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STATE FAIR IS TO OPEN AT 6 ON SATURDAY Attendance Mark Expected to Surpass All Former Records. EXHIBITS ARE IN PLACE Poultry, Swine and Calf Judging to Start Immediately.

AT THE FAIR SATURDAY Children’s Day Swine judging in swine arena. Calf club entries judged in coliseum. Songs by Indiana Farm Bureau quartets from 10 a. m. until noon. Circuit races and vaudeville in front of grand stand. Rodeo at night in front of grand stand. Vaudeville in the coliseum at 7:30 p. m. Indiana university stage show from 8:30 a. m. to 9:30 p. m. in University building.

Indiana’s seventy-seventh annual state fair, depicting the progress made in agricultural, commercial and industrial fields in the last year, will open at 6 a. m. Saturday, at the state fairground. The fair will be open from 6 a. m. ; to. 10 p. m. daily until its close, ; Saturday, Sept. 7. Attendance records this year are expected to surpass all previous marks. The first day is Children’s and Boys’ and Girls’ Club day when all children under 12 will be admitted free. All displays were in place today, including the largest automobile and radio exhibition ever staged during a fair. This is staged in the Manufacturers’ building. Grand Circuit Races State fair officials announced that poultry, swine and calf judging will be started immediately on opening of the fair Saturday. During the afternoon. Grand Circuit racing will fee held on the mile track, along with vaudeville and rodeo shows in front of the grandstand during the afternoons. Levi Moore, publicity chairman of the fair, announced that a special vaudeville performance will be given at 7 p. m. Saturday in the coliseum. Sunday, the fairground will be tjuiet. Sunday school will be held In the Woman’s building at 9:30 a. m. and Charles Brandon Booth will speak at special services at 3 j p. m. in the coliseum following a Sacred concert. Full Activities Monday Monday, designated as Labor day, Will see resumption of full activities at the fairground. Fair officials have set Tuesday aside as American Legion day when, G. A. R. and World war veterans, other ex-service men and Boy Scouts will be admitted free. Two features of the day are the commercial parade which will move to the fairground from downtown at noon and the children’s circus and pet parade, sponsored by Indianapolis Boy Scouts, in the coliseum at night. Children who desire to enter pets |n the parade have been asked to send their entry blanks to the cirEus office at the state fairground y 5 tonight, the closing time for tntries. The Indianapolis Street Railway Company announced special service Will be given on the Illinois street and College avenue car lines to provide accommodation for the host of Visitors to the fair. Approximately 200 policemen, a hospital corps and various fire department squads will be on the scene. Newspaper to be Published Educational displays from universities and colleges throughout the state will be shown at the Indiana university building during the fair. Journalism students will publish a newspaper on the ground, daily. Radio stations WKBF and WFBM ot Indianapolis, and WLS of Chicago have broadcasting connections at the fair and daily announcements of events and activities will be broadcast. The midway with its popcorn, ice cream, and hot dog stands and the D. D. Murphy shows, with all attractions of an old-time carnival exhibition, will be of interest to fair visitors. Other special days at the fair will be Farmers’ and former agricultural board members’ day. Wednesday- Governor’s and legislators’ day. Thursday: Indianapolis day. Friday; and auto race day, Saturday. COLLAPSE "KILLS MANY Four-Story Building Housing 22 Families Fails. Bv United Press ALGIERS. Aug. 30.—A four-story building inhabited by twenty-two families collapsed today, killing or injuring sixty of the occupants, including eighteen children.

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Plane Painted for Endurance Test

Swabbing off grime and repainting the all-metal surface, a crew of soldiers at Schoen field. Ft. Harrison, today were preparing the Indianapolis Flamingo for an attempt at the world’s sustained endurance flight record. In the top photo are shown left to right, Lieutenants Walter R. Peck and Lawrence Genaro, pilots of the ship. The bottom photo, first presented of the plane, shows soldiers wiping off grease, preparatory to painting the plane a canaryyellow'. Major H. Leroy Muller, flight commander, said the first ‘trial spin” would be made Saturday. He said the actual endurance flight would start from Hoosier airport next week. The plane w'as brought to Schoen field from Cincinnati, 0.. late Thursday by Peck and Genaro. It Is powered by a 425 horsepower Pratt-Whltney Wasp engine and was manufactured by the Metal Airport Corp. of Cincinnati.

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HOLY WAR SLAYINGS CONTINUE UNABATED

‘Gangway! ’ By United Press MANCHESTER. Mass., Aug. 30.—Married women, apparently from long experience, should be able to throw a rolling pin five feet farther than unmarried girls, officers of the local post of the American Legion have decided. Hence, unmarried women will be given a five-foot handicap in a rolling pin-throwing contest to be held Labor day in connection with the Legion carnival. Single girls protested that they should be granted a handicap for lack of practice.

FORMER BANK PRESIDENT DIES William F. Koehler Drops Dead in His Store. William F. Koehler, 59, of 839 North Hamilton avenue, banker and east side business man, died suddenly early today at a filling station and grocery he operated at Arlington avenue and Pendleton pike. Funeral services will be held at the home at 2 p. m. Monday and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Death was believed due to heart disease. Mr. Koehler formerly was president" of the East Tenth Street bank and had operated the Arlington avenue business several years. In 1890, he entered the grocery business with a brother under the name of Koehler Brothers at 2122 East' Tenth street. The partnership continued until 1908, when Mr. Koehler organized a coal and hardware company at 2127 East Tenth street. He later became president of the bank and, at the time of his death, was a member of the board of directors. He was also a director of the Retail Grocers’ .Association and the Grocers’ Baking Company. He was bom in Langensaltzer. Germany, and came to America with his parents when fifteen. In addition to the widow he is survived by three sons—Carl, Fred W. and Charles F. Koehler, and three daughters—Mrs. Richard Lohman. Miss Gladys and Miss Wilma Koehler, all of Indianapolis. Aged Woman Buried MARION. Ind., Aug. 30.—Funeral services were held Thursday for Mrs. Frank J. Gould, 83.,

SLAYER GETS LIFE TERM 24 HOURS AFTER CRIME

By United Press KALAMAZOO. Mich.. Aug. 30. Less than twenty-four hours after the body of Mrs. Lulu Ellsworth, 37, was found in the-cellar of her home here Thursday morning, Hugh C. Burnette, 37, of Detroit, her confessed killer, was sentenced to life imprisonment today. Sentence was pronounced by Judge George B. Wiener, after Burnette pleaded guilty in circuit court this morning. This is the fifth time Brunette has been sent to prison. He was first sentenced in Green Bay, Wis., for robbery. Thursday he escaped from the Michigan prison at Jackson, while working with a road gang

English Petroleum Plant at Safad Burned: Arab Leader Killed. By United Press JERUSALEM. Aug. 30.—Five Jews were killed today and fifteen injured seriously in a disturbance at Safad. The English Shell Petroleum Company’s plant at Safad was burned. British troops at Beisan killed an Arab Emir today, causing terrific resentment among the Bedouins, who have been threatening Jerusalem. The slain leader was a member of the noted Arsalan family; the members of which headed the Druse revolution in Syria. Arabs again attacked the Jewish colony at Talpioth, between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, it was reported today. A platoon of the South Wales Borderers easily repulsed the attackers. It was reported here today that an Arab was beaten nearly to death by a crowd of Jews in the Jewish quarter of Cano, Egypt, after an argument over money. Fourteen American students of the art school at Haifa, together with fifteen students of other nationalities, were reported today to be surrounded by unfriendly Arabs along the Palestine-Syrian border where they were halted during a bicycle tour through Syria. The American consulate-general here appealed to the British military authorities to lend their aid in transporting the boys to safety. It appeared that the boys set out on their expedition before the ArabJewish riots broke out here a week ago and knew nothing of the danger which awaited them along the roads. The rioting continued in several points in spite of the British reinforcements which continued to arrive in Palestine hourly. But the troops seemed to have tne situation well in hand and additional forces were being dispatched to every point where new uprisings threatened. Red Cross Sends SI,OOO Bit United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—The American Red Cross today sent SI,OOO to American Consul General Paul Knabenshue at Jerusalem for relief of Americans who suffered in riots. Proceeds to Palestine ROME. Aug. 30.—1 t was learned reliably here today that Monsignor Valeri, apostolic delegate to Egypt, will proceed to the Holy Land to survey the situation in the interests of Vatican City. Catholic circles have begun to view the reports of the consuls at Jerusalem with alarm.

at Ovid. He was serving a sentence there of three to fifteen years for robbing his landlady in Detroit of $lO in 1925. after tying her to a bedpost. Burnette, a certified accountant, was sentenced to solitary confinement in the Marquette branch prison. Jdrs- Ellsworth was killed about 10 a. m. Thursday. In the evening Burnette was under arrest in Michigan City. Ind. He was returned here early this morning. At 11 a. m. he heard his sentence to life Imprisonment and about an hour later was on the way to Marquetto to begin serving it.,

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUG. 30, 1929

Eckener Is Welcomed by Gotham By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 30.—Shrieking harbor craft, wreathing ticker tape, applauding crowds and city officials with their more formal welcome today greeted Dr. Hugo Eckener and his crew to New York again—this time for their circumnavigation of the globe in the Graf Zeppelin. At city hall Commissioner Whalen presented the distinguished guests to Mayor Walker, who hailed Dr. Eckener as an “ambassador of good will who has only not drawn Europe and America closer together, but has now made the far east a near neighbor to the United States.” In the aldermanic chambers Mayor Walker then signed and sealed a scroll for Dr. Eckener and pinned gold medals of the city on the Zep’s commander, crew and passengers. Repair Huge Bag By United Press _ NAVAL AIR STATION, LAKEHURST, N. J., Aug. 30.—While New York honored the Graf Zeppelin fliers today, a crowd of American sailors pumped fuel and hydrogen into the airship, which is scheduled to depart Saturday midnight for Friedrichshafen. Overhauling the Graf’s motors began today while riggers completed repairs to the rudder damaged in the takeoff from Los Angeles Aug. 27. Repairs and refueling are expected to be completed by noon tomorrow and 4 p. m. has been fixed as the deadline. The Graf may get away anytime after 10 p. m., when the passengers have been instructed to be aboard. Three American naval officers will be invited to make the flight to Friedrichshafen, W. W. Von Mesiter, representing the Maybach Motor Company announced. HICKMAN’S CAPTORS NOT TO GET REWARD MONEY Los Angeles Attorney Holds City Can Not Pay. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 30.—The long wait of those who claimed a share in the SIO,OOO reward offered by the city of Los Angeles for the capture of the slayer of Marion Parker was ended today. City Attorney Erwin P. Werner advised the council the city had no right to make such an offer. Buck Lieuallen and Tom Gurdane, Oregon captors of William Edward Hickman, the slayer, are among the i claimants. $26,000 LOSS BY FIRE , Lumber Company Property Destroyed at Russellville. Bn United Press RUSSELLVILLE, Ind.. Aug. 30. Fire today destroyed the plant of ; the Allen Wilkison Lumber Company here, causing a loss estimated at $26,000. The flames, of undetermined origin, spread rapidly from the lumber stock to two dwellings which were* damaged.. The entire stock of the company was destroyed. Russellville’s small fire department was unable to cope with the blaze. The two homes were owned by 18. McCall and Mrs. John Ross. An j automobile owned by Clarence Etch‘inson, was destroyed.

73 MISSING AT SEA; LINER CRASHES INTO TANKER, SINKS IN PACIFIC AFTER COLLISION

‘DAD’LL COME BACK’

Daughter Sure Captain Is Saved

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 30— Carolyn E. Asplund, 22, sat silently in her home in Ingelside Terrace here today ‘as the first light of dawn broke through the fog, awaiting word of her father from a disaster-strewn patch on the sea fifty miles to' the south. Carolyn is the daughter of Captain Adolphe F" Asplund, commander of the coastal liner San Juan, which plunged to the bottom in a midnight collision with an oil tanker. Interviewed by the United Press before a brief radiogram had been received from one of the two res-

WIFE OF STATE OFFICIAL HURT Car Plunges Over Bluff in Wyoming. Mrs. Merle Wall, wife of the Indiana deputy attorney-general, was injured critically when their automobile. plunged over a thirty-foot bluff into the Shoshone river, near Cody, Wyo., Thursday, according to a telegram received from Wall today by Attorney-General James M. Ogden. Mrs. Wall is in a Cody hospital, where an operation was to be performed today in an attempt to save her life. Their two children escaped with minor injuries, and Wall was not hurt A broken steering rod caused the car to careen over the embankment, Wall’s message stated. It overturned twice, and landed in four feet of water. The family has resided in Indianapolis since Wall’s appointment early this year. They formerly lived in Logansport, where Wall was Cass county prosecutor.

LADY HEATH, VICTIM OF AIR SHOW CRASH, FIGHTS GAMELY TO CHEAT DEATH

Aviatrix Is Conscious in Cleveland Hospital; Husband Aloof. BY MERTON T. AKERS United Press Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND, Aug. 30.—First victim here of the machines man made to fly since the national air races started six days ago, Lady Mary Heath, Irish aviatrix, battled for life today with a chance for recovery. Although her condition remained “very critical,” Lady Heath regained consciousness today for the first time since she crashed. She was reported fighting tenaciously for life. Lady Heath’s accident was the first of any consequence at the air races. Four derby fliers were killed as they winged toward the show, but with hundreds of airplanes flying all hours of the day and night there had been no crashes at the airport. Lady Heath’s skull was fractured in two places, her body crushed and her head lacerated when the Great Lakes airplane she was trying out preparatory to taking part in a race Thursday crashed through the roof of a metal products factory and imbedded itself in the roof. Erwin Kirk, a mechanic flying with her, leaped to safety, but injured himself slightly when he jumped through the hole in the roof to the aid of his pilot. Report Separation By United Press LONDON, Aug. 30.—Sir James Heath, 77-year-old husband of Lady Mary Heath, said today he would not go to the bedside of his wife, critically injured in an airplane crash at Cleveland, 0.. Thursday. Sir James has been reported to be estranged from his aviatrix-wife, ever since Lady Heath left his mansion in Mayfair, to cast her lot with American aviation. Last Nov. 15, Sir James, a wealthy ironmaster and colliery proprietor, publicly repudiated his much younger wife, saying, “I will not be responsible for her debts.” At the time he made it clear he had no objections to Lady Heath’s flying—rather he admired her for it—but he did object to her leaving his home for an extended stay in the United States. Hourly Temperatures 6a. na,.... 60 10 a. m 72 7a. 60 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 67 12 (noon).. 76 9a. m,.... 69 Ip. m 78

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cue vessels saying “Asplund down with ship,” Carolyn said: “I don’t w r ant to talk to reporters. Dad always told me to be quiet and wait if word came that he was in a wreck. “He is safe. I feel it. “Dad is 65 years old. He retired three years ago. The sea has been good to him. We have this home, sister, dad and I, and we have enough money. “Dad has been at sea since he was twelve. He was bom in Sweden. Mother is dead. My sister, Mrs. H. C. Fogarty, and her 4-year-old son, Kenneth, are left of the family. Dad and I live here together. I want him back! lam afraid! “The White Flyer people called dad up two weeks ago and asked him if he would take command of the San Juan while Captain Winkle was on his vacation. He could not resist the call to go to sea just once more.” it n v CAROLYN sat silent, gazing through the windows of the Asplund home into the fog that swirled up from the nearby sea toward Twin Peaks. “Dad must be all right! Nothing could happen to my father,” she resumed, with a forlorn attempt at confidence. “In all his years before the mast and in steam he was never in one single accident. “He is so jovial and goodnatured and full of fun. All the time since he quit the sea he always longed for it. I didn’t have the heart to ask him to stay ashore.” She was not notified of the terse message that came over the air from the steamer lane off Pigeon Point through the curtained fog that masks the resting place of the San Juan that her father went down with his ship. “I’ll be dow'n at the docks when my dad comes back to port,” she said.

Open Till 5:30 Downtown stores will be open until 5:30 p. m, daily, beginning Tuesday, according to an announcement today by the Merchants’ Association. For the last sixty days the stores have been observing the 5 p. m. closing hour five days a week. Many stores have closed Saturday afternoons while others have remained open, but association officials said that by Saturday, Sept. 7, all stores wil be open until 6 Saturdays.

CHINESE m PAPER Editors of Communist Publication Arrested. By United Press HARBIN, Aug. 30.—1 t was rumored here today negotiations between China and Russia have been begun with the reported proposal by the Soviet government to appoint M. Jakoff general manager of the Chinese Eastern railway. Previously Chinese police raided the printing plant where the new communist newspaper, Harbin Pravda, was being printed and arrested two editors, charging them with inciting the Soviet workers of the Chinese Eastern railway to vandalism. JUDGMENT WITHHELD Doctor Claims Police Auto He Hit Was Parked Double. Judgment was withheld today by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter in the case in which Dr. William B. Hartsock, 926 West Thirty-second street, was charged with reckless driving for striking the police auto driven by Sergeant John Eisenhut, Thursday. Eisenhut told the court he was on an emergency call to 720 North Meridian street and had to double park his auto. Holdup Men Get $4,558 By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 30.—Two men met Arthur Tonner, 32, today as he was carrying money from a bank to the office of Jackson Brothers and Boesel Company brokers, forced him into a wash room of the Postal Telegraph building, and relieved him of a satchel containing $4,558.

37 Rescued From Doomed Craft by Two Vessels Which Rush to Aid; All Others Are Believed to Be DeacL CAPTAIN GOES DOWN AT HIS POST Tragedy Caused by Dense Fog Off Bleak and Desolate Coast; Many Passengers Are Trapped in Berths. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY. United Tress Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.—With screams of terrorstricken passengers mingling with the hoarse roar of foghorns, the ancient steamer San Juan sank in the Pacific, fifty miles south of here, early today, exacting a death toll estimated at more than fifty persons. **■ It was at 11:59 o’clock Thursday night that the San Juan, en route from San Francisco to Los Angeles, collided with the S. C. T. Dodd, an oil tanker. Five minutes later the San Juan went to the bottom, hurling into the sea the sixtyfive passengers and crew of forty-five. Answering the frantic SOS calls sent by the San Juan before the water killed its power, the McCormick lumber carriar Munami rushed in search of the wreck. The Dodd, which was not damaged seriously, stood by and with the Munami launched lifeboats. Twenty-seven persons were snatched from the choppy, fog-shrouded waters by the Dodd and ten more were saved by the Munami.

The fate of the remaining seventy-three persons aboard the San Juan is unknown and it is feared that many, possibly all of them, drowned. It v as a happy crowd that walked up the gangplanks late Thursday, taking advantage of the low fares offered by the forty-seven-year-old San Juan for a trip between the two principal ports of California. Fog Causes Tragedy Through a dense fog that hid the heads of Golden Gate, the ship was piloted by Captain Adolph F. Asplund, temporary commander. Asplund followed the tradition of seafaring men and went to the bottom with his ship. The San Juan headed southward until it collided with the Dodd about twelve miles off shore, near Pigeon Point, a desolate bit of coast line fifty miles from San Francisco. A thick fog blanket hung over the California coast at the time of the crash and undoubtedly was the cause of one of the greatest tragedies of the Pacific in many years. The horror-filled minutes that followed that crash saw the happy band of vacationists turned into a panic-stricken mob. The fog blanketed everything and they could not have known what had taken place. Before they could collect their scattered wits, they were struggling in the waters of the Pacific. Many Were Asleep Many of the passengers and crew, it was learned through radio dispatches, had retired for the night, and it was feared many were trapped when the waters swirled above the sunken vessel. Along with the scene of tragedy and panic there were bursts of heroism. Captain Asplund is pictured standing on the bridge, going to his death, in a ship he piloted so its regular captain could go on vacation. The grizzled veteran of the sea came from retirement to favor his friend. Captain Winkle. Three years ago Captain Asplund left the sea and bought a home in the exclusive Ir.gleside Terrace residential section. He had amassed a comfortable fortune and lived with his 22-year-old daughter Carolyn. Recently, the daughter told the United Press, the White Flyer line called her father and asked him to take command of the old San Juan while the regular captain was on vacation. Captain on Last Trip Unable to withstand the temptation to put to sea again, in command of his own ship. Captain Asplund accepted the assignment and late Thursday took the San Juan out through the heads of Golden Gate—and sailed to disaster. In all his years before the mast, and later in steam, it was the first accident the veteran Asplund ever experienced. The radio message telling that Captain Asplund died aboard the San Juan was terse: “Asplund down with ship.” His daughter, waiting at home for her father, Fas not informed of the message. “Daddy never had an accident of any sort. I know he is safe.” Carolyn told the United Press. No one had the heart to tell her of a crisp radio message that had crackled out from the Munami. True to their calling were the sailors of the Dodd and Munami. Braving the peril created by dense

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fog and a choppy sea, they launched tiny lifeboats and with frantic speed pulled members of the crew and passengers of the San Juan aboard. As the rescue work continued, the winds abated and the sea calmed, but the blanket of fog hung on. A touch of despair was seen in radio messages this morning that the Dodd was en route to San Francisco with its load of bedraggled survivors of the disaster. A number of passengers on the Dodd were said to be suffering from injuries and in need of medical attention. The Munaml radioed at 8:20 a. m. (Pacific standard time) that it had changed its decision to put to port and would stand by so long as there was any chance to be of assistance. Scene Is Desolate When it is determined beyond a doubt that the Munami can not do anything further, it will start for Wilmington, Cal., to where she was bound when the SOS of the San Juan was received. The vicinity of the accident was an uninhabited rugged bit of shore line. There are no towns and few people in the vicinity of Pigeon Point. The spot was teaming with life today as throngs drove out from district cities. The suddenness of the accident stilled many of the panic-stricken screams—just as it wiped out the ship’s radio power and quieted the blast of the vessel’s foghorn. While the Munami and Dodd were steaming for ports, two coast guard cutters, the Shawnee and Tahoe, left San Francisco for the vicinity of the wreck to take up search for survivors and for bodies. At 9 a. m., (Pacific standard time.) no reports of bodies being found had been received, At that hour previous reports of 37 being known safe were reconfirmed through the MackayFederal radio. Graphic Story Told A log of radiograms from the Dodd, intercepted by local stations, tells the dramatic story of the end of the forty-seven-year-old San Juan: “11:59 P. M.—S. O. S. We haye collided with the San Juan. She is sinking. Do not know extent our damage. Please rush aid. \ “12:00 Midnight—S. O. S. Stand-\ by! * “12:02 A. M. —Can not get position. Lowering lifeboats. “12:06 A. M.—Standby. “12:07 A. M.—Fifty miles north of Pigeon Point. (This position was later corrected.) “12:08 A. M—S. O. S. Want coast guard. “12:15 A. M. — San Juan filling. She will sink in a few minutes. Now picking up passengers. Near San Juan as possible. “12:18 A. M.— Standing by to pick up survivors. “12:26 A. M.—Now getting passengers out of water. One mile abeam. Playing searchlight on sea. “12:38 A. M. —Terrible sea. Picking up survivors. Lifeboats Saved “12:43 A. M —The Munami saved two of her lifeboats. They’re alongside, ready to be hoisted aboard our boat. Out in quest of more people. “1:58 A. M.—Still drifting off Pigeon Point. “2 A. M.—Taking some more people out of water. Some very weak and exhausted. So far no deaths reported. Position given pretty close. “2:05 A. M.—Position about eight* een miles south of Pigeon Point. "2:30 A. M.--Still standing by. “5:05 A. M.—Proceeding to San francisco.”