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STATE BRANDS PRYOR BRUTAL WIFE SLAYER Martinsville Man Painted Cold-Blooded Killer in Argument. DEFENSE SLAPS STORY Courtroom Is Jammed as Death Trial Gets Under Way. Fate's intervention in what was termed a carefully brooded plot of Ernest Pryor, 32-year-old Martinsville paramour, to slay his “child wife” and climax an illicit love affair, was described today by prosecutors in opening arguments as the criminal court jury trial got under way. After three days of exhaustive examination of prospective jurors, the state and defense agreed, and the jury was sworn by Judge James A. Collins shortly after 10 a. m. Spectators crammed every comer of the large courtroom to hear the opening statements of William Bray, Morgan county prosecutor. The pathetic story of a family’s life in a little white home in Martinsville where Pryor allegedly hatched his scheme to poison his wife and marry her cousin, was told by Gray as the background of the state’s case, which Bray said demanded the death penalty for the illage “ne’er do well.’’ Alleged Scheme Outlined Pryor’s alleged scheme to collect insurance “blood money,” to slay his wife and to satisfy a romance with Mrs. Elsie Ham, Brazil, the wife’s cousin, was laid before jurors In the statement. Mrs. Theima Pryor, the 20-year-old wife whom Pryor married when she was sixteen, and whose body twice has been exhumed for examination, was the victim of a “clever but crude plot" of Pryor to cast all suspicion away from himself, Bray stated. “A home-loving girl, the mother of a child, this child-wife suffered every humiliation that man can imagine. Time and again she witnessed the damning spectacle of her husband in another's arms, watched the affair reach a notorious degree, heard the neighbors talk, and died at her husband s hand.” Bray pictured Pryor’s starting the rumor that his wife was ill. Pryor told the young mother repeatedly that he was “afraid she going to die,” Bray said. Barber’s Story Is Told Bray described events in the home during the eleven days preceding her death. Pryor took out a $3,000 insurance policy, borrowing the money to make a first payment. Examination by physicians proved her to be a perfect insurance risk, Bray said. The state will prove, Bray declared, that Ray Tremp. a Martinsville barber, was at the Pryor home Aug. 19 when Pryor mixed the first poison draught. Tremp entered the kitchen where Pryor was mixing the drink and “noticed it was awfully white.” Pryor had told his wife he would “get her a glass of sodawater” for a temporary illness, Bray stated. The young mother took a first arink at 2 in the afternoon. At 9 that night she was dead. . Bray stated she begged her husoand to help her. •You’re Going to Die’ My stomach burns, get me water.” This is the statement, according to Bray, the w’ife made numerous times before she died. Pryor, Bray said, answered the plea with the statement, “fhelma, I've done all I can, the doctors say you’re going to die and you might as well prepare for it.” After his arrest. Pryor was quoted as having said, “Prove me guilty if you can.” Chemical analysis of the corpse’s vital organs showed enough arsenic was administered to kill any human being. Bray saidJohn Royse. Pryor’s attorney, depicted Pryor as a “home loving, quiet young man who worked hard for a living.” Royse said hj will prove that neighborhood prejudice against Pryor was responsible for the first degree murder charge returned against Pryor by the Morgan county grand jury. Pryor Weeps Profusely Pryor, sitting at the defense table, wept profusely as Royse described his life in a small town. Beside Pryor sat his sister, Mrs. Mjwtle Boswell. Mrs. Alta Sink of Gosport, mother of Pryor’s dead wife, was to be in the courtroom in the afternoon. When closing arguments were completed. William R. Ringer. Marion county deputy prosecutor, said he will petition the court to have a commission appointed to examine Pryor for sanity, answering the defendant's, claim that he was insane at the time of the alleged crime. Royse objected to the motion and Collins was to rule this afternoon. Jurors impaneled are: lewis H. Cauble. 1159 North Tibbs avenue; Charles Sohafhauser. Cambv: Albert F. Caldwell. 849 South Belle Vleu place; Martin O. Young. Maywood; Thomas J. Walsner, R. R. 7. city; Claude Carpenter. 1110 North Mount stret; William P. Lots. 3831 Robson street; Don D. Elliott. 302 South Riley avenue: Harry A. Rost. 4151 College avenue; Claude E. Porter. 6047 Marlon avenue, and Albert V. Elliott. 3538 Keystone avenue, and J. Brook Gos--341*. 1131 Park avenue. Bridge Contract Awarded R. McC&lman, Inc., Danville, 111., has been awarded a $62,618.27 contract by the state highway department for construction of two bridges on State Road 50. In Martin county.

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Wisecracker! Aloof Einstein Proves Master of Repartee in Gotham Greeting.

BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Professor Albert Einstein, around whom there clusters the legend of being an aloof, retiring scientist, arrived

0”i the liner Bolgenland today and surprised New York by revealing himself as an export at repartee and what Americans call the “wisecrack.” He stood on the deck of the liner and exchanged verbal thrusts with reporters and photographers, and when he became

weary of the process—as he did on two occasions—he simply turned his back on them and'walked away. Inevitably, the first question that was put to Einstein was whether he could “explain briefly and for the lay mind” his theory of relativity. “It would take about three days,” he said. “I don’t have that much time.” Einstein answered questions about prohibition, Russia, Adolf Hitler and religion—subjects about which he readily confessed he knew little. And at the end he h'anded out a typewritten statement in which he seriously discussed America’s part in the economic and scientific scheme of things. a a a “XTSTERE you nervous at the idea ™ ’ of meeting New York reporters?” ho was asked. “I never think about the future,” Einstein replied. “Prohibition?” “I don't drink,” he answered, “so it doesn’t make any difference to me.” ‘Adolf Hitler?” “I am not on friendly terms with j Hitler. However, I think he is living on the empty stomachs of Germany. When the stomachs no longer are empty, he will fail.” “Please say what the fourth dimension is?” a reporter asked. “You’ll have to ask the spiritualists about that.” it a a you think religion will help JL/ promote peace?” “It has not done so up to now.” “Is Russia making any cultural progress?” “I don’t know\ I am no prophet.” The United States, “if ever it sets it hand to the job,” can entirely destroy the dreadful tradition of military violence under which Europe and the whole world continues to suffer, Einstein said in broadcasting a radio greeting to America. SWITCH RULING ON BANK STOCK Holders Liable for Double of Face Value, Court Says. V Stockholders in state banks are liable for double the amount of their stock, just as are holders of national bank stock, the Indiana supreme court ruled today in reversing an appeal from the Wells circuit court. The appeal grew out of the failure of the Studebaker State bank at Bluffton. In the lower court It was held that stockholders in state banks were liable only for the face value of their stock. Reversal decision, handed down today, was written by Judge Clarence R. Martin and concurred In by Chief Justice David A. Myers and Judge Julius C. Travis.

BOOZE DID NOT KILL GARY GIRL, CHEMIST REPORTS

By Times Special GARY, Ind., Dec. 11.—Lake county authorities charged with prosecution of five youths accused of the first degree murder of 18-year-old Arlene Draves at a liquor party have in their possession today a chemist’s report that the girl was not a poison victim and at the time of death her stomach did not contain enough alcohol to cause a marked degree of intoxication. The report is that of Dr. R. N. Harger of Indianapolis, pathologist of Indiana universty school of medicine, who analyzed contents of vital organs removed from the party victim’s body. It was submitted to A. A. Watts, Lake county coroner. Accused in the case are Virgil

INTRODUCE A NEEDY CHILD TO SANTA; CLOTHE A BOY OR GIRL FOR CHRISTMAS

SANTA’S in town! He’s all around you. He’s in the street cars, in the shops, in the minds, and—in the hearts. He’s everywhere except in homes of the city’s unemployed. But he’s going Into those homes to clothe children of the unemployed as the roll of individuals and groups in the "Clothe a School Child for Christmas” campaign mounts daily. A check this morning showed that 142 children had been pledged warm clothing for the holiday by Santa’s emissaries, the real folk of Indianapolis. "Give me the name of a family that's in bad circumstances,” phoned one woman to “Clothe a Child" editor.

COPS’APPEAL MAY LEAD TO ‘DRY TRAP’BAN Methods Used in City Case Previously Condemned by Supreme Court. HELD POLITICAL MOVE U. S. Decision on Agents* Powers Sought by Congressman. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Time* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Methods used in building up the Indianapolis police indictments, on which trials recently were held, uniformly have been condemned by the supreme court of the United States, according to a tabulation of similar cases prepared today by a member of the house of representatives. Should the defense in the present case carry their appeal to the highest court they may present a set of facts which for the first time since passageof the national prohibition act would bring down a definite statement of the federal law on entrapment by prohibition agents. Refused to Comment Because the congressman initiated his study preliminarily with a view to suggesting clarification of the existing law he declined to comment on his finding for publication. After spending two days in reviewing decisions in somewhat similar cases, however, he expressed the conviction that the facts surrounding the Indianapolis case point to a flagrant conspiracy on the part of federal agents to build up a local scandal for political purposes on the eve of an election. The act of tw r o federal agents in themselves operating a speakeasy at 1213 East Twenty-second street, Indianapolis, through w’hich to lure the police officers into conspiracy and bribery, presents a set of facts upon which the supreme court has not passed directly. Cites U. S. Decision The federal appellate court for the Eighth circuit, in 1921, however, set down the rule of law that when officers of the government, “by persuasion and misrepresentation” induce a person to commit a crime, that fact ‘is and ought to be fatal to the prosecution and entitle the accused to a verdict of not guilty.” Continuing, the decision developed: “The first duties of the officers of the law are to prevent, not to punish crime. It is not their duty to incite and create crime for the sole purpose of prosecuting and punishing it.” Reversed on Appeal This decision was rendered in 1921 in the case of one C. O. Butts, agar *■ whom three federal narcotic agenus had conspired in a plot to convic' tm for selling illegal drugs. Butts .as convicted in the district court at Omaha, but the court was reversed on appeal. This is. the case in legal records which most closely parallels the Indianapolis conspiracy. But since Butts was acquitted in the circuit court, the case never reached the supreme court. During the course of the trial at Indianapolis Judge Robert C. Baltzell observed that “the government was close to entrapment in this case.” Ammel Plans Hop to Europe By United Press PANAMA CITY, Dec. 11. Roy W. Ammel, Chicago business man and flier, announced plans for a flight to Europe next summer when he was released today from the hospital, after recovering from Injuries in an airplane crash.

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Kirkland, Paul Barton, Henry Shirk, Leon Stanford and David Thompson. They are in jail at Crown Point, held without bond. Led by the Gary Ministerial Association, the Better Government Association and Lions Club, various civic organizations are demanding a cleanup in Gary as a result of the tragedy. Public dance halls, obscene reading matter, burlesque shows, commercialized vice and liquor are the principal targets of those demanding action. Fifteen young people’s societies connected with Gary churches announce their representatives will make an investigation of conditions and submit a report within ten days.

That was hard to do. It was hard not to say, “Here are a dozen families that have children that need clothing.” “And what’ll it cost me to outfit a child?” came another inquiry. That was hard to answer, too. They need so much. They want so little. One lad has his head set on a pair of mittens. He wants brown ones. Mittens mean more to him than underwear, and yet he hasn't any underclothing to wear. m * m EACH child in the “Clothe-a-Child” movement is an individual problem, with individual needs. Organizations and persons entering the “Clothe-a-

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1930

Raps Hoover for ‘Bread Line * Relief Wagner Makes Plea to Rush Permanent Jobs Program. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—A plea for permanent unemployment j measures and criticism of “bread line relief,” which he said was | forced by administration delay, was i voiced in the senate today by Sen- j ator Robert P. Wagner (Dem., N. Y.). “I am not opposed to emergency j proposals now pending,” Wagner said. “But I plead for a better way in the future. A place on the bread line is, after all, an unkind reward for workmen.” Wagner deplored the need of New York’s $6,000,000 bread line fund and characterized the administration's $110,000,000 road and public works bill as insufficient and the result of delay. Thus he injected into the short session a demand for consideration of his three unemployment bills, now in the house. * Criticises President Wagner criticised President Hoover and his leaders were charged with holding up his employment program in the house. “These bills have almost reached the end of their legislative journey,” Wagner said, “but now the President, hr his annual message, bids us wait. “Our people do not want charity. They want an opportunity to earn a fair living. They expect us to time the flow of jobs even as Joseph in ancient Egypt timed the flow of flood. “We rightly expect of the government to organize the effort of job finding and to eliminate the cruel waste of men and money that Is now a regular part of it. A fight over the world court developed today with the prospect that the project of American adherence, thrust into the senate Wednesday by President Hoover, would shatter party lines and possibly destroy administration plans for the short session. Oppose Court Idea First opposition to the court idea came from a Republican, Senator Johnson (Cal.) Johnson, with Chairman Borah of the foreign relations committee, Republican Floor Leader Watson and President Pro Tem Moses of the senate, will fight his party chieftain on this issue. When any defense of the President on the. world court is made in , the senate some Democrat, such as Senator Swanson of Virginia, probably will make it. World court strategy is being for mulated now by both sides. Borah will expedite committee action and bring the project to the floor if he can. The court men probably will attempt to keep the issue in committee _ until congress meets a year from now. They believe they have the votes to do it. Dirge for Harmony Unless the debate is postponed, legislative machinery may not be able to dispose of the essential appropriation bills. An extra session could not then be avoided. Watson warned Mr. Hoover of this danger of an extra session but the President submitted the court project over the protest. The formula for American adherence to the world court was worked out by Elihu Root, former secretary of state, who sought to bridge the conflicting opinions of the senate and the court's members. He was assigned this mission by President Hoover. Defiant Democrats have buried with a dirge all thought of harmony with President Hoover, and are accompanying their onslaught on the administration’s relief program with attacks'on the President which are without precedent in recent years. Headed by Democratic colleagues, the metropolitan press, and finally by Mr. Hoover’s sharply critical statement on emergency relief, Minority Leader Robinson publicly has discarded the harmony or co-opera-tion role. Robinson read himself out of all bi-partisan responsibility in a speech of firmly measured moderation designed as a rebuke to the President. EXPLORERS QUIT JUNGLE Martin Johnsons Return After Year in Congo Pygmy Forest. By United Press NAIROBI, British East Africa, Dec. 11. —Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, American explorers, arrived here today after a year in the Congo pygmy forest. Three live gorillas and Numerous valuable monkeys were among their animal collection.

Seat sale for the Butler-Cincinnati U. benefit basketball game at the fieldhouse Friday night was boomed today by volunteer salesmen and at downtown sport centers. The tickets are on sale $t Spalding’s and Clark & Cade’s, downtown. Regular season prices are charged—sl for reserved, first floor and first balcony and 50 cents for other seats. All proceeds, over necessary expenses, go to The Times “Clothe a School Child by Christmas” fund. *, It will be Butler’s opening cage game of the season, against a speedy foe. You can help. Do it now.

Child" campaign have reported clothing children on funds ranging from $5 to $25. And as each child is an individual problem, then “he" or “she" becomes your problem to outfit

CHEER MAROn PLAN FOR CITY RAIL PURCHASE Applause Interrupts Address at Open Meeting on Insull Proposal. MANY PRAISE UTILITY ‘lf We Can’t Make Deal Now, We’ll Start Again,’ Says McKinney. Professing no “fear of the bugaboo of utilities,” E. Kirk McKinney, chairman of the city hall street car committee, Wednesday night informed proponents of the Insull reorganization plan of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company that if a deal can not be made on the present proposal “we’ll start all over again.” McKinney’s statement followed three hours of claims by the proponents on the value of the reorganization to Indianapolis. They stressed the need for the indeterminate franchise and indicated, unless this was obtained, Insull would retire from the purchase field. The session was the first of a series of public hearings on the railway proposal. Another, at which civic leaders will talk, will be held in the city council chamber at 7:30 p. m. Friday. Proponents of the plan, including Henry H. Hornbrook and Leo Rappaport, attorneys for security holders, arid Charles Chase of the Midland United Company, an Insull organization, built a picture of the terrific importance of the proposal acceptance. They portrayed a traffic tie-up in the city if the company were permitted to remain in receivership. Marott Cheered by Citizens “It might be well to say that the committee has no fear of the bugaboo of utilities or anything that may sound fair to the city,” McKinney said. “We may take different viewpoints, but our aim is to make possible a deal fair to the city. We would like a better street can system.” • After McKinney’s statements, George J. Marott, merchant and hotel owner, urged the city to buy the street railway company at this time. His address was interrupted by applause and cheers of the assembled citizens. “I think now is the time for Indianapolis, possibly through trusteeship, to Own and operate the street tar system, “Marott declared. “The city has talked about owning this public utility for fifty-six years, but it always has been camouflage. “If Insull gets it, the property can be bought by the city after six months’ notice. Now it can be bought at half price. An enactment for city ownership should be passed In the next legislature. The street car company never again can be bought as cheap as it can today.” Disgrace to Indiana Marott then launched into a discourse of financial losses that fell upon persons who were urged to buy stock in the street car company. He charged that throughout the state solvent companies have been thrown into receivership, “a disgrace to the state of Indiana.” “The city can save in the start in the difference of cost to do the (Turn to Page 6) Young Mother Dies BLOOMINGTON, Ind, Dec. 11.— Mrs. Pearl Wampler, 24, died in a hospital here at the birth of her fourth child, a daughter, which is also dead.

STRANGLING ADMITTED BY GIRL CABARET SINGER, 21

By United Press SALT LAKE CITV. Utah, Dec. 11. —Her bravado and flippancy gone, Jean Dayle, 21-year-old cabaret singer, faced a first degree murder charge today following her confession that she murdered Sam Frank, 65, Memphis (Term.) jewelry auctioneer. Mention of her mother, an elderly woman residing in Seattle, Wash., broke the defiance of the girl and resulted in the confession. “I killed him,” she sobbed. “But don’t tell mama. I couldn’t bear that.” “I did the job alone. A man planned the robbery, but he wasn’t there. I swear he wasn't. You’ll never learn his name.” Frank was strangled and beaten to death in his hotel room last Saturday morning. Miss Dayle was arrested Tuesday and admitted she attempted to rob Frank, but in-

as to needs for attending school without fear of winter’s specter, pneumonia. "Are the children worthy?" is another question propounded. They are. Each child’s case has

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% Nurses in Indianapolis hospitals are proving valuable allies of the Marlon County Tuberculosis Association in the 1930 Christmas seal campaign. v Miss Irene Pritchard (left), Indiana university hospital training school; Miss Mary Pearl Freed (center), city hospital training school, and Miss Gertrude Torbeck, St. Vincent’s hospital training school, are representative of the groups organized in local hospitals to assist the seal sales. * Administering to the sick in hospitals daily, they’ve determined to spread their life-saving out over the community with their appeal to friends and acquaintances to purchase all the Christmas seals they can.

MAJOR’S WOOING IS RELATED BY GIRL

On the Spot By United Press LAPORTE, Ind., Dec. 11.—A1 Capone, acknowledged gangster king of Chicago, has only one more year to live, according to El Hamid, radio astrologer who broadcasts for station WRAP here. “The planetary influences concerning this gangster show that the evil influences are gathering in his wake and that these influences will make themselves felt next year,” the seer predicted.

FAKER PREYS ON JOBLESS The Times Joins Police in Hunting Crook. The Times and police united today in search for an employment racketeer who took a family’s last $3 for a fake “union card” with ■wfhich the unemployed husband and father was to be given employment at a high salary. The racketeer, who gave his name as Ed Miller, also visited other families, but no reports of loss by them have been received. Everett Ellis, 858 East Wyoming street, out of work, and trying to support his wife and four sons, had a card from the commission for stabilization of employment for three days labor. Tuesday night Miller called at his home, and promised him a job at The Times If he joined the union. Ellis did not know what union it was, but paid $3 as first payment on his union card, and did not report for the city labor job. Miller Is not connected with The Times. When Ellis applied for work he was told the man who sold him the ticket was an impostor. Pioneer Woman, 91, Buried CARBON, Ind., Dec. 11.—FuneraJ services were held Wednesday for Mrs. Rebecca W. Buchanon, 91, Clay county pioneer, who died Monday at the home of her son, George G. Weaver, near here. She was born in Van Buren township where she spent her entire life.

sisted two men broke into the room and “beat me to it.” Police accused Jack Guinin, barber, now in custody, was the girl’s accomplice. “Sam called me Friday night. We had a flock of drinks. Then I dropped some chloral hydrate Into his drink. It put him under, but about that time I fell asleep, too. Later on I gave him a few more shots of chloral. He went to sleep again, but every time I moved so would he. “I knew it had to be done. So I picked up the bottle and hit him over the head twice.” Then the girl related she tied his hands and stuffed one of her ! stockings into his mouth—the actual cause of death was strangulation. She used the other stocking to tie down a telephone receiver. The girl claimed she gave the jewelry and most of the money—there was about SB,OOO in jewels and I cash taken—to her male accomplice.

been handled by relief agencies of the Community Fund. The fund’s agencies, operating on a yearly basis, are unable to make a special Yuletide effort to care for the city’s poor. We give you the child’s name and address. You investigate for yourself his or her needs and then —you make them happy by outfitting them and make yourself happy as well. Donors previously reported totaled 138. New pledges received late Wednesday and today are: Kooeevelt balldinr man. Mr*. L. S. Mill*. 2158 Dexter atenur. Gran* es Clothin* Santa Clantea. ' Univerta! Club (eared fer two and took tire more). Tare Hoyt Arenac Home Folk.

Officer, on Trial for Wife’s Death, Is Faced by Stenographer. (Picture of Miss Brandon Face f) BY REX GOAD, United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Kas., Dec. 11.— Miss Grace Brandon, young, blonde San Antonio (Tex.) stenographer, faced Major Charles A. Shepard from the witness stand today, and told tearfully of the love affair the state charges led the army officer to kill his wife by poisoning. At the first question about her acquaintance with the 59-year-old army officer, she burst into tears, halting the trial. A recess was taken while she regained hsr composure. Miss Brandon showered, according to prosecution testimony, with endearing notes from the major after Mrs. Shepard’s death, was led through the ripening of their friendship, which began when they met at a San Antonio boarding house. Miss Brandon testified Major Shepard invited her to go places with him "quite often.” Mentioned Marital Troubles The examination continued; Q. —You knew he was married? A.—l did, but (a. defense objection prevented completion’ of the answer). Q. —Did he say anything about divorce? A.—He said he could have gotten one four or five years ago, but that he had no reason and mentioned the unpleasantness of it. Q —Did you have conversation with him regarding his relations with his wife? A—Yes. He intimated he and his wife were not very congenial and hadn’t been for some time. Q —ln substance, what were his words? A—He said they hadn’t been getting along well for five years. He said his wife drank and had flirtations, and that they only kept up a congenial appearance for the sake of his rank and reputation, Presents Are Listed She was asked what words of affection Major Shepard used while he was in San Antonio in 1927. “He told me he loved me and never met any one like me,” she replied. ( Q. —What was said about an engagement? A. —We were no. engaged, but he asked me If I’d marry him If he got a divorce. I said 'I would. Miss Brandon enumerated Major Shepard’s presents to her—an automobile, whose running expenses he paid, books, dresses, a dinner gown, a cedar chest, flowers and candy and a diamond in a platinum setting. She received the ring in July, 1929, she testified. Mrs- Shepard died in June. Q —Did you have a conversation about when you would be married? A —He first asked me to marry him secretly, but it was so soon after his wife’s death, it would create a scandal, don’t you know? I would not agree to that. EXECUTION DATE SET State Policeman’s Slayers to Pay Penalty. By United Press HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 11.— Governor Fisher today set the week of Jan. 12, for the execution of Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague, convicted of the murder of Corporal Brady Paul of the Pennsylvania state highway patrol.

Mis* Ernst Michigan. Paul H. Kranss C., 48 North Pennsylvania street (cared for one child and took another). Employes of Indiana Insaranee Company and Smith Brothers agency (two Kit Is). Office and Employes of the Indianapolis Engraring Company (eared for two children and took another girl). State auditor's office, statehnnse. Employes of Whitaker Press, Inc., 225 North New Jersey street. Pep Unlimited Clab of WTBM (eared for two children and want three more). Mrs. B. C. Kioetske, 2254 Kenwood. Office girls of IndianspolJs Abattoir Company. St. Mathew’s Goild of St. Mathew's episcopal church Two Irvington '/.'omen Misses Gertrude and Susan Itelbeook, 1245 College avenue.

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REALTY FIRM CHIEFS CLOSE OFFICtVANISH Indiana Estates Company Promoters Depart With No Warning. FACED PROBE BY JURY Crash Comes as Result of Charges by Better Business Bureau. The Indiana Estates Company, 601-15 Meridian Life building, 307 North Pennsylvania street, blew up today with a loud report. William McElroy Dozier and Michael J. O’Keefe, debonair ostensible heads of the concern, ar© among the missing. So is James E. Huteson, financial backer and known in a dozen cities for like disappearances Offices of the company have beeft dismantled by the firms to which the furniture belonged. Telephones are next to go, for obligations running into several hundreds of dollars, according to investigators. Likewise, employes and salesmen of the concern to whom wages or commissions are due were sitting around wondering who would pa/ their hotel bills. Wcbe Starts Crash The spark which set off the explosion lay in the charges by the Better Business Bureau, Inc., several days ago that many complaints had been filed that the company was doing business unethically and fraudulently. The Times, co-oper-ating In the investigation, disclosed the realty firm’s tactics. Dozier and O’Keefe vehemently denied the allegations and offered to refund. Two of the complainants, Mrs. Mary E. Anderson and Mrs. Clara B. Montgomery, did get their money. The other fifty or so have not. Huteson, whose record as a high pressure realtor goes back into a dozen cities, and who has had his realty license cancelled for unethical practices by virtually every state in which there is a realty board, checked out of his hotel Wednesday morning. Start for Chicago He headed Ohicagoward m his shining Rolls Royce, leaving his Negro chauffeur here—with a bill for SBO back wages, says the chauffeur. Wednesday morning O’Keefe checked out of his hotel and Wednesday evening Dozier and his family disappeared from their apartment at 3020 North Meridian street. No notice as given by either of them to the employes of the concern that disaster was about to fall. This morning, while T. M. Overley and several other complainants were in conference with Deputy Prosecutor Harry Gause, preparing to submit the whole affair to the grand jury, a suit was filed. Verne Headley, architect and builder, alleged that O’Keefe and Dozier owed hjrn $450 for labor and materials. He riled attachment papers on everything he could reach. Exodus Hurriedly Starts Before he reached the offices of the Estates Company in the Meridian building, however, the exodus had begun. Employes hurriedly packed what personal belongings they had. Furniture companies appeared with trucks to remove the furniture. The investigation still is under way. It is rumored that federal and state action against all those connected with the company will take place within the next few days. LAUD RUTH NICHOLS Rests After Record Flight Across Nation. By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Ruth Nichols is receiving the nation's acclaim today at her Rye, N. Y., home, after her record-breaking transcontinental flight which ended here at Roosevelt field Wednesday. By 1 hour and 21 minutes she beat the record of the Lindberghs, from Los Angeles to New York. Her flying time was 13 hours 21 minutes 43 seconds. Hourly Temperatures 6a. £i 46 10 a. m 43 7a. m 45 11 a.m 50 Ba. m 46 12 (noon>.. 52 9 a. m 46 1 p. m 53

A Kindly Deed Just to show appreciation of the efforts of the “Clothe a School Child” campaign of The Times and to aid the city's needy, Brushwiller’s shoe shop, 4105 East Michigan street, today Instituted a "repair a pair of shoes” drive. “Well repair twenty-five pairs of shoes for needy children," the proprietor said, “without cost.” The shoe repair pledge was turned over to the Salvation Army, which will furnish the shoes and youngsters to wear them. A pledge of 150 hair cuts for children by the Fuller’s Friendly Barber Shops also will be handled by the Salvation Army.