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BULLETS LINK 3 TO MURDER OF PROMOTER Peculiar Kind of Ammunition Used in Marlow Slaying. GANG ARSENAL RAIDED Trio, Captured in Dramatic New York Swoop, Seek to Give Cops $20,000. P'/ United Press NEW YORK, July I.—A bullet found in the head of Frank Mallow, Broadway racketeer, killed a week ago tonight and tossed from an auto beside a cemetery in Flushing, Queens, is similar to the peculiar make of fifty rounds of ammunition seized Sunday in a gangster’s arsenal in Queens, it was learned today. The ammunition seized at the time Daniel, alias David, Grosso, Nicholas McDermott and James Graham were arrested in story-book fashion by a squad of detectives, is of the most recent manufacture. The slug of the bullets is made of copper and zinc, electroplated. The use of lubaloy coating on the bullets is less than a year old. Commissioner Grover Whalen says few of these bullets are sold in New York. Grosso told police he had bought the ammunition in the west. It is manufactured by the Western Cartridge Company, East Alton, 111., and is much in favor with Chicago gangsters. Weapons Examined Police are making a detailed and scientific comparison of the bullets, and pistol experts are examining Grosso's weapons, to determine if possible whether the bullet found in Marlow's head came from one of those guns. After police had made the arrest Grosso offered them $20,000 to turn their heads while he and his companions escaped. The three were held as material Witnesses in the murder of Marlow. Police Commissioner Whalen said Grosso and McDermott might be charged with the actual slaying later. Two Have Records Both McDermott and Grosso have criminal records, the former being wanted by the federal government on a charge of participating in the mail robbery at Elizabeth. N. J., three years ago in which two postal employes were killed. Whalen said Grosso also was suspected of ha\ing had a part in the Bell laboratories holdup here and the theft of more than SIOO,OOO worth of gems from Maubsussin, Fifth avenue jeweler. An extra guard was stationed outside Grosso's cell Sunday night after he told detectives he planned to commit suicide. Climb Fire Escape Detective Hyman Levine led the party that closed in on the Apartment at, Sunnyside. Queens, RSunday. It had been learned that jprosso was expecting a call from a [woman. T Levine and another detective the fire escape and waited outside the bedroom window while \vo other detectives went to the Pnt door and knocked softly. >||jfrough TTie window they saw Grasgo to the front door and open it. was the only other person in the apartment at the time. 1 When Grosso saw the detectives, •me tried to slam the door and lock 9lt. Just then Levine leaped through the open window and shouted: "Hands up." Surrenders Quietly you make a move you’ll be Silled." Levine said. "Where are -The rods?” 3 Grosso motioned to a dresser in P|ie next, room where the police Vmd two .38 caliber pistols. 100 of brass-tipped bullets and HA tear-gas shells. In the front . V were found a pair of binoculars i '*>-•lited on a swivel bracket. said the binoculars were > filled there because he had been •the beer running racket" and to gSpI on guard against enemies. Jr ‘l'd Give 'Em the Works IpTf I spotted any of my enemies p’d give them the works," said IGrosso. | Just then Graham, who is 18. entered the apartment and was arIrested. After Levine had refused to accept the $20,000 bribe offered by Grosso, the latter said: • Say, do me a favor. Hit me on the head with the butt of a gun. will you?” "Why?” asked Levine. "Well, you know the ‘mob*. They won't think I'm tough getting a pinch like this.” Levine's answer was to handcuff the three men and taken them out. Whalen said he had been seeking Grosso and McDermott since the [night Marlow was murdered. He [declared they were seen in an autoknobile near the Flushing cemetery [the night of the killing. Hourly Tmperature* |6a. m 64 10 a. m 7 i I 7a. m 67 11 a. m 74 S Ba. 68 12 (noon).. 74 [ H m.... •70 Ip. m 75

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SCORE OF PERSONS ARE INJURED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS DURING CITY STORM: DAMAGE IS HEAVY

60-Mile-an-Hour Gale Unroofs Houses, Uproots Trees, Paralyzes Traffic and Causes Heavy Loss to State Crops.

Indianapolis and central Indiana were recovering today from devastation wrought Sunday evening by a sixty-mile-an-hour wind which unroofed homes, uprooted trees, paralyzed traffic, deluged thousands of acres of com and wheat, injured a score of persons and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. A score or more of downtown retail stores were replacing plateglass windows which crashed under pressure of the gale, allowing wind and rain to ruin merchandise. Breaking suddenly after intermittent showers late in the afternoon, the storm swept in from the northwest with a driving rain. The gale showed a velocity of sixty miles an hour at 6:50 p. m. and continued at fifty-six miles an hour for five minutes. Shortly after 1 this morning, another thunderstorm broke over the city, adding to the deluge and causing a $25,000 fire from lightning at the American Specialty Company, Morris and Church streets. Speedway Heavy Sufferer The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was one of the heaviest sufferers by the gale. The roof was blown from grand stand D, and sections of the fence were razed. Windows were

LONDON CHEERS KING'S RETURN English Monarch Welcomed Back Home. Bh United Priss LONDON, July I.—King George, 1 whose restoration to health seemed almost miraculous in the face of his | long and ravaging illness, came back Ito Buckingham palace today amid : seldom equaled scenes of loyal affection from his subjects. After driving with the queen in state through flower-strewn streets , lines by hundreds of thousands of i cheering, waving people, the king ; appeared on the balcony of Buck- : ingham palace with the queen and ; the royal family. The great crowd below went into i a frenzy a minute later, when the | king disappeared and returned with I the baby Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the duke of York, in his arms. The curly-haired child, whose bright affection was a great tonic to the king in his convalescence. Waved to the crowd from her grandfather’s arms and threw' kisses. The king issued the following message to the people: “I wash to express my heartfelt gratitude for j the affectionate and enthusiastic ! welcome I received on returning after long months of illness to the capital of my empire. ‘'GEORGE. R I.” It was learned that King George ' and Queen Mary will remain at | Buckingham palace for about a week ! before going to Sandringham palace for the summer. RAIN SWELLS RIVER Stands at 11.4 Feet, Piers Endangered. Rising rapidly as result of the heavy rains of Sunday night and this morning, White river stood at 11.4 feet here this morning at 7. as compared with 6 feet 7- inches Sunday morning, and still was rising. Flood stage is 18 feet. The rapid rise of White river and Fa 111 creek endangered piers and boat landings. A bathing platform was pulled from its pilings at McClure b°ach. but was caught and anchored. TALK 1930 BUILDINGS School Board Considers Construction Campaign for New Year. The school building program for 1930 was to be considered by school board members at 4 p. m. today. Board members explained an idea of extent of the 1930 program is needed in preparation of the 1930 budgak

shattered in the judges’ stand, the roof of the clubhouse blown off, trees uprooted and the pits damaged. The total was expected to run into thousands of dollars. A score of persons were injured in traffic crashes during the storm. Four persons who were sitting in their car at the side of engine house No. 19, Harding and Morris streets, were injured, when a tall brick chimney was blown down upon them, wrecking the car. The injured, all treated at city hospital, but recovering at home today were: Guy M. Lewis, 1109 Reisner street, deep cut on the head and possible concussion; his wife, Mrs. Nellie Sfcherer, 28, lacerations; their daughter, Louise. 3, bruised, and son, Richard, 8, fractured ribs. Mrs. Mary Hubbell, 30 North Lansing street, and her small child, were slightly injured when a telephone pole crashed through the roof of her home, showering them with plaster. Power Line Foies Down Power lines and poles in all parts of the city were down Sunday night and few street lights were burning, officials of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company declared today. Many large consumers of power, who would have been handicapped if the storm had occurred on any other day, reported their lines had been fixed during the night and that factories were running on time. Traffic over the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern interurban lines to all points was practically at a standstill for some time Sunday night, and it was not until this morning that trains were able to reach them terminals. Interurbans Stalled The Union Traction Company was forced to send busses to a stop between Indianapolis and Newcastle this morning in order to bring in the passengers, who had been sitting in a car all night. The interurban from Newcastle was due here at 1 a. m., but six poles were blown down and could not be raised during the night. Busses were pressed into service by the Indianapolis Street Railway Company on the West Indianapolis and South Meridian street lines. Service in West Indianapolis was tied up two and one-half hours, because of the wires being blown down while traffic on the entire South Meridian street loop was halted. Tiee branches broken off by the wind caused short circuits on the Central avenue line and halted traffic for some time. Phone Damage Heavy Steam train service was not halted, the Union Station reported. Damage to telephone lines was estimated at $50,000 by J. W. Hannon, general superintendent of plant of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company. Os this amount $30,000 damage was sustained in Indianapolis where 180 poles are down and 2,000 individual cases of trouble are reported. The long distance breaks were cleared this afternoon, but it will be two or three days before the Indianapolis system will be in perfect operating order. While rainfall, in Indianapolis for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 a, m. today totaled 1.88 inches, Noblesville reported the heaviest in the state, 4.20 inches, and Farmland 3.18 inches.

Thunderstorms Today

Thundershowers this afternoon or tonight were predicted in today’s forecast, with Tuesday expected to be generally fair with not much change in temperature. No aviation casualties were caused here, by the storm, although hangars were damaged. Telephones were out of order at Mars hill where national guard's armory roof was reported blown away. A barn on the Harry Johnson farm, west Thirtieth street, opposite Capitol airport, was destroyed by fire, started by lightning, at 6:30 Sunday evening. It was reported that the EmbryRiddle air mail plane was forced to return after leaving for Chicago Sunday evening. It was forcetf down at the Speedway without damage, reports said. The T. A. T. pasenger planes to St. Louis got through safely, leaving Mars hill before the storm broke. Lightning struck a chimney at 502 Indiana avenue. Aerial at WFBM's broadcasting {Turn to Pa*e lij

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Upper photograph shows how the roof of Grandstand D at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was hurled high into the air over the trees and dumped about seventy-five feet away (center of the picture) by the terrific wind Sunday evening. Much of the Speedway still was under water today. Wreckage of the roof is shown below. Parts of roofs of other grandstands and fences were strewn about the grounds.

BAND PLAYS AS SHIP IS BURNING Liner Carrying 380 Damaged in New York Harbor. Bit United Press NEW YORK, July I.—Fire ruined the main gallery of the HamburgAmerican liner Deutschland and scorched woodwork in several compartments adjoining a ventilator shaft as she steamed up the bay with 330 passengers today. There was no panic, and the German band aboard played lively airs to divert passengers’ attention from the fire. Just as the liner was leaving quarantine for Its pier at the foot of West Forty-fourth street this morning a cook in the main galley on D deck dropped a handful of potatoes in a pot of boiling grease. A sheet of flame leaped up through the ventilator shaft and enveloped the galley as the frightened cook dashed out on deck slamming a fire door behind him. Caked greese in the ventilator shaft fed the flame and in a few moments the blaze was shooting forty feet above the deck. The 380 passengers were just finishing breakfast when they were urged forward in an orderly manner while the ship’s crew turned six lines of hose down the ventilator shaft, red hot in a few moments. By the time the liner was off Forthy-fourth street, the flames were under control of the chief officer and his crew. Captain Otto Langer remained on the bridge throughout and directed operations in a manner which drew praise from the passengers. ASK STREET RAISES $201,000 More Sought for Resurfacing in 1930, An increase of $201,000 in street resurfacing funds for 1930 is asked in the budget completed today by City Civil Engineer A. H. Moore He is asking for $134,000 for track elevation, the same amount he had this year. Moore is requesting a 5-cent resurfacing levy, as compared with the 2-cent levy of this year. Moore’s 1930 program calls for resurfacing of approximately forty streets.

TIMES WILL CONTINUE FREE SERVICE ON DRIVERS' LICENSES

The new state driver license law technically went into effect today, but relatively so few persons in the state had been able to get their permits that it ■will be impossible for the secretary of state’s office to start enforcement for some time. Meanwhile The Indianapolis Times will continue its free notary service on license application blanks at The Times office. The Times bureau will be open from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Sunday. M&mk. Although the licenser -\ of the office of Otto G. i ~ 'ltax>’ oi state, has b

GUNMEN TERRORIZE 3 WOMEN, KIDNAP MAN Breaks Into Apartment; Escape With $2,000 in Loot. 81l United Press SAN FRANCISCO. July I.—Three masked gunmen broke into an apartment here today, terrorized three women, stole $2,000 in jewelry and furs and kidnaped an unidentified man. The kidnaped man was beaten into unconsciousness when he refused a command to "raise his hands.” Police fear that the man may have been “taken for a ride.” The apartment was occupied by Marguerite Zustin. With her were Mildred Pitts and Dorothy O'Brien. The name of the man who was beaten was not learned. ROAD COT EXPECTED Cost of Kessler Paving Likely to Be Lowered. Huge slashes in the proposed $282,000 Indianapolis park board bond issue tor the paving of Kessler boulevard, 2.41 miles east of Keystone avenue, is expected to result from a hearing on the issue before the state tax board today. Members of the tax board will inspect the proposed project this afternoon. Even the most ardent backers of the improvement predicted that the cost will be $50,000 or more less than the amount asked, which was based on use of brick. It is expected some other material will be ordered. ASKS AID TO GET FINES Judge Requests Officer Be Named to Collect Money. Judge Clifton R. Cameron of the municipal court appeared before the county commissioners today and asked that they grant permission to employ another probation officer for one month in order to collect the delinquent fines assessed against persons whose prison sentences were suspended.

FIRM IS INCORPORATED

Realty Company Files Articles Wijh Secretary of State.

W. A. Brennan, for many years manager of the realtty company bearing his name, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, which would make the company, W. A. Brennan, Inc.

capacity for a month, it has been able to issue but 212,000 of the 1,500,000 or more which will be demanded. Marion county’s total had been estimated at about 62,000, but up until noon Saturday 66.000 had been issued, mostly to Marion county citizens, over the statehouse counters. Today they continued to stream in, according to James A. Bradley, chief of the bureaus. Robert T. Humes, state police chief, declared that drivers in accidents will be checked for drivers’ licenses, and he expected every one to hove them as soon as possible,

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STATE YOUTH MAY UPSET POWER WORLD

Invention of Hoosier Boy Offers Cheaper Way to Harness Streams. EXPERT LAUDS DEVICE Says It Would Permit Use of Energy From Smallest of Currents. BY ROSCOE B. FLEMING Times Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July I.—A young Hoosier inventor, Frank Gaede, Plymouth, Ind., may have solved the problem of harnessing millions of horsepower of energy now running to waste in the streams of the United States. According to Clarence A. O'Brien, patent expert of Washington, Gaede has shown the way for the development of power from streams not heretofore regarded as possible power sources. Gaede’s invention does not depend upon a large head of water for its operation. It is driven solely by the surface current, and any stream, no matter how small, with an all-year flow is a potential source of power. Since it is the surface current that is utilized, the power produced remains constant in flood time or in drougth. Skims Off Power "Properly speaking,” O'Brien explains, "Gaede has provided for skimming the power from the stream. The size of the stream, and its variations ih water level, are unimportant, except in volume of power to be produced. "The one requirement Is a year round flow with an appreciable current. Given these, the farmer with a trout stream on his place, or with a creek running through his meadow, may install an individual power plant as efficient, proportionately, as commercial installations that might be made for power purposes on larger waterways.” Briefly, Gaede has arranged to utilize the horizontal movement of the water, the surface flow, instead of a vertical drop as in the customary power installation. The driving mechanism always rests at the stream level, rising or falling as the stream rises or falls, on pontoons anchored in channeled cement walls rising from the stream bed. Device Is Simple After an experience as a patent attorney covering many years, O’Brien singles out the work of the young Hoosier as one of the most interesting of any that he has presented to the patent office. As in many of the primary inventions that have proved of the greatest usefulness, he points out, Gaede's mechanism has both simplicity and flexibility. It may be installed either on a large or small scale, depending ‘.w* the nature of the stream or the amount of power desired. Experts of the federal power commission recently estimateo the potential water power of streams in the United States at approximately 35,000,000-horse power. Os this amount only some 13,500.000-horse power is in use. The potential power as estimated, however, does not take into consideration thousands of streams in which a power generator from surface current could be utilized. Since the same current could be used over and over again without depletion of the stream or its flow Gaede’s device, or some development of it, may result in multiplying many times the country’s power resources. WAR CHIEF TO VISIT U. S. French Rainbow Division Commander to Attend Reunion. Bn United Pres* NEW YORK, July I—General Henri Gouraud. French commander who led the Rainbow division at Champagne July 14, 1918, will come to the United States to celebrate the anniversary of the battle with veterans of the division, according to Colonel William P. Screws, president of the Rainbow Veterans’ Association. An official reception will be given the one-armed leader at city hall soon after his arrival on July 10. After a visit to President Herbert Hoover he will return for the reunion at Baltimore July 14 and 15.

but that no general check-up will be possible for several weeks. "Our men will be busy examining crippled candidates for licenses,” the chief declared. "Just now we are also swamped with requests for police at the various events scheduled throughout the state for July 4. “There are the dog and automobile races here, which will attract thousands. Then there is racing at Salem, Winchester and Washington, a big picnic at Quincy and air circuses and local celebrations all asking our attention. “I could use a force three times the size of our present one, but we huven’fc got the arusc#."

SEA FLIGHT PILOT DIES IN SMASHUP

Wilmer Stultz, Who Accompanied Amelia Earhart on Atlantic Hop, Is Killed With Two Passengers in Plane. TAILSPIN AT 200 FEET BLAMED Others in Machine Die Instantly; End Comes to Noted Flier Shortly After He Is Taken to Hospital. h 1 ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. L, July L —Wilmer .Stultz, who accompanied the first woman flier. Miss Amelia Earhart, across the Atlantic ocean in the monoplane friendship, was hurt fatally here today when the Waco Speedwin biplane he was piloting

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not take fire after the crash. Fred Donion of Lynbrook and George Richter of Woodmere, employed by a Malverne (L. I.) contractor, had been hauling top soil from the field in which the

CITY WILL BE HOST TO 100,000 DURING YEAR 150 Conventions Held Here; 53 More Scheduled. With more than 150 conventions held here already this year and fifty-three more scheduled, Indianapolis, will Have been host to approximately 100,000 visitor at more than 200 conventions by the close of the year. Twenty-three national and regional conventions and twenty-nine state gatherings are scheduled for the last half of the year, according to the semi-annual report compiled by Henry T. Davis, Indianapolis convention bureau manager. The bureau reported forty-five state and twenty national and regional conventions have been scheduled for 1930 and 1931.

ARGUE ‘POCKET VETO’ Case Tests Law Creating New Courts. Governor Harry G. Leslie had no right to “pocket veto” Senate Bill 212, nor has any Governor amy right under the Constitution to exercise a. “pocket veto.” Such was the contention of Attorney Wiliam H. Thompson before the supreme court today where his client, Judge Robert F. Murray of Muncie, appeared to show cause why a temporary writ of prohibition against Murray should not be made permanent. Murray had assumed jurisdiction of the liquor case of Elam White, Marion, on the grounds that Bill 212, which created Muncie and Marion separate superior courts with criminal jurisdiction, was in effect although "pocket vetoed” by the Governor. QUITS STATE OFFICE John K. Ruckelshaus Resigns as Bureau’s Attorney. John K. Ruckelshaus today notified Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield that he is resigning as attorney for the criminal investigation bureau in Fifield’s office and has accepted a position with the Ulen Company. Lebanon, Ind. Ruckelshaus expects to start in his new position within a few weeks. He is to be legal advisor of the company. Although a young man, Ruckelshaus has long been prominent in Republican politics here. He was city attorney under the administration of former Mayor John L. Duvall. The new position marks his political retirement. P.uckelshaus said. NEW VENIRE ORDERED First Group of Grand Jury Talesmen Excused. Jury commissioners were ordered to draw ten more talesmen for grand jury service today when the six prospective jurymen drawn last week were excused in criminal court by Judge James A. Collins. The ten must appear in court Wednesday morning. Court Sheriff Sworn In Taylor F. Meeks. Greensburg Civil war veteran, was sworn in today as sheriff of the Indiana supreme rnim

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went into a tailspin and crashed from an altitude of 200 feet. With Stultz in the speedy little plane were two passengers, both of whom were killed instantly. Stultz was pulled from the wreckag unconscious, and rushed to Nassau count hospital in a private car, but died shot' after arrival. / The other two victims of the/ were identified as Edward Harwood\ Pat Castelluccio. The plane was seen to fall into a t?| spin from an altitude of 200 feet. It <li(

plane fell. At the time theyj were eating lunch seated in th cab of their truck. They heard the motor of the* approaching plane, ard, look-| ing out, saw it headed directly for] their truck. Before they could lea{J to safety, the plane crashed into th| ground barely twenty feet from the truck. They rushed to the wreckage anr; found the two men in the Iron cockpit dead. Roosevelt field employes aidet them in turning the wreckage ovet to extricate Stultz, who was pinne underneath. Narrow Escape Week Ago Stultz is the second noted flier meet his death near Roosevelt fle since Friday. Frank Ashcraft, co-pilot i Viola Gentry in an endurance fl attempt, was killed when their p crashed. Miss Gentry was inji seriously but will recover, her pb cians declare. An examination of the wrecl following the crash revealed to-*, perienced airmen that Stultz’s conscious thought was a true \ man’s—he cut the switch of ;ll magnetoes to prevent fire. The crash today followed a harrow escape a week ago Saturday when Stultz flew John Hay Whitney to the Harvard-Yale boat race am was returning alone when he ran into a dense fog bank. He attempted to land his Sikorsky amphibian near Rocky Point, Conn., and the plane emerged from the fog over a rocky bank. It was only by skillful maneuvering that Stultz reached the water and avoided a crackup. Plane Owned by Whitney The plane in which Stultz met his death today was owned by Whitney, a Manhassett (L. I.) sportsman. Stultz flew it in the Memorial day races here and then placed it U a hangar until anew propelller wa installed. This was the first tesl flight since. It was just a few days more than a, year ago when Stultz and Miss! Earhart hopped off from Trepassey’ N. F. t for Europe in their tri-mo/ tored Fokker monoplane Friendship] They landed off the coast of Ireland and the world paid tribute. ’ Stultz was credited with exceptional skill in handling large flying machines. At the time of his flight to Ireland many observers did not believe the Friendship would rise from the wa-j ter with enough fuel to carry it safeyl across the Atlantic . Fuel scarcity did force the Friendship to land off Ireland instead of continuing on to England. Long Record in Air Stultz was born in Williamsburg, Pa., in 1900. From 1917 to 1919 he served with the army air sendee Then for three yeans he was in the naval air service. In 1920 he completed his training at Pensacola, Fla. In 1923 he went to South America for the Curtiss Aeroplane Company, delivering forty planes to the Brazilian navy, ting them up and testing them. / Later he became pilot for Mrs. Frances Grayson, making the flrst take-off with the Dawn. After engine trouble developed he took the ship back to Old Orchard Beach, Me., after 500 of perilous flying. The Dawn took off later with an* other pilot and was lo*t with Mr*. Gxa}’SGO aod two oUitr abcajrdL

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