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TOOK $12,000 TO KEEP AID, DUVALL SAYS Pidn’t Want Support by Armitage Thrown to Some Other Candidate. NO IDEA OF USING IT Mayor Leaves Stand; Defense Is Expected to Rest Wednesday. Mayor John L. Duvall today declared on the witness stand that he accepted $12,000 in contributions from William H. Armitage which he never intended using in order that Armitage might not throw his financial and political power behind some other candidate for mayor of Indianapolis in the 1925 campaign. Duvall, appearing worn and far more nervous than he did Monday during his direct examination, left the stand this morning after Prosecutor William H. Remy had bored into him with questions on crossexamination designed to bring forcibly to the attention of the jury a picture of the mayor buying the good will of two men about to go before the Marion County grand jury by signing their notes for SI,OOO and giving them written recommendations for high city Jobs. Defense May Rest Wednesday The defense is expected to on Wednesday. The State plans to put two star witnesses on the stand in rebuttal. One of them will be former Mayor Samuel Lewis Shank and the other William H. Armitage. The defense spent most of the time Duvall was on the stand in asking questions designed to refute the amazing story of bartering with Duvall for city hall jobs which Armitage told. Shank is expected to tell what was talked about in a conversation he had with Duvall in front of the Shank residence in Golden Hill during the 1925 campaign.

Cops, Firemen Testify The defense placed a number of policemen and firemen upon the stand to show that Duvall had made no promises of patronage before the election. Orville Marshall, a fire captain, testified he attended a meeting of Red Star League members during the campaign and admitted, upon cross-examination, that Duvall “apologized for the manner in which the treasurer’s office had been run, but stated he had cleaned house since the first of the year and there were no niggers or Catholics left.” Duvall was county treasurer while he was a candidate for mayor. The mayor, cross-examined by the State Monday afternoon, had admitted endorsing SI,OOO notes each for Harvey W. Bedford, Ku-Klux Klan organizer and former important cog in the Duvall political machine, and George S. Elliott, former cyclops of the Marion County Klan. The mayor also admitted giving them written “recommendations” for city hall jobs. Only ‘Recommendations’ The State contends the mayor gave them appointments, but the mayor Insisted they were merely "recommendations.” Elliott was to have been park superintendent and Bedford traffic inspector. All this occurred on or about Oct. 15, at the time when the Marlon County grand jury was Just starting to dig into the Indiana political corruption inquiry and Bedford and Eliott were expected to be witnesses. Later, when they were called, Bedford and Elliott disappeared and were sought in several States by grand Jury agents for several days. Appear Before Jury Finally the two reappeared and went before the Jury. They have been before the grand jury several times since. The mayor, cross-examined by Prosecutor William H. Remy this morning, admitted that the two SI,OOO notes, through the Marion County State Bank, of which Duvall used to be chairman of the board, have not been paid, although, as he remembered It, they were ninetyday notes. Duvall told of having been called by telephone by Bedford on the morning of Oct. 15, 1926. He said they made an appointment and met at Sixteenth and Ashland Aves. Later in the morning he saw both Bedford and Elliott at Nineteenth and Bellefontalne Sts., he said. Still later that morning, Bedford met the mayor in the mayor’s office. Bedford Took Notes The mayor said that Bedford walked out of that conference with the two SI,OOO notes and the two recommendations for appointments. Remy asked Duvall: “Did they tell you that the Democratic State committee had gotten in touch with them and that they had shown to R. Earl Peters, Democratic State chairman, the document which you signed in the E. Tenth St. Community House on the occcasion when Dr. Henninger read you a questionnaire?” A defense objection was overruled ffSA Duvall answered* "No air/'

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 113

TUNE IN ON FIGHT; IT’S TIMES’ PARTY

Dempsey-Tunney fight “wise money” is being placed on the Scripps-Howard exclusive broadcasting of the big battle. The “guys who know” can’t figure anything but a knockout radio account of Fistiana’s great carnival over the biggest network of stations ever linked for a sporting event. More than sixty stations have contracted for the blow-by-blow description of the fight. WFBM and WKBF, Indianapolis stations, are in the mammoth hook-up. The Indianapolis Times and the twenty-five other ScrippsHoward papers are sponsoring the broadcast Thursday night, direct from Soldiers’ Field, Chicago. Graham McNamee and Phillips Carlan, veteran WEAF announcers, will give full details of the scrap and a world of sidelights. ’ Time for begining the broadcasting at Soldiers’ Field has been advanced from 10 p. m. Chicago time (9 o’clock Indianapolis time), to 9 o’clock Chicago time, (8 o’clock Indianapolig time), thus assuring radio guests of The Times and other Scripps-Howard papers blow-by-blow details of several preliminary fights as well as of the big bout. Don’t miss a ward of it.

MORROW GETS MEXICAN POST President Selects Morgan Partner as U. S. Envoy. By United Prett WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey has been chosen by President Coolidge as American ambassador to Mexico, succeeding James R. Sheffield, the White House announced today. It was Indicated the Mexican government has informally approved the choice, though the appointment has not yet been made formal, according to the White House. Morrow, who Is one of the partners of the house of Morgan, New York, was a college mate of the President and has been a close unofficial White House adviser during the Coolidge administration. Morrow has informed the President he will retire from his firm and he Is expected to leave for his post within a few days. Mr. Coolidge is glad that Morrow is willing to make a sacrifice and abandon his business to take what the President considers one of the most important foreign missions. He considers Morrow a most valuable man for the Mexican post, which has not been as much sought after as, for Instance, European missions.

POSSE SEEKS LOST BOY Child, 6, Lost Hour and Half on Way Home From School. Police and a posse searched an hour and a half to find Glenn Smith, 6, grandson of Mrs. Myrtle Bailey, of 1536 N. Gale St., when he failed to return from school Monday. An older girl who was to take him home stayed late at school and the boy started home alone, in the wrong direction.

COURT WON ’T BLOCK FIGHT

By United Prett CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Two attempts to prevent the DempseyTunney fight Thursday night failed today. Hopes that the fighters would face each other in Federal Court proved fruitless, when they Ignored sub-

NO PERIL TO TAX GUT $20,000,000 Yearly Needed for Flood Aid, Says Hoover. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Federal expenditures for permanent Mississippi valley flood relief will not be so great as to interfere with tax reduction, Secretary of Commerce Hoover indicated today. Hoover estimated $20,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year for ten years would be needed in addition to the present Mississippi River commission appropriation. A deflinte flood relief program, however, cannot be known till the engineers report, heh jointed out. Hoover said it probably would be necessary for the State emergency finance corporations to continue their operations into next year. DODGES TAXI: HIT BY CAR Fears Splashing; Young Woman Is Painfully Injured. Afraid a passing taxicab would splash water upon her, Miss Irma Stern, 18, of 815 N. Illinois St., stepped out of a safety zone at Bt. Clair St today and was struck by a street car. She was taken to city hospital with a serious head injury and severe body bruises. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 52 10 a. m 50 7 a. m 52 ll a. m 54 8 a. m 49 12 (noun) ... 57 8* in,.**.** tt

“Stop Thief!” He Did It fr-TIRS.T.E. TREZ delivered (VI I some groceries to a resr | taurant at 722 S. State Ave. Returning to her car she discovered that someone had stolen s2l that she had left in the machine. Persons in the restaurant went to the street and grouped about the auto. “Too bad,” mused one. “Hope they catch him," mused another. And while this little postmortem was being held, the thief slipped into the restaurant and took $1.50 from the cash register.

COOLIDGE BARS EXTRASESSION No Occasion for Call, in President's View. By United Pre* WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Presldent Coolidge has abandoned any idea of calling a special session of Congress as a whole or of the Senate alone, it was announced officially at the White House today. He has decided there is no occasion for a special session. He believes that sufficient money to care for flood relief will be available until Jan. 1. The Army engineers will be unable to complete their investigation of flood control problems until Nov. 15. Mr. Coolidge is advised that the Senate will take up purely senatorial matters, including its election contest cases, as soon as the general Congress convenes In December. By the time the Christmas recess is concluded, the President expects these matters will have been disposed of, and that flood legislation and perhaps a tax reduction bill may have been passed by the House for final action in the Senate.

poenas requiring tnem to appear to answer an injur ction petition presented by the Rev. Elmer Williams. Williams contended the bout would be a "prize fight” Instead of a "boxing bout”; that it would degrade Soldiers Field; and that Dempsey was a “brutal mauler,” Tunney, a “professional prizefighter,” and Tex Rickard, a “gambler.” Federal Judge George A. Carpten- 1 ter held the Federal Court had no jurisdiction, as it was “not the guardian of the morals of the State of Illinois.” He also said that if he were Rickard and anybody made such charges against him as Williams did in his petition, “I would enforce my own law whether It might be In the street or alley.” Meanwhile, in Circuit Court, an agreement was reached whereby the suit of the Coliseum Club against Dempsey will not be httd until after the fight. Dempsey will post a SIOO,OOO bond with the court.

MAIL ORDER SLEUTH WHOSE NOSE KNOWS PESTERS DRYS FOR JOB

BY RODNEY DUTCHER NBA Barrie* Writer rr=7|ASHINGTON, Sept. 20,\y What becomes of all the VT bright young men who take sixty-day courses by mail on how to be a detective? Well, a great many of them are trying to get into the prohibition enforcement service, assuring the Government that thej are especially qualified far Jobs as “undercover men.” “I want to be a dry spy,” write some of them who can’t quite master the spelling of "undercover.” The correspondence school graduates seem to be the largest group now engaged in pestering officials here for jobs with the service, but letters pour Into Washington from the four corners of tire land and from persons of all ages gd y

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPT. 20, 1927

FIRST FROST OF YEAR HITS CORNREGION lowa, Minnesota and Two Dakotas Feel Early Bite of Cold Weather. LIGHT TOUCH DUE HERE Coal Prices in City Will Soar, Dealers Report; Turn on Heat. By United Prett CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—The first frost appeared in the corn belt last night and as a consequence corn futures at today's session on the Chicago Board of Trade jumped from 3 to 4*4 cents before noon. They closed sharply 6*4 to 7 cents higher. All futures now are at $1 a bushel or better. Frost did not hit Illinois, but was reported in northern lowa, Minnesota and the Dakotas. Frost Due Here Tonight A light frost Is predicted tonight for Indianapolis and vicinity and central and northern Indiana by J. H. Armington, .United States Weather Bureau head. The frost probably will occur only in low places and will not cause appreciable damage, Armington said. The cool wave which drove away the heat wave Sunday will continue at ’east through Wednesday, although it will be somewhat warmer by Wednesday night, Armington said. Today’s 52 degree temperature at 7 a. m. was 9 degrees below normal and the morning temperatures ranged from 35 to 40 degrees below Saturday’s torrid temperatures. Coal Prices to Climb As chilly weather comes, Indianapolis coal prices are going up. Maybe not for a week, or two, or possibly a bit longer—all depending on the antics of the thermometer and the eagerness of the public to put in its belated winter coal supply. On ode thing dealers agree. When they go to the mines to buy coal to replace stocks now in their bins, they must pay a higher price. Pocahontas prices at the mines have increased, some declared, from $1 to as much as $1.25 a ton since a month ago. when dealers’ present stocks were laid in. “Indianapolis prices, right now, are behind most other Middlewestem cities,” one dealer said. “Oui price now is $8.75, while Chicago dealers are getting from $lO to $10.50. In Dayton, Ohio, the price is $9.50.” Public Slow to Buy “The public has been slow In filling up bins for winter,” observed another dealer, whose testimony agreed with "the majority. Only a few dealers report business during late summer the equal of former years. City heat, for the residential district at the north fringe of the business district, was turned on Monday, officials of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company said. Tliis is a hot water system, supplied from the plant at Sixteenth and Alabama Sts. The power company’s steam heat to the mile-square downtown business district will not be turned on before the regular date, Sept. 25, unless unusually cold weather sets in, officials said. Rate Is the same as a year ago, they added.

CHILDREN PERISH AS PLAYHOUSE BURNS Brother and Sister Victims at Home North of Frankfort. By Time* /Special FRANKFORT, Ind., Sept. 20. Ruby, 4, and Kenneth Bums, 2, children of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bums, lost their lives when a playhouse was burned at the home thirteen miles north of here. While the two were In a shelter made of poles and dried grass Paul, twin brother of Ruby, ignited it with a match. Ruby and Kenneth were so badly burned that they died a few hours later In a hospital here. Paul was severely Injured by the flames but will recover.

i—i ROHIBITION COMMISPSIONER DORAN, Secrew__| tary Mellon, the AntiSaioon League and Senators and Congressmen all get pleas. Here is the oflicial form letter sent to the job-hunters: “The receipt of your letter Is acknowledged. Under a recent act of Congress the Prohibition Bureau has been put under the civil service. If you want to get into the prohibition service I would suggest that you write to the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., and they will give you full information. Very truly yours.. ..” Asa matter of fact, this isn’t much help, for the civil service has been swamped by job-hunters ever since it announced examinations for enforcement agents and there isn’t any chance of break-

Woof! Mack Speaking! I'll Call Her

Mack, this little French poodle, belonging to Miss Marie Whitehead, telephone operator, of 1316 Kelly St., answers the telephone so efficiently that Miss Whitehead is constantly explaining to friends the confusion that travels back over the wire. One ring of the bell and the dog races to the phone and pushes off the receiver. Then he barks until someone comes to carry on a conversation. Mack has his own little white bed and allows none near It which he slumbers.

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23-CENT RATE IS SJAIE TAX Board Fixes Levy at Same Figure as for 1927 The State tax board today fixed the 1928 State tax rate at 23 cents, the same as for 1927. The levy was approved by the Governor and State auditor. The tax board kept the levy within the present figure and took care of .95 cents in special levies provided by the 1927 Legislature by lopping that much off the general fund levy. With the State rate set at 23 cents, indications are that the total rate for residents of Indianapolis in Center township will be around $2.75, compared with tjie 1927 rate of $2.62. The civil city rate was fixed at $1,089, the Center township rate at .04, the county rate at .345, and the school rate at $1.45, which, with the State rate, would be $3,154. However, the State tax board Is expected to cut approximately 40 cents from the school rate. The county council fixed the county rate at .325, but Superior Court ordered restoration of 2 cents to the free gravel road fund which the council had cut. COP IS DISMISSED Charged With Improper Use . of Revolver. Patrolman E. D. Chllcote, charged with improper use of his revolver and beating a west side butcher, was dismissed from the police department today by the board of safety on recommendation of Police Chief Claude M. Worley. Jerry Hollahan, William Wheeler and Fred Lcucks, policemen, were retired on pension on recommendation of the police surgeon. Charges of conduct unbecoming an officer were filed against Patrolman Ollie M. Henry, charged with beating a prisoner. Chinese Battle Near Shanghai By United Prett SHANGHAI, Sept. 20.—Three thousand Chinese soldiers fought today at Lunghwa near Shanghai. There were eighty casualties. A regiment belonging to Gen. Ho YingChing’s command fought and disarmed 1,500 of Gen. Chen ChioChien’s troops.

ing in until more examinations are held in the indefinite future. • • SO demonstrate the variety of types which seek enforcement work, here are a few samples of letters received here: “In case you should have any opening for an enforcement officer I will be glad to here what you have to offer. I would not think of taking any position that did not pay me SSO a week and upwarded, but I assure you I will ge~ results without i>eing drunk to get it or beating up very many in making the arrested. The only time one has to use a means of that kind Is when he is double crossed or hit from the rear and he has to fight his way out once in a while when they know you are seeking information and frame you. If you have any opening please advise.”

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KILL MARINE IN NICARAGUA

By United Prett WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—One American marine was killed and “another mortally wounded" in an engagement with Nicaraguan forces at Telpaneca yesterday, according to State Department reports today. One Nicaraguan national guardsman w**h the marines was wounded serious and the rebel losses were reported as twehty killed and fifty wounded. “A relief column is on the way to Telpaneca from Pueblo Nuavo, as It was feared there might be an-

XT The gent who writes the next letter is much more humble: "Would you, please be so kind as to send me a blank application as dry spies, as a dollar-year-man on your pay roll as I have several years experience and can furnish you with first class references of my ability in performing this duty as drv spies. Please do this favor by helping a poor ex-service man out.” * * * r— —i REVIT7 marks this one: I j “i, ,of , desires a l - * I position as an under cover man helping uphold the Volstead Act” Some of them have a good reason such as—"l would appreciate very much if you could place me in some position as I\am anxious to continue payments on a house which I purchased five years ago.” And here comes a fiend in human form:

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other attack,” according to the dispatch from the American charge at Managua. Describing the battle, the charge said: “At about 1 a. m., Sept. 10, about 140 followers of Salgado attacked the garrison of twenty marines and twenty-five guardsmen at Telpaneca. The fighting lasted until 5 a. m., when the bandits withdrew. “They were well armed with rifles, machine guns, hand bombs and dynamitebombs.” The marines re-

“I could be of good service to your cause because I have met numerous bootleggers and befriended with a number of speakeasies and manufacturers of moonshine. I believe I would be a good under cover man because I always used to know all the saloons by being an inspector investigating violators of the bottle act and when I go to the. speakeasies now they know me only as the bottle man and would have no suspicion on me. ' "Os course I am a drinking man (wine only) but I can’t see where they get off to sell their poison. In most private houses they operate little /.tills or make home brew. Os course you know all about these conditions, but the question Is to get the evidence.” "I am not afraid of anyone and am a good shot with any arm,” writes another.

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TWO KILLED AS PLANES RACE WEST Derby Fliers Die in Jersey Crash; Class A Ships on Class B Heels. COLD WINDS HANDICAP Aviators on Way to Spokane Reach St. Paul, Keep on Toward Coast. BY FOSTER EATON United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Two great air races centered in Chicago today with the last plane t>. the Class B contest in the New York-Spokane air derby arriving at Cicero airfield here just as the first plane in the Class A race, which had arrived a few minutes earlier, took off for St. Paul. The first tragedy of the r&ix marred the second day. A Buhl Airster, piloted by Richard Hudson, Maysville, Mich., and carry as a passenger J. Radke of St. Clair, Mich., fell into a tree near Morristown, N. J. Both men were killed. Weather Is Cooler The Class B planes left New York yesterday morning and the Class A craft today, the latter stopping only once, at Cleveland, en route. Stiff head winds and cold weather hampered the fliers and almost every landing at the airfield was a stunt drop, with the planes sideslipping and banking to get onto '.he runways. Laird Plane in Lead Plane No. 6, a Laird piloted by Irving Ballough of Chicago and carrying C. D. Dickenson and a mechanic, was the first of the Class A craft to arrive. It landed at 11:10 and left at 11:18 No. 4, a Laird piloted by C. H. Holman, St. Paul, and carrying Thomas Lane, St. Paul, came in at 11:24 and left at 11:31. In between came No. 34, C.ass B, a Pitcairn, piloted by A. and. Banks, with William Welsh as passenger. It arrived.at 11:18 and left at 11:27. A few minutes earlier No. 37, a Monocoup piloted by Verne Roberts, had left. It arrived at 10:54 and left at 11. Altogether, ten Class B planes arrived here today, and eight of them took off again for St. Paul in the wake of twelve others which arrived last night and left shortly after 5:30 a. m. today. Two of the planes withdrew. The status of the racers wias in doubt because only actual flying time counts, and the official records of the time in the air had not been compiled. "The weather over the Middlewest was uncomfortably cold for flying, and In Minnesota the sting of early frost was in the air. Many pilots and passengers bought and borrowed extra clothes at the air fields where they stopped.

Fliers Die in Crash By United Press MORRISTOWN, N. J„ Sept. 30, - The first disaster of the New York-to-Spokane air derby today took the lives of Richard Hudson of Marysville, Mich., pilot, and J. Radike of St. Clair, Mich., passenger, when their Buhl Airster crashed into a tree at Long Valley, eighteeen miles from here. The plane hung high in the tree topfe, those who saw the crash reported by telephone to Morristown. Rescuers climbed into the trees and found Radike dead, and Hudson fatally Injured, both still in the wreckage of the plane. Hudson was taken from the plane and brought to the ground, where an ambulance soon arrived. Accompanied by A. T. Lange and William O’Dowd, two of those who had seen the wreck, he was started to All Souls Hospital in Morristown, but died in the ambulance before reaching there. His chest had been crushed and his head injured, the skull probably being fractured. The Buhl Airster had been the first plane to take off from Roosevelt field this morning in the Class A race, a two-day flight ",cross the continent to Spokane, Wash. GAS WAR BRINGS CUT OF 4 CENTS A GALLON Virtually All Companies Slash Price to 15.2 Cents. The Indianapolis gas war begun last spring by Independent dealers resulted in a 4-cent a gallon price cut for city motorists today. Effective today virtually all gasoline companies had reduced their prices to 15.2 a gallon for low test and 18.2 cents for high test. The cut applies only in Indianapolis, but in Richmond and Munfie prices were set at 15 and 18 cents. The Standard Oil Company, the Pure Oil Company, the Western Oil Refining Company and the Roxana Petroleum Corporation announced the price cut today. The Sinclair Refining Company cut its price to tha* figure Sept. 8. independent dealers cut their prices to 2 cents below the Standard price last spr'uS.