Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1931 — Page 1

Police of Two Continents Hunt Ex-Barber on Fraud Charges, in Which Millions Are Stolen

TRAIN, SPEEDING 60 MILES AN HOUR, JUMPS TRACK AND HITS HOUSE; WOMAN KILLED Victim Seated in Kitchen With Husband When Locomotive Tears Through Side of Her Dwelling and Overturns. FIVE PERSONS SERIOUSLY INJURED Prank of Small Boys Who Placed Large Spike on Track Is Blamed for Big Four Tragedy Near Cincinnati. By United Preen CINCINNATI, May 16.—One woman was dead and five persons were suffering serious injuries today after a speeding Big Four passenger train leaped the tracks and crashed into a house at Lockland, eleven miles from here. The woman, Mrs. Rose Earhart, 76, was seated in the k itchen of her home with her husband, Frank, 77, when the engine tore through the side of the dwelling and overturned, burying her beneath the wreckage. Members of the crew and passengers worked frantically to remove her from beneath the debris. She was rushed by automobile to the general hospital here, where she died a short time later.

Four of the injured were taken to St. Mary’s, where their condition was reported to be critical. Earhart was in general hospital. The Injured Are: Prank Earhart, fractured leg and severe lacerations and bruises. Leon Leonard, 27, of Newport, Ky., a news agent on the train. Clarence Lee, 51, of Columbus, 0., engineer. Fred Heard, 36, Cincinnati, fireman. James Salrey, 39, baggage master. The Big Four was traveling from Cincinnati to Cleveland at a speed of about sixty miles an hour, they said, when the engine struck a large spike placed on one of the rails. Lee jammed on the brakes and attempted to reduce the high speed and prevent the engine from leaving the tracks. The massive engine skidded along for about 100 feet before it was thrown from the rails. The engine and coal tender then broke the couplings which connect them to the baggage car, plunged down the roadbed and across the soft earth for about twenty feet, toppling over on the side of the Earhart home. The house was badly damaged, according to witnesses. Officials started an immediate investigation. They said that they believed boy pranksters were responsible for placing the spike, which derailed the train, on the tracks, and discounted early reports of a sabotage plot.

BUTLER’S ‘DAMN’ INTO •MIKE’ PROVES FUTILE Marine General Disappointed That Address Wasn’t on Air. By United Prens CHICAGO. May 16.—Major General Smedley D. Butler stood in front of a microphone Friday night, said “damn” in his most forcible manner, then waited for somebody to ‘'take him off the air, N as happened not long ago in the east when he swore during a radio broadcast. But he was not “shut off the air” this time because he wasn't on it. The microphone, he learned, just was to amplify his remarks to a large meeting of Chicago legionnaires. He admitted he was disappointed. ARCTIC MAIL SERVICE IN WILKINS POLE TRY Graf Zeppelin to Deliver Cargo to Submarine for Return Trip. By United Prut NEW YORK. May 16.—For sl.lO ti Is possible to have a letter delivered over the Arctic wastes to the polar regions, and for an additional sl.lO it is possible to have the letter brought back under them. The Graf Zeppelin has arranged to deliver mail to an ice breaker Which will post them in Franz Josef Land, and Sir Hubert Wilkins has arranged to bring them back in his submarine on his Arctic expedition.

PORTUGESE ISLAND IN HANDS OF REBELS Native Police Take Over Government and Deport Governor, By United Prtsi LISBON, Portugal, May 16.—Outbreak of anew rebellion placed the Portuguese island of San Thome, off Guinea, West Africa, in the hands of Insurgents today. Native police were said to have rebelled and deported the governor. Led by Captain Moreira Campos, the insurgents forced the governor aboard a ship bound for Lisbon. The outbreak followed a recent /ebellion in the Portuguese island Madeira.

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POSTAL BANK IS PAYING UP r , 40 Per Cent Dividend Is Sent Depositors. First dividend payment of 40 per cent to depositors of the defunct Postal Station State bank was ordered today by Judge Clarence E. Weir of superior court four. The order was issued on a petition filed by Elton F. Leffler, attorney for the receiver, Raymond D. Brown, United Post Offices Corporation president. Division with depositors has been expected for sometime, it having been announced previously the bank would pay depositors in full. It is reported this was made impossible, for the present, w r hen a move to sell the bank did not mature. The bank was closed Oct. 23, 1930 and a receiver was appointed Nov. 17. It is said the bank has approximately $194,000 in small notes outstanding and a $23,000 preferred claim ! with the defunct City Trust Company, of which the postal bank was a subsidiary. It is probable other dividends will be paid depositors later. Brown announced that checks for the dividend are being mailed depositors today and probably all will be sent out by Monday.

How the Market Opened

By United Prenn NEW YORK, May 16.—Improvement that developed in Friday’s late trading continued on the stock market today, prices in most sections moving up. Steel common reflected absence of important selling, rising to around the 104 level after opening fractionally lower at 102?*. Similar comebacks took place in other leaders. Activity, however, continued on a reduced scale and most of the buying represented week-end short covering following the recent sweeping decline. Price changes for the most part were only fractional and reflected the absence of speculative participation. Absence of important selling in the railroad department and resumption of pool activity featured the early trading. Alaska Juneau was the outstanding featu r e, rising more than a point to ano ter record high of 16!*. Other issues responding to moderate buying included United Aircraft, which advanced % point; Westinghouse Electric, which rose a like amount, and Standard Oil of California, which gained H point. Merchandising issues, with the exception of the retail tobacco issues were improved under the leadership of Montgomery Ward. Selling in retail tobacco shares was stimulated by announcement of the end of the truce in the cigaret price war. Leading chains Monday wil’ reduce prices on popular cigarets to 12 4 cents a package from the present 1314-cent level.

3REAKS LEG IN SLEEP Young West Coast Wife Walks Out Door, Falls Five Stories. By United Prenn LOS ANGELES, May 16.—Mrs. El.-ie Leavy, 20. dreamed she was being pursued ky a crowd, walked in her sleep, opened a French door j and stepped away from her pursuers. She fun five floors into a flower' bed aa</ suffered only a broken leg. i

Raid on Chicago Gold Coast Apartment Reveals He Is Wanted in London; Beat Wales in Gaming Coup. By United Preen CHICAGO, May 16.—John (Jake the Barber) Factor, who once cut hair in Chicago at 15 cents a head, and then made millions in huge transactions which police of two continents say were fraudulent, was hunted today throughout the west. That “Jake the Barber/’ an American police character for fifteen years, was being sought by London officials on charges of frauds involving millions, became known Friday night when federal and city detectives raided his fourteen-room apartment in the Gold Coast only to learn from his beautiful wife that he had “just left for Los Angeles on business.” Although there were rumors that not long ago Factor won a large sum from the Prince of Wales in a gambling game, the federal agents disclosed it was not in connection with that incident that he was hunted. Wanted In Many Countries The prince, they indicated, was “too good a sport” to say anything after realizing he had been fleeced, but other victims said much. Reports from Europe were that Factor was wanted in half a dozen countries on charges of winning fortune after fortune in fraudulent stock manipulations and gambling sprees. A specific complaint against Factor and Harry Green was filed by Godfrey Haggard, British consulgeneral for Chicago, upon advices from London that*, the men were believed to be here. This complaint was that Factor had defrauded investors of 480.000 pounds sterling, but reports from Europe were that actually the former barber had obtained much more than that through sales of stock in | fake oil wells and mines. Kept Costly Homes Up It was said Factor traveled regularly between America and England by way of Canada, maintained costly homes, kept in constant employment a large number of “spellbinders” who helped him sell stock, and that, all in all, he carried on a monstrous international swindling business that has had few equals in criminal history. Fifteen years ago “Jake the Barber” ran a three-chair barber shop on Halsted street. His prices were 15 cents for a hair cut and 10 cents for a shave. He left this business to promote oil lands in the southwest, and as his riches grew transferred his interest to Florida real estate. It was said he sold more than $5,000,000 worth of land during the Florida boom. He disappeared when indictments were issued charging that about $1,000,000 worth of the land he sold was under water. Aided by Legs Diamond Chicago police say Factor went from Florida to New York and secured the aid of Jack (Legs) Diamond in getting out of the country. From time to time there w r ere reports from various places in Europe of the activities of Jake the Barber. One of these reports concerned his game with the prince of Wales, who quit abruptly when he learned the identity of the man he was playing against. Atfer Friday night’s raid upon the gold coast apartment there were rumors Factor and Green would surrender to federal men next week. Factor’s wife, the former Rella Cohen, a famous beauty, was not arrested. It was said that in England Factor worked among persons of moderate wealth, gathering his millions in small amounts, which the Englishmen “invested” with him in mines and oil wells that never existed. CUSTOMS UNIONS IDEA GETS GERMAN SUPPORT Dr. Julius Curtius Announces Nation Ready to Begin Anytime. By United Press GENEVA. May 16.—A stout defense of the idea of regional customs unions as an important method of alleviating Europe's economic dilemma was made by Dr. Julius Curtius, German foreign minister, in opening the debate at today’s session of the European federation commission. Dr. Curtius announced Germany’s readiness to begin either bilateral or multilateral negotiations with all countries, in an effort to conclude customs unions. KAYE DON SETS MARK Briton Believed to Have Broken World’s Speedboat Record. By United Press GARDONE. Italy, May 16.—A new unofficial speedboat record was believqd made today by Kaye Don, British racing driver, in the Miss England 11. In a trial run he made 170 kilometers an hour (105.57 miles), bettering his record made in Argentina recently. Gabriel D'Annunzio, eccentric poet-warrior, previously had inspected the speedboat and told Don he had given its wheel his “mystic touch.” “If you do not break a record.” D’Annunzio said solemnly, “I shall die.” The poet huded a brick at aj group of cameramaa. . . ‘

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931

DEATHS ARE LAID TO WEIRD ‘SUICIDE CULT’ Club Bared by Spinster Accused of Slaying Invalid Brother. GAVE HIM REVOLVER Group of Aged, Suffering Persons Agreed to End All If Prayers Failed. By United Preen MINEOLA, L. 1., May 16.—Residents of Amityville, a quiet Long Island town near here, were startled today to learn of a weird “suicide cult” which already may have claimed the lives of twenty-four of its original fifty members. Existence of such a “club” came to light, authorities said, with the arrest of a 57-year-old spinster, Louise Schwarz, under indictment on a second-degree murder charge in connection with the death of her invalid brother Edward, 55. Miss Schwarz was taken Into custody when police said they had learned she was the only one who would have had the opportunity or the motive for firing the shot which took her suffering brother’s life.

Devoted Life to Brother The tall, angular woman is of an old and respected family here, and had devoted nearly all of her life to the care of her brother. She denied the killing and told police her brother took his own life as a member of the suicide club. Schwarz was found dead last Wednesday, freshly shaven and dressed in his best clothes, seated in an easy chair. His ankles were crossed and a revolver lay in his lap, loosely clutched in his right hand. He had two wounds in his head. Miss Schwarz told authorities that if she shot him she did so while “my soul had flown from my body.” Her brother, she said, had suffered almost unbearably for the past twenty years, and they had agreed that it was best for him to end it all. Weekly Prayers Said This agreement came she said, after a meeting of the “suicide club” at her home, when members offered prayers for relief of his suffering to no avail. The “cult,” originally composed of fifty aged and suffering members, but with only twenty-six remaining, had an unwritten law, she said, whereby it was understood that if the weekly prayers for some member failed the victim would end his life. It was under this understanding that the brother and sister decided it was best for him to end his life, she said. She helped him put on his best clothes, shaved him and placed him in the easy chair “so that he would look his best in death.” Handed Revolver to Brother She then got the revolver and handed it to him, she said, waving the house shortly thereafter, not to return until five hours later. When she got back her brother was dead. She called for a neighbor, who summoned police. Authorities were at first inclined to place little credence in her story until she told of how another member of the club, George Brietenbach, had gone home and hanged himself in the cellar of his home after the “club’s” prayers had failed. Twenty-Four Others Missing Officers looked up the case and found the details of the death of Breitenbach coincided in every detail with her description. Miss Schwarz went on to name nearly a dozen late residents of Suffolk county who, as members of the club, had ended their lives, according to officials. Police were attempting to learn the names of other members to ascertain whether the missing twenty-four of the original fifty had met death at their own hands.

SWINE PRICES DIP 15 CENTS AT WEEK’S END Cattle, Calves Hold Steady at Recent Decline. Swine lost the advance of Friday in trade today at the city stockyards, prices declining 15 cents on all classes. The bulk, 160 to 300 pounds, sold for $6.85 to $7.15; earlytop represented by the later figure’. Receipts were estimated at 3,000; holdovers were 236. - Cattle receipts were 150. The market for the week showed steers and heifers 25 to 50 cents lower, cows steady to 25 cents off. Vealers were steady, selling at $8.50 down. Calf receipts were 200. Sheep held steady, receipts numbering 100. Chicago hog receipts were 6,000, including 5,500 directs. Holdovers were 4,000. A few odd loads of good to choice 180 to 280-pound averages held steady with Friday’s close; no early sales on better grades. Cattle receipts, 300; calves, 200; market, steady. Sheep, 2,000, steady. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, twenty miles an hour; temperature, 72; barometric pressure, 29.87 at sea level; ceiling, scattered cloudiness, unlimited; visibility, ten miles; field, good.k Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 60 8 a. m 70 7 a. Btiio 61 0 a’bitiu 72

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Rosemary Baur, worth $3,000,000 In her own name and known as the wealthiest girl in Chicago, is shown here with her mother and her fiance, Bartle Bull of Toronto and London, as they were showing the sights of Chicago to Joseph Sachs, wealthy mrechant of Sweden. Left to right: Mrs. Jacob Baur, Miss Baur, Bartle Bull and Sachs.

TRANSPORT PLANE LANDS AFIRE: 17 PASSENGERS SAFE

VIRGIL'S PALS GIVE TESTIMONY Boys Squirm as Kirkland Glares at Them. By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., May 16. Testimony by the same chums and fellow athletes who once helped convict him of murder was in evidence toejay at Virgil Kirkland’s second trial on charges of killing his 18-year-old sweetheart, Arlene Draves, at a liquor party. John Churchill and Fred Phillips, Kirkland’s friends, testified Friday, as they had at the first trial, that before Miss Draves died, Kirkland told them he was going to beat her if she did not yield to his advances. Defense attorneys contended the testimony w r as inadmissible at this trial because the state did not need to prove premeditation in its charges that the girl died of attacks by Kirkland. In the first trial Kirkland was found guilty of killing Miss Draves by hitting her. Tha 4 : charge was dropped when the second trial began. Under Indiana law,, if Kirkland is found guilty of murder by attack or attempt to attack, the death sentence will be mandatory. Kirkland glared as the two youths testified and both appeared uneasy under his menacing glances. CABLES U. S. TO SATE HIS APPETITE French Ambassador Edge ‘Hungered’ for Asparagus; He’ll Get It. By United Press NEW YORK, May 16.—Walter Evans Edge, American ambassador in France, felt a desire for some asparagus from his home state, New Jersey. Immediately he cabled his friend, Edward L. Sturgis, collector of internal revenue at Camden. The ambassador will be able to satisfy that asparagus urge next Tuesday when the lie De France docks. Two cases were rushed here by automobile from Camden and put aboard the vessel just before it sailed. $90,000 NECKLACE LOST Gem Thief Robs Wealthy California Woman at New York. By United Press NEW YORK, May 16.—A gem thief is believed to have snatched a $90,000 pearl necklace from the neck of Mrs. Converse Strong, wealthy California society matron, today while she was seeing a friend off on the liner Roma. Search of her automobile and the route over which she traveled failed to reveal any trace of the missing pearls. AWAIT FRAUD VERDICT Jury Still Deliberating Case of Bloomington Stove Contractor. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 16Jury considering the case of Ralph Rogers, stone contractor charged with shortweighing shipments cf stone to the state highway department, was still out this morning without a verdict. It received the case at 5:30 Thursday afternoon. ARMY CHIEF TO SPEAK Major-General Everson to Address Baptist Brotherhood. Brotherhood of the First Baptist church Monday night will hear Major-General W. G. Everson, chief of the militia bureau at Washington. on “Estimating the Situation.” Major-General Everson will fly here from Washington Monday, and probably will leave after the meeting, by plane, for Dayton, 0., to attend a meeting of staff officers and view the concentration of

‘Wisecracking Hostess and Two Level-Headed Pilots Avert Disaster. By United Press NEWARK, N. J., May 16.—A “wisecracking” hostess and two level-headed pilots were credited today with saving the lives of seventeen passengers when the wing of an Eastern Air Transport plane burst into flames near Aberdeen, Md. The plane, en route from Richmond to New York, was about fifteen minutes out of Washington and flying at an altitude of 1,500 feet when Miss Elizabeth Westwood, the hostess, noticed the flames from the smoking compartment. Miss Westwood walked to the front of the large Curtiss Condor plane and notified the pilot, A C Kondat. She then returned to the passenger compartment and joked with the passengers to avert a panic, while G. J. McDonald, co-pilot fought the blaze with a fire extinguisher. Assuring the passengers in the cabin which was fast filling with smoke, that they would be landed safely, Kondat drove the large craft on for five miles, maneuvering it so that the flames ate away from the wing. Kondat then set the craft down in a small field near Edgewood arsenal, wheer the Ft. Hoyle fire department was waiting to extinguish the flames. Firemen had noticed smoke pouring from the craft and had arrived at the field by the time Kondat landed. Part of the wing structure was ripped away and the blaze quickly extinguished. Eleven passengers boarded a train for New York, while the seven others took the next eastern air transport for Newark. J. E. Hoover of the department of justice, one of the passengers, highly praised the two lpilots and the girl hostess, whose coolness, he said probably averted a major catastrophe. PEGASUS TAKES TO AIR Vaudeville Shetland Flies From Philadelphia to Washington. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 16.—A lat-ter-day Pegasus flew from Philadelphia to Washington Friday, stepped nonchalantly froh sis—no, her—plane and whinnied poetically to four other Pegasi who awaited her at Hoover field. It was Peaches, in person, who eschewed wings and calmly accepted the machine age for what it was worth to her. Peaches is a vaudeville performer, as are the other four Shetland ponies. LEVIATHAN WWS RACE Beats Majestic Across Atlantic by Almost Four hours. By United Press NEW York, May 16.—The United States liner Leviathan held today a record of hours over the White Star liner Majestic by defeating it in an unofficial transatlantic race of the two largest liners afloat.

HENLEY FINALLY OUSTED FROM ADJUTANT’S POST

Having been asked to resign three weeks ago, Adjutant-General Manford G. Henley finally was ousted from the state post Friday afternoon by Gaylord Morton, secretary to Governor Harry G. Leslie. Under Leslie orders, Morton called Henley into conference and asked that his resignation be prepared at once. The letter was drafted and made public. Paul E. Tombaugh, Indianapolis attorney and graduate of West Point, was announced as the new adjutaont-general. He will take office Monday. Applications of veteran Indiana national guard officers and World war veterans for the post were Ignored by Gevaraor jfrihe.

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LIGHTNING FAST TRACK MAY HELP SET NEW RECURD IN HISTORIC KENTUCKY DERBY Perfect Weather Draws Throngs to Course Many Hours Before Post Time for First Race at the Downs. TWENTY GRAND, MATE FAVORITES Celebrities From All Parts of the Nation Meet at Louisville for America’s Premier Event on Turf. The official entries with post positions, owners, jockeys and probable odds follow: PP HORSE OWNERS JOCKEYS ODDS 1 Sweep All Charles T. Fisher F. Coltiletti 12 to t 2 Equipoise C. V. Whitney R. Workman 4 to l 3 (a)Anchors Awelah Greentree Stable E. Steffen 8 to 5 4 (b)Up Mr*. J. N. Crofton C. Mrlluch 100 to 1 s—(b)Don Leon R. W. Collins H. Fisher 100 to 1 6 (b)The Mongol Hamburr Place Stable D. MrAuliffee 200 to I 7 Ladder W. J. Salmon L. Schaefer 10 to 1 8— (a) Twenty Grand Greentree Stable C. Kurtstneer 8 to S 9 Spanish Play Knebelkamp and Morris W. Fronk 15 to 1 10—Boys Howdy H. O. Hatch G. Riley * 30 to 1 11 (a)Surf Board Greentree Stable E. Watters Bto 5 12 Pittsburgher Shady Brook Farm C. Corbett 20 to 1 13 Mate A. C. Boitwick G. Ellis 5 to 2 14 Prince D’Amout Joseph Leiter E. James 00 to l 15—Insco Griffith Watkins 8. O'DonneU 20 to 1 (a)Greentree stable entry. (b)Doubtful starters. Gross value If fifteen start $68,250. Net value to winner. $57,285; second, $6,000; third. $3,000; fourth. SI,OOO Probable post time, 5 p. m. (Central Standard Time). BY GEORGE KIRKSEY United Press Staff Correspondent CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 16. The sun was shining down on the Blue Grass region today and for the first time in five years the Kentucky Derby was assured of perfect weather. It was a glorious mid-May day, the first decent Derby day since Colonel E. R. Bradley’s Bubbling Over scored a decisive victory. A light breeze blew out of the southwest. The track was lightning fast, making it. possible that Old Rosebud’s record time of 2:03.4 for*the mile and onequarter, made in 1914, might be surpassed if the two favorites, the Greentree stable’s Twenty Grand, and A. C. Bostwick’s Mate, stage the race expected of them by their thousands of backers.

A field of fifteen will start, barring last-minute withdrawals. With scratch time passed at 7 a. m. (central standard time) today none of the field of fifteen, entered Friday, had been scratched. Owners, however, are allowed to make withdrawals until forty-five minutes before post time at 5 p. nr., and it seemed likely that Up, Don Leon and Anchors Aweigh and perhaps one or two others would be dropped from the field. The streets of downtown Louisville were crowded with a brilliantly gav crowd. Thoroughfares leading to this rambling old race track were taxed to capacity. Watch Entrants Limber l’p Early arrivals made themselves comfortable in the grand stand and benches around the track man> hours before first race post time. The Derby is the fifth. Many of the early birds hunched over the rail and peered through powerful binoculars to watch the fifteen horses named limber up. Jim Rowe, Greentree stable trainer, was enthusiastic over chances of Twenty Grand, bay colt of St. Germans-Bonus. “The track is to Twenty Grands liking and he is ready,” Rowe said. Jim Healy, trainer of Mate, pronounced the Preakness winner in perfect condition, and most of the other trainers were satisfied with their entries. There was one exception, Fred Hopkins, trainer for C. V. Whitney, said he only hoped for the best from Equipoise, which until two weeks ago was winter book favorite. Equipoise Question Mark Equipoise, beaten by twenty lengths in the Chesapeake stakes and fourth in the Preakness, remained as the big question mark. Equipoise hasn’t looked right in training, and apparently has failed to reach the form that made him the greatest money winner of 1930 as a 2-year-old. Jockey C. E. Allen was named this morning to ride Spanish Play, the Richard Morris and C. H. Knebelkamp candidate. W. Fronk, first named to ride Spanish Play, has been suspended and- is ineligible to ride the Louisville Derby winner. Late arrivals today came by train, plane, steamboat and automobile.

Henley was asked to resign due to the scandal surrounding a divorce suit brought by Mrs. Ethel Williams Henley, whom, he testified, he traveled with, but had not married. Tombaugh, who lives at 6ißl Carrollton avenue, was graduated from the United States Military academy in 1920, having spent the war years there. After short service as second lieutenant in the army, he retired and attended Indiana university law school where he received fin LL. B. degree in 1926. He now is a major in the guard and assistant officer in charge of plans and training of the Thirtyeighth division.

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Preparations were made to handle more than seventy-five airplanes at Bowman field. An autogiro was to be flown here from Cleveland by Miss Blanche Wilcox Noyes. Steamboats, with their shrill whistles adding to the din, crawled up the Ohio - river, bringing additional hundreds. Vice-President Charles Curtis has been here for several days. Nine Governors were among the personages and Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City was expected and Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago was an early morning arrival. Getting back to the race, here are some of the things you hear: 1. A horse with two names will win because six of the last seven winners have had double names (Black Gold, Flying Ebony, Bubbling Over, Reigh Count. Clyde Van Deusen, Gallant Fox). Nine of the fifteen named to start have two names, including Twenty Grand. 2. Equipoise will be cither the biggest surprise or the bigest disappointment of the race. If Equipoise does not win or make a creditable showing he will be retired until the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., meeting. No one seems to know for sure just what Equipoise’s condition is. 3. That Earl Sande, who will broadcast the race, would mean certain victory for either Mate or Twenty Grand were he in the saddle today instead of in a little press coop on top of the stands. The consensus is that the crop of jockeys is poor and that poor riding may cost somebody the race.

BOOST CITY AS CENTER FOR CHEMICAL PLANTS Special Committee to Study Conditions for Chamber of Commerce. Indianapolis as a center for chemical industries will be studied and advocated by a special committee of the industrial commission of the Chamber of Commerce, according to Louis J. Borinstein, president. William Higburg, general manager of the Reilly Chemical Company, has been named chairman of the committee, members of which have been selected from the Indiana section of the American Chemical Society. They are: Harry Jordan, iMiianapolis Water Company, and H.WA Rhodehamel, Ely Lilly & Cos. Ex-officio members are C. L . Harrod, Indianapolis Power and Light Company: Charles Brossman, engineer, and C. H. Rottger. general chairman of the industrial commission. WANTS TO REMARRY: DIVORCED. BUT CANT Woman Says Her “Ex” Refuses to Get Jewish Church Edict. By United Press CHICAGO, May 16.—Judge Rudolph Desort puzzled today over what, if anything, he could do to assist Mrs. Goldie Press, 27, who complained that her former husband Larry, had refused to obtain a Jewish divorce after she got one in the courts. She explained that unless Press obtained a church divorce, it would be a violation of her religion for her to marry again. She wants to remarry, she said.

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