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AND BALL AIDED RED GONCER

Witnesses in U.S. Fraud | Trial Lay ‘Check-Kiting’ | To Continental.

3 > oN ~ Testimony that George A. Ball, ~ {| Muncie multimillionaire, and James | P. Goodrich, former Indiana Governor, went to the rescue of the Con- . | tinental Credit Corp. when it was | faced with a $91.000 bank overdraft, | was presented in: Federal ‘Court today. : ; Five officials of the Continental Corp., or its subsidiaries, are being tried by a Federal Court jury in an | alleged million dollar mail fraud | case. : + | Witnesses | also testified that the | Continental) firm engaged in what Was described as “check kiting,” and that the bank aceount of the Kim- | Murph Co, !a subsidiary, was “almost continually overdrawn.” : _H. Emerson Butts, Chicago. a for- | mer bookkeeper -of the Continental | firm, told the jury that as much as | | $58,000 had beén used at one time in = a “check exchange.” Part of this . money had been : withdrawn from . | the Lincoln National Bank & Trust + Co, Ft. Wayne. and deposited.in the

+ , Bank, he continued. | Mr. Butts said that in order to | ‘take up the $91/000 overdraft, Mr. |! Goodrich. "Soni $8000 in bonds

| , that bank. i drafts then were #

«deposited in| the |Lincoln National | Snyder

| from the Contihental firm, while Mr. Ball loaned t firm $36,000. _ Additional funds were obtained from several banks, he estified. ~~ The statement that (the Kim- ~ Murph Co. was ‘lalmost continuously |, overdrawn,” was made by Willis T, , Wilhoit, Yorktown, a former em-; i ployee of hoth the Continental firm | “and the Kim-Murph Co. : » Evidence by which the Govern ‘ment is seeking to prove that col-

The 42-year-old crippled Snyder | was his own chief witness in de-

Alderman last Oct. 15 because he thought Alderman had married the blues-singing Miss Etting.

take. They didn’t/get married until vesterday. Even then Snyder,

¥ ‘lateral behind iwarehouse receipts pewas “overvalued” was | completed [.. yesterday. Other witnesses identii ‘fied letters which the Government | hy charges were Written by the de- for 17 years the husband and busi- | fendants. : . ness manager of Miss Etting, | lf U. S. Attorney Val Nolan has couldn't believe it. based his charge against officers of | - «Byt, if -you ain't kidding me and |! the Continental Credit |Corp. and it's true.” he said in court when told . +its subsidiaries jon the grounds that of their aerial elopement to las) ! they used the mails to defraud. | Vous, Nev., “then all I got to say is | - : resident of 1 ish ‘em all the happiness in the | ' the Lincoln National Bahk & Trust! gi, fr h tom. of 3s "Co. of Ft. Wayne, vesterday taste pnd fram the hot 23

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: ! : ¥ od The trial. which iconceivably could ~ tal's account when he discovered “ir- | sand Snyder to prison for 115 years. regularities.” ! : 1

on thé morning of 4 95. 1937. proceeded with a couple of minor

in : : witnesses—women who had heard he said, more than $70.000 in checks him .make threats-and then the capf€ hy mail to his~bank to be paid : ‘

{ i i | fied that the bank close | heart.” ! | | inewlyweds walked into court, after

frgm Continental's checking ac- Be ie : count. At that time, SE there 2 Dal TAISING Righh ihroush a sleet was only between $6000 and $8000 in | : : I the account. | i | They Holl Hands

Miss Etting, who told the preacher

+ | | : she was 37, and the husky Alder-

BE Told of Shortage | The Continental Corp. then was | notified of theAhortage, Mr. Baade gr : told the i Mpane the checks were.t0 reporters that they felt no ill

| under protests. His bank also | fused to accept any bank drafts to prison:

. 'manded- cash./y When this was not!

gold-ceilinged court of

stated. : | He further stated that the bank oo hands.

|. at that time held $52,000 worth of paper pledged against a [$45,000 note. | The bani | of the day.

“had issued to Continen- “rp. niden marriage %; Miss Et-

tal $15.000 against ig paper and. ATH) : = i ; : ting to her pianist, who. had been held $30,000 in another account from | 2. HCL BEG V0 IEE Stoly

‘Which money could not be drawn by | of Snyder and his strange love af-

LAIM GOODRICH ake Leave F rom. T vial to Marry

man, who said he was 30, professed

Times-Acme Telephoto. Alderman are shown

| | Commercial] Bank & Trust Co, 5 g Union Cy. J Ruth Etting, radio and stage star, and Myrl Lae Money Redrawn ® | at the Los Angeles airport on their return from a wedding flight to 3 The money then was redrawn| Las Vegas. Nev, They had just finished appearing .as the State's star | | from.the C mercial bank, he said,| witnesses against Ruth's former husband, Martin Snyder, who is on | and used ‘to purchase drafts from

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Is Ready to Explain ~ ‘Inner Workings of His Heart’

HOLLYWQOD, Dec. 15 (U.P.).—Martin. Snyder, accused of using a bullet to dissuade Ruth Etting from marrying another man—and who congratulated her when she did—tried to avoid a prison sentence of perhaps two life-times today by explaining the inner’ workings of his heart.

{records correct by becoming man | fense of charges that he shot Myr! and wife and kissing each other re- | reported attacks were known never

peatedly for benefit of news cameramen. ; Today's entry on the calendar

That seemed to have been a mis-|finqs snyder prepared to claim he |

shot "in self-defense; that he has more to forgive than to be fore given, and that he hopes his “Mumsy” of 17 years will be: happy with the man he consistently has sneered upon as “the iceman.”

SAVES PENNY BUT LOSES DOLLAR BILL

SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec.,15 (U. P)). —An elder]y man demonstrated the old axiom, “penny wise and pound

foolish” here when he refused to make a 20-cent purchase after a drugstore clerk asked. him for a cent sales tax. The angry man stalked out of the store and left a dollar on the counter.

JOKE AT 91 ON DOCTOR SYDNEY, Australia, Dec, 15 (U.

| B.).—Forbidden ‘by his physician, | sent back to the originating b nks | will toward Synder, despite their because of his advanced age and a |p) Ac Theodore Held of Columre- testimony designed to send him. to recent stroke, to take a train here | cf for his annual vacation, O. N.| : oD cover the account, he said, and de- ; z in t ear of the Noake, 91, of Adelaide, sneaked mere, Is so crazy about Deanna : os Jonk.teats Jn net Judge away and took an airplane which [Durbin that he visits all neighborreceived, they closed the account, he Thomas 1, Ambrose and furtively | the doctor didn't think to advise Snyder .took one quick against. It : ! look at them, flushed. and studiously and he insists he never will travel lavoided glancing their way the rest|any other way.

It was his first planeride,

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SLASHER SCARE IN BRITAIN ENDS WITH ARRESTS

Prosecutor Declares Three!

Confess Wounds Were Self-Inflicted.

HALIFAX, England, Dec. 15 (U. P.).—A “slasher” scare had subsided today after the arraignment on public mischief charges of three young persons who allegedly cut

themselves with razor blades for the hotoriety their acts entailed. Beatrice Sorrell, 19, factory worker; Winifred McCall, 18, a mill employee, and Leslie Nicholl, 21-year-old baker, were arraigned in borough court and committed for trial. Prosecuting Attorney W. N. Curtis alleged that each had confessed the wounds were self-inflicted in attempts to make the attacks appear the work of a mysterious “slasher” who has terrorized the Halifax area for more than a month. Miss Sorrell, Mr. Curtis alleged, confessed ‘that she had cut herself after a quarrel with her sweetheart. Miss McCall, he added, inflicted her wounds after she had become‘excited about: the legendary night prowler whose victiins always have been women. “I made up my mind to cut my-

that I had been attacked by the slasher,” the proseci:tor quoted her (as saying ) Sought Publicity

Mr. Curtis said that Nicholl, in a statement, said he had cut himself in an effort to get publicity. “It is no exaggeration to say that the whole town is in an uproar,” Mr. Curtis said. “Thousands are too terrified to go out of doors or open their doors after dark. “Places of entertainment and shops have suffered heavy losses. Hundreds of men have banded together, armed with sticks and other weapons.” The prosecutor added that five

to have occurred.

ARTIST DEPENDS ON ART TO PAY TUITION.

—Miss Ruth E. Mayer earned two years of her education at the Cleve® land School of Art by drawing 825 illustrations for a new handbook on Ohio's wild flowers compiled by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's director. : Miss Mayer worked on the illus{trations in her spare time and dur-. ling summer vacations. . The young artisti.and her mother and father collected most - of the specimens, which served as models for the illustrations, within 30 miles

of Cleveland.

DURBIN FAN SEES PICTURE 144 TIMES

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 15 (U.

| bus, O., a Harvard college sopho-

| ing movies where the film “Mad About - Music” is shown. By his

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self. and then report to the police].

BOYS OF NYA VOTE NO WAR ABROAD

TOLEDO, O., Dec. 15 (U. P.).—In a survey of National Youth Administration employees, few boys indicated that they wanted to go abroad to fight in event of war, and

12 per cent of them were indifferent about entering the army or navy service.

Sixty-six per cent of those questioned said they would enlist for service if the United States were attacked. Twenty per cent would wait. for the draft.

HOOVER HOPES CASH KIDNAPER WILL DIE SOON

Penalty Imposed on M’Call Was Fully Justified; FBI Head Says. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Dec. 15 (U.

P.) —Director J. Edgar Hoover of the: FBI, who participated person-

ally in the solution of the Cash kid

'naping case last summer, today ex-

| pressed hope the abductor soon will be executed. : Franklin Pierce McCall, now in the state prison farm awaiting the outcome of an appeal to the State

Supreme Court from his death sentence for kidnaping Jimmy Cash at Princeton, Fla., confessed the crime to Mr. Hoover last June. Mr. Hoover, here to recover from what he describes as a slight throat ailment, said “the penalty imposed was ‘well warranted and fully justified and the sconer the sentence of death is carried out the.better for the community.” Out of 143 kidnapings reported to the FBI, 141 have been solved, Mr. Hoover said. The unsolved abductions are the Mattson and Levine cases and, Mr. Hoover predicted, “they, too, will be solved.”

tinuing investigations of the |unclosed cases withs some success. In the Mattson he said, ‘/fine progress” has ade, but he did not elaborate.

CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 15 (U. 2). |{§0YOTE MAKES GOOD

IN ALARM CLOCK ROLE:

PROVIDENCE, R. I., Dec. 15 (U. P.).—Instead- of an alarm clock, Mrs. Josephine Nelson has a pet coyote named Cowboy that wakes

her each morning by licking her face. A gift from her brother, an Okla-

coyote plays around the house with her two cats and is tied to the bedpost each night. ;

‘OBERLIN FROSH

OBERLIN, O., Dec. 15 (U. P.).— This year’s Oberlin College freshmen eat much more than last year's freshmen and axe causing a revision of dining-hall budgets. One dining hall matron reported that where one gallon of hot breakfast cereal for-

{own compilation, Held has spent $45 and seen the picture 144 times.

merly was enough, now five gallons are needed,

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check, Mr. Baade said. the! [IE more complicated than the plot, |

After this action, He: ‘said : SiN Bir 5 0 : ? say, of “Gone With the Wind.” A| iContinental Corp. was notified that [tabloid calendar is the only device

the majority of its deposits hence- | : : : as : 2 . r=. {which can straighten it out: facet would mave to bY bank drafts 1920: A honkey-tonk show girl in|

[ St. and for 17 years he pushes her ‘count toward the entertainment pinnacle | On March 95, John + Moore Sr until she is earning $5000 a wéek as |

ho i ‘the only lady baritone on the radio. * rand John W. Moore Jv. two: of the 1937: Ruth Etting, now bd

“bank to be paid from the $8000 ac-

he fale. ind Been Helpful’ Siuipnes him™on general charges of It was then the Moores offered to ~ make up the shortage. The bank, | thowever, Mr. Baade said. would take |. January, 1938: Miss Etting, who ‘nothing but curreney for deposit. has been seen in night clubs with He also tQld the court he. asked Mr. | Aldérman, the pianist, applies to “Moore Jr! if he had ben ‘‘check- police for a bodyguard. She claims kiting.” * : + | the jealous Snyder has threatened Mr. Moore Jr. said to him that! her life by telephione from New “the banker with him “had beeh| York. a : helpful,” according ‘0 Mr. Baade's | October, 1933: Snyder goes to Al‘testimony. 2 derman’'s home, shoots him in the , In seeking to prove the majl fraud stomach and, according to testi‘charge, the Government hds pre: mony. threatens to kill Miss Etting. sented witnesses who testified they she signs her name to police reports ‘recejved letters regarding loans|as “Mrs. Myrl Alderman.” { through the U. S. mails. November, 1938: Alderman's ~~ Austin V. Clifford of Indianap-|secend wife, Alma, who filed suit for | ~ olis, a trustee in bankruptcy and divorce naming Miss Etting as co-| ~ ‘former receiver for Continental, | respondent, asks $150.000 from her | identified letters. purported to be on grounds of alienation of affecwritten regarding Kim-Murph notes. | tion. | Den: Mrs. Alma Alderman's

WPA WILL IMPROVE ~ |aivorce becomes enective. RECREATION SPOTS

Dez. 13: Miss Etting and Alderman both swear from the witness ’ i | |stand that he attempted murder. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 (U. P)-- | Dec. 14: They make the police ~ The Naional Park Service. is putting — EH Cito se some of the new recovery money to work to develop model recreation]

areas for the vacationing public. . High on the list of 87' projects to be financed by $5,812,823 allotted by |. the Public Works Administration

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