Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1931 — Page 1

HOPE OF TAX RELIEF COMES AFTER PARLEY Leaders of Major Parties in State Move to Draft Definite Program. BAN PUT ON POLITICS Special Legislative Session to Equalize Burden Is Aim of Conferees. With “No Politics” as a slogan, chairmen of the two major political parties today agreed to cooperate for a series of conferences lo arrange a possible tax relief program. Their aim is a special session of the general assembly, designed to equalize the tax burden. R. Earl Peters, Democratic leader, and Elza O. Rogers, Republican manager, agreed to confer upon representations of two delegations from the Indiana Farm Bureau today. The conference is expected to be held late this afternoon. A tentative program was outlined Try William Settle, Farm Bureau president; James Moore, editor of the Hoosier Farmer, who met with Rogers; Lewis Taylor, vice-presi-dent of the bureau and head of its legislative committee, and L. N. Needier, bureau secretary and treasurer. Program Is Outlined 1. A conference of the two chairmen. 3. A conference to be arranged by Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush and Speaker Walter Myers of heads of various industries, merchants and farmers to discuss a possible program. Leaders of both legislative houses to be invited. 3. Presentation of the tax relief program, if is reached, to members of the general assembly, with a view to threshing out all difficulties. 4. Obtaining of pledges of a constitutional majority of both houses to support the program and not to introduce bills on subjects not germane to tax relief. 5. Upon completion of this work, the results are to be presented to Governor Harry G. Leslie, with recommendation that he call a special session of the general assembly. Admit Tax Crisis Both party chairmen declared that, the tax situation is the greatest crisis confronting the state and that it Is of such magnitude that a moratorium on purely partisan politics should be declared while a solution is being reached. “There must be no political jockeying, if results are to be obtained,” declared Peters, and was joined in this, almost word for word, by Rogers. Settle declared that to achieve the results desired, the conference committees should not be too large. He also indicated that the conference should begin immediately after the first of the year. Peters said that to “get somewhere” on the question of equalization of the tax burden, he feels that his party may be willing to recede from its platform position on income tax exemptions. Limit to Concessions This declaration was for exemptions not less generous than those in the federal law. He is not willing to recede from the party pledge for both corporate and personal income taxation. The two committees conferred with the chairmen as a result of the meeting with the Governor Tuesday afternoon, when Leslie definitely declared that he would not call a special session unless a program had been agreed upon. Emphasis was placed by the Governor at the Tuesday conference on the fact that the house is Democratic and the senate Republican as being a bar to an agreed program. Senator Alonzo H. Lindley (Rep.) Kingman, member of the committee, said he could assure the Governor of prompt passage of reform tax measures by the senate. Cites ‘Horrible Examples’ Leslie cited lengthy and thus far futile special sessions in surrounding states as “horrible examples.”' “Some good might have been accomplished at the regular session when the problem was just as acute, if the boys from outside didn't come in with their pencils and rewrite the tax reform bills,” Leslie told the committee. “It seems to me that with divided houses and an election coming on there will be grave danger of the session degenerating into a political fight with each party trying to grab all credit for reform At the close he promised to issue the call, however, if his conditions are met.

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Just ‘Airias’ By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y„ Dec. 23 - Forty pupils of the Olympic avenue grade school will sing Christmas carols into a ventilator Thursday. After the singers had been training for several weeks, it was discovered that the stage wouldn’t hold forty persons. But Miss Florence Pritchard, principal, knew her air currents. So Thursday, while the rest of the pupils remain in their classrooms, the forty favored singers will troop to the basement and sing into the ventilator. The air currents. Miss Pritchchard is convinced, Vill carry the music to all the rooms in the school.

ST. NICK MAY USE RAINCOAT Little Prospect for Cold; Hoosier Bees Swarm. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. The weather bureau's forecast for Christmas eve indicates that Santa Claus w r ili need a raincoat and boots rather than furs and a sled for his annual roof-top pilgrimage. Today's forecast said the outlook was for considerable cloudiness in the eastern part of the country, with occasional rains, but with no important temperature changes. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—-The mildest pre-Christmas weather in more than fifty years continued today over a large area of the midwest. December heat records were broken by the freak weather that set bees to swarming and strawberries growing just two days before Christmas. The temperature rose to 55 degrees in Chicago, a mark higher than any record since 1875. Similar high marks were reported by a score of midwestern cities. At Canton, 111., Lon Henderson picked strawberries from his garden while Dun Bidwell, Rome City, Ind., said his bees swarmed under influence of the heat. 8-HOUR FARM LABOR BILL PASSES HOUSE Production Costs Guaranty Also in Wisconsin Measure. By United Press ( MADISON, Wis., Dec. 23.—Wisconsin farmers will have an eighthour day and be guaranteed production costs in depression periods, if a bill passed by the house becomes law. The measure which provides an eiglit-hour day for all industries Ui addition to agriculture, was sent to the senate today after passage by the house Tuesday night. It provides that the state agriculture department estimate production costs, including farm labor at 30 cents an hour with time and a half for overtime. The state would pay the farmers the difference between the price received for their products and the production cost, if the latter is higher. POLICE SEE GANGLAND VENGEANCE IN MURDER Marvin Hart, Who Turned in Lingle Suspect, Slain in West. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Dec. 23 —Gangland vegeance and the killing of Alfred J. .Jake) Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, were ascribed by police today as probable reason for the slaying last night of Marvin Hart, “big shot coast racketeer. Hart came to Los Angeles in 1926 from Chicago, where he had been a George (Bi gs) Moran gangster. Underworld gossip credited Hart with having turned Frankie Foster, another Chicago gangster, over to Chicago police, who questioned Foster in the Lingle slaving Hart also was reported in the underworld here as having “put the finger” on the kidnapers of Zeke Caress at Long Beach when the police quizzed him. GETS $35 IN HOLDUP Bandit Escapes After Robbery at Freight Claim Department. Staging a daylight holdup at the freight claim department of the Big Four railroad, Capitol avenue and South street, a bandit today obtained $35 from J. H. Shimer of Wanamaker, an employe. The bandit asked to look at a doll, and as he said “I’ll take this one,” drew his revolver and leveled it at Shimer. Scooping up th: money, the bandit fled to the street, escaping in an automobile manned by a confederate. Ethan Teters of Beech Grove, employe. pursued the bandit to the car and obtained the license number. Award Supply Contracts Contracts for SBO,OOO in supplies for county institutions in 1932 were awarded today to forty bidders \>y county commissioners.

THE rush is on! The rush of dollars and donors to Clothe-a-Child opened today, as minutes were obliterated before Christmas eve. Good hearts in a hurry and unable to Clothe-a-Child accepted The Indianapolis Times offer to do their shopping t or them. A relief crew was sent into homes of the unemployed to dress ill-clad children lor Clothe-a-

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HOUSE BILL 6 PROBE ENDED; ! NONE INDICTED Grand Jury Charges Gross Neglect of Duty to Legislators. EVIDENCE INSUFFICIENT Inquiry Group Recommends New Laws to Prevent Recurrence. Assertion that legislators and leg- | islative employes were guilty of j “gross neglect of duty” in passage of i House Bill 6, depriving municipali- ; ties of control of motor bus traffic, was made by the Marion county J grand jury, in a report today to 1 Frank P. Baker, criminal court judge. No indictments were returned. The jury recommended that the next legislature enact laws making legislators and employes criminally responsible for “neglect of sworn duty.” The report stated that evidence presented in the probe of alleged illegal pasage of the bill “was not sufficient to warrant indictment of any persons connected with its passage.” Probe Opened Last Spring The jury's probe was launched last spring, after Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin issued a permanent injunction prohibiting Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, from publishing the act. Chamberlin branded the bill as "fictitious legislation.” Governor Harry G. Leslie and numerous state officials were among witnesses to appear before the probe body to tell of the bill’s passage. Charges were made that signatures of the Speaker of the house and the president of the senate on the measure were obtained by fraud, and that the measure never I received the constitutional approval ! of the legislature, i Chamberlin held that the bill ! never was passed by the Indiana I senate and had been rejected by | that body by a decisive vote. Judge Hits Action The bill would have invested the public service commission with powers to regulate bus and truck traffic. It was passed during the last hours of the legislature. Chamberlin, in his ruling, said that evidence shows that presiding officers of both houses authenticated or signed the bill through fair* representations and mistaken belief in the facts. "The evidence also shows that the Governor declined to returrl the bill, giving as his reason the fact that the bill already was signed,” Chamberlin said.

Dreams Fail Manchuria is not anew homeland for the Japanese, and high hopes that room could be found there for the thousands jammed into the tight little isles in the Pacific are not being realized. The Japanese has eaten rice all his life. But rice can not be raised in the northern country. The climate is unfavorable to the Japanese pioneer. The Japanese is more tropical than northern in heredity, and does not thrive in the bitter cold which sweeps across the Manchurian wastes. So, for the Japanese, the dream has not come true. Read the first of five informative, interesting articles about Manchuria, China and Japan, by Science Service, on Page 2 of this edition today. Another will follow Thursday.

BUSINESS MAN INJURED Almus Ruddle. Rubber Firm Head, Hurt in Auto Crash. Airr.us Ruddle, 55, president of the Central Rubber and Supply Company, was injured seriously today in an accident at Thirtyfourth street and College avenue. He suffered head and body injuries. His car collided with another driven by George Vandenbosch, 21, Y. M. C. A. Ruddle was taken to his home. JAIL CHILD TORTURERS Father, Stepmother of Clcset Prisoner Get Two Years. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. The father and stepmother of Edith Riley, the 13-year-old girl who lived for four years a virtual prisoner in a small closet, each was sentenced today to serve two years in jail. Harry N. Riley and his wife, Elsie, also were fined $250 each by Justice Letts in the District of Columbia supreme court.

Child pledges who could not shop for themselves. But keeping stride with cash donations to the campaign were the donors who wanted to clothe their own children. Three hundred thirteen bovs and girls, between 6 and 12 years old, have been pledged warm clothing for the ensuing school months. The Clothe-a-Child movement closes at 4 p. n>, Thursday. Then

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Dozen Opposed By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. Seven Republicans and five Democrats, including Mrs. Hattie Caraway (Ark.) voted in the senate against ratification of the Hoover war debt and reparations moratorium, w'hich extends from July 1, 1931, to July 1, 1932. The sum temporarily given up by the United States is $252,000,000. Half of this sum fell due Dec. 15 and the remainder would be due June 15, 41932. Senators who voted against ratification were: Republicans: Bulow. Frazier, Johnson, Norbeck Norris, Nye, Schall. Democrats: Caraway, Connally, Dill, McKellar, Thomas (Okla.). Senators Shipstead (F.-L., (Minn.), Howell (Rep., Neb., and Gore (Dem., Okla.) were paired against ratification.

OMAHA REFORM LEADER KILLED Wealthy Foe of Vice Slain in His Automobile. By United Press OMAHA, Dec. 23.—Harry Lapidus, Jewish manufacturer, prominent in the reform element of the Nebraska Republican party, was slain by enemies who resented his constant war against crime and vice, Omaha police believed today. Lapidus died at the wheel of his automobile shortly before midnight, when an unidentified assailant fired three times with a shotgun, the slugs penetrating his brain. The 49-year-old Russian immigrant, who had risen by his own efforts to become head of the Omaha Fixture and Supply Company, one of the largest of its kind in the west, and a power in Jewish circles throughout the nation, had spent the evening at the Jewish community club. Police believed his assassin waited outside the club while Lapidus talked and laughed with friends within, then followed his car to the lonely spot beneath a viaduct, where it was found. J. E. Fitzgerald, who lived nearby, heard the three shots, then heard a. motor roar as a machine was driven away. Rushing from his home, he found Lapidus slumped over the wheel of his car—one foot on the running board and a halfsmoked cigar still burning between his clenched teeth. The motor was running. OIL COMPANY FIGHTS STORE TAX RULING Exemption of Filling Stations Sought in Circuit Court Suit. Suit challenging the ruling of Attorney-General James E. Ogden that gasoline filling stations come within the purview of the chain store tax act has been filed in circuit court by the Midwestern Petroleum Company. An injunction restraining collection of the tax by the state tax board is sought. Judge Harry O. Chamberlin set Dec. 30 for the hear-, ing on a temporary injunction. Although the United States supreme court held the store tax law constitutional it did not define “store” and the petroleum company’s complaint contends the high court’s decision does not imply necessarily that the act applies to filling stations. DEADLOCK ON RAIL PAY Canadian Roads, Employes Are Unable to Agree., By United Press MONTREAL. Dec. 23.—The Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways were deadlocked with their employes today over the 10 per cent wage cut proposal made retroactive to Nov. 15. Railway executives offered to refund the reductions made on pay checks for the Nov. 15-30 period, if the employes would agree to the cut dating from Dec. 1. The union chairman refused, contending that no cut at all was warranted. Several chairmen favored a strike ballot being taken, but no definite decision was reached. Slaying Denied By United Press BOONVILLE, Ind., Dec. 23. James Bolin, 31, entered a plea of not guilty in Warrick circuit court here on a charge of second degree murder resulting from the slaying of Harrison Maddox, 26, Dec. 12. Judge U. W. Youngblood set Bolin’s trial for Feb. 15. Bolin and Maddox are said to have fbught after Bolin accused Maddox of stealing two and one-half gallons of whisky Kissless Christmas for Texas By United Press AUSTIN. Tox., Dec. 23.—A kissless Christmas is in prospect for many parts of Texas. .Unusual delay in the arrival of frost has left mistletoe still green in many parts of the state. It is only when the berries have taken on their Christmas white that they are potent over doorways and on chandeliers.

the last children will be assigned to donors. a a a DUE to the last minute rush. The Times requests donors not to be too particular as to ages of their boys or girls. There are families in which some are left to clothe and those families will be cared for before anew family is chosen for relief. Children are on the'list of the gawky ages of 10 to 12 ygars. They

SENATE VOTES APPROVAL OF DEBTHOLIDAY Last Session Before Recess Marked by Bitter Slaps at Hoover. AMENDM£NTS BEATEN Majority Leaders Voice Love for Farmer, Then Ballot Against Relief. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—'The $252,000,000 Hoover war debt and reparations moratorium is formally in effect today, with consent and ratification of congress. The vote in the senate was 69-12. The senate completed ratification late Tuesday night after an angry, eleven-hour session. Senators then voted themselves and the house of representatives a Christmas holiday until Jan. 4. But the cheery spirit of St. Nicholas was conspicuously absent as the senate argued itself almost into a state of exhaustion and then decided to get some sleep. The ratified moratorium resolution contained a reservation expressing congressional policy to be against cancellation or reduction of the war debts owed the United States. As several senators remarked, this reservation is a “scrap of paper,” because one congress has not the power to bind another with respect to policy. Recess "s Started The moratorium had been ratified by the house some days earlier. Most of the representatives left Washington early today. Speaker i Garner, Majority Leader Rainely, and a few others stood by during the hours of senate debate to go through the motions at the end of receiving from the senate the Christmas vacation resolution, and for Garner to sign the moratorium resolution. At 11:05 Tuesday night ail these formalities were completed and congress was in holiday recess. Oratorically speaking, it was a bad day for Mr. Hoover. Senator Hiram Johnson (Rep., Cal.) said the President planned debt cancellation or reduction, and that he had violated constitutional procedure in obtaining from members of congress telegraphic approval of the moratorium. Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.) deI scribed Mr. Hoover as one “who for- ' gets he is not managing coal mines in China .” Others Hurl Shafts • Senators Nye (Rep., N. D.), McKellar, Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, Minn.), Frazier (Rep., N. D.), •Thomas (Dem., Okla.) and Norris (Rep., Neb.) leveled sarcasm against the moratorium or bludgeoned with heavier weapons. A series of amendments was offered to make the moratorium conditional on revision of the Versailles treaty, on American repudiation of the allied thesis that Germany was solely responsible for the war, and on returning to Germany her lost colonies Nye offered a rider to extend a year’s moratorium to borrowers from the federal land banks. Senator Gore (Dem., Okla.) wanted an 80 per cent moratorium and would have devoted the 20 per cent of payments received approximately $50,000,000 —to winter relief of the ; unemployed. ' A determined senate majority j knocked over those proposals of the ! opposition as quickly as they were put up, until the majority enccunj tered the proposal of Nye. It is difj ficult to vote against extending aid i to distressed agriculture. Many senators felt called upon to explain why they felt they must ! vote against the amendment, ali though they yielded to no man in I the intensity or sincerity of their 1 love for the American farmer. But 1 Nye w r as voted dowm, 60 to 15. Cutting Denounces Plan Senator Cutting (Rep.. N. M.), j caught the attention of the senate with a sharp denunciation of the whole debt and reparations structure. He said the moratorium was the “opening wedge” to destruction of the Versailles treaty, the Dawes and Young plans and the debt structure, and added, “that is one reason I am going to vote for it.” Then in five minutes the senate did what it had known all along lit would do. It ratified the moratorium. There ensued a lively battle over the Christmas holiday. ; Senator Borah, moved to amend the ! concurrent resolution by ending the j vacation Dec. 28 instead of Jan. 4 j And then, on a vote which split both parties, the senate decided 42 to 33, that it would be safe to go away until Jan. 4. Injuries Cause Death By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind.. Dec. 23. ; Wesley Kuykendall, 68, who was injured in an automobile accident 1 here Sunday, died Tuesday,

need warm clothing. They are children just like the younger tads and they get cold. too. All children are checked for need and worthiness by relief agencies of the Community Fund and social sendee department of the Indianapolis public schools. ana JUST call Riley 5551, or write, and a child will be assigned to you.

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WHEN he takes off his glasses, he is nearly blind. Yet, without his glasses on. he has played in the line on two high school football teams during thir-ty-six games. He has a scholastic record of 87 for more than three and onehalf years of high school study. He is Lloyd Armstrong, 16, now a senior at Craw'fordsville high school, w'ho gained his first experience as a football player w'hile a freshman at Washington high school. It was then a coach told Lloyd's parents it would be impossible for the youth to play football. And it w'as then Lloyd admitted he was nearly blind without his glasses. But since he has learned something. It is that perseverance spells success. u n * I DON’T know how' I play football,” Lloyd says. “I can’t tell you and no one can tell me. But I do it. I go through practice sessions with the rest oi them, and I’ve been in thirty-six games. “It seems I just feel where the ball is. Now' and then I see the ball, when it’s real close. But they say I play all right and never make any mistakes.” Lloyd, w'ho weighs 210, plays left guard. His next goal in life is to attend Purdue and play football for the Boilermakers. n a * ETE has been living in CrawL fordsville for the last three years. Following his graduation in June, he will return here for the summer. Doctors have pronounced his eye ailment, which he has had since childhood, incurable. They say his eyes neither will improve nor get worse.

Hoover Shops for Peggy and Pete in Dime Store

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—Peggy Ann and Peter (Herbert III) Hoover, a spirited young couple of note, took over the White House today as hosts to 200 of the capital's socially elite younger set. The grandchildren of the President, who arrived from California Tuesday with their parents, Herbert and Mrs. Hoover Jr., for the Yuletide holidays, are to greet scores of old friends at the party, which is becoming an annual affair. “We want everybody to 6ome this year,” said Peggy Ann, “'cause this year they’re bringing presents to the party instead of getting them.' The presents, w'hich, can be anything from a second-hand jumper to an old dolly or wagon, are to be given out to needy little boys and girls who otherwise might not have any Christmas. K , M M HUM PEGGY ANN, nearly 6, and Peter, two years younger, looked forward to their first big party of the season with glee. They hardly cculd sit still during the first day back in Washington, when they greeted their grandmother at the station and “Grand-Daddy” Hoover at the White House. Their influence was felt immediately, from the President on dowm. In the White House kitchen special dishes for little folk were prepared; clerks in the exquisite offices, secret service men and other White House attaches were on the lookout to heljf the young house guests and make them happy. n u * n u * THE President, in high good humor, had luncheon with his reunited family, and then decided to go shopping himself and buy toys for Peggy Ann and Peter He went into several shops, including a 5 and 10cent store, and bought everything in sight from marbles to dolls, and a kitchen range for Peggy Ann. In his hour’s Christmas shopping tour the President, accompanied by his two cons. Herbert Jr. and Allan, and his daughter-in-law, rubbed shoulders with the usual Christmas throngs that packed the stores. In the “dime store” the President bought rubber animals, musical tops and other odas and ends to make Peggy Ann and Peter happy when Santa Claus arrives at the White House Christmas morning.

New pledges, bringing the total to 313 children clothed, follow: Automotive bowline league of ’930 season (two bovs/ Indiana Wheel and Kim Companr emploves (eared ter two children and took another one). Charles Schwert. Columbia Club Good Scout. I Want Twins (two eirlsi. Ladies' Thirteen Club of Ft. Benjamin Harrison. Hornff Shoe Corporation. Tokalon f*

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JAPANESE SEIZE CHINESE FORTS # Warships Join in Smash at Beaten Foe. By United Press TOKIO, Dec. 23.—Advancing across Manchuria in a drive against "bandits,” Japanese troops and bombing planes captured two Chinese citadels today and ordered warships into action to head off the beaten defenders. Advices received here from Yinkow' said that Japanese had occupied the citadel at Tlenchuangtai in South Panshan, disarming Chinese soldiery. From Haicheng it was reported that another wing of the Japanese advance had taken the Niuchuang citadel, while airplanes continued a bombing foray westward along the Liao river. A cruiser, two flotillas of destroyers, and aircraft carrier and a special service ship based at Jure and Sasebo, within cruising distance of ports near the Manchurian front, were ordered to prepare to sail for Chinwangtao. The order was believed intended to cut off a retreat by the Chinese. Earlier in the advance, Japanese troops captured Faukumen, one of the largest cities north of Mukden, the center of Japanese activities. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 49 10 a. m 52 7a. m 50 11 a. m 54 8 a„jm 51 12 (noon).. 56 9 a. m 52 1 p. m 58

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CHILD KILLER IS HUNTED BY POLICE ARMY V Far-Flung Search Launched for Murderer of Cincinnati Girl. SUSPECTS ARE GRILLED Clews Are Few to Fiend Who Kidnaped and Slew Victim. By United Press CINCINNATI. Dec. 23—A farflung search carrying authorities into every quarter of the city followed today the discovery of the body of Marian McLean, 6, kidnaped and murdered as she joyously awaited the arrival of Santa Claus. The search, linking all resources of police and fire departments, yielded arrests of two suspects, who were questioned. One of the suspects was a 42-vear-old hermit, who lived in a shack in the neighborhood. In one corner of his hut. police found a bucket, partly filled with murky, red-colored water. The suspect admitted, police said, that he had been mopping the floor with the water. City chemists were to make an analysis of the water today, in an endeavor to ascertain if the colbring is blood. Start Systematic Search The child's body was found in the cellar of a tenement house Tuesday, five days after she disappeared in company with a "dark looking” stranger, her suspected murderer. She had been criminally attacked. These attacks and loss of blood caused her death, in the opinion of Dr. J. M. Patterson, deputy coroner. Aroused by the brutality of the crime, the department of safety flung every resource into the search for the murderer. More than 150 firemen and policemen joined in a systematic search of the neighborhood adjacent to the tenement, w'hich was less than 100 feet from the spot where Marian and the stranger last were seen by a neighbor boy. The quest, yielding few clews, was extended to a general manhunt throughout the city. Knife Is Found One of the meager clews which police held was a knife, found plunged into the soft dirt of the cellar floor near the body. The knife contained no blood stains and its presence, police felt, was a crude ruse designed to screen the real cause of death. The chief object of search was for the prison chamber where the pretty fair-haired child had been held captive before her death. This occurred, the assistant coroner reported, less than fifteen hours before the body was found. The body had been carried to the tenement basement from some other place, presumably in the same neighborhood, police said. While the most frenzied search in ; the city’s history was in progress, Marian’s mother, Mrs. Mildred McLean. was grief-stricken. Funeral on Saturday "I don't know how I can face Christmas now',” she sobbed, burying her eyes from the toys and trinkets, which she had bought for Marian her only child, last week. Services will be held Saturday at St. Patrick's Catholic church, Covington, Ky. Six of Marian's playmates will be palibearers. Evidence that the murderer intended to bury the child was discovered today. In the soil of the cellar w'here she was found, a small excavation had been made. It apparently was intended as a grave. A shovel was nearby. The grand jurjj) today returned a John Doe indictment to prevent delay in prosecution and possibility of habeas corpus proceedings in case the attacker is found after the jury adjourns. Father to Fly Home By United Press PHOENIX, Ariz:., Dec. 23.—Joseph McLean will board an American Airlines plane today to fly to Cincinnati, 0., where his 6-year-old daughter, Marian, was murdered. McLean said he hadn’t heard from his wife or authorities in the Ohio city since Marian was kidnaped. McLean hitch-hiked into Arizona fifteen months ago, but has been unable to obtain a regular job. He has worked for months for board and room. Being penniless, he planned at first to “ride the blinds” home, but “friends” arranged the airplane transportation. Today it was disclosed the “friends” were officials of the airline company. COP BITTEN ON HAND Patrolman Otis Baker Gets Tooth Scars in Fight With Negro. One policeman bitten on the hand was th€ casualty list of what officers described as a terrific attle today in capturing a Negrc gunman. Albert White, 42-year-old Negro, refused to let officers int£ the house at 426 Douglas street, where they w’ere called by neighbors. The policemen broke in a window and vanquished White after a wild struggle. Patrolman Otil Baker was bitten by White several times on the hand.

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