Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 63, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1931 — Page 1

FULL ACCORD REACHED ON GERMAN AID World Powers End Parley by Approving Finance Ministers’ Report. STIMSON IS ‘SATISFIED’ New Era in Co-Operation Is Hailed as Nations Agree Completely. BY HERBERT MOORE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, .July 23.—The historic seven-power statesmen’s conference ended today with complete accord on temporary emergency measures designed to save Germany from financial ruin. The adjournment terminated the deliberations begun last Monday. The United Press was informed on reliable, though unofficial, authority, that, the plenary session had approved the report of the finance ministers, suggesting ways and means temporarily to solve the German crisis. Confirmation of the report that the plenary had approved the finance minister’s report was given the United Press by Tsuneo Matsudaira, Japanese ambassador to Great Britain. The delegates from the seven naliosn —the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Japan—appeared optimistic. They expressed the opinion that “real progress” had been made toward solving the German financial debacle. America Keeps Leadership America throughout the crisis maintained the leadership established recently in world political and economic allairs. The finance ministers’ plan was in the main the “second American plan,” although delegates preferred to call it the Anglo-American proposals. "We are very well pleased,” said J Ramsey MacDonald, British premier. “Agreement between seven powers is not easy to reach, but it has been reached and will be of the greatest importance.” The conference moved swiftly toward its close at today’s final vital session, taking prompt action on the finance ministers’ report. "I am thoroughly satisfied,” said i Henry L. Stimson, American state | secretary, as he left the foreign office. Dino Grand!. Italian foreign minister, was similarly .emphatic, remarking, “I am very satisfied.” Issue Official Report An official communique said. “The international conference met at the foreign office today and concluded its labors. The following declaration was adopted: “In order to insure maintenance of financial stability to Germany, which is essential to the interests of ihe whole world, the governments lepresented at the conference are ready to co-operate, so far as lies within their powers, to restore confidence. The governments represented at the conference are ready to recommend to consideration of financial institutions in their respective countries the following proposals for relieving the immediate situation: "Firstly; that the Central bank credit of $100,000,000 recently granted the Reichsbank under auspices of the Bank of International Settlements be renewed at maturity for a period of three months. “Secondly, that concerted measures be taken by financial institutions of the different countries with a view to maintaining the volume of credit they already have extended Germany. Bruening Thanks IT, S. “The conference recommended that the B. I S. should be invited to set up without delay a committee of representatives nominated by governors of the central banks interested to inquire into immediate further credit needs of Germany and study possibilities for converting a portion of short, term credits into long term. "The conference noted with interest a communication from Chancellor Bruening relative to a joint guarantee recently placed by German industry at the disposal of the gold discount bank. The conference is of the opinion that a guarantee of this description should make it possible to provide a sound basis for resumption of normal operation of international credit. “The conference considers that if these measures are carried through they will form the basis for more permanent action to follow.” Bruening thanked the American delegation for “what it has done to help Germany.” while Grandi expressed hope that, the conference would serve as beginning of anew era for the whole world Hoover Is Pleased By United Press WASHINGTON. July 23.—President Hoover today expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the London debt conference. He said it has "laid sound foundation for the establishment of stability in Germany.” The President sent telegrams of ■ongrafculation to State Secretary Himson and Treasury Secretary Mellon who participated in the conference. Hourly Temperatures 6 a m 70 10 a. m 81 7a. m 72 11 a m 83 8 a m .... 75 12 (noon).. 83 Sa. m 12 1 st.

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VOLUME 43—NUMBER 63

Last Chapter Knute Rockne’s Widow to See Filming of Photoplay Irish.’

j By United Preen Chicago. July 23. Knute Rockne s widow’ will w'atch the filming In Hollywood of a motion picture dedicated to the famous Notre Dame football coach’s memory, it was learned today. Mrs. Rockne attended a lunchI eon Wednesday at which eight j stars on former Rockne football teams were guests. The former players have parts in the motion picture, which will be called “The Spirit of Notre Dame.” Suddenly, Mrs. Rockne decided that she would accompany them to California. She left immediately for her home at South Bend to pack, returned here and boarded the train with "Rock’s” boys. With her w'ent Bill Rockne, her 15-year-old son. “I just couldn’t see them go without me,” Mrs. Rockne said. “It seems like the last chapter in Knute’s history and I want to see it written.” TAX VALUATION TAKES BIG DROP . Property Fixed $8,657,080 Less Than in 1930, Marion county property on which taxes are payable in 1932 is valued at $788,891,000, $8,657,080 less than 1930’s assessment, County Auditor Harry Dunn announced today, in giving the county board of review’s 1931 figures. The $8,657,080 cut will reduce total tax collections approximately $200,000, Dunn figured. Three assessments make up the total taxable property, the board of review’ assessment, $52,260,860; state tax board assessments on utilities, $139,008,490, and assessments of nine township assessors, $597,621,650. Greatest reductions this year are on personal property in Indianapolis (Center township), Dunn disclosed. Total reduction is $11,704,880, of which $6,220,990 is subtracted from the assessment on personal property. Semi-annua] distribution of the congressional township fund, including dog taxes and school fund interest, also -was announced. The county received $145,602.24 for school purposes, of w-hich $126,336 goes to city schools. The dog tax fund totaled $15,005,89, which also goes for schools use.

Painless Death By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., July 23 Joseph Majtyka. 6, was dead today from severe burns, although he had suffered no pain from the injuries. Since birth, Joseph’s legs, although apparently normal, had been affected by anasthesia, making him immune to the effects of heat and cold. Sunday, while taking a bath, the youth was scalded badly, but felt no pain. He died at city hospital Wednesday, unaware that he suffered from first and second degree burns.

HELD IN POOI RAID Police Nab Two in Alleged Suit Lottery, Charged with attempting to collect for $1 tickets in the “tailor's pool,” Ervin and Sidney Goldman of the Wesley, were arrested Wednesday afternoon by police. According to officers, Ervin, who was arrested in a raid recently when police claimed they smashed the pool, was attempting to collect. from employes of a grocery at. Twenty-first and Harding streets. Three other men also were arrested in the raid They are charged with operating a $1 daily pool in which they are said to have admitted holding out. large prizes on winners. The alleged racket operated under the guise of a suit club in which “members" were supposed to spend S4O over a like period of weeks and receive a cheap suit, of clothes. The $1 weekly ticket gave them the “privilege' of “playing” the alleged lottery, police charge. Irate Robin Pecks “Savior” By United Press NEBRASKA CITY. Neb.. July 23. —King Yates declared today that the next, time he wants to do a good turn he's not going to try to help a robin. Climbing a tree to put a baby bird back in its nest, he was p3cked so hard on his bald head by the mother robin that he was forced to retreat, with the baby still held in his hand

JUST GET OUT AND STAY OUT’ WAS EXILE DECREE FOR PRINCETON LAD

BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Correspondent PRINCETON, Ind., July 23 When one is banished at the court of Gibson county one may expect a Cook's Tour folder of the choicest spots to make one's home. For it was revealed here today that Circuit Judge Claude Smith, besides giving a 13-year-old bov walking papers for being the county's Peck's Bad Boy, suggested two likely domiciles for his bare feet to trade upon—Evansville and Mt Carmel, 111 The bov. John Tooley, stood before the judge i& hi£ £&&& of-

GOVERNOR AID ‘ABOUT FACES’ ON LAD’S EXILE L. 0. Chasey First Issues Official ‘Whitewash,’ Then Retracts It, RECEIVES EXPLANATION Jurist’s ‘Bad Boy’ Charge Is Denied by Trustee of State School. The status of Circuit Judge Claude Smith of Gibson county, bounced like a ball in a vaudeville performers hand today from “whitewash” to "probe” in the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie. Early this morning, L. O. Chasey, secretary of the Governor, calcimined the judge's banishment of John Tooley, 13, from his county with the statement: “I think he did what was right.” Chasey’s matufinal “whitewash” came with the receipt of a letter | from the judge defending his action ! in sentencing the lad to the Indiana boys’ school at Plainfield, for the theft of $2 worth of tools. He said he would thank the judge for his letter. Does an About-Face But now Chasey “about-faces” and says the judge’s decree of banishment will be investigated further. Up to today, the only investigations of the court order had been made by newspaper men. He said he would take the matter up with Governor Leslie on Leslie’s return from a vacation. He also said he would not reply to the judge’s letter at the present time. The change in the secretary’s beliefs and actions came after Albert B. Snyder, trustee at the Indiana Boys’ school, had talked with him and criticised the judge’s actions in returning the boy to the Plainfield institution. May Discuss Release Snyder told newspaper men the boy's case would be brought to the attention of the trustees at a meeting on Aug 4. “We may discuss at that time asking the Governor to recommend the boy’s release,” he told Chasey. After reading the judge’s letter to the Governor In which he said the boy attempted to fire a Catho- ; lie church in Princeton and gener- i ally was incorrigible, Snyder said: I “I don’t believe he’s the bad boy j they say he is. Nor do I believe j he’s as feeble-minded as they say. He is slow in his studies but we’ve got slower ones at the school. Good Boy in School “He was a good boy while in j Plainfield the first time sentenced, i and although it took sometime to | earn his merit marks ana release, I he wouldn’t have been permitted to | leave the school if he’d been incor- ! rigible.” The judge told reporters on several occasions that the boys’ school did not want John because of his misbehavior w’hen he was serving his first sentence in the school. Officials of the school have denied that they ever told Judge Smith that John Tooley was an incorrigible and was not wanted. MISSIONARY” IS~FREED Released by Chinese After Killing of Alleged Burglar. By United Press PEIPING. China. July 23 Chinese officials at Tsinanfu have released Dr, Francis Tucker, American missionary whom they arrested for killing a Chinese, the American legation was informed today. Dr. Tucker shot and killed a Chinese whom he believed a burglar entering the American board hospital at Techow’. Shantung province, about two weeks ago. After agitaI tion by the local Kuomintang (Na- | tionalist party) branch. Chinese ; authorities seized Dr. Tucker and lodged him in jail at the provincial j capital. VICEROY WARNS INDIA Left Wing Must Honor Truce, Lord Willingdon Says. j By United Press DELHI. India, July 23.—A warnj ing to the left wing of the all-India ! congress has been sounded by the | new viceroy. Lord Willingdon Lord Willingdon accepted the IrwinGandhi truce in the Nationalist civil disobedience campaign against British rule. He said he was certain Gandhi was trying to keep the truce, but that certain followers were using it only to prepare for future hostilities. Willingdon indicated he would not allow the all-India congress to honor the agreement on one hand and on the other do everything possible to wreck it.

fice. Prosecutor Arthur &. Wilson, Sheriff George Hitch, and Deputy Sheriff Bud Conner were spectators as John was arraigned for stealing $2 worth of tools from Princeton’s smithy. > Deputy Sheriff Conner telling of the court scene that resulted in John's being sent to the Indiana Boys’ School at Plainfield said: “After the judge gave John his choice of getting out of the county or going to Plainfield. John asked. But where shall I go?’ “Then the judge said. ‘I don't care where you go as long as you get out of here and stay out. j&u

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RETURN TO^S akes 185 Miles an Hour HAVANA, Cuba July 23-Cap- HT MANIAC SLAYS in Frank Hawks arrived at Cur- LBIU rflfTT ~SI ” s airport at 10:08 a. m. (Indian- CUE SO ftli&j olis time) today and started back I Uot W! S if vUfl New York at 11:33 p. m, miami, July 23— Bucking head- Wounds Four Others With nds all the way to Miami, but \ Rntohnn knifo rraging 185 miles an hour on the duLLIIcI r\ill!t\ tbound trip. Captain Frank By United Press rtelo Ilavana 6r6 morning en 1 | MERCER. Pa., July 23.—Four ‘I wi?l beatlhe former record by j i*' ' .' J people were killed and four 6thers rty minutes, elapsed time,” Hawks I W t U injured near here today by Marko as he prepared to take off ML • Demofonti, who shot the four who Cuba. He expected to leave jm' died and stabbed the others. ■usuv& J&SX* asaln ®s .-*r- 1 u ■ Mrs - rur ,o[ r• lawks left Flovd Bennet airnnrt i Hft- 4? J wife of the man; Mrs. Alfonso Fo-

HAWKS STARTS RETURN TO U. S. I Makes 185 Miles an Hour in Cuba Record Hop. By United Press HAVANA, Cuba. July 23.—Captain Frank Hawks arrived at Curtiss airport at 10:08 a. m. (Indianapolis time) today and started back to New York at 11:33 p. m, i ! By United Press * MIAMI, July 23.—Bucking headwinds all the way to Miami, but averaging 185 miles an hour on the outbound trip, Captain Frank Hawks arrived here this morning en route to Havana. “I will beat the former record by thirty minutes, elapsed time,” Hawks predicted, as he prepared to take off for Cuba. He expected to leave Havana at 1 p. m., stopping again at Miami on his return trip. Hawks left Floyd Bennet airport, New York, at 4 a. m. Indianapolis time, making a brief stop at Wilmington.

Yanks Win! By United Press NEW YORK, July 23.—1 t is almost impossible to tell the difference between a society woman and a shop girl on the streets of New York. Louise A. Coury. editor of the English magazine. The Queen, who is visiting here, said today. “The ctyeap clothes have such a good cut,” she explained. Miss Coury said she found American men better mannered than the British.

RATE BOOST FOES NEXT Sectional Hearings Announced for Opponents of Rail Increase. By United Press WASHINGTON. July 23—Arguments of shippers, agricultural interests and others opposing the proposed 15 per cent railroad freight increase will be heard by the interstate commerce commisison beginning Aug. 10 and extending throughout the month, it was announced today. Sectional hearings will be held at San Francisco, Portland, Ore.; Kansas City, Mo.; Dallas, Tex.; Salt Lake City, Atlanta. Chicago and some point in New England

REDUCTION OF $50,000 IN CITY WORKERS’ PAY IS PROPOSED BY JEUP

Reduction of $50,000 in salaries of employes of the city sanitary district, as a step to reduce expenditures of the department in 1932, was proposed today by B. J. T. Jeup, president of the board, preparing the budget appropriation Proposed slash in wages would affect about 150 of the 300 employes of the department, including truck drivers, helpers and heads of various divisions of the district. Outline of his proposal was presented at the board meeting today by Jeup, but. failed to draw absolute approval from O C, Ross, other active board members. Ross said he would make a statement Friday on his stand in connection with the budget requests and the proposed salary cutting It is possible. Ross and Jeup indicated, each will prepare a separate budget plan to be submitted

can go to Evansville or Mt. Carmel.” “The judge told him ‘That's all,’ And turning to me said ‘Has he got some clothes he might want to get?’ I told him he had a raincoat over at the jail. ‘Well take him over to get his raincoat’,” Conner related the judge said. Conner got the boy’s coat. He took him back in his car to the courthouse. “He didn’t seem to know what to do. I talked to him and patting him on the back tried to give him some good advice. “ ‘lf I go will they pick me up as a runaway?' he asked me. - - - - > *

—Times Staff Photo. Golfing “goofers” go a goll-iffing.” Coat themselves with sunny boil Do a lot ot bunker “biffing.” Say a lot that’s not in Hovlo, And that’s what the above feminine pellet-pushers find out as they try to cuff Old Man Par at the South Grove course. Top (left) —The Nineteenth Hole as played by Mrs. C. J. Underwood,. 127 Beverley drive, with the aid of her caddy, George Horning. Top (right)—“Just roughing it,” says Miss Billie Miller. 6185 Primrose street, as she prays for a cat —not a black one, either —to pick her ball up and carry it out of the cat-tails. Bottom —South Grove’s “bridge of sighs,” or the “way of many a good golf ball.” But Marion Schwartz has a brand new idea and she’s showing it here. POPE* - CALLS CARDINALS Vatican-Fascist Dispute Believed Topic at Extraordinary Session. By United Press VATICAN CITY. July 23—An extraordinary meeting of the college of Cardinals was called today by Pope Pius XI, The meeting, which began at 9:30 a. m., was understood to be in connection with the dispute between the Holy See and the Fascist government.

to William L Elder, city controller, on which the department's financial outlay for the coming year will be based, Jeup declared he had studied city departments in other cities, to learn that the local sanitary department, is paying more than the average. He also declared since the department now has become an industrial and manufacturing unit, he had investigated local industries and reached the conclusion that his department's salaries are higher, He said he studied the budget situation with the idea “that all estimates should be trimmed to the bone, in order that, in this time of depression, taxes should be reduced to a minimum." “I accused myself and other members of the board of having been too gullible in accepting estimates and (Turn to Page 17)

“I told him he might get picked up. “Then he turned to me and said, ‘You know you're the first one that’s ever talked nice like this to me. The judge didn’t talk like this.' “I let him out of the car. That’s the last time I saw him until he was rearrested and given the sentence to Plainfield,” Conner explained. The fairest of fair-minded citizens of Princeton can not understand the judge’s order of exile. “Why!” said one business man.” Judge Smith has a reputation of being for the under-dog. I could

MANIAC SLAYS FOUR WITH GUN Wounds Four Others With Butcher Knife. By United Press MERCER, Pa., July 23—Four people were killed and four dthers injured near here today by Marko Demofonti, who shot the four w’ho died and stabbed the others. The dead: Mrs. Marko Demofonti, wife of the man; Mrs. Alfonso Focetti, Demofonti’s sister-in-law; Gaston Delaqua, shoemaker; and Mrs. Frank Yakelo. The injured: Mrs. Mifc§, .Benan, Flora Benan, Mrs. Pete ciscilian and Tony Ciscilian, her 10-year-old son. Demofonti had been adjudged insane by a medical commission here late Wednesday and w r as returned to his home awaiting removal today. Waiting until the men had left for work in the mine today, he seized a shotgun, killed his wife and sister-in-law, then dashed wildly out of the house, brandishing the gun. Delaqua. the shoemaker, was the first man he met and the demented killer leveled the gun at him. In quick succession, he killed Delaqua and Mrs. Yakelo, w’ho was walking along the street. His ammunition exhausted, Demonfonti seized a butcher knife and dashed to the Benan home where he stabbed Mrs. Benan and her daughter. He ran shouting to the next house, where Mrs. Ciscilian and her son lived, adding them to his victims before he was captured.

SHOWERS DUE AGAIN Mercury’s Rise Will Be Checked Once More. Temperature rise today is to be halted again by showers that are due to strike Indianapolis tonight, the weather bureau forecast. Seasonal temperatures and partly cloudy weather are scheduled for Friday. During a sudden squall Wednesday afternoon a hail storm struck the northeast section of the city, damaging flowers and gardens in the vicinity of 5000 College avenue. J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief, said the hail fell in a narrow path. The hail was reported as heavy in and near the 5300 block College avenue and as far north as the 5700 block. niayor'surrlnders son Drive 1,600 Miles to Face Forgery Charge—All to 'Clear Name.’ By United Press CLEVELAND. July 23. Oscar •Herbert Campbell, 35, was held here on a forgery charge today after his father, the mayor of St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, surrendered him “to clear the Campbell name,” The Canadian mayor and his son drove 1.600 miles to deny the charges of a justice of the peace warrant, sworn out sixteen months ago.

hardly believe he’d do such a thing.” Then the business man pointed to the judge's Labor day address a year ago when he flatly told the miners of county and organized 1 . .at they need not fear an injunction against them for picketing. On the other hand gossip is strong that criticism of the judge’s actions comes from a political fount in his own party, the Republican. Close friends of the judge say he has regretted the hasty banjthjnent decree.

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TWO FEDERAL DRY AGENTS SHOT TO DEATH IN FIGHT WITH INDIANA BEER RUNNER Indianapolis Sleuth One of Victims in Ft. Wayne Night Bullet Battle; Bootlegger Wounded in Neck. CAUGHT AS HE SEEKS MEDICAL AID Paroled Convict to Face Murder Charge;' Combat Starts When He Is Trapped on Bridge With Brew. By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 23.—George Adams, 35, a paroled convict, accused of shooting to death two federal prohibition agents in a gun fight Wednesday night on Stellhorn bridge, was captured by police today when he returned to the city to hunt a doctor. Adams, shot in the neck in the battle which developed when four federal agents attempted to trap him with a load of beer, offered no resistance. He was taken to a hospital, where the bullet was removed, and then was taken to jail. His injury, it was said, *as not critical.

Witnesses said Adams, paroled seven months ago from Leavenworth prison, was the man who killed John J. Wilson, 46, of Indianapolis, and fatally wounded Walter M. Gilbert, 33, of Cincinnati, in a battle which ensued when Wilson and Gilbert and two other federal agents attempted to trap him at the bridge. Two other federal agents involved were C. E. Green of Portland, Ind., and Oliver J. Gettle of Indianapolis. They said they posed at bootleggers earlier in the day and arranged for Adams to deliver a load of beer at the bridge at 8 p. m. Bullet Battle Opens When Adams arrived, they said, he recognized Gilbert as the man who arrested him for bootlegging in 1929. Sensing that he had been led into a trap, he drew two revolvers. Wilson fell first, shot, four times, and died instantly. Gilbert went down in an exchange of fire, and Adams, blood streaming from the wound in his neck, staggered to his car and escaped. Green and Settle, who said they could not join the fight, as their guns - were in their cars, rushed Gilbert to a hospital, where he died an hour later of a bullet wound in his lungs. Gettle said the agents were in their shirt, sleeves, and therefore had their guns in their autos when Adams opened fire. “We didn’t think he wolud murder us,” Gettle said. Fire Is Returned “Wilson never had a. chance He stood there without making a move when Adams shot, him.” It was then. Gettle said, that Gilbert, got his gun and returned the fire. Gerry Seiver, Waynedale, who witnessed the shooting, said he saw one man fire three shots from an auto at another, and that his victim staggered across the road. He said the assailant then walked across the road and fired five shots into the body of his victim. Lloyd Krouse, who was visited by Adams shortly after the shooting, and who brought him to Ft. Wayne later bandaging his wounded neck, was held as a material witness. Makes No Resistance Adams offered no resistance to arrest, although he still clutched his .45-caliber automatic pistol. Murder charges wete to be filed today against Adams, who was held in Allen county jail without bond. Gettle and Green suffered lacerations from a barbed wire fence when they leaped from the bridge at the shooting scene to escape the bullets. Green was treated at a, hospital and soon released. Green, who was said to have served a term imposed in Portland on liquor charges, telephoned to Jay county authorities from the hospital and asked that his family be protected from possible violence, as the result of the encounter. Deny Wilson Had Gun Denial that government men started the gun battle that ended in the deaths of two special agents at Ft. Wayne Wednesday night, emanated from headquarters of federal special agents in the Federal building here today. Press dispatches from Ft. Wayne said that John J. Wilson of Indianapolis, one of the slain agents, fired first on George Adams, bootlegger. held as the murderer of Wil-

They believe that if he had it to do over, he’d do what Gibson county wanted done, send the boy to some state institution for care. The judge declares he did not send John to the school for feeble-minded at Ft. Wayne because the school’s superintendent has refused to accept other boys from Gibson county. “They say Gibson county's quota at the school is filled up and will take no more until it is reduced. The quota I believe is nine persons and I haven’t sent one there in the seven years I've been on the bench," the Judge declares.

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Slain Agent in Charge Here Since March 1

Selected by the department of justice to succeed B. F. Hargrovg Jr. and chief of the special agents here, John I. Wilson, federal agent slain in Ft. Wayne Wednesday night, took charge March 1. He immediately launched a series of investigations and raids in the Clinton alcohol manufacturing belt which netted more than a score of giant stills. Wilson, who wass 35, had been % member of the special agents department for three years, serving an apprenticeship under George (TwoGun) Golding, then chief of the Chicago office, and had been stationed at Springfield, 111., and Detroit. , He was married and resided at 3340 North Meridian street. Mrs. Wilson went to Ft. Wayne Wednesday night when informed of the shooting. Harry Wilson of Rockwell City, la., brother of the slain man, said the body would be returned there for burial. The other slain special agent, Walter M. Gilbert, assigned here out of the Cincinnati office, was one of the principal government witnesses in the police conspiracy case. Oliver J. Gettle, who sustained slight injuries, is unmarried His home is in Champaign. 11l Gilbert and C. E. Green, a special informer, had been working on an investigation at Akron, and went back to Pt. Wayne to complete tha cases there.

son t and Walter M. Gilbert of Cincinnati. Wilson never carried a gun. fellow agents here said, and recently ha told The Times that he had no need for one. Colonel L. J. Reese, assistant in charge of the Fifth division of special agents, with several of his men was in Ft. Wayne today investigating the shooting, according to Edward R. Devlin, in charge of special agents here. Mrs. Gilbert and her three children were located today in Cincinnati. Her husbands body is to bfl taken to California. U. S. to Aid Prosecution ’ By United Press WASHINGTON. July 23 -Federal Prohibition Director Amos Woodcock said today the federal government would aid in prosecution of George Adams, alleged killer of two prohibition agents in Indiana. ”1 will take steps to see that the murderer vigorously is prosecuted;’ Woodcock said, adding that the government would aid the state in assembling evidence. “The case seems to be a fairly simple one.” Woodcock said in referring to the incidents leading to Adams’ arrest. Woodcock described the two agents. John J. Wilson and Walter M. Gilbert, as “very fine special agents." and said he was shocked at the news of their deaths. He sent messages of condolence today to their widows, when he received a report of the shooting. ENGAGEMENT IS HINTED Constance Bennett and Marquis de le Falaise Promise ‘Announcement.’ By United Press CHERBOURG, France, July 23.Constance Bennett, movie star, and the Marquis de le Falaire, agreed today that they “may have an important announcement to make Nov. 7.” That is the date fixed by the court for the divorce decree of Gloria Swanson from the Marquis to become final. Miss Bennett and the Marquis arrived today on the liner Bremen, from America. Gossiping Con Is Suspended By United Press CHICAGO. July 23.—The pride of men who believe gossiping a purely feminine shortcoming received a terrific jolt today with announcement that Thomas J. Mulcahy. a husky police sergeant, had been suspended from the force “for gossiping about other members of the department.”

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