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BANDITS RAID STORE; STEAL LICENSE FUNDS $6,600 in Motor Receipts Taken When Robbers Move Vault. THEFTS ARE CONTINUED Many City Establishments Visited by Thieves Over Week-End. Evidently aware of storage of auto license receipts In a safe in the Victor pharmacy No. 2, at 2802 East Washington street, burglars moved the safe out of the store early today. A total of between $6,600 and $7,000 in state funds were in toe safe, in addition to $35 belonging to the pharmacy, and a supply of express money order blanks. The burglary was discovered by Merchant Policeman Edward Pruitt of 3505 East Walnut street,, who reported he found the rear door open. Entrance had been gained by boring holes In the door and lifting a heavy bar with which it was secured. Myron Cosier was in charge of the auto license branch, with Mrs. Martha Wilkinson as cashier. State officials said $3,000 insurance was carried on the state funds stolen. Saw Large Sedan The 1,000-pound safe was dragged to a side street, and loaded on to a car. believed by police to have been a truck. Officer Pruitt reported seeing a large sedan nearby shortly before he discovered the burglary. An automobile license bureau branch has been conducted by the state in a vacant store room at 2810 East Washington street. Saturday night $2,600 of the funds received by the branch were taken to the drug store and placed in the safe. Sunday night a steel box containing $4,000 more was placed in thfc safe. . \ The stolen safe, battered open, was found on the Fleteher estate near Mtllersville this morning. Checks were left with the safe by the thieves. Victor C. A. Pfau of 414 Oakland avenue is proprietor of the drug •tore. Other burglaries reported to police over the week-end. in a continuation of the outbreak of crime here. Included : Truck Is Taken Grant’ Union Tea Company. 1203 Cornell avenue, truck and $75 in merchandise; Civic Ailing station, New York and Dickson streets, safe battered, nothing taken; C. W. Solomon grocery. Sixteenth street and Cornell avenue, ransacked, burglar fled from G. W. Kenney of 912 East Twenty-second street. Nickel Plate railway detective: A. & P. Grocery, at 2131 East Tenth street, $25 cash taken; Phoenix Lumber Company of 1317 North Capitol avenue, combination of safe battered, $2 . taken from cash register; Held’s shoe store at 1546 North Illinois street, shoes taken from show windows; truck owned by C. W. Pratt, R. R. No. 15, Box 110, Millersville; sample cases with $l5O merchandise taken. William Martin, 17, Negro, 1512 Martindale avenue, was arrested'by Motor Policemen M. Felton and Dale Smith as he Aed out of an alley at Sixteenth and Columbia streets early today. A window in a grocery nearby was found broken. Martin is held on vagrancy charges. DISMISS NAV AL OFF IC E R Lieutenant Northcutt Found Guilty' of "Scandalous Conduct.” gw United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 3.—Lieut. Harold Wilson Northcutt, tried by a general navy court-martial for “desertion, violation of a lawful regulation issued by the secretary of the navy and scandalous conduct tending to the destruction of good conduct," has been found guilty and his dismissal Feb. 1 approved by the President. MENINGITIS TOLL - 1S 61 Child, S, Die* at Hospital; Two New Cases Reported. Vivian Beatley, 3, of 443 St. Peter street, died Sunday at city hospital from cerebrospinal meningitis, making the sirty-Arst death in Indianapolis since Dec. 9. New cases included Joseph Calto, 4, of 430 South New Jersey street, and Clara Van Deman, 26. a nurse. BANK IS TAKEN OVER AO Depositor* of Hobart Company to Be Paid in Full. First State bank of Hobart has taken over the American Trust and Savings bank of Hobart, and all depositors will be paid tn full, Thomas D Barr, assistant state banking commissioner, said today. Toe American bank was closed several months ago and later was reepenad, . .

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 229

CANADIAN SHOT; U. S. GUARDS AT BORDER ACCUSED

Bv Unit'd Press WINDSOR, Ontario, Feb. 3. Charges that he was wounded by United States customs patrolmen while in Canadian water of the Detroit river, were made today by Arthur La Framboise of La Salle, Ontario. The shooting occurred early this morning. La Framboise, with two slight wounds, is in a hotel at Windsor where he was taken when he reached, a Canadian liquor dock after the alleged attack. His condition is not serious. United States customs border patrol inspectors at Detroit said they

RAIN FORECAST FOR CITY-STATE Little Danger of Flood Recurrence, Prediction. Although high temperatures have melted almost all snow in central and southern Indiana, and rains are forecast for ronight and Tuesday, j levels of the Wabash and White i rivers will not rise to Aood stages, IJ. H. Armington, United States weather bureau meteorologist, said I today. Both streams have receded to i marks safely below flood levels he 1 said, and more than two inches of rain in the next twenty-four hours | would be necessary to increase their tides to a dangerous stage. Peering from his winter home early Sunday the ground hog, legendary sampler of early sprin. was greeted by a strong, warm sun that cast his reflection on the ground, and, according to the tradition, startling him back into his burrow for six weeks. TWO DEAD IN BLASTS Baseball Player Is Burned Fatally in Explosion. Bv Unit'd Press LOS ANGELES. Cal., Feb. 3.—Gus Sandberg. 34, star catcher for the Los Angeles club of the Pacific Coast League, died today of bums he received in an auto gas tank explosion Sunday. Henry Fisher, 49, died after a blast which occurred when he attempted to light a cigar in a gas-filled room. Mrs. L. L. Dugan and Mrs. Mary Lannon were near death from injuries received in the home of Mrs. Armando Warneke where gas exploded Sunday when someone tried to light a cigaret. Mrs. Warneke and the husbands of the other two women were burned badly. MARMON DIVIDEND CUT Auto Firm Plum 50 Per Cent Lower Than in Past Quarter. Directors of the Marmcn Motor Car Company, meeting today, declared a quarterly dividend of 50 cents per share on stock of record at close of business Feb. 18. Previous quarterly dividends have been $1 per share. FIGHTS TO SAVE LIFE Mabel Normand, F.x-Actress, Will Submit to Blood Transfusion. MONROVIA, Cal.,4r*b. 3.—Mabel Normand, former screen actress now fighting tuberculosis tn a sanitarium here, will submit to a blood transfusion in a few days. Dr. E. C. Flshbaugh, her physician, announced today. A pint of blood will be necessary this week, the doctor said.

Deadline Is at Hand in ‘Sunshine Girl 9 Contest Today's the final day for Indiana girls wishing to enter The Times-Indiana Theater Sunshine Girl contest. Entrance blanks posted after 12 o’clock tonight will not be recognized. Charlie Davis, master of ceremonies at the Indiana, who will have charge of the scoring during the entire selection period, stated today that few events of similar character held in Indiana have attracted such wide interest as the “Sunshine Girl” contest. Entry blanks have been received from almost every kind of entertaimer imaginable, he said, and from all indications the audience that sees the preliminary Wednesday night has a real treat in store. All Indiana theater patrons attending the last regular performance at the Indiana Wednesday night will be invited to remain over for the preliminaries. Each contestant will be given a brief period of time for displaying her talent before a real audience during this preliminary and the five most popularly received performers will appear in each of the stage shows at the Indiana during the following week. By a point system, close tabulation will be kept on the manner In which each girl is received every performance, and the one having the highest total of points at the end of the week will be naxped the “Sunshine Girl of Indiana." The girls, in addition to honors that will be bestowed on them, also- will get cash awards amounting to S2OO, divided according to' the positions won by the respective participants. Tbe entrance blank appears today on Page 7.

had no report of the incident, but admitted patrolmen had been down the river Sunday night. La Framboise said he had gone to the aid of a friend whose boat load of liquor was stuck in the ice. ‘‘lt was on the Canadian side.” La Framboise said. “I took my car and drove out on the ice and pulled the boat loose. As we were working we saw two uniformed men pass between us and the bank. Later when the boat was freed, I started home in my car. “The ice began cracking and I Jumped out as the car went through and sank. Then as I walked on, two men wearing uniform caps, ordered me to halt. I was on the Canadian side and paid no attention. Then came a regular hail of bullets.” La Framboise said he kept on walking, although wounded. He said he didn’t think the men tried to follow him in the darkness. That the wounding of La Framboise may lead to official inquiries by the Canadian government was indicated when Colonel S. C. Robinson, member of parliament from Essex West, said he would ask such an investigation. He knows La Framboise personally. Robinson said if the men who wounded La Framboise were customs patrolmen, they had no right on the Canadian side of the international boundary. He criticised the reckless use of firearms and said many such shootings were violations of the international treaty. FIRE KILLS CHILDREN Mother, Son Hurt in Futile Rescue Attempts. flu Unit'd Pram CONNEAUT, 0., Feb. 3.—Two children were burned to death and a mother and son were injured severely in rescue attempts when fire destroyed an isolated farm home at Hammonds Corners, ten miles south of here, today. The bodies of the two Children had not been recovered from the smoldering ruins at noon. Mrs. Mary Yuhas, mother of the dead children, was working in the bam about a hundred feet from the house when she turned to see the home in flames. BURNS PROVE FATAL Baby Son, Widow Aiso In Critical Condition After Blaze. Bv United Frees DENVER. Feb. 3.—George Randall died in a local hospital today from burns received when he poured gasoline over a cook-stove blaze. His son, 13 months old, probably will die from burns and the condition of his widow, Mrs. Irene Randall. is extremely serious, physicians said.

BANDITS GET $1,900 IN DAYLIGHT THEFT

Leaping on to the nmning board of a truck at Meridian and Henry streets this afternoon, two bandits robbed John Dubue, president of the Checker Cab Company, and George Griesel, employe, of $1,900 cash and escaped. The two men had started to the Indiana National bank to make a deposit of funds. With drawn guns, the bandits ordered Griesel. driving the truck, to drive ahead. At Madison and Raymond streets, the two grabbed two satchels, containing the money, from beneath Dubue’s feet and ordered Dubue and Griesel from the truck. They drove the truck to Troy avenue and turned west. The robbery is the third within

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1930

FRENCH NAVY POWER MOVE BALKSENVOYS Delegates Seek Agreement on Warship Tonnage Distribution. U. S. FIGHTS PROPOSAL Americans Support Step to Limit Strength Shift to Cruisers, BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres* Staff Correspondent LONDON, Feb. 3.—The London naval conference today entered upon its third week of diplomatic jockeying so rposition, with America, England, Italy and Japan seeking a means of meeting, or compromising with, French proposals regarding the distribution of tonnage among arious types of warships. No formal meeting of the “big five” was scheduled before Tuesday, end, at the next meeting France’s chief delegate, Premier Andre Tardieu, will be absent. The written observations of the four delegations who last week were invited by France to present their figures on what tonnage they would require in each class of warship, were to be completed today. Figures Not Expected It was not expected, however, that any definite figures would be given. Instead, it was understood, the powers would outline their views on the policy of transfering tonnage from one class to another. America and great Britain were expected to reiterate their opposition to permitting an unlimited shift of strength from battleships to lighter vessels or submarines. From the American standpoint, the problem has resolved itseif into an attempt to persuade France that unlimited transference of tonnage from one type to another, is not, in effect limitation. For this reason. Americans hold that battleships and possibly large cruisers must be eleminated from those classes from which a nation may take away tonnage and give it to another type of vesseL U. S. Shift Theory Instead, the Americans believe, the “transfer privilege” should be limited to light cruisers, submarines and destroyers. A second principle to which the United States apparently adhere is that the percentage of tonnage that may be shifted should be limited to not more than 15 per cent of the total. If these two principles are agreed upon, it is understood the Americans are willing to proceed on the basis of the French proposal. Secretary Stimson will meet Prime Minister MacDonald at 5:30 p. m. today for another private conference, it was announced.

five days in which bank deposits have been taken by bandits in daylight holdups. An employe of the Gibson Company was kidnaped and robbed of SBSO by two men. Two men held up Daniel De Long of the Indianapolis Wire Bound Box Company last Friday and escaped with S2OO by a similar method. Funds taken from Dubue and Griesel were Saturday night and Sunday collections of taxi drivers. GIRL ACTS AS ‘LOOKOUT’ Eighteen Are Arrested on Gaming Changes in Raid. Trap doors and a girl "lookout” were part of the gambling house equipment at 1365 Madison avenue, police declared today after a raid in which Henry Gocke, 40, restaurant proprietor at the Madison avenue address, was- arrested on charges of keeping a gaming house. Seventeen others were held on gaming charges. Police allege a dice game was nmning in the restaurant basement when they arrived. A girl "lookout” gave the singal. Players attempted to escape through a trap door leading into a tire shop next door, officers claim. seeknewbooze”trial Ex-Wyoming Dry Chief and Four Others to Battle Conviction. Bv United Press CHEYENNE, Wyo., Feb. 3.—William C. Irving, former state law enforcement commissioner, and four co-defendants found guilty of conspiracy to violate federal prohibition laws, today announced they would file motion for anew trial. During the trial, at which Governor Frank C. Emerson testified for the government, charges against all but Irving and the four co-defend-ants went dismissed.

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HOLDUPS IN CITY CONTINUE, DESPITE POLICE BEAT SHIFT

Undaunted by a police shakeup - Saturday, in which beats of every ! patrolman in the city were changed, holdup men continued operations j unabated Saturday night, Sunday and today. With the stealing of a safe, containing $6,600 in state auto license ; funds, from the Victory Pharmacy j No. 2, at 2802 East Washington j street, holdups and other burglaries, j loot taken in crimes here over the week-end and this morning totaled more than $9,000. Early today a Negro held up the Sinclair filling station at Capitol avenue and Pratt street, taking SSO from the safe and forcing John Virt, 240 North Taoflma street, attendant, into a wash room. A suspect arrested Sunday for questioning in the $85,000 diamond robbery at the Claypool last Thursday, provided an alibi and was released by police today as having no connection with the case. Increase in January Police records show a total of 103 holdups in January, against 77 in December. Wilbur McClure, taxi driver, of 303 Lansing street, fought two Negro bandits in the 500 block West Twenty-seventh street, on Sunday night, biting the finger of one and beating off the two. One of the Negroes was armed with a gas pipe, which "McClure, at first, believed to be a revolver. The two took $8 from him but failed to get his cab. A flapper was used as bait by a holdup man Sunday night. James Nickels of 1502 Pruitt street, and Meredith Pollard of 227 North Belmont avenue, were hailed by a girl on West Maryland street, the girl asking for a ride. As they stopped an armed man stepped from behind a parked car and entered the automobile. At Missouri street Nickels and Pollard weie ordered out of the car. Nickels turned off the gas valve as he left the machine and it was found abandoned two squares away. Cab Is Taken Earl Ross, taxi driver, of 702 Bellview place, was robbed of $8 and his cab in the 4300 block on Ralston avenue Sunday night, by two “fares.” The cab was found in the rear of 1859 East Riverside drive. Saturday night Carl Allen, filling station proprietor, at the Southport and Three Notch roads, v.as held up and robbed of $6 by two men in a stolen car. He fired three shots at the two as they escaped. The car, owned by Elzie A. Phillips of Salem, was found Sunday after Kenneth Lewis and Glenn Lewis of 814 Madison avenue, heard its description broadcast over the police radio station and saw it parked near their home. The car door was smeared with blood and the seat was blood soaked. Police believe one of the bandits was wounded by Allen. The same car was used in a holdup of a Shell filling station at pleasant Run boulevard and Madison avenue, where John Daugherty, attendant, surrendered $45, and in holdup of the Robinson tire and battery shop at Prospect street and Churchman avenue, in which $45 j wa- *he loo*. A held up Edmond Train, ; employe, in the O. W. Green drug store at Twenty-sixth street and i Parts avenue, taking $2. Ezra Williams, of 1750 East Tabor

street, Progress laundry driver, was robbed of S2O by a Negro in the rear of 2035 North Meridian street, Saturday night. A Negro held up Roy Martin, 35, of 320 East Twenty-second street, street car operator, at, Northwestern avenue and Twenty-fifth street at midnight Sunday and stole $25. Russell Williams, 27. of 509 East Twelfth street, was robbed of sl4 by a passenger who engaged his taxi. The men escaped in a car which followed the taxi. MAYOR ON AIR TRIP Ohio Plane Fields Surveyed by City Executive. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan took off from Mars Hill airport this morning in a Curtis-Wright plane for Dayton and Columbus, O. He was to Inspect Dayton and Columbus airports. Sullivan said he felt he could profit from a study of the fields before deciding definitely some questions in connection with the local municipal airport, under construction. Walker W. Winslow, sales director for Curtis-Wright Flying Service of Indiana, Inc., took the mayor on the tour. It was Mayor Sullivan’s second flight, the first having been made in an Indiana national guard plane recently when he viewed flooded White river from the air.

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EX-PRESIDENT, 72, BROKEN IN HEALTH, BRINGS GREAT JUDICIAL CAREER TO CLOSE Official Retirement Action Submitted to Hoover by Son; Aged Jurist Is Expected to Confer With President at Washington. BREAKDOWN CAUSED BY OVERWORK Illness Accentuated by Grief Over Death of Brother and Recurrence of Old Ailment; Ordered to Rest by Doctors. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. —Chief Justice William Howard Taft resigned as chief justice of the United States supreme court today, and thus brought to a close, dramatically, one of the most brilliant careers in the country’s history. Broken in health, the man who rose to the pinnacle of political preferment as President of the Tinited States, and then became head of the nation’s highest tribunal, submitted his resignation to President Hoover through his son, Robert Taft Taft now is in Asheville, N. C., where he went for a rest when he was forced to give up his work on the supreme court, by overwork and grief over the death of his brother, Charles P. Taft.

This conditions was accentuated by a recurrence of an old bladder ailment. The chief justice, who is 72 years old, will leave Asheville today for his home. President Hoover lias not, acted upon the resignation, it was said at the White House, and it is presumed the retiring chief justice will confer with the President soon after he arrives here. The aged chief justice was stricken heavily by the death of bis brother, with whom he was close. This was a contributing factor to the breakdown he suffered here a few weeks ago. Only a few days later, he was forced to give up his place on the bench, upon orders of his physicians. He was closely tied down with his demanding duties. About three weeks ago, he left for Asheville. Appointed by Harding Taft, who was appointed June 30, 1921, by President Harding, succeeding Edward Douglas White, a Confederate war veteran of Louisiana, was the tenth chief justice in the country’s IYo years of history. Taft’s son, in submitting the resignation to President Hoover today, said his father’s health had not improved by his stay at Asheville, and explained that he is returning here, where his family believes he will be more comfortable. Taft is famous throughout the country for his geniality and good nature, and even when he was entering a local hospital for a week’s rest before going to Asheville, he exhibited his famous smile and walked into the hospital, unassisted. “Broke” With Roosevelt He hoped that a few weeks' rest in the North Carolina mountains would restore him to health, but aparently this hope was not realized. The chief justice apparently was happy in his work on the bench. His

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career as President was somewhat ill-starred. He had a break with President Roosevelt, who had sponsored his nomination for the presidency, and had considerable difficulty* with congres- over the tariff. He left, tho White House a disillusioned man, after he had been defeated in & campaign for reelection. Always he had yearned for a place, on the supreme court. He realized his aspiration, when, after a period as professor of law at Yale, he was appointed chief justice by President Harding. He Came to this position after a career which began as a law reporter for the Cincinnati Times in 1880, and carried him through various legal positions, as assistant prosecuting attorney for Hamilton county, O. Judge of the supreme court in Cincinnati; solicitor general of the United States in 180, president of the United States-Philip-pine commission; governor of the Philippines; secretary of war under Roosevelt, President, and then chief Justice. 1 Big Problem B 'WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Resignation of Chief Justice Taft forces on President. Hoover one of the most momentous decisions of his administration, choosing anew chief justice. The position pays $20,500 a year, and its duties include the administration of the court’s secret procedure. Among the nation’s legal men who have a position of leadership great enough to qualify them for consideration, the following might be considered when Hoover decides to make a choice: Associate Justice Harlan Fisk© Stone, personal friend of the President, and a member of his medicineball cabinet, and the other seven present justices; Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard law schools, a member of the law enforcement commission; Chairman George W. Wickersham of the same commission; Federal Circuit Judge William S. Kenyon, a former senator, and Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, Former President Coolige also wac called to mind today as a possible candidate, although he has not been engaged In active judicial practice recently. John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic candidate for President, perhaps is the leading Democrat who would be eligible. Representative Hatton W, Sumners, Texas, Is another outstanding Democratic lawyer. Representative James M. Beck of Pennsylvania Is perhaps the best known constitutional authority of the house. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Is 88 and Justice Brandeis is 72, and several other justices are well along in years. Stone, the youngest, is 57. Wickersham and Kenyon perhaps also are too old to consider taking up such arduous tasks. THINK BANKER SUICIDE Hanging Death of New Yorker B Laid to Poor Health. Bv United Frrn PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. i Thomas E. Lanning of Rochester, N. Y., died in Good Samaritan hospital here shortly before midnight after what police described today as an attempt to end his own life. He was found hanging in hi* room. Lanning, chairman of the board of Lincoln Alliance bank of Rochester, was understood to have been in poor health. Hourly Tempera tore* Bam 37 10 a. m 39 7a. m 36 11 a. m 43 8 awm 35 12 (noon).. 45 §. M 19- ■■■ 4*