Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1930 — Page 1

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YOUNG BRIDE WITNESS IN BANDIT TRIAL ‘Banana Kid' Suspect With Her When Alleged Holdups Occurred, She Says. ROMANCE IS RELATED 21-Year-Old Girl Wedded Hunt Four Days Before Mate Was Jailed. A pensive bride of almost four months, Mrs. Katherine Hunt, took the witness stand today to tell a criminal court jury that her husband, Kenneth Hunt, styled by police as the Banana Kid, was with her on at least two occasions when he was accused of holding up a grocer and a taxi driver. Unperturbed by rapid fire questions of prosecutors, the 21-year-old girl, calmly faced jurors to narrate a romance of two months culminating Jan. 27 with a marriage ceremony, performed in private four days before her husband was jailed on charges of auto banditry and robbery. State Closes Case The defense opened its case shortly before noon, calling Mrs. Hunt as the first witness. This followed closing of the state's case, which included testimony of numerous witnesses that Hunt is the bandit who perpetrated several sensational taxi holdups, boasting of his reputation as the Banana Kid. Among state’s witnesses called today to reiterate positive identification of Hunt as a bandit were Morris Olshan, grocery operator at 1802 Howard street, and Dallas Dean, cab driver, both of w’hom say they were victims of Hunt on Jan. 4. Raymond Colston, 34. 2629 Brookside avenue, taxi driver and victim of Hunt, proved a strong witness for the state, insisting “he would know Hunt's face among a million.’’ He testified Hunt relieved him of his cab and purse last January in a rural -obbery. firing two shots at Colston as the latter hailed a passing auto. The shots went wild, Colston said. Accuses Hunt’s Wife Deputy Prosecutor -*aul Rhoadarmer laid startling evidence before the jury today in testimony of Morris Olshan that Olshan had been approached by Hunt’s youthful wife on two occasions to “be lenient.” “His wife offered to pay back all the loot if I would ‘lose my memory when I took the witness stand,’ ” Olshan charged. The afternoon session of court is expected to end by submission of the case to the jury for verdict. Special Judge Alvah Rucker ordered noon convening of the case at 1:30 to complete evidence before evening adjournment. FACES SWINDLE CHARGE Man Weighing 350 Pounds Is Being Returned to California. Bu United Fress PITTSBURGH. Pa., April 18. William A. Coleman, the largest prisoner ever lodged in a central police station cell, was on his way to the Pacific coast today to answer charges of swindling $5,400 from Californians. Coleman, who weighs 350 pounds, is in the custody of Charles H. Kelly. Pasadena superintendent of police, who weighs slightly more than 150 pounds. MAYOR GOLS TO CHURCH Sullivan Takes Time Off From Job for Good Friday. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan cast off the duties of the city’s chief executive today from 12 to 3 p. m. to attend Good Friday services at fit. Paul’s Episcopal church, of which he is a devout member. Good Friday is the most sacred day of the year in the Episcopal church. Sullivan granted permission for all employes to attend church on notification of department heads. engetTe error shown Probate Judge Candidate Mistaken on Iglehart's Position. In a public address by John F. Engeike, candidate for the Republican nomination for probate judge, he asserted that Eugene H. Iglehart. formerly co-receiver for the J. F. Wild bank, now is vice-president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. Igiehart is not nor has he ever been connected with the bank. ARTIST WEDS AGAIN Norman Rockwell, Recently Divorced. Marries. Bu United rrees ALHAMBRA. Cal.. April 18.— With anew wife who also will be a model, Norman Rockwell, magazine illustrator, was on his way to New York today. The bride, formerly Miss Mary Rhoades Barstow, is a grand niece of the late Judge Elbert H. Gary. Ninety-three days ago, the illustrator was divorced by Irene Rockwell in Reno “because he was too 'much absorbed in his art.”

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Steal Roofs “They steal the roofs from over your heads,’’ was the complaint of Ralph R. Reeder, roofing contractor, 2401 Cornell avenue, to police-today. Reeder reported thieves seem to be following his workmen, and that the thieves steal copper roofing off new houses before they can be completed. Thursday night $35 worth of copper roofing was taken off anew house on Hampton drive, he reported, and he listed copper roofing thefts totaling more than S3OO during the last several weeks.

SIX DOCTORS PROBE DEATH IN INFIRMARY Physicians Are Placed in Charge of Ft. Wayne Scandal Quiz. Bo United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind., April 17.—A Pt. Wayne physician, one of a group of six selected to investigate the death of Thomas Lakey, 66, whose mutilated body was found in the Allen county infirmary Wednesday, unofficially said the disfigurement appeared to have been caused by “gnawing or biting.” At the same time, W. Homer Young, superintendent of the institution where Lakey was an inmate when he died, charged that the affair was a “frame up” against him in the fight to remove him as infirmary head. He gave Prosecutor Walter E. Helmke a pair of wire clippers bearing stains, w'hich the superintendent said might have been used to mutilate the body. He said the stains might be blood and not rust. Early reports of the findings of the investigating physicians, however, placed little credence in the clipper theory. The doctors were to re-open the cuts on the man’s face to determine, if possible, the manner in w T hich they had been inflicted. Young told an undertaker's assistant Thursday that he thought the body had been attacked by rats. Lakey had been in the infirmary for two weeks, said to be mentally unbalanced. He was waiting commitment to the East Haven Asylum for the Insane at Richmond. Although officially removed by action of the commissioners, Young retained his post, pending outcome of his appeal. Special Judge Jesse C. Sutton, Decatur. has heard all the evidence in the case and was expected to give his verdict today. GIANT MERGER NEAR Sears-Roebuck Rumor Is Confirmed by Chief. Bit United Press PHILADELPHIA. April 18.—Lessing J. Rosenwald, vice-president in charge of the local Sears-Roebuck interests, today practically confirmed reports of a merger of SearsRoebuck & Cos. and Montgomery Ward & Cos., the two largest mail order houses in the country. “The report, as far as I know', is substantially correct,” Rosenwald said. “But it is entirely unofficial, as the matter has not been brought before the board of directors.” AUTHOR LIQUOR VICTIM By I nit'll press CLEVELAND, 0., April 18.—Hans Dilling, 38, said to have been an author and playwright of some recognition, was found dead in his room at a hotel here Thursday night. The manuscript of an unfinished play witha Norwegian setting was found in the hotel room. Police ascribed death to acute alcoholism.

HERE’S CHANCE TO VOTE ON DRY LAW

THE vote in The Times Drohibition poll, conducted as a check on the Literary Digest poll in this city, was almost at the 2,000 mark at noon today. The totals follow: Enforcement, 146; modification, 273; repeal. 1.588. Every one in Indianapolis who is qualified is asked to mark one of the coupons being printed in The Times. Write your name and address plainly, state whether male or female, and bring or mail your ballot to The Times Vote Editor. A ballot box has been placed in The Times office, first floor, for your convenience. You are asked to sign your ballot to prevent duplication in the voting. Every precaution is being taken to eliminate repeaters, by careful checking of all votes.

Vote —and Check Digest Poll; (Vote for One Only) (1) Do you favor the continuance and strict enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead law? (2) Do you favor a modification of the Volstead law to permit light wines and beers? (3) Do you favor a repeal of the prohibition amendment? Name Address Street City Male Female g. (This cqppon will be published so one week)

HINTS HOOVER DOUBT ROUSED ON DRY LAWS Wet Chiefs’ Belief That President Weakens Is Aired in Hearing. VOTE DRIVES BARED Congress Is Backing Away From Prohibition, View of Curran. BY NATHAN ROBERTSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, April 18—Officials of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment believe the “tide of public opinion against the eighteenth amendment can not be stopped” and that President Hoover is “beginning to doubt whether prohibition can be enforced,” the senate lobby commit'tee learned today in its investigation into lobbying by wet and dry organizations. Reference to the President’s opinion was contained in a letter written by William H. Stayton, chairman of the board of the wet association. Stayton wrote Charles S. Wood, a vice-president of the association, that he believed "Mr. Hoover wants to take plenty of time to consider it, but he is being abused a little too much” about his attitude toward the dry law. Congress Not Indication Henry H. Curran, president of the association, again told the committee today the dry congress does not reflect the country’s atttiude toward prohibition. He said the government is “backing away” from it and cited two enforcement measures which have been held up in congress this session. He said both would have “gone through in other years.” Questioned on Stand Curran was questioned at length about his organization’s activity in campaigns in 1928. Senator Walsh (Dem., Mont.) said the list showed the association had supported fiftysix candidates for the house and spent $17,500. Curran said the association had contributed to only two senatorial campaigns, supporting former Senator Bruce (Dem., Md.) and Hunt in Ohio. The association succeeded in electing only three new members of congress, Walsh declared, naming Pittinger (Minn.), Igoe (III.) and Whitely (N. Y.). He said the association candidates were successful in only fourteen out of fifty-one elections and that eleven of these candidates merely were being re-elected. BARBERS PARLEY>OR HEADQUARTERS SITE City Plan Group Approves Purchase of Delaware Property, Plans for the Journeyman Barbers’ International Union of America headquarters building at 1141 North Delaware street were advanced today with the approval Thursday by the city plan commission following a public hearing. The union is negotiating for the property with Mrs. Robert Geddes. Leo M. Rappaport, attorney, represented the union before the plan body. HALLIBURTON PLANS HOP Explorer-Author Intends to Fly From New York to Arabia. Bv United Press HOLLYWOOD, April 18.—Richard Halliburton, young explorer and author of travel tales, is planning an airplane flight from New York to Arabia, via Paris, he said today.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1930

Moral: Be Rich! “Only 11 cents, eh!” a holdup man e/claimed as he slugged William Payne, Negro, 2046 Martindale avenue, and 1 knocked Payne off his wagon at Twentieth and Bellefontaine streets Thursday night. The holdup man asked Payne for a ride at Sixteenth and Illinois streets. When a lonelier spot was reached he demanded Payne’s money and knocked him off the wagon. Payne suffered a severe cut on his head.

SUSPECTS ARE BRANDED AS ’LOAN SHARKS’ Extracted as High as 240 Per Cent Interest, Stark Says. Search of the office records of three alleged “loan sharks” jailed Thursday on us/ury charges, to unearth additional evidence in what is termed a “wage purchasing” scheme, was started today by Prosecutor Judson L. Stark. With the arrest of three men as operators of three local downtown loan companies, ledgers, papers, customer lists and prospect lists have been confiscated and will be used to show that the concerns, said to be operated jointly, extracted as high as 240 per cent interest from clients, Stark said. Warrants have been issued for the arrest of three Louisville, Ky„ loan office operators, whose names were listed in fixe affidavits filed Thursday in criminal court by Deputy Prosecutor Harry Gause. Trio Held by Police Those under arrest are Amos G. Haines, 623 North Temple avenue, manager of the Capitol Trading Company, 46 North Pennsylvania street; Jesse A. Haines, 2189 Station street, manager of the Indianapolis branch of the Union Trading Company, 46 North Pennsylvania street, and Hansford E. Pool, 325 North Oakland avenue, manager of the local branch of Marshall & Cos., 23 North Pennsylvania street. Warrants were issued against J. P. Hanson, Atlanta, Ga., operator of the Capitol Company, and L. B. McDonald and P. C. Mathes, both of Louisville, operators of the Union Company. Secret and extensive probe Into the activities of the concerns has been conducted in the past six weeks. Stark said, and repeated warning ousting the concerns from the city have been disregarded. The probe was conducted by detectives, attaches of the Better Business Bureau, Stark and Gause, Slated at the ctiy prison late Thursday, the three defendants found bondsmen awaiting them, and were released on bail of SI,OOO each. Pledged Future Earnings Stark urged victims of the alleged scheme to co-operate by turning in their contracts as part of the chain of state’s evidence. Affidavits against Haines, Hanson and Pool were signed by Vernon Enders, 214 West Twenty-first street, and James A. Branam, 205 South Oriental street, signed bills against Jess Haines, McDonald and Mathes. Both obtained loans ranging from $25 to S4O in amount, averring they paid interest at the rate of 240 per cent. Indiana statute fixes the legal rate at 8 per cent. Plans used by the agencies revealed that a prospective client pledged future earnings for a given period in return for a loan. “Such a rate of interest as these companies have been charging is clearly illegal and void,” Stark declared, “and I offer free legal service to any person who does not wish to carry out the terms of his contract.” WEATHER FAIR, COIDER Frost Possible in Low Places Tonight, Is Forecast. Fair weather, but with decline in temperature that may bring frost to low places tonight was forecast today by the United States weather bureau here. Lower temperatures probably will prevail over the week-end, the weather bureau reported indicated. CRUSOE GOES TO JAIL And If That Isn’t Enough Robinson Starts His Term on Friday. Bu United Press BEVERLY, Mass., April 18.—Today, which, appropriately enough, is Friday, found Robinson Crusoe of Kansas City, Mo., starting a ninetyday sentence at the state farm. He was arrested here yesterday on a vagrancy charge. Couple Killed in Auto Bv United Press GARY, Ind., April 18.—A man and his wife were killed at a railroad crossing here today when he drove his automobile past a truck, halted at the crossing by an electric warning signal, into the path of a fast freight train. The auto was thrown against a concrete post, killing George C. Jackson, Canton, 0., and fatally injuring his wife. She died en route to a hospital. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 54 10 a. m 59 7 a. m 55 11 a. m 57 8 a. m 57 12 (noon).. 56 9 a. m 58 1 p. m..... 54

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Former Star Football Player Murdered Husband of Boyhood Love. SELF-DEFENSE CLAIMED Young Widow Turns Against High School Idol at Trial for Killing. Bv United Press BA.TESVILLE, Ark., April 18. John P. Barber, 22, former high school football star, was found guilty here today on a charge of murdernig Maurice Osborne, husband of Barber’s boyhood sweetheart.. Osborne was shot to death when he returned home the night of July 1, 1929, and found his young wife with Barber. The athlete told the jurors he shot and killed Osborne in self defense. Osborne was the rich husband of Norma Osborne, 20, who admitted she was the football player’s sweetheart in their high school days. The prosecution attempted to prove the infatuation between young Barber and Mrs. Osborne continued after she was married. It was charged the slaying was furtherance of a scheme to resume their earlier love affair. Most Popular in School Testimony disclosed the couple was the most popular in the Batesville high school and gossip predicted the handsomest man would marry the most popular girl. Instead, Osborne, who inherited a prosperous business at Cord, Ark., married her. Osborne was slain last June, after the young people had attended a picnic. The young football player testified he opened the door to the Osborne home the evening after the picnic to find the young husband standing with a revolver in his hand. Denies Any Love Affairs "I asked him what he meant,” Barber said. “He replied he intended to kill me. We scuffled and the gun was discharged. He turned as if to pick up another gun and I shot him twice more.” Barber denied he had ever had a love affair in his life. Mrs. Osborne, sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary for her part in the death of her husband, turned against her former sweetheart and testified for the prosecution. She said he overpowered her and persuaded her to consent to the killing. SCORES D. A. R. STAND Possessor of Thayer Brown Millions Hands in Resignation. Bv United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J., April 18. —Mrs. William Thayer Brown, an influential member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and possessor of the Thayer Brown millions, today revealed she had sent a telegram to the president-general of the D. A. R. announcing her resignation from the organization because she disagreed with its attitude toward reduction of armaments and the world court. asklmmigration ban Petition Asks Mexican Government to Prevent Coming to U. S. Bv United Press MEXICO CITY, April 18.—A petition from Mexican societies of Los Angeles to President Ortiz Rubio, asking that the Mexican government to restrict immigration to the United States, was published here today. The petition said there is not sufficient employment available in the United States.

Cleaning Up “Dirty thieves” will be clean ones if they use the loot taken Thursday night from the Joseph Pickrell grocery, 128 South Traub avenue. Pickrell reported to police today that the large portion of $25 worth of articles taken from his store by burglars was soap.

MAJOR IS INDICTED Army Man Charged With Murder of Wife. Bv United Press TOPEKA, Kan., April 18.—Major Charles A. Shepard of the army medical corps was indicted on a first-degree murder charge returned by a federal grand jury here today after it investigated the death of Shepard’s wife in Ft. Riley, Kan. last June. Shepard, now held in Denver, where he served on the staff of Fitzsimmons hospital, probably will be tried in federal court at Kansas City. Kan., next December. His bond was fixed at $20,000.

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TORCH KILLER PAYS WITH CHAIR DEATH

Bv United Press TRENTON, N. J., April 18. —Henry Colin Campbell, 60, who bigamously married Mrs. Mildred Mowry and then burned her body scarcely six months after he had met her, through a matrimonial agency, was executed Thursday night in the electric chair at the state prison here. At the same time a physician was pronouncing Campbell dead his widow, Mrs. Rosalea MacCready Campbell, was en route to her home in Elizabeth, N. J., to her three children after a last half hour with the husband she had defended throughout. It was his desire to get SI,OOO from Mrs. Mowry that caused him to marry her. On the night of Feb. 22, 1929, near Cranford he shot her with a pistol, laid her body beside the road and poured gasoline over it. Seating fire to the body, Campbell drove away.

BANDIT KILLS SELF TO AVERT CAPTURE

Escaped Convict Ends Own Life Downtown When Cops Win Chase. Choosing death rather than capture and return to prison from which he escaped last August, Colon Bearup. 23, shot himself in the head as police closed in on him in front of 113 South Illinois street Thursday night. Identified through finger prints by Albert G. Perrott of the city police early today, Bearup’s body also was identified at the Patterson morgue, Fifteenth and Illinois streets, as that of the ifcndit who held up three filling station attendants Thursday afternoon and night. Patrolman Gives Chase With two successful holdups accomplished, the youthful bandit came to grief at the Standard filling station at Senate and Kentucky avenues shortly before 8 Thursday night. He took $lB from Charles Hunter, 21, attendant, R. R. 3, Box 343, and locked Hunter into a lavatory. Hunter, from the lavatory window, cried out to a motorist filling his tires with air at the station as the bandit left. The motorist, patrolman Dan Scanlon, off duty and in plain clothes, gave chase in his automobile. Death Comes Instantly Patrolmen Patrick Moriarty and William Pettijohn, joining Scanlon, closed in on the fleeing bandit at Illinois and Georgia street. One patrolman fired a shot in the air to halt the youth, not daring to fire at the fugitive because of the crowds on the street. The youth drew a revolver and turned toward the officers, but they did not halt. It was then, seeing escape impossible, that the youth placed the revolver muzzle against his right temple and fired, dying instantly. From finger prints the body was identified early today as that of Bearup, who escaped from the Michigan state reformatory, Aug. 5, 1929. Bearup was sent to the reformatory Aug. 5, 1926, on larceny charges. Identified as Bandit The bandit’s body was identified as that of the man who held up Thomas Boylan, 26. of 456 North Berwick avenue, Great Western filling station attendant at 3400 West Washington street, Thursday afternoon, escaping with $25, and also as the bandit who took $35 from Cleo Sherrow, 3044 English avenue, Pure Oil station attendant at Kentucky avenue and West street, early Thursday night. EDITORS’ DRY AID ASKED Wickersham Pleads for Exercise of Prohibition Influence. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. April 18. George W, Wickersham, chairman of President Hoover’s law enforcement commission, appealed to the country’s newspaper editors today to exercise their influence for observance of the prohibition law. Wickersham, addressing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, declared those abetting violation of the eighteenth amendment are "inviting revolution and promoting anarchy.”

INSURED ‘VICTIM’ OF THUGS FOUND ALIVE $30,000 Fraud Plot Suspected in Disappearance of Salesman. Bv United Press PARIS, Tenn., April 18.—A $30,000 insurance fraud plot was believed revealed here today following the finding of Samuel T. Hollowell, magazine salesman, previously thought to have been shot to death and thrown into the Arkansas river by three youths. After the disappearance of Hollowell a month ago, insurance companies traced him. When found here Thursday night he told a sensational story of being slugged, kidnaped and taken to New Mexico “bad lands,” where he said he escaped from his captors.

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Jailer Jailed Bv United Press RUSHVILLE, Ind., April 13. —The Rushville city jail, empty these many months, was occupied again today by the jailer, Ed Beatty, charged with bootlegging. Sheriff Claude Thompson raided the jail a few hours earlier and found a quart of liquor in one of the vacant cells and a gallon in the house of Jailer Beatty nearby. The jailer was placed in his jail until he could raise bond of SSOO.

FACE DEADLOCK IN UTILITY CASE Jurisdiction Is Denied in Merger Motion. Prospect for a dealock on Commissioner Howell Ellis’ order on the i $75,000,000 Insull utilities merger ! loomed as the public service com- ! mission went into session this afterI noon. i The order, as written by Ellis, is | said to turn down the merger petition on the evidence. Deadlock may result from the question of jurisdiction. Commissioner Calvin Mclntosh announced this morning that has prepared a motion to dismiss the merger because of lack of jurisdiction based on the opinion he received from Attorney-General James M. Ogden. The opinion, received before the merger hearings, cites the ShivelySpencer law showing that the commission can not sanction mergers involving unlike utilities in differing localities. With adoption either of the McIntosh motion or approval of the Ellis order, the merger will be denied. WINS POSTER PRIZE Tech High Pupil Is First in C. of C. Contest. Charles Glore, 132 South Emerson avenue, Arsenal Technical high school pupil, today was awarded first prize in the clean-up, paint-up poster contest sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. The clean-up campaign is from Monday until May 3. Other prize winners are: Second, Bert Riegel, 414 Parker avenue, Technical: third, Norman Gill, 521 Bernard avenue, Shortridge pupil; fourth, Jean McHatton, 5631 Lowell avenue, and fifth, Eloise Riley, 121 Spencer avenue, Technical pupils. Final arrangements for the campaign are being made today by members of the chamber fire prevention committee. Julian Wetzel, school commissioner, will judge essays written by pupils in upper grades of public, parochial and private schools.

ORDER LEASE PROBE Senate to Quiz Charges of Postoffice Frauds. Bv Unit'd Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—An investigation of all postofflee leases was ordered by the senate today. The senate approved, without a single objection, the Blaine resolution authorizing creation of a senatorial committee of five members to make the investigation. The investigation was ordered as a result of charges by Senator Blaine (Rep,, Wis.) of fraud and corruption in the leasing of 1,200 postoffices all over the country.

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HAYES BODY STRIKE ENDS IN WAGE PACT Sheet Metal Workers Back at Jobs; Picketer Is Held by Cops. PAY INCREASE GRANTED Employes Praise Officials for Spirit of Fairness in Parleys. Sheet metal workers were back on their jobs at the Hayes Body Corporation, 1301 West Morris street, this morning, the wage disagreement which precipitated their strike a week ago having been settled amicably late Thursday. Although some 200 of the other 900 employes of the plant had been laid off temporarily, because of the interrupted production, they will return to their old jobs as rapidly as the production schedule is restored. The plant should be in full operation Monday, officials said. Decision of the strikers to return to work was reached Thursday afternoon after 125 of them heard wage adjustment proposals explained by E. J. Connolly, vicepresident, and Frank Turk, plant superintendent, at the plant. U. S. Official Conciliator The officials and a strikers’ committee including W. R. Deubner, C. H. Bennett and W. R. Elliott had been brought together by Harry Dynes, United States labor department conciliator. Under conditions which provoked the strike, sheet metal workers’ pay averaged about 50 cents an hour with day wages ranging from $2.75 to $5.40, Deubner asserted. “We returned to work under promise of being able to make 90 cents an hour or better,” Deubner said today, “and we should be able to earn around $9 a day on the five and one-half day week.” Connolly today said the men had expressed willingness to accept the new piece work basis if their pay averaged 80 cents an hour or better. He asserted “only thirty-five or forty men” had gone on the strike, affecting, temporarily the jobs of some 200 others. The sheet metal workers commended Connelly and Turk for their spirit of fairness in the neotiations and praised Dynes for negotiating conferences which resulted in the settlement. Picketer Is Arrested When Theodore Luesse, 315 Sanders street, discharged from the company’s paint shop four weeks ago, picketed the plant this morning trying to persuade workers not to return to their jobs, he was arrested by Patrolman Orville Hudson, charged with violating the picketing ordinance. Search of his pockets revealed a booklet entitled “Don’t Tread On Me,” detailing “aggressive labor tactics,” police asserted. The sheet metal workers took no steps toward affiliation with the American Federation of Labor or with the Labor Union Unity League whose two representatives here | Thursday were labeled “Reds, j hooked up with the Communist party,” by Fred S. Galloway, 4121 Rockville road, long active in support of the Federation of Labor. Answering Galloway today, the tw r o Unity League organizers, N. Kerr of Chicago, and Pete Chapa of Pittsburgh, declared their organization is “merely anew trade union opposed to the American Federation of Labor.” BURGLAR POSES AS MODERN ROBIN HOOD SJOO,OOO Theft Suspect Tells Police! He Divided Loot With Poor. Bv United Press NEWTON, Mass., April 18.—The somber records of the Newton police department w r ere enlivened today by the story of an alleged burglar who pictured himself as a modern Robin Hood. Fred G. Hughes, 47, who gave his address as Hotel Sherman, Chicago, and who was arrested Wednesday night in connection wdth the theft of $.00,00 in jewelry, told police his activities as a burglar had extended into every one of the forty-eight states. He claimed, however, that seme of the money realized from the sale of stolen goods had been distributed among poor children and “down-and-outers.” AUTHOR NEARLY BLIND Visits Famous Swiss Specialist ih Effort to Save Eyesight. Bv United Press PARIS, April 18.—James Joyce, author of the widely banned Ulysees, has left Paris amid the greatest secrecy to consult a famous Swiss surgeon in a last effort to escape blindness. Before Joyce left he completed final corrections on his newest work, “Haveth Childer Everywhere." Completion of the volume was A race against time and friends of the famous Irishman have watched him for months in fear that his eyes would fail completely at any moment.

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