Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1933 — Page 9

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WAR MOTHERS i OPEN BIENNIAL CAUCUS IN CITY 31 States Represented as 300 Delegates Start Week's Parley. INDIANA CHIEFS MEET Official Business Sessions to Be Started Tuesday: Visit Fort. A vesper service early Sunday ! night opened the pre-cenvention activities of the eighth biennial con- j vention of the National War Mothers meeting in the Claypool. This was followed by a general reception sponsored by the Indiana state chapter of war mothers. The formal opening of the convention was held this morning with | a breakfast for state presidents in the Travertine room of the Hotel | Lincoln with members of the Indiana unit of the Woman's Overseas Service League as hostesses. Registration Is Started Registration and a conference of state presidents in Parlor B oi the Claypool will complete the morning i program. Ttaction cars leaving the Ter- j minal at 1 this afternoon will take, the visitors to Ft. Benjamin Harrison for a review of troops at 2. National officers, delegates and visitors will be guests of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at a reception and entertainment in the Riley room of the Claypool at 8 tonight. Tuesday’s program will include an address by Mrs. E. May Hahn. Indiana state president and general chairman of the convention; music by the Arsenal Technical high school band: a processional and color escort of soldiers, sailors and j marines and presentation of national officers. Officers to Be Installed Invocation will be given by the Rt. Rev. Joseph M. Francis, bishop of the Indianapolis diocese of the Epis- i copal church, and a flag salute will I be led by Mrs. Irving Fairweather of Idaho, national chairman of Americanization. More than 300 delegates from thirty-one states are expected to register for the convention. The program will close Saturday afternoon with installation of officers. Decorating the interior of the main floor of the statehouse was to be begun late today in preparation for the honorary dinner to be held in the capital building Wednesday night for the War Mothers. The dinner is an honorary affair given by the Twelfth district of the American Legion, and all delegates and alternates to the convention as well as all other War Mothers who belong to the national organization and who register for the convention, will be guests. 1,800 May Attend Plans for serving the dinner, which will be at 6:30. have been arranged by Robert Mason, committee chairman, and Captain Otto Ray. Twelfth district legion commander with the catering manager of the Claypool. In addition to the 700 or 800 War Mothers, it is expected that about 1.000 others, principally from the ranks of the legion, will attend. aborate plans have been made the dinner, including an entermment program during the dinner and a dance in the north corridor of the statehouse afterward The decorations will include the flags from twenty-six American Legion posts In the Twelfth district. T P. Brennan is chairman of the rmittee on decorations. Connie's i will play for the dance, nored guests and speakers at; v iie dinner will include Governor j Paul V. McNutt and other state officials, national and state officers of the War Mothers. American Legion and Legion Auxiliary. Permission to hold the dinner at the statehouse was obtained only as a special honor to members of the War Mothers organization. Oldtimers at the statehouse claim that this is the second time in a score of years that a banquet has been served in the state capitol building. ACCUSES •WALKATHON' COUPLE IN ROBBERY n and Woman Sought as Suspects in Theft at Hotel. Charging that a man and a woman who said they had been in the ••walkathon'' at the state fairgrounds. but had dropped out and were on their way to Louisville, robbed him of $240 in a downtown hotel. Samuel McKinley, Lansing. Mich., asked police aid Sunday. McKinley said he invited the pair to his room in the hotel, ordered dinner and gave them several drinks. He told police he fell asleep and when he awakened found that his guests had departed with his money. CITY MAN IS MISSING Police Asked to Aid in Searcn for Edwin J. Small. 64. Police have been askd to aid in search for Edwin J. Snit:l, 64. of 18 East Thirty-seventh street, missing since Sept. 20. Mrs Small reported he left his office on that date, got his car from a perking lot and disappeared. He had drawn S6O from the bank the same day. nurse ends own life Gas Inhaled by Miss Olive Shumaker, Muncie Hospital Executive. By United Press MUNCIE. Ind.. Sept. 25.—Miss Oliv* Shumaker, 37. assistant superintendent of the Ball Memorial hospital and widely known in Indiana nursing circles, committed suicide today by inhaling gas in the nurses’ home.

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EMPLOYERS HOLD KEY TO FUTURE

Copper Magnate Says Industrial Peace Soon to Come

What moit capitalism—the familiar pattern of bosincs* life in America—do to be saeed? The present method of economic orcaniiation lie* under a withering critical fire from Fascistic rfrht. Communistic Left and the NRA. "managed economy” Center. In an attempt to round out the picture of probabilities in America, the World-Telegram assigned Forrest Davis to interview thoughtful. representative leaders in Wall Street. The first in a series oi articles is published herewith. non BY FORREST DAVIS Times Special Writer SAM ADOLPH LEWISOHN, copper magnate, prison reformer, advocate of tact in labor relations, benevolent financier and treasurer of worthy causes, sits high above the North River and the Battery in the capitalistic heart of America. As he gazes, figuratively, over the widely distributed Lewisohn enterprises and observes with philosophic liberalism the economic disturbance all about, Mr. Lewisohn concludes that

America still follows its ancient dream. He is a convinced capitalist. The United States is turning neither to the right nor to the left, in Mr. Lewisohn's opinion. Perplexed, hurt and disillusioned by the business depression, the republic is undertaking an experiment in economic control—the managed economy typified in the NRA, securities, banking and farm legislation. The experiment bears a revolutionary aspect. Mr. Lewisohn believes. but it does not tend toward Mussolini's corporative state, on one hand, or a dictatorship of the proletariat on the other. Nor are we, in spite of the startled cries of fellow capitalists, headed toward a milder form of collectivism —permanently. non CAPITALISM, in Mr. Lewisohn’s view, already is saved in this country—if nowhere else—and, if we follow him, saved for better things than it ever has procured before for all the people. The conditions of life were being improved at an accelerated pace for the employed classes up to 1930. Once the depression is over, he believes that pace will be regained and the forces at work beforehand in ameliorating economic injustice should continue. * Mr. Lewisohn. head of the Lewisohn enterprises, an important dynastic group, since the retirement of his philanthropic father. Adolf Lewisohn, devotes himself to a study of industrial management, with principal attention to the problem of labor relations. He is chairman of the board of directors of the American Management Association; recently was appointed by Labor Secretary Frances Perkins on the federal advisory council of the United States employment service, and also served on the President’s unemployment board. He places his hope for a more agreeable industrial situation in America on the training of employers and executives —the rising class of technicians who increasingly direot large business enterprises. The main responsibility for peace in factory and mill rests on employers, not on workers, he holds. The job is to rid both classes of inimical attitudes and bring them into rational co-oper-ation. That, as much as anything, he believes, will help preserve the benefits of individualism under democracy and stand off the forces bent on a more rigid social organization. non BESIDES being a convinced, Mr. Lewisohn also is an optimistic capitalist. He has few forebodings. He does not look for widespread industrial strife under the NRA. He expects the hand of the government to be lifted from enterprise once the emergency is past—partly because individualism is so ingrained in our tradition, partly because the government lacks a trained bureaucracy which might regiment business if the wish were there. The prophets of doom did not stampede Mr. Lewisohn in the WINS LONG FIGHT TO VISIT HIS CHILDREN Father Finally Victorious in Court Skirmish. A father's fight to see his two sons, during which he hitch-hiked eight times from the Pacific coast, has ended in victory with his being granted permission to visit the children today. Mekhitar M. Mooridan. the father, petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in circuit court, to force the children's mother. Mrs. Aznive Nakegian. 2836 Northwestern avenue, to permit the visit. The children, Vahrem, 6. and Charles. 5. have been in custody of the mother since last year, when she came here and remarried, after her marriage to Mooridan had been annulled. Paul Rhoadarmer, judge pro ternruled that Mooridan may see the children at 2 today m the presence of juvenile court authorities. MASONIC CLUB ELECTS Seidensticker to Head Prather Lodge Pinochle Group. Frank Seidensticker wes re-elected president of the Prather pinochle club of Calvin W. Prather lodge, No. 717. Free and Accepted Masons, at a meeting of the club in Prather Masonic temple. Forty-second street and Collelge avenue. Carl G. Winter was re-elected secretary-treasurer. The organization will hold pinochle tournament play throughout the fall and winter.

A Lost Voice, a Toothless Smile —Now Two Barkers Are Quiet

WHEN a circus barker loses his teeth, it's a subject for grave deliberation in the Barker's Association, with headquarters in Philadelphia. But when a barker loses his voice—well, it's just too bad. Toothless, but still possessed of a stentorian voice which caused the typewriters in The Times toffice to jump as well as rattle Aj.

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panic days last February. When they told him the last hours were at hand he replied: “Nonsense.” His faith, while clear and shining, is objective. It is based on historical perspective and a matured understanding of the complex nature of economic organization. Mr, Lewisohn believes that Europe is in an emotionalized state; that the United States is not. Communism, or Fascism, may and has become effective in class-conscious, badly organized or fundamentally impoverished countries. Not here. Ours is a dynamic economy. We are on the road to greater mastery of physical life; instead of stabilizing, or slowing down, the United States. Mr. Lewisohn holds, is on the threshold of adventures in well-being which will make the nineteenth century conquest of the continent seem

Men and Women of Moose to Hold Annual Conclave

State Conclave of Orders to Open Saturday at Richmond. Eleventh annual state conclave of the Loyal Order of Moose and tenth annual Indiana session of the Women of the Moose wall be held Saturday at Richmond. The sessions will be attended by delegates from Moose lodges and legions throughout the state, and plans will be adopted for formation of a state Moose association. Present officers of the Moose association are Walter O. Ulrey, past president; Dr. John S. Coffman, Muncie. president; William A. Anderson, Indianapolis, secretary and William Schauer, Hammond, treasurer. The Loyal Order of Moose sessions will be addressed by several of the supreme officers, including George N. Warde. Mooseheart, 111., general director; Malcolm G. Giles, Mooseheart, supreme secretary; William Anderson, supreme secretary, and Thomas M. Howell, Mooseheart. Registration will be held at 10 Saturday morning, and following lunch at the Leland hotel will be a meeting of secretaries, dictators, and fellowship members, and an initiation of new members into fellowship degree. Election of officers for the corn-

W. Stuart. 641 South New Jersey street, came today to report a tragedy. In a voice that has ballyhooed crowds to patronize sideshows all over the country. J. W.—as he prefers to be called—told of the tragedy which befell his friend and fellow barker, Walter Camp, Wheeling. W. Va., at the recent Indiana state fair.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1933

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pathetically primitive by contrast. Sensing that prospect—even during the depression's blackest time—the American people, hopefully good-natured, are not lik°)y to forsake the old way for dictatorial short cuts exchange their certain liberties for the inhibitions of collectivism or communism. That is Mr. Lewisohn’s view. He admires his countrymen for stability, kindliness, shrewdness and native worth. nan “/tvHE American people,” he beX lieves, “have become the most civilized on earth. We may be deficient in some respects—esthetic appreciation of artistic expression, for example—but when it comes to adaptability and understanding of a highly complicated social dilemma we show great capacity.

ing year will be held at 3 Saturday, and will be followed by addresses by the supreme officers. A class initiation of new members in the order will be held at 6 Saturday night. At 8 that night, the grand ball will be held under auspices of Richmond lodge. The Women of the Moose also will register Saturday morning, and their opening session will be held at 10, with Dr. Coffman presiding. Mrs. Nell Mahoney, Indianapolis, deputy grand regent of Indiana, is in charge of the conference, and has worked out the entire program. NICHOLSONS BEGIN HONEYMOON JAUNT Author-Diplomat and Bride Go to New York. By Times Special WASHINGTON. Sept. 25.—Departing for New York Sunday on the first leg of their extended honeymoon to South America, Meredith Nicholson, United States minister to Paraguay and Mrs. Nicholson prepared to sail on the Southern Cross for Asuncion. Saturday. Tonight, the couple will be the guests of honor at a dinner given by O. O. Mclntyre, New York newspaper columnist.

“T TE was right in the middle of 11 the spiel about the ‘nudist’ colony,” said J. W. in a thunderous voice, “the one that starts off: 'Step this way, ladies and g?nts, and see the naked people,’ when all of a sudden his voice went ‘bluey,’ just like that.” J. W. shook his head regretfully. “Poor Walter’s career ended right there,” he said, “When a

The Crossroads of Finance ‘‘The intelligent behavior of the people during these critical times is a tribute to the American educational system.” The discipline of the depression, Mr. Lewisohn continues, while physically hurtful to masses in the population, has promoted the intellectualization of our thinking. Especially among the younger generations—the lower tier of business executives, youngsters fresh from college—he finds a scientific, objective approach to all problems, economic, moral, social, political, that reassures him as to the future. He objects to what he believes to be an overemphasis in collectivist thinking on economic issues, as well as an overstress in Fascist ideology on patriotic or racial aspects. Denying, as he does, the prospect of an early eclipse of capitalistic enterprise, Mr. Lewisohn admits the necessity of no revolutionary structural changes. Asa liberal capitalist, sympathetic to evolutionary change, he accepts reform. He is on record, in a volume, ‘‘The New Leadership in Industry,” published in 1926, in favor of trades unions, the high wage doctrine and harmonious industrial relations. Elsewhere he has indorsed the idea of unemployment insurance. . non “AS a matter of social wTelll\. being,” he wrote, “the present industrial world can not afford to do without unionism, but it must be harmonized with industrial effectiveness.” His industries have subscribed to the NRA. He goes along with the principle of government control of industry to a point where it does not impede enterprise. “May we expect, in your opinion, a permanent planned economy?” he was asked. “I hope not. I see the problem of governmental control as similar to that posed by the necessity to manage traffic in New York. The theory in traffic is to impose only such 'checks as will prevent accidents and tieups. I remember a time when traffic was so badly handled it seemed almost impossible to get anywhere in New York by motor on time. “They have solved that problem so that one now r drives along Fifth avenue fairly freely even in rush hours. That, I assume, will be the outcome of the government’s venture into economic control. “We are too dynamic a people to permit the government to snarl our business traffic for long.” Tuesday Another Wall street figure.

ARMY BOARD TO SIT AS PROMOTION JURY Fitness of Guard Officers to Be Determined. Fitness for appointment, promotion or federal recognition of Indiana national guard officers will be determined by an army board consisting of Colonels John S. Fishback. John J. Boas and Kenneth A. Williams at Ft. Benjamin Harrison. An examination for appointment of a regular army chaplain will be held at Ft. Benjamin Harrison by a board of officers consisting of Majors Thomas D. Finley, Morton A. Farlow and Alfred C. Oliver; Captain Wendell A. Weller and First Lieutenant Austin C. Cunkle. Major William S. Dow, Indianapolis, has been ordered to Ft. Knox, Ky„ for duty with the Third field artillery on its return march to Ft. Harrison. Captain Arthur H. Harder has been ordered to Ft. Knox for six months’ active duty. MISSING MAN HUNTED John Van Stan, 43, Disappears; Cai Found Near Anderson. Missing since Friday, John Van Stan, 43, of 405 Blake street, was sought by police today at the request of his wife. Mrs. Van Stan said her husband went to Anderson Friday, carrying SBO. and that his car was found parked a short distance from Anderson, but he had not been seen since.

circus barker can’t shake the seats 100 yards away, he’s done. And poor Walter can’t talk much above an ordinary tone any more.” At this point, somebody complimented Mr. Stuart on the resonant qualities of his own voice, which could be heard above the roar of the presses. “Yes.” said Stuart modestly, “I’ve been pretty good in my time,

STATE SCHOOL TEACHERS TO CONVENE HERE 15.000 Association Members Will Visit City in Annual Session. DISTRICT MEETINGS SET Robert M. Hutchins, Head of Chicago University, to Be Speaker. More than 15.000 grade and high school teachers from throughout the state will attend the annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers' Association here Oct. 19 and 20. Detailed plans for the convention have been arranged by Charles O. Williams, secretary-treasurer of the organization. Meetings will be held in Cadle Tabernacle. Several associate organiaztions will be in session the same days, at other local , auditoriums. The principal sessions will be held in the tabernacle, and will be addressed by Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago; Dr. William G. Spencer of Franklin college; Governor Paul V. McNutt, and Miss Jessie Gray, Philadelphia, Pa., president of the National Education Association. Opens Oct. 19 General opening of the association's assembly w r ill be at 8 Thursday night, Oct. 19, with the first business scheduled to be the surrendering of the presidency by Miss Clara Rathfon, Logansport, to Robert B. Hougham, Franklin, who was elected last year. Others elected last year, who will assume duties at the meeting, are D. W. Horton, Muncie, vice-presi-dent, and Albert Free, Spencer, chairman of the executive committee. Mr. Williams wall continue in the capacity of secretary-treasurer. Executive Committee members of the association are: A. E. Condon, Crown Point; Lynn Miller. Lafayette; Gale Smith, Rensselair; E. B. Wetherow-, La Porte; Bertha Nelson, Ft. Wayne; J. W. Stott, Frankfort; C. D. Callis, Greentown; Cora Steele, Terre Haute; Dr. Albert Free, Mr. Hougham. T. V. Pruitt, Rockport; E. G. McCullum, Jeffersonville; Lee O. Baird, Muncie; Roy H. Valentine, Newcastle; Emily McAdams, Indianapolis; E. B. Hargrave, Indianapolis; O. W. Nicely, Indianapolis; Robert E. Eckert, Jasper, and Rose E. Boggs. Richmond. District Vice-Presidents The following are district vicepresidents: First- district, M. E. Goodwin, Lowell; second district, Roy B. Julian, Valparaiso; third district, John W. Holdeman, Elkhart; fourth district, Henry G. Favinger, Ligonier; fifth district, Vaughn Johnson, Hartford City; sixth district, James Snodgrass, Danville; seventh district, J. M. Tilley, Worthington; eighth district, Glenn Traw, Huntingburg; ninth district, O. O. Hall, Bedford; tenth district, W. O. Wissler, Richmond; eleventh district, Maude Price, Indianapolis, and twelfth district, Virgil Steinbaugh, Indianapolis.

Greetings! Negro 'Caller’ in Home Severely Beaten.

A NEGRO caught prowling in the home of Oscar C. Robbins, 1721 Milburn street, Sunday night received a warm welcome. Robbins told police he and his daughter investigated a noise and found the Negro. Robbins called his three sons from bed and the four captured the intruder, beating him severely. When officers arrived, they said, the Negro, giving his name as Naaman G. Landers, 32, address, “city,” was “all in.” He was charged with vagrancy, intoxication and trespass. WOMAN. ON WAY TO CHURCH, DROPS DEAD Miss Etta I'ount, 69, Stricken While Walking With Niece. Cerebral hemorrhage caused the death of Miss Etta Yount, 69, Greencastle, while walking to church Sunday morning with her niece, Mrs. Lillian M. Yount, 2906 Central avenue. Miss Yount, who had lived here prior to moving to Greencastle a year ago, was walking with her niece at Twenty-ninth and Ruckle streets when she clutched at her chest and fell to the pavement. Funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday in the Wald funeral home, 1619 North Illinois street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Rite to Be Presented Past Matrons and Patrons’ Association of Marion County will present the ritualistic ceremony of 1870 Tuesday night at 8 in the Lynhurst Masonic temple, under direction of Mrs. Millie Gilmore, president. A musical program also will be presented.

too. But I never could touch old Walter. He was the king pin of ’em all. We toured together for years, with Barnum & Bailey, Sells-Floto, Robinson and all the rest of the big-timers.” Mr. Stuart was asked whether he still was barking for a living. “No,” he said naively, “see, I lost my teeth the other day when a lady I know got sore at me

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Sally Hurt Year in Jail Just as Bad as ‘Dressing.’

By United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 25.—Policewoman Bessie McShane today came to the rescue of Sally Rand, fan dancer, under sentence to a year in jail and S2OO fine for “indecent exposure." The policewoman, who admitted she had watched Sally "dress" many times for her dance, said that she spent hours preparing for her appearances. Mrs. McShane said that Sally spent $42 a week for maline “pants" and put a heavy coat of cream all over her body. “It hurts when she takes off her costume, because it’s stuck to her," the policewoman added. “We haven't anything against Sally, but if we didn't control her, hundreds of imitators w r ould burst into the spotlight. We have nine under our eyes already." The dancer’s attorneys are planning an appeal.

SEES SPIRITUAL REVIVAL IN U. S. City Pastor Says Throngs Turn to Church for New Courage. Americans should think of NRA as meaning “National Religious Awakening,” and join the multitudes who are turning back to the church as the source of their spritual courage to face the depression, insisted the Rev. R. M. Dodrill, pastor of the Broadway Baptist church, in his Sunday morning sermon on “Stick to the Job.” “Our greater inspiration as American citizens comes from the influence of the church, and if we would defeat the depression, we must regenerate our spiritual lives and build up a deeper religious conviction,” he asserted. “We have a greater job in the church than facing an economic depression. We face spiritual depression. We need a truly national religious awakening. “It takes time and courage to set our national religious house in order. Men and women who rededicate their lives to the service of God are on the highway to prosperity. Those who turn not back into spiritual pathways are doomed to be lost, no matter how much material wealth they may gain under the blue eagle.” At the evening service Mr. Dodrill preached on "Thirsty Souls.” He announced that the church was closing its sixtieth year with the greatest membership gain in all its history, a total of 250 new members having been admitted during the year. He taught the 101 Baraca Men’s class at the Sunday school hour, speaking on “‘Great Lights of the Old Testament.”

LUTHERAN BODY WILLCONVENE 300 to Attend Meetings of Charities Association of Church. Annual session of the Associated Lutheran Charities will open Tuesday morning in the Travertine room of the Lincoln. Approximately 303 guests and delegates from throughout the country, in addition to a group of social workers from Canada, will attend. Religious exercises under the direction of the Rev. E. W. Weber, institutional missionary at Ft. Wayne, will open the convention at 9:30. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan will give the address of welcome, in behalf of the city, and Carl F. Brandt, chairman of the local committee on arrangements, will welcome the conventioners in behalf of local charity workers. The Rev. Enno Duemling. president of the Associated Lutheran Charities, will preside and address the session. Other speakers will be the Rev. Edgar F. Witte, St. Paul, Minn., and the Rev. R. R. Caemerer, St. Louis Mo. Miss Dorothy Bartholomew will present an organ recital at the opening session, and Mrs. Gertrude Tuft, New York, formerly connected with the Chicago Civic Opera, will sing. COPS LAUNCH PROBE OF MILK TAMPERING Contents of Bottle Found at Home to Be Tested. Police and health board officials today were investigating report of another case of milk bottle tampering. Mrs. Mary Fancher, 1302 West Twenty-eighth street, reported Sunday that two quarts of milk were stolen from her porch early in the morning and another bottle, with discolored contents, left in their place. The bottle cap appeared to have been tampered with, she said.

while I was in my bath and threw my teeth up against the living room wall, breaking them. A barker’s got to make a nice appearance or the Barkers’ Association of Philadelphia is apt to blackball him." “So I’ll have to retire until I can get some new teeth,” said Mr. Stewart.

‘DYNAMITE’ IS EXPECTED IN BAILEY TRIAL Defense Line Near Breaking Point After Flare of Bitter Feeling. GANGSTER MAY CONFESS Letter to Abduction Trial Attorney Hints Girl’s Surrender. By United Press OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla, Sept. 25.—Sensational defense testimony was promised today as the spectacular trial of Harvey Bailey and ten co-defendants in the $200,000 kidnaping of Charles F. Urschel began its second week. Bitter feeling between those on trial indicated that unexpected revelations would throw new light on the most lucrative kidnaping in history. Albert L. Bates, blond Denver gangster, split defense ranks and threatened to turn government witness. Kelly’s Wife May Surrender In other groups, unable to agree on procedure, were the Shannons, Texas farm family, and the debonair twin cities “money changers” charged with attempting to dispose of ransom money. All had different attorneys, who admitted that defense strategy would be decided in the court room as testimony progressed. And the surrender of red-haired Katherine Kelly to save her mother, Mrs. Shannon, was hinted in a letter she mailed to Joseph B. Keenan, special assistant United States at-torney-general. Katherine and her gunman husband, George (Machine Gun) Kelly, eluded a nation-wide hunt. A reward of $15,000,000 was on their heads, inspired by Kelly’s threats to kill government prosecutors and the Urschel family. Authorities scouted the likelihood she would surrender. The Kellys are only fugitives cf twelve persons indicted for the crime. “Startling Story” The Shannons began their defense today with Bates saying he would tell a startling story “if the Shannons don’t tell the truth.” R. G. Shannon, his wife, Ora, and their son, Armon, signed statements that they wore compelled by fear of death to house Urschel at their farm home. Bates’ statement cast doubt on the Shannons’ story. Vigilance of government agents g- arding the fortified federal building, housing the trial, has not been relaxed. Machine guns protected prosecutors and government witnesses and guarded the desperate men or> trial from delivery attempts. LITTLE FLOWER CHURCH WILL BE NOVENA SCENE First of Services Honoring St. Therese Will Be Held Tonight. First of a series of nine services to mark the start of the annual public novena to St. Therese will be held at 8 tonight in the Little Flower Roman Catholic church. The other services will be held each night, closing Oct. 3. Special services will be held each afternoon at 2:30 for school children. The Rev. Charles Duffer, pastor of the Little Flower church, assisted by the Rev. Raymond Marchino and the Rev. John Shaughnessy, will officiate at the devotions. High mass will be read each morning of the novena. Relics of the saints will be shown during the entire nine days. MANUAL GRID COACH IS GIVEN NAVAL POST H. C. Painter Is Named Athietic Head of Gridley School. Harry C. Painter, Manual high school football coach and former Wabash star, has been appointed athletic director of Gridley naval school by Commander C. L. White, Gridley head. The Gridley winter program calls for a wide variety of sports, including basketball and swimming. These drills will be open to all who have attended Gridley and to those who have been recommended by former midshipmen or their parents. A meeting of Gridleyites will be held Tuesday night at the home of Commander White. AUTO CRASH KILLS TWO Two Cars Collided at Intersection West of Decatur, Ind. By United Press DECATUR. Ind.. Sept. 25. Two persons were injured fatally near Preble, three miles west of here, Sunday, when two automobiles collided at an intersection. Two others suffered minor injuries. Mrs. Elizabeth Manley, 67, and William Goldner, driver of one of the machines, died of skull fractures and internal injuries. James Manley, husband of tha dead woman and driver of the other car, and Mrs. Goldner were injured slightly. All resided near Preble. DEATH DRIVER IS FREED Mrs. F. S. Pittman Exonerated of Blame in Gary Crash. A verdict by the Lake county coroner has exonerated Mrs. Frank S. Pittman. 6330 East Washington street, whose automobile struck and fatally injured Mrs. Marie Kauffman, 32, of Louisville, near Gary, Friday, according to Frank S. Pittman. Mrs. Pittman and her companion ih the automobile, Mrs. Michael Flaherty, 635 North Tacoma avenue, have been released Mr. Pittman said.