Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 261, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 March 1934 — Page 1

LIBERALIZING OF AIR MAIL BILL IS URGED Proposed Act Is ‘Too Ironclad,’ Senator Tells Committee. BOARD TO REPORT SOON Modification of Provisions Asked as Work Is Speeded. By I n> I> <1 pregWASHINGTON. March 12.—Liberalization of some of the drastic provisions in the administration’s new air mail bill was suggested today by Senator M. M Logan <Dem., Ky.) as the senate postoffice committee speeded hearings on the measure at the request of President Roosevelt. The committee hoped to report the bill by the end of the week. Opposition to the space rate features of the bill cropped out at the house postoffice committee hearing, which also started work on the legislation designed to take the place of the air mail contracts cancelled by Postmaster-General James A. Farley recently. Interrupts Testimony Mr. Logan interrupted testimony i by W. W. Howes, first assistant; post master-general, to complain that 1 the bill, in its present form, is “too j iron-clad.” He suggested modification of pro- i visions denying contractors the! privilege of t.ransfering their con- i tracts to other companies, limiting route extensions to 100 miles and refusing contracts to any person entering into a combination to prevent competitive bidding. “Who's going to determine whether any one has entered into such a combination?” Mr. Logan asked. "The postmaster-general,” Mr. Howes replied. “How will he know?” Ilowes Supports Hill “I presume that if he's wrong,” Mr. Howes said, “the contracting party will have a right to protest the action." Mr. Logan agreed that any one refused the right to bid would have access to the courts, but said he did not believe it wise to “punish innocent stockholders because some agent they selected violated the law.” Mr. Howes gave hearty support to the measure and told the committee it was "absolutely essential to require competitive bidding on all contracts.” Stock Deals Revealed fill f nitnl Prat* WASHINGTON. March 12.—A congressman's secretary and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. were listed among the thousands of persons who traded in United Air Transport stock prior to the cancellation of air mail contracts, it was shown in reports submitted to the senate banking committee today. Miss Ruth F. McGraw, secretary to Representative Andrew Edmiston (Drm.. W. Va.basked by the United Press about the sale, said she sold 200 shares short for her personal account and made a little money on it.” Mr. Fairbanks was listed for a long sale of 1.000 shares. CALIFORNIA CONVICTS ATTEMPT JAIL-BREAK Trio Kill Another Prisoner: Flight Frustrated. Bu l nitnl Prrxx SAN QUENTIN. Cal., March 12. Three desperate convicts today followed the example of John Diliinger and attempted to escape from San Quentin prison armed with crude pistols made in their cells. Before their attempt was frustrated by guards, they killed another prisoner and tied up several other convicts and a guard in the prison electric shop. LEGISLATIVE CONTEMPT TRIAL FACES EDITOR Kentuckian's Hearing Set Tonight. Hut May Be IF.’layed. By l nitrd Pn gx FRANKFORT. Ky.. March 12 The contempt trial of Vance Armentrout. acting editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, before a Kentucky house of representatives committee, was to be held here tonight, but indications that the session would be delayed, increased. Mr. Armentrout was cited for contempt by the house when he refused to reveal the name of a member of the legislature who authored a letter in the Courier-Journal criticising the assembly for delaying bills. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 24 10 a. m 32 7a. m 25 11 a. m 36 Ba. m 28 12 moon).. 39 9 a. m 30 1 p. m 42 Times Index Page Berg Cartoon ’. 4 Bridge 13 Broun 5 Classified 11-12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Editorial 4 Euiancial 8 ickman—Theaters 5 JKby 6 Life of Our Lord 5 Lodge News 1 9 Pegler Radio 2 Sport* 10-1 * State News 3 Woman* Pa.es 8- 7

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STATE POLICE KEEP RUNNING ‘SCORE’ IN TERROR MOB •GAME’

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Members of the Indiana state police force get a grim reminder daily of the war of law and order against the Diliinger cane. Above is the “scoreboard” at headquarters. A running “score” is maintained with captures and deaths oeing duly recorded. Note the erasure under Diliinger, made necessary after the desperado made his daring escape from Crown Point jail.

M'NUTT BANS 'ALL SCRAPS' Difficulties to Be Ironed Out Quietly, Says Chief Executive. Governor Paul V. McNutt returned to his office today resolved that there will be no more GreenleeFeeney fights under his auspices. He announced that he intended to enforce a rule that "difficulties be ironed out by the administration itself and not through the newspapers.” Latest conflict between A1 Feeney, state safety director, and Pleas Greenlee. McNutt patronage secretary, came when Mr. Feeney told The Times-that politics interfered with his perfecting the state police force. Knowing that this was a challenge to him, Mr. Greenleee countered by contending that Mr. Feeney has been “incompetent, insubordinate and nonco-operative.” Statehouse sentiment, coming mostly from persons who got jobs through Mr. Greenlee swung to the patronage dispenser. But public opinion and editorial support backed Commissioner Feeney. Mr. Greenlee joined the Governor at Washington and returned with him to the city yesterday. Meanwhile, prominent Democratic leaders in the McNutt faction. as well as outside, have been discussing a plan to get the Governor to fire both participants on the grounds that they have been a source of embarrassment to the administration. The Governor would announce no future policy except the pledge that it will not happen again. He repeated his original stand that Mr. Feeney has been extended every co-operation by him, no appointment being made to the force without the safety director's approval and funds provided for equipment. “The state police department, has been granted everything they ever asked for,” Governor McNutt declared. $25,000 FALSE ARREST ACTION IS FILED HERE Mallory & Cos. and Official Surd by Former Employe. A suit demanding $25,000 damages against P. R. Mallory & Cos., Inc., and Joseph Cain, company vicepresident and treasurer, was filed today in superior court three. The suit charges the defendants with malicious prosecution. The suit alleges that the plaintiff. Frank Gilberti. was employed at the company as a research worker. and in that capacity used company materials with the knowledge and consent of Mr. Cain. Mr. Gilberti charges that Mr. Cain caused him to be arrested and jailed for the theft of radio parts valued at $5. on which charge he was tried and acquitted.

Midnight Shot Stirs Lima —False Alarm! By United Prrgg LIMA. 0.. March 12.—An example of what kind of reception John Diliinger will receive if he raids the county jail here to free his three companions was given last night. At midnight, a single shot was heard in the jail office. Instantly red lights flashed in all guard posts and machine gun nests surrounding the jail. Muzzles poked out of half a dozen windows. An iron grating clattered to the sidewalk from across the and two machine gunners drew beads on the jail door. Riflemen were at their posts and tear gas bombs were ready. Sheriff Donald Sarber explained he had been examining a shotgun discharged accidentally into the floor.

JAPANESE WARSHIP CAPSIZES; IC6 LOST Abandon Hope for Vessel's Officers and Men. By Ini ted Prt ** SASEBO. Japan. March 12. —The Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru. a new and secretly designed naval vessel, capsized during maneuvers today and authorities abandoned hope of finding any of its 106 officers and men alive. The accident was the second disaster in the Japanese navy since December. 1932. when the destroyer Swarabi capsized off Formosa with loss of 105 officers and men. The Tomozuru capsized during early morning maneuvers. The destroyer Tat-suta later reported it had taker,’ the overturned craft in tow. t

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SISTERS OF CHARITY FOUNDER ELEVATED TO RANK OF SAINT

By l nitrd Prrgg VATICAN CITY. March 12.—The blessed Louise De Marillac, who, with St. Vincent De Paul founded the order of the Sisters of Charity, was added to the ranks of the saints in a canonization ceremony at St. Peter’s yesterday. The solemn procedure of sainthood was attended by a congregation of 20.000, which broke into cheers as the new saint’s banner was borne through the central aisle of the basilica by the superiors of the Lazarist order. The pope.was borne in on the gestatorial chair and also was cheered vociferously as he advanced to the central altar for the ceremony. BIRMINGHAM FIRE LOSS IS $3,500,000 Business Block Wiped Out in Spectacular Blaze. By l'nitrd Pr< sg BIRMINGHAM. Ala., March 12. Damage of Saturday’s spectacular fire which wiped out a block of Birmingham's midtown business district was estimated today at $3,500,000. Tottering walls left standing by the ruinous blaze were being pulled down and debris was being hauled away as salvage operations began. The flames, originating in the lowceiling basement of Loveman, Joseph & Loeb department store, destroyed that building and two adjacent structures. During the fire, fifty-seven firemen were sent to hospitals, etiher overcome by smoke or injured by flying glass and debris. Twentyfive, including Chief B. O. Hargrove, were still under hospital care today. None was in serious condition. A Negro truckman, carrying gasoline to the fire equipment, was killed when his truck overturned. GUARD OHIO GOVERNOR AGAINST DILLINGER State Officials Fear Reprisals by Desperado. By l nitrd Prrgg COLUMBUS, 0., March 12. Guards were assigned to Governor | George White today as authorities became uneasy over possible re- ; prisals by the John Diliinger gang. BREAKS LEG IN FALL Woman Registering Voters Hurt in Tumble Off Porch. Registering voters today was added to the growing list of hazardous occupations. After registering voters at 4233 College avenue today, Mrs. Gertrude Arnott. 54. of 4429 Guilford avenue, stepped from the porch and slipped, breaking her right leg when she fell. She was taken to Methodist hospital.

SUSPECT IN MURDER OF RACKETEER HELD James P. Coyne Apprehended at Michigan City. By United Pregg BOSTON, March 12.—James P. 'Skeetst Coyne, 29, ex-convict sought for fourteen months as the alleged "trigger-man” in connection with the murder of Charles (King) Solomon. Boston and New York racketeer. has been arested in Michigan City, Ind., police were advised today. MAPS JOBLESS PLAN Unemployment Insurance Urged by New York Mayor. By l nited I'r* mm NEW YORK, March 12.—A permanent system of unemployment insurance, augmented by employment agencies and "tying in” with the present civil works program was advocated today by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guarftia in a letter to the United States conference of mayors.

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CHIEF SHOT IN $15,000 HOLDUP Kansas Bank Bandits Flee, Taking Six Employes as Hostages. By l'nitrd Prrgg ATCHISON, Kan., March 12. Two robbers today raided the Exchange National bank, kidnaped six employes, shot the chief of police and escaped with about $15,000. The kidnaped employes, who were held on the running board of the car so as to prevent police from firing, later were released three miles outside the city. The robbers, both masked and one armed with a machine gun, walked into the bank as it opened for business. Then the available cash was scooped up. The time lock, however had not yet opened the main vault. Ed Iverson, assistant cashier, was ordered to open it. When he tried to explain he could not, he was hit over the head with a revolver butt. Six employes, including two women, were ordered to walk out ahead of the robbers. Meantime police had been called. Chief W. C. Linville arrived just as the men were getting into the car. He was shot through the arm. Then with the six men and women hanging to the running boards, the pair raced away, firing a few more shots to keep police at bay. SUBMARINE RAISING IS FUTILE, BRITISH FIND U. S. Navy Method of Escape Apparatus Adopted for Future. By Vnitrd l'rrss LONDON. March 12.—The British admiralty has decided henceforth not to try to raise sunken submarines in an effort to save lives of trapped seamen, Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, first lord of the admiralty, informed the house of commons today. Instead, he said, the crews will be instructed to use the Davis escape apparatus, which theoretically enables the men to shoot out individually to the surface. The United States navy has reached a similar decision, he said. CALLS PRISON GUARDS ‘PARALYZED’ DRUNK Milwaukee Man Names Officers Who Slept On Duty. By t nitrd Prrxg MILWAUKEE, Wis., March 12. House of correction guards have been so drunk on duty they were “paralyzed” Charles Lampe told a county board investigating committee today. Lampe. who has been a guard himself for eleven years, named companions who went so sound asleep on duty that inmates would steal cigars out of their pockets. FRANK MASSEY FREED OF U. S. JAIL TERM Muncie Chief Not Obliged to Serve, Supreme Court Rules. By l nitrd Prrxx WASHINGTON, March 12.—Frank Massey, police chief of Muncie, Ind., today was held by the supreme court not to be obliged to serve the jail sentence imposed on him in the federal court when he was found guilty of conspiring to violate the Volstead act. STOCKS BILL MODIFIED Senate Committee to Temper Drastic Provisions, Says Pecora. By l nitrd Prrxg WASHINGTON. March 12.—Modification of drastic provisions of the Fletcher-Raburn stock market control bill has been agreed upon by the senate banking committee, Ferdinand Pecora, counsel, said today.

RIOTING BREAKS OUT IN HAVANA STRIKE Laborer Slain, 3 Wounded by Troops. By United Pregg HAVANA, Cuba, March 12.—Fatal rioting broke out today in connection with Havana's menacing port strike. Antonio Valdez, a striker, was killed. and three others were wounded when soldiers and sailors fired into a group of strikers who tried to attack strike-breakers at the Ward Line docks. Additional shooting broke out in mid-town when a sniper fired on soldiers guarding the Diario De La Marina newspaper plant. The solders fired a random fusillade and then searched nearby buildings out finding the sniper.

HOUSE VOTES APPROVAL OF SOLOjER BONUS Representatives Break With Administration Over Veterans’ Issue. TEST VOTE 313 TO 104 Democratic Ranks Are in Disorder; Roosevelt Threatens Veto. By United Prrgg WASHINGTON, March 12.—The house broke with the adminitsration today on the soldiers bonus issue, voting to act on the Patmon $2,400,000,000 inflation-bonus bill. The vote was 313 to 104. The test vote, a forewarning of house approval of the bill later, was on a motion to discharge the ways and means committee from further consideration of the measure, a procedure which made the bonus legislation the order of business in the chamber. The veterans’ bloc victory came in the face of a threat by President Roosevelt to veto the bonus bill, and as Democratic ranks were in disorder over the bonus and the entire question of economies in veterans’ compensation. The one-sided vote, more than two-thirds of the house membership, surpassed expectations of veterans’ bloc leaders. They admitted that some of those who voted for ; consideration of the bill might vote against it on final passage. "However,” said Mr. Patman, “it means we should pass the bill by a two-thirds vote, sufficient to serve notice to the President of the stand of the house on the issue.” In an effort to rush action on the bill, it was agreed to limit general debate on the measure to two hours. Amendments may then be offered. Hoosiers Favor Bill Indiana representatives voting aye on the bonus roll call were Louis Ludlow, Mrs. Virginia Jenckes, Eugene B. Crowe, George Durgan, Finley H. Gray, Arthur R. Greenwood, Glenn Griswold, William T. Schulte, and William H. Larrabee. Representatives John W. Boehne Jr„ Evansville, and Samuel B. Pettengill, South Bend, voted no. INSULL CONSIDERING RETURN TMMERICA Utilities Magnate Given Two Days to Leave Greece. By United Prrgg ATHENS, Greece, March 12. Samuel Insull today was reported seriously considering a surrender to the United States legation for a return home to face trial in connection with the collapse of his midwest utilities interests. The government has given him until Wednesday to leave or be deported on the first ship for New York. The government has issued Insull a transit visa which would permit him to take temporary refuge in any country. The consulates of Turkey, Rumania, Bulgaria, Germany and Switzerland already have refused to visa it. It was believed all other consulates would take a similar stand, forcing Insull to return to the United States. MRS. ROOSEVELT TO STUDY ISLAND WOMEN President’s Wife Is Making Tour of Puerto Rico. By United Prrgg SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico. March 12.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt left today, on a two-day tour of Puerto Rico, to see at first hand the living condition of working women. Mrs. Roosevelt went first to Mayaguez, to study the problem of bettering conditions among the needle workers there, many of whom earn from $1.25 to $2 a week for delicate hand work. She expressed the hope that a larger market might be found. The j industry now is being codified under the NRA. Injured by Falling Transom While engaged in washing laundry in the kitchen of her home today, Mrs. Jennie D. Auper, 65, of 12321 West Walnut street, was inj jured when the back door transom | fell, cutting a severe gash in the : back of her head. She was taken i to St. Vincent's hospital by police.

EARTHQUAKE IS FELT IN SALT LAKE CITY No Damage Due to Shock Lasting Several Seconds. By United Pregg SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, March 12.—An earthquake of several seconds’ duration struck Salt Lake Ctiy at 8:10 a. m. today. The shock was felt in all parts of the city, although no damage was reported. Buildings swayed, pictures fell from walls and furniture slithered around in many instances. KIDNAPER IS EXECUTED Auto Mechanic Electrocuted for Slaying of Boy, 15. By United Pregg COLUMBIA, S. C„ March 12. Robert H. Wiles, 49-year-old bespectacled automobile mechanic, went to his death in the electric chair today, taking the entire blame for the kidnap-murder of Hubbard H. Harris Jr, 15-year-old schoolboy.

ROBBED, HOOSIER WALKS BAREFOOTED TO POLICE STATION

By United Prrgg CHICAGO. March 12.—Frank Boland. 35. a Lake county (.Ind.) road supervisor, walked barefooted into a police station to report that he had been robbed of personal property valued at $1,400. Warming his feet on a radiator, Mr. Boland told police that $l6O in cash, a $l,lOO diamond ring, a S2O ruby ring, a SSO watch, a S6O overcoat and a pair of $lO shoes disappeared while he slept in a small hotel. Police arrested Joseph Rogers, 39, who had a ruby ring which Mr. Boland identified as his. LIGHT CO. MUST PAY APPRAISERS Utility Firm Is Ordered to Foot Bills for Board’s Engineers. A harbinger of further reductions in electric rates in Indianapolis was contained in an order issued today by the public service commission requiring the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to pay for an appraisal of its property by commission engineers. The public service commission seeks by the order to determine a fair valuation of the light company's property upon which fair rates may be based. The order today followed an 8 per cent reduction in light rates Feb 6 after an expose by The Times of alleged unfair practices of the light company. Sherman Minton, public service commission counselor, pointed out that large savings will be made to ratepayers in the modus operandi of the new appraisal. Heretofore, according to the public counselor, large sums have been expended by both the uttilities and the commission in striving to arrive at fair valuations, which often were brought to naught by litigation in the federal courts. In the order issued today, the light company will foot the bill and the commission will do the work. Mr. Minton also stated that the order also will preclude the possibility of large sums of money being paid to engineers and auditors not residents of the state. Engineers and auditors of the public service commission staff are of necessity Hoosiers. In the past, according to Mr. Minton, large sums have been paid New York and Chicago engineers and attorneys in appraisal work by the utilities. The order issued today commands the Indianapolis Power and Light Company to pay semi-monthly into the treasury of the state of Indiana, through the secretary of the public service commission, expenses incurred by the commission in its investigation into the true value of the light company property. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company, through its counsel, has indicated its willingness to pay these expenses, it was learned. BELGIAN WORLD WAR HERO SERIOUSLY ILL Brother of Former Austrian Empress Failed in Peace Move. By United Prrgg PARIS. March 12.—Prince Sixte of Bourbon-Parma, hero of one of the most mysterious peace efforts of the World war, was desperately ill j today of septicemic endocarditis. Prince Sixte, a brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, won high honors in the World war as , Belgian army officer. In 1917 he received a letter from his brother-in-law, the late Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary, regarding the possibility of peace. Its circumstances never have been explained fully. The peace effort proved abortive. $2,286 HAUL MADE AS TEAR GAS TRAP FAILS Enterprising Thieves Find Way Into Antone Webber Music Store. Carefully boring around a tear gas bomb embedded in the door of | the musical repair shop of Antone j Webber in the Pembroke Arcade, East Washington street, burglars succeeded in stealing $2,286 worth of musical instruments during the week-end. Mr. Webber told police that he placed the tea gas bomb in the door after several attempts had been made to break into his shop. The burglars who robbed him over the week-end apparently knew of the device for they made a hole in the ! door by which they were able to unfasten the lock, just missing the tear gas.

HAMMER SLAYER IS GIVENJJFE TERM Guilty Plea Made: Woman Also Sentenced. Howard Harding today pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in criminal court, in connection with the hammer murder of John Lagel, 65. in the Cico hotel, 124 East New York street, Nov. 2, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. His wife, Emma Harding, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to from one to ten years in the Indiana woman's prison. They were charged with wounding the aged man mortally in a holdup, striking him on the head with a hammer.

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TROOPS SURROUND LIMA JAIL, READY FOR MOB ATTACK Small Army Nervously Patrols Barricades as Pierpont, Convicted Slayer, and Two Others Prepare for Delivery. VIRTUAL MARTIAL LAW ESTABLISHED Trigger Man, Makley and Clark Ready to Travel on Moment’s Notice; Unique Alarm System Is Set Up. j By United Prrgg LIMA, 0., March 12. —A small army of national guardsmen nervously patrolled their barricades today at the county jail where three members of the John Diliinger gang of Indiana outlaws confidently awaited the promised appearance of their leader and his blazing machine guns. A virtual state of martial law was established about the jail and courthouse. Brigadier-General Harold Bush of the Ohio national guard doubled his guards following the conviction of Harry Tierpont, one of the gang members, on charges of killing Sheriff Jess O. Sarber. The conviction without recommendation for mercy was tantamount to a death sentence which will be pronounced next Thursday.

COUNTY ORDERED TO PAY VOTE WORKERS Judge Cox Gives Mandate to Auditor. Mandate to pay wages earned by workers on registration of voters was issued today by Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox against County Auditor Charles Grossart. The mandate was issued in a test case filed by William Flanary, deputy clerk, and directs the auditor to issue salary warrants in other similar cases where the claims have been approved by the county commissioners. The Flanary suit is for $75. M'CRAY RETAINS HIS ORCHARDLAKE FARM Former Governor’s $130,000 Bid Is Highest. By United Prrgg SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 12. Former Governor Warren T. McCray retained possession of his famed Orchard Lake stock farm in Newton county today following confirmation of his $130,000 bid by Federal Judge Thomas W Slick. Mr. McCray made the bid after the model farm had been thrown into receivership to satisfy stockholders of the Orchard Lake Realty Company. Several other persons bid on the farm, but Mr. McCray’s was the highest. MYERS RUMORED FOR SENATE NOMINATION Prominent Democrat Said to Have Sought National Support. Walter Myers, one-time Democratic Speaker of the house in the Indiana legislature and defeated primary candidate for the senatorial nomination, may join the field of entries for the United States senate at the Democratic convention, it was learned today. Mr. Myers said that he was not ready to make an announcement at this time as a pre-primary candidate. It was reported, however, that he had sought national administration support. BANK ACT IS~”FAVORED Senate Committee Votes to Report for Insurance Extension. By United Pregg WASHINGTON, March 12.—The senate banking committee today voted to report favorably a bill extending the temporary phase of the bank deposit insurance act for another year and a bill to guarantee the principal of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. Both are administration measures. TROOPS /\RE ATTACKED Many Killed as Farmers Battle Soldiers in Manchoukuo. By United Pregg TOKIO. March 12.—The Nippon Dempo News Agency's Hsinking Manchoukuo) correspondent cabled today that a band of Manchoukuoan and Korean farmers at Han, 200 miles east of Harbin, attacked a detachment of Japanese troops and that many were killed or wounded in the fight. The fight was result of bad feeling over land policies, the correspondent reported. VESSEL IN DISTRESS S. S. West Hika Reported Rudderless in Heavy Seas Off Azores. By United Pregg NEW YORK, March 12. The S. S. West Hika was in heavy seas with a broken rudder off the Azores today, the steamer President Roose- j velt reported by radio.

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Pierpont and his companions, however, maintained their attitude of bravado and were dressed for traveling at a moment’s notice. They have ben prepared to leave the Lima jail ever since Dillinger escaped from the Crown Point. Ind., jail more than a week ago. Unusual military orders were issued for opening of trial today of Charles Mackley and Russell Clark, who with Pierpont, were accused of killing Sheriff Sarber. The trio, it is charged, shot Mr. Sarber down last fall in order to free Dillinger from the Lima jail. The raid on the Lima jail was in payment for Dillinger's aid in their own break from the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, Ind. Makley Trial Delayed The trial of Makley was postponed until 1 this afternoon after a brief opening session this morning. Judge Emmett E. Everett granted the delay to defense counsel on an application for additional time to prepare legal documents. A plea for change of venue will be introduced this afternoon, defense counsel said. It was possible that Makely’s trial might be delayed a day more while the venue petition is debated. A plea of abatement and a demurrer against the first degree murder indictment naming Makley as slayer of Sheriff Jesse L. Sarber also will be filed, counsel said. Makley was brought into the crowded courtroom bound hand and foot by irons. Deputies and national guardsmen surrounded him as authorities took even greater precautions than were made at the Pierpont trial. Bankers Are Warned Brigadier-G n neral Bush organized an alarm system by which every peace offieer within 100 miles of Lima would post guards on every road in his territory in the event of a jail break at Lima. None was permitted to enter the area about the courthouse or jail without a military pass. Each pass had o be signed by General Bush and c'udge Emmit Everett, the presiding judge at the trial. All persons were searched before being allowed to come into the guarded area. Machine gun armed guards were posted in windows overlooking the courthouse. General Bush warned bankers in the neighborhood of Lima to take their own precautions lest Dillinger conduct a raid in the hopes of drawing away guards at the jail. General Bush, who has been in frequent communication with Chicago police, believed that Dillinger had managed to join forces with John Hamilton, one of the leaders of his gang, and with several Chicago gunmen. Dil- | linger was known to have reached Chicago after escaping from Crown Point. He was believed en route to Lima today. Grand Jury Opens Probe In Crown Point, a special grand jury started an investigation of the jail break on the day that Dillinger was to have gone on trial on charges of killing Policeman William P. O'Malley, East Chicago patrolman. Two Crown Point jail attaches are alleged to have aided the outlaw's escape. They are Ernest Blunk, deputy sheriff, and Sam Cahoon, turnkey. Members of the Dillinger gang took an oath to work for each ether’s freedom in the event that any of them were captured. Reported in Toledo By I nitrii /'rent TOLEDO. March 12.—Report that John Dillinger, the much-sought desperado, was in Toledo was broadcast over the police radio here today. All scout cars were told to be on the lookout for a black sedan, said to contain Dillinger and one other man. which was reported seen at a downtown street intersection at 9:30 a. m. LIMESTONE CHIEF~^DIES Clinton S. Norton. 75, Noted Hoosier, Passes at Miami. By United Prett BEDFORD, Ind., March 12.—Clinton S. Norton, 75, retired president of the C. S. Norton Blue Stone Company here, died Sunday at Miami, Ha. He had long been associated with the Indiana limestone industry and was originator of thy royal blue Oolitic stone trade mark.