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DUAL TRAGEDY ENDS TRIP TO KIDNAPED GIRL Clarence Flener Stabs Wife, Wrecks Car and Slashes Own Throat. USED CHILD AS LURE Mother Consented to Go With Estranged Husband to See Baby. By United Press WEST CHICAGO, 111., Aug. 15. The body of Clarence Flener was found today within 200 yards of the spot where he was believed to have killed his wife Wednesday. Flener had cut his throat, apparently with the same knife which caused Mrs. Flener’s death. The husband had lured Mrs. Flener to West Chicago with promises of permitting her to see her baby he had kidnaped. She had been stabbed In the abdomen and her throat had been slashed, while she was riding in a speeding automobile. Her body lay near the wrecked car. Back of the wreck scene on a paved highway near here lay a story of domestic strife, the kidnaping of Dorothy, a wild ride during which Mrs. Flener was stabbed and her throat slashed, and the subsequent disappearance of her husband, who, witnesses said, had mistreated his wife the three years they were married. Car Hits Phone Pole Late Wednesday a speeding automobile wobbled along the road just outside West Chicago. It crashed into a telephone post and was wrecked. Mrs. Ann Hughes noted the car as it went past her bungalow and with her husband went to the scene. Mrs. Flener. stabbed, and her throat cut, was beneath the wreckage. Mr. and Mrs. Hughes extricated her and with her last breaths she gasped: “My God, my husband stabbed me.” Mr. and Mrs. Hughes had seen a man run from the wrecked automobile across the fields in the direction of the Chicago & Northwestern tracks. Kidnaped His Child From Roy Flener, a brother, Du Page county authorities learned Flener had kidnaped his daughter Dorothy Monday. Mrs. Flener, anxious over the fate of her child, begged him to bring the little girl back, but he refused, his brother said. Wednesday Flener appeared at his brother’s home where Mrs. Flener was staying and, after an apparent reconciliation, the husband and wife drove toward West Chicago. Roy Flener said his brother had beaten Mrs. Flener for three years, refusing to work and depending on his wife's earnings for his support. “I tried to stop her from going away with Clarence,” Roy said, “but he had promised to take her to Dorothy and she said to me ‘l’ll do anything in the world to see my baby.’ ” Roy said Mrs. Flener had sworn out a warrant for the arrest of her husband on kidnaping charges but the warrant had not been served. In the pockets of Mrs. Flener’s coat was found a bank book showing deposits of $931 in the name of her child. Her brother-in-law said she had saved it from her meager earnings so she might provide an education for the little girl. CLOTHES AND RADIO IN LOOT OF THIEVES Apartment Is Entered and $135 Receiver Stolen. Wearing apparel and a radio were included in the loot of thieves here Wednesday night. By removing a pane of glass and bars from a rear window burglars entered the Talbott Dry Cleaners, 131 East Twenty-second street, and stole seven suits and four pairs of trousers valued at S2OO. Burglars who entered the apartment of Frank C. Murphy, 1832 Central avenue, by breaking the glass from his front door. They stole a radio and loud speaker valued at $135. deathT news waiting - Kokomo Girl on Vacation Does Not Know Brother Was Killed. By Un ilrii Press KOKOMO. Ind.. Aug. 15.—Two Kokomo girls are vacationing somewhere in southern Michigan today, oblivious of the fact that a brother of one was killed in an automobile accident Tuesday evening and is to be burdied Friday. Miss Veda Covalt. school teacher, and Miss Frieda Haseltine, society editor of a newspaper here, left on the vacation without leaving an itinerary of stops, and may not be reached until next week, when they will be /kt Lake James, Ind. Miss Covalt is a sister of Walter Covalt. one of the four victims in the crash. Hourly Temperatures •a. m 57 10 a. m 63 7a. m 57 11 a. m..*. 65 la. m 53 12 (noon).. 66 i 9 a. m..... 62 1 p. m..... 68

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Pay Day! If your taxes are delinquent, get your furniture near the front door. It’s threatened with confiscation. Thus Clyde Robinson, county treasurer, today warned 25,000 delinquents who owe the county more than $200,000 today as he started out in charge of a huge truck, labeled on both sides: “Delinquent Tax Wagon.” Inside the truck were five helpers. “If they don’t pay up, out go the pianos and the rugs,” he declared.

SNOOK’S AIDS TO ACCUSE 2 DEATH JURORS Motion for New Trial to Escape Electric Chair to Come Up Monday. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Presi Staff Correpondent COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 15.—Although the electric chair cast its shadow over Dr. James Howard Snook today, the convicted murderer of Theora Hix will fight for his hold on life. The fight will begin at 9 a. m., Monday, when the former university professor’s attorneys argue a motion for new trial. They will charge, among other things, that two of the jurors, who convicted Snook, “had determined upon conviction before they retired from the jury box.” Affidavits will be filed against the two jurors, E. O. Ricketts, chief of Snook’s counsel, said today. He refused to reveal their names, but said he would claim they “were actuated by undue influence.” Snook Rests in Cell Snook, meantime, rested in his cell at the county jail. The steel nerve which carried him through the first phases of his trial, and but seldom cracked, supported him today and he seemed composed. Snook spent a restless night, he told his jailer, and awakened this morning with a sfevere headache, “Wasn’t that trial an awful strain on you, doctor?” jailer asked. “No, it wasn’t ay strain at all,” he said. “I never had any real interest in what was going on. “The jury didn’t even need to retire so far as I was concerned. With all that stuff (meaning evidence of the most sordid type) before them I'm surprised they even retired.” Snook’s wife and mother, whose loyalty bolstered him during the three weeks of his trial, remained in seclusion today. “We have many grounds to ask for anew trial,” Ricketts said. Hasn’t Told All The motion, he said, will charge prejudice and bias and “the influence of public opinion.” It also will allege court fans were “planted” to applaud when Prosecutor John Chester concluded his final appeal to the jury. The jury returned Its verdict in twenty -eight minutes after retiring. Mercy was not recommended, thus making mandatory imposition of the death penalty. Judge Henry L. Scarlett formally will pass sentence after hearing the motion for new trial. Ricketts said that If the motion is denied he will carry the case to ; the court of appeals. Snook, according to his jailer, intimated that he has not told ell of what occurred on the New York Central rifle range on the night of June 13, when Miss Hix, with whom Snook had held trusts for three years, was slain. Efforts of newspaper men to draw him out were rebuffed with the statement that “I'll have to see my attorneys before I can talk.” SUICIDE PACT FAILS Couple Writes Thirty-five Letters Then Turns oft Gas. I Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—After addressing thirty-five farewell letters to their friends, Sophie Burges, 31, and Edward Smith, 30, who had been living as man and wife at 2511 : Cruger avenue, the Bronx, turned | their radio on to a jazz program last night and then opened the gas jets. Tenants, smelling gas, called aid. By means of an electric fan and a pulmotor. the couple were revived in a halt hour.

FIGHT AMENDMENTS Speculation and Farm Aid Plans to Be Rejected. Bv Vnitfd Prt* . „ WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—The Norris debenture plan of farm relief and the Glass proposal to limit Wall Street stock speculation were slated for a rejection today by Republican members of the senate finance committee who took up these two among twenty other independent amendments to the tariff bill. | A check of the committee indicated almost unanimous opposition |to these two proposals as tariff i amendments, indicating they would j be left out of the bill to be reported to the senate.

TWO HELD AS SUSPECTS IN FIENDKILLING Former Inmate of Insane Asylum Questioned About Sack Murder. FIND BLOOD ON SHOES Five Hundred Policemen Surround Twin Cities to Catch Child Slayer. Bu United Press MINNEAPOLIS. Aug. 15. Doubling the intensity of their search, 500 city and state police today surrounded the Twin Cities and guarded underworld haunts, seeking the fiend who assaulted and murered Dorothy Aune, 12-year-old junior high school girl. Spurred on by the heartbroken plea of Andrew Aune and Mrs. Aune, parents of the child, the police sent squads through all sections of Minneapolis and St. Paul, guarded highways and watch train stations. Dorothy’s body was found in a gutter Wednesday wrapped in gunny sacks. Eight stands of wire had been wound about her throat, her clothing was bloodstained and torn. A wad of paper was stuffed in her mouth. A watch, gift of her sister last spring because Dorothy received all “A” grades at school, was ticking on her wrist. Two Suspects Held Grant Blake, about 45, a former inmate of the St. Peter Insane Asylum, who claimed Faribault, Minn., as his home, was arrested today for -questioning in connection with the murder. Police said there were bloodstains on Blake’s shoes. He was arrested after employes of a lumber yard in the region of the Aune home reported that he was annoying women. Blake was unable to give a clear account of his actions on 'X'esday night when Dorothy disappeared. Six men were arrested last night, but five were released. Andrew Ollness, 28, a mechanic, was held for further questioning. He was arrested when a neighbor reported to police he attempted to molest her 6-year-old daughter. He denied knowledge of the murder. Elderly Man Sought The search centers on an elderly man described by Dorothy’s sister Sylvia. She told police she had noticed a man of about 40 years who several times had sought to entice small girls into his automobile. One clew which the police are seeking is Dorothy’s red tam. When the child went to a grocery on an errand Tuesday, her brown bobbed curls were covered by the tam. It was not found with the body. So many persons sought to offer their sympathy to the stricken Aune family today that police were sent to guard the home and to regulate traffic. The police scan closely every car that passes, hoping to catch sight of the elderly man described by Sylvia. x . Dorothy will be burled Saturday. KILLED JN_ STRIKE 3-Year-Old Boy Is Victim in Orleans Walkout. P ' NEWORLEANS, La., Aug. 15. The death of a 3-year-old boy uflder the wheels of a street car operated by a strike-breaker and two more dynamitings added today to the critical situation which has developed in New Orleans as the result i of a six weeks’ old street car strike. ; Windows in a Laurel street car were broken and the flooring smashed when a stick of dynamite exploded under the wheels. Another bomb struck a Chippewa street car, tearing out part of one side and shattering windows in homes of the vicinity. An angry mob surrounded the street car operated by Robert Blair when the car struck Floyd East, 3, j causing injuries from which the child died.

WOMAN EJECTED FROM CAFE; ASKS $15,000 Charges She Suffered Nervous Shock and Internal Injuries. Alleged permanent Injuries, suffered when she was ejected from a restaurant she operated at 375 North Illinois street* today led Mrs. Abbie Collier to file a suit for $15,000 damages against Charles Davidson in Superior Court 2. In the action, Mrs. Collier charges that Davidson entered her restaurant at 1 a. m. Aug 1 and forcibly ejected her, causing, she alleges, bruises, internal injuries and a nervous shock. Davidson entered a complaint for possession of the restaurant in municipal court Aug. X This was granted. 4

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EX-RECTOR TO FACECHARGES Say Temperance Society Chief Posed as Doctor. NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—The state department of education has received charges that the Rev. Dr. James Empringham, ex-rector, national secretary of the Church Temperance Society and a former state official of the Anti-Saloon League, had posed as a licensed physician and conducted alleged physical examinatons of disrobed girls. The charges were filed at Albany by the city health department. Sol Ulman, deputy attorney-gen-eral, today said the charges had been in his possession for several weeks and that inspectors sent to locate Dr. Empringham found him in Reno, Nev. “I will proceed against him,” Ullman said, “as soon as he gets back into the state. There is a question, however, whether he will ever come back to the state.” Dr. Empringham is faced with ecclesiastical action from his presr ence in Reno for a divorce. The Episcopal church recognizes only adultery as grounds for divorce, and any clergyman obtaining a divorce on any other ground is forbidden to ecelebrate holy communion. If he remarries he is unfrocked. TELLS OF PRESIDENTS Congressman Ludlow Places Wilson First. Intimate views of seven presidents he has known during his thirtyseven years as a newspaper correspondent in Washington were given by Louis Ludlow, congressman from the Seventh district, before the Advertising Club at the Columbia Club today. Ludlow gave close-ups of Harrison, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Wilson, he said, will be the outstanding man of the group historically, but Harrison would have been the equal of Wilson if he had had equal test? to bring out his great reserve power.

PLAN NONSTOP TRIP Attempt Refueling Flight Across Continent. Bv Vnited Prr*s SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 15—The Spokane Sun God prepared to take off today on the first attempt in aviation history to make a 7,200mile nonstop refueling flight from Spokane to New York and return. The hop-off is set for 6 p. m. In the cockpit of the Buhl air sedan will be Lieutenant Nick Mamer and Art Walker, cr-pilot, who expect to make the round trip in approximately seventy-two hours. The purpose of the flight is to demonstrate that refueling in flight is practical for commercial aircraft, passenger express, freight and air inail service. *

DEATH OF BABY BRINGS ORDER TO PROTECT CHILDREN

Police Will Stop Running Into Street Between Parked Autos. To reduce deaths of children in Indianapolis streets, Police Chief Claude Worley today ordered all policemen to guard closely against small boys and girls running from the curb behind parked cars, to take them home and reprimand them on the first offense, and to bring them into juvenile court the second time the rule is violated. The move followed the death of 4-year-old James Richardson, 828 River avenue, Tuesday night. In view of his mother, who stood on the front porch of their home, the boy darted between two automobiles parked at the curb into the path of an automobile and was fatally injured. He died at city hospital an hour later. Father Drives Home His father, Charles Richardson, a fruit dealer, was notified in Lansing, Mich., of the tragedy, and sped southward to Kokomo, Ind., where a bearing burned out in his fruit truck. A barbecue stand operator drove him to Indianapolis. Elzer Whitis, 24, of 3324 West Wilcox street, driver of the car, was held on charges of involuntary manslaughter, speeding and assault and battery, witnesses, including Mrs. Richardson, absolved him from blame, although tire marks showed his car skidded more than one hundred feet after striking the boy before it was stopped. In their home today Richardson and his wife denied allegations that police were searching for him to arrest him for child neglect. Juvenile court records bore out his denials. Tragedy Stalks Home While the parents and his older brothers, Leonard, 6, and Charles Jr., 8, mourned his death, an elderly grandmother recounted previous misfortune that has visited their house. “It started seven years ago when my granddaughter was burned to death,” she said. “Since then there have been five more deaths, and now Jimmy makes six—that’s seven all told.” • t Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday. Balloon Travels 180 Miles Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., Aug. 15.—A small rubber balloon released here was found five hours later at Blanchester, 0., a distance of 180 miles, according to word received by Mrs. Blanche Ethel Archer, whose name was on the balloon. River No Menace to City Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 15—Latest reports received at the war department indicate the city of Coming, Mo., Is in no immediate danger of being destroyed by the Missouri river which is cutting into farm lfflpd % forty it* left h^rtk l A *

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Here’s the latest views of the Graf Zeppelin, which is on its way to Tokio on the second hop of its round-the-world flight. Left, above, is the huge craft In the hangar at Lakehurst and also soaring above the navy air station. Left, below, is the Zep’s route around the earth, and below, right, Commander Hugo Eckener and his son Knute, an officer on board the craft.

I, DIE IN INDIA 2,500 Others Stricken by Typhus After River Indus Floods. Bit United Press LONDON, Aug. 15.—An exchange telegraph dispatch from Bombay today reported 1,300 dead and 2,500 others stricken by typhus in the sind division of India. The outbreak was caused by floods of the River Indus. CKARGEUSEOF CHILD LABOR Federation Head Alleges Unfair Strike-Breaking. Bu United Press ATLANTIC CITY, J?. J., Aug. 15. —Charges that childffen were being employed by the General Cigar Company of New Brunswick, N. J., to fight a strike of 900 workers were before the executive council of the American Federation of Labor today. Alleged “incredible violations" of the child labor law in New Jersey were detailed to the executive council. William Green, president of the A. F. of L., demanded that New Jersey federation officials “get busy and remedy a deplorable situation.” The New Jersey strike began last May when a 7 per cent wage reduction and an added hour of work went into effect. POLICE ORDER ELECTS Pennsylvania Man Chosen Head at Meeeting in Ft. Wayne. Bu United Press FT. WAYNE, Inct, Aug. 15.—Edward J. Allen of Erie, Pa., was elected president of the Frfttemal Order of Police, and Reading Ba., chosen as the 1930 meeting pf&cd at today’s session of the national convention here. Other officers are: Vice-president, John Taylor, Ft Wayne; recording secretary, Harry Hyer, Pittsburgh, Pa.; treasurer, J. D. Beatty, Canton, O.; conductor, David Evans, Bethlehem, Pa.; guard, Charles Lawall, Alletown, Pa.; national organizer, John B, Keuspert, South Bend; trustees, George Schmartzer, Pittsburgh; Francis Knight, Ft. Wayne; Frank Taylor, Steubenville, O.; J. J. Fennie, Lackawanna, N. Y;, and A. Hixenbaugh, Wheeling, W. Va. Still Anxious Over King George Bu United Press LONDON, Aug. 15.—The Daily | News reports today it understands the physicians to King George have | advised that th monarch abandon his projected visit to Sandringham palace for the summer

GRAF ZEPPELIN OVER BALTIC ON 6,600-MILE TOKIO HOP IN JOURNEY AROUND WORLD

Dirigible Maintains Steady Progress Aftetf Leaving Friedrichshafen; Air Liner Equipped for Any Emergency.

Bu United Press BERLIN, Aug. 15.—The Graf Zeppelin, flying steadily northeastward at sixty-five miles an hour, reached the shores of the Baltic sea today on its adventurous trip into Russia. Leaving Friedrichshafen at 10:35 p. m., eastern standard time, Wednesday for Tokio on the second hop of its flight around the world, the great dirigible passed over the

GASH IS NEEDED FOR BOYS’ GLOB Kitten Ball Team Will Be Sent to Louisville. The Times, co-operating with the city recreation department, is asking for contributions from publicspirited citizens interested in sending the champions of the city playground kittenball leagues to Louisville. If you want to help a good cause and make these young ball players happy, send your check today. Two hundred fifty dollars is needed at once to finance the trip, which has been postponed until Thursday, Aug. 22, to allow time for the funds to be sent in. Ringgold playground’s team Won the city championship title from Rhodius at Willard park Wednesday and will play the Louisville team. 1 Hundreds of boys who played In the Kitten leagues this summer are eager to see Indianapolis defeat the, southerners. There is no money for trahaportaton in the budget of the recreation department, so this appeal is being made. All boys on the teams are under 16 jears of age. Here is a chance to show loyalty to the youth of our city*. Mail your contributions at once to the Playground Editor of The Times, or in care of the Recreation Department, City Hall. PAPER DOLLS TO Be GIVEN CRIPPLED TOTS Children at Finch Playground Work for Riley Hospital. Children at Finch playground are turning their play into actual pursuits. For several- 'weeks they have been making paper dolls, which they will present to crippled children at Riley hospital, it was announced by Matron Ida Gelderman today. Small dolls are bought by the children, who dress them in fancy colored paper dresses. Some of the dolls arp decked out with shining parasols and paper hats. The work is done -at a Tegular- period each day, generally when it Is too hot to engage in sports. . . Matrons also . are teaching the children to make jfLper flowers. These will be presented to elderly persons confined in the hospitals. CITY GETS CONTENTION # Fire Chiefs of State to Meet in Indianapolis Next Year. Bu United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Aug. 15. —Roy Knoblock, South Bend, today was.elected president of the Indiana Fire Chiefs' Association, in convention here, and Indianapolis chosen as the 1930 convention city. Other officers are: First vicepresident, Harry Voshell, Indianapolis; second vice-president, George Rosenberger, Alexandria; secretary, Archie McCabe, Muncie, and treasurer, John Stahlhut, Ft. Wayne. Sev*nfcy-flve chiefs were, in attendance* %

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free city of Danzig at 8:55 a. m. today, heading toward Koenigsberg, East Prussia, and the Russian frontier. An hour and twenty minutes later the Zeppelin reached Koenigsburg, flying over the city at 4:15 p. m. (10:15 a. m., eastern standard time.il Koenigsburg is eighty-flve miles northeast of Danzig, on an arm of the Baltic. The distance was accomplished at sixty-four miles an hour, showing that the Zeppelin was maintaining its even progress. The Zeppelin crossed the Lithuanian frontier at Thauroggen at! 11:26 a. m., eastern standard time. The ship was headed toward Dvinsk, Latvia, only thirty miles from the Russian border. The Zeppelin encountered good weather on the early stages of the flight that will take it across the Siberian wastes on a 6,600-mile flight to Tokio. The Zeppelin carried a crew of forty men and twenty passengers. Officials of the Zeppelin line hoped she would reach her destination within five days. Rifles Taken Along The officials of the Zeppelin line have done everything possible to meet any emergency which might arise on the trip. The ship was as fully equipped as if she were setting out on a polar expedition. On board when the ship left here were three rifles, three shotguns and a 1,000 rounds of ammunition. There was a regular food supply to last a week and there was an emergency supply of provisions, to last two weeks more. There was an extra supply of wine and medicines. The officers were firmly convinced they would be able to reach their destination without difficulty, but they were taking no chances. American Left Behind Considerable mystery surrounded the refusal of the Zeppelin official* |to permit Nelson Morris of the Chicago packing family, to make the trip to Tokio, in spite of the fact he had a ticket for the whole journey around the world, and that he had come on the Zeppelin from Lakeurst. It was explained that the ticket had been sold to Morris by the Hamburg-American line through a mistake, and that they had no authority to do so. The local representative of the Hamburg-American told the United Press Morris signed the usual agreement, whereby the company reserves the right to reject passage under certain conditions, one of them concerning the navigability of the ship. He said the airship was so heavily laden no additional weight could be taken on without endangering the trip. Uses Only Four Motors The commander hoped to make the trip in about 120 hours, easy traveling, using only four motor* and keeping the fifth in reserve. The passenger list included one woman, Lady Drummond Hay. The names of the nineteen male passengers follow: Henrich Seilkopf, Hamburg; Christoph Iselin, Switzerland; Dr. Geronlmo Megias, Madrid; William B. Leeds, New- York; Gerville Reache, Paris; Lieutenant J. cf. Richardson, United States Navy; Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, United States Navy; Commander Naoshiro Fuijyoshi, Japan; Professor Karkiin, Moscow, geologist; Kichinai Kitano, Osaka, Japan, journalist: Yoshimatsu Enti, Osaka journalist; Joachim Rickard, Madrid; Max Geisenhqimer, Frankfort; Heinz, Von Perkhammer, Berlin; Gustav Kauder, Berlin journalist; Hein Von Eschwege, Berlin Journalist; Karl Von Wiegand and Robert Hartman, American Journalists, and Sir Hubei* Wilkins, arctic explorer. Plan Regular Routes Bv Vnited Prett LONDON, Aug. 15.—Berlin dispatches to the London Morning Post today said the legal representatives of the Zeppelin works, builders and owners of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin, w'ould leave for the United States next week to begin negotiations for the institution of regular Zeppelin air routes. The dispatches stated at the same time that Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander, would remain in Lakehurst after his dirigible had completed its (rip around the world, to obtain definite agreements with American financiers. BABY GIRL AFRAID TO JUMP; BURNS IN BARN Brother Leaps to Safety: Father Watches Catastrophe. Bu T'nltfd Prrtg BRITTON, Okia., Aug. 15.—Fear of falling was greater to 2-year-old Willamay Zeilney than fear of Are and she was burned to death in the bam of jr father. Willamay and her 4-year-old brother were playing in the haymow Wednesday when the fire was discovered In the barn. The boy leaped tq safety into the arms of hi* father. Willamay looked at* the distance down to her father’s outstretched arms and cringed in fear. A moment later she fell back into the flaming h ay and died. _ _ 4 ,

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