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SPEED EFFORT TO RESCUE 31 IN SUNKEN SUB Divers Encircle Craft With Chains 100 Feet Below Surface of Sea. AWAIT CALMER WATER Crew of Italian Vessel Is Trapped When Cruiser „ Is Rammed. BY THOMAS B. MORGAN United Press Staff Correspondent ROME, Aug. 7.—Chains were affixed today to the submarine F-14, lying 100 feet beneath the surface of the Adriatic Sea after a collision with the destroyer Missouri. Officials had every hope that with the arrival of calm weather the two officers and twenty-nine men aboard would be saved. The little submarine rammed the destroyer during maneuvers off Brioni Island, near the southern tip of the Istria peninsula, and sank slowly to the bottom. Rescue work was begun immediately. Airplanes circled overhead, and despite the usual roughness of the water, were able-to sight the stricken ship. Tap Messages to Crew The scout cruiser Brindisi was standing by, and began efforts immediately to establish contact with the craft. Divers were sent down and they at once established “acoustic” communication with the submarine by tapping on the steel hull. In command of the ship were Commander Wieland Ensing Fasulo, both known as valorous officers who would be at their best in an emergency. They tapped out that they were all right, and that the crew would be able to subsist for a long time. Word of the disaster was flashed to the Pola Naval Base, and all available ships of all classes put out under forced draft for the scene. Chains Around Ship By this morning telephone communication had been established between the F-14 and the -ccut cruiser Aquila, that was standing by close above it. A little later divers, with apparently little difficulty, succeeded in inserting air tubes into the ship. Finally chains were let down and divers managed to encircle the submarine with them, giving hope of early rescue to the men imprisoned. Admiral Foschini personally is directing the work, which is being hindered by the rough water. Officials at the Navy Department here are optimistic over the chance of raising the submarine as soon as the water subsides, particularly as the F-14 is of small dimensions. Old Type of Sub The R-14 is an old type of submarine. she was launched in 1917, and is of 255 tons. Her length is 147.5 feet. She carried two torpedo tubes and one three-inch gun. Her speed was thirteen knots on the surface and eight submerged. From early investigation by divers, it is apparent that the submarine was struck in the stern, although it seems not with such violence as to flood her compartments. MAKE NEW $1 BILLS One-Third Smaller Than Old-Style Currency. Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—The United States Bureau of Engraving j and Printing today started producing new one dollar bills which are about one-third smaller than the present paper currency in circulation. QUAKES RAZE 3 TOWNS Temblors in Mexico Spread Terror and Destruction. L\ii United Press MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7.—Tuxtepec, Huazolotitlan and San Pedrito, in Oaxaca state, were destroyed in Saturday’s earthquake, delayed dispatches said today, and heavy damage was done at Jamiltepec, Pinotepa and other towns. Shocks continued at Pinotepa Monday to the terror of the population. Ida Tarbell to Aid A1 By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—lda Tarfcell, woman writer and historian, today was made a member of the advisory board which will direct the campaign for Governor Alfred E. Smith among the women of the country. She is widely known for a history she has written of the Standard Oil Corporation.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 66

Miracle Deal Bu United Press LONDON, Aug. 7.—The one chance in 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 has occurred. Four bridge players at the United Berkeley Club. Knightsbridge, London, were dealt a hand, each consisting of a complete suit. The deck had been played with several times, and it was shuffled and cut in the usual manner. The dealer called a grand slam in hearts; second player bid seven spades; and thus the third and fourth players, possessing respectively all the diamonds and club, were unable to reveal their strength in the auction.

PIERCE MERGER GETS APPROVAL Stockholders 0. K. Combine With Studebaker. Bjj United Press BUFFALO, Aug. 7.—The stockholders of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company here today approved the plan of reorganization and the formation of anew company, to be closely affiliated with theJStudebaker Corporation, it was announced by Myron E. Forbes, president of the former concern. Under the terms of the plan which have been approved by the PierceArrow directors, the Studebaker Corporation will invest $2,000,000 in the new company, receiving in return all the Class B new common stock. Studebaker’s selling organization will be put behind the new company in the hope of increasing Pierce-Arrow production to 15,000 units yearly. The combined assets will total $160,000,000. The new company will be headed by Myron E. Forbes and A. R. Erskine, president of Studebaker, will be chairman o fthe board. BAN CIRCLE PARKING Council to Reconsider Move at Next Session. Council Monday night passed an ordinance abolishing parking on Monument Circle, but the measure is to be reconsidered at the next council session. Albert F. Meurer, one of the opponents of the measure, changed his vote on the ordinance and announced he will file a mcNcn for reconsideration at the next meeting. Motorists should have some consideration on downtown thoroughfares, Meurer said. The council passed ordinances providing for a $125,000 temporary loan for the board of health to meet expenses in starting the city hospital construction program and for extension of the congested district to include Delaware St. north to North St. DEMAND GAMBLING' END Evansville Merchants to Ask Action by City Council. Bn Time's Special EVANSVILE, Ind., Aug. 7.—Representative merchants here will make a demand at the meeting of the city council Aug. 20 that law enforcement agencies “close forever all gambling dives in Evansville.” Declaring existence of “flagrant lack of law enforcement in Evansville,” the merchants charge thousands of dollars are diverted from useful channels due to gambling and that needy families are the result. ARREST 39 MOTORISTS Failure to Obey Stickers Brings i Autoists to Court. Arrests of motorists who had failed to obey sticker summons to police headquarters swelled Monday’s arrest total to 118. Thirty-nine motorists who had failed to visit headquarters and pay $2 fines for minor traffic law violations were placed under arrest by district patrolmqn and ordered into | municipal court. y SU al eged speeders also were slated. Six alleged blind tiger operators and six persons charged with public intoxication were arrested. Twenty-eight were slated on vagrancy charges.

NORMAL FOOT CONTEST ENDS THURSDAY AT PARK

Finalists in The Times Normal Foot Contest will be judged at the open-air theater in Broad Ripple Park, Thursday, during the annual convention 'outing of the National Association of Chiropodists-Podi-atrists at the park. Dr. Joseph Lelyveld, director of educational research for the association, announced that a group of eminent foot specialists, here for the convention, would do the judging. Dr. Lelyveld is now going through the numerous photographs of entrants in the contest to select those eligible for the finals. Any woman or girl wishing to enter the contest may have her feet photographed without charge by coming to The Times office bet wen 11:30 and 1. today or Wednesday. All entries must

REED TO FACE CRUCIAL TEST IN VOTETODAY Senator Backs Wet to Win , His Seat in Missouri Primary Election. SITTER BREAK IN PARTY Charles Hay, Dry Lawyer, Is Rival Candidate and Jim’s Old Foe. BY FOSTER EATON United Press Staff Correspondent ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Aug. 7.—A wet and dry test vote with the political reputation ol United States Senator James A. Reed at stakes was in progress throughout Missouri today as voters of the State cast ballots in the biennial primary. The issue of prohibition was sharply drawn as the most important in Missouri when Reed, on his return from the Houston convention, publicly espoused the cause of a wet Democratic candiate for the Senate seat he now holds. James A. Collet of Salisbury, Mo., one of Reed’s life-long friends and a prohibition foe won the senior senator’s support against Charles M. Hay, a dry Democratic attorney of St. Louis and admittedly Reed’s bitterest political and personal enemy. Called “Another Heflin” “I am not in favor of Missouri sending to the Senate another Tom Heflin,” Reed declared in a caustically worded statement issued in behalf of Collet. He denounced Hay for allegedly referring to him in a campaign speech six years ago “in language that would have befouled the lips of denizens of the gutter.” Reed’s enmity for Hay goes back to the fight, now historic in Missouri circles, when Democrats of the State, led by Hay, denied him a seat in the San Francisco national Democratic convention, because of Reed's anti-league of nations course after the war. Wants Capital Changed Aside from Hay and Collet, the Democratic senatorial primary includes Robert I. Young, St. Joseph, a perennial candidate of little political following who is not expected to poll any appreciable vote. His platform includes a demand that the national capital be moved from Washington to St. Joseph. Six Republicans are contesting the nomination honor of their party to succeed Reed. United States Senator Harry B. Hawes, Reed’s junior colleague, has taken no definite sides in nls party's primary fight, confiriing himself to an appeal for party harmony. His term does not expire untU 1933. No Harmony Left Party harmony, however definitely was kicked into the discard by Reed’s espousal of Collet’s wet candidacy against Hay’s dry platform. Hay consistently has advocated strict enforcement, endorsed the principle of prohibition, and stated he -Stood “squarely or; the Houston platform.” He differed with Reed over the interpretation of Governor Alfred E. Smith’s telegram to the convention after Smith’s nomination. Where Reed asserted the telegram “definitely brought prohibition into the campaign so that it cannot be avoided,” Hay took the position the platform was broad enough to permit both allegiance to Smith and to the enforcement stand of the Houston prohibition plank. ARREST NINE STRIKERS Police Break up Pickets in Fall ] River Walk-Out. Bn United Press FALL RIVER. Mass., Aug. 7. j Nine arrests were made here today when police dispersed about forty pickets at the American Printing Company’s plant, where several hundred workers went on strike Monday. It brought the total arrests to twenty, eleven other pickets having been taken into custody Monday night.

be received not later than 1 p. m. Wednesday. The winner of the Indianapolis ocntest will receive a silver loving cup and a cash prize. She will be eligible to compete in the national contest against winners in many other cities. Several other prizes are offeree:, including one for the smallest foot entered in the contest. The size of the foot will have no bearing in deciding the winner of the Normal Foot Contest, however. The foot decided to be the most normal will be the healthiestr the one which is most free from any foot ills or deformity. Enter your foot in the contest today. It may win a prize for you. Call at The Times office between 11:30 and 1 o’clock for a free photographic sitting.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, AUG. 7, 1928

Mansion Is Center of Love Suit

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—Photo by Charles F. Bretzman. Riverdale Springs, mansion of the late James A. Allison, from which Mrs. Sara C. Allison (below) alleges she was barred when Mrs. Lucille Allison alienated the affections of Mz Allison from her.

HEIRS PETITION TO BALK WIDOW SHARING IN ESTATE OF EX-GOVERNOR TAYLOR

Charge Incompetence and Ante-Nuptial Pact Forfeiting Claims. Four heirs of W. S. Taylor, exiled Governor-elect of Kentucky, who last week died here where he has lived since he fled from Kentucky j in 1900, today took the first step in J a move to prevent his widow, Mrs. j Nora Taylor, a second wife, from j sharing in his estate. A petition was filed in Probate j Court by Attorney William H. Faust, I representing the heirs, children by a j first - wife, charging that Mrs. Taylor j is incompetent to administer the | estate and asking appointment of Municipal Judge Dan V. White as j administrator. The heirs signing the petition are ! Mrs. E. Leo Davidson, Mrs. Merrill Wilson, Mrs. Irvin Miller, all of In- ! dianapolis, and Mrs. Letha Bailey, Columbus, Ohio. The petition declared that Mrs. Taylor is not entitled to share in the distribution of the estate because prior to her marriage to Mr. Taylor she entered Into an antenuptial agreement relinquishing all claims to Mr. Taylor’s property in consideration of their marriage and his release of all share in her property. According to Faust, Mr. Taylor took steps before his death to provide for the widow and their 12- 1 year-old son. A few days before his death Taylor deeded their home at 2143 N. Delaware St., to his son and turned some other property over to Mrs. Taylor, Faust, said. The Probate Court petition also cites disputes between the heirs as a reason Mrs. Taylor should not be named administratrix. Mr. Taylor died last Thursday at the age of 74. The estate which remains to be distributed to the heirs is estimated at from $12,000 to $20,000. REROUTE BUS LINES Beech’ Grove, Ben Davis and Sunshine Garden Cars Affected. Rerouting of the Beech Grove, Ben Davis and Sunshine Gardens bus lines in the downtown district was to be ordered this afternoon by the board of safety. New routes were not announced at the morning session but will be on recommendation of Traffic Inspector Capt. Lester Jones. Fred W. Connell, board president, announced the lines will limit the busses to traveling north of Maryland St. Heretofore the busses have run to Market St. “Market St., because of the city markpt and the general congested condition ts traffic in this section, needs all the consideration that can be given,” Connell said.

New China PEKIN. Aug. 7.—A modernization campaign is on here unde/ the auspices of Chu Feng-Wei, the new Nationalist magistrate. He has ordered Chinese women whose feet are bound, to unbind them and Chinese men who wear queues to cut them off. Opium smoking is forbidden under another edict.

HOMES ARE RANSACKED Loot Is Taken From Two Houses; Fake Laundryman Is Thief. Arthiir Stewart, 5311 E. Tenth St., reported his house ransacked and clothing valued at SIOO and a $25 cameo ring stolen. Mrs. Emma Erwin. 321% Virginia Ave., said she was visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Henry, 510 Warsaw St., and laid down her purse containing S2O. A man came in the rear door with a handkerchief over his face and took it, she told police. A fake laundryman got $75 worth of clothing from Sidney M. Smith, Apt. 206, 3540 N. Meridian St.

PALM BEACH SWEPT BY GALE OF HIGH VELOCITY

By United Press PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 7.—A gale of 65 miles an hour belocity swept Palm Beach and vicinity today from the northwest. The vicious wind was believed from the outer fringe of a hurricane east of here. At noon the only damage was to exotie plants on estates along the shore. Some palm trees were uprooted. The gale sprayed rain before it. At noon the barometer read 29.74, the lowest since the first intimation two days ago of tropical disturbance moving toward the Florida east coast. At 1 p. m. the storm appeared to be increasing. The barometer reading was 29.68. Bn United Press JUPITER, Fla., Aug. 7.—A forty-mile-an-hour northwest wind was blowing here at 10 a, m. today. WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—A hurricane “of considerable intensity, but small in diameter,” centered this morning off the southeast tip westward, the weather bureau reported today. It was indicated the ' disturbance might shift directly north, in which case it would miss

HEAT IN CITY TO CONTINUE t ; No Chance of Relief During Next 36 Hours. , Hourly Temperatures 7a. m.... 72 11 a. m.... 84 8 a. m.... 74 12 (noon).. 85 9 a. m.... 77 1p.m.... 87 10 a. m.... 80 It hot again in Indianapolis today. Every one knew it and the United States weather bureau thermometer proved it. And according to Weather Man J. H. Armirgton, there was no permanent heat wave relief in sight for the next thirty-six hours. Conditions will be ripe during that time for local thunder storms, he said, however. And if one of the storms scatters a little rain over Indianapolis tonight or Wednesday the atmosphere will cool off a few degrees, but not for long. Even if showers do come it will warm up again, he said. The mercury had mounted to 85 degrees at noon today, with prospects good that it would mount to near 90 by late afternoon. Temperatures during the morning were 4 and 5 degrees higher than for the same hours Monday. Although Monday night was several degrees hotter than the nights over the week-end, the mercury remained sereval degrees lower than during the hot nights last week. Cool breezes also added some relief. The low point of the night was 71 degrees, reached early this morning. Monday’s high temperature was 85, but the high humidity of the late afternoon made the day more disagreeable than the mercury indicated. CONFIR“ ON POLITICS Work to Meet Eastern G. 0. P. Leaders. Bn United Prer t WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Chairman Work of the Republican national committee will hold a series of conferences with party leaders in New England and Atlantic seaboard States when he returns from California, it was announced today at Republican headquarters. Earl S. Kinsley, Republican national committeman from Vermont, who is acting as Work’s assistant, is arranging for the conferences with party officials in each State. SUNDAY IS AGAINST AL Evangelist Says He Would Fight Own Brother If He Was Wet. BB United Press PITMAN, N. J., Aug. 7.—Billy Sunday, the evangelist, definitely has arrayed himself against Alfred E. Smith on the prohibition issue alone. “I would be against my own brother if he were wet,” Sunday said.

the Florida coast, but this was not certain. All vessels wdthin 300 to 400 miles north-northwest to north-north-east of the storm center were advised to exercise caution within the next twenty-four hours. Storm warnings continued from Miami to Titusville, on the east Florida coast.

AL SMITH URGED TO TOUR COUNTRY AND ‘SELL SELF’

By United Press ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 7.—lncreasing pressure is being exerted on Governor Alfred E. Smith to make an extended tour of the Nation in his campaign for the presidency ors the Democratic ticket. The Governor has been told that he cannot adhere bo his tentative program of a few speeches in widely separated parts of the country if he hopes to be successful. Some of Smith's closest, advisers, who originally agreed with the plan of a few talks, have about faced, and are advocating a swing to last at least two months, and three if pos-

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MRS. ALLISON WILL FIGHT CAPITALST’S FIRST WIFE TO FISH IN LOVE SUIT Story of Millionaire’s Battle to Stave Off Death That He Might Wed His Secretary Is Revealed. OXYGEN USED TO MAINTAIN LIFE Array of Legal Talent Marshalled for One of Most Sensational Combats in City’s Legal History.

The story of the wedding of James A. Allison, five days before his death, probably will be one of the features of the trial of the suit by his former wife against the bride of five days for $2,000,000. The use of oxygen, his own plea to be kept alive, his insistence upon a wedding ceremony, are features of the romantic and tragic end of the career of a man who had played so important a part in the building of Indianapolis. . This is the story, as whispered by friends of Allison, who now refuse to talk or be quoted. After his divorce, Allison returned to Indianapolis in his private car. On the same train, in more plebeian surroundings, was his former wife. Use Oxygen on Patient On his arrival, Allison was ill, very ill. The use of oxygen was resorted to in an effort to keep him alive. And knowing that he was seriously ill, it, was Allison, so the story goes, who insisted that he be married at the home of his friend and partner, Carl Fisher on Long Island. Again the private car was ordered and the trip to New York begun. On arrival, he refused to permit himself to be carried from the train sheds and climbed the high range of steps to the waiting car. Physicians advised that the ceremony be most quiet and without excitement. And immediately afterwards there was a trip to Asheville, N. C„ a hurried visit to a former home which he had maintained there, and another trip back to New York. Comes Back Home Again on his return his heart gave warning that he was a very sick man. He wanted his Indianapolis doctors. He wanted the men he had trusted in former years for medical advice. He refused to send for them and chose to come back home to the city of his early struggles. Oi his arrival here he again refused to be treated as an invalid and walked through the Union Station to his car. He did not spare himself. But when he arrived at his home at Riverside, there came the collapse. Medical science was too late. The tax upon his reserves had been too heavy. And in another day he was dead. With the death of Allison, Mrs. Allison is mistress of the magnificent home, Riverdale Springs, valued at $2,000,000, and sole heir of the Allison millions. It was in this same home that she acted so long as secretary and stenographer to Allison, during which time his wife claims she brought into play innumerable wiles to steal away his affections. DRY DEBATE ON AIR Women’s Argument to Be Broadcast Tonight. Rp United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—A debate on the prohibition issue from a political standpoint will be broadcast tonight by two of America’s foremost women, Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt, assistant. United States attorney general, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, special adviser to Governor Alfred E. Smith, Democratic presidential nominee. Both women will analyze the prohibition planks in the Republican and Democratic platforms and also discuss the social and economic aspects of the dry statute. Twenty-one stations will broadcast the debate.

sible, during which Smith would spend most of his time 'getting acquainted with the voters. A tentative program calls for a trip through the border States and then into the corn belt. While he would be expected to make speeches on such a journey, its prime purpose would be to get him out and mixing with the people "to sell” his personality. After a thorough coverage of the Middle Western States, the plan for a trip to the far West and then a return to the eastern seaboard, where the Democratic candidate would close his campaign.

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Text of Complaint on Pajte 1. Mrs. Lucille Mussett Allison, 35, the five-day bride-widow of the late James A. Allison, will fight to the finish against the $2,000,000 alienation of affections suit filed against her Monday by Mrs. Sara C. Allison, 56, the first wife, The Times learned from an authoritative source today. Mrs. Lucille Allison still was at the beautiful Allison estate, Riverdale Springs, Cold Spring Rd., unstrung from the death of her husband’s funeral, held Monday afternoon, and the experience of facing the first wife’s suit. The younger Mrs. Allison maintained a frozen silence regarding the suit. Servants quietly but firmly informed all who approached that the new mistress of the elaborate estate was in bed, seeing no one and would not talk with any one. Will Fight to Finish Nevertheless, it was learned that she has made up her mind to bring every resource at her command to bear in the fight to protect what she regards as much of an attack upon her late husband's good name as an effort to take from her about half the millions he left. The complaint recites a story of deliberate pillage of the love of Mr. Allison from his wife, who had helped him build up his wealth and power. This presaged a legal battle the like of which conservative Indianapolis never before has seen. Just what attorneys would be marshaled by the defense was not known. A powerful offensive was assured by the fact that Eph Inman, veteran of nearly every big legal battle staged in Indianapolis in the last score of years, is chief of staff for the plaintiff, Mrs. Allison. Inman was the original attorney for D. C. Stephenson in his murder trial, but his connection with the former grand dragon was severed during preparation of the appeal. With Inman is H. Reynolds Sampson of Miami, Fla. These two attorneys won the divorce and financial settlement granted Mrs. AllisoW No. 1 from Mr. Allison in Miami, June 27. Defense Scores First The defense already stands the victor in the first skirmish in the alienation suit. Mrs. Sara C. Allison’s attorneys had been led to believe that Mrs. Lucille Allison planned to leave the city soon after Mr. Allison's funeral Monday afternoon. The suit was filed in Superior Court Four in the middle of the afternoon. Two deputy sheriffs were despatched to the Allison estate. There they found Mrs. Allison was in retirement. The funeral was to start at 4 p. m. The deputies insisted they must see Mrs. Allison personally, but. finally Lem H. Trotter, business associate of Mr. Allisort, persuaded them to leave, with the promise that he wou'd read the summons to Mrs. Allison. Friends of the defense declared that this does not constitute personal service upon Mrs. Allison and that therefore she so far has no legal knowledge that the suit has been filed. Return Date Is Sept. 10 The return date in the case is Sept. 10. Whether another attempt to get personal service on the defendant will be made was not indicated by the plaintiff attorneys. Mrs. Allison had breakfast in bed shortly after' 8 o’clock and announced she would not arise until later in the day. Trotter was an early morning caller. He said it is very unlikely that Mrs. Allison’s silence on the suit will be broken until the case goes to trial, probably this fall, before Superior Judge Byron K. Elflott. Only evidence today of the death of Allison, after a honeymoon of five days with his former secretary, was the hushed tones of servants, as they moved quietly about the palatial home. Sees No One The few callers were told courteously and firmly that Mrs. Allison would see no one today, that she is weary and will rest throughout the day. Filing of the suit a few minutes before the Allison funeral on his pretentious estate was one of a series of sensational events of the last two months involving the Allison millions. A "deliberate and wicked” plot to steal her husband, starting in 1919 or 1920, when Miss Mussett became secretary to Allison, is laid to the young widow by the first wife, whose divorce decree was granted in Miami, June 27.