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NINE OF MEN LOST IN ARCTIC REACHSAFETY Latest Rescued Are Two of Dog Sled Party Found by Airplanes. REPORT FLIER IS SAFE Rumor Says Russian Aviator Hops Back to Ship After Repairing Plane. (Copyright. 1928, by United Press) KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, July t4.— The frozen arctic is yielding up the men believed lost within her interior for weeks and months. Already nine men have been taken from the ice infested area •while the big ice cutter Krassin today pushed forward attempting to locate twelve more of the men of the dirigible Italia, lost since May 25, or their friends. The last two men rescued were Captain Sora, who led a chasseurs group into northeast land in search for one of the Italia groups, and Sjefe Van Dongen, his dog sleigh driver. These two were rescued late Friday by the Swedish airplane Uppland —the giant plane sent to the north by the Swedish governmentend the Finnish airplane piloted by Captain Sarko. There was no indication from these last reports of the fate of Ludvig Varming, noted northern explorer who hand been with the Sora party. Report Russian Flier Saved An unconfirmed report today said that the Russian Aviator Chukhnovsk.7 and companions, who made a forced landing in the arctic ice area has been stranded there for three days, had flown back to the Krassin. The unconfirmed report indicated that Chukhnovsky and his four aides had succeeded in repairing the damaged Fokker airplane and had been able to take the air again. The fuel supply of the Krassin is low after the weeks o I plowing against the ice that surrounded the encampment of Lieutenant Viglieri and the haven of Adalberto Mariano Filippo Zappi. La route to rescue the men at the Italian camp off Fayn Island the Krassin had sighted a group of men on the ice floe, waving excitedly. The Krassin did not stop, but messaged she would return after the Viglieri group had been saved. The Russian ship broadcast the news and likewise broadcast the information she did not know what party the two were from. Suffer Great Hardships The two planes, the Uppland and the Finnish plane, received word of the two men and immediately started in search Friday morning. They reached the position during the day and the pilots saw two men waving flags. A landing was made and Captain Sora and Van Dongen, the young Dutch dog team driver, were taken aboard after being lost for weeks as they started out after Mariano, Zappi and Finn Malmgren —the explorer whose fate has not been learned definitely. Sora and Van Dongen had suffered great hardships. Their food gave out days ago. They were famished. One by one they killed the dogs of their sleigh team until five of the nine dogs had been killed and their meat used for food. j" Both men were well, however, When they were brought to Kings Bay today by two airplanes.

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson & McKinnon) NEW YORK, July 14.—1n this as in every other market, the downward course of prices is halted from time to time by short upswings. This happened Friday and was induced by an easier money market, due to an inflow of European funds which were attracted by the high rate. The experienced realize however that fundamentals are required to sustain an upward price movement and as we know the credit situation to be in a deplorable state, these periods of strength are seized upon as apportunities to liquidate. This is the logical course to pursue for there Is a real fight on between two great but opposing Money always wins and money demands that brokers loans be rduced. The only way that this can be accomplished is by substantial liquidation.

Aw, Now Pop— Bu United Press DETROIT, July 14.—Peter Szwebs, 37, was sentenced to serve ninety days in jail when his father, Charles, 69, testified his son had refused to work and had been an habitue of saloons for the last three years. The father said he was tired supporting Peter and did not care what the court did.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 46

Lone Eagle Plunges to His Death

Capt. Emilio Carranza, Mexican ace, killed Friday night, and the plane which plunged.

Back to Beans Bu Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 14.—Albert Guest, 14, who ran away from White’s institute near Wabash because beans appeared too often on the menu, decided they were not such a bad diet when he faced the prospect of a foodless and bedless night here, and he surrendered to police.

CITY PROPERTY VALUESJAISED Board Boosts Assessment of North Side Land. Some of Indianapolis’ most valuable residence property faces a tax assessment increase of 12% per cent today as a result of an order Friday of the county board of review. A blanket order increasing all land values in Washington Township inside the city 12% per cent was entered late Friday, after an all day session pertaining to the increases. The property affected lies north of Thirty-Eight St. and south of the canal. The order affects only land values, not improvements. Valuation of $17,446,640 as set by Township Assessor William Dawson will be raised to mrot than $20,000,000 by the order, board members said, and may tend to reduce the township tax levy slightly. The blanket order follows increases on property in Crow’s Nest, exclusive suburb north of the city, also in Washington Township, and as in the Crow’s Nest case, was made at the insistence of Schuyler Mowrer, State tax board member on the board of review. Washington Township values were not as high comparatively as they should be, board members said, especially since the remarkle growth of residence section north of ThirtyEighth St. Other board of review members are County Auditor Harry Dunn, Assessor James W. Elder, Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson, William H. Morrison and James Berry. BLAZE SWEEPS FOREST Explosion of Camper’s Stove Starts Fire in Southern Sierras. LOS ANGELES, July 14.—A forest fire, believed to have been caused by explosion of a camper’s stove, swept through the southern Sierras today. 1 A vast tract in the Fraser Mountain park district, about eighty miles north of Los Angeles, was reported to have been swept by the flames, and as many as eighty cabins destroyed, refugees reaching Lebec lodge reported.

TODD RITES TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK SUNDAY

Funeral services for Robert I. Todd, president of the In.ianapolis Street Railway Company and the Terre Haute, Indianapolis a id Eastern Traction Company, who died suddenly of heart disease in New York Thursday evening, will be held at the Plaza funeral home, 40 W. Fifty-Eighth St., New York, Sunday, 5 p. m. Burial will be Monday in Middletown, Conn. Telegrams of sympathy continued to arrive at traction offices here, where Mr. Todd had held the reins for twenty-two years. Mrs. Todd and one son, Robert William Todd, 17, who were at the old family home at Belle Alton, Md., on the Potomac River, survive him. Ten Indiana utilities men, several of whom were associates of Mr. Todd in the Indianapolis Street

TM NOT MAD AT YOU,’ LAST WORDS OF BOY BULLET VICTIM TO BROTHER

“twtO matter what happens, TN Cliff-e-i, don’t feel bad. I’m not mad at you. I know you were only playing.” These were the last words spoken by little Butler Diamond, 11, to his brother, Clifford, 13. The younger lad died at 1:05 tnis morning at city hospital. And the words were spoken at 2 Friday afternoon.

HOOVER ILL START ON TRIP WESTTONIGHT Candidate to Spend Part of Sunday at Home of • Dawes. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 14.—Herbert Hoover wound up his affairs as Secretary of Commerce today and tonight will start his first tour of the country as Republican presidential nominee. He has given undivided attention to departmental affairs for several days in an effort to clear his desk for the successor President Coolidge is expected to appoint when Hoover visits him next week at the summer White House in Wisconsin. The Hoover train will leave Washington at 7:05 p. m. and arrive in Chicago tomorrow at 2:05 p. m-> stopping for a short time at several of the largest cities on the Pennsylvania line en route. Will Visit Dawes Hoover will spend four hours in Chicago at the suburban home of Vice President and Mrs. Charles G. Dawes. He will confer with James W. Good, his western campaign manager, and Representative Walter Newton of Minnesota, director of the Republican campaign speakers’ bureau. The special will leave Chicago at 6 p .m. tomorrow for Superior, Wis., where an elaborate municipal welcome has been arranged. The trip from Superior to Brule, Wis., for a visit with the President will be made by motor. Leaves Brule Monday Hoover will remain at Brule until Monday afternoon and then motor to Duluth,- Minn., where the special will be waiting. Then he will proceed to San Francisco via St. Paul, Omaha, Cheyenne and Reno. He is scheduled to arrive in San Francisco at 11:45 a. m. Friday. Then his home State of California will have its first opportunity to welcome him. Hoover will motor from San Francisco to his house at Stanford University Friday night. Bank Bandits Gover Trail Bu Times Special PENNVILLE, Ind., July 14. Authorities today are without a clew which might lead to capture of three bandits who Friday held up the Bank of Pennville and escaped in an auto with SBOO to SI,OOO.

Railway Company or the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern, left today for New York to attend the funeral. They are Arthur W. Brady, Anderson, Union Traction Company receiver; Robert Feustal, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Service Corporation president; Joseph A. McGowan, secre-tary-treasurer of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company; Superintendent James P. Tretton of the company; Attorneys W. H. Latta and J. T. Pierce, Manager G. . O. Nicolai of the T. H., I. & E.; Superintendent G. K. Jeffries of the same company, and William Stokes, Indiana Utilities Association secretary. All street cars and busses in the city will pause for one minute at 5 p. m. Sunday to honor the dead chief.

BUfcler died as the result of a gun wound inflicted by “Cliff-e-i,” when they were playing cowboy Wedriesday morning at the Diamond home, 807 River Ave. Little Butler, who hadn’t a chance to live from the time of the shooting, fought valiantly to survive unitl his mother could get back from Tennessee, where she just had gone that fatal day

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Danger! Bv Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., July 14. Dr. Donald C. Dalbey, Gary dentist who lives here, an aviator several years, received the first injury of his life while picking cherries at his home. He fell when a ladder slipped, fracturing his right ankle.

TWO HELD AS BANKjANDITS Former Central Ave. Employe Is Identified. Two amateur bandits were held at city prison today charged with the bungled holdup attempt at the Central State Bank Friday morning. They are Arthur McGinnis, 26, and Claude F. Parker, 25, of 504 E. Raymond St. Parker has confessed to detectives that he drove the automobile used in the thwarted holdup. McGinnis, who is feigning amnesia, was identified as the man who followed Assistant Cashier Orville Denbo into the bank when he opened up and attempted to “stick up” Denbo. Denbo grabbed his gun and chased McGinnis from the bank, firing at him four times. McGinnis’ mother is said to live here. McGinnis was discharged as an emplaye of the bank shortly before a holdup at the bank in May, 1927, in which bandits obtained $4,000. McGinnis later was arrested at New Orleans on forgery charges and in California on Federal auto theft charges, police say. Parker, a structural iron worker, living wtih his wife and their 2-year-old child, said he had known McGinnis only a short time and that McGinnis proposed the holdup, saying it would net them “eight or ten grand.”

FIGHT ATTACK TERM New Trial for Youth Asked in Gas Hawk Case. Bess Robbins, defense attorney, today presented motion for anew trial for Joseph Alstatt, 18, of 522 Highland Ave., who was to be sentenced in Criminal Court for an attack on an 11-year-old girl, based on the ground that witnesses .in the case had not been sworn properly. Affidavits were presented pointing out that the witnesses in the case had been sworn under an indictment returned by the grand jury, but that the case actually was prosecuted by the State under an affidavit. The indictment had been quashed and the affidavit substituted when it was learned that the girl’s name had been wrong in the indictment. Miss Robbins argued her point before Special Judge Fremont Alford. The motion was opposed by the State.

It, Didn’t Take Long: for this little want ad in The Times to find a buyer for a goat that Fred Mclntire, 113 Greely Ave., wanted to sell. GOAT—For sale or trade: very Be. 0852, 113 Greely. “I had a suprisingly number of calls,” Mr. Mclntire told us. No matter what you have for sale, anything from goats to flagpoles, a want ad in The Times will bring a buyer. Call Riley 5551 You Can Charge Your Ad.

to recuperate from a long illticss. She arrived Friday noon, in time to see her “baby boy” open his wide blue eyes and pucker up his feverish lips for a kiss. Infection rapidly was setting in and shortly after noon the child was taken into the operating room, where every effort was made to save his life. From then on, he wavered be-

MEXICO S ACE OF AIR DIES IN STOMASH Emilio Carranza’s Plane Plunges, Flaming, in Jersey Wilds. PARACHUTE UNOPENED Flier Scorns Weather Warnings; Killed Hour After Takeoff. Bu United Press MT. HOLLY, N. J., July 14.—The body of Capt. Emilio Carranza, who had been named the Lindbergh of Mexico, was taken back to New York today, the spot from where he started his last and most ambitious flight. He had attempted to follow the famous Lindbergh trail to Mexico City. He had scorned adverse weather reports. He had taken off in face of storms and he had died —his plane a wreck—in an obscure field near here. The body was brought here from a desolate spot near Burlington, where his plane,' the Mexico-Excel-sior, ended its attempted non-stop flight from New York to Mexico City in a tangled mass and with its daring pilot dead. Berry Picker Finds Body Instead of being acclaimed by thousands of his cheering countrymen, Captain Carranza's mangled body was discovered by a berry picker. And then he was not known. The berry picker, frightened by his discovery, rushed away to report what he had found. Carranza left Roosevelt field, N. Y.. at 7:18 p. m. Thursday. Within an hour, the flight ended in an electric storm which sent the Ryan monoplane crashing through the treetops. a flaming meteor. Carranza’s body fell twenty-five feet from the plane, his parachute unopened and a flashlight clasped In his hand, in the breast-high shrubbery. Few See Start Only two or three mechanics witnessed the hop-off of Mexico’s "Lone Eagle.” He started after one of a series of thunderstorms. His plane left the runway easily and soared away into the darkening night. From that time until the berrypicker reported his discovery, nothing was heard from Mexico’s premier flier. Grief Over All Mexico Bu United Press MEXICO CITY, July 14.—Mexico grieved today over the death of its foremost aviator, Capt. Emilio Carranza, who died Thursday night within an hour after he had taken off from New York on an attempted non-stop flight to his native *land. Thousands here were preparing to go to the Valbuena flying field to welcome their national hero at the conclusion of his good-will tour throughout the United States. And instead of seeing him wing his way from the North, news was received he had crashed to his v death in a lonely spot in New Jersey. Among the thousands who mourned his death, two were outstanding in their grief. One, was his mother, Senora Maria Roderiguez de Carranza, and the other his fiancee. Early in the evdhing Senora Carranza had stopped at the office of the newspaper Excelsior for word of her son. When told there was none, she replied, “No news is good news.” Hardly had she left the building when notice of the disaster arrived. None present had the heart to run after her and tell her of her son’s death. Both President Calles and American Ambassador Dwight Morrow were moved deeply by the news. Though Carranza died in his noble attempt, said Calles, Col. Roberto Fierro will carry on the glory of Mexico’s aviators in his proposed flight from here to Havana.

RUSH WORK ON SCHOOL New No. 84 Building Will Be Completed Before Sept. 10. Construction of School 84, FiftySeventh St. and Central Ave., will be completed before Sept. 10, Jacob H. Hilkene, superintendent of building and grounds, announced. The structure will cost $199,040 exclusive of architects’ and enineers’ fees. Charles F. Miller, school superintendent, is preparing to appoint tepi teachers and a principal. Teachers will be named from the unassigned list and submitted to the board of school commissioners for approval.

tween consciousness and delirium, until he died early this morning. “The boys were inseparable,” his father said. “Why, when I had a chance to send them away for the vacation season, one to one farm and the other to another, they would not go because they could not be together. “I have had the gun in the house for years And the boys never had touched it, never had

Dozen Men Caught in Sewer Trap by Watermain Flood

Bu United Press CHICAGO, July 14.—Squads of police and engineers labored today to gain entrance to a sanitary district sewer, in which a group of workmen were trapped by a flood from a city main. City authorities announced a list of twelve repairmen who, according to timekeepers’ records, were in the sewer when the water was turned on. Carl Cherio, one of the repair crew, res. cued seven men from the sewer tunnel, but failed to return when he descended on a second rescue attempt. Directors of the rescue work held little hope

Times Will Broadcast Title Fight

The Indianapolis Times and the twenty-five other Scripps-Howard newspapers will broadcast the heavyweight championship bout between Gene Tunney and Tom Heeney direct from Yankee stadium July 26. Graham McNamee and Philips Carlin will be at the ringside mirophone, giving a blow-by-low description of the main bout and the preliminaries. A network of nineteen stations already has been lined up to put the championship battle on the air, and others are expected to join the hookup. One group of fourteen stations, headed by WEAF, will start broadcasting the preliminaries at 9 p. m.. Eastern daylight time. These are: WEAF, New York; WEEI, Boston; WTIC, Hartford; WJAR. Providence; WTAG, Worcester; WCAE, Pittsburgh; WWJ, Detroit. WCSH, Portland: WFI, Philadelphia; WRC, Washington; WGY, Schenectady; WGR, Buffalo; WTAM, Cleveland, and WEBH, Chicago. Five other stations will be joined with this group at 10 p m. fox the main bout: KSD, St. Louis; WOC, Davenport; WDAF, Kansas City; WHO, Des Moines, and WOW, Omaha. Woman Succeeds at Suicide Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. July 14.—Mrs. Mary J. Graham, 38, is dead, having succeeding in her fourth attempt at suicide. She swallowed poison due to despondency over illness. Her death was the fifth suicide in the house she occupied.

ening Markets

Bu United Press . , NEW YORK, July 14.—Fridays sharp comeback in the general list was continued in quiet early dealings today under the eladership of the oils. Speculative leaders like U. S. Steel, General Motors and Radio all made small gains on small trading, but a somewhat heavy demand developed for principal petroleum shares under the leadership of Richfield and Indian Refining, the latter opening 1% points higheer at 34%, on a block of 4,000 shares. Special issues like Davison and Dupont were in fair demand and made good advances, but prices in the main body of stocks failed to ma}te evtensive advances. Dealings were extremely quiet, trading being on about the same scale as last Saturday, which was one of the smallest volume for any short session so far this year. Describing the market, the Wall Street Journal’s financial review today said: “Rallying tendencies which developed on the easier call money Friday were furthered in early dealings today. Buying was stimulated by optimistic weekly trade reviews, which said that season contraction in mercantile lines was less than normal, promising well for fall expansion. “Steel common spurted to anew high on the recovery, responding to advices from Youngstown that operations for the industry as a whole were likely to maintain a rate of 70 or 75 per cent through the summer months. Other industrial leaders also worked higher.” New York Stock Opening —July 14— Allied Chem 169% Am Can 83 VI Am Loco 97 Am Steel Fdry 53 Am Sustar 69 Vi Am Tel & Tel 174%

appeared interested in it. Tragedy has stalked my home for years, but nothing that ever happened before has been so terrible. “pirst I lost my leg. Ever since then I have had a difficult time finding employment, because of the handicap. Then I was ill for nine months and could not work. Butler’s mother has been very ill for the last month. Clifford paced the floor at city

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MAN HUNT STRETCHED INTO CANADA AFTER SLAYING OF DETROIT BOOTLEG BARON

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When the names of 244 students who passed the Ohio State medical board examination were announced. Dr. George T. Harding HI of Columbus, Ohio, headed the list. He is a nephew of the late President Harding.

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hospital, hovering around the bed of his brother, trying to smooth his hot forehead, and hold his pain-clenched- little hands. And always, if the child were halfconscious, he would open his wide blue eyes and smile at his brother. The bullet, fired from an old .32 revolver, besides piercing the child’s liver, kidneys and intestines, was rusted and caused infection.

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that the trapped men could have remained alive in the flooded tunnel. * Five members of the repair crew escaped by climbing through manholes into the street. Police were informed by water company authorities that a workman, ordered to turn water into one of the three sewers in the sewage disposal system at 125th St. and South Park Ave., had flooded the wrong sewer. The group of workmen was repairing the sewer, which caved in yesterday. The cave-in delayed all attempts to gain entrance to the sewer trap today and authorities believed drainage was the only possible means of rescue.

Roundup of Gangs Sought to Halt Bloodshed in Border Booze War. Bu United Press DETROIT, July 14.—The man hunt for the killers of Joseph Tailman, 35, east side boptlegger, today swept into Canada as police learned that Tallman's rum syndicate maintained “business headquarters” across the border. Talman, target of gangsters’ guns for more than a year, was shot to death Friday by a band of men who escaped in a large automobile. Reports that Tallman, after a period of independent liquor smuggling, had joined with the Locavel’i gan, and then had broken away to operate alone again, led police to the belief that he had been slain as a/i example to smaller rum runners. Henry J. Garvin, head of the qrime and bomb squad here, is seeking to have Canadian police cooperate in a roundup of the Locavelli gang, one of whom is now servin ga term in Kingston (Ont.) Jail. Garvin believes that questioning of the gang, including Peter and James Locavelli and Joseph Moceri, would lead to arrest of the murderers. John F. Burke, 28, an associate of Tallman’s, was killed last year when mistaken for Tallman, police declared, and several attempts have been made to murder other men known to have been aiding or friendly to him.

MINE POLICY GROUP CONTINUES MEETING Fifth Day of Parley Opened Amid Official Silence. • Swinging into the fifth day’s session this morning, United Mine Workers policy committee continued hammering for a solution of the present soft coal situation. An official silence has been the only tangible result of the meetings, John L. Lewis, president, refusing to comment. A personal victory was won by Lewis, Friday, when a hearty applause terminated his denouncement of the use of loading machines In the southern Illinois fields. The speech was Lewis’ first since the conference opened Tuesday. The session was expected to continue all-day today with the possibility of a Monday meeting. FIND CLIFF DWELLERS’ RUINS IN GRAND CANYON Report Stone Steps Lead to OH Indian Rooms. Bu Science Sen ice GRAND CANYON, Ariz., July 11 —The discovery of some interesting cliff dweller ruins in the Grand Canyon National Park has Just been reported by Park Naturalist Sturdevant, who, with Chief Ranger Brooks and Ranger A. L. Brown, recently made a trip up Clear Creek Canyon, a tributary of Bright Angel Canyon, high up on the north wall of the Grand Canyon. These ruins are probably some of the best preserved in the park. The outlines of at least eight dwellings distinctly show walls and in some places the walls are nearly four feet high. The rooms in the ruin vary in size from six to eight feet up to sixteen by forty feet, according to the depth of the overhang of the cliff. Stone steps lead up to the largest of the rooms. According to Sturdevant, this Is probably the only plane in the park where stone steps are found around an Indian ruin. The large room had a commanding view of a fine meadow below, which probably was cultivated by the prehistoric residents of the cliff dwelling.

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