Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 136, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1926 — Page 1

Saint and Sinner ' ' By ANNE AUSTIN

CHAPTER I. Mrs. Lane lowered her heavy, middle-aged body Into her chair with a groan. The family paid no attention. “Mother,” or "Mom,” or “Muggy," as she was variously called by her children, always groaned when she sat down or pulled herself up out of chairs and they were used to it. “Where’s Cherry, Faith? She’ll be late for work. You shouldn’t let her oversleep so often.” Mrs. Lane spoke with the complaining, martyred voice of the chronic invalid. “I called her forty-five minutes ago,” Faith Lane deposited a platter of fried eggs nnd bacbn upon the big round table and wiped a clinging strand of straight, dark brown hair from her perspiring face with the back of work-marked hand. “I really haven't time to keep going back to her room to see if she's up.”- In her large, wistful brown eyes—her one good feature, the family said—-there was a flash of resentment. “Don’t speak to your mother in that tone of voice, Faith!” Mrs. Lane reproved her automatically. “That new bungalow apron looks real nice on you, Faith. That pink kinda livens up that sallow skin of yours. Ain’t it aorta short, though?” Her critical eyes swept the tall, splendid figure of her twenty-year old daughter. Too bad that Faith wasn’t pretty —like Cherry! “No, it's not too short,” Faith said. “It’s three inches below ray knees and Cherry wears hers so the knee cap shows. She made me shorten that green organdy her —” "Now, Faith, there you go! You can t say a kind word for poor little Cherry! Cherry can wear knee dresses —she’s such a tiny midget. That pale green organdy sure sets off her coppery curls, doesn’t it? Joy don’t take so much butter! With butter 60 cents a pound, it does seem to me —Jim, for heaven’s sake, watch what you're doing! You can’t read the paper and stir your coffee at the aarne time, without slopping it all over the tablecloth! Ohjldear! This house always look like a cyclone had struck it!” y , Jim Lane lowered his paper and smiled a dim, uncertain smile at his wife, his brown eyes twinkling £t her through steel-rimmed spec tacles. “All right, Martha. Don't upset your digestion. Take things a little easier, honey.” His"thick-knuckled, broken-nailed hand reached for the spoon with which Joy, his youngest daughter—nine-going-on-ten—-was scooping into the egg platter. “Don't be greedy, Chicken-little. Only one egg apiece. Junior and Cherry have to eat yet, you know. Faith, honey, where’s Junior?” “I wish you wouldn’t call me, Junior, Dad.” The tall, very thin, good-looking boy paused to straighten his new* dark blue, polka-dotted tie at the murky mirror of the sideboard. “Gosh! I’m twenty-one! I'm not a kid. The fellows call me ‘Long,’ and I don’t see why you have to Junior me all the time, as if I was three years’old! Hey, Faith! Aintcha got no hot toast? This stuff’s as cold as a gold-digger’s heart.” “Your name isn’t ‘Long,’ Junior —or Jimmy, if that suits you better,” his father answered reasonably. “Looks to me like you'd be ashamed of being oftlled ‘Long’ Lane—” “It's a long lane that has no turning," Joy laughed shrilly. “That's where they got his nickname, Pop. He's about the longest Lane Jn the world, I guess. Ain’t we got a silly name—Lane? Me—Joy Lane! AM the kids tease me—call me ‘Giggly Alley! and Cherry Lane—the kids say that’s a street in New York— *” “Cherry’s name in Charity, I’d thank you to remember!” her mother Interrupted sharply. “Faith, Hope, Charity! I thought they was lovely names. But with Hope dead —God rest her blessed little soul!—and Charity calling herself Cherry—” her voice trailed off, dropped to a minor note of dissatisfaction with her children, with life, with everything! “Well, mother, they haven’t nicknamed me," Faith smiled at her fondly, as she filled the half-empty cup at her mother's plate with fragrant, steaming hot coffee, and handed her brother a plate of "thin, crisp toast fresh from the oven. “Yeh, Faith's the only virtue we have left,” ‘Long’ grinned. “Where’s the Charity that turned Thto a Cherry? Say, that kid’s out too late at night. Somebody oughta put her wise to herself. She's getting herself talked about something fierce.” “Is that so! Well, Mr. Smarjy, who's going to put you wise to yourself?” Cherry Lane appeared in the dining room door, like a tiny, green clad fairy, magically summoned. She stuck a tiny pointed tongue between the ripe, full lips of her small mouth, theip whirled to the mirror in the sideboard, to run her rosy-tipped flngeis through the mass of short copper-and-gold curls that rioted over her small head. Then she smiled kt her image, crinkling her short nose and her topaz eyes gleamed with appreciation of her charms. “If you don’t lay off me, ‘Long’ Lane, I'll tell Muggy, about Fay Allen— ’’ “Aw, shut up! Mind your own business! Better feed your face and heat it, or you'll be late for'work again, and come home tonight with a great song-and-dance about quitting because the boss got fresh with you—” ' “Muggy! him quit picking on me!"t Cherry Lane jerked a chair from if 3 place- next to her brother and drew it scrapingly across (Turn to Page 8)

INFANT DAY OLD, MOTHER VA NI SHFS Deserts Day-Old Daughter at Robert Long Hospital-Po-lice Believe Fake Nam e Was Given Doctors.

Police today hunted a young mother who deserted her baby daughter a few hours after it was born at the Robert Long Hospital, Sunday. The .voman, who gave her name as Mrs. Ruth Smith, 1567 Broadway. Came to the hospital at 12:45 a. m. Sunday, hospital authorities reported to police. One hour later the baby was born. At 6 p. m. the woman was found ESTABLISH NEW INDUSTRY HERE Cass Specialty Company to Make Thermometers. Establishment of anew industry In Indianapolis was announced today by John B. Reynolds, chanmer of commerce secretary. Cass Spedlalty Company, a merger ot the defunct Central Plating and Manufacturing Company, of this city, and the Central Advertising Company, Terre Haute, is moving into quarters at 715-721 Ft. Wayne Ave. They will employ thirty persons making thermometers, fly-swafters, lire extinguishers and advertising noveltlbs, The company is one of seven making thermometers in the United States, and one of two making a super-heating instrument which will register up to 212 degreees. It has manufactured 3,000,000 thermometers so far this year, and 2,5000,000 fly-swatters. ' R. M. Cass is president of the concern and James L. Nlmal, general manager. WET BLANKET ON AL Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Returntngtoday from a tour of Europe. Senator T. H. Caraway, Arkansas, reiterated his _statement made earlier in the summer that A1 Smith, Governor of New York, never could be elected President.

to be missing when a nurse took the baby t(y her room. The woman, according to doctors at the hospital, said she was brought to the hospital from Acton, Ind., in an auto loaned her by Dn Swals of Acton. Dr. Swalls, she said, had been attending her. Her- husband, Joe Smith, she said, lived in Acton, and she had been living with her mother in Acton for several weeks. Investigation today disclosed that there It no Mrs. Smith living in the apartment building at 1567 Broad way. Dr. Swails of Acton said he knew no Mrs. Smith. Hospital authorities talked to a drug store in Acton which the woman gAve as a reference. The drug store clerk said that a Mrs. Martha Paugh, who is the rriother of Mrs. Ruth Smith, said she had not seen her daughter for some time and did not know where she was. Mrs. Smith, according to hospital attaches, was about 27, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighed 180 pounds and had several gold teeth. She had light brown hair. NO COAL STRIKE PEACE Committee of Mine Owners Opposes Government’s Proposal. Bu United Press _ I LONDON, Sept. 13.—Governmental efforts to settle the coal dispute by mutual agreement today were stalemated by the decision of the central committee of the Coal Owners’ Association to notify Winston Churchill, the government spokesman, that the owners virtually .were unanimously opposed to the government’s, proposal. This decision was taken on the 136th day of the coal stoppage. 1 FATALITY INVESTIGATED Bu United Press HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Sept. 13. —Coroner Burkhart today investigated the death of William Boxell, 65, fatally injured when he was run over by an auto driven by Raphael Rissis, a Mexican laborer. The Mexican was placed in jail.

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VOLUME 37—NUMBER 136

DOES 1 RELY ON UJ. LID? Way to Examination of Petition for Clemency for Jones Boys Barred. AFTER WATSON DENIAL Effort to Win Parole Becomes of National Interest.

Jones * Brother Says Watson Aided

Times Washinaton Bureau. I.>l* Vi’ic York Arrnu# WASHINGTON. Sept. 13. C. E. .Jones, brother of Neufleld and Winfield Jones, convicted of conspiracy in liquor cases and for whom clemency is asked, today said that Senator Watson was among those “dry” Senators who had appealed to the board in their behalf. He said that Watson had sent a letter asking for favorable action on their petition. The Times correspondent also saw a letter written by C. E. Jones to a Senator, in which he stated that Watson was among those who had interceded. This confirmation of the statement that Watson had pleaded for these convicts, one of whom was former publicity agent for the Ku-Kliix Klan, follows a denial to I)r. E. E. Shumaker of the Indiana AntiSaloon la-ague that he had pleaded in their behalf and the further statement that he had never heard of the case.

Did Senator James E. Watson rely on the rule of the Federal parole board not to divulge officially the names of petitioners for clemency when he told Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, that he had never signed a petition for the Jones brothers, the bootleggers, one of whom drew $50,000 In three year* as publicity agent for the Klan? The lid went down on Saturday against any further official state inents as, to signers for this case, which is becoming celebrated. It went down about the time that Th£ Indianapolis Times printed the fact that Watson had denied to Shumaker that he had ever signed the petition. In the meantime the evidence that Watson had signed such a petition lies in the publication of that fact by several Washington correspondents and the two big press associations. Watson was listed by the United Press as a signer. Watson was listed by the Associated Press as a signer to such a petition. Additional Confirmation The Cincinnati Enquirer, In a dls patch by one of its staff men, said: “Other signers of dry leanings, who, ln*addition to Senator Willis of Ohio, signed the petition are Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, Reed Smoot, Utah, etc.” The Jones brothers, were former prohibition agents in Georgia. They were convicted of conspiring to flood the East with alcohol after they had purchased a drug company in Maryland. Their conviction was bailed by the dry forces and the Government as the most important of the year. They each received a sentence of two years In the Federal prison. They went there In June, just, three months ago. The petition for •release signed by the dry Senators is on file. Watson is listed as one of the signers, but denied to Shumaker. dry leader, that he had signed. The Enquirer Dispatch The Enquirer says concerning the case: “The trial of the Jones brothers In Baltimore last year attracted national attention, not only because of their former association with en forcement agencies, but because of the statement by Federal officials (Turn to Page 10) EIGHT IN AUTO DROWN Machine Plunges Over Embankment —One Body Recovered. Bu United Press MEDFORD, Ore., Sept. 13.—Only one of the bodies of eight persons—four children and four adults—who drowned in Rouge River near here Sunday had been recovered this morning, the body of D.-T. Norris, Mahaffey, Pa., was taken from th? stream Sunday night. The party was returning to Medford when their car plunged over a 300-foot embankment Into the river. Forecast Possibly showers tonight and Tuesday; continued cool tonight; slowly rising temperature Tuesday. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m.*...* 58 10 a. 59 7 a. m 57 11 a. m 62 8 a. mj..... 57 12 (noon) 62 9 a. m 58

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WANT MAN IN MURDER CASE QUIZ

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Jean Calhoun

Detective Donald Tooley left this afternoon for New Orleans in an attempt to bring Jean Calhoun back to Indianapolis for examination concerning the murder of M’llkinson Haag and the Duesenberg Motor Company pay roll robbery. Tooley obtained the requisition papers from Governor Jackson for Caihoun, who, according to information from Thomas Haley, chief of New Orleans police, admitted he is wanted in connection with the Haag and Duesenberg cases. Although the warrant will charge only robbery. Inspector Claude M. Worley believes an examination will lead to considerable illumination in regard to Haag's murder in a holdup May 18 at the Green Mills barbecue on E. Thirty-Eighth St. Haley wired a definite confession of the Duesenberg * robbery to Worley, as follows: “Jeqn Calhoun confesses being one of the four who held up pay roll of Duesenberg Auto Company, your cily. month of May, $4,000.” However, Mrs. Anna Calhoun, widowed mother of the suspect, said Sunday that her son was in Daven port, lowa, when the Haag murder took place. Mrs. Calhoun, who has sold her rooming house at 947 N. Illinois St., will devote the proceeds to her son's defense. “I don't uphold him if he has done wrong, but he is my boy and I must stand by him," she said.

FITZSIMMONS SAYS DEMPSEY SIGNED fOR WILLS EIGNE Contract Never Reached Clements, However, He Testifies. Jack Dempsey signed a contract to fight Harry Wills. Negro challenger, but the contract never peached B. E. Clements, fight promoter, Floyd Fitzsimmons testified in Superior Court Four. The Chicago Coliseum Club,, of which Clements is president, is seeking to prevent the world’s heavyweight boxing champion from meeting Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Sept. 23, before fulfilling his alleged contract to fight Wills. Fitzsimmons, fight promoter and friend of Dempsey, was present when the alleged contracts were signed on March 13 in Los Angeles. Cal. Fitzsimmons said Dempsey signed the documents and handed them back to him to be put in a baifk and held in escrow. Fitzsimmons said he and Clem ents left Chicago March 11, with four Copies of the contract and SIOO,OOO to be paid Dempsey. After Dempsey signed three of the contracts and learned the SIOO,OOO was deposited in a Los Angeles bank Dempsey said, “I want my money .in cash or there won’t be no fight.” Clements quieted Dempsey by a “private” agreement, whereby the champion was *o be paid in cash. Dempsey signed one copy of the “private" supplementary agreement, it was said. Later Dempsey asked for the alleged contracts and de stroyed them, when he believed the club could not make payments. Fltzsimmoils said Dempsey objected when he learned he was to get only SBOO,OOO as he wanted $1,000,000. He denied Dempsey had signed any contrkct to box Tunney in violation of the club agreement. The champion merely took an option on the Tunney match, he declared.

Bandit Saved From Noose By Confession of Flapper Pal

Bu United Press ■ STATE PENITENTIARY, Milledgeville, Ga„ Sept. 13. Cheered by the confession of Ruby Ray, flapper bandit, Mell Gore, youthful condemned murderer, today was confident he would escape execution set for tomorrow. With his face against the bars of his cell, Gore heard yesterday his feminine accomplice In the hold-up and murder of W. H. 'Cheek, Atlanta grocer, admit she fired the fatal shot. The Ray girl, serving six years in woman's prison, confessed voluntarily after Gorqf had attempted to have her keep the secret. Notifying officers she had

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 13,1926

GERTRUDE TO APPEAR Will Take Part In Water Carnival For Money, Sept. 24. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the English channel, will make her first appearance for money at a swimming carnival here Sept. 24. She will then start on a nation-wide theatrical tour. EXTRA

BODY OF UNKNOWN MAN ALONG BANK Police this afternoon sought to identify the body of a man found on the banks of Fall Creek at Northwestern Ave. Two Negro fishermen found the body and went to the Northwestern Machine Company's office where police were called. They said the body had evidently been in the stream some time. WRECKED PLANE FOUND lllnod Spattered on Cockpit—No Trace of Passengers. Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 13.—A wrecked airplane, with blood spattered about the cockpit, was found in a field near Germantown, a suburb, today. No trace of its passengers was found. IS UNDER $5,000 BONDS Finding of “Port of Missing Tires” Leads to Arrest. Discovery of an allleged “port of missing tires” at the home of Ralph Meyers, 28, of 1116 N. Capitol Ave.. will clear up many recent tire thefts, police believe. Meyers wrs arrested by Detectives YoutTg and Hynes ar.d Is being held under $5,000 bonds on a charge of receiving stolen property. . BUMP ARRIVES HOME Return Flight of TC-5 to Virginia Uneventful One. Bu United Press LANGLEY FIELD. Va.. Sept. 13. —The Army blimp TC-5 was safely home today following her uneventful sixteen-hour week-end flight from Belleville, 111., through the region which a year ago the Shenandoah traversed on her fatal journey. The • blimp arrived here early Sunday morning, having made one stop at Wilbur Wright field, Dayton. Ohio. ORGANIZE LAND~BANK FleGJser American Company Given Federal Permit Fletcher American Company to day announced organization of a new Joint stock land bank for Indl anapolis. Federal farm loan board granted a petition to establish such an institution under its control. It is to be known as the Indianapolis Joint Stock Land Bank and will be capitalized at $250,000. Officers and directors will be selected from officers and directorates of the Fletcher American Company and the Fletcher American National Bank.

Straw Hat Funeral T uesday

Annual straw hat funeral of the Mercator Club is to be staged Tuesday noon. The solemn procession will start at the Spink-Arms andend at the Monument Circle, where former Mayor Lew will be in charge of obsequies. 'Back of, the mule drawn hearse will be an Incinerator. Spectators en route will be invited to donate their 1926 straws to the inferno. Local hat merchants will take part In the procession, but not as mourners. M’KINLEY UNCHANGED Bu United Press ' MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 13. —The condition of Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois, who has been seriously 111 at a sanitarium here, today was still unchanged, according to Dr. R. H. Egbert, attending physican. The Senator Is able to eat soft foods and has no fever, but still is veiy weak. He has rallied from the pneumonia that threatened his life two weeks ago and some hope is now held for his life.

“something Important to say,” the girl was taken to the deathhouse to confront Gore. The doomed man made signs to her for silence, but she paid no heed. “Gore is not guilty,” she began. “I flved the shot? that killed •Cheek. His hands were caught in the showcase and he didn’t them. I was afraid and fired.” 6fficers turned to Gore and asked If her story was correct. “It Is,” he caid calmly. “Every word is true. I wanted her to keep it a secret though. I didn’t want her to tell.” UUs attorney was to appear before Governor Clifford Walker today in a final effort to stay the execution.

SCHOOL TAX RATE SLASH IS PROPOSED Chamber of Commerce Recommends Reduction of 6.25 Cents. PUBLIC HEARING TODAY Board and Taxpayers Body t Have Closed Session. A reduction of 6.25 cents In the school tax levy for 1927 was to be recommended to the school board at a public hearing on the 1927 budget this afternoon by Leonard V. Harrison, Chamber of Commerce civic expert. Examination of detailed estimates shows a number of items can be reduced without interfering with the major program of school operation, Harrison declared, In citing the nocesssity for lowering the tax burden. Suggests Changes Postponement of repair anfl painting of the administration and shops building costing $4,000; reduction of estimates for elementary teachers' salaries, $25,000; cut of $7,000 in j janitors' apppropriation for Crispus Attucks School under construction; $45,000 siash in elementary schools’ alteration program, and reduction of l the repair figure for Technical High School, were among the chief recommendatlons of the chamber. A sqcret conference of Indiana Taxpayers’ Association representatives and school board members was held today at 11 a. m. in preparation for the hearing on the 1927 budget. The closed session was In the office of Business Director Ure M. Frazer. Friendly Conferring According to Harry Miesse, tax body secretary, the conference was friendly and for the purpose of checking over the budget and aiding the board. No drastic demand for a cut In the appropriation will be asked, Miesse stated. There were some disy 1 ference In the board figures and those of the tax body which believed the rate should be $1.06 Instead of $1.09, but the differences resulting from the method of calculation were adjusted in favor of the school board's figure, Miesse declared.

GOVERNOR EXTENDS PAROLE OF YOUTH

Renews Temporary Liberty of Nick Harakas, Who Took Part in Jail Break in WfTfeh Guard Was Killed.

Through a series of temporary paroles, Governor' Jackson will continue the liberty of Nick Harkkas, 24, of this city, whom the Governor recently extended a thirty-day parole from the Indiana State prison in order that he “might work in his father's restaurant and make good,” the youth’s father said today. Jackson this morning renewed the thirty-day parole which had expired. The Governor promised he would continue the renewals until Jan. 1, 1927, when the prison parole board hears a plea for an indefinite parole, the father said. Harakas has been working in a restaurant at 306 Indiana Ave., owned by the father, Michael P. I Harakas. His record includes a dishonorable discharge from the United States Navy, one escape from the Indiana State Farm and participaHMICKARSON TRIALUNDERWAY Hearing Separate From His Negro Houseboy. Selection of a jury for trial of Jesse D. Hamrick, local attorney, and his wife, Mrs. Dalla M. Hamrick, both charged with conspiracy to commit arson with their Negro houseboy, James Ecton, 16, began this morning in Criminal Court before Special Judge James M. Leathers. Hamrick was granted a change of venue from Judge James A. Collins and a separate trial from Ecton. v The trio is alleged to havg conspired in the burning of Hamrick's modern home on the Michigan Rd., near New Augusta, last January. Three homes owned by Hamrick have been fired on that site. At. the time of the last burning Hamrick and his wife said they were In Florida. Ecton, arrested soon after the fire and kept in jail several months, signed a statement declaring he set the house afire on orders from Hamrick. The Indictment charges the house • was destroyed to collect insurance. WANAMAKERS WIN OUT PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.—The commonwealth of Pennsylvania today lost Its tight In orphans’ court to collect death taxes resulting from the transfer of $32,000,000 of com mon stock of the John Wanamaker Department Store Corporation, which were delivered to his son and two daughters-In 1920, two years before the merchant’s death.

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Norma Smallwood, who used to be just* Miss Tulsa, Okla., now has the world at her feet as the Nation’s beauty of beauties, Miss America. This is the suit in which she passed, before the judges at Atlantic City. BREAKDOWN BLAMED Bu United Press THORNTOWN, Ind., Sept. 13.—A nervous breakdown was blamed today for the suicide of Robert MeClamrock, ' 38, of Frankfort, "who hanged himself at the home of relatives near here.

tion in an attempted delivery from the old reformatory at Jeffersonville in which one guard was killed. Worked With Stephenson Part of his time at the prison was spent in the chair factory, where D. C. Stephenson, one-time czar in Indiana politics, who was given a life sentence on a murder charge, is working. One of the persons active in Harakas’ behal? was Dr. Edward C. Bachfield, local dentist and former confidant of Stephenson. Bachfield was openly accused of intimidating witnesses prior to the trial of Stephenson on charges of murdering Madge Oberholtzer. Bachfield spent a month on the pardon board, white the Harakas case was pending,, as^ 1 Jackson's special representative. A letter to the pardon board from Dr. Bachfield is in the assortment of pleas for lenity for Harakas. Harakas’ father and Sergt. Thomas T. Bledsoe, in whose charg’B the youth was entrusted, conferred this morning with Jackson. The father said his son was ‘'making good and working hard.” # Sentenced for Theft Youpg Harakas, following his discharge from the Navy, was committed to the State Farm after conviction of stealing a diamond stick pin from a friend. Shortly before the expiration of his term he left the farm on the pretense of seeing his mother, who was ill. Comhiitted to the reformatory, he had served all but two days of his sentence when he was induced to take part in an escape attempt. Allele other participants were indicted for the murder of* the guard, but Harakas was found guilty of stealing the sledge hammer used in the break/ He received a ten to twenty-one-year prison term. The minimum later was reduced to five years, making him eligible for consideration by the prison parole board next January. AL MUST STAY HOME Governor Cannot' Make Trip to New York City for Primary. Bu United Press ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 13.—For the first time in thirty-one years, Governor A1 Smith will be unable to vote in Tuesday’s primary in New orjt City. His back has not entirely healed affter a minor operation for\ remaval of a mole, and his physicians advised against making the trip. HEADS FAMILY GROUP The second annual picnic and family reunion of the Halcomb families was held Sunday, Sept. 12, in Ellsworth. Park. Danville, 111. Trimble Halcomb tt Indianapolis was elected president for the ensuing year.

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MAN KILLEOI IN TRACTION* AOTOJRASH Farmer Dies When Interurban Hits Car at Crossing on T. H., I. & E. _i MACHINE IS WRECKED Third Accident Death Here Since Saturday. The third fatal accident since Saturday occurred this morning when Charles Kuehn, 69, farmer living at Stop 6, on the Rockvilile Rd., was killed by an east-bound T. H., I. & E. interurban at a crossing near his home. Kuehn had left his home a few minutes before, en route to Ben Davis. The auto was carried some distance down the track, finally landing wrecked in the ditch. Kuehn’s head and chest were crushed and he died instantly. Survivors are the widow, son Fred", and a daughter, Mrs. Mary Wlmmer, all of whom live at home. John Norris, 66, of 1434 Olive St., was fatally Injured at Alabama and Washington St., Sunday when struck by an auto driven by William Burns, 540 E. Market St., who was charged with involuntary manslaughter. Child at Home Robert Coyne, 4, of 1421 Finley Ave., was fatally injured when struck by an auto, which speeded away, in front of his home late Saturday. Andrew Underwood, 230 S. Addison St., stopped his auto with the front wheels near the body of the boy. Hulbert Alsteadt, Puritan Hotel, said a light roadster swung to the left side cf the street to pass his auto and it is believed this car is the one which struck the youth. Miss Hazel Evans, 18, of 830 N. Delaware St., was seriously injured when thrown over the handle bars of a motorcycle on which she was riding with Shejdon Baxter, 22, of 947 S. Illinois St. The accident took place on State Rd. 6, a mile north of Thirtieth St., when the motorcycle colli (edl with a wagon driven by Robert Lakin, Jr., of R. R. A., Box 432. The youth was charged with driving a vehicle under age and assault and battery. Miss Evans was taken to the city hospital with a fractured skull. ‘Hit, Run’ Sought e Police are seeking a “hit and run” driver who ran his auto into one driven by William H. Brooks, Oaklandon, Ind., at Capitol Ave. and Twenty-first St. Brooks gave police the license number. Roy Potter, 318 E. Vermont St., an alleged “hit and run" driver, who Is charged with fleeing from an accident at Vermont and Noble Sts., Saturday night, was arrested by Motcrpolicemen Long and Curran. He is also charged with assault and battery and failure to stop at a preferential street." Others injured Ralph Fisher, 35, of 816 N. Oriental St.; Harold Jackson, 10, Negro, 836 W. Walnut St.; William Richards, Negro, 7, of 845 W. Walnut St..; A. C. McCoun, 42, of Spencer Hotel; Mrs. Mafry Lowder, 73, of 1135 Kentucky Ave., and Mrs. Mattie Lee, 66, of 1172 Kentucky Ave.; Mrs. William Wilkersoh, 32, of 311 N. Pine St.; Paul McGee. 22. of 310 N. Tacoma Ave.; Adolphus Buford, Negro, 28, of 1524 Yandes Bt. rOOR LIGHT BLAMED Woman Fails to See Freight and! Drives Truck on Track. Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 13.—A poor light on a truck driven by Mrs. Frances Shultz, 33, of Ross, Ind., wqs blamed today for the accident in which she was killed and one of her five children seriously injured. Falling to see a moving: freight train near Ross, she drove her auto into tho side of the train. The light of her car was faulty. Peter, 13, her eldest child, was internally hurt. Mrs, Schultz was killed outright.

SAYS AIMEE PAID S3OO STORY Woman Asserts She Faked Tale About Bungalow. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13.—Sensa tional charges that Aimee Semple McPherson had paid her SBOO and was to give her a total of $5,000 to fake a story of scaring a cottage with Kenneth Ormlston at Carmel-by-the-Sea were made In an affidavit Here today by Mrs. Loralne Wiseman. Mrs. Wiseman Is held by police on charges of passing worthless checks and her arrest Friday night revealed, according to police, that she had perpetrated a hoax on the public by announcing she and her sister, a mythical “Miss X” and not Mrs. McPherson, radio evangelist, had occupied the seaside bungalow with the former radio operator qf Angelua Temple. Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of Mrs. • McPherson, denied all accusations. '