Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 April 1934 — Page 1

MOB STORMS JAIL; DRIVEN BACK BY GAS Irate Louisiana Thousands Fail in Effort to Get Murder Suspect. CONFESSION IS CLAIMED ' 9 Troops Rushed to Scene to Prevent Lynching of Alleged Killer. By I ill U'l Prrxx SHREVEPORT, La., April 18National guardsmen maintained 'a close guard around the county jail and court house today following two fulile efforts by a mob to storm the building and take Fred Lockhart. 38, accused of murder. Fumes from scores of tear gas bombs used by defending officers hung over the entire business district until early today. To forestall any possibility of another mob gathering. Sheriff Hughes spoke over a local radio station soon after last night s mob had dispersed. If Lockhart is taken out of my jail, it will be over my dead body, he said. At the height of last night's turmoil, more than 5.000 persons were packed in the streets around the courthouse. Sheriff's deputies armed with machine guns and rifles guarded the' doors and small elevator to ihc jail on the seventh and eighth floors. Nozzles Trained on Mob The automatic sprinkling system on the courthouse lawn was going full blast and fire trucks were at the four corners of the square, their hoses connected to water hydrants and nozzles trained on the crowd. The first rush of the mob carried those in the van as far as the ground floor corridors. Three doors were broken. Sheriff Hughes, his deputies, and police threw dozens of tear gas bombs. Finally the mob ictreated but continued to mill about in the street. While Sheriff Hughes was telephoning Governor O. K. Allen in Baton Rouge for the national guard the mob stormed the jail again. This time it was speedily repulsed by new’ waves of tear gas. Governor Allen, meanwhile, ordered the local militia company to the scene and when it a/rived the mob had dwindled to less than 3,000. Confession Is Claimed The mob began gathering soon after police announced that Lockhart had confessed that he stabbed Mae Griffin, 15. Sunday, and assaulted her. The girl's body was found in the woods. Lockhart, an itinerant peddler, lived in a hobo jungle near here and was arrested Monday on suspicion. Many members of the mob were boys of high school age and there was a liberal sprinkling of women, many young girls. The younger of the demonstrators seemed to regard the occasion as a lark and there were frequent cheers and ribald shouts. STATE MAN. BURIED IN SEWER PIT. RESCUED Breathes Through Sewer Pipe; Workers Dig Him Out. By United Press FT. WAYNE. Tnd.. April 18 August J. Wiegman was alive today only because of his own presence of mind and the heroic efforts of his fellow workmen. Buried under eight feet of earth yesterday when the sides of a sewerpit he was digging caved in on him. Wiegman managed to get his face close enough to the mouth of the sewer pipe to breathe laboriously until dug out. Rescuers worked furiously for several minutes. When they reached Wiegman they found him alive and inhaling the scant, foul air of the pipe. He was bruised but otherwise unhurt. U. S. FLEET NEARING PANAMA CANAL ZONE Merciless Sun Wearies Sailors; Festive Day Planned. By 1 nitrd Press ABOARD THE U. S S CALIFORNIA i With the United States Fleet at Seat. April 18.—iBv radio to the United Press'—Wearied and sleepless, the 50.000 officers and men of the United States sea forces vainly sought relief today from a merciless sun and oppressive humidity in the land of the Southern Cross. As the fleet steamed slowly southward toward tropical weather- trade winds died down and temperatures rose off the lower Mexican coast. Friday, the men receive their pay and on Saturday they will be permitted to go ashore at. the Panama Canal zone. They plan to make a festive day of it. Times Index Page Auto News 8 Bridge 7 Broun 11 Classified 15. 16 Comics 17 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 17 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Germany—A Series 11 Let's Go Fishing 9 Hickman—Theaters 9 Lippmann 11 Pegler 11 Radio 9 Sport* 14. 15 State News 18 Vital Statistics .13 Wallace Series 4 Woman's Pages 6, 7

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$12,904,000 Weekly Pay Increase, 418,500 New Jobs Reported in March •Highly Desirable Spring Business Recovery’ Is Here, Labor Secretary Perkins Claims; Employment Gains in 41 States Revealed. By I iiitrrt Press WASHINGTON, April 18.—“ Highly desirable spring business recovery” is here Labor Secretary Frances Perkins said today in reporting employment and pay roll gains for March.

BILL TO COMPEL CANAL BARRIERS Proposed Measure Requires Water Company to Protect Blind Streets. An ordinance requiring the Indianapolis Water Company to erect barriers at dead-end streets fronting the canal will be submitted to city council as result of a conference today between Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and members of the works and safety boards. In addition, the officials decided to seek assignment of federal emergency relief organization laborers for installation of -barriers and warning signals at dead-end streets not fronting the canal. The conference was callpd to take steps to prevent recurrence of the tragedy last week when a woman motorist was dorwned after her car plunged into the canal. HOLDUP MENACE TOLD AT BANK CONFERENCE 51.257,000 Stolen in Six Months, Couneil Is luformed. By I nited Prists HOT SPRINGS. Ark.. April 18.— Encouraged by optimistic predictions on future economic conditions from its leaders, members of the executive council of the American Bankers Association today held the final session of its spring meeting, considering a report of the robbery menace presented by James E. Baum, New York, head of the bankers' protective department. Mr. Baum's report showed that thirty-seven persons were killed, seventy-five wounded and $1,257,000 stolen from banks during the sixmonth period ending Feb. 28, and that banking institutions paid $20,000,000 for insurance protection against robbery during 1933. D. A.~R. CELEBRATES DATE OF REVERE RIDE Group Resumes Study of Subversive Movements After Reception. By I nited Press WASHINGTON. April 18 —The D. A. R. returned to a study of subversive movements today after marking the eve of the one hundred fifty-eighth anniversary of Paul Revere's ride with a brilliant reception followed by a ball at a smart Washington hotel. The question of the $1,250,000 American embassy being erected in Soviet Russia which drew' groans of disapproval from members and much-debated issues of preparedness and Communist propaganda were put aside for the society’s annual fete.

UNCOVER CLEW TO LINDBERGH TRAGEDY ‘Jafsie’ Ordered to Rush to Boston by Plane. By t nited Prexs BOSTON. April 18 —United States Marshal John J. Murphy has obtained a photograph which he said he believes may be that of the man who took the $50,000 Lindbergh baby ransom money from Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon. Murphy informed the United States marshal at New York of the development and asked that Jafsie be located and sent to Botson immediately—preferably by airplane—to view the photograph. Confirming Murphy's announcement. George West, acting chief of the division of investigation of the department of justice at Boston, asserted that a “new lead” in the seemingly blind search for the kidnapers and slayers of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., had been uncovered in England. THURMAN DID NOT ATTEND KLAN SESSION Error Is Made in Times' Story; Spoke at G. O. P. Meeting. M. Ben Thurman, manager of George L. Denny's campaign for mayor, did not attend the Ku-Klux Klan meeting for Republican candidates Sunday at 210 1 East Ohio street, as erroneously asserted yesterday in The Times. Mr. Thurman instead, spoke before the Republican Union in the interest of Mr. Denny's candidacy. GAS MEN SEEK RAISE Cleveland Station Attendants Strike: Seek Union Recognition. By I nit id Prexx CLEVELAND. April 18.—While independent gasoline stations continued today to reap an unexpected sales harvest, negotiations for settlement of a strike of 2.000 station attendants were not expected to begin before late this afternoon or tomorrow. The attendants, who walked out early yesterday, are striking for higher pay and union recognition.

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Miss Perkins said employment climbed 418,500 and weekly pay rolls jumped $12,904,000 in private industry last month. She hailed the increase as signs of ‘a definite spring recovery which is highly desirable.” The increase means, she said, a return to private industry of approximately 2.750.000 workers since March, 1933, And an estimated incease of weekly pay rolls of $79,000,000. The March statistics were calculated on the new system used by the labor department on the 1923-1925 average instead of the old basis of 1926 as an average. The reason is that the three-year basis will provide greter accuracy and harmonize with statistical information of other government bureaus. Under the three-year index, employment rose from 77.7 to 80.8 in manufacturing industries and the pay roll index increased from 60.6 to 64.8. Using the 1926 average, the employment increase would have been from 73.5 to 76.4 and pay rolls from 55.5 to 59.4. Miss Perkins said the employment index is the highest since December. 1930. and pay rolls reached their highest peak since August, 1931. “The employment gain is more pronounced than in March of any previous year, w'hile the pay roll increase was exceeded only in one year, 1920.” Miss Perkins said. Increased employment was reported for forty-one states and the District of Columbia, the largest being Michigan, 5.2 per cent, because of manufacturing and retail trade gains. Steel Outlook Bright By United Press NEW YORK. April 18.—The outlook in the steel industry is most favorable. Iron Age said today, w'ith some mills having such heavy commitments they will be pressed to turn out the tonnage if buyers specify fully against their contracts. DOCTOR'S HOUSE IS SWEPT BY FLAMES State Probes Two Fires at Summer Residence. State and local authorities today were investigating two fires which occurred at the house owmed by Dr. Charles Clayton. 2503 Brookside avenue, located at Millersville road and Forty-second street. The house, which is used as a summer residence, and occupies a site formerly occupied by an expensive house owned by Dr. Clayton and destroyed by fire in November, 1932, was totally destroyed by fire early today. The damage today was estimated at more than $1,500. Three weeks ago 'firemen were called to put out a blaze on the property in which $1,500 w'orth of damage resulted. Today's fire consumed the parts of the house still left standing. Nish Dienhart, head of the arson division of the state fire marshal’s office, has been assigned to investigate both today’s fire and the blaze which occurred three weeks ago, it was learned at the statehouse today. Local authorities are assisting Mr. Dienhart. SIS,OOd”GIRAFFE DIES FROM LEG FRACTURES Veterinarian's Attempt to Set Bones Is Futile. By United Press PERU, Ind.. April 18.—The shock and pain of two broken legs resulted yesterday in the death of Jennie, a fifteen-foot giraffe valued at SI,OOO a foot. Jennie slipped in her cage while being loaded on a train to accompany a circus to Chicago. Veterinarians brought the 27-year-old animal back to winter quarters here and attempted to set the fractures, but Jenny's delicate nature would not stand the shock. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 56 10 a. m 66 7 a. m 56 11 a. m 68 Ba. m 60 12 n00n)... 71 N 9 a. m 64 1 p. m 69

Headline Guessing Contest , Latest Small-Time Lottery Racket in City , Facing Natural Death

(Pictures are on Pate 3) A counter attraction of the long popular baseball lottery, the Daily Bulldog Headline Guessing Contest has found its way to the local small gambling mart. Where run totals are used to effect the payoff in the baseball pools, a combination of letters to be found in the headline of the local morning newspaper, bulldog edition, serves the same purpose in the latest racket. While the contest seems to be going along unhampered by police attention, evidence gained from the advertising charts produced by the operators, and from persons attempting to sell the tickets indicate the lottery might die a natural death. Starting out with a SSO grand prize daily, also $25 prizes for second and tlrrd combinations and sls for the fourth together with an opportunity *yr several one dollar

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UTILITIES WIN DESPITE RATE SLASHORDER Light Firm Gains Approval of Power Loop Method Rate Making. 270 CITIES AFFECTED SBOO,OOO Yearly Saved for Consumers by Cut, Minton Claims. Unestimated temporary rate reductions for electric consumers in 270 cities and towns served by the Public Service Company, a former : Insull concern, have been ordered by the public service commission. The order constitutes a victory for the utilities' long sought recognition of the power loop method of rate making as opposed to the individual community plan upheld in the Martinsville rate case. The Martinsville case was one of the few ever won by the commission in the United States supreme court. But its effect immediately was checkmated by action of the 1933 legislature which gave the commission power to use their own discretion in basing rates upon the power loop plan. This the commission did yesterday afternoon when it ordered rates based on the system wide setup. Effective May 1 Although the commissioner's themselves refused to estimate the saving to consumers, Sherman Minton, public counselor, stated it would be around SBOO,OOO a year. The new schedules will be effective May 1 and continue until a permanent order is written based upon audits and appraisals now under w r ay. A 6 per cent return upon a property valuation of $43,500,000 forms the basis for the new reductions. The company sought to establish a valuation of $50,757,694 and Mr. Minton wanted a 514 per cent return based on $33,791,737. Mr. Minton's expert. Mark Wolff, provided the data upon which the case was launched and the temporary rates based. Compared to Old Rates General comparison of new and old rates follows: Class A-l cities, *4 -cent cut a kilowatt hour in the second thirty kilowatt hours used a month and advancement of the 2>4-cent kilowatt low-cost step to third instead of fourth place, thus placing users in the 2*4-cent bracket when they pass sixty kilowatt hours use instead of after 260 kilowatt hours use. Class A cities of the former south system will receive a 1-cent a kilowatt hour saving on each of the first thirty kilowatt hours and will reach the low brackets above sixty kilowatt hour consumption. There are seventeen of these systems. Class B cities, towns and communities receive 1-cent a kilowatt hour saving on the first thirty kilowatt hours used a month, plus 14-cent saving on each of the next thirty and go into the lower bracket 2'4cent a kilowatt hour cost when they pass ninety kilowatt hours use a month. Rural residential rates are cut !4 cent for each of the first thirty kilowatt hours and steps are changed so that the 3-cent rate is reached on passing sixty kilowatt hours and continuing up to 170 kilowatt hours and the 21s-cent rate is given on passing 230 instead of 260 kilowatt hours; also, the monthly minimum rural charge is cut from $2 to $1.50. Power rates are standardized for the whole system, except that lower contract rates in effect remain as optional and the new steps are reduced in quantities so that intermediate users obtain substantial reductions. Cities included in the power loop extend as far north as Lafayette, west beyond Terre Haute and east beyond Newcastle and include most of southern Indiana. In all, fifty counties are affected. The loop includes the same “south system” over which the Martinsville case was fought. Electric Production Gains By United Press NEW YORK. April 18.—Production of electricity in the United States for the week ended April 14 was 1.642,187.000 kilowatt hours, a net gain of 16.5 per cent over the 1.409.603.000 kilowatt hours produced in the corresponding 1933 week, the Edison Electric Institute announced today.

prizes, apparent lack of interest caused the operators today to reduce the capital prize to $25 with a $5 top award for several other possible winning combinations. So far as can be learned, the operator of the new creation for the extraction of nickels from the small time gamblers is a “Mr. Dean of Anderson,” also known to some as “Neal.” With John Dillinger. Indiana's notorious outlaw, most prominent in the minds of citizens today, it is only natural that advertising cards being the examples of how the lottery winners are determined would carry a sample Dillinger headline such as “Dillinger Escapes Crown Point Jail.” When the lottery first began, a capital prize of SSO was paid to the person who had the combination representing the first letters in each of the first three headline .jyords. Thus in the headline. "Dillinger

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Mrs, Gifford Pinchot Militant Wife of Pennsylvania Governor to Address Labor Rally, Join Real Silk Picket Lines. Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, militant labor sympathizer and wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania, will add her active support to the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers' fight to gain recognition at the Real Silk. Fulton and National mills here.

4 BURN TO DEATH IN PLANE ACCIDENT Two Texas Men, Fiancees Die in Crash. By United Press DALLAS. Tex., April 18. The charred bodies of four Dallas men and women killed in a plane crash twenty miles northwest of here were returned to Dallas today. The victims, burned beyond recognition after the Bellanca cabin ship burst into flames last night, were: Hairy Fowler, veteran pilot, who was at the controls. Lillian Rose. 18, Fowler’s fiancee. Jack Poole, 34, printer and friend of Fowler. Elizabeth Ward, 32. former wife of Poole, who was to have remarried him within a few days. 3 MEN ESCAPE AFTER LOUISIANA BANK RAID Official Claim One of Robbers Resembled Dillinger. By United Press MONTGOMERY. La.. April 18 The Montgomery bank was held up and robbed today by three men who escaped in a blue V-8 Ford sedan. Officers of the bank claimed that one of the bandits resembled John Dillinger. DISARMAMENT DRIVE FUTILE, FRENCH FEEL Increase in Hitler’s Military Budget Given as Reason. By United Press PARIS, April 18.—Germany’s heavy increase of her military budget makes the present negotiations for disarmament futile. France declared in a note to England, made public today.

Escapes Crown Point Jail.” the person who had the combination of letters DEC was winner. This week, the capital prize of $25 will be paid to the person who on any day has the letter combination matching the first, seventh and eleventh letters in the headline. The $5 awards will be made to persons whose three letter combination represent three consecutive letters in the headline. In the sample headline. “Dillinger Escapes Crown Point Jail.” is DIL or ILL or LLI, etc. Twenty-five dollar awards were offered to persons who had letter combinations that represented the last letter in each of the first three words, first letter in each of the last three words and last letter in the last three words, but these have been dropped. While the lottery started out with six rules, one of them—that each word must contain two letters and

William Smith, national union representative, in making the announcement today, said that Mrs. Pinchot would be the principal speaker at a mass labor meeting at 7;30 Friday night in the Armory under the auspices of the Central Labor Union. Adding her protest to that of the strikers, Mrs. Pinchot will join the picket line late Friday or Saturday. Since the inception of the NRA, Mrs. Pinchot has been marching in the picket lines in hosiery, coal and steel strikes in Pennsylvania, encouraging the workers in their battles for union rights. Honorary Union Member A colorful figure, she has attracted nation-wide notice for her active support of labor. Aided by her husband, Mrs. Pinchot has succeeded in having liberal labor legislature passed in Pennsylvania and often nas been called in to arbitrate negotiations with employers. Mrs. Pinchot is an honorary member of the Hosiery Workers union and Amalgamated Clothing Workers. During the recent soft coal strike in western Pennsylvania she marched on the picket line. James C. Shannessy, president of the Journeymen Barbers of America, will president at the Friday night meeting. He and Paul W. Fuller, national educational director of the American Federation of Labor, will be other speakers. Strikers Are Buoyed Today, with the strike in its second week, the enthusiasm of the strikers had not flagged. Orderly shifts of pickets continued around the three mills. Hopes of the strikers were buoyed by the news of Mrs. Pinchot's arrival and the strike called Monday by the Real Silk ceamless mills in Dalton, Ga. The strikers have been meeting daily at Garment Workers hall, 168 East Ninth street, where they have been addressed by prominent labor leaders. The strike is being directed by Mr. Smith and Joe Galloway, local president.

if numerals appeared in the headline the amount represented by the numerals must be spelled out has been dropped. The new rules in effect today are: 1. Awards made on first (Bulldog) edition of the daily and Sunday Indianapolis Star. 2. Abbreviations count as shown in headline. 3. Letters must be in order as shown in headlines except in dollar awards. 4. Numbers and signs do not count. 5. Headlines must contain three words or more. If less than three words appear, coupons will be determined from previous day’s headline. So far as can be learned no person holding a winning combination to date has beeen unable to collect. In fact, no persons with winning combinations have been found.

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Large Amount of Money Changed Hands, Asserts Assistant Attorney-General; Flays Lake County Politicians. DESPERADO REPORTED IN LOUISVILLE Notorious Terror Mobster Said to Have Made Appointment With Doctor for X-Ray of His Leg. (Other details will b r found on Page 10) Edward Barce, deputy attorney-general, investigating the escape of John Dillinger, Indiana desperado, from the Crown Point jail in March, today asserted that the state was ready to prove that Dillinger made a “large payoff” to gain his freedom. Only one minor link is lacking in the chain of evidence built up by state investigators to prove that Lake county officials took a large sum of money from the desperado who escaped flourishing a “wooden pistol” from the prison touted as the “strongest in the state.”

DOCTOR HELD IN DILLINGER CASE Dressed Outlaw’s Wounds After Gun Battle, Police Claim. By United Press ST. PAUL, April 18—John Dillinger, elusive Indiana outlaw, was wounded when he escaped from a St. Paul apartment three weeks ago, it was disclosed today with discovery of a Minneapolis physician who dressed the wound and a nurse who assisted. Dillinger’s injury, suffered in a gun battle with a St. Paul policeman and a federal agent, was disclosed in a confession which department of justice investigators said they had obtained from the physician and the nurse. Charges have not been filed against the pair, but it was understood a complaint is being drawn accusing them ' harboring a fugitive. A search through the records of all hospital and physicians in the twin cities preceded discovery of the clew that resulted in apprension of the couple and their "confession." ROOSEVELT OPPOSES BANK PAYOFF BILL President Moves to Block Its Passage. By I nH r d Press WASHINGTON. April 18—President Roosevelt sought today to block the McLeod bank depositors pay-off bill, expressed approval of legislation to provide some permanent form of labor mediation and evaded, at his press conference, any comment on prospects for a silver bill. Mr. Roosevelt feels he has informed congress fully regarding his desire for a stock market control bill and that legislators know what he expects of them. His opposition to the McLeod bank depositors' payoff appears to be based on alleged ambiguities which were discussed at the White House yesterday in conference with Repuresentative Clarence J. McLeod (Rep., Mich.). LANDSLIDE AGAIN ROUTS NORWEGIAN VILLAGERS Survivors of Tragedy That Killed 50 Flee in Terror. By United Press OSLO. Norway, April 18.—Survivors of the recent landslide at Tafjord, on the west coast, where approximately fifty persons were killed by the crash of tons of rock into the Fjord, fled from their homes in terror today when another piece of mountain fell. The slide was accompanied by a thundering crash that caused the inhabitants to fear another wall of water would engulf their homes, as in the last disaster. The present slide was much smaller, however. MINE STRIKER SLAIN IN ALABAMA COAL DISPUTE Another Is Wounded as Violence Flares in Labor Feud. By United Press BIRMINGHAM. Ala. April 18 A Negro was killed and another was wounded as violence flared in Alabama's coal strike today. Deputy Sheriff N. E. Kirkland and Police Chief L. H Masom of Leeds shot and killed E. D. England, Negro, when he drew a pistol on them as they were investigating the earlier shooting of a Negro named Clisby, wounded by fire from ambush. McAdoo Is In Hospital. WASHINGTON. April 18— Senator William Gibbs McAdoo was ill in the naval hospital today after being absent from the senate floor i for several days.

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Meanwhile, department of justice agents and state policemen kept a close watch on the southern Indiana border as word was flashed from Louisville that detectives had kept an all-night vigil at the Starks building, located in the southern city, for the desperado. In addition to the charges in which he is preparing to show alleged graft in t.he escape of Dillinger, Mr. Barce said today that charges of political corruption will also be aimed at influential politicians in Lake county. New Jury to be Chosen Selection of anew special grand jury to sift corruption charges in the desperado’s escape has been postponed by Judge William Murray j until after the primaries May 8. Mr. Barce stated. Soon after that date, ! according to the deputy attorneygeneral, the state officials hope to start selection of the new grand jury. During the previous investigation by the special grand jury, according to Mr. Barce, Charles Barron, county commissioner, found it necessary to shift his offices from Crown Point to Hammond in order to conduct his quiz into the Dillinger escape without alleged ' political hampering." Descent of detectives on the office building in Louisville yesterday followed information given to police that Dillinger was to keep an appointment with a Louisville physician. Following the report a reception committee of thirty detectives formed a cordon around the buiiding located in the Louisville downtown area. From a Louisville physician with offices in the building police learned that an appointment had been made last w’eek for a patient who refused to give a name. On Saturday, the doctor reported, a man whom he recognized as Dillinger entered his office, and asked the chief technician for the doctor. Returned in 15 Minutes Informed that the physician momentarily was engaged the man left the office, returning in fifteen minutes. The doctor recognized the desperado at once from published photographs, he told police. "He asked me to take an X-ray of his leg and all the time had his overcoat on and his hand in his right pocket." the doctor reported. "I told him it could be made at once. He said he wanted to make an appointment to have it made at 10 o’clock Monday morning but I had an operation scheduled and told him so." ’ Well, how about 11 o'clock Tuesday morning?” the man was report eti as saying. The physician said he agreed and the man walked out. Two men who waited for Dillinger outside the doctors office were thought by Louisville police to be John Hamilton and Homer Van Meter, Dillinger henchmen. Armed with submachine guns and automatic rifles the police vainly waited for the desperado to keep his appointment. Girl Is Arrested From Valparaiso last night state police were informed that local police there were holding Geraldine Bailer. 19-year-old Lansing -Mich.) girl, who said she was with John Dillinger the night he raided the Warsaw' police arsenal. The girl was picked up by Valparaiso police last night as she was attempting to get a lift into Chicago at a filling station. At headquarters she is purported to have told police that she had been in communication with Dillinger several times since his escape from the Crown Point jail. March 3. Department of justice agents from Chicago prepared to question the girl today on her allleged knowledge of Dillinger’s moves. Shipbuilding Up 40 Per Cent By United Press LONDON. April 18. —Volume of merchant shipbuilding under way throughout the world showed a gain of 40 per cent in the first quarter of 1934, a survey by Lloyd's register of shipping showed today.