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AL CAPONE IS INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY Huge Income Tax Evasion on Gangland Profits Is Charged to Czar. ENDS TWO-YEAR PROBE Crime King’s Attorney Is Negotiating for Plea of Guilty. By United press CHICAGO, June s.—“ Scarface” A1 Capone was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of evading payment of income taxes on the hundreds cf thousands of dollars he wrested from Chicago rackets. Simultaneously, William F. Waugh, one of Capone’s attorneys, revealed that he h|d approached the district attorney’s office with negotiations for the gang chief to plead guilty to the charges. With the indictment was revealed the story of how government agents conducted a secret two-year investigation into Capone’s myriad of financial affairs from coast to coast, questioned 1,000 persons who had dealings with the nation’s foremost gangster, and called several hundred witnesses before this and previous grand juries before rounding out their case against Capone. Made Huge Profits The indictment charges that Capone took $915,552.95 in underworld profits from 1925 to 1929, inclusive, and that he owes the government $182,591.24 in taxes. The indictment charges six separate felonies and two misdemeanors against the gang chief in a total of twenty-three counts-<-enougli to remove Capone from the gangland picture to a prison cell for thirtytwo years, if convicted. Capone was reported hiding In Chicago, pending outcome of his attorney’s negotiations. The indictment characterizes Capone as Alphonse Capone, alias Alphonse Brown, alias A1 Capone, alias A. Brown, alias Scarface Erowm, alias Scarface Capone, alias A. Costa, the last anew name for the gang leader. It is charged that Capone made a gross income of $257,286.93 in 1925 from Iris triple rackets and that he owes for that year taxes cf $55,265.25. Others ‘Sent Up’ A1 is among the last of the “big shot” gangsters the government hopes to put behind bars from now until after the 1933 world’s fair. Ralph, his brother, was convicted and sentenced to three years; Frank Nitti, Al's cousin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eighteen months; Jack Guzik, Capone’s right-hand man, was convicted and sentenced to five years; Sam Guzik, brother of Jack, was convicted and sentenced to one year, and Louis Lipschuetz, brother-in-law of Jack Guzik, was convicted and sentenced to one year. Besides them, Frankie Lake and Terry Druggan, predecessors of Capone in the beer racket, have pleaded guilty tentatively. The charges against all were evasion of income tax. “Worst Ring Ever Known” A. P. Madden, quiet-spoken chief Investigator for the revenue department, revealed to the United Press that the wide-flung investigation bared the Capone gang as “the worst criminal outfit that ever existed,” with A1 Capone as the head of the “inner circle.” During all the inquiry, the investigators were unable to find a single document on check bearing the gang leader's signature. Neither were they able to find that Capone ever had a bank account, despite the fact that he has handled millions of dollars in his ten-year career as head of the Chicago underworld. SMASH AT RUM RING Federal Agents Claim Raids Blow at Capone Enterprise. By United Press CHICAGO, June 5. Federal agents declared today they had broken up an enterprise attributed to “Scar Face Al” Capone, which distributed 10,000 gallons of alcohol weekly to the mid-west and operated a “protection system” under which liquor could be transported over hundreds of miles of highways. Daniel Anderson, assistant district attorney, said that twenty men connected with the scheme had been arrested in raids at Aurora, 111., headquarters of the enterprise, and at Waterloo, la. HUNT SLOT MACHINES Cops Ordered to Seize Devices and Arrest Operators, Orders to confiscate slot machines and arrest operators were issued to all police officers by Major Herbert Fletcher, acting chief. Reports that the machines are located in pharmacies and other stores throughout the city, frequented by children, led to th* special orders to police. In addition, police will open a drive on the devices located in restaurants and pool rooms. Arson Confessed By Times Special ANGOLA, Ind., June s.—Oliver Brown and Bert Foutz, Hamilton youths, are in jail here awaiting trial In Steuben circuit court on arson charges. Harry Davis and Elmer Shellhouse, deputy state fire marshals, say the prisoners confessed to firing a feed mill at Hamilton owned by Dr. J. 8 Cameron and John Gnagy,

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 22

And We Lose “Profiting by America’s blunder, Canada today aims at nothing less than making herself perhaps the greatest manufacturing and exporting nation in the world—greater than England and greater than the United States. “Canada is extending an open Invitation to American industry to establish plants on her side of the line, and her inducements are many.” Thus writes William Philip Simms, foreign editor of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, in the first of a series of six dispatches from Toronto, where he went to report the exodus of American industry that has resulted from foreign reprisals against the Hawley-Smoot tariff. The first article of this im-. portant series will appear Monday in The Times.

GIANT GERMAN FLYING BOAT SPANSMEAN DOX Lands Near Mainland at Island, Then Takes Off Again. By United Press NATAL, Brazil, June s.—The German flying yacht DOX arrived here at 2 this afternoon, completing its flight across the Atlantic from west Africa. It had taken off from the island of Fernando Noronha, 125 miles from the coast of Brazil, where a halt was made for refueling at 12:45 p. m. The flying boat, speeding southwestward over the South Atlantic from Porto Praia, Cape Verde islands, circled above Fernando Noronha, 125 miles off the coast of Brazil, and moved to an easy landing on the surface of the harbor at 12:10 a. m. (9:10 p. m., eastern standard time Thursday). The flight, appealing to the imagination of millions despite the delays, was made in thirteen hours eighteen minutes. The DOX covered the 1,685 miles from Porto Praia to tfiis island at an average speed of a little better than 125 miles an hour. In Contact by Radio The DOX was in contact by radio with Brazilian officials here during most of the flight and made regular reports of its progress. Earlier reports that it had fallen into the sea shortly after the start from Porto Praia, were false, and the flight w r as made without a stop anywhere along the hazardous route. The flying weather was excellent and the DOX arrived ahead of schedule. Brazilian convicts, among them many dangerous criminals serving life terms in exile, received one of the few thrills of their routine existence when the motors of the DOX were heard roaring off shore at midnight. The flying boat circled over the rocky, desolate island and then found its way to a landing without difficulty. Natal Two Hours Away The itinerary of the DOX in Brazilian waters includes the stop at Natal, two hours away down the coast, where furniture and equipment removed at Bolama, Portuguese West Africa, will be reinstalled. The equipment was removed to lighten the boat for the trans-Atlantic flight. After overhauling and tuning up the motors, the DOX will proceed to Rio De Janeiro, where a stop of at least two weeks is planned. Its program thence is uncertain. The arrival of the DOX completed this phase of its voyage started from Altenrhein, Switzerland, on Nov. 5, 1930. Accidents and bad weather caused frequent delays. The most serious occurred at Lisbon, where one wing yras destroyed by fire. It was replaced and the flight continued to the Canary islands, where damage to a pontoon caused further delay. The DOX then flew to Bolama, and after several weeks there,flew back to Cape Verde islands for the start to Brazil Thursday morning. The start also was delayed, initial attempts to get the heavily loaded flying boat into the air proving futile. The original plan announced at the Dornier works in Germany w ? as for the DOX eventually to continue to New York.

NOTED LAWYER IS INJURED IN CRASH

‘The Old Fight' By United Press CHICAGO, June s.—Bezenik Karezbalm, 72, is going to be married; let there be no doubt about that. Karezbalm obtained a license several days ago to marry Mrs. Pearl Goldman, a widow. “Congratulations,” said license clerk Peter Dalton. Today Karezbalm appeared for another license, this time to wed Mrs. Eva Chubin, another widow. "Congratulations,” said license clerk Dalton once more, “but what happened to j’our first fiancee?” “She changed her mind,” replied the white-haired Karezbalm. “And I may be back for another license. Women axe funny.”

CITY ‘PUBLIC ENEMIES’ FACE SLAYING QUIZ Jackson Murder Brings Order for 12 Gang Chiefs to Be Questioned. NAMES KEPT SECRET Men Can Point to Killers, Is View of Detective Chief Simon. If slayers of Lafayette A. Jack- ! son were Indianapolis gangsters De-*| tective Chief Fred Simon believes i that today he will have them un- j der arrest, or obtain information j that will lead to their capture.

This morning the detective head named to each of his men the twelve leading “public enemies” here, and issued orders that they be brought into headquarters for questioning. These twelve, he says, comprise the city’s reigning members of gangland, and if they were not directly concerned with the holdup that ended in Mr. Jackson’s murder, they know who the gunmen were. He would release names cf none of them. At noon there had been no arrests reported of any of the twelve. $3,100 Rewards Offered Meanwhile, other attempts to seek out the hoodlums continued futile, despite rewards totaling $3,100 for the slayers, and an appeal to authorities throughout the midw’est for aid in the search. Two men, one an ex-convict, whom detectives sought as suspects, still are believed to be in the city. Description of the former convict, police say, parallels that of cne ot the bandits, and an underworld tip only a few days ago informed police he had boasted drunkenly of his killing prowess. Attempts of patrolman Arch Ball to pick up a clew to the murderers from the revolver bullets that killed the wealthy grocery chain executive thus far have proved as futile as the search for the gunmen. Fail to Identify Killers Three were believed to have been in the gang, bur only two of them went into the store. One leveled a pistol dt Mr. Jackson, while the other covered employes with a shotgun. True to a threat he had made to shoot any bandit who ever came into his store, Mr. Jackson snatched a revolver from his desk and opened fire, but fell when the hoodlum emptied a pistol magazine at him. The killers fled east and their trail was lest near Highland avenue and New York street. Since that date several suspects have been arrested, but all attempts to identify them or connect them in any way with the killing have failed.

TWO BWS MER6ES Cancel 4-Way Combine in South Bend. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 5. The proposed merger of four South Bend banks, involving more than $30,000,000, was canceled today, it was announced by officials of the institutions. Thomas Barr, deputy state bank commissioner, conferred wtih officials of the banks prior to the announcement. The First National bank, one of the four in the original plan, will be merged with the Indiana Trust Company, it was revealed. The name of the new institution will be the First Trust and Savings bank. Ernest M. Morris will be president, it was made known, and Vincent Bendix of the Bendix Aviation Corporation will be a vice-presi-dent. The three others in the original plan were the Union Trust Company, Citizens Trust Company and Citizens National bank. Expedition to Seek Fossils By United Press CHICAGO, June s.—An expedition from the Field Museum of Natural History will leave for Nebraska Saturday in search of fossil remains of mammals that inhabited that territory more than 20,000,000 years ago in the Miocene age. *

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INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1931

MOVE! AND GEORGE DID IT

And He Took His House With Him

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WHEN George M. Wells, late of 2724 North Eutler avenue, now of the city-at-large, is told to move off a lot, he moves—ho se ’n everything, right oui in the street. In fact, Wells moved so fast | that he had his house today in the j street before deputy sheriffs, ca led by the landlord, Claude Richie, 1854 North De aware street, could prevent the balky kidnaping. And while attorneys for the landlord are busy attempting to find legal means of restoring the house to its foundation, Wells and his family are sleeping in the street. They’re not sleeping there literally, of course, but in beds in a house in the middle of Butler avenue. The sole relationship Wells preserved -between the lot upon which he lived and the house was to set up a kitchen in a garage that couldn’t be moved off the premises before the law arrived. WHILE the Wells family serenaded the neighborhood in the middle of the street today with strains from their player piano, attorneys for Richie found themselves balked when they attempted to get Superior Judge John W. Kern to order Wells to move back on the lot from which he took “French leave.” “There is no case in front 'of me at the present time,” the judge ruled, as he advisc-d Wells to gee an attorney if he v/anted to fight being moved back on a lot from which he had been evicted. The homeless house mix-up all began several weeks ago, when Richie obtained judgment against Wells for possession of the lot.'which Wells had purchased fror him, but never had paid for. “He’s lived there five year, and never paid a cent,” Richie declares. Wells erected the house and garage on the lot. Sickness, he said, prevented him from making payments. When judgment was obtained in Judge Kern’s court, he was ordered by the judge: “Move off within thirty days.” UNAWARE of the law that prevents property improvements being moved, Wells called in S. H. McColley of Shelbyville, to do the moving—house, beds and piano—to anew lot which he obtained at Twenty-first street and Emerson avenue. The big move began Thursday with the aid of rollers and jacks. The landlord heard his house had legs. He called the sheriff’s office. When deputies arrived, McColley and Wells had shown such speed that they had the house in the street. “It’s in the street now. You’ll have to get a court order to move it back,” the deputies told Ritchie. Efforts to find no tail-light on McColley’s moving truck or some other violation of traffic to prevent further advance of the house in the middle of the street proved fruitless. a a a “ITAVE you a permit to move XTL the house?” the moving man was questioned. He promptly displayed a certificate from the county ‘commissioners, entitling him to two days in which to get the Wells house to its new home on Emerson avenue. And so the house is in the middle of the street in the 2700 block on Butler avenue. A red lantern on a carpenter’s horse warns motorists to detour. Wells believes that if he built the house, it’s his house, and that, as he has it in the street now, he can keep on moving it. Ritchie says it’s “theft.” As for the neighborhood, they’re still enjoying the player piano strains from the middle of the street. S7O Theft Is Reported Theft of clothing and jewelry valued at S7O from his residence was reported to police today by Orville Miller, 416 West Maple road.

Diviner’s Art Spots New Municipal Airport Well The diviners have divined and, lo—another well will gurgle at the municipal airport. Treading carefully over the northern section of the airport grounds, divining rod—pared from a peach tree—pointed toward the earth with fork downward, Howard Atwell of Ben Davis received the first tremor indicating water. The little peach tree branch vibrated. While members of the city works board and airport officials watched, Atwell timed and numbered the vibrations of the branch and announced water will Kb found about twenty-five or thirty feet below the surface. Louis C. Brandt, works board member, who is a firm believer in divining, since another well was discovered in the same manner at the airport several months ago, announced bids will be sought for drilling the well.

Upper Left Photo—When Claude Richie awoke this morning, he had a houseless lot. A garage built by his tenant had been transformed into this kitchen, with the canary bird hanging by the laundry board. Upper Right—Ralph and Howard Rouse, nephew of George M. Wells, the ejected tenant, find it’s “heaps cf fun” living in “a house by the side of the road.” Lower Photo—The “House that Wells built” and moved onto the street in front of 2724 Butler avenue when he was ordered by Richie, the landlord, to vacate.

WATER FIRM HEAD HELD AS PERJURER

By Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., June 5. Hearing on the Vincennes Water Supply Company, which lasted ten days here, came to a dramatic end today with the arrest of George H. Alexander, Indianapolis, vice-presi-dent of the company, on perjury charges. Alexander was released on $2,000 bond. He will appear in superior court Monday for arraignment. Alexander, testifying at the first session of the hearing here two weeks ago, neglected to tell Mayor Joseph W. Klmmell of a $5,000 a year salary as treasurer of the Frankfort Heating Company. He was being questioned concerning his connection with the Elwcod and Greencastle water companies, Central Heating Company of Anderson, Sanitary Engineering Company, Anderson, and Frankfort Heating Company, Frankfort. He was asked to tell his salaries he got from the various companies. Alexander said he was president and general manager of the Frankfort company and drew $5,000 a year. After he had concluded his testimony Harry Cuthbertson. commissioner, who was hearing the case, with Howell Ellis, made Alexander admit that he was not president, but treasurer of the company and that he drew $2,500 as manager and $5,000 as treasurer. Alexander claims it was an oversight. KINNEY IS WEAKER Condition of Police Head Is Reported Serious. Condition of Police Chief Jerry Kinney remained serious today at St. Francis hospital, where he has been confined several weeks after a breakdown in health. Slight improvement Was seen in his condition Wednesday, but physicians said he is becoming weaker. Belgian Cabinet Formed BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 5.—A cabinet was formed today by Jules Rendin, Catholic, who constituted' himself both premier and minister of interior. Paul Hymans, a Liberal, was named foreign minister, and Baron Houtart, Catholic, was made finance minister. Hymans and Houtart held corresponding posts in the preceding Jasper cabinet.

POPE STANDS FIRM IN ITALIAN CLASH

BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, June 5.—A truce in the controversy between the Ho’ry See and the Fascist state was in effect today, after demands from Pope Pius XI that the government for-

Too ‘Comical’ By United Press CHICAGO, June s.—William D. Mack, former husband of Phyllis Haver, screen star, was sued for divorce today by Mrs. Evelyn Mack, a dancer. Mrs. Mack said her husband was a “slapstick comedy actor who carried his antics into his home life.” She charged he slapped her repeatedly during a party recently and also slapped’ her sister when she interfered.

LAW VIOLATED; MOTHER K: LED Woman* Dies in Crash at Preferential Street., Failure of a motorist to observe a preferential street rule, cost the life of his mother Thursday night ai)d may result in his arrest today on a manslaughter charge. Mrs. Nellie Kitchen, 65, Bowling Green, Ky., was the seventy-fourth traffic fatality in the county this year, when an auto __ driven by Herschel A Kitchen, of Nora, co- / LJL lided with a car driven I by John Shirley, 1204 _____________ North Delaware street, at Fifteenth street and Capitol avenue. Witnesses said Kitchen failed to stop as he crossed Capitol avenue. Police charged him with failure to observe the preferential strest rule. His wife suffered internal injuries, and was taken home. The mother died en route to Methodist hospital, a block away. Kitchen’s two children Robert, 9, and Margaret, 11, were not hurt, and Kitchen was cut slightly. Captain Dollar Back at Work By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, June s.~Captain Robert Dollar, 87-year-old dean of American shipping magnates, returned to his desk in a downtown office building after recovering from a recent serious illness.

mally “deplore’’ anti-church incidents in Rome and elsewhere. The Vatican awaited replies to its two notes to the Italian government, asking for an explanation of its “slow action” in suppression of demonstrations against the pope. Conversations between diplomatic representatives of the church and the state continued calmly, with both seeking to prevent rising rancor from breaking out into a renewal of violence which marked the opening of the present critical situation. The United Press learned the incident most irritating to the pope was an attempt by Fascist youths to invade Vatican City—of which he is recognized sovereign—near the printing plant of the Osservatore Romano, Vatican organ. When Informed of the incident. Pope Pius said: “If they drive us from our home we will pray in the churches. If they dnve us from the churches, we will pray in the Catacombs, as our predecessors did 2,000 years ago.”

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LINDBERGH'S PACIFIC FLIGHT WILL BF ROUND TRIP, SAYS COLONEL, BARING HIS PLANS Pontoons Will Be Used on Journey; Radio to Be Carried; Every Measure Taken for Safety. ROUTE IS ONE OF BLEAK SOLITUDE ‘Blind Spot* in Weather Area Adds to Hazard; Gasoline Caches to Help Pair on Tour. (Coovrlzht. 193 J. bv United Press' NEW YORK, June s.—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and wife plan to make their forthcoming aerial “visit” to ! the Orient a round trip by air, he told I*3 United Press ; today. The “visit,” as he terms his new venture into the air, i was announced at the state department as a flight to China ! and Japan, but it was not stated whether he would come ! back in his plane. “We hadn’t contemplated coming back any other way,” jhe said today, in revealing that his plans contemplate a round-trip journey.

Lindbergh now is equipping his plane with pontoons at the North Beach airport for j the over-water jumps on his itinerary. He declined to indulge in direct comparison as to the relative safety of his trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris and the torthconiing flight to the Orient. Hazards Are Reduced “Os course, this trip isn’t over : organized airways*” he admitted. | “The situation is altogether different from the other trip. There has I been a vast improvement in equip- ; ment since then.” He suggested he felt the improved equipment, particularly the pontoons, tended to reduce hazards materially. Mrs. Lindbergh will do her share in piloting the plane. “She always has been of assistance to me,” Lindbergh said. Mrs. Lindbergh now has a pilot’s license. Moreover, both the colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh can operate radio, and such equipment will be added. This is in contrast to the “Spirit of St. Louis,” which winged from New York to Paris without radio and with comparatively few of the equipment refinements which aviation progress has developed in the few years since that memorable journey. Itinerary Not Complete “We probably will take off from North Beach airport, L. 1.,” the colonel said, “but it is not certain whether Seattle will be the last stop on United States territory. We have net completed the itinerary, but we expect to start within a few r weeks. We are not entirely certain as to how long we shall be gone. “This is purely a visit.” The probable routing involves : several over-water jumps, but these are not of extreme distance. How- ! ever, weather conditions are almost | never ideal over the stretch, and : sudden storms are frequent. It was clear Lindergh was not regarding the coming flight as particularly hazardous. His observation as to organized airways, however, gave a clue to his realization that the new trip, while “purely a ■ visit,’ ’involves possible obstacles. Fog Will Be Peril BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Corresnondent WASHINGTON, June s.—Treacherous fog and sudden, unpredictable storms will contest the passage of Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife across the northern Pacific, but they have no terrors for the youth who flew the north Atlantic with a courageous heart and a pocketful of sandwiches. Following announcement Thursday of his proposed oriental tour, I Lindbergh, while expressing full j comprehension of the difficulties of ! such flight, betrayed no apprehension. There will be no lack of preparation. The colonel proposes to take no unnecessary risks for himself and his wife, daughter of Senator Dwight Morrow’. He made it clear to officials at the state and commerce departments that every contingency would be provided for within the realm of human capability. Gasoline caches will be placed along the route at strategic points, and he expects to know before taking off just how he is going to “get through.” He will have a good radio.

Although his route has not been

True Soldier By United Press WASHINGTON, June 5. Because his defective eyesight barred him from a military career, a George Washington university sophomore lies dead today from self-inflicted bullet wounds. The youth, Philip McKirdy, shot himself in his room, leaving only a note saying: “I don’t want to be a burden. I will do away with myself first.” From the father, an employe of the internal revenue bureau, and the mother police learned the story of the 19-year-old boy’s intense disappointment at his inability to qualify for matriculation in a military school.

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! chosen definitely, he is expected to j follow the Aleutian islands across ! the Pacific, as did the army trailblazers in their world flight in 1924. Route Is Perilous One This route is beset with perils ! and colored with historical romance. Across these natural stepping j stones are believed to have passed * the primitive forebears of the North American Indians, pioneering in a new world. Almost two centuries ago, after white men had discovered Alaska, Russian adventurers flocked across the ocean bridge in search of furs. They exploited and killed the descendants of those first pioneers. Few of the fur hunters survived, and singe then the islands have been, with few exceptions, bleak, deserted outposts in the stormy north Pacific, a Pacific that belies its name, as meteorologists today were quick to point out. It is an area of tumultuous storms, which strike without warning and with no possibility of accurate forecast. Foils Weather Experts Charles L. Mitchell of the United States weather bureau, which has prepared forecasts for practically all the Atlantic flights, said there was a “blind spot” on the Aleutian route, and that reliable weather information is impossible to obtain. “There will be no difficulty,” he said, “with forecasts for that part of the flight from Seattle to the Aleutian islands and Dutch harbor, but from Dutch Harbor to Japan we get practically nothing. “The Lindberghs will have to wait at Dutch Harbor for favorable indications, but at best they will be taking a chance. Storms may develop that no one knew of a few hours before.” Lindbergh and his wife will find few to cheer them on their way to Japan after they leave the mainland of Alaska. For 1,500 miles across the Aleutian islands evidences of human habitation will be rare. Dutch Harbor Last Base Their last possible base of supplies is Kodiak village on Kodiak island in the Gulf of Alaska. Dutch Harbor, last outpost of civilization, has a radio station. Atka island, half way to Asia, has a tiny village. So has Attu, last of the Aleutians. Between are no settlements. Then comes Kamchatka, with the important port of Petropavlovsk. Beyond are the Kurile islands, thinly settled by primitive people. They mark the last stage of the flight before reaching Japan. HOTEL CLERK SHOT Seriously Wounded When He Resists Holdup. By United Pres* ALRORA, 111., June s.—Leroy Rhodes, 54, clerk at the Marshall hotel, was shot and seriously wounded today when he resisted the attempt of three men to hold him up. Rhodes was in the cashier’s cage in the hotel lobby when the three men entered carrying shotguns and pistols at 5 a. m. Thomas H. Hall, a race horse trainer from San Angelo, Tex., was outside the cage, talking to Rhodes. While one man covered Rhodes with a shotgun, another ordered Hall to walk with him to the cage door. As they entered, Rhodes struck the bandit. Another bandit immediately fired twice, the bullets striking Rhodes in the arm and abdomen. The bandits left without obtaining any loot. Hourly Temperature* 6a. m 67 10 a. m 75 7a. m 68 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 72 12 (nooh).. 77 9a. m 75 Ip. m 79 Baseball Pools Banned KOKOMO, Ind., June 5.—-Police Chief Clinton Jackson has clamped the lid on baseball pools. The order has been given to confiscate all pool tickets. Grand Jury Indicts Thirteen Nine indictments, naming thirteen defendants, were returned to Criminal Judge P. Baker today by Marion county grand jury. Vehicle taking, burglary, forgery and fraudulent check charges predominate.

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