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MISSING JUDGE MYSTERY LIKE FICTION TALE Own ‘Thrillers’ Written Under Pen Name Rivalled by Vanished Crater. i BLONDE WOMAN CLEW Frequent Visits by Jurist to Gay Night Resorts Arc Revealed. BY H. ALLEN SIWITTT United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Investigation into the strange disappearance on Aug. 6 of Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater—as intriguing a bit of mystery as any of the Van Dine tales—veered sharply today toward a woman, a blonde of the "happy-go-lucky” type. With the sudden revelation that Justice Crater might have been involved with such a woman, came also a story of how the jurist spent many of his leisure hours turning out weird detective thrillers. His frequent visits to night clubs, to Broadway’s "hot spots,” were motivated, It seems, by desire to give his fiction a realistic turn. He constantly was seeking color. And that, if it does nothing else, gives color to his own strange story. Letter Comes From Chicago While the special grand jury probed his mysterious fadeout; while District Attorney Crain was devoting his entire time to the case, and while rewards totaling $7,500 lay in the bank waiting for some one to hand in a tangible clew, a letter came from Chicago. It was signed by a woman and addressed to the New York World. It said: "I know where Justice Crater is; so do others ” The letter said that Mrs. Crater, who has remained secluded at her sujpmer home in Maine, knows the whereabouts of her husband. And it said even further that Justice Crater’s departure from New York was preceded by "a tremendous domestic quarrel, which almost shook the roof of their Fifth avenue apartment.” The name of Dr. Samuel Buchler, New York lawyer, was mentioned. The letter said Dr Buchler had been hired by a woman to bring suit against Justice Crater, and that the matter had been settled when Crater had paid $5,000 to Buchler’s client.

“Girl Three tens Scandal 1 * “Mrs. Crater knows the judge is in the west,” the Chicago woman wrote. “She also knows he had to take out cash from the bank to satisfy whims of a girl who threatened scandal.” District Attorney Crain, upon seeing the letter, immediately summoned Dr. Buchler before the grand jury. Dr. Buchler told his story freely, but denied he knew where Crater was. On Aug. 5, a day before Crater dropped from sight, Dr. Buchler said a woman who gave the name of Fay I-orraine came to him and asked him to represent her in a SIOO,OOO breach of promise action against Crater. She told him, he said, that she had letters and witnesses to substantiate her claims. She agreed to return the following day with this evidence, Dr. Buchler said, but she did not show 1 up. He has not seen her since. He said she was about 32 and blonde.

Search Already On Police already have started a search for the woman and are assuring that her real name is not Fay Lorraine. With the letter and Dr. Buchler’s evidence before him. District Attorney Crain said he would make every effort to bring Mrs. Crater to New York for questioning. He is far from satisfied, he said, with the list of written questions and answers obtained from her by mail An intimate friend of Justice Crater today told of his fiction endeavors He has had several of his | mystery stories published in the j Saturday Evening Post under a pen- j name, it was said BOYS. 15, ACCUSED OF AIRPLANE THEFT Homesickness Ends Mexico Flight in Search of Adventure. Bu United P rr* HAYS. Kan. Sept 19.—Theft of an airplane in which they had started to fly to Mexico in search of adventure was charged against two 15-year-old boys today The flight, ended when they became homesick Robert Staab, one of the boys, was in custody and the other, J. R Purdom, amateur flier of Hays, was being sought. Staab was arrested after a plane which had been stolen from Walter D. Mauk. airport manager at Elk City, Okla,. was found here. The boy confessed and implicated Purdom as the pilot. FREE- FUEL OFFERED Wooden raving Blocks Will Be Given to Needy. Free fuel will be available for all who want it when the Standard Paving Company Saturday morning begins tearing up the old wooden block pavement on Illinois street, from Twenty-eighth street to Thir-ty-fourth street. H. H. Tutewiler, president of the company, said no cliarge will be made for the blocks and that any one may have them for the hauling Those unable to be on hand Saturday may get their blocks Sunday, Tutewiler said.

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Believe It or , Not, Ripley ’ll Be Here Soon Another of The Times feature stars will entertain Indianapolis theatergoers for a week, starting Saturday, when Robert Lr Ripley of "Believe It or Not” fame appears on the program at the Apollo theater. Ripley, the famous cartoonist and collector of unusual facts from all over the globe, will be seen and heard on the Vitaphone Varieties program at the Apollo in the first of a series of "Believe It or Not” productions. With the aid of cartoons he presents several of the many bizarre facts that have ccme to his attention. It is a highly instructive as well as entertaining offering. The act is titled "Believe It or Not.”

STREY CHALLENGED Brown Sends Demand for! Backing of Charges. Director John J. Browm of the state highway department announced today that the challenging letter to Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep.) Wabash, w r as mailed late Thursday. The letter asks that Strey produce evidence to support charges made by him in a letter to Brown accusing Jess L. Murden, highw r ay commission member, of being interested in firms making sales to the highway department. Brown’s letter challenges Strey to produce facts on this allegation or retire from public life. It was made public before it was mailed and Strey wired Brown to send it at once, asserting he “will not be bluffed.” He told Tire Times that in the 1931 legislature he will.demand investigation of highway funds expenditure and introduc a bill to provide for a full time highway commission of three members.

GROCER IS HELD UP Two Gunmen Escape After Taking SBO. Two gunmen held up Fred Miller, 922 Hervey street, manager of a Standard grocery at 1817 South Meridian street this morning, taking SBO from a cash drawer. Miller told police the bandits were unmasked, one an elderly man, the other young. They forced him into a rear room, located the till, and escaped on foot. A police emergency squad combed the neighborhood. but did not sight the bandits. FIRE ST A RTE D~BY~O VE N Overheated Stove Causes SSOO Blare at City Apartments. An overheated oven caused a fire in the Traymore apartments, 1402 North Alabama street, resulting in SSOO damage to the apartments and their furnishings. The blaze originated in the apartment of C. Burger, on the first floor, and burned through a wall into the apartment of D. Snyder. Henry Dalman is owner of the building, housing forty-two families. FIRE~SWEEPS HOSPITAL Fatienis Endangered Before Removal by Firemen, Volunteers. Bit ? liitfrl prt'w* DURANGO, Colo. Sept. 19—Fire swept the third floor of the Ochsner hospital today, endangering the lives of twenty patients before they were removed to safety by nurses, firemen and volunteers. Loss was $5,000 Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 80 10 a. m 74 7a. m 62 11 a m 76 Ba. m 67 12 (noon).. 79 9 a. m 71 1 p. m 81

'TpHE TIMES, starting Monday, will present the first of a series of four exclusive narrativebiography stories about two unusual women who are prominent in the public eye today, Aimee Semple McPherson and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy.

‘ATTACK’ ONLY FLUSH Clear Judge Accused of Beating Woman. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—Two secret Indictments were returned today by the extraordinary grand jury investigating charges against George F. Ewald, former magistrate, accused of paying a Tammany leader slo,ooo,for his appointment to the bench. Br/ T'vitrfi Press NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—Chief Magistrate Joseph E. Corrigan has decided that a “royal flush” —not an assault by Magistrate Leo Healy —resulted in the injury to Estelle Cummings which resulted in accusation against Healy. Miss Cummins, Healy's sister-in-law, was engaged in a poker game at his home when she drew a "royal flush.” In her excitement she jumped up, fell backward over a piano stool and fainted, it was said. An ambulance was summoned and this led to charges by a political opponent of Healy that the magistrate was guilty of assault and had falsified the police record in the matter. SCALDING IS CHARGED BY DIVORCE SEEKER Husband Also Asserts Wife Kept Him Awake With Pointed Gun. Suing for divorce from Mrs Anna Strasser, George W. Strasser, 1418 Spann avenue, moulder, today charged his wife with pouring scalding hot water on him; with keeping him awake at nights by brandishing a revolver over him. and with throwing the household dishware at him. Strasser alleges in his complaint his wife demanded he say his prayers as she was "going to kill him during the night.”

10,000 LOOK ON AS THREE ARE EXECUTED Nicaraguan Firing Squad Acts for First Time in Quarter Century. Bu United Press MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, Sept. 19.—Three murderers were executed by a national guard firing squad today while a crowd estimated at 10.000 looked on. Condemned by the civil courts, they were the first to suffer capital punishment in Nicaragua since 1903. The condemned men were tied to a post in front of a cemetery w f all and shot. They were convicted of robbery l and murder. U. S. JURY QUIZ ENDING Indictments Return Is Expected Today or Saturday. The federal grand jury was expected to complete its investigation and return indictments late this afternoon or Saturday, George R. Jeffrey, district attorney, said today. The grand jurors Monday began study of approximately 175 cases, involving approximately 225 persons. GRID INJURIES FATAL Colorado College Player Dies After Being Hurt in Practice, Bu United Preen COLORADO SPRINGS. Col, Sept. 19—Harold Akin. 22, died here today from injuries incurred in scrimmage with the Colorado college football squad. Akin suffered concussion of the brain Thursday and never legained consciousness. WALES~FUES TO PARIS British Prince Lands at Le Bourget After Trip From Coast. Bu T'nitcrt prrxx PARIS, Sept. 19.—The prince of Wales arrived at Le Bourget field at 5:04 p. m.. completing a flight from Le Touquet, on the coast.

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Despite their frequent clashes, their success in building an odd religious venture into a $2,000,000 business—with a majestic temple seating 5.000 persons and a congregation of 12,000—has been phenomenal. Starting with only a tattered circus tent and unbounded am-

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With opening of the municipal airport near Ben Davis, scheduled for Oct. 15, officials are rushing construction work at the air field. Top Photo—Hangars nearing completion. Lower Left—From this tower on the administration building an operator will control moves of planes landing and taking off. City engineers say this will reduce hazards at the field. Right—Star-gazing has a lot to do with airports and the photo shows H. B. Steeg, secretary-en-gineer of the city plan commission, sighting the star Polaris as a basis for mathematical computations from which Paul H. Moore, airport superintendent, will Jay the direct north-south line on the field. Planes will straddle the line to adjust com-, passes. Right Oval—The gold mine of the flowing well is'to be tamed to provide water for the airport.

DELAY ATLANTA CENSUS FIGHT City Sues for Bigger Official Population. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.—Hearing on the mandamus petition filed in district supreme court here by the city of Atlanta, Ga., which seeks to have its census listed officially as 360,692 instead of 270,367, has been postponed until Sept. 29. It was scheduled to be heard today. Atlanta claimed the larger figure on the basis of a legislative act incorporating additional areas, whose population the census bureau declined to include in its population.

18,000 Persons Go Back to Jobs; Whole City Celebrates for Day

Camden Greets Return of Good Times With Giant Parade, Bands and Speeches. Bu United Press LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. 19.—The United States navy dirigible Los Angeles left here today for a trip over Camden, N. J., to participate in the back-to-work demonstration there. The giant aifship, due about 3 p. m., will return to its hangar at sundown.

Bu United Press CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 19.—More than 18.000 workers of Camden took a day off today to celebrate the fact that they have gone back to work and, for them at least, the business depression now is a matter of history. The workers paraded, bands played, business and political leaders made speeches and broadcasters relayed to the w'orld Camden’s spirit of optimism. leading in the “back-to-work” movement were the 5,000 men and women added recently to the 13,-

PIGMY LINKS TAXED Sullivan Signs Ordinance for sls Fee. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan todya signed the ordinance providing that operators of miniature golf courses pay a monthly fee of sls, and affixing SIOO fines for failure to pay the fee or close the courses at la., m. The ordinance was passed by city council Monday night and applies to both indoor and outdoor courses. DOMINICA THANKS PRESS Santo Domingo Officials Pleased with Aid of Newspaper Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 19.—The thanks of the Dominican government to the new’s agencies end newspapers of the United States for their aid in the recent disastrous hurricane have been expressed in a letter toa the United Press by Persio C. Franco, Dominican charge d'affaires ad interim at Washington. The rapid dissemination in the press of complete news of the extent of the disaster brought quick and generous relief, he pointed out.

bition, they have prospered and put religion on a “big business” basis, with a highly organized church institution that has innumerable departments, hundreds of employes and a weekly pay roll of from $7,500 to SIO,OOO. How 1 wras this accomplished? How did two feminine evangelists

EXPERTS SCAN KNIFE KILLING FINGERPRINTS Negro Is Accused as South Bend Slayer of High School Girl. WINDOW SILL IS CLEW Suspect Lived Near Home of Hacked Victim: Denies Knowing of Crime. By Times Soecial SOUTH BEND. Ind., Sept. 19.-A window sill upon which the murderer of 17-year-old Alice Whitman laid his bloody fingers when he escaped from her bedroom Sunday morning after slitting her throat, was ta,ken to Chicago today, to be examined by fingerprint experts. Sergeant Harold Whitmer of the South Bend detective bureau, who carried the board to Chicago, said he expects the prints on it would tally with those of Edward Smith, 21, Negro, held since Sunday in connection with the slaying. Study Finger Prints Smith’s prints resemble closely those on the sill, Whitmer and Chicago Bertillon experts agreed Thursday after examining photographic copies of the prints left by the murderer. • However, when enlarged, the photographs blurred so badly their lines scarcely could be distinguished and the Chicago investigators asked for the sill on which the orginal marks have been preserved. Smith lives in the neighborhood of the Woltman home, and told police he knew both the slain girl and her elder sister, Henrietta, 20, whom police believe was the asailant's intended victim. He said he had called at the Woltman home and was familiar with the arrangement of its rooms, but denied any connection with the murder, and refused to explain why he visited the Woltman home. Girl Murdered in Sleep The girl was murdered in her sleep Sunday by a fiend who climbed through a window of the home, walked through one room into a hall and then stepped into the bedroom where the girt slept with her small brother and two sisters, one of them Henrietta. After almost hacking the girl’s head from her body, the slayer escaped from the house in the same manner in w r hich he entered, leaving his bloody prints on the sill.

000 already employed by the R. C. A.-Victor plants here, and several thousand who have been taken on by the New York Shipbuilding Company and other industrial concerns. This great increase in employment. it w r as explained, was. “a gesture of confidence in the soundness of American business,” and the direct answer to pessimists of business. Governor Morgan F. Larson and his staff arrivec? here at 9 to review the great parade, which w r as headed by executives of the R. C. A. Victor Corporation, and during the day other notab.es, including Secretary of Labor James J. Da vis and United States Senator David Baird Jr., came to lend their official presence to the celebration. At 10 p. m. Camden was scheduled to go on the air to tell the w : orld the joy of steady work and the reawakening of her prosperity. In addition to Secretary Davis and Senator Baird, there are to be speeches by Governor Larson. E. E. Shumaker, David Samoff. president of R. C. A.; Owen D Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company; Clinton L. Bardo, president of the New York Ship Building Company, and A. V. Robertson, chairman of the board of the Westinghouse Electric Company During the day, hour by hour, there was the broadcasting of the famous chimes of “Big Ben.” from the house of Parliament in London. SHOWERS IN PROSPECT Rain Saturday to Be Followed by Fair Weather Sunday. Showers are probable in Indianapolis and throughout the state Saturday, but fair weather is in prospect for Sunday, J. H. Armington senior meteorologist in the weather bureau here, declared today. “tJnse tried weather with probably showers tonight or Saturday; cooler Saturday,” was the forecast for Indianapolis while a similar prediction was made for the state.

succeed in building up the world's greatest institution of its kind? How is It operated now, where does the money come from, and what of the future? Don Roberts of NEA's Los Angeles bureau, who has watched their rise at first-hand through

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Machine Does Breathing for Girl Six Days Student Nurse, 25, Likely to Be Saved by Science’s Latest Advance.

Bv United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 19. Miss Frances McGann. 25. student nurse W’ho is suffering from infantile paralysis, has been kept alive at St. Luke's hospital for six days and nights by a "drinker respirator,” one of the most recent discoveries of science, it was revealed today at the hospital. The “drinker respirator,” only two of which are in use in the west, is the only thing that could have prevented Miss McGann from dying several days ago, physicians said. They believe she now has a fair chance of recovery. Miss McGann was placed in the aluminum, glass paneled cabinet when her chest muscles became paralyzed, preventing natural breathing. It was the first test made here of the contrivance, which is the same as one used in San Francisco a few weeks ago. when a girl died because the only respirator there was occupied by a young man, whose life was saved. tt tt a PHYSICIANS and nurses today watched closely the condition of the patient. Occasionally they checked carefully a dial w T hich showed how Miss McGann was breathing, and increased or decreased the vacuum and air pressure as the case demanded. The motor which produces the alternating vacuum and air pressure whined steadily, the only sound in the room where the experiment was being made. This motor produces first the vacuum and then the pressure, which causes the girl’s lungs to expand and contract. Thus she breathes and lives by use of the "artificial lung.” A rubber diaphnggm is clasped closely around Miss McGann's neck. Her head protruded from the cabinet, which resembles a casket. She is able to talk to physicians, who said her morale had been good throughout the six days she had spent in the respirator. Alleged. Burglar Held LOGANSPORT, Ind-, Sept. 19. Police captured Louis H. Wolfe, 21, Logansport, in the Knights of Columbus Club rooms early today. Officers say he was attempting burglary. It was the third time this week the place had been entered.

808 THEATER HEAD Two Gunmen Take SIOO in Holdup of Manager. Police today sought two gunmen who robbed A. W. Hedding. 1914 Lexington avenue, manager of the Ohio theater, of SIOO, early today as he was closing the office of the theater. Hedding told police the bandits forced him to hand over the money from the safe and fled through a side exit of the movie house, FEAR COFFEE SURPLUS Approve Resolution to Restrict Production; May Relieve Crisis. Bu United Prexs WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. - nventing anew remedy for the difficult problem of agricultural overproduction. the Pan-American agricultural conference today approved a resolution intended to relieve the coffee surplus by restricting production to relatively efficient areas and extension of co-operative marketing. cost! in mTlwaukee Cheering Thousands Greet French Fliers at Short Stop. Bu United Frees MILWAUKEE. Sept. 19.—Captain Dieudonne Coste and Lieutenant Maurice Bellonte, French transAtlantic fliers, were greeted by thousands of spectators as they landed their record-making plane here shortly after noon today lor an hour's stay. CLEVENGER TO TALK Athletic Director on Program of I. U. Club. Monday. Zora Clevenger. Indiana university director of athletics, and Wally Middlesworth, assistant football coach at the Crimson school, will talk at the first meeting this fall of the Indiana University Club, at 12:15 Monday afternoon, at the Columbia Club. Officers of the club this year are: Carl R. Tuttle, president; James Ingles, vice-president; Carl Eveleigh, secretary, and Edward Rowlands, treasurer.

the last half dozen years, tells it all in this series, against the colorful background of their equally colorful lives—Aimee's famous kidnaping, Ma's breach of promise suit with a minister, the frequent bitter clashes between mother and daughter and what cfcused them. This is not a mere biography or

HOLD 2 AS TERROR GUNMEN AFTER BANDITS SPEND HOURS IN ROBBERY AND KIDNAPING ' """"" T~“ Harold Garman, Raymond Curl Charged With Two-Man Crime Wave; Latter Beaten to Draw by Sergeant. BULLETS NARROWLY MISS BABY: Fusillade Fired Through Auto Over Sleeping Child; One Victim Slugged, Choked; Armed Citizens Patrol Roads. % Two men were under arrest today, identified, police say, as the gunmen who Thursday night spread terror throughout the city and vicinity in a series of robberies and kidnapings and by firing on motorists. Both men were brought into headquarters within a few hours, identified and placed in city prison on auto banditry charges. The alleged bandits are Harold R. Garman,'l9, of 610 Patterson street, who first gave his name as Henry Jarvis, 18, of 418 Norwood avenue, and Raymond Curl, 28, of 342 Hanson avenue. Curl was nabbed by Sergeant Leo Troutman and squad early today as he sat in the kitchen of a residence at 1019 West New York street.

Curl attempted to draw his gun, but Troutman covered him. The man surrendered, but, like Garman, dared police “to give me a rap.” Troutman saw Curl in the kitchen after finding a car with the certificate of title made out to Garman standing in front of the house. Curl is a parole violator, according to the state bureau of criminal identification and investigation. He was sentenced to from one to ten years in Indiana state prison for second degree burglary, June 6, 1929, and was paroled in June this year. Garman served a year on the state penal farm for grand larceny, sentenced Feb. 14, 1927. Garman was the first of the alleged bandit duo to fall in the police net when motor and merchant police officers nabbed him within two minutes after the climax of the robbery wave when bandits robbed the Haag Drug Company store, Thirtieth and Clifton streets. Saw Him Run Away Motor Police George Anderson and Frank Conway rushed to the store on a radio call in time to see Garman run toward a parked auto. Conway, accompanied by Cecil Hicks and A. W. McOuat, merchant police, pursued Garman and nabbed him at Twenty-ninth and the canal. They said they found $175.96 on his person along with a gun and a wrist watch identified by Forest Lightle, 961 West Thirtythird street, as having been stolen from him in the store holdup. Nine persons were lined up in the drug store robbery. Miss Drucilla Blackman, 241 North Holmes avenue, offered an alibi for Garman, telling police he was at her home at 8 Thursday night with another man and woman. 'T’ve got a girl who’ll tell where I was,” Garman told a reporter at headquarters. “Was I drinking? Yes, and plenty!” Curl, too, said he has a girl who will furnish an alibi for him Admitting detectives’ failure to get a confession from the pair. Detective Captain Herman Rademacher remarked: “Confess? They're hardboiled. They tell you nothing!” Garman and Curl, it is charged, started their night’s banditry activities with the theft of a Nash sedan from the sales lot of the JonesWhitaker Company, Vermont street and Capitol avenue, police allege. They attempted to start another car but when O. M. Jones and C. W. Petty of the company arrived, they knocked Petty to the ground and fled. . Attendant Choked, Beaten Two minutes la tor, police say, the youths, driving the stolen car, forced Guy Woodruff. 402 North Hamilton avenue, attendant at the Billy Grimes service station, 222 West Michigan street, into the car They ejected Woodruff from the auto at Michigan street and the cartal. when they found he had no money. In rapid order, it is alleged, the bandits robbed the Shell oil station at Indiana avenue and North street; Standard oil station, Belmont and Washington street, getting $25, and another Shell station, Washington street and Warman avenue. Still using the stolen car, the highwaymen are alleged to have obtained $25 in the latter job after choking and beating Horace W. Little, 24, of 35 North Holmes avenue, attendant. Speeding west on Washington street the pair, police say. kidnaped Herschel Gordon, attendant at a Great Western oil station, Eagle creek and Washington street. Gordon told police they threw him from the car when they failed to obtain money. The bandits then kidnaped the

a rehash of telegraphic stories of the differences between Aimee and her mother. It is the hitherto untold and very interesting story of how two women in a few years have builded an unusual religious institution on a huge scale Remember, the first story appears Monday in The Times.

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attendant of a filling station on the National road west of the elevated tracks, it is charged. Police today had not learned his name or the circumstances. Skidding into the Melvin Locke service station at Bridgeport, the bandits are charged with forcing Packe Locke into the car and robbing him of $65. When the car ran out of gas, two miles west of the town, they forced the youth out of the car and ordered him to walk west, it is alleged. Give Him Small Change Strolling up to an automobile in which Fred Brant of Bridgeport was sitting, the robbers forced him from the car at point of i-evolvers dumped some change into his hands and fled in his auto. They struck again at a barbecue near Bridgeport, kidnaping Edward Hendrickson, operator, and forcing him to sit in the car while they sped toward Indianapolis. At Speedway City the bandits, with Hendrickson in the car, held up Cline Million at his restaurant, but did not obtain any loot. On their way they fired three shots through an auto driven by C. J. Miller, Thirty-eighth street and Spring Mill road, one of the bullets passing over the head of a baby sleeping in the automobile, police were told. Shoot Through Auto When the Rev. M. A. Huskey of Philadelphia, Pa., failed to pull his car out of their pateh, the bandits fired two shots through the car, he reported. Hendrickson told police they made no attempt to rob him but booted him from the speeding car near city hospital after he had witnessed the outrages. Shortly after police heard Hendrickson's story, they received the report of the drug store robbery. Persons living west of the city on Rockville and High School roads formed vigilante groups as the robberies progresssed. The citizens were armed with shotguns and patrolled the roads for several hours.

TIRED OF ‘IMPOSING’ ON FIANCEE; BEGS FOR JAIL' Youth, Parnied lo Sweetheart, Finds Jobs Scarce; Prefers Jail. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Sept. 19.—Tired of “imposing” upon relatives and his sweetheart when he could find no work, Charles Wasalishen, 19, appeared at central police station today and begged that he be sent to prison for his attempt last spring to hold up a bank" without a gun. “I might as well go to the pen,” the youth said despondently. "If you don't send me I’ll go out and try something so you’ll have to send me.” He was paroled to his sweetheart, Julia Merva, five months ago after he vainly tried to frighten a bank teller into giving him money. FACES"COURT, CRIPPLED BY MAN HE KILLED Paralytic Fights for if**; Goes to Trial in Wheel Chair. Bu United Press JASPER, Ala , Sept. 19.—Brewster Frost, 23-year-old paralytic, his spine shattered by a bullet fired ty the man he later killed, watched a court fight, for his life today from a wheel chair. Frost, jointly charged with hi3 brother Taft, 22, with the slaying of Newton Ernest, Corona constable, April 19, will testify in his own defense. The younger brother, tire state charged, drove the car from which three shots were fired by Brewster at Ernest as he stood in the doorway of a Corona theater. Two bullets struck Ernest In an argument two years ago, Ernest shot Frost, making him a hopeless cripple. IMPOSTURE IS BARED Man Alleged to Have Posed as Film Actor’s Brother Forged Checks. Bu United Press SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 19 -Polic* held a man here today alleged to have posed as a brother of Conrad Nagel, movie actor, and to have circulated worthless checks.