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RESCUE PLANE WRECKED AT NOBJLECAMP Second Landing on Ice Maroons Flier; Airship Chief on Ship. NO WORD OF 16 MEN Dirigible Commander Fears for Companions as Floes Break Up. (Copyright, 1928, by United Press) %TRGO BAY, Spitsbergen, June 25.—Lieutenant Elmer Paal Lundborg, Swedish aviator who rescued General Nobile from the arctic ice off Northeastland, radioed from the Nobile camp today that his airplane, which crashed on his second landing there, could not be repaired on the spot. “If the weather is cold enough,’’ Lundborg added, “a plane equipped with ice runners couffild lad here at midnight. “I am doing my utmost to smooth over a landing place for a plane. Otherwise all is well. The radio was sent over the emergency set rigged up at the Nobile camp. It was directed to General Nobile, now aboard the supply ship Citta Di Milano. Amundsen’s Leg Broken Lieutenant Lundborg had rescued in his Fokker seaplane—equipped with skiis for landing on ice—Gen Umberto Noblie, commander of the Italia, from the camp in which Noblie and five of his crew had been isolated since May 25. Nobile was suffering a broken leg received when he was struck by a large piece of ice in the bustle oi preparing for the plane’s landing. On a second flight, in which he intended to rescue Natale Cecioni, the Italia’s chief engineer, also injured, Lundborg’s plane capsized as it landed. Fear for Missing Men While this drama was being enacted, fear grew that tragedy would prove to have overtaken the sixteen men whose fate was unknown. j Seven men of the Italia’s crew had been carried away with the ■ wrecked Italia, and had not been heard of for thirty-one days. For four weeks there had been no word of a party of three of the j Italia’s crew who started out from Nobile’s camp to reach land and bring help. Four men had remained in camp with Nobile. Since last Monday nothing had been reported of the French Farman seaplane that started out from ! Tromsoe, Norway, with Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole, as passenger, and five other men, to seek Nobile. Nobile Is Worried General Nobile shows signs of having undergone terrible suffering and hardship. He has grown a beard. He is intensely worried regarding his companions’ fate. The crash of Lundborg’s airplane on its second flight added to his anxiety, as he had said already that the ice was breaking fast and rescue must be effected soon. The heroism of Lieut. Lundborg In trying to rescue other members of the Nobile-party after his first flight was attested to by the fact that he flew in fog. Two Swedish airplanes started from Spitzbergen today to try to resgue the remaining members in the Nobile camp off Foyn Island, Northeastland. First Report Two Rescued First reports said that Nobile and one aide, believed to be Cecioni, were rescued by a Swedish airplane Saturday night and that both were transferred by airplane to the Citta Di Milano. The latter ship now is near Danish Island, unable to prcoeed farther north owing to ice jams. Later word declared that Lundborg had been unable to take Cecioni aboard on the first trip and had returned for him when he crashed. Lieutenant Sarko, a Finnish pviator, arrived in Kings Bay Saturday aboard the steamer Aritta and said that when the steamer passed Charles Fore Land Saturday very faint radio signals had been heard. The signals were believed to be'a mercy call. This gave hope that Amundsen had been messaging, but that his radio had been so badly damaged that the signals could not be heard generally in the north. CITY OFFICIALS URGE N. CAPITOL WIDENING Sixty-Foot Roadway Recommended by Engineer. City Engineer A. H. Moore today recommended ‘the widening of Capitol Ave., from Washington to Sixteenth St., to the board of public works. The street, which is one of the heaviest traveled in the city, has a forty-flve-foot roadway. Officials believe it should be sixty feet. The street has a double car track downtown and also is used by busses. The police traffic edepartment suggested the widening project recently to Charles L. Riddle, hgard member, it was said. No estimate of the costs has been made. PLATE LUNCH, 35c. Noon and evening specialty. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 pi m. —Advertisement.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 38

Two Kids, Two Quarters, Two Gulps; It’s Just a Habit in the Family Now

Mary Coughs Up Her Coin, but Lowell’s Stays Swallowed. If you think there’s no difference between a quarter and 25 cents, just try swallowing a quarter. Mary, 8, did and it stuck. Her brother, Lowell, 13, tried it a week ago and succeeded. “I guess it’s my turn next,” grinned Mary’s other brother, Claude, 10, as he eyed the coin in Mary’s hand this morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kesler, 1002 Taft Ave., where the children board. “If the kids keep this up, I’ll start giving them ✓their Sunday quarter by check,” said their father, M. E. Zufall, who lives at 1216 S. Keystone Ave. The children’s mother died six years ago. Down Goes Coin Mary was swinging a playmate Sunday afternoon when she put her quarter in her mouth to give the swing a vigorous push. Up went the swing and down went the quarter. Frightened and tearful, she raced to the house crying, “Daddy, I’ve swallowed that quarter.” Pounding to no avail, a wide-eyed, gulping little girl was hustled to ! city hospital. Locating the coin with a fluoroscope, physicians marked its location on Mary’s throat with a | fountain pen. Then she was put to j sleep and the errant quarter fished from her esophagus. Doctor Keeps Quarter Mary was a little nonplussed when, home again, she was told that a doctor had pocketed her silver piece. It had to be preserved with records of the case, it was explained. Dimes and pennies often are swallowed, but twenty-five-cent cases reach the hospital. The photographer found another one for her as a reward for being roused from her nap today. Lowell, who swallowed his allowance a week ago, has suffered no ill effects. He had his quarter in his hand when another boy shouted and fired a baseball toward him. Clapping the quarter in his mouth, j Lowell caught the ball. He gulped j hard, but the quarter reached first and still was on the bases today.

A. G. METCALF DIES Veteran Court Reporter 111 for Several Weeks. Albert C. Metcalf, 70, court reporter in Marion County for half century, died early today at his home, 1929 N. Pennsylvania St. He had been ill for several weeks and retired from the work of reporter in Criminal Court during the winter, being succeeded by his son. Norman E. Metcalf. A native of New York State, Mr. Metcalf came to Indianapolis in 1876. He taught himself shorthand to obtain the court position. The present courthouse was not erected at that time. Surviving, besides Norman, are the widow, Mrs. Leonora S. .Metcalf; sons, A. C„ Jr., and H. 8., Indianapolis, and a daughter, Mrs. J. E. Elliott, Los Angles, Ind. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at. Flanner <fc Buchanan mortuary and burial at Crown Hill cemetery will follow.

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STEWART INDICTED ON CHARGES OF PERJURY

Bn Unifrd Prims WASHINGTON, June 25.—Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana board of directors, was indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury on a charge of perjury here today, in connection with his statements to the Senate Teapot Dome committee. A district of Columbia jury acquitted Stewart June 14 on a contempt charge growing out of the same investigation. The perjury statute carries a mandatory prison sentence of from two to ten years. The indictment was in three counts. The first charged Stewart,

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Get out your scooters, boys and girls, and look them over carefully. Oil out the squeaks and rattles, get dad to tighten up the loose bolts, and see that the wheels are in line. For the first annual Times-Capitol Dairies Scooter Derby is coming, with SSOO *in prizes for the fastest scooters in the city. Now, tomorrow, read the rules carefully, clip out the entry blank, and send it in to the Scooter Derby Editor, Indianapolis Times. The rules and blanks will appear for the first time tomorrow. . f

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BAN ON FORT BOOZESQUGHT Army Officer Says Sheriff Refuses Aid. Capt. Earl Moss, Army morale officer, today said he appealed to Sheriff Omer Hawkins for deputies to assist in keeping bootleggers and camp followers away from the vicinity of the Ft. Benjamin Harrison and promptly was turned diwn. According to Moss, the sheriff told him that the county didn’t have the money and extra deputies go give special attention to the C. M T. C., now in training there. The captain’s plan was to have two deputies stationed permanently at the fort, the Army to provide rations and housing. When it was vetoed by Hawkins, Moss appealed to the Federal prohibition office. A conference was arranged for tonight with Harry Bendel. office assistant to George L. Winkler, local Federal enforce • ment chief. Bendel will report on the project to Winkler, who was out of the city today. “This camp means an expenditure of $90,000 by the Army in Indianapolis, not counting what the youths spend on leave. Surely the city and county can afford to extend us some protection,” said Moss. BULLET VICTIM HELD % Shot in Leg; Refuses to Name Assailant to Police. Refusing to name his assailant to police, Arthur A. Price. 28, R. R. c. Box 262, is held under a vagrancy charge at city hospital. Sunday afternoon he was shot in the leg while seated in his automobile parked in front of his home. His wife was with him, he said. She denied it, saying she was with her mother. Hourly Temperatures 7a. m.... 57 11 a. m.... 58 8 a. m 57 12 (noon).. 57 9a. m.... 57 Ip. m.... 60 10 a. m 57

before the committee on Feb. 2 denied any knowledge of the Liberty bond profits of the Continental Trading Company, whereas in fact he had received $759,000 worth of them, as he testified three months later before the same committee. Stewart denied he personally received any of the bonds, the same count charges. The third count charges he told the committee he had no conversation or knowledge that would lead him to believe any organization or individual had received any of the bonds, whereas he had received a share himself.

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POUTICS HUSH IS CHARGED IN ROZELLE CASE • __ South Whitly Publisher Makes Second Plea to Harry S. New. ‘APPROACHED,’ HE SAYS District Attorney Makes ‘Unusual’ Request, Is - Hicks’ Statement. By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., June 25. Robert E. Hicks, South Whitley publisher, today announced that because of the “appearance of politi- | cal influence,” he had made anew appeal to Postmaster General Harry j S. New for a thorough inquiry into his charges of fraudulent use of the | mails by the Omaha Tapestry Company of La Grange, Ind. This is the company operated by Frank Rozelle, newly appointed marshal of the northern Indiana | Federal Court. Hicks made his announcement as | he came here to appear before the Federal grand jury in the inv.sti- ! gation into Rozelle’s operations. "Out of the many cases I have exposed. I consider this the most important, because there now is the added factor qf political influence,” Hicks wired Sew.

Second Visit to Jury Hicks is the publisher of “The Specialty Salesman,” and known as the nemesis of mail order frauds. This is Hicks’ second visit to testify before the grand jury. He said that when he came here Friday he found the jury inquiry “unusual.” He was not allowed to testify Friday and went home to discover press announcements that he had requested delay to discover new evidence. He had made no such request of Oliver M. Loomis, new district attorney, and former secretary to Senator Arthur R. Robinson, but said he did have a “most inte resting conversation.” Hicks declared Loontis told him that Rozelle had quit business and then asked Hicks if he would be satisfied if Rozelle were permitted to quietly retire. Hicks said he replied that he was not the one to be satisfied, and that restitution to victims should be made if the business was dishonest. Unusual, Says Hicks “The whole procedure :s> most unusual,” said Hicks. “In other cases postal inspectors or other Government agents gather evidence. This jury inquiry is made on request of Rozelle, who has charge of the jury. "I have brought with me some correspondence with Rozelle which' in itself should invite suspicion. “One of the letters, written May 20, 1927, by Rozelle, protests that when he bought the business he hired lawyers and a former postal employe to go over his literature and made some changes to keep within the law. “When a man engages in ordinary business he does not have to engage a lawyer to tell him how to keep within the law.” Went to Walb Aid In another letter, dated March 1, 1927, Rozelle wrote to Hicks explaining he was unable to keep an appointment to explain his business methods because “I was called by Mr. Walb to join him in Indianapolis Thursday, and wish to assist if I can in putting' across Governor Jackson and Mr. Walb’s program during the last busy days of the Legislature.” Letters of Hicks to Rozelle were very few, but pointed. One of them declared Hicks recalled a visit from Rozelle with “reference to your fraudulent scheme. I told you then that the one thing I could promise you was that you were going to stop.” “Rozelle advertised for women to work in their own homes,” said Hicks. “His literature held out hopes of big wages for painting pillow tops. It appealed to the most helpless and most pitiful. Can Trace Names “Most of the money was sent by postal money orders. The jury can find the number and the names, and discover how many pillow tops Rozelle purchased from these women.” “There is nothing personal about this. “If there Is politics In it I have not introduced it. I am a Republican, but the dignity of our courts and the integrity of the Government are important. Whether the jury follows the clews I shall give or not, I intend to pursue this matter until there is definite action.”

To make sure that every youngster wh<? possesses a scooter will have a chance for cash and fame, we have divided the contest into three classes, one for girls, one for boys, aged five to nine years, and third for boys over nine and under twelve years of age. Th boys and girls who train hardest and work most faithfully will have'the best chances to win. Diet programs for entrants, drawn up by experts—physicians, athletic authorities and food analysts—will be printed during the next few days. Watch for the training instructions, and see the

GOV. MOODY DEMANDS DRY PLANK, HURLING OPENING BROADSIDE IN BATTLE TO SIDETRACK AL SMITH

KIDS TUNE UP FOR PUSH DERBY

Ten Cars Prepared for Annual ‘Shovemobile Classic’

Here are three of the ten cars which will start Saturday in the “push" derby. From left to right, Car. No. 14, with Teddy Rosenbrock driving and Wallace Raiser pushing, is entered by Gus Jackson; Car No. 2, Heffelman Special, Richard Vollrath, pilot, Jack Heffeiman pusher, and Victor Vollrath, relief pusher; Car No. 5, Palmer Raiser Special, Billy John McDermott, driver, and Palmer Raiser, pusher.

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fT'ATHER has to park his car in 17 the street all night this week, if he lives in the neighborhood of Forty-Fifth and Delaware Sts. The younger generation has turned the garages into factories and creations of all descriptions are being produced. For the third annual Five-Mile Pushmobile Sweepstakes, for little gold and much glory, is about to be run off by boys under 16 of the neighborhood. Up and down the course, whizzing round sharp turns with a whirr of skidding rubber, the contestants are tuning up, the human "motors” are being limbered and trained for the grind. Four pushers—a regular and three reliefs—are allowed for each car, and all must get in training before Saturday. Each pusher takes his turn of one-fourth mile. Neighborhood merchants have opened their tills and shelves and $5 in cash, and a number of mercandise prizes will reward the winner. Second place will win $3. and third, $2, in addition to merchandise. Ten cars will face the starter, if the present entrants come through the elimination trials, Thursday and Friday, in good shape, and hundreds of ‘fans’ will line the course. The track will be roped off for the great day, and the cars will line up according to the time made in the eliminations, at 5 p. m. The first bomb will be fired by Starter Lowell Kennedy at 5:15, and three more at five minute intervals until 5:30, when the race will start. A final bomb will be fired as the leader enters his second lap on the fifty-lap grind. CRASH VICTIM CRITICAL E. H. Stolzenbach Suffers Relapse at City Hospital. E. H. Stolzenbach was reported in a very critical condition at city hospital this afternoon as the result of injuries received last Wednesday night when Stolzenbach’s automobile collided with one driven by Dr. Leon Whetseil. Bloomington, at Kessler Blvd. and Lafayette Pike. Stolzenbach, 35, of f.3s.East Dr., Woodruff Place, suffered a relapse in the last twentyfour hours and is in a semi-con-scious condition as result of internal hemorrhages. , • DISABLED HEROES MEET Increased Compensation Keynote of Denver Meeting. Bn United Press DENVER, June 25.—Increased compensation was the keynote of the Disabled Veterans of the World War, opening a week’s business sessions here today. Contending that the men who were disabled at the front are entitled to more compensation than veterans who suffered disability in training, the delegates planned to pass a resolution to that effect and forward it to the War Department.

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STATE DRY LEAGUERS URGE WOOLLEN TO BALK AT RUNNING WITH SMITH

Shumaker Wires Indiana Delegates to Fight Such Moves. Vigorous efforts are being made by the Indiana Anti-Saloon League to persuade Evans Woollen, Indiana’s “favorite son” candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, to refuse vice presidential advances which might make him the running mate of A1 Smith, wet Governor of New York. E. S. Shumaker, dry superintendent, today wired leaders of the Indiana delegation at the national Democratic convention, urging them to oppose any efforts which would make Woollen, president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, the vice presidential nominee with Smith. Charles A. Greathouse, national committeeman from Indiana; R. Earl Peters, State chairman, anfl A. C. Sallee, Woollen’s campaign manager, were among prominent Hoosier Democrats at Houston asked to urge the Indiana delegates to keep Woollen divorced from Smith. Woollen is not attending the conventon. He would not comment. "Woollen would be foolish to accept nomination on a platform with a nullificationist,” Shumaker said. “If Smith is nominated, it will be inviting suicide to the Democratic party this year in both State and Nation.” “Woollen,” Shumaker insisted, “cannot possibly afford to run on the same ticket with Smith.” Shumaker predicted that Smith’s nomination would be disastrous to the Democratic party in Indiana. "I have talked to scores of Democrats,”

AIM ANTI-GAMING BOMB AT OWNERS OF BUILDINGS

Police Chief Claude M. Worley today planned to antigambling activities against owners of buildings occupied by gambling resorts. Worley received a legal opinion that the Indiana statute provides penalty of not more than SSOO fine or six months imprisonment for property owners who permit gambling in their buildings. Seaton Armstrong, 638 Massachusetts Ave., was fined $5 for selling baseball pools by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter. / Trials of Milton Allison, 1129 N. Senate Ave., and Sim Jackson, 321 W. Michigan St., on similar charges, were continued until Wednesday and July 5, respectively. Police arrested 178 persons in

official coach assigned to your playground group, lie will give yeu ipdividual attention. But the big secret lies in practice. Final plans for eliminations will be announced in a few days." 1 They will be run under supervision of officials of the City Recreation Department. Officials will be impartial judges, assuring complete fairness to all contestants. A committee to arbitrate disputes, and to handle scheduling of contests, will be annojmced later*

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he*said, “who would stand by Frank C. Dailey and other State Democratic candidates, but who declare they never wi]l vote for Spiith.” Mrs .Elizabeth T. Stanley, of Liberty, Ind., president of the Indiana W. C. T. U., told Shumaker a few aays ago, he said, that she was confident thousands of Indiana Democrats would bolt the party is Smith is named. > \ Despite the vigor with which the Indiana Anti-Saloon League is attacking Smith's candidacy, in league with the drys’ national organization, Smith’s nomination is anticipated by Shumaker, he admitted. Shumaker said he had tried to get Thomas Taggart, veteran Indiana Democrat leader, to talk to Woollen, but that Taggart had left the city for his summer home in Massachusetts, and could not be reached. Bank Robber Sentenced By Times Special DECATUR, Ind., June 25. Charles Makley, 39, St. Marys, Ohio, is under a ten to twenty-one-year prison sentence here for his part in the robbery of the Linn Grove Bank March 24, 1927.

alleged > booze and gambling places over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fitzgerald's home, 1268 Standard Ave., disclosed six gallons of sugar alcohol, five pints of “moon” and ninety quarts of home-brew. They were charged with blind tiger. James Wilson, a roomer, was also arrested. Four others m the house were charged with vagrancy. Two hundred fifty quarts of home-brew were smashed by Lieut. Ralph Dean and squad in a raid on the home of Pearl Davis, 966 N. Meridian St., Apt. 9. She was charged with blind tiger. Those held on pool selling charges Sunday are Frank Morris, 519 N. Illinois St., and Harry Balch, 60, of 804 N. Illinois St.

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Texas Governor Calls for Flat Indorsement of Prohibition Law. APPEALS FOR FARM AID Delegates Jam Houston as Hour for Convention Start Nears. Convention News and Pictures, Page One, Section Two. HOUSTON, Texas, Governor Dan Moody, Texas’ youthful Governor, came out today for a thoroughgoing dry plank in the Democratic platfrm. He issued a statement saying he was confident a dry plank would be offered the convention calling for indorsement of the Eighteenth Amendment, faithful enforcement of the prohibition and other laws, and opposing any attempt to repeal or destroy the dry laws. His statement declared that any improvements in the dry law should be undertaken by friends of prohibition rather than by its enemies. He also advocated a plank giving equality of treatment to agriculture and a plank condemning corruption. Climax of Dry Drive Moody's statement was the outgrowth of a week-end drive to crystalize the dry movement here. Moody, desiring re-election as Governor oi Texas, was confronted with the problem of carrying out his constituents' dry mandates and let it be known he intends to make a dry fight. That he foresees Smith’s nomination, despite the dry maneuvers, was reported reliably by his friends. Simultaneously, former Secretary of Navy Josephus Daniels, one of the original Bryan dry crusaders, made public a prohibition enforcement plank that he will submit as a member of the platform committee. "Unless the partly stands by the Eighteenth amendment and the enforcement laws, it cannot be successful.” Daniels told the United Press.

Bitter Fight Promised “If the Smith people attempt to put through a moist or damp piank, we will fight to the last ditch, both in committee and on the floor of the convention. "The South would go Republican if Smith should run on a wet plank.” The conviction that Governor Smith will be nominated by the Democratic convention before the end of the week spread througn many delegations today as tire opening of the assembly Tuesday approached. The dry issue is the pivotal point for the fight. The Smith forces are standing pat to date, confident that victory is within their grasp. The dry forces were reported to have agreed upon a course of action. Delegates Pour In The influx of delegates reached its peak today. Many delegations arrived over the week-end, but the big New York delegation and many other groups from the East, Midwest, South and West also poured into this sweltering city, which now bears both the air of battle and of carnival. The Virginia delegation arrived this morning. Mayor Walker of New York and Tex Rickard are scheduled to arrive shortly after noon, and Mrs. Alfred E. Smith is due at 5 o’clock. John W. Davis. 1924 Democratic presidential candidate, also will arrive during the day. After Senator Reed of Missouri had sounded the first note Saturday of what many interpreted as a preparation for defeat—his "If-we--lose” statement—he issued a statement Sunday manifestly aimed at wooing the drys to his pennant. “In my opinion,” he said, "the Eighteenth amendment will stand until and unless the moral forces of the Nation become convinced that there is some better way to deal with the liquor problem^ “If I am elected President, I will keep the oath of office and fairly and impartially seek to enforce the laws of the land and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” The strategy of the anti-Smith forces appeared to be directed-large-ly at putting a prohibition plank in the platform that Smith could not accept, rather than at an effort to crystallize anti-Smith opinion into a movement favoring any particular candidate.

Kansas May Break Possibility that the Kansas delegation to the convention would not place the name of Congressman Ayres in nomination also arose here today in view of the seemingly overwhelming majority for Smith. The Kansas delegation, instructed to cast a presidential vote for Ayres as long as the majority believes him to have a chance, was to decide its course at a State caucus at noon today. Judge J. P. O’Brien of San Francisco, an alternate delegate to the convention, was found dead in an El Paso hotel room yesterday afternoon. Coroner A. J. Wilson said he believed death was caused by a heart attack. .