Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1932 — Page 1

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POOL TICKET DEALER IS MURDERED

REYNOLD’S PAL HELD PRISONER IN DEATH QUIZ Under Guard as Material Witness in Slaying of Tobacco Heir. QUESTION TORCH SINGER Libby Holman’s ‘Mind Blank Before, After Shooting,’ She Tells Coroner. by l nilni I’m* WINSTON SALEM, N. C„ July P.—Albert <Abi Walker, who found Smith Reynolds, heir to the Reynolds tobacco millions, dying of a gunshot wound, was under guard today as a material witness expected to tell the coroner what preceded and followed his chum's death. The detention of Walker followed the dramatic testimony of Libby Holman Reynolds, Broadway sepulchral voiced singer, that her mind had been a blank for thirty-six hours, the hours before and after her youthful husband's death. She has been prostrated ever since Walker found her kneeling at her husband’s side, screaming in anguish. She told the coroner Friday that her mind had been a blank for hours preceding that scene. The testimony of the singer-bride was the climax of a day of dramatic developments in the investigation of her husband's suicide. Trustees had announced she would not share in a $21,000,000 trust fund held for Smith. Coroner’s Jury Sworn in The coroner’s jury had been sworn j In within a few feet of her hus- j band's coffin, an incident required by Carolina law. The heir to the Reynolds’ tobacco' millions had been buried that after- j noon in simple services the bride attended. And Libby Holman herself had been questioned by the coroner’s jury in the room she occupied the flight her huSband was shot. The complete testimony in that Investigation was held secret. It piobably will be impounded after conclusion of the fhvestigation expected today. The Broadway star said she had a brief "mental flash” Wednesday morning—the morning her husband was shot—but with that exception knew nothing of what happened for hours, before and after his death. That left Walker, so far as is known, the only guest of the lively party at the Reynolds estate that night, who knows what happened before Smith Reynolds left him, and went upstairs to Mrs. Reynolds. In Coma Before Killing Walker, so far as is known, is the ] only member of the household that! night who knows just where and 1 when his chum was shot, where Libby Holman was at the time, where j the gun he used was found, and what was done and said prior to i the wounded heir’s arrival at the | hospital, where he died four hours i later. The strain of the events this week had left Libby Holman griefstricken and a nervous wreck, and for that reason, the coroner ordered she be questioned while she remained in bed in her own room. There she was questioned closely by Solicitor Carlisle Higgins and Earl McMichael, assisting Coroner W. N. Dalton. Her story, as far as Solicitor Higgins would repeat it, was about like this: She retired as usual about 11 p. m. Monday night. July 4, and from that, time until Wednesday j some hours after the shooting her i mind was a blank—except for the moment the gun was fired. Remembers Hearing Shot She remembered hearing her husband call her name, she said. She remembered the picture of the gun in his hand. She remembered seeing his body fall. She gave no explanation for her j mental condition. Although there' had been a party the night before ; the shooting, and the day before that, there had been little or no drinking, it was said. Blanche Yurka. another Broadway actress, testified just before the session was adjourned. Walker, who is only 19, is the son of a local business man. He has been Smith Reynolds' constant companion. distraught since his friend s death. He collapsed just after Smith died, and he collapsed again at the funeral Friday. Walker and Reynolds were com- j panions on a gay little party at the local hotel two days before Smith; was killed. They were planning, it j was said, to attend another party the morning the young heir was killed, just before he prepared to leave his wife. Widow Attends Funeral Libby Holman, glamorous figure of the stage, has the advantage of an education in law. And her father, who is here with her. is a Cincinnati attorney. She testified concerning her unprecedented coma after accompanying him to funeral services for her husband. There at Salem cemetery she had stood in the shade before 500 neighbors, weeping and sobbing—the girl : who sobbed the throaty strains of; “Moamp’ Low” and "Body and, Soul" to score a hit on Broadway. 1

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VOLUME 44—NUMBER 51

Sign Treaty Freeing Germany From Huge War Debt Payments ‘Agreement Must Have Response Elsewhere,’ Says Ramsey MacDonald as He Puts England’s Stamp on Pact. BY STEWART BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 9.—The Lausanne treaty ending Germany’s World war reparations payments was signed today, with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain declaring “our agreements must have response elsewhere.” The treaty provides that Germany pay in one lump sum one cent for every dollar demanded by the victorious allies—if she can sell the bonds to raise the money. Collection and payment of inter-European war- debts was declared suspended until ratification of the treaty.

Prime Minister Ramsay i McDonald of Great Britain was the first statesman to sign. As president of the conference, he declared the treaty open to signature, walked around a square formed by tables, and signed the document which lay on a translators’ table in the center of the square. Chancellor Franz von Papen, Foreign Minister Baron Constantine von Neurath and Finance Minister Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk signed for the Germans. Von Papen Is Nervous Von Papen, wearing a morning coat, approached the table nervously. He threw out his chest several times, then attempted to smile as he picked up the gold fountain pen. MacDonald referred directly to a future settlement with the United States in an extemporaneous speech. "Our agreements must have response elsewhere,” he said. "We already have said that any agreement we reach must be placed in a world framework.” “It is no good collecting sums from one government, or any country, which disturbs world trade,” MacDohald said. “The United States, the country most fitted to withstand economic shocks, now is as severely hit as any European country.” ‘‘Opened a New Book” "We have opened anew book. There are no more reparations. Those great payments, sums which represented no transfer of goods, have not been a punishment to one nation, but an affliction to all,” the prime minister asserted. All the eighteen countries represented at the conference signed the treaty except Rumania. Yugoslavia, Portugal, and Greece, who asked more time for study. Kwan Yoshida signed for Japan; Antonio Mosconi for Italy; Edouard Herriot and Germain Martin for France: Paul Hymans and Jules Renkin for Belgium* MacDonald and Sir John Simon for Great Britain. The agreement enabled Germany to make a final payment of $643,140,000 in long term bonds, or 1 cent for every dollar called for in the original victorious allied demands of $65,000,000,000. Young Plan Is Buried The agreement buried the Young plan; its preamble said it “completely put an end to reparations.” Germany will not pay anything for three years, pending return of German prosperity which means that if Germany can’t sell the bond issue in fifteen years, she will pay nothing. No time limit was set for ratification of the agreement. The question of "war guilt.” the clause in the Versailles peace treaty holding Germany and her allies solely responsible for the losses suffered by the allied powers, was not mentioned specifically in the preamble. But the Germans accepted the phrase "put an end to reparations” as avoiding the famous war guilt provision of the Versailles treaty. U.,S. Stands Firm BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 9—The Lausanne reparations agreement brings forward the possibility of temporary easing of Europe's sll,000,000,000 war debt to the United States, but President Herbert Hoover and congress remain opposed to any cancellation or permanent reduction. With seeming reluctance, the state department said that if America’s debtors asked that their burden be lightened temporarily, the United States would discuss the matter. Officials were hopeful that these conversations might be postponed until next fall. That is legally possible, for the next debt payments are not due until Dec. 15. The likelihood of some "temporary adjustments” in allied debts was foreseen by Mr. Hoover as long ago as last December. At that time he asked congress to re-establish the World war debt funding commission to consider debt adjustments. Congress not only refused to do this, but in approving the Hoover moratorium officially put itself on record as opposed to both cancellation and reduction. It did not forbid a further moratorium. Most congressmen in commenting on the Lausanne agreement again opposed any debt cancellation.

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One of the biggest issues in the. 1932 presidential campaign is prohibition. How was the dry movement born? How was it put into the Constitution? What has it done? What has it failed to do? Where does prohibition stand now? Read Bruce Catton’s series of four stories on “PROHIBITION AT THE ' CROSSROADS,” starting Monday, July 11, in The Indianapolis Times.

DUESENBERG’S DEATHJEARED Auto Manufacturer 111 in Pennsylvania Hospital. By Timex Special , JOHNSTOWN, Pa.. July 9.—Fred S. Duesenberg, Indianapolis, Duesenberg Automobile Company vicepresident. injured in an automobile accident near here last Saturday, today was reported in critical condition. f Suffering from double pneumonia, Duesenberg was placed in an oxygen tent Friday night. Attending physicians said his condition is alarming. Mrs. Duesenberg and their son Denny are at the bedside of the stricken auto manufacturer, having arrived here Monday. . Duesenberg sustained a fractured shoulder, several broken ribs and other injuries when his automobile overturned as he was en route to Philadelphia. . In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South southwest wind. 5 miles an hour; temperature, 78; barometric pressure, 30.07 at sea level; ceiling, scattered clouds, unlimited; visibility, 15 miles.

WOMAN WHO SUES JORDAN DENIES SHE’S ADVENTURESS

WHO is Mrs. Margaret E. Melter? This is the question which has been asked in financial, social and philanthropic circles since she filed | a suit Friday for a million dollars 1 against Arthur Jordan, outstanding Indianapolis philanthropist, business man and financier, charging breach of promise to marry her. “There is no mystery about me,” is the answer of Mrs. Melter, coming here from Goshen to file her j suit. “I lived in this city for many i months at the Spinks-,\rms hotel,

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1932

LEGISLATURE TO HEAR LOUD PROTEST WAIL Local Governments Face Threat of Drastic Cut in Funds. FLOOD OF ROAD BILLS Officials Warn of Excess Speed in Passing New Laws. Speed which marked the first two days of the special session of the Indiana legislature may be slackened considerably when both houses convene Monday, due to the numerous lawmakers spending the weekend at their homes. Having introduced a total of eighty-two bills, many of them of a drastic nature along so-called “tax reform” lines, it will be at home in quiet talks with local governmental officials that shoals will be •discovered which will cut down celerity. For if all the bills introduced were passed there would be little money left for local gvernments to function, and some of the measures would wipe out- local governments entirely through consolidations. None of the bills with sweeping results have passed or are near passage, as yet, although several have advanced to the stage of favorable committee reports. Asks Radical Highway Changes An example of the bills slated to raise loud walls from home officials is furnished by two introduced in the senate. One would turn all township roads over to the county and the other would not permit the county to issu eany road bonds for the next three years. Emphasis will be placed by the legislators, in their week-end conferences with home folks, on the idea that huge amounts will "be forthcoming from the automobile license and gasoline tax funds when they strip the st*4e~*highway department. But the bills provide for so much subdividing that the amounts will not be as large as the anticipation of them, particularly in cities like Indianapolis, which would get but a single share, based on population, of one-twentieth of the total after a fifty-fifty sharing with the state. Deery Gives Warning Sensing the danger to local government which lies in too much speed and not enough thought regarding the ultimate result of drastic tax law changes, James Deery, Indianapolis city attorney, appeared at the statehouse Friday afternoon. He said he had ‘‘hurried over” to find out what the panic was about. ‘‘l appreciate the desire of the special session to make a good showing and not waste time,” Deery declared. "But we do not want to hamstring local government functioning and find ourselves in a worse plight than before the session was held. “Too much speed is dangerous. All angle of a measure should be considered. There is ample time if outside interests are not allowed to enter. "After all, we can not solve completely our economic problems merely by passing laws, regardless of how meritorious those laws might be.” Gives Time for Study Deery breathed a sigh of relief when he learned that the session was adjourned until 2 Monday. It would give local officials a chance to study the bills and find out what the effect will be on their government, he said. Senate bills which vitally will affect local government include the $1.50 levy limitation, two-third assessments based on 1928 figures, and the bond issue moratorium for county roads. House bills include the township road law repeal, universal salary cutting, abolition of such offices as assessors, school inspectors, county road superintendent, and others, repeal of mandatory county fair and cemetery road laws. State officials also are disturbed by such bills as the house measure to abolish the state industrial board, cut judges’ salaries and abolish all special levies, including that for forestry and the World war and George Rogers Clark memorials. Teachers and schools also are under fire, a bill having been introduced to repeal the teachers’ minimum wage law. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 67 8 a. m 75 7 a. m 69 9 a. m 79

where Mr. Jordan has his home. I did not meet him there, however“l was married to Mr. Melter in this city by the pastor of the First Presbyterian church, where I held a membership until last Easter, when I transferred it to the Pres- ; byterian church in Goshen. a a a ; “TT was through my church ac1. tivities that I met Mr. Jordan. I was interested intensely in the Wheeler Mission. I offered my | services as a solicitor in a drive. “It so happened that I was asj signed to appeal to Mr. Jordan for i funds for that worthy,institution. ■

EDERLE STILL IS HAPPY

Plays Tennis, Drives; No Long Swims

BY EVELYN SEELEY Times Staff Writer NEW YORK, July 9.—lt takes | most people a long time to become philosophers, but Gertrude Ederle is a philosopher at 25. “I don’t care about fame,” said the girl who, alnfbst exactly six years ago, swam the English channel. “I had enough.” “It’s an awful lot of work to be famous. Ja-a-aa, and it takes a long time.” She smiled heartily as she spoke. She tossed her dark hair back from her forehead. She looked very young and healthy and content. There were festive touches of red velvet ribbon on her dark blue and white polka dot dress. ‘‘l wanted to come back,” she said, and her rosy face clouded. “But I can’t, I guess. I’ve sort of made up my mind to that now. Anyway, I have a lot better time when I’m not having to train for a swim.” She was trying out her broadcast from an aquaplane towed by Mrs. Guy Lombardo’s speedboat, with Mrs. Lombardo at the wheel. tt H THIS was to have been the beginning of the “comeback,” she explained, a "comeback” that would include swimming feats reminiscent of the Ederle of six years ago. But her physician put a stop to her swimming plans. The necessary training, he told her, would increase, and complicate her ear trouble. "Please tell them I am not stone deaf,” said she, laughing. “I don’t want anybody feeling sorry for me. I am just about as good as ever—and I hear plenty.” She hears, in fact, almost normally. You do not have to shout to make her hear, but only to raise your voice a little. And what undertones she misses her quick perception catches from your expression. She is the first to laugh—a a hearty, deep, childish laugh—at a joke. And over the telephone or the earphones of a radio she hears perfectly. nun SHE can still swim, strongly and enduringly, but she is not allowed to do much of it. . “I can still swim home,” she shouted as a big wave toppled her off the aquaplaneSome of her records still stand, although she—unmathematical as inost women—can’t remember which ones. She is more interested in the new records American women are piling up. She delights in officiating at swimming meets or merely in watching them. "American girls are swell swimmers,” said she. "They always can show the world. They are better all the time—faster.” It is probably her enthusiastic interest in the swimming others do that prevents Gertrude Ederle, whose swimming career ended at its peak, from succumbing to the has-been blues. Also, she has a passion for motoring, speedy motoring which often brings her a summons. She is good at tennis. She enjoys a general enthusiasm for an active life. nun WHAT more, at 25, is the dream of a girl who at 20 got the first of the European ovations Colonel Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart later knew? "I did most of the things I wanted to do,” said Ederle. “Nothing much left but to swim the Atlantic ocean. . . . Yes, I’ll get married when Mr. Right comes along, but he hasn’t shown up yet. . . . "But what I really want to do is to teach swmming at some nice club; then all I learned wouldn’t be wasted.” SEEK NATIONAL PARLEY Lions Clnb to Make Bid tor 1933 International Convention. Details of a drive to bring the 1933 conevtinon of Lions International to Inidanapolis were completed Friday by the Lions Club at the Washington. S. Merril Smith and L. E. Halstead were appointed to promote a campaign.? at the international convention in Los Angeles, July 18 to 22.

Foreign Exchange

tßv James T. Hamill <fc Cos.) —July 9 Open. Sterling. England 3.58 1 /* Franc. France 0392 3 Lira. Italy 0510>/i Franc. Belgium 1389 Mark. Germany 2374 Guilder. Holland 4032 Peseta. Spain 0810 Krone. Norway 1768 Krone. Denmark 1939 Yen. Japan 2725

I made my ; ppeal and his answer was a request for my card. At first I refused to give it to him and told again the - story of the work of saving derelicts and how his dollars might help. “When I finally gave him my card, he at once said that we were neighbors.*' That, she says, was the beginning of a romance that ended in a shipwreck. As she tells her story, many of the chapters contain melodrama and intrigue. She tells of whispered warnings from the man she sues that her life was endangered and she tells, much more dramatically, of the • v: ■*“ ' . ■:*

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HIGHER HOG PRICES LIFT FARM GLOOM

How the Market Opened

BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor NEW YORK, July 9.—The stock market moved upward at the opening today after a series of erratic movements Friday resulting in a small net loss for the day. Leading issues gained fractionally at the outset. Steel common opened at 21%, up 14; American Can 31%, up 14; Du Pont, 22%, up %; Standard Oil of New Jersey, 24%, up V 4; Bethlehem Steel, 8%, up 14, and Pennsylvania Railroad, 714, up 14. American Telephone was down 14 point at 72 and minor declines also were noted in a few other issues, including several of the copper group; North American and Sears-Roebuck. General Motors preferred eased 14 point to anew low at 5614 In the early trading prices moved irregularly without pickup in volume. Steel and American Telephone eased off. Rails held firm. Brook-lyn-Manhattan Transit rose a point to 1914 oil further unification talk. BILL TO FIX ARBITRARY TAX RATE INTRODUCED Measure Is Proposed in Legislature by Four Representatives. Fixing of an arbitrary tax rate on all property, incomes, commercial paper and intangibles is proposed in a bill introduced Friday by four representatives. The bill would tax all powers to fix tax rates from the state tax beard and sets up a schedule which would assess cattle, vegetables, crops, tools, machinery and equipment used in agriculture at no more than 1 per cent of their cash value. Household furniture, merchandise and p/onerty of utilities would be taxed on the same basis. Intangibles such as commecial paper, stocks and bonds and securities would be taxed at one-fourth of 1 per cent of face value, while rolling stock of railroad and automobiles would come under the 1 per cent maximum. The income tax provisions provide that not even state or other governmental employes are exempt and fixes a rate of 5 per cent on annual incomes of $2,500 or more. Those receiving less would not pay a tax. Authors of the measure are: Representatives H. H. Evans (Rep.), Newcastle; John W. Remley (Rep.), Waynetown); Rollin S. Place (Dem.), Denver, and Marmaduke Stoops (Dem.), Petersburg. %

final meeting with Mr. Jordan in October of last year, when she came to what she believed would be wedding bells. a a a a “T am not an adventuress. I A loved him: perhaps I still do. Nor do I like the role of a woman scorned. I have asked for money because that is the only way the world has of measuring damage. “I hope that when it is all ended the world will know that his money did not matter and that I, not he, was the philanthropist in our broken romance,” says the woman who asks for a million and wants a court to give it to her. :> ~

Nation’s Swine Are Worth $250,000,000 More Than Six Weeks Ago. BY' HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, July 9.—Squealing pigs on thousands of American farms today shrilled a message of cheer as experts estimated the nation’s swine were worth $250,000,000 more on paper than six weeks ago. The fattening porkers were leaders in a commodity price rise, which analysts hope will go far to shake the gloom of the long depression. For the broad backs of the hogs, which provide an eighth of the country’s farm income, are carrying an advance that is spreading today to nearly all of America’s agricultural commodities. Beef cattle sold at quotations 33 per cent above those of May. Lambs are 25 per cent higher. Butter steadily is advancing. Grains are up. Cotton prices are better. Buying Power Is Increased The total potential buying power °f the farmer has been increased by millions. And the farmer, economists point out, is the backbone of national prosperity. Anew feeling of optimism was spreading from farming communities to thir industrial neighbors today as the gans of the last month were counted. That feeling, J. g. Campbell of the livestock bureau of the department of agriculture asserted, is more important than the paper profits which have been recorded. “This development doesn’t mean much to the packers and the people who haven’t any hogs to market, as far as cash goes,’’ he said. Better State of Mind ■ But it does mean a different state of mind. After all these weeks of low prices, the upturn has cheered people. The rise has brought every one out of the dumps. It’s the psychological benefit that helps.” This view was echoed by Herman Conway, research director of the I Livestock Marketing Association. ‘“Part of this advance,” he said, “is seasonal. But the rise is broader ! than that. It comes from a genuine shortage of supplies. "And it comes at a time when farmers had become discouraged with raising livestock because of the inadequate returns. Now they're getting their wind back. They feel more optimistic regarding the future.” Benefit Direct to Growers The greatest part of the profit from the Detter prices is going direct to the growers, figures showed. The price increase has not yet spread to products in the hands of packers. As an example of the return raisers are obtaining, sales on the Kansas City, East St. Louis, Omaha and Chicago hog markets during the past week brought farmers an j average of $1.83 a head more than 1 a month ago. This amounted to $528,870 for the four markets. Though increases in grain quotations have been small compared with those for livestock, market experts believe grains will benefit extensive- ] ly by the bettered hog and cattle j prices. This movement is being re- j tarded somewhat, it was believed, : by the imminence of th e new i harvest. i

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marlon County, 3 Cents

FORT SOLDIER HELD; ADMITS DEATHATTACK Attempted to Rob Aged Bus Station Manager, He Tells Police. IMPLICATES ARMY PAL Slaying Seen as Result of Handling Baseball Lottery Slips. Patrick McMahon, 70-year-old night manager of the Union bus station, 125 West Market street, is dead today, a murder victim, as a result of dealing in baseball pool tickets to recoup a loss of more than SB,OOO suffered in failure of a downtown bank. Charles E. Pike. 25. soldier at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, is held on a charge of murdering the aged man, and in a statement to detectives implicated a fellow soldier, Dewey Montgomery. Pike, detectives said, admitted he intended to rob McMahon. McMahon died today in city hospital of a wound on the head suffered Friday night when he was struck with a blackjack in a small offee at the station. Asked for Pool Slip In a death bed statement to detectives, McMahon said a man he never had seen before came into the station and asked to see a slip showing baseball pool winners. ‘‘l went back to my office to get the slip from my coat,” the statement continues. "With my back to the man, he hit me on the right side of the head with a blackjack.” McMahon was not felled by the blow. He yelled: “Catch that man,” and Pike was captured as he tried to escape through the main entrance of the station. He was caught by Irvin Scoville, 1722 Southeastern avenue, and William Carmichael, 3534 West Michigan street, who held him until the arrival of Jacob Hudgins, motorcycle policeman, and Edward Higgins, traffic officer. Police Obtain Statement Statement of Pike as announced by detectives is as follows: “A few days ago Montgomery told me he knew where to get money and baseball tickets. He said there was no danger, as the old man who had the money and tickets would not notify police as he was violating the law himself. Montgomery said the only danger might be from fellows hanging around the place. He said the old man was in the bus terminal. “We came in from the fort Friday afternoon and Montgomery and I went into the bus station. Montgomery talked to the old man, so that I would know him. I was seated near them. "We left the station about 6:45 Friday night and I came back about 7:45. I told the old man I wanted to buy two tickets. I followed him back to a little office and while his back was toward as he started to get the tickets from his coat,’ I hit him on the head with the blackjack. Dies at Hospital "Montgomery said he would wait for me on Illinois street at the alley north of Washington street. He had agreed to split any money I got and also had an agreement of the same kind for any money we won playing the baseball Mrs. Sarah Davidson, manager of the St. Denis hotel, where McMahon had made his home the last fourteen years, arranged for his removal to the hospital at 2:30 this morning. He died two hours later. Following the attack he was treated by a physician and taken to the hotel. Early today Mrs. Davidson went to his room. He was sitting in his bed. “Don’t lay me down.” he pleaded. I am sick here,” placing a hand on his chest. Former Saloon Keeper Mr. McMahon, former Indianapolis saloon keeper and a boxer for several years, was bom in Ireland and came to this city when a boy. He and his wife were divorced about . twenty years ago. A grandnephew, James Dale, and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Stilesdale, niece of the slain man, live at 1229 North Pennsylvania street. J. R. Furry, day manageer of the bus station, said McMahon lost between SB,OOO and SIO,OOO in the bank failure. Dale said he did not know the exact amount of the loss, but expressed belief that it was heavy. "He had more friends in this part so the city than any man I ever knew,” Furry said. "If robbery was the motive for the attack, there was a mistaken idea, because McMahon never carried more than S4O on his person.” Band!* Slain In Kokomo By United Prr KOKOMO, Ind.. July 9.—An unidentified bandit was shot and killed here today by W. I. Lyons, filling station attendant, during an attempted holdup. The bandit, about 25, bore numerous tattoo marks, and police thought he may have been a sailor.