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FEAR FLYING PRINCESS IS OCEAN VICTIM Trans-Atlantic Plane Hours Overdue; Two Oceanic Craft Down. RENEW REDFERN HUNT Globe Av&tors En Route to 3agdad; Levine Waits ™ for Dash. By United Pres* ST- JOHNS, N. F., Sept. 2.—A wireless message was received here at noon today from the steamship Blzdendyk saying: "Sighted white light Thursday 6 a. m. Greenwich mean time, latitude 39 degrees 8 minutes north, longitude 64 degrees 43 minutes west, probably from plane moving easterly direction.” By United Press Death apparently had claimed three more would-be trans-Atlantic fliers today, while four others planned to overcome unforeseen difficulties in order to resume their attempts to span the Atlantic by air. Princess Anne Lowenstein-Wert-heim, F. F. Minchin and Leslie Hamilton, in the monoplane St. Raphael, last were sighted more than fifty hours ago, heading out to sea from Ireland. They were about twenty hours overdue at St. Johns, Newfoundland,at noon today. If they fell into the sea and died, the number of persons dead or missig in trans-oceanic flights since May was Increased to fifteen. World Fliers to Bagdad Meanwhile, the American Pride of Detroit, with Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock aboard, was flying over the Near East, en route to Bagdad from Constantinople via Aleppo. The planci left Constantinople aft?r forty-cne hours’ ftelay ■here in an effort to lower the twenty-eight and one-half day record for travel around the world. The London to London monoplane Sir John Carling, which left London, Ontario, for London, England, yesterday encountered fog and was forced down at Caribou, Maine. The nlane will not resume its flight today. The monoplane Royal Windsor, en route from Windsor, Ont., on a nonstop flight to Windsor, England, according to a message to Windsor, was forced down at Mt. Johnson, near St. Johns, Que. Slight fire in the left wing caused the landing. The fliers hoped to resmne their flight today. Renew Redfem Search Search for Paul Redfem, missing in an attempt to fly from Brunswick, Ga., to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was ordered today in the Amazon valley and along the coast north of the river’s mouth. Givon and Corbu, in their Farman plane, left Le Bourget Field, near Paris, early today to fly to New York but turned back and alighted safely after encountering fog. Charles A. Levine, amateur aviator of the monoplane Columbia, announced in London that he would not attempt any flight until some definite word had been heard of the St. Raphael. Old Glory, the New York-to-Rome Fokker monoplane, which has roosted on the runway at Roosevelt Field for a week, was expected to afly to Newfoundland today to search Bor the St. Raphael. ■ In Cologne and Dessau, Germany, German aviators awaited favorable weather to take off on non-stop flights to America / Hope for the seven missing Dole fliers in the Pacific has been abandoned. No News of Princess Spurred by the appeal which the flight had to the public imagination, there was much discussion of plans for search for the Saint Raphael and its princess today, but there was much uncertainty as to where it might begin. The network of communications, first resort in such an emergency, had brought no news. The wastes ol’ the Atlantic furnished a broad area for search and the facilities were small. There were reports that the Old Glory might take off in an effort to find the Saint Raphael, but it seemed unlikely. The Saint Raphael carried a rubber boat similar to that in which Commander Byrd and his companions paddled to shore at Ver-Sur-Mer. But it is one thing to land a few hundreds yards from shore in the English channel and another to land in the northern Atlantic. Weather Discouraging Weather reports gave a little encouragement. There were no major storms recorded in the region of eastern Canada or over the Atlantic, where the St. Raphael is feared td have gone down. Beveral areas, however, of fog or mist were reported. The St. Raphael was believed to have carried gasoline for forty-three hours' flying when it left Upavon, England. On that basis it could not have remained in the air longer than midnight last night, at the outside. It was believed, and more probably had burned the last of its fuel, were it still in the air, by 8 p. m. yesterday.

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101 WILD WEST SHOWIN CITY Parade Features Arrival of Ranch Circus. With enough Indians, cowboys, wild animals, and performers to tear up the town if they ever broke loose, the 101 Ranch Wild West Circus was in Indianapolis today. The circus treated th old ar young “kids” to the first parade of the season, a mile-long affair which moved from the grounds at Eighteenth St. and Sugar Grove Ave., to Indiana Ave., east in New York, south in New Jersey, west In Washington, north in Senate Ave. and back to the grounds by way of Indiana Ave. The parade started at 11 a. m. The parade is one of the few left in Circusland, practically all big shows having abandoned the feature. The show carries 1,100 persons, 600 animals, including elephants, camels, others of wild species, horses and ponies. The show is unique in its combination of Wild West with big time circus features. The circus trains arrived early from Anderson. They leave for Terre Haute at midnight tonight. Performances were scheduled for 2 and Bp. m. Tickets were on sale at the dark & Cade drug store downtown as well as at the grounds. Riverside cars go to the grounds. SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET Bid* on Classroom Equipment and Supplies to Be Considered. The school board was to consider bids upon classroom equipment and supplies late this afternoon if enough members returned to the city to make a quorum. A meeting set for 11 this morning was postponed, as was the regular session Tuesday evening. Commissioners Lillian G. sedwick and Charles W. Kern were In town and Commissioner Fred Bates Johnson was expected late today.

Flappers Who Show Color of Garters Have No Place in This Church School

OOOSIER flappers who are not averse to disclosing the color of their garters, If any, whether knock-kneed or follyesque might is well give up all hopes of ever entering Emanuel Missionary College. For the college, operated by the Seventh Day Church at Berrien Springs, Mich., practically served notice on the girls in a warning sent to Indianapolis today that they just aren't wanted, unless they will agree to wear their dresses “at least four Inches below the lower part of the knee.” This is being pretty liberal, at that, the college officials feel, because wives of ministers and teachers on and near the campus are expected to wear 'em much longer. “We hope that everywhere the dresses of our sisters will be of that modest, becoming type con-

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[■-■] AYOR DUVALL has “stepped out” with anew seven-passenger IIVI Stutz sedan. Although urging strict economy in all departments [ iTA | in 1928 budget requests, Duvall "accepted” the new machine purchased from the police and fire department new equipment fund. The machine was delivered about a 'eek ago. A requisition for a wheelbase chassis of the Stutz Motor Car Company, Tenth St. and Capitol Ave., was approved Aug. 2 by O. D. Haskett, John A. George and John Kuhn, former safety board members. The requisition blank showed the chassis list price at $1,990, with credit of $1,140 for a seven-passenger Willys-Knight. The Willys-Knight, said to be two years old, was a police department machine formerly assigned to the fire force. Balance paid the Stutz firm by the city was SBSO, according to city purchasing agent department records. W. O. Hopkins, Stutz field salesman, made the sale. Another requisition for $1,500 was made to the Millspaugh Irish Company for a seven-passenger body with trunk rack and all latest accessories. It was equipped with si*? wire wheels and tires. The total trade In price would be $2,350.

ROAD VICTIM NAMED Boy Dies of Injuries Received Near Gem, Ind. Police today partially identified a boy, believed to have died a victim to a hit and run driver, who was found Wednesday lying near his demolished bicycle on the National Rd., not far from Gem, Ind., fifteen miles east of here. Before he lapsed into unconsciousness and died Thursday at Methodist Hospital the youth said his name was Theodoroe Moore of Westwood, Cincinnati, and his father was a minister there. An Indianapolis woman who read of the boy in the newspapers visited the hospital and identified the dead youtlr as the boy tramping along the road, whom she and her husband had given a ride from K insas to St. Louis. The boy had. said he had a sister, Mrs. Winifred Moore, at Newport, Ky. Detective Lieut. Fred T. Simon reached the sister by telephone and learned that her brother had been working on a farm in Cincinnati. She is expected to come here to identify the body.

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Association of Indianapolis president. Twenty-eight sites have been proposed by real estate men. A proposed location between Washington and Maryland Sts., east of Plum St., is now shown.

M’CRAY IS RESTING Former Governor Spends Time Visiting With Friends Former Governor Warren T. McCray rested and visited with friends today at the home of nls son-in-law, William P. Evans, 551 E. Thirty-Sixth St., showing no ill effects from his homeconlng Thursday from Federal Prison at Atlanta. Excitement of greeting members of his family whom he had not seen since he entered prison tired the ex-Govemor, but he was reported recovered today after a night’s rest. McCray has no definite plans for the future. He intends to remain at the Evans home for some time, receiving friends, many of whom sent word they wanted to see him as soon as he recovers from the effects of the trip home. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 63 10 a. m 78 7 a. m 66 11 a. m 80 8 a. m 70 12 (noon) ... 83 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 84

ceming which no man may speak evil,” says the warning. The board expects some opposition—“One great embarassment experienced by our schools in maintaining high standards of dress and deportment is found in the attitude which many parents assume toward the question. The questionable drets of too many girls at the present time finds its counterpart in the practice of the mother, and even the grandmother. Short akirts, gauze waists, bobbed hair, as well as other extremes of modern dress, unfortunately find their devotees amoqg gray-haired matrons as well as their younger daughters. "O, for more true mothers in Israel, who in their own lives place womanly dignity, modesty and C'nL't&n conservatism above the capricious demand of modern fashion.

PLAN PARLEY IN SCHOOL TILT Miller Expected to Discuss Situation With Wisehart. With the announcement of Charles F. Miller, Indianapolis school superintendent, that he Is willing to discuss with Roy P. Wisehart the tangle connected with the office of State superintendent of public instruction, a conference of the two was expected today. Miller spen ; the morning at the Indianapolis school superintendent’s office, and was expected at the Statehouse this afternoon. ‘‘l hope the matter can be amicably adjusted,” Miller said, but admitted the matter had gone “so far” that a suit is likely. He denied he would start a suit. 1 When asked if he would step down, following a conference with Wisehart, Miller said: “Absolutely not,” He reiterated his stand that he “does not desire two jobs.” Miller’s action was prompted by Governor Jackson’s refusal to appoint a successor agreeable to him. Wisehart received written appointment from Governor Jackson on Thursday and was sworn into office. Meanwhile, Miller, seated at the State superintendent's desk directly across the hall, announced he would not yield the office to Wisehart. SCRIPPS EDITOR DIES W. H. Porterfield Succumbs at San Diego. B)i United Press SAN DIEGO. Cal., Sot. 2.—William H. Porterfield, part owner and contributing editor of the San Diego Sun, died early today at a Los Angeles hospital. Death followed an operation last week for gall bladder inflammation and appendicitis. Porterfield was a cub reported on the San Diego Sun when the paper was bought by the late E. W. Scrlpps in 1892. Since that time he had been continuously associated with the Scripps-Mcßae and ScrlppsHoward newspaper enterprises in various capacities. Nine years after the Sun became a Scripps property, Porterfield acquired a 49 per cent interest in it. At the time of his death he still held 40 per cent of the Sun .stock. He also was extensively interested in other Scripps-Howard newspapers and enterprises. Girls Perfer Dressmaking PARIS,Sept. 2.—Only one in twen-ty-five of the Parisian girls attending trade schools in Paris is training to be a stenographer or secretary. Preference runs to dressmaking. millinery and other Jobs usually done only vby women.

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JURY PUSHES QUIZ OF CITY HALL AFFAIRS Activities of Ku-Klux Klan Also Under X-Ray of Investigators. CALLS NEW WITNESSES Report Expected Next Week; Several Indictments Are Indicated. With a report expected next week which may indict several high officials, the Marion County grand jury, in a busy session this morning, heard seven in its probe of Indiana political corruption. With taking of testimony from James E. McDonald, local attorney, last witness of the morning, the jury Is believed practically to have completed its probing of Ihe offer of SIO,OOO and safety from conviction to Governor McCray. The offer was made on condition McDonald be appointed Marion County prosecutor to succeed William P. Evans, the Governor’s son-in-law, who had resigned and was refused by McCray. The Times has disclosed. Probe City Affairs Other witnesses Indicated the jury was probing further into Mayor Duvall’s administration of city affairs and activities of the Klan and its leader, D. C. Stephenson. • After a twenty-five-minute conference with the jury at the close of the session the prosecutors announced they would convene again Tuesday morning to hear more witnesses. The jury was in session from 9 to 12:40. Christian Is Called Floyd Christian, Nobiesville attorney, who was one of D. C. Stephenson’s attorneys at the ex-Klan leader’s murder trial, but who has not acted for Stephenson since, was the £rst witness heard. He was in the jury room forty minutes. George Snider, county commissioner and former sheriff and campaign manager for Duvall, second witness, was before the Jury fifteen minutes. Lucien Tauley, county assessor's office employe, followed Snider. The Rev. George S. Henninger, pastor of the East Tenth Street M. E. Church, who as a Klan political committee member was said to have been promised control of numerous city posts by Duvall, the next witness. was heard twenty-five minutes. Russell V. Duncan, local attorney and State Legislator, who was found guilty of conspiracy to steal a Government check from the United States Internal Revenue office here, was the next witness. Elliott on Stand George S. Elliott, former Klan cyclops and also said to have been the recipient of some alleged Duvall pre-election promises, testified fer an hour and five minutes. Lloyd Hill, one of Stephenson’s present attorneys, waited in the ante room half an hour and left before he was called to go before the probers. Most of today’s witnesses have appeared before the Jurors before. Thursday the Jury called the following: Albert S. Ward, United States district attorney; James W. Noel, attorney for McCray; Will Rogers, who testified at the Senator James A. Reed hearing at St; Louis, Mo.; William Schifferdecker, former cashier in the city engineer’s office, who was fired by Mayor Duvall, ahd Eph Inman, one of Duvall’s attorneys In the Criminal Cqurt case. MERCURY HIGHEST \ . IN CITY SINCE AUG. 7 Reaches 84 Degrees at 1 P. M. and Still Climbing. Indianapolis today is having its hottest weather since Aug. 7. The United States Weather Bureau thermometer had reached 84 degrees at 1 p. m. and was still rising. The high mark of Aug. 7 was 90 degrees. This August was the second coolest August since 1871, when weather bureau records began. The last two days of the month and the seventh were the only days to have above normal temperatures. Average temperature for the month was 68.2 degrees, 5.5 dAgrees below normal, and only .7 of a degree higher the average for August, 1915, the coldest midsummer month on record. PLANS AID TO TRAFFIC Connell, New Board Head, Will Devote Study to Problem. Fred W. Cornell, new board of safety m tt.lnar, said he would devote considerable attention to •elution of the citj traffic problem with the view of rel.eving congestion for benefit of motcrists and pedestrians. “I wil iinsist that Police Chief Claude F. Worley instruct traffic officers toshow every courtesy to visitors. The chief will be supreme and the board will back him to the limit. I think the public has confidence in Worley’s ability,” Connell said.

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WORLEY TAKES m OFFICE Johnson Congratulates New Chief; to Be Loyal. Conditions not unusual for the Duvall administration existed at city hall and police station today. More shake-up rumors were prevalent at both city buildings. At police station, where Claude M. Worley became chief of police, replacing Claude F. Johnson, the talk of “what next” noticeably slowed work of the department. Within the hearing of several Johnson congratulated Worley and told Worley that as he was staying on the force from choice he intended to work hard and be loyal to the new chief. Worley told Johnson to take a leave of absence and rest until Tuesday, indicating he might shift Johnson to a post other than the captaincy of detectives he was given Thursday. Worley said he eventually will dispense with both chauffeurs assigned to the chiefs as “I can drive my own car,” and may abolish the post of major of police. He said he would make department heads responsible for detail and devote his own time to broader matters of policy. The new board of safety visited headquarters to learn police routine this morning and this afternoon drove away with the new chief without announcing their destination, in one of the chief’s cars driven by Thomas Rouse, chief’s chauffeur.

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CIVIL SERVICE BOARD QUITS IN NEW FIGHT Duvall’s Shake-up Destroys Work of Commission, Members Charge. CHAILLE, WHITE RESIGN Johnson Lost Connection as Secretary in Upheaval of Thursday. Asserting that Mayor Duvall’s shakeup of the board of safeyt and police department of Thursday destroyed what progress they had made in their efforts to put the police upon an efficiency basis, the police civil service commission resigned this afternoon. Emerson W. Chaille and John F. White are the commissioners who resigned. Claude F. Johnson, who was secretary of the commission, lost his ex-officio connection with the commission when he was ousted Thursday. The civil service commission was established by Duvall several months ago, with the announced purpose of providing that hereafter promotions and demotions in the police and fire department? be upon a merit and not political basis. Worley Favors Change Rumors had been afloat at city hall all morning that Duvall was thinking of abolishing the civil service commission. The new police chief, Claude F. Forley* is known to be somewhat opposed to its purposes. Worley said earlier in the day that he might favor modifying some of the civil service rules. If the civil service rules strictly were adhered to, policemen could not be penalized or rewarded for political activity or expediency. The file civil commissioners, Glenn B. Ralston and A. J. Allen, are understood to be sympathetic with White and Chaille, but do not contemplate resigning at this time, because the shake-up did not involve the fire department. Stand Explained The police commissioners explained their stand in this letter to Duvall. “As citizen members of the police force civil service commission, w f e are hereby taking notice of the removal of Claude F. Johnson from the position of chief of the police force and the appointment of Claude M. Worley to fill such vacancy. “We are, therefore, protesting that your action, as mayor of the city of Indianapolis, in ordering your board of public safety, to reduce Chief of Police Johnson to the position of captain of detectives without presenting forma! reasons in writing for such act, and thereupon causing the appointment of Claude M. Worley, not at the time a member of the police force, to the position of police chief, is a distinct and deliberate violation of the civil service rules governing appointment and promotion on the police force. "This violation of the rules is equally pf ipable in the appointment of Jerry Kinney to the head of the detective department. According to State Law “Since the civil service rules and regulations are established under a mandate in the State law (city charter) requiring the Mayor's cabinet to adopt rules and regulations which shall prescribe a common and systemic method of ascertaining the comparative fitness of applicants for office, position and promition, and of selecting, appolntin gand promoting those found to be the best fitted, it seems evident that your action as Mayor in reducing Johnson and appointing Worley in his place as chief, as well as the other changes made in this order, is therefore in our opinion, clearly a violation of law. “In addition, this act on your part, as Mayor, is in utter disregard of your own previous act, which yon have not seen fit to modify, in approving and setting up- the rules governing the Civil Service Commission, and is therefore a flagrant repudiation of the whole civil service principle. “Therefore, if your action is to stand, and we are assuming that :t is, out of respect for our convictions regarding the merit system of appointment and promotion, and the importance of this system to the integrity of the police force, it is impossible for us to continue as members of the Police Force Civil Service Commission, and hereby are tendering our resignation.” The board of safety Thursday resigned in a body. Worley officially became chief late Thursday, at the initial of the new safety beard. The board, composed of Frederick W. Connell, president; Robert F. Miller, and Ira P. Haymaker, was sworn in at 4:30 p. m. behind closed doors in Duvall’s office. Accompanied by Worley, they went to the safety board office and reduced Chief Johnson to a detective captain on recommendation of Duvall. Worley then was tnadi chief, effective at once-