Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 147, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1930 — Page 1

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CIVIL WAR IN G. OP. COUNTY CAMP HINTED Coffin Effort to Win Key Posts at Sacrifice of Others Resented. BITTER STRIFE BREWS Attempts to Make Trades With Democratic Chiefs Are Reported. BY BEN STERN War flared today among Republican county candidates as a result of alleged attempts of ‘'Boss” George V. Coffin to trade off the remainder of the ticket to save his choices for ludge of the criminal court, sheriff, county clerk and county commissioners. Dissension was .stirred by whispers of trades among Coffin precinct committeemen and ward chairmen. It was charged openly today that Coffin is willing to cast aside all other offices to save the key offices. Asa result, supporters of aspirants who are said to be thrown in the discard today were urging openly that the remainmg candidates unite to knife their running mates. Centers on Key Offices Desperate at the threat of an overwhelming defeat which will break his hold upon the county, Coffin, it is charged, is putting forth all his energies to elect Walter O. Pritchard to the criminal court bench: George Winkler as sheriff; Jesse McClure as county clerk, and John Shearer and Charles O. Sutton as commissioners. Coffin committeemen freely have been admitting defeat of the ticket. But now:/they declare: “Well, the other Candidates arC lost, but, Pritchard, Winkler, McClure, and 'he commissioners are going over.” All has not been serene in the Republican county organization for ,-ome time. It is known that Clyde E. Robinson, county treasurer and Coffin chairman, repeatedly has considered resigning, because scores of business men who in the past have furnished the financial sinews of campaigns have refused to donate again. Shifts to National Issues Robinson has held on only be- ] cause of the difficulty of Installing 1 another Coffin chairman at the present time. Setting out Archibald Hall, candidate for representative as a stalk-mg-horse, Coffin hopes to attract attention to national issues and pleas to “support Hoover” and so slide in his five. Workers are telephoning voters hsied as doubtful to exert pressure for the "Big Five.” > •' Attempts are being made to corce - Democratic workers and precinct committeemen to scratch their own candidates for the “five,’ with flic promise that Republicans will be Instructed to vote for Democrats for the remaining offices. ' We don’t care about the rest of the ticket,” Coffin henchmen are •aying. Importance of electing their own criminal court judge, sheriff, clerk and county commissioners has been hammered home to the Coffin workers. Judge Control Essential Control of the judge will assure ability to grant indulgences, suspended sentences and even obtain dismissal of cases, it is pointed out. With their own sheriff, as chief law enforcement officer of the county. the organization will be able to grant immunity and close official ->yes to certain acts and performances which may be regarded as illegal. McClure, as county clerk, would be a member of the election com- * mission. As this body consists of one Democrat, one Republican, and the county clerk, control would be with McClure. George O. Hutsell. Republican incumbent and Coffin’s avow’ed enemy. has been a thorn in the side of the “boss.” County commissioners hold the purse strings and it is upon the taxpayers’ money that a machine such as the present Republican one .has been perpetuated, it is charged. URGES REFLECTION OF FELLOW JUDGES High Praise of Appellate Court Bench Voiced by Lockyear. High praise for his colleagues on the state appellate court bench, four of whom are seeking re-election, was voiced in a fifteen-minute radio speech today by Appellate Judge Elmer Q. Lockyear. Terms of Lockvear and Judge Noel C. Neal do not expire until 1533. Judge Lockyear concluded commendation for his colleagues and members of the state supreme court with a vigorous appeal for electors next Tuesday to “Vote the whole Republican ticket!” HURT IN AUTO MISHAP Miss Emma Claypool Walks Into Side of Moving Car. Walking into the side of a moving automobile at Meridian and Twenty-seventh streets today. Miss Emma Clavpool, 50. of the Marott. uffered a fractured collar bone and lacerations and bruises. Mrs. E. J. Herman. 38. of 5680 Broadway, was driving the automobile. Miss Clavpool was taken to her apartment and treated by a family physician.

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RICH BANKER, CAPTIVE FOR FOUR DAYS, IS SET FREE BY KIDNAPERS

Illinois Millionaire Comes Home Unharmed; $50,000 Is Believed Paid. Bu United Pres* GALVA, 111., Oct. 29.—'The gang- | sters wno kidnaped Earl L. Yocum, millionaire president of th Yocum State bank, from his home and held him captive for four days, while they negotiated for $50,000 ransom, released him unharmed today. “I was treated kindly and well 1 cared for, but I do not care to discuss the terms on which I was freed,” Yocum told the United Press, after returning to Galva from Atkinson, twenty miles northwest, i “I have no idea where the men I who kidnaped me went after getting | me away from my house Saturday | night.” Yocum continued. “Every step they took must have been well I planned in advance. They knew just what they wanted, and they i went about getting it without hesi- : tation.” Bandage Kept on Eyes | “They drove me in an automobile to Atkinson this morning,” said Yocum. “I had a blindfold and could not see where we were or what sort of country we went through. “When they got to Atkinson they left the bandage on my eyes, and helped me out of the autmobUe. I was told not to look imtil they had left. “I took off the bandage and found Iwas on a street in Atkinson. The first thing I did was go to a garage and ask assistance In getting back to Galva. I knew’ my wife would be frantic and all I thought about was getting back home and comforting her.” Offered Use of Automobile “The garage offered me the use of an automobile and sent a boy to drive me home," continued the banker. “I w’ould have been too nervous to drive alone. “I am mighty glad to be back here and I am mighty proud of the bravery of Mrs Yocum. Mrs. Yocum was the first person to greet her husband when the borrowed automobile stopped at the side of their home. Yocum greeted his wife and his two daughters, Mary, 13, and Ann, 8, the unwitting instruments of the kidn'aping plot. It was on his return from a trip with the two girls to a theater that Yocum was forced to accompany the kidnapers, 'Too Happy for Words’ Galva, a , town of 2,000, learned of its most prominent citizen's safety from A. E. Anderson, cashier of the Yocum State bank, and a close friend of Yocum. Anderson w r as the only person Mrs. Yocum took into her confidence after the kidnapers’ ransom demands had been served on her in a special delivery letter. “I am too happy for words,” Mrs. Yocum said in the dining room of her home while she served breakfast for her husband. "I am very grateful to authorities for allowing me to handle everything myself.” Yocum’s kidnapers were -believed to have been members of the same gang responsible for the abduction of half a dozen wealthy persons in the state during the last year. None of the victims ever would discuss their experiences further than to say they had been treated well. - Yocum w r as said to have been several times a millionaire. In addition to controlling the bank which ; he took over after his father’s death I fifteen years ago, he had a hand in many industries. HUGE STILL SEIZED Plant of 50.000-Gallon Capacity Near Valparaiso. Bu United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Oct. 29.—A ; 50.000-gallon still was confiscated by federal and Porter county officers, in a raid on the farm of Ernest Wheeler, five miles north of Valparaiso. It is said to be the largest liquor manufacturing plant ever seized in this part of the state. Charles L. O’Caverna and Atillio Boffa were "arrested. They were found working at the still. Money Found in Dresser By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., Oct. 29—The clothing that belonged to Mrs. Linie Anderson's late husband lay for fourteen years in the bottom drawer of an old-fashioned dresser untouched. Believing she heard mice moving about in the drawers yesterday, Mrs. Anderson cleaned out the dresser and discovered in a bottom drawer a small tin box containing $197.50 in gold and one silver dollar.

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‘NATION WALKING BACK FROM BUGGY RIDE,’ SAYS ‘MR. AVERAGE MAN’

Bu Vnitrd Prrgs < TT'ORT MXSISON. la.. Oct. 29. Jr Roy L. Gray, who several years ago was selected as a typical average American citizen, thinks that the country has “gone on a buggy ride and now is having to walk home.'’ He advocates taking all the “short cuts’’ possible to get back to normalcy and suggests shorter working hours for adults and thinks longer periods of schooling for <*Udren would help.

Nation's Women Called on to Assist Jobless by Having Homes Repaired

BY LYLE C. WILSON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct, 29.—A summons to women to join in tire national effort to relieve unemployment was issued today in behalf of the President’s emergency committee by Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, in charge of women’s activities. Simultaneously, Colonel Arthur Woods, committee chairman, announced a comprehensive radio program which will use facilities of the Columbia and National chains to present to the people of the country concrete plans for coping with the problem. These talks will not be ballyhoo, but will be expositions of concrete examples of accomplishments,” it was said at the committee’s offices.

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ciency. Woods said today his organization contemplates urging manufacturers of commodities suitable for use in home improvement, such as paints and varnishes, to make price reductions, if possible, in order to stimulate the movement to brighten up the home and thus create employment. . . .. , , „ . Tlie Boston proposal to have salaried persons contribute tow arci unemployment Telief 1 cent for each dollar earned has aroused the chairman’s interest. He said it was a plan such as his committee might properly pass on for consideration elsewhere. He added, however, it would not be recommended for any specified places. The National and Columbia Broadcasting companies and the moving picture producers have offered *their services to the President s committee. . , _ The United States Chamber of Commerce facilities also have been placed at the committee’s disposal, and Julius Barnes, chairman 75x tne board of directors, has called a conference for today.

FREE BILLINGS, j PLEADS LAWYER Demands Supreme Justices Urge Full Pardon. jßu Kcribns-llu• -ijfil Y. .*-(/ (?- Ulinvc SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 29.—Ed- ; win McKenzie, counsel for Warren jK. Billings, today asked the state | supreme court to recommend to Governor Young a full and unconditional pardon for Billings. McKenzie filed an eighty-seven-i page brief in which he attacked the I prosecution’s case against Billings ; and Thomas J. Mooney, who have I served fourteen years on a charge I of exploding bombs at the 1916 Preparedness day parade. I “Without respect to the cause I thereof, the sovereignty (California) ! has made a mistake,” McKenzie ari gued. “That settled, there appears | but one way to go. There can be | iso middle ground. One is never 'part guilty and part innocent. In- ! noeence deserves a pardon.” McKenzie reviewed the recent four weeks rehearing on the Billings pardon plea, brought about by the finding of the perjurer, John i MacDonald. ! He called the roll of the state’s i five chief witnesses, the Edeau wom- | en, Oxman, MacDonald and Estelle | Smith. Then he set these up against i the five defendants, comparing their ! testimony with the convincing stories, backed by clocks, cameras and corroborating witnesses, of the Mooneys, Billings, Nolan and Weinberg. “We say that the innocence of the defendants has been demoni strated under every law of reason,” McKenzie concluded. “We appeal to the intellect of men. We ask a calm, clear analysis of the testimony in order that the mistake that the state has made stand corrected.” SNOW DUE IN STATE Winter Weather Likely in North Indiana Tonight. With the mercury falling slowly, ; chill rains or light snow appeared in store for northern Indiana, opening the winter 1 season tonight, according to the United States weather bureau here. _idianapolis. central and southern Indiana the temperature will remain mild, but probably will be lower tonight and Thursday than today, J. H. Armington, senior meteorologist at the bureau, believed. Thursday will be partly cloudy, and the day’s maximum tempera- | tuie will be near 45 degrees, he said.

With e multitude of executives expressing nearly that many opinions about the current problem of unemployment the United Press sought the ideas of “Mr. Average Man.” “People have been buying fastei* than they could pay and they finally got to the point where they can't buy any more, but have to exert their every effort in paying for what they have bought.” Gray said.

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ager of Cincinnati, whose unemployment program is considered a model here, may,, be the first speaker on the national liookup. Woods, who returned here from New York Tuesday night, called at the White House today and reported briefly to President Hoover regarding the progress of his work. “We will urge each individual woman to make a study of her own situation to determine what she can do,” Dr. Gilbreth said today. "Over the radio we will give women who solve their individual problems satisfactorily an opportunity to pass on what they have done. “Housewives should look over their homes to see what improvements and repairs providing work would be feasible and make for home effi-

Start at Top No matter w’hat ticket or candidate you vote for, start your voting Tuesday (after pulling your party lever) by turning down the first lever of the two in the top tfbw (above the row listing offices to be filled. This votes for the constitutional convention, sought by all fonvard -looking and progressive organizations.

TEX GUINAN’S RAIDED Police in Evening Clothes Arrest Club Employes. Bn Unit ed Pi css NEW YORK. Oct, 29—Two policemen, immaculate in evening clothes, halted the merriment at Texas Guinan’s club Argonaut just before dawn today—but only for a couple of minutes. “Boys,” said Texas, as the two officers rose from their table, “I thought you were here as guests. I hope you are not going to arrest me.” “No,” they replied, “but we are going to make some other arrests.” They searched the club for liquor, but found none except in the possession of guests. They arrested Bernard Altman, captain of waiters, and Bernardi Tann, assistant manager, on a charge of maintaining a public nuisance and running a cabaret without a license. Then the merry-making was resumed. TWO HELD AS CITY” MAN'S KIDNAPERS Detectives Go to Arkansas to Bring Back Pair for Tqial. Detectives today went to Newport, Ark., to return two men alleged to have kidnaped and robbed Frank Moorman, Apt. 22, at 3603 Washington boulevard. Sept. 29. They are L. E. Gilpin, Newport, and Fred Camplin, Indianapolis. Both waived extradition, telegraph dispatches from Newport informed Police Chief Jerry Kinney. They are alleged* to have forced Moorman to drive north of the city where they bound him to a fence, took S3O. and his car. It was recovery of the auto by Newport police that led to clearing up of the crime. DALLAS”TO AIFjObIeSS 100 Citizens Pledged to Spend $25,000 Each on Construction. Bu United Press DALLAS, Tex.. Oct, 29.—One hundred Dallas citizens were asked today to pledge themselves to spend $25,000 each on construction work this winter as an unemployment relief measure.

“'T'HAT resulted in overstocks x and that in turn slowed things down. It is a natural result—nothing mysterious about it at ail.” The average man was optimistic about the future. Without professing to be an economist, he declared that shorter hours for working men seemed to him to be a reasonable solution to a portion of the problem. “A five-day week oSJsix hours a V

SHIP WRECKED; 6 IN LIFEBOAT FOR 40 HOURS Rescued Captain Tells How Flares Are Ignored by Unidentified Vessel. DEATH TOLL IS TAKEN Owner and Wife Are'Among Victims When Boiler Explodes at Sea. Bu United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 29.—The Henry R. Mallory of the Clyde Liye, made port today, with six £irvivors of the | freighter Barbadoes, which sank in a gale off the Delaware capes early Sunday and carried five persons to death. Among those lost were E. G. Valverdi, owner of the vessel, and his wife, Hattie. *>■ Captain L. W. Hough of the Barbadoes told a grim story of how an unidentified tanker slid by their lifeboat, ignoring- flares and refusing to give any assistance. The survivors who drifted in the lifeboat for forty hours told grim stories of experiences. The Barbadoes was a small vessel. and when a blow came up off the capes her boiler blew out. A life boat was cut away and all except five persons leaped overboard. The other three who died on the ship included three members of the crew whose names were not known to Hcugh because he had lost the ship’s papers. Nine men scrambled into the lifeboat, Hough said, and they headed for the Delaware Capes. George Franklin, a member of the crew, died from exposure. Just as George Watts, cook, was dying, also from exposure, a tanker appeared a mile away. Hough said he shot four flares but the vessel did not stop. After Watts died it was not long until a seaman known only as Walters also succumbed. Suffer From Exhaustion “We kept the three bodies as long as we could,” Hough said, “but finally had to throw them overboard. We wanted to give them a decent burial.” That night the Mallory sighted the life boat and took them aboard. The other survivors are Joe Valverdi, a cousin of the owner; Harry Pfeiffer, H. Lawrence, Alex Alemboy and August Lynch. All six of the men were suffering from exhaustion and as Hough stumbled through his story, Valverdi wept.

LEFT HUGE FORTUNE, GETS PRISON PARDON Paroled Convict Shown Mercy So He (?att Leave Country. By United Press SPRINGFIELD. 111., Oct. 29.—An inheritance of several million dollars waits in Venazuela for Louis Vargas, Chicago restaurateur, an ex-convict, who was pardoned by Governor Louis L. Emmerson today. Vargas obtained the pardon so he could go to Soutft America and claim his share of the fortune. It was left to him, two brothers and a sister when his father died. He was convicted of larceny at Cnicago in 1925 and sentenced to fourteen years in Joliet prison. He was paroled in 1928. Passport regulations would hot permit him to leave the country unless he obtained a pardon. Vargas said he would return to the United States to spend his inheritance. ROOSEVELT’S RECORD AS GOVERNOR SCORED Unfit to Deaf With State’s Crisis, Stimson Says in Radio Talk. Bv United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—An attack upon the record of Franklin D. Roosevelt was made in a radio speech Tuesday night by Secretary of Stat? Stimson. Stimson asserted that the Democratic Governor "has shown his unfi +v ess to deal with the great crisis now confronting New York state.” “He has shown the people of New York,” Stimson said, “that they have little to hope for In the coming fight to rescue our judicial system and give the people of New York state a clean and pure and upright bench of judges.” Dies Near Hope Pi/ Tim°s Bnerint HOPE. Ind.. Oct. 29.—Mrs. Hebe Artz Norton, 60, wife of S. W. Norton, is dead at her home near here following a week’s illness of heart disease. She was a lifelong resident of Bartholomew county. She was a member of the Methodist church. Besides her husband, she leaves a son, Elymas Artz, Chicago; a stepdaughter and stepson, Mrs Charles Simmons, Nortonburg, and L. S. Norton, Hope.

( day will be a big help,” he said. ! “That would give the working man an extra holiday in each wyk to wear out merchandise, wpir out automobiles and use up many other articles. “While it is true that a reduction in the number of working hours a week would mean higher priced merchandise, yet the need of the working man today is a job, not lofcer-priced merchandise.”

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BABY IS KILLED BY ASSASSIN’S BULLET; MOTHER QUIZZED

Father Is Wounded as Gun- % man Opens Fire on Sleeping Pair. Bu United Press DETROIT, Oct. 29 t — A slumbering infant was shot and wounded fatally here early today when an assassin Invaded the home of Angelo Sangelo, 30, a city employe, and directed a pistol attack at the father and child as they slept. Sangelo was wonnded seriously, but will recover, police say. His 9-months-old daughter Marguerita is died with a bullet wound in the abdomen. The father and daughter were sleeping in a ground floor bedroom of their small north side home when the gunman entered the room and opened fire without warning. Mrs. Irene Sangelo, 26, asleep in an adjoining room, was roused by the gunfire and rushed into the room just in time to see the assassin leave. After a preliminary investigation. Detective Lieutenant Paul Wencel ordered Mrs. Sangelo held for questioning. He said the woman's version of the shooting did not^coincide with the circumstances.

DROP BOMBS ON HEAD HUNTERS Japanese Fliers Scatter Formosa Tribesmen. Bu United Press TAIHOKU, Formosa Islands, Oct. 29.—A Japanese military airplane bombarded concentrations of head hunters today in the fastness of the interior mountain region near Musha. The bombin'; reprisal for the massacre of at le&st eighty-three school children, adults and policemen at Musha, scattered the revolting tribesmen and WTecked one small building. Casualties were not known definitely. The sudden tribal attack on Musha was made during an athletic meeting, when thirty-eight school children, thirteen policemen and thirty-two adults were known killed. One group of thirty survivors were found hidden in the jungle. The savages attacked the town because of plans to erect a dam which wou’d flood an area occupied by their homes RECOVER 8 BODIES Mine Rescue Crews Dig On; Victims of Poison Gas. By United p ress M’ALSTER, Okla.. Oct. 29.—Rescue workers pushing slowly into the lower levels of the littered and gas-filled No. 4 Whqatley mine, sent up word today they had found the bodies of eight entombed miners. The bodies were huddled on the sixteenth level of the slope pit, coal hole, which was wrecked by an explosion Monday night. Apparently the men died from poison gas. Meanwhile officials announced they believed thirty men had been trapped in the mine. Previously it was thought twenty-nine men were involved. One of these was killed by the blast and his body recovered at once. HE'S 72, BUT TAKING FIFTH TRY AS HUBBY Prospective Bride, 59, Confident Milrriage Will Be Happy One, Bp United Press LOS ANGELES, Oct, 29.—Arthur W. Sleeper. 72-year-old justice of the peace at Calabasas, five times married and five times divorced, is going to make another try at matrimony. “I realize I am doing a brave thing,’’ said-the prospective bride' Mrs. Mary Curtis, 59, when they applied for a marriage license. “I think this will be a happy marriage for him.

SHERIFF DEFENDS AID ON CHARGE OF ‘SHAKEDOWN’

Sheriff Albert J. Lucas, Martinsville, went to the defense of his deputy, Garrett Richards today, and deified that the latter bad “accepted a shakedown from Indianapolis men for quieting a liquor charge.” “It’s all political propaganda,” Lucas said. The denial came on the heels of the charge of Ell Lutz, Indianapolis butcher, that he paid $45 to Richards as “fines and costs” to obtain freedom for his newphew,

Additional schooling for America’s youth was another point in the Average Man’s solution. “I would keep young people in school a year longer,” he said. “That would hold off the crop of young workers for a year and it would be an advantage too. It would, give the boy or girl more time to, work out his school problems of various Jtinds.”

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Pretty Helen Marie Boyd of Medina, N. Y., plans to go calling on her grandparents in Ireland by airplane. The 18-year-old aviatrix, shown here in the cockpit of her plane at the Donald Woodward airport, Leßoy, N. Y., has announced she will attempt an eastward transAtlantic flight as soon as she has earned a transport license. A daughter -of* Thomas Boyd, Medina iron and brass manufacturer,* she already has a pilot's license.

AIELLO BURIED WITHOUT PRIEST | Small Crowd at Rites for Slain Gang Chief. ! By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 29—Joe Aiello murdered north side gang leader, was buried today without benefit of clergjj or the usual large crowd of curious' that has marked other funerals of Chicago underworld leaders. Fewer than 2,000 persons gatlitered today at the luxurious Lunt street home of Aiello, who died, like so many of his predecessors, at the hands of machine-gun squads. The funeral of John (Dingbat) Oberta, a lesser light in gang circles, drew 15,000 persons only a few months ago. 0 Even fewer waited to see the sll,200 bronze and silver casket the six Aiello brothers bought for their more notorious brother, as it was cahied to the hearse and started on its journey to Mt. Carmel cemetery where It was buried in unconsecrated ground. The usual lavish display of flowers banked the living room where Aiello lay in the expensive casket. A blanket of orchids covered the bronze coffin. Floral wreaths, horseshoes and diamonds were piled 4to the ceiling of the living room where the body of Aiello lay, clad in a tuxedo. The orchid blanket cost S9OO, the Aiello brothers said proud- ; ly and it was their floral contribution. ASKS BANK RECEIVER Guardian Files Suit Against City Trust Company. Appointment of a receiver for the City Trust Company is asked in a suit filed in circuit court today by Erve Hanford, attorney, as guardian of the estate of Hinton Menges. Os- j ficial of the company are defendants. In the suit Hanford avers Menges had a $413 checking account in the bank when its doors were closed by the state banking department last week. Hanford charges the bank declined to cash a check for the amount of Menges’ account after Ihe closing. Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin did not fix a date for hearing.

J. C. Hatfield, and that no trial or hearing was held. “If it was a shakedown, do you think Richards would have given Lutz a receipt?” asked Lucas. Lutz declared he insisted upon a receipt when he paid the money because he feared “it was a shakedown.” Four other Indianapolis men have made affdavits that they paid from sls to $45 as fines and costs to Richards in order to obtain release; that there was not the fqrmality of a hearing or trial, and that they were told they were paying “fines and costs.” Lucas said that Lutz paid the $45 “fine and costs” for hfs nephew to the Justice of the Peace Russell Woods, who entered the affidavit in the county records, but did not docket the case. However, the receipt bears the alleged signature of the deputy sheriff. Lucas said that the fines of Thomas Dilley, William Stevens and Arthur Rhoads had been stayed. Dilley in an affidavit declares he paid sls; Stevens in an affidavit says he paid $45. and Arthur Rhoads in an affidavit says he

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CHARITY ARMY IN FINAL DASH I TO FUND GOAL Campaign to End Tonight; $65,166 Is Needed to Fill Chest. # MANY GIFTS INCREASED Workers Are Exhorted by Brown: Public Response Is Given Praise. The Community Fund drive for $865,000 to care /or charity during the ensuing winter will end at 6:30 | tonight. The fund must collect $65,166.60 today to ring the bell on the campaign “thermometer” at Washington and Illinois streets. Depending on individual subscribers, the 2.500 fund workers today sought out every person who has not given to this year’s chest. $799,833.40 in Pledges • As the final campaign day was reached, a report meeting at the ; Claypool Tuesday night iisted ;799,833.40 in pledges or 92.4 per cent of the goal. Confidence in the goal being attained was pitched high today when it was reported that employes of the William H. Block Company had boosted their subscriptions to more than $5,000. “The success of this campaign will be a spur to business. It will show what Indianapolis can do in times of adversity,” declared Arthur V. Brown, campaign chairman. Increased subscription in the employes’ division of the drive enabled ! the workers to keep pace Tuesday. Many Increase Gifts i Employes of William Block & Cos., | who last year gave $1,956.64, tonight ; will report between $5,000 and $6,000, it was learned at Community Fund | headquarters todav. Among the subscriptions received j and listed as increased gifts over j 1929 were: Washington Bank and Trust Company’s employes, $645; S. ' S. Kresge Cos., $151; Methodist hospital, $729.90; Bobbs-Merrill Cos., $339.25; J. I, Holcomb Manufacturing Company, $526; Holcomb Hoke, $1,124; American Can Company, $542.12; Dodge works of LinkBelt Company, $1,962.05; Shell Petroleum Corporation. $533; Indianapolis Street Railway’s employes, $2,053.75; Big Four employes, $2,561.05, and Senate avenue glove factory, $602.50. Praise fO” the manner in which the city has entered into the spirit of the charity campaign was expressed by officials of the fund drive. The drive’s conclusion comes with a report meeting at the Claypool at 6:30 tonight. All team captains will be present at the drive’s last meeting. MERCHANT KILLS TWO AND ENDS OWN LIFE Officers Slain in Investigation of Railroad Station Robbery. Bu United Press CAMERON, Tex., Oct. 29.—Three lives were claimed by gunplay here today when officers sought question a merchant in connection with i a railroad station robbery. Reagan Brady. 40, general store proprietor, killed Ed Dunman, 47, railway special agent, and Guy Pope, 30. deputy sheriff, and committed suicide. j The officers sought information from Brady concerning a recent rob- ! bery of the Santa Fe railroad stai tion. MISSIONARY IS HELD CAPTIVE BY CHINESE Imprisoned in Red Settlement; Huge Ransom Asked. By rnitr.fi Press SHANGHAI. Oct. 29.—Bert Nelson, Lutheran missionary of Minneapolis, is being held in a Chinese Communist settlement at ChiLiping, near Hwan-Gan, he said in a letter to his sister. Mary Lee Nelson! of Hankow, today. Soviet doctrines are practiced among his captors, Nelson said, and the land of the settlement is common property. It is located about thirty miles from Wang-6han, where he was captured Oct. 8 and held for $300,000 ransom. DIAMOND POSTS BOND “Legs” Gives $15,000 to Assure Appearance Before Grand Jury. fly United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Jack 'Legst Diamond today posted the $15,000 bond set to assure his appearance before the county grand Jury on Nov. 17, as a material witness to his own shooting.

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