Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1932 — Page 1

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MED RACING AUTO CLAIMS THIRD VICTIM Mechanic Killed and Driver Is Hurt Critically in Track Crackup. LEAPS RETAINING WALL Car One in Which Caccia and Grove Met Death in 1931 Trials. fpirfur*** en rs+ Two) Racine cars roared around the Indianapoll' Motor Speedway today, their /tone of speed changed to a dirge For dead lay Harry Cox 28-yrar- ! otd riding mechanic mho lost his life lair Wednesday afternoon when the rarer in which he mas riding crashed and hurtled over the rets mine mall on the south turn. Seriously injured in city hospital: lies Benny Benefiel. 25, pilot of the death machine. Benefiel and Cox mere warming up the “jinxed" racing machine of AJvin R. Jones of the Jones Maley Company. Indianapolis, in preparation for an attempt to qualify the car for the 500-mile Decoration day race. Former Death Car Rare track .experts matched fly* car with interest a.s it rolled around the track at a 100-mile-an-hour gait, for it was the same machine which carried Joe Caccia and Clarence Grove, his mechanic, to death last year* in practice laps around the track. Last year, the machine hurtled the mall barely 200 yards from the spot where it dived over Wednesday. Benefiel and Cox were making j their last turn abound the track preparatory to coasting into the pits j for picture-taking by F. M. Kirkpatrick, official Speedway photographer. who was waiting on the pit wall for them. They just had roared out of the) short, south straightaway and into 1 the southeast turn when the sup-; port for the left front wheel cracked. Hits Retaining Wall The speeding car crashed Jnto the inside retaining wall,, caromed to the upper part of the banked track and then hurtled twenty-five . feet over the wall and the wire! screen. M The car shared off parts of two; trees and Bcnejfiel mas thrown clear; as the car plunged to earth. Benefiel hung for a moment, in the I branches of one of the trees and then dropped.. Cox was thp>wn headlong to the ground as the machine crumpled up at the foot of a third tree in the yard of J. W. Stevens, who resides; and works at. the speedway. Killed Instantly Cox, mho had been living at 25 North Fast street, was dead when witnesses reached the scene. His | neck had been broken, ribs broken, his left arm broken and he had received severe interna! injuries. Cox is survived by his father, Irvin Cox. living on a farm near) Greencastle. and three sisters, Mrs, 1 Ruby Goff of Russellville: Mrs. Bernice GathfT. Crnwfordsville. and Mrs. George Lindiev, Detroit. The body was sent to the city morgue. Cox formerly lived at 708 North Capitol avenue. A member of the 113th observation squadron. Indiana National' Guard for three years, Cox had received his honorable discharge from the squadron about a year ago. He had made a reputation as a parachute jumper. Fear Brain Concussion Benefiel, who lives at 2043 Hous- 1 ton street, and mho is a prominent dirt track driver, sustained severe lacerations on the face, head and hands, and it war feared that he had suffered a concussion of ’he' brain. His condition was described *s serious. The car thus far had been un-; named, although last year had carried the Jones & Maley colors. The crash last year came when the housing on the differential crystallized. cracked, and the car whipped itself out of Caccia s control, according to an official A. A. A. report. Qualifying trials for the race were to be continued this afternoon, between the hours of 2 and 7. and the same schedule will prevail Friday. The trials will end Saturdayafter the track is held open for possible attempts from 2 to 4. One car qualified Wednesday', the Hudson piloted by Chet Miller at a speed of 111.053, and it was the twenty-ninth car to pass the tests. Eleven more vacant places remain In the lineup, and all are expected’ to be filled by Saturday.

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The Indianapolis Times l nsettled loflifcht and Friday, probably showers and thunderstorms; considerably cooler Friday afternoon or nijjht.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 13

* 2 Bovs Locked 5 Hours in Old Ice Box; Both Die H 9 ( mifrit Crm • SCOTIA. N. Y.. May 26.—'William Rice Jr.. 5. locked ip an old ice box for more than five hours with Robert Nicholas. 6. died today from suffocation. The two children were found shortly before midnight when Williams father opened the door of the refrigerator, in a vacant apartment over that of the Rice's. Robert already was dead. Frank Craig, owner of the building, said the empty apartment wa locked. It was assumed the children found a key to the door, entered and went into the ice box to play, when the door was shut accidentally.

‘BONUS ARMY’ OFF IN TROOP TRUCKS

State Cops Escort Veterans Across Indiana: Ohio Recruits Waiting. Oth*r Detjil* on Pne Turn IU I,FI,AND L. CHFSLFY 5 Prea Staff C’nrrfsDond^nt WASHINGTON, Ind.. May 26. The bonus army." 400 cheering World war veterans, started for Cincinnati.today in Indiana national guard motor trucks on another leg of their crusade to Washington, D. C. The veterans, all unemployed, who started from Portland. Ore., and rode freight trains free until they reached the Mississippi river, breakfasted on eggs and coffer furnished by Washington townspeople, and delayed the trucks only fifteen minutes m the process of embarking. The veterans mere escorted by a detail of state police and were in charge of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Stillwell, detailed by Governor Harry G. Leslie to escort them across the state to avert violence threatened when the "crusaders" announced their intention to capture a Baltimore Ac Ojiio freight, train "whether the railroad liked it or not." The caravan, which started from here shortly after 8 a. m.. was expected to reach Salem. Ind.. for lunch and spend the night in North Vernon, proceeding to Cincinnati Friday. Another contingent of veterans was reported waiting in Cincinnati to Join the “army.” Free Rides Assured ft; I ><rl COLUMBUS, 0., May 26.—The army of war veterans pressing toward Washington to ask payment of their World war service certificates is assured of free transportation across Ohio and West Virginia. Governor George White took up ! a movement started by Governor ’ Leslie of Indiana, and ordered highway trucks to the southwestern Ohio border to pick up the soldier- j pilgrims. Governor Conley of West Virginia replying to a message from Governor White today, said he would see that transportation facilities were supplied the men at Wheeling for the West Virginia leg of their journey.

QUITS NEGRO MATE Ex-Follies Girl Granted Separation Decree. j Bft / nitrd f*rt'9n LOS ANGELES. May 26.—Helen Lep Worthington, former actress in the Follies. New York, had a divorce today from Dr. Eugpne K. Nelson, ; wealthy Negro physician, on the 1 ground of cruelty. She charged her husband was possessed of a violent temper, and was of an extremely jealous nature. In uncontested testimony, she described numerous acts of alleged cruelty. P. 0. JXOStM MONDAY Other Public Buildings and Banks Will Also Shut Doors. rostoffice will be closed all day Monday. Memorial day. with the exception of the general delivers' windows which will be open from 8 a m. | 'o noon. The holiday window, for mailing of parcel post and stamp sales, will have the usual hours. Except for perishable matter and special delivery mail, there will be no deliveries. All other public buildings and banks also will be closed. HINT DEMPSEY IN LOVE Pals See Romance in Friendship for Miss Gonzales. Bu t nitrd SAN FRANCISCO. May 26. Friends of Jack Dempsey profess to see new romance about to flower from the former heavyweight champions friendship with Nanre-Rostt# Gonzales, 20-year-old Hollywood girl. Miss Gonzales, an Argentinian, accompanied Dempsev to a baseball game and to a dance Tuesday. PUBLISHER FOUND DEAD Reilly. 'Discoverer' of Prominent Writers. Believed Suicide. By t'nitrd Prrt* CHICAGO. May 26—Frank K.l Reilly. 67, of the publishing-firm of! Reilly and Lee. was dead today from a builet wound in the head. A revolver found beside his body in his | Gold Coast apartment indicated suicide, police said. Reilly, credited with ’ discovering" i several prominent writers, published ! early work of Harold Beil Wright. Edgar A. Guest and L. Frank Baur. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 69 10 a. m 79 7 a m .... 70 ll a. m SO Ba. m 74 12 <noon>.. 80 9a. m,.... 77 Ip. m...., 74 i

Squads Right! ft i/ f nth it Pm* WASHINGTON. May 25. The war department, its money for civilian training restored to the appropriation bill, announced plans today to have nearly a quarter of a million Americans executing “squads right" this summer. The camp attendance is estimated as follows: Citizens military training camps. 38.250: reserve officers training camps. 1 8.070; officers reserve corps, 17.589: national guard, 182.929; total. 246.840. It will require 45.506 regular soldiers to train the civilian units.

MADMAN STABS GIRL TO DEATH Wounds Three Other Children Before Captured. ; By i tii * and Prc** CLEVELAND, 0., May 26—Elaine Macklin. 8. was stabbed to death ■and three other girls wounded here i today by a man. whoipushed through a group of school children, brandI ishing a pocket knife and shouting that he was going to “kill everybody.” Police, who him. said Mhe man gave hisMiamo as Jake Gordon. 40. It was reported that he was a former insane asylum inmate. The slashing wa#witnessed by scores of school children and passersby. * \ Brandishing a knife, Gordon rushed into the street and toward the groups of children on their way to school. The first npe he caught he lifted from sidewalk with one hand, driving his knife info her body repeatedly with the other. He dropped her and ran for the next girl in sight. The others were fleeing in panic. He slashed the second one down j while she ran. and a third near i her. He ran 100 yards further, before catching and wounding the. fourth. Under questioning of alienists. Dr. Charles W. Stone and Dr. K. S. West at county jail. Gordon ex- i plained that he had been "urged by God to kill a million so they | wouldn't kill others when they grew up.”

CLAIMS ENGLISH BOOK IS LIBELING CHICAGO Lawyer Cites Sentiment Hinting at Police Corruption. | By Vnit'd Prrm CHICAGO. May 26.—The sentence as it appears in Charles B. Anderson's textbook, "common errors in English corrected' reads: •‘Neither gangsters nor murderers are molested very much by the ChiI cago police." i It is cited as a correct example of the use of "neither-nor." But to C. J. Appell. assistant eor- ! floration counsel, it appears to be jan excellent example of an only too common type of libel against the city of Chicago. He wrote publishers of the book asking a correction. MARKER GAIN HALTED Recount Strengthens Boctcher’s Lead by 16 Votes. Gain of Ernest K. Marker in the recount of votes for Democratic nomination as Second district counitv commissioner was halted temporarily today when Walter C. Boetcher, who officially was declared. strengthened his lead by sixteen votes. The net gain of Marker was cut , from 150 to 181 precincts to 134 in 4 188 precincts during the morning j count. Several Marker votes were thrown out because the ballots did not contain signatures of both poll clerks. JAPANESE LEADER DIES General Shirakawa Wa Wounded , ' in Shanghai Bomb Blast. By r*••<# pregg SHANGHAI. May 26.—General Yoshinori Shirakawa. commander of the Japanese forces at Shanghai. lost a stubborn fight for life when he died today from injuries received almost a month ago at a Japanese celebration honoring the | emperor s birthday. , General Shirakawa stood with the other highest Japanese officials here on a reviewing stand at Hongkew park when a bomb hurled from the crowd exploded, wounding the general and all other officials on the stand. Mortality Rate Drops Bv t nitrd Prrtr WASHINGTON. May 26.—The mortality rate for eighty-five large cities during \ the first nineteen weeks of the year was 12.4 per 1.000. comparec with a rate of 13.5 for the corresponding period last year, the census bureau said today.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1932

LUXURYTAXES RESTORED TO j SENATE BILL Sales Levies Are Voted On Variety of Articles in Lollipop Revolt. TIRE RATES UNDER FIRE Ohioans Lash at Burden Placed ’by Committee on Rubber Products. Hf t Hit'll Punt WASHINGTON. May 26.—The senate put so-called “luxury sales taxes" back in the billion dollar revenue bill today, and. in the midst of a lollipop revolution." quickly voted levies on a variety of articles, from matches to mechanical refrigerators. The senate finance committee, meeting an hour before the senate convened, restored the luxury levies. They were acted upon speedily when senators gathered to continue consideration of the new tax measure. Senaior James Couzens 'Rep., Mich. raised the issue of a “lollipop rebellion," when he complained 1 ihat, the finance committee had restored randy to thr tax schedules, and would “ta-ke 2 per cent on every r!ii]d' e lollipop while leaving silver lon the free list. With the word "lollipips ’ echoing in the senate chamber, the senate voted 43 to 29 to make sterling silver subject to the restored 10 per cent sales tax on jewelry. $6(1.000,04)0 in New Revenue Then the senate restored the 10 per cent sales tax on sporting goods, firearms and cameras, calculated to yield $9,000,000. Aerial cameras were exempted. The candy tax was voted to raise $5,000,000. and the jewelry tax on articles casting more than $3 is estimated to realize $5,000,000. Senator Pa* Harrison <Dcm.. Miss.) calculated that the $60,000,000 to $70,000,000. to be had from luxury sales tax retintreduced into the bill by the committee and immediately submitted to the senate, would 1 not be sufficient to make up for lasses expected in the reduction of I other taxes. The automobile and rubber taxes 1 already have been reduced bv $36,000.000. Leaders expect the admissions tax exemption to be raised from 10 cents o 25 or 30 cents, with a lass of approximately $53,000,000. Restore Soft Drink Schedule The aggregate prospective loss is $89,000.04)0. The 2 per cent tax on chewing gum again was upheld. The senate then restored the entire soft drink schedule with changes which left it, as follows: | Cereal beverages, J L cents per gallon: infermented grape juice, 5 cents per gallon: other fruit juices. 2 cents per gallon: still drinks. 2 ' cents per gallon: mineral waters. 2 cents per gallon: fountain syrups, 6 cents per gallon. The senate replaced the boat tax adopted Wednesday night with a use tax on pleasure boats, graduated from $lO on those between twenty- , eight and fifty feet to S2OO on those | over 200 feet. Craft imported from abroad would be subject to a double tax. The rubber tax of 2'* cents a pound on tires and 4 cents a pound on tubes proved a snag to speedy action. Senator Robert J. Bulkley fDem., O.) asked that those articles be included under the general heading of automobile accessories, to obtain the benefit of refunds provided by that section on articles held bevond Aug. 1. 1934. Fight Heavy Tire Taxes

• The expected yield of the rubber j tax is $33,000,000. Bulkley argued that the tire tax was four times as onerous as that of batteries or spark plugs, and that on tubes seven times as heavy. He : asked the committee to give the rubber industry no more than an equal burden. Senator Simeon D. Fess tßep.. O.) joined his colleague from the greatest tire and tube manufacturing state in bolting the committee on the rubber taxes. “It isn't right and it isn't fair,” Fess said. The senate rebellion against j elimination of the “luxury taxes" flared up on the floor Wednesday night when the committee amendment striking out the 10 per cent tax on boats was reached. Senator Clarence C. Dill .Dem., Wash ) succeeded in having it reinserted. Stuck on Chewing Gum Chewing gum was next on the list, taxed at 3 per cent under the compromise plan recommended bv the treasury. Minority Leader Joseph T. Robinson asked that it be reduced to 2 per cent, and Senator James Byrnes -Dem., S. C.) moved it be eliminated. Byrnes argued that th* tax would result in the manufacturer taking a pinch of gum out of the package of each child in America.” and asked the senate why it singled out automobiles and gum when it declined to tax greater luxuries like jewelry, furs, cosmetics and refrigerators. Other senators joined the fight and faced with the threat of an excise tax jam. the committee determined to meet this morning to review the entire schedule. PAVING JOB UNFINISHED West Michigan Street Project Mon t Be Ready for Race. Board of works announced today new paving of West Michigan street, west of Tibbs avenue, will no> be ready for use by traffic bound for the speedway race Monday.

TELL US, GRAND AD-OF ‘6l’ —And Shermans March to Sea Begins

BY ARCH STETNEL Fort friendly i* the om blockhouse building’s name. It retreats from the sidewalk and its grilled iron fence at 512 North Illinois street just as the graybeards retreat at a visitor to the fort and his comment. "And tell us about the Civil war." The card tables sit lonely in the dark front room of the fort, — The G. A. R.’s last stand in Indianapolis. There are just three men in the room s rocking chairs. Memorial day is upon them and they look far out past the trafficway with its trams, they .look over the cool stones they've decorated yearly and the new ones that dress up alongside the old ones, and look back into 1861. Diffidently we touch a goateed old man who makes his crutch rock the chair in the fort's front room and say. "Grandad can you tell us about the war? What were you?” He stiffens. His shoulders snap straight and his goatee twists like a mop, then with an eye-twinkle he retorts. “Private Rear-Rank George Seaver at your service.” The "Private Rear-Rank" is their joke. The other two rocking in chairs smiie at Seavers w’ords. m m m SEAVER S home is wherever he hangs his hat. and right now he’s hanging it at 1749 West Washington street. He's 88. Life has Just been one siege after another for Private-Rear-Rank Seaver. First, it was the siege of Corinth. then Vicksburg, and then on down to Natchez. Miss., with Company Dos the Fifty-third Tn.diana. And now—well, his old game leg lavs him out a siege or two now and then. •‘l've had that leg ever since I went into the army. Ox kicked me when I was a boy," he said, as he pointed to the offending limb with his crutch. "But. it didn't make any difference during the war. I served one enlistment and when I went to be examined for the second enlistment the doctor Just up and said, ‘Well you been walking this long you might as well walk some more.” You can stir him up more over

Shuffles On Shuffling has a dual application in the case of Glen Shufflebarger of Noblesville. Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker vPSTS'Tflformed today. Shufflebarger faced Baker on an appeal from a fine and a. 30da.v jail sentence imposed by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron on conviction of a charge of being drunk. "The officers are mistaken." Shufflebarger declared. “I’m crippled, and when 1 walk. I shuffle. It. just looks like I'm drunk." Shufflebarger protested. Baker took the case under advisement. Shufflebarger shuffled out of the courtroom.

REMY IS IMPROVED Former Jurist Was Injured by Auto Tuesday. Improvement in condition of Charles F. Remy, former Indiana appellate court judge, who was injured critically when pinned under an overturned auto Tuesday near , the statehoiise. was reported today i at Methodist hospital. Mr. Remy was struck by a car driven by Ben Con. Nergo. of 910 At.hon street, who was arrested of charges of speeding and -eckless driving. The case was postponed Wednesday by Municipal Juuge William H. Shea (Ter until June 30. SAYS MATE LOVED T ARF Wife Charges He Spent Sundays Cutting Out Pictures in Nude. By l nttrd Prrrg CHICAGO. May 26 —ln a suit for divorce Mrs. John F. K. Fahlbush I testified her husband spent Sunday mornings cutting pictures of almost nude women out of ‘art. magazines' and pasting the pictures on the walls of their home. When she protested, he beat her with a broomstick, she said. BOARD TO ACT ON JOBS Appointment of 2.030 Teachers Main Purpose of Meeting. Appointment of 2.030 school teachers and principals for the next school year will be acted on by the city school board at a meeting Tuesday night, it was anonunced today. The board also will draw- plans for starting the junior high school system. RAPS INFLATION PLAN Myers Sava Artificial Prosperity Would Peril Nation. Attempt to maintain the 1929 inflation level by creating an artificial prosperity would peril the future of the nation. Walter Myers. Den%ocratic candidate for Governor, said in an address Wednesday night before the Young People's Democratic Club at Franklin. Bombay Rioting Is Renewed By t nitrd Prrtr BOMBAY. May 26. Renewed fighting between Hindus and Moslems today resulted in two deaths and four injuries and threatened to ravtwa recent serious rioting here.

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“Private Rear Rank ” George Seam. SX, taking life, easy with his crvtch anri cane on a park hevch near his home.

the siege at Corinth than at any other engagement. "If Grant had had us it would have been a battle and not a siege,* £e vouched in honor of the general credited with the punch to put the Confederacy out of business. It. was lucky that no one overheard him, for Grant's ruthlessness Bnd disregard of manpower to gain an end has started the war over again in more conversations at G. A. R. encampments than any other single remark. man SEAVER “ketched up with Sherman" and made the march to ‘.he sea. "And I've done some big running in my time, too, but I wasn't alone." he added laughingly. Hp related of catching "Johnny Rebs" and stopping off at blacksmith shops to have handcuffs

PERSHING RAPS U. S. NEGLIGENCE People Derelict in Citizenship. Says General. I By I nitrd Prm j PARIS. May 26.—Civil negligence ! of American citizens is responsible sot tha country's ills. General John J. Pershing, commander of the American forces in France in the World war, said in a speech at the American club today. Hesitating at first to enter upon a controversial subject. Pershing indignantly attacked slovenly citizenship, prohibition and racketeering, j "The American people.” he said. ! entirely are responsible for what has been visited upon us today, because they do not pay attention to the obligations imposed upon them as citizens. "They are too busy making money, and enjoying themselves and pay no attention to what is going on politically in their own home." RUM PLOT DEFENDANTS GO TO PRISON TONIGHT Three Convicted In Anderson Case Going to Chllllcothe. Three defendants in the Anderson liquor conspiracy case were among a group of five prisoners to be taken to the United States reformatory at Chillicothe. 0., tonight. Ijy Frank Holmes, deputy United States marshal. The three are Ralph Rich, former Anderson detective captain, fifteen months; Joe Melchcr Jr., eighteen months, and Blake Gwvnn, fifteen months. Several other convicted defendants in the Anderson case were taken to the federal prison at Leavenworth. Kan., earlier this week. WHISKERS ARE TABOO IN SING SING PRISON! Prisoner Pleads in Vain to Keep Beard and Mustache. By V<’trd Pmi SING SING PRISON. N. Y.. May 26—Whiskers are taboo in Sing Sing, even when a prisoner's conscientious scruples err out against a clean shave. Samuel Krassner, a new arrival, tried in vain to induce Warden Lewd? E. Lawe* to permit him to keep his beard and mustache. His plea was re-inforced by a NEW WET STAMPS OUT Rising “Repeal" Sun Symbolic of "Good Times and Moist." By United Prtu NEW YORK. May 26.—The "repear sun ua rising on the new stamps issued by the Anti-Prohibi-tion Battle Fund. Inc. The new design, symbolic of returning prosperity with repeal, will be a companion issue to the "Swat the dry” stamps now being sold. Proceeds from the sale of the stamps are used to assist organizations working for the repeal of prohibition. Death Take* British Peer Bt f nitrd Prr.s* LONDON, May 26.—Major George Lacelles. 67. uncle of the earl of Harewood. who is the husband of Princess Mary, died today at Bembridge, Isle of Wight. *

and irons forged for them to lighten guard duties. Three of my four messmates were killed and thr other one was wounded in '64. We all drank out of the same coffee pot, that morning. But at night the pot was all mine." he said as he looked out of the window of the Illinois street fort. “There ain't much I can fell you son. You forget a lot with the years. Go over and talk to Comrade Bird over there in that, rocker. He was at. Appomattox Courthouse when Lee surrendered." and he aimed his crutch at thp ,Me n Who was at Appomattox / A shakp of the hand sriiri a “solonc" from his goatee, and we went to the next rocker. Tomorrow; The Man Who Was al Appomattox.

Cupid Scores ft 7 I Il’tril Prill* DETROIT, May 26—The law and stern justice jumped squarely into springtime and romance Wednesday afternoon in traffic court and the latter won the decision. "You see. your honor." Thomas Fox explained tc Judge John Mayer, "I live on the west. side, and my girl—we’re going to be married—lives on the east side, and if you take my driver's license from me. it will be mighty hard for us to see each other." Judge Maher “saw" and decided not to revoke Fox's license. A SSO fine was assessed however, for recklpss driving.

HIT CHICAGO HOTELS Drys Irked by Denial of Propaganda Plea. •Copyright 1333. br th*> United Preset CHICAGO. May 26.—A bitter attack on Chicago hotels where delegates and visitors to the national conventions will stay, was waged today by the national W. C. T. U. and heads of Illinois dry organizations. Culmination of the attack, based on the fact that the Chicago Hotel Men's Association broke a ruling of many years to allow the Illinois Women's Organzation for National Prohibition Reform to set up membership enrollment booths in hotel lobbies, but denied the same priv- j ilcge to dry workers, is expected on the pvp of the Republican convention June 14. A large committee of W. C. T. U. women now is gathering facts to "tell the entire United States just before the political conventions." BANDITS GUARD PUPILS Students Kept Prisoner* While Gang Loots Jewelry Store. By t'nitrd Prr* LEBANON. Ind.. May 26.—Four bandits early today held students returning home from a high school ' alumni dinner under guard with au- 1 tomatic revolvers while they looted a jewelry store. They obtained jewelry and watches valued at about S3OO The bandits had just, shattered a window in the .store when the students approached. After hastily 1 seizing merehandist in the window, they fled in the direction of Crawfordsviiie.

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$300,000 WON BY WALKER IN FRIENDS’ DEALS Takes Big Stock Profits. Although N. Y. Mayor Admits No Investment. SEABURY IS ASSAILED 'Examination Before Trial' Is Charge Hurled at Graft Hearing. : ft l, I Mill’ll Prim, NEW YORK. May 26.—Mayor Janies J. Walker, admitting he had profited almost $300,000- in atork market pools through the goodness of his friends, struck back before thr Hofstadter legislative committee today against jtny implications that his personal business transactions were related to his official acts. He made no personal investment, in any of the lucrative pools, he said, and he and his colleagues openly showed resentment at the interrogation into his private affairs. terming it "examination before trial—a preliminary to preferring charges against me to the Governor of this state." Mention of the word bribery came again into todays hearing, but from Walker himself Wednesday he had suggested Counsel Samuel Sea bury of the j committee to come into the open with' any claim of bribery he might, have. And. today, he renewed his virtual challenge by declaring, in explanation of one of his riskless profits that he was making his statement “to take away any inference or innuendo’’ that, he was bribed "in the matter of city> taxicab control. Admit* Sinews Profits Walker admitted the following stock market profits which he had accrued without personal investment: 1 An account operated by Paul Block, publisher, dealing in several stocks, ridded $246,692.76. Block’s beneficence was credited *Yor the gift. 2. An operation carried on by Esmond O'Brien, netting $10.f)00 to Walker, which the latter attributed to O'Brien's friendship. 3. An operation carried or through J. A. Sisto and Company, in Cosden oil stocks, netting $26,000 which was paid in Cosden bonds. Walker doubted if these, bonds were of any value today. Someone, whose name he said he could not recall, suggested he enter this operation. Explains Bond Delivery The Sisto bond delivery already had been brought before the committee. and if. was developed that Sisto was interested greatly in thr taxicab control situation in New York City. Today. Walker asked to have inserted into the record a statement "to take away any inference or innuendo that Mr. Sisto bribed me in the matter of taxicab control.” He told of appointment of a commission to study the cab situation and added: "That commission w-as appointed and the ordinance was vetoed. And. thus, the Parmalee Taxicab Company lost, through the failure to put through increased rates, at least $1,000.04)0 a year. I say that to show what influence mv actions might have had on Parmalee taxicab bonds."

Re-Election I* Predicted The mayor and the Tammonv delegation were vigorously on the offensive today as Seabury delved into the various stock market profits which Walker claimed came through beneficence of friends. 1 After Walker had made his assertion that the hearing was "examination before trial." Tammany members of the committee spoke up: "It is true you Just want his Job,’ Senator John J. McNabe veiled. "If he is ever removed from office, 'he people of New York will re-elect i him by the greatest majority he • ever had." said Senator John J. Dunnigan. "The people of this state, have already been mulcted of $750,000 and I'd like to know what they're getting out of it.” • The probe committer has spent $750,000 appropriated by the legislature.) Walker replied to Dunnigan's reference of re-election: "But I don't want to get it that way.” Denie* Sharing Deposit Bo* For the first, time, the name of Russell T. Sherwood, described as Walker s business agent, and long sought witness before the committee. came into the examination. walker denied that Sherwood had charge of his financial affairs, and also denied he and Sherwood shared a safety deposit box. He said he had signed an application for such a box. but added: *'l never used it. I have my own box in the Corn Exchange bank, and pay $5 a year for it, and it's plenty big enough for all my purpose The mayor—noted lor tardiness—appeared early at the hearing today. and was complimented by Chairman Samuel Hofstadter for punctuality. He was dressed in blue, as on Wednesday, except for a gray shirt. He seemed cheerful as he walked through the lines of people assembled outside the courthouse, but on the stand was more grave than on Wednesday. His repartee seemed almost total!;. absent today a? he discussed his financial affairs, and only once or twor* did he resort to facetious anv*ers.