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Slow Down or Ride the Roving Jail

DOUBLE MURDER 8

Arrested for Phoenix Killings

As He Leaves Tennessee

Sunday School.

“KNOXVILLE, Tenn, May 8 M. Burgunder Jr. 2 and cultured

family. who learned

: about crime while his father was a

; dollars. Mr.

be re-

prosecuting attorney, will to be

tumed to Arizona today charged with two murders He is charged with mudering two men, Jack Peterson, 35, and Ellis M. Koury, 24, near Phoenix on April 30, for a new automobile and a few Peterson and Mr. Koury salesmen out for a machine

were bile They took a prospect demonstration in a new and were never seen again. Their bodies were found in the desert near Phoenix last week. oth had been bound. then Arrested in Front of Church Burgunder was arrested as walked out of Sunday School Johnson City. Tenn, yesterday morning. He had arrived in Tennessee mountain town the day before driving an automobile since identified as that of Mr. Pete and Mr. Koury Burgunder had been a stu the Arizona State Teachers near Phoenix, where tinguished himself journalist, a public sp quence, and with an essay Perfect Crime.” Guard Against Mob Action Sheriff Lon Jordon and County ttorney Richard of Phoenix will not take their prisoner, directly to Phoenix becau

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life be ndangered Sev eral hur ndred persons gathered at the Phoenix airport as the official plane took off and angry comment was voiced. Mr. Peterson was 2 member of a prominent Arizona

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der’s father, a prominent lawyer who formerly was Stat e's Attorney was heart-broken at the predicament of a son with whom he had had a great deal of

In Seattle

son and of course I'll im,” he said. But it is as if i didn’t know him Bu reunder Jr. was convicte eral years ago in Seattle of theft and sentenc ihe State Reformatory obtained a parole after 1} had a part of his tern 1 se to the Arizona colleg uld get “a fresh start” in a new environment

COUNCIL WILL GET DUMPING ORDINANCE

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ounds wi Council Monday. The ord by the Sou license dumps have someor iness hours, preven : and contain a penalty

cil kitchen,

STEIGER TO DIRECT DEMOCRAT WARD

Rep

to succeed James L ‘Beatty i te Chairman Fred

2 ROTARY DISTRICTS TO MEET SATURDAY

71 es Specia SOUTH BEND, ference of 154th an of Rotary Int here next 1 Speakers are to include foremer Reép. Samuel B. Pettengill and Drew Pedyson Washing uthe f “The Washington erry-Go-Ro ound

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TWO TRUSTIES TAKE WEEK-END ‘LEAVES’

MICHIG AN ( CITY May 8 (U. P) —Officers today were searching for two trusties who walked away from State prison farms over the weekend. Walter Brocaill, Posey County for second appeared vesterday Jack Benson, 43, sentenced from Huntington in 1938 to a 2 to 14-year term was discovered missing from the Warren Farm earlier in the day.’

60. sentenced from n 1913 to a life term degree murder dis-

from the Summit Farm

3 ner

> opened the door for her ‘ ner was held according to schedule.

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Slow down, Mr. Motorist if you

ride to the County Jail in this bus. tie just because it is sO

tells you just what it is. And

would avoid a duced because err

The lettering

lettered Sheriff Feeney thinks speeding will be re- | for the first time.

Planes Suddenly Diving From Clouds kg Worry of Naval Strategists

Aircraft Carriers Most Vulnerable in Present Day Fleets —0ne Bomb Can Disable Them—But They Have Protecting Fleet.

MAN HELD AS - FIRES ARE SET

Church, Residence, Garage Damaged in Series Of Blazes.

A 69-vear-old man accused of setting fire to clothing in his own home after allegedly starting fires that caused $1050 damage to a church, residence and garage, was held on a vagrancy charge by police today : The man, a reported mental patient, is alleged to have ignited oily rags in the Good Samaritan Baptist Church, 819 N. West St., at 33 a. m. yesterday, causing damge estimated at $800 “He also was suspected of starting a $200 firé at the home of Andrew Hill, 1002 Colton St., at 10:02 p Saturday. and a $30 fire in a garage at the home of Everett Smith, 911 N. California St, at 1:08 a. m rdayv Family Calls Police Members of the man’s family called police after he is reported to have fired clothing at his home in the 900 block’ of Colton St Police also arrested on a vagranc) charge a 15-year-old boy suspected f setting fire to a pile of trash at Stout Veterinary Hospital, 1430 Capitol Ave.. last night Firemen were called out yesterday to save two Sunday dinners When the wind slammed the door as Mrs. Virline Vonleggett stepped her apartment at 1022 N , she called firemen to help get back in and save her dinner from being burned Firemen climbed in a third story window and The din-

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Wind Plays Prank However, the firemen were too late to do much good at the home of Mrs. Richard Long. 819 Dorman St.

1' While her dinner was cooking, Mrs.

Long stepped into another room During her absence from the the wind blew a tablecloth on the Stove and it became ignited g the food on the stove The fire was out by the time fire- | men arrived.

DIES RAPS ‘ENEMIES’ IN FT. WAYNE TALK

FT WAYNE, MN May 8 (U. P)— Martin Dies (D. Tex.), chairthe House Committee Inigating Un-American Activities night declared there are “eight million people in the United s who are either members of have sympathies with subversive

Speaking under the sponsorship the American Legion, Mr. Dies European propagandists 'e succeeded in transfering their hates and feuds to our shores ideologies of the Old World have invaded the New. ed I say

within our Our borders than rs than without :

MEETING OF STATE RELIEF AIDS OPENS

miles of State roads on cepted by mission chairman,

way Frankfort, catur, > | Goshen, Albion, Richmond, Greenfield, New there are more enemies of America Nev . . SL 0 | chester, ville, paraiso, Crown Point, New Rochester,

Albany, ville, Petersburg and Vincennes.

Biggest Role in

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humiliation of riding in it. violators did yesterday when it was put into service

Times Photo. ing motorists will seek to avoid the Five alleged traffic-law |

WILLIAMS

Times Special Writer Feu what I can gather from the War College boys these days,

surface fleets at sea are having defense against air attack.

a tough time cooking up plans for

Suppose there's a hostile battleship and cruiser fleet locse, some-

where within a thousand square miles of ocean.

boats are out on a scouting mission

Shore-based flying

to locate that fleet. The old Navy

way to lccate that enemy fleet would have been to send light, | fast scouting cruisers and destrovers out. Centuries of naval warfare developed a dozen or more cute little scouting plans. No naval commander would dare to split his strength, and was therefore forced to shape his fleet's position in line with what he thought the enemy wanted to do The modern air setup follows the basic plan of naval search. The iong-range flying boats are all radio-equipped, and, spreading fan shape, they can comb an ocean in jig time. Aerial observers enjoy a great advantage since they see the surface vessels long before they themselves are sighted or detected. hey use this advantage by hanging in the low-lying cloud formations, or just far enough away from the surface fleet to maintain contact, but remain undiscovered. 2 2 2 EANWHILE, they radio the other searching aircraft, and in a short time these vultures congregate. The fleet they are waiting to pounce upon has, of course, its aircraft carriers, with hundreds of little fast fighters on board. These litle wasps could make it pretty hot for the big flying boats —if they knew they were near; and if near, where. Modern long-range flying boats can remain aloft for 20-odd hours, and at some time during that period they will find visibility most suitable for attack and most disadvantageous for the defense. The bad light just before sunrise, or the shading of sunset— plus cloud protection—gives all the surprise factors to the air attack. Hanging on in the dis tance,

just waiting for the kill, the flying boats are generally in and out again before the surface fleet can get its guns manned and its aircraft carrier planes into the air.

HE first attack is launched Taint the aircraft carriers, the most vital elements of a fleet, and, at the same time, the most vulnerable. One 500-pound bomb on the landing deck, and an aircraft carrier is out of commission. And no matter how rabid the admirals may be about the superiority of steel-sided fleets, none dare maintain that such a fleet has a ghost of a chance against an enemy when stripped of all its fighting aircraft. This is one point they don’t argue about. And so the headache problem of naval strategists today is to be ever and always ready to ward off an air attack without demoralizing the crews of the surface vessels. Only a few venes between the just-out-of- | sight position of the bombers and the first bomb drop. During these few minutes guns must be manned, ammunition hoists in operation, range finders and keepers in the mast tops on the job, and squadrons warmed-up and launched from the carrier's decks.

Peacetime war games at sea have scared the wits out of the old seadogs, and they have learned from experience that the surprise attack is aviation's most deadly and unpredictable feature. They know the dread of bombers gathering in the distance—holding off for the bad light, and fly- | ing for the kill. t's a greatly expanded version of waiting for the fellow upstairs to » drop the other shoe.

ON 180-MILE PAVING |

Bids for the resur] resurfacing of 180 ingluding work In 43 cities will be acthe State Highway Comtomorrow, T. A. Dicus, said today. Cities in which surfacing of highroutes is planned include: West Terre Haute, DeFt. Wayne, Columbia City Elkhart, Wabash, Warsaw. Angola, Walcottville, Marion, Castle, Palestine, Hartford City. WinPortland, Tipton, NoblesKokomo, Logansport, ValSouth Bend Plymouth, Bourbon, Nashville, Bloomington, ! mbus, Madison, Aurora, New Seymour, Linton, Evans-

routes

Carlisle,

15 ARE CHOSEN FOR

A two-day state-wide meeting of officials of the state commodity

n distribution unit was opened today

at the Hotel The unit

Washington Relief—State

Harr D. Elmore, of the “Fede ers Other out-of-town were to include three tors—Oscar Beyer, Maxey, Michigan, vacek, Wisconsin. is Indiana director

state direcIllinois; W

speakers Susan Curry, Elinor Hess, J. Jose, and A. H. Spe- Purky, Earl C. Wayland Palmer Jacqueline Spalding,

SHORTRIDGE ANNUAL

Fifteen pupils have | have been selected

is a branch of the Un- for positions on the editorial staff Depart- of the Shortridge Annual, publication of the graduating class, Washington, Joel W. ral Surplus Commodity class sponsor, announced today. was to be among the speak- | They

yearly

Hadley, vice principal and are David Baerncopf, Jane Mary Glossbrenner, Barbara Jones, Victor Judith Krohngold, Thomas David Savidge, Marott Sinex, Skaar, Josephine Smith, Alberta Wells

The state meeting is to be fol- and Jean Wells.

lowed Wednesday by a one- -day

STATE TO TAKE BIDS YORK CLAIMS GAIN

FOR TEMPERANC

next election “will

of the York, superintendent. said vesterday at the Woodside Methodist Church. “The people of Indiana are coming to understand,” he said, the liquor traffic is an enemy to

temperance cause,” L. E.

»| economic welfare, health, peace and that in one more elec- | shall be able by the use!

morals, tion, of

and they

their ballots to restore to the

voters the right to decide for them- |

selves the liquor issue.”

2 SEWING MACHINES STOLEN

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POLICE REPORT 4

minutes inter- |

surprise | even the most enthusiastic friends

Indiana Anti-Saloon League |

in an address

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was reported to police to- |

17 CONFESSIONS: IN MURDER RING

Poison Found in Two More Exhumed Bodies; Deaths Put Above 100.

PHILADELPHIA, May 8 (U. P).

—District Attorney Charles F. Kelley was to request today the exhumation of four more bodies of persons believed poisoned by a huge murder-for-insurance syndicate as authorities announced that 17 men and women had confessed their part in the five-state machinations of the | ring.

| Of the 21 now in custody in the

ever-widening investigation of the

“merchants of death” slayings by!

arsenic, hemlock, drowning, hit-run |“accident” and‘ other means, only Mrs. Agnes Mandiuk, Mrs. Marie Woloshyn and Mrs. Dora Sherman, widows of alleged victims, have maintained their innocence. Principal confessions that have {given detectives a clearer perspec|tive of the near-incredible ramifications of the ring over a decade {have come from Herman Petrillo, |spaghetti salesman facing a death sentence, and Morris Bolber of Brooklyn, N. Y. self-styled faithhealer and “psychiatrist,” police said. Suspect in Hospital

Meantime, it was reported that an attempt may have been made by other syndicate members to “seal the lips” of Paul Petrillo, 45, South Philadelphia tailor and “witch a leader of one “branch” of the | ring. Despite a denial by Dr. Frederick S. Baldi, acting superintendent of county prisons, it was reported re-| confined for two weeks in was undergoing tests to determine whether he had been poisoned. Authorities believed that the syndicate still operated between the conviction of first degree murder of

the end of the trial of Mrs. Carina | Favato, who pleaded guilty to the | arsenic slayings of her stepson, her | common-law husband and another] man.

Poison Found in Two Bodies

To support the report of Paul | Petrillo’s illness, it was pointed out [that he alone of the many suspects has been spared intensive questioning by detectives and officials. | Meantime, Coroner Charles Hersch announced that arsenic in lethal quantities had been found in the bodies exhumed last week of Antonio Romaldo, a lamplighter,| and Roman Mandiuk, a baker. Two widows “broke” Saturday and| admitted plotting to slay their hus-| | bands. They were Mrs. Rose Davis, | 40, who allegedly admitted that she poisoned her bedridden husband, Louis Lavacchio, 51, for $1000 insur- | ance, and Mrs. Anna Arena, 45, who | purportedly confessed plotting with | the ring to push her husband, | Joseph, 47, a shoemaker, from a boat off Seaville, N. J, during a “fishing | party.”

HOTEL DAMAGE SUIT IS NEARING JURY

{ BLUFFTON, May 8 (U. P).-—-A | Wells Circuit Court jury today was |

| expected to receive a $63,500 dam-|

| age suit filed against the Keenan { Hotel Co., of Ft. Wayne, by Mrs. ‘Ruth Erwin, also of Ft. Wayne. | The case was sent here on a { change of venue from Allen Circuit | Court. Mrs. Erwin sought a judg- | ment on grounds that she was the] owner of 635 shares of hotel stock

valued at $100 a share and that the!

company converted the stock to its own use,

doctor” who has been described as!

Herman Petrillo, Paul's cousin, and |

H.!

Thomas M. Owen Jr.

| Government.

“Acts, not facts, make the news,” according to Thomas M. Owen Jr. of Washington, whose official title is Chief of the Division of Veterans’ Administration Archives of the Department of National Archives. He is here as a member of the | |board of judges selecting the win-|

ners of the 1939 post history contest | of A American Legion. | . Owen, who thinks he has one lo the most interesting jobs in | America, says that “preserving the ‘news of today for the generations of tomorrow is history.”

Priceless Records Stored

His office at Washington is in the new 2) million dollar Archives Building which has just been completed to house the invaluable reclords of 160 years of American Gov-

ernment. “Priceless records are kept in this | building which probably is the most | fireproof structure in the world,” he |said. “In the Veterans’ Administra[tion archives alone there are more than 400 million sheets of paper and cards. Among the important documents are the treaties the United States has made with other nations, dating to the beginning of our government.”

| they

preservation process developed by the Division of Repair which is believed to keep the documents almost indefinitely.

| Gadgets Keep Them Safe

| “All sorts of gadgets keep the papers safe,” he said. “There are photo-electric alarms to protect them from theft. “Other devicés which record the movement of an alien body, even as small as a mouse; instruments to keep the temperature static; equipment that cleanses the air and safeguards that protect against insects ‘of all kinds.”

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Veterans’ Archives Chief - Proud of Elong Elongated Title

liably that Paul Petrillo had been | the | Moyamensing Prison infirmary and News was defined here today by a genial, chubby-faced man with

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MONDAY, MAY 8, 1939

12,000 MAY JOIN “TOWNSEND TREK

‘Tourist Fares Are Offered For June Convention; Others to Drive.

A half dozen dispatches in the t [current issue of the Townsend Nae | tional Weekly are carrying Ine 'dianapolis datelines outling plans |for the fourth annual convention to be held here June 22-25. | More than 12,000 delegates, rep | resenting more than 500,000 meme

bers of the movement are expected. { Summer railroad tourist rates will

| be offered all delegates living 500

| miles or more West from here, a story adjoining a three-column pice ture of the State House says. The | picture was taken from the top of [the Soldiers and Sailors’ Monu- | ment. | Auto caravans of 10 to 500 cars {will arrive the day before the convention, B. G. Rankine, convention manager, says in another dispatch. State Police escorts will accompany them into the City, he says. The convention bureau has two | local places under option, he adds, {in which to hold meetings. Whether | sessions are held at Cadle Tabernacle or at the Butler Fieldhouse will depend upon the number of delegates.

KIWANIS IS DONATED FARM FOR CHILDREN

| will A 147-acre farm near Dublin] owned by C. O. Davis has been | donated to the Indiana District | Kiwanis International to serve as a home for underprivileged children, it was announced today.

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