Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1938 — Page 1
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STATE URGED TO SHAKE U VOTING LAWS
Opens With Many Pro posed Changes.
FURTHER PROBE. SougHT
All Groups Agree No Polio “Tinkering’ Should : > Allowed.
Declaring that Indiana's election laws need clarification. and aniendment, groups testifying before the Governor's Special Election | Law
widely on specific proposals and on the time needed to complete enact-
ment of a model statute. While some favored passage of a recodified election law bill 1939 Legislature which convenes Jan. 5, others declared the problem was so complex that no changes
study is made of existing statutes and a report made to the 1941 Legis-
All groups agreed there should be no political “tinkering” in the proposed revision of election laws and the question should not be classed .as a partisan issue. Suggestions received by the study commission jhcluded: } 1. Extension of the direct primary to include all state ticket and U. S. Senatorial candidates who now are nominated by party convention. 2. Establishment of a preferential
primary to >enable voters {‘scratch” |”
their votes in a primary election. 3. Compulsory voting machines in all counties in both prime y and _ general elections with the further provision that the backs of the ma-
spection of the vote. 4. Removal of election law administration from the hands of present elected county lofficials to place it with a proposed two-man bipartisan election department to be established in every county. (This suggestion was dbsigned to prohibit
Bays Presides 5. Establishment of definite penlties for sharp practices used in elections. 6. Maintenance of existing provisions of th&-election laws with a
by the party 1 Be
Fomer {Ghost Village, Leveled by Tornado, Finds Many Needs for Expected Wealth.
By JOE COLLIER . Times Staff Writer
RIFFIN, Ind, Dec. 16.—This town’s on the up-beat today. Townspeople are talking earnestly about building a hotel, a drug store, a bakery and new and larger buildings to replace structures that last week they would.
have considered adequate for years to come. They are putting plans on paper that last re would have been dismissed as a pipe dream. Business is literally getting better by the hour. The Town Board plans
‘has been struck! Thirteen years agé Griffin was too stunned ‘to even think of building — then from the ground up. Fifty of the 300 population were dead. The American Red Cross was in charge. The whole pation was reading of how a tor“nado struck viciously on-the afternoon of March 18, 1925, and demolished ie town. The citizens of Griffin 13 years ago were housed in Red Cross tents, clothed by the Red Cross, and, were eating food collected in other communities not touched by the freak wind storm. Last night every family with a guest room was host to a visiting oil -man, attracted to the town hy the news es a gusher was brought in” Wednesday on the John C. Cooper farm, at the town's very doorstep. ” 2 8
ORK already has been started on four wells. Within 90 days, oil men predict at least 20 more wells will be dug. And the town doesn’t even have a hotel to" put up all the workers who will be required for such an extensive project. It doesn’t have a bakery, because normally the housewives do the baking for their families at home. It needs a drug store. You can smell gas and oil all over the town, and the citizens are proud of it. The streets are-full of strangers, as welcome today as the Red Cross was 13 years ago. People are talking leases, and barrel-a-day output, and crude oil prices, and plans. There js not an oil well within 925 miles of the gusher brought in on the Cooper farm. It is the biggest oil well ever drilled in Indiana. It is the largest drilled in
recodification to make these provisions understandable. Fred Bays, Indiana Public Service Commission member and Study Commission chairman, presided at the hearing in the State House. Other study commission members appointed by Governor Townsend are Edwin H. Smith, Marion County deputy prosecutor, and Fred C. Gause, Republican member of the State Election Board. Pointifig out that more than 1000 letters had been sent out by the Commission to hea of civic, professional and labor \organizations, governmental officials and - news-| paper editors, Mr. Bays said that rs would be
argu ts
presented at hea :
today’s rs. Clarence F. Merrell, Indiana League of Women Voters president, suggested that while certain “obvious faults might. be corrected” at the 1939 legislative' session, a com(Continued on Page Three)
NEW CITY HALL AT CONVERSE OPENED
Times Special : CONVERSE, Dec. 16.—City officials today were installing them-
" selves in a -new $50,000 City Hall,
following its dedication last night. The building contains an auditorium, Council chambers, City offices and a recreation and dining hall. Edward O. Snethen, attorney and former superintendent of Converse Schools, made the dedicatory address. :
COUNTY AWARDS CONTRACTS
Contracts for County supplies to be used in the next three months were awarded to 28 firms by the County Commissioners today. The supplies include food. drugs and
“~glothing for all County institutions.
The contracts total about $100,000.
CHAMBERS SWORN IN Probate Judge Smiley Chambers
today was sworn in for his new four-
year term of office by Supreme Court Judge Michael Fansler in the Probate Courtroom.
I. U. STUDENT RECOVERS
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16 (U. P).—A 21-year-old youth taken to City Hospital here Tuesday, suffering rom amnesia, told police today that he was William Ray, student at Indiana University, and son of Harry Ray, a salesman, of Van Wert, O.
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the Indiana-Illinois-Kentucky oil
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Happy Griffin Gushes Over (il Boom, Plans to Rebuild With Sudden Riches
Scratch a Griffin resident today; a ad you find an optimist. struck there Wednesday—a gusher—and Harry L. Young, 72, left, and Elvis McCoy. 32, talk over the good news in the latter’s grocery store.
“oil was
field now magically under development. And it puts Griffin on the map, just as the tornado nearly took it off. ® » 2 : AKE Elvis McCoy’s grocery store, for instance. For years people have gathered there to talk things over. They were there today, too, with excitement rising higher and higher and everyone admitting they have no idea “what this thing might lead to and mean for our town.”
“I'm planning to tear down this grocery store and bdild another, a larger one,” Mr. McCoy said. “We've had a business boom already. I haven't done so much business in a long time. Oil men have been popping in "and out buying this and that. ’ “Yes sir, we've got a gusher all right, in Griffin’s back yard, and everybody's excited and happy. We're going to have to get ready for this business.” & Just pick out any home and knock on the door. It doesn’t matter that you're a stranger. The householder knows you're a friend and you're going to talk oil, or he is. : Nobody says “Hello” op “How are you” as greeting any more. You meet some one and he’ll
‘say, “She's a pippin, boy. A pip- |
pin.” And you know he means the oil well. That's just like saying, “I'm swell, and happy, and how are you?” } Even the very old men, who last week and many weeks before spent their time pipe smoking
. 2nd living in the past at the grocery store, are talking about toriorrow and the next day. and next year. i » ” 2 HIRTEEN years ago a Red Cross train pulled into Grif‘in a few hours after the tornado hit, and workers found all Hut four home demolished. ¥ They found more than 50 bodies n the smoldering ruins of the sown. They found the) survivors stunned. And they began work. After temporary relief was given, the Red Cross and other agencies helped the citizens | re-establish the town and build new homes. It took several years to ba nish the sense of tragedy that tlung o the town. In its quiet way, Griffin went about its business, which, until Wednesda®, was largely agriculture and fishing. Two years ago there was a sort of undercurrent of excitement when people began leasing, fields for oil drilling. Most of the own= ers made leases and then began hoping. ° Three’ weeks ago they started drilling on the well that now is a gusher. ‘As Griffin people went about their business they could hear the drilling operation like an overtone. “We were all hoping they'd strike oil,” one man said, “buf, none of us ever dreamed they'd bring in a gusher. It’s wonderful.” In 13 years, Griffin has lived a full life—from despair and desolation to the promise of riches, both wrought spectacularly by Mother Nature,
CHIEF ORDERS PUNCH
BOARDS CONFISCATED]
Which Is Going to Put Some Turkeys in a Spot.
Police Chief Morrissey today ordered police to confiscate punch boards in business places and bring them to police headquarters. This includes the Christmas gift and turkey raffle boards, which is likely, to make some complicated bookkeeping on those that are half sold Nothing was said about the disposition of the turkeys wailing | to be raffled off.
WARMER TONIGHT,
BUREAU FORECAST
Another Dip Predicted for . Tomorrow, However.
TEMPERATURES a. m 29 10a. m... 33. a.m... 28 11 a.m... 36 a, m 29 12 (Noon). 36 9am... 32 1p.m... 36
Both warmer and colder weather —warmer tonight and colder tomorrow afternoon and mght—was forecast today by the Weather Bureau. The temperature tonight was not expected to dip below 35. Last night's low, 27, was cnly 10 degrees below yesterday’s high.
Dorothy Takes It on The ‘Lam
Not liking the way things were going, a Jersey cow named Dorothy Doe took it on the lam yesterday from her temporary home which was a sausage factory at 725 Gardener Lane. In the 700 block of S. Missouri St., Dorothy was stopped Patrolmen Fred Titus and\ H. W. Brooks, who made the mistake ‘of calling her Bossy and she refused to - co-operate. . " Only by sleuthing did they find her home and return her there. Today she was a little restive but still in captivity,
SUIT FOR REFUND OF TAXES OPENED HERE
Trial of a suit in which the Crawfordsville Garment Co. asks a re-
fund of $2000 Gross Income taxes was started in Superior Court 5 today before Judge Herbert Wilson. Frank Oster, company head, claimed his business should be cias-
sified to pay the manufacturer’s tax
of % of 1 per cent instead of 1 per cent as State officials have ruled. Attorneys for tne State in :roduced evidence attempting to siow that the company does retail business and should pay 1 per cen.
\ Indiana Offers Its Good
Offices in Duck Dither
NDIANA today entered the PanAmerican wild duck situation with an international invitation to all ducks who are homeless. to pick an Indiana lake for a homestead. The srivitation was issued by the State Conservation Department after word arrived from the Conservation Association of Alberta, Canada, that it is having acute duck trouble. Until now, with the duck wolf at the very shore of their rapidly
freezing lakes, the ducks have refused to start South from Canada. Authorities can’t chase them, worry them, or goad them into taking to the air. And although
will the ducks, the Canada con-
will have to crate and mail them to California for liberation ‘there. -It isn’t so much that the Canadian conservationists mind the cost of the first rail trip South
Wiliams ». 4 ing
for the ducks, but they are afraid they will get used to modern ey = gg begin demands
d air-conditi oping
it will hurt them worse than it servationists said they probably
and Red Caps and even extended - stopovers at points of interest.
” 2 Bn HE report, of sufficient importance to be carried on news service wires, said that 10,000 of these ducks have gone on a sitdown strike, and that if they sit too long they will be caked in ice and no good as live ducks again. Hearing of this, the Indiana Conservation Department pointed out that there now are §00,000 ducks apparently satisfied with Indiana weather and making no
the South. : It quickly estimated the lake area and figured - 10,000 more could find room. It so informed them and said they would be: fed all winter if they chose this as the winter playground. There has as yet been no reply from either worried Canadian conservationists or unworried Canadian ducks. If the ducks choose to come to Indiana, and prefer rail travel, someone will have to pay for the tickets. besices the Hoosier department. There's néth-
ing in the budget for thet, even Icks at half fare.
{for participating in San Fancisco’s
effort to leave Indiana lakes for
NEW NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAY PR PROPOSED
East St. and and. Coniral Ave. Improvements Studied.
Improvements on East St. and Central Ave. to create an arterial highway from Broad Ripple on the north connecting with Madison Ave. on the south were visualized by the Works Board today. In a meeting with Mayor Boetcher, the Board also! reported that three miles of ahandoned streetcar track have been removed this year from City streets which have been resurfaced. : “This has exceeded the City’s quota of two miles each year,” Mayor Boetcher said. “The additional mile of track removed was made possible by co-operation of the Indianapolis Railways.” The first step in the development of the artery has been taken with the widening of S. East St. between South and Sanders Sts. Other steps in this program include: 1. Extension of S. East St. through Garfield Park, which would involve the building of an underpass at the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks. 2. Elimination of the sharp turn where N. East St. connects with Central Ave. at the intersection of Central and Ft. Wayne Aves. 3. Widening of East St. between Massachusetts and Ft. Wayne Aves. Possibility that the through highway would be completed next year hinges on the attitude of the new administration toward the improvements program, according to Board members.
OLSON PREPARES TO FREE MOONEY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (U. P). —Governor-Elect Culbert Olson of California said today he expects to pardon Thomas J. Mooney unless evidence is produced to make him change his mind. Mr. Olson said he expects to be asked to consider a pardon application immediately upon taking office. Mooney is serving a life sentence in San Quentin Penitentiary
Preparedness Day bombing 22 years
ago. | Mr. Olson said he will give “anyone the opportunity to speak who has the right to be heard.” The United States Supreme Court refused .to intervene in Mooney’s case this fall.
FOUR SENTENCED IN OFFICER'S KIDNAPING
{ LEBANON, O., Dec. 16 (U. P).— Two men and two ‘women who pleaded guilty to charges of kidnaping State Highway Patrolman Parker W. Powell on Dec. 8 were sentenced today to five to 30 years impriscnment on the
au LINE| T0 GET ROPER'S|
WPA Chief Is Favored by
lar Cabinet post is designed to pro-
Trail’s End
JOB IN CABINET!
F. D. R. as New Secretary Of Commerce.
LOOKS TO RACE IN 1940
New Job Might Give Escape From ‘Heat’ When Con-
gress Meets. F. Donald Coster
REPLACE LIGHTS WITH OFFICERS
Downtown Signals to Be Off In Rush Hours; Fire-Car In Crash.
(Editorial, Page 22)
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Harry| L. Hopkins, WPA adminisirator, seems certain now to be the next
Secretary of Commerce. This probakle promotion of the relief administrator to the official family has many implications. Not least of these is the desire of the stanch New Deal contingent to make Mr. Hopkins the Democratic Presidential candidate in 1940 —an ambition shared by Mr. Hopkins and avidly promoted by his lieutenants who have been busily taking soundings in various parts of the country in recent weeks. The WPA administrator is now Mr. Roosevelt's closest confident and his first choice for the White House. The President wants to keep him in the Administration in a top place. This desire fits i» nicely with the scheme to place Mr. Hopkins in the line of succession. Transfer, of Mr. Hopkins from WPA administrator to the partieu-
Traffic Capt. Lewis Johnson ans nounced today that’ rush hour crowds in the downtown area will be handled by traffic patrolmen exclusively for the duration of the holiday season. Automatic signals will not operate during the rush periods, he said. Motorcycle patrolmen; meanwhile, continued their rigid enforcement of “moving” violations, arresting 66 motorists and warning scores of others yesterday and last night. While the number of stickers issued for parking violations dropped from 67 Wednesday to 54 yesterday, two motorists were fined $5 each in Municipal Court for neglecting to pay the $2 fee. Lieut. Lawrence McCarty, Accident Prevention Bureau head, said the drop was “because we couldn’t find as many violators.” Forty-five motorists arrested on other charges paid a total of $104 in fines and costs. Judge John L. McNelis suspended more than $400. A collision involving a Fire De(Continued on Page Three)
MOTHER MURDERS SON, POLICE CLAIM
3-Year-0ld Dies: Wounds at Ft.
mote this project in two ways: Public May Forget
First by removing him from the line of fire where he now finds him= self as a result ef the unfavorable reaction from his recent prominence in a political role and the evidence of political activity by WPA in several states before the recent election. New Deal opponents in Congress.are ready to open fire on the WPA head as soon as the session begins in January. : Second, to place him in a position where he can show himself to business as-an administrator and build himself up with the business ele-|“ ment. New Dealers believe that, within the year and a half left before the 1940 convention, the public at large will forget the derelictions charged to Mr. Hopkins and will come to accept him in a different light. Until the more recent forays into the political arena—with rather ill
of Knife Wayne.
FT. WAYNE, Ind, Dec. 16 (U. P.).
they point out, in many quarters for his administration of perhaps the toughest job in the New Deal. Practical politicians claim that the relief burden which hangs about his neck bars the door to him, and yet, of late, they privately have come to (Continued on Page Three)
AIR SHARES ADVANCE; HOGS, GRAIN ARE FIRM
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P.)— Aviation shares made new highs and Chrysler rose more than a point today on the Stock Exchange. Trading slackened. Bonds were irregularly lower.
ency” was probably the motive that caused the crazed acts of a 39-year-old mother who allegedly
and tried to kill another. The woman is Mrs. Ruth easer, wife of Charles Reaser, a WPA worker. About 3 o’clock this morning she climbed from her bed and with a 12-inch butcher knife nearly decapitated her 3%-year-old son, Alfred Junior Reaser, police said.
Attacks Other Son
She then aftacked, police said, her other son, Martin Leroy, 5 known to his playmates as “Tommy.” Tommy, however, escaped before he was seriously injured., His cries awakened Ms. Reaser’s stepdaughter, Ernistine, 18, who wrested the knife from her mother’s grasp and ran with the dead child in her arms to the home of a neighbor. The neighbor called police. In jail, Mrs. Reaser admitted the crime, but police say she has given no motive as yet for her mad acts. However, they said, they have found a note at her home, the contents of which they are withholding for the time being. " The woman had separated from her husband less than three weeks ago, and may have been despondent over this, police indicated.
Hog prices on the Indianapolis market today were steady on all weights. The top was $7.70. Vealers were ' unchanged,
CHICAGO, Dec. | 16 (U. P). Grain prices were steady in slow trade today on the Board of Trade. Wheat was unchanged to off 4 cent, corn unchanged to up cent, and oats unchanged.
MOTHER AND SON DIE IN CROSSING CRASH
FARMLAND, Ind., Dec. 16 (U.P.). —A mother and son were killed in- : stantly here last night when their| HAVERFORD, Pa., Dec. 16 (U. car was struck by a freight train at|P).—Curtis Dall of New York, a Main street crossing. former son-in-law of President The dead are Mrs. Rosie Porter, Roosevelt, and his bride, the former 42, and her son, Ralph, 17. Katherine Miller Leas, were en Ralph was a senior in the highiroute to Bermuda on their honeyschool here and was driving the car|moon today following their marat the time of the accident. riage here.
DALL STARTS HONEYMOON
success—he had won commendation Police today said that “despond- | -
murdered one of her small children
third largest drug firm.
in the drug company scandal.
DEMOCRACIES STIFFEN STAND
THE FOREIGN SITUATION
PARIS—Pertinax hints Chamberlain is making “deal” with Italy. LONDON—“Ridiculous,” say authoritative sources. BURGOS—Rebels restore civil rights to former King Alfonso. BERLIN—U. S. note on Jews expected to be sidestepped. Two-thirds of national income goes through Nazi treasury. ROME—Jews ordered to register all property. KAUNAS — Anti- Government leader gets term; former premier guarded.
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LIMA—Solidarity and trade projects to go to sonferenice today. QUITO — Government arrests Deputies after revolt “truce.” MANAGUA—San Salvador 'reported under martial law.
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WASHINGTON—Chinese get 25 millions in credit from U. S.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS ' (Copyright. 1938. by United Press)
- The United States is stiffening its position in world affairs. On Fuehrer Hitler's desk in Berlin today there is a sternly-worded
note from Washington stating that the time has ¢ome for Nazis to declare. that they will respect the rights of American citizens. | In the corridors frequented by diplomats at Washington, the word has gone around that former British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had been given the impression that the United States was far from convinced a rebel victory in Spain would serve the interests of world democracy. In the halls of the eighth PanAmerican Conference at Lima, U. S. Secretary of State Hull labors energetically against formidable obstacles to unite the 21 American republics in a system of freer trade and an accord against foreign military and ideological invasion. In the controlled newspapers of Germany, caustic comment demonstrates that Nazi resentment is still intense against President Roosevelt’s denunciation of racial intolerance. > In Washington, announcement was made that the Government’s
(Continued on Page Five)
Three ‘Big Boys’... They Couldn't Say No
To. Pleading Eyes... So 16 Are Hoony
(Donors’ List, Page 3)
HIS is a story of three big boys and 13 little children—a, story of a party they had yestetday that had a happy ending for all. The boys are brothers and prefer to remain anonymo They called Clothe-A-Child headquarters yesterday and reserved three children to clothe. - As they started out the door for the stores, they noticed a group of children sitting near the radiator, where it ‘is warmest, and asked who was going to take them. They were told the children were awaiting a call from some one and had not yet been reserved. The brothers went into a huddle and came out of it saying, “0. K. Let's take them, t00. » It so happened there were seven children in the group at the radiator, so the three brothers started the shopping tour with 10 instead of the’ original three. Two hours later they returned, all of them very apparently happy, virtually a perambulating pile of bundles. Then the three men saw three more children sitting near the warm radiator, their expressions a mixture of wistfulness end hopefulness in about equal parts. “Who's going to take those children?” one of y the three brothers asked. “They haven't been spoken for,” he was told. Fharg was 2 another T Budde, “0 too,”
"13 children or
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And out they went, three men and three children, for another shopping tour.
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HEN they returned the second time, it was pretty hard for an observer to tell whether
three brothers had had the best
Christmas party. You, too, can experience that satisfaction of knowing you helped some child to be warmly dressed against the winter through participation in the Clothe-A-Child campaign, how it can be done: 1. If you wish to shop with a child personally, call RI-5551 and make an appointment to‘meet a child at Clothe-A-Child headquarters, 206 Ww.
Here is
2. If you want The Times to act for you, mail a check to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” Experienced shoppers will do the rest. 3. Or you can join with others in your office, plant, club, church, sports team, fraternity or so-
a committee, let us know how you desire to clothe,
The Social Service Department of the ‘Public | Schools checks the list to determine the neediest children and to eliminate the posite duplication of clothing gifts. ‘The cost of outfitting a boy or on their. individual needs. The avera
1 depends is from
Clothe-A-Child headquarters is open from Call RI-5650 . Just ask for “Clothe-As" 3
Export-Import Bank had authorized
DRUG FIRM HEAD (ENDS HIS LIFE AS ISCANDAL GROWS
Coder, Exposed as Swindler in ‘Human Hair” Case of 1912, Shoots Self in Head While U. S. Agents Close in.
THREE AIDS REVEALED AS BROTHERS
Fantastic Career Covering 40 Years Finally, ‘Brought to Light Through 18 Million Dollar McKesson Shortage.
NEW YORK, Dec. 16 (U. P.).—F. Donald Coster, one of the boldest swindlers of the century, killed himself at his suburban’ estate at Fairfield, Conn., today as investigating agencies unearthed increasingly fantastic facets of his activities as president of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., the nation’s
Exposed as Philip Musica, eldest brother and “rains of the swindling Musica family which perpetrated a $1, 000,000 “human hair” larceny in 1912, Coster put a bullet into his head as United States authorities closed pn on him
His suicide ended a swine dling career Which extended over nearly 40 years, the first 20 as the brilliantly daring
Philip Musica and the second
as the mild-mannered and ap-
parently conservative F. Don=
ald Coster. : Coster and two of his brothers— who posed as George Dietrich, ase
sistant treasurer of McKesson &. Robbins, and George Vernard, Ca=
nadian manager—had been indicted on charges of violating the Secure
ities Act of 1934 in connection with 18 million dollars in missing assets
of McKesson-Robbins. But, following the disclosure that
Dietrich was George Musica and
Vernard was Arthur, Federal aus thorities were preparing to rearrest
Coster (on new and more: serious
charge ’ Fourth Brother Also
Involvement o fthe Musica fam< = ily,. abruptly returned to life after
more than two, decades of obscure ity, apparently” did not end with Philip, Arthur and George. = Arth mitted a Robert Dietrich, who posed’ as the brother of the assistant treasurer
and was a McKesson) & Robbins
production manager, reality a Musica. Authorities had not . existence of a fourth brother -
|Vernard, asked if Robert Dietr:
was indeed his brother, replied:
“Why should I try to kid you?”
Federal authorities said also they were investigating the possiblity that Mrs. Coster, involved in the inquiry when a $100,000 balance in her brokerage account was tied up by court order, might actually be
one of the Musica sisters, Louise or
Grace. : _ ‘Attorney Reveals Shooting
Announcement of the suicide was :
made by Samuel Rich, Coster’s ate torney, who ran out of the Fairfield house shouting that “he’s shot hime self—get an ambulance.”
Coster had been ill, according to
his attorney. with a heart ailment. Meanwhile, at Hartford, Assistant
U. S. Attorney Valentine J. Sacco
reissued orders for the immediate rearrest of George Dietrich.
“We want that fellow in jail,” he
said. He said he feared that in the cone fusion following the guicide of Cose ter, the agents might have difficulty. in apprehending Dietrich and he was “anxiously” awaiting word that he had been taken into custody. Coster shot himself at 11:09 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) in an upstairs room. The attorney was talking in the living room with Dietrich. They heard a shot and rushed upstairs to: find’ Coster lying on the bathroom floor, a bullet hole in his right ear and a revolver in his right hand. \ Dr. Stanton R. Smith, medical eXe (Continued on Page Five)
Shopping Days .. | Till Christmas |
OUNG HERR 2 MITLER rw, : INFORMING WORLD HEC SOON TOE ConTRoL OF GERMANY re
OOKING Back to Christe mas Seven Years Ago —= A bleak Christmas, with depres= sion stalking the dnd. , .. : dent Hoover was recom RFC. . . . Army of 1200 “hunger marchers” returning. home from Washington. . . . Young Herr Hitler was informing world he'd n take ole control of ‘Gers any. . . . U. 8. disturbed over Jnpane ese bd of Manchuria. gs saw Navy's new |
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Musica, alias Vernard, ade ter his re-arrest here that
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