Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 138, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1926 — Page 1

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REPUBUCAHS SEEK GIFTS OF FMEN Politicians Levy Biggest Assessment in Memory of Veterans. SCALE FOR OFFERINGS Move on Eve of Civil Service Adoption. On the eve of adoption of civil service by Mayor Duvall's cabinet, city firemen today were considering ways and means of paying the largest political assessment in the memory of local fire fighters. A definite schedule of contributions expected by the Marlon County Republican political bosses has been issued by officers in charge at the various fire houses. Firemen who hope to be promoted in the sweet by and by are expected to do their bit toward financing the campaign of G. O. P. candidates in whom they have no personal interest. A sliding scale has been drafted fory the ‘‘offerings'’ of the fire fighters. A captain pays 515 and a lieutenant' sl2. The firemen are assessed $lO while even the substitutes, who dream that some day they will have regular employment in the department, have keen asked to contribute $9.; Contributions are to be paid to John J. Collins, city purchasing agent. A few weeks ago, Wayne Emmelman, board of works secretary, issued pledge cards for contributions to department heads at the city hall. Roy C. Shaneberger, board of works president, is treasurer of the Republican county committee. Rules and regulations for conduct of the police and fire departments under ‘civil service system” are expected to be adopted at a city cabinet meeting Thursday.

•MANY SEEK TO BE CITY ENGINEER Mayor Will Announce Appointment This Week. The board of works has received numerous applications for appointment to the position of city civil engineer, which pays $8,500 annually, it was said today, j Resignation of George G. Schmidt took effect today. Assistant Engineer Arthur F. Hauffler is now in charge of the office. Mayor Duvall and board members have expressed the opinion that the successor to Schmidt will be “an out-of-town man.” The statement caused talk that John Elliott, former city engineer, now of Alexandria, Ind; H. G. Wray, former track elevation engineer, now of South Bend, Ind., and the present f-ngineer at Richmond, Ind., are likely choices. Duvall said he is awaiting recommendations from Purdue University authorities. KUAN GIVES INDORSEMENT Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—A resolution supporting the Calles administration in Mexico in the religious controversy and calling on the American Government to continue its K hands off” policy was given a rousunofficial, indorsement at the :*fclux Klan’s Klonvocation here today. CHARGES DEMOCRATS By United Prexx FT. WAYNE, Ind., Sept. 15. Charges,that the Democratic party Is "conducting a campaign o t subterfuge lu Indiana this year” were made by Miss Dorothy Cunningham of Martinsville, Republican national committeewoman from Indiana, at a Twelfth District gathering of women workers.

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Saint and Sinner By ANNE AUSTIN

WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Tha LANES are an average American family, hard up but ambitious, There la MRS. LANE, fat, mWdle-aged. sickly. , , MR. LANE, a carpenter, trying to land a small contracting lob with a young business man, 808 HATHAWAY, who has been invited to dinner. JUNIOR. 21. irresponsible, wild. „ .... FAITH, the stay-at-home drudge lor the family, tall, splendidly built, but not pretty. CHERRY, a stenographer, pretty, tiny, with strange topaz ewes. JOY. 9, the irrepressible, who sticksa finger In everyone s pie. Cherry and Junior have both lost their jobs and Cherrv sets out to find a new one. making a telephone date with CHESTER HART. Faith s own “steady, whom Cherry has succeeded in “vamping.” Faith cleans house vigorously to make it nice for Bob Hathaway's visit, and tinder Cherry s pillow finds a letter from ALBERT ETTLESON. a traveling man of Indianapolis, whom Cherry has evidently picked up. although she lias a swarm of home-town suitors When Faith is introduced to Bob Hathaway. Chester is forgotten. HOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER 111 “Isn’t he adorable?” Cherry whispered to Faith, while Mrs. Lane was engaging Bob Hathaway In conversation. “I’ve fallen fpr him already! Do I look all right, honey? I didn't have time to change my dress She smoothed the short, petaled green skirt, fluffed her artfully tousled copper-and-gold curls with expert fingers, then, before Faith could answer, jumped up from the davenport and ran to lay a hand with an effect of shy, eager friendliness upon Bob Hathaway’s arm. “Dinner's ready, Mr. Hathaway. I hope you’re starved so you’ll overlook any shortcomings.” Whirling lightly toward her mother, she helped her to rise ponderously from the davenport, conscious that Bob Hathaway’s eyes were upon her, and that she made a protty picture of filial solicitude. Then, with a gay little laugh, she ran ahead of the slowly moving procession into the dining room. With quick darts of her tiny body she flew around the table, straightening a “company” napkin here, mflre neatly lining up a spoon or a knife there, touching the bowl of roses—flowers that Chester Hart had given her that day—with expert Angers,, To the already infatuated eyes of the guest, it looked as if she were wholly responsible for the hospitably spread table, though she had not arrived home in time even to set It. “We have to manage without a maid—servants are so hard to keep, away out here on Myrtle Street. You'll have to excuse us If things aren’t —aren’t just so, Mr. Hathaway.” Cherry slipped into the chair he was (Turn to Pago 8)

AIMEE ABANDONS BA TTLE FOR STOR Y Says She Is Innocent of Charges, but ‘There Is No Use Fighting Back’ —Another Alleged Piot Bared.

Bu United Preta LOS ANGELES, Sept. 15.—Almee Semple McPherson has "given up” In her battle to convince the public that her famous story of kidnaping and imprisonment Is true, she told the United Press today. “I am Innocent of all the charges that have been made against me, but there Is no use fighting back,” said the picturesque pastor in an exclusive interview. “I am Just going to be a game sport and stick ft out as long as I can regardless of what £he papers may say, or the authorities may do.” Another alleged plot' by the evangelist to manufacture evidence in support of her famous kidnaping story was told to District Attorney Asa Keyes today by Miss Bernice Morris, secretary of R. A. McKinley, blind Long Beach attor-

DEMPSEY TO ASK NEW FIGHT TRIAL If Denied Appeal Steps Will Be Taken. Frank A. Symmes, one of the attorneys assisting in the defense of Jack Dempsey, World's heavyweight boxing champion, against whom Judge Clinton H. Givan has issued an injunction prohibiting his fighting Gene Tunney on Sept. 23 in Philadelphia, today announced that a motion for anew trial will be filed in Superior Court Four. The injunction was Issued upon petition of the Chicago Coliseum Club which charged it holds a contract Dempsey to fight Harry Wills, Negro challenger. The court has prohibited Dempsey from fighting anyope elsje before he fulfills the club agreement. The,, motion will be based on exceptions taken by defense attorneys to questions asked witnesses, Symmes said. Symmes said the motion for anew trial is the first necessary step toward an appeal, which probably will be taken ts a new trial is refused. FLOOD AT WASHINGTON Conditions in Daviess County Worst Since 1913. Bu Unitei Preax WASHINGTON, Ind., .Sept, 15. Flood conditions in Daviess County were the worst today since 1913 and Washington is isolated to the west and south with high waters from White River rushing over State highways 5 and 28. HOLD HOLY COMMUNION Opens First Day Session of M. E. Church Conference. Bu United Preaa EVANSVILLE, Ind., S<*>t. 15. Holy communion services opened the first day session of the ninetyfifth Indiana annual conference of the Methodist Church here. Dr. O. W. Fifer, pastor of Central Ave. M. E. Church, Indianapolis, delivered the memorial service address. The Rev..H. *W. Baldridge of Indianapolis was re-elected secretary of the conference and the Rev. C. M. Croft, Indianapolis, was reelected treasurer. By virtue of his position as resident bishop of the Indianapolis area, of which the Indiana conference is a part, Bishop Frederick D. Leete was ae-electcd president. * HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 70 10 a. m. 79 7 a. m...... 72 11 a. m 81 8 a. 74 12 fnoqry [V - x* a, 78

ney, who was killed recently In an atuomobite accident. Mythical Kidnapers Miss Morris told the prosecutor that her employer had been dealing with Mrs. McPherson concerning'a plan to produce a trio of mythical kidnapers and find a desert shack to fit the evangelist's story of her kidnaping and Imprisonment. In her statement to the district attorney, Miss Norris declared that Mrs. McPherson had assisted her and McKinley, her forjner employer in the scheme, to produce fake kidnapers. Her statement was recorded by an official stenographer and became a part of the records &f the case in the district attorney’s office. Asked if she had received any money from Mrs. McPherson, the secretary said she had received nothing from the Los Angeles, but that “Mother” Kennedy had advanced her S2O. Mrs. McPherson made a categorical denial of Miss Morrris’ statement. "It is absurd and untrue and evidently a part of a gigantic conspiracy,” the Bible teacher declared.

AUTO CRASH IS FATALJO ONE Two Seriously Injured in Accident Near Brazil. Bu United Presx BRAZIL. Ind., Sept. 15.—Mrs. Wright Vermillya, Little Rock, Ark., was crushed to death and Dp. Robert Caldwell and his wife, also of Little Rock, were seriously injured in aj auto accident near here today. Caldwell's car turned cfver in a ditch when he attempted to pass another machine.

NE W MOTION FILED TO CUT GIRL’S SUIT Second Petition to Strike Part of Complaint Alleging Sheriff Shot Up Auto Before Judge.

Another attempt so strike out part of the $5,000 damage suit of Miss Clara Isabel Brown, 19, of 244 E. Tenth St., against Sheriff Omer Hawkins was made in Superior Court Four today. The law firm of Robinson, Symmes and Melson, of which Senator Arthur R. Robinson is senior partner, 1 filed a motion asking that seven parts of an added paragraph to the suit be stricken out. The added paragraph was filed by Adele Storck and M. Elizabeth Mason, women attorneys representing the girl, after Judge Givan struck out vital parts of the original complaint. It restated the stricken out parts of the complaint. Ai gments on a motion to reinstate deleted parts of the original complaint witl be heard Monday by Judge Givan. The plaintiff's neys charged no hearing was held before the complaint was deleted. Miss Brown charged that the sheriff and deputy sheriffs shot up the auto in which she was riding with Maxwell Hosea, a Butler University student, near Old Augusta on the night of May 13; that he subjected her to a search and refused to provide means for her to return to Indianapolis, although it was raining. It also asked that a section \uhich charged was acting in defiance of the Constitution of the United tßates an dthe State of In- 1 d#iat?d The Section alap

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1926

DEDICATION TO FEATURE CIVIC WEEK Ceremonies to Open Chamber of Commerce Building Sept. 24-25. UNIQUE DECORATIONS Committee Appointments Are Announced. Dedication of the new Indianjapolis Chamber of Commerce headquarters will be held Sept. 24 and 25, Nicholas 11. Noyes, president of the chamber, announced today. The dedication ceremonies will precede Civic week, during which meetings and celebration will be held to encourage the growth and prosperity of Indianapolis. Decorations Planned Downtown Indianapolis will blossom with unique decorations on the street-light standards and on traffic semaphores. Stickers for automobiles and special displays in store windows will add color to the celebration. During the festivities, committees from the Chamber will go about soliciting memberships for 1927. Headed by Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch, the dedication committee is coqiposed of: Reily C. Adams, John J. Appel, G. A. Efroymson, "Warren C. Fairbanks, George C. Forrey, H. H. Ilornbrook, L. C. Huesmann, B. F. Lawrence, J. V. Lilly, F. E. Matson, William A. Mayborn, Felix M. McWhirter, G. Barret Moxley, C. H. Rottger, G. A. SchnuU, Charles B. Sommers, Frank D. Stalnaker, Elmer W. Stout, Lucius M. Wainwright, Evans Woollen. Civic leaders, selected for the campaign committee, are: A. J. Allen, E. C. Atkins, Anvey E. Baker, Hugh J. Baker, William E. Balch, George M. Bockstahler, Scott R. Brewer, Robert H. Bryson, C. M. Burpee, A. W. Buschmann, Emerson W. Chaille, Ralph L. Colby, Willis N. Coval, C. E. Crippin, Henry L. Dlthmer, George J. Diver, F. A. Doehber, George C. Forrey Jr.. Thomas C. Howe, Claude F. Johnson, Frank C. Jordan, J. A. Kebler, T. J. Kelly, George A. Kuhn, Pierce J. Landers. H. S. Morse, Joseph A. McGowan, J. Edward Morris. M. L. Norland, George S. Olive, Thomas C. Polk, A. Leroy Portteus, Roy Shields, Walter B. Smith, Harry C. Templeton, George P. Torrence, Leo Traugott, John H. Welch, Harold B. West, Evans Woollen Jr.. Edwin J. Wuensch, Edward J. Gausepohl, William G. Praed, Henry R. Danner, and Walter T. White. ARMS EMBARGO PLACED I J President Issues Proclamation on Nicaragua Situation. Bu United Prexx PAUL SMITH’S, N. Y„ Sept. 15. —President Coolidge today issued a proclamation placing an embargo on the shipment of arms and axnmunl-1 tion to Nicaragua. His action was taken because of the revolutionary conditions in the central American republic. BRIDGE IS PROPOSED P. R. R. Seeks Permit for Structure ! at Terre Haute. Plans for a $1,000,000 railroad bridge over the Wabash River at Terro Haute were disclosed today when Pennsylvania Railroad officials appeared before the public service commission with preliminary drawings. The bridge would be located just north of the present Pennsylvania bridge.

charged Hawkins did not produce a search warrant for any make of auto. Charge that some of the shots fired by Hawkins and his deputies penetrated the tires'and rear fender of the car in which the girl was riding was also asked deleted. Portion of the paragraph charging that, although it was apparent the auto could not be used to take Miss Brown and her 'companion to Indianapolis, Hawkins said, “It is no concern of mine how you get back home,” was also asked stricken out. The rnotibn also asked that the plaintiff's statement that it was the sheriff’s duty to see that Miss Brown was taken to her home be stricken out on the ground that.it was argumentative. The other parts were asked stricken out on the ground that they were prejudiced. The section of the complaint that it was 11 p. m. when she was left by the sheriff at Old Augusta, that it had started to rain that it was 1 a. m. before she was able to reach her home was also asked deleted. BOOK LOANS INCREASE Charles E. Rush, city librarian, announced today that a total of 1,896,230 books were loaned by the librar/ during the last school year, an Increase o( 133,843 over any previous year.

THE MAJOR ARRIVES AT FIGHT CAMP Read on, Ye Fans! Here’s the Real Dope on Jack and Gene. Editor’s Note—ln all the welter of conflicting reports about condition, weights, appetite and susceptibility to injunction that came out of the training camps of Mr. Jack Dempsey and Mr. Gene Tunney in the East today, one fact stood out: Maj. A. Hoople reached the Dempsey camp. At last the truth shall be known. The major stepped right out of The Times comic page into the news columns and will tap a terrific typewriter from now on until the big fight is over. You can't keep up with the real fight dope if you, don’t read Hoople. Herd's the major’s first dispatch: By Major Hoople Former Sports Editor of The Bombay (ludia) Relish. ATLANTIC CITX. Sept. 15. Egad, friends, here I am in Atlantic City, and soon the news from Dempsey's train‘ng camp will begia to trickl'e to the world. I intend going out to see the champion in acklon this afternoon. After my visit I expect to have several choice morsels of news tq transmit, facts that the bulk of the press association men have overlooked, I am sure. Speaking of boxers, I am reminded that in the course of my experiences and adventures about the world, it was once my privilege to serve as an officer during the Boxer rebellion, having been appointed quartermaster general charge of supplying the various antagonists with gloves. At that time I was conducting a column of meaty comment on sporting affairs for the Berlin Frankfurter, and tyrote of the Boxet eventa In Rhenish, a very Uqud tongue, much of which I have unfortunately, forgotten. Last night, upon my arrival I sat playing poker with several of the fading sporting celebrities in the hotel lobby. Egad, it was ray misfortune to be obliged to leave the game while I was 40 cents ahead, a fact I greatly regret. I was called away by a long distance call from a group of my readers in Winstead, Conn., who wished to felicitate me for my daily articles. After the conversation had terminated; I felt overcome by an overwhelming somnolence and has tened to my couch. But it was the most Interesting poker game In which It had been my privilege to sit since I played with the Prince of Wales, the Bey of Algiers and Emperor of Morocco. As 1 remember It that game was one royal flush after another. Now I am away to the Dempsey camp, whence I will dispatch my next story with all possible haste.

URGES STANDARD AUTOMOBILE LAWS Shortemeier in Plea at Providence. Bu Timr* fineeinl PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Sept. 15. Plea for standardized code of automobile laws was made here today by Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier, of Indiana, speaking at the annual convention of the National Association of Secretaries of State. “If the States do not work out uni form laws, we shall face Federal control of automobile traffic,” Schortemeier declared. “We heed a standardized, uniform, practical law on automobile titles, licenses and traffic, particularly with reference to interstate relations. Indiana, during the last year, has had expensive difficulties with Ohio, Illinois and Kentucky. We must find a means of eliminating this,” he said. Schortemeier berated “border warfare” that has been waged between different States. 14 FIREMEN OVERCOME Revive Women Gassed by Chlorine— Then Take pff Masks. Bu United Preaa CHICAGO. Sept. 15. Fourteen Chicago firemen were overcome by chlorine gas early today after re. viving two women who had been overcome by fumes emanating from a tank In a junk yard here. The firemen, using gas masks, revived the wome#, then took the masks off, and were overcome themselves. APPOINT 1 ~ APPRAISERS To Survey Sixteenth St. Property for Widening. Widening of Sixteenth St., between Meridizfn St. and Northwestern Ave., was advanced today with appointment of appraisers by Roy C. Shane•berger, board of works president. The thoroughfare, now varying from forty to fifty feet, will be widened to eighty-four feet. Appraisers are William L. Elder, David A. Coulter ad B. M. Ralston, Real Estate Board members. 1

BURNING OF HOME TOID 6V FIREMEN I Say Oil-Soaked Waste Was Found in Basement of Hamrick Dwelling. LAWYER, WIFE ON TRIAL Accused of Setting Fire to Residence. Three city firemen and a neighbor testified for the State today in the trial of Jesse D. Hamrick, local attorney, and his wife, Mrs. Della M. Hamrick, on a charge of conspiring to burn their home on the ilichigan Rd. near New Augusta last January. Indicted with the two is James Ecton, 19, Negro houseman, who has admitted firing the home on orders from Hamrick and his wife. The four witnesses all agreed that the first fire started shortly after midnight of last Jan. 26. Two fire companies responded to calls and extinguished the flames. Second Alarm Seven minutes after firemen from Station 28 returned after extinguishing the first fire, an alarm was sounded to return. Fire Captain Bert , Unversaw said. Unversaw said his statiop got the second call ax 4:89 a. m. and when they a rived at the home it was enveloped in flames, the roof havijyt caved in. Daniel E. Green of Station 27, who was on duty at Stolon 23 on Jan. 26, oorrohrated the testimony of Unversaw and Lieut. Ralph C. Tiner Station 1, wh* also answered a call. The men said after the first fire was put out they inspected the entire house. Wires had been stretched across the cellar and bed clothing and rags saturated with coal oil hung upon them, they said. Fence rails and railroad ties were standing on end around the walls and were covered with coal oil, they said. There was a large amount of rubbish, boxes and waste saturated with oil in piles upon the floor, tljey said. ' Started in Basement Unversaw said the fire started in the basement, but that it was quenched before spreading to all of the Inflammable materials. Unversaw said the house was of two apd one-half stories. Only the kitchen and one bedroom upstairs were furnished, he said. As far as he could remember there were no rugs on any floors, he said. Unversaw said the firemen saw Ecton at the house on both trips. Ecton said, “I guess it’s gone this (Turn to Page 11)

PA TROLMAN FA CES ‘HIT, RUN' CHARGE Walter J. Sands Forced to Resign by Chief Johnson and , Arrested for Driving While Intoxicated.

Patrolman Walter J. Sands, 759 E. McCarty St., was forced to resign today by Chief Claude Johnson and placed under arrest as a “hit and run” driver. He faces charges of failing to stop after an accident and driving an automobile while Intoxicated. It Is charged that Sands* car TAKE fODRTEEN FOR KIDNAPING American Still Prisoner in Mountains of Mexico. Bu United Preaa MEXICO CITY, Sept. 15—Fourteen men suspected of complicity in the kidnaping of Jacob Rosenthal, a wealthy retired business man of Woodmere, New York, have been captured, according to a report received today from the authorities at Cuernavaca. Rosenthal at that time still was a prisoner in the mountains, so far as the authorities knew. It was feared that he might have succumbed to the hardship of life in the open. • TO DRIVE AGAINST JnDIANS Soldiers I.rave to Join Other Mexican Troops In Sonora. Bw United Preaa NOGALES. Ariz., Sept. 15.—Sixty soldiers from the garrison of the 64th Mexican infantry, stationed at Nogales. Sonora, left early today for Vicam, Sonora, to join other Mexican troops being concentrated there for a drive on the Yaqul Indians, on the war path in that region. MURDERER DECLARED SANE Bu United Preaa MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Sept. 15. Thomas Johnson, "the man of many crimes,” and' confessed murderer of Leonard Erdall, former University of Minnesota football star, is sane under the law and capable of distinguishing between right and wrong, a special committee *?ported today.

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TIRE THIEF GIVES TIPS TO OWNERS

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‘Watch Your Cars and Don’t Park in Dark PJaces, J He Says. Watch your auto more closely when you park It in front of your home, and don't park in dark streets and alleys. This was the warning to auto owners of George Nelson, 19, of 51 N. Chester St., held In county jail on a grand larceny charge .after he confessed stealing-tthree autos and hundreds of tires In the past two years. Nelson stole to ordar, he told detectives Garagemen and secondhand tire dealers told him what size tires and what kind of euto accessories they ed and he would steal the tires and oarts*ordered. “Fences” Arrested Seven alleged, "fences” were arresteA as result of his confession. And several moae jpeh who stole tires for the tire theft ringleaders are sought. Inspector Claude Worley started an Investigation of the ring several weeks ago. "I wouldn’t haVe blamed them if they had shot me. But in the two years I’ve been stealing auto tires not an auto owner has looked at me suspiciously, although I was expecting to be shot any time,*’ Nelson said. Nelson Is married and has one child. A desire to keep up with a “fast” group of former high school chums started him to stealing tires. During his career as a tire thief Nelson has served t\ terms, one of four months and one eff thirty days, for tire thefts. "Each time I tried to start out clean, but the fences would keep urging me to go ahead,” he said. Asa result of Nelson's confession Albert Finkel, 35, of 2235 N. Talbott Ave., was charged with grand larceny and receiving stolen goods. Cfiarges of receiving stolen goods were placed against Karl Huston, 814 N. Colorado Ave.; Walter B. Borgman, 1566 Churchman Ave.; Ralph and Ray Meyers, 1114 N. Illinois St.; Henry Wfeghorst, E. Washington St., and James Jacobs, 426 N. State Ave.

( crashed into two parked machines j in the 400 block E. Washington St. j early today and that he failed to | stop. Policemen Weddle and Curran I were given the license number of the machine and traced ownership to Sands. He admitted to the chief that It was ills machine, but denied he was drunk. He said he stopped after the crash, but there was no one about, so he drove away. Sands was appointed to the force July 12, 1915. “A second alleged “hit and run** driver arrested today was Hulbert Alstatt, 32, Puritan Hotel. He is charged with involuntary manslaughter In the death of Robert Coyne, 4, who was struck and killed Saturday nignt in front of his 1421 Findley Ave. Andrew Underwood, 230 S. Addison St., was driving by at the time I the lad was struck picked him I tip. He died soon afterward. The license number given police as that of the death car was that of Alstattt. He denied' that it was his machine that struck the hoy, hut said that he was passing at the time, and it was a light roadster that was alongside his car that figured in the accident. Robert Wenzenread, 7, of 1110 E. Washington St., was struck by a “hit and run” truck driver, in front of his home Tuesday night. The boy was taken home, badly cut and bxuised. There were no witnesses to the accident, according to police. MAYOR HAsTpARK~PLAN Brookslde Shelter House and Garfield Swimming Pool Proposed. Construction of an adequate shelter house at Brookside Park and of a swimming pool in Garfield Park will be recommended by Mayor Duvall to the park board, he said today following a tour of parka. Duvall said he believed the park board would be able to start work on the Improvements next year. An additional park for Negroes also is favored by Duvall. Duvall said plans for the Pleasant Run sewer will be rushed to relieve that part of of aj} insaj^ttuv condition. ,

Forecast Unsettled tonigLt and Thursday; probably showers and thunderstorms; not much change in temperature.

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SVSK FEAR 32 DU BOARD LOST Capsized Lifeboat Sighted 1 —Distress Calls Stop Suddenly. NO TRACE IS FOUND -41 British Steamer Goes to Position Given. Bu United Prexx NmV YORK, Sept. 15.—Distress calls, sputtered from a pinking ship in a tropical storm to a radio station here, stopped suddenly Tuesday night, leaving a mystery today of the fate ot the thjrty-two members of the crew of the British freighter LoyaJ Citizen. It is feared that the crew, forced to leave the ship in small boats, may have been lost when their frail crafts were unable to cope wfith the heavy seas. Sighting of a capsized lifeboat, tossed in a stormy sea, by the Dutch steamship Den Haag early today, strengthened this belief. The Den Haag reported to the Independent Wireless Company here that it has sighted the life boat, apparently from the Loyal Citizen, In latitude 31 degrees 33 minutes north, longitude 67 degrees 43 minutes west the approximate position where the Loval Citizen was abandoned, and believed to have gone down late Tuesday. Messages Received Messages begging for aid were received from the ship. Then came word that the crew was ready to take to lifeboats. That was all that was received from the Loyal Citizen. Several hours later the British steamer Sirte. which had picked up the appeals for assistance, radioed that it had gone to the position given by the , Loyal Citizen—about 150 miles southwest of Bermuda — and had found no trace of her. Radio operators believe that the ship either foundered and that the crew is attempting to make Bermuda in lifeboats or that the bearings given were garbled and incorrect. The former belief was strengthened by the fact that no further messages have been revived from the Lgiyal Citizen, It was pointed out by operators at the Independent Wireless Company, where the distress calls were received, that the ship undoubtedly would have sent more messages if it had not foundered. Storm Near Bermuda Keeping afloat in life-boats ia a storm of such intensity as is described as lashing the seas southwest of Bermuda would be extremely difficult, if possltde, it was pointed out. Darkness, operators said, likely made a search for the men by the Sirte impossible until today, when the small oraft would have been driven miles probably from the sea grave of the loyal citizen, where the Sirte is believed standing by. But, despite the odds against It, seamen held hopes that the crew has survived in life-boats and is making for Bermuda. The loyl citizen left Norfolk Sept. 5 for Cardiff, Wales. She is a 2,794-ton freighter and it belongs to the loyal line, a British concern. BURNING STEAMER IN PORT Had Reported Fire Raging in Hold During Night. Bu United Premia NORFOLK, Va., Sept.- 15.—The burning steamer Robin Gray is safely $n port at Wilmington, N. coast guard headquarters here were informed today. The Robin Gray sent out distress calls at 9:30 Tuesday night, reporting fire raging in her cumber two hold.

EXCITEMENT FATAL 10 CLERK, BELIEF Woman in Crash Drops Dead in Store. Miss Rayda B. Coates, 21, clerk at Goldstein Brothers, 146 E. Washington St., dropped dead behln.l a ooun ter while waiting on a customer today. Death is thought to have been caused by heart disease, brought on by nervous excitement, following an accident Tuesday night. Arriving at the store today, she told another clerk, Miss Myrtle Hoskins, 401 N. Tremont St., that she was driving the car of a man friend, when it was wrecked in a collision at. Sixteenth St. and Winter Ave. She appeared extremely nervous and worried, Miss Hosklng said and took little brown pills to quiet her nerves. Deputy Coroner F. H. Hawkins ordered the body to city morgue for a post-mortem examination. The pills, in her coat, will be examined. Although listed at the store as living at 644 E. Pratt St., .Miss Hoskins said the girl lately moved to 234 E. Pratt St. She had been employed at the store thre% months. ARMISTICE IS SOUGHT Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.-—Amerl-can officials In Nicaragua are endeavoring to arrange ba MukUrt