Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 263, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1930 — Page 8

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CHEAP CIGARS CALLED 'STOCK' IN FRAUD PLOT lowa Pair Alleged to Have Netted Millions With Loan Swindle. />./ ratted *CEDAR RAPIDS, la., March 14. Two-for-a-mckel cigars supposedly formed the stock in trade of the mysterious ' justness that George E. Huckins allegedly told investors did .1 530.000,000 yearly turnover and •could pay up to 52 per cent re'iiros, witnesses have revealed at Ins trial cf defrauding those ’"ho leaned money, out of millions of dollars. Emil fDutrh) Levsen of Spring-

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viile, la., former pitcher for the Cleveland baseball club, brought the cigar phase into the case when ho testified as the first witness Thursday. “No Chance to Lose’ Levson declared that Huckins told| him of a wholesale business in inferior cigars, known as '‘seconds,” j and assured him there was no! ; chance to lose as his father, Elmer ; E. Huckins, had $2,500,000 worth of property in Wisconsin. "I invested S3OO in the belief I would get anywhere from 6 to 52 per cent interest,” Levsen testified, j I got a promissory note signed by both Huckins and his father, but I never got either principal or inter- ; est back.” Cigar Expert Testifies Levsen said Huckins tcld him the company was able to pay such high ( returns because its only employes were three women in Chicago and ; there was no overhead for adver- ; Using or warehouse space, the , cigars being handled in carload lots. I Lhe second witness, C. S. Ogilvie, I representative of the General Cigar

Company, declared it would be impossible for any firm to do a 530,000,003 annual business in mlerlor cigars. ALLEGED SLAYER HELD Captured Fugitive Accused of First Degree Merger Sheriff’s Death. ' Bu United Preei LAWRENCEBURG, Ind., March 14. _ James Anderson, accused of slaying Sheriff Herman Lange at an alleged beer camp near West Harrison, Dec. 30, is held following ; his visit at Hazard, Ky. Anderson has been arraigned on a charge of first degree murder and taken to jail at Greensburg to await trial. He had eluded arrest since the shooting of the officer. He escaped to the home of a friend in S southern Kentucky mountains, where he hid until his arrest Tuesday. Mrs. Mayme Lange was appointed sheriff after her husband’s death. A reward of SSOO will be paid deputy sheriffs of Perry county, Kentucky, who brought Anderson to Lawrenceburg.

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POLICE BELIEVE WOUNDED MAN KNOWSBUNMEN Renew Search for Clews to Assailants of City Lottery Operator. Believing Charles Zeller, 46, of 320 Southern avenue, Butchers’ and Porkers’ lottery operator, “knows the man who shot him,” police today began a probe into Zeller's activities in an effort to obtain clews to the gunmen. Zeller is in critical condition at city hospital suffering from bullet wounds received when one of two gunmen who held him up in front of his home Wednesday night, shot him after stealing a suit case con-

!ta icing marked wooden marbles 1 which are drawn in the lottery. 1 Police have been unable to get a full statement from Zeller because of his condition, but believe he can j identify his assailant. Don Cutshaw. 42, of 602 North ! Sherman drive, held by police after j the shoo .ing, was released on bond j Thursday. I The bandits’ car was found | wrecked Thursday at Emerson avenue and the Big Four railroad near Beech Grove. Police denied a young woman, who previously has been watched in connection with a' coal company office robbery’ recently, had any part in the Zeller shooting. Scarlet Fever Spreads By Unite.] Prrr-s GARY, Ind., March 14.-Twelve new cases of scarlet fever appeared here within two days, and health officials have issued warnings in an effort to prevent an epidemic. This is the first time in three years that j Gary has been threatened with a serious epidemic of a juvenile diI sease.

HOOVER STAND ON DAVIS’ PACE BEING WATCHED Labor Secretary’s Failure to Quit Cabinet May Imply Support. By Sc pps-Hoteard \ etepap- t J Uiance j WASHINGTON, March 14.—Will President Hccver permit Secretary of Labor Davis to remain m his cabinet, while he campaigns for the Republican nomination for senator from Pennsylvania against Senator Joseph R. Grundy? Washington politicians are asking this question today Gn the eve of Davis’ formal announcement of liis candidacy. Close political friends of the i President, it IS known, nrp rmrwsn/i

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analogous, it is claimed, since Hoover did not personally participate in any of the pre-convention primaries. He made no campaign speeches anywhere. The decision of William S. Vare to withdraw in Davis' favor forecasts a real struggle. Davis will be supported, it is reported, by organized labor, the Vare Philadelphia organization and a large group of influential Pittsburgh politicians who are opposed to the Mellon regime. Grundy will have the backing of the Mellon organization, the state Republican organization, including the state patronage machine headed by Governor Fisher. Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association and organizat.on . ariers in the smaller cities.