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FORECAST: Fair and colder" tonight; tomorrow, increasing cloudiness and warmer.

FINAL ‘HOME

BUSINESS b STATE

For Year.

CITY LAG IS REPORTED

I. U. Save) T empo Is Possibility i Future.

' Indiana business X vember rose 12 points tp the highest \1evel of the year, it was reported today in the Indiana Business Review, published by the Indiana Uni\versity Bureau of Busnes Research. It was the sixth| consecutive month in which Indiana business recorded gains, but, according to:the ‘Review, a leveling off| was noted [near the enc. of the month which may indicate a temporary drop in {the general index in the near future.

WASHINGTON, ~P) ~—Secretary of

ec. 21 (U.

conference, today continuation of a ward trend in busi 1939. Mr. Roper’s becomes effective

adual upss during

of strength in the . 1939 that create a hopeful frame of existed at this time [last year,” he said,

/ / /“At preserit it appears,” the Review stated, ‘that although this may occur, the decline will not be large.” The Buresu reported that the sharp business increase in November was remarksable in view of the fact that from October | November almost every one of the 12 divisions comprising the index| usually dips under pressure of [seasonal influences. . Only two of the 12 sections of the index were lower in vember than in October. Gains ere seasonal in nine of the 10 sections * showing increases. Local Busine

behind that of the State as a whole,

it was indicated. Several indexes revealed declines under October. Réetail sales were reported 1 per cent under October, but still 2 per cent above those of November, 1937. “Exceptional gains were recorded “in many indexes,” the Review reports. “Pig iron output rose 17 per "cent to the highest level since - September of last year. Production of electricity surpassed the previous peak of the year. Coal production rose 12 per cent the | largest monthly volume of the current

ear. “New building con racts doubled in November, Livestock receipts increased 7 per cent. sales expanded 22 per cent contraseasonally this month. Furniture and stone production [partly resisted seasonal pressures and fell less than + usual for this time of year. “In sharp contrast to these improvements bank debits fell 9 per cent, an amount greater than the usual seasonal decline. Total volume of real estate activity, measured by deeds and mortgage recorded, declined during the month. Prices in general showed little disposition to rise. [ “Farm prices in mid-November were fractionally under those of a - month before. Farm product and (Continued on Page Four)

GOVERNOR TO MEET WITH LIQUOR BODY

Governor Townsend is to confer tomorrow with his special five-man commissicn w is|to be asked to investigate the ensing, enforcement and regulation provisions of the State Alcoholic Beverages Act. In naming this study group the Governor said he hoped it would conduct public hearings and receive suggestions from all groups interested in the liquor regulation problem. The Commission is/to submit a report to the Governor who, in turn, is to tun these| recommendations over to the Legislature. |

Shopping Days Till C ristmas

.' named to succeed Herr Masaryk .| as Czechoslovakian President, . . , | Bruno Hauptmann in death cell. '+ a « Traller craze attracting attention, , ... New Deal measures vaiting Supreme Court

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 244

‘My Daddy’

Mary Martin Sings Her Song, Unaware Her Father Is Dead.

By HARRY FERGUSON United Press Staff Correspondent EW YORK, Dec. 21.—Mary Martin did a gay dance across the stage, winked her left eye and sang out in a strong, young voice—"my heart belongs to Daddy.” ' It was a saugy, funny song and those of us on the other side of the Imperial Theater's footlights applauded her. But we didn’t applaud as long or as loud as we would have liked to, for we knew something she didn’t know. We knew Daddy was dead. He was dead in Weatherford, Tex., a thousand miles or so away ~—the father of this girl who is the toast of the year along the belt of bright lights called Broadway. And as soon as the news came over the wires from Texas that Preston Martin was dead we in the audience and all members of the cast of the musical comedy, “Leave It to Me,” entered into a conspiracy of silence against Mary Martin. We conspired to keep the news from her until she could sing once more “My Heart Belongs to Daddy.” And she sang it in her usual light-hearted way, never suspecting that the last editions of the afternoon papers, carrying the news of her father’s death, had been barred from the theater. ‘ ever knowing that every time ictor Moore or Sophie Tucker or William Gaxton sent a joke crackling at her across the stage that their hearts were as heavy as her’s would be three minutes after the curtain fell. E t 4 ® O, tossing her head and laugh-, ing, she gave the song all she had and the words went: “While tearing off a game of golf . I may make a play for the caddy, But when I do, I don’t follow through, : ‘Cause my heart belongs to Daddy.” Once every year or so an unknown star blazes over Broadway. Once it was Ethel Merman, once it was Joan: Bennett, and once, long ago, it was Ethel Barrymore. This year it was Mary Martin. They knew so little about her when she entered the cast of “Leave It to Me” that the program gives her only five lines in “Who's Who in the Cast.” But on opening night. she sent them out on. the sidewalks cheering with “My Heart, Belongs to Daddy.” The world, which had been a harsh, cold place the day before, became rosy and warm for Mary Martin.

the cast after the curtain fell on “Leave It to Me” last night. It was a serious meeting, ‘called tb decide who should go. tell Mary. And the choice fell on Victor Moore, the roly-poly comedian whose job is to spread laughter, not sorrow. So he went down a gray corridor and turned to the left at a little brown door and close behind him were Sophie Tucker in a faded blue wrapper and Tamara, the singer, with makeup still on her face. They were silent for a moment while Mary, sitting in front of a mirror blazing with lights, looked up at them. - Then Mr. Moore put an arm on the girl’s shoulder and began to speak. » # ARY,” he said, “I got an old story to tell you. I guess it’s a lot older than show business. I guess it’s a lot older than almost anything else.” Mary looked him in the eye and asked: “My Dad?” “Yes,” Moore said. Then big-hearted Sophie Tucker opened her arms and Mary was crying, and the mascara and the makeup were making a wet, dark stain on the left shoulder of Sophie’s old blue wrapper. Mary said something about not planning to go to Texas for the funeral because she had been there only a week or so ago when it looked as though her father couldn’t live much longer. We all left then and walked down the gray corridor to Mr. Moore’s dressing room. Nobody said anything for a while and Mr. Moore, busy pulling on some black socks as he changed to street clothes, looked at the wall. “I guess,” he said, after a long time, “I guess the show’s gotta go on.”

”

There was a brief meeting of .

-| night.

WASHINGTON BANK & TRUST PAYMENT OKD

Judge Cox Approves Immediate Distribution of $189,300 to 1118 Creditors.

Most or All of Checks to Be In Mail Before Next Week.

$189,300 to 1118 creditors and depositors of the Washington Bank &

authorized today by Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox. Oren §S. Hack, receiver, was dividend immediately. It will be the first distribution to creditors since the bank closed.

mortgage certificates would be placed in the mail tomorrow, while checks to holders of “blue kook” certificates would be handed oui between 9 a. m. and noon tomorrow at the Fidelity Trust Co. Payment of these claims will leave outstanding liabilities of the bank at $787,843. Dividends range from 5 per cent to 70 per cent. The highest percentage payment was ordered for holders of Class A preferred claims. Holders of first lien savings certificates, will be paid 12 per cent, 350 holders of “no series” certificates will get 10 per cent, and 338 holders of Series R certificates will be ‘paid 5 per cent. A large amount of real estate was

‘linvolved in the eight years of liqui-

dation activity. Court officials said the liquidation of the bank’s assets would be continued and that another distribution would be made at some future date. The bank was placed in receivership in October, 1930, with Brandt C. Downey as receiver. Mr. Hack was named receiver in 1933. The {rigidity of 'assets, coupled with’ the long litigation. to “thaw” them, was held by Mr. Hack as responsible for the long receivership. At present, two suits against firms bonding the bank’s officials are pending in Federal Court. The suits ask judgment of $309,500, which, if

distributed to creditors and depositors in the future. Albert S. Ward, Federal master in

eral Judgé Robert C. Baltzell that the receiver is entitled to collect on the bonds. :

FIND SHALLPOX | IN - SOUTHPORT SCHOOL

Classes Dismissed Early, Two Games Postponed.

Southport High School will begin|_._ its holiday vacation this evening instead of Friday, according to school officials. A few cases of smallpov have been discovered at the school in the

‘| last few weeks, Herb L. Curtis, prin-

cipal, said. Two basketball games have been postponed because of the epidemic, Mr. Curtis said. One game was to have been at Ben Davis tomorrow The other, with Rochester, Ind., was scheduled for Friday. “Approximately a half-dozen smallpox cases have been reported] among our pupils. All of these were very light,” Mr. Curtis said.

MADMAN KILLS 4 IN FAMILY, WATCHMAN

SAVANNAH, Ga., Dec. 21 (U. P.). —County and city police today launched an intensive search. for a blood =- spattered madman, who slugged four members of a family to death with an iron pipe, then killed a garage watchman with a shotgun on the outskirts of Savannah, Police listed the dead as: J. S. Tillman, 35, a WPA worker. His wife, Elizabeth, 23. Their two children, Clara Pearl, 9, and Viola, 7. | Tom Chester, 35, a night watch-

man.

CONCERN CLOSED IN 30],

Payment of dividends totaling| Ss

Trust Co., which closed in 1930, was|#§

authorized to start payment of the 2

collected, would add tol tiie amountt

chancery, has recommended to Fed-|.

PARIS, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—Cesar Campinchi, Navy Minister, ordered the commander of the naval base at Saigon, French Indo-China, today to send the nearest warship to St. Paul Island and rescue a group of French colonists marooned there.

Radio ‘contact was: established briefly with the “cursed island” today and Georges Mandel, Minister of Colonies, announced that the colonists are rapidly running out of food and fuel is exhausted. Then silence closed down again over the Indian Ocean and Madagascar was unable to re-establish contact.

How many of the original five married couples and two children who went to colonize the remote island a few hundred miles north of

nitely known, Incomplete reports reaching St, Malo, from where the steam trawler Ile Bourbon sailed last May indithat a i uy out

the Antarctic drift ice was not defi- | in

Warship to Go to Rescue Of ‘Cursed Isle’ Colonists

At Djibouti, it was reported, the radio operator and ship’s doctor, along with most of the white crew, left the vessel. by a beachcomber doctor stranded in French Somaliland and a crew of Somali blacks. According to reporis from Reunion Island, when the trawler called there on Sept. 12 it had sufficient coal to reach St. Paul but en route a food shortage caused the captain to ration the crew. The women were reported quarreling with one another. There is no food on the island except the swarming lobsters which the colonists meant fo exploit for the market. The sun never shines through the fog which enwraps the “cursed isle” and even in the best season the weather is almost freez-

g. The colonists found conditions so bad that they have given up the idea of colonization and ask only to ppatriated ;

be I

They were replaced |.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1088

Mr. Hack said checks to holders of |

School.

study aun development.

Pretty Girls—Pretty F lowers

the winners in the annual narcissus bulb contest at the school. third prize ‘winner was Nancy Ragan. The pupils raised the flowers to

mes Photo.

Prety girls and pretty flowers combined today at Shortridge High The girls, Barbara Jones, left, and Sally Evans, were among

Youngsters Kick Heels; School's Out

Oh, boy: If you see a lot of brighteyed youngsters on the streets’ this affernoon, looking as chipper as a flock of robins in a yard full of worms fresh spring morning; surprised. : School’s out! About 60,000 grade school and high school pupils had their eyes - on schoolroom’ . clocks all over the city, today, waiting for the hands to creep around to 3p. m—start of the 12-day Christmas vacation. A few high school pupils . were to.be let out earlier, de- ' pending on their schedules; and nearly every school in the City held a Christmas program today. \ The bad news is that classes will be resumed Tuesday, Jan. 3, and the whole vacation,is four days shorter than last year’s.

WESTERNERS SHIVER.

Mild Weather Vanishes; Snow Aids Wheat Crop.

By United Press Winter officially greeted the Western half of the nation today with a varying assortment of hail, snow, fog and rain, from the Pacific Northwest to the Gulf of Mexico. The accompaniment resulted from a slow-moving mass of, cold, moist air. - - Temperatures - were not extreme and many areas were not affected because of scattered cloud formations. , But the contrast ‘to previous mild December weather was sharp. Heavy mountain snowstorms and valley’ fogs stopped’ ‘air traffic in the Northwest. Ice made highways dangerous, Southern California had electrical . storms, rain and hail. The snow extended South from the Rockies into New Mexico and eastward into Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. It brought fresh hope for ‘wheat growers in that section of the nation’s “bread basket.” They said the snow fall, four to eight inches, would save a winter crop that laid dry in seed beds since planting early in the fall.

Get Set for Mercury Drop to 20

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a. m... 28 10a. m... 29 7am... 21 11 a.m... 30 8a. m... 27 12 Noon... 32 9a. m.... 28: 1p. m... 33

You'll have to keep the furnace fire. burning briskly tonight, according’ to. the Weather Bureau, which forecast a mercury drop toa low of about 20.

morrow afternoon and night.

BURNED TO DEATH

MADISON, Ind., Dec. 21 3. BP). —Mrs, Nettie von Dissen,

her clothes caught fire from an overturned oil lamp. Her body was found by her husband

IN COLD, RAIN WAVE":

Warmer weather with increasing|' cloudiness ‘is ‘ the forecast for to-|

AS LAMP OVERTURNS |

was | burned to death last hg when |

‘BUIDING HERE

Legislature to Be Asked to Approve National Head- : quarters.

The Leguisturs will be asked next

jcan Legion national headquarters on the World War Memorial Plaza. The building, included in the original plans for the plaza, would be on the northwest corner of the plaza, facing Pennsylvania St., and would house nationai : ‘headquarters of’ the

1V. F. W., the Disabled American

Veterans and the Spanish-American War Veterans. The V. F. W. national

Charles L. Hopkins, V. F. W. Indiana commander, said the V. F. W.

‘Inational and department officials of |the midwestern states will meet here

Jan. 14 and 15 to prepare the petition: to the Legislature for the [ding Move Here Approved “For various reasons the construction never was undertaken, and the space allotted for it has been filled with shrubbery,” Mr. Hopkins

“It is the earnest ambition of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that this be now completed, and thus bring to our City another ' great national headquarters, which would definitely make Indianapolis the hub. of all American veterans’ organizations, and ‘also provide industries’ with additional business, particularly in the printing ‘branch.” The move to Indianapolis if a building is provided was approved this year at the national convention of the veterans’ group, he said. Among officials who will attend the meeting here will be National Commander Eugene I. VanAntwerp, Detroit;; the National Auxiliary president, Anna Mae Lochner of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Congressman James VanZant of Pennsylvania, a former national commander,

STOCKS SLUMP IN PROFIT-SELLING

NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (U. P.).— Stocks declined as much as 2 points in a wave of profit-selling today. Aviations suffered the largest cuts. Rails offered most resistance, with

Santa Fe .and. New York Central

Readeatiers ! is ‘now, in" Kansas| : “| City, M

- Entered as ' S6cond-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

REACH ACCORD

ON SOLIDARITY

[FOR AMERICAS]

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

- LIMA—General agreement on solidarity of Americas reached.

PRICE one cmNTS

» » #

HENDAYE—Plot to overthrow Franco delays Spanish Rebel offensive. 2 5 =»

MOSCOW—Soviet and Poland strengthen holds on Ukraine.

WARSAW—Plea for Ukrainian autonomy rejected.

-LONDON—Hitler demands halt of Jewish boycott in return for financial. aid. GLASGOW~—Chamberlain policy tested in Scottish election. BERLIN—Nazis ordered to increase economic production.

(Gallup Poll, Page Two)

BULLETIN

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 21 (U. P.). — Delegations at the eighth Pan-American Conference today reached a general agreement on a declaration of solidarity against foreign political or military invasion of the Western world. The agreement, virtually completed except for final approval of the home governments of several delegations, was designed to compromise divergent views of the United States and Argentina on the project.

LIMA, Peru, Dec. 21 (U. P).— Brazilian, Argentine and Peruvian delegates to the eighth Pan-Ameri-can Conference today circulated a hew compromise declaration of American solidarity against foreign influences in an 11th hour attempt to reconcile conflicting views of the United States and Argentina. The new draft, called the “American formula,” was complefed after hurried consultations in an effort to

reach an agreement on the most important international issue at the

week. The only indication of how far the delegations had progressed toward 4 pg on the compromise draft _.of solidarity was

NE — by U. 8. Secretary of State a oar palling to the Amer-| gull,

Asked whether progress was being made toward an agreement. Mr. Hull replied: “We are working night and day on it.” * Talks With Leaders

The secretary talked with leaders of several delegations in the Con-

The delegations were asked to seek speedy approval from their home governments. United States delegates expressed hope that the final declaration would be agreed upon by tomorrow. Argentina’s oposition to the United States desire for a forceful dec(Continued on Page Five)

§30-MONTH PENSION BACKED BY PATMAN

Texan Proposes Bill to Stop ‘Crackpot’ Plans.

TEXARKANA, Tex. Dec. 21 (U. P.) —Rep. Wright Patman (D. Tex.) said today he would introduce a bill in Congress next month to provide $30-a-month Federal pensions for all needy persons over 65 years of age. Rep. Patman said he also expected to intreduce a bill providing for Government ownership of all Federal Reserve Banks and another for paying of 1935 cotton certificates in a addition to his “antichain store” tax bill on opening day of Congress. Rep. Patman’s pension bill would provide $30 a month for all persons over 65 without income sufficient to pay an income tax “This will take the old-age assist-

stop so many ‘crackpof’ schemes which have disappointed and embittered the aged, and insure them regular and prompt payment ‘each

conference in time to complete ac-|. ‘Ition before adjournment later this

gress main hall late this morning. d

ance’ question out of local politics, }

Shepherd Dog Amputates Its Own Leg

FT. WAYNE, Dec. 21 (U. P.).—The story of a dog whose will to live surpassed pain to the extent-tiiat he apparently amputated his own leg was told here today by Humane Officer Wilfred J.

The dog—a big black German Shepherd—limped into the farm yard of Henry Schaudroff, and fell exhausted. Schaudroff rushed him to the Ft. Wayne animal shelter. Subsequent investigation disclosed that the dog had apparently tried to jump a . barbed-wire fence, catching a hind leg on the wire. Hanging head downward, hunger and thirst finally drove him to gnaw off the limb just above the hock joint. For sev- ~ eral more days he lay weak and exhausted where he fell, licking the wound and gaining what strength he could. At last he made his way to the Schaudroff farm.

PEDESTRIAN HIT

Traffic Fatality Toll in City Is Sent to 73: Police Nab 54.

Death of a 64-year-old pedestrian today sent Indianapolis’ traffic ftelity toll to 73, with 51 of them pedestrians. The victim, Andrew H. Brown, of 2858 W. Ray St, died at City Hospital after being struck by an automobile at Warman Ave. and Ray St. yesterday. The car was driven by Joseph Kuhman, 28, of R. R. 7, according to police. The death sent the County toll to 118 so far this year, compared to 151 for the same period last year. Five persons, all of them pedestrians, were injured in 15 acciderts uring the last 24 hours. At tae same time, police arrested 54 persons on traffic charges. Mrs. Kathleen Shevlin, 42, 38 N. Kealing Ave., was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital after she was struck by an automobile at Kealing Ave. and Washington St. Jeph C. Willhaite, 36, of 719 N. Chester Drive, was arrested a few moments later on a charge of failing to stop after an accident, police said. He had been followed for two blocks by a cab driver, Charles Threedouble, 27, 950%; E. Washington St., who witnessed the accident, police said.

EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21 (U. P.)—A. L. Ferguson, 78, died late yesterday, a few hours after he was struck by a car driven by Marion Parker, 17. The accident occurred in the business district.

‘JITTERBUG’ LEADS ‘SWING’ WITH A 38

READING, Pa., Dec. 21 (U. P.) — A gun-toting jitterburg ‘was sougnt by State Motor Police today affer he kidnaped an entire orchestra and led them in some swing music with a. 38-caliber. revolver. . Authorities identified “him as Joseph J. Wiater, 18, member of a prominent Reading family. According to Robert W. Castner, 18, orchestra leader, Wiater told him that he had an engagement for the band. With two other musicians, Wiater and Castner drove to an isolated spot. “This is as good a spot for a little swing as any other,” Wiater was quoted as saying, “Put some floyi into it, boys. I'm going to lead you boys, and I've got an instrument (the revolver) here that plays

month, free from political manipu-

holding small gains.

HIS is the second chapter in

day. School.

father found employment again,

very small allowance, but it was own, nq questions asked. ‘Yesterday these two came to Clothe-A-Child shyly, they offered a few cents

Child history of twin Indianapolis girls. Last year their father was unemployed and some Indianapolis person clothed them through The Times campaign. They told the person who clothed them that they were especially grateful, because with their outfits they could go to Sun-

Not ‘long after the first of the year, their income he gave each of the girls an allowance—a

ris and their father eadquarters. A little

dollars, saved out of their allowances. “We want to clothe some girl,” “And if you could find a little girl about our size who wants to go to Sunday School but can’t be-

lation,” Rep. Patman said.

IME after

the bluest notes you ever heard.”

If You Can Find a Little Girl Our Size Who. Wants to Go to Sunday School—’

(List of Donors; Page Five; Editorial, Page 18)

time persons who have been

helped in the past and no longer are having

the Clothe-A- bad luck, save

some one else.

Maryland St.

olis Times.”

and out of his rest.

for their very

many children

more than six Schools checks

they said.

$8 to $12.

The Social Service

from their good fortune to help

‘There are these ways to help: 1. If you wish to shop with a child personally, ; cal! Riley 5561 and make an appointment to ste a child at Clothe-A~Child headquarters, 206 W

BBE rinis. 5.0 fob yon an a check to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianap-

Experienced shoppers will do the

3. Or you can join with others in your office, plant, club, church, sports team, fraternity or sorority. Select a committee, let us know how

you desire to clothe. ent of the Public the list to determine the neediest

children and to eliminate the possible duplication of clothing gifts. The cost of outfitting a boy or girl depends on their Individual needs. The average is from

Clothe-A-Child headquarters is open from ¢

AT CORNER DIES

' imen who held up the bank had

Broun .ceese..d

COUPLE SEIZED AT BUFFALO IN ANGOLA HOLDUP

G-Man Take Woman, Man From Train mat For Grilling.

LOOT WAS $11,000

One Prisoner Listed | ‘Raid Nov: 22,

BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 21 (U. 5 —Lawrence Charles Hale, 34, of Ft. Wayne, Ind.,, was held by Fed agents today in connection with the robbery of the Steuben County Bank : at Angola, Ind., several months ago. Hale and a red-haired woman companion were taken from a pase senger train here and questioned several hours. No charges were placed against the woman, whose identity was not revealed imme.

diately. FBI agents held a warrant tor Hale. Tt was issued at the U. 8 Commissioner’s office at Ft. Wayne _| Nov. 30. Deputy U. S. Marshal William: 2 Reardon said the couple would be turned over to his office as soon as G-Men completed their ques Pending word from Federal aul ities, the couple will be held here, The woman was described as il tractive and about 22 years old. Ofelals said she lived in Syracuse,

Neral agents reported that the couple was on an eastbound train, but declined to reveal its destination. Heavily larmed Federal agents, aided by local police, boarded the train as it stopped here and found Hale and his red-haired Compania asleep.

FBI Agents Here Report Couple Sought

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents here said they knew that the couple had been sought, but clined to comment further.

The robbery occurred Tu Nov. 22, when two. en bandits held up two customers and four employees of the Angola. St Bank and escaped with $11,000 cash. For 45 minutes, the armed with six-shooters, placed pillows and tended to the needs ©! the two customers and four ployees, whom they forced to le on the floor unfil a time-lock the bank vault. As the door swung open, they: grabbed all available cash, ran the bank to a waiting auto driv by a third man and fled. aie Their auto bore New York license plates which police said .had been. stolen in Indianapolis a week before, According to Frank G. Gilbert, cashier, both men were about 35, wore dark suits and caps and one had on a light overcoat. State Police at Ligonier said had been notified of the detention of the couple’ at Buffalo, but th they had not been informed of identity of the suspects. They said no trace of the

uncovered until now. - The bandits were described ats time as being between 35 and No woman had entered into the search, but it never was estab that the driver of the holdup oar was. a man.

Two Questioned In Truck Hijacking

State Police today questioned men in Brookville in connection wit a. series of central Indiana trucle hijacking cases. The two men were arrested near New Bethel last night following short chase on State Road 69, polis said. Their car was brought to In= dianapolis' and they were taken: to Brookville. One of the men held had a special Marion County deputy sheriff's badge issued in 1936, police said. It was one of many such badges issued at that time. ’ Meanwhile, Capt. Walter Ec reported that the Bell Trucking had notified headquarters here one of their trucks had been jacked near Andersonville last n and three cases of coffee and a cae of tapioca taken. A truck © by the Interstate Motor Freight Co, also was looted, Capt. Eckert s The merchandise of the Ils truck was scattered along Road 52, These hijackings, Capt. Eckert s occurred 24 hours after a tru of cigarets was robbed near Car

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