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THE WEATHER Generally fair tonight and thundershowers this atfernpon or tonight; much cooler tonight; warmer Tuesday SPORT. MAYOR Bandits Make Rich Haul At Streator Illinois, Bank Japanese Army And Navy Mutiny Reported At Toklo For Continue Sea Hunt For Suspects Toast Guard Ortkkl Authorities Have Definite About Craft and Its Five Occupants TRENTON May 16-(UP)-Prosecutor 'A NATIONAL COLUMN FCRTH05E WHO THINK ft Frederick Lawdis NSPEAKABLY horrible as is the termination of Lhe Lindbergh mystery, it must be in a sense a relief to the father anc! mother, for any certainty: no matter how terrible, is to be preferred to the terrible'specula- tions, regarding the fate ot 'child, which would AWii, have been theirs through the to coord lia te the search for slayers of -ears had the riddle remain- Lindbergh coast guardsmen today continued search loi I a craft which John H. Curtis, Norfolk negotiator once 1 boarded in the hope of making definite contact with tne mjnut6a LONG 0 -u, 7 irirlTinrKM-s. released today after oon' connection with the case. officials TRENTON, N.

May (UP) --As state officials met ROBBERS GET FOR EFFORTS 5 ENATOR HUEY may be a b.ad actor, ac' Gang Work AIL SlgM Then Walts Until Time lock Opens; Buse is Successful. STREATOR, May bandits held the -assistant the Union National bank and his wile and three children prisoners for 10-hours, Ui-en the bank vault of betw.ees $.40,000 and $50,000 when a time lock was released today. A ruse to police out of the city iby reporting a "bad accident" miles west.o-f Streator a tew ute a before the was released was party successful. The bandits- appeared at the home of T. th assistant cashier stood guard 'the res: of the night" over McNamara used by.

Noriolk negotia- ng return of Planes Join Hunt. The coast guard has massed 7o vessels' along tlifc eastern sea! board in an attempt to the i schooner. They also are using coast'guard'sea planes to search; the various obscure Inlets the scttooner rolght.be in Meanwhile in the Bronx, Di. John F. Condon was In company two New Jersey state troopers Examining pictures in the Rogue (j a iiery at New Roohelle, in an at- siatesmen' acquired them tempt to identicy any IVahv.

that the craft was ba cSSS lp Dcdgley, of coast cordingxto the senate's code, bft3e at New Yo rk City, today said: but nevertheless it is a pub-i We have det itl it information about the we lie service to have the fc New york harbpr.two", weeks-ago." tne mgm over ronment if any of them, are" on the pay roll of great interests in Int their private capacities, that is of more -than passing interest to the country. q-f HERE used to be an idea I that when one entered; public service he should cut all ties which might influence him in the discharge of his public duties, but it seems that many who had no such ties when they became McNamara TO END1IFE bandits and- i night at the William Boys, bank president, and'several other 'bank, officials and-employes were forced-to. He on the floor.after'they walked in to start day's work. Ten min-utes after two highway officers responded to the telephone 1'eport of an accident, the robbers took.the money from th -b'aiik and, speeded north -out, of. the city iri an automobile.

general. Bronx cemetery. Condon, according to a police i bulletin today, said he met only )U Can write it clown as i one member of the Jias a fundamental of com- i. be Louis Vernon -Neiswender Found Shot to Death By His Roommate rnon decency no senator or representative should operate a law office or any other kind of business and the employee of great 'Interests, deeply Interested matters which come be- Core the body to which the aforesaid statesman belongs. HICAGO is to be the scene of great anti-tax demonstration on the eve of the coming national conventions of the republicans and democrats, but what a demonstration it would be if the opponents of governmental extravagance could arrange for all the useless office holders to parade up and down Michigan avenue.

There would be many times more-men, in that par- J-i ll i marched in- the prosecution leaders were, meeting PERU; May to his home late last night, BuckweH found his room mate, Louis Ve-rnon (Dutch) Xelswend- ne-icr. from bullet wounds. gotiations with the group was A revolver lay beside the body, held aboard a boat' by five men, bull et struck the right side T-Tn i DEATH CALLS GAPL DOLLAR AGE OF 88 SHIPPING MAGNATE DIES AGO) PREMIER IS MURDERED; BOMBS HURLED Fascist Plot It Believed Came of In Japan; Assassins Captured LONDON May mutiny has broken out inHhe Japanese navy an din part of the army private advices from Toklo said today. A general censorship has been established in Totio. The private in Question p-ai no details.

Direct Tokio describing yesterday's uprising an army and navy group Muncie Executive Claims "Fr ameup Mayor and Ten Other Defendants Are Charged With Conspiracy To Violate the yational Prohibition Laws INDIANAPOLIS, May George R. Dale mayor of Muncie, went to: trial in Federal court here today en charges conspiring to violate national were eight Muncie police wiui 111 in Anderson and Muncie. American commerce lost a not-1 the, premier, and vlc or three months." able figure today when Captain, hnmb ad nubile buildings, however. as long as tnree weehb Dollar died of heart dis- sait i everything was tranquil to- day. It was believed that the'- private advices may have referred' to yesterday's event's.

Assassination ag-ed by planning ttr.3: ease He was rounder of the Doll ar Steamship lines. wart denied" by Hack- anij. Bten taiied to pierce -the skull. sec-1" 1 ond passed through the lobe and' lodged within er Condon's son-in-law, of'Condon said; however, that-tha elderly eduator liad tham-ot this alleged incident. Re-trace.

Steps. Curtis Norfolk shipbuilder, still was being taken over the he covered in attemptint to make a contact with the group who claimed to be the kidnapers. He was believed to be confining his search to southern New Jersey, after having made a partial tentative identification oC a picture, sao earlier in the evening in the Newark police gai-j cers believe that a second shot whom 1 fired by the man went wild and State police today requested I that the third proved fatal. SAN the right ear the head. Neiswender, a- formei ployee, has been out oC.work, for! several months and is said to have) shown unusual despondency dur-! Ing the last week.

Neighbors say they heard three Offi- the treasury department again Lo issue a letter to banks detailing the serial numbers of bills used to make the ransom payment In the Bronx. Only one of these bills has been found, insofar as authorities have revealed. Meanwhile, all. the detection and grand review at Washington fn 1SB5. (See Page 2 For No.

1.) Surviving are tne mother, Matilda Neisw'ender and a' sister, Mrs. William Engeloga, both of- th.s c.ty. Funeral 'services will be held at the Drake funeral home at '2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Rev, Harry Nyce officiating. Burial will be made at Mt. Hope cemetery here.

Piaie Sighted At Sea Gaston Means as a as reported, he tolfl Mrs. Me- TV(O Stcftmers mi ort Plaile Heading Towards the Coast Lean he knew the people QJ To Fftil HE -finding of the Lind- 1 bergh baby now pillories GastonCleans as raud.if More Than Ona Hundred Democratic Votes mid I'Jfty- Xlnc BepTiMJcan Votes at Stake. State conventions primaries this week will affect 10S'votes in tbo-'democratic, presidential nominating convention and 5-9 in th-e republican. -In, New 'Jersey, primaries Tuesday, 32 democratic delegates, with 32 convention votes, and 35 ve- 'will-be chosen. Republicans all are exepcted to he for President Hoover, who already Li assured of.

renomlnatipn. The democrats 'unpledged, will be trolled by 'Mayor-. Frank Hague of Jersey City a supporter, of Alfred Smith. In the. Kansa.3 democratic coa- ''ventioii the same day, Roosevelt "forces will -'seek a delegation, of i' twenty votes'for him.

The Kansas League is -against Roosevelt. Roosevelt'seems assur- 1 ed ot the eight democratic gaies to be selected by a Montana convention. The Montana republi- i can delegates are counted for Mr. Hoover. On Wednesday a Vermont democratic convention will eight delegates, claimed for Roosevelt.

Twenty-tour 'democratic' delegates to be named by the Tenmea- aee convention on Friday also arc claimed for Roosevelt President Hoover will get Oregon's 13 votes in the republican primary there Roosevelt, considered plied the seven seas. aW in the contrast lor 10 Or- Born In Falklrk, Scotland, in! egon democratic delegates. 1844 of a hardy seafaring family. Capt. Robert Stanley Dollar and ''soverninent 'them facing execution today at the end of a brief 'reign of terror in which government property bombed, 'several were wounded, one policeman was killed.

The assassins raced through To- klo streets In. motor cars as they hurled their bombs, throwing the populace into a panicfc. Seventy-seven year old Tsuyoshi Inukai, and the "Old Fox" oE Japanese- politics, was executed in his by six men wearing miltary uniforms who battered way past police guards, They called Inukai from a room. where" be was chatting with a visitor. Two men held the premier.

Another ftred twice, one- bullet entering the temple and another penetrating a nostril. The premier died Sunday. FEDERAL MEN NAB TWO HERE Captain Robert S. Dollar, who rose a cook's. in em- Logging camp to become Aemrican shipping died at hi home here today.

Tne dynamic old shipping. mast- who -was the Kyne's fictional "Capp'y '-Ricks," to a heart affliction aggravated by'an intestinal infection and cold. He was stricken, with the cold on May 1. Complications so reduced his vitality that his heart was weakened. Born In Although Capt.

Dollar's famr was won in shipping activities, was as a lumberman that he 8pen- nianv of his active years He was 57 when he began his first shipping ventare, inspired by a desire for better shipping facilities to and from his California timber At his death he held an interefet in timber companies but most of the Dollar fortune was fn liners MAYOR who had the child, and means should after the due formalities of the courts the judicial package he so richly earned. ss ADDRESSES' CLOB mother with the first The Dollars came to' in lumber trade) tbe-townshlp' until 1901, wher the first Dollar-Cass county and ship, the steam schooner ficials as gues.s, ttte HEY are having a hard "time finding weather that will perfnit them to bring the' giant dirigible' to her mooring: base. one wonder i on i) I boy Dollar sent on a- voyage Shipping fanclnat addressed Its LONDON, May inysteiy airplane was sighted by two steamships in the Atlantic today, flying from the direction of North toward the British Isles. The ship was a monoplane.equipped with pontoons. The air ministry haft no knowledge of any airplanes maneuvering at amwiufi tii sea.

Other aviation auarl.ers and shipping officers could not Identify i nantain and gradually-he Bpsse, spoke in behalf I 6Q I- nf pdUCatlOU, 1 the plane. The ship was reported by the American steamer Ala, over which It passed'-at 11:45 a. G-MT (7:45 a. jn. New York east At that timo it was about 155 miles from Landsend.

It had'passed the American steamer McKesport an hour Tho latest reported position of the plane was 49.50 north, 0.4+ vest of Dick Wilson ami Walter Piircell Taken Into Custody by Agents While to testify the state case against Morris Quinn and others in 'circuit court today, Paul Schinholt and Laymon, federal officers, arrested two Case county me-n. Richard Wilson, of near Onward. Svas apprehended the federal men stopped his machine and charge they found six gallons of alcohol. Later the two arrested Walter (Punk) Purcell. Both men ar held jail investigation and persons are talk with them.

The prohibition agents, referrng to the fact that other liquor cases are pending against Wilson hew, stated that would be taken to South, Bend possibly late- today for arraignment. ana a Federal investiga-: Twenty-one of the Anderson lice authorities, either eui'ltv or were 1 convicted. ijaie remained firm in his contention that he was the vicTofl "frameup." He case may contnu, efforts to escape trial, Dale made two trips to Washington to see attorney General William D. Mitchell. He demanded that the department of justice of Chlet Among Defendants Defendants with Dale are police chief Frank Masse.y; Fred Ellis, member of the board of safety; Kenneth Horstman and Harry Nelson, detectives; A.

Parkhurst, police captain: patrolmen Dan Davis and Ray Powell; Raymond Hoover, police mechanic and Fred "Jtubeck and Ernest Flatters, alleged-bootleggers. Chauncey Stillson, indicted with the others, has not been arrested. Johnson pleaded guilty and is expected to testify for the government. Alex Gavins and Telford- Orbi- surveyj-son, deputy attorneys, will assist; i Jeffrey. Dale and his co-defendants will represented by R.

W. IvcnninR- n-nfL sons, A. Tauehinb-augh, W. A. Mr- Clelland and F.

B. McClelland, all of Muncie, and Clarence G. Nichols and Dixon Bynum of Indianapolis. Members of the jury which will try the case of the mayor and 10 persons indicted with Mm- on federal charges are: Harry Powell, Fountain county, farmer; John A. Dorsett.

Daviess county, retired railroad man; Gus Thomas. Shelby county, surveyor; Oscar Sherficfc Marion Walter Rump, Dearborn county, building contractor: Verh 'YoiiTigWood. Wa'rrick county- farmer; James M. Rudy. VermiU- ion county, farmer; Erviu Robcr- Crawford county, liunber W.

Moore, Clay county merchant: James H. Hudson. Greene county, machinery sales-; man, Edward Heckle, conn- 'ty- merchant and Daniel P. Griffin, Harrison county merchant. mayor also.

was. charged having Hauor transported to Indianapolis for 1930 demo- cratic convention and maintaining a ''bar" in room 424 of the Claypool hotel, where Chief of police Massie was the "bartender." Mayor Dale wa.s alleged to have remarked that "Massie is a. good bartender, that's why I've got him," Sheriff Fred Puckett. or Delaware county, testified today that-on the nifflrc the 1930 eloo- tion he arrested Harvey Wilcox, Adam Saidler, and Harry Massie all -police officers, on charges ofj intoxication. Six witnesses, including two po- lice officer today testified against Mayor'Dale and others.

Under the questioning.of district attorney George R. Jeffrey, wit- Two art Drowned, Car KHIt Two, One it Slsln in One Is Accidentally Hanged (By United Violence claimed the lives of eight persons in Indiana over the week-end, a United Press revealed today. Two girls were drowned, an un-; identified man was killed by an auto, 3. negro was killed by an. jj uncie citT a ttome? auto and another negro slam at and another negro killed by a traction car, In-jacK- ers battle resulted in one death, and a boy accidentally hanged himself at Richmond.

INDIANAPOLIS. May Odis. Breeden. 30. wa.s killed and.

Richard Rogers. 25, his alleged slayer, was injured seriously, during what police described as a hijackers battle Saturday evening. Rogers was struck on the head with an auto crank in the. hands ot Honisr Breeden. brother of Robert Hudson, 35.

alleged participant In the fighting, escaped. RICHMOND, May E. Holzapfel. H. son councilman Harry Holzapfel.

hang-j ed himself accidentally in his father's garage when- he- -sllpps-' and fell after tying a rope his neck. The boy had climbed to' the top of the gara.ge and apparently used the rope in an attempt to keep from falling. ELKHART. Ind. Two sisters drowned -in St.

Joseph river here Sunday when Elizabeth Hageny. 14 Jumped from a boat to rescue nei 32 year old sister Anna who was swimming in the stream. club Bosse, of Mr. Liner Burns; Save 600 Seven Vessels-Rush to Assistance of French Steamer In The Gulf of Aden; Beport Three MARSEILLES. France, May ittorMV noaily 600 passengers from the steamer Ph --P aDan nessc testified that the Muncio flaiiies in tha Cult of Aden, the Jctee wireless station was offcers intoxicated, today.

No information on the number of dead near and Frank Massie. chief or The station reported four liners and three freighters ow an picked up the passengers as they -took -to the his actlrltly in I Increased field. ber 11. celebrated with''him their 57th wedding 'anniversary, bedsids, te 'i George, Phllippar was a new vessel returning from her mai-j of education, In which PP es committee. Mr.

-M as chairman'of the day. that it was feared thot some were dead. off" Corbett John- bootlegger, that re to be made. Johnson, Corbett's half- toslited fiat he place money in an en- chief, al-.

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