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THRONGS WILL HEAR HOOVER ‘YEnPEECH Stanford Bowl Is Prepared f* for 100,000 to Attend Acceptance Rite, rARRANGE RADIO HOOKUP f30,000,000 Will Listen to 1 Candidate's Declaration of Principles. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent PALO ALTO, Cal., Aug. 10.—The great Stanford bowl rearranged to accommodate 100,000 persons, will yawn on the plains of Santa Clara valley Saturday for the ceremony which will place'Herbert Hoover ; the Republican presidential nominee officially in the fined as a candidate. It may be the largest political rally in history. Here in the shadows yf Stanford University buildings he haunted as freshman Hoover is to be notified of his nomination, and in his acceptance speech lay down the principles upon which his campaign will be based. Ceremonies have been set to assure completion of the program by 5 p. m., Pacific coast time. The opening speech by Governor C. C. Young of California will begin at 3:50 p. m. Most of the ninetyfour radio stations broadcasting the program will start operating from Stanford at 3:30 p. m. Arrangements, which vie with .those made by Tex Rickard’s agents "for his big prize fight crowds, have been provided by the faculty end students, who themselves have handled as many as 87,000 at their big football games. Students to Aid Students in the guise of traffic officers will be dropped as far as five miles out of Palo Alto on all roads to see that the vast number of automobile visitors keeps moving Others will be stationed at points within this five-mile area to see that cars ar parked in fields near by which have been reserved for them. Some cars will have to be parked three miles from the staBusses and special automobiles manned by students almost will hide the little railroad station, awaiting the first of the special trains which will bring crowds from San Francisco, Los Angeles and lesser California points. They will carry the train s/rivals from the town a mile out to the stadium. Many to Listen In Those in charge do not know how many people will come. They have pointed out that many who might have attended such a rally in former years may now prefer to listen in on the radio, whose magic tongue is expected to describe the ceremony to 20,000,000 listeners from cost to coast and even beyond the 863)0. Only a few of the choicest sections will be reserved, and the rest of the stadium which seated 87,000 before an aditional 13,000 seats were placed upon the football field will be filled on a first-come firstserve basis. The speakers’ platform was built at the south end of the field. It is covered with American flags and emblems. At the speaker’s rostrum are a row of microphones for radio and amplification purposes. Moses to Notify The arrangements will permit every one in the crowd both to see and hear the nominee. The Hoover personal party is expected to enter the stadium through the chute beside the speaker’s stand at 3 p. m., and will circle the field ir automobiles before the nominee is escorted to the stand. Then Senator George H. Moses of New Hampshire, permanent chairman of the Kansas City convention which nominated Hoover, will make an address of notification. which will be followed by Hoover’s acceptance speech. FINDS ‘STOLEN’ TINGS Diamonds Taken From Fingers in '• Sleep Found Under Books. k Mrs. Harry Smith, 1823 Koehne Kt., who reported her wedding ring ™nd two diamond rings taken from her fingers while she was asleep on the night of Aug. 6, told police today that she had found them be--1 neath two books at her home. The rings were valued at $458. F0 U R KILLED iN 10T French Guinea Death Probe Causes Courtroom-Street Fighting. Bp United Press CAYENNE, French Guiana, Aug. 10. —Four persons were killed Thursday, including Councillor General Bouragel, and hundreds were injured in fighting in streets and courtroom coincident with the opening of an investigation of the'death of Jean Galmot, former French deputy. Golmot, a political power who was involved in the great French rum scandal five years ago, died in mysterious circumstances. Rumors that he had been poisoned by political enemies caused the government at Paris to order iavestigatioa.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 69

City to See Flagpole King in Air

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“Shipwreck” Kelly, champion flagpole stander, pictured over a Lexington (Ky.) hotel in his spectacular endurance feat, ‘Shipwreck’ Kelly Will Go Aloft Tuesday Morning, Stay Till Satunday. “Shipwreck” Kelly, nationally famed flagpole stander, will thrill Indianapolis next week with an exhibition of endurance surpassing any stunt in the city’s history, coming here under auspices of The Times. Standing on a ten-inch disk on a flagpole high above the streets, Kelly will remain aloft for 104 hours, -13 minutes and 13 seconds, then descend and box two rounds with an Indianapolis pugilist, to prove that he still is in toptop physical condition. Kelly will perform his endurance feat atop the New Denison Hotel, at the southeast corner of Pennsylvania and Ohio Sts., flagpole, under auspices of The Times, through arrangement by his manager, Howard Fogg, today with the Denison manager, W. B. Smith. He will ascend at 9 a. m. Tuesday and remain on his dizzy perch without sleep until Saturday afternoon. Stunt Is Hazardous The stunt, according to experts, is one of the most novel and most hazardous ever attempted and puts in the shade such feats as endurance automobile drives and all so-called perch acts. The flagpole stunt marks anew high point in an adventurous career. Born in the Bronx thirty-five years ago, Kelly started looking up at an early age and was a human fly when yet in school. He has doubled for movie stars in dangerous feats and has taken parts calling for the skill and nerve of a professional stunter for twenty-one of them. He also matte parachute jumps and figured in many other daring exploits until the World War began in 1914. Served in Four Navies During the conflict Kelly served in four navies, the French, English, Russian and American, his remarkable physical condition and agility serving to make him a superior sailor. One of the feats he performed when he came back from the war was to ride over New York City sitting on a flagpole mounted on top of an airplane traveling fifty to 100 mile's an hour. Kelly never has been a “suicide artist.” He is a physical culturist and keeps in good condition by' simple rules of health. His remarkable endurance ability, Kelly ascribes to trained nerves. Kelly’s advance Joseph T. Emmerling, is making arrangements for the boxing bout to conclude his stunt here, to prove that 104 hours atop the New Denison Hotel will not deplete his energy. DROPS DEAD AT WORK Van Camp Employe Stricken With Apoplexy While Stacking Cans. James Nard, 77, of 1324 Comer Ave., died of apoplexy while stacking cans at the Van Camp Packing Company plant in S. East St. topAy.

FLOOD PERILS STORM-SWEPT FLORIDA AREA New Danger in Hurricane Wake; Several Towns Are Menaced. LOSS IS THREE MILLIONS State Starts Repair of Heavy Damage Caused by Violent Gale. By United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla,, Aug. 10.— The hurricane-swept cities and villages of central Florida’s fruit belt were threatened with anew danger, that of flood, today. Throughout the entire area swept Wednesday and Thursday by a tropical hurricane, rivers and lakes were reported out of banks. Reports from Okeechobee City, eighteen miles ' north of Lake Okeechobee, said that the streets were filled with flood waters which threatened serious damage. Taylor’s Creek, in the same region, was reported to have swollen from Its normal width of fifteen feet to a width in some places of one mile. Town Under Water The town of St. Cloud on Lake Tohopekaliga in Osceola County was in part under water. Lake Kissimmee was swollen. Roads from Ft. Pierce on the cast coast into the interior were impissable in some places. With damage estimated at more than $3,000,000, the State marshalled all its resources today to repair the damage from its second severe hurricane in two years. An unconfirmed report that four persons had been killed west of Jupiter by the storm was the only report of loss of life. The hurricane has passed out into the Gulf of Mexico and little apprehension is felt that another storm moving through the West Indies would touch the Florida coast. Stor min Caribbean The new storm was in the Caribbean Sea, but advices from Havana said the disturbance had not reached a dangerous stage and was expected to pass south of Jamaica toward Yucatan, well away from Florida. The hurricane which devasted parts of Florida came from the sea on Tuesday and made a path fifty to one hundred miles wide across the State. It did tremendous damage to crops, particularly citrus fruits on some east coast and in central Florida, blew down trees, unroofed some houses, damaged farm building, worked havoc with wire communications, blocked roads and damaged railroads. The damage apparently was the greatest on the east coast, where the loss was estimated at perhaps $2,000,000. From Jupiter Light to Melbourne, a seventy-five-mile stretch, a great number of buldings were unroofed. Citrus crops were beaten to the ground. Communications were disrupted. Fruit Area Hard Hit In the fruit growing region of central Florida, mainly Osceola, Orange and Polk counties, the loss was estimated at approximately $1,500,000. Some damage was done to buildings The damage was not so great on the west coast. Wires were torn down and some communities were isolated. Tampa and St. Petersburg were effected only slightly. Rehabilitation work started, at once. Highways were being cleared and communications restored, especially on the east coast. Floods Isolate Towns Bp United Press WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Aug. 10.—Small communities northwest of here were isolated today as creeks and rivers went out of their banks from the heavy rains of the hurricane, which swept the peninsula. The Loxahatchee River was out of its banks and flooding citrus groves to add to storm damage. Kenansville was reported cut off, as highways were flooded.

LIGHTNING BOLT STRIKES GIRL AS SHE DARNS HOSE

As she was darning a pair of stockings in the home of Mrs. Katherine Morrison, 3408 Madison Ave., where she rooms, during the thundestorm Thursday night, a bolt of lightning passed through the body of Miss Dorothy Cottingham, 17, according to witnesses. The girl still was dazed today. Mrs. Morrison and Miss Cottingham and a party of friends just had returned from an outing at Broad Ripple Park when the storm broke. Suddenly there was a great crash, the lights flashed out and the house seemed “to shake like cardboard,” according /to Mrs. Morrison. Miss Cottingham was in the dining room darning her stockings, which she had “snagged” at the park.

INDANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUG, 10, 1928

Buddy Dies ' Little Brother Is Killed When His ‘Traffic Cop’ Is Off Duty.

BOWED with grief over the death of their youngest son, Richard. 2, in an automobile accident in front of their home Thursday night, Mr. and Mrs. William Elmer Buchanan, 1221 N. Mount St., today went through the add-

ed sorrow of informing their eldest son Billy Jr., 6. that his brother was dead. The task was made the harder by the fact that Billy Jr. for months has served as “traffic cop” for his little brother, keeping him out of the street and lecturing him on the traffic rules he had learned at

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Public School 75, Fourteenth St. and Belle View PI. Billy was relieved from his job of watch Dick for just a few minutes Thursday night, and in that brief space the child fatally was injured. * a a OTHER children were playing across Mount St. from the Buchanan home, pulling box street cars, lighted by candles, up and down the sidewalk. Billy wanted to joint them. He would not take Dick across the street. That might teach the tot the habit of going on the pavement. So, mindful of the rule his mother has rigidly enforced Billy asked permission before crossing the street. It was granted. The Buchanan family was grouped about the front of the house with visitors when little Dick, apparently wanted to join his brother, slipped between two parked cars into the street, directly into the path of the slowly moving car of Ralph Tale, 19, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Hale’s view was obscured by a double-parked car, the parents said. He jammed on his brakes, but the tot was struck and his skull fractured. The parents said he was not driving fast and did everything possible to avoid the accident. o an BILLY was among the first to reach the inert litttle form in the stret. His mother had screamed as she witnessed every detail of the tragedy. The parents rushed the child to city hospital, where he died early today. They postponed telling Billy until today. Hale was held on a technical manslaughter charge. REPORTER SEEKS TRIP TO POLE WITH BYRD High Ranking Oklahoma Boy Scout in City on Way East Bill Witt, reporter on the Oklahoma News. Oklahoma City ScrippsHoward news paper, visited Indianapolis today on his way to New York. Witt is a candidate for the berth offered to a Boy Scout by Commander Byrd on his polar trip to the south pole and is en route to New York for an interview with Byrd. He is the highest ranking scout in Oklahoma, holding sixty-four merit badges. He is an assistant scoutmaster and police reporter for the Oklahoma News. He is traveling with Col. and Mrs. B. G. Ruttencutter, Washington. D. C. TROLLEY TRAILER HOPS TRACK; SNAPS POLES Power Lines Torn Down, Truck Wrecked In Mishap. A trailer on a Union Traction interurban freight train jumped the track on Morris St. at the Belt Railroad this afternoon, tore down two high tension poles and hundreds of feet of wire and caused a gravel truck to be wrecked against a corner of the Murray Body Corporation factory*Jesse Moore, 848 S. Addison St., drove the Mutual Builders’ Supply Company truck into the factory to avoid being struck by the careening trailer. The trailer was dragged over the street about sixty feet before Motorman J. H. Earl, 618 E. Twentieth St., could stop the train.

The lightning flashed through the front of the house and they could see it run into Miss Cottingham’s hand and through her body, Mrs. Morrison said. Part of the chimney of the house was knocked down. Damage is estimated at about SIOO. At about the same time a barbecue stand operated by Richard Goodyn next door was struck. The lightning struck a copper pipe leading from a compressed air gasoline tank outside and the gasoline caught fire. Employes fought the flames in the darkness and threw the tank into the yard, preventing an explosion. Damage was estimated at $35.

POLICE CLOSE TO SUSPECT IN MURDER HUNT Man Answering Description of Philip Smith Flees From Vacant House. t SCORES ARE GRILLED Search Extended Out of City as King's Slayer Evades Pursuit. Police, seeking Philip H. Smith, 30-year-old bootlegger, suspect in the murder at Green Mill barbecue of Terence King, Thursday, missed by only a few minutes today a man who answered Smith’s description, according to several women who saw him in a vacant house at 437 N. Lynn St. Mrs. Lola Canary, 1915 W. Michigan St., said she saw the man in the house as she was walking in the alley. She talked with him through an open window and he told her, “I’m waiting for a guy,” she said. When she complained that there had been too many men hanging about that house he told her he was there to board it up. Mrs. Canary apd Mrs. Anna Doene, 1910 Wilcox St., said the man was the one in the picture police showed them. The picture was found in a room on N. Capitol Ave., where Smith had been staying. It has been identified by several persons who know Smith as his. Runs From House The man with whom Mrs. Canary had been talking ran from the N. Lynn St. house a few minutes before Lieut. Roy Pope and a police emergency squad arrived, according to Mrs. Charlotte Able, Terre Haute, who is visiting at 1926 Wilcox St. The house evidently has been used as a bootlegger’s cache since it became empty six weeks ago, police said. Liquor has been found there several times when police searched it on reports of men hanging about. Police have questioned dozens of Smiths in the search for the man sought as the killer of King. The search extended late Thursday as far as Seymour, where six detectives were sent on a report that the alleged fugitive slayer was there. But it was not the Smith sought. A house at 1814 W. New York St., one of Smith’s addresses, where it is believed he was operating a “beer joint,” also was searched several times. Maywood House Searched t A vacant house at Maywood, equipped with trap doors and other evidences of use as a beer joint, was searched without result, when a tip was received Smith had operated that place. The place was abandoned two weeks ago, learned. A house on Butler Ave. also said to have been used by Smith and his gang was investigated, but detectives learned police and Federal agents found it empty when they raided it several days ago. Thursday night and early today emergency squads and night rider patrols 'investigated about twenty calls giving tips as to Smith's whereabouts.’ Many persons reported suspicious Smiths whom they believed might be the man sought. Trace Smith’s History In the meantime other detectives traced the history of Phillip Smith, the man suspected as the killer of King because King put his arm about Miss Gladys De Voe, “blues" singer, during a drinking party. Smith came here, or at least was here, during the street car strike two years ago, according to Detective Chief Jerry Kinney. Detectives have been unable to learn whether he was a striker or strike breaker, Kinney said. Since then he has been interested in a poolroom at 150 McLean PL, and is known to a number of street car employes. Soldier Is Sought A soldier known as Byron is being sought as a possible actual witness of the slaying. So far, no one has admitted seeing Smith fire the shot which killed King. Miss De Voe and Miss Margie Ford, entertainers at the barbecue dance hall, both declare they had started to walk away from the table at which all had been drinking, when Smith and King started a drunken quarrel as King carelessly caressed Miss Devoe. Mrs. Eva Siersdorfer, 20 E. St. Joseph St., whom Miss Ford said she thought had been at the table drinking with them, came to police headquarters Thursday night and told detectives she was upstairs when the shooting happened. Breaks Arm in Flight She was acting as a waitress at the barbecue and went there early in the evening with Mrs. Bessie Gipprich, owner of the place, and King, she said. Mrs. Siersdorfer broke her arm in getting from the place, she said.' Funeral services for King, the murdered man, are to be held at 10 a. m. Saturday at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church. Hourly Temperatures 7 a. m.... 71 ll a. m.... 82 Ba. m.... 72 12 (noon).. 85 9 a. m.... 75 1 p. m.... 86 10 a. m.... 80

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LINOY HEBE TO PLAHIRPORT Lone Eagle Flies to City • From Columbus. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh landed at Indianapolis Airport at 1 this afternoon, to make a survey of the airport situation here, looking toward establishment of the city as a stop in the Transcontinental Air Transport ocean to ocean passenger route. Lindbergh flew alone from Columbus, Ohio, in a little less than two hours in his personal new Ryan brougham, the NX4215. The f mous flier maintained the reserve for which he has become noted, courteously refusing to com* ment upo nhis visit further than to say he was here to make an airport survey and would not disclose his time of departure nor destination. Indianapoils Chamber of Commerce officials, interested in the large airport movement, were rushing to the field to talk with Lindbergh. who busied himself with his plane and ordinary conversation with airport attendants while waiting. PROCLAIMS LABOR DAY Governor Jackson Sets Aside Sept. 3 for Tribute to Workers. The annual Labor Day proclamation was issued today from Governor Jackson’s office, designating Monday, Sept. 3, as a legal holiday. “Each year of the history of our country has marked a material advancement in physical and spiritual growth” said the proclamation. “Labor has been the fundamental element in this development, and in recognition of this fact a wholesome custom has been to set apart one day each year to, pay respect and tribute to those who labor.”

SIAMESE TWINS MAY BE FREED BY DOCTOR’S KNIFE

Bp United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 10.—On a wide bed in West Park Hospital today, Mary and Margaret Gibb, 17-year-old “Siamese twins,” awaited the report of a scientific observation which may result in an operation to free them from each other. Dr. Francis P. Weston, the surgeon who has undertaken this unusual case, declined to confirm reports from the twins’ home town, Holyoke, Mass, that they were seeking to be cut apart so that one of them, Margaret, might marry. Dr. Weston told the United Press, however, that he had been studying the case for many months and that

A BOVE is the first photograph published in Indianapolis of Mrs. Lucille Musett Allison, second wile of the late James A. Allison. Indianapolis-Florida capitalist. Mrs. Sara C. Allison. 56. first wife of the capitalist, charges in her $2,000,000 alienation suit, filed here, that Mrs. Lucille AF.son stole the love of her husband with the wiles of an expert in heart affairs. Mrs. Lucille Allison is in retirement at Riverdale Springs, palatial Allison estate on the Cold Spring Rd. here, refusing to discuss the charges. According to a dispatch from Miami, Fla., Mrs. Allison is 32 and was born in Los Angeles. She attended a teacher training college in Evansville, Ind.. one year, taught there two years and taught one year in Miami. She went to Miami ten years ago, living at the Y. W. C. A . After teaching the year in Florida she returned to Evansville and took, a short business college course. Then she went to Miami Beach, became a bookkeeper in the Allison Aquarium, and soon after was made Allison’s private secretary. The wiles which resulted in the winning of Allison’s love and the establishment of the then Miss Mussett in the beautiful Star Island estate of Allison, were employed while she held the secretarial position, Mrs. Sara C. Allison alleges in her love theft suit. FALL BRINGS DEATH Man, 70, Slips From Truck; Dies Later. Frank Stewart, 70. of 151 S. First St., Beech Grove, died of injuries suffered when he stumbled while trying to alight from the slowly moving milk truck of Otto Smock, Greenwood, near the Stewart residence today. Dr. O. H. Bakemeier, deputy coroner. said the fall caused cerebral hemhorrage. Stewart lived an hour and a half after the fall.

he was considering the advisability of an operation. "I do not care to comment extensively on this,” Dr. Weston said. "It is a delicate matter and does nut concern the public. The girls are joined together and it may be possible to separate them. That is all I can say.” Mary and Margaret are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gibb, who brought them here wheie they could be observed and studied by Dr. Weston. They are said to be the only “Siamese twins’ alive who were bom in this country. They are Joined togeher at the base of the

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SRY SLEUTHS SHOOT BOY IN RAID ON HOME Lao' Fired on as He Obeys Order of Booze Agents to Come Out, ONE ARM AMPUTATED Reason for Quick Trigger Action Is Withheld by U. S. Officials. B)l Times /special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Aug. 10.— Clarence Smith, 16, is in a critical condition at the St. Edward’s Hospital here today as a result of being j shot at dawn when Federal prohibition agents from this city and Ini dianapolis raided a farm house ! twenty-five miles northwest of here. The boy was shot in the arm, apd i amputation was necessary. He is ! very weak from loss of blood and • may die, doctors said. The boy, his sister Aula, 15, and | Turner Devine were asleep in a room ! on tine second koor of the farmhouse, according to the Devine boy when the raid was staged. Obeys Order; Shot Federal officers came to the door and ordered the Smith boy to come out. The boy was obeying when the shot which wounded him was fired, Devine said. Federal officers in the raiding party refused to give details pending return here of W. O. Holman, in charge of the party, who returned to the farmhouse after bringing the wounded boy here. The farmhouse where the Smith boy was shot was the home of Mrs. Frances Low man, 53, a former Louisville resident. The Smith boy. his father, James, 50; the Devine boy; Eula Smith and Otis Wash--1 burn, 46, all were employed on the farm. All were arrested by Federal officers. Charge Threat to Kill Neighbors of Mrs. Lowman had ' complained to Federal authorities j that she was operating a still and ! also, the dry agents said, that she had declared: “I’ll kill the first Federal man who comes to my place.” The raiding party, heavily armed, went to the place very early, while all there were asleep. In the party ! were Holman, Jack Maroney and | Otto Mayes, Indianapolis dry' agents, ! and Charles Liebert and Roy Negj ley. New Albany Federal agents. A 110-gallon still was found a block and half from the farmhouse, according to the agents. They also : seized a half-gallon of w hite mule, I and thirteen barrels of mash, they | said. j “It may have been they thought j Clarence was reaching for a gun when he reached for his trousers to get out of bed,” Mrs. Lowman Interrupted. as the Devine boy was telling his story of the shooting. George L. Winkler, deputy Federal dry administrator, was inj formed by telephone today by one of the agents at New' Albany that someone had been shot by the raiding party. The agent calling said he could not give details over the telephone and asked Winkler to come to New' Albany. Winkler left at once bv aptomobile. AWAIT STATE BOARD’S TEXTILE STRIKE REPORT Peace in Massachusetts War Still Seems Remote. BV United Press NEW BEDFORD. Mass.. Aug. 10. —This city awaited today the report of the State board of conciliation and arbitration to learn whether, in the board’s opinion, the manufacturers or the operatives are responsible for the textile strike now nearing the end of its seventeenth week. No date has been set for the board’s report, which will be based on an investigation concluded by the board here Thursday. Whatever else the board's inquiry may have revealed. It seemed to prove conclusively that an amicable agreement between the warring factions of capital and labor Is still remote. delayFon dry troops AI Smith to Decide on Gotham Rum Cleanup After Chicago Trip. Bp United Press ALBANY. N. Y„ Aug. 10.—The demand of Orville Poland, counsel for the State Anti-Salon League, that Governor Alfred E. Smith send State troops into Broadway to close up the 22,000 speakeasies which dry agents say are in operation there, will not be acted upon until the Governor returns from Chicago, where he is. attending the funeral of George Brennan. Smith received the request Just before leaving for Chicago late on Thursday, and said he w'ould have no comment to make until he returns to Albany. Excursion Boat, Schooner Collide Bp United Press BOSTON. Aug. 10.—The excursion steamer Nantasket and the twomasted fisherman Isabelle Parker collided in Boston harbor today. Both vessels were badly damaged, but were beached at Gallup’s Island with the aid of the quarantine boat Waterhouse.