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MEXICO PAYS LAST HONORS 1 TO 08REG0N Ration Turns to Difficult jl Problem of Selecting President. {CALLES LOGICAL CHOICE Country Is Quiet, Despite i Rumblings of Revolt in Several Sections. BY GESFORD F. FINE United Press Staff Correspondent MEXICO CITY, July 19.—The capital impressively has paid final honors to Alvaro Obregon, presi-dent-elect, assassinated Wednesday, and today leaders turned to the task of selecting someone to succeed to the presidency of the republic. The permanent congressional commission—representing the adjourned congress—meets today and it is likely the matter of Obregon’s successor will arise. The warrior who came out of the north to rule the country for one four-year term and who was elected July 1 for another term, officially had not been proclaimed presidentelect. This complicated matters and there was likelihood that President Plutarco-Calles would rule the July 1 ballot as no election. Calles Is Outstanding Calles at this moment seems the logical successor to Obregon’s place as the next leader. But the president—bowed by grief at the sudden assassination of his friend, confronted by holding Mexico away from any strife that might arise through Obregon’s death, and determined to punish all those responsible for killing the general—remains silent on the presidency issue. There was no report throughout the republic today that untoward actions had resulted from news of Obregon’s assassination by a young caricaturist in a suburban restaurant. The assassin—believed now to be Jose de Leon Toral, 23—has confessed and the confession indicated religious fanaticism as basis of the crime rather than any political motive. Others have been arrested, reports said. These included the proprietor of the restaurant in which Obregon was killed and his twelve employes, confessed pssassin, however, declares he alone was responsible for tie crime. President Issues Statement Law and prder will prevail throughout the nation, President Calles said in a long statement on the Obregon assassination last night. It was the first long statement the president had issued and it called for revolutionary groups to unite for the general betterment of the nation. Bearing out the idea of a national peace in the face of this nearcrisis, several state delegations have telegraphed Calles, promising unconditional support in maintaining order. , , „.. Meanwhile, today, the body of the fallen leader was en route to Cajeme, Sonora —the little northern town from which Obregon emerged as head of a band of Indian fighters eventually to become one of the greatest of modern Mexican leaders. His widow, grief stricken and in a state of collapse, asked that the body be brought to Sonora immedi-

ately. Mourners Fill Streets Yesterday, shortly before noon, the coffin was removed from the na- * tional palace and a funeral procession started down the Avenida Madero. The streets were filled with mourners. Hundreds previously had passed the bier in the national palace, many of whom wore mourning bands originally intended as indicating national mourning at the death of Capt. Emilio Carranza in tlie United States. The the Colonia station, leaders of the Obregon faction spoke to the crowd of 5,000 that had massed about the station. “Men like him never can die. We 6hould reform our politics,” one of the Obregon leaders said. The funeral train was banked with flowers. For hours before the body arrived, wagon after wagon appeared at the station bringing floral tokens showing the esteem in which Obregon was held. Col. Alexander J. McNab, senioi military attache at the American . embassy, accompanied the train as the official representative of the United States. Meanwhile, questioning of the asrassin continued, but police would make no announcement of what had been learned. They would not verify that his name had been established as Jose de Leon Toral, although the newspaper Grifico said this was established through a telephone number found in his pocket—a telephone number that gave police contact with a cleaning establishment. m C AR HEAT IP? REED-HBBR CO. cleans radiators.—Advertisement

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NEW UNION POLICY MAY FORCE STATE MINE WAGES DOWN

Torrid! No Law Against Keeping Cool, Even if it Costs Your Shirt.

BY CHARLEY WEDDLE HOT as blazes. Whew! Men have peeled off their coats to loaf in lam idleness. There is no law against trying to keep cool. For the city swelters—it is the evening of a torrid day. Sizzle, sizzle, too hot to rest, too hot for anything. Try to forget it if that is possible, but isn’t it warm? Puffing automobiles chug humidly to and fro with perspiring cargoes seeking a breath of cool air.

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City streets, country road all are steaming; is there no cool spot? Gleaming gas wagons, guided aimlessly—mayhap they drift into crooked thoroughfares of crowded dwellings and sons of toil to swerve among crowds of streetplaying urchins. Where the “other half’’ lives. ana WELL, well—now there’s an idea! On yonder porch a labor-wcrn citizen lolls. Day is done—he has taken off his shirt, unconcerned by display of undershirt. Gaze closer—he has removed his shoes. Without a doubt he is wearing no sox. Trying to keep cool! On down the humanity-jammed traffieway. On each front poich a shirtless, shoeless, comfortseeking head of the house surrounded by his family.

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Wonder of wonders, there are a couple of mechanics who ivear nothing at all, visible to the naked eye, except a pair of trousers. WISTFUL masculine cjrivers of warmth-burdened juggernauts nod approvingly. Ah, to be poor and happy. But from the back seat in silky accents comes: "Disgusting, John, let’s get away from this neighborhood. Drive out on N. Meridian St.” On one of the front porches, this comment: “Look, Maude, at that bird in the limousine. He’s got on a coat! I’ll bet he dresses for dinner and wears a stiff collar. Ain’t some people ignorant?” “Gosh, ain’t it hot!” ‘BABY' PROVES BOOZE ‘Peacefully Sleeping Infant’ Lands ‘Proud Papa’ in Jail. Bn United Press STROUDSBURG, Pa., July 19. A “baby” slept peacefully as dry agents raided the home of F. W. Cole. Examining the preambulator they found the “baby” to be bottled beer and whiskey. Cole was held.

CHICAGO GIVES HOME TOWN PLAUDITS TO MISS EARHART

Bn United Press CHICAGO, July 19.—Amelia Earhart, first woman to span the Atlantic by air, returned to Chicago today to receive the plaudits of her home city. Long before the train bearing Miss Ear hart, Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon arrived here a crowd began gathering at Union Station. The city was bedecked with flags, the loop district showing flags and banners from nearly every office window. The train arrived at 9:55 a. m. Leonard J. Grossman, alderman, and a former schoolmate of Miss Earhart. headed the welcoming committee.

Fast Traffic Lane Marked Out

Fast and slow traffic lanes today were established by Traffic Captain Lester Jorifes on Meridian St. between Maple Rd. and Fall Creek Blvd. as the first step in a plan to get automobiles into and out of the congested district faster during *ush hours. Lanes will be marked in Merid.an St. between Sixteenth St. and the Circle, and in Delaware St. between Sixteenth St. and the business district next, Jones said.

Reduced Pay for 10,000 Indiana Workers, Fear of Officials. Indiana mine union officials today lamented action of the policy committee of the United Mine Workers in adopting a principle of local district autonomy and abandoning the Jacksonville wage scale. The new program was announced following ten days of secret sessions of the committee at headquarteis in the Merchants Bank Bldg., late Wednesday. It was predicted today that it will mean reduced wages *or the 10.000 to 12,000 Indiana mineis now "working under special contract. Officials of the Indiana district met this morning at Terre Haute headquarters and drew up a statement regarding the action of the policy committee, which was made public by President Harvey Cartwright. Criticize Committee's Action After criticizing the action of Illinois in urging the meeting and the policy committee in adopting the resolutions leaving wage scales to the various districts, the Cartwright statement asserted that operators will not be alloweci to dictate the Indiana scale, and it will be based largely on whatever rate is reached in Illinois. Previously the Jacksonville wage scale of $7.50 a day or SI.OB a ton was effective. It was for renewal of this scale that miners in the central bituminous field went on strike in April, 1927. Only union miners having special contract with local operators on this scale basis have been permitted to work since then. Os the some 25,000 miners jn Indiana, between 10,000 and 12,000 have been working under such contracts. When district settlement is made if will be on a lower basis. It is understood that Illinois miners tentatively have agreed with operators on a $6 day rate and corresponding reduction in the loading scale. / Lewis Refuses Comment Some operators here declare that the Indiana rate will have to be even lower than this if the union mines are to compete with the nonunion southern fields. J. L. Hampson, secret ary-treas-urer of the Pike-Gibson Company, declared, "We must have a scale of $5 a day and 65 cents a ton to compete. It will be some time Before any settlement is arrived at, and it will be fall before the mines in Indiana again are working.” President John L. Lewis issued an announcement and a copy of the resolutions adopted and refused to comment further. The new plan places the international officers in a mere advisory capacity. IMPROVES ON MOVIE Eastman Invites Edison to See First Test. /?.// United Press ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 19. Thomas A. Edison will be the guest of George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Company, at the first demonstration of anew motion picture process at the latter’s home here late this month, it was learned today. The nature of the new invention has not been disclosed, although it is reported to be one of the most revolutionary photographic developments since Edison’s own far-reach-ing invention. It is understood that Eastman tendered the invitation to Edison in person recently at the inventor’s Menlo Park home in New Jersey and which was accepted. Edison will be the principal of a group of scientists and public men who are coming here for the demonstration.

Miss Earhart was recalled here as a long-legged school girl who kept to herself and had but little to do with her schoolmates. She attended Hyde Park High School here in 1915. The fliers were hurried to automobiles and a parade started to the city hall, where Mayor William Hale Thompson extended the official welcome to the city. An airplane, moving under its own power, formed a part of the parade. A round of luncheons, banquets, receptions and other entertainments form the program for the next four days for the fliers. Gordon and Miss Ann Bruce will be married Friday. Miss Bruce was at the station to greet Gordon.

On the new, wide pavements there will be three painted lanes on each side. That next to the curb is for parked cars; beyond that for slow moving cars and in the center for those wanting to maintain the twenty-five-mile-an-hour limit. “We hope to educate these eight-mile-an-hour drivers to take the slow lane and keep out of the way of those who desire to move fast,” said Jones. Motor cops and a liberal sprinkling of signs wili be used in the education process, he said.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1928

RECORD HEAT MARK OF YEAR IS PREDICTED Little Hope for Reltef Is Held Out by City Weather Man. WOMAN IS PROSTRATED Mercury Expected to Boil Past 1928 High Notch This Afternoon. HOURLY TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY 8 n. m 87 !) p. m > 8(i 111 p. m 8.! 11 p. m 81 12 (midnight* 80 THURSDAY 1 a. m 80 2 a. m 7a 3 a. m 78 4 a. m 70 5 a. m 75 0 a. m 71 7 a. m 75 8 a. ni. 77 it a. m R3 10 a. m 82 11 a. m 81 12 (noon) 80 1 p. m 85 The mercury mounted near its high mark for the summer today, i with no relief from the heat wave j in sight. One heat prostration was reported. ! Local thunder storms are the only; hope of Indianapolis or the State for temporary relief, J. H. Arming- j ton, United States Weather Bureau | head, said, and there is little pos- ; sibility of a thunder storm here. If a storm should come the cooler temperature would last only a few hours, Armington said. The northern part of the State | likely will get some local thunder; storms tonight or Friday, and there is a possibility of some in the south portion, he said. Hits 86 at Noon The weather bureau thermometer recorded 86 at noon today, the same mark reached at noon Wednesday, when a high point for the day of 90 degrees was reached in the late afternoon. The 90-degree mark was only 1 degree below the season’s record, 91, reached July 9 and 10. The humidity also was high, making it seem even warmer than the thermometer showed. At 7 a. m. the humidity was 84, meaning that the air held 84 per j cent of the amount of moisture i possible, while the average mark is 1 72 here for July. Woman Is Prostrated Mrs. Irene Byers, 30, clerk in the accident prevention bureau at police headquarters, was overcome and fainted shortly after arriving at work. She was taken to her home in the Graystone, Illinois and New York Sts., In the city hospital ambulance and given first-aid treatment by the ambulance doctor. Records at the United States Weather Bureau showed that last night was the hottest of the season. The low point of the night was only 74 degrees, several degrees higher than the usual low temperature of the day, ordinarily reached in the early morning hours. BASEBALL POOL CASES , SENT TO HIGHER COURT Father, Son Held for Gaming; Grand Jury Indicts Four. Baseball pool selling charges against John Partlow, and his son, Ray, both of 29 W. Ohio St., were transferred today to Criminal Court on new affidavits filed by Deputy Prosecutor John L. Niblack. Charges were dismissed against the two Partlows in Municipal Court Wednesday, in line with Niblack’s and Prosecutor William H. Remy pla nto carry on the fight on baseball pool gamblers in the higher court. George Schaubhut, 433 N. Noble St., was charged with keeping a house for pool selling. AL TO VISIT MISSOURI Told by Advisers He Should Speak in Mid-West State. Bn United Press ALBANY, N. Y., July 19,-Gov-ernor Alfred E. Smith probably will deliver one campaign speech in Missouri he indicated today after a conference with Senator Harry Hawes of that State and Senator Tydings of Maryland. Bank Changes Character Bn United Press MONROE CITY. Ind., July 19. The Monroe City State Bank closes today and will be reopened as a private bank. The action was voluntary on the part of directors and all depositors will be paid in fall.

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AT noon today two of the most faithful public servants of Indianapolis paraded through the downtown streets in celebration of their thirty-second birthday anniversary. In the carriage they were pulling rode Mayor L. Ert Slack and Charles Coffin, vice president of the State Life Insurance Company. In all of the thirty-one years this span of mules has served the people of Indianapolis, not once has its skirts been dragged through the political mud. They are Katie and Queenie,

MARLON COUNTY’S JAIL JAMMED BY SUSPECTS, HELD IN FELONY CASES

100-Lb. Baby Bn United Press MENOMINEE, Mich., July 19. —A 100-pound baby, whose birth stopped traffic on the Northwestern railroad here, is today viewing the world from a circus train. “Alice,” six-ton hippopotamus, the mother, is resting well.

MISS FUNERAL TRAIN Carranza Special Is Early: Abandon Plans. The special train, bearing the body of Capt. Emilio Carranza, the Mexican “Lindy” crept quietly into the Union station at 10:15 this morning just long enough to change engines. It was nearly three hours ahead of schedule. Plans, which had been made by the National Guard, soldiers of Ft. Benjamin Harrison and the Hoosier airport to pay military respect to their fallen flying comrade were abandoned with news of the early arrival of the train.

BUILD NEW INFIRMARY AT CENTRAL HOSPITAL

Construction of the new men’s infirmary at Central State Hospital, a $56,000 permit for which was issued Wednesday by the city building department, is well under way, Dr. Max Bahr, superintendent of the hospital, announced today. It is jxpected that when completed and equipped the new unit PAY RAISE AFFECTS 150 Local Federal Employes Included in New Ruling. More than 150 graded employes in the various governmental departments at the Federal Bldg., were rejoicing today at prospect of tneir first pay raise under the Weish bill passed by the recent Congress. Under the bill's provisions, which became effective, July 1, employes in the International Revenue Department will be increased from S6O to $l2O a year, and in a iew instances between SBOO and $?00. Prohibition department increases range from SIOO to $400; clerk's office, $l2O, and the office of the district attorney from S6O to S6OO. None of the postoffice employes is affected by the measure. FALL ON FINE CLOTHES Two Girls Admit Buying S2OO Worth on Other Peoples’ Accounts. Desire for fine clothes prompted two young Indianapolis girls to obtain more than S2OO worth of merchandise from three department Stores on other persons’ accounts, they told Criminal Judge James A. Collins today. Their pleas of guilty to obtaining merchandise under false pretense will be acted on Saturday morning. The girls, Ruth Moore, 22, of 709 N. Alabama St., and Cossa Faye McWhirter, 20. of 949 N. Pennsylvania St., said they were unable other wise to get the clothes they desired.

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who have hauled an ice wagon for the Polar Ice Company ever since they were a year old. In that time, they have watched Indianapolis grow from a town of 179,630 to a population of more than 450.000. They have watched the evolution of the gas buggy, the horseless street car and the modern skyscraper. They have seen Indianapolis belles discard bustles, hoopskirts, plackets and mutton sleeves for slim, straight, short dresses. And through it all they have blinked placid eyes at the world and gone on—hauling ice.

45 Persons Charged With Serious Offenses Now Awaiting Trials. List of prisoner* held on felony charges on Page 2. Forty-five persons charged with major crimes, such as robbery, murder, or attack on girls, are held in Marion County jail awaiting court action, a Times survey showed today. In addition, nine persons are charged with major crimes, and are out on bond awaiting trial. While this large group awaits some action. Judge James A. Cohins and Prosecutor William H. Remy are grinding numerous other cases through Criminal Court, in an effort to get the docket cleared before August, the vacation month. It was regarded as impossible for the one court to bring all these defendants to speedy justice, in line with the city-wide movement to deliver a smashing blow to the banditry wave. The prosecutor and judge are concentrating on clearing the docket of outstanding cases, such as the Carl Skeen murder trial, set for Monday, and the charges against Claude F. Parker and Arthur McGinnis, accused of trying to rob the Central State Bank July 14.

will cost approximately SBO,OOO. An SIOO,OOO building appropriation was given the institution by the test Indiana Legislature. The infirmary is being built directly behind the men’s dormitories, which were built back in 1846. It is expected to be the first unit of new buildings that will entirely replace the present men’s section, Dr. Bahr said. An infirmary for women, similar In design to the one now being erected for men, was built a few years ago. The building will care for about fifty of the infirm patients. There are 850 men at the institution. All construction contracts were let to Indianapolis firms. The Service Construction Company has the general contract; Clarke Brothers. plumbing, and Charles L. Smith Electric Company, wiring. TUNNEY FANS^IiTcRASH Prominent New York Group Wrecked in Flight to Gene's Camp. Bn United J’rcss SPECULATOR, N. Y„ July 19. Five prominent New York men, including Bernard F. Gimbel, New York merchant, escaped serious injury when the airplane crashed in which they had flown here to watch Gene Tunney train.

FAMOUS PASSION PLAY TOWN SWEPT BY FLOOD

Bn United Press BERLIN, July 19.—Ofoerammergau, the Bavarian town famous for its Passion Play, fairly was demolished by flood today. The town was submerged when cloudbursts caused the River Laini to overflow. Bridges were swept away.

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POLICE CLOSE ON HEELS OF MURDERERS, FLEEING FROM REFUGE TO REFUGE IN CITY Score of Reports Received That Hunted Pair Have Been Sighted; One of Fugitives Is Wounded. STATE OFFICERS ARE MASSED HERE Entire Squad Called in to Concentrate on Keeping Highways Clear of Night Motor Marauders. While city police continued to work on tile theory that the two bandits who killed Motor Policeman J’aul Miller still are hiding in the city, State officers took a hand today in putting down crime in Marion County and central Indiana by concentrating their forces on roads in and around Indianapolis. Credence has been lent to tlie theory that the bandits are still here by numerous calls received Wednesday night and today by persons who contend that they saw them. The pair are easily identified because they are unkempt, coatless, and one of them bleeding from a wound. In each instance the person reporting said he had seen the bloody shirt on one ot the men. Move of the State officers to mass here followed a conference this morning between Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier and State Police Chief Robert T. Humes.

Call was sent out for the thirty-two officers of the State force to concentrate here, where they will lie divided into squads for service on central Indiana roads. Each squad will be equipped with machine guns and orders given to make it as bad lor bandits as possible. First report of the bandits after daylight today came to city police from John Stroh, 3703 E. North St., who had been told by a truck driver that the men were hiding in a vacant house at 2429 Hillside Ave. Hiding in House Stroh was hailed by the truckman while passing the place and told that he had seen the two men enter the house with a loaf of bread and that one had on a bloody shirt. Police failed to find trace of them. Another call came from Garfield Park and the emergency squad was sent there to search. Other calls continued to come in from the throughout the city and the chase at fever heat. The Garfield Park trip was brought about by a boy, who saw two men climb into large packing box. He described * them minutely and police believed that he had given them the right clew, for he had never read about the bandits and did not know they were being sought. The bloody shirt was still being worn, the boy said. The packing boxes were empty when police arrived. Boys Sound Alarm Albert Firestone, 3249 Adams St., and Harold Gillespie, 3353 Jennings St., both 9, saw two men they thought were the bandits sitting on a porch of a deserted house in Dearborn Woods, shortly oelore noon. The men ran when the boys called Mrs. Firestone, "There are the murderers of Policeman Miller. Mrs. Firestone ran to call police while Mrs. Gillespie, another woman and the boys followed the men a quarter of a mile througn the woods. The men disappeared in some thick brush near Dearborn St. Police searched without finding any trace. The arm of one of the men seemed to be tied up and he did not use it, the women said. Sent to a deserted shack at 2744 Sangster Ave., on a report of women in the neighborhood that three or four tramps have been hanging out there, Motor Policemen George Leslie and Irvin Bailey arrested Carlisle Cantwell, 35, who said he came here two days ago from Maryland. He was taker to police headquarters for questioning. Search State Records The State Bureau of Criminal Identification Is searching records for clews that might lead to identification/Of the men. Interest in the chase was reflected today in hundreds of calls received at The Times, asking for information concerning it. Two men believed to be the desperadoes were sighted at 1:15 a. m. at Rural St. and the Big Foui Railroad, police say. Evan King, 2059 N. Tacoma Ave., watchman at the crossing there, saw the pair. A wound in the shoulder or one of the men was bleeding, King said.

Torches had to be used in relief work until dawn, because the local power plant was flooded. As floods menaced the Oberammergau district the neighboring Teleberg Forest, near Fuessen, was ablaze.

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Miller, or his partner, Motor Poiccman Roy Banks, is believed to have wounded one of the gunmen. The wounded man sat on the curb while his companion asked King for a rag. After getting the rag, they walked off in the direction of Brookside Park. King called ploice and emergency squads searched Brookside Park and vicinity for hours without finding any trace of the men. Police and detectives have kept a close watch on all railroad yards and stations since the shooting of Miller, and it is not thought the two gunmen have had a chance to slip from the city in that way. A SI,OOO reward will be paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayers, Chief Worley announced after a conference with Mayor L. Ert Slack. The money will be paid from the police and firemen’s emergency fund. Both Without Hats One of the men he saw this morning was slender, about five feet ten inches in height ,and wore a light colored shirt. King said. The other was shorter and stockier and wore a dark, blood spattered shirt. Both were without hats. The two resembled the men who jumped from the barn loft of Mrs. Ivy Sullivan, 2434 N. Keystone Ave., when Mrs. Sullivan discovered them there at noon Wednesday. The men beat Mrs. Sullivan to the ground and fled, after threatening to kill her if she called police. Search Is Extended The search later was extended to roads leading out of town, when six Negro boys from the Negro Orphans’ Home told of seeing two rough-looking men get into a Ford coupe a few hundred yards south of the Sullivan home. Possibility that there were three men instead of two in the gang which shot Miller was suggested to police by William Alley, 2411 Stuart St. While only two men were present at the time of the shooting. Alley said he saw the two in the doorway of the grocery, where Miller saw them later, and also saw a third man in the alley a few feet west of the grocery. Miller died at city hospital at 4:08 p. m. Wednesday, after a transfusion and an operation which stopped internal hemorrhages had been tried in an effort to save his life. Hopes They Get Slayers "I hope they get them. Doc. I hope they get them before they shoot someone else,” were Miller's dying words, whispered to Dr. William A. Doeppers, city hospital superintendent. Miller, who was 36 years old andt lived at 2129 Ringgqld Ave., is survived by the widow: his parents, Mrs. and Mrs William H. Miller of Bridgeport, and three brothers. Another brother, John, had been an officer on the Indianapolis police force for fourteen years. He died of pneumonia two years ago. The Mfllers were married in 1913. Miller was past noble grand of Indianapolis Lodge, No. 465, I. O. O. F.. and a member of Beech Grove Lodge No. 674, F. and A. M. and the Sarah Grotto.

Shooting Stars? All the shooting going on in the city has made the citizens jumpy and dozens of calls come nightly to police from folks who want things investigated. The prize winner came Wednesday night from University and Butler Aves., Irvington, where an irritable citizen reported that there was a group of persons out there “acting queer.” Motor Police George Bueiler and Clinton Robinson rnvestigated. They found Professor E. N. Johnson and some Butler summer astronomy -tfidents out looking at the stars.