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CAN THIS GUY, j. DEMPSEY, LICK THAT GUY, G. TUNNEY? ALL AMERICA ASKS TODAY Echo Awaits Quiveringly for the Answer; the Best Man May Win and the Best Man May Be Rickard. IT’S IN THE OLD BAG; IT ISN’T; IT IS Battle of Betless Betting, Says Joe Williams; Chicago Agog, but Most of Agogers Are From Open Spaces. By JOE WILLIAMS CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Fistic America, forgetting today the dizzy whirl of Wall St., the machinations of Geneva, the dubious meaning of Mr. Coolidge’s “I do not choose,” the scarlet sparkle of Broadway’s latest matrimonial maneuver and Babe Ruth’s chance to break his home run record, asks this question: Can this guy, Dempsey, whip that guy Tunney? Your old friend, Echo, pauses palpitantly for an answer. All that I know is that both men are ready, both are fit, both are eager for the gong, and both confident of winning. I might add, in true mid-Victorian style, that I hope the better man wins, and that the championship stays in America.

As these lines are written, Chicago is in the throes of an unparalleled sportive excitement. Frenzied gentlemen throng lobbies of fashionable hotels. Some have places to sleep. Some haven’t. All have convincing opinions. It is regrettable you can not sleep on an opinion. There is much talk of betting. There is more talk of betting than there is betting. This promises to go down in history as the battle of the betless bets. The odds are 7 to 5„ 6 to 5, or even money, all with Tunney on the winning side.

Personally, being a young man who believes in, Santa Claus, esthetic dancers with mother chaperones, and coughless cigarets, I am inclined to view the impending contribution to the betterment of science and culture in strictly an unprejudiced and uncumbered mind. I believe the best man will win, and I am not wholly convinced that it will be Tunney or Dempsey. It may even be Mr. Rickard. • The fight is ten rounds to a decision. This is what the old boys would call a sprint. They preferred twenty or forty rounds. The referee and judges are important factors. Even when addicted to the-unusual practice of honesty they do not always see alike. A close fight is hard to judge. You may even see a riot.

Chicago has a way of accepting riots with a slow, uninterested yawn. There is much talk of the fight ending in a jam, Dempsey is'a heavy favorite with the underworld of Chicago. What betting is being cjone on him here in a big way is sponsored by the gun toters, the rum barons and the lingerie legion. I am told that, when provoked, this bunch can become very irritable, and even boisterous. Today Dave Miller was the popular choice to referee. The word -Is out that he Is a Tunney man, becausce of a known friendship for * * # # *

Off hand, I should say the decision favored Tunney. He always has had brittle hands. He is not a knockout puncher. The sort of treatment supposedly strengthens the hands and adds potency to the punch. Thus fortified, Tunney, the boxer, sure to hit Dempsey more times than Dempsey the slugger will hit him, is the gainer. I never have seen a fighter more qoijfident on the eve of battle than Tunney. Actually this is what he says: “I wouldn’t want to go on record, but I think I can stop him in six or eight rounds.” Dempsey, of cours.e is better than he was a year ago. He naturally would be. He is now an active fighter. A year ago he was merely a well-conditioned man. Dempsey, too, is confident. He thinks he will win by a knockout. He thinks Tunnsy is a cheese fighter. He thinks Jack Sharkey is better.

I look for the first three or four rounds tonight to be a cyclone of clouts. I get this notion from talking to the two men. They may be kidding me. I have been kidded by better men than either. But if there is to be any excitement, I look for It to come reasonably early. So keep close to your radio. So far as the anticipated $3,000,000 gate is concerned, your friend, Mr. Rickard, is positively doomed to disappointment. If the gate goes to $2,500,000 he will be lucky. Plenty of seats of all denominations are available.' The scalpers and ticket agencies are up a tree. Nevertheless, Mr. Rickard will come out of it with the biggest money crowd in the history of fighting. He already has more than two million in the bank for paid tickets, guaranteed against exchange or refund. It has been said that Tunney will get $1,000,000 fiat, come what may. This is not so. He is guaranteed $525,000. with a privilege of 50 percent of the first $1,100,000. Beyond this he is to receive 35% percent of the gross intake. Dempsey is getting a flat sum of $450,000 and a percentage, the pre cise figures of which I have been unable to learn.

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Dempsey Is the sentimental favorite. The Middle West likes him. He is a Middle West type. This is another way of saying he is human. But there is a difference between sentiment and cash on the line. A miscellany of rumors pollute the rarifled air of the stockyards. You hear that no less a personage than Tex Rickard is managing Dempsey, that it is “In the bag” for the ex-champion to come back, that a gambling coup, backed by $250,000 has fixed the referee, that anything can happen.

Gibson. If he gets the post, It will be a break for the champion. At no turn has Tunney got the advantage here. The one point on which he was insistent was denied him. Tunney asked that both fighters wrap their hands in full view of the public. For some reason this was decided inadvisable. Tunney demanded that the amount of heavy “ape be restricted to eighteen Inches. The local commission, surrendering to a demand of the Dempsey camp, voted in favor of six feet of it. • # * •

Mr. Rickard has characterized this a “fight circus.” He Is not far wrong. Chicago, I am ashamed to state, Itself has not taken to the performance wholeheartedly. Most of the customers here are from Tennessee, Missouri, Indiana and Arkansas. • Less than 20 per cent of natives will be In the far-flung seats when the loaded fists begin to explode—if they do explode—tonight.

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“Every radio-equipped home in the will be served tonight by the NBC’s network of stventy or more stations broadcasting the Tunney-Dempsay fight,” said Merlin Hall Aylesworth, president of the National Broadcasting Company, upon his arrival in Chicago today. Thus the greatest radio audience in the world will tune in on the most widespread broadcast ever attempted. Broad- - casting from the ringside will commence at 8 o’clock Indianapolis time. Thirty-five States are represented in this gigantic network broadcast, sponsored by The Times and the twenty-five other Scripps-Howard newspapers. The stations linked in the

Gr-r-r-rind! Crushed under the hee’s of women members of the M. rion County W. C. T. U., 12.053 cigaret and cigar stubs War# squashed into harmlessness tiu last year. Report of the record was made by Mrs. Lillian Hoover, treasurer ,at the county convention at the Erookside United Brethren Church yesterday. One womar held the honors in the destruction, having 450 cigaret butts to her credits. “This is a blow to vice,” remarked several women present, “small boys often are tempted to pick up cigar and cigaret butts and are thereby many times taught to smoke. By the destruction of these filthy tobacco ends, just that much temptation is removed from them.” Mrs. Hoover’s report was applauded

STEVE APPEAL BRIEF JS FILED Two Volumes of About 1,000 Pages in Document. Failure of the Marion County Criminal Court Clerk to sign the transcript in change of venue to Hamilton Circuit Court; objections to speeches made by Judge Will E. Sparks in admitting certain testimony and to testimony of various witnesses, particularly that of Dr. John K. Kingsbury, forms the basis for the appeal brief in the D. C. Stephenson murder case filed by Stephenson counsel with the Supreme Court clerk today. The brief is in two volumes containing a total of about 1000 pages. Sixteen copies were filed. Kingsbury's testimony is objected to on the grounds that it was admitted as a dying statement, although given by Madge Oberholtzer on March 17, 1925. She died April 14, 1925, and Stephenson was held for murder. In the Judge's speech to which objection is made he points out that it is indirect murder to cause suicide and illustrates the point with the hypothetical case of a woman killing herself because of loss of virtue. Seventy-five points are set out in the brief, one of which is the contention that Stephenson should have been permitted to remain in Hamilton County jail during appeal and efforts for anew trial. He is serving life sentence at Michigan City penitentiary.

FROST AGAIN NIPS CITY Slight Touch Reported; Three Other Cities Feel Chill. Indianapolis again experienced a light frost early today, according to J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head. The frost was not as general over the State, as on the preceding night, Armington said, only Royal Center, Cambridge Cit yand Vincennes reporting frost. Another frost probably will occur tonight in State lowlands, Armington said. Temperatures will continue unchanged. Today’s 47 degree temperatures at 7 a. m. was 10 degrees below normal. Last Thursday temperatures averaged 16 degrees above normal. "PIRATES TOP GIANTS Score Four in Fourth to Jump Into Lead. New York 000 002 000—2 9 2 Pittsburgh 014 000 OOx—s 10 1 Batteries—Benton, Plitt, Faulkner and Taylor. Kremer and Smith. Bv United Press FORBES FIELD. PITTSBUTtH, Sept. 22.—Benton and Kremer were the opposing pitchers today at the start of thp first game of the dou-ble-header between Giants and Pirates. Forty thousand fans were present. Pittsburgn scored first getting a run in the second inning on Traynor’s single, Grantham’s single, Harris’ sacrifice fly and Smith's single. In the fourth the Pirates iallied and scored four more runs. P. Waner walked, Wright tripled, Traynor tripled. Grantham singled, Harris walked, Smith flied to Harper and Terry fumbled Kremer’s grounder. P. Waner, Wright, Traynor and Grantham scored In this inning. In the sixth Hornsby poled a home run, the Giants getting two runs in this sessioiv

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19 CHILDREN LOSE LIVES IN MISSION. FIRE Aid Rushed by Two Planes to Isolated Region of Canada. NUN KILLED IN BLAZE Body’s Jammed in Stairway of Dormitory as Boys Seek Safety. Bu United Press f BIG RIVER, Saskatchewan, Sept. 22.—The tragic story of the Lac La Plonge mission' fire, in which the sister superior was credited with superb heroism, was brought to Big River today. Nineteen boys and a nun lost their lives when fire spread through the Beauval mission early Tuesday. First word of the tragedy was received here late Wednesday, when the mission launch arrived with an urgent appeal for medical supplies. Immediately officials here set about the task of rushing aid to the little settlement about 120 miles north of here, through the Saskatchewan north woods. Crushed in Staircase . First to learn of the impending danger shortly after midnight Monday was the Sister Superior, who was awakened by the roar of flames an dthe crash of falling timbers, it was reported today. The Sister Superior rushed to the alarm bell and then ascended an outer staircase to the boys’ dormitory. She then called upon the young occupants to follow her, but the victims crushed each other at the main staircase. At the bottom of the stairs the nineteen bodies of the children were found later, the report said. In the girls’ dormitory there was order and the occupants escaped without injury. The elder girls carried their smaller companions to sa.'ety. r ."he nun who lost her life in an attempt to save the boys was sister Lea. Rush Aid to Survivors Two government seap.anes should have reached shore of La Plonge today with food, blankets and medical supplies to save the lives of sixty destitute survivors of the fire. Big River is the northern air base for the forest air patrol service. A big passenger Varava plane was Immediately rushed with emergency supplies to He ,a La Crosse, thirty miles northwest of Lac La Plonge the site of a Hudson's Bay post ano of another Catholic mission, where Dr. Amyot of Pegina, with other officials, had gone for the opening of a small hospital the day before. Mission 300 Years Old The plane was then sent south again to the scene of the tragedy, and will return to Big River for more aid. The first sharp frosts of the long winter already were crackling through the north, and unless immediate steps are taken, more deaths may be expected from exposure. Food and warm clothing were the first needs. From the archbishop’s palace in St. Boniface, Man., the century-old citadel of the Catholic faith in western Canada, it was learned that the Beauval mission at Lac La Blonge was one of the oldest missions of the pioneering church, whose record of service and suffering in Canada extends back for more than 300 years. The mission lies on the Old Hudson’s Bay Company route to the west from Ft. Prince of Wales, now known as Ft. Churchill. 2 STREET CARS CRASH Improperly Set Switch Causes Collision; Passenger Hurt Two city street cars crashed at Washington and Illinois Sts., at 9 a. m. today when a switch was Improperly set. Fronts of both cars were damaged badly, but the cars were moved away under their own power after a 10minute tie-up. Edward H. Gardner, 2002 W. New York St., a passenger, was injured slightly about the head when the impact threw him down. H. B. Herrick and Thomas Carey were motermen. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 45 10 a. m 56 7 a. m 47 11 a. m—.. 58 8 a. m 50 12 (noon) 59 9 a. m 54 1 p. m 59

chain range from Washington to the Northwest to Florida in the Southwest and from Maine to California. Avery conservative estimate of the potential audience receiving Graham McNaraee’s word-picture of the action at Soldiers’ Field is 50,000,000, Aylesworth said. This figure does not take into account the Canadian audience or those listening in from South America, South Africa, New Zealand, Europe and Australia. These listenersin will be served by two stations on the NBC chain, WGY, Schenectady and KDKA, Pittsburgh, which will broadcast the description on short-wave transmitters in addition to operating their regular broadcasting stations.

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Bu Timet Special t CHICAGO. Sept. 22—Women took a sane and healthy step when they discarded corsets, bustles, long hair and voluminous petticoats, but they are in danger of losing the benefits of the step by striving for boyish figures, Dr. John F. Spaunhurst, 527 State Life building. Indianapolis. declared in an address before the fourth annual convention of the American Electronic Research Association. “It is a well-known axiom that most people eat their way into the grave,” Dr. Spaunhurst said. “But today many women are starving themselves into the grave. “Fashion has played a prominent

SPAFFORD NEW GRIEF New York Man Is Elected Without Opposition. Bv United Press PARIS, Sept. 22.—Commander Edward E. Spafford, United States navy, of New York, today was elected commander of the American Legion, without oppositoin. Denver, Miami, Detroit and Louisville entered strong bids for the 1929 American Legion convention. The 1928 convention was awarded to San Antonio, Tex., last year. Boston, Seattle and Washington, D. C., were campaigning for the 1930 convention and Hot Springs, Ark., wanted the legion in 1932. * The convention today adopted a resolution urging organization of a National Department of Aeronautics with cabinet representation equal to that enjoyed by the army and navy. Another resolution opposed further reduction of American naval strength unless other powers reduced proportionately. General William Mitchell, former second in command of the T nited States Army’s air force finally won out in his efforts to obtain the Legion’s approval for the Immediate organization of a Department of Aeronautics. The resolution as adopted today urged the organization “as soon as possible.” Mitchell put up a strong fight on the convention floor to eliminate the quoted words but was unsuccessful. Jlutch Steamer Is Aground By United Press KEY WEST, Fla., Sept. 22.—The Dutch steamer Am°rsfoot Is aground off the Island of Barbudam, 350 miles east of Porto Rico, according to advices here. The wreck tug 'Warbler has sailed from this port to her assistance. It will take the tug eighty hours to make the trip, It was estimated.

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“Save and healthy! That’s me all over,” declared Miss Hilda Lou Carroll, 2/+2O N. Meridian St, Butler College freshman, as she agreed with the speech of Dr. J. F. Spaunhurst of Indianapolis at Chicago today, in which he commended women for discarding corsets, bustles, long hair and voluminous petticoats

part in the hunt for health and lengthening of life by decreeing the demise of corsets, voluminous attire and other such impediments. But it occurs to me that the creators of fashions are about to undo this good work by encouraging the slim, boyish figure. It is just as natural for some women to be fat as it is for others to be slender. * “Starvation to at ain a slim figure has already reaped a heavy toll of life. The health of many thousands of women has been undermined, and the end is not yet in sight. “The sane thing to do is to reduce the intake of food, for most people consume too much."

JACK WEIGHS IN AT 192 POUNDS Weather Turns Colder for Title Battle. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Jack Dempsey weighed In at 192 pounds this afternoon for hxs heavyweight championship fight wtih Gene Tunney. Tunney will weigh in at 2:30, Chicago time. The weather turned suddenly colder this afternoon, and there was a decided suggestion of rain. The day has dawned raw and cold, but a bright sun during the morning seemed to indicate excellent weather for the fight. Shortly after noon, however, clouds obscured the sun and the wind gre wraw again. A slight mist was reported in some parts of the city. Tickets still were available today in considerable quantities. Lines of buyers waited in the main ticket office for a chance to buy seats, and branch offices scattered over the loop seemed to be doing a good business. There was no selling of tickets at a premium, however, and speculators who acquired blocks of seats despite Tex Rickard's precautions were glad to unload them at box office prices. SEEK HIGH SCHOOL"BOY Vincent Bryant, 14, Missing From Home Since Tuesday. Police are searching for Vincent Bryant, 14, of 660 E. Fifteenth St., missing from home since Tuesday, when he left home to attend classes at Shortridge High School, where he is a freshman. His father, a baker, has also missed his Ford coupe, license 590-121. School authorities say he has always been a good student and seldom missed school.

Sation WFBM and station WKBF, Indianapolis, will broadcast. WFBM will use for the, first time its new assignment of 1090 kilocycles (275.1 meters) and also will use for the first time its 1,000-watts power. The broadcasting will start at 8 o’clock and will be transmitted through a large Fada set to crowds gathered in front of The Indianapolis Times office, 214 W. Maryland St. The receiving set will be in charge of a radio expert from the College Avenue Garage and Radio Shop, which, in conjunction with the Gibson Cos., has made The Indianapolis Times arrangement possible.

ARMITAGE CENTER OF WORD WAR M FINAL ARGUMENTS AT MAYOR DUVALL’S TRIAL Politician Upheld as Man Who Tells Truth, in Summing Up by Prosecutor Holtzman; Ryan Raps Witness. CORRUPTION IS ASSAILED BITTERLY Remy Will Conclude for State; Fate of City Executive to Be With Jurors Late This Afternoon. Bill Armitage, the gambler, whose word was as good as his bond, and Bill Armitage, the slick citizen who wasn’t nearly as slick as he thought he was. These were the opposing pictures of the man who told the story upon which the State hopes to convict Mayor John L. Duvall of violating the corrupt practices act, as painted in Criminal Court today. Armitage has testified that Duvall agreed to let him name two members of the board of works and the city civil engineer in return for a $14,500 campaign contribution, none of which the mayor listed in his 1925 campaign expense account. I

Duvall denied the pi’omises, and said he gave Armitage back $12,000 after the election. Special Prosecutor John W. Holtzman devoted much of his time in argument today to a character sketch of Armitage, designed to convince the jury that while Armitage kept a saloon and gambling house in his earlier days, and of late years has made money by selling materials to contractor on city jobs, he was a man of his word. He pictured Armitage as a man who followed the peculiar code of the elite gambler, a code by which he might remain silent until forced to talk, but by which he told nothing but the truth when he spoke. Rjan portrayed Armitage as an opportunist who “billed and cooed” around Duvall in an attempt to gain his favor. Charges Double Cross * "Armitage tried to double-cross Duvall, but Duvall fooled him,” said Ryan. Recalling that Armitage did not communicate with Duvall 'between May, and September, after the alleged deal for the appointments was mader Ryan declared: “If Armtiage was such a wise old guy why didn’t he keep in touch with Duvall, to see if some of his appointments still were alive?” “If Armitage had everything cut and dried, why did he drive all the way to Pekin, 111., in the rain at night, to see Duvall after the election?” , Remy to Conclude Attorney Eph Inman for the defense spoke this afternoon and Prosecutor William H. Remy completed the argument for the State. Special Judge Cassius C. Shirley’s instructions were expected to take half an hour, giving the case to the jury late this afternon. The judge said he did not contemplate directing a sealed verdict, which meant that Duvall could learn his fate immediately, in case the jury reached a decision during the night. Johnson Starts Argument Special Prosecutor Emsley W. Johnson began argument before the jury for the State soon eiter both sides rested at 2:20 p. i. Wednesday, Judge C. C. Shirley allowed each side four hours for pleas. Johnson was followed Wednesday afternoon by Martin M. Hugg, for the defense. NOTABLES TO LISTEN IN Many Americans in London to Hear Bout Broadcast. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 22.—Three score Americans and a number of foreign notables, including the Maharajah of Rajpipla, today engaged tables in the Abraham Lincoln room at the Savoy Hotel to listen in to the Scripps-Howard newspapers’ broadcast of the Dempsey-Tunney fight. The reservations were for from 2 to sa. m., Friday morning. The British broadcasting company, may re-broadcast the, fight story if conditions are favorable. Even if there were no B. B. C. broadcast, radio fans would be able to listen-in directly.

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HEARING OPENS ON‘MIXED BABY’ Courtroom Is Crowded as Case Starts. By United Press CLEVELAND. Sept. 22.—Mother love played the dominant role in a municipal court room here this afternoon, as the habeas corpus proceedings of Mrs. Sam. Smith for a baby boy which she declares was lost In a shuffle of hospital baskets, opened before Common Pleas Judge Carl V.' Weygandt. court room was crowded to the doors as the hearing began. Mrs. Smith, unable to leave her bed at the hospital, where she is nursing a baby girl she says is not hers, was represented by her husband, Sam, and her attorney, Charles F McConnell. Just previous to the opening of the hearing, Luther Day, tli-imey for the hospital, filed answer to the habeas corpus proceedings of the Smiths, in which he said that the ■hospital never did have a “George Smith” on record. Mrs. Smith previously had stated she named the baby “George.” Intense interest was evidenced, among the spectators as Judge Weygandt pounded his gavel for silence. GETS $39 BY OLD RUSE Thief Makes Away With Purse a Fourth Time. Using the same method he had used successfully four other times this week to rob downtown offices, a youthful thief stole a $5 purse, containing $5, and $34 from a desk drawer at the Christian Science Reading room, 813 Occidental Bldg., today. The purse was the property of Miss Elsie Probst. The thief told her a man in a next door office wanted to see her, she said. When she returned after finding the call was a ruse, the office had been looted. The thief got S2O from the purse of Miss Dorothy Overfield. 620 Peoples Bank Bldg., Wednesday. BOY TH£l=T RING BROKEN Sij Alleged Members Are Held. Accused of Robbery. Six boy members of an alleged gasoline theft ring were reslated on burglarly, petit larceny and vehicle taking charges today at ctiy prison Maxwell Biddle, 18, of 1947 Adams St.; Charles Cutter, 18, of 2873 Olney St.; Alfred Linne, 16, of 2181 Station St.; Glenn Patterson, 19, of 2435 Wheeler St.; Dee Walker, 18, of 3134 Sherman Dr., and Robert H. Leewark, 18. of 2162 Station St. CAUGHT BY CURIOSITY Comes From Laurel, Ind„ to Find Out What Jury Is Doing. Curiosity over “doings” of the Federal grand jury brought Frank Lunsford all the way from Laurel, Ind., to Indianapolis. It also resulted in his arrest, when prohibition agents recognized him and a liquor violation warrant was served on him. The warrant had been held since last June. Lunsford said he had been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, but no record of such a subpoena was found, agents said. Hiller Offl-e Supply Cos. Ma. 0612. Compare our prices for printing. —Adv.

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