Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 257, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 March 1932 — Page 3

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BANDIT PAID IS I TRAPPED; ONE | SLAIN BY COP| - .■■■—■- Fred Stuck Is Killed With Gun in Hand; Mate Is Captured. One bandit is dead and a suspect is held by police as the aftermath of an alleged attempt early today of two gunmen to rob a filling station and a motorist. The dead bandit is Fred Stuck, 40, of 1208 Beecher street. His companion, Harold Lester. 25, of 1208 Finley avenue, was nabbed by police, who fatally wounded Stuck in the alleged act of robbing the motorist. The shooting occurred at Raymond street and Bethel avenue, as motorpolicemen Ervin Barker and Cecil Neal sprung a trap set by a motorist to capture the alleged gunmen. Tried to Block Car Barker and Neal were investigating a report by Frank Murello of 664 South East street, and Tony La Rosa of 901 South New Jersey street, that two men had attempted to block their car on Raymond street near Bethel avenue. Murello and La Rosa were directed to drive back to the scene, and the police car, without lights, j followed close behind. As the two cars drew near a filling station owned by Herbert Pfiume of Beech Grove, the bandit suspects were seen pumping gasoline from a pump, lock on which had been broken, police said. Swerve Into Station Murello and La Rosa swerved their car into the filling station, blocking the path of the bandit car. Barker and Neal parked at the rear of the bandit car. Seeing Murello and La Rosa, Stuck is said to have drawn a revolver, ordering Murello to “stick j 'em up." At this point, Barker had leaped from the police car and stood within five feet of the bandit. As the gunman's command was given, Neal, with Barker, drew his revolver and fired. The slug tore through Stuck's head, killing him instantly. Covered by Officer Lester, said to have been seated in the bandit car, then was “covered” by Barker and dragged from the car. He provided police with the name of the dead bandit. Lester, suspect in the murder of William Zeller, lottery operator, was at liberty under bond pending trial in connection with the Zeller case on charges of conspiracy to commit a felony. William Hill, pal of Lester and former policeman, now is serving a life sentence at the state prison for the murder. Police say Lester is a memebr of a gang headed by Arthur Dampier, west side hoodlum. Figured in Shooting La Rosa previously figured in a shooting three years ago, when he was seriously wounded while sitting in his automobile near Hall place and Sixteenth street, after he tried to escape from assailants in another car. He was taken to city hospital and recovered, but refused to explain the incident to police. The fight was reported to have followed a hijacking attempt. Lester and Stuck were driving a t car owned by Lester’s wife Irene. As Stuck fell to the ground mortally wounded he was grasping a .38-caliber revolver containing three loaded shells, according to Barker and Neal. TWO HELD IN ROBBERY Morgantown Pair Charged With Stealing Money of One’s Brother. By Times Special NASHVILLE, Ind., March 5. Earl Hutchison. 17, and Robert Tryon, 20, both living near Morgantown, are held here on a charge of stealing $2,200 from Earl’s brother, Harlan, an Indianapolis upholsterer. Both are said to have confessed. All but SIOC of the money has been • recovered, authorities said. According to statements credited to the prisoners, they took the money from the Hutchison family home, where Harlan had placed It in a trteel box after withdrawing it from a bank. ANCIENT PALACE FOUND Third of Sassanian Dynasty Unearthed at Old City of Kish. By United Press CHICAGO. March s.—The uncovering of the third palace on the , site of the ancient city of Kish by the excavators of the Field mu-seum-Oxford university joint expedition to Mesopotamia has disclosed a large reservoir from which water was piped, according to Stephen C. Simms, director of the Field museum of natural history. Two of the palaces were un- * covered last year. All three are of the Sassanian dynasty of Persian kings dating from A. D. 226 to 637. Kish is believed to have been the site of the world's earliest civilization, materials found there dating back as far as 5,500 years ago. 10 YEARS FOR THIEVES Chicken Roost Ilfbers Are Sen- * teawed to Reformatory. * By United Press NOBLESVILLE, Ind.. March 5. The two survivors of a trio of chicken thieves who encountered a fusillade of police bullets near Elwood a week ago, were sentenced here Friday to ten-year reformatory terms. Hobart Wells. Noblesville, was killed in the gun battle. Alvin Hilton, hi* half brother. who was wounded seriously, and Robert Eurick, pleaded guilty in circuit court to first degree burglary charges. Diners Eat Planked Turkey * By Inited Press HARTFORD. Conn., March 5. Anew American delicacy—planked turkey—was introduced at a luncheon of directors of the Connecti- * cut Turkey Producers’ Association. It is credited to Dr. C. E. Terry of Shelton and turkey growers believe •> it will improve their business.

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NINE ARE HURT IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

Simon Cambe Suffers Lung Puncture in Crash at Meridian, Sixteenth. Nine persons were injured, one seriously, in automobile accidents Friday afternoon and night. Condition of Simon Cambe, 34, of 1118 South Illinois street, is serious. A broken rib punctured a lung and he incurred other internal injuries when the car he was driving collided with one driven by Dudley Swartz, 52, of 1146 Congress avenue. Witnesses told police that Cambe, driving south on Meridian street, started across Sixteenth street as a traffic signal showed change and the collision resulted. No arrests were made. Witnesses said police did not arrive at the scene until twenty minutes after the accident and an ambulance did not arrive until twentyfive minutes after being called. Five Hurt in Collision A mother and four children were injured in an auto collision at Miller street and Belmont avenue. The husband and father, Clarence Burton, 39, of 2020 South Belmont avenue, was ohe of the drivers. The other car was driven by Raymond Sheldon, 49, of 554 Fletcher avenue. Mrs. Mabel Burton, Clarence Jr., 14; Lucille, 17; Myrtle, 19, and Alice, 10, suffered bruises. Rufus Isaacs, 50, of 3020 North New Jersey street, received minor injuries when his car crashed into a parked machine after another driver forced him to the curb in the 2400 block North Meridian street. George Hornberger, 22, of 620 East Raymond street, owned the parked car. Driver of the third car has not been found. A fracture of the right arm and bruises were incurred by Mike Kasach, 48. of 28 South California street, who told police he was run over by an automobile from which he fell. He said the car was

Cornered Cop Has Tough Time With Indiana and Senate Intersection.

SERGEANT WALTER WHITE has no love for the point formed by the intersection of Indiana and Senate avenues. He is limping today as a result of bruises incurred Friday when a taxicab was backed into a police car from which he was alighting at the spot. As he alighted from the car at the same place, twentyfour hours previbusly, he dropped his eye glasses. New lens cost him sl2. Friday the police car, in which White was riding with Lieutenant Leo Troutman and Sergeant Tom Renforth, was halted at the intersection by a traffic light. Around the point w T as Joe Gordon, 38, 975 West Twenty-fifth street, and his taxicab. Gordon, tired of waiting for the light to change, whirled the cab and backed it around the point and against the police car. White was alighting from the car and impact seated him speedily and violently. Gordon is charged with reckless driving and running a traffic signal. Another Three “R’s” By United Press MT. PLEASANT. Mich., March 5. —Jordan school, near here, has substituted rations, routine and responsibility for the readin’, ritin’ and ’rithmetic of other days. Mrs. Mary Scarborough believes a practical application of life’s daily routine is better than "book lea min’.” A Safety for Savings Fletcher American NATIONAL BANK Southern of Mark of and Pennsylvania

Marie Dungan, 440 East Seventyfirst street, is trimming off a fin of her pet Percival. Later on she’ll abandon shears for a needle and thread to put Percy back together. “It’s more fun than darning stockings with runs in them,’.’ Miss Dungan says.

driven by Jack Sam, 29 South-West street, who is held on charges of drunkenness, drunk driving and failure to stop after an accident. Police found Kasach at Arsenal avenue and East New York street. Mrs. L. H. Thompson, 60,956 North Arlington avenue, received cuts and bruises when the car, driven by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Fred Hoffman, same address, collided with one driven by Miss Lorene Mobley, 17, of 6150 Indianola avenue, at Thirty-eighth street and Keystone avenue. Miss Nell Jackson, 35, of 636 North Tacoma avenue, was charged with drunkenness, driving while drunk and reckless driving, after an automobile she was driving collided with a police car near the city sewage reduction plant. The car is owned by Andrew Seeley, 2948 Ruckle street.

GAS WEAPON OF RUM BOAT Fight Back at Bullets of Machine Guns; Captured. By United Press WOODS HOLE, Mass., March 5. A skirmish between coast guards armed with machine guns and alleged rum smugglers, who loosed some form of gas attack, ended j early today in capture of the Bos- \ ton speedboat Belble, near Warren | Point, R. I. Chief Boatswain’s Mate Cecil McLeod and his crew aboard the speedy CG-813 captured the sixty-three-foot, thirty-two-ton motorboat, valued with its cargo at possibly SIOO,OOO, after an exciting sixminute chase. Six men, the purported rum boat’s crew, are held. McLeod reported that during the pursuit the alleged rum runner zig-zagged along a crazy course at high speed as the 813’s machine gun fire raked its stern and one side. He charged that the Kelble’s crew of ,six replied with some form of a gas attack new in his experience as a rum chaser. The gas was not in the form of a smoke screen occasionally used by smugglers in New England waters, according to McLeod. It was after the Kelble had ignored three flares sent up by the coast guards that the 813 began pursuit. None of the Kelble’s crew was injured by the machine gun fire.

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COMMITTEE TO 1 END WORK ON REVENUE BILL Measure Is Designed to Draw Billion Dollars From Nation’s Pocketbook. By United Press WASHINGTON, March s.—Before night the house ways and means committee will have ready “the revenue bill of 1932,” designed to draw a billion doHars from the pocketbooks of nearly everybody in the country. The major task left to complete the measure today was selection of special excise taxes to raise $200,000,000. This amount still is needed to balance the budget on top of the manufacturers sales tax, the income, inheritance and gift taxes and certain new administrative provisions. Acting Chairman Charles R. Crisp, who has lived with the bill until he begins to look a bit weary, expects to introduce it in the house Monday. It probably will be taken up there about the middle of the week. Bill Is Nearly Ready Working under pressure all day Friday, the committee approved every section of the bill except the special excise taxes, and the few administrative changes. The measure is built around the broad manufactures sales tax, which carries a rate of 214 per cent and is designed to raise between $600,000,000 and $625,000,000. It will become effective thirty days after en- . ment, Crisp announced. Other major provisions are: Normal income tax rates of 2 per cent on the first $4,000 of taxable income; 4 per cent on the next $4,000, and 6 per cent above that. This compares with rates of 1 Vi, 3 and 5 per cent in the present law. Lowers Exemptions Exemptions of $1,500 for a single | person and $2,500 for a married person, compared with $1,500 and $3,500. Reduction of the amount that may be considered as “earned incomes,” and therefore subject to a 25 per cent credit before computation of taxes, from $30,000 to $12,000. Surtax rates ranging from 1 per cent at $6,000 to 40 per cent on incomes of SIOO,OOO and over. Estate tax rates graduating from 2 per cent under $50,000 to 40 per cent on $10,000,000 and over. Gift tax rates beginning with 1% per cent on $50,000, after an initial exemption of SIOO,OOO, and ranging in 30 per cent on gift of $10,000,000 and above.

‘Faint Heart —' By United Press MOBILE, Ala., March 5. Marvin M. Carroll, 49, of Birmingham, Ala., fainted twice while getting a marriage license. I want to get a marriage license,” he said. After the proceedings had started, he fainted. An ambulance crew was summoned to the courthouse and revived him. Once again the procedure was begun, and again he fainted. The third time he managed to hold together and was granted a license to wed Mrs. Caroline Kyzer, 31, of Mobile.

AWARD DELTA TAU CUP Miami University Honored for Largest Group at Convention. Best attendance at the dinner of the northern divisional conference of Delta Tau Delta fraternity in the Columbia Club, Friday night, won a silver cup for the chapter at Miami university. Thirty members of the university’s chapter attended the dinner. Brandt C. Downey and Oscar L. Pond were awarded citations by the fraternity’s court of honor. A dance tonight at the club, after business sessions, will close the twoday meeting.

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After ten years of suffering from a childhood fire tragedy, Florence Fahmer, 12, of 172513 South Talbot street, today had received the first part of a $5,000 court judgment which will be used for her medical treatment. For nine years the girl has visited an Indianapolis hospital weekly, in efforts to wipe out traces of body burns received when she was 2. Her father, Fred Fahrner, has been unemployed several months and the financial . burden has been heavy. The judgment was awarded the girl against Sylvester Ahlering Jr., and his mother by Superior Judge Joseph R. Williams. It was charged the boy hurled a mateh on the baby clothes of Florence and the body burns resulted.

WIDOWS BATTLE FOR BIGESTATE First Wife of Millionaire Says Divorce Was Illegal. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, March 5. The “lucky fortune” of the late Washington Henry Ochsner, posthumous millionaire, hinged on a 1909 Nevada divorce today when three self-styled widows and &■ partner began their fight for the estate into probate court. If middle-aged Mrs. Frances A. Ochsner succeeds in proving her contention that the geologist never divorced her, two other women may find their marriages to- him declared legally non-existent. As the admitted first wife, Mrs. Frances Ochsner opened the strange controversy with testimony designed to show Ochsner’s divorce against her was granted illegally. Mrs. Nancy Ochsner Baldy of Reno, Nev., whom the geologist married after his divorce, claimed she in turn had divorce thrust upon her. Mrs. Hilda Caring Ochsner was the wife of Ochsner when he died in 1927. F. C. Dougherty has asked a share on the basis of partnership papers. The fight began when a supposedly worthless piece of land left to Ochsner was found in the center of the Kettleman oil fields. Flies have carried death to more human beings than all the beasts of prey and poisonous reptiles combined.

CHINA TO WAGE WAR ON FOES IN MANCHURIA Military Forces to Be Sent Into Area Seized by Japanese. BY HERBERT R. EKINS United Pres# Staff Correspondent fCoovrieht. 1933. bv United Press* SHANGHAI, March s—The Chinese nationalist government issued a virtual declaration of war on the independent Manchurian state today, while rioting threatened foreign concessions here, and Japanese and Chinese forces planned further fighting. First act of anew military council created by the central executive committee of the Chinese government was to order a punitive expedition against the Manchurian state. The committee meeting at Loyang was attended by government and military leaders. According to the opinion of Chinese leaders here, the expedition will be headed by Marshal Chang Hseuh-Liang, ousted as Manchurian overlord by Japanese, and Feng YuHsiang, the “Christian general,” who still heads a powerful military force. Marshal Chang had a loyal army of 25,000 men in the Chinchow area before he ordered his men to retire within the great wall of China at Chanhaikwan. Honor Fallen Heroes It was not known whether Chiang Kai-Shek, former head of the government, who sent his armies to aid in the defense of Shanghai, would be concerned with the Manchurian expedition. The Chinese leaders opened their meeting with a solemn tribue to the soldiers killed at Shanghai, standing in silence for three minutes with heads bowed. While Chinese claimed that Japanese troops continued to fight northwestward toward Nanking, defenses of the international settlement and the French concession were strengthened as a protection against local rioting. Disturbances Friday night and early today centered in the French concession, which previously had been least endangered. Mobs Are Menace Danger to the international settlement was that thousans of Chineses might rush the district for safety on false reports that their native quarteds were to be attacked. Mobs of Chinese tried to enter the foreign district Friday after intense excitement caused by false reports that the Japanese com-mander-in-chief had been killed and that the Chinese were to coun-ter-attack against Shanghai. Several policemen were beaten before order was restored. The Chinese .'aid a round-table conference of world powers to consider the Shanghai situation was impossible while Japanese troops continued to advance and Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity were menaced. FRANCE BUYS NITRATES Product of U. S. Plant Will Be Shipped to Europe. By United Press RICHMOND, Va., March 5. Nitrates manufactured by the Atmospheric Nitrogen Company at Hopewell, Va., are to be supplied to the French government, it is reported here. The order is for 25,000 tons of nitrates which will be purchased by an American group including the Allied Chemical and Dye Corpora- | tion, owner of the Hopewell con- | cern. i Size of the order is not considered as important as the fact that the American companies are able to get a foothold in France, which is a large buyer of nitrates.

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JERSEY CATTLE CLUB ELECTS ANGOLA MAN Frank Rawley Made President of State Organization. Election of Frank Rawley of Angola as president of the Indiana Jersey Cattle Club featured a meeting Friday in the Washington. Edward Emcke of Vincennes, Dr. J. C. Bright of Pekin and Guy Daily of Mooresville were named directors. George Cooper, president of the Ohio Jersey Cattle Club, and H. E. Dennison, field agent for the American Jersey Cattle Club, were speakers. JAIL-JOB PLEA GRANTED Vagrant Will Finish Painting Task He Left Undone a Year Ago. By United Press DETROIT, March 5.—A year ago Joseph Bellaire started painting a building at the house of correction —his sentence was served and he left with the painting partially done. Today he was back at the job. “I’d like to go back and finish that job,” he told Judge Sweeney, pleading guilty to vagrancy.

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