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CITY MANAGER LEAGUE PICKS 7 CANDIDATES Six Men and One Woman Indorsed for Places on Commission. ACTIVE FIGHT PLANNED Good Government Groups to Campaign Vigorously for Ticket. 'Biographical sketche* of the rand!will bf found on page 2 of today’* One woman and six men were indorsed today as candidates for city commissioners in the Nov. 5 election by the Indianapolis City Manager League board of directors, meeting at the Lincoln. The fight in the fall campaign will center around the election of the manpger league’s ticket, pledged to carry out the nonpartisan busi-ness-like principles of the city manager form of municipal government. Mrs. George C. Finfrock, 48. oi SI 01 Broadway, Republican, ParentTeacher and Women’s Club leader. John F. White, 76, south side; citizen and city councilman, 1545 Lexington avenue. Democrat. H. Nathan Swain, 39, of 1125 West j Thirty-sixth street, attorney, former candidate for probate judge on Democratic ticket. Henry M. Dowling, 57, of 3556 Washington boulevard, lawyer, Republican. Ellsworth E. Heller, 67. of 1423 Pleasant street, retail coal dealer and south side civic leader. Repub- < lican. Leo F. Welch. 36. of 4310 Broadway, realtor. Democrat. William H. Insley, 60. of 445 North Audubon road, manufacturer and j city manager league executive chair- j man, Republican. 180 Directors Meet The ticket was decided upon at a luncheon meeting of the 180 directors, representing all classes of or- j ganizations in the city. Fred Hoke, chairman of directors, called the j meeting. Upon the seven winning candi-! dates at the polls Nov. 5 will fall the task of establishing the city manager plan, adopted by a 6-1 j referendum vote in 1927, and selec- j tion of the city’s first city manager. Announcement of the manager league's slate is expected to be the starter's gun for scores of independent candidates who will seek berths on the commission which replaces ■ the present city council. Politicians have delayed filing petitions of candidacy, awaiting action of the league and decision of the state supreme court on the constitu- j tionality of the manager statute, j Some political observers believe the { politicans who are opposed to the manager plan will form a coalition ! and back a bi-partisan political ticket, in an effort to retain patronage at city hall. Oppose Filing Now The city election commission has requested candidates not to file petitions until after the supreme court has handed down its opinion on the legality of the law. In event the manager law should be held unconstitutional. which is not anticipated by the league, the manager advo- j cates probably would continue the j good government fight and actively participate in the election of a mayor and council. The seven candidates which were backed by the league were chosen because of their long residence in Indianapolis and their desire to see the city manager plan put into practice under favorable conditions, the league directors announced. Independent candidates who sought the league's indorsement were not considered in drafting the ticket. The league's candidates and league leaders will confer Saturday night on campaign policies, it was decided.

EXTRADITION CASE PROBLEM IS SOLVED Leslie Retraces Signature on Alleged Bandits' Paper. Governor Harry G. Leslie today solved the controversy over the extradition papers of Frederick Coons, ■ alleged Los Angeles bank robber, which were taken to superior court Tuesday. The argument was over the validi- . ty of the governor's signature, written by Mise Elsie Leo. Today the governor retraced the signature and wrote beneath “Signed in person.” Coons no wwill go west. J despite the opposition of his attorney*, Robinson, Simms and Melson. MUTINY INVESTIGATED Thirteen o< Tanker Crew Facing i Charges. By United Prat* MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 4.—R. B. Dobbin. United States shipping commtortonar. investigated charges today that thirteen members of the crew of the tanker Paulsboro mutinied on the night of Aug. 27 when the ship was disabled by fire in the gulf of Mexico. The alleged mutineers were charted by sailors, who remained wttfc the Paulsboro. with rowing away from the tanker when the fire broke out and returning after It was extinyiished.

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COUNTY COUNCIL SLASHES THOUSANDS FROM BUDGET

School Superintendent Will Face $2,400 Salary Cut Next Year. County councilmen today began radical slashing of the 1930 budget and pared off items ranging from a few hundred to thousands of dollars in an effort to reduce to a minimum the 53-cent tax levy which has been agreed on by county commissioners. Council members were to meet again Thursday and will make further budget reductions. One of the largest individual reductions was made today when the council unanimously agreed to reduce the salary of Fred T. Gladden, county schoo' superintendent, from $4,800 to $2,400 annually, effective next year. Council members decided to pay Gladden $3.6000 the reer of this year. The council also reduced the school superintendent's office budget more than $l,lOO. Treasurer Clyde E. Robinson’s budget proposals fared badly, when members reduced appropriation requests $50,100. The reductions included $23,600 in increased salary

Drives Car Over Bank as He Reads Repons; Dies Charles Leauty, 30, of 326 East Minnesota street, sales manager for Schlosser Brothers dairy, was fatally injured today when his dairy truck overturned down a fifteen-foot embankment one-half mile south of Plainfield, on the Mooresville road. Reading his company reports as he drove. Leauty lost control of the truck, and it left the road and went into the ditch. He was pinned beneath it as it skidded twenty feet, and then thrown to one side as it turned over again. Leauty's arms were broken and he was injured internally. As he was placed in an ambulance in Plainfield he regained consciousness long enough to relate the details of the mishap. He died in St. Vincent’s hospital a few minutes after he was admitted. He is survived by the widow and three children.

requests; $20,500 to pay a delinquent tax collection staff and the remainder in supply appropriation requests. Sheriff George L. Winkler was not much damaged by the council's tax knife, when only $2,700 was cut from requests. This amount was for the increase of deputies’ salaries. Councilmen Grant Moore and Dr. Sollis Runnells objected to a S6OO annual increase in the chief enforcement deputy’s salary, but were outvoted. Eliminating a criminal investigator, a criminal investigation fund, two of five municipal courts and a court accountant, the council cut Prosecutor Judson L. Stark's appropriations SIB,BOO. Os this amount $9,300 was for salary increases in Stark’s courthouse office. The three remaining municipal court deputies

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Candidates indorsed today by the Indianapolis City Manager League for commissioners in the city manager election Nov. 5 are pictured here: Top, left to right; William Henry Insley, manufacturer, and Henry McCabe Dowling, attorney. Center, left to right: Mrs. George C. Finfrock, leader in won in’s civic organizations; H. Nathan Swain, attorney, and John F. White, civic leader and city councilman. Bottom, left to right: Leo Francis Welch, realtor, and Ellsworth Elmer Heller, merchant.

were denied S6OO annual salary raises. Ten thousand dollars was sliced from the budget appropriation requests of County Clerk George O. Hutsell. This included equipment costs and salary increases. The county probation department ebudget was cut SB,IOO and the juvenile court requests wer lopped $3,000 Two court reporters in courthouse municipal courts were refused $734 salary increases for the remainder of 1929. Other slices made included $15,580 from County Auditor Harry Dunn's salary increase requests; S6OO annual reduction In pay increase requests of superior, probate and criminal court reporters, court bailiffs, clerks and other assistants. Even the youthful court pages were handed rejections of their S2BO salary increase requests.

apolis to face a federal charge of furnishing hack saws to John Williams. federal prisoner at the Marion county jail, who attempted a jail break early Monday. Chamness was arrested by Charles Le Selle. deputy federal marshal, on a warrant issued by United States Commissioner Fie W. Patrick on information supplied by the department of justice. Williams was caught by deputy sheriffs Monday us he was sawing through screens in a window on the north side of the second floor of the county jail. He admitted he wanted “to get out,” but said he had “found the saws in a ventilator.” Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 67 10 a. m 81 7a. m 68 11 a. m 84 Ba. m 75 12 (noon).. 84 9 a. m 77 lp. m 86

G.O.P. TARIFF BILL MENACED BY FARM BLOC Opposition Seeks Publicity on Incomes to Determine Protection Needs. CONFIDENT OF VICTORY Senator Borah Hopes to Sweep Whole Draft Into Discard. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—With a bipartisan farm bloc coalition threatening to overturn the whole structure of the new Republican $600,000,000 tariff bill, the senate half of President Hoover’s special relief session of congress reconvened here at noon today to take up the issue where it was dropped last June. The House will return Sept. 23. While the opposition failed to show its hand in the half hour of the opening session, it brought forward a resolution proposing to sweep away the confidential nature of income tax returns during the tariff debate, so it might ascertain how much corporations interested in the tariff have profited in recent years, and consequently how much, if any, tariff protection these corporations need. A resolution to suspend that portion of the income tax law which makes income tax returns secret was offered by Senator Blaine (Rep., Wis.), member of the farm bloc, and the Idea of it immediately was indorsed by Senator Simmons, North Carolina, Democratic tariff leader, who intends to work out a coalition with the Republican tariff structure. Blaine's resolution seeks to authorize each member of congress to get any tax figures on corporations from hte treasury department. It also would authorize any member of congress to designate a person to examine returns for him. The Blaine resolution was left upon the Vice-President’s table for the time being. Farm Bloc Confident Nine Repubicans from middle western states organized late Tuesday at a meeting in the office of Senator Borah of Idaho. They expect more of their group to be present at a second gathering later today, when they will decide how to proceed toward eliminating the industrial rate increases granted in the Republican bill, and preserving only the increased duties for agriculture. Last June their movement was defeated by a one vote margin, 38 to 39, with many absent. Borah, who sponsored the movement at that time, says he has not lost a vote, and claims to have gained “at least one or two.” One would enable him to sweep the whole structure of the new bill into the discard. < The farm bloc appears to have massed its full strength for this fight for the first time since its institution in 1922. The eight Republicans who met with Borah include Norris and Howell (Neb), Frazier and Nye (N. D.), LaFollette and Blaine (Wis.), Brookhart (la.) and Manchester (S. D. In addition, Norbeck (S. D.), Johnson (Cal.), Capper and Allen (Kan.), Schall (Minn.) and Thomas (Idaho) are expected to join later. This would give the group a strength of fifteen Republican senators, who, if they joined with a sufficient number of Democrats whose objects are similar, would control a majority of the senate. Capper, head of the original farm bloc, told the United Press he thought the pending measure of no benefit to agriculture.

RAIL PROFITS GONE American Charges Chinese Eastern Was Looted. Bu rnitrrt Press _ MUKDEN, Manchuria, Sept. 4 In an interview today with the United Press, J. J. Mantel, American railway expert and adviser to the Chinese government, alleged the Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern railway had stolen millions of dollars from the road during the last few years. Mantell told of a recent investigation he had made of the railway situation in Manchuria. He charged that during the year 1928 the Chinese Eastern earned $63,000,000 gross, but that officials reported only an earning of $130,000 to the Chinese directors. PINNED UNDER DEBRIS Workmen Trapped When Walls of Building Collapse. Bit Unit' and Press _ , _ , CLEVELAND, Sept. 4. Several workmen were pinned beneath debris today when the walls and roof of the Harshaw Chemical Company here, collapsed. The first man removed was Peter Coffie, who was seriously hurt. Four of the workmen in the building scrambled to safety before the crash. The structure was being torn down when its walls and roof collopsed.

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T. A. T. PLANE VANISHES IN FAR WEST; SCORES OF AIRCRAFT START SEARCH

Burbankism When some north side lawns suddenly became barren of decorative evergreens and shrubbery, while others prospered, detectives became suspicious. Tuesday they arrested Oaklan Robinson, 20, R. R. 14, Box 313, at the state fairground, and are holding him on vagrancy charges. Robinson, they say, has decorated several of the more prosperous appearing lawns in neighborhoods from which complaints of missing shrubs recently have come.

BODY OF PILOT FOUNDINPLANE Major Wood Instantly Killed in Explosion. Bu United Press LOS ANGELES, Sept. 4.—The body of Major John Wood, veteran air pilot, was found in his plane near Needles, Ariz., the Aero Corporation of California was informed today. Major Wood, competing in the Los Angeles-to-Cleveland nonstop speed event of the national air races, was killed instantly when his ship crashed in a heavy storm, it was said. The Aero Corporation’s information was wired in by Burrell Smith, one of its pilots, who was sent to aid in the search for Major Wood. “Landed at wreckage,” Smith’s wire said. “Body found; death instantaneous. No fire, but explosion.” Major Wood was a resident of Wausau, Wis. He was born in Buffalo, N. Y., in 1896. He was a student at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh until 1917, when he enlisted in the air service. At the conclusion of the war he entered the commercial aviation field. Recently he established the Northern Airways Company here. In the national air races of 1927 he was a place winner in the contest from New York to Spokane. Last year he placed third in the race from New York to Los Angeles. SHOWERS PROMISED Heat Relief Indicated by Weather Man. Increasing cloudiness today, followed by local showers Thursday, will bring the mercury back to nearnormal in the next twenty-four hours, weather bureau officials said. Tuesday, a high mark of 90 was attained. The day's average was nine degrees above normal. Rain also is on the weather fare for western and eastern Indiana, followed by cooler Thursday. Other high Indiana temperatures Tuesday were: Vincennes, 96; Columbus. 95; Madison, 94, and Evansville and Marion, 92.

WINE LAW STUDIED Quebec Considers Permiting Sale in Taverns. Bv United Press , , _ MONTREAL, Sept. 4.—The province of Quebec is considering the possibility of permitting sale of wine in taverns, it was learned today. Under the existing law wine can not be served, but Premier Taschereau announced the situation was under consideration as to whether to amend the laws at the next parliament to permit wine sales.

NEW RECORD IS SET AS ZEP LANDS IN GERMANY

BY MAURITZ HALLGREN L'nlted Pros Staß Correspondent FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Sept. 4.—With her five motors humming a perfect symphony of victory the mighty Graf Zeppelin returned to its home base today, fresh from her globe-girdling journey and the greatest flight ever accomplished by a dirigible. The air leviathan was landed at 8:51 a. m. (2:51 a. m., eastern standard time), after an epochal trip in which she conquered the two great oceans and the steppes of northern Siberia. She broke her own Lakehurst to Lakehurst record of twen-ty-one days. 7 hours and 26 minutes in her Friedrichshafen to Friedrichshafen flight by more than a full day. The Zep left here for Tokio

Five Passengers, Including One Woman, Two Pilots and Courier Are on Board; Fear Crash in Mountain Wastes. TWO STATES COVERED IN HUNT! Radio Enlisted in Rescue Effort; Storm and Fog Add to Perils; Army Asked to Lend Its Assistance. Bn United Press _ „ , , - . NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—One of the greatest airplane hunts in history got under way today as search was carried on for the T. A. TANARUS., City of San Francisco, airplane, missing in New Mexico or Arizona. Colonel Paul Henderson, vice-president of the Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., announced plans for the search. “All facilities of the T. A. T. on its western division, including airplanes, radio and teletape communication, have been enlisted in the search and every effort directed toward the discovery of the plane and the passengers,” Henderson said. “The T. A. T. has requested the army air service in the southwest to lend assistance.”

YOUNG HEFLIN BLAMES WORRY Physique ‘Run Down,’ Liquor Prisoner Claims, By United Press PHOENIX CITY, Ala,, Sept. 4. J. Tom Heflin Jr., son of the Alabama senator, mopped his brow today and revealed before leaving here under bond on charges of drunkenness and prohibition law violation, that he was “worried over his rundown physique.” Heflin Jr., and D. M. Haines, his companion on a zig-zagging automobile ride that resulted in their arrests Monday, will be given a preliminary hearing Friday in city court. They were released under bonds of $75. Police reported examination of three bottles of home brew found in the car, showed contents of 5.33 per cent alcohol. They said young Heflin admitted the home brew was his. Judge John T. Heflin, Roanoke, Ala., uncle of the senator’s son, conferred here Tuesday with the defendants and an attorney, O. B. Gullat Jr. Both Heflin and Haines were believed to be en route home today. ACCEPT U, S, TERMS Signatories at The Hague Vote to Sign Protocol. Bit United Press GENEVA, Sept. 4.—The conference of Hague court signatories decided unanimously today to sign the Root protocol for acceptance of the United States’ five reservations insisted upon by the senate. The reservations were presented before the United States would consider adhesion to the Hague court. REVEAL NOVEL SUICIDE Philadelphian Stabs Self, Walks Into Delaware River. By United Press PALMYRA, N. J., Sept. 4.—The body of a man found in the Delaware river today with twenty-three stab wounds has been identified as that of John Jacob Brenisier, 74, of Philadelphia. The police believe the man stabbed himself and walked into the water. He left a note for his wife asking so. a “reasonable burial.” Identification was made by a daughter who reported him missing to the police.

at 10:35 p. m., eastern standard time, on Aug. 14. It was twenty days, 4 hours and 16 minutes since the great ship departed for Tokio carrying twenty passengers, a crew of forty and Germany’s hope in commercial aviation. It was the fastest round-the-world trip ever made. The round-the-world record previous to the Lakehurst to Lakehurst flight was made by John Henry Mears and Captain Charles B. D. Collyer, who accomplished it in twenty-three days, 15 hours and 4 minutes. The Zeppelin, however, failed to break her own record from Lakehurst to Friedrichshafen. On her last crossing she made the cross-At-lantic journey in 55 hours and 22 minutes. This time she did It in 67 hours and 33 minutes.

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The craft, carrying five passengers and a crew of three, last was sighted Tuesday as it passed over Grant, N. M., at noon. It was due in Winslow, Ariz., at 1:30 p. m. It was held certain today that the ship had been forced to land in the mountainous territory of western New Mexico. The passengers on the T. A. T. plane, were Mrs. J. B. Raymond, Glendale; A. B. McGaffey, Albuquerque, N. M.; William H. Heers, New York; Harris Livermore. Boston, and N. M. Campbell, Cincinnati. Storm Comes Up The members of the crew were Chief Pilot J. B. Stone, Assistant Pilot A. E. Dietel, and C. F. Canfield, courier. The passenger plane left Albuquerque, N. M., at 10:20 a. m. Tuesday with a fuel supply sufficient for seven or eight hours pi flying. Weather conditions were poor and apparently got worse as the ship traveled westward. The district was in the grip of occasional thunder and lightning storms and fog wa3 reported in some sections. When the plane failed to reach Winslow, searching planes of the T. A. T. were sent out from both Albuquerque and here. Planes Start Hunt No trace was found of the passenger craft, however. This morning seven planes started out from Winslow at dawn and two left Phoenix. A call was issued for all private and commercial plane* to aid in searching the rough country’. The section in which the passenger ship apparently was forced down is the most rugged of the entire air route west. Mountains rise to 10,000 feet from the hardened lava beds that cover the country. Provided a successful landing was made, those on the ship still face the difficulty of getting out of the almost impassable country. Desert Man on Board If it made a safe landing in the wild mesquite country, the party will have the benefit of the experience of A. B. McGaffey, one of the passengers, to work its way out of the desert. McGaffey is a veteran. New Mexico lumberman Intimately acquainted with most of the area. He sold his holding last week in a $1,000,000 transaction. Planes ofo ther air lines found difficulty in carrying through schedules Tuesday. Official Optimistic Bit Unit'd Press ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4.—“ We do not believe there has been a serious accident to the City of San Francisco,’ * a high official of Transcontinental Air Transport told the United Press at T. A. T. headquarters here today. “It is probable the plane was forced to land because of motor trcuble and has been unable to take off again or to communicate with us. because of the rugged nature of.that country,” the official said. RAILROAD HEAD DIES New Haven Official Rose From Plowboy on Indiana Farm. By United Press NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 4. Nathaniel M. Rice, who rose from plowboy on a farm near Rome City, Ind., to a vice-presidency of the New Haven railroad, died at New Haven hospital today. Rice, who was in charge of the purchases and stores department* had been on leave of absence from his duties with the railroad stnet June 1. and had been in the hospital for several weeks.

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