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BALLTO TAKE ~ STAND TODAY INFRAUD CASE

Eighth Witness in Trial of

Five Continental Credit Corp. Officials.

COLLATERAL DESCRIBED

Tell City Bank President - Declares Use of Notes Was Unauthorized.

George A. Ball, Muncie capitalist, was to testify today in the Federal Court trial here of five persons who have been indicted in an alleged million dollar mail fraud. .

The defendants are officials of the Continental Credit Corp. of Winchester or of one of its subsidiaries. ° 3 M. J. Preisle, president of the Tell City National Bank and the Tell City Desk Co. testified that when the Credit Corp. went into receivership June 10, 1937, the firm had $24,000 in Tell City Desk Co. notes which they had not returned to the Desk Co. Mr. Preisle said that Mr. Ball received Tell City Desk notes as collateral for a loan to the Credit Corp. He testified that his company had not authorized the Credit firm to offer these notes as collateral.

Mr. Ball Is Eighth Witness

Mr. Ball was scheduled to be the eighth witness to take the stand today. He was not in court during the morning, : U. 8S. Attorney Val Nolan said some of the witnesses this afternoon would be persons who claim to have purchased alleged “bogus ware=house receipts” from Continental. Twenty bank officials testified yesterday that they had bought one or more notes, backed by warehouse receipts from the Continental Corp., for which they said they never have received payment. The 21st witness, John Stine, secretary -and treasurer of the Peoples Loan & Trust Bank of Winchester, said that he had collected the col-

lateral promised by the warehouse:

receipt. given his bank. ‘Obtained Court Order

“How could you collect - lateral on your note : a ay were two other warehouse receipts’ identical to yours in- the hands of two other banks?” Mr. Nolan asked. Mr. Stines said that his bank and several others had obtained a court order after the Continental firm went into receivership and ‘had removed from a. warehouse in Versailles, O., tobacco which had been given :as collateral for the Continental notes Mr, ‘Stines also said that the Peonk extended a line of credit I nental in exchange for wareholise receipts. E. B. Strecker, president ‘of the Citizens National Bank of Marietta, O., testified that he had purchased six notes from Continental salesmen. The next six witnesses going to the stand testified that they had purchased Continental notes of which one was backed by a ware‘house receipt identical to one of those purchased by Mr. Strecker.

Duplicate Receipts Charged

Mr. Nolan has said that evidence will show that $162,000 worth of duplicate warehouse receipts was issued by the defendants. Defendants are: John W. Moore, president of Continental; John W. Moore Jr, son of Mr. Moore and secretary-treasurer and vice president of the Indiana Warehouse Corp.; Kenneth P. Kimball, president of the Kim-Murph Co.; Ralph + 8S. Phillips, Mineral Felt Co. treasurer, and Russell E. Wise, Union City, receiver for the corporation.

NONE SAVED AS BOAT BLOWS UP IN PACIFIC

SAN PEDRO, Cal,, Dec. 8 (U. P.). —The Coast Guard reported today that a boat exploded three and a half miles west of Dana Point, near San Clemente, and floating wreckage was burning on the water. . The County patrol boat Trojan reported to the Coast Guard that it was standing by and that there remained so little of the craft that it. was impossible to determine the name of the vessel, There were no survivors, the Coast Guard said.

1 4 herring Days Till Christmas

JoU-G 1S CORREQT/ AND Tha WHERE You'ze GOIN’ #7 i

OOKING Back to Christmas * 14 Years Ago—The new crossword puzzle craze had Americans groggy. . . . Photos were besing, transmitted across Atlantic tor e. . + » Chicago gangsters Tavicie lead and lilies on gang leader I O’'Banion, . . . Jazz opag and jazz ballets were popular in the East. . . . Salaried people were burning over publication of inJ tax lists. . . . Death of Sam

Revenge—

But It Isn’t Sweet For Officer Whose Puppy’s Dead.

AGS” had been avenged to“day, but that didn’t fill the ache in the heart of Police Officer Clum Simmons. And it didn’t bring “Rags” back to the yard of Officer Simmons’ home at 4847 Carolyn St., where today a leash hangs from the clothespole, and there's a puppy dish half full of food. “Rags,” Officer Simmons’ pet beagle hound, is dead—shot to death by one of three boys who were implicated in kidnaping the puppy and who became disgusted with it because it couldn’t hunt, police declared. " Brought before Municipal Judge Charles Karabell today, the boys admitted taking the dog, on two hunting trips. It couldn’t hunt, they said, and becoming disgusted with it, one of them shot the dog. “Rags” recovered and they took it out hunting again. The same boy shot it again,’ breaking its back. This time one of the youths said he shot and killed it to put it out of its misery. None of the boys would admit who did the shooting first. One of the boys was fined . $1 and costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail for theft of the dog. Another was held to the grand jury on a grand larceny charge for an alleged theft ucovered by Officer Simmons in tracking down the boys. The third boy, under 15, will face charges of juvenile delinquency this week.

SLAYING PLOT ISLAIDTO SON

Officers Claim Confession of Rensselaer Man After Taking ‘Payoff.’

RENSSELAER, Ind. Dec. 8 (U. P.).—Ralph Myers, 45-year-old “only child,” was held in Jasper County Jail today after allegedly confessing a plot to murder his aged father for his fortune. The plan failed because the men hired to do the job

were State Policemen, ers, arrested last night as he handed”

to a “go-between,” readily confessed, State Police said, that he wanted his father, George M. Myers, 73, retired farmer and former owner of the Jasper County Telephone Co., dead so he would inherit an estate valued at $75,000. He wanted the killing done this week, Sheriff Vern Michal and State Police said, because the elder Myers has a divorce suit pending and after the divorce a new will probably would have been made which might not have included him. The present will makes the son sole heir. Police told the following story, based on the purported confession and on information given them by (Continued on Page Three)

ADULT EDUCATION PROJECTS EXTENDED

State Given Million by WPA For Program.

Extension until June 30 of WPA projects providing educational opportunities for nearly 45,000 adults throughout Indiana and supplying library facilities to nearly a third of the State was announced here today. Value of the projects, approved today by President Roosevelt, totals nearly $1,000,000. A $464,830. project for adult education, extending previous projects, was included in the grant. WPA officials said that more than 600 instructors are affected by the extension. Enrollment in the courses totals 44,618 persons, it was announced. State Library officials said that a $476,369 grant for the extension of State Library services would combine all previous projects with the addition of several others. State Library officials said about 30 counties are dependent on the project for Library services.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—The Public Works Administration today granted $1,437,78¢ for a Hammond disposal plant and $51,750 for the Mill Creek School at La Porte.

/|SNYDER TRIAL OPENS

IN HOLLYWOOD COURT

- HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 8 (U. P.).— The trial of songstress Ruth Etting’s former husband, Martin Snyder, for the shooting of her sweetheart, Myr] Alderman, opens today in Superior Court. Snyder, a Broadway theatrical agent, is indicted on six felony charges which would carry a total sentence of 6 to 115 years imprisonment. The charges are three of attempted murder, two of kidnaping, and one of violating the state gun aws,

EAST CHICAGO GETS MILLION

U. S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus today announced that his agency has earmarked $69,600,000 on local housing authorities in 42 es.

ir a $700 “payoff” check|

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P).—}

TRUSTEES ASK DIRECT RELIEF LAW REVISION

Pensions, Marriage Laws Also to Be Studied By Officers.

3000 ATTEND PARLEY

Ammerman Urges ‘Extreme Care’ in Selection of Teachers.

(Another story, Page 5)

More than 3000-Indiana township and county officers today began a

three-day annual convention in which recommendations for changes in laws affecting direct and work relief, marriage laws, old-age pension administration and payment of welfare benefits may be made. Affiliated with the Indiana County and Township Officials Association, Inc. and meeting at the same time at the Claypool, are associations of - County Commissioners,

County Auditors, Township Trust-]|.

ees, County Clerks, County Treasurers, County Recorders, County Sheriffs, County Attorneys, Surveyors and Engineers, Highway Supervisors and County Assessors. Meanwhile, Karl V. Ammerman,

Indiana State Teachers’ Association |

president, addressed trustees and urged them to use extreme care in the selection of teachers.

Will Vote on Relief - The Township Trustees Associa-

tion resolution committee had al-

ready decided to put toa vote a

resolution asking that the residence

requirement for direct relief purposes in Indiana be raised from the present one year to three years, Declaring that

kansas for the sole purpose of estab-

lishing residence to receive either

work or direct relief,” the Trustees said these families constitute competition in the labor market and the relief lists for native families. They also have under considera-

tion a resolution that. would change

the method of dog tax collections, which they claim is now a burden on the trustees for which “they are nog compensated,

County clerks have under consideration changes in the State Marriage License Law to end socalled “marriage mills,” where counties make a specialty of issuing licenses for the fees collected. ‘County commissioners are expect-

ed .to reaffirm their stand that the

administration of old-age pensions would be more economical under them than under the State Welfare Department, as at present. Both auditors and treasurers are expected to send a resolution to the Legislature asking a change in the method of making welfare payments, for which they say they are now responsible. They declared it is a “great additional burden and a risk to their offices.” County recorders were to vote again on a resolution to ask a law that would require records to be photostated rather than copied by hand as is now done.

Lamp Post Is The Winnah In This Bout

Emerson McNeely, 34, Crawfordsville, told police that he was so engrossed with the statue of Benjamin Harrison in University Park that he walked into a lamp post on New York St. and cut an inch gash in his forehead. He was treated at Medical ' Center, Chamber of Commerce ‘Building, and released.

“many families come to Indiana from Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and even Ar-|

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938

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Boy Loses Christmas: Cowboy Suit as Apartment Is Destroyed.

A 24-year-old mother: this morning rescued her 5-year-old son from their blazing apartment at 1224 W. New York St. Two firemen were injured fighting the blaze, which totally destroyed one apartment and spread to another in the four-apartment building. The woman was Mrs. Floyd Odgen. She had sent her son, Eugene, into the bedroom for some newspapers when she suddenly saw the room ablaze. Picking up the boy, she raced through the hall and out the front door. - A- few minutes after she had escaped, the apartment was enveloped in flames. Her husband, a WPA worker, was not home when the fire broke out. Included in the Odgens’ belongings was a cowboy suit which Eugene’s parents had bought for him for Christmas, and which was hidden in the closet. “Eugene had always wanted one,” Mrs. Odgen said, “and we finally were able to get it after saving and scrimping. Now I don’t know what we'll do.” The fire also damaged the upstairs apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mascoe and smoke drove them to the street. Their apartment was not. destroyed,- however.

| «= The injured firemen were Capt.

Fred Fries and. Carl Hoover of Headquarters company. Both were

cut on their hands by glass.

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Times Photo.

Mrs. Floyd Ogden and her 5-year-old son, Eugene.

Coldto F ollow Rainy N ight, Is Foreca st]

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Cloudy weather, with rain tonight and possibly tomorrow morning, was forecast by the

Weather Bureau today. The . mercury was not expected to fall below 35 or 40 degrees tonight, but colder weather is in store tomorrow, it was pre.dicted.

MAYOR PROPOSES EAST ST. EXTENSION

was Through Highway on South|

Side Called Essential.

Possibility of extending S. East St. through Garfield Park to provide a through highway to State Road 31 was outlined to the Park Board today by Mayor Boetcher. Mayor Boetcher said he thought the Board should consider the extension because of the availahility of WPA labor, and recommended a study be made. ' “A through highway on the South Side is essential to the development of that section of the City,” the Mayor said. “I think.that eventual-

ly ‘there : should be six through’ larteries in that part of town.” 2

Mother Facing Eviction Asks Clothes

For Little Girls Who Often Go Hungry

cerned, if only the living conditions could be taken care of, and I hope it can for their sakes.” And those are the things that have, for this Indianapolis mother, turned the carol into a

(List of Donors, WIS, Page Three)

N the City of Indianapolis is a mother who, two days ago, went to a writing desk on the messanine of a downtown hotel, and wrote a let-

ter to Clothe-A-Child.

; She said her family—her husband, two girls and a boy—is living in two furnished rooms, for which they have not been able to pay rent for seven weeks. They are to be evicted, she said. “The owners have already been lenient. They are struggling along trying to buy the business on payment and can’t afford w keep us any

more.”

She said the girls, one 13 and the other 31%, “know what it means to be deprived of the

necessities and have had to go to

once with empty stomaches during the past few

weeks.”

: They need clothes, the letter said, and the older girl has been kept home from school because she can’t go out even in the mild tem-

peratures of this winter. If the family is evicted, the

they will have to depend on trustee rent. Since the family has known better times, the mother 't want this to happen for the psychological ect it may have on the older girl and the

4 vy 12.

The cause of this is, as usual, illness. The mother wrote that her husband has been ex-

amined in a clinic and has been

operated.

“But he can’t leave the children and me under : these conditions, and won't,” she wrote,

Included is one million dollars for| Ch * 2 3 2

port for an operation to correct a condition that physicians had warned may be fatal at any time if left unattended, and Tight be fatal even if

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mittees. Then

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HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Clothe-A-Child

just opened, is the way more

fortunate persons can help.

The Times has set up headquarters at 206 “WW. , Maryland St. with a staff on duty from

m. Here are the ways you can

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let us know how many children

Schools checks the lists to determine the neediest children and to eliminate duplication of cloth

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U.S.LEANSTO _ ASOLATIONISM'

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

WASHINGTON — Western Hemisphere isolation. may be U. S. policy; “no-war” treaties called worthless by Senators. LIMA—Latin nations fall behind continental defense plan. - : 2 8 = TUNIS—Police curb anti-Ital-ian: demonstrations. de PARIS—Hitler gives no answer on support of Italy. ROME—Italian defense budget increased 64 million. TOULOUSE — Italian Yrovps drawn up in Pyrenees. BERLIN—Nazis christen new aircraft carrier. -LONDON—Trade war Nazis draws nearer, CHUNGKING — Chinese open .drive to recapture Canton. 2 2 ” MOSCOW-—Fisheries dispute in= creases in severity. TOKYO—U. 8S. and Britain seek to Slanity Japan’s policy in China.

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- WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 (U. P)— In conferences with leading American ambassadors to Europe and State Department officials, President Roosevelt appeared today to be revamping this country’s foreign

policy on the basis of isclation: for the Western Hemisphere behind an impenetrable wall of defensive armament. A high Administration official said that the rapidly changing political: scene and “power balances” in Europe have forced the: United States to review her position in world affairs. It was said that the European situation, which was described as on a 24-hour basis with possible daily changes making hazardous any formulation of policy predicated on present old-world volitical or diplomatic trends, demands an immed:ate check on America’s future international attitude. Mr. Roosevelt was represented as being convinced that the only safe policy for this country is one of aloofness to European overtures, based “good neighborliness” and backed by sufficient armed power to make any tampering with North and South American affairs extremely dangerous. : Conferring with the President on world conditions are Acting Secre(Continued on Page Four)

Mrs. Roosevelt

Replies to Westbrook Pegler William Green And Others

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PRICE THREE CENTS

300 Pounds of National Guard Shells Stolen Thugs Break Through Big Steel Gate To Get State Ammunition.

NO SENTRY ON DUTY, STRAUB SAYS |

Gang May Be Same That Raided Noblesville, : ] Armory; 2 Shotguns Stolen at Sporting Goods Store on North Side.

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Thieves who staged a daring arsenal raid at the Nae A

tional Guard airport at Stout

Field last night were sought

today by G-Men, the National Guard and State Police.

Two thousand rounds of

12-gauge shotgun shells and

an undetermined number of 30-caliber machine gun bullets were stolen in the burglary, first in the history of the local

National Guard post.

It was the second National Guard arsenal raid in. ns

TWO MORE DIE: AUTO TOLL 113

Gov. Chandler of Kentucky In Car Which Injures Pedestrian.

The Marion County traffic death toll rose two more today. At the same time, two persons injured critically in two county accidents were fighting for their lives in local hospitals. The dead are: Mrs. Sarah Canary, 71, of 5111 N. Alabama St. Struck by an automobile Oct. 12, Mrs. Canary died of inJuries. at City Hospital last : one Harold ‘Wyatt. ne of six persons in’ 5 ‘crash on near ‘Oaklandon Monday in ny. two others were killed. Mr. Wyatt died last night at St. Vincent's Hos-

| pital.

‘As the ‘traffic toll mounted, police continued their campaign against speeders, reckless drivers and other traffic violators, making 44 arrests. In the preceding 24 hours, they arrested 55 motorists. In addition to the safety drive announced yesterday, in which public co-operation was asked to avoid holiday tragedies, police also sought to keep downtown streets clear for the safety of the hordes of Chrisimas shoppers. Mrs. Helen Peters, 71, 2932 S. Fast St., was struck last night by a car which was bringing Gov. A. B. (Happy) Chandler of Kentucky to Indianapolis for a speaking engagement. The accident occurred in the 2900 block on Madison Ave. Methodist Hospital physicians said she suffered fractures to both legs, a fractured skull and a broken collar bone. Isaac Raines, 79, of 442 W. 13th St., was struck by a car while walk(Continued on Page Three)

PICK 6 REPUBLICANS TO MAP LEGISLATION

Knapp and Jenner Name. 3 From Each House.

(Earlier Details, Page 16)

Six members of a Republican legislative committee which will meet soon with G. O. P. State Committee members to work out a legislative program were named today. Three selected by Rep. James M. Knapp of Richmond, G. O. P. choice for speaker of the House, are Reps. Elam Y. Guernsey of Bedford, Roy J. Harrison of Attica and Howard Hiestand of Kentland. Those named by William E. Jenner, Senate minority leader, are Senators Thurman A. Biddinger of Marion, Howard V. Johnson of Mooresville and Lawrence E. Carlson of Huntington.

BULLETIN

State Police said they confiscated approximately 100 slot and pinball machines in a raid today at the Mack Sales Corp., Noblesville, and arrested two men on charges of storage and possession of slot machines, it was announced at headquarters here. Those arrested were Stanley M. Graham, 25, and Harry S. Kaylor, 48. The building in which the raid was ‘made - formerly was under the name of the Pony-Chew Co., State Police said. The raid was made by two State detectives from headquartérs here and three uniformed members from the Pendleton post in co-operation with a Hamilton County constable. Lieut. Ray J Hide said the apparen machiass at the time / Townsend issued to State Police to

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Last Friday burglars entered

stole six Army automatie 45-caliber pistols, Guard ofs | ficers reported to police. = = | Possibility that the same gang was responsible for both burglaries was expressed by some authorities. 2 The thieves broke ‘through & | large steel gate and a steel dooi* 2 to gain entrance to the. magazing

ally to pieces. 4 The magazine is surrounded by 53

no guard was on duty because of lack of man power, according to Adit. Gen. Elmer F. Straub. Capt. Matthew G. Carpenter, 38th Division Air Squadron, said that als. 3 though he -believed. the theft ocs curred late yesterday or sometime last night, there was a possibili the ammunition was stolen sev days ago and was not discover Ye

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BULLETIN State Police headquarters’ this afternoon announced the recovery of an Army-type Browning machine gun stolen Dec. 2 from the National Guard armory at Noblesville. The weapon, which is fired from a tripod, had no firing pin and could not be used. It was found by a group of boys i Fall Creek near Noblese.

no one from the post had been near the magazine for two days. Gen. Straub said the thieves * would not have been heard breaks! ing in because of the location of the magazine on the far, edge of the field. Deputy Sheriff William Barret, who also investigated, said he bist lieved the ammunition was by some one who. intended to it for holdups. He said the sto ammunition weighed 300 to 400 pounds, : Fred Simon, chief of detectiv said he did not believe the Noblesse ville burglary and last night's raid were committed by the same party, He said he thought the Stout Fiel raid was made by persons s shotgun shells. oe State Police, however, said they

some one who will try to the ammunition through a “fence instead of using it in holdups. ; ‘Unable to Carry More’ “Whoever it was knew ex what he was after, and how to § about it,” Gen. Straub said. a “It was an extremely difficult task to break in. Probably no more was taken because the thieves were bc able to carry more.” The magazine is loaded with gute powder, machine gun and rifle bul lets, and shotgun shells. ; “If they had lighted a match they would have been blown sky high," Gen. Straub said. Capt. Carpenter, who reported the (Continued on Page Three) :

STOCK TRADE QUIET; WHEAT PRICE FIRM =

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 (U. P)—~ Stocks were irregularly lower and quiet today on the Stock Exchange Some aviation issues had small gains,

CHICAGO, Dec. 8 (U.P.).—Whes prices were firm on the Board Trade today, reflepting stronger out side markets.

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