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HOOVER PHYSICALLY FIT; SPIKE POOR HEALTH RUMOR

‘WHISPERS' OF 1 GOSSIPS PROVE 1 CAMPAIGN LIES Feels Much Better Than When He Left Washington 9 Days Ago. READY FOR VOTE GRIND Eating and Exercise of Nominee Are Watched Carefully. By PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent PALO ALTO, Cal., July 23.—A (Whisper campaign regarding Herbert Hoover’s health has been reported to Republican presidential headquarters and has been promptly spiked. Hoover is not in the best physical condition of his career, but he is in good health and is following the advice given him by everyone to watch his eating and his exercise Carefully. He feels much better than When he left Washington nine days pgo and he looks fit. Stories have been brought to headquarters of whispers around that the candidate could not expect to get through the terrific strain of a presidential campaign without a breakdown. Even if elected the trejnendous duties of the White House Which have been ascribed as cause for the deaths of many Presidents might leave their- mark on him, these stories relate. | Not Worried Over Health They are without foundation, but they have been circulated to such lan extent that they are heard daily pn the streets of San Francisco. One New York newspaper wired its correspondents here to watch the .Candidate’s health carefully. George Akerson, secretary of the nominee told the United Press that Hoover and all members of his family and personal entourage were not (Worried the slightest by his health. Newspaper men who see and talk With him every day here are unanimous in the opinion that the strain of the pre-convention campaign and the ensuing organization work have pot impaired his health. His trip to the Klamath river redwood region of northern California was not arranged primarily to give him a rest or because of his health. He desired the trip so eastern newspapermen with the party could see that district in which he 7 is interested as a typical California booster. The stories are believed by Hoover headquarters to have arisen from a suggestion given Hoover by President Coolidge that he take care of himself. They are said to have been taken up by his political opponents and circulated widely. Spends Week-End Quietly Hoover has a highly developed pervous energy which induces him to eat rapidly. He always is busy. The candidate has arranged • a busy week of political conferences, starting today. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, who is swinging his faction in the State with Hoover, was the visitor of the day. Tuesday will come Mayor Rolph of San Francisco to arrange for the welcoming ceremony there, probably pext Friday or Saturday. At the same time Senator Sam Shortridge Will call to pay his respects. Other political leaders of the Pacific coast region are arranging for visits later in the week. The nominee spent the week-end quietly at his home. He and Mrs. Hoover went for an automobile ride after they had attended non-de-pominational church services in the college chapel along with students and members of the faculty. NAB 2 OF 4 PRISONERS Escaped Reformatory Inmates Captured by Police. Two of four prisoners, who escaped Friday night from the Indiana Reformatory at Pendleton Friday pight, had been recaptured today. Freedom of William Poland, 20, of 215 S. Warman Ave., came to an abrupt end when police caught him at Orchard Ave. and Thirty-Fourth Sts., late Saturday. Noblesville officers gave chase to two of the prisoners, Luther Gates of Lafayette, Ind., and James Loucks, and captured Gates. Loucks was seen to fall after officers opened fire, but reached a cornfield and escaped. HOLIDAY IS BURIED £ivil War Veteran Laid to Rest at Crown Hill Cemetery. Henry T. Holiday, 33, a Civil war Veteran who died Thursday, was buried Saturday afternoon in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Holiday died at the home of Iris daughter, Mrs. M. T. Strieker, 402 N. Temple Ave., where funeral services were held, with the Rev. Ibert J. raulding, pastor of the East Pa. . Methodist Episcopal church, officiating. WOMAN TAKES POISON * (Girl-Wife Tries Suicide When Mate Goes for Car Ride. When her husband, Wayne Hanard, told her he had a date With another woman and then rode past in a car with a woman, Mrs. Mary Ranard, 19, of Apt. 9, at 407 6. Alabama St., drank poison late Sunday, according to police. Police pent her to the city hospital where her condition improved today. Uruguay, China Back Hughes United Press GENEVA, July 23.—Uruguay and China today nominated Charles Evans Hughes for the vacant JJudgeship in the world court at The Hague. Hughes’ election is regarded as almost certain provided pe is willing to accept.

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(Above)—Brother officers, five of them members of the squad at his station, acted as pallbearers at the funeral Saturday afternoon of Paul Miller, motorpoliceman killed by a bandit while on duty. Members of Beech Grove lodge No. 694, F. & A. M., formed a guard of honor through which his comrades carried Miller’s body. ' /

FOUR HELD AFTER SUNDATBRAWLS Knives, Hatchet Figure in Bloody Fights. Knives, a hatchet and fists figured in bloody battles Sunday and as a result four of the fighters are facing assault and battery charges in city prison today. Cornelius Simmons, 62, of 113 S. California St., is alleged to have struck Irene Scott, 32, same address, in the head with a hatchet. She was taken to city hospital, where the gash was treated, and later held for drunkenness. Simmons and George Holman, also of the California St. place, were held on assault and battery charges, the former with intent to kill. John Troy, 535 W. Merrill St., is held for driving while intoxicated, assault and battery and resisting an officer. He was arrested after police investigated the report that a woman was held captive in an automobile near Ohio St. and Senate Ave., and badly beaten on the head. They found her covered with blood. She said her name was Mary Troy and the man was her husband. She was taken to city hospital. Leslie Barnext, 23, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, beat John Bridges, 35, after he attacked Barnett with a knife, following an argument at the home of Miss Agatha Courtney, 510 E. Ohio St., according to report to police. Barnett is held for assault and battery. NEW LEGION ADJUTANT APPOINTED BY M’HALE Pleas E. Greenlee, Shelbyville, to Succeed J. 11. Klinger. Pleas E. Greenlee, Shelbyville, was named State adjutant of the American Legion by Frank McHale, Logansport, State commander, Sunday. Greenlee succeeds John H. Klinger, whose resignation was accepted at the same time. Greenlee, a native of Rush County, served in Battery E, 150th Field Artillery, which was the Indiana National Gaurd unit assigned to the Rainbow Division. He was president of the Indiana Rainbow Division Veterans’ Association last year. Klinger resigned to accept a position with the Hoosier Manufacturing Company, Newcastle, and will travel in Texas for the concern. Greenlee will bring his wife and two children to Indianapolis to live, and will assume active charge of the office in the American Legion Bldg, here, Aug. 1. PILGRIMAGE PLANNED Locked-Out Workers to Visit Gravt of Lafayette. B i/ Times Special KENOSHA, Wis., July 23.—A long and picturesque automobile parade will wend its way across Wisconsin Wednesday when the locked-out young workers of the Allen A Hosiery Company will make a pilgrimage to grave of late Senator Robert La Follette at Madison, 300 strong. They will be led by Louis Francis Budenz of New York, editor of Labor Age. They will place a wreath on the La Follette grave on which is inscribed “to the outstanding opponent of injunctions from those who have suffered from injunction.” The parade will go through Racine, Milwaukee, Oconomowoc and other cities. The pilgrims will be met by a special police escort at Madison, and after visiting the grave will be given a dinner by Madison unions. Swindler Works at Hospital Bn Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., July 23.—A swindler who obtained $36 while using the Reid Memorial Hospital here as a base of operations, is at large and police are without a clew to his identity. He obtained the money by having deliveries of goods made to him at the hospital, ordering by phone and asking that change for S2O be brought. University President Dies .B;/ United Press LOUISVILLE, July 23.—Dr. George Colvin, 53, president of the University of Louisville, died here Sunday after an operation for appendicitis last Wednesday. Dr. Colvin, a prominent Republican, was candidate for Governor four years ago.

BANDITS ILL-PAID IN WEEK-END FORAYS

Filling Station Safe Is Looted of $80; Truck Owner Robbed. Burglars and bandits were ill-paid for their week-end activities here. A bandit who held up the Standard Oil Filling Station at Meridian and Thirteenth Sts., early Sunday at the point of a gun, forced William Graham, 122 V/. Thirteenth St., to open the safe, made off with SBO. Two men boarded a truck, driven by Mike Radef, baker, of 35 S. California St., at Harding and Washington Sts., late Saturday, and sticking a gun in his ribs, took $59. Second story men who used a ladder to enter the home of P. M. Smith, 439 W. Twenty-Ninth St., Sunday while the family was away, got 40 cent': for their’pains. They were frigtened away from the home of O. E. Newman, 435 W. TwentyNinth St. Grocery Is Looted M. L. Mote opened his grocery at 644 E. Fifty-Second St. today to find it had been ransacked by a burglar. He could not estimate the loss. Two dozen bottles of ginger ale and a quantity of cigarets, all valued at sls, were stolen by thieves, who broke into a Kroger grocery at 5375 College Ave., Sunday night, the manager, R. A. Keys, reported. Apartments of three families, Clifford M. Rigsbee, Gordon Brown and Buleah Tevebaugh, at 1637 Broadway, were ransacked Sunday, but nothing stolen, police were told. Four girls’ bathing suits were stolen from the automobile of S. M. Goldsmith, 4516 Washington Blvd., parked at 40 E. Washington St., Sunday, he told police. Jumps Off Porch Roof Unable to drive away in a car which Jack Bernstein, Wesley Hotel, parked in front of the Wesley Sunday, a thief stole tools, robe, goggles, laundry and a law book from the car, Bernstein told police. A prowler fled from the home of Mrs. C. O. Clements, 631 Beville Ave., Sunday night when Mrs. Clements’ daughter, Georgeanna, 32, screamed. Police were unable to find the man said to have jumped from the front porch roof at the home of Harvey Applegate, 3 a. m. today, when Applegate’s daughter, Emily, 13, awakened as the man was entering the window. WOMAN, 7 MEN NABBED William Reuter Arrested for Packing Beer in Suit Cases. William Reuter, 1135 Vincennes St., was charged with operating a blind tiger after a police squad in charge of Sergt. John Eisenhut discovered him packing beer in suit cases. A noisy party at 15 Frank St., attracted the same squad. They saw Charles Adams, of that address, pouring out white mule to a woman and six men. All were arrested. OPEN 0. E. S. PARLEY 3,500 Delegates Attend World Meeting at Denver. Bn United Press DENVER, July 23.—A formal reception by State and city officers of the Eastern Star tonight will open the nineteenth triennial international assembly of the order. Approximately 3,500 delegates are attending the confeemce from all sections of the United States, Canada, Scotland, China, Alaska, Nova Scotia, Philippine Islands, New Brunswick, Cuba, Canal Zone, Mexico, Porto Rico and Prince Edward Island. Revision of the Eastern Star ritual, unchanged since 1900, and plans for a $5,000,000 memorial temple in Washington, D. C., are the most important matters of business to be discussed. FIST THROUGH DOOR Severed Artery Sewed at Hospital for City Man. Otto Schopp, 45, of 147 Douglass St., reached for the door knob at his home early today and pushed his fist through the glass. At the city hospital a severed artery was sewed and he was returned home.

Small Fry , Cal Bn United Press SUPERIOR, Wis., July 23. The fishing laurels of President Coolidge have been challenged —and by a woman member of the summer White House colony. Mrs. Osmun Latrobe, wife of Colonel Latrobe, military aide to the president, landed a five-pound bass during a week-end excursion to Metzer Lake, fifteen miles from the summer White House. This beats in size any fish landed this summer by Mr. Coolidge. Everett Sanders and Mrs. Sanders accompanied the Latrobes on the trip.

OLO6E GIRGLERS SET NEW MARK Two Men and Dog End Trip in 23 Days. Bn United Press NEW YORK, July 23.—Two men and a dog, who have been moving rather rapidly in recent weeks, really rested today for the first time since June 29. On that day C. B. D. Collyer. Henry Mears and their Sealyham terrier left the Battery in a seaplane and went out to sea to board the Olympic bound for Cherbourg. Sunday night, twenty-three days, fifteen hours, twenty-one minutes and three seconds later, they rode up to the Battery in a police car. In that time they had set anew record for circling the globe. Their round-the-world flight had been made by airplane, ship, ferry and automobile and broke the record of 28:14:31 made in 1926 by Linton Wells and Edward S. Evans. The last leg of the journey was the hardest, according to Collyer, who piloted their Pratt and Whit-ney-engined Fairchild monoplane, on all the overland flights. Between 5:30 a. m. and 6:45 p. m. they flew through the fog from Minneapolis to New York, landing at Miller Field on Staten Island and completing the journey to the Battery by automobile. The National Aeronautical Association clocked their arrival and entered it as anew world record. Fall to Sell Famed Ranch in Southwest Bn United Press DENVER, July 23.—The famous ranch of Albert B. Fall in southern New Mexico, soon will pass from the hands of the former Secretary of Interior, according to Clay Mann, president of the Mann Commission Company of San Angelo and Dallas, Texas. Mann said here today that he had contracted for purchase of the ranch for SBOO,BOO in behalf of the Emipre Sheep and Land Company of Texas. The company, which plans large scale sheep raising on the property, will not take possession for at least four months. The Fall ranch, embracing some 750,000 acres, is one of the best known districts of the southwest. Mann said Fall decided that affairs of the ranch were too great a burden for him. Found Too Dry for Jury Bn United Press ROCKVILLE CENTER, L. 1., July 2C. —William F. Varney, prohibition candidate for President, was called as a juror in a prohibition case, but was dismissed when the defendant’s attorneys said Varney would be prejudiced. Confiscate Guns in Mail Bit United Press NEW YORK, July 2’.—The New York postoffice in the last few months has confiscated 150 pistols and revolvers and many rounds of ammunition.

DEMOCRATS TO MAKE SORE OF SOLJOJOOTH Hooverites Campaign Stirs Leaders to Guard Against Danger. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK. July 23.—Keeping the Solid South solid is a phase of the Democratic presidential situation which will receive attention in conferences here this week between Chairman John J. Raskob, of the national committee and his political lieutenants. -- Raskob will meet with his executive committee today on his return from a week-end at his home in Maryland and during the next few days will advise with members of the advisory committee, headed by Senator Gerry of Rhode Island. They will begin to arrive today. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, who is expected today will bring information of the situation in the South. No real alarm is felt about the South. Leaders believe it will go Democratic as usual. But the appointment of G. Bascom Slemp, Republican strategist, to wage a vigorous campaign for Herbert Hoover in the South following closely upon the Asheville dry conference has attracted attention among Democratic leaders and they want to meet any threat that might arise. They realize there always is a chance the unusual may happen, especially in politics, and they want to be prepared for it. In the conference this week, they will canvass the situation to find if there is any danger at any point. Slemp is expected to center his campaign in North Carolina, Tennessee. i Florida and Texas. Radio Delays All Bn United Press ALBANY, N. Y„ July 23. The tentative presidential campaign of Alfred E. Smith may have to be materially altered, it developed today as a result of a hitch in securing radio facilities for broadcasting the notification speech. Asa result, it is probable that a revision of the tentative schedule will be made and that it will call for more speeches in the large centers of population by the Government. The notification date probably will be determined early this week, j negotiations between representatives; of the Government, radio stations and radio advertisers being scheduled to conclude today or Tuesday. An attitude of silence toward his notification speech has been adopted by Smith. He will not dis- : close a single detail of it, although willing to make general statements to the effect that it will cover all planks in his platform. There is a possibility that he soon will confer with Governor Albert Ritchie of Maryland in Albany. FLOUIMED Am: Scheme Against Alfonso of Spain Balked. Bn United Press PARIS, July 23.—Discovery of an extensive plot to kill King Alfonso of Spain had resulted tolay in the arrest in the south of France of nine anarchists. Other arrests are expected. Spanish police, it was revealed, informed French authorities last week that an attempt was to be made to kill Alfonso when he crossed the frontier to help open the new railway tunnel under the Pyrenees. Secret service men on both sides of the frontier became active, and in southe-n France all known anarchists were shadowed. Alfonso made his visit in safety under heavy guard. THINKS CAT IS BURGLAR Police Answer Woman’s Call, Find Feline on Tin Roof. “What’s that?” “Only the cat!” This bit of Gilbert and Sullivan comedy was enacted shortly after midnight Sunday, by Mrs. Mabel Gray, proprietor of a grocery at 333 W. New York St. Sure that she had heard a burglar attempting to enter the store, she called Cyrus Taylor, an employe, who lives at the Gray home above the establishment, who confirmed the mysterious noises. Police were called. They ound that a cat crossing a tin roof in the rear of the store was the cause. MATES DUEL WITH GUNS Negro Woman Injured, Husband Missing After Street Battle. A revolver duel between man and wife ensued when William Brown, 37, Negro, 739 W. Michigan St., found his wife Mary, 28, walking with another man at Michigan ad Bright Sts. at 2:40 a. m. today. Mrs. Brow i w’as taken to city hospital, with a slight bullet wound in her neck. She said she shot her husband twice, but police were unable to find him. 15,000 AT PARK FROLIC Anderson almost moved bodily to Broad Ripple park Sunday on the occasion of the annual Delco-Remy plart outing. It was estimated 15,000 members of the several plants and their families participated. They were transported here in chartered busses, fifteen interurbans, railroads and an estimated 2,500 automobiles. Prizes of SI,OOO were awarded contest winners. Twenty-five thousand strip tickets were issued to DelcoRemy badge holders during the day.

CRASH ENDS BOY’S DREAM OF CAREER

I Proud Father in Greece to Hear Sorrowful News by Cablegram, | Max Scures today had need of i that vaunted ability of his Spartan ancestors to face pain with silent fortitude. Some time today a cablegram was to arrive in the ancient Grecian city from Indianapolis telling Max Scures that his son Christopher, 22, who to have been the pride of the Scures line, is dead. School Record Praised The youth was killed in an automobile accident on the National Rd., west of the city Sunday. The elderly father returned to his Spartan home more than a year ago after visiting his children in this country. Technical teachers said Scures was an unusually brilliant student, completing the four-year course in three years. He had worked his way through high school and was employed at Hook’s Drug Store soda counter, Illinois and Market Sts., when death cut short his ambition to be a doctor. Hoped to Practice Here He had hoped to practice medicine here after completing his

BOARD TO POSH NEW SCHOOLS Meets Tuesday to Approve Contracts. A tentative 1929 school building program will be outlined by school commissioners Tuesday at 11 a. m.. it was announced today by Albert F. Walsman, business director. The board hopes, Walsman said, to relieve crowded conditions at sever:.! grade buildings without creati: : ;iy new bond issue burdens. 1 Loard will approve contracts of architects and engineers for construction of schools 80, 43, 47 and 66, the latter three additions. The board has received authority from 1 the State tax board to advertise for and submit bids on the four buildings. for which a $600,000 bond issue is proposed, to the tax board. Plans will not be ready for advertising for ten days or two weeks, it was said. Among buildings the board hopes to relieve from present crowded conditions, Walsman said, are schools 20, 21, 39, 42, 44, 49 and 81. The board also will act on bids for coal, Shortridge High School linoleum and accoustical installations, courses of study, vacuum pumps and scrubbing machines. REPORT AUTO HOLDUP BY GANG NEAR CITY Clinton, Ind., Victims Tell of Robbery by Letter. Police today had one more automobile to add to the list of those held up by a trio of bandit cars on the night of July 17. The bandits activities were finally curtailed by the killing of two of them in a Buick coupe. The killing was the I result of a gun battle between the! bandit pair and police. The latest victims to report sent a letter to the chief from their homes at Clinton, Ind. They are Charles and Clyde Wessell, Clyde McKinnon, Mrs. Beck Gaithers and two children. They were in the Wessel car en route from Clinton to Detroit, Mich. About eleven miles east of Indianapolis on the National Rd., they were brought to a stop by the Buick, a Whippet and a Studebaker. All three of these machines later were identified by police as having been used by the bandits in a series of light holdups during the night. The bandits dismounted and flashing guns searched every one of the party. Loot was small, totaling only a few dolars and a bunch of keys taken from Clyde Wessel. ARRANGE G. A. R. PICNIC Annual picnic for Marion County members of the G. A. R. will be given Wednesday in Garfield Park, by the Federated Patriotic Societies, affiliated with the G. A. R. Mrs. Lulu Hartzog is general chairman. She will be assisted by Mrs. Theodosia Sheldon, Mrs. Frances Bilyou, and Mrs. Emma Finch, committee chairmen.

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Max Scures. Sparta, Greece, and his son Christopher, who was killed in an auto accident Sunday.

work at Butler University and Indiana Medical School. Scures rapidly became Americanized on his coming to this country nearly ten years ago. He was a member of the Greek Orthodox Church. James Demas. brother-in-law, who owns a restaurant at 467 W. Washington St., said burial probably will be delayed until arrival of Scures’ brother, Sam, who lives at Huntington Park, Cal. Scures made his home with his sister, Mrs. Pauline Demas. Another sister living at Chester, Ind., also survives.

IDENTIFY SLAIN NEGRO Murder Suspect Gives Self Up at Police Headquarters. Frank James Jones. 35, Negro, of 609 Blake St., surrendered at police headquarters Saturday night and was charged with murder. Police said the arrest cleared the mystery surrounding finding of the body of a Negro, with the head near severed, at 527 Patterson St., early Saturday. After several arrests, the body was i identified as that of J. w. Sampson, ; 28, addressed undetermined. BANKROG6ERS GETJO TEARS Two Youths Plead Guilty; Given Minimum. The Z present war on banditry . '.-wry in Marion County today resulted in the sentencing of two youths to ten years each in the State prison for robbery of the Central State Bank, 2962 Central Ave., by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Unconditional pleas of guilty were laid before Judge Collins, who passed the minimum sentence after hearing statements of those who participated. A last minute, dramatic appeal for clemency by Claude F. Park, 25, of 504 E. Raymond St., failed. Arthur McGinnis, 24, who says he has no home, said nothing as sentence was passed, asking for no clemency. Orville Denbo, 1819 Ruckle St., assistant cashier, who faced the muzzle of McGinnis’ revolver July 13, and heard it snap twice, but misfired, told his story of the holdup and how he fired three shots at the fleeing bandit. Bank robbery is punishable by any determinate period between ten years and life. By the pleas of guilty, the two youths can escape prison bars for ten years only by a Governor’s pardon. They are not eligible for parole under ten years. SCOUTS TO HOLD FETE Proceeds of Affair Will Go to Mountain Troop 69 Hut. Boy Scout Troop 69 will hold a lawn fete at Thirty-Fourth St. and Capitol Ave. Saturday afternoon and evening to raise funejs for maintaining Utley hut, troop headquarters at Thirty-Eighth St. and Boulevard PI. Two band concerts by the city scout head, under the leadership of F. O. Belzer, scout executive, will feature the program. Four members of Troop 69—John Utley, Frank Martz, Kenneth Hill and Charles Hoyt—are in the band. CLUB TO HEAR DAILEY Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee for Governor, will address Indianapolis Kiwanians at luncheon Wednesday at the Claypool. Eli Schloss will preside. Harry G. Leslie, the Republican nominee for Governor, will address the Kiwanis Club Aug. 1.

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VIOLENT DEATH FATE OF 15 ON WEEK-END LIST Autos Lead as Cause of Fatalities; Three Persons Drown. Violence took a toll of fifteen lives in Indiana over the week end. With automobiles leading as causing most of the fatalities, there was one ! slaying and three drownlngs. Howard Mohr, 23. Ben Davis, and | Christopher Squeoures, 28, 344 N. j Pine St., killed in auto collisions at a point on the National Rd., half mile west of Ben Davis. Miss Mildred Edwards, 23. of 1205 Park Ave., killed when auto she was driving crashed into a tree on State Rd. 31, south of Indianapolis. Frank Orr, 35, Switzerland County, killed when an auto overturned near Patriot. Slays Complaining Patron A. Andero, Hammond soft drink parlor patron, was killed by R. Margura, another patron, who fired once and hit after Andero shot six times in protest against what he said was slow service. Betty Beckett, 18 months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Beckett, Muncie, was drowned when she walked off a pier into Round Lake, near Columbia City, where she was with her parents at their summer cottage. Floyd Ingrim, 14, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ingrim, living north of ; Westfall, drowned while bathing in a gravel pit. Youth Dies in Lake Paul Daiella, 16, Indiana Harbor, drowned while swimming in Lake Michigan. Victor Giocoletti, 50, was killed near Jacksonville when a shotgun he was carrying was accidentally discharged as he climbed over a fence. Louis Shaffer, 17, near Pierceton, was killed instantly when struck by lightning while working on a farm. Omer C. DeSelma, 60, Logansport optometrist, committed suicide by poisoning. Business reverses lead to the tragedy. Howard Taylor, 37. Ft. Wayne, lineman employed by the Indiana Service Corporation, was killed when he came in contact with a wire carrying 4,400 volts of electricity. Adam Ebler, 83, Washington, despondent over the infirmities of age, killed himself by hanging. Wesley Spencer, 52, Boone County farmer, shot himself to death. Mrs. Amanda Blanche, Michigantown, ended her life with poison. FRANKLIN COUPLE IN HOSPITAL ‘HONEYMOON’ Married Just Before Bridegroom Undergoes Operation. Mr. and Mrs. Russell E. J. Wert of Franklin, will start for home in a few days from Indianapolis where they are spending their “honeymoon” in the Methodist Hospital. The bride, who was Miss Gladys i Owens and Wert started for this j city Wednesday to be married, but j before starting, Wert was stricken 1 with appendicitis and was brought to the Methodist Hospital. They were married Thursday while surgeons were preparing him for the operation. Dr. George M. Smith, hospital superintendent, officiated. The appendicitis operation was performed Friday, and the pa-tient-groom is resting easily. ROUTS 2 CAR THIEVES Men “Stripping” Auto Run When Motorist Stops to Offer Aid. An automobile believed to be owned by Albert Richardson, Bloomington, Ind., and thought to be stolen was found at Bluff Rd. and Illinois Central Railroad tracks late Saturday night. A1 Staley, 616 E. North St., passed and thought two men working on the car were in trouble and stopped. The men ran. Police found all the tire lugs had been removed. Double Funeral of Brothers By Times Special ALEXANDRIA, Ind., July 23. Double funeral services were held today for Oran King, 50, and William King, 60, brothers and farmers, who lived within half a mile of each other and whose deaths were separated by less than twenty-four hours. Oran King died of injuries suffered when gored by a cow. The other brother succumed to illnes.

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