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BANDIT FIRING SQUAD SHOOTS SIX IN HOLDUP Tearoom Guests Robbed, Then Lined Against Wall as Thugs’ Targets. VOLLEY KILLS ONE MAN Five Others Are Seriously Wounded in Wanton Gang Crime. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Five bandits invaded the Old Colonial tearoom in Bladensburg, Md., early today, lined twenty persons up against a wall, and opened fire. One man was killed and four other men and one woman seriously wounded. Using tactics made famous by Chicago gangsters, the thugs first robbed their victims, then fired indiscriminately at close range with revolvers and a sawed-off shotgun. Then, with the kitchen of the roadhouse a shambles, and with cries and groans of the wounded ringing In their ears, they leaped through windows and doors and escaped. The dead man is believed to be G. Amick of Baltimore. No one in the tearoom knew him, but partial identification was made through labels. His suit bore the label of the J. A. Simpson Tailoring Company of Baltimore. Five Badly Wounded The five wounded, all in serious condition in casualty hospital here, are: Thomas Simone, 29, 151 East Baltimore street, Baltimore, shot in both legs and hips. John Joseph Bartlett, 24, Washington, shot in right knee and left leg. Miss Verne Edwards, 24, Washington, shot in pelvis and through body. Charles Leavitt, 24, proprietor of tearoom, shot in both lungs and face. Norman Gerey, 25, of 135 South Catherine street, Baltimore, shot in right hip, back, left hand and liver. According to the story told Montgomery county police, eight men and seven women were in the tearoom eating and dancing, just before 3 a. m. A Ford roadster, blue with red trimmings, drove up to the place, which is in heavily wooded grounds, once an old Maryland estate. Five men stepped out, carrying guns. One wore a white mask—the others had turned up their coat collars. Turns Guns on Guests Led by one man with a sawedoff shotgun, the bandits entered the front door and ordered the guests and employes into the kitchen. “Line up against the wall and keep your hands up,” the man in the white mask ordered. While the leader and three others kept their guns trained on the terrified group, the fifth footpad went through the pockets of the men and women's purses, obtaining an estimated total of $1,500 in cash and jewelry. - The leader then turned Leavit and snarled: “You’re holding out on me, you • .Leavitt shook his head, but without further vanning the gangster placed his' revolver against the man's chest and fired. The other bandits then opened fire. Bullets riddled the kitchen. Men and women screamed groaned as they fell wounded to the floor. More than fifty shots were fired. Officers Find Victims As the bandits fled, one was believed to have been cut by wdndow glass. Leavitt, bleeding from his wound, dragged himself to a telephone and called a ponstable. When Constable Gash arrived with other officers, he found Leavitt collapsed on the floor by the telephone, the dead man lying on a pile of newspapers in the kitchen and others wounded attempting to crawl from the house, Simone was under a bush in the yard outside. Mrs. Edwards was in a parked automobile, nearly unconscious from loss of blood. Six girls were found weeping along the road. Four guns were found discarded In the house and in the surrounding grounds. Bailiff Lawrence Dayton, answering the general alarm, saw two men running along the Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks and gave chase. They escaped, but Dayton said he believed they were two of the bandits. Two Suspects Held By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 23. Traced through a telephone call from a Maryland city to a house on North Fifth street, two men were arrested today by Philadelphia police for questioning in connection with the robbery and slaying at the old Colonial tea house, near Washington, D. C. Police were informed that some comment was made during the telephone conversation concerning the persons injured in the tearoom robbery. Police refused to give names of those arrested, pending questioning. Sentences 65 Persons in Day By United Press CHARLESTON. W. Va.. Nov. 23. Federal Judge G. W. McClintic was believed to hold a record for the number of sentences passed in one day with a total of sixty-five persons. The sentences ranged from thirty days to five years’ imprisonment.

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‘Hello’ Gasps Laryngitis Sufferer, Breaking Six Months’ Silence

BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM SENTENCED to six months’ absolute silence! “Not even a whisper for six months, or you may lose your voice altogether,” the doctors told Harry Escol, 29, of 515 East Fortyfourth street, half a year ago. For 180 days, Escol implicitly obeyed the orders of Dr. William McQueen, assistant superintendent of Sunnyside sanatorium, where he had gone to recover from tuberculous laryngitis. And then, following an exami-

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Telegram to Mother Ends Airplane Search for Ohio Airman. By United Press CLEVELAND, Nov. 23.—Milford Vanik, 25-year-old balloonist, who disappeared Thursday night on a projected overnight flight, landed in the vicinity of Dean lakes, in Ontario, he notified his mother today in a telegram. Mrs. Jessie Vanik said her son, vice-president of the Cleveland Balloon Club, was on his way today to Sault Ste. Marie. Vanik had disappeared in a 35,000 cubic foot balloon and had carried food and ballast for a 24-hour flight he had intended to end Friday. He had hoped that a slight breeze would carry him to Ann Arbor, Mich., so he could see the University of Michigan, his alma mater, play the Minnesota football team Saturday. Vanik's telegram to his mother ended a far-flung search of the heavily wooded and sparsely settled lake regions, a search in which Canada had joined. Canadian and United States national guard plane were scanning the Lake Erie region and radio appeals were being sent out at regular intervals .when word of Vanik’s safety was received. Vanik was qualifying for a balloon pilot’s license when he disappeared. PALLBEARER PINCHED Relatives Protest Arrest at Graveside. Trailed by police to Crown Hill cemetery in a funeral procession, Rudolph Vofeel, 813 River avenue, was arrested at the graveside of a friend as a burglar suspect. The arrest was the result of the burglary Sunday night of a coal yard at 1031 Edgemont avenue, after which an automobile bearing license plates belonging to Vogel was traced by police to the west side of the city and located in the funeral procession. Vogel, said to have admitted the crime, was a pallbearer at the funeral. Following the arrest, relatives of Vogel appeared at headquarters protesting action of police in arresting Vogel at the grave. Relatives said Vogel was taken in charge by police before the burial. They indicated the matter will be placed before the safety board. Withholds Philippines Report By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Secretary of War Hurley today decided to delay submisison of his report on Philippine independence until a mission from the islands headed by Senator Manuel Quezon, can talk with h im - The mission is expected here about Jan. 1.

WILSON FILM MEMORIAL, HERE NOV. 28, ONE OF GREATEST PICTURES EVER SHOWN

Unquestionably one of the greatest motion pictures ever produced is the Woodrow Wilson Film-Memorial, which will be shown Nov. 28 at Keith’s theater, under auspices of The Indianapolis Times. The picture so nas been pronounced by the world’s foremost experts, and, if you fail to see it, you will miss the opportunity of a lifetime. All proceeds, after expenses are paid, will go to the made-work committee, to aid the city’s jobless. Other screen-dramas have artificial heroes. This picture has a real one—Woodrow Wilson, one of the foremost characters in human history. The memorable eight-year period when [Woodrow Wilson was

nation, came the long anticipated command: “Say something.” To those watching the scene it was filled with drama. a an THE torrent of words surging within Escol for utterance over the long six months’ period, were blocked by the very intensity of his desire to speak, his joy, and his fear that he might learn he was to be voiceless forever. After several moments, Escol made a whispering sound. A minute or so later, he found

JIM WATSON PROFITED BY SUGAHEALS’ Stocks Activity of Indiana Senator Revealed to Lobby Committee. By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Testimony was given today before the senate lobby committee that Senator James J. Davis (Rep., Pa.) and Senator James E. Watson (Rep., Ind.), floor leader, had obtained stock in sugar companies, prior to the 1928 tariff fight, merely by signing non-interest-bearing notes. John Holland, committee investigator, said Davis, who also purchased some stock for cash, gave a non-interest-bearing note for $22,500 in exchange for stock in the Southern Sugar Company. He said Watson gave similar notes for $12,500 worth of South Coast Sugar stock and a similar amount of stock of the Southern company. Increase in the value of the stock, the testimony indicated, enabled cancellation of the notes, leaving both senators with a profit of 250 shares each. The shares were in companies controlled by B. G. Dahlberg. Davis was a cabinet member when the transaction took place. Called on Other Senators The witness said Watson’s profits included stock dividends and that his paper profit in 1929 “would be about $7,905.” “If he had paid off his notes,” Holland continued, “and bought stock, his profit would have been $7,343, so he made more the way it was done. In no case other than that of Davis and Watson did I find any notes accepted without cash advances. The investigation was undertaken after publication of charges that an unnamed senator had received SIOO,OOO during legislative consideration of the tariff. Although Watson’s stock profit was said to have been 250 shares, Holland said the company's books showed he possessed only 155 shares at the time of examination. There waa no record on the books, Holland said, of Davis receiving money from any of the Dahlberg companies. It never has been intimated that Watson had received money from any of the companies. Company correspondence showed sugar lobby committees called upon Watson, Davis and Senator Arthur Vandenberg (Rep., Michigan) and Reed Smoot (Rep., Utah). Offered in April. 1928 Holland said Watson held $12,500 stock in the South Coast Sugar Company, as well as $12,500 in the Southern Sugar Company. The stocks were offered to Watson by Dahlberg, April 5, 1928, before the tariff fight started. They were handled in the same way as the Davis stock in the Southern Sugar Company, Holland said. “Dahlberg took Watson’s note for both stocks and he was not shown to have advanced any money,” Holland added. On Aug. 14. 1929, Holland t:id, Dahlberg wrote Watson notifying him the notes were canceled and his profit was 250 shares of the Dahlberg Corporation of America. KNIFE HALTS HICCOUGHS 15-Day Siege Ends for Ohioan as Bladder Operation Is Performed. By United Press MANSFIELD, 0.. Nov. 23.—Ira C. King, whose long siege of hiccoughing aroused the sympathies of 10,000 people in the United States and Canada, spent a hiccoughless night Sunday night for the first time since Nov. 7. The spasms of hiccoughs that racked him incessantly for fifteen days were halted by an operation for gall bladder and today he was “resting easily,” Mansfield General hospital attaches reported.

the chief magistrate of the greatest nation under the sun. when his courageous leadership and sublime vision brought to a close a war that was bathing the world in blood and tears, is flashed before our eyes, in its completeness. Audiences watch spellbound as their dead leader comes to life. In other great cities of the nation where this picture had been presented, tumultuous ovations greet him. as thrilling as those he received when alive. Hearts beat wildly as he ascended to the pinnacle of his power. Spectators become frantic in their demonstrations of enthusiasm. ana And then the scene shifts. The man who sacrificed his own life in wlging a war to end

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his voice and uttered the only word he could think of at the moment, a strange-sounding “hello.”, “I hardly recognized my voice when I heard it,” Escol said. “It is much deeper than it was. Guess I can sing bass now. It will be a year or more, perhaps, before Escol will be able to follow his usual vocation, said Dr. McQueen, but he will be able to go to his home before long, returning weekly for examination and treatment. When Escol first went to the

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Surrendering to Detective Chief Fred Simon early today, John D. Velonis (center) faces charges of automobile banditry and robbery. Velonis is alleged to have been one of two gunmen who slugged arid wounded J. E. Free, Hook Drug Company collector, when they robbed him of $3,000. At the left is Detective Alfred Schulz, who questioned Velonis when he was brought to headquarters by Simon, at the right of the photo.

WALKER'S TRIP HELPSMOONEY Convict May Get His First Hearing by Governor. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, No. 23—Tom Mooney, central figure of one of the nation’s most famous lfgal battles, may gain, through Mayor James J. Walker of New York, his first hearing before a Governor of California, it became known today. Governor James Rolph Jr., making final preparations for a conference Wedensday with Mayor Walker and others on the Mooney case, said he was “strongly considering” a session at San Quentin pirson to take Mooney’s testimony. “Mooney will not be borught to San Francisco from San Quentin,” Governor Rolph said today. “At the last hearing on the case of Mooney and Warren K. Billings, it was decided that there was no legal precedent to allow such a move. “It may be possible to hold a hearing in San Quentin, such as the supreme court held at Folsom for Billings. Mooney has not made an application to me as yet for a personal hearing.” OGDEN, Utah, Nov. 23.—While Mayor James J. Walker slept, his companion, John Hastings of New York, revealed today that the New York executive would inject “anew angle” in the fight to secure the freedom of Tom Mooney. Walker's train arrived at 9:30 a. m. on time to the minute, despite a severe snow storm in southwestern Wyoming and northern Utah. The mayor, on his way to California to plead for Mooney’s release from prison, was up until 4 a. m., laboring over briefs in the Mooney case and talking to reporters. ENDS LIFE IN NIAGARA Three Watch Man Wade Into River, Plunge Over Falls. By United Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Nov. 23. —A man identified at M. J. Calinas waded into the Niagara river near Loon island today and was swept over the falls. Three men on Goat island witnessed the suicide. The body disappeared in the waters below the falls. Identification was made through an automobile he had parked. William (Red) Hill, Niagara riverman, went immediately to the cave of the winds, near which the body was believed to have lodged. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 57 10 a. m 64 7a. m 57 11 a. m 61 Ba. m 60 12 (noon).. 70 9 a? m....', 62 1 p. m 70

all war, to make a world safe for democracy, descends into what seems practical oblivion. His plans and purposes for world peace are thwarted by sordid politicians of the opposition party and by traitors withifi his own party. Through tear-dimmed eyes the audience sees Woodrow Wilson die the death of a martyr. Sobbing men and women file out of the auditorium with tearstained cheeks. They have witnessed the greatest dramatic tragedy in history. More than 3,000.000 people have viewed the Woodrow Wilson FilmMemorial during the last seven years, and it is conceded to be the screen's greatest contribution to education and patriotism.

sanatorium, his daughter, Barbara Lee, now 15 months old. was an infant. During his stay at the sanatorium, she was brought to Sunnyside frequently and stood outside while the father waved at her through a window. a a a EXAMINATION of Escol when he entered the hospital revealed two cavities in tissues of the right lung. To permit the cavities to heal it was decided to collapse the lung, thus preventing it from moving with use.

Velonis Surrenders Himself at Home of Detective Chief Simon. Hunted by authorities throughout the nation, John D. Velonis, bandit suspect, grew weary of the pursuit, and longed to see his wife and children. That’s why he rapped on the door of Detective Chief Fred Simon’s home at 1355 South East street, early today and surrendered. When he told Simon, “Here I am,” he was prepared to face the charge that he and another gunman obtained $3,000 last November when they slugged, shot and robbed J. E. Free, collector for the Hook Drug Company. Fleeing after the shooting, Velonis is alleged to have scurried to Cincinnati, disposed of the bandit car and separated from John Patrick, who is serving a ten to twenty-year prison sentence for the robbery. Conferred With Lawyer Velonis’ trail took him through the south, and at one time he was reported to be in Spain, He will not admit this, but has said that for eight months he hid from police in Minneapolis. Two weeks ago, the strain of conscience and desire to see his family was stronger than his own liberty, he told detectives. He communicated with an Indianapolis attorney, who advised that he. surrender and face trial on auto banditry and robbery. “I’m tired of the chase,” he told detectives. “I wanted to see my wife and children. I’m sorry it all happened.” Went to Home First Before his surrender, Velonis went to his home and wept, according to his attorney, in the arms of his wife. Under questioning of detectives Clifford Beeker and Alfred Schultz, Velonis answered them, but flatly refused to sign a confession. When he appeared at Simon’s home he said he “hoped you will treat me with courtesy.’ This was assured by the detective chief. Velonis has been identified as one of two men who slugged and shot Free Nov. 29, 1930, after forcing their way into his car at Delaware and Washington streets. For months, Free fought, finally successfully, for his life in St. Vincent’s hospital. He was wounded by bullets in the left side of his chest and hand, and his skull was battered by the slugging. Patrick, confessed participant in the holdup, is serving a ten to twenty-year prison sentence following his capture in Miami, Fla., last January. Dog Fires Hunter’s Gun By United Press BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 23.—A dog’s love for his master almost cost Fred E. Fisher his life. Fisher was hunting deer. His dog leaped against his chest in a sign of affection, discharging his gun. The shot tore through the hunter’s shirt, searing his flesh.

Be sure that your children see this picture. It will be of priceless value to them, of far more importance in their school and college work than a year of intensive study of the history of our government during the period when Woodrow Wilson was at the helm. They can visualize more on the screen and put it away in imperishable memory than they can learn from all the textbooks ever written on the subject. If you are among those who hate war and hope to see the day when swords will be beaten into plowshares, as all normal-minded people do. then you will find in this picture a justification for your desires. From pomp and glory of a na-

Incision was made in his side, permitting air to enter between the outer wall of the pleural cavity and the lung itself. Gradually, as more and more air entered the cavity, the lung collapsed until there was no movement in it. In this condition nature has an opportunity to heal the cavities. The luqg will be kept collapsed for several months more, and then gradually it will be permitted to expand until it can be used again.

U.S. ACTION TO DECIDE PEACE PACT? FATE Treaties Will Be Left at Japan’s Mercy If America Refuses Co-Operation. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. —An anxious world today had its eyes on Washington and the league council in Paris to see what the great nations would do with their solemnly signed pledges to forestall war. Unless the United States joins with the other powers to make the Kellogg pact or the nine-power pact effective, or permits the League of Nations to enforce its covenant, not only the fate of Manchuria, but of the peace pacts themselves, will be left to the mercy of Japan. In other words, in the opinion of observers on both sides of the Atlantic, an early and unequivocal declaration of policy on the part of the United States Is needed urgently to put teeth into the treaties outlawing war. Three Pacts Available The world now looks to three major peace pacts to save it from another conflict. First, there is the covenant of the league; second, the nine-power treaty of Washington; third, the Briand-Kellogg pact. The Kellogg pact, signed by virtually every nation on earth, merely renounces war '“as an instrument of national policy.” It does not contain even a “consultative” clause. It depends upon moral force, the nations’ sense of the sanctity of solemnly signed pledges, and upon public opinion for its efficiency. The nine-power treaty, signed by Japan, American, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Portugal and China, pledges the nations to respect China’s territorial and political integrity, but does not specify what action shall be taken in the event one of them decides tp low China. It does stipulate, however, that the signatories shall “communicate” with one another “freely.” Covenant Has Teeth The covenant of the league has a pretty fair set of teeth ready for use. Article 10 pledges league members to “undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the league.” Article 16 has the molars. Should any member resort to war in disregard of its covenants, it declares, “it shall ipso facto be deemed to (Turn to Page 12) SPECIAL JUDGE~MAY HEAR AIRPORT CASE Petition for Appointment Is Filed by City Attorney Deery. Petition for the appointment of a special judge to try the municipal airport annexation case, was filed today before Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin by James E. Deery, city attorney. Trial of the suit will involve test of the legality of annexation of the city of a one-foot strip of land running from the city limits to the airport, as preliminary to annexation of the flying field. Following annexation of the strip, which runs parallel to a. railroad, adjoining residents filed suit to prevent enforcement of the city tax levy against abutting property. Later, Judge Chamberlin ruled the assessment was illegal, and prohibited County Auditor Harry Dunn from enforcing the levy. PAGER RESIGNED POST Former Policeman Was Not Discharged; Accused of Slander. Russell Dager, 31, of 610 North Sherman drive, former policeman, arrested last week on a slander charge, resignec. from the Indianapolis police force two years ago. He was not discharged as was stated in The Times.

tion mobilizing for war, the Liberty loan drives, and the Red Cross campaigns, the four-minute speakers, the drafting of armies, you are transported swiftly to the battlefields of France. ana NO doubt you have seen some or all the great war pictures—“ All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Wings,” and other memorable productions —and you have carried therefrom vivid impression. But this picture is something different. There is nothing fake or makebelieve in the Woodrow Wilson Film-Memorial. It is the real thing. The soldiers are not counterfeits. They are American doughboys, fighting for their lives. The shell holes real. The

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Frisky, Too By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. Army air corps headquarters received a report the other day from Colorado which would indicate a possible flaw in the noble experiment in that state. Lieutenant Ray Wilson of the Colorado national guard was flying over sparsely settled territory. He descended on a farm and asked an old countryman : “Any deer around here?” The farmer, who was a trifle deaf, replied; “How many bottles did you want?”

JAPAN CABINET REIGNJ’ERILED Manchurian War May End Premier’s Regime. By United Press TOKIO, Nov. 23.—Disputes between the Japanese cabinet and army leaders, apparent during the Manchurian troubles, probably will lead to resignation of the government of Premier Baron Raijiro Wakatsuki. The suggestion by Kenzo Adachi, home minister and leader of the Menseito (government) party, that a coalition be formed was considered by political leaders, although the Seiyukai (opposition) party opposed the scheme.' Adachi suggested that the change, involving co-operation of the rival parties, be made as soon as possible. It had been charged that the army had forced Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara to abandon his policy of conciliation toward China. The reports were denied. The cabinet subsequently . approved the army’s Manchurian activities, but indications of dissension were not removed. PREDICT COLD SNAP Mercury to Drop Tuesday, After Setting Record. Rising to 70.4 shortly before noon today, the mercury equaled the day’s heat record In the history of the Indianapolis weather bureau, as forecasters predicted colder weather by Tuesday night. Drop in the thermometer is to follow predicted rain. Three other mercury slides forecast in less than three weeks have failed to materialize in Indianapolis and Indiana. Forecasters said the cold wave which struck the far west several days ago is moving eastward slowly. The only time previous when the mercury was above 70 on Nov. 23 was in 1927. Mercury reading was 72 here Sunday. In the last twenty-four hours, Cincinnati had the nation’s highest mercury mark with 76, and Modena, Utah, the lowest with 10 below zero. D R YCOPSGRABTAN K E R Liquor Cargo Valued at SIOO,OOO Seized, Is Agents’ Claim. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—The oil tanker Raritan Sun, owned by the Sun Oil Company, was seized today as an alleged rum runner by federal agents, who arrested fiftytwo men, many of them said to be well-known underworld Characters. A cargo of liquor valued at between SIOO,OOO and $150,000 was found aboard, authorities claimed.

barbed wire is the enemy’s barbed wire, and American soldiers are cutting their way through it. The men shown dropping as the line advances are dying men. The men hurled into the air are being torn to shreds by shrapnel. The limbless bodies being carried into the rear on stretchers are America’s ow T n beloved sons, who now sleep beneath the soil of France. There is no make-believe about the surgical operations being performed by army surgeons at emergency dressing stations. The dead and wounded in. the trenches are not pretending. It is all terribly real and creates such a detestation of war as to make one determined that there never shall be another one.

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GRAND JURORS START QUIZ IN VEHLING CASE Wilson Will Place Evidence Alleging Law Violations Before Probers. ■ FACES SERIOUS CHARGE | Illegal Autopsies Claimed; Threats by Coroner Are Cited. BY DICK MILLER First testimony relating to alleged illegal activities of Coroner Fred W. Vehling will be presented the Marion county grand jury Tuesday. The jury’s probe into alleged maladministration of the county ■office is to determine whether j Vehling is guilty of state law violaI tion and may lead to impeachment. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, who is to lay the facts before the jurors, did not reveal who might be called as first witnesses in the quiz. Jurors and Wilson opened the I probe today, gathering data and i names of witnesses who will testify. Vehling is the target of charges that he has obtained fees from the county for illegal autopsies; that he has ordered “curiosity”- autopsies; that he has threatened to change verdicts in death cases when he was I refused burial privileges; and that he has charged exorbitant embalming fees when relatives or friends of deceased patrons have attempted to block his alleged high-handed tactics. Records to Be Scanned Records of the city hospital, Vehlings office, and claims filed with county commissioners, were brought before the jury today. The records will reveal discrepancies in death verdicts and that autopsies were made by city hospital internes and $25 fees in many cases claimed by Vehling or his aid. Included in the cases to be probed is death of Vernor Pinner, Negro, 31, of 2216 Pleasant street, Aug. 5 at the city hospital. When W. T. Blasengym, undertaker, sent for the body at the request of relatives, he said internes at the hospital refused the release. The internes requested an autopsy, which wrs refused by the relatives, and the doctors are alleged to have called Vehling by phone and obtained permission for a purported "curiosity” autopsy. Vehling is said to have declared Pinner died of a contagious form of meningitis. Blasengym paid for the second autopsy by Dr. Clarence A. Tolies, pathologist, and Tolies found that death was caused by a complication of meningitis, not contagious. Private Funeral Ordered Vehling commanded the family to hold a privatt funeral and they were placed under quarantine. City health board physiciaas Investigated the following day finding there was no danger to the family or others because the disease was not contagious. Suit for $5,000 is expected to be filed within a few days on behalf of Mrs. Joseph Schindwolf, 831 Weghorst street, alleging Vehling held an illegal autopsy and returned an improper death verdict. Vehling is said to have gone to the Schindwolf home and solicited the burial of Mr. Schindwolf. Before the funeral, relatives discovered an autopsy had been performed on the body. Vehling, under questioning, is said to have admitted performing the past-mortem ana declared death was due to a form of meningitis. Death Due to Injuries Members of the family charge Schindwolf’s death was due to injuries sustained several days before, when he fell on his head while working on a house on East St. Clair street. Dr. E. B. Boots, who attended Schindwolf before his death, pronounced death caused by intercranial pressure, resulting from the fall. On Vehling’s refusal to return an accidental death verdict, one insurance company declined to pay the claim. Another insurance firm, however, paid the full claim, after investigating the case and Vehling’s activities.

Sister Mary Talks Turkey SHARPEN knives. Scour pots and pans. And wait for the grocer’s boy . . . Thanksgiving day is near! And it’s a wise hostess who will heed Sister Mary’s advice, given in an article on The Times woman’s page Tuesday, to plan the big feast ahead of time. Sister Mary tells the size of turkey to select, suggests complementary courses, and gives valuable hints on the advance preparation of an ‘old time” dinner Tuesday in THE TIMES

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