Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1933 Edition 02 — Page 3

MAY 13, 1933

VAN NUYS WINS BATTLE TO OUST LEYBURN AS CHICAGO DISTRICT BANK EXAMINER Official Transferred to Cleveland, After Complaints; Ohio Man Is Shifted to Office in Windy City. 15V WALKER STONE Tim*s Special Writer WASHINGTON. May 13.—Senator Frederick Van Nuys, Indiana's new Democratic senator, drew his first blood in national politics Friday night, when the comptroller of the currency transferred A. T. Leyburn, chief national bank examiner, from the Chicago office to the Cleveland office. But the Hoosier senator doesn’t know yet whether he has won a real triumph or a doubtful victory, because Leyburn has been succeeded by William Taylor, who, until Friday night, was chief national bank examiner for the Cleveland federal reserve district.

The controller merely ordered leyburn and Taylor to exchange places. In doing so, he killed two birds with one stone. Leyburn has been the object of criticism on the part of business men and bankers in northern Indiana, Wisconsin and lowa, who charged he was autocratic in his refusal to co-operate in the reopening of closed banks. Taylor Also Criticised To the same extent, Taylor for the last two months has been criticised in Ohio and western Pennsylvania for the same reason. Senator Van Nuys called on Treasury’ Secretary Woodin last Wednesday. Armed with a sheaf of letters from northern Indiana bankers and business men, who declared that it would be impossible to restore banking business in that section to normalcy so long as Leyburn lemained in control. Backed by Senators La Follette and Duffy of Wisconsin, Couzens and Vandenburg of Michigan and Murphy of lowa, Senator Van Nuys demanded that Leyburn be taken out of the Chicago district. Secretary Woodin promised that Leyburn would be “removed in fortyeight hours’’—as soon as the new controller, J. F. T. O'Connor, had taken the oath of office. Friday night Woodin and O'Connor made good on that promise. Removal Is Demanded In the meantime, Taylor’s removal from Cleveland district had been demanded by Senators Bulkley and Fess of Ohio, Democratic National Committeeman Gussy of Pennsylvania and Congressmen Kelly of Pittsburgh and Bolton of Cleveland. Their charges against Taylor were the same as those made by Van Nuys against Leyburn—that he arbitrarily had blocked reopening of banks, even going to the extent of thwarting the efforts oi the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the comptroller’s office here. They said that Taylor had been particularly harsh on small banks, and accused him of being too sympathetic with the Mellon interests in Pittsburgh. Thus, by ordering Leyburn out of the Chicago district and Taylor out of Cleveland district. Secretary Woodin and Comptroller O'Connor have, temporarily at least, satisfied the political, banking and business interests of both sections. Will Give Him a Chance informed of Taylor’s background, Senator Van Nuys said: “I don’t think Mr. Taylor can be as unsatisfactory as Mr. Leyburn. Mr. Taylor deserves a fair chance to make good. “However, unless he goes to work and provides the co-operation necessary to reopen the banks and release the frozen deposits in northern Indiana, you can say that I shall not hesitate to demand that he also be removed. “I am determined that the reserve bank office in Chicago shall be forced to function otoperly. Senators from other states in the Chicago district have pledged their support. ’ RABBIT HUNTING COSTS CITY MAN SIOO FINE Gave Friend Bunnies. Got Whisky, He Tells U. S. Court. A rabbit hunting trip he took last October cost Lloyd Lewis, 3814 Broadway, SIOO and a ninety-day suspended jail sentence when he appeared in federal court before Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Lewis, charged with transporting whisky, told the court he shot more rabbits or. the hunting trip than he needed and took a brace of them to a friend for a present. The friend, according to Lewis, reciprocated by giving Lewis a jug of v husky. On College avenue, dry agents boarded the Lewis car and Mrs. Lewis kicked the jug into the street, breaking it, the court was told. Lewis was given thirty days in which to raise the SIOO fine. CONVICTS FACE LIFE TERMS FOR SHOOTING Permission for Trial Granted by Governor; Now in Prison. Possible life sentence looms for George Adams and Ed Knight, nowserving burglary terms at the Indiana state prison. Permission lias been procurred from Governor Paul V. McNutt to take the prisoners Cos Daviess county for trial on robbery of a Washington wholesale house which resulted in shooting the owner, Carl Volmer. Conviction will carry a life sentence according to Harry Sheley. deputy sheriff of Daviess county, who came to the Governor's office after papers for the prisoners. They were sentenced to ten years on the burglary charges as members of a Logansport gang. Volmer identified them as the pair who shot and wounded him, Sheley said BUS OFFICIAI MISSING Police Asked to Search for City Man. Division Chief. Indianapolis police have been asked to search lor E. P. Gustafson, 35, of 20 North Kitley avenue, who last was seen in Terre Haute where he had gone on business. Gustafson is division superintendent for Great Eastern Stages, Inc., and left Monday to make collections Rt various stations.

PEIPING READY FOR INVASION Feverish Preparations for Japanese Attack Are Made. BY HERBERT R. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent PEIPING, May 13.—The Japanese aircraft carrier Kamoi arrived off Tientsin today as Chinese and Japanese troops continued sanguinary warfare north of Peiping. The arrival of the Kamoi, reported in Tientsin dispatches, was confirmed by the naval attache of the Japanese legation. The arrival of the carrier served to strengthen general belief that Japan intended to occupy Peiping and Tientsin, the two major cities of northerh China, immediately. Japanese army airplanes have been active, over Peiping, dropping propaganda leaflets and reconnoitering. Chinese wounded were being evacuated from local military hospitals and sent south to safety. Peiping was under strict martial law as reports from the battle front near Miyuan indicated heavy fighting. Chinese said they had halted the Japanese advance along the Mandarin highway. Another Japanese column was reported to have halted at Luanchow r , northeast of Tientsin. Foreign military observers thought this column was waiting to advance on Tientsin, and had halted until arrival of the carrier bearing cooperative naval aircraft. The Peiping garrison prepared feverishly for attack, strengthening fortifications and testing armament. An anti-aircraft gun on the north gate exploded today while undergoing tests. An officer and a soldier w-ere killed.

WORK IS COMPLETED ON FAIR PAINTINGS Wall to Be Torn From Old Building to Ship Murals. Finishing touches today were being put to the mural painting featuring the Indiana exhibit at the Chicago World's fair. Thomas Hart Benton. New York muralist, said his painting practically is ended, except for some work when the panels are placed at the state's building at the fair. Removal of the seventeen panels with 2.800 feet of surface will necessitate tearing out a wall in the old building-where Benton has been working at 20 South Delaware street. The panels will be hauled to Chicago next week and, because of their size, a special permit from the state highway department will be required for the trucks. Although the fair opens May 27, ihe Indiana exhibit will open June 3 when Governor Paul V. McNutt leads the dedicatory exercises. July 13 will be Indiana Day. The Benton mural presents a 240-foot running story of Indiana's progress. EXAMINERS TO EXPLAIN NEW STATE BANK CODE Talks to Be Made at Series of Sixteen Meetings. The new Indiana banking code and operation of the state department of finance, created by the 1933 legislature, will be explained to Indiana bankers by state banking examiners at a series of sixteen meetings. W. A. Codings. Indiana Bankers' Association president, has arranged to hold the meetings in sixteen cities during the next two weeks. S. P. Good and N. R. Dexheimer. state bank examiners, will speak at the Indianapolis meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club at 6 tonight. W. S. Greenough of the Fletcher Trust Company, has been named chairman of the meeting. Bankers from Marion. Hendricks. Hancock. Morgan, Johnson and Shelby counties will attend the local meeting.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reoorted to notice as stolen belone to United Cab Company. United Taxi Cab No. 15. from Raymond street and White River. Herbert Rosner, 1122 North Wallace, Reo coupe, from 4837 East New York street Albert Sieemur.d Wabash. Ind . ChevIS&t. COUCf 535-991. from in front of 0850 Wlnthrop avenue. Kerman T. Cohen. 1711 North Illinois street. Oldsmobile sedan. 35-469. from in front of 171! North Illinois street. Evm C. Peces. 1645 North New Jersey street Chevrolet coach. 108-421, from rear oi 1645 North New Jersey street. Cvrus Stout. 1201 North Oxford street. Chevrolet couoe. from 2315 Broadwav.

BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to B Williams 23 North New Jersey street. Chevrolet coupe, found in creek at east end of Dearborn woods. C. Cauldwell. 1124 Orange street. Union Taxi Cab No. 230. found at 955 East Market street. Philip J Gaito. 430 South New Jersey street Ford roadster, found near New Augusta automobiles stripped of three wheels and three tires. Evm C Pegcs. 1645 North New- Jersey Chevrolet coach, found at 2800 MacPherson avenue _ Frank Hogan. 620 North Rural street. Ford roadster, found In rear of 2025 North Delaware street, stripped of three wheels sad tires.

Kokomo in Path of Torrent

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Upper Floor waters swept through this house in Kokomo Thursday afternoon when Wildcat creek, which runs through the residential sections of the

REACH WIDOW'S DEATHVERDICT Mrs. Effie Bull Dies of Natural Causes, Says Coroner. Mrs. Effie Bull, 55, of 1540 North Meridian street, Apartment 3, died of natural causes Wednesday morning at Methodist hospital, following an alleged robbery and attack Tuesday night at her apartment. This was the verdict given today by Dr. W. E. Arbuekle. Marion county coroner, who said his office would make no recommendations against any persons. Dr. Arbuekle said death resulted from an acute oedema of the brain and a mild case of chronic myocarditis. There was evidence also, he said, of acute inflammation of the stomach and intestinal tract, cause undetermined. Dr. Arbuckle’s report followed chemical analyses and microscopic examination of vital organs by Dr. Rollo N. Harger, Indiana university toxicologist. Held in the county jail on charges of binding and gagging Mrs. Bull and robbing her of $7,000 in jewelry is John Cochran, 23. Mrs. Emily Watkins, arrested with Cochran on the same charge, has been released on her own recognizance. BOOST IN FEDERAL TAX FACES NATION Program to Provide Public Works, Relief Funds. liy Scripps-lloward A Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 13. Another tax increase—always a major operation—will be undertaken at once to provide $220,000,000 a year to pay interest and principal of $3,300,000.000 in public works bonds and $1,900,000,000 more for relief and other extra-budgetary expenses. This appears to be the final White House answer to those in congress who have been saying that no new taxes will be necessary to finance public works. Types of taxes suggested to the White House fall into four categories: 1. Additional taxes on income. 2. Additional sales taxes on special individual articles. 3. A general sales tax. 4. A tax on services, such as a tonnage tax on vessels using our waterways and harbors. The income tax plan is widely favored. GAS HEARING HELD Proposed Reorganization Plans Explained at Meeting. A hearing to consider proposed plans of reorganization of the Kentucky Natural Gas Company, nowin the hands of receivers, was held in the library of the Federal building today. According to Albert Ward, attorney. who presided at the meeting. the reorganization plans include proposals to give bondholders 7 per cent cumulative preferred stock. The company operates in Kentucky and Indiana. Soldiers’ Hospital Is Opened Several thousand persons attended ceremopies Friday at Marion in celebration of the formal opening of the Soldiers’ hospital and Home.

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city, left its banks. The mattress in the photo was so water-logged that five men were needed to carry It. Lower Lest —Seeking to prevent repetition of this week's destruc-

Flood Babies Four Are Born During Height of Storm in County.

FOUR babies were born this morning while the storm was at its height. At 5 a. m. today, Miss Bernie Pain, public health nurse, waded knee-deep through water to the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Fernandez, Sherman drive near Southeastern avenue, and helped Dr. Kenneth Jeffries at the birth of a twin boy and girl four hours later. In Ravens wood, near Seventyfifth street and Sylvan avenue, a baby boy was born to Mrs. Claude Nickerson in a home almost surrounded by water. Mother and baby were removed today to the home of relatives at 4929 Sheldon street. As two men in bathing suits carried Mrs. Nickerson and the baby from the house, water reached the floor. A boat was used as a conveyance to a point where an ambulance waited. The flood baby has been given the name of David. Another baby, a daughter, was born to Mrs. Beulah Bunce, 1068 West McCarty street, after police had aided a doctor in reaching the house over a water-covered route. Father of the baby, Samuel Bunce, died seven months ago. There are two other children in the family, Florence and Hazel. Dr. Myron M. Hipskind of the city hospital was hurrying to the Bunce home in his automobile when it became stalled in the rain. Police provided a car, and Dr. Hipskind reached the Bunce home at 2:30 a. m.

Road Conditions in State Bad, Due to Floods

Fourteen Highways Under Fiigh Water: Another to Be Covered Soon. Except for two occasions when | snowfall was heavy, conditions on j Indiana roads today are the worst | in history, with fourteen affected by ; high water and the prospect that i another will be covered in places by : night. j For accommodation of motorists, the commission will give road inj formation throughout this after- : noon and Sunday. Information can be obtained by phoning the ! state highway department, Riley 9521. Flood condition report on various highways follows: Road 1. blocked north and south of Redkey: 18. blocked east of Fowler; 34, covered by water at Speedway for distance of about 1.000 feet, with traffic being pulled through and at Covington; 37, covered near Waverly, but traffic still moving; 41 water over levee near Attica and there is a detour south of junction with 52 for bridge and pavement washout. * Trucks are pulling traffic through on road 40 near Bridgeport and on road 52 at railroad crossing north of Flackville. Road 63 is blocked north of Cayuga, and 28 between Deerfield and Redkey is under two and onehalf feet of water. West of Lynn Road 36 is blocked due to washing out of a bridge. Water is over Road 67 between Fortville and Ingalls, and traffic is being pulled through. Road 136 is blocked east of Raccoon and north of junction with Road 39. Road 234 is blocked between Kingman and junction with Road 63.

tion, workmen are repairing the levee on the creek. Lower Right—A street scene in Kokomo, with water still surrounding the house, after Wildcat creek went on its rampage.

HERRON SCHOOL CHEF CHOSEN Donajd M. Mattison to Become Director of Art Classes. Acting upon the recommendation of the John Herron art school committee, directors of the institution today appointed Donald M. Mattison, of New York university, director of the art school for next year. Mattison, a winner of the “Prix de Rome” and members of the American academy of Rome following his graduation from Yale, will succeed Miss Edna Mann Shover, as principal of the Herron school. Miss Shover will continue as assistant principal. CITY MAN IS KILLED Dies of Injuries Received in Bus Accident in East. Death toll in a bus accident a week ago at York, Pa., reached three today when Charles T. Moeller, 70, of 1441 South State avenue, succumbed to injuries in a York hospital. His daughter, Miss Lula Moeller. 44. of the State avenue address, and a St. Louis woman were killed instantly. Mr. Moeller and his daughter were en route to Philadelphia to attend dedication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, of which his son, the Rev. Theodore Moeller, is pastor.

It is expected water will cover Road 31 north of Seymour by night and preparations have been made to pull traffic through. State road contractors stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as the result of work destroyed by rain, it was reported at commission headquarters. Washouts have doubled the cost af construction in some instances and the time limitation will not be possible to meet in many cases, it was said. State roads generally have suffered more from the floods already than at any time in department history, with the possible exception of during heavy snow- it was asserted by Commissioner John W. Wheeler. RUM NABBED Earl Sells, Alleged ‘Big Shot' Runner, Faces Federal Charge. Federal agents Friday arrested Earl Sells. 2408 East Thirtieth street, alleged “big shot” rum runner, through a confession made by Dwight Hansford, Seventy-ninth street and the Noblesville road, who is held on SI.OOO bond as a material witness. Hansford was arrested by state police in obtaining auto licenses. He said he formerly operated a New Bethel resort for Sells. TRIES TO END HIS I LIFE City Man, Brooding Over Estrangement With Wife, Fails in Suicide. Brooding over estrangement from his wife. Otis Whiteley, 39. of 1059 West Thirty-first street, unsuccessfully attempted suicide Friday night by slashing his wrists with a razor blade. •—* - *£•**•*,

LEVEE PERILED, BRIDGES SWEPT OFFJBYROOD White River Hammers Holes in Warfleigh Dike and Menaces Homes. (Continued From Page One) were wrecked, trees and wires blown down. Tornado swept Centerpoint. unroofing barns, wrecking chicken houses and chimneys and bringing down electric and telephone wires. Rainfall ranged from l's to two inches. Greencastle had 2.20 inches and Farmland 2 28. The Wabash river at Terre Haute is rising and is expected to reach a stage of 22 or 23 feet. Flood mark is 16. Flood Warnings Posted Flood warnings have been sent by the bureau to all points on the lower stretches of the White and Wabash rivers. Twenty-five poles of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company were leveled and live wires were down in streets at many points. Considerable damage was caused at city hospital shortly before noon today, when the smokestack of the old city hospital building toppled, causing a portion of the roof to collapse. Police ftere detailed to clear away debris. Parts of roofs of some buildings of the abandoned Pennsylvania railroad shops. East Washington street and Beville avenue, were carried away during the storm. Lightning Hits House Home of W. R. Mattingly, 1035 North Mount street, was struck by lightning, but little damage resulted. At Summit street and Spann avenue, a tree torn from its roots took limbs from another tree and the debris, hurled against the porch of a home, moved it severa l yards. Police received nearly a dozen reports of wires being down, and aid was asked by residents of several sections as water from flooded sewers or overflowing streams menaced | their homes. Little damage was suffered by lines of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, r. nd service on the Indiana railroad was practically normal. Indianapolis Railways encount-! ered trouble at Michigan street and White river, where sections of asphalt paving were washed on the tracks. A tree which was blown blocked street car traffic for a short time at Fourteenth street and Columbia avenue. Those injured in the local storm were: Oren D. Oldaker, 60, severe on forehead and right ear, incurred when window was blown in while he slept in his home at 2509 Southeastern avenue. Hurt in Nightmare Walter Eicholtz, 30, of 918 North Alabama street, gash on right arm, which he pushed through window while in a nightmare. Vern Shewman. 21, of 1345 Oliver avenue, dazed when automobile in which he was riding, was struck by lightning in the 2100 block Carson avenue. Shewman’s brother, James, and Clarence May, Ft. Harrison, riding with him escaped injury. They could not find Vern after the bolt struck. He wandered into the home of C. H. S. Colbert, R. R. 1, Box 21, and broke a window. Three men were injured slightly when a taxicab in which they were riding was damaged by a falling tree. Those hurt were the driver, James Williams, 24, of 2515 Shriver avenue; Robert Benson, 23, of 1939 Highland avenue, and Charles Fuqua, 22, of 405 West Thirteenth street. All suffered cuts from broken glass. Irvin Jacobs, 30, of 342 South Temple avenue, escaped injury when his automobile struck a telephone pole in the 3600 block East Michigan street, while the storm was raging. He was arrested on a charge of drunken driving. Part of the Coffin golf course is under water and the South Grove course is menaced. The Riverside course also is threatened, as water covers the road which bounds it on the east and north. RUBINOW TO SPEAK AT JEWISH DINNER Program Will Be Given Sunday Night in Beth-El Temple. Speaker for the dinner program of the Jewish Educational Association at 6 Sunday night in BethEl Temple will be Dr. I. M. Rubinow. of Cincinnati, executive secretary of B’nai B’rith, who has had a varied career as physician, social worker and author. The program will commemorate the twenty-second anniversary of the founding of the first consolidated Hebrew school, the Neustadt Talmud Torah, by Rabbi I. E. Neustadt. Others on the program will be Louis J. Borinstein, Rabbi M. M. Feuerlicht, Rabbi Milton Steinberg. j. A. Goodman, Rabbi Samuel A. Katz. Isaac Marks, Meyer Gallin and Libby Maurer. Mrs. Daniel Stauber is dinner chairman and Mrs. J. Solotken coohairman. They will be assisted j by Mrs. Morris Dobrowitz, Miss j Geraldine Young. Mrs. R. Domont i and Mrs. I. Mentser. NO DRIVERS’ LICENSE CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED | Motorists Who Do Not Have Perj mits to Be Asked to Report. i No drive on new drivers’ license ! will be made by state police, it was ; announced today by Captain Matt ; Leach. The deadline for purchase of such license was Thursday, and any one j halted without one will be asked to | report, Leach said. —— YOUTH SHOT IN FINGER Revolver Discharges Accidentally as He Sits in Car. Robert L. Bennis. 19, of 918 EngJ lish avenue, was sitting in a car in front of his home Friday talking to i Mary Sheehan, 1307 Bates street, ] and Virginia Doyle, 1332 Spann ave--1 nue, when a revolver he was han- | dling discharged accidentally. He was shot in the index finger of I the right hand.

LEAPS TO DEATH

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Choosing death over life without her married dentist-employer. Miss Rebecca Roche, above, leaped from the twenty-third floor of a \ Chicago building. Her suicide followed a conference with Dr. M. ; M. Restell and his wife during which the girl was told her love j affair with the dentist must end. LASHES DRY RAID TACTICS Judge Baltzell Condemns Use of ‘Stool Pigeons' by Agents. Denouncing tactics of federal agents in using "stool pigeons" and then failing to produce them as witnesses in court, Federal Judge j Robert C. Baltzell today showed leniency to Mr. and Mrs. Vergil Fred- j erick, 119 North East street. At a hearing last week at which Mrs. Frederick complained she was knocked down by one of the three dry agents who raided the Frederick apartment at 600 North East street last fall, Baltzell ordered the dry informer used to be brought into court. He could not be found, the court was informed today, and this provoked Baltzell’s criticism of the prohibition department’s tactics. "This business of taking anybody off the street and using him to make a case—then failing to produce him—is all w’rong,” Baltzell said. Baltzell then gave Frederick a sentence of one day and gave Mrs. Frederick a suspended sentence. Herman L. Crossley, Maurice Bennett and Earl Fisher were the agents who took part in the raid. TIRED, WET COP GETS HIS MAN Fails in Puddle, Then Picks Right Porch for Capture. Patrolman Melvin Wilkerson got his man early today despite the storm and a fall into a puddle. Wilkerson and Patrolman. Charles Clemens saw an automobile crash into a pole in the 3600 block, East Michigan street. A man leaped from the car and ran. Wilkerson took up the chase. He fell into the puddle. Peeved, damp and tired, Wilkerson sat down on a porch to rest—he didn’t know whose proch and didn’t care. Within a few minutes, Wilkerson saw r a man peering around a corner of the house. Apparently not seeing the officer, the man seated himself on the porch near the officer. Wilkerson grabbed the man. He was Irvin Jacobs, 30, of 342 South Temple avenue, who was arrested on charges of drunken driving and drunkenness. WAR MOTHERS ARE EXEMPT FROM TAX Carnation Sales Not Subject to State Levy. Carnation sales made today by the War Mothers wall not be subject to the 1 per cent gross sales tax, it was announced by Clarence A. Jackson, state collector. Poppies sold on Poppy day also will be exempt, he said. Fires Two Shots at Burglar Awakened by a noise, John E. Moon, who resides in the rear of his restaurant at 807 North Delaware street, fired two shots early today at a burglar. Moon does not know whether either bullet took effect, he told police.

The City in Brief

Paul Fesler, superintendent of Wesley Memorial hospital, Chicago, will be the speaker at the luncheon of the Rotary Club in the Claypool Tuesday. Sta:e convention of Rotary Clubs will be held at Evansville Wednesday and Thursday. Special music by the orchestra and a sermon by the Rev. S. Read McAlpin will comprise the Mother’s day program at the Fountain Square Christian church at 9:30. The “Seven-Eleven” minstrels will be presented tonight at 8 by Service post No. 28, American Legion, at the Universalist church in Oaklandon. Twenty-four post members comprise the cast. Indianapolis Jewish organizations, including congregations, men's clubs, sisterhoods, social and charitable groups have sent messages of protest to Washington against the Hitler persecution of German Jews. Mrs. Stella Williams, 911 East Maryland street, reported to police her husband, Thomas Williams, 43, returned home early today in a semi-intoxicated condition, and thrust his arm through a door glass, severing an artery.

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BRITAIN FURIOUS OVER HITLER'S ARMSTHREATS London Fears Reich Will Renounce Versailles Military Rule. BY FREDERICK Ki ll Vnited Press Staff Correspondent LONDON. May 13. —Widespread fears were felt in London today that the German reichstag will renounce military clauses of the Versailles treaty when it convenes Wednesday in special session to discuss the Geneva disarmament crisis. The possibility of reoccupation of the Rhineland by allied troops was discussed openly in Great Britain. British pubilc opinion was wrought to high pitch by possibility of German renunciation of the Versailles treaty, which imposes rigid military restrictions upon the reich. Norman H. Davis. American am-bassador-at-large. having won a signal victory in the adoption of the economic truce by the organizing committee of the world economic conference, was prepared to leave for Geneva in hopes of saving the disarmament conference, disrupted by Germany's demand for the right to re-arm. Experts felt that the economic truce improved the world situation, but fears of impending political and financial difficulties served to restrict expressions of optimism. Germany was thought to be the crux of both the economic and financial picture. It was feared she soon would be forced off the gold standard. which would void important provisions of the Young and the Dawes loans. Davis planned to confer with French officials at Paris over the week-end and proceed to Geneva Monday. Observers thought it significant that the French public was taking the rumblings from across the Rhine more calmly than the British. While Bolshevism and Italian Fascism always had many ardent friends, Adolf Hitler has not. a single influential supporter in England. BULLET FIRED THROUGH ROOF: FLIERJS SOUGHT Aerial Gunman Hunted by Police After Shooting Investigation. Police today were seeking an aerial gunman who is believed to have fired a bullet Friday night through the roof of the home of Miss Emma King, 2118 North Talbot street. Miss King showed police a 38caliber bullet on her dresser with a corresponding hole in the roof above. A short time before, Miss King heard a plane flying overhead, and 1 believes the pilot fired the shot. SWEETHEART TO JAIL: PRETTY GIRL IN TEARS Sobs in Court as Man Is Given Five-Year Sentence. A pretty girl dressed in blue sobbed openly in federal court today as her sweetheart was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Miss Irma Meyer, 21, of 1236 Central avenue, charged with selling narcotics, had to be assisted to a seat by attendants as the court pronounced sentence on Frank Rush, 721 Park avenue, indicted on the same charge. Val Nolan. United States district attorney, told the court that the probation officer’s report showed that the girl not only came from a good family, but had led an exemplary life up to a year ago when she met | Rush. Baltzell postponed the case for a week, pending further investigation by the probation officer. DECREE IS SET ASIDE Divorced Husband Wins Right to Testify: Case Is Reopened. A divorced husband, John W. Taggart. 346 Congress avenue, has won the right to tell the belated story of his married life in circuit court. Judge Earl R. Cox set aside the decree granted Mrs. Carress Taggart, 902 Bosart avenue, reopening the case. Taggart charges he was not given a chance to tell his story when his wife won the divorce and $8 weekly support decree a month ago BETTER _CAR _ SERVICE Trolleys to Run Oftenrr on Sundays on Minnesota Line. Street car service on the Minnesota street line will be increased on Sundays from a car every thirtyfive minutes to a car every twenty ; minutes after 7 p. m„ J. P. Tretton, ! general manager of Indianapolis Railways, announced today. Effective today, the cars will leave the end of the line and Washington and Meridian streets, at ten, thirty and fifty minutes after the hour after 6:50 p. m during the week and all day Sunday. RAILROADERS TO MEET Legislation to Be Considered at All-Day Session Here. Legislation -of interest to railway j employes will be considered Sunday in an all-day meeting of railroad j men at the Severin. Delegates from Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus. Louisville and Evansville will attend. Pennsylvania Division 598 and Ini dianapolis Division 103 of the Order ! of Railway Conductors will hold a closed session in the assembly room lat the Severin at 2. The meeting I will be presided over by the national j president of railway conductors S. ! N. Berrv, of Cedar Rapids, la. | TEACHERS ASSURED PAY. 512.627.000 Available by Mid-Week, Traylor Tells Chicago. liy Vnited /‘rent CHICAGO. May 13— Between 3,009 and 4,000 teachers massed in I Liberty park on Michigan boulevard today to hear their leaders read a written assurance by Melvin A. Traylor, president of the First National bank, that $12,627,000 in cash would be made available for school pay rolls by mid-week.