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BOY, SHOT BY BROTHER, MAY DIE OFWOUNO Lads Find Old Revolver in Closet; Discharged as They Play With It. TRAGEDY TALE TANGLED Gun Had Been Unloaded, Says Father; Shells in It, Youth Contends. Clifton Diamond, 13, shot his brother, Butler, 10, through the stomach this morning while the boys were examining an old revolver found in a sewing basket in a closet at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Diamond, 807 River Ave. City hospital doctors believed they had a slight chance to save the boy’s life by operating. Meanwhile, the boys’ mother is motoring toward Elgin, Tenn., with relatives, unapprised of the shooting. To add to the horror of the news which the mother eventually will receive, the gun which exploded was unloaded by her only last night, for fear something of this kind would happen, Boy Is Questioned Detectives detained Clifton and took him to Detention Home for questioning. He was so agitated that they had difficulty learning what had happened.' The youth appeared willing to recount all, but was so horrified that he could not talk connectedly. Clifton finally regained enough composure, after his father arrived at city hospital from his work at the Puritan Bed Springs factory, to make this statement: “I got up and came downstairs and ate my breakfast after mother had gone this morning. “I went to look for my cap in the closet so Butler and I could go out to play. I bumped into the sewing basket hanging from the door and felt the gun inside. “I took the gun out and it was loaded. I unloaded it and we played with it. Finally 1 reloaded it and started to put it back in the basket and it went off. “ ‘You’ve shot me. You’ve shot me,’ Butier said and ran toward the door I didn’t really know he was shot. I went to him and helped him across the street and then I knew he was shot.” The father, who lost a leg in an accident several years ago, stood in front of his son when he made this statement. The father looked the boy in the eyes anil sorrowfully said: ’Boy Sticks to Story “Clifton, that gun was unloaded by your mother last night. She told me that the shells were in the dresser drawer in a cigar box. I looked and it was just as she said.’ 1 The youth refused to alter his story. Detectives doubted that they had the whole truth from him and took him to the Detention Home for later questioning. The injured lad, however, tried desperately to clear his brother. As Clifton helped him stagger to the home of Mrs. Dora Cress, 810 River Ave., he gasped between groans: “Clifton didn’t mean to do it. He didn’t mean to. Don’t tell my mother or she will die.” A sister of the boys, Mrs. Jessie Wilson, 21, lives at the family home, but was at work at the Hoosier Optical Company when the shooting occurred. Robert Morris, 13214 W. Ohio St., told police he was walking past the house when Clifton came on the porch with the gun. He said he noticed it because he thought it a bit dangerous for a small boy to have a weapon like that. Hear Gun Shot A moment later Morris heard the shot and then saw the two boys come out of the house and cross the street. Neighbors said that a number of small boys had been playing “cowboy” in and around the Diamond home all morning. When the shooting occurred, they said, small boys scattered in all directions, but no one was able to give the name of any other children in the house at the time. Pervis and Derrill Wilson, cousins of the Diamond boys, said they had been at the house earlier in the morning, but had left before the accident. Police and relatives were attempting to intercept the motor party with whom Mrs. Diamond was traveling south. Mrs. Diamond has been very ill and started south to recuperate, neighbors said.

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Butler Diamond, 10 (left), who was shot through the stomach by his brother Clifton, 13 (right), while playing with a revolver they found in their home, 807 River Aver Ave., today.

SEVEN MURDERERS WILL GO TO ELECTRIC CHAIR, DIE IN GROUP EXECUTION

New Doom Record Will Be Set in Eddysville (Ky.) Penitentiary. Bu United Press EDDYSVILLE, Ky., July 12.—A new record will be set for the United States in the death house at Eddysville Prison “some time after midnight” tonight, on Friday, the thirteenth. Seven men will say th p ir last words and breathe their las as the current of Kentucky’s electric chair passes through their bodies. Less than one hour will be consumed in the executions, it is estimated by State Executioner C. E. Collier. Those occupying death row are Charles P. Mitra, 24, Louisville’ Orlando (Red) Seymour, 20, Louisville; Hascue Dockery, 27, Ha*lan; Milford Lawson, 35, Corbin; Willie Moore, 49, Negro, Louisville; James Howard, 24, Negro, Louisville; Clarence McQueen; 39, Negro, of Cynthiana. Kill in Holdup Mitra and Seymour killed while committing their first highway robbery. Love affairs were held responsible by Dockery, Howard and Moore for their crimes. The others say they were victims of circumstances. Seymour, youngest of the doomed, blames lurid literature for his downfall. Stories of banditry thrilled him. He found a companion of the same mind and they attempted the robbery of a pal roll messenger. Seymour became frightened and fired; killing the man. His companion went to the penitentiary for life. Pals Desert Him Mitra, an Italian, and another man killed a butcher who attacked them with a cleaver when they attempted a holdup. His pals testified against him, causing his conviction, Dockery has a record of three murders against him. While esstranged from his wife, Dockery swore he would get the man who was courting her. One night he went to her home and killed her, also shooting to death two visitors, not involved in the case. The others committed murder during robberies and street fights, most of which were over love affairs. SHERIFF DECREES JAIL FOR ROADSIDE PETTERS Fatal Shooting of Girl Brings Order In Tennessee. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 12. Sheriff W. S. Knight has decreed jail and publicity for all roadside petters. “I have no objection to young folks petting,” he said, "but the parlor at home is the place for that. “Furthermore, every time a couple stops and parks a car by the roadside, it takes the chance of being held up or shot.” Miss Gertrude Fisher was shot and fatally wounded here last week as she sat in a car with E. L. Marmon. The shot was believed to have been fired by an anti-petting fanatic. BOULDER KILLS TOURIST Rock Hurtles Down on Party in Washington Mountains. Bu United Press BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 12. T. W. Meyer, Brooklyn, N. Y., business man was killed instantly, late Wednesday when he was struck by a boulder hurtling down a mountainside, it was reported here today. The accident occurred on % the Twin Lakes Trail on Mt. Baker. Meyer accompanied by his wife and three guides was on his way to a camp for a fishing trip.

Do You Know? If you don’t, The Times and WFBM intend to help you to know. Starting next Monday night questions sent by mail by Times readers will be answered by WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light radio station, as part of its nightly program. Questions on any subject will be answered, if they are answerable, during a ten-minute period, exact time of which will be set later by WFBM directors. If any problem is puzzling you, write to Times Question Box, care WFBM, and The Times and the radic station will try to help you.

ELKS WILL FROLIC Merry-Making Will Climax Miami Convention. Bu United Press MIAMI, Fla., July 12.—The last thirty-six hours of the sixty-fourth annual convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will be given over largely to merrymaking. The 1,400 official delegates attended a business session of the grand lodge this morning. ' Then Kir.g Rex of Mardi Gras—Miami style—will rule. Tire convention completed its most important business yesterdayapproving a proposal to establish a national foundation fund of $20,000,000 for charitable works. Waits Thirty Years for Mate, Sues ISii United press WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 13. For thirty years Mrs. Anastasia Smith has waited for her husband to come home from a horseback ride. Wednesday she decided to apply for divorce.

Scouts Give Up Luxuries to Help Cripple Walk , Bu United Press / OPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 12.—Thanks to the Boy Scouts’ “good-turn-a-day” rule, Henry King, 15, of Palmer, a cripple, may regain the full use of his legs. Fellow members of troop No. 1 of Palmer will forego candy and other luxuries to save money <to pay for an operation which Henry underwent at the Wesson hospital here. Due to a condition of his hips, Henry has been crippled for twelve years. It was known that a surgeon probably could correct the defect, but Henry’s parents could not afford such an expensive operation. \ So the boy scouts got busy. They appealed to Dr. Nelson Hatt, chief surgeon at the Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children, who offered to perfor ,i the operation gratis provided the scouts would pay the hospital exj ;nses, about $l5O. Dr. Hatt operated on Henry’s left hip Wednesday. Within a year, the surgeon believes, the boy will be in a condition to permit a similar operation on the right hip. And after that, if all goes well, Henry will be able to do his scouting just like any other normal 'boy.

INJURIES CAUSE DpATH Everett Smiley, Hurt Oct. 10, Dies in M. E. Hospital. Everett Smiley, 925 Sanders St., died today at Methodist Hospital as the result of a broken back received Oct. 10, when a scaffold on which he was working on a house in the 1100 block N. Park Ave., fell. Martin Copeland, Quincy, Ind., also fell with the scaffold and suffered a broken back, but recovered.

JEMMY WALKER GREETS AIMEE—AT SOME DISTANCE

Hollywood, cai., July 12. The world’s best known mayor and the world’s best known woman evangelist exchanged greetings today by proxy. While Jimmy Walker, chief executive of New York City, was busy telling movie magnates that .they should confine their attentions to bigger better pictures

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928

STATE MOVES TO CRUSH RING OF GASHAWKS Remy Determined to Stamp Out Outrage Epidemic, He Declares. FOUR UNDER SENTENCE Other Cases Against Youths Convicted Will Not Be Nolled. The State moved swiftly and surely today in its campaign to stamp out attacks on young girls, the increased number of which has shocked Indianapolis in the last month. As preparations were made for appeals of four youths already under sentence in “gas hawk” cases. Clifford Wicks, 22, of 1214 Naomi St., was tried before Special Criminal Judge Fremont Alford on a charge of assault with intent to attack a young girl. Alford will announce his verdict Friday morning. Criminal Judge James A. Collins Wednesday found three boys guilty of criminal attacks and sentenced them to five to twenty-one years at the State Reformatory. Will Not Nolle Cases Other indictments charging outrages on 13 and 14-year-old girls against the trio will not be nolled, as often takes place after conviction on one of several pending charges, Prosecutor William H. Remy announced. “As soon as appeals are taken, allowing these men to make bond, their other cases will be set for trial in this court,” Remy said. Even if they do not appeal, as their attorneys have announced they will do, the other indictments charging similar offenses will not be noiled, Remy said. “II they make appeal bond, they’ll be tried again in this court as soon as possible,” Remy said. i One Up for Life The three are Albert Kennedy, 21, of 1805 Olive St.; Robert Turner, 22, of 1871 Shelby St., and Harold Van Walters, same address. Joseph Alstatt, 18, of 522 Highland Ave. faces life imprisonment in a “gas hawk” case, the heavier penalty because his victim was under 12 Allstatt will be sentenced at 9 a. m. Saturady, the hour being agreed upon by his attorney, Bess Robbins, early today. She filed motion in arrest of judgment and will file for new trial to complete the record for appeal. “The extreme penalty will be asked in each of the other ten “gas hawk’ cases pending in this court,” Remy said. “I have refused to accept pleas of guilty to lesser crimes in some of the preceding cases, and will continue this practice. “If they appeal, I will insist that the appeal bond be set high,” Remy said. Arrangements were going forward today to transfer to Criminal Court immediately all “gas hawk” cases pending in lower courts, by the filing of new affidavits.

DIES OF GUN WOUND Engineer Who Shot Himself Refused to Give Reason. Morris Tucker, 27, of 1311 Bates St., assistant engineer of the Fame Laundry, 27 N. Capitol Ave., who shot himself in the stomach Tuesday t in the engine room of the plant, died today at city hospital. Tucker gave no reason for shooting himself. He is survived by the widow and two children.

and leave politics to politicians, his suave secretary, Charles Hand, was calling on Aimee Semple McPherson, exponent of the Four Square gospel. “One might say that I’m the sinner sent to do penance,” Hand told Mrs. McHherson. “Anyway, Mayor Walker extends his most sincere wishes and expresses his

Famous Mermaid Twins Will Teach Times Readers to Swim

rheee famous mermaids, the Zitenfleld twins, now are the swimming tutors for The Times readers. Phyllis is at the left, Bernice right.

The junior long distance swimming champions of the world are going to teach Times readers how to swim. In a series of ten personally written articles, the internationally known Zitenfleld twins, Phyllis and Bernice, will tell, with the aid of specially posed illustrations, the principles of summer’s greatest sport. Nothing fancy, or hard to understand. Only the simplest and most natural methods that everyone should know—floating, breathing, kicking, the crawl and backstroke. Only 14 years old now, the twins have to their credit such endurance swims as from Yonkers, N. Y., to the Battery, Albany to New York City, around the United States fleet when it was at anchor. When they were 11, they attracted international attention by swimming across Schroon Lake, N. Y. In the same year they swam around Long Island Sound. This summer they plan to swim from Boston to New York, 265 miles, with, of course, several stops for rest. Many a person has failed in trying to learn to swim because of fear. The establishment of confidence in his own ability is the greatest battle for every paddler. The Zitenfleld series will go a long way toward accomplishing that. The twins think of water as a natural element for pleasure and exercise, not a dread substance that must be fought every second for supremacy. Read their first article In The Times Friday.

DEMOCRATS TO LAUNCH SMITH DRIVE IN SOUTH

Bu United Press WASHINGTON, July 12.—Special efforts by the national Democratic organization to combat anti-Smith sentiment in the South were forecast in a statement issued here today by Senator Robinson of Arkansas. Robinson, vice presidential MERCURY IS LOWER Warmer Tonight Than Last Night, Forecast. It will be warmer tonight than last night, when the mercury hovered around 63 degrees throughout the night, Weather Man J. H. Armington predicted today. The temperature Friday will be about the same as today and there is a possibility of thunder storms Friday, he said. The temperatures this .morning were 5 to 6 degrees below normal and several degrees lower than Wednesday. A high point of 89 was reached Wednesday afternoon. Elva Tindols, Argyle Apartments, is in city hospital suffering from a possible serious head injury received when she was overcome by the heat and fell to the sidewalk at Delaware and Washington Sts. Wednesday afternoon. Hospital attaches were unable to learn her name until today. An Xray examination is to be made, to determine whether her skull was fractured by the fall. William Case, 41, of 2601 Jackson St., was overcome by the heat while working in the rear of the Meier Electrical and Machinery Company plant, 136 S. Meridian St. He also was taken to city hospital and is recovering. TRAIN BLAST KILLS 3 Crew Fatally Burned When Engine Explodes in Canada. Bu United Press GLACIER, B. C., July 12.—Three trainmen were killed near here today when the boiler of a Canadian Pacific Railway locomotive exploded and destroyed several cars. The dead are; M. Rogers, engineer; W. Stanbury, fireman, and the conductor. The explosion occurred while a helper engine was pushing a freight train up a hill into Glacier. Parts of the demolished boiler destroyed two cars and a caboose was ignited by the explosion. <

regret at not being able to be here in person. • "Understand, this isn’t a religious or political visit, it’s justwell, it’s just a New York expression of admiration, I guess.” Hand commented on the home of the evangelist, her Angelus temple, and the size of her congregation. ?

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nominee, stopped here on his way south from New York. “I have not the slightest doubt,” he said, “that every part of the country, including those of Southern States in which movements have been started against the Democratic national ticket, will be given proper attention.” He added that “long before the election, not only will it be made apparent that our strength in certain States normally Democratic is maintained, but surprising gains may be anticipated in other States.” Robinson lauded Governor Smith, saying the presidential nominee is “admired and loved by the people beyond any other public man of his generation.” BOOZE GUILT ADMITTED Three Arrested at Anderson Arc Sentenced by Judge BaltzelL Three liquor law violators caught in Federal Raids at Anderson a week ago, pleaded guilty to informations and were sentenced to jail by Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzeil today. Charged with sale, possession and operating nuisances, Verne Williams, Negro, was given ninety days; Grover Cook, forty-five days, and Tom McLaughlin, ninety days. TAXI DRIVER IS HELD Faces Charges After Running Down Boy on Bicycle. Morris Zacery, 20, taxi driver, Broadway Hotel, was charged with speeding and assault and battery after his car struck Albert Tremiller, 16, of 1441 E. Twelfth St., who was riding a bicycle at Delaware and Ohio Sts., early today. The boy was bruised. His bicycle was demolished.

MINERS’ UNION OFFICIALS KEEP DECISIONS SECRET

Presentation of individual cases by delegates lengthened the third day’s session of the policy committee of the United Mine Workers of America today on the eleventh floor of the Merchants Bank Blgd. The afternooon meeting started at 2 o’clock, following a two-hour adjournment for luncheon. The usual strict secrecy veiled the results, if

“Wednesday night 5,300 were out,” Mrs. McPherson beamed. “Did you see the service?” “Well, ah—.” “Oh, yes, I see,” the evangelist said. “You were busy, I know. Please tell Mayor Walker I am so glad he called—even if it was by proxy.”

FARM BUREAU PLATFORM ‘SET’ No Definite Choice Made Between Parties. Assembled Tuesday to draw a platform of political principles upon which their members will be advised to act in the fall election, directors of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation continued their deiberations today. Assurance was given by President William H. Settle that at last the program was complete and ready for adoption, but the conference still was on this afternoon. The program was framed Wednesday by a committee of two Republicans and two Democrats. History of the fight of agriculture for the equalization fee will be recited, it was said, and the stands of Republican and Democratic presidential platforms nd candidates will will be pointed out. No definite indorsement of Democracy will be given, as the organization constitution provides for nonpartisan conduct of business. The fact that the Democratic farm plank is, satisfactory, the Republican evasive, and that Governor Alfred E. Smith agreed to call a conference of farm leaders to outline an active relief program, while Herbert Hoover declared in a telegram to Settle Wednesday that he will not make his stand known until he makes his acceptance speech, will be recited. But, so far as actual recommendations go, the Republican farmers probably will be left to vote that ticket and the Democrats theirs, it was said. juryloard filled Evans Woollen, Jr., Succeeds Joseph R. Raub. Evans Woollen, Jr„ 644 E. ThirtySecond St., today was named to fill the Democratic vacancy on the Marion County jury commission, succeeding Joseph R. Raub, resigned. Woollen is assistant to the president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company, of which his father, prominent in State Democratic politics, is resident. Widowed Bear Given Orphans Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 12.—A widowed black bear in the Palisades Interstate Park zoo, will receive three cubs to adopt—provided she so desires—whose mother deserted them in Maine.

any, of the meeting, and no offeial statement was given out. It is understood that each delegate was given time in the morning conference to present cases coming to present cases to his attention and bearing on the present soft-coal situation. Although miners were cheery at the noon recess, offcials appeared nervous. Strident speechmaking at times pentrated to remote corners of the entire floor suite of the mine workers. It is said the main action centers around the southern Illinois situation. Miners were said to have asked to be released from the conditions of the Jacksonville wage scale agreement which calls for a wage of SI.OB a ton for loaders and $7.50 a day for day workers. Proposed Federal legislation concerning soft coal mine operation also is said to be under consideration by the committee.

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TWO OF ITALIA CREW SAVED; LOST 43 DAYS Finn Malmgren, 'Walking Party’ Leader, Dead; End Month Ago. DISASTER TO AVIATOR Russian Ship Speeds to Aid of Four Starving Men at Ice Camp. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, July 12.—The giant Russian icebreaker Krassin today rescued Capt. Adalberto Mariano and Capt. Filippo Zappi of the dirigible Italia. The third man of the group of three who had left the dirigible Italia ice camp forty-three days ago, Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorologist, was found dead. He had died a month ago. The party had left the Italia ice camp on May 30, over the protests of Gen. Umberto Nobile, to walk to land. News of the rescue, effected after nearly a month of an almost foot-by-foot struggle by the big Krassin, the Leviathan of the polar seas, through jammed ice since she left Leningrad, Russia, June 15, was wirelessed from the Krassin shortly before 1 p. m. today. Without Food 13 Days Zappi and Mariano were half frozen and exhausted from starvation. One of Mariano's legs was hopelessly frostbitten. With Malmgren’s body, over which they had kept vigil—that was the inert form Aviator Chukhnovsky, who discovered the party Tuesday night, had seen on the ice beside them—the two Italian naval officers were taken aboard the Krassin. Zappi and Mariano said they had abandoned hope until Chukhnovsky’s airplane roared through the air toward them through the fog, sighted them as they waved with excitement and circled over them five times to indicate that it had seen them. Zappi and Mariano had been without food for thirteen days when they were found. Malmgren was an expert in the arctic. He knew the ice and how to get over it. That he should have died and that his two companions—Italians from the south of Europe—should have remained alive for a month afterward, is one of the most surprising of the many surprising stories that the now historic tragedy of the Italia’s loss, after its north pole flight, has brought forth. Mariano and Zappi were found Wednesday by Aviator Chukhnovsky, who found them unexpectedly as he flew with four companions in the three-motored Fokker seaplane from the Krassin, his mother-ship. He was unable to land. Aviator Forced Down On a second flight. Chukhnovsky also was unable to land. He started out on a third flight to drop a message to the party that help was only a few miles away. This time Chukhnovsky and his four companions met disaster themselves. They made a forced landing on the ice, and smashed their plane. Taking their fourteen days’ rations, the fliers made for the coast, found it, and radioed their position to the Krassin. Leaders aboard the Krassin decided to make at once for the Nobile ice floe camp, forty miles away, and try to rescue the four men there with whom radio communication has been re-established after two days of silence. At first it had been planned to pick up Chukhunovsky and his companions and then proceed to tha rescue of the ice camp group under Lieut. Alfredo Viglieri, who assumed command as senior officer when General Nobile was rescued by airplane. The Krassin’s decision to try to save the Viglieri group first was made after Chukhnovsky radioed the ship: "Never mind us; save the others.” Chukhnovsky revealed in his message that he and his companions had immediately radioed all rescue ships in the area and learned what caches of food trappers and dogsled rescue parties had left. Then they went out hunting and killed a polar bear almost at once. DOG OWNERS WARNED Told to Take Out Licenses Before Drive Opens Next Week. Deputy City Controller A. B. Good today warned dog owners to obtain city licenses before next week. Licenses were due July 1, but only about 3,000 have been taken out. The fee is $2. Police will begin a drive to arrest owners with untagged dogs next week, Good said. It is estimated there are about 12,000 dogs in thtt city. Hourly Temperatures 7a. m 63 11 a. m..., 7® 8 a. m 65 12 (noon).. 7t Sa. m 72 Ip. m...* 89 10 a. m 73 1