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ODD FELLOWS’ PARADE TO BE HELD TONIGHT Uniformed Bodies to Mark Military Day by Show Downtown at 6. DEGREF AWARD SLATED Decoration of Chivalry to Be Conferred on Heads of Patriarch Group. Uniformed bodies of Odd Fellows fc/ill march over downtown streets at 6 this evening in observance of Military day at the order’s international convention now in session fcere. While the Sovereign Grand lodge,' i of E iekah Assemblies and the General Military council convene' in business sessions, the military department, auxiliary and bands were being groomed for the Patriarch Militant parade at 6 tonight, when 1,000 uniformed members will pass through downtown streets. After the parade the grand decoration of chivalry, highest award of the grand lodge, will be conferred on Patriarch militant officers at the Ciaypool, to be followed by a military ball Assemble in Banquet Attention of Rebekahs is centered bn the annual Association of Rebekah assemblies banquet at the Lincoln at 6:30. The Connersville degree staff will confer the Patriarchal degree at the Athenaeum at 7 tonight. Other activities today included a deception for wives of past grand tires at the home of Mrs. John B. Cockrum, 1416 North Alabama street, wife of the oldest living grand sire. Women's auxiliary to the military department held a ‘ get-together’’ at, the Ciaypool and a “mustering in’’ service. ted by the Marion County Odd Fellows band, the parade, escorted by police and headed by General Fred H. A. Hahn, Patriarch Militant, commander, will move from Delaware street to the east side of Monument Circle where the grand officers’ reviewing stand will be stationed. Colonel J. C. Roessner, grand marshal, and general staff officers will be in the front line of march. Thirty Pieces in Girl Band A girls’ band of thirty pieces from Danville. 111., will be among participating musical organizations. Mrs. Goldie Galinsky, Hammond, state auxiliary president, will lead (be women's division. Winnipeg was chosen for the 1931 convention of the three orders. Seattle. Wash., and Bethlehem, N. H., made strong bids for the honor. Sessions will colse Friday. Clement D. Rinehart, Jacksonville. Fla., advanced to grand sire Ft. Tuesday’s session, following election of international officers, and Mrs. Amelia Blank, San Antonio. Tex., became president of the Association of Rebekah Assemblies. Other Officers Named Other grand lodge officers are: Joseph Powley. Toronto, deputy grand sire; J. Edward Kroh, Baltimore. Md.. grand secretary, and William H. Cox, Maysville, Ky., reflected grand treasurer. Mrs. Blank’s assistants include ■ Mrs. Edyth F. Kelley. Roseburg. Ore., vice-president; Miss Ruby Gleiser, Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, treasurer, and Mrs. Josie Morrow, Jacksonville. Fla., secretary. LINCOLN’S GRAVE PREY OF SOUVENIR HUNTERS Whit® Marble Sarcophagus Wrecked Completely by Visitors. / I nited ”rrsft * SPRINGFIELD. 111.. Sept. 17. Souvenir hunters were blamed today for wrecking the white marble sarcophagus which held the body of Abraham Lincoln for several years and recently had been used as a marker for his grave. The sarcophagus has been broken to pieces and carried aw’ay by souvenir hunters in the last few days. MURDERS WIFE AND SON Wealthy Farmer Surrenders and Confesses Slaying Two. £ v Vnited Press SLINGER. W,is., Sept. 17.—John Held. 52-year-old wealthy farmer, walked into the sheriff’s office today and confessed that he had killed his wife. 54. and their 5-year-old son Joseph. "Lock me up, I'm a murderer,” he told a deputy. ‘Tve just killed my wife and son. You shouldn’t allow me to be at liberty.’’ CAUGHT BY FRIEND IN FOUR-STORY TUMBLE Fall Victim. Pal Injured by Impact, but Will Live. £'j T'nittd Press ST. PAUL. Minn.. Sept. 17. Walter Fransen. 20. fell four stories from a hotel girder today and was caught by his friend, Jerry Janeke, 26. Both were injured seriously by the impact as Fransen crashed into his friend’s arms, but probably will live. * Flower Grows in Tree /5y Vnited Press PERU. Ind., Sept. 17.—A sunflower the stse of a dinner plate grows from the limb of a maple tree in front of the home’ of Charles Rees. Roots of the flower is fifteen feet from the ground.

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Brother May Die in Noose Like 'Candy Kid* for Shooting Guard

Bu Vnited Press BALTIMORE, Sept. 17.—The line of fate which in 1927 sent Richard Reece Whittemore to the gallows for killing a prison guard today appeared to point the same end for the “Candy Kid s” younger brother. Arthur Owen, 39, Maryland state prison guard, who w’as shot by Rawlings Whittemore Tuesday in an attempted jail break, is near death with a bullet in his liver. Surgeons who attempted to extract the shot had to sew up the wound to keep the guard from bleeding to death. They held little hope for his recovery.

Beer Ankle-Deep in Streets as Dry Agents Raid Brewery; Gang in Skirmish With Sleuths

Bu Vnited Press PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17. —John D. Pennington, prohibition administrator for this district, today confirmed that fifteen armed gangsters during the night ousted four prohibition agents left in charge of the confiscated Peter Breidt brewery in that city. “Our men returned with reinforcements, however, and the brewery is now safe in our hands,” Pennington said. Raiders Are Armed Bu Vnited Press ELIZABETH, N. J., Sept. 17.-An armed force of twenty-five gunmen, said to have been under command of Jack Dunn, Hoboken gangster,

REACHES 104‘BY DODGING WORK 1 ‘Taking It Easy Is Way,’ Says City Centenarian. "Don’t work!” That’s the answer to being able to live one hundred and four years despite four months’ illness, as prescribed by William Surbur, 104, of 1076 West Twenty-eighth street, upon his discharge today from city hospital. “I haven’t worked in the last forty years and that’s why I’m as old as I am. Some say I’ll live to be 125. I hope so!” explained the centenarian who resembles Ezra Meeker, driver of the famed team of crosscountry oxen. “Never smoked, never drank, in my life. I was bom in St. Louis, but I’ve lived here since I was 23. I stopped my work of selling truck garden at the city market forty years ago, and just been taking life easy since,” he says. Surbur was brought to’the hospital June 5, suffering from a toe infection. “Stubbed it just like children do,” he laughingly explained. TRIAL Father of 15 Charged With Murder. Bu Vnited Press MT. VERNON, Tex., Sept. 17. J. T. Smith, 70, a Baptist minister and father of fifteen children, was on trial today on charges of murdering W. G. Lammons by hitting him on the head with a shotgun when they quarreled over Lammons’ views on a school election. FIRE ON JJJ. SHIP Guns Rake Vessel From Chinese River Banks. Bu Vnited Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 17.—The U. S. S. Luzon was subjected to fire from field guns today on both banks of the Yangtse-Kiang river, at distances of fifteen and thirty-five miles above Wusieh. The Luzon returned the fire. There were no casualties aboard the ship. j 44 ARE ARRAIGNED Pleas Presented by Group Named by Grand Jury. Forty-four jail prisoners were arraigned this morning before Criminal Judge James A. Collins on ! charges placed against them in ! grand jury indictments. Collins heard pleas of each defendant and fixed dates for trial Regular arraignment date is Oct. 6. but necessity of clearing the fall docket of criminal court led to today's special arraignment. CASiTrEGISTER STOLEN Oyner Sleeps in Restaurant While Thief Makes Getaway. While Bob Hayes slept in his restaurant at 632 Indiana avenue Tuesday night, a thief made away with the cash register, valued at $l4O | and cob tain mg $6 in cash, Hayes told police today.

It was learned Whittemore attempted suicide before giving ftimself up Tuesday in the belief he had killed Owen and faced his brother’s fate. The brother, nationally known as the Candy Kid, was hanged in the same prison three years ago for killing a guard when he attempted to escape in 1926. Owen today identified Whittemore as the man who shot him. If Owen dies, nine men who participated in the attempted break will be charged with murder. Should he recover, all nine will be charged with assault and attempt to kill, a member of the state attorney’s staff declared.

seized an entire brewery here during the night, but were driven out by an augmented force of prohibition officers commanded by Alexander McPhee of Newark. No shots were fired in the two “engagements,” but dry officials characterized the incident as “the boldest piece of direct warfare ever waged by an eastern gang against the prohibition department.” The brewery still was held by dry forces today, and warrants were being issued for many of the gunmen who were recognized as they took possession of the big beer plant. Five of McPhee’s men, it was announced, raided the Peter Breidt brewery, acting on warrants issued by Augustus L. Friedman, United States commissioner, of Newark. It was charged the brewery, which covers two blocks, had no permit to manufacture near beer. Nine men, including two visitors to the plant and seven workers, were put under arrest. A nufnber of

3 ARE BADLY HURTINJJRASH Light Truck and Sedan Col* lide on Morris Street. Three persons were injured seriously and four others escaped with minor hurts in a collision of a light truck and a sedan this morning at Morris street and the Marion county line. Seriously injured; George Clodfeller, 57, Bridgeport, R. R. 1, probably fractured pelvis and scalp wounds; removed to his home. Mrs. Roy Davis, 26, Newcastle, internal injuries; removed to Methodist hospital. June Davis, 3, daughter of Mrs. Davis, probable fractured skull; Methodist hospital. Clodfeller, alone, was driving a Ford truck east on Morris street when, his view of the intersection obscured by a high bank, his car collided with a sedan driven by Theodore Larimorc, 25, of Camby, Ind., R. R. 1. ’ With Larimore were his father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Larimore, 50 and 51, respectively, both of Camby; Mrs. Davis, her daughter June, and a son Theodore, J month. All six were taken to Methodist hospital, thg Larimores and the Davis baby not being considered hurt seriously. Both cars were demolished.

LIQUOR ARRESTS GAINING, STATE RECORDS REVEAL

Number of prisoners admitted to the Indiana state farm alone oi* convictions connected with liquor has increased 1.267 in the last five years, a tabulation made by the state charities board today discloses. Trend of these figures is exactly in the opposite direction from those compiled for the state crime commission regarding liquor arrests by Charles Kettleborough of the legislative reference bureau. The Kettleborough figures gave the drys a “break” and so impressed, the crime commissioners that they modified their report to let them be admitted at the secret meeting Monday. Previously, the commission turned down an attempt of Attorney Leo M. Rappaport, one of the members, to study the whole prohibition program in relation to crime increase. Kettleborough compiled figures

HOLDS GUN ON VICTIM, WATCHING COPS HUNT HIM

B.u Times Soecicl SOUTH BEND, Ind:, Sept. 17. While police inspected the scene of a holdup in the Hotel La Salle early today, one of three bandits who forced the night manager to open the safe from which they took S9OO, sat in the lobby watching the police squad work. While Louis Whalen, night manager, and Otis Harley, bell captain, recounted details of the robbery to police, the bandit sat on the arm of a chair occupied by Mrs. Whalen. Obviously he was oonversing with her, but none saw that he pressed a gun against her side, with the warning that he would kill her if she made an outcry. After fifteen minutes of interested observance of " slice seeking clews

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others dashed to safety through a secret tunnel .leading under the street to a bottling plant. The agents proceeded to work, taking samples of the beer in the big vats for analysis. Beer Flows in Streets The doors were locked, and after their preliminary work, the agents pulled the bungs from the vats and permitted 200.000 gallons of beer to flow out into the streets. Citizens in the neighborhood were amazed to find the gutters running with beer ankle-deep. The beer was said to have been valued at approximately $194,500. Working only in candle light, since the electric wiring had been cut, the agents on guard were startled when about twenty-five men, flourishing guns, appeared in the darkness and ordered them to the wall. There was a parley, and the gangsters finally decided to permit the agents to leave. Warrants Are Prepared McPhee was notified by his men, and immediately called out a force of twenty-two men. who descended on the darkened plant and forced their way in. Evidently they took the gangsters by surprise, for the gunmen ran to cover, anff* themselves escaped. Many of them were well-known to the raiders, however, and Philip Foreman, United States attorney, of Philadelphia was summoned into conference for the issuance of warrants. The beer had been entirely destroyed by the prohibiiton agents before the unexpected arrival of the gunman-army. MAKE BRIDGE PAYMENT Final Installment of $63,793 Ends $400,00C City Project. Final payment of $63,793 for the lengthening of Morris street bridge over White river was made today by the works board to the National Concrete Company. The bridge project cost about $400,000 and was started in 1928. The structure was opened last Saturday. The construction was a part of the city’s flood prevention program calling for widening of the river and construction of levees. SEED STICKS IN LUNGS Child’s Screams of Fright Dislodge It as X-Ray Is Taken. Bu Vnited Press COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 17.—A watermelon seed was dislodged from the lungs of Amy Lou Thompson, 3, Springfield, 0., by the girl’s screams of fright when doctors here took an X-ray picture.

from 1907 to 1929, which indicate that there has been a decrease in liquor arrests in the prohibition area. But here are the statistics from the Indiana state farm for the last five-year period: Prisoners admitted for driving while intoxicated from 1925 to and including 1929 totaled as follows: 1925, 140; 1926, 180; 1927, 257; 1928, 278; 1929, 316. Those admitted for drunkenness during the same period follow: 1925, 579; 1923, 1,220; .1927, 1,546; 1928, 1,708; 1929, 1,817. In the same period during which driving intoxicated and drunkenness has undergone this tremendous increase, liquor law violation conyictions. no crime in pre-prohibition days, hav decreased. Figure/, for the five-year period are: 1P25, 1,335; 1926, 1.296; 1927, 1,411; 1928. 1,017; 1929, 988.

to the bandits, the gunman arose and walked out of the hotel, “There goes the bandit! Mrs. Whalen, screamed, and then she fainted. The bandit escaped. Early this morning the three bandits held up Whalen, Harley and Mrs. Whalen, forcing the manager to open the safe. They locked the three in the suite of Jacob Hoffman, owner of a chart of hotels of which the La Salle is a member. Whalen called police on an outside phone in the suite, and the emergency squad freed them. As the crowd collected in the lobby Mrs. Whalen recognized one of the bandits, who had returned with the crowd. Before she qould notify police the bandit ordered her to sit down, and sat b&ide her on the chair.

KNIFE MURDER OF GIRL LAID TO JEALOUSY South Bend Police Discount Theory of Revenge by Store Customer. HINT WOMAN IN CASE Slayer May Have Mistaken Victim for Sister, 20, Officers Believe. Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 17. Jealousy, not revenge, was the motive in the murder of 17-year-old Alice Woltman, whose throat was cut while she slept Sunday morning, police and county authorities said they believed today. They discounted theories that a man, angered because he was refused credit at the grocery owned by Henry Woltman, the slain high school girl’s father, plotted to kill the entire Woltman family—father, mother and seven children. On the other hand, they indicated they will press their hunt for the slayer by tracing down a theory that a woman committed the crime, or hired someone to do it. Enlarging upon that theory, they explained the murderer may have mistaken Alice for her elder sister. Henrietta, 20, sleeping in the same room. Two new material witnesses were in custody this morning. They were Gene Jarvis, no address, for whose arrest police withheld reasons, and Carmi Hurtle, 18, who was seen loitering near the murder scene as crowds collected around the house early Sunday. He admitted, police say, that he had had several dates with Alice, j All day Tuesday crowds called at the Woltman home to file before the coffin. Funeral of the girl was post- ; ponea by the family until Thursday. Prominent among many floral tributes to the slain high school girl was a heart-shaped piece, inscribed “Sweetheart.” Presumably it was j the tribute of Alex Pietrzak, who 1 told police he and Alice had been engaged.

UPTON'S YACHT IS OUTOF RACE Accident Costs Shamrock Third Heat of Trials. p S. S. KANE, Sept. 17. —Calamity dogged Sir Thomas Lipton’s big challenger for Vie America’s cup today, when Shamrock V was -eliminated from the third race of the series by a spectacular accident to her rigging. Forty-five minutes after a beautiful start, in which for the first time her skipper, Ned Heard, had succeeded in outjockeying Harold S. Vanderbilt, skipper of Enterprise, her towering mainsail came sweeping down from the peak, burying her crew under folds of white canvas and putting an end to her day’s aspirations. Enterprise, going about on a port tack, went on to cover the thirtymile course and thus, under the rules, take the third straight contest. The accident virtually destroyed all remaining hopes of Sir Thomas Lipton’s backers for lifting the America’s cup. DAVID HENRY TO BE BURIED IN NORTH SALEM Aged City Man Passes Away After Injuring Self in Fall. Funeral services for David Henry, 83, of 4018 Bowman avenue 4 who died Tuesday night at the city hospital from injuries suffered in a fall at his home, will be held Thursday at 2 p. m. in North Salem. Mr. Henry, who has been an invalid for four years, sustained a fractured hip on Sept. 5 when he attempted to crawl out of bed. Two sons, John L. Henry of the home address, and Charles M. Henry, Lake Geneva, Wis., survive him.

GIVEN U. S. APPROVAL .—_ New South American Cabinets to Be Recognized. Bi• T'nitpri Prppg WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Sec- 1 retary of State Stimson announced today the United States Thursday j formally will recognize the new gov- i emments iif Argentina, Peru and Bolivia, all set up by recent revolutions in those countries. ‘YOUNG BOB’ MARRIES La Follette and Secretary Wed at MadisofL Bu United Press MADISON, Wis.. Sept. 17.—Senator Robert M. La Follette, 35. and Miss Rachel Wilson Young of Washington, D. C., his secretary, were married here today.

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CITY WELCOMES FRENCH OCEAN FLIGHT HEROES

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Top Photo —Dieudonne Coste, in the front cockpit, talking into a radio microphone, while Maurice Bellonte, in leather flying suit, hoists himself out of his seat at Stout field. Mars Hill. Below—Coste and Bellonte are pictured between Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, who extended the official welcom of the state and city.

Acclaim of Indiana Added for Men Who Hopped to U. S. From Paris. Acclaim of Indiana and its capital were added. to the laurels of France's trans-Atlantic fliers, Dieudonne Coste aftd Maurice Bellonte, as they brought their sesquiplane, Question Mark, to rest at Stout field. Mars Hill airport, today. The history-making plane hopped off for Detroit at 1:02 p. m. Arriving from Cleveland at the airport at 11:23 a. m., an hour ahead of their planned arrival, the airmen received the plaudits of a c *owd of 1,000 persons and expressions of esteem from Governor Harry G. Leslie and Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. They passed within sight of the downtown district at 11:17, flanked on the left by an Indiana national guard plane, piloted by Lieutenant Howard Maxwell, and on the right by a United States army plane, piloted by Lieuterant Roland Hicks. ‘Greeted by Officials Over Mars Hill, the escort planes swerved to the sides, permitting the Question Mark to land first. It came to a perfect landing and taxied upon the T. A. T. apron. Coste and Bellonte doffed their flying togs and stepped from the ship to be greeted by Governor Leslie and Mayor Sullivan. Radio men rushed up with their microphone. Arthur Chevrolet, former racing car designer and now airplane designer and manufacturer, served as interpreter. Someone in the crowd asked if Coste telephoned Mme. Coste in France every day, and he answered: “I have been too busy.” “When is she going to meet you?” he was asked. Medals Are Presented “She says she can’t catch up with me now,” he answered with a grin. The Governor, mayor and welcoming delegation escorted the fliers into the Curtiss-Wright restaurant for luncheon, the guests of the Indiana Aircraft Trades Association. Following the luncheon, Coste and Bellonte were escorted to the balconv of the Curtiss-Wright office building, where Mayor Sullivan presented each with a medallion, bearing on one side the imprint of the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument, and on the other the words: “Presented by the citizens of Indianapolis in recognition of the first Paris-New York air flight, Sept. 1-2, 1930.” From Indianapolis, the fliers went to Detroit to spend the night.

OENY CAROL RUMORS Legation Says King Will Not Be Married. Bu Vnited Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Rumors that King Carol of Rumania is contemplating a morgantic marriage were denied as “malicious” in a statement from the Rumanian legation today. 0. K. ON NAVY PACT Japanese Privy Council Decides on Ratification. Bu Vnited Press TOKIO, Sept. 17.—A special committee of the privy council today agreed to ratify the London naval treaty. It is believed tie treaty will be ratified later by the privy council.

BAR PRESS IN BRADFORD QUIZ U. S. Grand Jury Secretive jn Narcotics Case. Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 17. Reporters were barred today from the entire floor of a buijding here where the federal grand jury is in session hearing evidence in the case of Ralph B. Bradford, Gary political worker, charged with violation of the narcotics aet. Every measure for Insuring secrecy was being forced. Witnesses today included Miss Martha Machacek. 29, Bradford’s secretary, who signed a receipt for 100 phials of morphine alleged to have been addressed to him and mailed from New Orleans. She was taken into custody at the time of her employer’s arrest by federal agents, and was released ojj bond to insure her appearance before the jury as a material witness. A. C. Heuber, city controller of Gary, has been called as a witness, but it is not known whether in the Bradford case or some other matter the jury is considering. MINE CHIEFS MEET District Heads Gather Here on Lewis’ Call. District representatives of the United Mine Workers of America assembled here today on call of John L. Lewis, international president, to discuss problems confronting the organization. One board member from Nova Scotia, and another from British Columbia, are among the twenty at the closed sessions which are expected to continue a week. Consideration will be given activities of insurgent elements in Illinois and Pennsylvania, and commendation of the action of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, in ordering the Illinois Federation to bar the insurgents from the state labor convention is expected to be voiced.

Baseball’s Rise Is Sportdom’s Great Romance To a game of “Aunty Over” in Boston a hundred years ago, baseball, America’s greatest sport, owes Its existence. From this game of “Aunty Over,” baseball grew by stages—through rounders, one-old cat, and other crude forms of the pastime. There have been many changes in this century of growth, from the beginnings of baseball to its present-day preeminence, with its high-priced stars and its immense gate receipts. The Times, in its Pink edition, starting Thursday, will tell the story of baseball, a -omantic story of one hundred years, it is a series that every fan will want to read. Watch for the first installment in Thursday’s Pinks.

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TED GEISKING CAPTURED ON CITY MAN’S DP Dry Agents’ Head Here May Get Part of Reward of $55,000. WITNESSES EN ROUTE Hijacker-Gunman to Fight Extradition If Named as Lingle’s Killer. An Indianapolis man will claim a share of the $55,000 reward for conviction of the slayer Alfred J. Lingle. Chicago newspaper man, if Theodore Geisking, hijacker-gang-sters, held in Louisville, is proved the murderer. He is B. F. Hargrove Jr., in charge of the local district special dry agent’s office, prohibition bureau, from whom came the first tip that put Chicago authorities on Geisking's trail last July. When a representative of the Chicago district attorneys office asked Hargrove if he knew a blond man connected with the Joe Traum gang of Terre Haute, Hargrove thought of Geisking and produced a Bertillon photograph of him, which witnesses in Chicago have identified as that of the slayer. Hijacked Their Liquor Geisking. although never a member of the Traum gang, hijacked liquor run into Indiana by that organization, and teamed up with an ex-Traum gangster, who later was slain in Terre Haute gang warfare. In Louisville today four Chicagoans who are said to be material witnesses in the Lingle slaying, were to view Geisking and try to identify him as the murderer. The witnesses were taken to Louisville by Pat Roche, chief investigator for the Chicago district attorney. If they succeed in pointing him out as the gunman who assassinated Lingle. Geisking will fight efforts for extradition to Illinois, he said today. Maintains His Innocence He maintains he is innocent, and declares he fears the crime will be pinned on him by false evidence. If the witnesses fail to identify him as Lingle's slayer. Geisking probably will be returned to Indiana by Carl Losey, state policeman, who identified him Tuesday in Louisville, where he was held on vagrancy charges under the alias of Emrald Harris. Geisking has admitted complicity in the recent Rising Sun jail break, Losey declared, and is wanted in Indiana on several other charges as well. First witnesses of the murder that began anew drive against the Chicago underworld were to-see Geisking this morning. They identified a Bertillon photograph of Gesking •several weeks ago, naming him as Lingle's slayer. Firm in Denials Questioned continually Tuesday, Geisking was adamant in denials of complicity in any Chicago gang warfare, although he admitted he ran liquor and hijacked loads of booze in Indiana and Kentucky for the past two years. “I didn’t know Lingle, but I suppose if any one points me out as the man who shot Lingle, 111 have to stand It,” Geisking said. “I never saw Lingle, and I didn’t known Jack Zuta,” he declared. Chicago detectives, who have sought Geisking several weeks, say their underworld spies tipped them that Geisking was a mercenary killer in the employ of Zuta. They believe he shot Lingle in the Chicago loop June 9, and later engineered a machine gun party that killed Zuta in a southern Wisconsin summer resort dance hall. Relatives Plan Alibi If Illinois tries •to extradite Geisking, his relatives will fight for him with an alibi, they indicated today. Relatives and friends of the gangster in Indianapolis declared that on the day Lingle was killed Geisking visited his sister, Mrs. May Cass of Terre Haute, in a hospital. Where the hospital is located they (did not know. Mrs. Cass was reported to have been in Indianapolis Tuesday seeking persons who would l strengthen that alibi. Neither of two hospitals in Terre Haute had records of Mrs. Cass having been a patient on June 9, or on three days preceding or following that date. Wife Defends Him With Geisking when arrested in Louisville were his bride, formerly Miss Ruth Harter, Muncie; Mrs. | John Gauley, bride of one of three men captured after a hijacking affray near London, Ky., last week--end, and Stanley Freels, South Bend hoodlum. Today Mrs. Geisking, who arrived in Indianapolis Tuesday after having been freed from the Louisville j jail under bond on vagrancy charges, told newspaper men the charges against her husband were untrue. “Ted is the sweetest kid I ever met. Why, he never killed any one. I know, because he told me so,” she declared. ( “When we were driving the other day, he almost wrecked the car, just to keep from hitting a dog. That’s how kind-hearted he is. “I asked him to go straight. He said he would only he couldn't because the coppers were trying to hang a lot of murders on him,” she said. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m..... 56 10 a. m 68 7a. m 58 11 a. m 69 „ 8 a. m..... 82 12 fnooa).. 73 9a. m 66 Ip. m..... 7 2

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