Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1932 — Page 2

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WHEAT PRICES' STEADY CLIMB CHEERS CAPITAL Increases Are Seen Blow to Depression: Banks Are Investing. By T.nitrrl Prm* WASHINGTON, April 15.—Rising wheat prices have instituted new hope in government circles that the west, after all its lean years, may lead the nation out of the depression. Wheat Thursday reached its highest price in five months on the Chi- j cago market, September futures closing at 65 H cents. are making no predictions, having seen so many forecasts go awry. But they point out that the upswing from previous depressions usually has come in ,the fall when farmers cash in on their! crops. If this year’s harvest brings substantially better prices, they believe i conditions generally might be given' a decisive upward push. The federal reserve is doing its best to ’-olster commodity prices generally. It announced that the federal reserve banks in the week ended April 13 had purchased $100,000,000 worth of government securities. One official told the United Press that steady purchase of $75,000,000 a week were likely. Through these financial operations the reserve system hopes to increase the volume of credit and money. Commodity prices usually tise with an increase in the volume |>f money. RADIO STATION WHAS TO JOIN COLUMBIA CHAIN Transfer of Programs Effective on May 15, Says Announcement. Bn United Prm* LOUISVILLE. April 15.—Radio station WHAS, which has recently been authorized by the federal radio commission to install a 50,000-watt transmitter, will become a member station of the Columbia Broadcasting system’s international network on Sunday, May 15. Owned and operated by the Courier-Journal Company and the Louisville Times Company, WHAS has been on the air since July, 1922, being the first broadcasting station licensed in Kentucky. Its signal, on 365.6 meters, or 820 kilocycles, is clearly received in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.

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William J. Burns , Noted Detective , Is Claimed by Death

By United Pret* SARASOTA, Fla., April 15.—William J. Burns, whose “horse sense” detective methods solved coast-to-coast bomb outrages, counterfeiting plots, land swindles and election frauds, is dead here after a heart attack. The 70-year-old man-tracker's death here Thursday night ended a career rivaling the most noted of fiction—but never included fictional

methods. It was a career that included so- | luticm of these cases: The Los Angeles Times-McNamara bomb plot. The Ohio election tally sheet forgeries of 1885. The Philadelphia-Lancaster counterfeit plot. Oregon - Washington - California land fraud cases of 1903. San Francisco’s mint robbery with $30,000 loss. Boss Abe Ruef's political ring in San Francisco. Bums also figured in many other cases, the most sensational of which were the Leo Frank investigation in Georgia, where he once was nearly lynched while gathenng evidence to prove Frank innocent; the Teapot Dome investigation, the Herman Rosenthal murder in New York, and the Atlantic City and Detroit municipal graft cases. Until eight years ago, Burns was head of the bureau of investigation of the United States department of justice, and had been in that position since 1922.

Before that he was head of the William J. Burns Detective Association. At the peak of his career his agency was classified as a “big business" with offices in every important city. Burns’ biggest coup was the solution of the Philadelphia-Lancaster counterfeiting case, said to be the biggest counterfeiting ring ever broken

up by the government. A year later Bums organized his own agency. While head of the agency, he was called in on the Los Angeles Times case, when the Times building was dynamited and twenty-one people were killed. His work brought arrests and convictions. Burns was born in Baltimore in October, 1861, but grew up in Columbus, 0., where his father owned a tailor shop. Later his father became commissioner of police there'. It was then that young “Billy” became interested in ferreting out crime. His first detective work was in 1885, when 24 yea’-* old. The case was known as the “tally sheet forgery," connected with * Ohio elections, in which tally sheets in Cincinnati and Columbus were altered. He assisted in running down the guilty persons and obtaining a confession. In 1930 he. was appointed to the United States secret service. He then specialized in counterfeiting cases, running down two rings. He was sent to Florida to stop filibustering, then retrned to New York, where he uncovered another counterfeiting plot connected with instigation of revolt in Costa Rica. Bums figured in the Teapot dome case in connection with shadowing of the jury in the Fall-Sinclair

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criminal conspiracy trial in 1927. He was convicted of complicity in contempt of court, and was sentenced to fifteen days in jail. In June, 1927, however, the supreme court found him not guilty of an overt act, and he was freed. For the last five years, Bums has lived here where he wrote detective and mystery stories based on his experiences. Thursday night he suffered the fatal heart attack, and died within an hour. His wife, Mrs. Anna M. Burns; his son, Raymond, and the latter’s wife, and a daughter, Mrs. Cyrus H. King of Detroit, were with him when he died. He is survived also bv Wiliam S. Burns of New York, a son, and by another daughter, Mrs. Randall Borough of New York. MISSION HEAD IS SLAIN Baptist Official at Warsaw Is Murdered by Thieves. liy United Prrgg WARSAW, April 15.—Edith GralMott, 40, head of the United States Baptist mission in Warsaw, was murdered in her home here, police announced today. Her throat was cut with a razor. Police said the murderer or murderers had searched her home for mission funds.

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