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NOTE SIGNED W MAY BE DEATH CLEW Auto License Number Also May Aid Fire Murder Probe. WRITTEN ON ENVELOPE Penned by Adeline Zaccard, Missing Friend of Bandit. Bn United Press CHCAGO, Aug. 18.—A note, hastily scrawled on an envelope, and the number of an Indiana automobile license plate speeded a police investigation today into the death of a young woman vcitim of murder by fire near Crown Point, nd., Wednesday. The note, found on a dresser in the room of Adeline Zaccard, said: “Red, wait for me. Went out for a sandwich.” t was signed “Ade.” Miss Zaccard was the sweetheart of Angelo Francisco, who was shot and killed by a vigilante while fleeing in an automobile with four companions after the $12,000 McHenry (11.) bank robbery Monday. Police believe the “Red” of the note,to be another member of the bandit gang. An effort was being made to learn his full identity on the theory he made an appointment with Miss Zaccard, which later led to her murder, to prevent her from giving police information concerning -the McHenry robbery. The charred body of the woman was Identified by relative as that of Miss Zaccard. Police doubted, however, that a positive identification, was possible. Meanwhile, police sought a car with an ndiana license number which Marshal Louis Hartman of Dyer, nd., reported pursing toward Crown Point shortly before the girl was believed to have been murdered.

How the Market Opened

Bn In’ted Press NEW YORK. Aug. 18.—Trading in stocks was less active in early dealings today and prices moved irregularly. Steel issues were still in demand, while several new leaders were brought to the front in the industrial section. Allied Chemical led the market’s advancing group, soaring to 187%, up 2%, and a. new high record. Columbia Gas featured the utilities with a rise of 1% points to a record high at 119%. United States Steel moved to up %, while Republic gained % to 65%, and other issues of the group were firm. Bethlehem Steel was active and up more than a point at 61%. American Can was steady and less active, holding within % of its previous close. Westinghouse and Radio met fair demand. Motor shares, were mixed. Chrysler continued under moderate pressure, easing 1% to 93. General Motors sagged % to 185%, while Gra-ham-Paige and Hupp firmed up slightly. Gabriel Snubber spurted 3 points to 22. Describing the market the Wall Street Journal’s financial review today said: Despite the late Friday reaction on higher money, industrials used in the Dow-Jones averaged closed in fresh record territory at normal. This further evidence of the powerful character of the buying behind that advance, in conjunction with the optimistic character of weekend mercantile survey, caused another demonstration of strength in the early dealings. Allied Chemical was the outstanding feature of the principal industrials, rising to the highest price in its history. Active demand was based on expectations of an eventual split-up of the stocks which pushed into record territory on the prospects of capital readjustment.

New York Stock Opening —Aug. 18— Allied Chem 186 Am Can ....101 Am Loco 90% Am Tel & Tel 175% Anaconda 67 Armour A 19 % Beth Steel 61'A C F & I 61 Chrysler 93 % Corn Products 81% Bodge 18 Vi Famous Players 138>/2 Gen Electric 155% Gen Motors 184% Hupp Motors 62 Kroger 112% Mack 89 Marland 37% Mont Ward 194% N Y Central 164% N Y N H & H A.. 57% Packard 80% Paige 4 Mi Pullman 79 Vi Phillips 40% Radio 182% Real Silk 38% Rep Iron & Steel 65% St Paul pfd 48 Sears-Roebuck 130 Sinclair 27 So Pac 120 Vi S O Calif 57% S O N J 45% Studebaker 72% Tex Oil 62% Un Carbide & Carbon 163% U S Steel 147% Westinghouse E 102% Willys Over '21% Yellow Truck ?2% Army Planes to Return The six 113th observation squadron, Indiana National Guard, airplanes, which have been at Camp Knox. Ky., during the two weeks’ encampment of the guard, were expected to be flown to Indianapolis Airport Sunday.

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VOLUME 40 —NUMBER 76

25,000 Gather to Honor Curtis, Ex-Jockey

BY IRWIN I. FEMRITE (United Press Staff Correspondent) TOPEKA. Kan.. Aug. 17.—The Middle West with Topeka as the hub today held the spotlight in the national political campaign. Promptly at 5 o’clock this afternoon (Central Standard Time) Charles Curtis, senior Senator from the Sunflower State, officially will be notified of his nomination for Vice-President of the United States on the Republican ticket. A canopied platform has been erected on the south steps of the State Capitol for the ceremonies. The platform fronts on a beautiful park, shaded by tall trees. In the middle of the park is a huge statue of Abraham Lincoln. The town of Topeka is built around the capitol square, which is the center of all of the State’s political life. Beyond the city limits are flat prairies and mile after mile of the richest wheat lands in the world. ► The program will open with music by an ensemble of eight Lands. Governor Ben S. Paulen will review briefly the political rise of Senator Curtis and then will follow the notification address by Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio. The acceptance speech of Curtis will conclude the public program. Topekans have extended themselves to the utmost to honor their most distinguished son. The town was gay with color and noise. It was the first time that Kansas has been accorded the honor of having a native son on the ticket of a national political party.

FLOOD PERILS IN 3 SOUTHERN STATES ABATE Relief Seen as Swollen Rivers Recede: Losses Total Millions. Bit United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 18.—Flood conditions abated somewhat today, but fears continued in certain parts of the South of inundation from the streams that are flowing bank high. Already twelve persons are known to have been killed in these Southern Storms while property damage will amount to the millions. Much of the cotton crop in Georgia. North Carolina and Virginia has been destroyed. The greatest danger at present is at Rutherfordton. N. C.. where more than 100 men were working on the sand bank barriers to hold back the waters. Late advices said there was no great fear- felt, but that many inhabitants of the district below the lake were evacuating, fearing the dam might give way. • Returning to Normac^ Through other Darts of the South conditions were ported returning to normalcy. Hurricanes and high waters were accountable for mort of the deaths through the three States. Several persons w r ere killed by coming in contact with live wires. Today the situation began to ease somewhat. Asheville, N. C., -without train service for forty-eight hours, was in touch with outside communication. Rail traffic into the city had been suspended—with the exception of a few trains from the North—for two days. Georgia Rivers Abating Rivers in south Georgia were believed abating slightly and this led to the belief that the worst of the high water conditions had passed. Conditions continued serious in Virginia with rivers reporteed out at Lynchburg, Danville, Roanoke and Bristol. No serious conditions were reported in any of the cities, however. The Pamunkey River was reported overflowing its banks. The greatest damage apparently has been in the Asheville district wheer it was said the flood losses might amount to $600,000. PROTEST CAR LINE Hear Objections to Proposed Fairview Route Friday. Objections to the proposed extension of the Fairview street car line to the new Butler University campus will be voiced next Friday at the meeting of the board of works. Representatives of the Indianapolis Street Railway Company. Butler University and residents and property holders will appear before the board. The board definitely decided to route the line north of Boulevard PI., from Forty-Second to FortySixth Sts. Property owners have threatened to take the matter to court. Residents along other available streets also have objected. New York Curb Opening —Aug. 18— Amer Gas no Amer R Mill 86 Bancitalv 122% Cities Service 65'i Cont Oil 17 Durant 13 Gulf Oil 125% Humble Oil 30 Imp Oil fifii.:. Int Pete 38 <4 Ohio Oil 62% Prairie Oil and Gas 47V. Prairie Pipe las 'A Service Inc 14% Standard Oil. Indiana 75 1 :, Standard Oil, Kansas 22% Standard Oil. Ky 126% United Gas and Imp 135% United L and ? (A) 24% Vacuum Oil 81 Warner Bros (B) 76 Hourly Temperatures 7 a. m.... 68 9 a. m.,.. 70 Ba. m.. .' 68 10 a. m.... 73

‘WHIRLWIND,’ TIMES GREAT NEW SERIAL, IS STORY OF AFTER-WAR MADNESS

qpHE war, prohibition, 'the movies, automobiles—each has been blamed for the changes in conventions that have come within the last decade. Authorities on social problems differ in their reasons for the present-day lack of Victorian modesty. Eleanor Early, in “Whirlwind,” The Times’ powerful new serial, which begins Thursday, Aug. 23, presents a vivid picture of the

Broadway Stage Star Is Married to Playwright

Bv United Press NEW YORK. Aug. 18.—The romance between Helen Hayes, star of the play "Coquette,” and Charles MacArthur, a playwright, enlivened Broadway today when it became known they were married Friday. They met several years ago when both were rather obscure in Broadway theatrical circles. Miss Hayes first gained recognition through playing in such plays as ‘'Dancing Mothers” and "What Every Woman Knows.” Then MacArthur collaborated with Ben Hecht, the former Chicago newspaper man. in a series of plays. The first MacArthur success was “Lulu Belle" arid only this week his latest play, "The Front Fage.” was opened with favorable criticism. When “Font Page” had Its premier Miss Hayes closed her production for one night so that she might see the opening of her fiance's play. The actress will continue in her leading role —in fact she had to hurry from the wedding cere-

mony to the stage—until the New York entertainment closes. Then she hopes to take a two weeks’ leave for a honeymoon before starting for London with “Coquette.”

LEAVES POLE PERCHAT 1:13 Sky Stander Nears End of Long Test. At 1:13 p. m. today Alvin (Shipwreck) Kelly will descend from the tip of the Denison hotel flagpole where he has stood, night and day, rain or shine, since Tuesday 9 a. m. Immense erwods were expected to witness the climax to Kelly’s daring endurance fear,. When he climbs down the 18-foot, flagpole he will have hunk up a record of 100 hours. 13 minutes and 13 seconds for Indianapolis “flagpole standing honors.” Police were prepared to cope with the traffic and sidewalk congestion. Kelly’s high perch is visible for several blocks up Massachusetts Ave, and west from Pennsylvania on Ohio St. to Meridian, including the broad sidewalks before the Federal building. so that ample room for thousands will be available. A Marmon, with police escort, will rush the daredevil to the Lyric theater where, after a hasty shower bath and a change of clothing, he will make a stage appearance at 2 p. m. Again at 8 p. m. he will be seen on the Lyric stage. These are to be his only theater appearances in the city. This afternoon and aft day Sunday, Kelly will entertain the crowds at Walnut Gardens with exhibitions of his athletic prowess.

NAB 9 AT RICHMOND Dry Agents Bring Prisoners Here for Hearings. Nine residents of Richmond. Ind.. arrested Friday evening in liquor raids by Federal dry agents under Harry L. Bendel, and Richmond officers. were brought here today hearing before John W. Kern, United States commissioner. Those arrested were Ralph Dionicio, 27; George McKinney, 61, Negro; Waslaw Holetchek, 44; Miss Marie Davenport, 33, Negro; Frank Lewis, 20; Edward Garey, 25; Roscoe Burge, 31; John E. (Red) Ryan, 35, and Herbert Norton, 19. Arrests were made on alleged previous sales to dry agents. The dry agents charged they bought liquor from Holetchek the day he returned from the penal farm.

changes that took place following- the war. Tis extract from the first chapter of the story illustrates also the ability of the author to write forcibly: “The Eighteenth Amendment had been passed and drinking was becoming lamentably smart. Flasks had come in; and a really daring present for a man to give a girl was an enameled flaconette for her bag.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 18, 1928

'T'HE crowds came by auto, special trains and airplane to pay their •*- respects and listen to Charley Curtis, a descendent of the Kaw Indian tribe, whose youth was as primitive as the praries which gave him birth. A fleet of twenty-five airplanes brought a delegation of business men from Wihhita and Kansas City. It was estimated 25,000 visitors will attend the ceremonies. To Kansas, Charley Curtis is just one of the boys, remembered on successive occasions as a jockey, a bootblack, an apple peddler, attorney and United States Senator. All who could come were here to see him. Kansans are keenly mindful of the success Charley Curtis has brought the State since the days when he wandered over the prairies as a jockey in search of a good “hoss” race. They recalled today as they assembled in small groups about town how Charley Curtis closed every saloon In the county when, years ago, he was elected county attorney of Shawnee County—and this despite the fact that he was elected on a dripping wet ticket. Indians in full dress regalia were here today to help celebrate the notification ceremonies. Curtis, himself, is a one-eighth Kaw Indian. The tribesmen came from the Pottawatomie reservation near Topeka. This afternoon they will dance the Eagle dance on Kansas Ave. before Senator Curtis. The dance is a tribal religious ceremony.

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OBJECT TO SCHOOL SITE

Tract for School 86 Has Boon Under Water. Objections to location of School 86 on a. site at Fifty-Second St. and Capitol Ave, recently approved by the school board, have been pre sented In a report by Frank Hosier, engineer. Hosier reported a large expenditure would be necessary to fill the lot, as a part of it was under water in the 1913 flood. Several other sites in the vicinity have been offered the board. The lot objected to has been offered by the Security Trust Company fox $29,000.

GETS HAAG SUSPECT California Gives Up Alleged Slayer to City. Detectives William Rugenstein and Harry McGlenn left Los Angeles Friday night to return ,'rre with Rupert McDonald, wanted in connection with the slaying of Wilkinson Haag at the Green Mill barbecue. May 4. 1926. McDonald will join Lawrence Ghere, held in the county jail under similar indictment, who was brought back from California by the detectives two weeks ago. Both McDonald and Ghere fought extradition. McDonald was arrested in Los Angeles a few days after Ghere was captured there. They are alleged to be two of a bandit trio who shot Haag, official of the Haag drugstores, while he was dining at noon at the barbecue with Miss Jessie Murphy, who died last January. The shooting was the outgrowth of a hold-up attempt. NEW EXTRADITION FIGHT Hearing Ln Florida Monday for W H. Arnold. Kokomo Banker. By Times Special C KOKOMO, Ind., Aug. 18.—A hearing will be held Monday before Governor John W. Martin of Florida at Tallahasssee on extradition of W. H. Arnold for trial here. Arnold, former president of the American Trust Company Bank here, is wanted on charges in connection with its closing. Howard County authorities have been trying to get Arnold back for trial since January. Prosecutor Homer Miller and Sheriff John Spearman will attend the hearing.

"Girls had begun to smoke, too. Men were saying you never knew whether a girl would be insulted if you offered her a cigaret, or offended, if you didn’t. a u n “OOLDIERS everywhere had been mustered out of service, and women were still feting them. Doughboys walked where angels feared to tread, and gobs were household pets.

HOOVER ILL TEST ARIZONA DAMJPINION Discusses Boulder Project With State Leaders Today. BY PAUL R. MALLON il’nitfd Press Staff (orrfspcndfnt) ABOARD HOOVER SPECIAL TRAIN NEARING WILLIAMS, Ariz., Aug. 18.—Herbert Hoover bade farewell to his home State of California early today and moved into Arizona for a round-table discussion with county chairmen here about his indorsement of the Boulder Dam flood control and power project. The Republican presidential nominee expects the chairmen to bring him the local reaction to his Los Angeles speech, for Arizona is as deeply interested in Boulder Dam as California, and is on the other side of the issue. The filibuster of Arizona Senators twice defeated the Johnson-Swing Boulder Dam bill. Arizona wants the dam built at Black Canyon, farther up the river, so that she will get a maximum share of the water to irrigate her arid lands. Urges High Dam Hoover stressed in his speech, however, the necessity for unified action on the project. Mindful of Arizona's feelings, he urged that nothing be done which would injure the interdependency of all Colorado River States in the proposed dam. “We indeed want the greatest of reservoirs in the Boulder Canyon with the highest of dams that our engineers will recommend, and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action by the present Congress” was the way he phrased his indorsement, extemporizing from his prepared text to the Los Angeles crowd. The nominee failed to mention the Johnson-Swing bill by name, but his declaration for a high dam embodied the theory of the legislation because by a high dam power can be developed. The unexpected indorsement was hailed by the crowd that heard him and most of the interested prses of Los Angeles, because the issue is intensive there, due in part to the campaign for re-election now being conducted by Senator Hiram Johnson. Gives Farewell Address The Senator has been attacking the so-called power trust and charging that it sponsored the move to build only a low dam for flood control. When he arrives at the Grand Canyon after a side trip from Williams with the Arizona chairmen, Hoover virtually will be in the middle of the two proposed dam sites, with Black Canyon to the northeast and Boulder Dam to the southwest. The nominee's farewell address to his home State was delivered at San Bernardino Friday night after an intensive day of campaigning during which he visited six exuberant southern California cities. There, just as at a previous stop at Pasadena, Hoover voiced his regret that he had to abandon his restful vacation at his Palo Alto home to begin the rigorous duties of the campaign. Hoover spoke of the campaign as "a great task” and promis and that it would be conducted on a plane commensurate with the highest American thought and feeling. Speeches Improve Hoover made the best extemporaneous stump speeches of his early campaign at the close of his California trip, and the crowd greeted him more enthusiastically than they have previously at other points. He seemed to abandon the shyness which characterized his previous addresses.

It was eminently respectable for ‘nice’ girls t-o scrape acquaintance witti men in uniform. The marines had become social lions. Everywhere the ex-service man was sitting pretty. Unless, of course, he happened to be incapacitated, or looking for a job. “Club women were beginning to get excited, and talk reforms. For a crime wave hit the country. . . . And even the girls were going

HIP RAID HITS WEALTHY N. Y. FIASKTOTERS Scores High in Business, Social Circles ‘Frisked’ by U. S. Agents. MANY ARE SUBPOENAED Rich Victims Threaten to File Formal Protests Against Sleuths. by- ’. nit"! Press NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Persons high in social and business circles were threatening to file protests with the collector of the port today, after Federal authorities launched a “hip-pocket" raid as the latest feature of their attempt to dry up New York. The search, conducted on the He De France, on which Secretary of State Fraftk B. Kellogg was among the passengers bound for Europe, came after a Federal grand jury had issued subpoenas for 125 prominent persons, charging them with violating the prohibition law by drinking in night clubs. Four thousand persons were assembled at the French line piers last night, many in evening clothes. Some were passengers on the liner and others had gone to the pier to tell friends good-by. Many Are Searched Federal agents blocked the exits .from the pier and as the visitors came off the boat just before it sailed, many of them were searched. The procedure of the dry agents was to halt a man now and then and rapidly “frisk" him. paying special attention to hip pockets. No liquor was found. In reply to indignant protests, dry agents told the visitors that “orders were orders." Federal authorities explained that more subpoenas ould have been served on night club patrons if so many of them had not been abroad. Others to Be Subpoented

t was said that the Government carefully was checking the movements of many persons now in Europe and that subpoenaes would be handed to them when they landed in the United States. Although the list, was kept secret dry agents said there were many residents of the exclusive Park Are. section on it, and that it also included prominent operators in Wall Street. The inquiry will be started at 10 a. m. Monday and is expected to continue through next week. TRUCK JdLLS CHILD Boy, 7. Dies in Ambulance on Way to Hospital. Arthur Shook. 7, of 922 Oakdale Ave, Chicago, died in an ambulance en route to city hospital at 5:30 p. m. Friday, after he had been run down by a truck driven by Wilburt Steinkemp, 23, of 2942 Brookside Ave., at St. Clair St. near Alabama St. Steinkemp was arrested on charges of involuntary manslaughter. Police could find no witnesses of the accident. The boy had been sent to a grocery in the 800 block on Alabama St. Crossing to St. Clair St., he ran directly in front of the truck. Its wheels passed over his body. The boy’s mother Mrs. Edith Alexander was first to reach him. He was taken to the office of Dr. Alfred Storey, 811 N. Alabama St, and an ambulance called. The mother, accompanying the boy in the ambulance, was so shocked with grief that she was confined for a time to the hospital. This morning her condition was improved at the home of George Shumaker, 723 N. Alabama St, where she and her son were visiting. DROWNS TO AID SISTER Releases Grip on Canoe to Give Companion Chance. Bn United Press WARREN, R. I, Aug. 18.—Fearing that the overturned canoe to which he and his sister were clinging would not support both of them, Willis E. Lund, 28, of Long Branch, N. J„ released his grip and sank to his death. His sister, Mrs. Gladys Elder of Omaha, Neb, was rescued by Franklin S. Williams of Providence. Lund’s body was recovered three hours later.

crazy. They rolled their stockings, and checked their corsets when they went to dances. Eventually they discarded them altogether, but that was not until later. “Cosmetics sprang into favor, and women began to make up like Jezebels. * n n “ evils of the war’ became A a sort of slogan. People talked despairingly of ‘the youth

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Soft Soap Probe Started Into Why Carroll Courthouse Has So Much.

By BEN STERN LET the campaign start—the soft soap is ready and the taxpayers of Carroll County are providing it. As the boys down at Delphi, county seat say, there is enough soap and cleaner stored in the assembly room, basement and boiler room of the courthouse to clean anything from an oil bespattered politician to a $2,500 horse. In the past two years the Carroll County treasury has paid out $4,876.13 for soap for the courthouse and in addition there is now pending for collection soap bills totaling $2,600. The taxpayers have been so thoroughly soft-soaped that as Lawrence Orr, chief of the State accounts board said in a letter to the count ycommissioners, “there has beena lamentable lack of judgment displayed in the purchasing of the soap.” The State board of accounts also says that Section 5897 of Bums’ annotated statutes provides that each bidder must enter a non-collusion affidavit. If it can be proved that no such affidavits were entered Gus A. Hill, county atorney, will be able to disallow the payment of the outstanding bills. Accounts board examiners are to investigate especially the “soap situation,” Orr said. nan DISCOVERY of the great amount of soap on hand was made upon the retirement of John Long on June 30. an janitor. A detailed inventory r u ~—ed: In the assembly room. 957 gallons of soap in various sized tins: 126 gallons of boiler cleaning compound; paper toweling sufficient to papei the interior of the courthouse, mops and fly killinsr compound. In t)-<e boiler room, 2.155 eallons of soap in barrels. Frge *<ns and small containers, pipe cleaner galore, barrels of disinfectant. 100 gallons of boiler cleanser, besides distilled waters, bales of waste and other cleaning equipment.. In addition to the above, several barrels of soap have been returned and orders for future deliveries cancelled. Charles W. Billings, county commissioner, called attention to the wholesale soap buying in January, 1927. He endeavored to have the powers of the janitor to make such purchases rescinded, without success. ana IN January, 1928, the board became Democratic with the accession of William Funkhouser, and the janitor was ordered to abstain from his insatiable mania for soap. But the warning was to no avail. Soap still came pouring in. Long retired July 1 and Delphi mathematicians have estimated that there is enough soap on hand now to keep the courthouse clean for from ten to fifteen years, enough sweeping compound to last the same period and sufficient boiler compound for five years. - A complete check on the situation is promised by the board of accounts, but until then Carroll County courthouse is the soap headquarters for the State. ARREST JUS DRIVER Three Women Hurt as Result of Collision. Louis Skeeter, 27, of 2311 Bellefontaine St, Peoples Motor Coach Company bus driver, faces reckless driving charges today as the result of a collision between his bus and a Ford touring car at Twenty-fifth and Oxford Sts, Friday night. The touring car was overturned and three women injured. The injured were Mrs. Anna Hiner, 63, of 833 N. Drexel Ave.; Lora Hubbard, 34, and Myrtle Stewart, both of 2053 Dearborn St, They were riding in the Hiner car, driven by Dwight R. Hiner, 37, of the Drexel Ave. address, son of the Injured woman. Hiner’s automobile was- west bound on Twenty-fifth St. The bus started to turn at Oxford St. and Hiner applied the brakes, but the pavement was wet and the touring car skidded into the side of the bus. The bus driver’s arrest grew out of the allegation that he failed to signal at the turn. The injured were taken to their homes.

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of the land,’ and wondered what they were going to do about it. Important persons were interviewed on what they thought of the modern girl. Desiring to be broad-minded, they eulogized her, not knowing what it was all about. And, meantime, she went from bad to worse.” Start this gripping new serial in The Times next Thursday,

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BANDIT SLUGS SLEEPING MAN, ROBSGARAGE Motor Inn Employe Awakes From Daze Hour After Holdup; slll Gone. VIRGINIA GRILLE LOOTED Stickup Man Threatens to Shoot First Customer to Move. Perched on a chair, with his head resting on the edge of an open window, A1 Draque, 27, of Sixty-Ninth St„ Ravenswood, night man at the Motor Inn, 1452 N. Pennsylvania St., was reading a book at 2:30 a. m. today. At 3:30 a. m. he awoke in a daze with a huge bump on his head, staggered to the telephone and called police. Cue terrific blow of a bandit’s blackjack, wielded through the window, had rendered Draque unconscious. The bandit had escaped with slll from the cash register. It was the second downtown business place hold-up of the night. Twelve waitresses and six guests were held at bay by a well dressed young gunman who escaped with beween $175 and S2OO from the cashier’s cage at Virginia Sweet grille, 35 E. Maryland St, about 9 o’clock Friday night. Case Is Robbed “I will shoot the first person who runs for the kitchen,” the bandit declared, as he covered those present with a blue-steel revolver. He went about his business of scooping up the money with deliberation, unmoved by the fact that Miss Eunice Hutchison, a wiatress. had fainted. He merely glanced at her to see that she wasn't faking and continued his work. He forced Miss Bernice Tombragel, 34 Meridian Apts., cashier, to turn over all the money from the cash register. Backing out the door and repeating the order for every one to remain motionless, the ban. dit boarded a. Chevrolet coupe parked at the curb and escaped. The man was unmasked and thirty minutes before had appealed for work both to Fortunate Mann, manager of the grille, and Arnold Meesen, 1423 Linwood Ave, chef, who claim they can identify him. Waitress Saves $lO Mrs. Agnes Cosgrove, 505 N. Alabama St, a waitress, was near the cashier's cage with a $lO bill in her hand when the bandit entered. She saved it by concealing it in her apron pocket. No attempt was made by the bandit to rob th guests. When Lieut. Ed Helm and his emergency squad investigated the Motor Inn robbery they found seventy cents and two checks on the floor, dropped by the theif in his hasty and parture. Apparently he didn’t realize how soundly his victim had been put to sleep by the black-jack. Ed Porter, manager of the place* said that the cash register generally used there was being repaired and the one in use was opened by pushing the letter D. He belives that the blackjacker had watched Draque open the drawer earlier in the evening, or that he luckily struck the right letter, for the thing was n jimmied. HOLD ROLLING PIN TILTj University of New Hampshire Stage! Contest. By United Press DURHAM, N. H, Aug. 18.— That ancient domestic art—throwing the roiling pin—has been put on a competitive basis by the University of New Hampshire. Miss Helen Bernaby, husky North Danville entry, won the University's rolling pin contest here, heaving the traditional domestic weapon a total of 249 feet in three tries. About twenty other women competed. nabbedlF'parked' CAR Two Negroes Face Blind Tiger Charges for Possessing Liquor. Because they are alleged to have had a five gallon can of alcohol in the car in which they were arrested Friday night, John Carter, 45, Negro, 1221 N. Senate Ave, and Carl Carter, 37, Negro, 321 Darnell St, face blind tiger charges today. Their car was parked on Thirteenth St, near Senate Ave, when arrest was made by Sergt. Michael Morrissey # and his squad of night riders.

Man Must Eat KIZIL-ORDA, TURKESTAN, Aug. 18.—Ivan Krasnoglazob (which Is Russian for Ivan the red-eyed), ate so much that government officials were forced to double his salary. Ivan is more than seven feet tall and correspondingly stout. He works on the TurkestanSiberia railroad and can shift a rail that would tax the strength of several men. Ivan complained that he was afflicted with an enormous appetite, eating, for instance, ten to fifteen pounds of bread with every meal. His salary was insufficient to meet his grocery bill