Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 167, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 November 1930 — Page 13
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Albino Crow Captured
An crow that, managed
FIND CLEW IN HUNT FOR RIDDLE WOMAN’
Pretty Keeper of Rooming House, Gene Three Years, May Be Alive. BV PAUL W. WHITE I **'rd Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—1n the records of the bureau of missing persons, the card bearing the name of Eugenia Cedarholm, rooming house owner, has lain in the ‘ unsolved’’ file for three years. Today there arose a chance that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the pretty young Norwegian woman might be cleared. The opportunity developed in the arrest of Albert Haw, 71. tall, greyeyed, neatly dressed. Miss Cedarholm was seen frequently with Haw, otherwise known as Edward Lawrence Hall, prior to November, 1927, when she vanished, leaving behind a $25,000 home and a $30,000 bank account. Haw was questioned today by George E. Brower, district attorney in Brooklyn, and William P. X. Geoghan, district attorney-elect. Held on Old Charge Haw was arrested in Jamaica, Queens, by a detective who had worked on the Cedarholm case and chanced to recognize Haw upon passing him in the street. A charge of forgery, preferred by a Philadelphia lawyer more than two years ago. still stood against the man in connection with two checks bearing Miss Cedarholm’s signature. Questioned with such inducements toward frankness as a police station can afford. Haw said that he had married Miss Cedarholm, that she had borne three children to him, and that she now was in Florida, detectives reported. There was as baffling a quality about the lodging house kept by Miss Cedarholm as about her disappearance. She had continued to operate the house after the death of her mother a few years ago and police were told that most of the roomers were men with criminal records. Neighbors gossiped of mysterious doings in the dead of night Haw on Scene Then came Haw, seif-announced as a Vermont lumber dealer. He was seen often with Miss Cedarholm, despite the disparity in their ages—she then was about 26—and on a November afternoon, in 1927, she was said to have entered a taxicab with the elderly lodger. She never was seen again, although detectives believed they were able to establish that she and Haw had lived together at Freeport, Long Island. Eventually, with no one paying taxes on the rooming house, it was claimed by \he city and torn down for a subway excavation. BRIEFS TO BE FILED IN PARK LANO LEASE Committee Maps Fight to Set Aside Contract With Golf Club. Briefs, setting out the legal basis for demands of the North Side Federation of Clubs. Inc., that the Woodstock Country Club be turned over to the city as a park, arc to be filed by a committee of the organization with the park board. Committeemen appeared before the board Thursday afternoon. The property, originally owned by the city, has been leased to the club until 1940. Several meetings of civic leagues have been held for discussion of the move to regain the property for the city. Members of the committee charged favoritism has been shown the club by previous boards and that children of the northwest section of the city are entitled to park facilities. Refuses to Give Up Tost By United Press ST. IGNACE. Mich., Nov. 21. Released under $2,500 bonds on charges of misappropriation of public funds. William J. Conlogue refused today to resign as treasurer of Mackinac county, as demanded by the attorney-general. Seeks Successor to Davis By United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.—President Hoover is canvassing the qualifications of the nation's outKdmg labor and social welfare ers in a search for someone tfeeed Secretary of Labor Daws, ■will leave the cabinet on the ling of Dec. 1.
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An albino crow that managed miraculously to escape the vengeance of his dusky plumaged brethren for being a nonconformist is on exhibition at the Smith-Hass-ler-Sturm sporting goods store, 219 Massachusetts avenue The bird shown above was captured in Posey county by Frank H. Pierpont, radio salesman of 1527 East Washington street, who found it partly imprisoned in some underbrush. William Penrose, 1150 West Thirt-fourth street, holding the bird, was forced to protect his hands with thick mittens from the crow's knife-like oeak thrusts.
Kiss Pirate NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Seven Great Neck (L. I.) housemaids have been complaining of a “kiss burglar” who cuts out the light switch and then enters their rooms and compels them to be kissed. Detectives with machine guns are lying in wait nightly for the miscreant.
WOUNDED MAN SLAYS BANDIT Wrests Gun From Highwayman; Is Shot Five Times. By United Press TOLEDO, 0., Nov. 21. Paul Craven, 23, Silica, 0., today was confined to a hospital here with five bullet wounds received Thursday night when he wrested a gun from the hand of one cf two highway bandits and killed the other in a running gun battle. Craven was riding in a car driven by Mrs. Ona Martin, 35, Toledo, when a sedan occupied by the two alleged robbers drew alongside and forced them into a ditch. Craven, police learned, seized the gun from the hand of the smaller bandit and clubbed him into unconsciousness with it. In a running gun battle across an open field. Craven was wounded five times and the other bandit killed. Mrs. Martin fled in the automobile during the fight and summonel aid. Craven stumbled to a farm home near by, told his version of the affair and then collapsed. The second bandit regained consciousness and escaped. FORM INSURANCE FIRM Evans. Bobbitt. Kershner Will Be Officers of New Company. Incorporation papers have been filed for the Washington Life Insurance Company with SIOO,OOO capitalization. George H. Evans is president and A. N. Bobbitt, retiring state auditor, vice-president. William H. Kershner. former Indiana adjutant-general, will be secretary and treasurer it was said.
JUST A LITTLE OAT WAS JOHNNY, BUT HE TRAPS THE BAD, BAD MANS
MOTORISTS traveling roads near Danville, Ind., early this morning, who heard the wail of a siren, sensed the rush of a passing car, and later saw determined groups of men closely scan-
Elevator Golf
This little elevator, operated by an electric motor, lifts golf balls from one floor of a building in Shelbyville to another, as a part of a unique miniature golf course. After making the round of the first floor, the players move up to the second and on their arrival the elevator has brdftght up the balls ready for connqAmg the game. Players use a sfMrway for their ascent.
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RICHMOND AND MARION ACTING TO MAKE JOBS Bids Will Be Received Dec. 18 for $272,000 Bridge in Former City. PLANT TO BE REBUILT i Roller Mills Company Will Spend $30,000 Repairing Plant Damaged by Fire. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor, The Times Building and public improvement projects designed for relief of unemployment were noted at Richmond and Marion in a business and industrial survey of Indiana for the week ended today. Officials of the Richmond Roller Mills, the seven-story plant of which was damaged by fire to the extent of $30,000, announce rebuilding will be started soon. Bids will be received Dec. 18 by Wayne county commissioners for construction of a South G street bridge which will span Whitewater river. It will be 725 feet long and the estimated cost is $272,000. Enlargement of four school buildings is also being considered. At Marion it is proposed to spend $15,000 in levee repair work and 'beautification of the river banks. In all projects which would entail an outlay of SIOO,OOO are under consideration.
New Plant at South Bend - A $50,000 plant will be built for the South Bend Current Controller Company. In general, building continues in the slump which has been in effect throughout the year. A survey of twenty Indiana cities shows that building during October this year was approximately $2,600,000 under that of the same month in 1929, and $760,000 less than in September this year. Cities which showed gains in October as compared to September, were Gary, Logansport, Marion, Michigan City, Mishawaka. Muncie, Terre Haute, Vincennes and Whiting. Those with a gain in October ever the same month last year were Logansport, Marion, Michigan City, Terre Haute and Vincennes. Hammond Company Fails Failures during the week included that of the Wanner Malleable Castings Company of Hammond, and the Niemann Furniture Manufacturing Company of Bluffton. The Wanner plant has been operating on a greatly reduced schedule since summer, but about 100 men are working at the Niemann factory and it is said enough orders are on hand to insure steady operation until Jan. 1. B. Sherburfie, receiver for the Lee Trailer and Body Company at Plymouth, announces that prospects are good for keeping the plant in operation through a sales arrangement with H. B. Blasingham and Glenn Whisler of the Indiana Truck Corporation, Marion, to take the entire output of the Plymouth factory. | Sherburne said he expects the arrangement to become effective Dec. 1. Conditions in various Indiana cities are shown in the following summary: /- Bremen—Through efforts of local business men, the American Radiator Company factory, which it had been announced was to be moved, | will remain here. Logansport—A new three-story brick and concrete factory building of Associated Apparels, Inc., was opened here this week. Clinton—The Vermillion mine, which was recently reopened, is providing employment to 360 men, and more may be given work soon. Evansville—lncreasing of the force of Servel, Inc., will be started Dec. 1, it is announced by Frank Smith, president. A goal of 3,000 employes by summer has been set.
ning the roadbed under the glare of searchlights, can rest assured. The searchers were police officers. They were looking for a oat. Or should it be an oat? The trail of this fugitive oat might yet, indeed, become an epic of modern police methods. For were it not for that oat—well This little oat’s mother had tucked him into his bin in the Elmer Thorp livery barn at Agnes and New York streets, last night, and, we suppose, -had kissed him goodnight, after telling him what a bad boy he had been all day. So little Johnny Oat went to sleep, and dream what a big oat he was going to be some day. n a tt TUST then came a noise. The " little oat awoke, all quaking. Surely the breakfast food people wouldn't come at that time of night and pick on a poor little oat like him? But the barn door opened, and in came a team of horses and a wagon and two big men who talked in sinister, stealthy whispers. Little Johnny Oat quaked some more, and soon was quaking so fast that he jumped right up on top of the bin. Then the two men took a scoop and shoveled all the other squeaking, screaming oats out of the bin and into sacks and put them in the wagon. Then our little oat got angry. And he jumped right off the bin, children, right into the right shoe of one of the men. And there he lay until the right time came to itch. a it a THE horse and wagon and the two men started out of the barn. And—just then, a police officer yelled: "Halt!” The horsfc halted and the wagon halted and the oats halted and
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930
Lindys Settle on Old Farm to Wait Building of Home
Colonel and Wife. Living in Jersey, Draw Crowds of Curious. BY LAURA LOU BROOKMAN NEA Service Writer PRINCETON, N. J„ Nov. 21. | America’s most famous young mar- ; ried couple have settled down to | housekeeping on an old-fashioned : New Jersey farm. Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lindbergh and their 5-months-old son, Charles Jr., are living on “the Van Horn place,” three miles out of Princeton. They’ve been there almost long enough to get the furniture shifted about the way they like it in their eight-room colonial farm house, which was rented furnisher When they settled down they did so literally, dropping from the sky in the trim cream and blue colored airplane, NR 727 Y, with which they have made history. Nowadays it’s no uncommon thing for the neighbors to see the colonel —so much more widely known as an aviator than as a farmer—barej headed and with sleeves rolled up, cut tinkering around the plane or one of the two cars standing in the rickety shed which does service as a garage. Neighbors Far Away A butler, cook and nurse for Charles Junior comprise the domestic staff of the celebrated “flying ambassador.” When Mrs. Lindbergh wants to borrow a cup of sugar or a couple of eggs to finish a quick cake, it will be necessary to send down the road a quarter of a mile to the Stanley Terhune home. The Terhunes are the nearest neighbors. A mile down the road in the other direction live Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Northrup. Other neighbors are still farther removed. Sundays in particular but on week days, too, there is a constant procession of motor cars slowly winding along Rosedale road. Some of thse drivers park and wait for hours in hope that the blue-winged biplane will take off. So far there have been no Sunday flights. Trooper Directs Traffic Last Sunday the cars were so numerous a state trooper was called upon to direct traffic. Some of the curious brought field glasses. They didn’t want to move on according to the troopers’ orders. It’s a narrow road, ordinarily little traveled, and these tourists are making it bad for the farmers who haul apples to market. What the tourists see is a severe old three-story farmhouse, painted white, with green shutters at windows, behind which hang frilled w r hite curtains. There is a board fence painted white inclosing the “front yard” of the place and back of the house stands an aged windmill. A flagstone walk leads from the back door to the road. There are a few straggling shade treees beside the house and in the rear stand half a dozen unpainted farm buildings, none in the best of condition. The farm includes ninety acres of land. House Is Century Old Tire Lindbergh dwelling is probably more than 100 years old. The real estate dealer who made the transaction, does not know the exact date when the house was built. The property is owned by Harold M. Van "Horn, who vacated the house shortly before the Lindberghs arrived. The Van Horns’ furniture, old colonial in keeping with the architecture, remains in the house. Colonel Lindbergh says, that he and his wife chose their new farm home, because it offered quiet and because it is convenient for superintending the building of their new residence on property recently bought by the colonel on Mount Sorrell, nine miles from Princeton. Architects are drawing up the plans for the house and surveyors are at work on the place. It is not expected that construction will begin until next spring.
one of the men halted—but the other one, who had little Johnny Oat in his shoe, went away from there. And so, early this morning,
Says Photo Damaged Pep ’
She was compelled, she said, to pose for a photograph while clad only in a veil, and not much of a veil at that. For this indignity, Miss Emily (they call her “Sunny”) Blaisdell, who is shown here as she voluntarily posed in her lawyer’s office, asks $50,000 damages. The suit has been filed against a concern which was interested in her transcontinental marathon dance with her partner, Freddie Defelice. Miss Blaisdell asks an extra $50,000 for alleged breach of contract.
She was compslled, she said, to pose for a photograph while clad *"* only in a veil, and not much of a veil at that. For this indignity, Miss Emily (they call her "Sun- jjjlpirl ny ”) Blaisdell, who is shown here as she voluntarily posed in her lawyers office, asks SSO,- g 000 damages. i MM..—^ The suit has been filed against a concern which was interested in her transcontinental marathon V, xj&mmm dance with her partner, Freddie Ht MMmmi Defelice. Miss Blaisdell asks an extra $50,000 for alleged breach of contract. JJfif 11 f rMMQf mmWm - laiaißg /
I’ve Been Good
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Bu V EA Service NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—“ I’ve been a very good girl,” declared Peggy Joyce when she arrived in New York after a trip to Europe. “Why, I haven’t married any one for four or five years. “In fact, I may never marry again. Or, if I do. 11l wait until I’m around 40. Just now, however, I'm going right out to Hollywood and make some talking pictures.”
USED FOR SHARK BAIT, SAYS WIFE Mate Tried Novel Murder Methods, She Asserts. By United Prcsx LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21.—Accusations by Mrs. Mazie Creighton Bulloch, that her former husband, George Bulloch Jr., attempted to “feed her to the sharks” at Honolulu, were considered today by Superior Judge J. L. Price, along with Bulloch’s petition for custody of his 5-year-old daughter Elaine. Mrs. Bulloch, -whose marriage to Bulloch was annulled in May, 1925, testified that her former husband had admitted that he killed another wife, Gladys Lawton Bulloch, for a SIO,OOO insurance policy. She said Bulloch took her to Hawaii and made her swim in the ocean because he had heard there were sharks there. Later he attempted to electrocute her in a home-made chair, she said. Bulloch denied the charges.
Auditor's Aids
Klingensmith
Edgcrton
Floyd E. Williamson, Democratic auditor of state-elect, has announced the appointment of Joseph I. Edgerton, Terre Haute, as assistant field auditor of the gasoline tax department, and Frank Klingensmith, Hamilton county, as settlement clerk.
Sheriff Shane of Danville and his deputies, after questioning the horses, the wagon, the oats, and the man. and finding that little Johnny Oat indeed was missing,
MAYR’S DELAY IN JOB GIVING IRKS WORKERS Democrats Cool Heels While State Official-Elect Re- - mains Absent. ''applications PILE UP Party Headquarters Crowded With Seekers of Victory Spoils. BY BEN STERN I Fruits of the Democratic victory ; so for appear to be disgruntlement | and discontent with the delay in naming the beneficiaries of the state patronage as the cause. The inevitable reaction following a victory apparently has set in and the situation might not be so acute if Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state-elect, had come to state headquarters here earlier in the week to personally receive appli- ! cants for important state posts and to discuss appointments with county and district leaders. Mayr’s mysterious and unannounced appearance in Indianapolis Thursday afternoon when it w-as learned he was conferring with Governor Leslie; and the fact he left without getting in touch with | state headquarters do not tend to smooth over the situation. No reason for the conference with the Governor was given by the secretaary of state-elect nor by any of the personnel at state headquarters, ; who declared themselvs ignorant of I his presence in the city. For seme reason, and probably j due to the great fatigue experienced { by him in the campaign, Mayr ab- | sented himself from headquarters, I leaving R. Earl Peters, state chair- | man, to carry the load.
Peters Wins Praise This has reacted greatly to the favor of Peters and those Democratic leaders who fought his reelection to the chairmanship in the spring are most outspoken in their praise of the manner in which he has stuck to the guns. Applicants and leaders who thronged the lobby of the Claypool for days waiting for Mayr to appear are not prone to blame him, but are instead leveling their attacks at his advisers and principally at Rudolph Ackerman, South Bend, and Chester Montgomery, former -mayor of that city. They feel that these two have been responsible for the non-ap-pearance of the secretary of stateelect. And while Mayr was absent applicants continued to pile up. The district chairmen declare they are besieged by patronage seekers and the delay in apportioning jobs is reacting unfavorably among the rank and file. One of the important questions that must be decided by Mayr is whether he will grant the license plate distribution privileges to the Hoosier State Automobile Association or let the members of county organizations have the sales agencies. Gwin Seeks Speakership Loss of this patronage, from which much of its revenue has been derived, is worrying H. S. A. A. officials, and M. E. Noblet, secretary and manager, has been constantly in attendance at Democratic headquarters waiting to see Mayr. The speakership race still occupies the foreground as a result of the visit of several of the avowed candidates to headquarters and efforts they have exerted in attempting to obtain support among the throng in the lobby. Fabius Gwin, veteran representative from Dubois and Martin counties, took advantage of his visit here to announce his candidacy and seek support. Upon the following day. Earl Crawford of Milton, one of the major contenders for the speakership. arrived here to mingle in the lobby and stir up interest in his cause.
set out on the trail. And that, dear motorists, is what caused all the hullabaloo on the country roads. But, hist! n a a OHERIFF SHANE also wired the tenant M. F. Morrisey and his squad dashed out this morning looking for Johnny Oat, too. They were talking to Edgar Corringer, 47, who lives at a local livery barn, when they heard a little squeak. And what do you think they saw? Yep, little Johnny Oat was sticking his head right out of
SIX BANKS IN STATE CLOSED Louisville Failures Have Effect in Indiana. Six southern Indiana banks were closed today, following failure of several Louisville banks in the past week, the state banking department announced. They were: Liberty State bank and American Trust Company, at New Albany; Crawford County State bank, English; Leavenworth State bank, Leavenworth; Jackson Township State bank, Corydon Junction, and the Old Capitol Bank and Trust Company, Corydon. All were closed voluntarily by directors, Luther F. Symons, state banking commissioner, said. Capitalization of the banks are: Liberty State, $50,000: American Trust. $350,000; Crawford County. $25,000; Leavenworth. $25,0G0; Jackson Township# $15,000, and Old Capitol, $150,000.
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WORLD CROSSROADS
They All Meet in Film Capital
lip . :< ..... 'Hf**-.* 111 WL M ; BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Wfjsfsg* ■ f Hollywood, cal., Nov. 21. Hollywood, the capital of jlllr ' make-believe and pretense, is also the crossroads of the ||| |? * ' . Widely separated paths converge S here—especially where beautiful iJlfjp.' s . i girls are concerned. So it is that ,two lovely young actresses, separated by thousands of miles of land and sea throughout most of their lives, have come together here as intimate friends —climbing the pathway to star- J||f dom together while working in ■;<- the same studio on the same picThese girls are Elissa Landi and Marion Lessing.
BY DAN THOMAS NEA Service Writer Hollywood, cal., Nov. 21. Hollywood, the capital of make-believe and pretense, is also the crossroads of the Widely separated paths converge here—especially where beautiful girls are concerned. So it is that f two lovely young actresses, separated by thousands of miles of land and sea throughout most of their lives, have come together here as intimate friends —climbing the pathway to stardom together while working in the same studio on the same picture. These girls are Elissa Landi and Marion Lessing. Elissa Landi was born in Venice, in Italy. Asa youngster she moved to England, where she got her education from private teachers. Then, wanting to be a novelist, she went on the stage with a repertoire company to get some experience of life. She found she liked the stage so much, and was such a good actress, that she stuck to it. She finally entered the films, played opposite Adolphe Mcnjou in his French film, “My Kid of a Father,” came to America to play the feminine lead in the stage f>lay, “A Farewell to Arms,” and then landed in Hollywood with a long-term contract. tt n tt MARION LESSING was born in Madison, Wis., the daughter of a college professor. She studied at the University of Illinois and later in Berlin, and then went to Vienna, where she went on the stage. For three years she appeared under Joseph Jarne, the former teacher of the great Max Reinhardt. Then she returned to ?Jew York, got into the talkies via “The Royal Box” and came on to Hollywood. Now the, two girls have been given parts in Charles Farrell’s next film, “Squadrons.” They have become boon companions, and are seen together constantly. Crossroads of the world . . . the place where the paths of beauty meet . . . Hollywood! MRS. LINK RITES SET Services for Wife of Surgeon to Be Held at 2:30 Saturday. Funeral rites will be held at 2:30 Saturday in Planner & Buchanan mortuary for Mrs. Clara Link, wife of Dr. Goethe Link, Indianapolis surgeon, who died Thursday morning in Metbodfct hospital. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Besides the husband, two children, a brother and sister survive her.
Corringer’s right shoe and talking all about it in the loudest tone he could muster. And so little Johnny Oat isn’t going to be breakfast food and Corringer is in jail on vagrancy and fugitive charges. So is his purtner, Fred Arme, alias Page Orme, on a theft charge.
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It’s open season on bullseyes all the year ’round for Roberta Wright, above, a George Washington university co-ed. Though she’s one of the campus beauties, Roberta prefers to spesd most of her spare time at the rille range in denim overalls.
Above is Elissa Landi. bora in Venice, Italy, and at the right, Marion Lessing, who hails from Madison, Wis.
YOUNG STOKES WINS DIVORCE Decree Given Millionaire oil Grounds of Insanity. By I niter! Press RENO, Nov. 21.—W. E. D. Stokes Jr., New York millionaire, has been granted a divorce from Grace Crittenden Stokes on grounds of insanity. Although terms of the settlement; were not made public, it was intimated a satisfactory arrangements had been made. The court placed Mrs. Stokes under the guardianship of her mother, Mrs. Isabelle Crittendon. Mystery surrounded the Reno residence of Mrs. Stokes, prior to the divorce suit. For many weeks she virtually was kept a captive in a room, the windows of which were boarded securely, in the famous Crittendon home here. She escaped once, but soon was captured and retained. Her condition always was kept secret, and on no known occasion was she allowed to see friends and visitors. Her mother and alienists guarded her closely. SOVIETS IN MIDST OF FULL ‘HOUSECLEANING’ Announcement Made of Removals of Various Department Heads By L nitert Press MOSCOW, Nov. 21.—The Soviet! government, having announced tire recent discovery of an international “interventionist - ’ war plot against Russia, was known today to be in the midst of a thorough “political houseejeaning.” Almost daily announcements have been made of the removal of officials in various departments and the reorganization of other branenes. as well as the expulsion of various Communists from the ruling party. GRAND JURY NOT TO HEAR BOMBING CASE Probe of Purdue Blast Is Delayed Until Victim Recovers. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 21.—The grand jury will not be asked, at this time, to investigate the bombing which resulted in injuries to William F. Heidergott. 55, it Was announced today by Prosecutor Raymond M. Robertson. The prosecutor returned late Thursday from Columbus. Seymour and Underwood where he questioned several persons. When Heidergott recovers sufficiently for a satisfactory interview, he will be questioned further, it was said. PLAN PATIENTS - iARE City Health Conference Will Study Tubercular Problem. Conference of the city health board with Eugene C. Foster, director of the Indianapolis foundation and representatives of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association and the Flower Mission Society will be held next week to outline plans for care of tubercular patients. Senator Nye at Memphis • By United Press MEMPHIS. Tenn., Nov. 21—Senator Gerald P. Nye, chairman of th senate committee investigating campaign expenditures, arrived in Memphis unannounced early today and said he would reopen here. He was accompanied by Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont.