Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 288, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1930 — Page 1

EATON BEATEN; STEEL BATTLE FACES COURTS Cleveland Financier Says He Has Only ‘Begun to Fight’ Merger. INJUNCTION DISSOLVED Youngstown Firm to Unite With Bethlehem. Vote of Shareholders. BY HARRY W. SHARPE United Pre*.* Staff ( orr**pnndent YOUNGSTOWN, O, April 12 The titanic struggle to ratify the billion-dollar Youngstown Sheet and Tube-Bet.hlehem steel merger, has been crowned with success, but months may elapse before the deal Is consummated. Beaten at every turn in his relentless fight to block the consolidation, Cyrus H. Eaton, Cleveland financier, who controls more than 200.000 Sheet and Tube shares, said today that he has “only begun to fight.” Just what new obstacles Eaton hopes to place in the path of the unification, which was ratified Friday night by a majority of 58.008 votes, w'as problematical today, but it was believed he would resort to further injunction action, possibly in the federal courts. “Os the 857,000 votes ascribed to those favoring the merger,” he said, “at least 90,000 should, I am advised, be excluded. This alone is sufficient to defeat the merger, but in addition there is a substantial amount of votes represented by proxies alleged to have been purchased and which, under the laws of Ohio, are illegal. Those and other grounds have been recorded formally and will be pressed in the courts.” Eaton Scores Methods Eaton assailed the methods adopted by the merger proponents in obtaining ratification as “ruthless in the extreme,” and said “the practices indulged in by Important interests in obtaining votes are unworthy of the creditable reputation and standing enjoyed by them theretofore," The merger, fostered by James A. Campbell, 75-year-old builder of Sheet and Tube, and Charles M. Schwab and Eugene Grace, chairman and president, respectively, of Bethlehem, was ratified three hours after dissolution of an Eaton injunction which, if made permanent, would have caused the deal to collapse. Statements issued by Campbell and Grace, the latter speaking through Campbell, indicated the pro-merger forces anticipate further litigation on behalf of Eaton. “The shareholders.” said Campbell. "should understand that the terms of the merger contract are such as to allow time for the unraveling of legal complications. But no question of time will be allowed to defeat the proposal, which is economically sound and clearly advantageous. Legal technicalities undoubtedly will cause some delay.” No Doubt of Verdict Eulogizing Campbell “for his victory in an impossible situation," Grace said “every latitude of time will be allowed on our part to obtain authoritative determination of every legal question involved. “There is no doubt but the courts will decide in our favor,” he said, “but every possible legal technicality must be disposed of before the plan can be consummated.” The great Industrial bet tie was between two distinct schools of financiers. The old was represented by Schwab and Grace, and the new by dynamic Eaton.

‘OUST SHYSTERS’ OGDEN’S PLEA IN KENTUCKY TALK

Sr Timet Special PADUCAH. Kv. April 12.—“ Oust the shyster." was the burden of a plea made to Kentucky lawyers by James M. Ogden, Indiana attorneygeneral and president of the Indiana State Bar Association, in addressing the twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Kentucky State Bar Association here Friday night. Local bar associations have been dilatory about discipline of their membership, the Indiana attorneygeneral charged. He attributed to thte lack of aggressive courage on the pan of the bar the disrepute in which lawyers sometimes are held. “Just as in any lodge, church or other group, there are among the lawyers some who are unscrupulous, dishonest and of low morality/’ Ogden asserted. “These men should be shown by decisive and concerted action of the local bar association that they should live up to the traditions of their profession or should get out of it “There is no doubt that the local bar assocation can clean up the local bar and keep it clean. The shysters bring disrepute upon every other lawyer in the community. “We owe it to ourselves to protect ourselves from them and to prevent them from preying upon the public.

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VOLUME 41—NUMBER 288

MOTHER’S HEROISM PROVES IN VAIN AS BURNED CHILD DIES

Well! Well!

“Happy days are here again” for Bob Cook and Dot Oatman, until recently three-a-day vaudeville singers and dancers, who have been lifted suddenly to wealth by the finding of oil on their land adjoining the great Mary Sudik gusher in Oklahoma. Mr. and Mrs. Cook, whose home is at Muskegon, Mich., say they recently refused an offer of $1,000,000 for their Oklahoma farm preferring to take royalties then running $7,400 a day. They have retired from the stage.

ATTIC GHOST TO PLEAD GUILTY Indicted on Murder Charge in Love Slaying. Bv United Pre*s LOS ANGELES, April 12.—Otto Sanhuber, whose love for a married woman led him to spend eighteen years as a hermit in the attic of Fred Oesterreich’s various homes, is expected to plead guilty to a charge of second degree murder. The man was indicted by the county grand jury Friday _on a charge of murdering Oesterreich, retired Milwaukee manufacturer, eight years ago. In an asserted confession, Sanhuber told of his strange life under the darkened eaves of the manufacturer’s home and of how he had crept from his garret abode and shot Oesterreich late one night. Sanhuber’s love for Mrs. Oesterreich led him to the attic existence, he said, and he shot Oesterreich when he believed the man was harming her. Prior to Sanhuber’s lengthy testimony before the grand jury, he indicated that he planned to repudiate the confession. He talked freely however, when assured by his attorney that he would be allowed to plead guilty to second degree murder.

“Bar associations usually are too dilatory about matters of disbarment. but an occasional disbarment is most salutary.” He urged the lawyers to take an active part in patriotic and community affairs and decried the trend toward commercialism in the bar membership.

You 7/ Sprout Wings, So Watch for This Series You’re going to be flying soon! At least, thousands of Americans who never before have taken aviajion will start this summer to become air enthusiasts. And you're likely to be one of them. The Times, the first paper in the state to make a regular department of aviation news, will give you some real help along this line. Beginning Monday, the first of a series of articles’ by Lowell Nussbaum. Times aviation editor, will be printed. Nussbaum has been engaged actively In aviation for several years and knows it backward and forward, and he will present all the steps necessary to become a flier in the simplest manner possible, so you can understand every move that Is essential. He is going through the complete course required at a ti ty air field. He will take you along with him as he ponders just where he will take his flying lessons, through his medical examination, into the plane for the first time and on through the course. It will be a revelation to you, this series. And after you read it, you’ll know just what will be required before you can sprout wings. Watch for the opening article in Times.

Suffers Breakdown After Baby She Sought to Rescue Succumbs. Heroism of a mother proved in vain early today when Mary Alice Gamble, 2, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gamble, of 348 East McCarty street, died in city hospital from burns suffered in a fire at the Gamble home Friday morning. Thomas McGlenn, No. 17 pumper company fireman, carried the baby from a flame-filled room after the mother, Mrs. Alice Gamble, had made three attempts to gain entrance to the room through a blazing hallway and had broken out a window pane in the child’s bedroom after climbing a ladder to reach it. The child’s entire body was seared by the heat and it suffered from flames drawn into its lungs. Mrs. Gamble, who was burned on the arms when her clothing caught fire in her attempts to reach the child, suffered a breakdown after death of the child eftrly today. She had refused to enter a hospital bed for attention to her burns because of anxiety over the child’s condition and was at its bedside when it died. The child is survived by its parents; a brother, Vincent, 2 months, and two half-brothers, sons of the father by a former marriage.

BEGIN PROBE OF BUSJRAGEDY )9 Lie in Morgues as Tally of Train Collision. By United Press ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.. April 12. -r-The bodies of nineteen persons lay in morgues here today, victims of the worst crossing accident in the history of the west, while griefstricken- relatives sought to identify their loved ones from the mass of chafred human wreckage. While preparations were made for the removal of the bodies, three separate inestigations were begun to determine responsibility for the crash between a Santa Fe passenger train and a huge Pickwick-Grey-hound motor stage Thursday near Pueblo Isleta, twele miles south of Albuquerque. The bus was en route from Los Angeles to Dener, with twenty-eight occupants, including the drier, F. B. Williams of Albuquerque. Witnesses said the driver slowed down nearing the crossing, but apparently thought he could beat thie speeding train across. He was about one hour behind schedule, officials of the bus line here said. Midway of the tracks, witnesses said, Williams swerved sharply ir. a futile attempt to avoid the accident. But' the locomotive, which had slackened its speed somewhat on seeing the stage, plowed into the middle of the bus, shattering it into a thousand splinters. The gasoline tank of the stage exploded, convert-, ing some of the dying into human torches. Investigations were underway today by the district attorfney’s office hi-e, representatives of the Santa Fe. and officials of the PickwickGieyhound lines, who hurried here by plane from L-*s Angeles. CITY~STbRE _ WiLL _ MOVE Morrison Company to Be Located on Pennsylvania Street. L. E. Morrison & Cos., for the last thirty years located at 27 West Washington street, has announced it will move to 18 North Pennsylvania street, as soon as its present stock is disposed of, probably within thirty days. STILL FOUND IN WALL A still built inside a wall, with outlets into a pool room and an adjoining room, was found, police allege, in a raid on the pool room at 855 East St. Clair street, Friday night. Joseph Sawyer, pool room proprietor, and Claude Miller, proprietor of an adjoining rooming house, were arrested. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m..... 62 8 a. m 67 7 a. m,.... 62 9 a. m 71 10 a. m..... 76

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 12. 1930

3-POWER PACT ENDS BRITAIN’S RULE OF SEAS Undisputed Dominance, Won 342 Years Ago, Finished Next Thursday. PRESIDENT CITES SAVING Senate Stand on Treaty Ratification Next Bar to Arms Slash. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Pr-ss Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 12.—Great Britain’s 342-year struggle to maintain undisputed mastery of the seas —gained with defeat of the Spanish armada in 1588 —formally will be ended Thursday In a three-power naval agreement to be signed by Britain, Japan and the United States. President Hoover pronounced this final abolition of competitive building the most vital feature of the London treaty in which AngloAmerican naval parity is to be acknowledged and a proportionate Japanese strength assigned. With receipt of word here that the naval agreement probably will be signed in London late next week, officials are wondering when Mr. Hoover will make his first move to have the instrument ratified by the senate and what the prospect is for ratification.

It is yet unknown whether the President will submit the treaty immediately after the naval delegation returns from London or whether he will wait until congress reconvenes next fall. Plan Long Hearing In either event, ratification probably will be long delayed, as the senate foreign relations committee plans to hold extensive hearings on the instrument before reporting it. Thus far, senators have been reluctant to comment on the treaty in its final form, though several of them made known their opposition to inclusion in it of a consultative pact. Mr. Hoover estimated the treaty would save the three participating nations $2,500,000, of w'hich $1,000.000,000 will represent the American share. These estimates were based upon comparison of w'hat AngloAmerican parity would have cost on the high tonnage levels under consideration by the 1927 Geneva conference, and on tonnage levels agreed to at London.

Further Developed The forthcoming treaty is the beginning of a naval limitations or reduction program which is to be further developed in another conference in 1936. The Geneva basis of parity, proposed by Great Britain and rejected by the United States, would have created a British navy of 1,500.000 tons. Mr. Hoover said it would have been useless to seek popular support in this country for naval expansion to that figure in behalf of parity. London conference tonnage levels t for Great Britain and the United States are about 1,136,000 tons each, a reduction of 364,000 tons below the Geneva figure. Japan's navy will aggregate about 800,000 tons. To achieve parity at this reduced figure, Mr. Hoover estimates the United States must spend $550,000,000 and $650,000,000 during the next six years. To achieve the Geneva parity level, he estimates, would have cost between $1,400,000,000 and $1,640,000,000. Devotion of this aggregate saving to reproductive enterprises* the President believes, will stimulate world prosperity. Heart Disease Fatal FAIRMOUNT, Ind., April 12. Funeral services were held at the Buck Creek Friends church near here today for Josiah F. Allred. 49, who died suddenly of heart disease at his home in Hartford City.

SUMMER WEATHER IS TO PREVAIL FOR WEEK-END

Lightly clouded skies today will reduce record temperatures of Thursday and Friday only slightly, and the week-end vclll pass without change from mid-summer weather, the United States weather bureau here predicted this morning. Friday was the hottest April 11 since the bureau was established here In 1871, and, rising to 89 at 3:30 pm Ihe mercury came within one degree of shattering all records for April here. In northern Indiana, showers tonight were expected to bring cooler weather, although the thermometers ■were scheduled to ascend again Sunday. Starting at 62 degrees at 6 am„ the government thermometer climbed to 71 degrees at 9 a. m. Freak winds from the upper reaches of the Great Lakes cooled most of the middle west today after the mercury had touched 90 on two successive days tn a preseason taste of summer. In the southwest, however, the heat wave continued to take a toll< in growing crops esimated at sl,- j 000.000 dally, and farmers scanned j the heavens for relief that the

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Above—Mrs. Harry Danford, left, and Mrs. Lillian Greenberg, both of Chicago. Below—Vernon, left, and Duke Humphrey, righb of Elwood.

Mrs. Harry Danford, in Marion trying to liberate her husband, one of six charged with murder and conspiracy in connection with bombings there, and her friend Mrs. Lillian Greenberg, wife of a Chicago gangster said to have

PEACE IN COAL MINE WAR NEAR Union Approval of Wage Contract Expected. Bn Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. April 12. Complete peace in Indiana's coal fields was brought a step nearer with an agreement reached here on a wage contract for strip mines, negotiated by representatives of District 11, United Mine Workers of America, and the Indiana Coal Producers’ Association. Earlier in the month the deep mine workers and their employers agreed on anew contract. Each of the contracts will be in force one year. Within the next two weeks a union cnovention will be held here for the purpose of passing on the contracts. Approval is declared assured by union leaders. No details of the strip mine agreement, other than that it continues in force the present wage of $6.10 a day, were annuonced. This wage also is a part of the deep mine contract, which also has provisions for several changes in working conditions. KAYE DON QUITS~SOUTH Gotham-Bound to Confer With Silver bullet Designer. Btr United Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April 12 —Kaye Don. British driver, admitted today that he. with his manager and party, was leaving for New York today to confer with Louis Coatelen, chief designer of the Sunbeam Motor Company, regarding future runs here in the Silver Bullet. The Silver Bullet will not be shipped and the mechanics will remain here in charge of the machine.

weather bureau said was not yet in sight. Thunderstorms in lowa and South Dakota broke the heat wave there.

Amos V Andy Will Star in Million-Dollar Movie HOLLYWOOD. Cal., April 12.—Amos ’n’ Andy, famous radio entertainers, are coming to Hollywood to inject their blackface patter into a $1,000,000 musical drama for RKO Pictures, it was learned today. The comedians are expected here in the near future to assist with preparations for the picture, “Check and Double Check, in which the?’ will star. The story has not been written, but probably will be based on their radio patter. nun ana A million cold bucks for an Amos ’n’ Andy play! That's what the movie folks think of radio’s greatest twins. And you’ll think they're worth it, after you read The Times’ great series on this popular pair, which started Friday. The second of the series is on Page 5 todav, and the third will appear Monday. The Amos ’n’ Andy rage is sweeping the city. They’re so high in public favor that the Rexall stores of the city are putting on an Amos ’n’ Andy special every day during the publication of the series in The Timas Turn now to Page 5 and read the second installment. If you missed the first one Friday, call The Times circulation department, Riley 5551, and . start out right.

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participated in robbery of the I Wolf Auto Company here a year ago, follow' the news accounts of the mombing investigations. The Humphrey brothers are two of the sextet held by Marion police in connection with the murders of five men by bombs.

GAS INCREASED GENT A GALLON Crude Oil Price M‘ke Given Reason for Boost. Gasoline prices were increased 1 cont a gallon today at virtually all retail and wholesale distributing points in the city. Rise Friday in crude oil quotations and “greater firmness in the gasoline market resulting from changed competitive conditions," was the reason for the increase advanced by Edward G. Seubert, president of Standard Oil of Indiana. which started the new price. Common gasoline today was quoted at 20.2 cents a gallon. High test gasoline sold at 23.2 cents. One refining company, Sinclair, this morning had not joined the increase, but said a rise was probable later in the day.

LINDLEY PLEDGES STATE AID ACTION BY PROBERS

“This committee is charged with making definite recommendations regarding state school aid to the 1931 legislature and will do so if I have to submit them as a minority report.” This comment on the second state-aid committee meeting in Governor Harry G. Leslie’s office today was expressed by State Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep.) Kingman, committee member and farm bloc leader in the senate. Lindley already has been defeated by the committeemen in his attempt to obtain a special legislative session to solve state*aid school problems. He now places his hope on committee approval of a bill similar to the one he introduced in the closing days of the 1929 legislature. Such a measure would provide for payment of the minimum teacher salary (SBOO a year) to all teachers by the state. The sum required then would be lifted from local school levies and communities desiring additional payments and expenditures

CHICAGO GANGLAND ARRESTS MAY CLEAR OP ACTIVITIES OF INDIANA BOMBING RING Charge Is Hurled That Woman, Nabbed in Raid, Drove Car in Which Man Who Bombed Hammond Theater Escaped. MARION POLICE CONTINUE SEARCH Maintain Vigil in Effort to Get Man Linked With Outrages; Sensational Evidence Is Awaited From Investigator. MARION. Ind., April 12.—Rumors that Chicago gangsters had filtered into Marion planning jail delivery of three of their number charged with murder in bombing crimes here, caused secretion of police machine gun squads in buildings near Grant county jail this morning. ~ BY CHARLES F.. CARLL Times Staff Correspondent MARION, Ind., April 12.—Ripping Chicago and northern Indiana gangland wide open today, police and detectives from four cities awaited evidence that is expected to tear down the curtain that has hidden the workings of a bombing ring for many months. Revelations are expected to bring near the solution of three bombings here that have cost lives of five men, and also blasts that wrecked the State theater at Hammond two years ago and a Chicago night club. The man who was to bring the information to officials here has worked on the case incessantly since the theater was bombed, lie claims he can show police that Mrs. Tassie Leill Adato, alias Betty Gordon, formerly of La layette, who was arrested Friday in Chicago with Teddy Friana, henchman of Scarface A1 Capone, drove the car in which the man who

bombed the theater escaped. He also asserts he can show evidence revealing that Harry Danford, alias Joe Prado, held here with five others on murder charges, is the man who placed the “boomer.” Another Hammond man was here today after spending the night with operatives. He was supposed to have been able to identify Prado as the Hammond blast perpetrator. When he faced him in the jail he said he “didn’t know', for sure.” Prado already has bee nldentified as a “pineapple chief" by Hammond persons. Arrested in Hotel Others under arrest here include Mrs. Ema Leggos, widow of Andrew Legos, labor leader, w'ho was murdered wTien he stepped on the starter of his auto and a planted bomb exploded; Peter Kmieciak and Joseph Beckett of Chicago, and Duke and Vernon Humphrey of Elwood. The Adato woman and Triana wer enabbed in the Western hotel in Chicago, where Capone’s gang hangs out. She worked in the Algiers Night club that was blown up after she W’as fired. Atfer that she entertained in the Cotton club,

could provide them locally, Lindley explained.

Opening Markets

B ’new d YORK, April 12.—Irregularity continued on the Stock Exchange at the opening today, rang- | ing from losses of fractions to gains of more than a point. Utilities generally were firmer led by American and Foreign Power, which rose Hi points, to 39'i. Fractional gains were made by Consolidated Gas and Columbia Gas. United States Steel continued j weak, unsettling the list. It opened ' at 192%, off a point, firmed to 193 | and then fell back again. Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel and Radio Corporation were slightly higher. /Bv Thomson ft McKinnon) —April 12 — Allied Chemical 33b Allis-Chalmers 66% Am Brake Shoe 50% Am Can 1501s Am Car ft Fdrv - 6._ Am Smeit 72 -h Am Steel Fdy 47*- 2 Am Sugar 66% Am Sumatra 16 Am Tel & Tel 288% Am Tobacco B 239% Am W T ater Wits 121 Anaconda 71 Ass’d Dry Goods 4!’) Atchison 236 Vj Barnsdale A 31** Beechnut Pk* 66% Bethlehem Bteel .106% General Electric 91 Vi Sears Roebuck 91 Mont Ward 41 Vi Gen Asphalt Nor Am Cos Cons Gas 132 % Peal Silk 60*4 United Air Craft 88 s * U S Rubber 33 Goodrich 53 Ont Harr 109 Yellow Trk B 27% Famous Play 72% Conti Can 68 Union Carbide 103 Inspiration, 47 Kenecott *2% U S Bteel 193 Chrysler .w. 41% General Motors 52% Hudson Motors ■>§ Kucp Motor 25% Studebaker *l% N y Central 184% C St o ?. st l ft s r -nr* Per.na *2 Rep Iron ft Steel 78 Mo Pec pfd 138 Sinclair 31 V

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; operated by Ralph (Bootleg) Caj pone, brother of Scarface, and in which Triana worked. Triana a few days ago sent Mrs. Adato to the hotel where they were living as man and wife and told her to “keep her trap shut or he’d cut out her tongue.” Revealed to Pat Roche These facts were revealed to Pat Roche. Chicago investigator, after the arrest of the girl and her “daddy.” Operatives working on the bombing case and police are in Chicago resisting efforts of gangsters to “spring” them. Information that will bring the unnamed Hammond man here today was brought from Michigan City by William Dailey, detective and Mayor Jack Edwards who made a plane trip to the state prison Friday. “Showdown’’ to Be Demanded They talked to Harry Ames and Marwood Williams, serving time for the bombing, but were unable to obtain information from them. They are supposed to be “frames” and are seeking parole. Vigil of a machine gang squad in a town car here was continued all night in an effort to aivest a man said to have tried to arrange for a Newport, Ky., “bomber” clique to come here for the plant job that resulted in the recent, arrests. Selection of a special judge to hear the murder evidence, said to have been gathered against Mrs. Legos is to be made today. Attorneys for her are going to demand the state “show' its cards” at the hearing which may be held Monday.

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