Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1926 — Page 1

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 107

GRAND JURY TO GO INTO TRUCK BUTS High Prices Paid by County Will Be Investigated, Says Official. PAVING TO BE QUIZZED Action Promised by Deputy Prosecutor Sheaffer. Evidence will be presented at the Jr ext Mariort County grand jury session, which starts Sept. 7, that Marion County commissioners paid sl,070.25 more for each of six trucks to be used in roffd work than the State highway commission paid for practically the same trucks, William Shaeffer, deputy prosecutor, announced today. Evidence of the awarding of a contract for construction of voting booths to a relative of Commissioner Cassius C. Hogle also will be presented, Shaeffer declared. This translation was sifted at the ISst grand jury session and further investigation was recommended in the jury's report to Criminal Judge James A. Collins. “Entire dealings” of the truck purchase will be bared for the jury, Schaeffer After advertising for bids this spring, the commissioners awarded a contract for purchase by the county of six Indiana model 15 motor trucks to the Indiana Indianapolis Truck Company. Other commissioners’ acts expected to be investigated by the grand jury are the awarding of the Tibbs Ave. paving contract to the highest bidder, and the construction of a bridge across some land owned by Commissioner Hogle's son. SESQuFsUPPORT ASKED Secretary Hoover Makes Plea for Exposition Attendance. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.—A plea (for public support of the Philadelphia Sesequicentennial Exposition was made today by Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who termed it “a noble and excellent effort” to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. , “I do not know whether it will repay the expenditure of $18,000,000 to $20,000,000, but It deserves mtich better attendance,” he said. Hoover emphasized that the exhibits are now complete.

THREE CAR UNION OFFICERS RESIGN Finance Secretary Ousted —Election Held. Three members of the executive committee and the recording secretary of the local street car men’s union, the members of which are on strike, resigned today at the regular meeting of strikers in Plumbers Hall. Joseph Fort, the financial secretary, was ousted for failure to attend meetings. About 100 attended. It was announced that $l5O, douated by local unions, will be distributed Wednesday among the strikers. Unofficial reports were circulated that another vote on calling off the strike will be tken Wednesday. The auditing com.mittee will inspect the union's books 'Wednesday afternoon. W. H. Werkhoff was elected to succeed Fort. J. O. Riley succeeded Clifford Picke] as recording secretary. Albert Kline was elected, and election of the other two members was deferred* to fill the places of Pickel, William Schnarr and Elmer Williams on the executive committee. A mass meeting of strikers and sympathizers will be held Wednesday night at Dorman and E. Tenth Sts., it was announced.

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Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 10.— Bombardment of the earth with visible falling stars in large numbers starts tonight and will continue Wednesday and Thursday night. The showers will be more profuse toward the daylight hours. Naval Observatory station explained that the earth passes through a certain “swarm” of meteors about Aug. 10 each year. The "falling stars” are bodies of iron g.nd stone which encounter the earth's atmosphere, become

DRIVING IN CITY IS SAFER, RA TES SHO W

Accident Insurance Costs Cut —Auto Theft Charges Boosted. It is safer to drive in Indianapolis this year than it was last year. Insurance underwriters have lowered the odds of their offers to bet motorists they will not have an accident. The new auto insurance rates re fleet a transition of the Indiartapolit police department into a traffic rule enforcement organization, accord ing to Charles A. Woerner of the State insurance department. Rates on liability and collision in suranca were reduced materially, but, theft Insurance rates were boost ed an average of 15 cent. Stricter Enforcement Woerner declared stricter enforce ment of more traffic rules by police is chiefly responsible for the reduction in collision and liability rates. More general use of four-wheel brakes, non-skid tires and other acci dent prevention equipment helped reduction, but' not in the same proportion as better enforcement and increased observance of traffic ordinances, he said. The increase in theft insurance £ates is due. almost soley, to the steadily increasing number of thefts of accessories which are never recovered. Insurance companies are annually forced to pay thousands of claims for replacement of stolen motometers, tires, tools and other equipment. Moat Autos Recovered Because more than 80 per cent of the stolen automobiles are recovered, these thefts have little if any effect on the rates. The committing of aecessery thefts is recognizable by police, whereas the stealing of an entire automobile always is not recognizable, as a thief driving away in an ailto ordinarily Is thought to be the owner. Woerner said latest insurance rates, approved'June 15 and just be ing put Into effect, cut the cost of $5,000 liability Insurance from the average $24 premium of last year to an average of sl4 this year. Collision rates dropped 30 per cent. Some theft coverage rates mounted as much as 25 per cent. The smallest increase was 10 per cent. DESERTER SOUGHT HERE Mooresvilln Man Escapes From Naval Escort at Station. Ray Walters, 28, of Mooresville, charged with deserting from the Great Lakes Naval Training Camp, today was sought by police and recruiting office attaches after he escaped from a U. S. Naval escort at the Union Station. Walters was being returned after being held by Quigley-Highland Detective agency operatives, who turned the man over to naval officials Monday. PRIESTS~PREACH UNITY Catholics Send Churchless Pallors to Interior. Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 10.—With all hope of mediation gone In the face of a decisive Government victory to date in Mexico’s religious controversy. Catholics here are, now concentrating on opposition to the new religious laws through use of the luxury boycott and the arousing of unity of religious spirit. Hundreds of priests, position less with the closing of the churches, have been set to small towns and villages in the interior to preach the Idea of the boycott. The appeal is being markedly heeded by the Indians, who are the most devout Catholics of the country.

$300,000 HARBOR FIRE Yacht Club, Two Ships Burned at Portland, Maine. Bu United Press PORTLAND, Maine, Aug. 10.— Fire swept a section of the water front here today, destroying the Portland Yacht Club and damaging other buildings and two ships. Loss was estimated at $300,000. Firemen fought the flames for more than five hours. Two United States Shipping Board vessels, the Bacaret the Seneca, were partially burnfed. Other vessels were pulled out of danger by a fireboat. j “COIN” HARVEY STILL ALIVE Bu United Press ROGERS, Ark., Aug. 10. —William H. "Coin” Harvey, widely known economist, ill at his home here, was still In a critical condition today. Harvey is suffering from blood poisoning. He was erroneously reported dead Monday.

ignited by the friction of the air, and usually burn up before they hit the earth. Only occasionally does any of the millions of meteor^reach the earth. The earth would be hit constantly if the meteors did not burn themselves up by friction with the air, it was pointed out. Between 10,000,000 and 100.000,000 of them enter t)ie earth's atmosphere every day, it is estimated. Most of them catch fire about 75 miles from the earth. The few that do reach the earth range from a few ounces to several tons in size, i

SHEFFIELD TO RETURN .Ambassador to Mexico Will Come Home this Summer. Bu United Press PAUL SMITHS. N. Y.. Aug. 10.— Reports that James R. Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico, plans to return to the United States this summer were confirmed today by the spokesman for President Coolidge. The spokesman, however, was not certain as tp whether Sheffield was returning to make a report on Mexcan conditions or just to take a brief vacation. BLIND PENSION. SOUGHT Movement to Secure State Relief for Adults Started. A movement to secure State relief, likely in the form of a pension, for Indiana's adult blind, has been rtarted by Everett Fox, 310 N. Grant St., Edinburg. Ind. Ohio, Kentucky, * Illinois, Wisconsin. Missouri and Colorado, extend this relief. Blind persons willing to to engage in a lobbying campaign in behalf of the proposal have been asked by Fox to notify him. Mutes Revise Signs to Include Slang Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Deafmutes have been compelled to revise their sign language o express such modern words at wet, dry, flapper, sheik and Charleston, it ■was revealed today at the fifteenth rflennlal convention of the National Association of the Deaf. A tap on the • hip with the left hand is the deaf mute’s now “word'’ deseibing the hip flask toter, according to the Rev. H. J. Pulver of Washington, spokesman. Flapper is expressed by waving both hands near the shoulders. Caressing an imaginary sidebum means sheik. The Charleston is indioated by performing the dance with the first, finger on each hand, he said. HE DIDN’T LINGER LONG j Boy, 12, Returned Home b.v Police Says “Hello,” Skips Out. Though police brought Ralph Hughes, 12, back to his home at 119 N. Davidson St., Monday,'after an absence of about three days, the boy did not tarry long. Saying “hello" to his parents, walked through the house, out the back door and disappeared. Officers are looking for him. The boy, who ran away three days ago, was found in Columbus, Ind., with another Indianapolis lad. They were brought back by police. BUSY PARING BUDGET Buser Promises 1927 Tax Hate Will Be No Higher. A 1927 tax rate not higher than $1:05, this year’s rate, was pledged today by City Controller William C. Buser, who, with Chamber of Commerce officials, is busy reducing estimates submitted by various department heads. Mayor Duvall, who is taking a hand in the budget preparation, said he expected the compilation would be completed this week. The financial estimate then will go to city council, which has legal authority 'only to reduce totals, not to raise them.

SIGNAL PROPOSAL UP Firm Would Place Lights, and Ads, at Railroad-Highway Crossings. Proposal for the eStablishmen of blinker light warnings at all points in Indiana, where State hjghways intersect with railroads was to be studied this afternoon at a State highway commission meeting. The commission has been approached by the Signal Corporation with the proposal to erect the warnings, free of charge, but with the privilege of selling the advertising space thereon. Attorney General Arthur L. GilHorn recently advised the commission that the mere erection of the signs would be proper, but that the matter of allowing ttye company to sell the advertising space is “at the sufferance of the Legislature.” Three years ago the commission barred all signs from State highways.PRESIDENT BACK AT CAMP Bu United Press PAUL SMITH’S, N. Y.. Aug. 10, —President and Mrs. Coolidge have returned 'to the summer White House \from the Coolidge homestead at Plymouth, Vt. They found Chief Justice Rugg and Mrs. Rugg of Massachusetts awaiting them. Representative Tincher, Republican floor leader was’also a visitor.

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LETTER IS EXPLAINED BYTIGER’ Frenchmen Pleaded With Me to Do Something, Says Clemenceau. NO REPLY' EXPECTED Aged Statesmen Pays Tribute to America. Th Cmt<vi Press herewith pres-nts an exclusive interview with Georges Clemen ceau. war-time leader of France in whten the veteran statesman tells why he emerged from long retirement to address a sensational letter regarding war debts to President Coolidge Clemenceau told A L. Bradford of the Cniteo Press staff that he did not expect any reply from Coolidge explaining that the letter was not meant to elicit a -ep!y Bradford found Clemenoeau at his sea side retreat. Vendee, surrounded hr books and flowers and 4n an amiable and confiding frame of mind. He is living in a happy old age. rebuffing the parish priest s attempts to convert him. and puttering among his flowers what time he is not engaged on his book. The pleas of Frenchmen to "do something" caused Clemenceau to emerge from his retirement to write to Coolidge. By A. L. Bradford T r nit'd Press fitatf Correspondent - Copyright. 192<i, by United Press ST. VINCENT SUR JARD. France, Aug. 10. —An old man turning - : ,5 years sat in the parlor of his ahanty-llke, ore-story abode at the. seaside and told me why he came out of retirement, which had engulfed him since he won the war for France, to write a sensational letter regarding war debts to President Coolidge. The man was Georges Clemenceau, the “Tiger of France.” His story was simple, compared with the Intrigues and deliberations which surround mbst documents of such Importance. “I’ll tell you the truth about that letter,” he said. f "I know the Americans. If ever there was a people that loved France it was the American people. They make mistakes like all of us, but you have done such splendid things that we could only give America that final French praise—that they are such chic people. Sentiment Changing “Put IT* hi* 9 been so evident recently that this sentiment was changing that I decided to write ihe letter three or four days ago. because scores of people appealed to me to do so. Throughout this year I have seen some of my American friends, but also I recently have#received scores and scores of letters asking me to do something. “Without the usual criticism or threats thes£ writers who appealed to me said they realized that I definitely had retired from politics, but that I should break my silence for once. "So I decided to write the letter. I did not want to make it political or a financial argument. I wanted to separate the question from banks. (Turn to Page 2)

PAULSEL NAMED . LIQUORSLEUTH Policeman to Aid Deputy Attorneys General. Sergt. William Paulsel, former captain and head of the police liquor law enforcement division during the Shank administration, today was assigned by Police Chief Claude F. Johnson to aid deputy attorneys general who are prosecuting liquor cases in the county. Paulsel, who will be chief investigator for the three deputy attorneys general, takes the post held by Wilbur J. Keeney, sentenced recently by Federal Judge Robert C. Ealtzell on a contempt charge. A charge of accepting bribes for giving protection is pending against Keeney, who was assigned from the office of Prosecutor William H. Remy. Keeney's contempt charge appeal is pending. While Keeney was paid by the deputies, Pauisel will be paid by the city and win remain a member of the polioe department. Chief Johnson withdrew two detectives assigned to the prosecutor’s office, following the arrest of Keeney. PLEA BY TAXI DRIVERS Ask That Controller Be Restrained From Revoking Licenses. Fifteen independent taxi drivers today filed a petition in Marion Superior Court Three asking an injunction restraining William C. Buser, city controller, from revoking their taxi licenses. Buser told the taxi men their licenses would be revoked within ten days, In a notice sent July 31, because of failure to provide indemnity bonds required by a city ordinance, according to Merle N. A. Walker, attorney. The petition charged the ordinance authorizing revocation of the licenses was invalid. $303,985 In Buildings Bert J- Westover, city building commissioner, today reported to the „board of safey that 347 building permits with a valuation of $303 955, j were issued by his department during the week ended Aug. 7.

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PEACE IS SCUGHT IN LICENSE WAR Motor Body Seeks Truce Between State Officials. Through the State Automobile Association a meeting has been arranged tentatively between Indiana and Kentucky officials in an effort to settle the automobile license war between the *two States. The Louisville Automobile Club today took a hand In the scrap and is trying to induce Kentucky officials to cease their practice of arresting drivers of Indiana commercial vehicles within the, Kentucky borders. Lieut. Ralph White of the Indiana motor police was in Chicago todayattending the trial of some Indiana truck drivers in municipal court on charges of driving Indiana cars in the Sucker State without Illinois license. Ollie P. Wright of the State force will go to Evansville Wednesday to discuss the situation with Kentucky officials. Indiana police are under instructions to impose the same restrictions on Kentucky cars as Kentucky imposes on Indiana machjnes. The fight has progressed to the stage where commercial salesmen dare not drive their machines into the neighboring State without the latter’s license plates. EXPECTED TO LIFT BAN t Believe Adair Realty license Will Be Restored. Final draft was being made today by Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier of findings in the State chamber of commerce's demand that sale of securities by the Adair Realty and Trust Company, Atlanta. Ga., be stopped permanently In Indiana. The company’s right to sell now is under temporary suspension, ordered when charges of misrepresentation were filed against the concern. State Securities Commissioner David H. Jennings, after a lengthy investigation, reported the firm responsible. It is thought likely Schortemeier will life the suspension and warn the concern against any representations not wholly compatible with the truth. TAKE STREET CAR MAN Charged With Obtaining Goods Under False Pretense. John Bacher. 38, Lafayette. Ind.. said to have been an Indianapolis Street Railway Company employe since the street car strike, today was charged with obtaining goods under false pretense by Motorpolieemen Clary and Mueller. Bacher is alleged to have represented himself to be W. F. Buck, a railroad man, 3715 E. New York St., at the Capitol Loan Company. 38 Virginia Ave., w-here he obtained Buck's watch. He is allleged to have obtained meals valued at $24 at the Brightw-ood Y. M. C. A. Hey, World, Don’t Bite Hand That — Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—“ Don't bite the hand that enables you to bite,” could be well said by the United States to the world at large. Export figures show this country is furnishing the world with most of, ■ its false teeth. More than 29,000,000 sets were exported in the fiscal year just ended, a gain of 7,000,000 over the previous year. However, Uncle Sam isn't holding up the world's trousers quite so much. Exports of suspenders dropped from 51,567 dozens to 36,175. WILL NOT IMPOSE DECISIONS Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—Samuel E. Winslow of chairman of the board of railway mediation appointed by President Coolidge. today said the boa>*d could not impose its decisions in its attempt to settle he eastern railroads' wage dispute.

How She Met Handsome Indian Prince at College and Married Him Told.

The story of an American University co-ed. who accordinx to sworn, testlmoney. married a native ruler of India, was kept in a harem, and was offered for sale to another Indian prince, was revealed at Chicago when Betty Kurlow was granted a divorce July 27 from Abani Kumar Bose. The girl, uow living with her parents at Chicago, has written, her story in five articles. She will tell of her hardahips and illness in a jungle home, where ahe trembled at the roar of tigers and hias of snakes, of her attempt to commit suicide and her thnllin? escape to America. f , „ The first article follows: By Betty Kurlow Written for the Ignited Press CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Romance is a wonderful tbing to an 18-year-old college girl, especially romance which includes a Hindu nobleman, dreams of castles, landed estates and travels around the wftrld. But when romance winds up in the midst pf a Jungle, with the prince turned into a heavy drinker and the castle a pest-infested hut, romance soon fades into reality. When I married Abaui Kumar Bose, ruler of Barodi, India, I laughed at Kipling’s famous line about the East and West. And when I got my divorce, I realized that, Kipling had been vindicated again—as hf always is when a girl from the West and a man from the East try to demonstrate that lie was wrong. I first saw Abani when both of us were studying at Northwestern University, near Chicago. He w-as handsome, tall, dark and. mysterious. He always seemed industrious and unassuming. He was cultured and polite. His accent, his whole makeup. was totally different from that of the American college man. She Was 18

And I was only 18 years old. One day after class —it was in 1917 — we met on the campus. I was thrilled He told me of his home in India, of the great palace he lived in, of the enormous estate his family owned in East Bengal. He was studying at the university, he said, at the behest of his elder brother, who wanted him to learn American social and business customs. • And Abani seemed to have become thoroughly Americsnized, except for the color of his skin, his turban and his beautiful, flashing smile. Now that I think it over, I believe it was his smile that I really “fell” for. After the first meeting, we were together often. To think that an Indian prince had singled me out for his attention swept me off my feet. And he was so kind, so handsome, so suave. He was the most romantic love-maker that I have ever seen. The Proposal When wq were returning from the theater one night, Abani, man of the world, Indian nobleman, virtual ruler of thousands of subjects, asked me, Betty Kurlow, native of Chicago, university freshman, unsophisticated 18-year-old girl, to marry him. I kissed him then for the first time. I asked but one thing—that we live in America. Abani promised and we were married quietly. Almost secretly, in a small Chicago ohurcH. No one but my family knew of our marriage. Mother and father both opposed it, but later they came to like Abani as much as T did. No one, it seemed, could resist his wonderful personality. One Wonderful Year We established ourselves In a small apartment and lived in Chicago almost a year in perfect peace and happiness. Abani was tender, attentive and remained as romantic as ever. I quit school and kept house for him while he continued his studies. ' When we had lived there almost twelve months. Abani wrote to his family in Calcutta and told them of our marriage. They were furious. His brother sent -Abani a scathing letting, denouncing him for marrying “an unclean one.” It was then that I first noticed a hint of stubbornness, of vindictiveness, in my husband—two qualities which be developed so surprisingly later on. (In her next article Miss Kurlow tells hew she learned her husband was an -anti-white agitator; how the family priest objected to her race, and how she was forced to seclude herself in the family “palace" in the heart of the jungle.) FIRE SWEEPS DWELLING at 3700 W. Tenth St., Completely Destroyed By Blaze. Fire originating from a defective flue caused the complete loss of a dwelling at 3700 W. Tenth Si.., Monday night. Firemen from Engine House 9 said that C. C. Cox, and two other men who lived in the house together, were routed from their beds at 11 p. m. All escaped uninjured. Lack of water in the neighborhood, forced the department to lay lines to Eagle Creek, some .distance away, but theye were unable to save the property, which was owned by J. A. Thompson. Loss was given at SI,OOO. SHIP TO|WED TO PORT Bu United Press ASTORIA, Ore.. Aug. 10.—Towing the disabled steamer Yonan Ma.ru, the Japanese steamer Yogen Maru reached the Columbia River today and the tug Oneonta put out to sea to bring the crippled craft into the river. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 68 10 a. m....... 82 7 a. 69 11 a. m 84 8 a. m 74 12 (noon) 86 9 &• m, 78 1 p, nv. 87

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FIFTH SHAFT IS SUNK TO REACH KENTUCKY MINERS TRAPPED FOR 100 HOURS Engineers Run Into Impenetrable Rock, Causing New Delay in Res* cuing Five Entombed Men. . TROOPS KEEP BACK CROWDS Water Seepage From Underground Lake Also Hampers Relief Workers. i B‘u United Press . . . . SALEM, Kv., Aug. 10.—"With the stubborn earth defying every effort of modern science, company officials, began this morning to drill the fifth shaft to reach five men imprisoned for nearly 100 hours in the American Fluorspaer and Zinc Company’s mine near here.

When the fourth rescue shaft, 4 pushed forward by hours of gruelling labor, was within a few feet of the men, a Btrata of impenetrable rock was encountered which , made further progress Impossible. Seek Aid By Plane Other rescue attempts have been frustrated by the seepage of water from an underground lake. Another disastrous impedient was the breakdown of essential machinery. A plane sent to Memphis for repair parts had not yet returned this morning. Only a few of the thousands who* came here to offer their services in the rescud work cling to the hope that some peculiar twist of the rock stratas exist to admit sufficient air to support life in the tomb-like pocket in which the men are trapped. Relatives Abandon Hope Relatives of the five men who have waited patiently for days and nights without food or sleep have at last given up hope. They cannot, however, be persuaded to leave the mouth of the rescue shaft. About two thousand persons from this and neighboring communities still waited curiously about, watching the work of rescue crews today. They are kept back by troops of the Kentucky National Guard, called when the dense crowds made rescue work almost Impossible. Alternate crews have worked day and night, their efforts frustrated at every turn by disaster of one sort or another. The five miners were trapped in their underground prison when one of them raising his pick, to jar loose a particularly large chunk of dirt, struck down Into an underground lake which spurted water in the shaft. Flee Backward Coming in front of them as It did, the water forced the men to flee further into the underground channels. Some of the men in the shaft at the time managed to escape and give the alarms. Immediately the word went round that the men were hemmed in by the flowing water and faced the drowning death of entombed rats in medieval ages. But engineers, thinking quickly, Immediately set up all the large pumps at the mine and succeeded in stopping the flow of water into the “tomb” of the men. Dig “Collins” Shaft Then began the slow torturous job of digging a shaft down to the men*—the same kind of s shaft that a nation waited breathlessly to reach Floyd Collins. PLANE ON ITS WAY Drill Parts Are Rushed to Kentucky Mine, Bu United Press MEMPHIS. Aug. 10.—L. F. Lane, vice president of the Lane and Bowler Company, left Memphis today in his own airplane with drill parts, needed to continue rescue work at Salem, Ky., where five men are imprisoned in a mine. Lane was an Army aviator during the World War. His company is in charge of drilling operations at the mine. JACKSON TO TALK Bu United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Aug. 10.— Governor Jackson will be the principal speaker at Lafayette’s urbanrural picnic here Aug. 19, it was announced today.

U. S. BATTLE WITH R UM FLEET LOOMS Six Cutters Prepare to Meet Liquor Boats After One Ship 4 Is Fired Upon.

Bm United Press MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 10.—Six United States cutters in battle formation were reported preparing today for a fight off the Florida coast near Anastasia light with an armed liquor schooner which last night beat off, with machine gun fife, a single coast guard cutter attempting to capture her. Answering the lone cotter's - calls lor aid. three more cutters put out

Forecast Possibly local thunderstorms this afternoon or tonight; Wednesday fair and cooler.

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; POLICE CRUSADE STARTS AGAINST imiVERS Nineteen Failures to Stop After Accidents Precipitates Drive. Arrest of Mrs. Eliza Hatfield, 29, of R. R. O, Box 26 R, today was announced as the first in a crusade of police against reckless drivers who fail to stop after accidents. The drive was ordered by Traffic Inspector Lester Jones after he received figures from the accident prevention bureau to the effect that, in the last ten days, nineteen cases of “hit and run” drivers had been reported. Mrs. Hatfield, charged with assault and battery, failure to atop after an accident and reckless driving, was alleged to have left without giving her name or license number after her auto struck Walter Devine, 21, of 1423 E. Raymond St., at West and Washington Sts. Monday evening. Devine, riding a bicyle, was injured about the head. Jones pointed out that under the law, every driver in a collision must stop and exchange names and license numbers with the driver of the Ocher car or cars. ' Out of the nineteen hit and run cases, fifteen arrests have been made and seven persons slated. The four other cases are being investigated. Jones ordered a rigid investigation be made of all auto accidents and that reckless drivers be brought to police headquarters at once. He also started g campaign against motorists who fail to heed “stop” and “go” signs. Twenty-three drivers were arrested on these charges Monday. They were released on their own recognizance. Martha. Mosier. 25, of Mars Hill was arrested today by Trafflcman Hyde on a charge of disobeying a traffic signal. PARK DAM MUST GO Board Plans to Remedy Insanitary Conditions. Removal of the Garfield Park dam to purify' the lagoon will be one of the first steps by the park board in its campaign to remedy insanitary conditions alotjg Pleasant Run. John E. Milnor, board president, said today. Milnor said he believed this drastic step was the only method to rid the lagoon of the pollution produced by accumulation of sewage and debris at. the dam. Meanwhile, efforts > to complete the Pleasant Run sewer are to be accentuated. . The South Side Boosters' Club Monday night pledged aid to officials and other civic organizations in cleansing Pleasant Run. DISCUSS CONVENTION Plans for the joint senatorial convention at which a nominee will be selected for the vacancy In the State Senate arising from the death, of William E. English were discussed at a noon meeting today of the candidates’ council of the Marion County Democratic organization at the Indiana Democratic Club.

from here overnight while two others raced from Key West to Join the general attack. The single cutter, repulsed by the "rummy” had messaged she could keep the liquor craft in sight until aid came. Included in the battle coast are the CG-243. CG-247, CG-296, CG-293 and CG-298. The two cuttero from Key West put into Miami last night fo.r supplies before continuing thslr dash up the coait, •