Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 101, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 September 1934 — Page 19

SEPT. 6, 1934.

GRAND JURORS OPEN SWEEPING PROBE OF BANK Judge Baker Spurs Quiz After Report by Rucker. Spurred on by militant instructions from Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker, the Marion county grand Jury today faced the duty of making a sweeping investigation of the affair* of the defunct State Savings and Trust Company. Equipped with the courts interpretation of the Indiana statute that bank officials are liable when they keep banks open to receive deposits, knowing the bank to be insolvent, the jurors left a tense court room yesterday to begin study of a 140page report of A. J. Rucker, special bank investigator for Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox on the State Savings. Judge Baker's instructions were issued on the heels of the filing of Mr. Rucker s report with Judge Cox. Oscar C. Hagemier, grand jury and -puty in Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson's office, accompanied the grand Jury to the criminal court chambers when the jury was summoned hurriedly. Judge Baker's statement had been prepared in advance of the filing of the Rucker report in circuit court. Prosecutor Wilson told reporters that the grand jury had issued a subpena for the Rucker report a aeex ago and that it had been informed the document was not then ready for delivery. Mr. Rucker filed copies in circuit court for the use of the prosecutor and the criminal court. In his special instructions to the grand jury. Judge Baker placed the duty of investigating defunct banks squarely upon its shoulders. He cleared up what he described as the erroneous impression that the duty lies with the prosecutor. Declaring pointedly that it is the law, not yet otherwise interpreted by the supreme court, that officers of defunct bangs are liable to prosecution if they permitted their banks to receive deposits after they knew the institution was insolvent, Judge Baker emphasized to the jurors they had full power to summon and interrogate witnesses. Gets Federal Post Scott R. Brewer, former president of the defunct State Savings and Trust Company which now is under investigation, has been named assistant director of the Federal Housing Administration in Washington. His most recent connection has been manager of the real estate department of the Kentucky Title and Trust Company, Louisville. BALLOON BAG EXPLODES Soviet Stratosphere Attempt Ends at Inflation. By f "itrit Press MOSCOW. Sept. 6.—The gas bag of the Soviet stratosphere balloon, USSR exploded yesterday at the Frunze airport, it was learned today. while it was being inflated for anew attempt to penetrate the upper regions. Apparently none of the workers or spectators was killed.

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INDIANA STATE FAIR fTHURSDAY GRAND CIRCUIT RACING Vaudeville —Band Concerts HORSE SHOW CAT SHOW Judging: of Exhibits INDIANA STATE FAIR F. J. CLAY POOL. Pres., Muncie. Ind. Lieut.-Governor M. C. Townsend, Com. of Agriculture

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The Theatrical World It's Same Old Dick —The Boy Who Started Here BY WALTER D. HICKMAN-

A KISS straight from Hollywood was delivered in person by Dick Powell yesterday when he arrived at municipal airport for a visit of a little more than two hours. The kiss was presented to Dessa Byrd, who in private life is Mrs. Ed Resener. Speaking of the “decency crusade,” Mr. Powell said: “I never have been in a dirty picture. I never will. It isn’t necessary.” In the mad dash from the airport to the Indiana theater, where he made a short talk from the same stage that led him to movie fame, I asked Mr. Powell what leading woman he liked best to play opposite him on the screen. "You're putting me on the spot,” he said. "I guess Ruby (Ruby Keeler, who is Mrs. A1 Jolson). She is a grand girl.” Likewise, every one tried to put Dick “on the spot” regarding the rumor he is to marry Mary Brian. “If that was true,” he said, “I guess I ought to know something about it.” And that, boys and girls, can be interpreted as both “yes” and “no.” But the fact is, Powell has just built a magnificent home near Hollywood. u a u WITH all the success that has come to him. Dick Powell does not high-hat anybody. Yesterday he was just the same boy who used to rehearse his tunes in the alley near the Ohio theater with Charlie Davis and the boys. He hadn't forgotten Dessa Byrd, Ed Resener and many others who

“Noble” is shown above at the right with Levi P. Moore, the Indiana state fair’s publicity director, with the grand champion Aberdeen Angus steer owned by the Marshall Farms, Lafayette.

played with him in the orchestra at the Indiana. “I wish I had time to go out to Dessa's and Ed's and eat one more hamburger,” he said. As he signed one autograph after another with the police keeping hundreds of people from him, Dick grinned boyishly. “Who would ever have thought I this,' 1 he said. Just an hour before he left Hollywood by airplane, Pow-ell finished “Flirtation Walk.” “I’m crazy about that picture,” he said. “It's my best one to date. I also finished 'Happiness Ahead,’ with Josephine Hutchinson, and when I get back, I'll start work on ‘Gold Diggers.’ ” After a luncheon at the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Dick was rushed to the airport and after signing more autographs, roared into the clouds for Chicago. AS the plane headed for Chicago, Pow'cll became just a little boy. “I’m sleepy.” he said, and with the smile that has made him fai mous, he went to sleep and snoozed \ until w>e got into Chicago. From one airplane to another, Dick took off from Chicago for i Pittsburgh. | “Wire Ed Harris and tell him that , when I get to Pittsburgh I want no parties. I just want to sleep.” And that's the man who has Hollywood by the ears and w r ho is going far. “I don’t want to be a star,” he said. “Not for two or three years.” Powell said he hadn't had a day off for months. "Who would marry me with me working all the time?” he asked in answer to the same old question— Who w’ill he marry? 000 | TNDIANAPOLIS theaters today offer: “Now and Forever.” at the Cir!cle; “The Cat’s Paw,’’ at the Apollo; “She Loves Me Not,” at the Indiana; “The Affairs of Cellini,” at ; Loew's Palace, and vaudeville and ’ movies at the Lyric. PITTSBURGH HEIRESS TO SEEK ANNULMENT Kalctta Heads far Coast; Truck Driver Mate Stays Home. By I nited Press CHEYENNE, Wyo., Sept. 6.—Kaletta Mulvihill Creen, Pittsburgh heiress, who married Thomas Creen. truck driver, on a dare, said today she “was going to take steps in San Francisco to have my marriage annulled." Mrs. Creen was here briefly en route to the Pacific coast by plane. “I have never really lived with Mr. Creen,” she told a United Press correspondent. “I didn't really love him and he doesn't love me.” Mrs. Creen was engaged to the son of Philippine senate leader Paredes at the time she married Creen. BALL BROTHERS BUY DANVILLE (ILL) FIRM Muncie Financiers Take Over Corn Stock Plant. By United Press MUNCIE, Ind.. Sept. 6.—Acquisition of the Corn Stalk Products Company plant at Danville. 111., by j the Ball Brothers Company, Muncie financiers, was announced today i by George A. Ball. ! The Danville plant utilizes corn stalks for manufacturing paper and paper products. Similar plants are operated by the Ball Brothers at Noblesville and Eaton, Ind. CHICAGO BROKER SHOT Utilities Man Mysteriously Wounded Entering Office. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 6—Ralph La Barthe. 51, member of the Chicago Board of Trade, was mysteriously | shot and seriously wounded today j as he was about to enter his offices in the Utilities building in the La Salle street financial district. La Barthe said he did not identify his assailant and knew of no reason for the attack. The broker was shot once, the bullet entering near the collar bone and coming out beneath the left ear. K Youth Killed by Box Car By United Press ELKHART, Ind., Sept. 6.—Delmar Rooney, 17, Fairmount, Minn., suffered a fractured skull last night w hen he put his head out the door of a box car and was struck by a car on an adjoining track.

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IFLIER'SBODY TO 8E ! BROUGHT TO MARION Hoosier Aviator Killed in Army Crash. By Times Special MARION, Ind., Sept. 6—Lieutenant Robert Allen Brunt. 24-year-old army pilot killed yesterday when his plane crashed near Mertzon, Tex., is the son of Charles R. Brunt, prominent

Marion merchant, and Mrs. Brunt. I The aviator was an honor pupil at | the Marion high ! school and attended Marion college prior to entering the Uni- ■ versity of Illinois, i While a freshman at Illinois he received an appointme n t to the United States Military Academy at West Point,

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from which he was graduated in 1933. Lieutenant Brunt is survived by his parents, his widow', the former Edith Rigsbee of Marion; two sisters and a brother. The body will be returned here for services. The aviator was flying in a formation flight from Kelly field when his plane apparently had motor trouble and crashed. MOTORCYCLE OFFICER BADLY HURT IN CRASH Peak Suffers Several Head Injuries During Powell Parade. Riding at the head of a parade in honor of Dick Powell, cinema crooner, motorcycle patrolman Ray Peak drove into the side of an automobile at Meridian and New York streets yesterday and w r as throwm to the pavement, suffering severe head injuries. The automobile was driven by Frank Belmier, 69, of 130 Geisendorf street, Indianapolis Water Company employe, and was en route to a fire. Officer Peak was sent to city hospital and the parade proceeded. Millionaire Is Drowned By United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., Sept. 6. David McKee Morris Sr„ Pasadena and Pittsburgh millionaire steel manufacturer, was drowned at Rosarita Beach, Baja, Cal., Mexican police announced today.

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U. S. EXPENSES NEARLY DOUBLE FORMEROUTLAY $1,000,000,000 Mark Is Passed in Two Months: Relief Load Blamed. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 6—The federal government's expenditures for the fiscal year beginning last July 1 have crossed the billion dollar mark and are nearly double those of a year ago, the treasury department reported today. The government has lost nearly $20,000,000 of its enormous gold reserves in exports to Europe since Aug. 20. treasury figures also disclosed. Expenditures in the period from July 1 to Sept. 4, the first two months and four days of the 1935 fiscal year, amounted to $1,012,972,488, compared with $592,763,563 in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal year. The government’s income failed

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to keep pace with the increase In expenditures, rising from $370 409,643 a year ago to $553,550,119 In the first two months of the current fiscal year. This left a deficit so far this year of $459,422,369, compared with $222,358.915 a year ago. More than half off this year’s expenditures to date were accounted for by “emergency" outlays in which were included expenditures cf $267,841,183 for emergency relief alone. From the record high gold resources of $7,983,389,542 reported on Aug. 20, the gold resources of the treasury had fallen to $7 964.744.521 on Sept. 4. a loss of $18,645,021. The loss in government gold holdings was believed the consequence of the recent weakness of the American dollar in the world markets, which has necessitated American exports of the metal to keep the American dollar "pegged” in foreign exchange markets at its new value of 15 5-21 grains of gold. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North northeast wind, 15 miles an hour; barometric presure, 30.00 at sea level; temperature. 59; general conditions, high, overcast, lower scattered clouds; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, fifteen miles, sprinkling.

BANK BANDITS' CAR IS FOUND Suspect Leads Police on Trail Followed in Westfield Raid. Police today continued to search for the second bandit who participated in a daring SI,OOO holdup of the Union State bank. Westfield. Ind. Tuesday, confident that ir. Raymond Tyrrell, 21. they had one of the pair. Tyrrell is said by police to have confessed. Yesterday afternoon, it was learned at police headquarters. Ty rrell accompanied four detectives on a trip along the route alleged to have been taken by the bandits on their flight from the scene of the holdup to Indianapolis. The detectives said that, while

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Tyrrell was unable to locate the field into which a shotgun used In the holdup had been tossed, he did lead them to a spot west of Avon where he had thrown his cap and. nearby, to a 1934 Plymouth coupe which, they said was the car used in the robbery. At the same time, it was learned that police here are in communication with police in California where, it is said, there Is a possibility that Tyrrell, whose home is in Snover, Mich., is wanted on other charges. PRISON CHIEF IS HEARD Mrs. Marian F. Gallup Addresses Lions Club Members. Members of the Lions Club heard Mrs. Marian F. Gallup, superintend of the Indiana women's prison, yesterday at the Washington. Mrs. Callup advocated training of girls for home life, and the judicious granting of paroles to convicted persons.