Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 1938 — Page 1

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BOARD ORDERS ELEVATION OF

| BELT TRACKS}

. Work to Cost Estimated - $1,000,000; Rest of Project Delayed for Time.

‘PWA PLEA STILL PENDING ——

Pennsylvania. Railroad Asks Injunction Against an Earlier Order.

BULLETIN

The Pennsylvania Railroad this afternoon asked the Circuit Court . to set aside the resolution adopted by the Works Board several weeks ago to elevate the company’s tracks on the South Side. The fhilroad’s petition said: “There is no public necessity for such a proposed track elevation, and none of the present crossings are hazardous to the public.”

The Works Board today decided to elevate the Belt Railroad tracks from Madison Ave. to Singleton St. at an estimated cost of $1,000,000 and waive temporarily the re-

mainder of the proposed $3,085,000 track elevation project. “The Board, in a letter, asked Belt Railroad officials to meet with them Wednesday to work out details of the project provided for in a 1925 agreement. 3 The tracks would be elevated at Madison Ave., East St. and Singleton St. Under the law, the City would meet 34 per cent of the construction costs, the County 16 per cent and the railroads 50 per cent.

PWA Request Pending

While plans were pushed on the

Belt Division of the proejct, the application for SEWA grant to finance 45 per cent o e City’s share of the total South Side elevation project remained unfinished business in Washington following a conference there of PWA officials with Mayor Boetcher and other city officials. Mayor Boetcher said when he re- _ turned yesterday, however, that he saw no obstacles at this time to obtaining funds for the project. The Board waived any actfon on the Pennsylvania elevation project following declaration of that railroad’s officials that they were will- - ing to finance their share of the project, but were unable to do so at this time. : Earlier this year, however, the Board passed resolutions calling for the elevation of the Pennsylvania tracks. Counter Plan Denied

It was rumored and denied by city officials that the railroads have made a tentative counter proposal to elevate only the Belt tracks and to include in the project the separation of the Belt and Pennsylvania tracks on railroad grounds. Separation of the Belt and Pennsylvania tracks where they cross on railroad, property would be strictly a railroad project. It wauld eliminate a hazard in the operation of the lines, it was pointed out. The Board announced its decision in a letter to H. E. Newcomet, Belt Railroad president, inviting him to meet with the Board Wednesday.

STEUER LINKS HINES WITH SCHULTZ QUIZ

NEW YORK, Sept. 2: (U. P).— Max D. Steuer, noted lawyer and a potent figure in Tammany Hall, testified today that James J. Hines once asked him to look into the Federal Government's income tax charges against Dutch Schultz, the notorious gangster who headed New York City beer and lottery rackets. Mr. Steuer said he told Hines, a Tammany district leader who is be.ing tried on lottery conspiracy .charges, that he “would not be interested” if the case were ih the Federal Treasury or Justice Departments. He said Hines at that time referred to Schultz by his true name of Arthur Flegenheimer and that he did not know that Flegenheimer was the notorious Schultz.

MERCURY MAY GO UP DURING WEEK-END

TEMPERATURES 60 10a m.... 62 11a. m.... 12 (Noon). 1p m....

73 4 74 76

Temperatures today were running about four degrees below normal, - the Weather Bureau reported. But the mercury may rise during the night and a warm week-end may follow, it was predicted.

LINDBERGHS END FLIGHT TO PRAHA

‘PRAHA, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh ‘landed here today after a short flight from Olmuetz. They went immediately to the United States legation. :

SCHOOL BONDS 0. K.D

The State Tak Board today approved a $63,000 bond issue for construction of an .addition to School ~ 18 in Wayne Township, located on ~ Lyndhurst Drive. Township officials the addition was. necessary to

wy

$237,027.

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 150 THIS CALF ARRIVES ON TIME FOR STATE FAIR

Not even a calf likes to get up too early i Lafayette, supervises the unloading of his Hols

truck ride to the Fair Grounds.

BAKER SPEEDS ELECTION QUIZ

Judge Tells Jury to Finish Task in 30 Days; Bars: ‘Written Alibis.’

(Judge Baker’s Text, Page 13)

The Marion County Grand Jury was ordered by Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker today to vote immediately on the question of indictments from the evidence they

already have heard in the investiga- |-

tion of the primary election. The jury has been in session for eight weeks. : Judge Baker, in a brief statement to the jurors in open court, instructed them to complete the entire inquiry within “the next 30 days, if it can be done.” “When you go back to your jury room I want you to vote upon the question of ‘indictments in" those

precincts that you have finished,” he said.

Orders Speedy Vote

The Court instructed the jury in the remainder of the probe to vote on the question of indictments “as fast as you have completed investigation of a precinct.” “I want no writing of a story, of an alibi, or anything else,” the judge said. “You either return indictments or you don’t. That's all. That is the only way the Court or the public can judge what is being done. If there are no indictments returned then the public and the Court assumes that no evidence was presented which warranted the return of indictments.” . At the completion of the Judge’s

‘instructions, the jury filed out of the

courtroom without comment and returned to its chambers for further deliberations. Under the law, no deputy prosecutor (is permitted in the jury room while the jury is voting on the question of indictments. No deputy accompanied the jury into the room after it left the courtroom. Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer, who was present in the courtroom when the instructions were given, declined to comment on them.

FOUR STATE PWA GRANTS ACCEPTED

Boards of trustees of four State institutions today accepted PWA grants totaling $1,677,947 to pay 45 per cent of construction costs at these institutions. The State’s share of 55 per cent alread yhas been allocated by the State Budget Committee. PWA grats accepted today were for the Southern Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital, $292,500; Epileptic Village, New Castle, $114,750; Muscatatuck Feeble-Minded Colony, Butlerville, 1,033,650; Boys’ School, Plainfield,

BULLETIN

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—~A caravan of American motorists stranded by floods near Valles, turned back toward Mexico City today to take a different route or the railroad home. Many meotorists here were loading their autos on flat cars for transportation to the United States. One of those forced te turn back from: Valles was: a ‘Judge °

"7 FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonight and fomorrow 3 ‘somewhat. warmer tomorrow.

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SHANGHAI—Chinese claim major

—President Roosevelt put into mo-. tion today two plans ior strengthening national defense forces on land and sea. The moves were made a few hours after the President had conferred with Secretary of State Hull over the latest developments in the European crisis. ‘The Navy Department announced that it is forming immediately a “temporary” squadron of the U. S. fleet .for duty on the Atlantic Coast. The new squadron will consist of seven of the Navy's newest cruisers and seven destroyers. Its formation will mark the first time in several years that the U. S. Navy regularly has maintained a squadron of warships on this coast.

15 Key Cities to Be Linked

Simultaneously, Mr. Rooseve:t asked a special committee, headed by Assistant Secretary of War Louis J. Johnson, to devisé a plan within 60 days for industrial mobilization of electric power to link 15 of the strategic manufacturing cities which are considered key points in war industries. ‘Mr. Johnson said that the purpose of the plan was to “make America so strong that no foreign nation will bother us.” The two moves were announced separately, and no mention was made in either announcement of the European crisis. - The timing of the announcements and their nature left little doubt, however, that they were connected, indirectly at least, with the situation in Europe. The formation of the Atlantic squadron was considered especially significant. This marks the first large-scale result, in terms of sea power, of the huge naval construction program begun hy the Roosevelt Administration. Heretofore, new warships have taken their places, singly, with the U. S. fleet as they were commissioned and after com-

ditional strength to the fleet scarcely was noticed. er In this instance, however, seven new, heavy cruisers are making their advent simultaneously. And they are being stationed in an area where their presence may well weigh in (Continued on Page Three)

DEFICIT INCREASED BY 650 MILLIONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P.) — Treasury statistics revealed today that the Government increased its deficit by approximately $650,000,000 during: July ‘and August—the first two months of the current fiscal year. This was slightly more than 15. per cent of the $4,084,887,600 gross deficit projected for the entire fiscal year in the revised budget issued by President Roosevelt on July 13. There will be a paring down of the deficit during the next three weeks because of September quarterly income tax installment payments which are expected to produce be-

Wilson of Indianapolis.

n the morning. Edwin Butler (right) of tein calf that has just finished a 60-mile

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P.).9

pleting their trial runs. Their ad- |

tween $525,000,000 and $575,000,000.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938

It: might be

getting ready for the Fair. But it

perfume that this

calf is being sprayed with in view of the isn’t just a preparation to keep the bugs off her bac

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Hitler Opposes Haste; U. S. Shifts Warships

"IN EUROPE

BERLIN—Hitler and Henlein confer on compromise. WARSAW—Organization of German minority proposed LONDON—France reported keeping reserves ready. ROME—Schools closed to Jewish students, teachers, HENDAYE—Loyalists move for exchange of prisoners. THE AMERICAS WASHINGTON—Two prepa. Iness moves launched. MEXICO CITY—Rejection of U. S. demands reported. IN. THE FAR EAST

victory on Yangtze,

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BERCHTESGADEN, Germany, Sept. 2 (U. P.). — Konrad Henlein, the Czech Nazi leader, started back toward Czechoslovakia today after a conference with Fuehrer Hitler on the Sudeten minority crisis. The Sudeten leader's auto headed in the direction of Munich, where it could take the best roads into Czechoslovakia. It was believed possible that Herr Henlein might stop

overnight. in Munich, although’ he |

should - be able . to reach- Praha around midnight if he continues.

Herr Henlein and the Fuehrer were understood to have reviewed thoroughly the negotiations at Praha for settlement of the minority controversy. The latest Czech proposals previously had been considered by Sudeten extremist leaders as unsatisfactory but it was not expected any announcement would be made in regard to decisions reached at Berchtesgaden, if any.

‘In Complete Agreement’

The semiofficial D. N. B. News Bureau announced: “The Fuehrer today at Obersalzburg received Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party, who was to give him upon Lord Runciman’s wish, information regarding the status of negotiations with the Praha Government. The Fuehrer took cognizance of the explanation with interest. He was in complete agreement in appraising the situation.” . . It was understood that an important exchange took place Wednesday night between Sir Nevile and Baron Ernst Von Weizaecker of the Foreign Office. Reliable sources said they had discusseed a definite area—already approved in London—which would be suggested: to the Praha Government as a “Sudeten German Canton.” : Henderson Talk Delayed

Sir Nevile probably will not have an opportunity to speak directly fo Herr Hitler until the Nuremberg rally, starting Sept. 5. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, who. took part in the Henlein conversations, left for Berlin by airplane late today. His departure was a surprise, inasmuch as his heavy baggage on arrival indicated he intended to remain. Meanwhile, an quarter in Berlin said that Germany has given assurances to Great Britain that she will undertake no hasty steps in the Czech’ dispute.’ : It was believed that the assurance was given through Sir Neville : It was understood that in return for the German assurances, the British Government pledged that if minoritly proposals made by the Czech Government and counterproposals which the Sudeten German Party is expected to advance resulted in a deadlock, Viscount

Runciman, British adviser in the

minorities dispute, would publish his own conclusions and suggestions by

mid-September.

This meant that the fear of war (Continued on Page Three)

Even Your Best Friend Will Tell You This Is a Breath-Taking Discovery!

EVANSTON, Ill, Sept. 2 (U. P.). —Pive scientists at the Northwestern University Dental School got out their test tubes today and decided to get to the bottom of this thing that even your best friends won't) tell you about. They have set up the firs htalitosis clinic in the country in an effort to seek the causes of and possible remedy for bad breath— the social evil that got attention as far back as 1550 B. C. when an Egyptian suggested the chewing of myrrh, juniper berries and frankin-

take ntests to determine the patient’s po—odor concentration. The po was obtained by having the patient breathe into a test tube which then was chilled sufficiently to gidity all organic compounds in breath as it passes through the tube. The solid frozen mass then is liquified and tested in a piccoloshaped instrument called an osmoscope, which measures the po. Po values range from 0 to 6. If your average is above 2, then you have you-know-what. By this standard, 44 per cent of the patients

tested have it.

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1. Odor concentration increases progressively with age. Gi 2. There is no differential gree of ‘Po according to sex. 3. The Po value is increased as hours increase after meals up to five hours and decreases thereafter. 4. Cases with nose and throat involvements ; values. fa 5. Pa’ values increase with @increased concentration of sulphur in the breath. Fy 6. Brushing odor con 7. Odi

the teeth - red

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produce the highest Po

GETS 180 DAYS

Fined $96 as Judge Karabell Resumes Drive; Nine Hurt In Accidents.

part to stop auto fatalities here,” Municipal Judge Charles Karabell today sentenced another drunker driver to jail for 180 days and fined him $96. : - Judge Karabell also fined 18 other traffic violators $224, including five speeders who paid $54. Meanwhile two persons were crit-

ically injured in two of 17 accidents reported to police overnight. Seven other persons were recovering from minor injuries. A total of 34 motorists were arrested overnight, The . convicted drunken driver was Robert Harris, 30, of 1513 Northwestern ave. who, according to police, crashed into a car in the block ‘on W. 13th 8t. Aug. 15,

to ; : {police after a short chase, = | Convicted on Four Charges

His sentences and fines were levied ‘after conviction on charges of drunken operating, failure to stop after an accident, drunkenness an no driver’s license. : “This court is trying to co-operate wiht law enforcement officers to place Indianapolis in the high brackets : in city safety records,” Judge Karabell said. : “While evidence really proves that a man was driving while under the influence of liquor he may expect the limit in my court.” ful . Hayes W. Bransford, 27, .of 2824 Highland Place, was injured. critically early today when he is said to. have lost control of his car at Harding and 21st Sts. crashing into a pole and then into a trackless trolley car. ; Joseph: Gaspodareck, 55, of near Lebanon, was injured seriously today when his car overturned on Road 52 -near Lebanon after being crowded off the road by a truck. He was’ brought to Methodist Hospital here,’ His wife, Mrs. Emma Gaspoda(Continued on Page Three)

$100,000 SLASH IN CITY BUDGET SOUGHT

ould Make ’39 $1.31.

The City Council was fo resume sessions this afternoon in an effort to slash about $100,000 more from the proposed 1939 City budget,

New Cuts

Tax Rg

Council has cut $157,000 from budg- | et requests, rediicing the proposed $1.36 tax rate to $1.33. Councilmen have indicated ‘that they hope to reduce it two cents more. A $131 levy would be 6 cents higher than the 1038 rate, :

budget was to be submitted to the Council today, with revisions in compliance with a $25,000 blanket cut ordered Wednesday. Meanwhile, the Citizens’ Protest Committee, organized this week to ‘fight high tax rates, speeded its campaign to get signatures of 75,000 taxpayers to petitions demanding tax cuts. : Mrs. H. Benjamin Marks, committee vice president, reported that petitions, each bearing 25 names, were being submitted to the group’s headquarters, 608 Kahn Building, at the rate of about 80 a day. ‘The Indianapolis Real Estate Hoard yesterday was urged by George T. Whelden, board president, to aid the Committee in getting signatures of property owners on the petitions. : . “The entire Board,” Mr. Whelden said, “should take part in' combating the tax rates in order that the Review Board may appreciate what a serious matter it is to our business, and to call attention to the hazards to home ownership.”

Indianapolis. Flower ‘Mission

DRUNKEN DRIVER

Declaring “I am going to do my.

During two weeks of study the,

A revamped Park Department

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$22.000 More Is Offered in Prizes at Fair

If Indiana State Fair weather is fair, Levi Moore, publicity manager, said, there will be an attendance of between 460,000 and 470,000, nearly 100,000 more than last year’s paid admissions and an all-time record. Starting tomorrow, the Fair offers about $22,000 more in prizes and purses than last year; is represented by ali of the best stables in both horse shows and races; has the largest exhibit of faym machinery ever:assembled at any state fair and 400 more boys’ and girls’ exhibits than: last year. ? Both = Governor. Townsend and Mayor Boetcher have issued formal invitations for all Hoosiers to attend. The full texts of the invitations are contained in ‘a pamphlet published by the - Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce State Fair Courtesy Committee. £4 Other “pertinent information is in. the pamphlets which to be distributed free to out-of-‘town visitors. = The Governor said in part: ; « ,.. I extend greetings to all our citizens who come to see: the products of the industry and skill of those who labor on the farm and in the factory, school and market place. I am sure your visit will be an inspiration and serve to enhance your pride in the State we all love.” Mayor Boetcher said in part: .“As Mayor of Indianapolis, I take | pleasure in extending to you the (Continued on Page Three)

CORN ESTIMATE DIPS AFTER DRY SPELL Experts Now Place Yield Far Below U. S. Forecast. -

CHICAGO, Sept. 2 (U. P.).—Private crop experts today forecast a U. 8. corn crop of. 2,458,000,000 bushels, more than 100,000,000 bushels under the Government's August es-, timate and 176,000,000 ‘bushels less than their own estimate last month. Drought and excessive heat during the last month were blamed for heavy crop deterioration in Nebraska and sections of Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Kansas. Spring wheat production was placed at 253,000,000 bushels, only 5,000,000 less than the average forecast Aug.'1, and 15,000,000 under the Government estimate of that date. . “Threshing returns tend to confirm our’ earlier estimates of the | spring wheat crop,” the MillerShields report said. 7 The individual estimates . in bushels: oS cere REE 00" Ca. 480.000.000 oe 25%,000,000 cee. 259; er . 245,000, Bennett & Co. 248, ). 2,40 Today's average estimated corn crop is almost 200,000,000 bushels less than the 1937. yield, but still about 150,000,000 bushels ‘larger than the

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panies of the National Guard

to reveal their names.

“They admit they were out all night, but they they went to Stockton and were not near Marysville,” one

WOMAN

Governor's Action in Calling Out Militia to Join Hunt for Prominent Club Worker Termed Unprecedented.

|ABDUCTORS DEMAND $15,000 RANSOM

| Youth Pair Flees With Victim in Rancher’s (Car After Ransacking Home and Trussing Up Husband. o

_ MARYSVILLE, Cal., Sept. 2 (U. P.).—National Guardse men, police and G-Men today joined in the search for Mrs, |W. R. Meeks, 55, who was kidnaped last midnight from her ranch home, ‘13 miles from here. The two kidnapers told her husband he would get her back “when we get $15,000.” Governor Merriam’s action in ordering out two come

to “track down and capture”

the kidnapers was without precedent. As the companies were mustered at Marysville and Yuba City it was learned that two suspects were held in a town near here. Officers refused

claim

officer said. “If their alibi is

F.0.R. STUDIES |

BRITISH LABOR

Suggests Like ‘Co-opera-tion’ in U. S. After Receiving Commission’s Report.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt said today he hopes Americans can achieve the same frame of mind as Englishmen, whose universal acceptance of collective bargaining makes for industrial peace. Commenting on the unanimous report on British labor relations submitted to him by a special committee of employers, labor leaders and = Government representatives, Mr. Roosevelt agreed that the chief factor in England’s satisfactory labor relations was the state of mind of all parties to controversies and their consequent desire to cooperate. : : Mr. Roosevelt said he does not know What legislation should be adopted here as aconséquence of the report. ‘The report, made public last. night, had been viewed as pointing the way for ‘possible revision of the Wagner Labor Rela-

legislation. : He said, however, that he is hopeful that employers and labor leaders in the United States can cooperate in a manner similar . to labor-employer co-operation in England. There was no indication of what sections of the committee's 15,000word report would be cited by Wagner Act critics as’ supporting their demands for changes in the controverted labor relations statute, but it was believed almost certain that some new legislation would be proposed as a result of it. Mr. Roosevelt denied when he appointed the committee that its study had any connection with the Wagner Law, but has conceded since that the labor relations act may need some. clarification. President William Green of the A. F. of L. last month discussed the report with Mr. Roosevelt and emerged to announce that he and the Chief Executive were in accord on the need for certain undisclosed amendments. The A. F. of L. Executive Council later discussed pro-

| posed changes with the law's author,

Senator Robert F.. Wagner (D. N. YJ). High points of the unanimous British conditions report prepared by nine employer, labor and public representatives were: 1. Collective bargaining is almost universally accepted.

1937-36 average return of 2,306,000,000.

All Right,

(Other Political News, Page 7; Edia torials, Page 18)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U.P). — President Roosevelt, departing from ordinary White House custom, today authorized direct quotation of his view that “if there is a good liberal running on the Republican ticket I would not have the slightest ‘objection to his election.” Mr. Reosevelt made the declaration in a 20-minute discussion of politics at his press conference, declaring also that: is “The good of the country rises above party.” ~~ = : Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether’ he believed a liberal Republican Senator would vote more in. the in‘terests of the country than a con-

‘Liberal Republican’ Says

2. Employers prefer strong unions (Continued on Page Seven)

F.D.R.

quotation of his views on criticisms of Michigan newspapers, which have drawn a connection between Michigan politics and the President’s decision not to go to Port Huron, Mich., to dedicate an international bridge Mr. Roosevelt said: _ “It is an unjustified, absolutely unjustified assumption which is being made by Detroit papers that a failure to go to dedicate the international bridge at Port Huron is in any way connected with the Michigan campaign. “It is a deliberate distortion of the fact and the Detroit papers might as well get that.” Mr. Roosevelt was asked whether his decision not to visit Port Hu‘ron meant that he would not assist Governor Murphy, Demecrat ning for re-election.

asserted that he probably

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o. k. we'll release them, but we aren't overlooking any possibilities in this case.” Nat J. Pieper, chief of the San Francisco division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and three of his agents were en route here. Mrs. Meeks and her husband were

trussed and gagged by the Kid napers when they first broke into their home. The men, young and

.| shabbily dressed, woré white masks.

They ransacked the house and then loosened the rope about Mrs. Meeks feet so she could walk to Meeks’ car, parked in a driveway. They abane doned the car here. ‘Whether they had a local hideout, stole another . car or--transferred to*their own. in Marysville, was not = determined, However, no other cars had heen reported stolen today.

Waited in Orchard

Sheriff Bert Ullrey of Su. .r County said the men apparently waited in an orchard near Meeks’ home until guests left about mide night. “We found their footprints in the soft earth ‘of the orchard,” Sheriff Ullrey said. “They apparently watched the house and when the uests left they made their move. fi Meeks thought it was a rerning guest when they knocked on the door. When he opened it thhey shoved guns in his face and pushed inside.” ; “All I could see of their faces were their eyes,” Mr. Meeks said. ‘They told up te lie down on the floor, Then they took rolls of adhesive tape from their pockets and’ plase tered the stuff across our mouths, Next they tied our hands and feet with rope and some clothing they found in the house. “One of the men stood guard over us while the other ransacked the house. Then the men yanked my’ wife to her feet, untied the rope around her ankles and started dragging her out. “‘Youl'll get your wife back when we get $15,000. We know all about the electric chair, but we'll contact you in a couple of days for $15,000,” Mr. Meeks said one bondit yelled as they departed.

Slips Ropes, Phones Sheriff

“After they'd gone I squirmed around on the floor, trying to get free of the rope,” he added. “It must have been half an hour before I finally got my hands loose. I yanked the adhesive tape off my mouth and called the sheriff's of fice at Yuba City.” Mr. Meeks is a well-to-do but no wealthy peach grower. His wife, 3 attractive woman with brown hair, has been a prominent club worker in southern Sutter County for many years. : She was wearing a navy . blue flowered chiffon dress and black shoes. Mr, Meeks said the kidnapers appeared to be about 24 years old, and about 5 feet 9 inches

| tall. They wore rough clothing.

The Meeks were* alone in the two married daughters, Mrs. O. N. Hunzecker of Marysville and Mrs. Paul Hunzecker of Goodrich. The daughters mare ried brothers. : A friend of the family said the Meeks were well liked. It had been suggested that the kidnaping might have been performed by disgruntled former employees of the Meeks, but that theory was discounted by offi« cers and friends of the family,

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