Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1928 — Page 1

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HIGH WATERS PERIL GEORGIA AFTERSTORM Flood Menace Grows, Adding to Damage Toll of Hurricane. FLORIDA LOSSES RISE Rivers Overflow Bapks to Inundate Countryside and City Streets. United Press ATLANTA, Ga„ Aug. 11.—Floods, caused by an aftermath of the hurricane that devastated Florida, menaced South and central Georgia today. A torrential rain came down in the affected district and a fall of eight and one-half inches was recorded at Macon in sixteeen hours ending at 8 o’clock Friday night. Flood warnings were issued. The Okmulgee River was rising at Macon and was nearing the 14foot stage this morning. Streets and railway yards in the lower section of the city were flooded. Trees were blown down by the high winds and other damage done. Washouts were reported on the ; Central Railroad of Georgia between j Savannah and Macon and trains i were rerouted. \ Highways frem Thomasville leading into Florida were impassable because of water and fallen trees. At Valdosta the roof of a building was blown across the central power lines, disrupting service. Floods Damage’Towns R)i United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 11.— Flood waters added today to the damage caused by the hurricane which tore across Florida this week, leaving ruined cropsf damaged buildings and disrupted communications in its wake. The lake region was the worst affected by the floods. Streams overflowed their banks and inundated orchards, fields, highways and towns. Several towns were cut off from the outside world by impassable highways. Lake Kissimmee rose considerably. St. Cloud, Okeechobee City and other towns reported water in the streets and Taylor’s Creek, overflowing its banks, flooded the lowlands for half a mile on either side. Reconstruction work was proceeding rapidly in the areas affected by the hurricane and communications were restored in nearly every section. Total damage to crops, buildings, roads, railways and communications was estimated at well over $3,000,000. Storm Brings Relief Bn United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—New York and nearby points on the eastern seaboard found some relief from the heat Friday after a severe eiecu'ical storm which caused three deaths and considerable property damage. The storm was preceded by a day of fog intense humidity Which hampered: and caused numerous prostrations. The three deaths were due to lightning. Alfred B. Marsh, Jr., 17, of Plainfield, N. J., was killed when a bolt struck the water near where he and sopie companions were swimming. The others were uninjured. J. T. Maguire, 50, of Queens, was struck by lightning and killed in the street during the storm. Mrs. Rena Drucker, 23, Bronx, fell to death from a window when lightning struck neafr by. Thousands of homes were flooded in Brooklyn and the lights were out for an hour during the storm. Trolley service was impaired and automobiles marooned. HOLD WOMAN DRIVER FOLLOWING ACCIDENT Accused of Filing to Halt for Street Car; Man Seriously Hurt Charles B. Anderson, 39, of 1635 N. Alabama St., was reported resting easy at the city hospital where he was taken late Friday suffering from a fracture dright ankle and bruises on the head and body. Anderson was struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Verlie Hinman, 36, of 837 S. Worth St., as he lighted from a street car at Twen-ty-Sixth St. and College Ave. She was charged wth failure to stop for a street car unloading passengers. Charles Lawrence, 17, of 214 E. Walnut St., was cut on the head and arms when his automobile collided with one driven by Edward Smith, 56, of 1207 W. Thirty-Fourth St., at Washington Blvd. and Fifty-Seventh St., Friday night. Passing motorists took Lawrence home. Eight other persons, occupants of the two cars vere uninjured. Plans Welding Research tin Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind., Aug. 11.—Research work in illuminating gas welding is to be made by H. H. Lurie, Chicago consulting engineer, under direction of Purdue University here. The work was made possible by the utilities research commission of Chicago, which will pay Lutie’s salary arid other expenses.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 70

Coat Stained With Blood First • / Clew Found in Gaspipe Murder

When East Goes West

These girls come from staid and citified Philadelphia—but they’re cowgirls, for the moment, just the same. They've just finished a ride of 250 miles on horseback through the mountains around Banff and Lake Louise, in Canada, starting from the Kananaskis ranch. Here they are in their Western costumes.

‘SHIPWRECK’ KELLY IN CITY NEXT WEEK i _____

Flagpole King to Stand on Dizzy Perch for More Than 104 Hours. Thrills galore will be dished out fer downtown sightseers next week, when “Shipwreck” Kelly, champion of flagpole standers, ascends to a dizzy height above the New Denison Hotel to remain for 104 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds. Kelly, famed the world over for his endurance feats, is being KILLED IN CRASH City Youth Loses Life When Car Overturns. The body of Donald Euens, 19, of 40 Woodland Dr., Indianapolis, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Euens, awaited the coming of the griefstricken parents at Porter’s Camp, near Shelbyville, Ind., today. The boy was killed Friday night when an automobile driven by Miss Rosamond Neu of Shelbyville, in which he was riding, overturned. The acciden ; occurred a mile and a half west of Flatrock, when Euens, with Miss Neu, Miss Bernice Montayne of Shelbyville, and Charles Yater of Fountain town, were en route to Edinburg to a dance. A car driven by John Porter of Flatrock passed the Neu car and the girl pulled too close to the side of the road and went into the ditch. Miss Neu was uninjured; Miss Montayne and Yater were painfully cut and bruised. In the Air j CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A. M. (Compiled lor The Times by Governmenl Weather Observer J H. Armineton and Donald McConnell Government aeronautical obs?r”er.) Northeast wind. 15 miles an hour: barometric pressure. 29.93: temperature. 70: celling and visibility unlimited.

ILLEGAL TAX COLLECTIONS PROBED IN FULTON COUNTY

State and Fulton County prosecuting authorities will await explanations of Fulton County’s auditor, county commissioners, a Rochester banker, and a “tax ferret” to the State examiner cf accounts before considering criminal prosecution on revelations of alleged illegal tax collection contained in field examiners’ reports today. The report, filed by William S. Gard and William A. Marsh, examiners sets out, supported by affidavits, that by a prearranged plan, Howard Du Bois, Fulton County Republican chairman, for the last four years,- obtained a 50 per cent commission, as "tax ferret,” on $38,240.75 back taxes which

brought to the city .under auspices of The Times. The champion flagpole stander will climb to his perch above the hotel, across from the Federal building, at Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts., at 9 o’clock Tuesday* morning and will remain there until 1:13 Saturday afternoon. All that time he will be standing on a small metal disk, without sleep, and with no regard to weather conditions. 13 His Lucky Number Asked today why the extra thirteen minutes is attached to the standing time of the performance, Kelly declares that he believed 13 to be his lucky number. Kelly does not claim to have accomplished so many apparently impossible and hazarodus deeds on luck alone, but the figure 13 has been involved so prominently in his career that he continues to "string with it.” "For instance,” Kelly said, "I was born on May 13, 1893, started out as a human fly on the 13th of the month, followed thirteen hazardous vocations as classified by life insurance companies, adventured to sea at the age of 13, followed the sea for thriteen years and entered service for the World War on Aug. 13, 1914. “I sailed on the first American ship to run the blockade after we entered the war, on Friday, April 13, 1917. My first endurance feat 'on a flagpole was on a> flagpole thirteen feet high on a thirteenstory building.” Plenty of Thrills Kelly, notified by hi£ manager, Howard Fogg, of his engagement here for Aug. 14, said: “I don’t see why arrangements couldn’t have been made for the stand to begin one day earlier.” However, the show will go on and according to press reports of his performances in other otties it will be a rare exhibition indeed, furnishing plenty of thrills in addition to givng the greatest example of human endurance on record here. Kelly clams that his remarkable stamina and endurance are due largely to living an outdoor life with plenty of proper exercise. He is 35 years of age and never has spent a dime for medicines.

George Rentschler of Rochester, offered to pay voluntarily. Named with Du Bois, in the report, are Clem V. Leonard, Fulton County auditor: Omar B. Smith, president of the First National Bank of Rochester, and H.-L. Meredith, J. F. Smith and W. A. Hiatt, county commissioners. Du Bois was deputy auditor of Fulton County several years ago. The Fulton County men have been given until Aug. 22 to appear here before Lawrence F. Orr, State examiner, and Walter G. Owen and Greenberry G. Lowe, deputy examiners, to make satisfactory restitution and explanation of the transaction.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 11, 1928

Scientists Aid Police to Follow Dim Trail in Teacher Slaying. Bty United Press EVANSTON, HI., Aug. 11.—The science of chemieal analysis came to the aid of authorities today in an attempt to bring about solution of the murder of Miss Jennie Constance, teacher, writer, traveler and lecturer. Coroner’s Chemist William D. McNally, with the assistance of three Northwestern University scientists, sought to analyze blood stains on two shirts and a coat found in the room of John Burke, 45. Burke was arrested as a suspect Wednesday, less than twelve hours after Miss Constance, English department head at Bradley Polytechnic College, Peoria, 111., was found beaten to death near the hedge on the lawn of George H. Peaks, wealthy Evanston resident. Miss Constanec was a post-grad-uate student at Northwestern ana last was seen alive at the university library near where she was slain. Stains Are Blood University chemists, whose services were offered by President John Dill Scott of the university, agreed that stains on the clothing found stuffed in the plumbing of the ment of Burke’s home were blood stains. They said an attempt had been made to wash the stains from the shirts. The clothing was the first clew which approached anything tangible during the flve-day search for Miss Constance’ss attacker and slayer. Police Chief William Freeman, who at the request of alarmed resiof the wealthy North ShoreT returned from a vacation to take charge of the search, said it was learned that Burke had been arrested eighteen times in Milwaukee for acts of moronism. Can’t Give AUbl Burke told authorities the clothing found in the basement was used to prevent an overflow from a sewer. He denied all knowledge of the crime, but was unable to account for his whereabouts Monday night, when it is presumed the 42-year-old instructor was slain. The stains on the garments, chemists said, if proved to be blood, will be compared with stains found on the two-foot length of iron pipe with which Miss Constance was slain. The pipe was found lying in a pool of blood near her body. The three university chemists, professors F. C. Whitmore, A. F. Walcott and R. C. Benedict, also will examine a table napkin found near the body. The napkin was traced to a North Shore hotel, but was without any traces of blood. DEATH HUNT FUTILE Suspect in King Killing Is Still at Large. Police and detectives have traced Philip H. Smith, suspect in the killing of Terrence King, 27-year-Old rum runner, to several places since the shooting Thursday at the Green Mill barbecue, but always have been too late to get tljeir man, Detective Chief Jerry Kinney said today. Although detectives still are seeking Smith here and running down numerous clews, there is strong possibility that the 30-year-old bootlegger has left the city, Kinney said. He probably has spent the two days since the shooting gathering an outfit of clothing and raising what money he could and now Tffs, left, Kinney believes. Smith fled from the Green Mill barbecue after the shooting without hat and coat. LAY STONE SUNDAY Riverside M. E. Church Will Hold Ceremonies. Dr. A. T. Briggs, Greencastle, will speak at the cornerstone-laying ceremony of the new $40,000 Riverside Park M. E. Church, Edgemont and N. Harding Sts., at 4 p. m. Suhday. Dr. Briggs is district superintendent of the northwest conference. Mrs. G. E. Hobson will preside, assisted by the Rev. R. M. Selle, pastor. Music will be provided by the church choir directed by Z. T. Zufall. - The building will be a stonetrimmed brick of Gothic architecture with a Sunday school section seating 500. It is to be ready in November. EXCHANGE CLUBS GAIN Exception to Rule Luncheon Clubs Are in Slump. Exchange clubs have been an exception to the rule that luncheon clubs have suffered membership decreases in the last two years, National Secretary Harold M. Harter of Toledo told the local club Friday noon at the Lincoln. There has been a steady increase in the number of clubs and interest in projects has been sustained satisfactorily, Harter said He told of progress being made by individual clubs all over the country.

AIRPORT PLANS ADVANCE WITH LINDITC VISIT Legal Authority for City to Obtain Flying Field Is Discovered. FINANCES NEXT STEP - v Committee Is Expected to Take Definite Steps Early Next Week. Acquisition of a municipal airport for Indianapolis today was several steps nearer realization following inspection of sites by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Friday, and discovery of legal authority for the city to act. The next big step is to get the money with which to buy or lease land. - Lindbergh will make his report on sites to Paul Henderson, an officer of the Transcontinnentffl Air Transport twenty-four-hour coast-to-coast air-rail passenger route, who will forward it to Mayor L. Ert Slack’s airport committee and the Chamber of Commerce industrial commission. The only site inspected by Lindbergh from the ground was Indianapolis airport, Mars Hill, although he said he flew over several other prospective sites. He termed Indianapolis airport "satisfactory if sufficiently enlarged as proposed.’’ A real estate man, acting for the city and National Guard, has obtained options on 282 acres adjoining the 192-acre Indianapolis airport at an average cost per acre of SBOO. Attempt is being made to obtain leases on the same ground with option to purchase in a years. Find Legal Authority ■Acquisition of the additional ground would give an L shaped airway, with runways nearly a .mile in every direction. Under plans proposed, the National Guard would continue to operate Indianapolis airport and the city would operate the municipal field, with all fliers having privilege of using the cornfined field for landing and taking off. Discovery of what is believed to be sufficient legal authority for the city to acquire by lease or purchase an airport has been made by George T. Wheldeon, industrial commission member. According to Wheldeon, a statute enacted in 1920 and amended in 1921 permits cities to buy airport sites from general funds, special levy or bond issue, or to lease the ground pending acquisition by purchase. The amendment of 1921 provides for leasing at a reasonable rental, and also for operation of a municipal flying field by a lessee instead of directly by the city, if desired. Number of Available Sites The committee has a number of available sites under consideration. With legal authority to acquire an airport believed found and several good sites available, the committee’s biggest problem now is finance. Mayor L. Ert Slack has declared several times he favors acquisition of a municipal airport, but that present municipal financial conditions prevent adding to the proposed city tax levy anything for such a project. Faced with increased departmental expenditures due to what he describes as inherited burdens, Slack is exerting every effort to hold the tax levy increase low. The airport committee is expected to meet Monday or Tuesday to take definite steps toward financing the project and consider sites. Lindy Inspects Fields The 1921 law provides for issuance of bonds for an airport only when the outlay exceeds one-tenth of one per cent of the assessed valuation of the city. Assessed valuation is approximately $680,000,000, making one-tenth of one per cent $680,000, while the estimated cost of the airport is less than $500,000. This phase might require special legislation to permit issuance of bonds, but it, is believed the law would permit of the ground on deferred payments or from the general fund. Lindbergh expressed the opinion Columbus, Ohio, will be the air-rail terminal for the route, in order to permit transfer of westbound passengers at daybreak. He added Indianapolis will probably be a stopping point, and in the near future may be a junction point with the proposed Chicago - South Coast route. Lindbergh left Indianapolis at 2:40 p. m. after conferring with C. L. Harrod, Chamber of Commerce industrial commissioner, and other officials, at Indianapolis airport. 1 - ROOMS IN LOTTERY Living Quarters Most Popular Prices in Moscow. By United Press MOSCOW, Aug. 11.—A lottery with single rooms or small apartments as the prize is being arranged in Moscow and serves to iluustrate the sharp housing shortage here. Two million lottery tickets are expected to be sold by a municipal Housing organization, of which SSOO will win the coveted living space.

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Bandits Force Four Into Ice Box, Loot Store Till, Escape

Heavies Clash Bu Times Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Aug. 11. —Mrs. Lillie Wiseman, weight nearly 200, was knocked through the plate glass window of a furniture store during a fight with Miss Mary Grainger, redhaired and weighing 175. The women fought after arguing over money. Mrs. Wiseman was cut on the legs, an arm and back, but not seriously hurt. She has filed assault and battery charges against Miss Grainger.

DEATH CLAIMS BEN S, BOYCE Former Publisher of Times 111 for Several Weeks. Ben S. Boyce, 43, publisher of the Indiana Daily Times before it was bought by the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and made The Indianapolis Times, five years ago, died in an Ottawa, 111., hospital Thursday <ifter an illness of several weeks. Funeral services will be held at Ottawa Sunday. Mr. Boyce was the son of W. D. Boyce of Chicago, former owner of The Times, millionaire publisher of magazines and books, author, big game, hunter and founder of the Boy Scouts of America. The younger Boyce’s brief career was as colorful as that of his father. He served in the World War with both French and American forces, always as an enlisted man. He was gassed and wounded. He accompanied his father on several big game hunts and exploration trips. After the war Ben Boyce came to Indianapolis. Knowing little of the newspaper business first hand he started to qualify himself by working from the ground up. Although bearing the title of publisher of The Indiana Daily Times he spent may weeks accompanyin greporters, circulation men and advertising solicitors on their rounds and studying the work cf various executives. He lived it the Claypool during most of his residence in Indianapolis. Ilourly Temperatures 7 a. m.... 68 9 a. m.... 70 8 a. m.... 69 10 a. m.... 70

Opening Markets

By United Frees NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Stocks generally were lower at the opening today and continued to sell off in the early trading. Chrysler, the favorite of Friday’s session, was under heavy pressure, while leaders like Steel, General Motors, Montgomery Ward, Radio and American Can declined as much as a point in some instances, few making recoveries. Trading was dull. Weekly trade reviews continued optimistic on the fall outlook, but offsetting these reports was the announcement late Friday that bankers’ acceptances for 150 and 180-day maturities had been advanced % of 1 per cent. The latter change lent strength to the belief that the rediscount rate would be advanced at the New York center in the near future. Chrysler opened 7,000 shares at 92 % to 81%, off 2% to 3% from the previous close. hTe issue then began a slow recovery, turning over in large blocks. Dodge A was fairly active around the previous close. General Motors lost a point to 182%, while Packard declined to its previous closest 75 from an early high of 75%, Hupp held steady at 59% and Hudson rose % to 79%. Schulte retail stores' was active and fractionally higher. Warner Brothers Pictures A declined 2% to 75%. Describing the market, the Wall Street Journal’s financial review today said: “Weekly reviews of merchantile conditions continued to express great cheerfulness regarding autumn prospects on a basis of substantial gains in major lines compared with a year ago. However, stocks were inclined to be heavy again in early dealings, due to the prevailing uncertainty over credit conditions. “Further stiffening of bankers’ acceptance rates have carried them to levels where an early increase in the local rediscount charge is indicated. This situation caused considerable selling of the principal industrials.” New York Stock Opening / -Aug. 11— A met Can 92% Amer Steel Foundry 52 Anaconda 65% Armour (A) 18% Beth Steel 56V2 Chrysler 92%(<?91V-s Cont Can .Ill 1 /* Corn Products 78% Dodge 19% Gen Electric 147% General Motors 183 Goodyear 54% Hudson Motor

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Daylight Robbers Get $126 in Kroger Grocery and Flee. Two daylight bandits held up the Kroger grocery and meat market at 3537 N. Capitol Ave., at 8:30 this morning and escaped with more than $126, after locking three employes and a woman customer in the refrigerator. v The bandits tore paper from the inside of the ice box so the prisoners inside would be seen by the first person entering the store. A woman customer, whose name was not learned by police, entered a few minutes after the hold-up and released the entrapped quartet from the near zero temperature of the refrigerator. When the bandits entered, one stopped near the door. The other advanced to the meat counter and ordered "a nice round steak, cut it medium,” from Robert Mahan, 1736 N. Illinois St., the butcher. Ordered to “Stick ’Em Up” The one at the door drew a gun and said, "Well, they might as well stick ’em up.” "Yes, stick ’em up,” said the other. - Only the man at the door'had a gun. He advanced to Clarence Hall, 3336 N. Capitol Ave., grocery manager, and made him raise his arms. Paul Gentry, 2454 N. Alabama St., grocery clerk, came from the back room and the unarmed bandit grabbed him ahd forced him behind the meat counter. Miss Mary Meyers, 60, of 3612 Kenwood Ave., a customer, was standing at the grocery counter with $lO in her hands. She shoved the money under a cracker box and saved it. Forced Into Ice Box The bandits then put the three store employes and Miss Meyers into the ice box and looted the cash registers. They took $26.45 from the meat market cash box and more than SIOO from the grocery register, according to Hall. The two men dashed to a bluegreen Overland car, parked on Thirty-Sixth St., and fled east. Residents of the neighborhood said they saw the bandit car parked at the side of the' grocery Friday afternoon and that then it carried an Ohio license. Today it had an Indiana license. Both were about 28. One was thirty or forty pounds heavier than the other and several inches shorter.

Hupp Motors 59% Kroger 108% Kenn Cop 94 Marland 36Vi Missouri. Kans & Texas 36 N Y Cent ral let % NY. NH & H 55% Nash 83% Pan-Amer Pete (B) . 42% Packard 75 Vi Pullman 80% Radio l 173 Reading [. 97 Rep Iron and 1 Steel 59% St Paul 35 Scars-Roebuck 126% Sinclair 26% So Pacific 119 S O Cal 571A S O N Y ?5 u, S O N J ; 44% Stew Warner 90% Studebaker 70% Texas Oil 60 Vi Union Carbide and Carbon 158% U S Rubber 31% U S Steel 139 Vi Willys-Overiand 21 % New York Curb Opening ‘ —Aug. 11— Am Gas 167% Am R Mill 86 Vi Cities Svc 65 V B Cont Oil 16% Durant 12% Ford Canada 540 Gulf Oil 123% Humble Oil 791 , It Pete 37% Ohio Oil 03% Prairie Pipe 190 Servel Inc 14s; Stand Oil Indiana 75% Stand Oil Ky ]2B Vacuum Oil 77 % Warner Bros B 70 , In the Grain Market (By Thomson & McKinnon) CHICAGO, Aug. 11. —The next important document to be received and digested is the Canadian government report due today at noon. Their acreage is given at 1,013,000 more than last year’s harvest and their last crop report gave a condition higher than a year ago. This foundation, with the continuously favorable weather through the month, gives the- idea of a yield in excess of last year and a consequent increase in the bearish surroundings. Chicago Grain Opening El/ Uniful-Friss CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Grain opening: Wheat—September, off %c; December, off %c; March, off Vic. Corn—Off %c; December, off %c; March, off %c; September, off %c; December, unchanged. Provisions, slightly higher. Twenty Mexican Rebels Killed Hi/ United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 11.—Twenty or more rebels were killed and 300 surrendered during the past week in the states of Aquas Calientes, Jalisco and Colima, the war department announced. Z'~ ~

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100,000 WILL CHEER HOOVER AT CEREMONY Throngs Flock to Palo Alto for Notification by Rail, Auto and Air. :CANDIDATE UNRUFFLED Will Read Speech of 8,100 Words; 99 Stations to Broadcast Address. BY PAUL R. MALLON*. United Press Staff Correspondent STANFORD UNIVERSITY, PALO ALTO, Cal., Aug. 11.—Airplanes, special trains and motor cars descended upon this little college town today with bewildering swiftness, bringing tens'of thousands for the notification of Herbert Hoover as Republican presidential candidate. Distinguished politicians in high teilk hats, ward bosses with gold watch chains, women with a newfound interest in politics, college boys and sightseers trooped in to witness the ceremony to be held at 4 p. m. in the big football stadium, officially opening the national political campaign. Delegates from nearby towns, motoring and marching together, began arriving long before the gates of the stadium were to be thrown open at noon. They paraded through streets lined with palm eucalyptus trees bearing American flags, political pennants and pictures of the candidates. Room for 100,000 It was the first notification ceremony California has witnessed, and the same party leaders who rolled up 500,000 votes for hoover in a United Stages primary went through an extensive advertising campaign in an effort to fill every one of the places which have been arranged in the stadium for 100,000 persons. The early arrivals found college boy traffic cops at every corner. Places for parked cars had been marked off on parched grass about the stadium. All stores in town were ordered closed at I p. m. Airplanes of many kinds started landing soon after dawn at the university aviation field, adjoining the stadium. Business men of consequence on the Pacific coast have their own planes and use them on occasions like this. There were also many commercial planes. The railroads, too, put a reduced fare in effect- and Joined the State-wide advertising campaign.

Hoover Not Fretting The least disturbed man in town was the nominee. He remained at home and announced he would see no one until time for him to leave by motor for the half mile ride to the stadium. He will read his speech of 8.100 words from a special rostrum which was constructed at the south end of the field. A radio network of ninetj.-nine stations has been ar—ranged, his office has announced. The ceremony is to start at 2:30 P m. when the Stanford band will enter the stadium and give the signal for setting off a salvo of aeriaj bombs, then will follow four other bands. While the massed bands play patriotic tunes, Governor C. C. Young of California and Senator George H. Moses, chairman of the notification committee, are to enter the rostrum at 3:45 p. m„ followed a few minutes later by the candidate, who will arrive in his private automobile with Mrs. Hoover. Young to Give Address Young will deliver an address of welcome and Moses then will give a short speech of notification. Hoover’s speech is expected to start at 4:10 Pacific time. In his address he is to set forth the issues he had selected for his presidential campaign. It will marke his first public utterance regarding issues since he sent his telegram to the Kansas City convention which nominated him in June. Next Thursday night he is to start back to Washington to begin actual work of stump campaigning. EARTH PASSES THROUGH BELT OF FIERY METEORS Celestrial Display Visible at Night Without Aid of Glass. By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—The earth is passing through a belt of flaming meteors, remnants of the shattered comet, perseids, discovered in 1862. The celestial display, which should be visible at night without glass or telescope in all parts of the United States, will last for three days. The meteors can be seen in the northeastern sky, their friction aa the earth’s gravity draws 'them toward it at a speed of between ten 6o fifty miles a second, causing them to be consumed in their own fire. There is little danger of any of the comet fragments striking the earth, scientists said. Germany to Build Battleship By United Press BERLIN, Aug. 11.—Immediate construction of anew 10.000-ton battleship has been decided upon by the cabinet.