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WORLEY WILL START COURT WORKAUG.IS Former Detective Chief to Be Investigator for Collin’s Tribunal. ALSO WILL HELP REMY Salary of $3,600 Annually to Be Paid Out of Fund Now Available. Claude M. Worley, ousted as detective chief by the' board of safety, Tuesday, will begin work as Criminal Court investigator, Aug. 15, and as soon as possible will aid Prosecutor William H. Remy and his deputies in the Indiana political corruption investigation, Criminal Court Judge James A. Collins announced today. Worley will receive salary at the rate of $3,600 a year, the same that he received as detective chief, Collins said, after a conference with Worley. Previous to the conference, Worley had said he would begin work at once on a matter which “requires my immediate attention.” He did not disclose the nature of the “matter.” Court Fund Available “The court has a fund available out of which he will be paid for services he may render between now and the time the county Board ineets in September,” the judge said, in a statement. “Judge Collins has requested an appropriation for the remainder of this year, based on a salary of $3,600 a year, the same as Worley drew under his appointment by the board of safety. “As soon as a conference can be arranged he will meet with Mr.. Remy and his assistants and assist in the investigation of the charges of political corruption.” Starts Work Aug. 15 Collins said that Worley would begin work Aug. 15, to arrange for the return here for trial in September of Lawrence L. Ghere and Arthur C. McClelland, alleged confessed slayers of Wilkinson Haag, Haag Drug Company official, May 28, 1926. The two are held in Chicago as witnesses against other members of an alleged Nation-wide ring of jewelry thieves. Collins offered Worley the 'Criminal Court position Wednesday after Worley resigned the lieutenancy to which the board of safety demoted him. Worley, as investigator before he went on the police force at the beginning of Mayor Duvall’s administration, received a salary of $2,400 a year. Sdgar Hart, proprietor of the J. C. Hart Shoe Company, 126 N. Pennsylvania St., is anew member of the board of safety today as a result, it is believed, of Worley’s demotion. Replaces John George Duvall named Hart to the board after John A. George resigned, following a short session with the ifayor late Wednesday. No further resignations are expected in the next few days and none has been demanded, Mayor Duvall said. He did not ask George’s resigna-tion-and George said he was resigning, because his business took so much of his time, Duvall said. George left for his Brown County country home soon after resigning. O. D. Hasket, board president, said the first he knew of the move was through a telephone call from George informing him of the resignation. The appointment of Hart to the vacancy is “entirely satisfactory” to him, he said. Hands Are Untied George was appointed to the safety board at the beginning of Duvall’s administration. He was an active worker with forces of George V. Coffin, Marion County Republican chairman. Removal of George and Worley, also a strong Coffin worker, was seen as further reduction of the force’s city hall organization. “I have never been in politics,” Hart stated. “My hands are absolutely untied. No strings are on me and there won’t be any. I am going to represent the people of Indianapolis.” “I don’t blame a business man of the type of John George for resigning,” said Boynton J. Moore, majority faction council leader. CALIFORNIA FEELS QUAKE No Damage Is Reported From West Coast Tremor. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4. An earth tremor of considerable intensity was felt in Los Angeles at 4:25 a. m. today. The shock was felt as far north as Ventura and as far south as El Centro. No damage has been reported. The quake also was reported to have shaken Long Beach, San Pedro, San Bernardino and Catalina Island. Hiller Office Supply Cos. Ma. 0612. Printing service that pleases.—Adv.

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Other Sacco-Vanzetti stories and pictures on Page 3. BY HENRY MINOTT United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Aug. 4—More than ten hours after the rest of the world heard the fateful news, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti learned today that what appeared to be their last hope for life had vanished. “I believe, with the jury, that these men were guilty and that they had a fair trial. I furthermore believe that there was no justifiable reason for giving them anew trial.” These words, which formed the conclusion of Governor Alvan J. Fuller’s decision, a 2,100-word document made public last night, were taken to the condemned men this morning by William G. Thompson, director of the legal fight to save them from the electric chair. Sacco and Vanzetti, the former on the nineteenth day of his hunger strike, heard their fate from one of their staunchest friends with no noticeable sign of emotion, prison attaches said. The unfavorable decision had come as a severe blow to Thompson. Sorrow lined his face as he entered the great gray prison and was escorted by Deputy Warden Horsett to the death cells. Mrs. Sacco Present With Thompson came Mrs: Rosa Sacco, loyal mother of Sacco’s two children, and an interpreter. For an hour and a quarter, they remained in the death house, talking in low voices. Desperate hopes of Sacco-Van-zetti defense forces that Governor Fuller would take some step to mitigate the death sentences at the executive council meeting this afternoon died when the council adHOSTETTERS TO FACE TRIAL HERE Federal Judge Releases Two Alleged Bandits. Federal Judge Hazen of Buffalo, N. Y., according to a United Press dispatch, today signed an order releasing Howard and Robert Kostetter, wanted here for bank roobfery, to Indianapolis authorities. Detective Captain Fred Simon said he was awaiting official notice before sending for them. The Hostetter brothers are being held in Buffalo on Federal warrants charging violation of the Mann and Dyer acts. Mildred Hotsetter, alias Betty Miller, and Virginia Nelson, alias Mabel Meyers, said to be sweethearts of the Hostetters, are serving a thirty-day sentence in Allegheny County workhouse at Pittsburgh, on charges of disorderly conduct. DELAY GRAY’S HEARING City Hall Fight Case Postponed Until Aug. 15. Hearing of assault and battery charges against Paul Gray, Marion County Construction Company superintendent, was delayed until Aug. 15 in municipal court today. Gray was arrested on a warrant signed by R. F. Lee, concrete interest representative, who charged Gray struck him in city hall corridor. The alleged dispute was over the asphalt-concrete paving war. LENGEL GETS SENTENCE Life Term Given; Judge Overrules New Trial Motion. By United Press CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 4.—Saranus A. Lengel, former police chief of Canton, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Don R. Mellett, editor, today, when Judge Frank M. Clevenger overruled his motion for anew trial. Lengel was convicted on July 16 of first-degree murder. The jury saved him from the electric chair by recommending mercy. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 59 10 a. m 72 7 a. m 63 11 a. m 74 8 a. m 65 12 (noon) . ..76 9 a. m 69 1 p. m 77

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journed with no action being taken. Charles S. Smith, senior member of the council, speaking for the entire body, praised the Governor for “his able and courageous course.” Smith’s speech followed a short explanation of his course and the reasons for it, by Governor Fuller. While Sacco and Vanzetti slept, the defense committee, which during the seven-year fight for the lives of the two Italian laborers raised and spent $325,000 in their behalf, worked until daybreak on plans to prevent the execution. Writs of habeas corpus will be sought from the Superior Courts of Massachusetts, and if those fail, the defense committee will call on Justice Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court, now at Chatham, Mass., to save Sacco and Vanzetti. Governor Goes Home The Governor, grave, unshaven, and haggard after long days and nights preparing his decision on the case, which has stirred the world as few murder cases ever have done, left the Statehouse last night for his summer home at Rye Beach, N. H. When he was safely out of reach of questioning or interference, the decision was given out, at 11:30 p. m. Mindful of the widespread demonstrations and acts of violence which have punctuated the SaccoVanzetti case during its seven years before the bar, police today were taking every precaution to prevent any possible outbreak. Ruling Called Brutal Governor Fuller's decision, which blasted a hope that had been fostered by the defense for six years, was denounced as “unbelievably brutal” by the defense committee, in a statement early today. “The decision is unbelievably brutal in its partisanship and even more brutal in the omission of facts —not only facts brought out in the course of the case, like the frameup of experf testimony as shown by the Proctor affidavit, but also facts of the most overwhelming significance established behind closed doors, both before the advisory committee and the Governor,” the statement said. Thousands Wait in Streets Last night was one without precedent in Boston. For hours, thousands of persons crowded streets in front ol - newspaper offices, waiting with the rest of the world. Seemingly stunned by the news, the crowds accepted it quietly and there were no demonstrations. Fuller’s inquiry embraced three major questions: 1. Was the jury trial fair? 2. Were the accused entitled to anew trial? 3. Are they guilty or not guilty? Declares Trial Fair “I have read the record and examined many witnesses and the jurymen to see from a layman’s standpoint whether the trial was fairly conducted. I am convinced that it was,” he said. ' “I have examined all these mol tions (for new trial) and read the affidavits which supported them, to see whether they presented any valid reason for granting the accused men anew trial. I am convinced that they do not, and I further am convinced that the presiding judge gave no evidence of bias in denying them all and new trial.” “The next question, and the most vital question of all, is that of the guilt or innocence of the accused. In this connection I reviewed the Bridgewater attempted holdup for which Vanzetti previously had been tried before another jury and found guilty . . . .” “I believe with the jury that Vanzetti was guilty and that his trial was fair. Agrees With Jury “The South Braintree crime was particularly brutal. The murder of the paymaster (Parmenter) and the guard (Berardelli) was not necessary to the robbery. The murders were accomplished first, the robbery afterward.” “As result of my study of the record and my personal investigation of the case, including my interviews with a large number of witnesses, I believe, with the jury, that Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty and that the trial was fair.”

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HUGHES WONT BE CANDIDATE IN 1928 RACE Former Secretary of State Definitely Announces He’ll Not Run. DEMOCRATS REJOICING New Hope Seen for Party in Coolidge Renunciation; Praised in Dakota. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 4.—Charles Evans Hughes informed the United Press today that he was not a candidate for President in 1928. 4 Hughes was located at Annecy, In the Haute Savoie, where he is vacationing. Speaking over the longdistance telephone, the former Secretary of State said: "My attitude remains the same.” He explained that his intentions were unchanged by President Coolidge’s announcement, but would make no further comment on the President’s decision. Democrats Rejoice BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Aug. 4.—Demo- j crats today are exulting quietly over what they “choose” to accept as the determination of President Coolidge to step out of the 1928 political pic- j ture, and are finding in it renewed hope for their own prospects. Whatever the leaders have claimed publicly about their chances for 1928, most of them admit privately that they could not expect to beat Coolidge in 1928. Whether the effect of what they deem elimination of Coolidge will be to bring harmony into their forces, or merely to accentuate the sharp differences on party issues and candidates, remains to be seen. That it has given new hope to > Democrats, including especially the ; candidates, is certain. Dakotans Approve Stand BY PAUL R. MALLON United Prss Staff Cftrrcsnondrnt RAPID CITY. S. D., Aug. 4—A representative cross section of opinion in this representative western town—now the summer capital of the Nation—indicates that the man in the street believes President Coolidge definitely renounced the throne when he said he did not choose to be a candidate in 1928. While the storm of debate rages among politicians, pro and con, the United Press today asked five leading citizens of Rapid City how they,', the voters, feel about it. Only one of the five suggested Mr. Coolidge might relent if the next Republican national convention desired to nominate him, and most of them were glad that Mr. Coolidge had decided against another term. C. C. Warren, president of the Lamb-Warren Lumber Company, hit the nail on the head, according to information obtained here by the United Press. The job which has brought nearer the deaths of the last two Presidents, has, in opinion of those close to Mr. Coolidge, finally made a nervous impression upon him. GAS BLAST AVERTED Driver Risks Life to Get Truck Away. Bravery of Paul Hodges. 35. of 1253 W. Twenty-Third St., St. Clair Oil Company truck driver, and quick action of firemen prevented a huge downtown explosion today. A spark from a tinner’s blow torch ignited gas fumes while Hodges was filling a 75-gallon underground tank! at the Pettis Dry Goods Company garage in the rear of 25 E. Washington St. Endangering his own life, Hodges climbed on the gasoline truck and drove it away. Gasoline from a hose used to run the gasoline into the underground tank caught fire. Fire Captain William Clune chopped the hose with an ax and held It up, stopping the flow. Firemen said a dangerous explosion would have resulted if the flame reached the tank interior. PRISONER GETS TERMS Can Live Outside Penitentiary, but Superintendent to Boss Him. By Times Special ATLANTA, Ga„ Aug. 4.—ls Dr. A. H. Weathers of Florida will support his divorced wife and children, live at a place designated by the superintendent of prisons and fulfill other conditions, he will be allowed to leave the Atlanta Penitentiary after serving two and a half years of a six-year sentence for violating the Harrison narcotic law. The provisions of commutation granted by President Coolidge are unusual, according to Warden Shook. /

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O' ' jflllllw* 1/ M y / i l|| WILD BANK LOSS OF fJf - 20 PER CENT SEEN Depositors in the J. F. Wild & posits, pending settlement of the Cos. State bank, closed by the bank affairs, it was learned. Bor” 'wllW State banking department Satur- The audit being made by the day. will suffer a23 per cent loss, banking department continues.

Depositors in the J. F. Wild & Cos. State bank, closed by the State banking department Saturday. will suffer a 20 per cent loss, or%>ossibly slightly less, bankers in touch with the Wild Bank situation believed today. Other Indianapolis banks are loaning the Wild institution depositors up to 60 per cent of their deJURORS PROBE GRADER LOAN Hear That Contractor Used County Machine. The Marion County grand jury stopped its investigation of political corruption today long enough to look into alleged irregularities by county officials. The jury investigated *alleged loaning of a county road grader to Smith Hawkins. Shelby County contractor. It was said Commissioner George Snider, minority member, found the grader on a road south of Shelbyville. Luther Tex, road superintendent, said Hawkins had previously loaned the county some equipment. Snider, Tex, John Carlisle, county auditor’s office employe, and Charles Fisher, county yards superintendent, were subpoenaed. Snider, who began the investigation, and who was to appear before the jury, is on a fishing trip in northern Indiana. “I intended to return the grader in good condition and pay for using it, but-so many people came down and started asking questions about it that T decided to return it immediately,” Hawkins is said to have told the jury. Hawkins used the grader for sixty days and returned it Wednesday. After hearing the three tne grand jury adjourned until Friday morning to continue their political investigation. LITA SPURNS OFFERS Chaplin Case Must Go to Court; Turn Down Money Settlement. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Aug. 4.—The Chaplin divorce case has gone beyond settlement and will be aired in open court, it was believed today. In demanding fees after having been dismissed as attorneys for Mrs. Lita Gray Chaplin, the firm of Young & Young, attorneys, revealed Mrs. Chaplin had refused a reported monetary settlement with Charlie Chaplin, her motion picture comedian husband. BUYS BUILDING INTEREST P. F. Goodrich Purchases Half of Aetna Trust and Savings Cos. P. F. Goodrich Company purchased an undivided one-half interest in the Aetna Trust and Savings Cos. Bldg., 23 N. Pennsylvania St., June 30, it was announced today. The half Interest was purchased from Lowell Patterson, trustee for the Edward Schmidt estate, by R. W. Spiegel, agent for the Goodrich firm. James P. Goodrich, former Governor, is the holder of a large interest in the P. F. Goodrich concern. Pierre F. Goodrch is his son. NEVER PAID $2,500 Shank Takes Crack at Steve-Jack-son Saddle Horse. “I never paid $2,500 for a saddle horse,” ex-Mayor Lew Shank, introduced as the greatest auctioneer in America and a race horse fancier, told Indianapolis Real Estate Board members at the Chamber of Commerce this noon. Shank declared he did not blame Mayor Duvall for ousting Detective Chief Claude M. Worley, because he did not believe Duvall should have appointed Worley in the first place.

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posits, pending settlement of the bank affairs, it was learned. The audit being made by the banking department continues. State Bank Commissioner Luther F. Symons announced today that it was unlikely that it would be completed until the first of next week. Attorney E. H. Iglehart, receiver for the institution, declared that he would make a statement to depositors as soon as he received the audit. “This probably will be in the middle or latter part of next week,’.’ Iglehart, said. He krew nothing of a meeting of depositors to be held in Superior Court, Room 1, Friday night. According to announcement, the meeting will be for the purpose of organizing depositors to protect their interests, but names of the organizers have not been made public. There are approximately 18,000 accounts at the bank and the total deposits are a little less than $4,000,000, he reported. “Our work at the bank is being retarded somevhal by the many inquiries which we receive.” Symons asserted. “Should we assume a high-handed latitude toward the public we might progress more rapidly, but it is the department’s policy to be courteous and to give information to all legitimate inquirers.” The general banking situation In the city has not been affected. FACES DEATH TRIAL 4 „ Woman in Poison Pact Is Accused of Murder. Coroner Charles H. Keever today slated Mrs. Edna Workman, 33, of 44 S. Tremont Ave. on a murder charge in connection with the death of William Blakowski, 33, Ft. Benjamin Harrison private. Keever said evidence indicated Mrs. Workman was instrumental in administering poison to Blakowski in an alleged suicide pact. She was held to the Marion County grand jury. Blakowski. who died at the fort hospital Tuesday, told police she had given him poison when he asked for a headache remedy, but later admitted they had agreed on a suicide pact since his enlistment in the army prevented their marriage. Mrs. Workman will recover, city hospital physicians said. , HOLDING FarIThEARING Board in Session on Swimming Pool Project. Public hearings were held today by the park board on the proposed $40,000 Ellenberger Park swimming pool and acquisition of property for Broad Ripple Park playground. Estimated cost of obtaining land for the playground is $16,000. It will be located between Sixtieth and Sixty-First Sts. on Broadway Ave.

Scores Start Work on Model Airplanes Playground superintendents throughout the city report that hundreds of boys and girls are starting construction of model airplanes and following instructions now being published in The Times. “I think this contest will go over big,” said Jess McClure, city recreation director, today. “And those who make these airplanes will learn a lot about aviation.. “You shouldn’t forget the girls in your announcement,” he advised. “They are Just as skilled with their hands as the boys, and it wouldn’t surprise me if some of the best airplanes were made by girls.” All boys and girls who are making airplanes can get help from playgrqund supervisors, and the contest which The Times will sponsor after the airplanes are built will be held in connection with the playground tournaments. McClure is so enthusiastic about the scheme that he is thinking seriously of including special courses in model airplane building in the winter school for playground supervisors. If that is done, an even bigger model airplane tournament will be held next summer. The articles which The Times is publishing give complete information, and you can start today on a model airplane. Look for the instructions on Page 6, get out your tools and begin this evening!

Left, William Pearce Jr., Southeast Indianapolis exposition champion baby, who slept as he won loving cup; right, Betty Jean Huff, second prize winner. STORY ON PAGE 3.

BLAST IN MINE TRAPS WORKERS Eight Known Dead, Nine Are Missing in Kentucky. By l nited Press CLAY. Ky., Aug. 4.—Death again stalked the West Kentucky Codl Company mine near here today, after giving this little mining center a ll'-year respite. An explosion 170 feet beneath the earth’s surface wiecked the mine shaft, trapping more than a score of workers late yesterday. Eight miners are known to be dead and nine were missing in the same shaft where sixty-one miners lost their lives ten years ago to the day in a similar accident. A gas pocket in the shaft was blamed for the explosion, which occurred as the employes were leaving the mine for the day. Most of the 240 workmen had been hoisted to the earth and forty-one were in the digging whyi the blast occurred. Because gas collected In the passage, rescue workers were forced to use gas masks in digging through the tangled debris. LINDY LANDS SAFELY Governor of West Virginia Welcomes Air Hero to Wheeling. By United Press WHEELING. W. Va.. Aug. 4. Col. Charles A. Lindberg, en route from Pittsburgh to Wheeling, landed at Langin Field, Moundsville, at 2:20 p. m. (E. D. TANARUS.) today and was welcomed by Governor Howard M. Gore in the name of 'West Virginia. The flying colonel and his party immediately left by motor car for Wheeling, where he was to make a short address at the West Virginia state fairgrounds. learnl*'of new graft Office Woman Lends Employer's “Cousin” $1 to Buy Gas. Police today sought a petty confidence man with anew game. Miss Ester Leferber, 712 Illinois Bldg., said a man came to that office and represented himself as a cousin of her employer. He borrowed $1 to buy gasoline for his auto which he pointed out to her. Later the real owner drove the car away, she said.

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BITTERWORDS MARK END OF NAVALPARLEY Collapse of Conference Is Most Severe Post-War Blow to Peace. U.S. REJECTS FINAL PLAN No Provision Is Made to Reconvene When Meeting Is Adjourned. BY HENRY WOOD United Tress Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Aug. 4.—President Coolidge’s conference to limit auxiliary naval craft, cruisers, destroyers and submarines, collapsed today and its failure was interpreted as the most severe post-war blow to hopes for disarmament among the nations of the world. The conference met In plenary session this afternoon and adjourned after slightly more than an hour. A joint statement by the delegations of Japan. Great Britain and the United States was Interpreted ~as having revealed the conference to have suffered even greater failure than the most pessimistic had anticipated. Bitterness Marks Close The final statements of the delegates made no provision for resumption of the conference and their words did not conceal the bitterness and recrimination which has plagued Mr. Coolidge’s efforts to initiate naval limitation. Although the conferees had found common ground with respect to limitation on submarines and destroyers, even that was not translated into a compact which would have bound the signatories to remain within certain quotas. Hugh S. Gibson, principal American delegate, opened and closed today's final session. “Since there is lying on the table beside Mr. Bridgeman.” said Gibson, referring to the British first lord o' the admiralty, “England’s final proposals, lam forced frankly to admit that our efforts to find an acceptable basis for agreement have not been successful.” No Provision to Resume There was widespread speculation here regarding the effect the failure j would have on the League of Nai tions* disarmament plans. The league's preliminary disarmament conference met here last spring and failed. Bridgeman read England's latest proposals, dated today. They announced that England was ready to sign a treaty on those points on which agreement already had been reached. Baron Salto, principal Japanese delegate, detailed the agreement which had been reached between the Japanese and British In which both, he sals, had made concessions. He expressed disappointment that the Americans "could not accept. Instead of provision for resumption of the conference, the joint statement of the delegates which was formally adopted before the conference adjourned, merely expressed the hope that the three governments by direct negotiations might find an early solution of the problem of Mval limitation. British Given Blame BY HERBERT LITTLE United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—British unwillingness to abandon any British cruiser strength was blamed here today for collapse of the Geneva naval parley. The breakdown of the Geneva conference today probably ended the unremitting efforts of President Coolidge toward international naval limitation in the interests of peace and economy, which he began shortly after he took office four years ago. , Drives for Increased numbers of 10,000-ton cruisers are foreseen in the Seventieth Congress this winter, but most observers here believe Mr. Coolidge will not sanction, and may oppose, any definite “big Navy” program. Increased appropriations to carry out construction work on eight cruisers of the 10,000-ton class, contracted for and building, are regarded as fairly certain. President Coolidge called the conference early this year. The American Government first invited Oreat Britain, Japan, France and Italy, but the two last named refused to send official delegates. No British Policy Change By United Press LONDON, Aug. 4—Failure Os President Coolidge's naval limitations conference, the United Pres:, was Informed today, will not alter the British naval program. The government merely would continue with the program mapped out at the Washington arms conference In 1921. Receives $20,770 Estate Bn Timrs Special WARSAW, Ind„ Aug. 4.—Mrs, Emma N. Smith, living near here, has been declared sole heir of a S2O,7KL estate left by her brother, George B. Yeakel, aged recluse, who died here May 28 last, a victim of