Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1933 — Page 2

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MEYER-KISER COURT PROBE TO CONTINUE Two Other Ex-Officials to Take Stand for Questioning. Questioning of former officials and liquidating agents of the defunct Mftyer-KLser bank will continue in circuit court this week, with J. J. Kiser and M. S. Cohn on the witness stand. At the same time, the giand jury probe of two other defunct local institutions, the State Savings and Trust Company, and the Washington Bank and Trust Company, will be pushed, according to Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson Ten days remain before expiration of the present grand jury term. Nearly a month of studying records and documents of the two banks would be lost if anew grand jury took up the probe, it has been pointed out. Other Revelations Sought Additional revelations regarding the Meyer-Kiser are expected this week, inasmuch as the two earlier witnesses, Sol Meyer, former president, and his son, Ferdinand S. Meyer, referred aswers to numerous questions to the other two liquidating agents in active control of the bank for twenty-three months. Kiser, Cohn and the younger Meyer were named liquidating agents of the bank in May, 1931, although the latter sr-n reater part of his time in Florida. With Kiser anu Conn . witness stand, attorneys for 'x humus E. Garvin, receiver, and depositors will seek answers to questions regarding transactions prior to and during the liquidation period. Demand by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox that the agents file a comprehensive report of their handling of funds also is awaited as the first opportunity to learn the details of the liquidation. Bared as Family Bank Attempt is being made by Garvin to learn the actual value of assets having a book value of $545,000, uncovered as the bank’s share in a trust organized by the former officers. Other disclosures during the examination of the Meyers were: The bank was '“a family affair”; that it was controlled by a partnership of cousins. Sol Meyer and Sol Kiser; that in a six-year period $1,737,000 was drawn from the bank for salaries and operating expenses; that the salary of the elder Meyer was $65,358 in 1923; that his son received only S4O monthly salary from the bank, but was augmented by S6OO monthly from his father, and an additional SSOO monthly from the Lincoln Loan Company, a subsidiary. That the elder Meyer and the three liquidating agents paid themselves SSOO monthly during the liquidating period: that during the liquidation the agents also received SSOO monthly from the loan company; that Luther Symons, former state banking commissioner, suggested withholding information from the public for the good of “general business conditions,” and that Symons’ son, Merwin, was employed in the bank at a $l5O monthly salary for “part-time work.”

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Drawing a wagon loaded with beer from ,the Anheuser-Busch brewery at St. Louis, six gigantic Clydesdale horses, all prize winners, provide a sight entirely new to the younger generation of Indianapolis. The horses are quartered in a barn at 924 East Ohio street, where they can be seen until 9 p. m. dally up to Wednesday. Each of the animals weighs approximately one con. Anheuser-Busch beer, distributed locally by the Universal Beverage Company, 601 Fulton street, made its Indianapolis debut Wednesday,

CITY BREWERY DENIEDJ’ERMIT ‘Starvation Pay’ Charges Followed by Refusal of License. Permit for the Home Brewing Company, which is rehabilitating the old Lieber brewery, 1300 Madison avenue, will not be granted at this time, it was announced today by Paul Fry, state excise director. On June 10, Frey said the request had been filed by the company for a beer manufacturer’s permit. He announced then that he was going to inquire into the financing of the company. Reports were current that some of the funds were coming from Mrs. Claude Worley, wife of the former Indianapolis police chief, who now is serving a federal prison sentence at Leavenworth, Kan. This was denied, however, by John J. Darmody, president of the company. Darmody also denied that “starvation wages” were being paid to workers at the old brewery. Harry Moore, 431 Prospect street, produced a check he received for fixing boilers there at 75 cents a day. In turning down the permit at thus time, Fry gave as the reason that there is no room for more breweries in the Indianapolis district. Place your rental now for MidJune Rental Guide. Call RI-5551.

Six-horse hitch of the Anheuser-Busch brewery.

Slugger Runs Amuck on South Side; Attacks Trio Three persons were slugged early Sunday night when an unidentified and apparently crazed youth ran amuck on the south side, running from house to house and attacking whomever he saw.

He was beaten into unconsciousness by one of his victims and three police officers and lodged in city prison in a padded cell. Ernest Melaun, 76, of 330 Orange street, was sitting in his yard when he heard a noise in the house. When Melaun investigated, he was struck by the youth, his spectacles broken and his face lacerated. The youth, apparently about 19, then ran to 318 Orange street, where Fred Kleis, Bridgeport, was sitting on the porch. He knocked Kleis down, but Kleis didn’t like it and pursued his assailant. Running on porch of 343 East Morris street, where Mr. and Mrs. George Moon were sitting, the youth slugged Moon and tried to hit Mrs. Moon, who, escaped by rolling from the porch into a flower bed.

The City in Brief

“The world is ready for a religion that appeals to reason,” William Estep, founder of the Super-Mind Science church, declared at the Indianapolis branch, 22 Vz North Pennsylvania street, Sunday night. “Father’s real job in the world is to be a man. If he is a real man, then he is a real father,” Merle Sidener, class leader, told the Christian Men Builders’ class at the Third Christian church Sunday. A silver loving cup for best attendance at the Anderson convention of Indiana Baptist Young People’s Societies was won by representatives of the First Baptist church, Indianapolis. Twenty-seven registered. Senator Arthur R. Robinson will speak at the meeting of the Irvington Republican Club, 5446 ’i East Washington street, at 8 tonight. Patsy Pearl Hoard, 23 months, suffered injury of her left shoulder Sunday when she fell from bed at her home, 327 Spring street. In honor of her 80th birthday, Mrs. Ellen S. Eldridge received friends Sunday at the home of her son, Arthur Brooks Eldridge, 732 East Thirty-third street. Mrs. Eldridge was born in West Springfield, Mass. She has lived in Indianapolis fifty-one years. A memorial service for Mrs. Fred Smock, secretary of the Mark Conkle Circle of the Third Christian church, will be given Tuesday at the meeting of the circle. The meeting will be held at the home of Miss Sarah Combs. 3843 Central avenue. Miss Louise E. Noble, health education director of the Y. W. C. A., has announced a reduction in rates for summer swimmers, effective today. Earl Stewart, flying student of Harry Boggs, Capitol airport manager, took his first solo flight on Sunday after four hours and fiftyfive minutes of instruction. Members of Indianapolis garden clubs will be guests Tuesday night of the Architects’ Exhibit, Inc,, at ’ a display of city planning, rehousing and beautifying on the second floor of the Architects and Builders building. First Lieutenant Calvin P. McLaughlin of Indianapolis has been ordered to six months duty with the civilian conservation corps at Ft Knox, Ky. Mrs. Fred Hoke, 3445 Washington boulevard, will be hostess from 2

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Kleis still was hot in pursuit and was joined by Patrolman William Marks, who was in civilian clothes. They caught their quarry at Madison avenue and Morris street, where he pu': up a furious resistance. He battled Kleis and Marks successfully until Sergeant Ed Kruse and Patrolman Kenneth Downs joined in the melee. The youth refused to tell his name, age, or residence. He told police he was “being paid SI,OOO a week by gangsters to put people on the spot and intended to kill everybody.” He is held on a vagrancy charge as a mental patient after being treated at city hospital.

to 5 Wednesday for a garden party for the Missionary society of the North M. E. church. Music and games will be on the program of the East Thirty-eighth Street Civil League lawn fete, to be held at Thirty-fourth street and Sherman drive Tuesday night. The Rev. Frederick R. Daries. pastor of Zion Evangelical church, conducted ordination services Sunday morning for William Center Brandon, who was graduated recently from the Eden Theological seminary, Webster Groves, Mo. Dr. Walter A. Maier of St. Louis, will speak Sunday at special sunset services sponsored by the City Walther League. The services will be held in the Butler bowl, beginning at 4:30. The annual dramatic production of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco will be a play written by Junius Cravens, former Indianapolis resident. The play is “The Legend of Hani” based on legends of the American Indians. Charles Thompson, 2022 North La Salle street, and John Lookibill, 2028 Wheeler street, are being held at North Vernon, Ind., in connection with theft of an automobile, according to police. Members of the Woman’s Christian Missionary Society of Olive Branch Christian church have reelected Mrs. J. C. Woodruff as president. Mrs. Woodruff has served seventeen years in the presidency of the society. She has been a member of Ohve branch church for twenty-six years. Members of the press associations of North and South Carolina will be in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon aboard a special Big Four train en route to the world’s fair in Chicago. The train will arrive at 1:25 and leave at 4. Annual picnic of the Indiana section, American Chemical Society, will be held Saturday at Forest park, Noblesville. A golf tournament, women’s bridge tournament and a chicken dinner are on the program. Major Robert Anderson Corps, W. R. C„ will serve a covered dish luncheon at the home of Mrs. M. H. Harmon, 2850 East New York street, Wednesday. Ladies’ day will be observed by the Lions Club at the weekly luncheon at the Washington Wednesday. Program of music and specialties will be given. Alvin P. Hovey post. W. R. C„ ■will hold a business meeting and birthday luncheon Friday at 512 North Illinois street.

SOCIETY TO GIVE PLAY Church Presentation to Be Staged hy Calendar Group. Calendar Society of Centenary Christian church will sponsor a play Thursday night in the church. Members of the cast are Mesdames Benjamin Helkema, Edward Marriott, Harry Canfield, J. Sinnex, H. Hummel, William Gross, Otto Suesz and Ernest Gauker; Misses Hazel Meadows, Mildred Gauker and Helen Snipes, and Roy Kersey, Max Miles and I. McDonald. Billy Shirley .will give special vocal numbers. STORE CLERK ROBBED Bandit Escapes After Taking S9 From Woman Late Saturday. Miss Connie Broglin. 522 Bell street, clerk in a store at 2246 College | avenue, was held up Saturday night in the store and robbed of $9. The bandit escaped. Earl Long. 32, 1832 North Harding j street, taxi driver, was robbed of an j undetermined amount of money by j a Negro bandit, Saturday night. Woman Suffers Severed Artery Mrs. Anna Rutter, 48, of 504 Erie street, was the victim of an unusual accident Sunday. She closed .the door of her home so violently that | the glass was shattered, falling on I her left foot and severing an artery.

OUTLAWS HOLD SOUTHWEST IN GRIPOFTERRQR Dozen Bandits Put Feats of Jesse James Into Novice Class. BY THOMAS C. CLUCK United Press Staff Correspondent KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 19. Modernized outlawry has reached an unprecedented high point in the southwest. Depredations of such notorious characters as Jesse James and A1 Jennings were amateurish compared with the machine gun, motorized reign of terror in recent weeks. The roster of fugitives, many with blood on their hands and a price on their heads, today stood as follows; Seven Kansas state penitentiary convicts, including Wilbur Underhill, convicted murderer, and Harvey Bailey, killer and bank bandit. Pretty Boy Floyd Loose The “phantom bandit” of the southwest, Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, rival of Jesse James for individual notoriety, and at least one of his lieutenants. Two or more machine gunners who raked the Union station plaza here with bullets Saturday, killing four officers and a convict. Three bank bandits who shot to death a sheriff and state highway patrolman at Columbia, Mo. One suspected member of the gang that kidnaped Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of the city manager of Kansas City, Mo., and collected $30,000 ransom for her release. Captures in the cases were: Lansing prison break, four convicts returned to prison. McElroy kidnaping, three men and one woman held. Union station massacre, none. Columbia killings, none. Massacre Stirs Police The massacre of Raymond J. Cassey, special agent of the United States bureau of investigation; Police Chief Otto Reed of McAlester, Okla.; Frank Hermanson and J. W. Grooms, Kansas City detectives, on the Union station plaza, the forces of law to feverish activity. The fifth victim was Frank Nash, convict, whom the officers were returning to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth. The gunners did their murderous work in sight of hundreds of early morning travelers and townspeople. Five men suspected of complicity in the massacre were seen near Leavenworth. Kan., twenty-five miles away, Sunday. The arrest Sunday in Roanoke, Va., of George McGee, suspect in the McElroy kidnaping, left only one suspect in the case still at large. McGee’s brother, Walter, was arrested in Amarillo, Tex., and confessed. Floyd Makes Getaway Clarence Click was arrested in Kansas City. A former wife of Walter McGee was captured at the hideout where Miss McElroy was held. Clarence Stevens has not been found. Approximately half the ransom money was recovered. “Pretty Boy” Floyd disappeared after he and a lieutenant released a sheriff and another man near Lees Summit, Mo., early Saturday. The two had been held as hostages in a typical Floyd dash toward his Oklahoma retreats after the sheriff accidentally walked into a garage where the bandit car was being repaired. Os the eleven Kansas penitentiary convicts who escaped Memorial day, seven remained free. Clifford Dopson and Billie Woods were captured at Junction, Tex. Frank Sawyer was taken near Binker, Okla., after a bloody encounter with officers.’ Lewis Bechtel was arrested quietly at Dripping Springs, Okla. The others could not be traced.

HOLDUP IS REPORTED City Man Taken for Ride, by Trio, Police Are Told. Flem O. Brittain, 44. of 85 North Addison street, reported to police that he had been “taken for a ride” late Saturday by three men who asked for directions at St. Clair street and Broadway. With a revolver pressed against his side,- Brittain was driven east of the city and robbed of $7, the contents of his purse. The bandits drove a car with an Illinois license, Brittain said. TAKES GAS TO END LIFE No Flowers or Funeral Is Request of Woman Suicide. Leaving a note requesting “no funeral or flowers for me,” Mrs. Lottie Stenless, 50, of 933 Buchanan street, committed suicide by leaving all the jets of her kitchen gas stove open. The body was found Sunday night, Dr. William E. Arbuckle, coroner, estimating she had been dead at least forty-eight hours.

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Virgil Kirkland Opens New Figh t for Freedom in Madison Cos. Court

Judge’s Right Questioned by Gary Youth's Counsel in Death Case. Bp Timm Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 19. Virgil Kirkland, gin party slayer of Arlene Draves, Gary high school girl, was to open a fight for freedom this afternoon in Madison superior court. Kirkland, a Gary youth, was given a one to ten-year term in the Indiana reformatory as result of anew trial afer he had been convicted at a spectacular previous hearing of murder, entailing a life term in prison. Second conviction was on a charge of assault and battery with intent to commit a criminal attack. Proceedings today will be on a petition for a writ of habeas corpus against Ralph Howard, reformatory superintendent. It is contended in the petition that a court lacks power to convict a defendant of a lesser offense than the one with which he is charged. Miss Draves, 13, died Nov. 30. 1930, due to a brain hemorrhage resulting from criminal attack, according to a coroner’s verdict.

KIDNAPERS KIND, HAMMASSERTS Millionaire Brewer Back Home: Large Ransom Is Paid. (Continued From Page One) 000,” which the abductors originally had asked. He reached his home here at 8:30 and detectives immediately started questioning him. Meanwhile a physician and nurse had been called to the home where Mrs. Hamm, the kidnaped man's aged mother, was reported near collapse. Wyoming is on trunk highway No. 1, between the Twin Cities and Duluth. It was on this same highway that the ransom payment was made Saturday night. A Hamm Brewing Company truck and a specially designated automobile figured in the payment. At least five men were believed to have taken part in the kidnaping. The truck, originally designated as the “payoff” vehicle, .separated from the automobile north of St. Paul. The automobile proceeded north on highway No. 1 to a point between Pine City and Rush City. Two automobiles drove alongside the "payoff” car and indicated the ransom was to be thrown out. William Dunn, sales manager of the Theodore Hamm Brewing Company, who drove the ransom car, threw out the currency and continued north. In St. Paul, as soon as word was received of Hamm’s safety, police started their delayed hunt for the kidnapers. Police Chief Thomas Dahill, accompanied by several aids, sped northward out of the city’, cruiser automobiles began raids previously determined upon, to obtain information. Some doubt was raised that the ransom had been paid to the right gang, but Dahill belitled this theory. Dahill still was confident that Verne Sankey, suspected as .the perpetrator of two notorious kidnapings in the last year, was leader of the gang which overpowered Hamm. EIGHT LEISURE HOUR MEETINGS SLATED Varied Programs Arranged for Clubs This Week. TONIGHT Morton Place Club. „ _ TUESDAY Garfield Park Open-Air Theater. WEDNESDAY Brookside Park community house. Douglas Park. Rhodius Park community house. FRIDAY Garfield Park Open-Air Theater. Christian Park community house. Municipal Gardens community house. Leisure Hour club programs this week include safety programs under the direction of Sergeant Timothy McMahon, a concert by the Newsboys band, revues by pupils of the Gwynn-Klee studios of fine arts, and by the city recreation department; a dance revue by the pupils of Miss Ina Houser; a play by the Chatterbox Dramatic club; and a program by Miss Alberta Speicker.

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JUDGE TO RULE ON INTANGIBLES TAX Verdict on Constitutionality Due Soon at South Bend. Bp Veiled I’rcr* SOUTH BEND. Ind , June 19 Judge Fred P. Bingham of St Joseph superior court today had under advisement a series of suits attacking validity of the new state tax on intangibles. His decision is expected within two weeks and. regardless of the verdict, an appeal will be taken to the state supreme court, it was indicated by attorneys. During the hearing before Judge Bingham Saturday, attorneys Joseph Hempfling. Roland Obenchain, Harry S. Taylor and Walter R. Arnold argued that the law was “unconstitutional and discriminatory.” Joseph W. Hutchinson, deputy attorney-general, defended the tax. Yeggs Batter >afe; Steal SSO Shattering the combination of the safe of the Mechanic Laundry and Supply Company, 727 East Vermont street, yeggmen escaped with SSO Saturday night.