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BORDER GUARD'S
TALE BACKED UP
BY RUM RUNNER
Companion of Wounded
Man Bolsters Story of
Patrolmen.
Bv United Prees
DETROIT, Jan. 24.—Two cus
toms border patrolmen who shot
Walter Grundt. 27, a suspected
rum runner, today found their
stories of the shooting corroborated
by Grundt's companion.
Drawn from hiding by the report
that his pal needed blood for a
transfusion, Roy Fountain. 33, who
admitted he was with Grundt, came
to the hospital to offer his blood.
Today he was examined by Ward
Culver, chief assistant county pros
ecutor, and then freed. Culver said
Fountain admitted he and Grundt
were trying to run in a load of beer,
and that the officers called to them
to halt and that it was the third or
fourth shot that hit Grundt.
Was Not Armed ♦
Fountain said he was not armed,
and so far as he knew, Grundt did
not carry a gun.
“It was my first load and I was
particularly anxious to land it,”
Culver said Fountain told him.
"That was why I told Grundt to row
back from the landing. After he
was shot, I rowed the boat, to the
landing down river, throwing off
the beer on the way. When I
landed, I went to get aid and when
I returned they had taken him
away, so I beat it, too."
Grundt Improved
Fountain said he asked Grundt to
aid In bringing over the load of
thirty cases from Canada. Grundt
was to have half the load for his
share, Culver said Fountain told
him, with Fountain providing the
beer and the boat equipped with
runners for ice passage.
Grundt, who had charged he was
fired on without warning, was re
ported somewhat improved today.
Culver, while reserving decision,
indicated after hearing Fountain’s
story, that he would not prosecute
Clare Hopper, federal employe, who
admitted the shooting.
CHICAGO BOMBERS
Racketeers Are Blamed by
i Police; Damage Is Slight.
Bv United Press
CHICAGO. Jan. 24.—Police hunt
ed officials of the Handbill Distribu
ters union today, after two black
pow’der bombs exploded almost
simultaneously in two distributing
company offices on the southwest
side Thursday night.
The explosions occurred within a
few minutes of each other and only
a few’ blocks apart. Four men near
the buildings were knocked down by
the blasts, but not hurt seriously.
Police learned both shops had em
ployed nonunion labor and blamed
labor racketeers for setting the
bombs, which caused more noise
than damage.
DISPLAYS ARE PROMSED
300 Firms to Aid in Achievement
Week Program Feb. 3.
Three hundred window displays
have been promised by business
firms and manufacturers of Indian
apolis to the Chamber of Commerce
for an "achievement week” which
begins Feb. 3.
Products made in Indianapolis
and Marion county will be displayed
in downtown store windows through
out the week. Firms desiring win
dow space should communicate with
chamber officials.
Former Resident Dies
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ECONOMY, Ind., Jan. 24.—Word
has been received here of the death
of Mrs. C. F. Martin, at Bentonville,
Ark. She was the wife of Dr. C. F.
Martin, former resident here. She
was a sister of Dr. J. C. Franklin,
Economy.
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‘Wotta Relief, ’ Chorus Gangsters;
Charlies Going Back to the Sticks
By l nit* and I'm**
CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—Charlie Fredenclioon out
grew his native environment in Coldwater, Minn.,
and, like Alexander, sought new worlds to conquer.
In casting about for a place suitable for one
of his talents, Charlie decided that Chicago offered
a future.
So, armed with his diploma from the Mozley
Detective school in Los Angeles, his star, which
bore “S. M. O.”—self-made officer, and a nickel
plated pistol in a hip holster, Charlie came to Chi
cago to see about catching the St. Valentine's day
massacre machine gunners and other gangsters.
Before starting his duties. Charlie felt the need
of a bit of recreation, and went to a State street
theater, Just around the comer from Bugs Moran’s
headquarters.
An usher spied the tell-tale bulge on Charlie’s
hip and called in several of Chicago’s detectives,
most of whom never took a correspondence course
in sleuthing.
FREE BLONDE IN
MURDER TRIAL
Chicago Jury Exonerates
Genevieve O’Brien.
Ttv United Prmii
CHICAGO, Jan. 24. Blonde
Genevieve O'Brien, exonerated of
charges that she helped to murder
her husband to climax a clandes
tine romance, went home to her
father today, leaving her erstwhile
sweetheart, Samuel Howard Dorr,
in the county jail, facing impris
onment the rest of his life.
Mrs. O'Brien was acquitted In
three hours Thursday night by r.
jury after one of the fastest murder'
trials in Cook county history. Four
days from the time she left her
cell for the courthouse she walked
out, freed.
The 23-year-old defendant fin
ished her testimony, denying on
cross-examination that she knew
about a plot to kill her husband
or that she had anything to do with
the actual shooting in the bath
room of their apartment above the
Dorr home.
Dorr, convicted last* week of
O’Brien’s murder, remained in jail,
with life imprisonment in prospect;.
VETERANS WIN IN SUITS
Awarded Compensation in U. S.
Court for Insurance.
Judgments in favor of plaintiffs
in two war risk insurance suits were
returned in federal court Thursday
by Judge Robert C. Baltzell. Jchn
Alley of Windfall, Ind., World war
veteran, whose leg was amputated
recently as a result of shrapnel
wound he received in the Argonne
Forest, and Ira M. Collins of Fort
ville. Ind., father of Dale J. Collins,
now dead, were the plaintiffs.
Collins will receive the entire
amount of the policy, SIO,OOO, and
Alley, whose claim was alleged to
be $57,50 a month for 240 months,
from May, 1919, will be paid $13,700
and a 10 per cent attorney fee al
lowance in each case.
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"That’s all right, sarge,” Charlie told Sergeant
Andrew Carroll, "I’m a detective, too." To prove
it, Charlie produced his diploma.
"Now what you guys ought to do to catch these
gangsters is some shadowing and roping. I’ve
done a good bit of it in my time. You follow ’em
and then get into their confidence—”
Sergeant Carroll was duly impressed and
thankful for the tips, but just as a matter of form
took Charlie before Judge Herbert Immenhausen.
While the judge didn’t cast ary reflections on
Charlie's abilities as a sleuth catcher, he ordered
the mail order pistol confiscated and Charlie put
on parole for a year.
“You aren’t a regularly constituted officer, you
know,” Judge Immenhausen apologized, “and the
law leaves me no choice, however much I might
want to help you to achieve fame.”
Charlie thought today that he would go back
and help the Coldwater marshal some more.
ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH
By United Press
CARACAL, Rumania, Jan. 24.
While members of the fire brigade
were busy "Getting their whistles"
in a nearby saloon, the local fire
house with all equipment was burned
to the ground.
The firemen returned home in
time only to receive the informa
tion that all of their personal be
longings had gone up in smoke to
gether with the fire truck. They
were arrested by policemen who had
been battling the flames in vain for
almost an hour.
Corps to Be Trained
GREENSBURG. Ind., Jan. 24.
The* Boy Scout drum and bugle
corps here, one of the prize groups
of Indiana, has accepted the re
sponsibility of training a newly-or
ganized twenty-five-piece drum and
bugle corps of the American Legion
at Batesville. The local corps is one
of the few which has successfully
interpreted waltz time in drum
corps routine.
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FOUR CHILDREN
DIE IN BLAZE
Two Others Hurt in Leap
. From Window.
Bv United Press
OTWAY, 0., Jan. 24. —Four
children were burned to death, two
others were injured when they
jumped from a second-floor win
dow’, and six others escaped unhurt
when fire swept the Lawrence
Perry farm home near here today.
The fire broke out while the
twelve children and their father
and mother were sleeping. An
overheated stove on the first floor
of the frame house was believed
responsible.
Those burned to death were
Raymond, 16; Elsie, 10; Elmer, 8,
and Bessie. 6.
CHICAGD ASKS
CDRPDRATIDNS
FDR HUGE LOAN
Windy * City Pockets Pride
and Approaches
Big Firms.
BY MERTON T. AKERS,
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Jan. 24. Chicago
pocketed its pride today and asked
its corporations for a loan of $50,-
000,000 so it can pay its employes,
buy coal to heat poorhouses and
hospitals and keep its children in
school, with the result that rail
roads, public utilities and bankers
indicated tentatively that they
would furnish the golden flow of
money to lubricate the wheels of
government, now almost stilled.
Six different plans for relief,
proposed by as many groups, were
considered. Os the six, the one
advanced by William H. Malone,
state tax commissioner, appeared
to offer the most hope.
Thursday, Malone, who said he
felt like he was "butting in,” ap
proached the Illinois Central, the
Rock Island and the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroads with
the proposition that they put their
surplus funds into tax anticipation
warrants and thus turn into the
treasury some of the millions neces
sary for operating Chicago for the
next few months.
The tax commissioners of the
roads indicated that they would
throw in their reserves if Malone
could promise that the money could
be applied on actual tax payments
when and if they are collected.
Malone took the offer under advise
ment.
Today Malone approached Samuel
Insull, utilities magnate, guiding
genius of a score or more corpora
tions whose assets help to give Chi
cago its place among the foremost
industrial cities of the world. Ma
lone will ask Insull to promise his
and the corporations’ aid along the
same lines.
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Loan Body Re-Elects
By Times Special ,
ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 24.
Directors of the Madison County
National Farm Loan Association
were re-elected at a meeting held in
.JAN. 24. 1930
the Anderson public library. Joseph
T. Day, secretary-treasurer, an
nounced that several large farm
loans were granted during the past
year. Dividend checks were dis
tributed.