death chamber at Sing Sing prison late Thursday night. He spoke briefly to the witnesses, and thanked the keepers for their kindness. Then he picked up a towel and dusted off the electric chair. "They can at least give a man, about to die, a clean chair," he said. Then he sat down and the current was turned on. A few minutes earlier, his companion in the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Sarro Graziano at Franklin Square, L. 1., Frank Piaia, had gone to the chair without a word. Each was 22. They were bitter enemies to the end, each accusing the other of betrayal. NEGRO SLAYER HANGED Goes to Gallows Complaining Only of Lack of Friends. Bv United Brest ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.—William Mosley. Negro, convicted of killing three persons, was hanged in the city Jail here today. His only complaint in the long hours before death was that he had no friends. The Negro was convicted of killing his common law wife. Mildred White, in the grocery of Marcus Bass on Sept. 10. 1927. He shot and killed her. then turned the gun on Bass and his wife, killing them. Kicked Twice by Mule United Press WASHINGTON. Ind., Jan. 31. Regardless of the antics of lightning. William Stewart has found that a mule’s hoofs may strike twice in the same place. Stewart is in a hospital here suffering from a broken jaw bone, the result of a mule’s kick. The same mule inflicted an identical injury to him six months ago.

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In a Clinch By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—1f the Maloneys keep up their marital bouts, Nellie is scheduled to win over John, four rounds to three. The husband was handicapped by a court order allowing him to do battle, verbal or otherwise, only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. His wife can call him names or throw furniture at him the other four days a week and John must not talk or strike back. Judge Harry A. Lewis figured out the solution. It sounded Utopian to the Maloneys, estranged since 1926. She dropped a separate maintenance suit and he a cross bill.

SON IDENTIFIES MISHAP VICTI! H. L. Mann Injured Fatally by Street Car. The body of an elderly man. injured fatally when struck by a street car Thursday night, was identified in city hospital early today as that of Harvey L. Mann, 60, of 462 West Washington street. A son, Harry, viewed the body and identified it. Mr. Mann died several hours after he stepped in front of a West Michigan street car, at Sheffield avenue. Bruce Shinkle. 29, of 1834 West Vermont street, motorman, was held on assault and battery charges, and may be reslated today on charges of manslaughter, Coroner C. H. Keever indicated. fighT~for extradition Michigan Asks Return of Alleged Slayer for Trial. COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 31.—Michigan's demand for the return to that state of Ernie Miller, wanted on first degree murder charges in connection with the death of Arzenne Janaisse, in the Detroit river in April, 1921, rested today with Governor Cooper, who will announce a decision Feb. 17. Extradition proceedings for Miller's return were fought bitterly Thursday before Commissioner Dale Dunifoen, with Assistant District Attorney John Watts, Detroit, contending Miller’s return "was mandatory if the ends of justice were to be served.”

BANDITS RAID SHOWBOAT HALL: MISS HUNDREDS

Failure of two masked bandits to carry 7 out a personal search of more than thirty patrons of the Show Boat dance hall at Keystone avenue and Thirty-fourth street, prevented them from getting hundreds of dollars in loot. Women put diamond rings and other jewels into their mouths when the bandits entered at 12:20 this morning and, with four shots fired from blank cartridges, warned the patrons to line up. Obeying orders to throw their money into the center of the dance hall, male patrons surrendered be-

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DEATH THREAT VANISHING IN FLOODREGION Residents Fight to Recover From Devastation of High Water. RIVER JAMMED BY ICE Food and Medical Aid Are Rushed to Families in Posey County. By United Press MT. VERNON, Ind., Jan. 31. Flood-stricken southern Indiana today was recovering from the devastating effects of a severe midwinter flood, which for three weeks has held the lower Wabash river valley under a vast sheet of ice and water. Desperate efforts of the Red Cross, aided by national guard planes and volunteer workers, have at last overcome the threat of death by starvation, exposure and disease. Red Cross officials today reported the situation much improved, with all known marooned families in Posey county given supplies to keep them comfortable until the water recedes sufficiently to release them from flood-bound homes. Better at Griffin The situation at Griffin, where several families were trapped by rising waters, was reported no longer serious by the Red Cross. While relief was carried from family to family today, ice coming down the Wabash river continued to jam along the lower portion of the stream. Today the jam was reported to be ten miles long,* the worst in the river's history. Health conditions in the area were not serious, Dr. William F. King, secretary of the state board of health, reported Thursday. He recommended persons be vaccinated against typhoid fever before they return to their homes after the water leaves the land. One Case of Smallpox Dr. King said he received a report of only one case of smallpox and several cases of pneumonia. He said pneumonia cases were to be expected under the prevailing circumstances. Red Cross workers announced Thursday that refugees in Gibson county were safe. National guard planes dropped ‘IOO bags of food in the district between Crowleyville and Shawneetown. 20 GAMBLERS JAILED Cleveland Police Raid to Crush Notorious “Joints.” By United Press CLEVELAND, Jan. 31.—Twenty persons were in jail here today as a result of a cleanup drive, waged by police against gambling houses in the notorious “Roaring Third’’ precinct. The raid followed exposure of three lotteries, operating on clearings of the New York banks, and reputed to be making daily profits of $3,000.

She Means ‘No’ Mary Garden Turns Down Foods That Fatten; Weighs 120.

Cj United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—The gracefully slender figure of Mary Garden, Chicago civic opera star, was explained as the result of saying “no, thank you,” when the singer addressed an audience in the Illinois Women's Athletic Club here Thursday night. Miss Garden admitted she looked "positively atrocious” in 1913, when she weighed 148 pounds, but the club women applauded the result of saying "no” to fattening foods. They saw a tall, graceful woman, weighing about 120 pounds. "When I get through with my operatic career,” Miss Garden said, "I am going to a little house I have on top of a mountain and est everything I want to.” "The new clothes are frightful,” she said. “They are too tight. I’ve never worn corsets in my life, and I never shall, style or no style.” Sought by Relatives Herbert Dickson, living in Indianapolis or Bedford, Is sought by relatives who urge him to write to his sister at 2239 Campbell park, Chicago, at once .

tween $75 and SIOO, deputy sheriffs today found. John Fatau, grocer at Jefferson and Michigan streets, threw only $8 onto the floor. In his pockets were store funds totaling several hundred dollars. With the loot from guests and $l4O from cash registers, the bandits escaped with slightly more than S2OO. A watch was taken from one victim when one of the bandits began a personal search of their clothing, but evidently becoming nervous, the search was abandoned alter three patrons had been ordered

4 Hello, World! Doggone Yuh!’ Its Shreveport on the Air

‘Mistah’ Will Henderson Still Is Railing at Chain Stores. Bu SEA Service SHREVEPORT, La., Jan. 31. Chains are anathema to William Kennon Henderson especially chain stores and chain broadcasters. Ever since he took over the weak little 250-watt WGAQ in 1924 and developed it into the powerful 10,000-watt KWKH, he has been railing at chains and the federal radio commission and Hoover and stations that want to take his wave-length from him—and now chain stores. “Hello, world —hello, you common people—you 80 per cent o? the population are you listenin’ to me?” he shouts into the microphone. “I’m gonna tell ya somethin’ and I want ya to listen. Doggone! If every one of us 80 per cent, every one of us common folks, would stop buying at the chain stores, we could drive them out of the country. Buy at Home, Plea “Well, why don’t ya do it? Why don’t ya buy from the man who’s been helping build up your community and keep this pusillanimous parasite from coming in and taking your money to New York, not paying any taxes in your community. not helping any charities.” And so on, doggone! Until very recently It used to be "damn” and "hell,” too. But Senator C. C. Dill of Washington got after him, protested to the federal radio commission and then to congress itself. And so Henderson has promised to be a little more diplomatic in his language. The chain store people are getting the brunt of his attacks, and any one who dares wire or write in a disagreeing word gets his doggone you” in addition. Challenges Listeners “If you don’t, like me, why do ya listen tamr? Tune me off, doggone ya!” “Mistuh Will,” his men call him at the third fi — studio of his spacious sixteen-room home in the heart of his 16,000-acre estate called Kennonwood. “Mistuh Will” he is to his employes in his iron works at Shreveport, perhaps the largest in the southwest. But he’s “Uncle Henderson” to many of his radio admirers. “Uncle Henderson" has received many gifts from his fans, strengthening his conviction that the common people, “we 80 per cent,” are all for him. Most pleasing, however, are the thousands of letters and telegrams and long distance calls he gets goading him on to a more severe battle against the chain stores, asking him to play certain popular records —for record reproduction is his second favorite pastime on the air. It’s “Hello, World” “Hello, world” has been his salutation ever since Henderson took over the old station in 1924, and “Hello, world” has almost become a trademark with him. It goes with everything he sells through his station. "Mistuh Will” is only 49, Is married and has a son and a daughter. He’s quite wealthy, as president of an iron works, but he still gets down to work sometimes as early as 6 in the morning. He works late and doesn’t leave his office at times to address his folks over the air. A microphone is at his desk, connected by remote control to his home studio at Kennonwood. Henderson is just as eccentric in his daily activities as he is over the air. He keeps no regular office hours, and doesn’t demand this of his staff. Four times a day he treats his employes to a cup of coffee. He wears a red rose in his lapel and he likes perfume, good costly flower extracts, and he doesn’t care what other men think of this idiosyncrasy, doggone! household work.

FARMERS HEAR HYDE Overproduction Blamed for Low Produce Prices. SPRINGFIELD, HU Jan. 31. Farmers the world around are beset by the same problem, overexpansion and overproduction. It is impassible to ascribe agricultural distress to any one factor, but there is no question that the most important is that of overexpansion, Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde declared today at the meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Association. “The reason is plain,” he said. "During the war production increased outside Europe to compensate for reduced production in Europe. When Europe largely restored its agriculture, the other countries did not correspondingly decrease theirs. "Asa result, the worlds output ran ahead of market requirements and prices inevitably fell.”

to step out from the line for-in-spection. Thoroughly familiar with the dance hall and its surroundings, the two bandits, each armed with two guns, showed an amazing knowledge of police movements, Deputy Sheriffs Charles Bell and Harry Shipp declared today. "The patrol is due here soon, take the money from the cash registers and beat it,” Frank Cantwell, proprietor of the dance hall, advised the Dandits, in an effort to save funds of his patrons. One of the bandits laughed. "The patrol’s not out here tonight,” he declared.

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‘Red-Eye’ Case By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31. Three men. charged with liquor transportation, were in jail here today looking rather blue. United States Commissioner David Head lined the trio in front of his desk and asked for names. "Black, Edmond Black,” was the first reply. "And yours?” "Edison Green.” “I suppose yours is—” began Head, to the third. "Yes. White, Harry T. White,” was the answer.

SEEK GANGSTER IN TAXI SLAYING Cops Hunt Cab Firm Heads After Murders. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 31.—The president and secretary of the Checker Cab Company and Robert (Frisco Dutch) Schmidt, a gangster, were sought by police today for question - ing in connection with the murder of Barney J. Mitchell, company treasurer, and Glenn Jackson, cab driver. The two w r ere shot to death in a company cab in a north side street early Thursday, and hours later police learned the driver had been called to pick up Mitchell at the home of Max Raifman, company secretary. Robert McLaughlin, the president, lives next door. A police order for the arrest of Schmidt was issued early today. Lieutenant John McGinnis said Schmidt had been employed by an official of the company. The gangster was linked in police records with activities of Eugene McLaughlin, brother of the taxicab company president. He was named in a dying statement by Joseph Wokrai, former president, as the man who shot him December, 1926. Schmidt and Eugene McLaughlin were acquitted on a charge of murdering Wokrai. MENINGITIS TOLL IS 60 Negro Child Succumbs Quickly To Spinal Malady. With the death of a child at city hospital, the total of cerebro-spinal mengltis today mounted to sixty in Indianapolis and vicinity since Dec. 9. Mildred Pope, 5, Negro, 512 Douglas street, who was taken to the hospital Thursday, died of the malady. There have been eighty-six cases to date. Charged With Milk Theft Thefts of milk from porches was charged against Thomas Barton, 21, of 2636 North Meridian street, today. Barton was arrested on complaint of Albert Levingston of 1434 North Delaware street, apartment house Custodian. Petit larceny and intoxication charges were filed.

DANCE IN LOOT Deputy Sheriff Harry Kramis, who makes the patrol of the section with Deputy Sheriff Clem Smith, was ill Thursday night and the patrol was not being made. Using a car owned by Gordon Moore, of 4246 Baltimore avenue, stolen from Meridian and Georgia streets Thursday night, the two bandits, one 5 feet 11 inches tall, weighing about 225 pounds, and the second but 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing about 135 pounds, entered the Show Boat with a flourish of guns, firing four shots at the ceiling.

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LARCENY BING SUSPECTS HELD Cops Brave Bulldog Guard to Arrest Seven Negroes. Beating off attacks of seven large bulldogs, a police squad under command of Sergeant Frank Riley this morning broke into the residence of Robert Hayes, 38, Negro, of 523 West Michigan street, to recover a large quantity of allegedly stolen goods. Arrest of Hayes, on charges of grand larceny, and of six other Negroes, will solve a large number of recent thefts of trucks carrying meats, groceries and tobaccos, police declared. The raid and arrests followed theft this morning of a truck carrying $75 worth of meats, owned by the Thomas A. Theard Company, 708 South West street, from the rear of the Chamber of Commerce building. The truck was found abandoned on West Michigan street with the meat missing. Broadcasting of facts over the police radio station about theft of the truck resulted in the arrests. Motor patrols, with descriptions of the missing car, located it within fifteen minutes. Discovery of a Negro carrying meat scales also speeded the investigation. ARRAIGNMENT IS SET 70 to Enter Pleas Monday Before Collins. Seventy defendants will be arraigned Monday before Criminal Judge James A. Collins to enter pleas to charges brought against them in indictments and affidavits and to have their trial date fixed. Carollyn Crump and Mark W. Bemis. officers of the defunct Indiana Real Estate Securities Corporation, accused of swindling Indianapolis and Kokomo persons in a stock-selling scheme, will face a charge of selling securities of an insolvent concern. Elmer E. Petty, former deputy sheriff and former G. O. P. ward chairman, will face Collins the second time within five months when he is arraigned on an assault charge. He served thirty days at the state farm last fall for driving a sheriff’s car while drunk. N. Y. C. TO OPERATE BIG FOUR RAILROAD Change Is to Simplify Bookkeeping; Identities Remain Separate. Operation of the Big Four railroad will be assumed by the New York Central lines Saturday. Although both roads will maintain separate identities, as in the past, the general management will be directed by the New York Central line, officials said. The transaction was consummated after six years of effort. The change is to simplify and unify bookkeeping of the two roads, according to Fred N. Reynolds assistant to the general superintendent of the Indianapolis division. All lines will use the New York Central name, but general headquarters will be kept at Cincinnati. Personnel of the Indianapolis offices will remain unchanged, it was indicated. BED Ts^FIRED BY CIGAR Elderly Man Falls Asleep, Saved From Suffocation. Overcome by smoke from a fire started in his bedroom by a cigar that dropped from his fingers when he fell asleep Thursday night, William Saunders, 60, of 208 West Morris street, was in a fair condition today, city hospital attendants reported. Police kicked in the door after neighbors sounded a fire alarm. They found Saunders asleep, and the bedclothnig smouldering.

HOUSE WETS TU SEEK AID OF AL SMITH New Yorker May Speak for Modification in Hearing on Capitol Hill. WADSWORTH GETS BUSY Ex-Senator Leads Attack on Drys: Butler, Ritchie Also on Program. By Scripps-lloicard Xetespaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Jan. 31.—Alfred E. Smith may be asked by leading wets in the house to head the list of critics of prohibition to be heard by the house judiciary committee at the hearings beginning Feb, 12. Smith based his fight for the presidency on a personal platform of modification, and in several speeches he cited his reasons for taking that stand. House wets think their cause would be helped if they can persuade Smith to present his appeal on Capitol hill. He now is in Florida. Sponsors of the attack on the dry laws also plan to call on James W. Wadsworth. former Republican senator from New York, to be a witness. Wadsworth is a director of the Association Against the Eighteenth Amendment, and lecently Inaugurated a move to “smoke out” prominent Republicans throughout the country. Butler to Be Heard Despite reports he might form a “wet” party in New York, Wadsworth insists he will work within the G. O. P. ranks. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, and Governor Albert Ritchie of Maryland are two others whose aid will be asked in convincing the judiciary committee it ought to permit a showdown on one of the seven bills for prohibition change. Though the committee Is dry about 17 to 6, the wets hope to force a record vote on the floor. Representative James M. Beck of Philadelphia, former Solicitor-Gen-eral and chairman of the wet bloc's executive committee, is expected to present the legal phases of the prohibition problem, and to analyze some of the law enforcement commission’s recent proposals for relieving court congestion and making penalties more certain. May Get Beer Hearing Meanwhile, the wets were encouraged further by George W. Wickersham’s intimation that his commission might give a hearing to Representative Dyer of Missouri on the latter’s proposal that 2.75 boer be legalized. Wickersham has told Dyer he will ask his associates whether they care to hear his argument that increasing the percentage of alcohol permitted in the Volstead act would cure many evils. Incidentally, President. Hoover’s letter defending the manufacture of beer during the war will be an exhibit at the Judiciary committee’s hearings. With the bill transferring prohibition from the treasury to the department of justice now before the house, the subcommittee, headed by Representative Christopherson of South Dakota, has asked Wickersham for further light on the proposal to Increase the power of United States commissioners to handle "casual offenders.” Christopherson insists that the bill providing this new judicial machinery be clarified so that individuals first tried as "casual offenders” may not be indicted for a felony when th? case gels before a federal attorney. "If It starts as a minor offense,** said Christopherson, “it must remain in that category all the way through”

GROUP TO CARE FOR ANCIENT CEMETERIES Memorial Craftsmen Propose to Preserve Historical Spots. Indiana’s small, private cemeteries of historical interest, many of them unattended now, will receive care from the Memorial Craftsmen of Indiana, according to a resolution the organization adopted at its annual convention Thursday in the Lincoln. The annual dinner was held Thursday night, with Earl H. Blakely, Indianapolis, as toastmaster. The convention will adjourn after a business session today. CONFESS HOLDUP SERIES Alleged City Bandits Admit West Coast Crimes, Cops Say. A series of holdups on the west coast have been confessed by Theodore Ege, 20. of Saegerton. Pa., and Ams Ross, alias Bert Healey, 36, of Marshfield, Wis., according to police here. The two were returned here today from Louisville by Detective Morris Corbin to face charges of auto banditry and robbery. They are said to have confessed holding up the Shell filling station at Madison avenue and Prospect street Jan. 23, getting $79 cash. DAMAGE SUIT IS FILED Shell Petroleum Firm Seeks to Obtain Land Possession. The Shell Petroleum Corporation filed suit today in federal court seeking to collect $3,000 damages on lots Noe. 193 and 194, North from Claude M. Bennett and his wife, Edythe V. Bennett. Suit alleged the defendants have withheld possession of two city lots since the property was leased, Nov. 1, 1829.