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105 BILLIONS IN PUBLIC WORKS IS PROPOSED Report Gives President Broad Analysis of the Nation’s Long-Range Needs. ASK PERMANENT PLAN Document Charts Possibility of Government Aid in Many Fields. By Bcripps-H award Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—Desirable public works aggregating 105 billion dollars might be undertaken ' In the next 20 to 30 years, the National Resources Board told President Roosevelt today in a report of enormous scope. Advocating permanent and coordinated state, regional and national planning agencies, the board recommended adoption of a sixyear national development program, to be revised from year to year in relation to national income and unemployment. At the present rate of expenditure. 24 billions would be spent for public works in 10 years, the board estimated. But if demonstrable and ficiencies in needs were met, t. board estimated 26 billions would fc Hailed by Ickes The report was hailed by Harold L. Ickes. Secretary of the Interior and Piibllc Works Administrator, as “one of the most important pieces of work ever done by the Government.’’ Mr. Ickes is chairman of the Resources Board, which also includes Secretaries Dern, Wallace, Roper and Perkins, Relief Administrator Hopkins, Frederic A. Delano, Charles E. Merriam and Wesley C. Mitchell. A large staff of experts co-operated: The voluminous report covered public works planning, water resource development, land use and mineral conservation. The board's water planning section recommended immediate detailed surveys of 17 rivers in 11 great watersheds. While extensive planning would be necessary, the board said public works developments in these rivers could be prepared for contract “within a year or less" and “without waste.” Advocate Vast Purchases The land section advocated vast purchases of submarginal land its conversion into public forests, wild life refuges, playgrounds and additions to Indian reservations. The mineral resources section urged extension of the controls on mining now imposed through NRA codes, and suggested steps to prevent development of unneeded mines. Surveys of highway needs and continuation of public housing activities —but with co-ordination of the Federal agencies involved—were recommended. Other works suggested as desirable were waterway developments and rural electrification. “A list of ah types of worth while public works, such as recreation facilities, public buildings, soil erosion control, etc., would take pages if it were complete,” the board said. Nine-Point Program By its own summary, the board’s program would: “1. Provide for systematic development of our water resources for purposes of sanitation, power, industrial uses, transportation, recreation, domestic consumption and other collateral uses on a far higher scale than ever before. “2. Remove the recurring menace of great floods and vast losses to persons and property. “3. Eliminate the use of land incapable of affording a minimum standard of living, develop agricultural production on the most suitable soils only, and aid in raising the standard of living in many agricultural regions. "4. Reduce the heavy losses of soil caused by uncontrolled erosion. “5. End the wasteful use of our mineral resources and substitute a national policy of mineral conservation. “6. Make available large areas of land for purpose of popular recreation. “7. Assemble basic data in regard to mapping, public finance and population, necessary for national planning. • 8. Avoid the extravagance caused by failure to co-ordinate public works—Federal, state and local; bring about better programming of socially useful public works; prepare public works projects suitable, if desired, for use in emergency situations. "9. Provide for continuous longrange planning of land, water and mineral resources in relation to each other and to the larger background of the social and economic life in which they are set.”

HINTS CAPSULE CAUSE OF WOMAN’S DEATH Coroner Orders Probe of Medicine Taken by Flo Victim. By United Prett SHELBYVILLE. Ind.. Dec. 17. Powder believed to have caused the death of Mrs. Lucy Evelyn Martin. 22. was ordered examined by Coroner Thomas Cartmel today in the belief that it was poison. Mrs. Martin became ill yesterday from influenza and was given a capsule believed to contain quinine. She died before a physician could administer an antidote. For Your Ignition and Carburetor checked—See Carburetor Sales, 214 &. Ohio.—Adv,

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 188

6 DaysThat’s All the Time You Have Left to Join Clothe-A-Child.

SIX days left to shop before Christmas. —And hourly on the street and in the stores you can see the rush of donors to Clothe-A-Child of The Indianapolis Times, to shop for their boys and girls. There are six days left in which to take a boy or girl into your heart and warm him or her with clothing for the snowy January and February of the New Year. Bowlers, with calloused thumbs from making alley strikes, are finding their pay-strike in happiness in Clothe-A-Child. Bachelors, sorority girls, machinists from the Diamond Chain Manufacturing Cos., girls from. Real Silk are smarming the stores, carrying bundles and tugging children and saying, “Look-see how my child is dressed. You should have seen him when we got him.” And as the shopping crowd in Clothe-A-Child grows so, too, does the donors list with TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE needy children pledged warm garments in The Times annual campaign. The THREE HUNDRED mark nears. Who’ll make it THREE HUNDRED? antt WHAT’S the kick in Clothe-A-Child? The answer was given by Diamond Chain machinists as they I'd twelve children into a world of new and clean clothing. And as they shopped, in the background stood one machinist, William Lithgow, with a light in his eye and- a chuckle as he watched shoes fitted on stockings with holes. Mr. Lithgow was responsible for the TWELVE children taken by the Diamond Chain. It was his plan of weekly savings through the year for Clothe-A-Child that enabled 27 machinists to raise $lO2, rsise TWELVE children from the despair of ragged garb and bring Christmas back to homes of needy families. You, too, can have sparkling eyes like Mr Lithgow. Call Ri. 5551 and a boy or girl will be given to you to clothe. He or she will have been checked by Community Fund relief agencies and the social service department of the Indianapolis Public Schools for need. Or if you’re too busy, a check, made payable to Clothe-A-Child. The Indianapolis Times will dress your boy or girl and his or her name and address will be sent to you. ana THE cost ranges from $5 to' sl2. The age of the children is 5 to 12 years. Today’s list of donors follows: Employes, 7th floor, Public Service Company of Indiana, took care of five children and got another girl. Seidel Club. boy. Employe* of Polk Sanitary Milk Company. boy and girl. One Girl in Boarding Dept., Real Silk Hosiery Mill*. Inc., girl. Seaming Dept.. Real Silk Hosiery Mills. Inc., two boys and a girl. Anonymous Couple, boy. Employes of Automotive at/d Punch Press Depts., P. R. Mallory Cos., Inc., two boys. Indianapolis Church Bowling League, Fountain Square alleys, one child. Block's Optical Ladies Bowling League, Pritchett alleys, girl. L. S. Santa Helper, girl. D. W., Santa Helper, boy. Atoha Omicron Alpha sorority. Epsilon chapter, boy and girl. Employes of Hoosier Pete’s, boy. Salesman Santa, cared for two children and took two more. Depts., 203 and 209. Night Shift, LinkBelt. girl. Alice and Perry O’Neal Jr., girl and boy. X. T. Z. Santa Claus, boy and girl. R. J. Smith, boy. Anonymous, boy. Employes of Morris Street Branch. Indianapolis Power and Light Company, two girls. In Memory of Grandmother. Pebe and Helaine. girl. Indianapolis Printing Pressmen's L'nion No. 11. boy. ‘ J. M. Jewell, boy. Miss Stenographer, girl. Working Extra Board, boy and Strl. Floy Oberholtzer, girl. (Other Donors on Page 3.) CLOUDY WITH LITTLE CHANGE IS FORECAST Warm Temperatures, Possible Rain Is Prediction. A smoggy sky hung over Indianapolis today as the United States weather bureau forecast cloudy weather with little change in temperature. So warm have the temperatures been, with 32 degrees registered at 9 a. m.. that rain rather than snow was indicated by the lowering skies. The Municipal Airport weather station reported a low ceiling, estimated at 1.400 feet, with an overcast and hazy. A slight five-mile breeze was blowing from the north northwest.

Yawning Victim Moved to Hospital in Desperate Effort to Save Her Life

By United Peru SEELING, m. Dec. 17.—Mrs. Harold McKee was mov£d from her farm home near Morrison to the Sterling Public Hospital this afternoon as she started the second week of a fight against agonizing yawns that have wracked her at the rate of 600 an hour. Her husband, who has been 111 for several months, also was taken to the hospital. Two nurses have been provided for the stricken 27-year-old woman,

ROBINSON SEEN IN IOWA; FLEES IN STOLEN CAR Stoll Kidnaper, Disguised as Woman, Spotted by Garage Owner. CHASE IS ORGANIZED Illinois Police Join Hunt on Tip From Davenport Authorities. by United Press DAVENPORT, la.. Dec. 17.—Police of Illinois and lowa searched highways and the garages of a score of cities today for a “woman” automobile thief identified by a Davenport garage owner as Thomas H. Robinson Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll of Louisville, Ky. The “woman” rented an automobile Saturday night from the Moline (111.) branch of a car rental service owned by Fred H. Willey of Davenport. Mr. Willey previously had refused her a car at the Davenport garage, suspecting that she was a man in disguise. When six hours passed without return of the rented car Mr. Willey notified police and identified a photograph of Robinson as the “woman.” “That’s Her Absolutely” “That’s her absolutely,” Mr. Willey said. “I knew all along it was a man and I know now it was Robinson.’Police of Davenport, Moline and Rock Island asked aid of police throughout lowa and Illinois in a search for the stolen motor car, a light blue sedan with yellow wire wheels. The garage owner said he became suspicious of credentails offered by his caller because “she acted more like a man than a woman.” ' “She talked almost in a bass,” Mr. Willey said, “and she had large features and big hands that looked like a man.” ‘Figured Something Wrong’ She wore a brown wool dress, a dark brown coat with fur collar and a small, toque-effect black hat. When she opened a purse and showed a large roll of $lO and S2O bills, Mr. Willey said, he “figured something was wrong” and refused to rent a car. In Moline, however, the branch agency attendant gave her a car without suspicion. On her rental application she signed the name of Mrs. F. Manley, Fulton, 111. Robinson has been sought since he kidnaped Mrs. Stoll from her home in suburban Louisville. She was held in Indianapolis until her wealthy husband paid $50,000 ansom six days later.

SAVES MOTHER, TWO CHILDREN FROM FIRE Hero Injures Leg in Kicking Down Door. The daring heroism of J. D. Roberts, 35, of 1641 Ingram-st, early yesterday probably saved the lives of Mrs. William Henderson, 1638 Ingram-st, and her children, Betty, 4, ar.d Ralph, 7. Seeing flames leaping from the downstairs windows at the Henderson home. Mr. Roberts kicked down the front door and rescued Mrs. Henderson and the two children from their beds. Mr. Roberts severely injured his leg by broken glass in the door, but managed to hobble up the stairs and herd the family out on to the porch roof. Firemen from Engine Houses 2 and 8 rescued the quartet from the roof. Although the house is a double, thick walls kept the blaze within the Henderson home

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Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 32 10 a. m 32 7a. m 33 II a. m 32 Ba. m 31 12 (noon) .. 32 9 a. m 32 1 p. m 31 Tomorrow’s sunrise, 7:02 a. m.; sunset, 4:22 p. m. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: North northwest wind. 5 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.26 at sea level; temperature, 32: general conditions, overcast, hazy; ceiling, estimated 1,400 feet: visibility, six miles. Bank Bandits Get SIO,OOO By United Pri SYLACAUGA. Ala.. Dec. 17.—Two bandits, their faces masked with adhesive tape, today robbed the City National Bank of between SIO,OOO and $12,000.

one by the Red Cross and another, by a family friend, Floyd Pape, of Clinton, la. No cure has been discovered for the strange affliction. Dr. H. L. Pettitt. her physician, said this afternoon. A diagnosis revealed that both glandular trouble and a disturbance of the central nervous system may be responsible for the malady. High sugar content of the blood was discovered and for a time it was thought diabetes had set in, the physician said. “A nervous ailment Ip.-tiiPAri fry

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934

BARCE ROSES AS GUNMAN, TRAPS JOSEPH BURNS, DILLINGER ALLY

Bells Near President’s Daughter May Marry Boettiger, Is Capital Rumor.

By United Press * WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Rumors current in Washington society several weeks ago that Anna Dali, daughter of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, soon would announce her engagement, were revived this afternoon. The rumors have linked her name with that of John Boettiger, whose resignation from the Washington Bureau of The Chicago Tribune became effective yesterday. Mr. Boettiger left immediately for New York. Mr. Boettiger announced he had taken a job with Will H, Hays, head of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors. He refused to comment and no confirmation or denial of the rumors could be obtained at the White House. Mrs. Dali and her two children, Sistie and Buzzie have been making their home at the White House since her divorce from Curtis Dali, stock broker, in Nevada.

LABOR BOARD ADVISES UTILITY WORKER VOTE Ballot Would Decide Battle Between Two Unions. A recommendation that all eligible employes of the Public Service Cos. of Indiana hold an election for the purpose of determining a proper agency through which they may negotiate with the company was made today by the Indianapolis Regional Labor Board as a climax to the struggle, within the employe’s ranks, between the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Brotherhood to f Utility Employes of America. The board’s decision, announced by Robert H. Cowdrill, Associate Director, contained notice, however, that the board would not supervise an election such as it suggested until a “representative number” of the Public Service Co.’s er.ployes petition for it.

City Hoodlum Is Slain in Local Tavern Brawl Fatal Shooting of Arthur Dampier, 32, Said to Have Been Admitted by Lawrence Hyatt, Case Owner. Arthur Dampier, Sf-year-old toughy and reputed hijacker during prohibition days, started the year of 1934 by being arrested twice last New Year's Day. Yesterday, with tno weeks more to go until 1934 would be ended, Arthur Dampier decided to “clean out” the Boy Howdy tavern, 3320 S. Madison-av, as a climax to a night of revelry there. That was at 5 a. m. At noon, Dampier died in City Hospital with five revolver bullets

in his abdomen. Today, Lawrence Hyatt, alias William Hyatt, also 32, operator of the tavern, was to face murder charges. Hyatt has admitted the slaying, according to Deputy Sheriffs Charles McAllister and Howard Skaggs, who answered the alarm turned in after the shooting. While Dampier still lived, Hiatt was charged with vagrancy. Both Hyatt, freed in SSOOO bond on on the vagrancy charge, and Dampier had extensive police records prior to yesterday’s fatal brawl. Hyatt was first arrested Feb. 17, 1921, and his record shows 17 arrests since then, most of which resulted in his acquittal.

He served six months in the lona tMich.) Reformatory for a liquor law violation and received SIOO fine and 30-day jail sentence in Municipal Court here after he was convicted of operating a blind tiger. Charges of vagrancy, vehicle theft and robbery have been leveled against him. Dampier’s first recorded brush with the law came Jan. 31, 1928. His record shows seven arrests since then, but police say the record is deceptive charging that victims of his alleged activities as a hijacker and slugger were not the type to report those activities to official quarters. Charges against him have included robbery, assault and battery, vagrancy, resisting an officer and malicious trespass with one or two minor convictions and sentences. It was for vagrancy and resisting an officer that he was arrested the first time last New Year’s Day; for malicious trespass, the second.

financial worries and the illness of her husband and invalid son. is the best explanation we have,” he added. ✓ Mrs McKee was placed in an oxygen tent for a short time during the night, but obtained no relief. Yawning often is caused by a lack of oxygen, hospital attaches said. She has ceased attempts to stifle the yawns in order to conserve her little remaining strength, Dr. Pettitt said. Because her system is becoming accustomed to sedatives, she it to sleep;

DOCTORS BACK INSANITY PLEA IN SIOMURDER Pastor’s Wife Unbalanced at Time of Slaying, Jury Told by Experts. By United Press LEBANON, Ind., Dec. 17.—Two Lebanon physicians testified today that Mrs. Neoma Saunders, Wabash, was temporarily insane when her husband, Gaylord V. Saunders, former Wabash minister, was slain. The physicians, E. C. Higgins and John D. Coons, were called as witnesses by the defense. Dr. Coons replied that from evidence in the trial, he would consider Mrs. Saunders temporarily unbalanced mentally at the time of the slaying. Ben Scifres, Boone County prosecutor, attacked the testimony on ground that Mrs. Saunders had sense enough to direct her husband’s funeral and make arrangements to have the death gun and other evidence destroyed. Mr. Scifres drew an admission from Dr. Coon’s that such actions were the work of a sane person. The physician insisted, however, that for a few weeks preceding and up to the slaying Mrs. Saunders apparently was in her right mind. Presenting Dr. Higgins as his last major witness, Merle N. Walker, defense attorney, asked many hypothetical questions in an effort to uphold his theory of temporary insanity. Dr. Higgins is considered an authority on mental and nervous diseases. “If a woman had been forced to undergo sexual abnormalties with her husband and had been threatened with death on several occasions, would it tend to make her temporarily insane,” Mr. Walker asked. “Yes, it probably would,” the physician replied. In other questions, Mr. Walker contended that Mrs. Saunders was not in her right mind for a period of five months preceding the slaying and directly following her husband’s death.

The underworld had scored against Dampier, too. He was shot in the chest three times in another tavern brawl more than two years ago, according to detectives, who said no official record of the shooting ever had been lodged with them. They believe they know the identity of Dampier’s assailant, but Dampier never would discuss the shooting. In anotner unreported shooting, Dampier was splattered with shotgun slugs five years ago, the detectives insist. Deputy sheriffs add that they believe he was an occupant of a car found some time ago, riddled with bullets, just south d* the city limits. They also believe that it was Dampier who shot Ray Walsh in a beer tavern brawl three years ago. Walsh was shot and killed a year ago in a Ft. Wayne-av rooming house, where a quantity of whisky was found. Dampier was not involved in the murder, police believe. More than a dozen persons witnessed yesterday morning’s shooting. Their stories agree, for the most part, with Hyatt’s version of the affair. This was that Dampier, announcing his intention of “cleaning out the place,” took off his coat and walked behind the bar, looking for trouble. Dampier started to seize a whisky bottle, according to the accused man, u r ho said he ordered him to get out from behind the bar and to keep quiet. As deputy sheriffs reconstruct the slaying, Dampier then lunged at Hyatt, who fired into the floof to frighten Dampier. This made Dampier abusive and he again started after Hyatt, who opened fire. Dampier ran from behind the bar and fell on the floor of the tavern, mortally wounded.

HAIL—THE HEROES On today's sports page is announced The Indianapolis Times All-State High School football team as selected by Dick Miller, famed Times sports writer. Times teams are published each year in the official Spalding Intercollegiate Football Guide Rule Book. Turn now 1 6 Page 14.

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SULLIVAN, KERN WILL DISCUSS GAS PROBLEM Mayor Confers With Successor on Administration Change. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and his successor, Superior Judge John W. Kern, met today in the first of a series of conferences preparatory to the change in city administrations. Returning at noon from Greenfield, where he attended a hearing on an injunction petition in the Users Gas Cos. case, Mayor Sullivan was expected to discuss in detail the present gas situation with the incoming city head. Judge Kern arrived at the City Hall this morning, and after discussing a mayor’s routine work with Walter Watson, Mr. Sullivan’s secretary, visited other department heads. He found his future office in the throes of a housecleaning, with a corps of CWA workers assisting in the renovation.

BOY HURT IN CRASH: DRIVER IS ARRESTED Youth, 16, Faces Charges of Assault and Battery With Auto. Harold Tucker, 14, residing at 2406 W. McCarty-st., is at City Hospital with face and leg injuries, and Richard Fleener, 16, of 1720 Blaineav, faces charges of reckless driving and asasult and battery with an automobile, following an accident near Washington High School this morning. Young Tucker was struck down in an alley at the rear of 112 S. Bel-mont-av, and police apprehended Fleener shortly afterward. He was driving a car belonging to his father, Earl Fleener. DR. VINER, TREASURY ECONOMIC AID, QUITS Resumes University of Chicago Duties Thursday. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Dr. Jacob Viner, chief economist adviser at the Treasury, announced today that he is leaving Thursday to resume his duties as Professor of Economies at the University of Chicago. LOCAL PILOTS OBSERVE FIRST AIRPLANE FLIGHT Twenty Ships Soar Through ‘Soupy’ Sky to Mark Event. More than a score of airplanes took to the air in Indianapolis and soared through the “soupy” sky at 10:30 today in observance of the Wright brothers’ first flight at Kitty Hawk. N. C., in 1903.

Six Escape With Lives as Fire Sweeps City Home Members of Montani Family pescued From Roof of Blazing House by Firemen. • Their home at 3001 Broadway seared by a raging fire early yesterday, six members of the musical family of Mrs. Raffaela Montani today are recovering from painful bums and cuts and mourning a pet bulldog which lost his life in the blaze. The injured are Mrs. Montani and her children, Guy Montani, 33, salesman; Miss Lenore Montani, 29; Miss Victoria Montani, 39, harpist;

Anthony Montani, 27, accountant, and Ferdinand Montani, 41, lawyer. Guy Montani discovered the fire in the living room at about 3 a. m. and immediately roused the family. Miss Lenore Montani was awakened by the furious barking of her bulldog. At the sight of the flames Miss Montani fainted as she began to descend the stairs from the second floor. The dog fell from her arms and perished in the flames. The entire family tried to fight its way downstairs, but was cut off by a roaring mass of flames. Trapped as the fire forced its way upstairs, the family pushed its way frantically to a window opening on to the porch roof. Miss Lenore Montani suffered painful cuts as she smashed the window with her bare hands. Guy Montani was burned severely about the body as he sped through the house awakening the others. After ■reaching tha moot, Mr, Montani

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Deputy Attorney General Lives for Two Months as Member of Mob Which Staged Brooklyn Holdup. LEADS POLICE SQUAD TO HIDEOUT Search Now Going on for Two ‘Big Shots* of Group Which -Got $427,000 in Armored Car Stickup. The daring of J. Edward Barce, Indiana deputy attorney general, was the direct factor in the capture of Joseph Burns, long hunted member of the Dillinger gang in Chicago, it was learned by The Indianapolis Times this afternoon. The deputy attorney general has been living with members of the gang which staged the $427,000 Brooklyn holdup and it was he, posing as a gunman, who traced Burns' hideout and then laid plans for the trap which was sprung on the

MILE-OF-DIMES STILLGROWING Lines Fatten, Inch by Inch, in Annual Drive of Clothe-A-Child. Rain beats upon them, but still the lines grow inch by inch, silver piece by silver piece. Nothing daunts Mile-of-Dimes, the sidewalk shrine of Clothe-A-Child of The Indianapolis Times, as the rows take on the appearance of a snake hide from withstanding the elements and the crowded Christmas sidewalks. The shrine was on its seventh line today. Next Saturday children of the city will have a chance to donate one 100foot row or more by attending the DIME children’s show at 9 a. m. at Loew’s Palace. All proceeds will go to Mile-of-Dimes. Every DIME on that line in front of L. S'. Ayres & Cos., and S. S. Kresge Cos., will be used to outfit needy children of the city with warm clothing in the Clothe-A-Child campaign. Visit that silver shrine. Watch it! It’s a habit! It’s human and will live as long as the cloth it purchases for needy children holds together.

TERRE HAUTE RANK MANAGER IS ROBBED Three Bandits Take $1525, Flee in Auto. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 17. Frank Reeder, manager of the Twelve Points branch of the Merchants National Bank, was robbed of $1525 today by three bandits. Mr. Reeder was taking the money from the main office to his bank. As he stopped at a railroad crossing to let a freight train pass, another car drew alongside. He was forced to give up the money at the points of guns. The bandits escaped in a small sedan after driving along the railroad right-of-way a short distance. U. S. Army Veteran Is Dead By I nitrd Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—C01. William A. Burnside, retired, veteran of the Philippine insurrection, the Boxer Rebellion in China, and the World War, died at Walter Reed Hospital today.

jumped to the ground and suffered a leg injury. Clad only in scanty night clothing, the family was rescued from the roof by the fire department, which fought desperately to keep the flames from spreading to adjoining homes. Firemen forcibly had to keep Miss Lenore Montani from returning into the house for her bulldog, which had been momentarily forgotten in the confusion. Miss Lenore Montani and Guy Montani were sent to St. Vincent’s hospital. The others were treated by the fire department first aid squad. Damage caused by the fire was said to be more than S6OOO as valuable musical instruments and furnishings were destroyed. The family is well known in local musical circles and individual members have appeared many times on music vi pcojjr^ /l/ v *

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Indiana killer yesterday. Mr. Barce disappeared from this city almost two months ago and made his way into Chicago where he “enlisted” as a gangster. Curt, sketchy reports were received from him at the office of Gov. Paul V. McNutt from time to time and this afternoon an almost complete report had been received from him. Mr. Barce listed as the three “big shots” of the Brooklyn mobsters Burns, Dick Day, paroled Indiana State Prison convict, who was being sought in Chicago underworld dives this afternoon, and Tom Touhy, of the notorious Touhy gang. On Dec. 5, it was learned this afternoon, Mr. Barce learned of Burns’ hideout from a woman member of the shattered Dillinger gang. Mr. Barce contacted Capt. Stege of the Chicago police department, and Postal Inspector John McWhorter, who led the raid yesterday into Burns’ flat on the Chicago south side, accompanied by Mr. Barce. Woman Found in Flat Burns was grilled all night and early this afternoon, in Chicago, Postal Inspector Walter Johnson said he was “quite certain” Burns was involved in the $427,000 armored car robbery in Brooklyn last Aug. 21. A woman was found cringing in a bedroom of the apartment where Bums had lived for two months in comparative luxury. She was believed to be his sister. Burns was serving a life sentence for murder at the time of the Indiana prison break, engineered by Dillinger from outside the walls. He was convicted June 5, 1921, of the killing of a bystander during the robbery of a bank at Culver, Ind. His capture in Chicago was the first of any member of the Dillinger desperadoes without gun play. Sleepy-eyed and in pajamas, he appeared at the door of his apartment with his hands aloft and said grinning manly, “Well, I guess the jig is up.” May Go to Indiana Postal authorities announced that Burns may be turned over to Indiana authorities, presumably in reward for Barce’s gallant work. An arithmetical problem worked with a pencil on a magazine cover connected Burns, in police estimation, with the robbery in Brooklyn last August of an armored car from which bandits took $427,000 in cash. The scribbled sum indicated that $462,000 had been divided 12 ways —538,500 to each participant. Capt. Stege said Burns also was tentatively identified as one of three men who Friday robbed Jacob Kinstler, Brooklyn jewelry salesman, of SIO,OOO worth of jewels and cash. They professed to see a connection, possibly a “finder man,” between the armored car robbery and the holdup of Kinstler. In Bums’ flat the raiders found $625 in cash. Stege planned to check the serial numbers today against lists of bills stolen in the Brooklyn robbery.

NAZIS ARREST 500 ON PERVERSION CHARGES Prominent Men Nabbed in NationWide Campaign. B>j United Prc*t BERLIN, Dec. 17.—Adolf Hitler’s secret police, aided by the elite guards, today initiated a nationwide drive to purge the Reich of sexual abnormality. They threw into jail between 500 and 700 men accused of perversion. In the toils of the police, it was learned, were many prominent citizens, some previously holding high office in the Nazi organizations. The most spectacular case was that of Helmuth Brueckner, who was recently ousted from his post as president and prefect of Silesia. Times Index Bridge A Broun 11 Business News 13 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 19 Drawing Lesson 7 Editorial 12 Financial 18 Hickman—Theaters 4 Pegler 11 Radio 13 Sports 14, 18 - 11 CLOXHS-A-CH&. BLOCK’J-Adv.