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GENE ALGER, - WIFE TRAILED TO LOUISVILLE State Police Spur Hunt as Convict Threats He Will ‘Shoot to Kill/ THREE GUNS ARE FOUND Parole Violator, Fleeing With Wife, Believed Running Out of Money. Faced with the threat that Gene Alger, 21-year-old paroled state reformatory convict, “will shoot to kill” if an attempt is made to arrest him on charges of robbing the Paris Crossing state bank last Thursday, state police today accelerated their search for the youth and his bride Josephine. Carl Losey, state policeman, was to return to Louisville, Ky., today where Tuesday and Wednesday he obtained valuable information concerning the presence of Alger and his wife in that city Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Find Trail in Louisville It was learned that the couple was in New Albany, Thursday night, a few hours after the bank was robbed. Friday, their trail was picked up in Louisville, where Alger and his wife bought traveling luggage and clothes, valued at 5100. Losey learned that Alger, who was ejected from a local apartment where he was living, Friday morning drove the Chevrolet roadster of hi3 brother Gail to Louisville and met Joe Roth, alleged bootlegger and gambler. During the questioning of Roth he told police that “somebody will get killed, either the police officers or Alger, when they try to arrest him. The boy is crazy and hasn’t got any sense.” Roth said Alger left after a party at Snyder’s roadhouse, near Louisville, Saturday night and Sunday morning. “I’m glad to get rid of him,” Roth said. Find Revolvers in Hotel Three revolvers were found In the room at the Hermitage hotel in Louisville where Alger and his wife spent Friday and Saturday. Investigators said that this further verified Roth’s story and other information they have that he will shoot on sight. One revolver was found in his former Indianapolis apartment. Roth said Alger was still driving his brother Gail’s wife's car that is carrying Indiana license plate 82220. The Algers registered in the hotel under the assumed name of G. L. Ross. Roth also resides at the hotel, police said. Roth told Losey that he, Alger and his wife, and another woman went to the roadhouse together Saturday night in Roth’s car. Spent More Than S2OO It was estimated that Alger already has spent more than S2OO buying clothes and meeting other expenses and that he probably will be running through whatever cash he has, within the next few days The bandits who robbed the bank obtained $750. State policemen said the hunt will continue without a halt until Alger is captured and they believe this may occur within the next few days. G. E. Alger, father of the youth, conferred privately with Losey at the statehouse Wednesday night. Alger said he did not know his son's whereabouts. While Alger was in the statehouse his Chevrolet was stolen from Senate avenue and Market street. The car was found today in the rear of 318 Hanson street, where a similar make of car stolen the day before from Capitol avenue and Market street was found Tuesday. Return of the car spiked the theory that Gene Alger might have been in Indianapolis Tuesday night and attempted another getaway bystealing his father’s auto. Gene Alger, former Butler university student, was paroled May 10 from the state reformatory after serving two years of a two to twen-ty-one-year term for the murder of an Indianapolis policeman. SEEK MEMORIAL SITE Appraiser Appointed to Estimate Land. The George Rogers Clark Memorial commission at a meeting today empowered the chairman, Clem J. Richards of Terre Haute, to appoint an appraiser for the land around the memorial site which is to be incorporated in the plaza. The land is valued at around $150,000 and is desired to complete the appearance of the structure. In the Air Weather conditions at 9:30 a. m: West wind, thirteen miles an hour: temperature, 88; barometric pressure 30.07 at sea level; ceiling 8,000 feet; visibility, unlimited: field, good. Hourly Temperatures ga. m 71 10 a. m 87 la. m 73 11 a. m 85 Ba. m 76 12 (noon).. 88 jit m..... 82 Ip. m..... 90

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Daughter to Visit U. S. With Britain ’s Premier

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Miss Ishbel MacDonald ‘ By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Miss Ishbel MacDonald, daughter and official hostess of the British prime minister, will accompany her father on his visit to President Hoover in October, it was learned at the British embassy today. Inclusion of Miss Ishbel in the small party which is to accompany the prime minister to the American capital is understood here to have been decided upon partly for the purpose of emphasizing the informal nature of MacDonald’s forthcoming visit.

MOTHER OF 8. LOVER, TO DIE Poisoners of Woman’s Mate Meet Doom Tonight. By United Press HULL, Quebec, Aug. 22.—A mother of eight children and her lover, ten years her junior, were in the Hull jail today awaiting execution shortly after midnight. They are convicted of killing the woman’s husband so that they might marry and legalize the clandestine love affair they had carried on in a backwoods community for several years. Both have confessed. Mrs. Marie .Viau, 42, and her lover, Philibert Lefebvre, 32-year-old war veteran, were brough to the Hull jail from Montreal Wednesday. Mrs. Viau will be the seventh woman to hang in the history of Quebec.

BOARD ORDERS CAR REPAIR COST PROBE

The motor transport division of the state highway department today fell under the scrutiny of John J. Brown, highway director, by order of the highway commission after preliminary discussion of charges of mismanagement and inefficiency. The commission itself will inqure into the charges, growing out of a report of expenditures for the fiscal year 1927-1928 uncovered by The Times when Brown reports his findings. Albert J. Wedeking (Rep.), chairman of the commission, promised. Governor Harry G. Leslie also has promised to investigate the charges when he returns from his vacation. Omer S. Manlove is chief of the division under investigation. The commission’s action followed a two-hour executive session late Wednesday. “We have instructed the director to make a complete and full investigation, and when he reports at the meeting next week, the commission also will investigate the garage report and receive Brown’s own report,” Wedeking said. “Every detail in the report will be checked and analyzed by the commission. The highway director said: “The

PASTOR COMMENDS THE TIMES FOR PUBLISHING GREATEST WAR NARRATIVE

COMMENDATION of The Indianapolis Times for its announcement of presentation, beginning next Monday, of Erich Marla Remarque’s best-seller book, “All Quiet On the Western Front,” was voiced from the pulpit of the Farview Presbyterian church. Forty-sixth street and Capitol avenue. Sunday by the Rev. Edward Haines Kistler, pastor. “I am not interested in war, but in peace.” he said in his rermon. "The revelations of the book as noted in its reviews can do no harm, and I believe the people of this country as well as others

BOXER TO FACE NiNECHARGES Bonds of $3,800 Set for Chuck Wiggins. Criminal court was selected today as the scene of Charles Frederick (Chuck) Wiggins’ bout with the law., when Prosecutor Judson L. Stark filed nine affidavits against the heavyweight boxer, before Judge James A. Collins. Wiggins, known as the “Hoosier Playboy,” laid out three policemen and two firemen Sunday night when he staged three fights. The charges filed were: Four assautl and battery affidavits, resisting an officer; reckless driving; operating an auto under the influence of liquor and failure to stop after an accident. Bonds totaling $3,800 were set.

commission has asked that I investigate the exorbotant expenditure charges and make a report of my findings at the next meeing.” When informed last week of the high maintenance and repair costs disclosed by the report, Brown said he was interested only in so far as they might disclose the need of remedial measures. Brown succeeded John D. Williams as director last April.

Two Federal Dry Aces Accused of ‘Shooting Up’Speakeasy

By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 22.—Two aces of the prohibition unit here today were accused of staggering drunkenly into a speakeasy, shooting at the bartender and terrQrizing customers. One of them “passed out,” according to a witness, and the other called for reinforcements and arrested the witness as a bartender, although he claims to have been only a customer. Assistant Administrator George

should get the author’s attitude into their conferences for peace. “ ‘All Quiet On the Western Front’ is a remarkable bit of work for the peace side of world life.” s tt a Dorothy Canfield Fisher, a Vermont novelist, says; “If any mother of a son wishes to know what her boy will face if our country ever is involved in aonther war, let her read ‘All Quiet on the Western Front.’ ” n a a William Allen White, of Emporia, Kan., say at “I read from a

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POLICE CHIEF KILLS TWO IN LIQUORSEARCH Illinois Officer Fires on Men Suspects in Automobile. EXONERATED BY JURY • Verdict of Justifiable Homicide Returned by Coroner. By United Press WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Aug. 22. —Police Chief Leroy Sisk, who killed two men while attempting to search an automobile suspected of containing liquor Wednesday night, was exonerated today by a coroner’s jury. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the pursuit of duty. The men whom Leroy shot to death were Earl Kreiger and Albert McDonald. Chief Sisk said he and George Nipper, patrolman, were cruising about the business section here looking for Kreiger. He said he had received previously information declaring Kreiger was carrying liquor in his automobile. The officers came upon Kreiger and McDonald while driving through an alley. Sisk declared three or four shots were fired from the other automobile. Nipper crouched down in his automobile and Sisk jumped out and hid behind it. Sisk opened fire and shot the two men. Both were dead when the officers examined them. The officers failed to examine the car immediately but Sheriff Pritchard said today that a small quantity of liquor and an automatic pistor were concealed In the automobile. A memorandum apparently recording liquor sales was found in Kreiger’s pocket.

LINER RESCUES CREW OF BURNED STEAMER President Harrison Captain Wires Twenty-six Are Safe. By United. Press NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—The entire crew of the German steamer Quimisian, which was sighted afire and abandoned 1,100 miles east of Norfolk Wednesday, was rescued by the Dollar liner President Harrison, according to a radio message today. Captain J. H. Benson of the President Harrison radioed: "Have rescued entire crew, twentysix men, of German Quimstan.” The President Harrison was due to dock in Jersey City last Tuesday. Apparently it sighted the Quimstan and spent several days cruising about to pick up its crew. The liner is now expected to dock Saturday, FAVORS FARM RELIEF Senator Brookhart Declares Tariff Bill Will Pass Houses By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—The senate will adopt the debenture plan of farm relief as part of the tariff bill and there is good chance the house will accept it, Senator Smith W. Brookhart declared upon his return here today. “The plan is the same principle as the equalization free,” he said. “For that reason it is favored by Governor Lowden and most of us who have been working for that principle.” Parent-Teachers to Picnic A picnic dinner will be held at Brookside park next Thursday for members of Parent-Teachers Association and children of Potter Fresh Air schoool.

Hurlburt ordered an investigation into the accusations and said the report would be forwarded to Washington. According to Theodore Josef, who testified before United State Commissioner Edwin Walker, he was eating luncheon in the North Clark street speakeasy when the agents, Charles Brown and Ernest Evans, entered and ordered drinks. Then

dozen to twenty books a month fairly carefully. ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’.stands out among less than half a dozen that I have read in a year as a distintively important story. It was worth waiting ten years after the war to get the war written in perspective, truthfully, powerfully, beatuifully.” man Erich marie remarque was bora thirty-one years ago, of a family that emigrated from France during the French revolution and settled in the Rhineland. At 18 he went from school into the *rmy and to the

Woman Derby Flier Puts Out Plane Fire in Mid-Air; Races On in Damaged Ship Blanche Noyes Uses Extinguisher to Squelch Blaze, Lands Hard and Breaks Gear, But Makes Repairs; Amelia Earhart Breaks'2so-Mile Speed Record. By United Press MIDLAND Tex., Aug. 22. —Speed records were broken for 250 miles and one woman pilot had a narrow escape from death by burning in mid-air today on the fifth day’s flight of the women’s air derby from California to Cleveland, 0. The goal tonight is Ft. Worth, Tex. Flying against a drizzle beneath cloudy skies, with the hardest day of the derby to date ahead of them because of the delay on the fourth day’s lap due to a sand storm at El Paso, the women pilots saw Miss Amelia Earhart smash the woman’s speed record for 250 mile.s Miss Earhart flew here from El Paso, 250 miles, in 2 hours 28 minutes, unoffi-

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was her second motor failure since the derby started. Wednesday she was forced to return to Douglas, Ariz., and make a second start for El Paso. She was in fourth place in elapsed time when she left El Paso the first time this morning.

Ruth Nichols, New York society girl, led the fliers into Midland, having left El Paso as the leader of the seventeen who started. She took 2 hours 34 minutes for the hop. A spirit of comaraderie supplanted what had threatened to be serious dissension among the fliers over the continuance of the trip through adverse weather. The argument arose at El Paso Wednesday afternoon when several of the fliers, headed by Amelia Earhart, first woman successfully to cross the Atlantic in an airplane, insisted on making the scheduled flight to Midland, Tex., designated as Wednesday’s goal. Dramatic Conference Ruth Elder, who narrowly escaped death in an attempted trans-At-lantic flight when her plane fell into the ocean, and Mrs. Florence Barnes were strongest opponents of continuing. It was during a dramatic thirtyminute conference at El Paso in which the death of Marvel Crosson was mentioned, that the women reached a decision. Major A. D. Surles, intelligence officer at Ft. Bliss cavalry post, in charge of timing the fliers at El Paso, ordered the flight postponed after fourteen of the women had voted against continuance. Three of the fliers did not vote. Miss Earhart Is Third Miss Earhart was the first to land at El Paso and the victory placed her in third position. Fastest time for the hop was registered by Mrs. Florence Barnes, San Marino, Cal., in 1:31:53. Mrs. Gladys O’Donnell, now holding second plaes in elapsed time, was shaken shortly after her arrival when notified of the death of her husband’s brother, instructor at the flying school which she and her husband conduct in Long Leach, Cal.

Josef said, the agents started shooting and terrorizing the luncheon customers. Brown fell over in a drunken stupor, Josef told Commissioner Walker, and Evans called for more agents who arrested Josef and several others. Hurlburt said he believed the agents had been given knockout drops in their drinks which they had brought to obtain evidence. Josef was held under $1,500 bond.

western front. His mother died, all his friends were killed; at the war's end he found himself alone. His subsequent history typified the deep unrest that men of his generation experienced. Needing rest, and quiet, he became a teacher in a village on the moors. V/hen the loneliness grew depressing he became in succession an organist in an asylum, a music teacher, a manager of a small business, motor car dealer, draughtsman and dramatic critic. He won a rather large sum at roulette and with it traveled abroad. On returning hg^becafpe

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cial figures indicating she had crowded Mrs. Gladys O’Donnell out of second place in elapsed time for the air derby to date. Mrs. O’Donnell took 2 hours 57 minutes to make the El Paso-Midland hop. Blanche Noyes, Cleveland, narrowly escaped death when her plane caught fire in mid-air near Pecos. She put out the flames with a fire extinguisher and landed with such force that landing gear of her plane was damaged. After making repairs she flew on. Florence Barnes, San Marino, Cal., was forced to return to El Paso with a sputtering motor. It

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WEATHER HOLDS UP DEPARTURE OF ZEP

Damage Repaired, Passengers Wait on Board for Pacific Hop. By United Press TOKIO, Japan, Aug. 23 (Friday) —The Graf Zeppelin, with its passengers and crew aboard, was waiting early today to start on its transpacific voyage to Los Angeles, but bad weather held it up. It had been planned to start Thursday night, but a departure before dawn seemed highly unlikely. Storms prevailed to the north. The mist had turned to a light rain by 1 a. m., the wind, however, was subsiding somewhat. It was reported a stowaway was found in the envelope of the Zeppelin just before Thursday’s unsuccessful start, a young ®lad half suffocated. Zeppelin officials and the naval station commandant denied the report, however. All passengers were aboard the dirigible at 8:30 p. m. (6:30 eastern standard time) and Dr. Hugo Eckener confirmed earlier announcements that he would start across the Pacific at the first possible chance. The rear gondola of the huge airship, damaged when it scraped the ground early today during an attempted take-off, was repaired much earlier than had been anticipated. The technical experts of the Graf Zeppelin staff worked at a feverish pitch and their efforts were rewarded with early and successful results. King George’s Health Improves By United Press LONDON, Ail*?. 21.—King George V will be able within a few days to proceed to his summer home at Sandringham Palace.

foreign correspondent for a large firm, then its publicity manager; finally, editors and motor specialist in Berlin, Last year he wrote this book, without deliberation, out of ills o'.ra and his friends’ war experiences. tt * n HERE at last is the great war novel for which the world has been waiting. Herr Remarque speaks for e whole generation—that generation of all the combatant nations whose life was destroyed in its springtime—even if it escaped natural death.

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China Sends Great Army to Frontier By United Press PEIPING, Aug. 22.—Fifty thousand Chinese troops were started northward from Mukden today while another column, from the province of Kirin, was dispatched simultaneously via Changchun along the Chinese Eastern railway, it officially was announced here. Both armies apparently were destined for Manchuli, on the western Siberian-Manchurian frontier, where great forces of Chinese and Russian troops were concentrating. The reinforcements were being dispatched to the Manchuli sector following reports from the frontier city that new Soviet detachments, equipped with tanks and armored cars, had invaded Chinese soil and attacked with full force. SENATOR RECOVERS Washington Leader Congratulated by Chamber on Appearance. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Senator Wesley Jones of Washington, who left a hospital here only a lew days ago after a serious illness, appeared on the senate floor today. Friends on the Democratic and Republican sides of the chamber shook hands with him, congratulating him on his recovery.

In his book we see the life of the common soldier in all its phases—in the trenches, behind the lines, in hospital, at home on leave among civilians. It is a book of terrible experiences, at times crude because of the necessity of telling the absolute truth, at times rising to an almost incredible degree of tragedy, and at times relieved by humorous incidents and examples of rough good comradeship. It will shock the supersensitive by its outspokeness; it will leave no reader unmoved. Start it in Times Manday.

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WIERD CURSE BRINGS KILLING TO SPICY PLAY Murder of Leading Man Climax of Strange Events for Actors. BUT SHOW GOES ON Understudy in Role of Dead Performer; Horror Trails Cast 12 Months. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 22.—Tragedy and comedy were mixed today as the cast of the French farce, “Easy for Zee Zee,” went on with the show, playing roles far different from their depressed spirits, while police continued to investigate tthe murder of leading man, Robert Chapman, 22. Although the players remarked in whispers the murder was a climax of “the strange curse that has been on the play,” in its run of twelve months here, they took their places on the stage with an understudy in Chapman’s role and spoke spicy lines amid the audience’s laughter. “The play has been cursed since I’ve been with it,” Florence Bell, who has a character part and who was hostess at Chapman’s last party, said. “I’ve known hardly anything but horror and distress since I joined the cast.” “Mystery Men” Sought Detectives faced a maze of circumstances as they hunted two “mystery men” on whom Allan Hoffman, playwright, pinned the murder of his friend. Hoffman was the last to see Chapman alive. Both were in Hoffman’s apartment where they had returned after a Bohemian party. Hoffman said two men knocked and demanded a drink. He re- • fused and they forced their way in, Hoffman said. Chapman went to his friend’s aid and the mysterious intruders were getting the best of the two, Hoffman said, so he broke away and went to the janitor’s room to summon aid. Says He Heard Scream “While running I heard a man scream,” Hoffman said. A few moments later Chapman’s body was found in the apartment house shaft, under the sixth story window of Hoffman’s rooms. Fingerprints of the actor on the sill told a mute story of his fight for life. After several hours of questioning, Hoffman was released. The cast of “Easy for Zee Zee” has been harassed by misfortune since it came here. Reform organizations objected to the lines but a police judge pronounced the show “sordid but not obscene” and permitted it to continue. The heroine, Naana Wortova, only recently returned to her part after a period of unconsciousness from some mysterious malady. Charles Ryan, pianist in the company, also was confined to a hospital with the same mysterious ailment. Miss Wortova was questioned a few months ago about the death of Gerry Ferri, racketeer, but denied all knowledge of his demise. LION SLASHES ARM OF WOULD-BE PETTER King Leo Resents “Advances” of Man; Goes Into Action. BU United free* WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.—Petting lions is dangerous business, A. T. Davis of Lynchburg, Va., has learned following a visit to King Leo at the zoo here. Davis suffered a slashed arm from elbow to finger tips when he thrust his arm through the bars in an attempt to pet King Leo. 3efore Davis could retreat the irate sovereign again swung a huge paw, ripping his would-be petter’s trousers. Davis refused medical treatment and drove away alone. FIRE CLERK RESIGNS G. Harvey See Will Enter Business in City. G. Harvey See of Peru, chief cleric of the state fire marshal’s office, today resigned, effective Sept. 1. He is to open a private accountant’s office in the Continental bank building. Miss Electa Walker of Greenfield, private secretary to Fire Marshal Afred Hogston, will succeed See. The chief clerk has been with the department for four years. AIDS WATER PROJECT Missouri River Plan Gets $2,000,000 Fund. Bn United Pres* WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Allotment of $2,000,000 to the nine-foot inland waterway project on the Missouri river between Kansas City and the mouth was announced by James Good, secretary of war today. He said the funds became available from excess sums allottjaA to other projects.

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