Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 87, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1934 — Page 1

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13-CENT SLASH PROPOSED FOR CITY TAX LEVY $90,000 Reduction Made in Budget. Council Is Told. $6,870,538 IS ASKED sl.lß Rate to Be Studied by Department Heads Next Week. Containing a reduction of $90,000 from last year, the civil city's proposed budget for 1935 was presented to the city council last night with provisions for a sl.lß tax rate, which is 13 cents under the current rate. Slash in the rate is due to a reduction of $504,569 in the amount to be raised by taxation on property for the coming year, the communication to the council from Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and Evans Woollen Jr., city controller, pointed out. The total budget request tor 1935 is $6,870,538. compared with $6,960,539 in the 1934 budget. The amount to be raised by taxation is $5,722,844. as compared with $6,227,413 for this year. In a meeting with departmental heads Monday night, the council will study the budget in detail. Tuesday night the council will meet with representatives of taxpayers' organizations and others who object to the terms of the proposed budget. Public Hearing Next Ernest C. Ropkey, council president. said that a public hearing will be held later in the week, prior to the final adoption. Final action must be taken not later than the first regular meeting in September. The tax levy for 1935 was bas%d on a $504,984,500 property valuation as certified by the county auditor, compared with a $511,162,710 valuation of a year ago. A 4 per cent tax delinquency was used in computing the 1935 levy, however, as opposed to the 7 per cent allowance in the 1934 figures. In his communication to the city council. Mr. Woollen pointed out that the large collection of delinquent taxes by the county treasurer, when added to the current collections. has produced revenues about even with the estimates upon which the 1934 budget was based. Factors that contributed to the reduction of the amount to be raised by taxes are: First, cost of actually running the city has been sliced $90,000. Second, the increase in the estimate of special taxes from the sale of liquor amounts to $162,953. Increased Balance Shown Third, a total increase of $260,116 is shown in anticipated balances at the end of the year. When a decrease of $8,501 in the estimates of miscellaneous revenue is deducted, the total reduction m the tax levy amounts to $504,569. From gasoline taxes, the total estimated revenue is $482,977 as compared with $400,485 for last vear. This fund is restricted in its use by statute and is budgeted separately. Reduction in the proposed budge', by departments were set out as follows: City controller. $29,327.32: Barrett law department. $650; city plan commission. $15.75; city clerk. S3OC: city registration on election. $5,000; city election costs. $40,000; fire department. $1.172 36; police department. $16,237.90; police radio, $752.55; board of works adminstration. $24,525; civil engineer's department. $450: city street commissioner's department. $1.30580; park department. $67,509.76: flood prevention. $4.218 75; World war memorial. $4,080; park department honds. $lO - 342.47; sanitary district bonds. $45,133 24. Airport Funds Dropped In addition to these reductions, the city made no appropriation for the operation of the Municipal airport in 1935. which amounted to $17,000 for 1934. The maintenance cost for the airport will be met by balances in the 1934 fund and anticipated revenues for 1935, it was explained Increases in the budget are: Sinking fund $10,175; street improvements. $20,940: mavor s office. $400: Oamewell department. $9 925; health department. $10,217. and sanitary department $9 565. Most of the increases are due to thr rise in the cost of food and supplies. The personnel of city departments will remain about the same for 1935. with no important changes scheduled. Prison Abuses Probed By L nited Press ATLANTA. Ga.. Aug. 21—A special committee of the city council was appointed today to investigate charges that a ‘•sweat box' was being used to punish women prisoners at the city dairy farm. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 10 Bridge 7 Broun 11 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 7 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 16 Hickman—Theaters 9 Let s Go Fishing 13 Pegler 11 Radio 13 Serial Story 15 Sports 12, 13 State News 5 Vital Statistics 16 Womans Pages 6. 7

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 87

Suitor Is Even Up With Rich Bride of Truckman; He Already Had a Wife

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Married at midnight, photographed with her husband (above) the next morning, repentant before evening, reconciled the following day —that was the forty-eight-hour record of Colletta Mulvihill. 22-year-old blond oil heiress of Pittsburgh, following her elopement on a dare with Thomas Creen, young truck driver. Her prior engagement to Sidriano Paredes, wealthy young Spaniard, complicated her felicity.

Report From Manila Concerning Supposedly Jilted Suitor Adds to Complications Involving Young Pittsburgh Heiress. By I ailed Press MANILA. P. 1.. Aug. 21.—The entanglements created by the elopement of 17-year-old Colletta Mulvihill in Pittsburgh. Pa., became more involved today when it was learned that Sidriano Paredes, her Manila fiance, is married to another woman.

Paredes, son of speaker of the house Quintin Paredes, married Nena Barbaza while he was a student at the University of the Philippines. They were separatedv legally several years ago but have not been divorced, the United Press learned. A divorce is difficult to get here as the only grounds permitted under ; the law is adultery. Asked if he would marry Colletrs if she returned to him. Paredes said. “I guess I couldn't help it.” He was pleased when informed that Colletta planned to obtain an annulment from her truck-driver husband. Thomas Creen. with whom she eloped to West Virginia, using Paredes' engagement and wedding rings. Meanwhile her mother, Mrs. Rosalie Mulvihill announced defij nitely she will sail Saturday on the S. S. President Taft for the United States to see her daughter and possibly arrange for an annulment. 'I have received no word from my daughter.” Mrs. Mulvihill said. “I need a rest from shock.” Friends here said that the younger Paredes had been a prizefighter apjearing in rings in and near Detroit tnder the name of "Johnny Walls" two years ago. At the time Paredes was employed at the Ford plant as a "student” engineer. RELIGIOUS DIRECTOR TAKES NEW POSITION H. L. Pickerill Assigned to Duty at Michigan l’. H. L. Pickerill. Indiana and j Michigan Disciples of Christ, re- , ligious education director, with headquarters at the United ChrisI tian Missionary Society. Irvington, will go to Michigan Sept. 1 to become full-time director of religious education in Michigan and director of student work for the Disciples of Christ at the University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Mr. Pickerill will be succeeded by John W. Harms, who has been engaged in church work the last three years in New York. Mr. Harms' work will be limited to Indiana and he will direct educational activities of the Disciples of Christ in this state as well as direct summer conferences and leadership training school* for churches. SENATOR WEISS HEADS SPEAKERS County Headquarters to Be Opened in State Life Building. State Senator Jacob Weiss has been appointed chairman of Marion County Democratic committee's speakers bureau, it was announced today. Senator Weiss will establish headquarters for the bureau in the State Life building. German Leader Is Dead By I itf d Press BADEN-BADEN. Germany. Aug. 21.—Dr. Karl Von Eisendecher. 93, German minister to Washington from 1875 to 1884, died today.

MERCURY ON RISE AFTER COOL SPELL Readings Are Still Under Normal, However. Hourly Temperatures 3:45 a. m.. 55.4 9a. m 67 6a. m 58 11 a. m 75 7a. m.,'... 60 12 moon).. 76 8 a. m 65 1 p. m 78 10 a. m 71 The temperature tbday was climbing slowly from the cool 55.4 degrees registered at 3:45 a. m. brought by cool areas in the high pressure field now- hovering around Indianapolis. For the first time in weeks, local persons gladly piled blankets on their beds. The temperature at 6:30 today, 60.5 degrees, was 6 degrees below the averse. The weather is a sudden reversal of the burning weather which has gripped the midwest during this month and July. The official weather bureau forecast for today and tomorrow is for occasional showers and slightly warmer temperatures. Boys’ School Head to Talk Dr. E. M. Dill. Indiana Boys’ school superintendent, Plainfield, will discuss "Our Delinquent Boys” before the Young Men's Discussion Club in the Youne Men's Christian Association at 6:20 tomorrow. An open forum will follow.

Fred Krueger, Big Drug Man, Grabs Lead in Brown Derby From Dr. Smith

It's a drug store race! In the parlance of the followers of the ponies, that's the last race of the day, when every horse is “hopped'' as high as a stratosphere balloon. And “Walgreen” Fred W. Krueger. Indianapolis head of the chain of drug stores, hopped up his vote total in the Brown Derby today to take the lead away from Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., dentist and Cosmopolitan Democratic Club executive. But on the heels of the dynamited Kreuger came a “sleeper” in the person of Dr. Paul Kernel, president of the Hoosier Athletic Club. Dr. Kernel packs the weight of the entire club behind him and promises the Kreugerites plenty of action, now that he's leveling to win the "darby” and the silver plaque that goes with it, in addition to the right to speak before a state fair crowd on the night of Sept. 6. ••Dentist" went into various vote cavities of the city to keep apace with the leaders and is only four hundred odd ballots back of the optometrist clubman.

IXDIAXAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1934

$427,000 IN CASH IS STOLEN IN 10-MAN RAID ON ARMORED CAR

U.S. DEMANDS INJUNCTION IN DAIRYDISPUTE AAA Suit Is Filed Here Against Greenwood Farms Firm. The United States government today moved in federal court to crush the resistance shown here to its agricultural adjustment administration by asking for an order w’hich would end all activities of the Greenwood Dairy Farms unless that organization came again under AAA license. The suit, filed more than three weeks after AAA offiicals revoked the Greenwood license for failure to pay the required fee for support of the local administrator, is signed by Val Nolan, United States district attorney here, and by Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace. ‘ That the papers had been approved in Washington before the litigation was initiated here was shown in the Washington notary's seal attesting the validity of Secretary Wallace's signature. Injunction Sought The government seeks an immediate temporary injunction as well as a permanent prohibition and Judge Robert C. Baltzell immediately set 9:30 a. m. Monday as time for a hearing on the temporary injunction plea. The suit asks that the Greenwood organization be restrained from ‘handling, marketing, selling or otherwise distributing” milk in the Indianapolis area without a license. It makes no mention of the AAA's right under the act creating it to assess a fine of SI,OOO for each day of unlicensed operation. The government explains that the suit is brought in a court of equity because sufficient remedies do not exist in statutory law and claims that continued unlicensed operation would disorganize the entire Indianapolis area dairy business and set a bad precedent to the country at large. Court Test Welcomed Spokesmen for the dairy have declared repeatedly that they would welcome a court test, protesting that the AAA has no jurisdiction over what they describe as the purely interstate business of their company. The suit is the first of its kind in Indiana. Federal courts have differed in their rulings on similar cases in various parts of, the country and there has been no final interpretation of the agricultural act by the supreme court. FINANCE HOUSES HERE GET HOME LOAN 0. K. I Six Institutions in City Win U. S. Approval. By Times Special WASHINGTON. Aug. 21—Six Indianapolis financial houses were accepted today for insurance under the federal housing program. They were: Bankers Trust Company, Better Homes Savings and Loan Association, Fletcher Tr,ust. Company, Morris Plan Company, Indiana National bank of Indianapolis and the Union Trust Company of Indianapolis. RESERVE POST FILLED Adolph Miller Reappointed to Twelve-Year Term. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—President Roosevelt today reappointed Adolph C. Miller, for a term of twelve years, as a member of the federal reserve board. Mr. Miller was reappointed from the Fifth federal j reserve district, having given up his i residence in California.

THE STANDINGS Fred W. Krueger 13.885 Dr. Paul Kernel 13,195 Dr. Will H. Smith Jr 12,840 Dave Mitchell 12,215 Fred W. Steinsberger 11.647 Jim Clark 7,910 Clarence I. Baker 5.955 Walter Pritchard 3.790 Sid Easley * 2,810 George Ritter 2,780 Addrd Starters with over 1.000 ballots and less than 5..80 follow: Trank W. Quinn, Harry Gold, Elias W. Dulberger. Russell F. Clift, Jim Custard. Henry Ostrom and Jess McClure. Not to be denied. "Golfer” Dave Mitchell, with a flock of mail ballots from South Grove and points bunkerward. was at the saddle girth Dr. Smith. And did the grocer boys deliver today as the last undated ballot was counted Just “glim” Fred W. Steinsberger's fifth place total and you'll see the president of the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers can pitch ballots like he tosses bananas on a scale. Customers of the independent retail grocers

TINY SPIDER SCORES TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT OVER GARTER SNAKE

By Lnited Pros* BALTIMORE, Aug. 21.—A tiny spider's cunning and patience triumphed over a garter snake today, ending a 120-hour battle between the unevenly matched foes. Spinning a web around its mortal enemy, the spider staved off death for four days before the tide of battle turned. The snake, writhing and twisting to free itself from the gossamer web, was so weak on the fifth day that the society for the prevention of animals intervened. The snake was killed and the spider credited with a technical knockout. FIERCE FOREST FIRE CHECKED Change in Weather Helps Army of Fighters to Control Blaze. By L nited Press PORTOLA. Cal., Aug. 21—A forest fire that devastated more than 6.000 acres of virgin # timber and brushland and caused $250,000 damage in the Plumas national forest probably will be brought under complete control by noon today, rangers reported. While hours of labor still remained before the fire threat was removed completely, the tired crews were given welcome relief as the danger to the towns of Sloat, Twin Rivers and Portola was averted. The forestry service headquarters here announced definitely that none of the 1,500 men pressed into service was missing. Reports that two crews had been trapped were contradicted when radio communication was established with tie fire lines. Many of the fire-fighters received burns and other minor injuries, but none was hurt so seriously as to be confined to a hospital, the officials said. Several hundred CCC workers were returned to their camps, to stand by for emergency call should the fire, now confined to a single small area near here, break out anew. Ranchers went back to their neglected crops and stock and itinerants, taken from trains passing through the area, were permitted to go on their way. The fire-fighters won their battle last night when the weather came to their assistance. ROOSEVELT TcTpAY TRIBUTE TO RAINEY President to Attend Rites for Speaker. By United Press CARROLLTON, 111., Aug. 21. President Roosevelt will lead a distinguished group of national and state mourners at the funeral of Speaker Henry T. Rainey of the house of representatives, to be held at “Walnut Hill,” his country estate near here, late tomorrow afternoon. Episcopal funeral services will be conducted at the late Speaker's home after the body has laid in state for several hours in the rotunda of Greene county courthouse, to which it will be borne earlier in the day from St. Louis. Mo., where he died suddenly of heart disease Sunday night. The President's special train will arrive here via St. Louis, Mo., probably about 3:30 p. m. Wednesday. Immediately following the services. the President will return east.

flocked to put the “Steinbergerians” m the foreground. Pulling a Cavalcade came Jim Clark, director of the American Red Cross life savers at city swimming pools, to grab off sixth place. Jim's gang did everything but pull a Jesse James in order to garner the votes. Tiaveling fast in seventh position was Clarence I. Baker, furniture man. while Walter Pritchard. G. O. P. mayor candidate, Sid Easley, State Life Insurance building cigar man. and George Ritter of the National Biscuit Company, whipped up to care few the other positions in the first ten. Remember today's ballot counts but ONE vote and must be in The Times’ office by 4 p. m. Thursday. All undated coupons, counting FIVE votes, are in the above standings. Contestants below 5.000 ballots by Saturday at 4 p. m will be bounced out o' the race. Who is the city's “most distinguished citizen?” Vote on Page 3 and give us the answer!

‘RIDE’ THREATS ARE HURLED IN BUS WALKOUT 20,000 Street Car Men May Join Strike: Warfare Feared Near. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 21.—The “one way ride,” deadly reprisal invented by Chicago's gangland, threatened today to add major violence to the strike of union bus drivers. Police were told that death threats had been received by several striking drivers. Union leaders, claiming the warnings came from hired sluggers, announced several warrants would be sought. The possibility of bloodshed—police said “things are about ripe to blow wide open'—came as 20,000 street car and elevated lines employes awaited word from a conference in Detroit which will determine whether they are to vote on a strike in sympathy with the bus drivers. Should the trolley and "L” workers leave their cars the nation's .second city would be in the grip of a serious transportation paralysis. Violence Flares Repeatedly Behind the new death threats reported to police lay a background of steadily widening violence—sluggings, stoning of busses and damage of omnibuses Bobby Lee. striking driver and one-time boxer, appeared at the Fillmore street police station on prutches to ask warrants for two men whom he accused of threatening to kill him. Lee received a broken ankle, two cracked ribs and a body covered with bruises in a clash with nonunion drivers operating the busses. “You’ll be taken for a ride if you appear on the street again,” a voice told him over the telephone last night, according to his story to police. Two other strikers. Irving Thompson and James Lynch, said they would swear out warrants against assailants whom they described as “company sluggers.” Police Patrol Routes Armed patrols of police rode up and down the 225 miles of streets and boulevards traversed by the company busses and squads of uniformed men were concentrated in the loop. “Things are about ripe to blow wide open,” said Captain Ira McDowell, commander of all uniformed police. “I look for big trouble.” Action of the executive committee of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes, meeting in Detroit, on a plea for sanction of a general transportation strike in Chicago, was expected today. Ralph Stoltzmann, president of the Bus Drivers’ local union, laughed scornfully at the company’s claim that fewer than seventy-five of its 800 drivers are on strike. “We have nearly 700 union members out of that 800,” he said gr.mly, “and we have that many on strike. Violence Breaks Out Bus service has not been affected noticeably by the strike but violent incidents have been constant. A driver of one of. the elevated line's supplementary busses was shot by police, who said he threw a brick through a motor coach window, nonunion bus drivers have been stoned repeatedly and passengers have been chased from busses by threatening pickets. More than 5.000 persons participated in or watched a riot in which pickets battled 200 police in an attempt to overturn busses on West Jackson boulevard. Sixteen pickets have been arrested. Among them were several employes of the street car and elevated lines who backed moral support with fists. Predicts ‘Real Trouble’ Stoltzmann bitterly predicted ‘real trouble” unless police “protect peaceful pickets from bus company sluggers.” Executives of the coach company, who have defied a national labor board order to reinstate twentyfour discharged union men, told a different story. They conferred with Hugh Friel, department of labor conciliator sent from Washington, but apparently conceded nothing to the union. “The two parties are as far apart as the poles,’ said Mr. Friel. “Conciliation looks improbable, if not impossible.” BACK IN HOLLYWOOD. FAIRBANKS RETICENT Parries Questions Concerning Reconciliation With Mary. By United Press HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 21.—Douglas Fairbanks, estranged globe-trotting husband of Mary Pickford. returned to Hollywood today after an abscence of more than fourteen months. He refused to say a word regarding a rumored reconciliation with the actress. Sartorially perfect. Fairbanks leaped from the steps of his private car and got the jump on greeting newsmen by exclaiming: “I know what you are going to ask me and I won t say a word.’’

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Daring Brooklyn Holdup Executed \\ itK Military Precision; Bandits Miss SIOO,OOO in Hasty Retreat. MACHINE GUN MOUNTED ON CART Desperado Posing as Junk Dealer Gives Signal to Start Pay Roll Holdup; Outlaws Elude Police. By l nit.ed Press NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—A gang of perhaps ten robbers bore down on an armored truck three blocks from a divisional police headquarters in Brooklyn today, pointed machine guns and pistols at guards, and escaped with a cash sum which police estimated at $427,000. It was one of the boldest and most sensational holdups in the New York area in recent years. The raid on the armored car was as cleverly planned and executed as a military maneuver. A machine gun was con* cealed on a push cart in the street. The bandits carefully disguised their purpose until the signal was given for the raid. Then they struck quickly and fled. The armored truck pursued them, firing its own machine gun, but they escaped. All radio cars in Brooklyn were called in on the pursuit.

BATTERED LINER REACHES PORT Ship Survives Gale That Injured 30, Killed One of Crew. By United Press GLASGOW, Aug. 21.—The Anchor liner Cameronia, her decks battered, her furniture splintered and thirty of her passengers suffering from injuries after being hurled across her cabins by sixty-foot waves, arrived today from New York to report the loss of one life. A seaman on duty on the stormtorn deck was washed overboard during the seventy-mile gale and carried to death. Meanwhile, below decks where, included in a heavy passenger list, were members of the Pennsylvania State college soccer team, scenes approaching panic were reported. “It seemed like the tail-end of a cyclone,” said William Ritch of San Francisco. Mr. Ritch had been thrown across the dining salon by a sudden lurch of the liner and received a double arm fracture and injuries to his ribs. The full force of the gale struck the Cameronia while the passengers were at dinner Friday night. “Chairs and tables in the dinning room were smashed to matchwood,” Mr. Ritch related. “I was stunned when the ship, heeling over, threw me into a pile of splintered furniture. All around me there was something approaching panic. Women were screaming, and it seemed hours before the ship righted itself, although the worst of it was actually over in five minutes. The ship continued to roll amazingly, and passengers were picked up from beneath sofas, under tables, chairs and smashed crockery.”

HIGH BOND IS SET FORMER TRIO Fugitive Suspect and Pals Face Grand Jury. Melvin Blanton. 23. Camden. 0., whase escape from Governor’s island. New York military prison, last month, is alleged to have led to a series of robberies and holdups in the midwest, was held to the grand jury under SIO,OOO bond today by Municipal Judge William Sheafer. Blanton’s alleged accomplices, Charles Hamilton, Middletown, O , and Theodore Hulbert, St. Paul. Minn., were held to the grand jury under similar bond. The three are charged with auto banditry and robbery. All three are fugitives from army camps. Blanton was freed from prison by a civilian, said to be Hulbert, with the aid of a revolver and a rowboal. The three men were arrested, here for a minor traffic violation, but later were recognized by detectives in the police lineup. ALFONSO’S DAUGHTER MAY ENTER NUNNERY Infanta Grief-Stricken Since Death of Brother. •Copyright. 19?,. by United Pressi PARIS, Aug. 21.—The Infanta Beatrice, 25-year-old daughter of the ex-king of Spain, may cover her blond hair beneath the black veil of a nun and forever bar her blue eyes from the world in sorrow because of the death of her brother, the Infante Gonzalo, the United Press learned today. From a member of a family close to Alfonso it was learned that the tragedy of her brother's death has deeply affected her. Gonzalo was killed while riding in an automobile which she was driving and bled to death before his injuries could be treated.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Police sent out numerous alarms for the bandit gang 1 , which fled in two or three black sedans. All bridges, main roads, ferries and train terminals were guarded. The holdup apparently hinged on one bandit disguised as a junkman. A few minutes before the money truck, owned by the United States Trucking Corporation, arrived before the Rubel Ice Corporation plant, the fake junkman appeared at the scene. Slowly, he pushed his rickety cart along the curb, but without calling his wares. A piece of cloth covered the cart's contents. In front of the ice plant he stopped to rest, wiping the sweat from his forehead. Aimlessly, several other men who appeared to be loitering along the street approached the cart. Missed SIOO,OOO More The money truck guards, John Wilson and William Lillienthal, left their machine, with John Allen, driver, at the wheel, and entered the plant to deliver a pay roll. The truck carried about $500,000 at the time, but the bandits missed approximately SIOO,OOO in their haste. As the guards reappeared, the bandit leader apparently gave a signal. The men near the push cart sprang into action, whipped back the cloth over the cart and exposed a machine gun. Its blunt, glistening nose swung around toward the guards. Two other men standing nearby leaped upon the guards and disarmed them. Still another pair of bandits pointed pistols at the driver of the truck. Loot Pay Roll Cash Directed by curt commands backed up by the machine gun and pistols, the guards were bustled into their own truck. The bandits forced them to hand over the case in the truck—except for the sum which they overlooked —and then ran from the truck to their own automobiles parked nearby. Most of the money was in small canvas bags. Allen quickly swung the truck around in pursuit of the raiders. The bandit machine gun was fired repeatedly at the fleeing outlaw cars. The truck had been delivering and collecting pay rolls. Part of the money it carried represented cash collected from branch banks and business houses in Brooklyn. It was to be taken to Manhattan for deposit. The bandits apparently had knowledge of the movements of the truck and knew about the hour it wouid appear at the ice plant. There was wild confusion at tha scene of the holdup and witnesses disagreed as to the number of bandits. Most persons, however, said there were ten or twelve. Wore Butchers’ Aprons One of the bandits was inside the ice plant. After the guards came out. he ripped a pay telephone off the wall and drew his pistol, following the guards outside. In addition to the men around the push cart, some of the bandits were across the street watching a tennis game. When the signal was given, they drew pistols and ran across the street to the amazement of the tennis players. Police said that several of the bandits wore white butcher's aprons. In all, three machine guns were used by the bandits, who took two of the weapons with them when they fled. Police said two of the bandits, about 25 or 28 years old. were blond. Another one, about 30, was dark and wore a blue shirt. City Man Is Elected By l nitrit Prr* CINCINNATI, Aug 21—An Ohio valley chapter of the Club Managers Association of America, to include Louisville. Indianapolis, Cincinnati and other nearby cities, was formed here today. Fred H. Crawford, Louisville, was elected president, and A. E. Martin, Indianapolis, vic^jesident. I