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BEN LINDSEY ARRESTED IN CHURCH ROW Ejected From Cathedral When He Demands to Answer Manning. HEARING TO BE FRIDAY Ex-Judge Shouts Out for Hearing After Lashing in Bishop’s Sermon. i'.y United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 8 —The companionate marriage controversy between Bishop William T. Manning and Judge Ben B. Lindsey wound up in a magistrate’s court today after the Denver jurist had been ejected forcibly from the Cathedral of St. John the Devine for interrupting the Sunday morning services. Lindsey pleaded not guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct when he was arraigned and his hearing was set for 2 p. m. Friday. Arthur Garfield Hays, counsel for Lindsey, said Manning would be one of the witnesses subpenaed for the hearing Friday. Lindsey also announced he would consult with Hays and Samuel Untermyer, prominent attorney, to determine whether there was any basis for a libel suit against Manning. After a week of strong verbal exchanges, which began with the bishop’s unsuccessful protest against a speech Linsey made to a group of clergymen, the two men faced each other before a large congregation in the church Sunday. Charges Lies by Bishop Bishop Manning had announced he would speak about Lindsey, and the jurist had intimated he might challenge the churchman. As Manning closed his sermon assailing the companionate marriage theories, and was intoning the ascription, Lindsey leaped to an oak table directly below the pulpit, raised his arms in a denuniciatory gesture and shouted: “Bishop Manning, you have done me an injustice. I demand five minutes to answer your lies. This is not a house of God, but a house of injustice.” Before he could continue, several ushers and detectives rushed forward, dragged him from the table and amid wild confusion, hustled him outside. An usher who had been glaring at Lindsey as the former judge listened through the sermon was the first to seize him. Fixing his arms around Lindsey’s legs as he stood upon the table, the usher lifted him off and roughly deposited him on the cathedral floor. Someone struck Lindsey in the back of the neck. “Lynch Him,” Yell Women Two more ushers rushed forward and held Lindsey’s arms which were still upraised toward pulpit, and he was half carried, half dragged around the pulpit into an aisle which led to a side exit. Two detectives stationed near the pulpit took Lindsey in charge as he was being dragged through the exit. The plainclothes men used their knees to help Lindsey along a gravel path beside the cathedral, while women from the congregation shouted “lynch him!” and one lone adherent retaliated "atta boy judge!” Huge Crowd at Services He was taken to a district police station and served with a formal ummons charging disorderly conduct. No bond was required and he, thus was able to keep a lecture engagement in Albany. He returned from Albany to answer the summons today. Prospect of an altercation drew an unusually large crowd to the great cathedral on Morningside Heights. Six uniformed policemen were tationed about the edifice approaches, wltile inside a half dozen detectives in addition to a squad of ushers stood near the pulpit. Lindsey arrived unnoticed, took a front row seat among newspaper men. and sat quietly, his hands folded over crossed knees, as Bishop Maiming began the sermon. Lindsey's Views Assailed “Companionate marriage is only a legalized name for free love,” said Bishop Manning. “According to Judge Lindsey’s proposal, a young man and a young women are to live together and their union Is to continue if they so prefer. the coming of children is to be prevented with the help of contraceptives. and if they have no children their union is to be discontinued at any time they may so desire. or may wish to form some fresh alliance. “If that is not free love, what is it? “Would any man among us consider it a debatable question whether his daughter should enter into such a union, as that, and if not. how can it be a debatable question whether the daughters of others should enter into such unions?” New Book Flayed “As to his latest book I can only say, here speaking as a bishop of the church,” Bishop Manning continued, “that it is. in my judgment, one of the most filthy, insidious and cleverly written pieces of propaganda ever published in behalf of lewdness, promiscuity, adultery and unrestrained sexual gratification.” Union Trust Made Receiver Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzeil Saturday, appointed the Union Trust LOompanv as receiver in bankruptcy ■tor the Hyde Leather and Belting Company The court fixed bond at SI 25.000.

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Commute Death Sentences of Five Traitors ; By l nited Press MOSCOD, Dec. B.—The death i sentences imposed on five Russian ; technicians accused of plotting with | foreign powers for a war of inter- ; vention on Russia, were comI muted today by the zik, (central executive committee of the Soviet Union) equivalent to the parliamen* of other countries. The death sentences were comj muted to ten years’ imprisonment. | The three other accused men, who ! had been sentenced to ten years’ i imprisonment, were given a commuI tat ion to five years’ imprisonment. In extending clemency, the zik j said the proletarian state does not ! desire revenge on beaten and dis- ! armed enemies. The commutations brought to an j end one of the strangest cases in modern political history, in which the eight defendants damned themselves unreseredly, conferring to an extensive plot to sabotage the industrial and economic progress of Soviet Russia and deliver her into the hands of foreign powers. BUST SINKS GOLD SALVAGE SHIP; 14 DIE Crew Was Near Success in Task of Raising $6,000,000 Cargo. j By United Press BELLE ISLE. France. Dec. 8 i The Italian salvage ship Artiglio, ; nearing success in an effort to retrieve some $6,000,000 gold treasure from the sunken liner Egypt, was sunk Sunday by a deep sea explosion during operations to remove wreckage of another ship, the steamer Florence. Fourteen members of the crew of the Artiglio were lost, and seven others injured. Winter storms had forced the Artiglio to cease temporarily its efforts to salvage the gold treasure, and it had contracted with the French government to remove wreckage of the Florence, which was loaded with munitions when sunk eight miles off Belle island in 1918. No Warning of Blast “I don’t,know how it happened,” the chief mechanic of the Artiglio, who was injured, told the United Press after his rescue Sunday. “Three divers had gone down Sunday and placed four mines under the Florence, which lay in the traffic channel between Quiberon and the island of Houat. “When they reappeared on the j surface the signal was given. Then the surface of the sea seemed to spurt into the air. The Artiglio sank with rocket-like swiftness. I was thrown clear into the warter and picked up by the crew of the policeboat Rostro, which was working about three miles away and heard the explosion ” Not Sure of Course The dead included Captain Jacq i Es Bertelotti of the Artiglio, Chief j Diver Alberto Gianni, one of the ! men who located the treasure ship j Egypt after months of search on the | bottom of the ocean, and Second j Diver Franceschi. Authorities here were not sure from the story of the survivors as i to the exact cause of the sinking of the Artiglio. ! They expressed the opinion, how- i I ever, that a premature blast of ex- | plosives used in removing the wreckage of the Florence had occurred. The Egypt, sailing from London | for India in 1922, had a vast cargo ;of gold in her holds. She was I rammed in dense fog off the French ' coast and sank, with a loss of about j 100 lives. Police Guard Rioters ! By United Press BOSTON. Dec. B.—Thirty police- ' men guarded Suffolk county courti house in Pemberton square today as • twenty-four men and women went ! on trial in connection with a Communist riot here, Oct. 15.

MOTHER JONES BURIAL WILL BE HELD TODAY

By United Press MT. OLIVE. 111., Dec. 8,-Coal mines of this section of Illinois were closed today as the miners trooped into Mt. Olive by the hundreds to attend the funeral of Mary t Mother) Jones, who spent most of her long life battling for the rights of laboring men. Several thousand persons, most of them miners, walked Sunday past the bier of Mother Jones, whose body was brought here from Washington. Several hundred of them, all who could be packed into the I. O. O. F. hall at one time, heard the Rev. Father J. R. W. Maguire of St. Viator college, Bourbonnais, 111., pay

Names of Donors on Page 2. \ RAINCOAT was his overcoat. Tops of his mother s cast-off hose were his stockings. He had no cap. His shoes were withered into leather thongs. At least, that was Buddie early today, but by noon he was a man-boy. He strutted, for he had two pairs of shoes. His head snuggled against a sheepskin coat collar, and was topped with

REALTY FIRM PROMISES TO ‘CLEAN HOUSE ‘High Pressure’ Salesmen Are Discharged After Deals Are Bared. RETURN WIDOW’S MONEY Owner of Morningside Area Asserts No Shady Deals Wiil Be Tolerated. All contracts for sales of lots in the Morningside subdivision sold by the Indiana Estates Company, 60115 Meridian Life builidng, in which unethical conduct or misrepresentation are charged, are to be adjusted immediately. Salesmen for the company who, it is charged by the Better Business Bureau, made those representations have been discharged summarily. These were the announcements today by Sidney Weinstein, head of the Citizens’ Co-operative Realty Company, 722 Continental bank building, owners of the property, and W. M. Dozier, head of the Indiana Estates Company, sales agents. Weinstein returned from New Jersey Saturday. He had been absent from the city more than a week. Contracts Are Cancelled Coincident thereto, the contracts signed by Mrs. Mary E. Anderson, 903 N. Delaware street, whose story was told in Saturday’s Times, have been cancelled and the money refunded, Weinstein said. The shares in the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Savings and Loan Company of Bloomfield, Ind., which she had paid in, were returned to her, it was said. The $2,100 in registered government bonds, also turned in. already had been sold. The proceeds, $2,165, were returned. In all other cases reported to the Better Business Bureau or to any other organizations, Weinstein declared, adjustment immediately would be forthcoming upon proof of misrepresentation. Weinstein Hits Tactics “Tactics on the part of of the Indiana Estates company such as have been reported to me have no place in my business affairs,” Weinstein declared. “I have been too long in Indianapolis, I have too many frieifßs here, I have too much money invested here for me to jeopardize my reputation and by business by shady or unethical actions. “In this particular instance everything will be settled satisfactorily. We will rectify it as best we can, and there will be no more of it.” The meeting in the Indiana Estates Company pavilion at Morningside Sunday was attended by about twenty sales prospects and forty r . esmen, “haulers” and “invitatknalists” for the company. Speakers were M. J. O'Keefe anti Dozier, the two partners in the sales organization. They did not deviate from their usual sales talks. New Complaints Filed Several new complaints against the company's operations w T ere made to the Better Business Bureau Saturday, T. M. Overley, manager, said. These complaints, together with any new ones received, are to be the subject of investigation today, Dozier, at his offices, produced carbon copies of letters he had written to the Better Business Bureau, inviting its officials to address his salesmen on the question of business ethics. He stressed the fact that in the agreements signed by all salesmen in his employ these promises were required: “Under no circumstances will I make any promise of resale of any nature whatever,” and “I agree to sell properties handled by the company on a clean, fair and square basis, adhering strictly to the truth insofar as representations regarding these properties are concerned.”

tribute to the memory of Mother at a special service. “She who has faced many courts now- has appeared before the Great Tribunal and for the first time has received a verdict of untainted justice and love,” said Maguire. “She is beyond the bark of the machine gun. She is out of danger from the bludgeon of policemen. No longer can courts and their injunctions touch her.” Six veteran miners who survived the Vergen riots more than thirty years ago were pallbearers today at Mother Jones’ funeral. Her grave was near that of three of the eight miners who were killed during that riot.

CLOTHE A CHILD FOR CHRISTMAS! YOU’LL FIND REAL JOY IN THE GIVING

a cap with ear-flaps. His hose were new and heavy-ribbed. A crowd of men stood around him. They had given him the new clothing. He admired the shoes, smoothed the sheepskin collar with his chapped hands. He danced a jig. Hearts of the crowd of men danced a jig of happiness, too. For Buddie is just 'one of the eighty-five boys and girls chosen

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1930

Santa Likes ’Em Tall

& V v .... WIGGINS LANDS Jafelfa IN JAIL AGAIN hatrmcr on his .skull. Charles Fredweight pugilist, reposed on a steel JsFw .Jte bunk in city prison today for another insurrection against law and .' 4 night from Illinois and Maryland Anzel Williams, 30. of 20i5 Kenwood - lEjlU*' avenue, thrilled a handful of non- ; paying customers with a duel oi From Anzci he sought to collect a loan to another member of the :.

WIGGINS LANDS IN JAIL AGAIN Chuck Is Arrested After Downtown Melee. Still groggy from the caress of a hammer on his skull, Charles Frederick (Chuck) Wiggins, 31, heavyweight pugilist, reposed on a steel bunk in city prison today for another insurrection against law and order. Chuck was led to jail Sunday night from Illinois and Maryland streets where police say he and Anzel Williams, 30, of 3015 Kenwood avenue, thrilled a handful of nonpaying customers with a duel of knuckles and auto tools. From Anzel he sought to collect a loan to another member of the Williams clan. h. “I’m broke, and I need the dough,” the fighter argued. Three little words. Anzel’s reply was easy to understand. The melee was short. Anzel’s hand held a hammer as he was jerked from his auto, and the weapon thudded against Chuck’s cranium, ripping open the scalp, police were told. Anzel ran to a neighboring drug store. Police arrested both on assault and battery charges. Chuck will appear before Muncipial Judge Paul C. Wetter this afternoon. CIVIC LEAGUE WILL STUDY INSULL PLAN East Side Society Also to Discuss Woman’s Prison Removal. Study of the Insull plan to rehabilitate the Indianapolis street railway system will be inaugurated tonight by the East New York Street Civic League, meeting at 216 North Temple avenue, Samuel Harrig, president, announced. Hie league also will discuss backing of legislation to move the Indiana woman’s prison outside the city limits. The institution, located at Randolph and New York streets, has been the storm center of controversy among east side residents for several years. SHUN HOOVER PLEA $60,000,000 Drought Relief Bill Is Favored. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. B.—Chairman McNary of the senate agricultural department today favorably reported to the senate a bill to provide $60,000,000 for drought and storm distressed farmers. President Hoover had tried to limit the appropriation to $25,000,000. McNary had expected to ask immediate consideration for the drought measure, but instead he moved that it be placed on the calendar. It will probably come up Tuesday. ILLINOIS MAN TO TALK Chamber of Commerce to Hear Speech by J. H. Hudson. J. H. Hudson, manager of the organization service department of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, wiil address the annual meeting of the Indianapolis Chamber Wednesday night with the annual banquet at 6:30. Annual election of directors will be held all day Tuesday,

up to noon today by men and women of Indianapolis in the “Clothe -a - School- Child” for Christmas of The Times. STEADILY the roll of clubs, lodges and individuals recognizing the need of warm clothing for the city’s youth has mounted. “I want to help, but I can’t afford to clothe one child,” phoned one woman.” What shall I do?”

While country boys tramp the hills, hatchet in hand, searching out the biggest Christmas tree they can get into the house, their city cousins are picking out their Yule trees from the carloads on the sidings in the Pennsylvania yards. In the upper photo, Arthur Troutman, 2824 Wood street; Raymond Rhoads, 213 East Henry street, and Sam Bova, 936 South New Jersey street, seem to have taken a liking to the same tree, while (below) Robert Upton, 501 Wisconsin street, figures it will take three of the small size to meet Santa’s requirements at his house.

LESLIE SNUBS AID COMMISSION Leaves City Before Parley; Opposed to Findings. Governor Harry G. Leslie today took a direct slap at his own stateaid school commission by absenting himself from the statehouse after having arranged for a conference with the commissioners to discuss their findings. Last week the commission decided to report in favor of the so-called Jones-Lindley plan for state financing of minimum school costs. But Leslie is opposed to the plan. Today he was not on hand to hear the report. When Chairman Arthur Sapp of the state-aid commission arrived from his home at Huntington early today to attend the meeting he was left warming a chair in the outer officeof the Governor. Finally, L. O. Chasey, secretary to the Governor, announced that Leslie is out of the city and “will not be back before Wednesday.” Tired of cooling his heels and “getting the point,” Sapp adjourned to inform the other commission members that the meeting with the Governor was called off. NAVY BILL IN HOUSE 1931 Program Is Presented by Adams; Asks for 5134.635,900. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. —Secretary of Navy Adams today presented to the house naval affairs committee the administration program for next year to build the navy up to London treaty limits and calling for authorization at this session of appropriations totaling $134,635,000. This would provide eleven vessels.

That's easy! Scout your neighborhood and the organizations you belong to and then band a group of men and fomen together to clothe one child or as many children as you feel you can. 000 TTTATCH his or her face as the * ’warm coat is slipped upon the shoulders. Why, that grin is worth a pair of stockings alone! And if you don’t think you'll get

LIFE ‘CREATED’ IN TEST TUBE BY SCIENTIST Unamed ‘Thing’ May Solve Long-Sought Secret, ,ctor. MOVES AND BREATHES Cell, Born Without a Parent, Waits Verdict of Experts. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. B.—The Chicago Tribune in a special dispatch from Cleveland said today “the secret of life for which science has been searching for years, may lie in a test tube in the biological laboratory of the Cleveland clinic foundation over which the noted scientist. Dr. W. G. Crile, is the guiding genius.” “Penetrating to a slight degree the wall that has been erected about what may be one of the most startling of scientific discoveries,” the Tribune said, “A reporter was able to catch a glimpse of an unnamed “thing” that may verify certain radical scientific theories concerning the nature of the force called life. “This promise might be fulfilled,” the Tribune said, “if the creature that is said to live and breathe in the biologists’ test tube, a thing without parents and reputably born in defiance of all accepted and recognized processes of procreation, does not disappoint its human creators.” Allied Closely to Electricity The Tribune story said that the reported discovery might reveal that the force of life is closely allied to electricity, “if indeed it is not electricity as man knows it.” The story said that one unnamed person connected with the experiment admitted reluctantly that “something approximating life” has been produced and “that something amazing and revolutionary has taken place there.” The experiment was described as follows: “Brain tissues taken from a freshly killed animal were reduced to ashes electrically. Froip the resulting substances certain salts and other elements wer obtained. To this substance w , added protein and perhaps some other elements and chemicals. The whole was treated electrically. “Before the eyes of the astonished scientists there appeared a ‘thing’ with characteristics of a living cell or protozoa. Susceptible to Narcotics "The ‘thing’ possessed the power of locomotion. It also possessed and utilized the pow’er of procreation by fision or cell division. It fed on the protein in the test tube, consuming it as other unicellular animals do their nourishment. “In addition, it was found that the ‘thing’ was susceptible to narcotics, becoming dormant when subjected to certain drugs and later recovering. “It was declared that owing to the care taken in the experiment no living thing could possibly have entered the ingredients of the concoction.” The Tribune quoted Dr. William E. Lower, an assistaht of Dr. Crile, as expressing the opinion that the latter would lay his facts before the meeting of the American Society for the Advancement of Science which meets in Cleveland Christmas week. Film Firm Showing Profit By United Press WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 8 Warner Brothers Pictures Company, Inc., is operating at a fairly good profit and is optimistic of the future, Abel C. Thomas, secretary, declared at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the company today.

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Don’t read this if you already have done your Christmas shopping. But if you haven’t, here’s a tip: There never was a better time than today. That last-minute rush hasn't begun. There are lots of bargains. You can take your time. Put it off and you’ll regret it.

a “kick” out of it, and you don’t think city children are wearing flour sacks for underclothing and going to school in cold raincoats, then— Don’t call the “Clothe-a-Child” editor of The Times and ask for a boy or girl to care for before the Christmas school holidays begin Don’t let him give you the name of a child found to be worthy by

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Rich ‘Newsboy 9 Slain by Bomb Mailed as Gift By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. B.—Tony May, an immigrant who became known as “the millionaire newsboy,” died today of injuries received when a powerful bomb, concealed in a box which he believed contained a birthday present, exploded in his hands. May, who would have been 64 Tuesday, was injured fatally, and his son Eugene, 16, was hurt seriously when, urged by Eugene, the father decided to open his “birthday present,” received by parcel post, ahead of time. The box was delivered last Thursday. It was thirteen inches long and three inches square. It bore the label of a mail order house. It was so arranged that when the lid was lifted the explosion was set off. May owned a number of new\s stands, all in select locations. He also W’as a money lender and signed bonds for many men under arrest. JURY SELECTION IN PRYOR DEATH CASE STARTED Indicate Choosing of Trial Group Will Require Week at Least. The state's battle to send Ernest Pryor to the electric chair for allegedly poisoning his young wife in his Martinsville home last August, got under way today in criminal court as prosecutors and defense attroneys began examining prospective jurors. The 32-year-old prisoner, whose case was venued out of Morgan county because of alleged local prejudice, has attempted to establish an insanity defense to the charge that he administered arsenic to his wife, Carrie Thelma Pryor, on August 19, to consummate a romance with the wife’s cousin to collect $3,000 insurance. Consume Entire Morning The defense consumed the entire morning in questioning four of twelve jurors seated tentatively. Questions were along routine lines, with jurors being asked if they would be prejudiced against an insanity defense. The four who were questioned said they would not be. A second venire of seventy-five prospecitve jurors was ordered drawn this morning by Collias. Twenty-five of the venire will report Tuesday morning for examination, and the remaining fifty will appear at the afternoon session. Examination of talesman No. 1 by the defense this morning required an hour and ten minutes. With Judge James A. Collins on the bench, only twenty of seventyfive persons summoned were in the courtroom this morning for examination as jurors. William R. Ringer, prosecutor, assisted by William Bray, Morgan county prosecutor, indicated selection of the trial body will require at least a week. Difficulty In finding jurymen not averse to the death penalty is expected to be encountered. Pryor Is Examined Pryor last week spent one day in the psychopathic ward at city hospital after Collins granted a request of the defense attorney to have the prisoner examined for indications of insanity. If results of the examination are not as anticipated by the defense, an alibi will be presented attempting to show that arsenic discovered in a post mortem of the body was due solely to poison content of the embalming fluid. Pryor was arraigned shortly after the crime in Morgan circuit court and pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder charge. He is said to have signed a confession. The state will contend that Pryor put arsenic into water that the wife drank, in order that he might be free to marry the other woman. SKIES WILL BE GRAY Little Change in Weather Forecast for City. With skies somewhat overcast and temperature this morning near freezing, little change was forecast by the United States weather bureau for the next two days. Temperature tonight will not sink below 28 degrees, it indicated. Throughout the state, skies will be clear, and there will be little change in temperature, the bureau promised. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 33 10 a. m 34 7a. m 32 ll a. m 34 Ba. m 33 12 (noon).. 34 9a. m 33 Ip. m 33

the Christmas Clearing House. Don’t! Don’t make a child happy and warm for Christmas and the New Year in school. But if you do believe, as they believe in Santa Claus, in “peace on earth, good will to men,” then you’ll ignore these “don’ts” and be one of those who are giving to make some child a little happier and a little warmer in impoverished times.

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MOVIE HOLDUP TOPS WAVE OF CRIME IN CITY Lone Bandit Gets SI,OOO isl Daylight Holdup on South Side. SAFE IS BLASTED OPEN Yeggs’ Loot $1,803 in Raid on Grocery Strongbox.

CITIZENS CAN HELP Co-operation of citizens in stemming the avalanche of holdups and thefts that broke over the week-end. was asked today by Jerry Kinney, police chief. Kinney said immediate reporting of a robbery or burglary and accurate descriptions of the perpetrators would aid police in hunting the bandits. Prompt reports also will aid police cruising squads in getting radio reports, he said.

A SI,OOO holdup at the Fountain Square theater this morning marked the continuation of a weekend of crime here in which bandits, yeggs and burglars staged a series of robberies, stafe cracking, kidnapings of motorists, slugging and petty; thievery that netted them thousands of dollars of loot. While police made desperate efforts to catch up with week-end reports of outlawry. J. T. Murray. 23. of 1218 Prospect street, assistant manager of the Fountain Square theater, sat in his office on the mezzanine floor of the theater this morning preparing to . take the week-end receipts to the bank. Just then a lone bandit walked in. Answering commands enforced with a gun, Murray opened the safe, took out the cash boxes, placed them on a chair and the bandit filled his pockets. Loot Is Over SI,OOO Then Murray was forced to crawl under a chair and the bandit walked out, went downstairs to the main floor and thus to the street. Murray related to police. His departure was unobserved. Murray described him as about 21 years old, wearing a brown overcoat. A similar description was given by Walter Walters, porter, who saw the man enter. The loot was in excess of SI,OOO. all cash, S9O of it in half-dollars. Blowing a safe in the grocery operated by Frank Lindner. 182® College avenue, safe crackers early today obtained $1,803. Lindner found the blasted safe when he opened the store. The thieves forced entrance to : the store by battering a door bej tween the store and a garage in the rear after smashing the lock on another door of the garage. Scfe crackers pried open the doois of two safes in the Kenwood Tire Company, Delaware and Walnut streets, early today, obtaining more than $75. Drag Safe to Basement One of the safes was dragged from the company office to the basement from which $75 was taken. Another large safe was pried open and loot stolen, C. W. Sparks, 4544 Guilford avenue, manager, said he could not estimate the loss. A car belonging to Mrs. Spr was stolen by the thieves from the company garage. Police today held two men in connection with the shooting of Enoch Yount, 58, grocer at 811 Congress avenue, Saturday night. Yount was shot in the shoulder, but was not hurt seriously. Frank Thomas, 1362 West Twen-ty-sixth street, was arrested Bundav morning and Jack Adams, alias Newman Adkins, 412 East Walnut street, was taken into custody early today, both on vagrancy charges. In the room Adkins occupied was clothing resembling that worn by one of the bandits. Young and a clerk in the store identified him. police said. Fires Rock at Bandit The bandits obtained only $4 from the store register, but fired when Yount hit one of them with a large rock that was on the counter. Forced to the curb while waiting for a traffic light at Southeastern and State avenues, Thomas Scanlon, 1726 North Meridian street, was robbed of $317, valuable papers and a revolver early Sunday by two bandits. The bandits forced him out of the car, robbed him and then ordered him to drive on, he told police. Jewelry valued at $1,400 and $l2O tTnrn to Page 2)

Pep Club Aids Pep and the pepper-box was spilled profusely in the “Clothe a School Child for Chrismas’ campaign today, when the Pep Unlimited Club, which broadcasts over WFBM, joined the movement. “We’re on our way to clothe one child and soon there’ll be two,” declared Don Hastings, conductor of the club, as he completed today's broadcast plea for funds. Contributions are being received from club members who listen in daily from 7:30 to 9 a. m. Money should be sent to the Pep Unlimited Club, in care of WFBM. Names of donors to the club will be printed in The Times.