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UNGENFELTER SINGES MAYOR ON SEWER BID Ascribes Ouster to Duvall Wrath at His Action on Pleasant Run Job. CITES ECONOMY MOVES Reopening of Asphalt Plant, Halt to Costly Repair Projects Mentioned. Bv Times Pnecial DENVER, July 7.—Opening of the city asphalt plant and stopping of the expensive contract system of street repairing may have had something to do with the demand for his resignation as Indianapolis city civil engineer, Frank C. Lingenfelter, here for the Optimists Club international convention, said today. Lingenfelter continued his discussion of his dismissal by Mayor Duvall in which Wednesday he fired a few broadsides at Duvall and city council. He declared he believed his recommendation that the Pleasant Run main interceptor sewer go to the lowest bidder (some SIOO,OOO lower than the next lowest) had a lot to do with the mayor’s demand that he resign. I Contract Price Higher Lingenfelter today recalled that one of the first things he did as engineer was to recommend that the city asphalt plant be reopened. Streets had lapsed into a deplorable state. They were so deplorable, Lingenfelter said, that before he could get the asphalt plant running, $43,000 of the $55,000 street repair fund had been used, repairing streets by contract. The contract price ran around $21.75 a ton, whereas, with the city asphalt plant running, asphalt was laid for an average of sll a ton, Lingenfelter declared. In some cases the cost was as low as $8.60 a ton. “I investigated the reliability of the low bidder, and was convinced the city should let the contract to that firm,” Lingenfelter said. “But Mayor Duvall apparently was worried about what people would say about the discrepancy between the low big and the engineers’ estimate. “He asked me to recommend that all bids be rejected and that I lower the estimate. I conferred with the mayor three times,” he continued, “and told him that I could not conscientiously lower the bid more than SBO,OOO. That was the amount my original estimate had been hiked by Schmidt. The cost of the job is approximately $580,000. Risk Was Cited Lingenfelter said he told Duvall that “The Chicago firm’s bid is only sufficient to give them a profit of about 10 per cent, which is so small as to be risky on a job of that size.” In the face of Duvall’s demand for lowering the estimate, Lingenfelter said he submitted a recommendation to the board of works last Wednesday morning, urging the low bid be accepted. “Mayor Duvall seemed rather peeved that I had not acted in accordance with his suggestion,” Lingenfelcer said. “But the same afternoon the board accepted the bid. It did not have to follow my recommendation. In fact, it had not done so on occasions. It seemed strange to me that the board should do so, and the only inference I can draw is that the administration wanted me to take responsibility for that discrepancy between the bid and the estimate.” Cost Is Hiked Lingenfelter pointed out that several years ago when he was city engineer he estimated the cost of the sewer at $700,000. This was “hiked” SBO,OOO by George Schmidt, his successor, one of the four men who have been city engineers in the Duvall administration. '“Duvall gave Lingenfelter no hint that the administration was dissatisfied, he said. Friday morning Mayor Duvall asked the engineer when he planned to leave for Denver. “Saturday noon,” Lingenfelter replied. Met by Buser “When I went to the office Saturday morning the mayor’s secretary told me he wanted to see me at 1 o’clock that afternoon,” Lingenfelter said. “He tried to get her to advance the time of the appointment, he said, but she told him the mayor was to be tied up all morning. “When I finally got into Duvall’s office he wasn’t there,” Lingenfelter stated. “Instead, his brother-in-law, W. C. Buser, city controller, was sitting there. ‘The mayor left this for you,’ Lingenfelter quoted Buser. The latter handed him a blank resignation. Lingenfelter said he refused to sign the resignation without seeing Mayor Duvall. He waited until 2 :30 p. m. Saturday without succeeding in locating him. Then learned he had gone to Manitou Lake. So Lingenfelter left for the Optimist convention, mailing his resignation that night. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 70 10 a. m 76 7 a. 73 11 a. m 77 8 a, * 8 a, Y 5 1 6 SO

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TIMES TO PUT FIGHUN AIR Dempsey-Sharkey Battle Broadcast Arranged. List of Stations on Sport Page. NEW YORK, July 7.—The Indianapolis Times and the twenty-five other Scripps-Howard newspapers have arranged with the National Broadcasting Company to broadcast the boxing match here Jack Dempsey, former world’s champion, and Jack Sharkey, a strong contender, July 21, to decide who shall attempt to wrest the championship from Gene Tunney. Thirty stations already have requested that they be included in the chain and it is likely that seven others, on the Pacific coast, will tie in for the most extensive boxing hook-up in radio history. Two nationally known N. B. C. announcers will describe the contest for the millions of listeners. One is Graham McNamee, famous for his microphonic pictures of the country’s premier athletic events, who is to do the blow-by-blow description. Phillips Carlin, manager of WEAF, will give a resume of each round, in addition to interesting sidelights. It is expected that the fight will start between 9:30 and 10 o'clock Eastern daylight time, depending entirely on conclusion of preliminary bouts. PLANS FLIGHT TO ROME Woman Stunt Flier on Way to Obtain Planes. Bv United Press CLEVELAND, July 7.—A female aspirant for ■ New York-to-Rome flight laurels became known today when Miss Gladys Roy, charming young parachute jumper and stunt flier, arrived here en route to San Diego, where she hopes to get a plane for her contemplated transAtlantic hop. With Miss Roy was Lieut. Delmar L. Snyder, her partner in exhibition flying and parachute jumping. Cleveland is where Snyder’s parents live and he was here to bid them farewell. ASKS RULE ON UNIFORM Regulation Garb Urged for All Park Policemen. R. Walter Jarvis, parks superintendent, recommended to the park board this afternoon that all special park policemen be required to wear a special uniform. Jarvis declared It was his understanding that the law passed by the last Legislature requiring that all officers who make traffic arrests be in uniform made this necessary. $12,000,000 BANK DEAL Two at Terre Haute Merge Under New Name. Bv Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 7. More than $12,0Q0,000 in assets were combined today in the merger of the Terre Haute National Bank and the United States Trust Company. The merged bank will occupy the quarters of the trust company. It will be called the Terre Haute National Bank and Trust Company. Arrest 200 for Profiteering Bv United Press BUDAPEST, July 7.—ln an effort to halt the increasing high cost of living, police yesterday arrested nearly 200 grocerymen and market SKUB&n or charges otf Brofifeerip*

SHEFFIELD AT COOLIDGE CAMP \ Ambassador to Report on Mexico Today. Bv United Press RAPID CITY, S. D„ July 7. James R. Sheffield, ambassador to Mexico, arrived here today and went to the summer White/House for a three-day conference with President Coolidge regarding advisability of his resignation and the present state of Mexican affairs. While Sheffield declined to discuss his anticipated resignation utnil he could see Mr. Coolidge, he Indicated his desire to leave public life and expressed the belief that no change in the present policy of the United States toward Mexico would evolve from his visit with the chief executive. General belief prevails among those close to the President that Sheffield came here to present his resignation because the climate In Mexico City does not encourage his health and because he personally favors a more stringent policy toward the southern republic. A White House chauffeur met Sheffield at the train when he arrived here early today. He went to bed imemdiately upon his arrival at the lodge and did not see Mr. Coolidge until morning. MERCURY UP AGAIN f Secondary Heat Wave May Not Be Prolonged. Indianapolis is having a secondary heat wave today, according to J. H. Armitage, United States Weather Bureau head. Temperatures should be about those of Wednesday, when a high mark of 89 degrees was reached. Last week when the city suffered in a real heat wave a high temperature of 95 was reached. Tonight and Friday, however, should be cooler, Armington said. Winds today were from the south and southwest, but should shift to the north tonight. When Indiana has a real, prolonged heat wave the winds come from the southeast, he said. HORNS ON HUMAN SKULL Scientists Seek Remainder of Skeleton in Oregon. SILVER LAKE, Ore., July 7. What appears to be a human skull with horns was found near here by George W. Marvin, curio collector. The skull has two horns, one of which is perfect. Scientists are searching for the remainder of the skeleton.

Mount Everest Set as New Goal by Commander Byrd

BY JOHN O’BRIEN, United Frees Staff Correspondent PARIS, July 7.—Commander Richard E. Byrd today expressed a desire to explore four of the most remote regions of the earth. Only the speed of an airplane could enable man to visit the spots Indicated by Byrd and scentiflcally to explore them within the space of the next seven or eight years, which Byrd has dedicated to the task. In the order *of their proposed visitation, Byrd said he would seek permission from the Navy Department to go to tiie South Pole, the

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STORM RAGES THRU INDIANA; DAMAGE GREAT Buildings Wrecked and Crops Beaten Down in lyorthern Counties. FLOUR MILL IS BURNED Loss Estimated at Tens of Thousands; Farm Homes Blown Away. Bu United Press ' FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 7.—Damage running Into tens of thousands of dollars was counted in northern Indiana today following a terrific wind and electrical storm Wednesday night and early today. A flour mill, a school building, farmhouses and other buildings were struck and damaged by lightning. Great damage also was done to the Moellering flour mill plant near here, which was struck by lightning. Fire that followed did SIB,OOO damage. Farm Buildings Lost Farm buildings at the home of Edward Allgier, five miles from here, were destroyed with loss of $3,000. A barn owned by S. F. Wainer, two miles from here, was damaged by lightning. One of the antennae towers of radio station WOWO was bent over by the wind pressure. ' The Midway Dance Pavilion, west of Auburn, was destroyed by fire that followed lightning. The loss was estimated at $15,000. Lightning Hits School The Cleveland township school at South Whitley was struck by lightning, but the fire was prevented from spreading and the damage was light. Lightning struck the home of Roberta Spear, near Crooked Lake, Ind., burning Mrs. Spear and her two daugthers who were asleep in a bedroom, but failing to set fire to their home. The bam on the farm of Charles Shipley, Whitley county, was destroyed by lightning fire. Kosciusko County Hit Bv United Press WARSAW, Ind., July 7.—Northern Indiana took stock today of heavy and widespread damage done Wednesday night and early today by a rain, wind and electrical storm. The storm struck at 11 p. m. and continued until 4 a. r,c. It was accompanied by high winds and lightning and hail also fell. Half a dozen farm nouses were struck by lightning, but no serious damage resulted. Reports from all parts of Kosciusko County showed that the hall did extensive danfiage to growing crops, already delayed by a backward season. FIND REAL BOOTLEGGER Honest-to-Goodness Specie Goes to Hospitkl and Jail. DES MOINES, la., July 7.—Hon-est-to-goodness “bootlegging” sent Walter Simms to the hospital and then to jail. Simms tucked a bottle of liquor into his boot. When he saw a policemean coining, he tried to shake it loose. The bottle caught under his sock and broke, cutting his ankle, so that he will be unable to walk for many days. After the wound was dressed he was taken to jail. HURT PLAYING ‘INJUN’ Negro Child Seriously Injured by Rock Playmate Threw. His chum’s “Injun” play was too real for Nathan Mitchell, 6, Negro, 1011 Lafayette St. Nathan is in city hospital, his skull possibly fractured, as a result. Police said Nathan and George Anderson, 9, Negro, 1018 Lafayette St., were playing Indian and the Anderson boy threw a rock which struck Nathan on the forehead. Driving Tests Too Stiff Bv United Press WASHINGTON, July 7.—Of 183 motorists seeking to renew drivers’ permits here yesterday, seventyseven failed to pass: beginners’ j tests. Some had been driving twenty years.

interior of Brazil, tc Arabia, and finally to Mt. Everest, sentinel of the Hamalayas,-.from whose top no man has returned alive. If successful in his proposed flight to the South Pole area, Byrd said he would undertake a good will flight around South America. Upon completion of such program, Byrd, who flew to the North Pole, would have achieved a position among explorerers equal to that of Magellan, Drake and Columbus and surpassing that of any modern man. s For drama and excitement, a flight over Mount Everest probably nauld surpass even a flight to the

This Is What Started It This is the first page of a four-page letter smuggled out of the penitentiary by D. C. Stephenson and made public by Thomas Adams, Vincennes editor and head of the probe committee. It was printed exclusively in The Times on Oct. 19, 1926. The remainder of the letter declared that he had documentary evidence of political corruption and bargains with high officials. It Is this evidence which Stephenson now Is believed to have offered to the local prosecutors.

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STINSON PLANS WORLDAIR TRIP Leader in Ford Reliability Tour to Start Soon. Bu United Press . _ . LOUISVILLE, July 7.—Eddie Stinson, pioneer air pilot and leading contender for the Ford reliability trophy, will attempt a flight around the world shortly after conclusion of the Ford tour. Plans for the flight were announced here today by E. F. Schlee, president of the Waco Air Service, Inc., Detroit, sponsor of the globegirdling attempt. Stinson’s part In the Ford reliability tour was decided as a test flight for the monoplane in which he and William Mara, tour companion, hope to fly around the world in record time. The StiJoson monoplane was leading the race for the Ford trophy by about 900 points when the thirteen airplanes took off for Memphis today. The first plane took off at 10:14, central standard time, and was followed by the others at one-minute intervals. FIND COP AFTER CASH Police Arrest Fellow Officer as Meat Shop Thief. Bu United Press . _ _ „ CHICAGO, July 7.—Police were called to a meat market where burglars were reported. They found George Bingenheimer, a fellow officer, applying modern methods of surgery to a cash register with a crow bar. Bingenheimer is awaiting trial.

South Pole. Expeditions to Everest go beyond civilization and none yet has conquered the summit of the wind-whipped peak, where perpetual snow flies at an altitude of 29,002 feet. Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Only once has man been known to have tried for its summit with fair prospect of success. Two members of a British expedition several years ago set out from their camp on the upper slopes. With binoculars those remaining at camp saw their companions struggle upward. The two figures became specks against tine background, i

A New Hit — ‘Swimming Simplified ’ Learn to swim—learn to dive! Everyone should know how to swim—either as a safeguard against drowning or as a means of providing good summer fun. The Times Monday will start a series of twelve articles on how to swim and dive prepared by the athletic director of one of the largest athletic clubs in the United States. The series embraces the fundamental principles of swimming and diving. It is written simply and understandably. It covers breathing, stroking, kicking and diving and other hints for those who already can swim as well as for those who cannot swim now. STARTS IN THE TIMES MONDAY.

RUNAWAY GIRLS FOUND Boy Friends Desert Buffalo Flappers After Long Talk. Adoration ojf two young girls for two men, which was so strong that they left their homes in Buffalo, N. Y., to trek across the country with the men, had cooled considerably, according to police, who found them here today. The girls, Miss Beatrice Egner, 15, and Miss Myrtle Mathews,' 18. were found working in a restaurant at 534 Massachusetts Ave. Their boy friends deserted them here six days ago. Police held the girls for their parents.

Although the skies were clear, swirled snow up from the mountain drift. The men still were going when darkness fell. They never returned. Social functions in Paris have worn but the American fliers, and they want nothing so much as a few days’ rest. On Saturday morning Bernt Balchen will fly to Amsterdam to inspect the planes being built for Byrd for -the South Pole expedition. Byrd, Bert Acosta and George Noville will leave by train, Joining an American Chamber of Commerce delegation on a visit to the industrial regions of northern France,

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DEMAND DUTLED OFFICER RESIGN ‘B’ Men’s Association Assails John W. Atherton. • Resignation of John W. Atherton, financial secretary of Butler University, is asked in a resolution adopted by the Butler “B” Men’s Association, an organization of present and former Butler athletes. Atherton and Arthur V. Brown, chairman of the trustees’ athletic committee, refused to reply to the charges of the “B” men that the athletic situation at Butler College “is in a deplorable state” and blaming Atherton. Brown, however, announced that a group of prominent business men are to incorporate soon to take over forty-four acres of land and build a $1,000,000 athletic plant at the university’s new Fairview site. The “B” men adopted the resolution, prepared by a committee including H. H. Hungate, Louis Kirkhoff and E. T. Bonham, at a meeting Thursday night at the Board of Trade. Copies are to be sent to trustees. The “B” men declared that they had learned that Paul D. Hinkle, athletic director; Justus Paul, graduate athletic director, and Fred Fellows, Butler trainer for seventeen yearrs, have been asked to resign. They declared that deplorable athletic conditions at the school began when Pat Page, athletic director and head coach, was forced to resign. Page now is coach at Indiana University. BEACH HOMES BURNED Fire Sweeps Three Blocks Along Ocean Front, Causing Big Loss. 8 N^W e YOFS:, July 7.—Fire today destroyed three blocks of frame buildings along the ocean front at Rockaway Beach, leaving about 150 persons homeless. Loss was estimated at between SIOO,OOO and $200,000. SEES HIS AUTO STOLEN From his office window, 307 Kresge Bldg., ,L. H. McCarver saw a young man step into his parked auto on the street below and nonchalantly drive off, McCarver told police early Wednesday evening. A police squad drove around the downtown district with McCarver, but no trace oX the auto 07 the

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START SEARCH FOR STEVE’S DOCUMENTS Written Order Is Given tfl Prosecutors for Papers Held by ‘Friends/ STORY NAMES DUVAJJ All Evidence Relating tQ Mayor Is Given Remy, ■ Says Prisoner. Armed with a written order frortj D. C. Stephenson, addressed to “some of his friends,” Marion Coun* ty prosecutors within a day or two will start anew search lor soma of Stephenson’s famous documents, ex* pected to shed light upon tho charges of political corruption in In* dianapolis. This was disclosed today as Prose* cutor William H. Remy, Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer and Special Deputy John W. Holtanaaconferred, following their return from a four-hour Interview with Stephenson in Indiana State Prison Tuesday. Papers Believed Intact It was learned authenticaily that one of the prosecutors is carrying the order from Stephenson, addressed, it is understood, to persons who know where the documents ara hidden. It Is believed to contain directions as to where to go in the search. The prosecutors refused to discuss the order In detail. "D. C. Stephenson believes that these documents are intact and that they can be procured,” said Deputy Sheaffer. “He does not believe they are destroyed or lost.” After an hour’s conference in Holtzman's office, Holtzman said that whatever is done will bo decided upon Saturday morning when Special Deputy Emsley W. Johnson returns from the State Bar Assocla* tion meeting at French Lick. For a time last fall when every clew to the documents, which once were believed to have reposed in a safety deposit box in Indianapolis, led to a blank wall, it Was thought that they had been bought or destroyed. Won't Disclose Plans Remy claims knowledge of the whereabouts of the documents, but he refused to disclose how and when he proposes to get them. The Stephenson revelations and order for the documents did not touch upon all ramifications of corruption which Stephenson has boagtea he could disclose, it was learned definitely. Remy declared that dispatches from Michigan City printed by an afternoon Indianapolis newspaper to the effect that Stephenson had "told all” were “violent assumption.” Remy declined to comment on ths statement made by Stephenson through his attorney, Robert H, Moore of Michigan City, that ha told “facts about Duvall." Possibllty that statements of Ste* phenson will be of no value in facd of the two-year statute of llmlta* tlons act also will be determined bjj the prosecutors. Following a conference witlj Moore, Wednesday at the Stephenson issued & statement in which he declared he has “been ridiculed and abused, but I Intend to give every bit of evidence I have, that the people of Indiana may know I am not a four-flusher, al though I have been railroaded to prison to protect others.” “Entire Lid Not Off” “I have said nothing against anybody to anyone up to the present time,” Stephenson said, according to Moore. “Prosecutor Remy treated me with the greatest courtesy. I gave him all the evidence with relation to Duvall. * ‘ There is a sea in the chair shopi next to me that is vacant. No doubt* I will have company. I have not blown the entire lid off,. Remy did not insist that I do so.' That will come later. "I will not take the witness stand against Duvall, because it will not be necessary. I have arranged for all of the evidence I have against him to be placed in Remy’s hands.” Stephenson is rather dubious of the sincerity of county officials, Moore said, and the former Klan leader will Judge this by the action given on evidence he turned over to them. If there are no results, Stephenson will seek another means of revealing Indiana political conditions, Moore stated. Moore Wants Interview Trustees of the prison were to re* ceive letters today made public by Moore Wednesday, in which he seeks to obtain a private interview with Stephenson. “Give me a private interview with Stephenson, so that I can take his evidence, along with such other documentary evidence as may bo had, and when we compile it, it will be filed in court, where it will bo a public document and the publlo will know the facts in the Stephenson case,” Moore wrote, in part. Efforts to get a statement fron< Duvall upon Stephenson’s ment were fruitless. The mayor re.l fused to answer telephone calls oJ to see reporters. M HUler Office Supply Cos. Main A6jH Golden Rula Service—Promt