Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 292, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1936 — Page 28

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MOTHER, SONS HELD IN WEIRD MASSMURDER Charged With Killing Man, Woman to Kidnap Their Baby. By United Pmss MONCTON. N 8.. Feb. 14. A mother and her two sons charged with murdering a man and a woman so that they might kidnap their baby were bound over today for trial in Criminal Assizes Feb. 25. The woman, Mrs. May Bannister, 40. wanted the baby, the crown charged, to use in a blackmail plot against a man with whom she had been intimate. Her sons are Daniel, 20, and Arthur, 19. Their alleged victims were Phillip Lake, his common law wife, Bertha, and their son, Jackie, 20 months old, who died of exposure. The Lake’s daughter. Betty, sin months old, was found in the Bannister home several weeks after the killings. The crown revealed its case at the Bannistpr’s arraignment yesterday. Mrs. Bannister, a gay widow of the New Brunswick wilds, was the mistress of Milton Trite, a neighbor She told him last November that she was going awav to have a baby. The crown claimed that by walking around the countryside carrying a bundlpd doll she made Trite believe she had given birth to his child. To get a living substitute for the doll she plotted the Lakes’ deaths, the Crown said. The Lake cabin burned to the ground several weeks ago. Lake's body was found in the ruins. A half mile away were found the bodies of Mrs. Lake and Jackie. Lake had been shot. Mrs. Lake had been killed with a club. The baby was missing. Arrested, Daniel and Arthur said Lake had been killed because he made improper advances to Frances, 15. their sister. Several days later police searched the Bannister house and found the baby. This brought Trite and Albert Powell, a Salvation Army worker, into the weird tale. The crown alleged that Mrs. Bannister had taxed Powell with intimacies with her other daughter, Marie, 13, and wished to use the baby against him as much as against Trite. The crown said that her deception of her own lover had been so perfect that he had purchased a crib for the baby, which, at the time, was nothing more than a doll. The crown said that Trite and Powell admitted they had paid “considerable sums” to the Bannisters. Trite told of having seen Mrs. Bannister at a distance carrying what appeared to be a baby. This happened several times and he never thought it strange, the crown said, that he had not been permitted a closer inspection. He was pressing for a good look at the baby when the Lakes were slain. 4 KILLED IN CHICAGO STOCKYARDS EXPLOSION 11 Others Injured, rolicc Say, as Blast Wrecks Gas Plant, By United Press CHTCAGO, Feb. 14.—A terrific explosion which wrecked a Swift & Cos. stockyards hydrogen generating piant took four lives, police announced today. Police and firemen continued digging in the ruins for the bodies of two men. Eleven others were injured. Damage was set at more than $50,000. 3 CHILDREN DIE IN FIRE Charred Bodies Are Removed From Ruins of Mountain Cabin. By United Press BISHOP, Cal., Feb. 14.—The charred bodies of three small children who died when flames sw r ept a mountain cabin were brought here today by dog-sled from an isolated mountain resort. The dead were Roy E. Pitts Jr., 7; Rita, 6, and Robert, 4. the sons and daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Pitts of Los Angeles. OVERDUE YACHT FOUND Vessel Apparently Safe Near Great Hash Key, Coast Guard Says. By l nited Press MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 14.—The sailing yacht Caroline, long overdue at Nassau in the annual ocean race between Miami and Nassau, was found safe today by a Coast Guard seaplane near Great Hash Key. She apparently was in no trouble and her four passengers, including two women, were safe. TRAGEDY LAID TO LAW Death of 6 in Fire Blamed on Lax Regulations. By United Press NEW YORK, Peb. 14.—Fire department officials blamed inadequate building regulations today for the fire in a Chinese restaurant Wednesday night that took six lives. Legislation to give the fire department autocratic pofrer to correct fire hazards is to be asked, they said.

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Ernie Pyle, Times Writer, Globe Trotter, Even as Student at Bloomington

Roving Reporter Belonged to Hoagy Carmichaels’ ‘Bohemians.’ Times Bpeelnl BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Feb. 14 A zest for adventure born in his college days has netted more than 125,000 miles of travel for Ernie Pyle, roving feature writer for The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers. As aviation editor of these newspapers. Ernie flew more than 100,000 miles during the four-year period, 1923-1932. In his daily column on aviation, he wrote the equivalent of more than 20 full length books. It was 13 years ago that Ernie pulled out of Bloomington as an Indiana University senior when he got an offer of a job on the La Porte find.) Herald-Argus, published by Charles Earl, an I. U. graduate. He had been on the staff of the Indiana Daily Student. Won Many Honors Ernie won all sorts of honors on the campus.- He was one of the group of Bohemian students who have since become well-known for their writings. Hoagy Carmichael, nationally acclaimed song-writer, was in the Book Nook crowd. Nelson Poynter, former executive of the Washington Daily News, and now editor of the Columbus (O) Citizen, was a member of the old gang. Amid the thick smoke and unorthodox ways of Book Nook Bohemians, Ernie talked, read and dreamed of strange places and strange faces. Ernie was cosmopolitan. He “made” membership in Sigma Delta Chi, professional journalism fraternity; Cootie Club, military students’ organization; the Booster Club, campus promoters; the all-campus memorial committee, which put over the $1,500,000 campaign for three war memorial buildings on the campus; Travelers’ Club, Masonic students organization; Sphinx Club, purely social; the economics honorary, a substantial academic organization; Aeons, right-hand men of President W. L. Bryan. With all .that, Ernie was football manager in 1922. He had time to do special publications; the humorous “Smoke-Up” was one of his accomplishments as a student editor. The S. A. E.’s were his fraternity brothers. He Gets Badly Fooled Lust for world travel showed itself before Ernie ever left the campus. In 1922 he decided to take the junket to Japan when he learned that the Indiana University baseball team had been invited to the Orient as guests of Waseda University. Ernie pulled out on the steamship, Keystone State, which carried the team. With Ernie working their way across were Joe Benham, Harold Kaiser and Warren Cooper. After they set sail, then discovered they could not hold their jobs on the ship and get off in Japan, so the young world travelers went on to Hong Kong and Manila. That was a 14,000-mile jaunt, Ernie’s first long trip. Back on the campus, Ernie was offered a job on the La Porte Herald-Argus, where he got his first real taste of practical newspaper work. Four months later a mysterious telegram reached Ernie from Indianapolis offering him a job with Scripps-Howard newspapers. The telegram didn’t say where, when or how much. If interested, he was to meet a newspaper man in Cleveland the next day and talk it over. It sounded like another adventure to Ernie so he quit his job forthwith, packed his trunk, and left that night for Cleveland. Trip to Puerto Ri6o The man whom he was to meet was Earl Martin, then editor of the Washington Daily News, now editor of the Cleveland Times, and former Indianapolis newspaper man. He hired Pyle and took him to Washington. He also took on Nelson Poynter, Ernie's pal. Ernie tells the story: “I was there three years that first stretch, as reporter, desk man, telegraph editor and makeup editor —broken into the first year by a trip to Puerto Rico (where I had all my money stolen) and Panama, on an Army transport,, working as seaman. “In the spring of 1926 I bought a new Ford, took all my money out of the bank <as did also the beautiful girl I had just married) started out. We went around the rim— Texas, California, Montana, and wound up six weeks later in New York, broke. Had to sell the new Ford for $l5O to get money for the next meal. Luck Feels Good Again “My childish luck was with me. and I got a job the second day of looking on the lobster trick of the Evening World—midnight ’till 8 a. m. Six months later I went over to the copy desk of the New York Evening Post, which in those days had the ablest desk in New York. Lived in a basement and never had money enough to go to a shew, and hated New York.” About a year later, Ernie “came home” to the Washington Daily News as telegraph editor. He started a little aviation column on the side and carried it on, with his tele-

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graph editing for a year. Then the Scripps-Howard management relieved him of his telegraph desk work and made him aviation editor for the entire Scripps - Howard chain. He flew more than 100,000 miles, all over the United States —became familiar with California, Florida, the Bahamas, Texas, Chicago, Cleveland and a lot of other places. Ernie admits that he had a great time and that he also was lucky to to come out alive. Back to Capital Again Back again in Wasr. ...gton in the spring of 1932, Ernie was drafted against his wishes to become managing editor of the Washington Daily News where he served three years. He admits, however, that his hankering for travel was again getting the best of him. Then last summer it happened and, as Ernie puts it, “I now do what every newspaper man in the world would like to do; I am a roving reporter. Go where I please, write what I please, keep no office hours, and although I do have bosses” —well, Ernie admits that they are very fine fellows and don’t handicap him in his roving reporter role. Incidentally, one of the bosses is Lowell Mellett, another Indiana University product and brother of Dan, the martyred Canton (O.) editor, Lloyd, John and Homer. Keeps His Weight Down In the last year Ernie has traveled 25,000 miles by auto, boat, airplane and train. He has been all over the United States, except the far Northwest, through the Panama Canal, over Eastern Canada and Nova Scotia, and now in Mexico. Ernie admits that travel has given him falling hair and kept his weig.it down to 110 pounds, just where it was when he was a reporter on the Daily Student. Although he was a football manager back in the last year of the late Jumbo Stiehm’s regime, when Pat Herron coached the Scrappin’ Hoosiers, Ernie admits that he would rather see a big automobile race now than attend a football game.

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ANTI-NEW DEAL FARM GROUP IS TO MEET HERE First Head of Bureau and Dan Casement to Speak Tuesday. A state meeting of the Farmers’ Independence Council of America, an organization opposed to some New Deal legislation, is to be held Tuesday in the Claypool. Principal speakers are to be James R. Howard, first president of the American Farm Bureau Federation and now one of its most severe critics, and Dan D. Casement, Manhattan (Kas.) Farm Council president. In addressing the local meeting, Mr. Howard is to break a long silence from discussion of current economic trends, council officials said. Mr. Howard’s address is to be broadcast over the Columoia network at 12:30 Tuesday. Mr. Casement, the operator of a 3500-acre ranch, is to speak at 1:30 Tuesday afternoon. PLATES USED BY PRISON COUNTERFEITERS FOUND Bond Taper Also Is Discovered; Four Under Suspicion. By United Press SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Feb. 14.—A model counterfeiting plant within the walls of San Quentin Prison was revealed in its entirety today with the discovery of the plates and bond paper with which prisoners printed spurious $lO bills. How the worthless money was taken from the prison and circulated throughout the San Francisco Bay area has not been determined, but three paroled convicts have confessed their part in the case and named a fourth man still in prison. Secret Service agents and prison officials were convinced the bills were printed in the prison print shop and engraving plant, and a thorough search revealed the necessary paraphernalii cached in the ceiling of the shjp. SUIT RECALLS MURDER FARM NEAR LA PORTE Judge Asked to Partition Part of Land in Area. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Feb. 14. —A suit on file in Superior Court today brought the notorious Belle Gunness “marriage murder” farm into prominence again after a lapse of 20 years. John A. Nepsha filed suit asking Judge Russell W. Smith to partition between himself and his divorced wife 64 acres of land located north of La Porte which includes the farm on which Belle Gunness allegedly killed and buried more than a dozen victims.

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INDUSTRIALIST DENIES MAIL FRAUD CHARGES Robert Garland, { Other* Plead Not Guilty in New York. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 14.—Robert Garland, millionaire Pittsburgh industrialist and civic leader, pleaded

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not guilty in Federal court today with his nephew and son-in-law to mail fraud indictments charging that investors allegedly were swindled out of $1,500,000 in a stock transfer. Pleading with him were Robert M. Garland, nephew, and Roy H. McKnight, son-in-law. The elder Garland is president of the Garland Manufacturing Corp.. of West Pitts-

burgh. and the others are officers in the company. They are accused of inducing stockholders of their company to trade their stock for shares in companies organized by Wallace G. Garland, one-time Yale honor student whose financial wizardry led to his previous indictment on mail fraud charges.

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Cite* Discarded’ Platform By United Press KALAMAZOO, Mich., Feb. 14. The “discarded” Democratic plat- , form of 1932 would be a good one/ for Republicans to adopt in the coming presidential election. Rep. Hamilton Fish <R. N. Y.) told a Republican gathering here last night.