Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1935 — Page 1

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10 INJURED AS TORNADO HITS INDIANA TOWN Terrific Wind Demolishes 33 Buildings. Damages Many Others. PROPERTY IS HARD HIT One Woman, Severely Hurt. Is Removed to Hospital in Indianapolis. B’s r nifrd Prr.s JASONVILLE Inri , May 2.—A tornado swept, through eastern Sullivan County and western Greene County today, injuring 10 persons and causing widespread property damage. Sixteen homes and 17 garages were demolished here, while several buildings in Sullivan County were twisted from their foundations. All the injured live in Jasonville. They are: Mrs. John Saxton. 42. broken thigh and internal injuries. John Sexton, 45, her husband, cuts and bruises. Mrs. Frank Sexton, broken shoulder and glass in eve- which may result in loss of sight. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rogers, cuts and bruises. Robert Miller, 16. bruises. Mrs. Lilly Coyer. 60. Mr. and Mrs. Olaf Gentry, and their daughter, 16. cuts and bruises. Mrs. Coyer was pinned beneath her house when it rollapsed. She was removed from the wreckage unconscious. Mrs. John Sexton also was pinned beneath the house. Workmen were forced to saw away several boards in order to free hrr. She was removed to the hospital at Sullivan and transferred to the Robert Long Hospital at Indianapolis because of the seriousness of her condition. The tornado struck north of Sullivan shortly before 4 a. m. Many homes were damaged in Gravsville and northeast of Sullivan. Windows were broken and buildings were twisted from their foundations. Other homes were unroofed. Several barns were blown down near Kelly's Landing. Huge trees were uprooted and utility poles were blown down. Jasonville officials estimated the total damage from the storm at $50,000. As soon as word of the storm spread, a staff of Greene County FERA workers under th direction of Miss Welma Ehlers . supervisor. was ordered ' .habitation work. Flood Warnings Issued Torrential rains and terrific electrical storms raged up and down the state last night and early today, causing the United States Weather Bureau in send flood warnings out to imperiled points along White River and the Wabash River. A lashing tornado early today left, the coal mining community of Jasonville a litter of wrecked houses, sheds and fences and injured several persons. Alarmed at reports from the northern part of the state. J. H. Armington. Federal meteorologist, sent out flood warnings to the wheat, corn and sugar belt near Bluff ton and Lafayette in the path of the rapidly rising Wabash River. Whitt* River may climb above the flood stage at Anderson, inundating the lowlands, and cause a heavy rise near Indianapolis. Mr. Armington said. The Wabash River at Vincennes. choked with flood waters two months ago. may break its bounds if the heavy rains continue, he added. Making up in a few hours more than the entire rainfall for April. 202 inches of rain fell in Indianapolis from 7:0.7 last night to 9 this morning, with indications that the showers will continue periodically through the day. The electrical disturbance here caused lights to blink out several times during the storm. Lightning struck an Indianapolis Railways swireh box at ”4th-st and Central-av Iho rainfall here began mildly and lashed itself into a cloudburst shortly after midnight. Streets were filled with huge puddles and auto motors were drowned out. So dense was the rainfall that visibility was reduced to half a mile and the ceiling to 200 feet at Municipal Airport early todav. Slowly filling out. both White and Wabash Rivers began rising earlv ioday. Minnesota Towns Crippled By United /*r<\. PAUL. May 2.—Damage which may approach a half million dollars was caused by a Mav Dav sorm which covered this area with nine inches of snow and slush, a survey of crippled communications lin a s showed today. Although of inestimable value to spring crops and drought-depleted lakes.and rivers, the storm ripped out hundreds of telephone and telegraph lines and left a *core of central Minnesota towns shut off from the Twin Cities.

TODAY'S WEATHER

Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 47 10 a. m 53 7am 49 11 a m. ... 59 Ba. m 49 12 (noon) .6 | 9 a. m. ... 51 1 p. m 62 Tomorrow’s sunrise 4:42 a. m: j sunset, 6:41 p. m.

The Indianapolis Times Showers tonight and probably tomorrow morning followed by fair weather; not much change in temperature.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 45

Two Pay Roll Bandits Nab S2OOO in Daring Downtown Stickuo Well-Dressed Pair Holds Up Bank Messengers Directly Across Street From Offices of Hamilton-Harris Cos. Two men, taking to the bank the S2OOO pay roll of the Hamilton-Harris Cos., were held up and robbed by two masked bandits early this afternoon in front of the company’s offices at Senate-av and South-st. , A bag. containing the was snitched from the hands of Martin T. Ohr. 75, cashier, assistant secretary and treasurer of the HamiltonHarris Cos., and vice president of the Peoples Mutual Savings and Loan Association. Accompanying Mr. Ohr was William Owens, 28, of 1407 Ringgold-st, a truck driver for the company, who already had climbed into the cab of the truck, which was to take them to the bank, when the holdup men’s .. - ... . ... - nor rlrom tin olnrtcrciHo

YEGG ARSENAL IS FOUND HERE Pretty Blond and Child Detained After Raid on Apartment. A slight, pretty blond answered the doorbell last night at Apt, C, 1104 College-av. and admitted police who immediately searched the premises. They found 50 pounds of dynamite, a complete set of safe blowing tools, 375 electric and 89 dynamite caps, a 14-foot rope ladder and two loaded revolvers, Detective Chief Fled Simon said. The woman said she was Mrs. Seattle Chapman, 24. and w*ith her at the time of the raid was her daughter, Marvine, 8, who was taken to the Juvenile Detention Home. Mrs. Chapman was arrested and held under SIO,OOO bond for questioning. The raid was made after a man who gave his name as J. P. Bernard, 34. was wounded and arrested early yesterday at Shelbyville. Bernard was wounded as he started to run away from police when they attempted to arrest him for driving while intoxicated. In the sedan Bernard was driving, reported stolen three years ago from Evansville, were 100 pounds of dynamite, two rolls of fuse, tools and two loaded revolvers. Shelbyville police leported. In his billfold there were pictures of a pretty woman and a small child. Information Bernard gave police led to the raid here and the arrest of Mrs. Chapman, who is believed by police to be Bernard’s wife. Police say they have no line on the recent activities of Bernard. They have no record, they say, of any safe blowings in the vicinity recently. U. S. TO TRY INSULL Cummings Seeks Extradition of Martin From Canada. By I niti and /’rn* WASHINGTON. May 2—Atty Gen. Homer S. Cummings asked the State Department today to issue extradition papers for Martin Insull, former utilities magnate now in Canada, insull is scheduled for trial June 4 on indictments in connection with collapse of the Insull utilities empire. Times Index Bridge •, 8 Broun ; 11 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 19 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Junior Aviation 20 Pegler 11 Radio 10 Sports 16-17 Stamps .. 8 State News 15 Woman's Pages 8-9 Theaters . . 14

Nazi Air Fleet World's Greatest , Goering Says Aviation Minister Admits Secret Factories Are Busy Day and Night Preparing Aerial Defense. Bij l nitrd Pres* BERLIN. May 2.—There is “truth'' in reports that secret factories hidden in the forests are working day and night to prepare Germany’s aerial defense. Herman Wilhelm Goering, minister of aviation, said today in an interview with thp foreign press.

"There is some truth to those stories." Ben. Goering said. A moment later he smilingly deprecated reports that his country had constructed huge subterranean airports. Gen. Goering told the press that Germany's new airfleet is as modem as any in the world. Then he turned to the subject of world peace. Germany needs peace, it will keep peace and does not want any adventure, he cautioned; the Fatherland will not easily be provoked. "But." he warned. "Germany will attend to her own affairs. Germany remembers its 2.000.000 war dead. They put up a high bond with their blood. Germany is ready to discharge that bond if need be with the same currency—with blood." Great Britain Replies F’l l nil fit Prrsg LONDON. May 2—Great Britain already has begun to build up her air force to meet the aerial expansion of Germany Prime Minister J. Ramsey MacDonald declared in the House of Commons Mr. MacDonald told a packed, tersely-listening house that Ger-

car drew up alongside. The bandits, both fashionably dressed, and masked with white handkerchiefs, stopped their car directly beside the truck, blocking it at the curb on Senate-av, uirectly across the street from the company’s offices. “Give me that bag. you !” said the man who leaped from the bandit car. He seized the bag and jumped into the machine. His companion swiftly backed the machine into South-st from Senate, turned it around and then speeded south on Senate-av. The car they were driving was a green Ford V-8 sedan reported stolen Jan. 8 from M. E. McDonald, Greenwood. As the bandit car started to move. Mr. Ow'ens leaped out of the truck cab and raced across the street to the company’s offices, where he turned in the alarm. Police squad cars rushed to the scene to pick up the hunt for the gunmen. As soon as the alarm w*as given police, squad cars were sent to guard the principal highways out of the city to cut off the bandits’ escape. JOBLESS HUNGRY AS ASSEMBLY DEBATES Illinois G. 0. P. Blocks Relief Bill. Hu Vnitrii Print CHICAGO. May 2.—Thousands of Illinois families, thrown off relief rolls when FERA funds were denied the state, faced their destitution bravely today as state Legislators wrangled in a political deadlock. The forces of Gov. Henry Horner, fighting for two measures to provide $3,000,000 a month demanded by Federal relief authorities, returned to the fight after defeat at the hands of a Republican minority. It was doubtful, however, whether the feud in the state capitol at Springfield could be cleared away before next week when relief stations in all but 20 of the state's 102 counties will be closed. Officials of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission said 64 counties would be without any organized unemployment relief by tonight and that 18 others, skimping food orders from scanty fund balances, will lock their doors tomorrow* or Saturday. DEAF SCHOOL HEAD ASSUMES NEW POST Jackson A. Raney Takes Up Duties After Study in Washington. Jackson A. Raney, new superintendent of the State School for the Deaf. 1050 E. 42d-st, has assumed his duties after spending several months at Gallaudet University. Washington, in study of deaf schools administration. The retiring superintendent, Dr. O. M. Pittenger. dismissed by the board of trustees, will be director of the summer school of the Association for Promotion of Teaching Speech to the Deaf, at the University of Toronto.

many's naval program in violation of the Versailles treaty and including the building of submarines, was . "ominous." Nevertheless, he said. Britain is still willing to talk over naval matters with Germany in the proposed London conference this month. He especially emphasized his hope that Hitler would develop his recent offer to participate in a genI cral non-aggressftm pact in eastern Europe, thus apparently passing the 1 responsibility sci taking the initiative back to Hitler. CHINESE PIRATES GET $200,000 IN SILVER Passenger Killed. Several Woundin Robbery at Sea. By l nitrii Pmn SHANGHAI. May 2 Pirates boarded the coastal steamer Lukiang in the China Sea between Yiukiang and Amoy, killed one passenger, wounded several others, seized more than $200,000 worth of silver and escaped, according to a Central News dispatch received here today fmo Amoy. '

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1935

RUM KING IN JAIL WHILE ‘SOUGHT’ BY COURT, RECORDS ESTABLISH

LOANS FORCED U. S. IN WAR, PROBERS BARE State Department Files Reveal Course Leading to Conflict. BY RODNEY DUTCHER Times Special Writer (Copyright. 1935. NEA Service. Inc.) WASHINGTON, May 2.—The long, devious road to war at last has been mapped and charted. It is the road America traveled in the years of her neutrality from August, 1914, to April, 1917. It is the same road America will travel again, according to Senate Munitions Committee investigators, if another European war breaks out this summer ] —unless drastic new neutrality legislation is passed in the meantime. A confidential report now before the committee shows for the first time the sequence of events and overwhelming pressures which swept the Wilson administration from its initial “strict neutrality” position and its “He Kept Us Out of War’’ campaign slogan in 1916 to a point where American statesmen faced a choice between war and a domestic panic accompanied by European financial chaos. Quoting from scores of secret documents in State Department files, which are considered too sensational for publication, the report traces step by step the inexorable consequences which began to pile up when the first boatloads of muni- ! tions and foodstuffs left these shores for ports of belligerent nations. Shift to Allies’ Side There were two parallel ruts In | this road. In brief: 1. American industrial, commercial ! and financial interests piled up a. j huge structure of production, export ! and debt. They became inextricably | bound by gold and steel to the war fortunes of the allies. The government, whether influenced by pressure or the threat of a collapse of that structure in economic chaos, .shifted its neutrality policies to the advantage of the allies and the disadvantage of Germany. By countenancing loans to the allies which it had at first called “unneutral,” it in time reached a crisis where the Morgans and other private bankers could no longer susj tain the structure, and direct financial aid from this government was | essential to save it. 2. By arriving at a neutrality policy which permitted Americans to j sell billions of dollars’ worth of munitions, foodstuffs and other materials to Britain and France—and to 1 lend them the money to pay for it—and at the same time permitting | England to violate our neutral rights | to the extent of blocking our com- | merce with neutrals bordering on Germany, we became in effect part- ! ners to the “starvation blockade” of j Germany. Protests Grow Feebler

Our protests to England grew feebler as our war profits mounted. The report shows how the Germans, as they grew hungrier, became Increasingly enraged at America. Eventually, in bitterness and desperation, they resumed submarine warfare. And the emotional reaction of the American people coincided with the feverish back-stage jitters of our statesmen over the economic crisis. Securities to the extent of $2,000,000,000 as well as American prosperity would have been jeopardized by a German victory, it is pointed out. The war cost us 100.000 killed, 190.000 wounded and $22,625,000,000 directly. The post-war cost to us has been estimated as high as $200,000,000,000. Opposed by Bryan When the Morgan firm in August, 1914, first asked the State Department its attitude as to loans to belligerents. Secretary William Jennings Bryan at once took the position that such loans would be likely to get *us into war eventually as interests here championed the cause of the debtor nations. So the State Department declared war loans would be “inconsistent with the true spirit of neutrality.’* But our huge munitions sales had to be financed and soon there was an informal agreement between Acting Secretary Robert Lansing and Mr. Morgan that “commercial credits" were another matter. The bankers were around again in a few* months, seeking permission to float big sums. A year after the war’s outbreak, Secretary Lansing had succeeded Mr. Bryan and was agreeing with Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo that conditions had changed. Morgan Floats Loan The war supplies interests had built up a $2,600,000,000 favorable balance of trade. Withdrawal of allied gold to pay for it would have bankrupted England and France. If they couldn't find means of paying us, it was argued, they would have to stop buying from us and there’d be economic hell to pay here at home. C|ily big allied bond issues could save our "national interests” in the face of an economic crisis. So the first big war loan, the $500,000,000 Anglo-French issue, was floated by a Morgan-headed syndicate, while the State Department, secretly embarrassed by Mr. Bryan's previous interpretations of the “true spirit of (Turn to Page jjhree)

PLANE ARMADA ARRIVES HERE IN LEGION'S AERIAL ROUNDUP

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The above view shows a group of 60 planes that arrived yesterday at Municipal Airport to bring American Legion membership cards to the annual roundup.

Belgrano Leaves Legion Rally, Rushes to Capital National Commander Breaks Precedent to Urge Bonus Payment; French Veteran Is Guest of Honor. The semi-annual meeting of the American Legion executive committee was convened here today with Frank N. Belgrano Jr., national commander, absent. Commander Belgrano shattered all precedents last night when he left the legion’s annual membership roundup dinner without making his scheduled speech, to go to Washington to press demand for immediate anu complete payment of the bonus.

C, OF G, BREAKS ALL TIES WITH NEW DEAL Denounce Recovery Agencies at Closing Session. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 2.—The United Chamber of Commerce today vigorously and formally denounced virtually all phases of the New* Deal’s 1935 program. The action came as the White House belittled reports of a break between President Roosevelt and the business leaders. In a series of strongly worded resolutions, the chamber closea its 23d annual meeting assailing the present NRA law. demanding that business be permitted to regulate itself, ana denouncing the pending utilities bill and the 30-hour work-week. $17,000 CUT FOR PARK LIGHTING OFFERED CITY Board Discusses New Proposal With Utility Spokesmen. Anew contract discussed today by members of the Park Board and representatives of the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. would reduce the city cost of park and boulevard lighting almost $17,000. The 10-year-old contract now in force expires July 1, and under its terms all equipment in use will become the property of the city. Under the old agreement the annual cost approximated $50,000 and would be reduced to approximately $33,795 under the new plan. Emmett G. Ralston, light company representative, discouraged the suggestion made by the board that the city take over the operating of the lighting equipment. KISER IS ORDERED TO STAND TRIAL MONDAY Motion for Continuance Denied by Judge Cavins. The trial of Julian J. Kiser, vice president of the defunct MeyerKiser Bank, on embezzlement charges growing out of the bank’s collapse will be started Monday, Alexander Cavins, Criminal Court special judge, said today. Judge Cavins ordered a panel of 10 prospective jurors for Monday and panels of 50 each for Tuesday and Wednesday. Attorneys for Mr. Kiser had asked for a continuation.

Public *Left Out in Cold * in Moves to Acquire Citizens Gas Cos, Property

BY VINCENT LYONS Times Financial Edftor On April 5 when the directors of the City Utility District adopted a resolution authorizing the city to ask for bids on the $8,000,000 bond issue with which to acquire the Citizens Gas Cos. the vote was made possible by the vote of four members, one of them having been elected to the position the same day. Under the statute creating the Utility District the board is supposed to consist of seven members, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum.. The concurrence of a majority of such membership shall be necessary to any action of such board.

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Harold Phillips, Legion publicity director, said Commander Belgrano had received word that action on the Harrison bill for partial bonus payment? was expected in Congress today. Although the Legion officially has been sponsoring the Vinson bill which calls for complete payment at once without inflation of the currency, legion officials indicated last night that they hoped to amend the Harrison bill, said to be indorsed by President Roosevelt, in such a way that it would grant all their demands. Legion executives are elated over the success of their membership campaign which added approximately 60.000 members to the rolls. This addition brings the total membership to more than 760,000. The fliers who brought the new membership cards to Indianapolis were welcomed at the dinner by Mayor John W. Kern. Perry O. Faulkner, former Indiana departmental commander, was toastmaster. Other speakers were Brig. Gen. F. M. Andrews, chief of the general headquarters of the Army air force at Langley Field; C. R. Smith, Chicago, American Air Lines president; Jean Desbons, president of Fiaac. (Federation Interalliee des Anciens Combattants); the Rev, Robert J. White, former Legion national chaplain and American vice president of Fidac, and Howard Knotts. Springfield, 111., chairman of the Legion’s aeronautical commission. *M. Desbons spoke in French and English of the necessity for the veterans of all nations to assist in preventing another international conflict and said that he had been conferring with leaders of German veterans’ organizations and had been promised their support in the move for world peace. The dinner was primarily devoted to aeronautics and Gen. Andrews declared that the long-range airplane provides the United States with the most' flexible form of defense against any attack from overseas. NRA EXTENSION VOTED BY SENATE COMMITTEE Favors Continuance of Law Until April, 1936. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 2. The Senate Finance Committee today gave formal approval to a joint resolution extending NRA until next April, after defeating a proposal to extend NRA until April. 1937. The committee, by 13 to 4. agreed to report the Clark resolution for temporary extension to the Senate in exactly the form it was introduced late yesterday.

At the end of March there were four members of the board of the Utility District. Henry L. Dithmer, one of the members, was unavailable, however, due to illness. Faced with this situation of having only three active members, a fourth, necessary’ to constitute a quorm. was sought. Isaac C. Woodard, president and manager of the AcmeEvans Milling Cos., was selected and sat in at his first meeting on April 5. The fact that the decision to sell the $8 000 000 bond issue rested with four members of the board of directors of the Utility District is following precedent. On March 20, 1929, the Public Works,

HOHLT OFFERED AID IN CRISIS Civic Group Bids Trustee to Parley to Discuss Fiscal Problem. The way was paved today for a business-like settlement of Perry Township's serious school finance problem when the Perry Township Civic School Association invited Leonard A. Hohlt, towmship trustee to confer on the matter, on a nonpolitical basis. Admitting that school finances are exactly as Mr. Hohlt described them yesterday in The Indianapolis Times, George A. Hacker, association president, and several of the members of the organization, today made an earnest plea to Mr. Hohlt to allow them to co-operate in an effort to fiind a solution for the crisis that threatens to curtail school operations next fall. “We are perfectly willing to go along with Mr. Hohlt, provided that he makes no unreasonable changes in the personnel, but w*e want to meet with him on a business, and not a political, basis,” Mr. Hacker said. Mr. Hacker was accompanied by tw*o other men who have been active in the protest against the threatened removal of Ray Addington as principal of the school, and he said that he would like to urge all parents of school children to mark postcard ballots on whether they wish Mr. Addington to be retained as principal and return them for counting. "We w*ant to get that vote out of the way,” he said, “and then we w*ant to sit down w-ith Mr. Hohlt and roll up our sleeves and go into school finances, which are deplorable because of under-appropriation, and into per capita costs of teaching and see what is wrong. “As an association we feel that the sooner the schools are taken out of factional politics, the better. We believe Mr. Hohlt feels the same w*ay, and we believe he will co-operate with us.” BONUS ISSUE BRINGS HOT SENATE BATTLE Anti-Lynching Filibuster Is Broken. By United Press WASHINGTON. May 2. The soldiers’ bonus issue was precipitated today into a bitter Senate fight. Leaders hoped to dispose of it quickly and take up President Roosevelt’s “must” legislative program. Although the Senate formally took up the compromise proposal of Senator Pat Harrison fD„ Miss.), two other proposals—the Patman and Vinson-American Legion bills—were expected to enter into the fight. Way for the bonus was cleared by a parliamentary maneuver to adjourn. thus sidetracking the Wag-ner-Costigan anti - lynching bill against which Southern Democrats conducted a successful seven-day filibuster

consisting of three members, adopted a resolution asserting its right to acquire the Citizens Gas Cos. In the gas maneuvers, this board preceded the present Utility District. Thus, seven individuals have been entrusted with the entire .responsibility of serving notice that the city would acquire the Citizens Gas Cos, incurring an $8,000,000 debt at the outset for the purpose. It is difficult for the layman to ferret out any definite information as to whether or not the public has the sole right to determine whether a municipality shall enter Into the public utility business. Aside from (Torn to Page Three)

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Convicted Bootlegger Held in Couhty Cell for 26 Days. CASE HIGHLY UNUSUAL Baker's Name on Petition at Same Time Barker Was Incarcerated. Incarceration this week of Dell and Lee P. Barker, bigtime prohibition era bootleggers, in the Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, nine years after they had been ; convicted for violation of the outlawed state dry act has led to the unearthing cf an amazing chain of circumstances in the history of the Marion County Criminal Court. The Indianapolis Times, through examination of official and private ’papers, has established that Lee P. : Barker actually was a prisoner in the Marion County Jail for 26 days from Oct. 31, 1934 to Nov. 36. 1934. He was held on a contempt attachment out of Judge Frank P. Baker's court, while Judge Baker and Criminal Court, attaches said they were looking for him to commit him to prison under the 1926 conviction. The release of Lee P. Barker from the Marion County Jail on the night of Nov. 26, 1934, was authorized by a release order bearing the name of Frank P. Baker, Criminal Court judge. The release order was initialed “J. A. B.” Those are the initials of Joel A. Baker, who then was and now is Criminal Court investigator and probation officer. Never Before Court, He Says Search of the records fails to reveal that Lee P. Barker ever was taken before the Criminal Court as directed by the attachment on which he was arrested and held in the County Jail. Lee P. Barker told two representatives of The Times he never was brought Into court to answer the contempt charge at any time during the 2b days he was held in the jail. When Lee P. Barker stepped from the County Jail on the night of Nov. 26. 1934. free on his own recognizance and with the 1926 conviction still pending. County Jail attaches have told The Times that Joel A. Baker and Herbert M. Spencer, once attorney for the Barker brothers, and now Marion County Prosecutor, were in the jailer's office. ‘Unable to Locale This Man’ While Lee P. Barker was in jail the name of Judge Baker was signed to a clemency petition for Lee P. Barker, who was seeking a pardon from the 1926 sentence. Over the name of Frank P. Baker was this statement: ‘We have been unable to locate this man to sentence him or rather to commit him.’* Not until April 24, 1935, when Dell Barker, brother of Lee P. Barker, was arrested on charges of transporting liquor without a state license, was Lee P. Barker agam taken into custody on the old charge and statements made to newspapers that both brothers w*ere wanted on the nine-year-old charge. April 24, 1935, the Barkers were brought manacled into the Marion County Criminal Court. They were committed to the Indiana State Prison under the original sentence by Judge pro tern. Clyde H. Karrer, during a noon-day session held after a regular jury trial hah been recessed until afternoon and spectators had left the courtroom. Illegal Enterprise Thrived Before Federal prohibition, both Dell and Lee Barker led simple lives on their father’s farm at Acton. Stories of the huge profits to be reaped in manufacture of liquor reached their ears. They soon discovered more money came into their pockets from operating a small still than from raising potatoes on the ancestral farm. Their illegal enterprise thrived, and soon they moved to Indianapolis. The Barker boys were among the first to use airplanes with which to bring liquor from Canada. The April, 1935, commitment of the Barker brothers was published in the daily newspapers. Judge Pro Tern. Karrer was quoted then as saying he could not understand why the men had not been apprehended and committed before that time. Both in City, Lawyer Said The Barker brothers’ attorney, Ernest Owen, claimed both boys had been in Indianapolis and used that statement as a basis for a leniency plea in Criminal Court April 24, 1935. Lee P. Barker's arrest in October, 1934, however, on the contempt of court charges, was not given publicity. Newspapers apparently tfere unaware of his arrest, although a proper entry of his imprisonment had been made in the Marion County Jail register. The Barker brothers were originally convicted before Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins in Marion County Criminal Court June 15, 1926, on a charge of transportation of liquor, under a state law which since has been repealed. They were sentenced to serve from one to two years. They ap(Tura to Page Three)