Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1930 — Page 1

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MURDER BACKSTAIRS BY ANNE AUSTIN COPYRIGHT BY NEA SERVICE

CHAPTER ONE "A for you, Mr. Dundee, delivered by a snooty young chauffeur in a limousine and a plum-colored uniform," Mrs. Caroline Rhodes announced, when admitted to the choicest room on the second floor of the New Rhodes House, successor to the boarding house which had won sensational fame as the "Murder Mansion," the scene of two particularly horrible murders by strangulation. "Thanks, Mother Rhodes!" Bonnie Dundee took the big square envelope and slit it open without due reverence. "I hope it’s not another warning that a murder is to be committed,” Mrs. Rhodes commented. Though if that note’s from Abbie Berkeley, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised to hear that she’s yelling for help—and I can’t say I’d be sorry either!" she added grimly. "Whew!" You ARE bloodthirsty!" the novice detective grinned at his landlady. "Sorry to disappoint you, Mother Rhodes, but this is nothing more exciting than a written confirmation of an invitation to spend a week-end at Hillcrest, which, I take it, is the name of the Berkeley feudal castle. "I ran into young Dick Berkeley on the street today and he very impulsively urged me to lend him the moral support of my presence over a week-end which he seems rather to dread. . . . But why all the animus against Abbie, and just who is Abbie?" "Abbie is Abbie Berkeley, who used to be plain—and I mean plain!—Abbie Smith, before she married George Berkeley, who got to be a millionaire about ten years ago," Mrs. Rhodes elucidated acidly. "Hove she got a fine man like George Berkeley is more’n I or anybody else can see, but get him she did, and lately she’s been putting on dog like nobody’s business! Spent a year in Europe with her oldest daughter, Clorinda, and then come trotting home with a penniless ‘high society’ woman from New York for a ‘social secretary,' all primed to take Hamilton’s social citadel by storm."

“How poetic you are, Mother Rhodes!” Dundee tribed fondly. “Has Hamilton a ‘social citadel,’ really?” “I m only quoting the society editor of the Morning News,” Mrs. Rhodes defended herself. “She used those very words this morning in her write-up of the bif din-ner-and-dance Abbie Berkeley is giving tomorrow night. ‘To meet Mr. Seymour Crosby of New York, Palm Beach and Newport.’ ” the landlady quoted further, in a bitterly mincing voice. “Believe me, Mr. Dundee, if Hamilton's Big-Bugs have lowered themselves to accept one of Abbia Berkeley's invitations, it was out of curiosity to see this Mrs. Lambert and because somehow she’s managed to get a real swell like this Mr. Crosby roped in to help Abbie‘s game along.” # # # “JUST who is Mrs. Lambert?” J Dundee asked cheerfully, as he set about packing his dressing case for the week-end. “Mrs. Letitia Lambert, of course. I guess everybody that can read has heard of the Lambert family,” Mrs. Rhodes informed him scornfully. “Real society people since before the Revolution. This Mrs. Lambert was the beautiful Letitia Cavendish, who refused the hand of a prince and an earl to marry Van Rensselaer Lambert ” "As veil she might, if he had a name like that," Dundee chuckled. "Still quoting the society editor, I suppose?” "Well. If I am, I suppose she knew what she was talking about,” Mrs. Rhodes retorted. "She had a big write-up of Mrs. Lambert when Abbie Berkeley and Clorinda brought her home with them from Europe, like a prize dog on a leash. “If you ask me. I think Abbie Berkeley's got an awful nerve, hiring a society secretary who couldn't have been bribed to ask her to sit (Turn to Page 7) 'ANGEL' ON HONEYMOON Rheba Crawford Is Wedded to San Francisco Clubman. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25.—In the midst of what both hoped was not symbolical weather, Rheba Crawford, “Angel of Broadway.” and Ray Splivalo. San Francisco clubman, were on their honeymoon today. Their wedding, scheduled for Monday morning, was postponed many hours as all of San Francisco was driven indoors by the wettest and windiest weather in years. They were married at a congregational church in the suburbs. and left San Francisco Monday night by automobile for southern California. WORKING WEEK IS CUT Pennsylvania Adopts Six-Day Week. Opening Jobs for 20. Adoption of a six-day instead of a seven-day working week for Pennsylvania railway shopmen here has added twenty men to the pay roll. Pennsylvania railway officials announced today. The step was taken after railway employes had urged a day of rest weekly. Under the new plan, hourly-paid workers are paid for six days work while salary workers suffered no cut in pay.

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ASKS EXPENSE CUT Congressional Economy Is Favored by Hoover. Bit Unit(d Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—President Hoover feels that this is no time for a general expansion of public expenditures, and appealed to the country today to stand behind congress in restricting federal expenses to within the limit of the national income. The President regards as “unprecedented" the present drive for new' legislation to cany out various projects all over the country. “I hope.” he said, “we all realize that the government can not undertake these projects now and that the people throughout the country will support members of congress in keeping our expenses within our income. This is no time for a general expansion in public expenditures.” SACKING IS ASKEO Chautemps Pleads for Vote of Confidence. Bit United Press PARIS, Feb. 25.—Premier Camille Chautemps asked a tense and restless chamber today for a vote of confidence in his new left wing concentration government. Chautemps presented a program so similar to that of the late government of Andre Tardieu many deputies wondered why the cabinet had been changed at a critical moment in negotiations at the London conference. The temper of the chamber of deputies w'hich the Radical-Socialist premier faced was dangerous. The hostile right and center factions filled their portions of the benches, indicating that Chautemps could hope only for the left wing to give him a slim mapority.

2 FLIERS KILLED; SEEK MAIL PILOTS

fti i United Pri ss LOS ANGELES. Feb. 25.—Tragedy and misfortune riding the air lanes of western America today had sent men and ships into the mountains and over desert wastes in a search for two missing pilots, and brought reports that death had been cheated of one flier's life only to claim two others. From a winter-locked region several hundred miles to the north came reports of the two deaths. The victims were Henry C. Lorentz and Edward C. Smith, whose bodies were found in the wreckage of their plane near Stanford, Mont., by a rancher seaching for a lost cow.

BEAUTY EXPERT GOES BACK TO GRANDMA TO PROVE HIS POINT AT TIMES SHOW

Grandma had it. No fooling, she capitalized that Glyn expression in the days when pompadoured hair with • rats” for stuffing were as popular as bustles. For what grandma may have lacked in sex appeal through failure to show her calves, she made up by “it-ing” her hair. This is what approximately 400

INDIANA PONZI DREAM BARED IN TRIAL HERE C. E. Crump Is Accused as $10,000,000 Blower of Bubbles. STOCK FRAUD CHARGED Sale of Paper in Insolvent Concern Alleged by Prosecution. How a master of finance saw his dream of a $10,000,000 corporation dwindle before the pressure of the lew, was told today from the witness stand at the criminal court trial of Carollyn E. Crump, Chicago, president of the defunt Indiana Real Estate Securities Corporation, on a charge of selling stocks of an insolvent concern. With Judge James A. Collins as trial judge, five prosecuting witnesses took the stand, including Mark W. Bemis, admitted accomplice of Crump in the gigantic finance scheme. Bemis turned state’s witness at the last moment to absolve himself of guilt in what was termed one of the biggest “blue sky” operations ever attempted in Indianapolis. Crump was to take the stand In his own defense this afternoon. Crump Is Accused Testimony given by Bemis and two other persons implicated in the management of the company pointed toward Crump as the instigator of a plan whereby $10,000,000 in finance from the east coast was to be drawn into Indiana in the Securities Corporation. It was closed Dec. 19 by Mark Rhoades and Earl Coble of the Indiana securities commission. Shortly after, William H. Faust, attorney, was appointed receiver by Superior Judge Joseph M, Milner, and today Faust testified that assets of the company, composed largely of office furnishings in the Continental Bank building parlors, were valued at less than SSOO. On Crump’s scheme of operation $3,300 In stocks were sold to Indianapolis residents during two months of operation, Faust testified. Put Up “Big Front” Appearing as a chief prosecuting witness, Arthur Eberlin, secretary and manager of the Evansville Chamber of Commerce, and an “officer” In the defunct company, today told of numerous conferences held throughout the middle west by Crump in drawing together the network of his finance dream. Crump resorted to the use of airplanes, he said, in visiting from city to city in calls upon prospective financiers, and juggled the records of his company to make a presentable front to prospects. Eberlin said. Frank Wright, employe in the securities commission office in the statehouse and author of the Wright “Bone-dry” act, has admitted he was “duped” into becoming a director of the defunct company.

MINE UNION HEADS HOLD WAR COUNCIL

Council of war, probably to set out their watchdogs over rumblings of an international convention called by a Illinois faction of United Mine Workers of America, was held today at national headquarters, 1114 Merchants Bank building. John L. Lewis, president, called a session of the union’s board, it is believed, to deal with two vital

The rancher, George McKenna, found the animal nearby, injured. It had been struck by the falling plane. The vanguard of searchers beat the dawn into the Sierra Nevada range and across portions of the Arizona desert, seeking a trace of Pilot James E. Doles and his assistant, Albert W. Beiber. Western Air Express officials became worried over the fate of the two men Monday when it was learned from an emergency landing field at the Miller ranch, east of Tejon Pass, that the two fliers had not been there after taking off from Kingman. Ariz., Sunday morning.

Indianapolis women learned Monday in the Travertine room at the Lincoln, as V. E. Meadows, beauty specialist for The Times Show awakened, them to their coiffure needs. Today Meadows demonstrated with lipstick and lecture the art of makeup. "You modern women should return to the ways of your grandmothers. Sh* brushed her hair

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N. Y. SOCIETY MAN ENDS QUARREL BY LEAPING TO DEATH Wealthy Oil Man Takes Eight-Story Plunge From Park Avenue Apartment After Striking Wife With Lamp Base. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—A quarrel with his wife before dawn today was followed by the suicide of Richard H. Jones, wealthy social registerite, who leaped from hLs eighth floor apartment at 1050 Park avenue. Police said Jones, who resigned in January as asisstant sales manager of the Tidewater Oil Export Company of New Jersey, struck his wife on the head with the base of a lamp before jumping into the courtyard below the exclusive apartment house. -

At the offices of the Tidewater Oil Export Company it was said that Jones resigned to go on a tour for his health. He was graduated from the United States Naval academy in 1916. Since his resignation Jones has not been connected actively with any business so far as is known. Police reported there was “nothing suspicious” about the case. They said the couple quarreled violently and that Mrs. Jones fell to the floor screaming when her husband struck her. Mrs. Mabel Richards, who lives In an apartment on Eighty-seventh street, across the court from the Jones home, said she was awakened aoout 5:30 a. m. today by a scream. “I heard a woman scream,” said Mrs. Richards, “and then there was silence. About fifteen minutes later there was a scrambling noise and another scream. Then there was a thud from below.” Contrary to custom in such cases, Jones’ body was taken back to the apartment. Police said Mrs. Jonce had no statement to make immediately. but promised one later in the day. TAFT LOSING IN FIGHT FOR LIFE Former -Chief Justice Is Sinking, Doctors Say. ft 1/ I'niffit Preps WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—Physicians attending former Chief Justice Taft believe he has'“lost ground,” they said in a bulletin issued shortly before noon today. The former chief justice, the bulletin said, has shown no improvement for several days. The statement w r as signed by Drs, Thomas A. Claytor and Francis R. Hagner, *

TUMBLING WHEAT PRICE REACHES $1

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Dollar wheat became an actuality on the Board of Trade here today. Prices, which have been trending downward steadily during the last few weeks, finally touched $1 shortly before noon. The fall continued and' the noon quotations for March were 99 Vs cents. Other deliveries also were falling, but remained over sl. May wheat at 99V 8 was 4 v i cents

issues threatening disruption of the organization. Threats of Frank Farrington, leader of the antagonistic Illinois group, to sue for a receiver for the union, were discussed in a recent issue of the United Mine Workers Journal. The Illinois Miner, newspaper for miners, issued in Springfield, 111., Feb. 22, declared an International convention of the organization will be held in Springfield* March 10. Miners of Illinois, Kansas and Ohio have indorsed the move and are interested in reorganization, the paper says. Lewis refused to make any comment prior to the meeting today, but persons attached to his office indicated the board members were summoned specifically to discuss these two issues. Lewis will issue a statement Wednesday, he said. REPORTS "LOSS OF S2O City Man Sends Hat to Be Cleaned; Forgets Money in Band. C. H. Sheets, 2832 North Delaware street, sent his hat to the cleaners Monday and got cleaned. He reported to police today he forgot a S2O bill in the hatband, where he carried it for safe keeping, when he sent the hat to a cleaning shop. The bill was missing this morning when he remembered it, he said.

daily, making its sheen, its prolific growth, the apple of her eye and the pride of the male she courted,” Meadows declared Monday. # # # "TAKE this young blond woman,” Meadows advanced on a willing listener, "you’ll permit me to readjust your coiffure?" The model’s acquiesence was a

Blast Fired at Hoover by Senator Glass By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— President Hoover's economy blast against congress was called “a cheap and tawdry exhibition of partisan politics” in a speech to the senate today by Senator Carter Glass (Dem., Va.). “I say that nothing more shameful has emanated from

the White House in my thirty years of public service,” the Virginian asserted. Glass contended the President had no real fear that congress was going on a s p e n anding spree which would endang e r the na-

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tion’s financial condition. He said the appropriation bills already prepared by the appropriation committees of the two houses, containing government expenses for the next fiscal year, were $28,528,845.28 less than recommended by the budget bureau and the President himself. “It is an inexcusable attempt to excite the resentment of the country against congress.” Glass added. “He is setting up a straw mari for the purpose of knocking him down.”

off; May at 103 was 4 3/4 cents off; July at 106 3/8 was 4 1/8 off, and September at 109 was 4 1/4 cents off at the noon prices. Rumors in the grain pit said farm board organizations are refusing to pay the fixed prices except when the shipments are from members of the co-operative organizations. Reports from Kansas City and Duluth indicated that the rumors were true. Local receivers were unable to sell wheat here to the cooperatives at the fixed prices. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Congressional farm leaders today came to the aid of the wheat market by giving assurances they would speedily pass any further appropriations for the federal farm board if needed. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..... 65 10 a. m..... 65 7 a. m 65..... 11 a. m..... 65 8 a. m..... 65 12 (noon).. 66 9 a. m..... 65 1 p. m..... 61

SHOT AT WORKERS, TRIAL TESTIMONY

By United Press CHARLOTTE, N. C.. Feb. 25. Julius Fowler of Gastonia testified in the Ella May Wiggins murder trial here today that he saw Horace Wheelus, one of the five defendants, fire into a truck loaded with striking cotton mill workers as it passed on the Gastonia-Bessemer higlrway, Sept. 14. Immediately after the shot rang out Fowler testified Mrs. Wiggins cried out that she had been shot. “I was looking him right in the face,” the witness said, adding that “Wheelus steadied the pistol by laying it across his left arm.” Fowler continued by asserting “Wheelus was one of the anti-com-munist mob which prevented the Wiggins truck from proceeding to the South Gastonia strike meeting and that he saw Wheelus later fire

signal for Meadows’ nimble fingers. With a roll to her tresses, a hairpin here and a tuck there, he transformed a mediocre headdress into a “come-hither” bob. From willing head to willing head he went and with each touch dowdy locks became live personalities. "Remember your favorite movie stars are not super-women. They keep themselves beautiful by con-

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STANDARDIZED POWER RATES UTILITIES GOAL Local Autonomy Abolished If Insull Merger Goes Through, Claim. ILL OFFICIAL TESTIFIES Property Revaluation Only Change Method, Says L. B. Andrus. Abolition of all principles of local autonomy in rate making will be effective If the $70,000,000 Insull utilities merger is approi'ed by the public service commission, it was testified by an Insull official at a special hearing today. Under the Insull plan, as outlined from the witness stand by L. B. Andrus, vice-president of the Central Indiana Power Company, all towns and cities of the same classification and served from the same power pool must pay similar rates. No rate change could be made, upon petition of a single community without revaluation of all properties involved in the power pool, under the Insull plan. Relief Expensive According to former Commissioner Harvey Horman, Princeton, chief counsel for the opposition in the merger case, this system of rate making will leave local communities and citizens almost wholly without relief, except by an expensive and round-about process. Andrus defended the idea, however, as being the best method of avoiding discrimination between communities in the matter of electric costs. He asked for the special hearing today so that he might go south for his health. He has been ill for several weeks. Regular resumption of hearings in the merger was set by the commission for March 17. Cites Kokomo Andrus took the stand to testify in defense of the valuations of various local community “stand-by’ plants. In many instances these are needed both for power and heat, he pointed out. Kokomo was cited as a particular example. Harmon then brought the testimony around to the Martinsville rate case, which he heard more than a year ago when a member of the commission. Petition in the case was Introduced in evidence. It was signed by Andrus, as president of the Wabash Valley Electric Company, an Insull concern involved in the present merger. In this case, the idea of standardized rates first was advanced and Andrus at once proceeded to give it his approval.

RECEIVER OUSTER FOUGHT BITTERLY

“Misleading verbal and press statements” relative to the receivership case of the Federal Automobile Insurance Company were attacked today in superior court four as Fae W. Patrick, attorney for Garrett W. Olds, receiver, opposed a move to have the receivership dismissed. The hearing before Judge William S. McMaster resulted from filing of an intervening petition by

at occupants of the truck as they fled across a cotton field.” After the shooting, which followed a collision between the strikers truck and a car driven by Fred Morrow, another of the defendants. Fowler said, Wheelus forced him into a car and took him back to Gastonia. Fowler’s testimony followed the cross-examination of George Lingerfelt, driver of the truck, and W. A. Bradley of Bessemer City, who was on the truck who both had told of being turned hack by the mob. Best Lighted City Is Aim MARION, Ind., Feb. 25.—1n an effort to make Marion the best lighted city in Indiana, the Association of Commerce has employed engineers to make a chart of the city as basis for recommendations for additional lights.

stant care and advice,” he explained as he worked. "But you’re not alone in failing to care for your hair. You have bald-headed husbands, sweethearts, because they do not let nature take care of their hair. a a a “taO not wet with water nor JL/ treat with oils. Brush it daily for fifteen or twenty minutes.

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Stalin Stands Unchanged in Drive on Religion. Bit United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 25—Determination of Soviet Russia to “carry on propaganda against religious prejudices” was indicated today by Josef Stalin, Soviet dictator, in a message to the Evening World, which showed he stood unchanged on previous declarations on the subject. Stalin referred to the policies of the Communist party, which controls the Soviets, as guaranteeing to citizens the right to adhere to any religion, but at the same time guaranteeing the right of every citizen “to combat by argument, by propaganda and agitation, any and all religion.” While not answering the query directly, he referred to an earlier statement containing the above observation. Stalin's reply said in part: “Tiie party (Communist) can not be neutral toward religion and does conduct anti-religious propaganda against all and every religious prejudice because it stands for science, while religious prejudices run counter to science because all religion is something opposite to science. Cases such as recently occurred in America, in which Darwinists were prosecuted in court, can not occur here, because the party carries out a policy of the general defense of science.” RUM BOAT IS CAPTURED Runner Is Nabbed by Coast Guard After Gun Battle. Bn United Press NEW LONDON. Conn.. Feb. 25 A coast guard patrol boat captured a rum runner today after a chase from Gould Island, Narragansett bay, to Fore River, Mass., during 1 which many rounds of ammunition were fired. Commander L. T. Chalker, commandant, announced.

Charles E. Smith, former agent for the company and former policy holders, to have the entire case thrown out of court. More than 85.000 persons living in Indiana and approximately 250,000 in other states will be affected by the court’s action. Assessments totaling $3,000,000 have been levied against former policyholders by Olds. “We welcome this opportunity to appear in open court and show some of the law and facts under which this case came into court,” Patrick declared. “Newspaper and verbal statements have been made to mislead the public about this receivership matter, by persons who know nothing of the case.” Patrick declared when the case was filed the company did not “have enough money to meet one week's pay roll,” and Former Judge Byron K. Elliott “could do nothing else but appoint a receiver and protect the subscribers.” The attorney further answered the petition allegation of the intervenors that the subscribers were not properly notified. He read law to support the theory that one person or a group might represent hundreds of thousands of subscribers in the receivership action. This afternoon attorneys for the intervenors argued in behalf of the receivership ouster petition. In his statements to the court, Patrick scored ouster petitioners as “disgruntled agents.” The company went into receivership in February. 1928. The case is considered the largest of its kind to be aired in Indiana.

keep the brush clean at all times. Dry the hair with a thick Turkish towel after a shampoo,” he suggested. Technical advice on beauty's needs and ways in which every woman can attain the pinnacle of pulchritude will be given daily through Friday at 2:30 p. m. and 8 p. m. in the Travertine room of the Lincoln under the auspices of The Times.

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LESLIE FLAYS STUDENT WAR ON RJ T. C. Governor Terms Attack by I. U. Campus Paper ‘Pacifism.’ ASSAULT IS RENEWED Editorial Brands Military Training ’Little Less Than Draft.’ While editors of the Indiana Daily Student. Indiana campus publication. again attacked compulsory military training at the state school, their attitude was assailed today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. Leslie went through a similar fight against the R. O. T. C. at Purdue university as alumni secretary. As Governor he is chairman of the board of visitors at Indiana university. Military training was defended Monday by Chairman James W, Fesler of the I. U. trustees and today, Leslie launched an attack on what he terms “pacifist propaganda.” “Didn’t Get By” “I am somewhat familar with this program to wreck the R. O. T. C.,’’ Governor Leslie asserted. “I went all through that at Purdue. But when I ran the alumni publications there, the pacifists didn’t get by with their propaganda. “Most of these ideas come from the professional paefists from the east. The first principal of their program Is to win the campus publication. “This movement is headed by Frederick Libby and others. “But how absurd it is to charge American colleges with being militaristic when they have training but a few hours a week. There is no danger of Prussinism or making robots here. “Many lives might have been saved in the World war if we had been prepared for the conflict. Surely we should have learned a lesson and do not again want to send men Into |ittle who do not even know the manual of arms.” Schools Owe Duty The Governor also pointed out ! that state schools owe especial alle- ; glance to their government, and ! should be willing to take a little I time to study for its defense. The radicals make the real mil- [ itaristr when they get control of a ; countiy, he pointed out, citing the case of Russia. “We never have waged aggressive warfare and I trust we never will,” the Governor concluded. “But we certaintly can not refuse to learn some rudimentary principles of defense in a world that is armed to the teeth.” Having previously charged editorially that the military system at I. U. is “making robots,” the Indiana Daily Student launched another attack on the system today. The editorial follows: “When the World war drew the United States into the conflict in 1917, President Wilson called for volunteeers for the army and navy, and many loyal men responded to the call. Months passed and as a stringent war measure the draft law was passed, inspite of much opposition. “In his message to congress recommending the measure, President Wilson made it clear that he did not regard the draft law as esi sential to the wellbeing of the couni try or the prosecution of the war, but that he was recommending the draft law because it would leave men with the responsibility of a family the last to be called to the ranks. “This was while the United States was at war with several of the most powerful nations of the earth, and yet the government did not regard the draft as necessary, but merely more fair to her citizenry. “Compulsory drill today is, by its own terms, conscription in peace times. If conscription w’as not deemed necessary to the government when we were at war, what possible justification can there be for compulsory military education in college today?” PANTAGES ~IS WATCHED Wealthy Showman, In Jail, Reported to Be 111 Seriously. ft it and P i ss 1 LOS ANGELES. Feb. 25.—Alex--1 ander Pantages, wealthy showman in jail pending decision on his api peal from a conviction of attacking ; Eunice Pringle, dancer, today was | being watched by county physician i Dr. Benjamin Blank, after a pur- \ ported serious heart attack. “He is a very’ sick man,” Dr. Blank said. Attorneys for Pan- ! tages have made three attempts to 1 get his release on bond, while the i appeal is under consideration, but ! in each case their efforts have been | futile. pay Tor blast deaths Standard Oil to Award $Z50,000 for Killings, Injuries. By United Pr< s* NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Th Standard Oil Company of New Jersey will pay in the vicinity of $250,000 in compensation for the thirteen deaths and the more than fifty injured resulting from the explosion in its Bay way refinery -olaait.

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