Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1938 — Page 4

N MAIL FRAUD

Fired After fler Discovering ‘Duplicate,’ Agent for Continental Says.

=A former bonded agent for a Connental Credit Corp. subsidiary told Federal Court Jury trying an #lleged million-dollar mail fraud Ease today that James P. Goodrich, ormer Governor of Indiana “disFro he him from“ his position en he “reported the discovery of a duplicate warehouse receipt.” ~~ W. G. Zechar of Versailles, O., salesman for the Indiana Warehouse Corp., said it was his “understanding” that Mr. Goodrich was a stockholder in the Warehouse Corp., a subsidiary of Continental, whose officers are defendants in the trial. Mr. Zechar stated that on June 7, 1937, C. A. McCorkle, cashier of the Farmers State Bank of Wingate, came to the warehouse and asked to see the tobacco for Which he held a warehouse receipt. “I was very much surprised at this,” Mr. Zechar said, “because the tobacco had been sold in January, 1937, to the W. H. Winstead Co.” ‘Proceeds of the sale went to the Continental Trust Corp., Mr. Zechar testified. JImmediately after the visit of Mr. McCorkle, Mr. Zechar phoned the Continental Corp., he said. He was told John W. Moore Jr., vice presit of the Warehouse Corp., and one of the defendants, was ill. i Forty-five minutes later, he said, Mr. Goodrich phoned Mr. Zechar to tell him he was discharged, Mr. Zechar told the court. He said Mr. Goodrich gave him no reason for discharging him. (Mr. Zechar added, however, that a few hours previous to Mr. Mckle’s visit, he had mailed a letof resignation to Continental, ~~ the Indiana Warehouse Corp., and Erhart Leaf oTbacco Co. He did not, tell the court his reason for resigning.

9 Receipts Identified

‘He testified further that he later found 65 duplicate warehouse reSeipis totaling $165,000 had been

Mr; Zechar identified a bundle of warehouse receipts, all of which he said had been issued in duplicates. Some of them, he said, were issued on tobacco which already had been sold, the proceeds of which had been turned over to the Continental Credit Co. U. S. Attorney Val Nolan said he expected to complete evidence seeking to prove the duplication of ware- - house receipts, he said. He also expects to begin the introduction of evidence which he hopes will prove that the warehouse receipts were “overvalued” as much as 90 per cent. Bank officials continued to testify yesterday that they had purchesed duplicate receipts. Tell About Collateral

E. B. Strecker, president of the City National Bank at Marietta, O., testified that he had purchased, in all, more than $88,000 in notes from Continental and its subsdiaries. Of Eo sum his bank realized slightly

re than $100 on their loans, hefsorry for.

; Ton note for $3500 was backed by bags of beans, according to his testimony. When he attempted to secure the collateral, he said, he found four other banks had purchased notes on the same quantity of 3 ears. some cases witnesses have state that’ as many as four banks : e held notes guaranteed by the same collateral. uther FP. Symons of Indianapolis testified he was hired as a salesman for the Continental company and was authorized by John W. Moore » Mr. Moore Jr. and Mrs. Anna Louise Trent, all defendants, to sell commercial paper of the company. . What Defense Claims

‘At that time, he said, he believed

all paper he sold for the firm was}

good and was not backed by anything but proper collateral. He also received authority from the same Persons, he added, to sell commercial paper for the Ehrhart Leaf ToSlices Co. of Versailles, O. Mr. Syons is a former state bank commissioner, having served from October 1, 1926, to April 1, 1933. : “Defense attorneys, headed . by Clinton H. Given, contend that the Moores did not issue the duplicate receipts nor did they control six corporations or issue fraudulent checks as contended by the Government. -Other defendants are Kenneth P. Kimball, president of the KimMurph Co.; Ralph S. Phillips, Mineral Felt Co. treasurer, and Russell E: Wise, Union City, counsel for Continental and later receiver for the corporation.

: KILLED IN MINE WRECK ' CLINTON, ind, Dec. 13 (U, P.). Ernest Baldwin, 36, died from a broken neck received early today : when he was thrown from a train ‘coal cars at Crownhill Six Mine. ~Fpur days ago the mine owners received an annual safety award.

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You Think There Ought to Be. a Law—Waell,

There Is.

You're halfway across the street on the green light and it changes to red. Five cars charge down on you like a football team on a Kkickoff. You cringe in the middle of the street until they have passed. You feel unstrung, angry and lucky to be alive. You think there ought to be a law. against it. Well, Mr. Pedestrian, there is. Very quietly, almost clandestinely, it is on the City ordinance books, plain as day. You have the right-of-way all the way, ‘but you might be a badly injured martyr if you tried to take it. The other fellows are armed with autos. Here's the law: Article four, section 15 of the code gives pedestrians the right-of-way at all intersections which are not controlled by an officer or a light. Section 16 gives the pedestrian

Ver Po Has Right —But He Usually Gets Left

crossing or starting to cross a street at an intersection on a green ur

“go” signal the right-of-way over all vehicles and street cars, includ-F

ing those making turns. “It is unlawful,” the ordinance reads, “for the operator of any vehicle or street car to fail to yield the right-of-way to any such pedestrian.” "When a pedestrian has started to cross lawfully at an intersection, he has the right-of-way until he reaches the opposite side of the street.. All street crossing should be done in crosswalks, marked or unmarked, the ordinance says; otherwise the pedestrian loses his right-of-way. But this does not relieve the driver from the duty “to exercise due care for the safety of pedestrians,” according to subsection (c) of the Bill of Rights. It is unlawful for one vehicle to pass another which has stopped at a crosswalk to let a pedestrian make a crossing, the law says. Pedestrians” are required to cross at crosswalks in the congested district and urged to use the right half of the crosswalks. It is unlawful for pedestrians to Solicit rides by

standing in the roadway, the ordinance says. There may be a change in that inance after the Legislature meets, because there is a definite

undercurrent in the State in favor of making pedestrians subject to the traffic SiguRls, They are not now. It is now illegal, but many times hig! 4 imprudent for a pedestrian to start across a street against a red light. Neither is it illegal for a pedestrian to cross a street in the middle of the block, but it generally turns out to be awkward. A straw vote taken by the State Highway Department shows motorists to be overwhelming in their sentiment for a state law controlling the pedestrian by traffic signals. The Governors’ Traffic Safety Committee is considering new traffic legislation to be presented for passage to the Legislature when it meets in January, and any State law resulting probably will supercede City ordinances. But for the time being—which includes these days of heavy pedestrian traffic downtown as the City does its Christmas shopping, this ordinance applies.

‘He Said He Ruth Etting

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 13 (U. P.).— Ruth Etting brings to court today the story of her bullet-riddled love affair with Meryl Alderman, who succeeded Martin (Col. Moe, the Gimp) Snyder in her affections. While Snyder, her husband for 17 years, slumped. as if dazed, -she testified that the smoke from his revolver mingled with that of burning pork chops she was cooking for the 30-year-old Alderman. For shooting of Alderman, and

five charges of attempted murder, kidnaping and firearms violation,

for 115 years. Miss Etting, first state witness against him, said he threatened her, Alderman and his daughter by a previous marriage, Miss Edith Snyder, at her Lake Hollywood Drive home on Oct. 15. “He said he was going to kill us all,” Miss Etting testified. “He fired. He fired again. The lights went out with the second shot and Mr. Alderman fell off the piano bench.” The 40-year-old Miss Etting, heavier and more mature-looking than a decade ago when she sang husky songs to follies audiences at $5000 a week, averted her tearreddened eyes from Snyder as she continued: “He made me call -Edith from another part of the house. When she came into the room he told her to get over with us—that she was in with us. He said it was the end of all three of us. “Mr. Alderman and I sat down, but Edith remained standing and said: ‘If you are going to shoot, go ahead’ Then Mr. ‘Snyder pointed his gun at her and she sat down. I pleaded with him and said we all had our lives to live and asked him not to do anything that he would be He told me to shut up. And Mr. Alderman started to say something. “He'd just opened his mouth when Mr. Snyder started shooting. After Mr. Alderman fell from the bench, Mr. Snyder said: “I've had my revenge, so you can call the police” “I went into the bedroom where I had a small revolver. I had kept it around because Mr. Snyder had threatened my life and I was afraid. When I came back Mr. Snyder tried It exploded once and the bullet went through the floor. “He forced me into a chair. Edith came in and got him by the coat lapel. I went into the music room and called police. When I came back I heard Edith crying and I heard him say: ‘I'll get you; I'll get you.” Miss Etting by then yas unnerved and biting her lips, but she was forced to tell of her married life with Snyder and of her somewhat unexplained relationship with Alderman, who was her pianist. Defense Attorney Jerry Giesler barked the questions. She insisted that she never had spent the night with Alderman and

Snyder could be sentenced to prison :

Was Going to Kill Us All’ Testifies at Snyder Trial

admitted that she had signed “Mrs. Alderman” to the police report of the shooting. Upon objection by the prosecution she was not forced to say she had told newspapermen that she and Alderman had been married secretly in Mexico. o Alderman’s former wife, Mrs. Alma Alderman, has a $150,000 suit filed against Miss Etting charging alienation of affections. Miss Etting winced when Giesler

produced a telegram she had sent Aledrman from Chicago, when she was getting her divorce from Snyder in November, 1937, and forced her to read it aloud. It said, “Everything is all right” and asked Alderman to meet her at the train. It was signed “Nutsy.” “Nutsy?” Giesler demanded. Miss Etting nodded. Alderman, whose wound is superficial, looked blank. Snyder glared.

WASHINGTON, Dec. °‘13.—Although all of the seven Republican Congressmen elected in Indiana had

the indorsement of the Townsend old-age pension plan advocates, Gerald Landis, who defeated the veteran Democrat, Rep. Arthur H. Greenwood in the Seventh District, was cited as a special favorite today. - In press releases received here from L. D. Romine, public relations director at Townsend National Headquarters, Chicago, the following reference is made to the Indiana victory: “One of the outstanding Congressional election victories claimed by the Townsend organization was in the Seventh Congressional District of Indiana, where Gerald Landis, Republican, won by 3421 votes over his Democratic opponent, Congressman Arthur H. Greenwood.

Townsend Planners Pleased

Most by 7th District Vote

“Two years before Greenwood carried the same district by a majority of 11,973 votes. This election was the first time in the political

history of the district that a Republican had been elected to Congress. “The Townsend Movement, supporting Landis because of his forthright acceptance of the Townsend Plan, had an organization of over 100 Townsend Clubs in the district, some of which have memberships as high as 1000 persons. These club members voted in a bloc for the Republican.”

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