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BOMS BLAST !i PERILS KING; I; FOURTHN DIE Concerted Effort Made to f Kill Italian Ruler and ! 1 Premier Mussolini. 45 HURT BY EXPLOSION Buildings in Milan Rocked, Crowd Thrown Into Wild Panic. United Press MILAN, April 12.—A concerted Effort to assassinate King Victor Emmanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini was revealed today. A grenade bomb, connected with electric wires which gave it terrific force, exploded in the Piazza Giulio Cesare here today just before the king passed over the thoroupgfare on his way to the ninth exhibition fair, which he later opened. Compilations made by the Milan newspaper II Secolo placed the dead at 14 and the injured at 45. The victims included both soldiers and bystanders. Dispatches to Geneva from Como, Italy, said the authorities there had discovered an infernal machine on the railway over which Premier Mussolini’s train was to have passed yesterday from Milan to Rome. The dispatch added the infernal machine had been charged with explosive gelatine. Suspect Is Arrested It had two long fuses, the unattached ends of which were being held by an unknown individual concealed near the track. He was ar- \ rested. Mussolini, however, returned to j Rome safely yesterday and had a conference with S. Parker Gilbert, American agent general of repara- j tions. The king seemed undaunted by j today’s tragedy. He proceeded to j the royal palace and was forced to j appear on the balcony. The crowd shouted for him. There I was a tremendous manifestation of loyalty to the crown. Later the king visited the hos- j pital and talked to the injured, ! comforting them. The news was sent to the Vatican j Shortly after midday. Pope Is Shocked Pope Pius said he was profoundly shocked at the tragedy. Messages began to arrive almost immediately\the news was flashed throughout Italy. The messages protested against the outrage and renewed their expression of loyalty to the King .to - Premier Mussolini. Mussolini sent a message to the King. He said he had given immediate instructions to the prefects of police throughout all Italy to find the instigators of the explosion. “All Italy is vibrating with indignation,” II Duce said. Crowds had gathered in* the streets awaiting the royal cortege in front of the triumphant arch. Suddenly there was a frightful explosion. Pieces of the bomb were scattered to all sides into the crowd. , It had been connected with electric wires, giving it a terrific explosive force. Blast Is Terrific When it exploded, it was as though a series of projectiles had been shot. The bomb was hidden in the base of a street lamp on the Piazza Giulio Cesare, where the electric connection was established. The noise of the explosion was followed b ythe shrieks and yells of the stampeding crowd. Women were thrown to the ground trampled and injured. Troops and police took charge of the situation. Victims were given first aid. - The fourteen -dead were badly mangled. Some of those killed were in the streets. Others were inside houses near by. Experts examined the remnants of the bomb and discovered it was of an extraordinary destructive type. Apparently it had been placed during the night. DOG BITES POLICEMAN Animal Is Believed Afflicted By Rabies. A dog believed to have been afflicted with rabies bit Patrolman William F. Sehrieber, 3033 N. Meridian St., Wednesday afternoon, when it hurled itself through a small opening of a door Sehrieber opened at the home of Mrs. Thomas Cator, 1002 W. Thirty-Third St. Pasteur anti-hydrophobia treatment was to have been administered Sehrieber tqday. He was bitten in the foot. He shot the dog.

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Mary Pick ford Plans to Retire; Grief Is Factor

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HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Api*il 12.—1 t was reported in motion picture circles here today that Mary Pickford was considering retiring from the screen. Grief over the recent death of her mother was said to be the chief factor involved in her reported plans.

MOSES ADMITS SENATE ERROR Apologies to Couzens for Accusations. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 12.—Senator Moses (Rep.), New Hampshire, dramatically retracted in the Senate today his recent charge that Senator Couzens’ attacks upon Secretary of Treasury Mellon were “vicious, milicious, untrue in most instances, and the resu't of a private feud." When Couzens arose to give evidence of his charges against Mellon, Moses interrupted to say: “I should be the last member of this body to infringe upon the rules. I clearly was in the wrong and I regret it. I hope, so far as the record is concerned, the remarks may be withdrawn. I had no intention of imputing improper motives to the Senator from Michigan, and I recognize the Senator's sincerity.” Moses’ voice broke when he made the statement. Couzens denied he was conducting any private feud with Mellon and asserted he would not be dissuaded from his efforts to clean up the Treasury Department. COUNTY FIGHT IS ON Factions Prepare Lists of Precinct Men. Courtly political factions today were preparing their lists of candidates for precinct committeeman with which they lfbpe to capture control of the county at the primary elections May 8. This is the last day for withdrawals. Less than fifty withdrawals had ben made before noon, but more were expected. By tonight the major factions in the Republican party were expected to have duplications in some precincts eliminated, ready for battle against their opponents on election day. To date there has been but one withdrawal o fa seeker for a principal office. He is Arthur F. Haufler, who sought the G. O. P. nomination for county surveyor. His withdrawal leaves this fight to the finish between Henry R. Campbell, incumbent, supported by the Dodson faction, and Paul Roscoe Brown, backed by County Chairman George V. Coffin.

TOWN’S EFFORT TO BAR CREDIT FAILS

Bv United Press PLAINVIEW. Neb., April 12.—The first attempt to establish a ‘‘strictly cash” merchandising system in every retail business establishment op a town in the United States has failed. Plainview merchants, who two months ago entered into an agreement to sell only for cash, have reestablished Credit. Not all th plainview merchants entered the agreement, but with the

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Close friends said Miss Pickford had contemplated retiring before, but the call of the camera was too strong. With her famous husband. Douglas Fairbanks, she will leave here probably next week for New York, to embark May 5 for Europe. In Rome the pair will charter an airplane to fly over Constaninople, Cairo, Crete, Budapest, Vienna and other cities. Fairbanks thinks such a trip will cause Mary to forget her grief over the death of her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Pickford, who was associated closely with her in her film work. He hopes, close associates said, that she may change her mind about retiring. STASIT GAMING DRIVE Police Guard Cigar Store and Arcade Gym. Police Chief Claude M. Worley at noon today started anew move to stop suspected gambling at the Club | cigar store, 111 W. Maryland St., ! and the Arcade Gym, 117 Vi N. Illinois St. Beginning at noon a patrolman was stationed in each of the places, j Every twenty minutes, Worley said, | the officers will exchange stations. All division lieutenants and serg- ; eants and motor police squads also have been ordered to visit the places whenever they are in their neighborhood, Worley said. The guards will be on duty from j 11 a. m. to 11 p. m. LAKE GIVES UP BODY Effort at Michigan City to Fix Identity of Man, ItJl United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., April 12. i —Police and coast guardsmen today | sought to identify a body found on Wednesday night twelve miles west I of here and five miles off shore in I Lake Micchigan. | The body had been in the water more than four months, it was estimated. A theory that the body may have been one of two hunters who drowned in Lake Michigan at Glencoe, 111., last Thanksgiving, was blasted with receipt of word that the description of the body here does not conform to that of either of the hunters. Dressed in hunting clothes the body was that of a man about 5 feet 10 inches tall. The hair was brown. There was a tattoo mark on the right arm. The initials W. 8.. were found in the shirt collar.

four largest stores combined on the cash basis, it had been hoped that all might be enlisted^ Only a few days after the elimination of credit, it was whispered that one of the allied merchants had broken faith with choice customers. In Bloomfield, twenty-five miles north of Plainview, the merchants went on a strictly cash basis on April 1, and thus far the system appears to be successful. "X V

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1928

REED BLASTS CORRUPTION IN FIERYSPEECH Eloquent Missourian Calls; for Voters to Awaken and Clean House. HITS COOLIDGE, HAYS Lowden. Hoover and Other G. 0. P. Leaders Target of Senator. Republican corruption was scored unmercifully and Democrats and Republicans alike exhorted to “clean out and clean up” with a sweeping Democratic victory in November, in a fiery speech by Senator James A. Reed, candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, in Tomlinson Hall Wednesday night. A crowd of 3.500 that filled the hall cheered and applauded as the gray-haired Missourian slashed Republican corruptionists, particularly of the Harding and Coolidge administrations. His entry stirred a great ovation, ! as did that of Thomas Taggart, vet- | eran Democratic leader, who introduced him. “Os course we are all for Evans Woollen,” said Taggart of Indiana j Democrats’ “favorite son.” “But what Senator Reed tells you, you can believe, for he is a man who j has the courage of his convictions.” i Praise for Woollen “I did not come here to try to get j delegates from Mr. Woollen.” Reed said. “Woollen is good enough and j big enough to fill any position that j this country can bestow.” Reed lauded a long list of eminent Hoosiers, winding up with the ; names of Oliver P. Morton and Benjamin Harrison. “But are there any Mortons or Harrisons in the Republican party 1 today?” he asked. “No,” chorused the crowd. Applause followed mention of the j names of Thomas R. Marshall and j Samuel Ralston, and Reed said: j “How in the providence of God did ' Indiana get into the hands of the j bunch running It now? We didn't need a pass from the warden to interview Indiana statesmen in the old days.” Cites Illinois Verdict “While you slept, the thief entered the house. You will see the same awakening as the Illinois primar-! ies demonstrated Tuesday. When reform can reach into the Republican party and virtue manifest itself there, surely there's hope for the United States of America, j What a prophecy of good there is, in that election! “I didn’t come here tonight to. abuse any Republicans. God knows j you've got enough to answer for. I came to appeal to Republicans rather than to Democrats. “Those who control the Republican party are devoured by the leprosy of corruption. T£e only surgeon who can cure the disease is one who can use decapitation.” “Grant said, ‘Let no guilty man escape!’ Have you heard anything like that from Cal?” “You Republicans here aie not responsible, but if you vote to keep them in power after you hear this speech you will be responsible.” The Missouri Senator vigorously attacked the protective tariff, which, he said, was instituted for the protection of “infant industries.” “But the ‘infants,’” he said, “have grown seventy-five years old and don’t compete,—they combine.” Frank O. Lowden, Illinois presidential candidate, came in for characteristic Reed ridicule, when the Missourian said: ‘lf you farmers get up some morning and see a white specter floating through the mists in the lowlands—that’s not an Angel—but Lowden, looking after the farmer!” Hays and Arbuckle When he came to the name of Will H. Hays in a recital of the oil scandal, Reed exclaimed: “I propose that the motion picture interests remove Will Hays and put back ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle.” Charging that Herbert Hoover. Secretary of Commerce; Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury; John W. Weeks, Secretary of War, and others knew of the Teapot Dome transaction, Reed said. “I'll not say Cal knew until I know that he knew and I don’t know now that he knew it.” But Coolidge. Cabinet members and “stand-pat” Republican threw every obstacle in the way of investigation, Reed said with bitter denunciation for Albert Fail, Harry Daugherty, Edward Doheny and other oil scandal personalities. “Do you think this eagle-eyed Hoover, with all his experience in Great Britain, didn’t know?” Reed asked. He charged that Mellon’s appointment was “criminal” and in violation of Federal statutes, and that Mellon had left his banking interests “to syndicate the Government.” Hoover was charged with having fixed the minimum price of wheat during the war at $2.20 a bushel and of having prevented the farmer getting more than that by agency of the Export Grain Corporation. After the war, he said, farmers were compelled to sell their surplus in the bankrupt markets of Europe, the price of that surplus fixing the price in the domestic market.

Jim Reed Hot Shots “How in the providence of God did Indiana get into the hands of the bunch running it now?” “We didn’t need a pass from the warden to interview Indiana statesmen in the old days.”

“When reformm can reach into the Republican party and virtue manifests itself there, surely there's hope for the United States of America.” . * * “These who control the Republican party arc devoured by the leprosy of corruption. The only surgeon who can cure the disease is one who can use decapitation.” IS * * “Grant said. ‘Let no guilty man escape:’ Have you heard anything like that from Cal?” * * * “If you farmers get up some morning and see a white specter floating through the mists over the lowlands, that's not an angel, but Lowden, looking after the farmer!"

“I propose that the motion picture interests shall remove Wi’i Ilays and put back Fatty Arbuckle.” m i> * “When the ice water in Cal's veins began to thaw, he removed Daugherty with a certificate of good character—the last he'll get on earth or any other clime.” * * * “Mellon, director of sixty-eight banks and industries—from the aluminum trust to the distillery of a very good brand of whisky.”

EARLY OPENING OF CITY POOLS URGED

Hot Hat Jack Vivifoe, manager of the Loyal Cleaners. 364 Massachusetts Ave., had a "hot” spring hat this morning. It was so hot that it burned his arm and brought out the fire department. Vivitoe was cleaning the hat in the back room of his establishment with “some fluid he got at the drug store.” It burst into flames. He dipped it into a pail of water and the water boiled and the hat burned. The flames seared his forearm and he tossed the hat aside. It burned a wallboard partition.

FRENCH CAR ARRIVES i Prepares for Trial Spin at Track Today. The Hispano-Suiza stock car that will oppose the Stutz Black Hawk in a 24-hour international race at the Speedway next Wednesday, arrived in Indianapolis today. It was to be unloaded and taken to the track later. Robert Bloch, French racing driver, who will work shifts at the wheel of the car with C. T. Weymann, the owner, accompanied the car and prepared to take several practice spins, before the close of the week. Weymann arrived here from New York today. The race will start at 1 p. m. Wednesday and will be run through until the same hour Thursday afternoon. F. E. Moskovics, president of the Stutz Motor Car Company, ana Weymann definitely decided on the date Wednesday. Ticket booths were being placed in downtown hotels today by the Junior League for sale of reserved box seats in Grand Stand A. The proceeds from the sales will be turned over to charity. FIRE IOSS $5,000 Home of Harry Daugherty Is Damaged by Flames. Sparks from a fireplace started a spectacular blaze on the roof of the home of Harry E. Daugherty, 3440 Central Ave., today. The roof and upper part of the house were damaged $5,000. Daugherty, president of the Hoosier Veneer Company, and his wife left on a trip to Philadelphia Wednesday. His daughters, Misses i Anna and Matilda Daugherty, and' son, Jack, this morning started a * fire in the fireplace. Four fire companies under direction of Battalion Chief Murphy fought the flames, using forty gallons of chemicals and four hose lines. The roof and upper half-story of the house were burned away and the flames damaded second-fioor ceilings. 231 ARMS TO BE SORE Vaccination for Every Student and Teacher in Akron High School. By Times Special AKRON. Ind., April 12.—Every student and teacher in the high school here are to be vaccinated immediately against, smallpox. There are 220 students and eleven teachers. An order for vaccination was issued when it was discovered one of the teachers was suffering from smallpox. Runs for Lieutenant Governor By 'l imes Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 12. L. G. Bradford, of South Bend, State Senator from St. Joseph and Marshall counties, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor. subject to the Republican State convention.

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Action Is Advocated for Swimmers' Safety by New Committee. Indianapolis park commissioners were requested today to open municipal swimming pools "as soon as weather permits.” rather than to wait until June 10. the day set for official opening. The request was made by a committee formed at a meeting called at city hall Wednesday night by the Indianapolis Safety Council. The meeting dealt with the problem of prevention of drowning in the city. Terming water “our biggest worry.” Recreation Director Jesse McClure pointed out at the meeting that sixteen accidental drownings occurred here last year. Members of the committee making the request to the park board were F. O. Belzer, Paul R. Jordan and Dr. Herman G. Wagner. They pointed out that two drownings occurred last season before the pools were opened officially and supervised. Another committee former at the Wednesday night meeting will request the school board to send pamphlets to parents of pupils urging their cooperation to prevent swimming in unsupervised places. This committee is composed of Paul H. Krauss, Mrs. Edna B. Christian, Herbert King and Henry L. Dithmer, Jr. Free lessons to both parents and children will be available in the pools this year, the recreation department announced. Places declared especially unsafe by recreation officials are the canal at Camp Sullivan, whfre the water is deep and the current swift: Keystone Ave. and Fall Creek, which is 50 set deep and full of huge rocks; Emrichsville bride; Tenth St. junction of Fall Creek and White River; W. Michigan St. and White River; New York St, and the gravel bar just south of New York St. and White River, and McClure Beach, at Twenty-Sixth St., unless life guards are present. SLAYING IN LOVE CLASH Vincennes Man Shot Through Heart as Triangle Climax. By Times Special VINCENNES. Ind., April 12. Perry Curry, a carpenter, is dead, the victim of a love triangle shooting. Emmett Selby, 34, sent a bullet through Curry's heart late Wednesday night. Selby told police he believes Curry was the man he saw coming from the Selby home a few hours before the slaying. According to Selby his wife had been stolen by Curry. Harrison Street reported to police that Selby had mistaken him for Curry shortly before the shooting and had fired at him three times. Muncic Presbytery to Meet Ihr United Press NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. April 12. The Muncie Presbytery will hold a two-days meeting here, Monday and Tuesday. The twenty churches in the district will send one hundred delegates.

RAISE $43,385 FOR WHEELER MISSION

Encouraged by their success the first two days of the Wheeler City Mission's SIOO,OOO building fund campaign, workers resumed their efforts this afternoon with the hope of reaching their goal before next Tuesday, when the campaign closes. Reports today swelled the total to $43,385. Chester Albright's team held the team record with $3,021. The Rev. C. H. Winders, North-’ wood Christian Church pastor, at the luncheon at the Y. W. C. A., reviewed briefly the contrast between the product of the Old Elm saloon that stood where the mission now stands with the mission. ,

MID-ATLANTIC GALE PERILS FLIGHT OF GERMAN PLANE; SIGHTED BUT ONCE IN HOP Storm Warnings Along Eastern U. S. Coast Posted, Fair Weather Is Predicted for Newfoundland. BELIEVED HALF WAY OVER OCEAN Irish Flier Is Third Member of Crew; Trio of Aviators Travel Without Life Buoys; Carry Little Food. BY GEORGE MACDONAGH United Press Staff Correspondent BALDONNEL AIRDROME, Dublin, April 12.—Heavy head winds developed over the mid-Atlantic today to peril three European aviators who are heading westward to the United States. A gale, regarded as strong enough to affect seriously the ocean fliers, was reported by the liner Majestic, which, is between 70U and 800 miles west oPsouthampton, England, and bound for New York. Reports of very bad weather from the Majestic confirmed predictions made in St. John’s, Newfoundland, that the aviators would encounter fair weather on both side of the Atlantic, but would have to buck a storm center in mid-ocean. They should reach Newfoundland Friday morning if success crowns their efforts.

FEAR FELT FOR ARCTIC FLIERS No Word From Wilkins on North Pole Dash. J!y I nited Press SEWARD, Alaska, April 12.—After another twenty-four-hour radio vigil, Army and Navy radio operators still were without word today from Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, believed to be waiting at Point Barrow for favorable weather for an airplane dash across the North Pole. Nearly eight days have elapsed since the last definite word from Wilkins and his companion, Lieut. Carl B. Eielson. The continued silence caused a fear that an accident had befallen the expedition. If Wilkins attempted a take-off on the flight to Spitzbergen and his plane crashed, breaking the radio set, it would be weeks before word would be brought by clog sled from Point Barrow to the nearest established radio station. PUSH FARM RELIEF Passage of McNary-Hau-gen Bill Expected Today. By United Press WASHINGTON. April 12. The Senate hastened its farm relief debate to a conclusion today with prospects that the $400,000,000 McNary bill will be passed today by a large vote. An amendment providing that members of advisory commodity councils shall be appointed by the President with advice and consent of the Senate rather than by the farm board, as specified in the original bill, was scheduled for discussion. MRS. LINDBERGH LATE Lands in Detroit Delayed Two Hours by Storm. Bn Units and Press DETROIT. April 12.—Nearly two hours late, Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh landed at Ford Airport at 12:55 p. m. today after a stormy flight from Toronto where she was honored by the Ontario Educational Association. Church Body Elects By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., April 12. The Indiana Christian Fundamentalist Association in session here this week, has elected the Rev. W. W. Azer, Gary, and Prof. J. E. Wray, Upland, vice presidents, and J. W. Boyle, Terre Haute, treasurer.

“The saloon stood for broken' homes, neglected children, deep sorrow and remorse, while the mission carries on constructive work, such as Sunday school work, services in the jail, care for the homeless and hungry, ministering to the sick and gospel to shut-ins,” he said. “There may be differences of opinion as to doctrines, creeds and forms within the church, but concerning work of the mission there can be no question.” The fund will be used for anew mission building.

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The “Great Circle” distance from Dublin to Mitchell field is 3,165 miles, hut the length of the “Great Circle” over the water route is only 1,890 miles. Flying a treacherous course which never yet has been conquered by man, the Junkers monoplane Bremen, which took off from here at dawn today, is believed to have covered more than one-half of her water course in a projected flight from Dublin to New York. Sighted Only Once Only once was the plane, carrying Capt. Herman Koehl, German war ace; Baron Ehrerfried Gunther von Hunenfeld, close friend of the former crown prince, and Col. James E. Fitzmaurice, Irish Free State air force commandant, sighted. That was over Costello Bay near Galway, on the Irish coast, 120 miles from Dublin. A strong raw easterly gale swept Nova Scotia, accompanied by showers. Visibility was poor. During the night the temperature dropped below 32, the freezing point. Storm warnings as far as Eastport, Maine, and fresh winds for most of the north coast of the United States were predicted by the United States Government weather bureau. The plane carried 660 gallons oi gasoline—a full load—which, it was estimated, would enable the plane to keep aloft for forty-five hours, between five and ten hours longer than the estimated duration of the flight. The Bremen is capable of more than ninety miles an hour tlying speed. The fuselage was marked with a German flag and alongside of it had been painted a Free-State Tricolor since Commandant FitzMaurice joined the expedition. The fliers had superb courage when they left. The plane had been on the runway for about an hour, its motor roaring through the morning calm. “Mitchel Field or Heaven” The three fliers stood about, listening for the slightest deviation from perfection. They pronounced it perfect. They climbed injjp the cabin of the Junkers machine, waved a farewell, and, with a deafening roar, the plane rolled slowly down the runway, gained speed, then lifted easily and pointed west. President Cosgrove and the German consul saw them off. Only a few weeks ago the Hon. Elsie Mackay and Capt. Walter Hinchliffe had attempted the same flight. They never were heard of after they left the Irish coast. But the stoical Germans and the laughing Irishman repeated their slogan of “Mitchel Field, L I„ or Heaven,” as they stepped into thenplane for the flight. From Newfoundland they expected to follow a direct course down the Atlantic side of North America. Carry No Life Buoys The fliers were unprepared for a siege on the buffeting north Atlantic seas should their plane be forced down. It. is a land plane One set of wheels was dropped at the take-off. They have no life buoys; they have no radio. There is no life boat. They discarded all of this m a means of lightening the load. Baron Von Huenfeld carried a pistol, but he said this had no special significance. “We do not know where we will land or what conditions we may meet,” he said a few days ago when it was learned he carried the firing arm. They carried oranges, peeled bananas. a special brand of strong coffee, fresh water and slabs of chocolate. They figured this would be sufficient to appease their appetites in the thirty-six hours they contemplated of flying.