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SEEK CLEW TO Kidnaped boy ON DEATH DAY ft * Lad, 10, to Be Killed Today If $60,000 Ransom Is Not Paid, Father Told. ______________ POLICE FAIL ON RAID Rich Parent Refuses Officers Information. Hoping to Save Son, Bn United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 15.—Mystery still veiled the whereabouts of 10-year-old Billy Ranieri and his kidnapers today—the day set by his abductors for the boy’s death unless the $60,000 ransom demands are met. Police were hampered in efforts to find the boy by conflicting rumors and reluctance of the father, A. Frank Ranieri, to supply further information which might aid in the search. A -resort said to be operated by Rocco De Grazio three miles from Elgin, 111., was raided on information obtained by police Friday night. The boy had been held there but was removed three days ago, police said. Angelo Petitti, another suspect, was questioned today on the theory that he might be a “go between” for the mafia organization believed to be responsible for the abduction. The father continued to keep secret the purpose of hurried trips he made Friday. - Following delivery of a special delivery letter Ranieri left his home in a taxicab, returning several hours later apparently in a cheerful mood. Ranieri was believed by police to be withholding information in the fear that police action would lead to vengeance on the part of the mafia ring. Police were not notified of the kidnaping until last although the boy had Pfeen missing more than a week. Salvatore Mastroianni. who was arrested with Renoldo Schiedo Friday, was reported to have told police he had attempted to arrange with the kidnapers for the return of the boy after an interview with the father.

INGERSOLL FORTUNE TO AID BOYS TO COLLEGE Will Provides for Foundation to Help Worthy Youths. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Much of the proceeds from America’s most famous dollar watch will go toward educating worthy youths. That became known when the will of Robert H. Ingersoll, the “dollar watch king,” who died in September, was filed for probate Friday. The will provided that a foundation, to be known as the “Robert and Roberta Ingersoll Foundation,” be established to aid “worthy” boys in obtaining an education either in college or university. This can not be established for a year, because of the difficulties of settling the estate, which consists of property in Florida and Lansing, Mich. DELAY FIRING WOMEN Railroad Has Ordered Fair Employes Dropped. By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—The rule of the Long Island Railroad that parried women wifi not be employed after Jan. 1 has been held in abeyance after protests from various of the women clerks. Last week the company put out the announcement: “Married women are not to be employed or retained in the service, the only exceptions being a married woman no wemployed or who may be employed, whose husband, is permanently disabled.”

In the Stock Market

(By Thomson & McKinnon) NEW YORK, Sept. 15—Both the Industrial and financial worlds are in receipt of exceptionally good news throughout the statement made by the president of one of the Standard Oil companies. In substance, it is that the leading factors in the world's oil industry have taken steps to improve their relationship and this will utlimately result in a more economic form of operation throughout the entire oil industry. It did not take the market long to place a very favorable interpretation on the statement for it was quickly recognized that there has started a movement which may ultimately eliminate the factor which undermined the prosperity of that industry three or four years ago and from which condition it is _now emerging after paying a terrific ■toll. To us it is clear that the stock rrnarket has only begun to recognize the great improvement in the oil industry and undoubtedly further recognition will be indicated by increased activity and higher market valuation for these shares.

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VOLUME 40—NUMBER 100

Ann’s Dimpled Knees Viewed by Television

Ann Pennington

By United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 15. Ann Pennington’s dimpled knees, long one of the attractions of Broadway, will be broadcast by television over the country today. The clever dancer will be televisioned along with eight girls of contrasting types. The broadcast today will be the first part of the program for the opening of the radio world’s fair.

WIFE 'TATTLES'i JUDGEJBJECT^ Rules Man’s Liquor Safe, Must Have Warrant. A man has some rights that even a wife can’t take from him, Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter believes. One of them is to keep fifteen gallons of white mule whisky in his home safe from the clutches of the law unless police observe legal formalities, he indicated. Judge Wetter Friday took under advisement a liquor charge against Earl Ross, 1501 Dawson St., while he seeks legal authority to confirm his opinion in the case. Mrs. Ross, according to the evidence, called police headquarters on Aug. 25 and told Capt. Walter Claffey she would show where her husband had his liquor stored. When Captain Claffey said he would send Sergt. Michael Yates as soon as he obtained a search warrant, Mrs. Ross replied: “You won’t need a search warrant. I’ll give you permission to search the house.” But Judge Wetter indicated Friday he believes Mrs. Ross had no right to give such permission: that police had no right to search the home without a warrant. “A wife cannot take his constitutional rights away from her husband,” he said. Police found fifteeen gallons of liquor behind a trap door in the top of a closet at the Ross home.

AIM AT SAFE CROSSINGS Railroads Arrange Conferences to . Guard School Children. For the protection of school children at highway and railroad crossings throughout the State, the railroads, through their safety departments, have arranged a series of safety conferences with county school superintendents and county commissioners. Meetings already have been held in nearly a score of counties, and will be continued during the winter school term. Motion pictures demonstrating safety measures are presented with lectures. SENTENCED TO CHURCH Youthful Culprits Are Given Six Months in Sunday School. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Sept. 15. Arrested as they were about to steal an automobile, according to testimony, three youths here were sentenced to go to Sunday school for six months in lieu of a jail sentence for the same length of time. The boys, 18 and 19 years old, admitted they “went to the movies often, but to Sunday school not at all.” GOVERNOR ENTERTAINS Kansas Executive and Wife Guests of Jackson. Governor Benjamin Paulen and Mrs. PAulen of Kansas, were the guests Friday and today of Governor Ed Jackson and Mrs. Jackson. The Kansas Governor and his wife are en route to Maine where they will spend three weeks. They were entertained at dinner at the executive mansion Friday night and continued their journey today. Rotary Has 400,000 Members By United Press AMSTERDAM, Sept. 15.—James W. Davidson, president of Rotary International, said the entire Rotary comprised 400,000 members, who were divided among 3.000 clubs in forty-four different countries. Divide $400,000 in Prizes By United Press MEXICO CITY, Sept. 15. —A Chinese laundryman and employes of a millinery shop divided the Sept. 14, $400,000 lottery 7 first prize.

GRAND JURORS TO START QUIZ OF STORE FIRE Rem, Prepares to Move in Traugott Blast Case Next Week. WITNESSES ARE CALLED Federal Agents Continue Hunt for Clews to Auto Ring. Expecting to lay the Traugott clothing store explosion of Aug. 26 before the Marion County grand jury for action early next week, Prosecutor William H. Remy today summoned a number of witnesses to his office. The prosecutor was understood to have prepared the frame-work of a case built on the theory that the store, 215-217 W. Washington St., was wrecked deliberately, through evidence gathered by city. State, county and Federal officials and now is gathering corroborative details. * No hint as to the theory upon which charges, if any. will be based, and who they might be filed against has been given. One Witness Quizzed One witness, regarded as important, was interviewed at the qourthouse late Friday by Deputy Fire Marshal Harry E. Gates, Detective Harry McGlenn, G. L. Pugh, investigator for the National Board of Fire Underwriters, and Fred I. King, legal advisor for the State arson office. Federal officials investigating the interstate automobile theft ring, which inquiry’ dovetailed into the fire probe, marked time today. The Federal grand jury recessed Friday until Monday, but is not expected to start hearing theft ring witnesses before Tuesday, if they are heard this session at all. The theft ring and explosion inquiries were connected through the fact that a number of the same persons have been questioned in both. Among them are Edward Traugott and Harry Sussm&n, owners of the clothing store, who. with Elmer Sussman, cousin of Harry, are charged with conspiracy in the theft ring affair. Search for Gang's Farm Prohibition agents • and deputy sheriffs who searched for a lonely farm between Lebanon and Indianapolis, suspected of being the headquarters where th.i ring altered and stored stolen cars, raided an abandoned set of buildings near Traders Point Friday afternoon, but found nothing. State Policeman Charles Bridges who has led in recovering sixteen stolen cars in Indiana, planned to take two other State policemen and personally search for the cache today. Remy, Pugh, Gates and City Detectives Roach and Fossatti conferred at Remy’s office this morning. The audit of the clothing store’s books being made by investigators of the fire will show the store’s stock was w'orth approximately $20,000, it was learned.

Audit Shows $30,000 Due Although the audit has not been completed, the examination of the books also disclosed the firm owed from $20,000 to $30,000 on merchandise and to banks. About $30,000 is due the firm on accounts receivable, much of which is on merchandise sold on a ten-payment plan and a part of which is regarded as uncollectible. Thfcre were records of $66,000 worth of insurance on the store among the papers seized by the State fire marshal’s office. Traugott is said to have told State investigators he believed there was about $50,000 worth of goods in the store. UNIVERSAL CLUB PICNICS Hold Outing at Horseshoe Lodge Today. Universal Club members attended the annual outing this afternoon at Horseshoe Lodge, three miles south of Noblesville, Ind. Berg A., King was chairman of the committee on arrangements. An afternoon entertainment was arranged, and dinner was to be served at 7 p. m. A special musical program was in charge of Earl Z. Sigmon, former club president. Blast Burns Teacher By Times Special WOLCOT, Ind., Sept. 15.—Edson G. Van Dorn, high school physics teacher, here is recovering from serious burns received Friday when a gasoline lamp exploded in the classroom.

EXILED SHOP GIRL PRINCESS WEDS CZAR’S NEPHEW

By United Press Sept. 15.—The glit\J ter and pomp of imperial Russia was revived here in the wedding of a shopgirl and clerk, princess and prince of a royal family scattered by revolution. • Set in the Trinity Orthodox Church, the ceremony resembled State occasions in the palace of the czars. *

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1928

Swims Continuously 60 Hours; Sets World Record; Collapses

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Bn United Pro* ' NEW YORK. Sept. 15.—Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston of California emerged from the Raven Hall pool at Coney Inland today with a world record for contiQUOUS swimming. She had been in the water sixty hours, and col-

RED CROSS ASKED TO AID PORTO RICO, TORN BY STORM

48 Hours After Worst Tropical Storm of History, Huge Losses Not Estimated. BY ANGEL RAMOS United Press Special Correspondent SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 15. Forty-eight hours after the worst tropical hurricane in history’ struck this island, residents were still trying today to estimate the damage. So widespread was the destruction that no one would venture an estimate of the property damage. From the interior of the island came meager and intermittent reports, giving hints of disaster even greater than that in San Juan where thousands of laborers were working to establish and maintain communication with the outside world. Asks Red Cross Aid Hundreds of persons were being housed in public buildings here today while families which had become separated during the confusion were being reunited. Horace M. Towner, Governor of the Island, said the government was ready to push the relief work immediately. He asked for the co-operation of the Red Cross, explaining that relief measures were handicapped by the lack of transportation facilities. Li,?ht and power service will not be restored until tomorrow, and meanwhile the officials are making a survey of the situation in omnibuses. Suburb in Ruins La Perla, a suburb of San Juan, is in ruins, and it is impossible to estimate the number of dead and injured. Additional police are being enlisted rapidly to patrol the island and aid in the relief work. Apparently all crops have been destroyed and famine and disease present a crucial problem, particularly in the interior. BUTLER OPENS MONDAY All in Readiness on New Campus for First Day. All preparations have been completed for the opening of Butler University at its new Fairview campus, President Robert J. Aley announced today. Freshmen will register Monday, upper classmen Tuesday and classes will commence Wednesday. The Jordan Memorial Bldg., which will house the majority of the college work, has been completed, except for some minor interior finishing, Dr. Aley said. Woman Killed in Crash Bn Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., Sept. 15. Blow-out of a tire proved fatal to Mrs. Fannie Marx, 40, of Huntington, Ind., near here Friday when her husband lost control of the car and it collided with a truck. The woman was thrown from the car.

106 MURDERS REPORTED IN INDIANA IN 7 MONTHS

A total of 1,701 Hoosiers met death violently in the first seven months of 1928, according to figures obtained by the Indianapolis Safety Council. Os the 1.701. 106 were murdered, 303 committed suicide, and 1,292 were killed in accidents. Motor car mishaps reaped a toll of 439 lives, accidental falls resulted fatally for 258. while railroad accidents snuffed out 102 lives.

While choirboys chanted in Russian from behind screens, the bride and groom held slim, ribboned candles before the altar Seven pairs of ushers filed past the couple, holding red velvet and gold coronets above their heads. Outside, the pair was greeted by shopgirls with a shower of rice. The bride is Princess Aleka Ga-

lapsed as she was helped to the platform. It was the second time Mrs. Huddleston had broken the record. Her first record was fifty-four hours and thirty-two minutes, which was broken by Mrs. Lee Fourrier of Colton, Cal., who swam fifty-six hours and fifty-six minutes last August.

Motor Morals Bn United Pres* COLUMBIA. Mo., Sept. 14. Motor cars are a danger to college morals, a University of Missouri bulletin to freshmen advises. "A car to most students is a temptation to waste time; in some cases it is a detriment to morals,” the bulletin says. “To very few is a care a necessity.” All student car-owners are required to register with the dean of men.

DOGS QUARANTINED Unleashed Animals Ordered Killed. An order requiring all dogs to be kept on the premises of their owner for sixty days will be enforced Monday by the city health board, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, board secretary, announced today. The ruling was adopted following a joint conference on the rabies epidemic Friday night. The State and County authorities attended. All dogs found on city streets or public highways will be killed unless they are leashed or accompanied by owners, according to the order Dr. Morgan explained that no dog will be exempt from the countywide quarrantine because it has a license Dr. William F. King, State health board secretary, estimated there are 10,000 dogs running loose in the city. CLASSES AT Y. W. C. A. Educational Courses Will Open Oct. 1. A series of educational courses ranging from culinary instruction to a complete course in French will be offered to Indianapolis housewives this year by the Y. W. C. A. The courses begin Oct. 1 and will be conducted by many well-known Indianapolis educators. Needlecraft, dramatic arts and music will be among the feature courses offered. For many of th courses' membership in the organization is sufficient for enrollment, while in others a fee is charged. MISSION MEETING SET Social Union to Hold Its Institute Sept. 25-28. The Missionary Social Union, composed of representatives of missionary societies from local Protestant churches, has completed plans for an institute here from Sept. 25 to 28. The institute will be held in Hollenbeck Hall, Y. W. C. A. The missionary text book for the year will be ued.

, More dgownings occurred in July than in the preceding six months, fifty-three meeting death in that manner in the one month. Fortyseven drownings had been reported at the close of June. Eighty-five Indianians died as the result of burns, twenty-six were poisoned accidently, twenty died from electric shock, six froze to death and one person starved to death.

lizine, daughter of Princess Alexandra Qalitzine of Russia, who is now in Hungary. Her husband is Prince Alexandrei Rostislav, a nephew of the late Czar Nicholas. The Princess came to Chicago early this year to live with her mother, going to work in a department store soon after. Prince Alexandrei followed her here and

HOOVER SCOFFS AT WARNING ON DIET AND WORK Rugged Constitution Stands Strain of Heavy Task of Campaign. BY MALLON United Tress Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. Sept. 15.—Herbert Hoover is breezing through the strenuous physical exertions of a presidential campaign without doctors. diets or exercise. Living upon the rugged constitution he built up as a young engineer in the wilds of Australia, China and the West, the Republican presidential nominee is defying all health rules for candidates. His family is somewhat disturbed about the situation and urgent demands have been made by his advisers that he get away from his desk to go fishing. He persistenly lias declined to do so. • Hoover always has eaten faster than the average man. He eats anything an deverything. He has laughed at friends who told him to watch his food! Keeps No Physician He has not consulted a physician since his nomination and this in the face of the old custom that every presidential candidate should carry a piivate physician with him wherever he goes. And he appears to grow moi' robust with each day. Family and friends believe they can prevail upon him to take the postponed fishing trip the latter part of next week. The nominee, however, believes the prospects of fishing become more remote with each passing day. Representative Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House, was delayed yesterday and planned to call upon Hoover today. Arrangements have been completed for Hoover’s Newark trip next Monday. The nominee will leave here by special train over the Pennsylvania Railroad at 8:30 a. m. arriving in Newark at 1:30 p. m. He will lunch with Senator Walter E. Edge and New Jersey leaders, taking a motor trip in the afternoon. Ignores Hansbrough Headquarters will be established at a hotel where the nominee will remain over Monday night, motoring Tuesday across the entire State to Trenton, N. J., to catch the train back home Tuesday afternoon. No further comment was forthcoming from headquarters concerning the charges of Henry C. Hansbrough, former North Dakota Senator, who has written two letters to Hoover challenging him to stop the “whispering campaign.” George Akerson, secretary of the nominee, issued a statement late yesterday, accusing Hansbrough of making his letters public before Hoover had a chance to read them. Hovoer does not answer s*uch letters, Akerson said.

In the Air

CONDITIONS AT 9:30 A. M. (Compiled for The Times by Government Weather Observer J. H. Armlngton and Donald McConnell Government aeronautical observer! Wind, west to southwest, fourteen miles an hour; barometric pressure, 30.03 at sea level; temperature, 73; ceiling and visibility unlimited. New York Curb Opening —Sept. 15— Am R Mill 97% Cities Svc 67% Cont Oil 17'/s Fora Canada 600 Humble OH 83% Marmon 50% Pant,epee 12% Prairies O & Gas 46% Prairie Pipe 186% Stand Oil 76% United L & P A '. 24%

is working as a clerk in a men’s store. Chicago society f olk befriended the young exiles and mingled with their friends from the shops at the wedding. Among the guests and ushers were Prince Michael Canticuzene, Col, George Voevdosky and Col. Michael Lasaref.

Entered as Second-Clasß Matter at Postoffiee, Indianapolis

SEVEN DEAD, 15 MISSING AFTER STORM RIPS 4-MILE PATH OVERJICKFORD, ILL. Volunteer Workers Tear Into Wreckage of Razed Factory in Search of Bodies Buried as Tornado Strikes DAMAGE IS ESTIMATED AT $5,000,000 Sixty-Five Persons Are in Hospitals Suffering Serious Injuries; Torrential Rain Hampers Rescue Efforts ROCKFORD, 111., Sept. 15.—Volunteer workers were tearing away wreckage today in an effort to check the full toll of death taken by a tornado which swept the southeast section of Rockford late yesterday. Seven were known to have been killed and fifteen other persons were unaccounted for. It is believel they were buried in the wreckage of the Rockford Chair and Furniture Company plant where 135 persons were working when the twister struck the building, leaving it in ruins.

Most, if not all, of the victims, who were buried under tons of debris of the three-storv building, would be dead, police said, by the time rescue workers succeeded in clearing away the pile of bricks and twisted steel beams where the plant had stood. Sixty-five persons were in hospitals with serious injuries. Many others had been treated for minor cuts an dbruises at first aid station set up in the tricken area. The tornado tore a path 400 yards wide and four miles long through the industrial section of the city. Three Factories Hit Damage was estimated at near $5,000,000. Three factories were wrecked and 350 men were left unemployed as a result. The darkness of night hooded the city just before the wind struck. Workers in the Rockford Furniture plant told of hearing a distant rumble which grew’ to a crashing roar. Then they heard surrounding frame structures falling. Debris was

FIND ‘BURGLARS' SHIRT AND DOG Third False Alarm Traced to Flashlight by Cops. All “prowlers” are no* prowlers and all "burglars” are not burglars. Sometimes a “burglar” is a dog and a “prowler” is white shirt. Police were called to the home of M. S. Johnson. 20 N. Campbell Ave., at 1 a. m. on a report there was a burglar in the house. Motor policemen captured the “burglar” in a second floor closet, a stray dog that had roamed into the house during the day and hidden itself. At 12:30 a. m.George Comstick, 845 Rural St., called police that there was someone in his garage. Police found Comstock's lighted flashlight in the garage. There was no evidence any one had broken into the place. Comstock evidently had left the flashlight burning. Called to the home of Mrs. John Gerber, 3625 E. Washington St., earlier in the night on a report a prowler with a flashlight had passed between the houses, the same officers found a white shirt flashing on a clothes line.

How the Market Opened

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hurled against the wall sos the brick factory. Then the core of the twister struck. Plant Roof Blown Off / The roof of the three-story furniture plant was carried away: the north wall crashed with a great roar, and floor by floor the factory building collapsed, trapping terrorized workmen in a mass of steel and brick. The Union Furniture Company, the Elco Tool Company and approximately 100 residences also lay in the narrow path of the storm. All either were demolished or badly damaged. The tornado whiped out of the industrial section of Rockford into a neighboring rural district. More than two square miles of wire cables and poles w’ere broken and twisted. Communication virtually was impossible, and it was difficult to determine the extent of damage in surrounding farm communities. Torrential Rain Follows The fury of the storm passed ir. a moment, only to be follow’ed by a torrential rain, which flooded the streets and hampered all efforts at rescue. Water was knee deep in many places of the devastated sections. Frantic relatives flocked to the scene of the tragedy. The names of missing persons were cried out in a confusion of people who rushed against a hastily drawn police line in an effort to reach the scene .where rescue crews already were at work. All available police and firemen worked through the night, many of them soaked by the downpour of rain. Scores of volunteers were organized into work shifts soon after the twister had passed and before the deluge of rain had subsided. Schools Spared Lost Severel public schools were In the storm territory, but were spared the lash of its greatest intensity. Children who were leaving the school buildings rushed back, frightened by the wind and darkness, just before the storm broke. They were saved from the flying debris which, a moment later, was hurled through the streets. The Rockford Chamber of Commerce through its president, Walter E. Burwell, issued an appeal to Rockford residents to raise a fund to assist injured and destitute families. Storm Hits Chicago lid United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 15.—The edge of the storm which moved from the southeast across northern Illinois late Friday, taking toll of six in Rockford, struck Chicago in the form of a severe electrical storm. The entire city was hooded by darkness and swept by high winds, folowed by torrential rains which flooded streets in the northern section of the city and delayed traffic during the rush hour, in the evenlng. One woman was repotted kilfcd by a falling building. Gale Over Lake Bn United Press CLEVELAND, Sept. 15.—The disasterous storm which swept Nebraska and Illinois Thursday and Friday, will sweep over Lake Erie late today or tonight, but with lessened intensity, the weather bureau here said in storm warnings issued today. The storm will strike portions of Lake Ontario, but serious damage is not to be anticipated, the bureau said.

Friend in Need By United Press DURANT, Okla., Sept. 15. G. R. Jarnigan of Williamson couldn’t see the value of one man's vote so he always stayed away from the polls on election day. This year he had a friend, L. W. Diffey, who was candidate for county commissioner. Jarnigan determined—against his good judgment— to cas a vote for Diffey. Diffey won by one vote.