Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 194, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1931 — Page 12

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CHINESE MOVE TO FORM NEW GOVERNMENT Country Without Leaders, Following Wholesale Resignations. 2?y VnOrd Trent NANKING. Dec. 23.—Chinese Nationalist leaders and representatives of the Canton government expect formation of anew Chinese government within a few days to replace the cabinet which disappeared Tuesday with wholesale resignations. Wu Chao-Chu (Dr. C. C. Wu), former Chinese minister to Washington, told the United Press that a new government would be formed before the end of the week. He expected Eugene Chen. Cantonese leader, to return here from Shanghai Thursday. Meanwhile the essential services of leaderless China w’ere carried on by foreigneis and Chinese civil servants traditionally removed from Chinese politics. Chiank-Kai-Sek, whose resignation as head of the government and commander of the army, navy and air forces preceded that of the rest of his government, remained in retirement. Although Chiang said he would "hibernate” in his mountain home and refuse all communications from Nanking, the field appeared so ripe for a coup that the reappearance of Chiang or some other military leader would not be surprising. Barring military coups, the fate of China appeared to rest with the conference of Kuomintang party leaders here, which was expected to last for the rest of the week. To meet the threat of a Japanese attack on Chinchow and to co-oper-ate with Cantonese leaders, the party was expected to create a committee to handle foreign affairs.

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BANDIT ‘WAGE’ CUT Average Holdup Nets Only $3

T'VEPRESSION has struck the greatest one-man business in Indianapolis—banditry. Although there is no overhead to meet, Bandit & Company, Inc., has found the picking meager in the city during the last two months. For the last sixty days, the average stickup has netted its perpetrators onlv S3. Police today said their figures show many of the holdups were fruitless while the largest haul was 526 and the bandit was caught an hour after he leveled his pistol at an unsuspecting citizen.

So far this year the number of , holdups, as compared with the same I period last year, has decreased from j 820 to 628. Sixty per cent of the I 1931 holdups have been solved and the criminals punished. Captain Ed Helm and Lieutenant Ralph Dean express the opinion the holdup racket no longer is worth the time, risk or possibility | of a future in the "big house.’ nun OUT to those who have been nabbed on holdup charges, goes the credit for telling the real story of the outlaw depression. "The one I pulled sure wasn’t worth the risk,” Roy Skaggs, of Hayworth, 111., said today. He is awaiting grand jury action at the county jail. He was captured \ shortly after he is alleged to have robbed a filling station attendant in Bridgeport ten days ago. "There weren’t any women in my case—just bad breaks,” he added. "Things weren't going well at home

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and I’d had a rap before, so I decided to step out for myself. "I might just as well have held up a bank as take the chance I did for that stickup I pulled.”

JAMES CAVIN', of Logansport, had his health in mind when he aided in a north side robbery recently, to which he has confessed. "We heard the guy had plenty of

dough and liquor and thought we’d make a real haul,” he said. “I was going to take the dough and beat it for Hot Springs and take some treatments. "But how far am I going to get on my share of $6 with other guys to split the take? I’m here already. The whole mess wasn’t worth the [ chance.” So police and bandits apparently agree at last. Robberies aren’t worth while in ; these days of depression. Veteran Buried By Times Special LEBANON, Ind.. Dec. 23. Funeral services were held Tuesday for William T. Ham, 90, Civil war veteran, who died after 4 month’s illness. He had been a resident here thirty-seven years. He leaves three children, Mrs. Bessie Pegg, Indianapolis; Oscar Ham, Plymouth, and Charles E. Ham, Moline, 111.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

JEWELRY STORE THIEVES ROUTED Flee Empty Handed; $488: City Loot Fatal. The city theft wave continued Tuesday night, burglars looting homes and stores of supplies valued at S4BB. Work of thieves attempting to cut a glass in a display window at the Stanley Jewelry store, 134 West Washington street, Tuesday night, was interrupted by a theater janitor, who summoned police. The men escaped through a hotel lobby without loot. Sixty chickens, seventy cans of fruit and ipeats valued at $l5O were stolen from the home of Mike Maholm, on East Thirty-fourth street near the city limits. Foods, value not estimated, were carted away from a Kroger store at Blake and Michigan streets, Tuesday night. Persons reporting thefts and losses are; M. J. Connelly. 1615 Woodlawn avenue, $63: Mrs. Sarah Combs. 524 South Illinois street. $25; L. H. Coolev. 1553 Cruft street. $43: Miss Catherine Martin. 226 Easr St. Joe. $75: Harold Bridee. 1352 North Kealine avenue. $24: Earl Montgomery. 1620 Montcalm street. $10: Noble Ethridge, 2503 Indianapolis avenue. S9B. and Mrs. Joohn Reed. 233 North East street, $2. Woman Wrecks Jail By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., Dec. 23. When Thelma Imes, 32, Negro, was placed in the county jail on a charge of intoxication, she began a career of destruction. She dei stroyed plumbing, banged iron doors, I turned on water and flooded cells and then took a headlong plunge i over a banister and fell to the floor below. She was not hurt. She pleaded guilty to intoxication in city court and was fined S4O.

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