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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933. I e. News From Indiana Cities and Towns MOTHER, 13, DISCARDS DOLL TRIO LOOTS BANK (Cejnar Photo.) ARRESTLUESSE Address to Unemployed Is Halted Authorities Here Ask Custody. $10,000 Is Taken, Stripping Institution of All Cash But 40 Cents. OFFICERS AT MONTPEL ER lit Special to The Indianapolis Star.

MONTPELIER, Aug. 4. Three polite bandits this afternoon stripped the First National bank of more than $10,000, representing all the institution's cash but .40 cents, and eluded the search of hastily formed posses. When the four bank workers and MARION, Aug. Theodore Luesse of Indianapolis, former editor of a communist newspaper, was arrested here today while preparing to address a crowd that had assembled on the Courthouse lawn.

Officers said Luesse was arrested at the request of authorities at Indianapolis. Luesse was paroled from Indiana state farm last February after serving a sentence imposed at Indianapolis on the charge of obstructing a legal process. He had been arrested several times in connection with alleged attempts to interfere with evictions. Tear Sentence Shortened, two customers finally ventured to spread an alarm after the holdup, the robbers had gained a long start and no trace of them had been picked up tonight by local authorities and state police. It was the second time the bank had been robbed.

The three men parked their blue Chrysler automobile half a block irom me Dank and, while one re mained with car, the other two well dressed and unmasked, walked Mrs. Gwendolyn Croucher, who became a mother at 13, Is shown with her new daughter. Mrs. Flonla Kdwards, Gwendolyn's mother, is seated on the edge of the bed. into the bank.

"This Is a Holdup." "This is a holdup. All we want is the money," they announced. One of the pair forced Merl Tewks- plying coats of sizing. The Rev. Thomas McAvoy, archivist of the university library, is going through old records to find out whether the tradition applies only to the application of the gold leaf, or to the entire Job.

bury, president and conservator; Here's What YOU CAN DO to help President Roosevelt's National Administration Recovery Plan L. Murray of the Insurance department, and Miss Ruth Reynolds, a stenographer, to go into a rear room The sentence on which Luesse was sent to the penal farm was imposed May 22, 1931. He was sentenced to serve one year and was given a fine and costs that totaled $526.60. Last February Governor Paul V. McNutt, on recommendation of the farm trustees, remitted $150 of the fine, making Luesse eligible for immediate parole.

It was reported at the Governor's office that -when Luesse was released he promised to obey all laws and had assured the Governor he would leave the state. Police, who arrested Luesse here, said he was about to make a speech to a group of unemployed persons. Dr. Hauser, Columbus Native, Succumbs at 94 Special to The Indianapolii Star. COLUMBUS, Aug.

4. Dr. Z. H. Hauser, 94 years old, retired druggist and one of the oldest Ma where he stood guard.

The second robber singled out the cashier, H. D. Thornburg, and forced Special to The Indianapolis Star. KURTZ, Aug. 4.

Abruptly discarding- a doll as a toy, 13-year-old Mrs. Gwendolyn Croucher has turned her attention to her newly born baby. She is Indiana's youngest mother. And, also, Gwendolyn's mother, Mrs. Flonia Edwards, 29, is probably the state's youngest grandmother.

Her father, Hubert Edwards, may or may not be the youngest Hoosier grandfather, for he is all of 32 years old, and the new mother's husband, Ralph Croucher, has reached the ripe old age of 21. Mother and daughter are doing nicely, but the doll Is being neglected. 2 Pounds Plus 35 Pounds. him to open the vault. While Thornburg was complying with the command two customers entered.

Mrs Lillie Reeves was ordered into the back room and Alva Dickerson was commanded to sit down and wait for the completion of the holdup. working witnout haste, tne man with Thornburg stuffed all the cur Every- rency in the vault into five sacks he Everybody will give up something, body will gain something in the end. carried. Then he called to his com panion that the holdup was complet ed, and they walked deliberately to Eastward Hiking Is Good. SAN DIEGO, Aug.

4. Mis. H. C. Hopkins and her 10-year-old daughter Jean, who are hitchhiking to Lafayette, for a lark, have written friends here that they covered 2,259 miles the first eight days, having ridden in twenty-nine cars and walked only eleven and a half miles.

Mrs. Hopkins, wife of a local attorney, wrote that they are enjoying the trip. Hunger Strikers Jailed DECATUR, Aug. 4 Mr. and Mrs.

Hubert Bruechy of Berne, who recently broke a seventeen-day hunger strike for which there was no motive so far as officials could learn, have been placed in jail here pending a "sanity hearing. They have refused aid and recently when Mrs. Bruechy's mother brought them food and clothing they refused the food and threw the clothing into a garage. WOMAN SLAIN, MAN BEATEN BY ROBBERS Brother and Sister Victims their car. Circled In Flight, Belief.

Reposing in a cash drawer was 40 BRAZIL, Aug. 4. Roy Strong reports he was fishing in Eel river when he caught a two-pound catfish and put it on a stringer. When he went to pull the stringer out of the stream he could hardly move it, but he did, and found a thirty-five-pound catfish had swallowed the two-pound catch. cents, the only cash the robbers over looked.

Bank officials tonight had not completed their check, but an nounced the loss at between $10,000 and $12,000. loss is covered by insurance. When officials had been advised of the robbery they immediately sought trace of the blue automobile bearing Michigan license plates and learned it had been driven east out of Mont-pelier on state road No. 18, but fur sons in the state, mea at me county hospital today following a long illness due to infirmities. He practiced medicine and surgery more than half a century and had been in the drug business since 1880.

For more than fifty years he was active in Democratic politics and served a term as county clerk and as a trustee of Central Indiana hos- Jiital at Indianapolis. He was a life-ong resident of Columbus. Suvivors are a daughter, Mrs. Samuel Updegraff of Los Angeles, and a sister, Miss Harriet Hauser, Philadelphia, Pa. Penal Farm Parole Agent Is Killed in Motor Crash Special to The Indianapolis Star.

GREENCASTLB, Aug. 4. Funeral services will be held Sunday In the Methodist church for Gilbert Snider. 32 years old, Indiana state farm official who was killed instantly last night on the McDonald road twelve miles east of here. Snider, It is believed, fell asleep at the wheel and his car struck a melon truck driven by Ernest Blubaum of Decker.

ther inquiry along this route indi jyjAYBE you're wondering just what all this talk of NRA means, and if there's some place in the plan for you. There IS. Here's the dope. Business is better. All over the country, men are going back to work.

"FINE," says the President, "AS FAR AS IT GOES." But, the President thinks that unemployment and business can pick up much faster. The NRA (National Recovery Administration) has worked out a plan to speed things up. The President wants YOUR help to make it work 100. You are asked to try the plan from now until the end of the year. In a nutshell, this is what he urges: "Split vp the existing ivork to put more men on the payroll and raise the 'wages or the shorter working-shift so that no worker is getting less than living wage." cated the car had not continued the easterly flight and authorities believe Marriage License Return.

CROWN POINT, Aug. 4. County Clerk George Sweigart has received a marriage license issued May 26 of last year to Willie Cheeks and Corinne Billingsby of Gary. Accompanying the returned license was an unsigned letter, as follows: "Yours truly, I am sending, these back to be annulled because the answers we gave were not true. Afterward being condemned we could not go through with the marriage.

Yours truly. I feel it is right to send these back to be taken off the record." Winged Traffic Hazard. The worker is asked to accept a shorter working week to give some neighbor a chance to earn his living. He will work less; have more time for play, and fewer unemployed relatives will be dependent on his help. Business is asked to split up work and add to payrolls so that jobs and pay envelopes can take the place of charity and contributions this winter.

Present profits may be temporarily sacrificed while next year's customers are being built. Never before has there been such a simple and definite plan for wiping out unemployment and restoring the purchasing power of all the people. If we all join together, act at once, unemployment might easily be licked by Labor Day! Sign the agreement. Display the NRA Members seal if you're a business man. Display the NRA Consumer's seal if a consumer.

Everybody has a part to play. the men circled after leaving the city and went west. Their descriptions tally with those of men who recently robbed the Ualeville bank. of Clubber Held Up Four Years Ago. On Nov.

25, 1931, the same was of about $6,000 dur ing a flurry of bank robberies in this section. At that time vigilantes fought a brisk gun battle with the holdup men, but failed to halt heir ERIE, Aug. 4 Beaten with a club, the body of Hanna Biegert, 70 years old, was found on Snider was a member of the Fnt escape. Delta Kanna fraternity and the Ma BLUFFTON. Aug.

4. Local sonic lodge. He had been parole motorists had their troubles the other night when a large blue herron officer at the penal farm for eight years. The mother, two sisters and YOUNG HUNTER SLAIN three brothers survive. -walked majestically down the center Fisherman's Line Hooks Accidental Discharge of Body of Suicide in Ohio the farm where Bhe lived near Gir-ard today.

Her brother, Albert, 72, knocked unconscious by the assailants, was found in a nearby barn. The man is in an Erie hospital tonight in a critical condition. Fred Blair, a state cattle tester, discovered the slaying upon visiting the farm today. Investigators say the crime took place about noon Thursday. Bobbery Believed Motive.

Police said robbery was probably the motive for the attack, pointing out that Biegert recently withdrew his savings from a Girard bank. Special to The Indianapolii Star. Gun Carried by Rockport Companion Is Fatal. ENGLISH, Aug. 4.

Chester N. Elliott Sr. of Leavenworth drowned himself today in the Ohio river. His body was caught on a of the streets, unheeding the horns of automobiles which wanted to pass. Finally reaching a street intersection which was big enough for a takeoff, the heron flapped to a tree top, perched there a minute, then flew off into the night.

Rain Breaks Tradition. NOTRE DAME, Aug. 4. Recent rain is believed to have ended an old Notre Dame tradition that it never rains while the dome of the administration building is being gilded. The work of applying the gold leaf, however, has not yet begun, workmen being engaged in scraping off the old gold leaf and ap Special to The Indianapolis Star.

ROCKPORT, Aug. 4. George Harold Pool was killed instantly this afternoon as he started on a hunting trip when a line by Jesse W. Ewing while fishing. Coroner Louie A.

Dooley learned that Elliott, a former liveryman and merchant at Leavenworth, had been despondent since the death of Mrs. Elliott, last November and had threatened suicide. The funeral will be Sunday at Leavenworth. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Bradford Scott of Smithville, and a son, Chester N.

Elliott Jr. of Leavenworth. THE PUBLIC'S PART Support those employers and employees who do their parts to put bread-winners back to work. Patronize the stores and services displaying the RA sign; it means (hey fully comply with the President's plan. THE EMPLOYEES' PART Do your best on the job.

Share your hours with (he neighbor who has no work now. Cooperate with (he NRA (o make (his plan a success. Remember more can be done now for woii ers through fhis cooperation of 125,000,001 people than tan ever be done by discor-and dispute. shotgun carried by a companion was discharged accidentally, the load The brother and sister, who lived alone, were robbed of $300 four years ago. County authorities left hurriedly for Girard tonight, refusing to comment on the reason for the trip.

Meanwhile police attempted to obtain a statement from Biegert but, due to the man's weakened condition, his comments were of little piercing his heart. Pool and Estel Harter, 15, were THE EMPLOYERS' PART Sign the President's Reemployment Agreement. Join with every other employer In the land to make Jobs through shorter hours and distributing work. Raise wages to the minimum suggested bj the President, at least. Abolish child labor.

Cooperate with employee in peaceful adjustment of opinions. Remember- an unemployed man It a poor customer lor you in the long run. More and fatter pay envelopes era the best way to boost the public'i buying power and your own business, preparing to return to the fields after a morning of hunting when a gun BARTON BLACKMAILER Harter held under his arm was discharged. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and GETS 5 TO 10 YEARS Mrs.

James Pool and four sisters. VERNON HWNTKB STRICKEN. NEW YORK, Aug. 4. Con VERNON, Aug.

4. Oscar Wells, 61 years old, dropped dead at FIGHT AGE DEADLINE Workers at Fort Wayne to Seek Revision of Labor Limit. victed of attempted blackmail of Vernon this afternoon as he was re Clinton Typhoid Fever Caused by Milk, Belief CLINTON, Aug. 4. Health officials are here investigating the city's water supply in an effort to find the cause of typhoid fever epidemic which broke out recently.

The number of cases is still Increasing and ten persons are listed as having "suspicious" symptoms. Physicians expressed belief that the germs are originating in raw milk which is being destributed here in large quantities. Newcastle Police Officer turning from a hunting trip. Coroner Roland Webster returned a verdict of Bruce Barton, author and advertising executive, Mrs. Frances W.

King was sentenced today to serve a prison term of not less than five nor death by cerebral hemorrhage. Sur vivors are two children, Artie Wells SIGN TODAY more than ten years. "Blackmail is the foulest crime In civilized life," said Judge Corrigan in imposing sentence. "There has been much of it in New York in recent and Mrs. Effie Thomas of this city.

Conference Laymen Give $600 for Mission Work Special to The Indianapolis Star. BATTLE GROUND, Aug. 4. Fifteen hundred laymen attending the Bible conference here contributed $600 toward the expenses and salarv of Dr. Arthur Wesley, mis years.

For that reason an adequate sentence must be imposed in this FORT WAYNE. Aug. 4. (U.P.) A city-wide canvass in an effort to obtain signatures of 50,000 persons favoring modification of the state law which it is claimed makes it prohibitive for Indiana factories to hire men more than 45 years old, is to be conducted here. Announcement of the plan came to case, in spite of the jury's recom mendation of mercy, which I am tak THIS ADVERTISEMENT SPONSORED BY ing into consideration." Counsel to Appeal.

day from August Klein, who stated that he was working through th INDIANAPOIIS PATTERN WORKS MSVi Fenna. St. EMRICH FURNITURE CO. 121 W. Morris St.

DRexel ACME WORKS 420 S. Harding St. Mrs. King, accused by Barton of attempting to obtain $50,000 under threat of publishing a novel which Federation of Labor organization here. Klein said that because 6f insurance regulations in the state, fac THORP AWMNO INC.

2107 Colleie At. HBmlock 4091 SHIRLEY BROTHERS t(S N. Illinois St. NATIONAL CASKET CO. 902 N.

Capitol Ave. he charged was and vicious libel," took the verdict calmly. Her counsel, Solomon Hirschorn, announced an appeal tories would not hire the older men. sionary of South America, at the request of Dr. E.

Stanley Jones, chief figure in the conference program. Dr. Jones himself will depart shortly for India, where he will resume his own missionary career. Tomorrow Dr. Carroll Hildebrand of DePauw university will speak and the Sunday services will be addressed by Bishop H.

Lester Smith of the Cincinnati (O.) area. Following the bishop's sermon the Bible conference will close. Fair, Somewhat Warmer COMMONWEALTH LOAN CO. MME. C.

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tfrl(crtori and eustom bdy mfri. 10 W. Morris St. DRexel 044J would be filed in a few days. Hirschorn asked the court in imposing sentence to Overlook Mrs Kine's conduct on the witness stand, As a result, there is no source of income for the majority of men over 45 years old, until they reach 70 and are eligible for the old age pension.

Noblesville Bank to Pay SEVILLE TAVERN, INO. Indiana's finest restaurant. 1 N. Meridian St. Kllrr S2t BAKER BROTHERS 219 E.

Wash. St. Dies; Once Resided Here Special to The Indianapolis Star. NEWCASTLE, Aug. 4.

John H. Kura, 61 years old, formerly of Indianapolis, police officer here for the last ten years, died this morning following a brief illness of pneumonia. Funeral services will be at Crown Hill cemetery at Indianapolis at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. A sister, Mrs. Frank Holle of Indianapolis, survives.

Rockville Youth Shoots Self Following Quarrel ROCKVILLE, Aug. William Stark, 17 years old, committed suicide here today after a suarrel with his family. Stark shot himself with a rifle and his body was found in a nearby woods. 2 ROBBERS SENTENCED. LA PORTE, Aug.

4. Alfred Burke, 30 years old, and Harold Kryza, 26, Chicago bandits who held tip Lloyd Cooper, local bookie, in a hotel here June 19, today were sentenced by Circuit Judge Alfred J. Link to serve ten years in prison for robbery. The pair was caught by Michigan officers a few hours after the holdup, which netted $500. Most Mrs.

King, who maintained the trial was "a framcup," had voiced her SCUIFF'S SHOE STORES JAKE FELD CO. Mohawk Tires Yonr Credit Is "Jake" With "Jake" 115 X. New York St. Riley 4700 Post-Moratorium Funds Special to The Indianapolis Star. NOBLES VILLU, Aug.

4. A. H. Baker, conservator for the Citizens State bank of this city, closed two weeks ago by the disrespect for the court. Not Guilty Plea Entered by Metamora Suspect Special to The Indianapolis Star.

BROOKSHIKE FIIARMACY 217 N. Fenna. St. GOOD YK A It SERVICE, INC. Delaware Walnut St a.

PATTERSON SHADE CO. 132 N. Delaware St. Weather Forecast Today Relief from sweltering temperatures of the last week continued yesterday and an average temperature of 66, which is nine degrees below normai for Aug. 4, was recorded by the Weather Bureau.

Fair weather today and tomorrow with somewhat warmer temperatures tomorrow was forecast. The low THE PAIR til W. Waih. St. FAIRWAY COFFEE CO.

(7-41 S. Davidson St. STOVER-WIN ST ED INC. 88 S. Capitol Ave.

CENTRAL OHIO PAPER CO. 250 8. Penna. St. DUES F.N BERG MOTORS CO.

mi W. Waah. St. METAT.CRAFT MFG. CO.

Mannfaetnrero of wlndnhlelrin and fen- ernl aiitomobllo repnlrlnc-. tit N. Alabama St. Lincoln S785 state banking department, announced BROOKVILLE, Aug. 4 Wendall Schaffer, 25-year-old Dayton today he would start next Monday paying in full depositors who had placed their money in the institution (O.) man held as a suspect in con THOMPSON BHOS.

PATTERN WKS. 1542 W. Wash. St. since Feb.

27, the date of the state moratorium. The only exception will nection with a recent bank robbery attempt at Metamora, entered a plea of not guilty in Franklin Circuit be those who are indebted to the SINKER-DAVIS CO. 230 8. Missouri St. court this afternoon.

Homer Carter, also of "Dayton, ia mark yesterday was 57 degrees, recorded at 5 o'clock in the morning. The highest for the day was 75 degrees at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. C. D. KENNY CO.

225 W. Georgia St. KRtJRE RADIO, INC, IS W. Ohio St. CENTRAL TRANSFER STORAGE CO.

209 W. South St. INDIANA CONDENSED MILK CO. awaiting sentence on a plea of guilty bank. Those who owe the bank will have debts deducted and will then be paid the balance.

It is estimated that $40,000 will be distributed in this way. MOO NEY-M TELLER-WARD CO. 601 Madison Art. to the robbery attempt after having been wounded and captured when he entered the bank. THE HOCSK OF CRANK 124 Meridian St.

Deposits in the bank before Feb. FACES POSTAL OUSTER. ANDERSON, Aug. 4. A.

Ora CAPITAL PAPER CO. 228 Wet South St. 27, which amount to several hundred thousands of dollars, will be held with the other assets of the Cripe, postmaster at Alexandria, will be dismissed from his office for "un MARSH McLF.NNAN, INC. Merchant! Bank Bide. AMERICAN REARING CORP.

431 W. 11th BU due political activity," Representa STATE AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 711 Occidental Bide LAN GEN METER Fnrriera MS Guaranty Bids. tive in Congress William H. Larabee BUILD HIGHWAY GARAGE. of New Palestine announced today.

of the money was recovered. Both pleaded guilty. PA0LI MAN SUCCUMBS. PAOLI, Aug. 4.

J. Everett Coulter, about 60 years old, engaged in the feed business here a number of years, died at his home here last night of heart disease. Survivors are the widow, the parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Coulter of this county, and several brothers and sisters.

Mr. Coulter was formerly a member of the board of trustees of Paoli schools. TRUCK HITS INTERURBAN CARMEL, Aug. 4. Thomas Beasley, a truck driver, was injured here this afternoon when the machine which he was driving crashed into an Indiana Railroad car at the main street crossing.

He suffered a sprained back and cuts and bruises. Beasley said he saw the car coming and attempted to stop his truck but was forced on the track by a heavily 'The department has ruled that SEYMOUR, Aug. 4 Work Cripe's political activities have been a violation of postal regulations and his dismissal has been ordered," the has been started on construction of a new combined office and garage building for the Seymour district of the Indiana state highway commission by employes of the Wendell congressman said. No successor has been selected, but politicians believed Otto Henne-Xent would be recommended. ioaaea trailer.

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