Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1931 — Page 1

KIRKLAND ON TRIAL AGAIN IN GIN DEATH Quiz Prospective Jurymen as Gary Boy Faces Court Once More. FIRST 9 MEN EXCUSED Barrett O’Hara Withdraws From Cause Because of Defense Argument. By United. Frees VALPARAISO, Ind., April 29. Virgil Kirkland, 20-year-old Gary athlete, went on trial today a second time, charged with murdering Arlene Draves, his 18-year-old sweetheart, during a drinking party. His life was not necessarily at stake, although the state qualified prospective jurors for the death penalty. Prosecutor John Underwood began examining talesmen without carrying out his. previous announcement that the indictment would be reduced to two counts, but declared that if the reduction was made, the death penalty would not be mandatory, as generally believed. The two counts on which Underwood indicated the state would elect to proceed with Kirkland’s retrial accuse the young ice truck driver oi causing Miss Draves’ death by attack or attempted attack. Conviction of first degree murder under either of these counts would carry a mandatory death penalty. Conviction Was Set Aside Underwood pointed out, however, that the jury may choose to return a verdict of criminal attack, manslaughter, assault and battery in commission of an attack or simple assault and battery if it finds Kirkland guilty and believes death in the electric chair too severe. Kirkland was convicted of first degree murder in his first trial under another count charging he killed Arlene by striking a blow. The conviction, recommending life imprisonment, was set aside by Judge Grant Crumpacker as not warranted by the evidence. The fourth count is similar to that under which Virgil was indicted. Selecting a jury to try young Kirkland will be a difficult task, it was indicated today when the firstnine men to be questioned were excused for cause, seven by the state, one by the defense and one by Judge Crumpacker.

Excused for Fixed Opinions Louis Betz, 34, farmer, and Paul Titus, 51, farmer, were excused by the state when they admitted having conscientious scruples against imposing the death penalty. Henry Black, 72, farmer, pleaded successfully that he was needed for spring planting. Six others were dismissed when they admitted fixed opinions. Kirkland came into the court room wearing anew brown suit and smiling. He sat with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Kirkland, his stepfather and mother. Arlene's father, Charles Draves, and two brothers, Kenneth and Carl, also were in the courtroom. Only a few spectators w’erc present. With Barrett O'Hara, Chicago attorney, withdrawn because of his conflict with other defense attorneys’ views, the defense staff consisted of Oscar Thiel of Gary, Richard Oldham of Chicago and John Crumpacker of Valparaiso. Crumpackcr is Judge Crumpacker’s son. “Lie Detector'’ Is Used Underwood, chief deputy prosecutor of Lake county, headed the state's staff, assisted by Robert G. Estill, East Chicago, deputy prolocutor, and Edward Freund, Valparaiso attorney. This is the same group that obtained a conviction in the first trial. Attorneys admitted that at least one new move was planned by each side, but indicated that otherwise the testimony in the second trial will center around the same witnesses heard in the first, principally friends of Kirkland and others at the party at which Arleen died. Underwood announced that the state would offer anew witness, whose testimony will “corrobrate” that given at the first trial, but will develop no new r angles. He declined to discuss reports that this wdtncss will be one of the four other young men indicted with Kirkland. Thiel admitted that a “lie detector.” the machine which registers nervous reactions under questioning, had been used on Kirkland in his cell last Monday night. Thiel said an attempt might be made to have its use during the trial sanctioned, but admitted its legality was doubtful. NAB BOYS AS SLUGGERS Three Confess Attempted Robbery, Police Officers Assert. Confessions that they slugged John Van Shoik, 67, of 1145 West Twenty-eighth street, Saturday night tn an attempted robbery were obtained from three youths, police said today. They arc: Eugene Edwards, 17. of 1131 West Thirty-third street; Edward Piper, 27, of 860 Udell street, and Frank Garringcr, 18. of 2616 White street. They are charged with conspiracy to commit a felony. Van Shoik was attacked near his home and sustained severe head lacerations. Stabbed in Food Argument In an argument over food, Mrs. Ida Scearsdrook, Negro, 240 West Wyoming street, was seriously cut with a knife by her niece. Miss Nettie Tate, Negro, 236 West Wyoming street. Mrs. Scearsdrook was ta*rn to city hospital and Miss Tate was charged with assault and bats tery "ith inlcnt to kill.

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TRUE SON OF UNCLE SAM Boy Blizzard Hero White House Guest

WASHINGTON, April 29.—Washington in the spring time is the mecca of thousands of school children. From all parts of the country they arrive by train and bus loads to see the sights of the capital and to return home with countless snapshots. Today, however there arrived one school boy

to be given honors never before accorded a lad of 13. He came unannounced on an early morning train. At the station, a large, blacklimousine, with a coat of arms, was waiting. nan THE boy was Bryan Untiedt, hero of the Colorado bus tragedy of a few weeks ago and the guest today and tonight of the President of the United States. The limousine whisked the boy up the White House driveway. A bowing doorman ushered him in the great north entrance of the executive mansion where only ambassadors and cabinet ministers usually enter. As he stepped out of the car, Bryan seemed pale and extremely nervous. He wore anew blue suit and a brown cap. Like many another tourist, he clutched a small camera in his hand. Inside the White House, he was taken upstairs to the famous Blue room. In that room, many

distinguished guests have slept and many more persons prominent in politics and business and society would give a lot for such an opportunity. Tonignt young Bryan, whose arms and legs were frozen in saving the lives of seventeen companions, in a Colorado blizzard, will sleep there.

FORD OPPOSES PAY SLASHES Cut Would Set Back Labor 20 Years, He Says. By United Press DETROIT, April 29.—A general reduction in w'ages would set labor back twenty years in the opinion of Henry Ford. Ford today stated there would be no deflation of labor by the Ford Motor Company, nor is it likely any of the 3,500 companies which supply the Ford company with materials will reduce wages, in an interview by the Wall Street Journal. Ford stated that it was his theory that the high quality of workmanship demanded in his plants could not be provided by inferior workmen or by inefficient or dissatisfied men. For that reason he “absolutely refuses to consider or condone w'age reductions.” He believes if the general wage level of wages were reduced, it would take labor twenty years to get back. The present Ford wage scale averages just a little more than a dollar an horn - . HOOSIERS HIRE HAYS Noted Lawyer to Make Fight for Share in Wendel Fortune. By United Press NEW YORK. April 29.—A group of residents of Indiana and Ohio have engaged Arthur Garfield Hays, noted lawyer who was associated with Clarence Darrow in the Scopes trial, to represent them as claimants to the $100,000,000 fortune left by the Wendel family, it became known today. The latest claimants made careful study of their family tree and collected a fund to press their claim. The last of the Wendels, Miss Ella, died here in March. The persons seeking to establish their claims to the Wendel fortune are Mrs. Louise Wendel Merle, 82, of Taylorville, Ind.. and her descendants. They will meet May 4 to formulate their claims. They engaged Lawrence Shaw, Indianapolis attorney, and sent him to New York to retain Hays. AGREE ON COUNTY ROAD Commissioners, Works Board Join in Repairing Airport Approach. * Agreement whereby the city and county will join in grading and tarring High School road from the north boundary of municipal airport south to Southern avenue, past | the airport entrance, was reached today by county commissioners and works board members. The county, under the agreement. |is to prepare the roadbed and i furnish gravel, while the city will | provide tar and place it.

PINCH ‘YELLOW KID’ FOR SWINDLE HERE

Joseph R. (Yellow Kid) Weil, the midwest's most notorious confidence man, was in jail in Chicago again today, suspected with two acquaintances of having pulled a $37,000 swindle on Indianapolis streets last Wednsday. Chicago authorities say they believe he is one of three men who took that sum from Matthews Reinart here, after allowing Reinart to clean up in paper profits on the stock market. Reinart was to view the Kid and his friends today, in an effort to identify them as the men who took the money from him in Toledo, 0.. after selling him on the quick money scheme in Indianapolis. For several years a visitor at French Lick, Reinart this spring went to Martinsville, because life at French f*ick, he said, was too wild.

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MRS. stark MCMULLEN, another White House guest and an old friend of Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, met Bryan in the White House. She took him to the executive offices, where Mr. Hoover already was at his desk After he had shaken hands with the President, Bryan was taken on a tour of the executive

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When King Prajadhipok and Queen RambhaiBarni of Siam drove up to pay their official call on the President at 10:15 young Untiedt looked down on the royal procession from a second story window of the White House.

RIDES FLAMING 'CHUTE; Army Flier Burned and Injured in ! Daring Leap for Life. By United, Press DETROIT, April 29.— Lieutenant ’ Ernest Warburton, 26, Boston, a member of the army first pursuit group at Selfridge field, rode to safety in a flaming parachute here today after his plane caught fire. Warburton suffered severe burns about face and arms and his right leg was injured when he hit the earth. His chute had not opened until he was but a few hundred feet from the ground and the speed of his fall had not been entirely checked. The plane, which fell in an alley near the outskirts of Detroit, was destroyed. UNITE AGAINST ‘HUNGER MARCH' Groups Act After Warnings of Demonstration. State and city authorities, United Mine Workers officials, American Legion officials and Associated Employers of Indianapolis were all in the field today with broadsides against alleged Communist activities in Indianapolis and throughout the state, Grover Garrett, chief of the state police, has sent a letter to mayors of the various leading cities of the state for a report on the extent of the proposed “hunger march” of unemployed on the statehouse on May 4. The march was widely advertised today in circulars sent out by Secretary Andrew J. Allen of the employers’ association. Allen warned of red activities on May 1 and May 4. Somewhat similar warning was sent broadcast by Russell Cook, national director of the American Legion’s Americanism commission. Voice of organized labor was added in a speech before the Universal Club at the Columbia Club Tuesday by Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers’ Journal. CLUBS WILL CONVENE Mid-West Relations Conference to Be Held at Claypool. Organizations interested in international relations will attend the Mid-West Relations Club conference called by Indiana Collegiate International Relations Club in the Claypool Friday and Saturday. Speakers will include Miss Amy Hemingway Jones of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Dr. A. W. Cordier of Manchester college; Dr. Waiter L. Slifer. But- | ler university; Dr. Vincent A. Lapenta, royal consular regent of Italy, and Dr. Pitman B. Potter of the University of Wisconsin.

He lost SIOO in a poker game there once, he declared. Reinart is a retired grocer. At Martinsville he met a "J. A. Kirk." struck up a friendship, and started back to Chicago with Kirk. As they were driving through Indianapolis. Kirk suddenly exclaimed: ‘ Why, there's G. A. Mayo. He's made millions in Mexican oil. Let's see what the stock market is doing." Their orijdnal investment. Reinart said, was run up to $300,000 on paper, but he was told there could be no collection without $37,000 collateral. Rcinart agreed to put it up, and met the men in Toledo with the money and securities. None of the names Reinart gave as those of his exploiters is listed m city or telephone directory here.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1931

mansion by Mrs. McMullen. The schoolboy shares presidential honors today with his majesty, the king of Siam. The king arrived Tuesday night, exchanged calls with the President and then was to be honored at a state banquet at the White House. n an BRYAN will not be present at the dinner, which is limited only to officials and members of the Siamese royal party, it was decided today, although Tuesday social arbiters around the White House had been of the opinion that he would be. Another arrived at the White House today to gladden the President's heart was Herbert Hoover Jr. The son of the nation’s chief, who has been at Asheville, N. C., for several months convalescing from a lung infection, is expected to remain here for awhile and then continue to his home in California. He was accompanied from Asheville by his wife. Their three children have , been at the White House for some time.

80 INDICTED DY U.S. GRAND JURY A Seven Named as Members of Counterfeit Ring. Eighty persons were named in fifty indictments returned today by the federal grand jury, which was excused after its report by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Arraignments will be held Saturday morning. Although majority of the indictments were returned against liquor law violators, four true bills nameq counterfeit and narcotic conspiracy rings. Seven persons are named in the counterfeit conspiracy, which carries a maximum- penalty of fifteen years’ imprisonment. The ring, according to government agents, manufactured and circulated counterfeit $lO gold notes and $lO gold coins in the middle west. Those indicted are: Clifford Roe, alleged engraver; Clarence J. Cones, Fred Windman, 2208 Morgan street; Roy L, and Russell E. Lockwood, 1833 Lambert street; Thomas Shroyer, 1351 Kentucky avenue, and a fugitive. The narcotic ring, said to be the largest operating in Indiana, is alleged to have sold morphine, heroin, and cocaine to retailers. Federal agents obtained one small tin of morphine valued at SSOO when they raided headquarters in Terre Haute they said. Conviction carries a maximum penalty on each count of ten years’ imprisonment. Those indicted. all of Terre Haute, are Wilbert G. Berry, the “brains” of the gang; Harry Sprague, George Barrett; George W. Hams and Otto Call. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 51 10 a. m 52 7 a. m 48 11 a. m 53 8 a. m 49 12 (noon).. 54 9am 50 1 p. m 57

ASK PERMITS FOR 7-CENT BUS LINES

Company Would Run Two Routes ‘at Lower Fare Than Present Rate. Logan J. Smith Transportation Company today petitioned the public service commission for permission to establish two 7-cent fare bus lines in Indfanapolis, One route would operate around the Circle and north on North Capitol avenue and the other around the Circle and to South Indianapolis. Chairman J*ohn W. McArdle declared that routing must be approved by the Indianapolis board ot works before the commission will act on such petitions. "Routing b<us lines in cities remains in the hands of the local authorities, despite the contention that ‘home rule’ will be abolished by House Bill 6," McCardle declared. “These matters are entirely within the police powers of the city.” The proposed south Indianapolis route would be from the Circle south on South Meridian to South street, east on South to Fletcher avenue and southeast on Fletcher to State avenue, thence to Naomi street and return by the same route. Distance is three miles one way. Proposed North Capitol avenue line is from the Circle west on Market street to Capitol avenue, north on Capitol to Thirty-fourth street, west on Thirty-fourth to Graceland avenue, north on Graceland to Hampton drive, west on Hampton to Sunset avenue and return by the same route. Distance of 5.3 miles one way. Service on both lines would be every ten minutes from 5 a. m. to 8 p. m. on week days; fifteen-min-ute service from 8 p. m. to 1 p. m , and fifteen minutes from 6 a. m. to 12:30 a. m., Sunday,

‘SHADOW MAN’ ENTERS CITY DEATHRIDDLE Woman Who Ended Life Was Followed for Days, Probe Indicates. VANISHES AFTER VISIT Calls at Coroner’s Office, Disappears Without Viewing Body. Still without a definite clew, Coroner Fred Vehling today again was following hunches and rumors in efforts to dispel mystery around a middle-aged woman who committed suicide in her north side apartment Saturday. He was seeking information about a man who is said to have shadowed Miss Lillian Wilmer for two days before she turned on gas jets in her apartment at 2010 North Meridian street, and was asphyxiated. Further identification was in hands of Coroner Vehling today. Mrs. Lillian Smock, 46. of 618 North Alabama street, told the coroner that Miss Lillian Wilmer, whom the dead woman is believed to be, opened a beauty shop in Orlando, Fla., seven years ago. Mrs. Smock worked for her. Identified by Ex-Assistant Shown the body, Mrs. Smock identified it. She said Miss Wilmer then exhibited characteristics observed in her shortly before she committed suicide, nervousness and mystery about her actions and plans. Operatives from the state bureau of criminal identification took Miss Wilmer's fingerprints today, to check against those of whom they have on record. It was while investigating Miss Wilmer’s whereabouts during the three days preceding her arrival last Wednesday at the Meridian street apartment building, where she engaged the apartment for a half month, that the coroner discovered the man in the case. Followed by Man Miss Wilmer had stayed those three days in a rooming house operated by Mrs. Nellie Miller at 511 North Illinois street. She signed the register there as “Miss Lillian Wilmer, Chicago.” The man first was seen. Coroner Vehling learned, in corridors adjoining the Community Fund offices, when Miss Wilmer Thursday made donations of $520 to charities. He followed her again, it is said, when she withdrew S4OO of this offer and placed the money in the Meyer-Kiser bank under the name of Elizabeth McKenzie. He also is said to have shadowed her on streets. On Monday, after her death, a man called at the coroner’s offices, and said he knew something about the suicide. When asked to view the body, he disappeared. Identified as Servant Additional identification of the j dead woman as a servant who called herself Miss Sawyer was made by Mrs. R. K. Galbraith, 714 East Fiftyeighth street, who said the woman’s features were similar to those of Miss Sawyer. Monday night Mrs. Herbert Bloemker, 1440 Central avenue, identified the body as that of Miss Sawyer, who worked for her last ! summer. Both were a little uncer- ! taih as to the identity, they ad- ! mitted.

OPEN MEDAL ‘SLUR’ QUIZ Haitian Minister Querried About Remarks by Stimson. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 29.—Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson officially has asked Dantes Bellgarde, Haitian minister, if he was correctly quote in certain remarks concerning General Smedley D. Butler attributed to him by a Washington newspaper, and if not just exactly what did he say. The state department’s note of inquiry reached the Haitian legation late Tuesday night and today the minister indicated his formal reply would be sent today or Thursday. 63 perish in Makes Two Serious Disturbances Reported From Trans-Caucasia. MOSCOW, April 29.—Two serious earthquakes have taken a heavy toll of life and have done wide damage in Trans-Caucasia. Advices received today said sixty-three persons were known dead, hundreds injured, and many villages had been destroyed. The earthquakes did great damage in the Tiflis and Nakhitchevan regions, although the city of Tiflis was not damaged seriously. FISHING SEASON ENDING Indiana Ban Goes Into Effect at Midnight Thursday. Hoosier anglers must put away their tackle Thursday, for Indiana’s closed season for game fish will close Thursday midnight, April 30, not to reopen until midnight, June 15. The closed season applies to black bass, blu' gills, crappie, yellow perch, silver bass, wall-eyed pike, pickerel, rock bass and red-eared sunfish.

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PLANE SPEEDS SINCLAIR TO LEAD FIGHT ON HUGE OIL FIRE; 7 KNOWN DEAD

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Lafayette Man and Friend Lose Heavy Roll in Daylight Holdup. Benjamin Albert of Lafayette has been wrestling for several years, but there’s one thing that* will stop him when he's off the mat—the cold muzzle of a revolver poked into his No denial of this conies from Albert today after the short, but nerve-wracking, experience he had Tuesday night. Four men in a large sedan robbed him and an Indianapolis man, whose name Albert will not reveal, of several hundred dollars in money, bonds and jewelry on State road 52, nine miles north of Indianapolis, before dark. Albert told police a story of how, with bis weight and muscle, he stepped from the car on orders of one of the bandits and traded wisecracks with him—until the bandit poked the muzzle of the revolver into his nose. Bandit Meant Business “When he stuck that revolver into my nose and said he was going to blow it, I knew he meant business,” Albert said. “I told him to take everything I had.” The bandit stripped a-S4OO diamond ring from Albert’s hand and a cameo ring which the bandit later returned, because it “wasn’t worth much.” Two liberty bonds, one valued at S2OO, which belonged to Albert’s son Joseph, and another for $275 that belonged to Albert, and S7O in cash, were removed from his pockets. The bandit grabbed a cloth sack from Albert’s pocket. It contained something square and hard. Dislikes Albert’s Face He fumbled with the sack strings and drew forth a newspaper cut of ./Übert. “What’s that for?” the bandit demanded. “When I wrestle, I send that to the papers before the bout,” Albert answered. The bandit tossed it into the car in which Albert was riding. During the robbery, the bandit several times reminded Albert that he didn’t like Albert’s face and "was going to “blow it.”

OGDEN REPLIES IN BUS BILL BATTLE

Interests of Indiana citizens are being harmed by delay in publishing the 1931 legislative acts, caused by the circuit court injunction suit to prevent publication of House Bill 6, it is contended in an answer to the suit filed Tuesday with Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. The answer, prepared by Attor-ney-General James M. Ogden, sets forth that “publication and distribution of 1931 acts are being inttrferred with unlawfully by such delay.” The injunction suit, filed by the cities of Indianapolis and Muncie, and Clarence Fay Hudson, a Muncie taxpayer, would prevent the secretary of state from publishing House Bill 6 on the ground that it was passed through conspiracy and fraud. Pleading in behalf of Secretary of State Frank Mayr Jr., Hugh Merrificld, deputy attorney-general, stated from the "‘•answer “that

U. S. MARSHAL'S AID DIES HERE Oscar Johnson Is Victim of Heart Disease. Twenty minutes after he had been treated by a physician, Oscar Johnson, 53. of 106 West North street, Apartment 2, deputy United States marshal for nine years, was found dead in his apartment today. Death was caused by heart disease. Johnson, formerly of Jeffersonville, had been ill more than a month. He notified the marshal’s office early today that he would be unable to appear at the office. Dr. Henry R. Alburger had visited Johnson shortly before Mrs. Laura Bachman, housekeeeper, discovered his body across the bed. In the last few years Johnson has played prominent parts in investigations and roundup of criminals in Indiana. He has been guard of such criminals as Gerald Chapman and was constantly with George Remus, one-time bootleg king, when the latter appeared as a government witness in the Jack Daniel liquor conspiracy case a few years ago. Before his appointment, Oct. 2. 1922, as a deputy marshal, Johnson was sheriff of Clark county. He also had been a policeman in Jeffersonville. He is survived by the widow, in Jeffersonville. CHINA REVOLT FLARES Powerful Political Figures Band to Overthrow General Chiang. By United Press SHANGHAI, China. April 29. Open revolt against the “personal dictatorship” of General Chlang Kai-Shek at last has broken out in China after months of subterranean rumblings. Powerful political figures, supported by military war chiefs throughout the land, have joined in an attempt to overthrow Chiang by bloodless means if possible, but by fighting if necessary.

printing and distribution of House Bill 6 would not validate it” because, if it is void as alleged in the injunction suit, publication would not make the act a valid law. Grand jury investigation of conspiracy charges in connection with the house bill was continued. Grand jury investigation into the alleged conspiracy in connection with passage of the bill lagged today when Oscar Hagemier, jury deputy prosecutor: Herbert Wilson, prosecutor, and Edward H. Knight, Indianapolis corporation counsel, conferred on the case. Dick Heller, clerk of the house of representatives in the 1931 legislature, testified before the jury Tuesday afternoon. Before testifying. Heller stated that Governor Harry G. Leslie declared he did not want to return the bill to the legislature after he had signed it. Leslie, before testifying Monday, declared h* never had refused to return a bill. *

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Pillar of Flame 200 Fee! High Defies Efforts of Volunteer Army. RUSH EXPERTS TO SITE Brothers, Heroes of Other Conflagrations, Try to Conquer Blaze. By United Press GLADEWATER, Tex., April 29. A column of flames roared 200 feet into the sky today from the wild oil well which came in unexpectedly Tuesday with death-dealing and destructive force, and flamed on under terrific pressure, in defiance of all human efforts to check it. The bodies of five workmen wers removed from the flames after the Sinclair No. 1 Cole well, four miles from Gladewater, flared up from a spark caused by the clash of metal; two other charred forms were visible at times through the smoke clouds and heat waves, and three more men were known to be missing. Harry Sinclair, multimillionaire president of the Sinclair Oil Company, ordered the two most famous oil field fire fighters to the scene today, before flying to Dallas, Tex., to take personal charge of efforts to conquer the blaze. ’ Roar Heard Mile Away * The roaring o fthe fire, fed by a flow of 100 cubic feet of natural gas a second and 18,000 barrels of oil a day, was heard a mile away. The sheets of flame were so intense that workers could venture no nearer than 100 feet without scorching their unprotected hands and faces. En rotue by airplane from Tulsa were two noted brothers, M. M. and F. T. Kinely, who have extinguished oil and gas well fires in all parts of North America. With them was H. L Smith, vice-president of the Sinclair company, whom Sinclair dispatched as a personal representative. Fire - fighting equipment from Longview other east Texas points was concenrrated here for use of the Oklahoma experts. Because of the enormous quantity of gas rushing up from the earth to feed the flames, several days may be required to get control, veteran oil men said. Nitroglycerin probably will be used to blast the fire into submission. Sabotage Is Hinted Sabotage was another explanation for the fire offered by Sinclair officials, who said it started beneath the derrick floor, away from moving parts. Last week Ranger Captain Frank Hamer sent circular letters to Oklahoma and Texas oil companies warning against a Communist plot” to destroy refineries and pipelines. The five charred bodies wers identified with difficulty. Some of the bodies were little more than skeletons. Jewelry or dental work provided the principal means of identification. Those whose bodies had been recovered were George Albright, Carnegie, Pa.; Roy Blankenship, Seminole, Okla.; Virgil Woltz, Hunter, Okla.; W. H. McCaslin, 53, and W H. McCaslin Jr., 25, Winona, Okla, his son. '* Those of bodies seen through frhe flames were believed to be Robert Murdock, Orlando, Okla., and William Harroun, Canadian, Okla., while the three missing men were George Barthan, George Murdock and Frank Wolffs.

Wind Absence Helps At dawn today the fire burned more fiercely than before, then lessened for a time, permitting searchers for bodies to approach through scorched vegetation to within fifty feet. The absence of wind was a favorable factor. The area was guarded by special deputies hastily appointed by Sheriff Martin Hays of Gregg county. The deputies halted all automobiles 400 yards from the well. Hundreds of spectators were at the scene. Pat Massey, one of the well crew, had been to Dallas to visit his wife. He returned and went out to the well, nearing it just as the spark touched off the oil and gas. He dragged several* of his fellows to safety. Massey pulled young Ilarroun away in flames, rolled him on the ground, and threjy sand. Blinded, and crazed by pain, Haroun was reported to have dashed back to death. The body of Woltz was found 100 yards from the well. It was believed that he and Murdoch, drilling partners and close friends, lost their lives attempting to help each other. Most seriously burned of the survivors were Frank N. Fiouck, Woodsfield, 0., and John Keys, Oklahoma City, roustabout workers. MONTGOMERY RENAMED Marion County Inheritance Tas Commissioner to Serve 4 Years. Reappointment of Samuel L. Montgomery as state inheritance tax * commissioner for Marion county was announced today by Governor Harry G. Leslie. The term is for four years, commencing March. 22. This is Montgomery’s third term, and he was recommended highly by lawyers and leading citizens, the Governor said.

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