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MEYER URGES UNIFIED U. S. BANK SYSTEM Elimination of State Charters to Restore Business Confidence Proposed. OPPOSES BONUS BILL Proper Expansion of Credit Going On Now, Asserts Federal Reserve Head. Ha I niti'l I'rn ?* WASHINGTON, April 28.—Need of a unified banking system was urged by Governor Eugene Meyer of the federal reserve board, when h'' appeared today by the house ways and means committee in opposition to the $2,000,000,000 soldier bonus bill. Meyer was questioned by committee regarding methods of bringing about business confidence. Meyer said he would have all banks of ’’ic country under a unified system, eliminating state charters. Before the committee Wednesday Meyer staunchly opposed the new currency plan of the bonus bill as inimical to the return of national confidence. "Have you considered going to the various states to try to secure legislation to safeguard the rights of depositors?” asked Representative John W. McCormick <Dem., Mass.) today. "It is impossible to do that.” Meyer answered, "remember there are forty-eight states." Proper Credit Expansion Now The bankers have not been very interested in the unified system, Meyer said. More than 80 per cent of the business of the country is done through checks, asserted Meyer. This widespread use of checks was considered by Meyer as the one real argument for a unified banking system. “Do you think the country could stand a reasonable and proper expansion of currency at this time?” asked McCormack. “There is a proper expansion of credit going o'n at this time.” replied Meyer. Meyer said he "hoped it was a fact” that in the last few months there has been a loosening up of credit. McCormack asked if the reserve board had any knowledge as to "the imposition of political conditions” in connection with requested bank loans by cities. World Gold Supply Bigger "All I know is what I have seen in the papers," Meyer replied. McCormack's questioning along this line was cut short when Acting Chairman Henry T. Rainey replied that they were not pertaining to the subject at hand—the bonus bill. Meyer said he believed “artificial” currency expansion would result in "driving gold out of the country.” He believed that the reserve system has in its power any necessary and controlled expansion. Meyer, questioned by Representative Clement C. Dickinson (Dcm., Mo.), said an increase in gold has occurred throughout the world and that $20,000,000 worth has come out of India in the last six months. "We have the largest gold supply in proportion to the volume of business in the history of modern times,” he added. SOME BONDS ARE JUST ‘PRETTY PAPER,’ TOO Children Stopped Just in Time From Destroying 53.000. By t nitrd Piets TOLEDO, April 28. —J. A. Dunn. Cochranton. Pa., breathed a sigh of relief today as police restored his $3,000 block of bonds which three .'•mall girls nearly destroyed, thinking they were "pretty paper." The bonds, stolen two days ago from Dunn's automobile, were found in an alley by Ruth Shasteen, 8; Marjorie Parks. 19. and Virginia Parks, 9. who proceeded to tear them up. They were stopped just in time by Ruth's father, who turned them over to police. HOOVER PLANS HOLIDAY Leaves Saturday for Rapidan. First Rest in Seven Months.. By I'nlted Press WASHINGTON. April 28.—President Hoover plans to leave Saturday morning for his camp on the Rapidan for his first holiday in seven months, it was announced today at the White House.

$1,400 Funeral, Tribute to ‘His Best Pal ’ —a Dog By Uni led Press TIFFIN. 0., April 28.—Frank Callahan, 55, wealthy turfman, widely known in the grand circuit, today says he had last his "great est friend,” as he stood by an ornate bronze casket, gazing on the lifeless body of his deg, Baby Ginter. a Pomeranian. Callahan wept. Hundreds of his neighbors pressed near to the splendor of glinting metal and banked flowers. Callahan was in Milwaukee when the dog, 11 years old. died. He hurried here and bought, the casket, designed for a child. Jt cost S4OO. Workmen were in Callahan’s garden building an impressive vault and monument to eo6t nearly SI,OOO. Baby Ginter will be buried without benefit of clergy A veterinarian will officiate. Ministers and undertakers frowned upon the elaborate ceremony. The tomb was prepared beneath a great shade tree. There will he a eulogy to ' my greatest friend" on Baby Ginter's tomb. Callahan said only a "few close friends" would attend the funeral of his dog.

The Indianapolis Times Fair and somewhat wanner tonight; Friday increasing cloudiness, becoming unsettled by night.

VOLUME 43—NUMBER 303

Air Savior Hoover to Award First Medal of Honor to Pilot.

By 1 nUtd Pm* WASHINGTON, April 28— Mai B Freeburg, Northwestern Airways pilot, will be awarded the first air mail flier's medal of honor ever given, the postoffice department announced today. President Herbert Hoover will make the award, which will be given for Freeburg's heroism and skillful flying on April 12, when he and Joe Kimm, co-pilot, were flying eight passengers between Minneapolis and Milwaukee. With a jolt that shook the whole plane, a. portion of one of the side propellers broke off. So great was the immediate vibration that the motor was jerked from its mounting and lodged on the left landing gear strut. First, Freeburg. flying on two motors, maneuvered the plane over the Mississippi river and shook off the loose motor without endangering those below. Then he returned twenty-five miles to an emergency field, and, though one of the wheels had been wrecked in the accident, managed a safe landing cn the other two. About two years ago Freeburg, then flying night mail, saved a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy passenger train from a disastrous wreck. Seeing that a trestle Was afire, and remembering that he had passed a speeding passenger train a few miles back. Freeburg used his emergency landing flares in a successful attempt to flag the train before it reached the burning bridge.

2 DIE AS CRACK FLIER DERAILS Coach Plunges in Roof of House at South Bend. Bit I nitrd Pres* SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 28. Tw'o men were killed and a man and child injured today when the west-bound Maple Leaf flier, crack I Grand Trunk express train, was derailed on a high embankment here. The dead were James Groves, Battle Creek, Mich., engineer, and : Walter Shinning, Battle Creek, fire-' i man. The injured were Jeff Bradburn and his son, Marshall, 5, trapped in the wreckage of their house when an express car careened off ; the embankment and plunged ! through the roof. No passengers were hurt. Seven baggage and express coaches and the engine left the track. One car hurtled off a viaduct into Marietta street. Another crashed off into the Bradburn home next to the embankment. Firemen sawed through the tangled wreckage of the frame house and extricated Bradburn and his son. Nei- | ther was believed seriously injured. The accident occurred on an upgrade. where the Grand Trunk tracks join the main New York Central line. The right-of-way was torn up for more than half a mile by the plunging ears. Inspectors were unable to determine cause of the accident, but believed an open switch might have been responsible. The train was bound for Chicago from Montreal and Detroit. TAXI KILLER GUILTY Slayer in ‘Fare Fight’ Gets Manslaughter Verdict. Samuel W. Wilson, 22, former taxi driver and slayer of James Steinberger, 602 South Meridian street, a "fare," today was convicted on a voluntary manslaughter count by a criminal court jury. The verdict, reached after eight hours of deliberation. Wednesday night, carries a penalty of two to twenty-one years’ imprisonment. Judge Frank P. Baker, who presided at the trial during more than a week of presenting evidence, was to pass sentence today. APPROVE NAVY FUNDS House Passes $336,000,000 Bill for Department Expense. 1 B;j T nitrd Per** WASHINGTON. April 28 The j house today passed the annual navy I department appropriations bill ' carry more than $336,000,000 in j funds for the active fleet and shore ; establishment. The bill now goes ! to the senate for final action.

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LIFT PAY CUT BURDEN FROM ‘LITTLE MAN’ House Opposed to Reducing U. S. Salaries Below $2,500 a Year. CITE HOOVER’S ATTITUDE Leadership Is Trampled by Both Parties; Rewriting for Economy Bill. BY RUTH FINNEY TimM Staff Writer WASHINGTON, April 28—The j house of representatives is on record i today as overwhelmingly opposed to reducing living standards of federal workers receiving less than $2,500 a | year. To register this opinion it trampled upon the leadership of both parties Wednesday night. Those who demanded that $2,500 I instead of SI,OOO be exempt from pay cuts repeatedly quoted old utterances of President Hoover to support their contention that prosperity’s return is dependent upon maintaining the buying power of the masses, and that government must set an example to industry in this respect. In ,the votes. Wednesday, which lifted the pay cut burden from the shoulders of the small-salaried worker, and which opened that way for this action by rejecting gag rule, Democrats and Republicans participated equally. Leaders of both parties demanded aceptance of the rule and the bill. House Breaks From Control The house broke from control as completely as it did during the tax fight, and it apparently will rewrite the economy bill on the floor as it rewrote the tax bill. The debate is expected to last several aays. Debate on the first day of the economy bill fight showed the house i still determined to effect economies in tl>e federal budget, though un- : willing to agree to the method of ; saving so laboriously prepared for ! them by their committee and the President. The Democratic leadership of the house announced its intention to force a separate record vote on each amendment to the economy bill, which makes any material changein the measure. Speaker Garner said such a course was designed to "put the members’ feet 'to the fire in the matter of economy.” If the house had rejected the rule attaching the economy bill to the legislative supply bill, the program would have been killed, so far as this session is concerned. Instead it adopted the rule, with the gag limitations removed. Consolidate Bureaus This will mean, in all probability, adoption of salary cuts on all worsers getting more than $2,509 including the salaries of. congressmen. The increased exemption, ineiidentally, means $165 less annual cut for congressmen than the committee’s plan. The expected general reduction of 11 per cent, applied to them, will reduce their salaries from $19,000 to $9,175. It will mean, also, acceptance of part of the further economies proposed through retirement of aged employes, prohibition of promotions, and of overtime pay. and possibly elimination of the Saturday half holiday. In addition, the house is expected to accept most of the plans contained in the bill for consolidation of government departments and bureaus, and part, at least, of the proposed reduction in veterans’ benefits. The $2,500 exemption voted Wednesday reduces by $55,000,000 the $67,000,000 saving the committee proposed to make in workers’ incomes, leaving a $12,000,000 saving to be effected in higher salary grades. Downs Furlough Plan If the house refuses to suspend the Saturday half holiday another $9,000,000 saving will be eliminated. According to present indications, the proposed consolidation of war and navy departments, which was counted on for $50,000,000 saving will not be approved. This will leave economies somewhat under $100,000,000 in the hoyse bill, if the veterans’ cuts are re- j tained. The votes, Wednesday, seemed to seal the doom of the President’s furlough plan which, according to its sponsors, would have reduced incomes of federal workers by SB3.- j 000.000. They indicated, however, that the house will continue to accept the senate's 10 per cent pav cuts in pnnuel appropriation bills. U. S. JURY RECONVENED More Than 60 Cases Pending With Federal Probers.' Federal grand jurors reconvened today in a two-day session to dispose of more than sixty pending cases before the summer recess of federal court. More than forty of the cases to be considered were liquor violations.; Several alleged violations of postal, narcotic and counterfeiting laws were believed to have been investigated by the grand jurors shortly after they opened their session. Among the cases believed investigated was the Boonville mail messenger robbery about a year ago, in. which there men received twenty-five-year sentences in federal court at Evansville several days ago. ,

Health Champions! h ———— -t HEALTH is wealth to these misses, who today were among recipients of blue ribbon health awards presented to kindergarten children at the Brookside community house. At the right is Joan Meyers. 5, of Wallace kindergarten, who not only was awarded a blue ribbon, but honored for her perfect attendance record. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert

Meyers, 730 North Dequincy street. The blond twins are Mary Jean fleft), and Myra Jane Briggs. 5, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Briggs. 2823 Sutherland avenue. They attend Fall Creek kindergarten and are one of the two pairs of twins to receive awards. The other pair is Jack and James Durham o;' Holladay kindergarten. Other details on Page 3.

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Poor Recluse ’ Repays Kindness With $35,000 Bit l nit est Pie** MIDDLEBORO. Mass.. April 28. —Five years ago Robert J. Bell, 73, who gave the impression that a lifelong quest for gold in the Alaskan fields had been fruitless, visited Mr. and Mrs. James McNeil at their cottage home here. McNeil, a small-salaried store clerk with two_ children, had little to offer the visitor, who had been ft friend of Mrs. McNeil's parents in Dundee, Scotland, but he was hospitable and tried to make Bell feel at home. Bell's story that he was living as a recluse in a shack on the outskirts of Oakland. Cal., aroused the sympathy of the McNeils, and they persuaded him to remain at their home for three months. Then Bell went away, promising to return somf day. But he never came back. And this week Mrs. McNeil received word of his death at Oakland. Wednesday she received another message, that Bell had left her his entire estate —$35,000.

BOY FEARED SLAIN IS ‘FOUND’ IN JAIL

Mysterious disappearance at Blomington, Ind., April 19. of Bernard Moritz, 16, former inmate of a school for the feeble minded, was solved here today with discovery that the youth has been held prisoner for a week in Marion county jail. Police were unable to establish the boy’s identity because of an impediment in speech, and learned today after communicating with

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DEATH SLEEP FOILED BY MAN’S 24-HOUR WALK

By Ini ted Fret* N. J„ April 28.—An all-night walk through hospital corridors and an all-day jolting in a wheel-chair have saved the life of Howard Edwards, despite his for sleep, which would have meant death. Edwards, a salesman, took an an overdose of a sleeping potion Tuesday night and the only chance he had for life was to keep awake. His mother had him

Bloomington authorities that he is the missing youth. Frank Moritz, the boy’s stepfather, was taken in custody late Wednesday by Bloomington police when it was believed the youth had been drowned in an abandoned quarry. The stepfather was to be released today, it was said. Suspicion that the youth may have been victim of foul play arose when two brothers told police "Bernard has gone to heaven. Father took him out, and now he is dead.” William Miller, Indianapolis detective, said today he arrested young Moritz April 21 on a vagrancy charge after the youth is alleged to have ordered a ton of coal from the Center township trustee. Attaches of the county office investigated the order and discovered the alleged fraud, it was said. Following report of the disappearance at Bloomington Wednesday, police, aided by deputy sheriffs, searched wooded areas near the Moritz home. Reports that bloody clothes had been burned in the Moritz home were not verified.

LAST CONTACT OF LINDY KIDNAPERS MAY BE NEAR

i | By United Pres* NORFOLK. Va., April 28.—John Hughes Curtis and his associates in negotiations with a group of claimI ants to the title of the Lindbergh kidnapers, awaited a message from I the gangsters today before setting • out on another cruise in the motor ; yacht Marcon. Arriving at the Norfolk , naval base Wednesday from a four and one-half day cruise to sea in which “many obstacles were removed,” Curtis expected to leave again almost at once. It was learned the self-asserted

removed to the Newark city hospital. There Edwards, believing he was to be put to bed, eagerly followed two orderlies who led him down a hall. They walked him fifty steps, then retraced their steps. Edwards drowsily protested. “I gotta sleep,” he mumbled. no* THE treatment was succeeding, the patient improving, but the orderlies were weakening.

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JURORS DEBATE FATE OF KILLERS AFTER DARROW’S RINGING PLEA FOR MERCY

CONVICTS FLEE STATE PRISON Lifer and Bandit Tunnel From Michigan City Pen. By United Pre** MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 28. —Two prisoners, one a lifer, who escaped from the state prison Wednesday night by tunneling into ; the yard of the hospital for the insane and going over the wall with ; a pipe ladder, left no trail behind j them. Clarence Henry, sentenced to life ! from St. Joseph county in 1929 for i kidnaping and robbing Richard M. | Johnson, president of the South Bend State bank, of $13.000., and Fred Ten Eyck, sentenced to five years for auto banditry in Greene county in September, 1930, were missed shortly after 10 p. m. The men used the Same plan j which failed for two desperadoes Christmas eve. They were repairing : sewer pipe in a tunnel, and dug to a point directly beneath the hosj pital yard. No guard is kept there at night, ! and they were able to hoist their i ladder, made of pipes used in their ; plumbing work, and drop from the | wall. The Dunes highway to Chicago runs directly by the prison, and authorities believed the men obtained a ride to that city. One prison employe was dismissed today for negligence, but officials would not give out his name. Hospitals to Be of Glass By United Press CHICAGO, April 28.—People who throw stones won't be allowed near the hospitals of the future, Asa S. Bacon, Chicago hospital superintendent, told hospital officials at a ! conference here. Before many years, j | he said, hospitals will be constructed entirely of glass. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 45 10 a. m 59 7a. m 46 11 a. m 60 B a. m 50 12 (noon).. 62 1 9a- m 57 Ip. m 63

kidnapers of Charles A. Lindljergh Jr., were having difficulty in establishing their own communications. So Curtis was forced to await a message regarding his own start in the Marcon for a meeting at sea, which he and his associates hoped might be the next to last one in their long negotiations for return of the child. LONDON. April 28. —An exchange telegraph dispatch from Geneva reported today that some of the bills paid for the Lindbergh baby’s ransom had been changed in Switzerland.

Finally Edwards’ escorts had to work in shifts and as their tours ended they seemed more weary than their patient. At last to vary the routine Edwards was pushed into a wheel chair, not to rest, but to be pummeled and jostled. Fifteen minutes of this, then the promenade again. The grind went on. Twenty-four hours without rest had sapped the last vestige of Edwards’ strength, but the activity had worn away the effect of the sleeping potion.

Courtroom Throng in Tears as Master of Eloquence , Voices Appeal for Acquittal of Quartet. STATE’S REPLY BLUNT AND SAVAGE Four Verdicts Are Possible in Hawaiian Honor Slaying; Insanity May Free Massie. BY DAN CAMPBELL t'nltfd Press Staff Corresnondent HONOLULU, April 28.—A jury of Caucasians, natives, and Chinese today considered whether four American honor slayers should be punished for the killing of Joe Kahahawai, a native accused of attacking the wife of a United States naval officer. An impassipned plea for liberty by Clarence Harrow and a blunt biting demand from Prosecutor John Kelley for punishment and “justice” were the final episodes in this dramatic trial before Judge Charles Davis sent the jury away to deliberate. ,

It has four courses of action : 1. Guilty of second degree | murder, punishable by impris- ; onment of from twenty years to life. 2. Guilty of manslaughter. 3. Not guilty, by reason of insanity. 4. Not guilty. Separate verdicts may be returned [ for each of the four—Lieutenant Thomas H. Massie, U. S. N.; Mrs. I Granville Fortescue, A. O. Jones ! and E. J. Lord. The verdict’ not guilty by reason of insanity may be returned only ; for Massie. since for him alone was i the insanity defense offered. No Indication of Verdict They are accused of slaying the native to avenge the alleged attack on Mrs. Massie. j The jurors retired for deliberations at 5:25 p. m., Honolulu time, j (8:55 p. m., Central Standard time) Wednesday, and when they were ; led out to dinner an hour later gave no indication of the verdict being close. The jurors resumed deliberations at 7.40 p. m. They were locked up for the night at 10:31 p. m., Honolulu time (2:31 ao. m., Central Standard time). They were ordered to report not later than 9 a. m. (1 p. m., Central Standard time). The climax in this long trial lived up to all the expectations which grew when it was announced that Clarence Darrow had come out of retirement again to plead the cause of the accused. The elderly Chicago attorney, a lifetime of court success behind him, called upon all his ebbing strength to present a case for the defense which left few dry eves in the courtroom. Called Last Appearance It was Darrow’s last appearance before the bar, he said, and he summoned all the courtroom cunning and wile he has gained in fifty years of defense to plead that the four be permitted to go free. The crowd filled every recess of the room. There was no stir—save the waving of palm leaf fans—as Darrow paraded in front of the seven Caucasians, two Chinese and three Hawaiians, now thundering out his points, now pleading in a voice broken with emotion, now calmly summing up the defense that Massie killed Kahahawai jn a moment of insanity which might come to any man whose wife had been treated as was Thalia Massie. Darrow did not need the doctor he had asked to ,be present, but when his three-hour summation was completed, he appeared a tired old man. Hands Shake at End His gray suit—neatly pressed when he entered the court—was baggy. His long, shaggy hair, dropped into his eyes. His hands shook. His face was beaded with perspiration. It was a plea for humanity. ‘‘Place humanity above the law.” ; he said. "Free a tortured husband, a tortured mother, and two seamen who were faithful to those they loved. “Any man who is ashamed of human feelings is ashamed of life. He i wouldn't have been born if his father and mother hadn't had human feelings. “I wonder how you will sleep nights, if these defendants go to prison?” He told concisely the story of the attack on Thalia by five men, of the mental worry which weighted ' down “Tommy” Massie, of the things that had happened to change the serene life of the Massies and

.‘“pUT him to bed,” a doctor or- ■*- dered. Edwards turned unexpressive eyes on the physician. He gave no other manifestation of understanding the words. But as he was pushed dow n to the pillow by a nurse he sighed almost inaudibly. A doctor asked him how he felt. “Ugh,” he grunted. “Avery curious case,” said the physician in charge.

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Mrs. Fortescue, of the attempt to get a confession from Kahahawai which culminated in his saying “we done it.” Brain Cracked Under Strain ) “I tell you Massie’s brain cracked ; under the strain. Any man’s would i have, under similar conditions. He | wasn’t sane when he shot Kahaha- | wai,” Darrow said. “Is it any wonder his mind was affected? I’ve ne v er heard a crueler nor a sadder story than the one she (Thalia) told. Wasn’t it enough to turn any man's mind? Wouldn't it unsettle your mind to have your wife go through such a thing?” He dismissed one prosecution alienist who contended Massie was sane as a man who “sits at his door like a spider waiting for flies. He takes the first fly or offer that comes along. He would just as soon swear to destroy a man’s life as to I save it.” i He contended facts showed that ■ Massie was not in a rage when he ! shot Kahahawai or he would have shot several times instead of once, that all the facts pointed to a moment of insanity Tears Stream Down Face Then with tears streaking down his face, Darrow summed up: “I never knew anything of a feeling against any race. I think the people of the Pacific islands must learn to lure peace. Otherwise, the Pacific will run red with the blood of man. “I put this case above race and nationality. I ask every one in the [ jury box to forget everything but the human angle. I would like to I think, gentlemen, that I had done a small part in bringing peace and justice to these islands. “Id be sorry to leave this fairyland with the thought I had made any one’s task harder. I’ve looked at your green mountains, your coral sands. I love your flowers. I never knew the meaning of feeling against any race. I could not have any such feeling. “Only yesterday I was a child. I know now my life is about at an end, but Nature goes on creating.” When he completed, Darrow picked up his papers and walked slowly and wearily to his chair. Mrs. Massie, sitting beside her husband, was weeping. Mrs. Fortescue was composed and shook the hand of the counsel. Assails Sympathy Plea Then Kelley concluded the argui ment for the prosecution. “I'd like to refer first to the speech of Mr. Darrow, a great lawyer,” he : said. “Mr. Darrow appealed to your sympathy. But sympathy is not the plea advanced for his client. That plea was insanity. “Darrow told you also that it didn't make any difference who fired i the shot that killed Kahahawai. They could fool you and us. but we forced them to show t’--r hand. “It was the selfishness of the man who insisted upon his wife going to parties when she didn’t want to go. : Massie insisted upon her going to j tb- Ala wai inn. Then they put that j poor orirl there 'Mrs. Massie) on the altar of his ego. They put her on ; tbe stand here to make a Roman holiday in this courtroom. “You must remember that, so far as the territory was concerned, Joe Kahahawai went to his grave an innocent man.” He said Massie called upon Jones and Lord, who were “taught to kill,” because he feared having fellow officer with him. He said “they let a m bleed to death, inch by inch.” Admirals Are Assailed Then, in summation, he said: “Are you going to give Massie a ticket of leave so he blithely can kiss Hawaii good-bye? Why, they’ll make him an admiral if you do. They’ll put him on the chief of staff. Admiral Pratt (who made public the report on affairs in the islands after the Kahahawai slaying) and Massie think together. They believe in lynch law. “Id like you to remember this, though. As long as the American flag flies above the courthouse and not an admiral’s pennant, you have to uphold the oath. You have a most vital task and there is no admiral to influence you. And, as General Butler said. ‘To hell with admirals’." Admiral Yates Sterling Jr., who gave out a statement advising navy men to keep their wives away from Hawaii after the Massie case, was a spectator as Kelley made his summation.