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FINDING OF STATE BANK LOOT SPURS DILLINGER SEARCH Two SI,OOO Bonds, Taken in Greencastle Raid, Are Found in Wisconsin; Warrant Out for Desperado. INDIANA OFFICERS ARE AT RACINE Aid in Hunt for Terror Mob Leader and Two of His Pals; Reveal 12-Cylinder Car Purchased. By United Press RACINE, Wis., Nov. 22.—Finding of two SI,OOO bonds, identified as part of the loot taken by John Dillingers Indiana terror mob in a bank robbery at Greencastle, Ind., this afternoon, spurred the search for the Indiana desperadoes named as the robbers of a downtown Racine bank. Indiana state troopers and Racine authorities located the bonds in the possession of a Burlington (Wis.) tavern keeper. He said he had obtained them from a ‘‘man in Chicago” in payment for beer. Meanwhile, Milwaukee police revealed that a twelvecylinder automobile was purchased here by a Burlington dealer Nov. 10 and payment was made with a SI,OOO bond

and a SSOO bond stolen in the bank robbery at Greeneastle. Aug. 23. Police said the Burlington dealer purchased the machine for a customer in good faith In addition to Dillinger, others named in warrants charging they participated in the robbery of the American Bank and Trust Company here Monday were Charles Makley and Harry Pierpont, convicts who escaped from the Michigan City, Ind., prison nearly two months ago. Russell Lee Clark and Joseph Burns, other members of the gang, were not named in warrants, but were hunted today as suspects. A SI,OOO reward has been posted by the National Surety Company for the arrest, apprehension and conviction of any member of the gang. The bandits shot two persons and kidnaped three others in making their escape. The Indiana troopers, who refused to give their names, said that an autoombile driven by Harry Copeland when he was arrested by police in Chicago was purchased in Milwaukee by a Burlington dealer with Liberty bonds stolen from the Greencastle bank. Authorities believed the gangsters maintained headquarters near Burlington for two weeks prior to the robbery. Burlington citizens were called in for questioning regarding the movements of strangers in town during the last few' weeks. Ryan, Tellar Are Sent Two Indiana state police detectives aiding Wisconsin officials in search for the bandit gang, headed by John Dillinger, which Monday robbed a Racine bank of $28,000, are detectives Gene Ryan and Art Tellar. BRICK MADE NEARBY USED IN 1850 HOUSE Wisconsin Farm Home One of Few Remaining. By I nited Press POTOvSI. Wis., Nov. 22.--Built of red pressed brick made on the premises, the Uppena farm home near here is one of the few of its kind remaining in this section of the country. The house was built in 1850. A large amount of lead was taken from a shaft sunk in the cellar of the home. The house also served as the first church in the area AGING VATS PREPARED FOR TREATING WHISKY Massachusetts Company Conditions 750-Gallon Containers. By United Press HOLYOKE. Mass.. Nov. 22. Three 750-gallon vats of quartered oak, which from 1893 to 1919 aged and blended some of the favorite whiskies of this region, have been made ready for use again. The vats are owned by P. J. Murray <fc Cos., now under the management of J. Wilbur Murray.

MARRIAGES GAINING IN MASSACHUSETTS TOWN Five More in Ten Months of 1933 Than in AH of 1932. By Vnitcd Prrtu FAIRHAVEN. Mass.. Nov. 22. Marriage intentions filed here during 1933 had reached a total of eighty-nine at the start of November, which was five more than the total forall of 1932 Times Index Page BLACK HAWK 19 Bridge 4 Broun 12 Classified 17 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 20 Curious World 19 Editorial 12 Financial 17 Theaters 7 Lippmann 17; Radio 4 School Page 14 Sports 16 ' State News 4 ! Woman's Pages 8-9

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Copeland Linked With Prison Escape , Say Police Witnesses Reported to Have Identified Prisoner as One of Quartet Riding in Auto. Harry Copeland, parole violator and alleged member of the John Dillinger terror mob, was today linked more closely to the escape of ten convicts from the Indiana state prison.

Paul Walton and Garney Lovell of Avon, Hendricks county, both identified positively Copeland as being with three of the escaped convicts when they were driven from Avon to Plainfield and thence to Terre Haute, authorities said. Mr. Walton told State Police Captain Matt Leach that Harry Pierpont, Charles Makely and Russell Clark, three of the escaped convicts, and Copeland, gave him $5 for the trip to Plainfield and sls for the trip to Terre Haute. Mr. Lovell is an employe of an Avon garage and the man who directed the quartet, he said, to Mr. Walton as a man willing to-rent a car. Copeland Named, Say Police Mr. Walton. Captain Leach said, told him Copeland was the member of the quartet w'ho sat in the front seat on the trip. Questioning of Copeland today took on the form of a reunion for Copeland and A1 G. Feeney, state safety director. They discovered they had played football against each other several times a number of years ago. when the prisoner played center with the Congerville Fliers of Muncie and Mr. Feeney played the same position for the K. F. M. team of Indianapolis. Copeland linked himself with the Dillinger mob today when he admitted, according to Captain Leach, that it W'as his Oldsmobile car the Dillinger gang used w hen they w'ere in Indianapolis. Copeland admitted, Captain Leach said, that the Oldsmobile owned by Copeland was the same car met by state police on the High School road near Ben Davis. Car Used in Gun Battle The car w'as the same machine in which Dillinger’s mob fought a gun battle wdth state, county and city police in Ben Davis and then escaped by dodging up a side road, Copeland is alleged to have admitted. James Jenkins, one of the gang members, was thrown out of the Oldsmobile as he turned the corner dodging state police. Jenkins, later was slain at Beanblossom in Brown county. Copeland denied that he was driving the car used by +he Dillinger mob. Captain Leach said. Captain Leach sought to clear up where Copeland, a paroled prisoner, (Turn to Page Ten) LEGISLATURE CONVENES Illinois Body Considers Liquor Regulation Laws. By United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., Nov. 22.-A special session of the state legislature convened today to draft laws for regulation of the liquor trade before Dec. 5, when federal prohibition will be repealed. Two bills were before the session, similar except that one provides for home rule regulation, and the other for state regulation.

CITY PHYSICIANS MEET Cincinnati Medical School Member Speaks on “Tonsilectomy.” Dr. Graeme Mitchell of the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine talked on •Tonsilectomy'' at the weekly meeting of the Indianapolis Medical Society last night at the Athenaeum. Fraternity in Charity Drive Delta Phi Theta fraternity is conducting ticket sales for Rivoli theater, 3155 East Tenth street, this week with the exception of Saturday. The proceeds will go toward charity, as has been the custom for the last twelve years.

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy tonight with probably light rain or snow, and temperature near freezing; tomorrow', generally fair and somewhat colder.

Doris Duke, 21 Today, Is Given $10,000,000; Millions More to Come

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Doris Duke, who today received 510,000,000, following her mother, Mrs. Nanaline Duke, from their N*w York home. By United Press 'OOMERVILLE, N. J., Nov. 22.—Doris Duke, often referred to as “Amer>3 ica's richest girl,” celebrated her twenty-first birthday today and fell heir to perhaps $10,000,000 of the fabulous fortune left by her father,

No Shave Razor’s Dullness Puts End to Court Alibi.

“ A W, judge, I was just carrying that razor to shave with." pleaded Nathan Bemtley, Negro, 528 Douglas street, this morning to Judge Dewey Meyers in municipal court three. The judge looked warily at exhibit A, which Bemtley is supposed to have drawn in the presence of Lemor Boyd, Negro, as the two were tete a tete. Looking around the court the judge spied James C. Hawkins, attorney. "Mr. Hawkins." he called judiciously. “You used to be a barber. didn't you?’’ “Yes, sir," answered the astounded Mr. Hawkins. “Is this razor sharp enough to shave with?” questioned the court. Mr. Hawkins expertly surveyed the rusty and blunted edge of the Instrument. “No, sir,” was the ex-barber’s final judgment. “Fifteen dollars and costs for carrying concealed weapons," concluded Judge Meyers to the downca.st defendant.

RECLUSE MURDER CASE WILL BE TRIED LATER Time Needed to Call Prospective Jurors in Merrill Death. I By l nited Press NATCHEZ. Miss.. Nov. 22.—Trial of Richard H. C. Dana and Miss Octavia Dockery, inhabitants of “goat castle,” charged with the murder of the celebrated recluse. Miss Jane Surget Merrill, w r as delayed today until next Monday to give a newly appointed sheriff time to round up a panel of 200 prospecj tive jurors. U. S.-RUSSIAN PARLEY NEARING FINAL STAGE Farewell to Be Said Late Today by Maxim Litvinoff. By United Press WASHINGTON. Nov. 22.—Early conclusion of Soviet-American negotiations was foreshadowed today when the state department announced that Maxim Litvinoff. Soviet foreign commissar, would call on Acting Secretary of State Phillips this afternoon to say good bye. BRUSH FIRE, THREAT TO HOMES, CHECKED Volunteer Army Finally Brings Blaze Under Control. By United Press PASADENA. Cal., Nov. 22.—A brush fire that for a time threatened the exclusive foothills residential section was brought under control today by a large army of volunteer firemen. RECESS HALTS ATTACKS Defense War on Jury System in Scottsboro Case Checked. By United Press DECATUR. Ala., Nov. 22.—Morgan county circuit court was. in recess today, holding in abeyance new attacks on the Alabama jury system brought by the defense in the widely publicized Scottsboro case.

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the North Carolina tobacco magnate. Tall, slender and blond, Miss Duke is one of the least publicized of American heiressess and her reticence has led to fantastic reports of her wealth. But the late James B. Duke, a devout Methodist, bequeathed two-thirds of his vast estate to a charitable endownment to which he had previously given $80,000,000, leaving one-third to his daughter. Miss Duke, however, does not receive the entire one-third today. She gets only one-third of her share. It may amount to as much as $lO,000,000 after taxes have been deducted. She will get another third at the age of 25 and the remainder when she is 30. She chose to return to her childhood home here to celebrate her coming of age. There will be a party, but it will be without pomp. As for acquisition of the money, the evidence of change will be some routine bookkeeping transactions transferring funds from the estate to her personal account. Her hobbles are riding she learned to ride as a child here swimming, and dancing. JURY DEBATES FATE OF ROBBERY SUSPECT Stanley Parker Trial Nears Close in Criminal Court. Fate of Stanley Parker, charged with first degree burglary in connection with a holdup in August, 1932, resulting in death of Jack Werner, Indiana avenue pawnshop operator, was placed in a criminal court jury’s hands at 12:30 this afternoon. During closing arguments, Deputy Prosecutor John Kelley referred to Parker escaping a life term in prison, “where he belongs,” in the murder trial in which he was acquitted. Motion of Defense Attorney Andrew Jacobs to dismiss the jury as result of the remark, was overruled by Special Judge Alex Cavins,

Senate Leaders Rally to Roosevelt, Flay Sprague Gold-Buying Policies Backed in Face of Famed Economists’ Resignation From Treasury. BY MARSHALL McNEIL Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—The Roosevelt administration’s gold-buying- and monetary policies were buttressed today with support of several congressional leaders, among them leading inflationists, following the sensational attack by Dr. 0. M. W. Sprague in resigning as treasury financial adviser.

Silence from the little White House in Georgia was taken here to indicate either that the President desired to take no notice of the Sprague prediction that his monetary policy threatened a “complete breakdown” of government credit, or a desire to see which way the storm blows before speaking. On Capitol Hill, such men as Senators Key Pittman (Dem., Nev.), Morris Sheppard (Dem., Tex.), Lynn J. Frazier (Rep., N. D ), Hugo Black <Dem.. Ala.). Robert Wagner <Dem.. N. Y.), and others, stood behind the President. Opponents were not available for comment. At the treasury department quiet confidence in the President's plan was displayed, although officials there sensed immediately that reverberations of the Sprague blast would send rumblings through Wall Street, to say nothing of opposing political groups. The new acting secretary of the treasury. Henry Morgenthau Jr., voiced this confidence when, commenting on the Sprague threats, he said: “The sun will shine tomorrow and the birds will sing.” In the aging Dr. Sprague was the fear of the outcome of the Roosevelt experiment; in the youthful Mr. Morgenthau was the confidence his chief inspired. The contrast in ages and in atti-

BEAUTIFUL INDIANAPOLIS GIRL IS FOUND MURDERED IN HOME AT CHICAGO; QUIZ MOTHER-IN-LAW

1,000 NORE HEN WU Bt PUT 10 OORK HERE IKMV BOLSIERMGIANCH DUE Project to Be Directed by A. H. Moore, City Civil Engineer: Earthen Levee Has Been Flood Hazard for More Than Fifteen Years, Residents Point Out. Another 1,000 men will be given jobs next Monday, under the new made-work plan, in widening and strengthening the Warfleigh dike, from Kessler boulevard, along White river on the east side to College avenue.

The earthen dike has been a flood hazard to residents of Warfleigh for the last fifteen or twenty years, high water seeping through muskrat holes in the levee and flooding homes, causing thousands of dollars damage to property and costing the city thousands of dollars to protect the levee. The work will be directed by A. H. Moore, city civil engineer. A large number of men will be given work Monday, also, it was announced by safety board and works board officials, in making Tomlinson hall fireproof. Tentative plans call for removing

Mason Pleads Innocence in Jones Slaying Trial Early Trial Set for Crippled Suspect at Noblesville; Gibberson Granted Separate Hearing. BY JAMES A. CARVIN Times Staff Writer _ NOBLESVILLE, Nov. 22.—Upsetting expectations that he might plead guilty and accept a life imprisonment sentence, William Mason, one of the accused murderers of Police Sergeant Lester Jones, today was arraigned before Circuit .Judge Fred Hines and entered a plea of not guilty.

Judge Hines immediately assigned the law firm of Waltz & Christian as attorneys for Mason and ordered Sheriff Fralnk Hattery to impanel a jury to try Mason this afternoon. Fears that a rescue might be attempted were dissipated this morning when Sheriff Charles (Buck) Sumner and Indianapolis police brought Harold Thompson, alias Ernest (Red) Gibberson, another of the accused Jones killers, here from the Marion county jail. Mason already was in jail here. The trip was uneventful with Thompson, as he said he preferred to be called, chatting about commonplaces with Sheriff Sumner, John Boyce, chief jailer, and John Dalton, criminal court investigator. Behind followed another car containing Indianapolis police officers who will be witnesses. Thompson, or Gibberson. explained that his name really is Thompson and that the Gibberson merely is an alias. Upon arrival in Hamilton circuit court. Mason made his plea of not guilty and was assigned counsel. He

tudes was the contrast of this Roosevelt administration with other and older ones of the past. Mr. Morgenthau, calm, pleasant and smiling as he rested against the mantel in his office, reflected the confidence of President Roosevelt, who just a month ago addressed the nation and outlined the gold buying program that forced his former professor to quit his administration. WOODIN CRITICISES SPRAGUESTATEMENT Resigned Treasury Aid Is Scored by Chief. By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 22 William H. Woodin, secretary of the treasury now on leave of absence, in a statement to Dow Jones & Cos., Inc, today seriously criticised the statement of Dr. O. M. W. Sprague that the United States “must borrow $2,000,000,000 from the people on bad security.”

the cornices of the building, to prevent them from falling on pedestrians; strengthening floors and Ibears, and similar work. The project will remove the last conflagration block from the 1932 report of the National Fire Underwriters Association report, and will reduce fire insurance rates for adjoining property probably 37 per cent, it was pointed out. Property adjoining the old Denison hotel, another conflagration block in the report, received insurance rate cuts of as much as 60 per cent when the old hotel was razed.

explained to Judge Hines that the indictment never had been read to him, that he had no knowledge of the charges against him and that he is without funds. Pauper Attorneys Named Thompson (Gibberson) asked and was granted a separate trial. Assignment of the firm of Ralph Waltz and Floyd Christian as Mason’s counsel came after Ira M. Holmes, Indianapolis criminal attorney, filed his withdrawal as counsel for both Mason and Thompson. Mr. Waltz is the Hamilton county pauper attorney, but was unable to appear because of activity in another trial. Mr. Christian acted for the firm. Mr. Christian conferred with Mason, under guard of Sheriff Hattery, and informed the court several days would be required to obtain Mason's witnesses from Kentucky. Mattice Represents State Mason appeared before Judge Hines on crutches, with his left trousers leg pinned up. His leg was amputated in Indianapolis city hospital after his arrest on the Jones murder accusation. Floyd Mattice, chief deputy Marion county prosecutor, appeared for the state and explained to the court that the reason Mason had not been arraigned was because of his hospital confinement. Sergeant Jones, for whose murder Mason and Gibberson face trial, was slain when he led a police squad to the Peoples Motor Coach Company in Indianapolis in response to a holdup alarm. Jones' Son in Court He was riddled by a blast of submachine gun fire when he entered the motor coach plant with his pistol drawn. Bert Jones, Indianapolis, son of the murdered officer, was in court this morning when Mason and Gibberson appeared. He eyed them with visible emotion. His trembling lips and obvious loss of control over his feelings led a courtroom attache to ask: “Can I do anything for you?” “Nobody can do anything for me.” the slain man’s son muttered. “I just want to see those guys burn.” EXECUTORS ORDERED TO GIVE $2,000,000 SURETY Record Believed Set in Estate of Peter E. Bradley. By United ; rest PLYMOUTH, Mass., Nov. 24. Surety of $2,000,000, believed to be the largest ever demanded in Plymouth county, was asked of the executors of the will of the late Peter E. Bradley, fertilizer magnate. The executors were William L. Bradley, of Pelham, N. Y., and James M. Gifford. Mr. Bradley left $1,500,000 in personal property and $300,000 in real estate. Moose Women Plan Party Women of the Moose will hold a card party in Moose temple, 175 North Delaware street, TTiursday afternoon at 3:30. Mrs. Arthur Grant is chairman

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23-Year-Old Graduate of Tech Slain in Basement of Mansion; Revolver, Wrapped in Towel, Found Nearby. MATE’S ABSENCE ADDS TO MYSTERY Finding of Insurance Policy Taken Out Ten Days Ago Brings Possible Clew to Baffled Detectives. By United Press CHICAGO. Nov. 22.—Ten days before the murder of Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, Indianapolis musician, a $5,000 insurance policy carrying a double indemnity clause was taken out on her life in favor of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop, her mother-in-law. police disclosed this afternoon. * They said Dr. Wynekoop previously had denied existence of the insurance certificate. The insurance policy was payable to the mother-in-law. Dr. Wynekoop. haggard, with her greying hair in wisps about her face, said during questioning: ‘‘No! There’s no insurance policy on Rheta. No! I tell you.” Shortly afterward the policy was found by detectives. The aged woman reiterated over and over that she had no part in taking out the policy as she was questioned in the coroner’s office. Finding of the nude body of Mrs. Rheta Gardner Wynekoop, beautiful 23-year-old Indianapolis musician, on an operating table in her Chicago home, this afternoon, sent Chicago detectives on the trail of innumerable clews to the ghastly murder. Mrs. Wynekoop’s body was found in the basement of the home of her mother-in-law, Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop. She had been shot in the back. A revolver without fingerprints, lay beside her, with a towel over it. The dead girl’s father, B. H. Gardner, flour and salt broker of Indianapolis, lives at 102 North Linwood avenue. He left here today to aid in the probe of Chicago detectives, “I had been in the house about three hours last night be-

fore I became alarmed at the disappearance of Rheta,’’ said Dr. Wynekoop today. The woman physician then went to the basement of the home, which she used for an emergency operating room, and found the titianhaired girl dead. A chemise and stockings were her sole raiment. Stretched face downward on the operating table, the body was shrouded with a heavy blanket, its ends tucked under. A .32-caliber revolver lay near her curly hair. Examination of the revolver revealed it had been fired three times. Detectives Are Mystified i Detectives were mystified by the fact that but one bullet entered Mrs. Wynekoop’s body. The floor and walls showed no marks of bullets. One bullet hole in the ceiling was explained by the mother-in-law rs having been caused by the accidental discharge of a revolver which belonged to her. The gun was fired several weeks ago. The slain girl’s clothing was found on the floor beside the operating room table. There was no evidence of a struggle. Possibility of a murder by a drug addict was advanced by Chicago detectives. Office Broken Into On Oct. 20 the woman physician’s office was broken into and a quantity of drugs stolen. It had been looted twice previously for narcotics. Dr. Wynekoop kept drugs in the basement. Enigma after enigma confronted the detectives this afternoon. A Western Union messenger attempted to deliver a telegram to the home at 4:30 p. m. yesterday. He said the lights were on in the house. Dr. Wynekoop returned home at 5:30 p. m. and reported the lights were out. Dr. Wynekoop said she did not receive the telegram until 7:30 p. m., but the delivery boy left the notice on the first trip and this was found in the operating room with the body which Dr. Wynekoop declared she did not find until 3:30 p. m. Second Mystery Arises A second mystery arose from a penciled note in feminine hand which was found under a pile of papers in Dr. Wynekoop's bedroom. Police were unable to learn who wrote the note. It said: “Precious: I’m choked. You are gone—You have called me up—and after ten minutes or so I called and called. No answer. Maybe you are sleeping. You need to be, but I want to hear your voice again tonight—l would give anything I have to spend an hour in real talk with you tonight—and I can not—good night.” Then Chicago police found themselves confronted with a third puzzler regarding the whereabouts of the slain woman’s husband, Earle Wynekoop. Dr. Wynekoop reported that he was working for the Santa Fe railroad and was en route to the Grand Canyon to take advertising photographs for the railroad. She said she had last heard of him in Kansas. But a telegram which she received yesterday was sent from Peoria. 111.

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The telegram read: “Stanley has had domestic trouble. Leaving tonight.” “Stanley,” the mystery name in the telegram, was identified ajgan acquaintance who accompaniedgJhe husband on the western trip. ■ 4 Police immediately ordered a search for the dead girl’s husband. Captain John Stege, one of Chicago's most dogged investigators, was placed in charge of the case. House Has 15 Rooms At an inquest today it is hoped that answers to some of the muddled clews may be straightened out. The scene of the slaying is a large mansion of fifteen rooms in which Dr. Wynekoop, one time faculty member of the University of Illinois, resides. Mrs. Wynekoop had lived with her mother-in-law ever since her marriage. The Indianapolis musician met her husband at a doctor’s convention in this city four years ago. Romance bloomed and they were married. Visited Here in Summer “Rheta visited here last summer with her father and her brother Hugh. We got a letter frorfi her just a few days ago saying she had been ill,” said Mrs. Gardner, the young woman’s stepmother, at the North Linwood avenue home today. “She was the kind of person who would have put up a battle if any one had gotten into the house. I’m afraid that’s what happened, and she was killed. She had no enemies. There was no family trouble,” said Mrs. Gardner. Graduated from Tech Mrs. Gardner and her stepson, Hugh, 16, student at Arsenal Technical high school, plan to join Mr. Gardner in Chicago. Mrs. Wynekoop may be buried in Chicago. Mrs. Wynekoop was graduated from Tech in 1927 and from school No. 58 in 1923. She studied music at the Jordan Conservatory of Music and the Metropolitan School of Music. She played the violin and often took part in school entertainments and was at one time a leader of a Tech orchestra. A grandmother, Mrs. Amanda Gardner of Indianapolis, survives besides the father, brother, stepmother and a stepsister Betty, 3 years old. Fail to Find Husband By I nited Press PEORIA, 111., Nov. 22—Search here this afternoon failed to disclose Earle Wynekoop, son of a prominent Chicago woman physician, hunted in the mysterious slaying of his young wife. Police learned that a man believed to be Wynekoop sent a telegram from a pay station at the union station at 3 p. m. yesterday to his mother, Dr. A. L. Wynekoop, in Chicago. The telegram was signed with the letter “E.” The man told the telegraph clerk he was leaving for Kansas City. However, further mystery evolved when it was learned that no railroad tickets for Kansas City were sold locally yesterday. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 37 7* a. m 33 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 33 12 (noon).. 41 9a. m 34 Ip. m 41