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DRY CZAR TO CHASE CROOKS OUTOF JOBS Prohibition Bureau Clean-up to Rid Department of Grafting Agents. LOWMAN FLAYS AIDS General Investigation Will Follow Order Issued by Mellon. BY JOSEPH S. WASNEY ' United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, *Sept. 10.—The United States dry service is to be rid of what its chief flatly calls crooks.. Assistant Secretary of Treasury Lowman’s charges that the service is "rampant with bribery” is being followed today by the most sensational housecleaning in prohibition history. Secreetary of Treasury Mellon himself has given the order to free the organization of grafters. The intelligence unit of the internal revenue bureau is investigating the entire dry personnel, from administrators down. ' Hire Outside Sleuths A special treasury decision has been issued to allow internal revenue sleuths to work within the prohibition bureau. Lowman and Mellon, it was said, believe the investigation and spy work should be done by detectives not connected with prohibition work. Lowman’s declaration that, “there sre many wolves in sheep’s clothing. We are after them. A lot of them have lately been let out all over the country”; will cause particular resentment. _ It is believed here as it apparently includes many recent dismissals in New York State, New Jersey and Michigan. At the time these dismissals, various reasons were assigned by Lowman. But no definite charges of bribery cr crookedness had been made before.

Scores Are Fired Since Lowman assumed office, officially, Aug. 1, he has devoted his attention to ridding thee prohibition enforcement personnel of undesirables. Scores have felt the power of his dismissal orders. Asked whether actual proof of bribery or crookedness had been found in the dismissals, the assistant secretry stated that concrete evidence was not needed. "All I need is a suspicion that a dry agent is crooked and out he goes,” Lowman declared. “I can dismiss them if I don’t like the color of their hair or the way they tie their neckties. If our investigators think a man is not on the level, I’ll find the way to dismiss him without the actual proof of his crookedness being revealed.” Special Sleuths Active Special investigators, appointed by Lowman, have been active during the last six weeks, carrying on their work from coast to coast. As a result, Lowman declared he found bribery and crookedness rampant in the se/vice in all parts of the country and not confined to particular localities. Approximately 200 men have been dsimissed from the service during Lowman’s short tenure of office. Twenty-four were let out at one time in New York and twenty in Buffalo. Other dismissals have taken place throughout the country. Roy C. Lyle, northwestern dry administrator, summoned here for a conference regarding charges of lax administration in his territory, was ordered to return to Seattle to resume his work. When Lyle was first called to Washington, Lowman Informed newspaper men that Lyle probably would be discharged. Today he said he would continue his regular work, awaiting outcome of the civil service examinations, which will govern all administrators after Oct. 1. Those close to official circles regard Lowman’s spectacular statement as a marker to the end of his Treasury Department career. The dry chief was summoned late Friday to the office of Secretary Mellon. He was closeted with the secretary for more than a half hour. Both refused to disclose the nature of the conference. POPE BLESSES WALKER New York Mayor and Wife Are Received at Vatican. By TJnlted Press ROME, Sept. 10.—Mayor and Mrs. James J. Walker of New York knelt Friday before Pope Pius in the latter’s private library and received the papal blessing in behalf of thenselves and the city of New York. The pope presented the mayor a gold medal commemorative of his visit. To Mrs. Walker he gave a rosary. HOLD NURSE IN DEATHS By United Press EN,ID, Okla., Sept. 10.—On the basis of poison found in her room and letters written her by the Rev. Charles Bailey, Episcopalian minister, police Friday held Mary Atkinson, a nurse, for further questioning in the death of Bailey’s wife and daughter. The minister, en route from Trinidad, Col., to his home, will be questioned. Mrs. Bailey_>nd a daughter, Mary Jane, 18, died mysteriously. The cause appeared to be poisoning. Tl* o mother died Aug. 26, and the girl yesterday.

ILLINOIS GIRL IS MISS AMERICA

Prize Beauty Only 16; Ambitious to Be Artist

By United Press ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Sept. 10. -Miss America of 1927, a 16-year-old girl with unbobbed brown hair, chosen Friday night as the "Miss America” of 1927, has no intention of going into the movies or on the stage. "I want to become a great artist,” Miss Lois Eleanor Delander of Joliet, 111., said, after being crowned the new queen of beauty at the Atlantic City Beauty pageant. “I have received many offers to go on the stage and into the movies,” she said, “but I am not going to accept any of them. v "I want to draw; I want to make a home for myself; I want to be a somebody in this world.” Miss Delander, who is 5 feet inches tall, has blue eyes and very fair complexion, likes dancing and is fond of swimming. But her oneambition is to draw. The other finalists in the contest were more like the winners of previous years. Miss Mozelle Ransome, who was Miss Dallas, wants to go on the stage. She received only five votes for first honors. Anne Howe, who was Miss Hammond (Indiana), was another finalist. She was very modest and thought she was lucky to have remained in the contest as long as she had. “There were too many pretty girls to compete with,” she said. Kathleen Coye, who was Miss Philadelphia, wants to go into the movies or on the stage. /The last of the finalists, Virginia Howard, who was Miss Tulsa, said she is going to go on the stage and take her twin sister with her. “We know we can make a living that wry, so why not take advantage ol t?” she said. Miss Illinois won other honors before being awarded the highest one. She was given first prize in the rolling chair parade for the middle division and was runner-

ATTACK PAVING PACT Irvington Residents Want to Keep Audubon Rd. Car Line. Irate citizens,of "classic” Irvington aired their sentiments on the proposed improvement of E. Washington St., between the street car tracks Friday before the board of works. About sixty Irvington residents attended the public Hearings on a resolution to improve the street between the tracks between Audubon Ri and' Sheridan Ave., under an agreement between the board of works and the street car company. Part of the delegation objected to the plan Frank Cones, board member, mo\ed to delay action two weeks, pending agreement of residents. The railway agreed to build double tracks and pave all except a three inch surface which the city was to do on the condition the Audubon Rd. spur is abandoned, Virgil Vangadrifft, board works president, said. \ Under the plan the city would pay 75 per cent of the improvement and abutting property owners 25 per cent. A group objected strenuously to abandoning the Audubor Rd. line. CAPTURES ALLIGATOR MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Sept. 10.While Kaufman Loomis, a farmer j of Otisville, near here, was walking along a storm-swollen stream today, a commotion attracted his attention and he was startled to discover a good sized Florida alligator. After a strong fight, Mr. Loomis captured the reptile with the aid of a wire hoop. It was later discovered that the alligator had escaped several months ago from a pen on the premises of Dr. F. E. Fowler. It had been brought from Florida by the doctor. CITY TEACHER RESIGNS Resignation of Miss Georgia May Barrett, instructor for four years in the department of psychology in Teachers’ College of Indianapolis and Mrs. Blaker’s School for Girls, has been announced, effective Cct. 3. She has accepted a position as teacher of psychology at the University Cl Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. Miss Barrett will remain at Teachers’ College as a substitute until a successor is named.

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Pickle Case By Times Special GARY, Ind., Sept. 10.—“ Can a cucumber on the vine be* a pickle?” is a question that will come before Judge Charles E. Greenwald of Gary Superior Court, when he hears the case of David Flood, Hobart, against Charles Carlson, truck farmer. Flood alleges he entered the employ of Carlson to work on what papers in the case term a “piCkle patch,” pay to be a share of the profits. Counsel for Carlson contends there is no such thifig as a “pickle patch,” on the ground that a cucumber does not become a pickle until pickled.

GOLFERS INCORPORATE Club Buys 120-Acre Tract Near Shelbyville Road. Incorporation papers have been filed with the Secretary of State hy the South Side Golf and Country Club. Wallie Nelson, golf professional; Clyde R. Richardson, 316 Hume-Mansur Bldg., real estate, and D. S. Menasco, Automobile Funding Company, president, are incorporators. The club has bought a 120-acre tract near the Shelbyville Rd., nine I miles from Indianapolis. Construc- ' tion of an eighteen-hole course Is planned. FIND LINCOLN PAPERS By. United Press SPRINGFIELD, HI. Sept. 10.—The biggest find of legal documents drawn by Abraham Lincoln when he practiced law in Illinois, is announced by Paul M. Angle, secretary of the Illinois Centennial Association. x The papers deal with 100 cases in which Lincoln was retained as counsel and are in an excellent state of preservation. They are in Lincoln’s handwriting. t ASKS TO DIE FOR BIRGER By United Press BENTON, 111., Sept. 10.—Charlie Birger, former gang lord of southern Illinois, under death sentence for the murder of Mayor Joe Adams of West City, received an offer from a Jacksonville, HI., man who said he would substitute for Birger on the gallows Oct. 15. “I only wish I could step in and take that rope in your place, just to get out of my misery,” the letter said.

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Smallwood, was not there to abdicate her throne. She had withdrawn from the contest because those in charge would not pay her for making public appearances. More than 18,000 persons witnessed the ceremonies and cheered long and loudly for the queen.

NAVY PREPARED FOR PROMOTION OF SEA FLYING Withdraws Help From Stunt Aviators in Land Planes; Cites Own Feats. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Free* Staff CoTeinondent WASHINGTON, Sept 10.—The United States Navy after doing its utmost to prevent further ocean flights in land planes, must assume the promotion of water-flying, commercial and military, flying men said today. Navy aviation experts Informed the United Press the Navy is prepared for the job, and already has under operation or construction three types of long-distance flying boats. For power, it is turning to ; air-cooled motors, providing more ! power with less weight, in expectation of developing a machine to f carry enough gasoline, in addition to useful loads of passengers or ! bombs, over the Lindbergh and Maitland-Kegenberger routes, and farther. v Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, naval aviation chief. Informed the United Press that the Navy is replacing water-cooled motors with air-cooled engines on its three PN-10 boats, and that twenty more of the type will be ordered if the experiment succeeds. Use All-Metal Construction In addition, a PN-11, with many refinements over the present BN flying boats,, including two or three newly designed air-cooled motors of more than 500 horse-/ .ower each, is being built now for test flights next year A flying boat monoplane, the first large American flying boat to deviate from the biplane model, which also will have air-cooled motors of great power, is being planned by the Navy men. All-metal construction will be tried on some of the new ships. When these planes are completed, some of the qualifying tests probably will carry them into the realms of long-distance flying in real safety, in contrast to the precarious flights and frequent tragedies of 1927, Moffett said. Stand Against Stunt Flying “The Navy has flown the Atlantic; it flew nearly to Hawaii; it flew to Panama, and it makes regular flights over the ocean from Panama to San Diefeo; and all without losing a life,” Moffett said. Moffett said the Navy is having bombers built In San Diego which could fly to Hawaii in comparative safety. The Navy’s stand against civilian stunt-flying by land planes over water was made in revoking leaves of absence granted Lieut. L. W. Curtin and Ensign S. V. Edwards to go with Capt. Rene Fonck to Paris in his bi-motored Sikorsky land plane, and in refusing to send Navy ships to Oriental waters to safeguard the Schlee-Brock around-the-world plane during its hops from Tokio to the United States. Acting Secretary of Navy T. Douglas Robinson advised Fonck of anew Navy policy against such leaves for this purpose in the future. FRENCH LOAN FAVORED Treasury Department Reported Friendly Toward Removal oY Ban. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The Treasury Department was said on good authority today to look favorably on the suggested temporary lifting of the French loan ban to permit France to undertake a refunding operation in America. France desires a private loan variously reported to range from $72,000,000 to $100,000,000 to refund outstanding obligations at a lower rate of interest than she originally obtained. Secretary of Treasury Mellon, it is understood, wili confer 1 with President Coolidge before the actual permission to modify the ban is granted.

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AUTO RACES CLOSE STATE FAIRJVENTS Exposition Attendance Will Exceed 250,000 Goal, Say Officials., NO SHOWS AT NIGHT Many Exhibits Remain in Place This Afternoon; Cattle Sold. A. A. A. automobile races scheduled for this afternoon at the Indiana State fairgrounds will close the eight-day diamond jubilee celebration. With the attendance of 25,000 predicted, for today by fair officials, it is expected that the goal of 250,000 will be exceeded by 20,000. All exhibits remained in place until noon today, but many were ! open this afternoon. No night j shows were scheduled. City Day Draws Crowds ! Indianapolis day, Friday, was ; featured by a downtown parade which ended in front of the grand stand, where speeches were made by Guy Cantwell, president of the fair, and by Claude F. Johnson, city controller. Flats of the Indianapolis park board won first prize. Progress Laundry second and Gregg Cleaners third. The bargain bill of Grand Circuit races was featured by the running of the Frank P. Fox pacing stake for $15,000, won by Red Pluto. Chief Longview, owned by Mrs. W. P. Roth, Redwood City, Cal., won the William H. Block grand championship SI,OOO stake. Nine entries were named by the judges as the best saddle horses at the State fair stables this .aeyr State fair stables this year. Scholarships Awarded f Tom Riley, Marion, was crowned State champion old fiddler preceeding the horse show. Merritt Thornburg, Greensburg, was given a SIOO scholarship to Purdue University, and Lester Lowry, Indianapolis, was given a SSO scholarship to Purdue for excellent showing in the poultry and calf clubs this week. Miss Audry Williams, Salem, was the owner of the 1,030-pound steers which brought a top price of $27.00 cwt. at the calf club auction in the afternoon in the Coliseum. The animal was bought by Hughes Curry, an Anderson packer. About 162 steers were auctioned off to local packers at an average price of $14.45 cwt. CLUB SEASON OPENS Indianapolis Athletic Dinner Dance Planned Saturday Night. Indianapolis Athletic Club will open its fall season tonight with a dinner dance at 6:30 o’clock, followed at 10 o’clock by after theater dansant. Music will be provided by an orchestra directed by George Irish. Swimming classes will begin next week, the first swimming contest to be held Wednesday with a feature race of 5,300 feet. Two bowling leagues have been organized. Athletic classes will begin about Sept. 15. Arrangements fop October tournament have been made by the auction bridge committee.

Bobbed at 92 By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 10.—Mrs. Betty Cox, 92, today became Clay County’s and probably Indiana’s oldest flapper, when she had her hair bobbed at a local barber shop. She instated on the latest, ultra-fashionable, boyish shingle—and got it, her white locks falling to the floor and mingling with those of the younger generation who patronize the establishment. Mrs. Cox was accompanied to the barber chair by her daughter, Mrs. John Pierce, also her granddaughter and greatgranddaughter. All feur generations had their hair bobbed at the same time.

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Mysterious Poisonings Spread Terror Over'City

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Here are some of the actors in Kansas City’s mysterious poisoning drama. Left is little Jackie Comstock, poisoned by candy found in his wagon; above, right. Miss Catherine Dills, at whose party a bA of poisoned candy mysteriously was delivered; and below; Mrs. R. P. Noel, poisoned by pears from a tree in her own back yard.

Vote for Bill? By United Press BATTLE CREEK. Mich., Sept. 10.—If Republican and Democratic parties nominate wet candidates, “I will run for President on a dry ticket and I bet I carry fifteen States,” the Rev. Billy Sunday told the Methodist Michigan conference last night. “A1 Smith has as much chance of being elected President on a wet platform as the pope has of being elected imperial wizard of the Ku-Klux Klan,” he said. Sunday urged that Christ get the same break in colleges as Voltaire, Nietschae and Darwin. ..

ENGINE BOILER BURSTS One May Die as Result of Locomotive Explosion Near Fulton. By United Press PERU, Ind., Sept. 10.—Explosion o', a locomotvie boiler near Fulton, ten miles wrest of here, Friday injured tus engineer so severely that he is net expected to live, and hurt two others. A. T. Wells, 38, the engineer, was scalded about the body and is in a serious condition in a Wabash hospital. E. R. Burke, 27, fireman, was badly scalded and his back injured, and Gordon Clark, 28, brakeman, was scalded about the beck, arms and face. The Interstate Commerce Commission was notified of the accident and ordered an investigation. Tfc£ cause of the explosion, which occurred while the train was in motion, is not known. The train was the second section of Chesapeake & Ohio freight No. 95, west-bound. PUPILS REPORT MONDAY Instructions for Arsenal High School Eurollment Issued. All pupils of Arsenal Technical High School (re-entering) will report to their sponsor rooms between 8:30 and 9 a. m. Monday, Principal M. H. Stuart announced today. Pupils new to the school, including beginners and advanced 1 pupils from other schools, will report to sponsor rooms between 1 and 1:30 p. m. Monday. Regular work will begin Tuesday for all pupils. Principal Stuart urged all pupils to report Monday - in order to be included in group classification.

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Children’s Lives Menaced by Hate Campaign; PoJice Without Clew. By SEA Service KANSAS CITY. Sept. 10.—A mysterious poisoner, who roams the city unseen and strikes in uncanny, hidden fashion at little children, is at large in Kansas City. Mothers are having gift candy clofiely analyzed before they allow their children to eat it. Refreshments at parties are in many cases confined to articles that are not unwrapped from the time they are made up at the confectioners until ready to serve. Even fruit from trees growing in back yards is looked upon with suspicion. Seek Crazed Woman All of this is because someone—a woman, it is believed, mentally unbalanced by some strange hatred of children—has been going about the city trying to put into execution a wholesale poisoning scheme. Eleven persons, most of them children, thus far have been made ill by the poisons. Either because the poison doses were to small or because none of the victims ate enough to meet with serious effects, there have been do deaths. But fear grips the city. Most of the poisoning cases hav< been confined to the exclusive residential district in the vicinity of Thirty-Ninth St. and Agnes Ave. But mothers all over the city are taking precautions. Candy Makes Four 111 The mysterious trouble started at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rahner, where the four children found a nicely packed box of candy lying in the yard. They ate part of it, and shortly afterward became seriously ill. A physician was called and saved their lives; then Mrs. Rahner had police analyze the candy. In it were found poisoned grains of wheat, such as drug stores sell for the eradication of rats. A few days later Miss Catherine Dills gave a party to the girls of her Sunday school class. During the party a messenger boy delivered a box of candy. Miss Dills, supposing that one of her guests had had the candy delivered, served it. Five girls ate of it and became very sick. Boy Is Poisoned A little later Jackie Comstock, aged 5, found a package of candy lying in his little wagon in the front yard. He ate it and became sick. Then Mrs. R. P. Noel picked up some pears which had fallen to the , ground from a pear tree in her back yard. Shortly after eating them she fell ill and had to call a doctor. Examination proved that the I pears had been poisoned. Wives have been receiving anonymous telephone calls telling them that their husbands were out with blond stenographers. There tfas discord in a number of homes—until one day a woman received such a call while her husband was at home . with her. ' Woman Is Suspected Residents of the neighborhood where most of the poisonings have occurred have demanded the arrest of ,a certain woman living on one of their streets—a woman who seems to be oossessed of an intense dislike of children. But to date the police have nothing to connect this woman with the poisonings. And meanwhile—the terror of the mysterious poisoner remains. FIRE SWEEPS SEAPORT B’i United Press MANILA, P. 1., Sept. 10—Fire Friday swept three blocks in the business sMbion of Aparri, a seaport in the nou iem part of the island of Luzon. The city hall was destroyed. Loss was estimated at $500,000.

REPORT CLEW TO OLD GLORY; PROVES* Missing Pla.:e Rumored Seen in Atlantic, 400 Miles East of Halifax. FLIERS REFUSE TO QUIT Pilots of Royal Windsor to Brave Ocean Unless Backers Call Halt. By United Press OTTAWA. Ontario, Sept. 10.—Canadian government officials said today they had checked up all efforts being made to find the monoplane Old Glory and its crew of three and had found nothing to substantiate a report that the missing monoplane had been sighted 400 miles east of Halifax. The report was to effect that a dispatch from Ottawa had been obtained b% the Canadian marine department at Halifax, stating that Old Glory was reported sighted at latitude 49.55 north, longitude 40.20 west. The message was reported to have been received by C. H. Harvey, marine department agent, who immediately broadcast the message t all wireless stations and ships In the vicinity to Investigate the report. Fliers Refuse to Quit By United Press ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Sept. 10.—The only condition under which Phil Wood and C. A. Schiller will call off their flight to Windsor, England, in the monoplane Royal Windsor is for their backers to order them not to go, Wood told the United Press today. “Do you still intend to make the flight?” he was asked. “We have not changed our opinion and still are resolved to fly,” Wood replied. “The only thing that would deter us would be an absolute command from our backers. If it is called off, a public statement must be made saying that we were ordered not to make the flight, so that there will be no opening for criticism or for a charge that we were quitters.” Both Schiller and Wood expressed the hope that the flight committee will not call off the flight.

Globe Fliers at Shanghai Bu United Press SHANGHAI, Sept; 10.—William S. Brock and Edward F. Schlee arrived at Shanghai at 5:30 p. m. today in their monoplane Pride of Detroit, in which they are flying around the world. They had left Hongkong, 800 miles to the south, at 7 a. m. Their next jump will be across the East China Sea and through the interior of Japan to Tokio, 1,075 miles from Shanghai. Brock and Schlee left Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, two weeks ago today. Because of the difference of time between Newfoundland and Shanghai, their arrival at Shanghai was almost to the hour two weeks after their departure from Harbor Grace. At Tokio, the half-way mark, they plan to install anew engine in their plane, then resume tteir flight via Midway Islands, Honloulu, San Francisco, and across the United States to Harbor Grace. Clew to Dole Fliers Found Bn United Press HONOLULU, Sept. 10.—Evidence of the missing Dole aviators is seen in finding of part of a life-saving jacket on the beach of Oahu. It was an apparatus similar to that used by Navy flelrs and officials believed the jacket probably came from one of the Dole planes, although it was not known definitely that any of them carried similar equipment. SCHOOL EXTENDS WORK Indiana U. Extension Division Will Have New Course. New courses to be given by the Indiana University extension division here this fall were announced Friday. R. H. Coon, associate professor of Latin at Indiana Univer. sity will teach a class in divinities and heroes of classical mythology Wednesday evenings. F. Lee Benns, associate history professor, will teach courses in medieval and modern history and European history from Napoleon to the World War. Prof. A. L. Kohlmeier, Indiana University history department head, will teach classes Tuesday evenings on American diplomatic history and the American Revolution and confederation. SET HORSE PULL MARK Dead Weight of 2,000 Pounds Moved by Dalevllle Team at Fair. Pulling a dead weight of 2,600 pounds, equivalent to a load of 33,760 pounds on a brick pavement, Dick and Maude, owned by Clark Dresbath, Dalevllle, Ind., broke the State load pulling record at the State fairground Friday. The Daleville team, whjch weighs 3,080 pounds, won first in the State fair load pulling contest from teams over 3,000 pounds. Cecil Maupih, Daleville, drove the team. Maud* is a 8-year-old mare, and Dick, * 7-year-old gelding. A team of 10-year-olds, owned by Jack Gillispie, Wabash, won second place. .■■■