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COUNSEL FIND j LOOPHOLE TO [AID SHUMAKER f pase Can Be Taken to U. S. | Supreme Court on Writ jp of Error, They Say. J/VILL FIGHT DECISION i #!ew Hearing to Be Asked; Letters and Checks $ Pour In. { Supporters of Superintendent E. fe. Shumaker of the Indiana Antipaloon League announced today (that should all relief fail in the pight on the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court in hold him in Contempt, grounds have been found io take the case to the United States [supreme Court on writ of error. Attorney James Bingham Sr., thief Shumaker counsel, has studied the question since the league chieftain was sentenced last week to pay $250 fine and be imprisoned sixty pays at the State farm. If it is necessary to bring the piatter to the Federal Court, he Will contradict the majority contention as outlined by Justice David A. Myers in handing down the opinion and assert that there is a Federal constitutional question involved. The case of Whitney vs. the State tof California, which is similar to the factors involved in the Shumaker decision, probably will be Cited. When Shumaker appears before the court of Aug. 18, his attorneys not only will file for arrest of judgment, but ask anew hearing and present any other motions that may prevent the carrying out of the judgment. The Anti-Saloon superintendent is under SI,OOO bond for his appearance. He will leave the city for a celebration at LancasH*. Ohio, Friday and will go from W*e. re to the convention of the World Asociation Against Alcohol at Winona Lake, Ind.. Aug. 17-23. Shumaker was scheduled to give a welcome address on the night of' Aug. 18, but, unless he is again released on bond, he will be unable to attend the convention on that night. In the interim, letters and telegrams of eneouragment continue to pour into his office in the Roosevelt Bldg. The $250" sent by the former mayor of Logansport to pay Shumaker's fine will be used for League work, if no fine payment is necessary. Each day checks and bills ranging from $1 to SSO arrive and there js sufficient money to pay the fine of Justice E. Martin, should his sentence be the same as Shumaker’s on the contempt charge, it was nouncedZION CHIEF’S KIN "DIES Brother of Voliva Found Injured on Railway Tracks. B’i United Press HIGHLAND, 111., Aug. 11.—The body of a man, identified as that of Chester A. Voliva, brother of Wilbur Glenn Voliva, head of the Zion Church at Zion City, 111., was being prepared for removal to that city today. Voliva was found lying injured between the double tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad two miles west of here by a freight crew. He evidently had been struck by a tain. He died in St. Joseph’s Hostal here an hour after being found. The Zion Church leader sent sword that he would have the body ’removed to Zion City at once. BUNK WITH 'BUDDIES’ Lindy Will Be Asked to Forego Hotel Suite in St. Louis. ■Bn United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11.—When Col. Charles Lindbergh comes flying home next Monday for his second visit since his ocean triumph, his former “buddies” are going to have a chance to entertain him in their own fashion. According to plans announced today, the celebrated flier will be asked to forego the luxury of a hotel suite to bunk with his comrades In the 35th Division, air service, Missouri National Guard.

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Lindy Takes Ford Up for First Plane Ride DETROIT, Aug. 11.—Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, took his first airplane ride today as a passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis, with Col. Charles A. Lind-

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Bad Marks By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11.— Walter Hartwell lost two fingers in the late war and when his wife saw a hand print with two digits missing on a neighbor woman’s freshly painted door she sued for divorce and obtained it. “He admitted he had been cheating,” Mrs. Sarah Hartwell said.

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Reorganization Planned to Increase Strength. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.—To make the United States Army better prepared for emergency calls the war department today ordered a reorganization of the regular divisions of the land forces. The reorganization provides for three full strength infantry divisions and one cavalry division, equipped and organized for immediate operations at any time, and for three other infantry and two cavalry divisions, not fully organized, but of full enlisted strength. Under the 1920 reorganization, the army now has nine infantry and two cavalry divisions, but the depletion of enlisted strength to approximately 110,000 has made all these organizations fragmentary, officials said. The changes will not involve any alteration in present location of troops. The four full strength divisions will have headquarters as follows: First division infantry, Ft. Hamilton, N. Y.; Second infantry, Ft. Sam, Houston, Tex.; Third infantry, Camp Lewis, Wash.; First cavalry, Ft. Bliss, Tex. AUDIT OF WILD BANK IS FINISHED TODAY Affairs Will Be Turned Over to Receivers After Report. Audit of accounts of the J. F. Wild & Company State Bank were finished this afternoon, Thomas D. Barr, of the State Banking Department, announced. As soon as a report is completed it will be turned over to the co-receivers, Richard Lowther and Eugene H. Iglehart, who will handle further affairs of the institution. They said they will make a statement as soon as the report is analyzed. While the audit was being completed, depositors were making plans for some future moves. A special committee of four was reported in secret session. FIRE LOSS IS REDUCED July Damage Less Than Half That of Year Ago. Fire loss in the city during the past month was less than half that for July, 1926, according to a report to the safety board. Loss last month was $30,000 while that for a year ago was $72,363.97. Plans for the new fire station at Hawthorne and Washington Sts., were announced by O. D. Haskett, board president. A police substation will be connected'with the fire station. New traffic signals are being erected at Liberty St. and Massachusetts Ave. 4

Model Airplane Exhibit to Be Held at Library

Invitation to exhibit model airplanes at the public library following The Times and playground model contest has been extended by the children’s division. The library has many books for boys and girls about aviation, and all have been greatly in demand this summer. Many boys who are building models in accord with instructions printed in The Times are getting valuable aid from books about

bergh at the controls. Ford was the first man to ride as a passenger in the trim little craft in which Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris. There is no extra seat in the tiny monoplan , but Ford is not very big, so he squeezed himself into the pilot seat with Lindbergh and they soared away from the Ford airport with the billionaire almost sitting on the famous flier’s lap. After they had flown about fifteen minutes, Lindbergh landed the plane easily, and Ford crawled out, beaming his satisfaction. He refused to say, however, whether he enjoyed the experience, but praised Lindebrgh’s skill as a pilot highly. Henry Ford

Several Entrants to Hop Tomorrow Despite Ruling of Committee. Bn United Press OAKLAND AIRPORT, OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 11.—Possibility that several of the entrants in the Dole prize fight may take off for Honolulu 'tomorrow even if the Honolulu contest committee decides in favor of a two weeks’ postponement, was seen here today in their statements and attitude. Seven of the contestants had their planes here and were ready to go. John Auggie Peddlar, Michigan entry, started the discontent among the aviators over the possibility of a postponement by declaring that he might disregard his dhances of winning the prize and hop off on scheduled time tomorrow. Had Time to Prepare “To hell with the prize money,” Peddlar declared. “Os course I would hate to see some of the planes take off in their presnt condition, but every one had time to prepare, and what is fair for one is fair for all. We are ready and we may go tomorrow regardless of last-minute decisions of committees.” Major LiLvingston Irving, the first entrant, agreed with Peddlar. “Dole promised the first man to get a'way from the continent after noon on Aug. 12 and successfully arrived in Honolulu would get the prize money,” Irving said. Postponement Injustice "One of the essential parts of any race is getting ready for it. A postponement now is a rank injustice.” Jack Frost and Mar in Jensen stated they would abide by the decision if, it favors postponement, but indicated they would take off if others started. M. W. Welty, backer of Bennett Griffin and A1 Henley, Oklahoma aviators, and Art Goebel, Los Angeles stunt flier, refused to comment, except to say he was very much surprised. Lieuts. Norman Goddard and Kenneth Hawkins also were reticent about speaking until they had learned something definite. FIND 2 WOMEN SLAIN Unidentified Bodies Discovered in Fashionable Home. By United Press ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 11.—Two unidentified women were found shot to death in the bedroom of a fashionable home here at noon today. No weapons could be found, according to police, who said the vicUms had been dead for more than twelve hours. 9, 068 VISIT MONUMENT Admissions to Tower Totalled $1,840 During July. Indiana's Soldier and Sailors Monument, continues to be the mecca for tourists and sightseers. Report for July, submitted to State Auditor L. S. Bowman, shows 9,068 visitors, with paid admissions to the tower totalling $1,840. VOTE TO SPLIT STOCK General Motors Stockholders Called to Meet Sept. 12. NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—General Motors Company directors today ( voted to split the stock of the com- : pany two for one. A special meeting of stockholders was called for Sept. 12 to vote on the change.

model building and aeronautical magazines. The Times begins publication today of articles telling how to make the second model. This machine will be larger and harder to build, but the results will be far greater than attained with the first. These articles will be filed at the library where boys and girls may consult them should they miss The Times any day.

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CITY TO SEEK PLANE PLANT, FLIER SCHOOL Business Leaders Dicker With Aviation Factories for Transfer Here. VISIT OF 'LINDY’ HELPS Central Airways, Inc., Plans to Enter Bidding on New Mail Line. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's visit here maywresult in the establishment of a flying school and an airplane factory, i This was indicated today by the head of a group of business leaders, who admitted a move for a flying school was under way. Leaders In local aeronautics have pointed out a school for pilots is needed before there will be any great number of privately owned ships. Chamber of Commerce officials and business men have negotiated with owners of several airplane factories, to get them to locate here. Officials of Central Airways, Ind., which plans to operate commercial llnls out of Indianapolis, report many business men have offered to aid “commercial aviation in any way they can.” Lindbergh’s visit has increased interest greatly in local aeronautics, they said. Central ~Airways directors met Wednesday and discussed bidding on air mail from Cincinnati to Chicago via Indianapolis. The bids will be opened in Washington, Aug. 18. It is reported that a ClevelandLouisville company, a firm on the western coast and an eastern concern will bid on the contract, as well as the local company. George T. Bryant, Central Airways representative and Captain Nelson Kelly, Marmon Motor Car Company pilot, are in Chicago today and will fly to Cincinnati, Friday, to arrange landing facilities for the ships. Five planes will be required to haul the mail on the proposed route. If service is not begun in sixty days it will not be established until next spring, as pilots can not learn to fly to Chicago at night without beacons in winter months, it was said. Bryant will represent the local bidders in Washington. Friday is the last day for receiving bids on the mail route. Postmaster Robert H. Bryson said he 13 checking the city’s air mail to see if Lindbergh’s visit boosted the quantity materially. HOOSIER SHOT DURING LIQUOR RAID BATTLE Logansport Man and Pulaski County Sheriff in Duel. By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., Aug. 11.— Wounded in a gun battle with dry raiders early today, Del Wilson, 40, Logansport, declared to have been a member of a Cass-Pulaski County ring of bootleggers, was arrested here at noon on a charge of violating the liquor laws. Sheriff Frank Kopkey of Pulaski County and Wilson engaged in a gun battle north of Winamac and Wilson was shot in the left hand, but escaped. Word was sent to Cass County authorities of the fight and a watch was kept for Wilson at his home here. When he appeared with his hand wrapped in bandages, he was arrested. He will be taken to Winamac. George Hile, 45, declared to have been with Wilson in an automobile that was carrying liquor, is sought. Sheriff Kopkey confiscated a gallon of liquor in the auto. NATIONAL BANKS~GAIN Resources Pass Twenty-Six Million Mark, Report. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. —Total resources of National banks of the United States, Alaska and Hawaii passed the $26,000,000,000 mark on June 30, the date of the last bank call, Comptroller of Currency McIntosh announced today. Resources of the 7,796 reporting National banks totalled $26,581,943,000 as compared to $25,699,147,000 on March 23, the date of the last previous call. Loans and discounts, including rediscounts, amounted to $13,955;696,000, an increase of $308,056,000 over March 23. KEY CONVICTS NEGRO Proves He Had Entry to Vacant House Where Booze Is Stored. It cost William Thomas, 40, Negro, 216 W. Merrill St., a S2OO fine and sixty days on the State farm to carry his key with him. He was arrested Wednesday after twenty-five quarts of alcohol were found in a vacant house at 214 w. Merrill St. Neighbors said Thomas often went there and officers found a key to the vacant house in his pocket. Hiller Office Supply Cos. Ma. 0612. We deliver the goods—promptly. —Adv.

Boys and Girls Do Most of Work on New Dearborn Park Athletic Field

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Above: Boys working on the Dearborn Park baseball diamond, aided by Miss Grctchcn Klee. Below: Miss Gretchen Klee and boys of the neighborhood working on the high jump pit.

‘QUEEN MARY’ GOES ON STAND ‘Lies,’ She Replies to Charges Against 'Ben.’ By United Press ST. JOSEPH, Mich.. Aug. 11.— “Queen Mary” Purnell, the stately wife of “King Ben” Purnell of the House of David, took the witness stand today in the dissolution suit against the religious colony. She was neatly dressed in a light blue gown of the mode of twenty years ago. She was quite composed even though the courtroom was crowded. “Lies, lies, lies,” she murmured a.. Defense Attorney William J. Barnard repeated assertions of State witnesses that immoralities and de*baucheries had in the religious colony. She scornfully refuted the charges of dozens of women witnesses who testified they had been forced to undergo indignities as part Os the faith taught by Purnell. i_ CROW'S NEST HEARING SCHEDULED FOR TODAY Opposition to Annexation May Be Voiced by Residents. Opposition to the city council ordinance to annex Crow’s Nest, wealthy north side community, is expected this afternoon at a public hearing on the ordinance. Councilman O. Ray Albertson, welfare chairman, will conduct the hearing. Attorney J. S. White said he qnd several citizens of the neighborhood would attend. The public hearing |pst its significance with the incorporation of the town Monday. White said a remonstrance agpinst annexation would be filed if the council continues to make it a part of Indianapolis. TRIES TO KILL EX-KING Assassin Fires at Deposed Monarch of Greece; Misses. By Unitel Press VIENNA, Aug. 11.—The newspaper Grazer Tagespost said today that an attempt had been made to assassinate former King George of Greece. The ex-king, the paper said, was traveling by train from Bucharest to Veldes, Jugo-Slavia, after attending the funeral of King Ferdinand of Rumania. A man whose name was not given was said to have fired several shots at George at the town of Kiklnda. The alleged assassin was arrested. Movie Thrill Stunt Is Fatal. Bn United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal., Aug. 11.—Eldor Honn, 37, stunt expert, lost his life attempting to make a thrill for moving picture fans. Honn rode a motorcycle over a 300-foot cliff while news cameras clicked, but his parachute attachment failed to function.

Whew, 118! By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.— What is believed to have been ' the highest temperature in the United States this year was reported from Yuma, Ariz., today. The thermometer there registered 118 degrees yesterday. according to the Weather Bureau.

They Can’t Wait on City to Fix Up Playground for Them. The boys and girls in the neighborhood of Dearborn Park, Dearborn and Thirty-Third St., arc determined that the park should have an athletic field. And instead of waiting for the city to do the work they are doing much of it themselves. Eventually the park will have a twelve-acre bird reserve, a nine-ho'4 golf course, a baseball diamond, a high jum ppit and a 100-yard dash track, besides a big community house and all sorts of playground equipment. “The kids are doing most of the work," said George C. Stelhorn, 6260 Broadway, custodian. “We have as many as 175 boys and girls here every day cleaning up the grounds. They work hard, too.” The grounds and surroundings of Dearborn Park have a rural appearance. Natural springs will supply the water. The site formerly was the reservation of a tribe of Delaware Indians whose teepees stood just back of the ground being cleared for the ball diamond. Miss Gretchen Klee, 1607 Woodlawn St., is the playground instructor at the park, Mrs. Elmetta Worth, 2634 Station St., matron, and Miss Albreta Stuchmeyer. 2233 Avondale St., is in charge of the grounds. JAPANESE 0. K. NEEDED Fliers Must Get Permit to Land After Crossing Sea. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.—Transpacific fliers must obtain permits to land in Japana through ;>fficial channels, the State Department announced today. The American embassy at Tokio gave the department this word in reporting receipt of requests from private individuals for a landing permit for the proposed GriffinHenley flight from San Francisco. BRITONS SPURN B. V. D. American Underwear Too Effeminate for Stem Englishmen. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—British men regard the American type onepiece athletic underwear as effeminate, Department of Commerce trade reports desclose. The British call union suits combinations and say they are suitable only for women, the report says.

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LEVINE SEEKS FLIGHT PRIZE Bellanca Enters $25,000 Race to Philadelphia. Bn United rress PARIS, Aug- 11.—Charles A. Levine today entered his Bellanca monoplane, Columbia, in the race for the $25,000 prize offered for a transAtlantic flight to Philadelphia and announced that the departure might take place tomorrow morning at 6 a. m. The Columbia would reach New York first and continue to Philadelphia if sufficient daylight remained. “We will take off as soon as the weather permits, ’ Levine told the United Press today, “perhaps at 6 a. m. Friday. We plan to arrive in New York thirty-six hours later. If we arrive there in daylight we will continue to Philadelphia for the $25,000 prize, but we will not fly to Philadelphia at night.” Final preparations for Levine's departure with Maurice Drouhin were being made today. The Columbia will carry two thermos bottles, one containing coffee and the other bouillion, a bottle of water, biscuits, roast chicken, bananas and sugar. Pilots Givon and Corbu today began a trial flight in the Farman Bluebird in which they hope to fly across the Atlantic. The Bluebird probably will go to England during the test. BOMB TAKES'LIFE TOLL One Killed. Fourteen Hurt by Blast Sef Off by Phone Booth. Bn United Press GENEVA, Aug. 11.—One person was killed and fourteen were wounded last night at Basle when a bomb exploded In a telephone booth at the Grand PI. street car station, a dispatch from that city said today. Police charged a crowd of demonstrators and arrested several young men described as Communists. There was a short, fierce fight. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 60 10 a. m 76 7 a. m 64 11 a. m 77 8 a. m 68 12 (noon) ... 78 9 a. mfl 73

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JUDGE GRANTS APPEAL RIGHT IN SACCO CASE Full Bench of State Court Will Hear Arguments on New Plea. 12-DAY REPRIEVE GIVEN Counsel to Continue Fighrt: Rulings of Thayer Under Fire. BY HENRY MINOTT United Press Staff Correspondent BOSTON, Aug. 11.—Attorneys for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti won another skirmish in their amazing eleventh-hour legal campaign today, when Justice George A. Sanderson of Massachusetts Supreme Court allowed an appeal to the full bench of the court from his denial of a writ of error. Announcement that Justice Sanderson had agreed to sign the bill of exceptions came from Arthur K. Reading, after a lobby conference attended by the justice, the attorney general and Arthur D. Hill and Elias Field of defense counsel. After Governor Alvan T. Fuller's midnight decision to grant Sacco and Vanzetti a twelve-day respite—to and including Aug. 22—it was announced that the justices of the State Supreme Court had been called to Boston for a special session Monday. The Supreme Court already twice has ruled adversely in the SaccoVanzetti case, and until last night’s surorislng developments it was believed the full bench had passed on the world-famous case for the last time. Attack Thayer Rulings While Hill and Field were carrying on at the Supreme Court, another member of the defense counsel, Michael Angelo Musmanno of Pittsburgh, filed with the clerk of the Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham a bill of exceptions to the recent adverse rulings of J. G. Webster Thayer, who presided at the trial. Sacco and Vanzetti. heads shaven, waited last night in the death cells to be led to the execution chamber. Celcstino Madelros, young Portuguese, convicted of another murder, waited with them. He. too. was to die at three minutes past twelve. The hands of the prison clock, which all day had ticked minute after minute from their hope of life, neared midnight. Outside the prison, a throng waited in tense silence. In New York, London, Paris, Buenos Aires and other cities on three continents, millions were absorbed In the drama. Within the prison, everything was arranged for the execution, when suddenly Warden William Hendry's telephone bell rang. He picked up the receiver and listened to a brief message from the State Housf. Announces Respite “Respite for two. boys,” he announced, his voice uncertain. The news spread like wild-fire. “Make that respite for three.” said the warden, still excited by bis telephone conversation with one of Governor Fuller's advisers. Vanzetti, the fish-peddler philosopher, came to the bars of his cell, his tired eyes sparkling and said, “I'm glad. I wanted to see my sister before I die.” His sister is in Paris, hoping to be able to clear up passport difficulties in time. Sacco, on the twenty-fifth day of his hunger strike, was too weak to rise from his cot. He made no comment. The prison physician said Sacco is so weak he cannot stand alone for five minutes at a time, and unless forcible feeding is resorted to, it is not certaip that he will live beyond experiation of the new respite. Up to State Courts After seven years of uncertainty, the case now has become more simplified. It apparently rested entirely on the State courts. With Federal aid apparently barred by Justice Holmes’ decision, observers though it hardly likely Governor Fuller would exert clemency if the courts, for the last time, reiterated their determination that the men muse die. Meantime, it was expected sacco and Vanzetti would not ba placed in the death cells again until a decision has been reached. The most extraordinary precautions in Massachusetts history were taken last night to guard the old State Prison. Ropes were stretched across all thoroughfares within six blocks of the walls, and here mounted and foot police established an Impenetrable cordon.

Indiana Frost WARSAW, Ind.. Aug. 11.— Slight damage was done growing crops by frosts reported in the lowlands of north central Indiana early today. The temperature around Warsaw was 50 degrees, not low enough to do any damage. Elsewhere, loss was reported slight.