Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 October 1937 — Page 11
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From Indiana Ernie Pyle
Vacationing Columnist Is Catehing |
Brady Gang Reaches End cf Trail
Women Ave Victims of Cowardly Gunmen in Race Through Ohio-Indiana
Up on Reading and, Se Far, Likes "Torn Sawyer’ and "Huck Finn' Best.
Fy ETCHUM, da, Oct. 19.—I've read another book. It was “The Seven Who Fled,” by Frederick Prokosch. It won the Harper prize this year and got great huzzahs from the reviewers, but I wish I had my money back.
The Hook is all right, T suppose, but I'm getting too
old For that kind of stuff. If he could have written it 10 years ago it would have been better for me.
I no longer have the capacity for | half- |
Jong-winded, half-symbolic, : mystic studies of what goes on m peopie’s minds and what sad psy~hic forces brought them to where they
are and will take them on to what
sad psychic end. I've read a couple of other books, too. I liked them a lot. Theyre
books I've somehow missed reading | are—"Tom |
all these years. They Sawyer” and “Huek Finn.” But how on earth did Mark Twain ever implant such a mar-
Mr. Pyle
county?
Why, Huek was just a child, and yet he smoked |
and ehawed and evssed, and the ornery little devil couldnt tell the truth even when easiest, Of course, he had a heart of gold, s pad habits. How he ever slipped Huck DAS all the “good people” in America and make a national hero out of him is beyond me.
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Every now and then I get to thinking about the I'm thinking now is that David | Selznick has probably cheated himself out of several | monkeying around too long over “Gone |
movies And What fortunes by With the Wind.” A few months ago he had one of the gieatest publicity campaigns of the century all ¢ut out and itself around over the country, and costing him a cent To Wit: in the parts of Rhett Butler and Searlett O'Hara? Evervbody was talking about it.
blowing
fgsue. and reveled. And didn't get started. So far as I know, they haven't started yet. And I don't believe the public now cares who plays the part.
Pays Tribute to Producer
From what I've read, the picture of the year seems
to be “The Life of Emile Zola.” Paul Muni has put another star in his glorious crown, they say.
But in all the raves, I'll bet you've never once | A picture like “Zola” | can’t be made without the art and fire and courage
seen the name of the producer.
of a producer behind it.
The reason Im interested is because I wiote a |
column about this producer, Henry Blanke, last fall.
Mr. Blanke is a producer who dares do things such |
as putting little known biographies into art. And in case you figure I just think Mr a little list of his great movies—"The Story of Louis Pasteur,” “Petrified Forest,” “Midsummer Night's Dieam,” “Chreen Pastures,” and “Anthony Adverse.”
My Diary
By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
First Lady Is Thrilled by Party |
On Beach, Autumn's Color Scheme.
EW YORK, Monday.—This day started early. At i 5 a. 1m. the alarm clock rang and by 6 o'clock my hostess and I breakfasted, left the little country house in older and started for the ¢ity. I always feel repaid when I get up early, sunrise is beautiful and the air crisp and clear. I shall not forget last evening's sunset as we crossed the
bay
dunes where we could sit in the sun
I read the Sunday papers more thoroughly than | When | we slarted back in the little motor boat the sky was | ved, but gradually the sky and water seemed to merge It reflected | every shade of green, purple, blue and scarlet which |
usual as a result of this peaceful afternoon.
in color until the water looked mridescent.
streamed across the sky. Here and there was a little while the almost full moon shown down upon us. The ducks came in and made for a pond where our host kindly gives them shelter. They looked grace-
ful as they swept up and down and finally settled | down behind the fringe of trees bordering the pond. Such beauty leaves one with a sense of unreality and at |
the same time a great sense of peace. Nature has a
healing touch if we can get close enough to her and
let ourselves feel her beauty. Visits Todhunter School
faving missed the opening day at the Todhunter School this autumn. I arvived there this morning al 8:15 for the opening exercises. I had a chance to Ro through As the girls filed by on their way to their classes, I also had an opportunity to meet the new pupils whom 1 had not seen before. There is something about a big group of youngsters at such a school assembly which always makes me want to be working with them again—I suppose they appeal to one’s imagina« tion because they
them,
as well as myself, in the last friendly act that
In “ aent
is open for us to perform for those whose lives are |
Grenville Emmet’s funeral
velous character as Huck Finn wo immortally in the tradition of our |
that Was the |
| but Twain |
not | Who should be cast |
It was a national | At Selzniek’s studio they rubbed their hands |
Blanke | deserves credit because I happen to know him, here's |
for the
We had spent a good part of the day near the | coast guard station cooking our steaks over a fire on | the beach, then finding a sheltered spot by the sand |
the school and see some of the summer work. |
yave $0 many possibilities before
Afier seeing these youngsters, who are just bee sinning their lives, I went on to represent the Presi |
The Indianapolis Times
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1937
(Sixth of a Series)
By Jack Heil HE break of Al Brady and his kill-erazy pals, Clarence Lee Shaffer Jr. and James Dalhover, from the Greenfield jail provoked a sweeping but futile manhunt, “The first thing they'll do will be to break into a hardware store for a new arsenal and ammunition,” warned the Indiana State Police.
But such a clue never came. Apparently the Brady gang had a supply of arms cached. The Slate Police eriticized the law that made it possible for the killers to obtain a change of venue that removed them Mom the strong Marion County Jail te rural Hancock County. “That was their only reason for obtaining the change of venue.” the police said. Every known sweetheart and moll of the gangsters was kept under constant surveillance, but the first trace of the hoodlums came from a dif= ferent source. » » » RS. HASKELL RENNICK was surprised at her isolated home near Archerville by a youth who demanded money. Then he kicked and beat her brutally. She positively identified the picture of Shaffer as her assailant. “I will never forget that crooked mouth,” she told State Police. A short time later I. C. Casey reported he had been shot at by three men who tried to halt him near Lafayette. But from that time on, for days and weeks, authorities of thiee states found themselves chasing a will=0'=the=wisp. Reports were frequent—in Toledo heading for Michigan; in Illinois heading for St. Louis. It was not until Dec. 17, 1936, that the manhunters got within any distance of the bandit trio. The gunmen held up the little State Bank in Carthage, Ind. The loot was $1250, and the gang es= caped under the fire of a filling station attendant across the street. In succeeding weeks a score of cities in western Ohio and as many in Indiana were visited by a hoodlum band, but the Brady hunters were unable to get “ositive identifications. Then in late March three ban-
| dits swooped down on the market
of Anthony Nastorius in Willard, O. Within an hour they robbed another, At 10 o'clock that same night three men walked into the busy Kroger store on W. Market St. in Tiffin, O. One remained at the front door, covering the entire place. A sharp= nosed, beady-eyed man stepped over to the meat department. Dale Nott was toying with a heavy cleaver. With the automatic only inches from Mr. Notts nose, the bandit leader forced him to drop the cleaver. Then he looted the cash register. He repeated the act
v side while his clovd looking like a piece of cotton fioating overhead, | 0 the grocely side while his pal
in the rear covered Manager David Coppus, Cletus Poland, I'aul Wright and Richard Piffer, clerks, and several customers.
» » " O smoothly was the stickup
executed that Floyd Altman innocently walked in while the
| drama was being enacted. As the
bandits’ sedan sped away, Altman darted out to get the license number. Mr, Coppus notified Tiffin police, State Trooper Ray Steward, who was in the station when the call came in, sped out with Capt. Harold Fraley and Patroimen Harry Guss and Ralph Kibley in a vain attempt to pick up the flying auto. Investigation disclosed that the plates on the bandit car had been stolen at West Milford, O., in Miami County, the day of the Carthage bank robbery. It was just two weeks later that the trio visited Sandusky, O. and
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Shown upper left is the Tiffin 0, grocery stuck wp by the Brady gang. Butcher Dale Nott (center) threatened the hoodlums with his heavy cleaver,” but dropped it when Brady waved an automatic under his nose. Police Chief Herman Schneider (right, above) broadcast the license number of the bandits’ car in which they escaped with loot taken in a raid on a Fremont, O., market. Earlier the same night they robbed two markets in Sandusky,
robbed two large markets of between $500 and $1000 in cash, Police Capt. P. J. McGuire, with Patrolman Hutchinson, stepped out of the big Wishneski market in Fremont, O, about 25 miles south of Sandusky. Hardly had the police car disappeared before another machine pulled up in front of the store Brady and Dalhover leaped out. Shaffer remained at the wheel. Five minutes later the trio was racing away with another $700 in cash. This time witnesses got a good look at the bandit sedan bright glare of the store windows and Police Chief Herman Schneider broadcast the license number. Later it was learned the plates had been stolen in Sandusky earlier that night, Thirty miles away, Sheriff Lyle Harritt of Hancock County sent deputies out to cover the highways. In Findlay, O., Patrolman Paul Frantz and his partner, Patrolman Kenneth Kope, in a cruiser, picked up the flash. - = - “XX 7E'LL head for the junction of No. 12 and No. 224" Officer Frantz told his companion. “We c¢an park there and catch them if they come either way.” It was 10:10 when they took up their position and began examine ing passing cars with their spotlight, It was 10:20 when a car came roaring in from the northcast. Officer Frantz flashed the light. “Did you see that fellow duck®” asked Officer Kope. And he added, “Look at ‘em go.” He reached back into the car for the police machine gun as Officer Frantz drove the police car in pursuit, For the next five minutes Findlay residents listened to speeding tires shrieking around corners. Cracking rifles split the night
air. Residents ducked into houses. $
Pedestrians flattened themselves on lawns and sidewalks. As the two cars swung onto Main St. the police car 100 yards behind, Officer Kope shoved his machine gun through the windshield porthole, but his aim was handicapped by the jolting car. The two officers saw the rear window of the fleeing car crash out as it passed under a light. “They knocked it out with a rifle butt,” Officer Frantz mute tered and he jammed the gas pedal down to the boards. “Let ‘em have it!” But already spurts of flame were coming from the rear window of the sedan ahead Above the roar of the police car came the ping of bullet on metal. “There are two of them letting
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go at us with Kope snapped. your stuff.” ~ = = UT the marksmen in the car ahead weren't aiming at the bulletproof glass as Officer Frantz soon found. The steering wheel whirled in his hands. Straightening the machine, he lunged it forward another 100 yards as the bandit auto disappeared. Bullet holes through the front fenders and the front tires told the story. Dalhover and Brady had shot the front tires off the police car. Another getaway, later A sedan pulled up beside the Citizens’ State Bank in Greenville, O. Three undersized occupants jumped out and an instant later Brady was playing his return engagement in the little Darke County seat. Maryland
And then
license plates, unusual in Greenville, ativacted the attention of a passerby, but he saw nothing wrong inside the bank where Brady had cowed Cashier Edward Goubeaux and his aids and was scooping the bank's cash, $8000, into one of his pillowcase bags. A short block away Jeweler R. 0. Wieland, Brady's first victim in his campaign of crime, waited on a customer. A hundred yards farther on the sherifl’s office knew nothing of the latest depredation. The car sped away toward Richmond, Ind, and a network of crossroads that made pursuit futile once the bandit car was out of sight. » » » HERIFF LINN BROWN raced to the bank with his deputies. Pursuit netted nothing. Radio broadcasts to block all roads failed.
But Cashier Goubeaux identi-
Congress Faces This—
Vy SHNoYoR, Oct. 19 (U. P).,
Bill for Seven Regional Planning
—Status of major legislation | Authorities—Introduced in Senate | which the President wants the spe- | by Senator Norris (Ind. Neb.) and cial session of Congress to act on is: | in House by Rep. Rankin (D. Miss.). Farm Bill—Yet to be drafted and | Norris bill pending before Senate
Senate,
Agriculture Committee.
Rankin
Wage-Hour Bill—Passed by Sen- | measure before House Rivers and ate and reported favorably by House Harbors Committee. Hearings held
Labor Committee. House Rules Committee.
Government Reorganization—All-|
inclusive bill now on Senate calendar.
which special
passed.
Now before | on both measures, with legislation nearly in shape to be acted on by committees.
Strengthening. of Antitrust Laws
House dealt with same sub-|-—No Administration measure pendject in four separate bills, two of | ing. Now in Senate's studying problem and presumably Reorganization Committee. ' will make recommendations.
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fied the bandit leader as Brady and his stumpy friend, Mr. Bréwn knew, was Dalhover, the midget. Bellefontaine, O,, is only a couple of counties removed from Greenville, where the Brady gang had pulled a repeat job and half that distance from Piqua in Mi~ny Canty where Brady shot down Edward Lindsay. va Woy liga, aa@y 5, Miss Elizabeth McGee drove her friend, Mary Pusey, to her home shortly after 10. The car stopped in front of the Pusey home and less than a half block from one of Bellefontaine's main streets. Before Miss Pusey could open the door a leering face loomed up beside the car. “Shut up and get out.” emphasized the words. The street was narrow and dark. Across it lights glowed on a porch of the Brown residence. “Get out, Mary, get out,” urged Miss McGee, " " os “Y’'LL get out if you do,” was the reply. Suddenly Miss McGee jumped out and dashed across the street, followed by her friend. The man jumped in the car but Miss McGee had removed the keys. He raced after the fleeing women, He leaped up the steps of the Brown porch on the heels of the girls. “Give me those keys.” Miss McGee dropped them. An
instant later her car sped away, followed closely by another. The Browns called police and when Patrolman A. D. Pader arrived gave him the license number of the second car. The State Police detail in Bellefontaine quickly determined that the plates on the second car had been issued and stolen in Cincinnati and tried to co-ordinate the hunt for the fleeing cars. Miss Pusey identified the bandit as Brady. The following morning, before dawn, state patrolmen made another discovery. West of Lebanon in Warren County, 66 miles south of Bellefontaine, they found a charred sedan, rear wheels and plates missing. From the motor and serial numbers it was identified as the machine the Brady gang had stolen in their escape from the Hancock County Jail in Greenfield seven months before. There the trail of the cowardly bandits ended—but not for long. NEXT—Gang Adds to Its Raids and Killings.
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Second Section
Matter is, Ind.
Our Town
By Anton Scherrer
When Old-Timers Talk of City's Blond Girls, They Always Bring In Mention of Mayhew Sisters.
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(QLD-TIMERS who contend that we used
to have more real-for-sure blonds around here always bolster their claims, 1 notice, with some reference to the Mayhew girls. They always get around to mention
ing their hazel eyes, too. Katie and Annie were daughters of Oscar Mayhew, who lived on the southeast quadrant of the Circle, It was the home next to Mr. Lingenfelter's boarding house, which was where the Tower Building now stands. That was 70 or so years ago. Just about that time, too, there was a character in California by the name of Yuba Bill, who had the grandest collection of yarns of anyone out there. He didn't mind telling them to anyone who would listen. One day he told about the unfortunate child of “old bummer Smith,” and as luck would have it, he had for his audience a tenderfoot (and a New Yorker at that) who had just been made editor of The Overland Monthly. Yuba Bill's yarn hit the tenderfoot right behind the eyes, and he got Bill's permission to touch it up and turn it into a story, Sure, Bret Harte's “The Waif of Smith's Pocket.”
Well, in the course of years, another man, R. H, Cox, came along and turned Bret Harte's story into a play with the title of “M'liss,” the name of old bums mer Smith's little girl. By this time, I guess, it was somewhere around 1875.
By this time, too, Katie Mayhew, as pretty and blond as ever, had turned up in California. She was an actress now, and in less than no time had San Francisco eating out of her hand, Her “Lady Teazle," especially, captured the town, and so it didn't surprise anybody, least of all Katie Mayhew of Indianapolis, that she was given the chance of creating the character of “M'liss.” It was a great success on the Pacifie Coast. So much so that Kate got the idea of try= ing it on New York.
Fights Case and Wins
She hardly got settled in her New York hotel w hen, looking out of her window, she spied a big poster advertising “M'liss” to appear the following week with Annie Pixley and Joe McDonough in the leading parts. Well, Kate wasn’t born in Indianapolis for nothing, Nor did she have hazel eyes for nothing. She imme= diately served an injunction on the company, and had the satisfaction of seeing Miss Pixley play in “Uncle Tom's Cabin” the following week. In the meantime, Kate took her case to court and won. After that she had more customers than she could play to.
Annie Mayhew's public record was much briefer than that of her younger sister. She was also a great favorite, not only in San Francisco, but in all towns of the Pacific Coast. Cupid, however, got in his work, and in 1877 she was married to Alfred Singer, the head of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Mr. Scherrer
| live.
For the matter of that, Kate got married, too. She became the wife of Henry J. Widmer, who had charge of the orchestra at Abbey's New York Park
Theater,
Jane Jordan—
Let Friend Choose Own Partner
In Marriage, Reader Is Advised, EAR JANE JORDAN—A girl friend is engaged
to a young man who will make her life unhappy, I am sure. He has a good position, but spends ale most all his wages gambling. He does not even buy good clothes for himself. He inherited a house bug in the five or six years he has had it he has let it run down, and in that house is where they expect to He says he does not believe in putting money in real estate. He has no pride in his personal ape pearance,
Several years ago, after his father's death, his mother began living with a married man. He does not forgive her for this but cannot do anything to punish her. He has made his boast that when he gets married he is going to show a wife how she ought to act and he intends to do it by not giving her any more money than is absolutely necessary. The rest ha intends to gamble with until he makes a lot of money, My friend thinks she can reform him, but the young man is lazy and will do nothing around the house he owns to keep it in repair, though he rooms with the family who lives in it. What do you think of her chances for happiness? I don’t believe she ever can be happy or reform the young man, now 26. A LOYAL FRIEND,
Answer-—You paint a dark picture of the young man’s character. If he is all you say, with no redeeming qualities, your friend is choosing a hard lot for herself. It would be interesting if we had a letter from her, so we could compare her estimate of the man's character with yours. You may be sure she hasn't fallen in love with the qualities you mention, but with something else which you have overlooked.
I doubt if any couple ever married without having a friend say, “I wonder what on earth she saw in him,” or vice versa. When a bride has a close girl friend or the groom a close man friend, it is almost impossible for either to marry a person good
| A WOMAN'S VIEW
completed on this earth. enough to suit the critical taste of the loving friend, Often there is a soupcon of jealousy in the friend's estimate. It is not easy to like a person who comes between us and a cherished friend, even though we
are certain we have the friend's best interests at heart, You may be right in your apprehensions cone
Side Glances—By Clark
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at St. Thomas’ Church had a trinmphant hote throughout the entive service. Life was a triumph By Mrs. Walter Ferguson for him. but to those he left one can but wish cour- o — : Sk age in the fight to build up a new life without him. el [pm NY TR U0 on PAE CHILDLESS woman, active in S I attended and spoke at a luncheon given by the | \ a ie ; civic and club work and marwomen’s League of Palestine. Their work seems to ried to a man much older than herbe an admirable one, for homeless snd friendless girls self. said: Serning the future = you ge! iriend, but there is oa : i ’ : | nothing you can do about it. ere is no mor are Sven eis HOES aun, boy tion and I we glad “I consider that my real job starts | thankless task than breaking off a woman's ey Mrs. Schei der is rejoining me today so that we will be at 5 p. m,,” she said, “and lasts until ment to an unsuitable man. I know a woman whose able to catch up in the next day or two. 9 the next morning when Bill leaves engagement to a man was broken by her sister 25 sao Ait for his office. What I do in the ine years ago. Everything the sister predicted came Serim fai true, and the woman knows full well that she would m is my own affair. I couldn't have been miserable in marriage with the man; yet sit home all day waiting for him to she never has forgiven her sister for the frustration. return without being bored to death, in Sis day She Yous st her sister. was motivated | but although I do a ¢ y Jealousy rather an any real interest in her asian — aa > welfare and the fact that she turned out to be to cut in on Bill's time.”
right was mere accident. Don’t meddle with your friend’ iny. Bill is a contented man, and | ’ 10s har treed usually looks as smug as the cat
picks out a rocky road for herself let her travel it, We cannot stand between others and their exe that ate the canary. He is paternal | periences, although all of us enjoy the role of savior in his attitude toward his wife's club | | activities, and feels that he is an |
at times. Right or wrong, your interference only will get you in hot water with your friend and J. Grange (Ronald) will meet this demand. | indulgent husband because he allows Seon Yous Spite Se ene JANE JORDAX: Sales, mortgages and leases, the three basic real FS N j | her to occupy herself with them. estate transactions, occupy most of the volume; but Te FF 3 > i ; | However, a large part of Bill's do-
Put your problems in a letter to Jank Jordan, who will | answer your questions in this column daily, there are interesting discussions of ownership and | | mestic contentment comes from ne | ———— title, and of legal probiems peculiar to real property, |
{fact that his wife goes slumming / real estate brokerage, and taxation. Walter O Keefe
and committee-meeting and cam- | - n | —-— q | paigning fob all sorts of noble causes, | . : —— (because in keeping herself busy she | RE & a nt . (hasn't made a baby out of Bill. She | DITH DAHL, a beautiful blond, sent her picture OORT Ip Rt the Inhabitants of the privy | | £8is ie a ule he vend | or Pranco In Spaik-and'her Tnbant's lite l y the rest ants An Y. | | a husband | was spared. Complete in themselves, they carry on their social af- | | must be made to think he is the That's why the S i i C ete in ther s ; : C s ! » Spanish war is lasting so long. FS Share these SrouDies, Snwiee ily sussin: yin | main reason for his wife's existence, Franco is looking over the cuties and holding out for sometimes eve re & small s m. | he soon is bored with one who ac- a bid to judge the Atlantic City beauty contest next CATHEDRAL CLOSE by Susan Goodyear (Scribner) "tual ractices the , we are given an interesting and telling description of 2 ¥ EN Nr \ vp Yoshie on hum. | yea inior Dahl was lucky that Edith is so pretty. If such a little world in the imaginary city of Silbury. N Go SN Franco ever saw the pictures of some wives he'd probably consider it more merciful to keep the prisoners
3 While Bill's wife is out on other \ \ : OAT — The new dean and his wife find it hard at first to RA aN VN - Wie my NR YX: ra . 3 .. ~ o ' BS % ors . than to send them home.
| Jasper—By Frank Owen
New Books Today
Public Library Presents—
GRAPH picturing the demand for books on real A A estate would show a steady decline since 1930 up | to last vear, when the chart would begin to indicate a steady increase. While many of the older books are still adequate, there is, naturally, a demand for books reflecting up-to-date conditions. A new book in the Business Branch Library, REAL ESTATE, by William
Cepr. 1937 by United Feature Ine.
| duties she is letting him alone. At the same time she's intelligent enter into the spirit of the place, for they have come enough to know that any pie gent from the active college town of Cambridge. But soon, 2 this tri i as they become acquainted with the members of ths 1937 8 wa bi BE eas in He Pra b, hoping he'll release her husband by Christy
her husband come home to an empty | ‘Course you don't need help guarding the bank, but he's got his “ ue & man if he ER has i knew it, on i | Ries cbs sk iokBharelt © ok chy ;
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