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JURISTS MOVE TO PRISON FOR RULINGS QUIZ California Supreme Court Enters Folsom for Pardon Hearing. LOCK UP ALL CONVICTS Defense Again Blasts at Prosecution ‘Witness’ of Bombing. BY GEORGE D. CRISSEY United Pro* Staff ( orrupondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14. Members of the California supreme court today entered Folsom prison where a session in the “retrial” of Warren K. Billings, convicted dynamiter, will be held. The seven Justices, considering a pardon application for Billings, will hear the convict deny that he or Thomas J. Mooney participated in the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing, July 22, 1916, in which ten persons were killed. Opening at 7 p. m. < central standard time), the prison hearing will climax a session of the court without precedent in the judicial history of California. The hearing represents the first time the supreme court has conducted a "re-trial” of any crime and this evening’s session will be the first court meeting ever held in a prison in this state. , Before the Justices enter Folsom, all prisoners, except Billings, will be locked up. This is a precautionary measure, as authorities do not wish a demonstration by the 2,200 convict population. The eve of the prison hearing found friends of Billings in a Joyous mood as they had just emerged from one of the most successful days for the defense since the review opened July 29. ‘Too Much Swanson’ BY MAX STERN Times SUff Corrfpon4nt SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14. •Too much Swanson." This was revealed as the chief reason why justice went awTy in 1916 by at least two important witnesses at the judicial retrial of Mooney and Billings here. Martin M. Swanson, now dead, was private detective for the Pacific Gas and Electric Company and "master mind" behind Flc . ke t Cunha-Bvcnnan prosecution of the 14 On ll Wednesday Swanson’s name recurred again and again, the testimony to show that this private exPinkerton man had built the onfire prosecution structure now breaking up under fire of the big guns of the pardon crusaders. Swanson's name . Wednesday when W. L. Cjaybourne, lieutenant-colonel in the army, I sought to prove that another cution "witness" was in fact an absentee. .. to Get Money From Them” Claybourne had testified that John Crowley, the only witness berite MacDonald to have seen Billings near the explosion scene was underneath his auto repairing it for forty-five minutes prior to and at • ■ ~w and found Crowley W*™ to a man named Swanson. Clay bourne 1 said. "I asked Crowley what he was doing with this man and toe other men hanging arwmd. He said he was ‘stringing em along to get some money out of them. Estelle Smith also has reneatedly of Swanson and his presSS at the various identification Wednesday proved the best inning of the week for pardon crusaders. Estelle Smith s testimony was contradicted flatly by her ex-employer. Dr. Joseph H. Shane, who den ed that he had ever shaken hands with Billings at 721 Market street or that be ever had seen Billings in his life. •Motive Entirely Lacking’ McNutt testified as to his conviction that there never was a clockbomb or suitcase; that the bomb was a shrapnel one set off by nitroglycerine or T. N. TANARUS.; that it was planned by seme man evidently insane, and that neither Mooney nor Billings could have done it. He said that not only were their •Ribis almost perfect, but that the Motive was entirely lacking. “I would concede that both had bad reputations,’ he said. *‘l still believe neither of these men had anything more to do with this crime than I did. I can not concede how a man like Mooney, motivated by a desire to interfere in labor strikes, would deliberately set about to kill a lot of people. Billings was a misguided kid, thoroughly game, but made a fool out of by people who used him. Tonight the session moves by special train to Folsom penitentiary to hear the story of Warren Billings. Dramatic as the hearings have been to date, the session tonight pron ises to cap the climax by smash! ig all precedents in American jurisprudence. TARRING ARRESTS NEAR Terre Haute. SulHvan Men to Be Arrested for Mauling Miner. By l nitrd Pres* TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Aug. 14. Arrest of several Terre Haute and Sullivan residents on a charge of tarring and feathering Joe Claypool. field worker for the ■ dual ' miners’ union in Illinois, was rumored rear at hand today, following a conference between Jesse Bed well Sullivan county prosecutor, and Adolph Otnoff.

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By United Prtss rr>OLEDO, Aug. 14.—Elmer Tilton, 45, father of seven children, out A of work for months, took his 17-year-old son Louis with him early today and set out to steal some potatoes from a fanner s potato patch. The farmer, Lester Coy. 23, was waiting with a shotgun. He shot, and killed both. The rest of this story is told by McCoy, who is held by the coroner, and by Mrs. Tilton, who waited With her other six children for Louis and his father to return with food for the family. ■For nearly six weeks people liave been stealing potatoes from ny patch,” he said. “They have taken more than S2OO worth.

Troops Held Ready for War on Gaming National Guard Units Ordered to ‘Stand By’ for Smash on New Orleans ‘Red Light District.’

By United Press NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 14.—While national guard units “stood by” today for mobilization, operators of New Orleans’ 100 gambling casinos faced one of the mast serious battles of their existence to continue operation. The national guard was ordered to ‘‘stand by” late Thursday after Governor Huey P. Long warned that gambling in New Orleans and adjacent parishes should cease. Secret orders to the troops directed them to hold themselves

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Winners in Pigmy Golf Play Tonight Approximately half of the qualifiers in The Times city-wide toy golf tournament will play their thirty-six hole elimination round tonight at the Plaza course, Michigan and Pennsylvania streets, and the Amos and Andy course, Keystone avenue and Allisonville road. The remaining course champions will play their thirty-six holes Friday night at two courses to be announced in Friday’s editions of The Times. The eight lowest women’s scores and eight lowest men s scores for the two nights of play will take their owners into the championship match play next weekA number of prizes are being offered for low scores in the eliimriatlon round as well as in the matches next week. Contestants are urged to present themselves promptly at 7 at the Plaza ocurse and at 7:30 at the Amos and Andy course. Pairings will be made at the tees for the rounds. Course assignments for tonight are: Plaza Course Dr. H. L. Warrick, John Quinn, Theodore Siener, Miss Mary Settle, Mrs. C. E. Heckman, Mrs. L. E. Strong, Miss Louise Leonard, Miss Florence Brown, Miss Carcella Smith, A1 Casse, Gilbert Malone, H. L. Shipley, Mr. and Mrs. Lucien Meridith J. V. Lyons, Russell Lutz, Charles Brown, Melville Brown, Gus j Beyersdorfer. Amos and Andy Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith, Irwin Ferrell, Miss Virginia Quigg, W. P. Whittington, D. L. Grubb, Rolland Huestis, Earl Taylor, E. J. Karges, Miss Jeanne Schlosser, Miss V. Jones, Ted Wolf, Earl White, Max Deflno, Gordon Combs, Sara Fletcher, C. R. Richardson, Linden Stites and Mrs. A. G. Avery.

STATE BANK LOOTED Unmasked Pair Stages Raid Near Logansport. Bu United Pres* TWELVE MILE. Ind., Aug. 14. Two unmasked bandits entered the Twelve Mile State bank an hour after it opened today, held up O. R. Pickering, cashier, and Miss Bernice Brower, assistant cashier, and escaped in a blue sedan with between $1,500 and $2,000. Their car was headed west, witnesses say. Twelve Mile is located twelve miles northwest of Logansport. FLOOD KILLS THOUSANDS Twenty-three Towns Inundated in Chinese Province. Bv United Pres* PEIPING, China, Aug. 14.—Belated reports from northern China today gave a heavy death toll in the floods in Chihli province early this week. Home-Coming at Mulberry 8 street parade and an address by Albert Stump, Indianapolis lawyer, were among features of the second annual home-coming program here Wednesday.

CAPONE BACK IN SADDLE; CHICAGO AGAIN GETS ITS BEER ON SCHEDULE

By BcrivDt-H o\card Xetcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Scarface A1 Capone, whose racket was shaken to its foundation when the “big shot” went to jail for a year in Philadelphia, again is ruling the roost, and beer deliveries in Chicago are getting back on schedule. It took A1 just five months to gain the top of the heap after his year’s absence —and although the ammunition belts of some of the linesmen have been depleted, Al, it is repented, has not handled a gun since last March. of Capone's rehabiliU

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ready for duty at a moment’s notice. Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley today denied Long’s charges that “New Orleans is wide upon; the redlight district has been reopened with standard rule', of vice protection and regulations,” and that forty-two gambling casinos operated within a radius of four block: in the downtown business district. More than two-score gambling casinos closed down in neighboring parishes Wednesday on orders of Attorney-General Percy D. Saint.

Three Are Assassinated in Auto on Road Near St. Paul. 71 CHICAGO, 5 Aug. 14.—Underworld rule by bullets was charged with five additional murders today in the middle west. Three gangsters were assassinated near St. Paul, one near Chicago and another at Detroit during the night. The St. Paul slayings of Sammy Stein and Frank Coleman of Kansas City, and “Butch” Myers of St. Paul, were believed re have announced entry of the George (Bugs) Moran gang of Chicago into a struggle for control of northwest liquor traffic. The three victims were found on a road to an inn where Moran’s followers had been reported organizing. In a Chicago suburb, Danny Vallo, once sought lor the St. Valentine’s day massacre of Moran gangsters, was shot down by two men as he stepped from an automobile. The peace in Detroit’s underworld was ended when Carl Stilana, 35, was killed while driving an automobile. The three outbreaks apparently had no connection except that all were presumed to have resulted from gang rivalry.

R-l 00 SPEEDING TOWARDBRITAIN English Dirigible Trying to Better Graf Zep Time. By United Press MONTREAL, Aug. 14.—The R-100 advised St. Hubert airport here by wireless that it was over Belle Isle at 10, central standard time. Belle Isle is in the open Atlantic off the northern tip of Newfoundland and about 960 miles from Montreal. Bv United Press ST. HUBERT AIRPORT, MONTREAL, Aug. 14.—The British dirigible R-100, challenging the trans-Atlantic speed record of the Graf Zeppelin, sped swiftly out to sea on its return voyage from Montreal to England today. The dirigible appeared to have an excellent chance for a record. Since leaving this airport at 8:30 p. m., eastern standard time, Wednesday, it had averaged about sixty-eight miles an hour. After taking aboard its dozen passengers in addition to the officers and crew of forty-five men, the R-100 left Wednesday as thousands of spectators shouted farewell. TEN Kl' LED IN CRASH £8 Others Injured in Collision of Rumanian Express Trains, By United Press BUCHAREST, Rumania, Aug. 14. —Ten persons were killed, eight gravely injured, and twenty slightly injured in a collision of two express trains today on the route between Bucharest and Constanza. Prides for Best Lawns ANDERSON, Ind., Aug. 14.—Final inspection will be made Sunday of lawns entered in a Chamber of Commerce beautification contest. Cash prizes totaling $125 will be awarded winners.

tion came informally to a justice department operative here this week, in a personal letter from a friend, serving as Chicago field agent for another governmental bureau. Crammed with names, dates, and places, it is a “success” story of the first magnitude. When Capone went to jail a year ago for carrying a pistol, he left behind a closely organized and welldisciplined organization. Each of half a dozen lieutenants was assigned a distributing district. There never were any crossed wires, and

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" A BOUT 12:30 this morning I was lying between the rows of potato .A. plants, the shotgun beside me. I saw an automobile drive up and two men get out. “Somebody else in the car drove away and the two men walked back into the field, passing a few feet from where I was lying. For about forty-five minutes they dug potatoes. Then they shouldered their sacks and started away. “I hollered at them to stop. They ran, and I fired. T couldn't see for a moment on account of the smoke and then I saw the older man still running with his sack. I fired again and he fell.’” Coy ran to a neighbor’s home and he called the sheriff.

HEAVY RAINS RELIEVE STATE DROUGHTAREA Virtually Every Portion of Indiana Is Benefited; Half Inch Here. Drought of several weeks which burned crops and almost dried up Indiana’s water supply, was broken Wednesday night and early today In virtually every part of the state. Starting in Indianapolis shortly before midnight, the rain reached 1.24 inches in the western section of the state. The total rainfall here was .5 of an inch, the greatest since April 20 when .02 of an inch more fell. Farmers in the stricken areas and Marion county were jubilant over the rainfall and the cloudy skies that probably will last until Friday and block the blazing sun. The cloudiness will prevent immediate evaporation of the rain. Indiana Farm Bureau Federation officials declared the “rain is worth millions to the farmers. It would be impossible to estimate the value in dollars and cents.” Farm bureau heads pointed to a need for additional rains in the New Albany and Jefferson districts, where the farmers probably suffered more than in majority of the stricken sections of the state. Rain is forecast for tonight along the Ohio river, which will give aid the dwindling water supply that threatened livestock. Wednesday night’s rain extended as f ar north as Ft. Wayne. This area has been supplied by showers at various times in the last month. Following precipitation was reported to the government weather bureau; Terre Haute, 1.24 inches; Vincennes, 1.18; Paoli, 1.13; Shoals, 1.07; Etiwardsport, 1.03, and Evansville, .94. 77 MISSING AT~ SEA Chinese Steamer in Collision Off Coast Off Shantung. Bu United Press LONDON, Aug. 14.—The sinking of the Chinese steamship Tongan after a collision off Shantung was reported to Lloyds today in a dispatch from Tsingtsao. The dispatch said seventy passengers and seven members of the crew were missing.

The New Dance America’s masters of the dance open their annual convention in New York Sunday. The Chicago Association of Dancing Masters holds its annual convention Aug. 25-30. The leading dance authorities of the country will be there, to decide what’ll be new in steps this winter. The Times will carry interesting stories on proceedings at these conventions, being represented at both by Louis Stockman of Indianapolis, for years a dancing master known all over the country. He will send daily stories from the convention floor which will interest every Times reader who dances. Watch for them.

QUELL FOREST FIRES Considerable Area Burned in State Tract. Fire started in the James Dean tract of the state forest at Henryville, Wednesday, and a considerable area was burned over before the blaze was extinguished, it was reported today by Charles Guernsey, superintendent. About forty acres also were burned on the Joseph Petty farm south of Underwood. Both fires were reported out today. 20 KILLED IN TYPHOON Tokio Dispatches Say Island of Kinshiu Is Swept by Wind. By United Press LONDON, Aug. 14.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Tokio today reported twenty persons dead in a typhoon that swept the island of Kiushiu Tuesday.

'bloodshed was out of order. If a fellow couldn’t run his district in a smooth, quiet, business-like way he was “busted.” n m # THE old order prevailed for about two weeks after A1 began serving time. Gradually the more aggressive of the district leaders began to spread out. It was the age-old struggle for the throne. In three months the shooting became so bad that the police began to suspect that a cog had slipped somewhere. Things newr were nor-

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ENDURANCE PAIR UP 582 HQURS Jackson, o’Brine Are Sure They’ll Reach 1,000. By United Press LAMBERT FIELD, St. Louis, Mo.,' Aug. 14.—From their plane Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine messaged today they had “every confidence in the world" that the monoplane Greater St. Louis would remain aloft 1,000 hours. At 1:11 p. m. the refueling endurance record-breaking ship had been up 582 hours, more than twen-ty-eight hours past the mark of the Hunter brothers. Jackson and O’Brine said there was not the slightest sign that the six-cylinder motor of the Greater St. Louis is weakening, and as for themselves they “felt just as good as we did the day we started.” “However,” they added, “a real bath in a bathtub with a turkish towel and honest to goodness soap will be the first thing in our minds when we land.” First profits of the flight were realized when an oil company agreed to pay SIOO an hour until they had beaten the previous record by seventy hours.

SPEED RECORD SETBYHAWKS Cuts Coast-to-Coast Time to 12 Hours 25 Minutes. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—Captain Frank M. Hawks cut the flying time between the Pacific and Atlantic to twelve hours and twenty-five minutes in his transcontinental flight Wednesday, setting anew record, A dazzling pace of 220 miles an hour was set for the 2,510 miles traversed in the trip from Los Angeles. “I don’t think it can be done any faster,” Havfks said after he had set his plane down at Roosevelt field. “In the fall, in exceptionally advantageous weather, it is just possible that the time can be bettered.” “From Los Angeles to Albuquerque, N. M., I had a dead calm, and from there on to Wichita I had a favoring tail wind. “At St. Louis I ran into some rain and head winds, and from Indianapolis to New York, the air was 50 thick with dust and smoke from the drought that often I couldn’t see the ground from 3,000 or 4,000 feet up.” Captain Hawks plans to race his ship later this month at Chicago at the national air races.

mal as long as A1 was away, nor for a long time after his return. Two of the erstwhile district managers became so powerful that when Al’s term was up they told his friends he should not come back to Chicago. But A1 went back as quickly as he could. In less than sixty days, a Chicago paper began printing daily accounts of the new sinking-in-the river method gangland had hit upon for disposing of the dead. The system did away with the messy business of finding bodies here and there over the countryside. /

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OFFICERS found Louis lying face down in the patch, the sack of potatoes beside him. His father lay twenty-five feet away, shot in the head. Mrs. Tilton told officers her husband had been out of work several months and the iamily was in desperate need of food. He and Louis started out Wednesday night, she said, promising her and the children they would bring back something to eat. “They didn’t tell me where they were going,” she sobbed. “They just said, ‘Mother, we'll bring back something to eat,’ and I let them go.”

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Water! Water!—somewhere, but not a drop to drink. That, in brief, describes the top photo and drought conditions in Indiana before rain early today. Cows lolling in the cool silt of Sand creek, three miles from Martinsville on the Mahalasville road, in the top photo have waited for days by the road culvert for water to trickle downstream. Bead Stout, farmer and owner of the cattle in the photo, has been forced to carry water from fcis well to quench their thirsts.

$40,000 ‘Toy’ By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14. Mary Pickford has become a golf magnate to pass away the time until her proposed appearance in a New York stage production, she revealed today. The actress owns a course in Beverly Hills to be opened in two weeks, and has spent $40,000 00 it.

‘BIG TRAIN’ IS ILL Ordered to Take Rest From Baseball. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Walter Johnson, suffering from stomach trouble and grieving over the recent death of his wife, was urged today by President Clark Griffith of the Washington American League baseball club to take a complete rest from his duties as manager of the team. Johnson was ordered from the ball park Wednesday by his physician, who said the famous pitcher was in no condition to direct the team from the field. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 60 10 a. m 64 7a. m 60 11 a. m 65 Ba. m 61 12 (noon).. 67 9 a. m 63 1 p. m 68

NO one knew where Jake Lingle was getting his news, but when the police went to drag the river at the spots he named, there were the bodies, heavily weighted. A month later Lingle’s spectacular death blew the lid‘so high that every one had to run for cover. Daylight deliveries stopped for five weeks. Chicago's hottest days were suffered with almost no beer in the business district. Then came the death, ten days ago, of Jack pivotal figure

“And we’d have at least a little water in the creek if it wasn’t for a fish hatchery north of us. They pump the creek dry so they can have enough water to raise goldfish while we carry water for the cows,” Stout complains. And despite Wednesday night's rain, James M. Murphy, R. R. 2, Morgantown, has given up hope for a stand of corn from his field in the bottom photo. <- “We’re all burnt out,” Murphy says sadly.

GOVERNORS IN RELItfPARLEY Drought Area Chiefs Meet at White House. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—A typically Hoover plan for setting up a voluntary drought relief organization has been prepared by the President for submission today to the twelve state Governors or their representaitves, who were to gather with him around the cabinet table at the White House. Each Governor or his representative will be requested to appoint a drought commission from his state to co-operate with the federal government, the Red Cross, the railroads and affected areas. These twelve commissioners will compose an unofficial federal commission. Other states will be invited to participate if necessity in their district requires. It was a somewhat similar setup which President Hoover perfected for the Mississippi river flood relief work in 1927. At the conference with the Governors, Mr. Hoover is expected to make public anew and more comprehensive report on the extent of the drought damage.

in the Moran-Aiello gang, the last to resist re-establishment of Capone’s domination. Last week, things began to get back to normal. Loop deliveries began on schedule. The day after word had gone out that everything was 0. k., federal agents seized ninety barrels of beer in a garage across the street from the Lawndale police station, on the south side. But the Lawndale police swear they had nothing to do with that. It was the only ripple reported since Capone resumed undisputed command. fi

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HIGHWAY FUND MOVE SEEN AS STATE PERIL .Treasurer May Be Forced to Call in Money to Meet Demands. $3,200,000 ROAD GOAL Brown Says Amount Already Borrowed ‘Not Enough for Needs/ BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY A move which experts declare may wreck state finances, was launched today by Director John J. Browr. of the state highway department. Having succeeded in obtaining $1,000,000 from the cities, counties and towns fund. Brown is making anew effort to obtain a like amount from othei - sources. This would give the highway department an additional $3,200,000 to spend over and above the 1930 budget estimate of $22,000,000. Unclaimed Federal Balance Meanwhile, the federal roads bureau at Washington announces that Indiana has an unclaimed balance of $2,098,000. This amount remains uncollected because the state ha; not fulfilled the federal rules regarding inspection of standards required for obtaining the federal aid, it was admitted today by Director Brown. In a letter to State Auditor Archie Bobbitt, Brown asks that the state board of finance oatain for the state highway department, an additional $1,000,000 at once, for use during the next sixty days, and $600,000 early in September for use “during a like period. ’ Fund Is Not Enough According to the letter, the cities, counties and towns fund, already borrowed by the state highway department with consent of AttorneyGeneral James M. Ogden and the state finance board, was “not sufficient to permit us to meet our current obligations.” The move to get this additional money is reported to have the support of Governor Harry G. Leslie, in Washington attending the Hoover drought conference. He was the prime mover in obtaining the sl,600,000 cities, counties and towns fund from gasoline taxes and thus wiping out the only reserve the state treasury had. To Ask Ogden Advice Where the new sums will be derived remained a point of conjecture, according to Bobbitt, who said he will ask the attorney-gener-al’s opinion in the matter. To obtain the $1,600,000 cities, counties and towns fund reserve, payable in March, the treasurer’s office called for 25 per cent payments from 216 banks of state deposit and will have to call for another 25 per cent, it was reported today. “The banks complained, particularly in the farming districts, that we are taking money away that stricken farmers could use to advantage,” Frank Richards, assistant state treasurer, stated today. “If we are required to make this additional loan, it will wipe out many smaller acounts.”

LINA BASQUETTE OPENS NEW FIGHT FOR CHILD Screen Actress, Who Attempted Suicide, Wants to Regain Daughter Bn United Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 14.—The despair that drove Lina Basquette, screen actress and former Follies dancer, to attempt her own life by drinking poison gave way to new hopes today as she reopened a fight for custody of her small daughter, Lita Warner. Miss Basquette, whose first husband was the late Sam Warner, called on her attorney to institute legal proceedings to regain the baby, now under guardianship of Harry M. Warner. INSULL DENIES MERGER Spikes Report New York Interest* Are to Be Combined. CHICAGO, Aug. 14.—Reports circulated in New York that the several Insull utility interests here would be combined, were branded by Samuel Insull as “absolute rubbish.” “There is absolutely no truth in the story,” insull said. CHILD HURT BY TRUCK Runs In Front of Auto and Is Knocked Down. Running in front of a bakery truck driven by Carl Hagg, 38, of 3140 West Sixteenth street, at Amolda and Michigan street, today, James Sampson, 3, of 711 North Arnolda avenue, was injured when he was knocked down. linDTto get medal Hoover to Present $1,500 Congress Award to Flier Friday. Bn United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. A $1,500 special congressional medal will be pinned upon the breast of Charles A. Lindbergh by President Hoover Friday, to commemorate the flier’s achievements. Car Wrecks Theater Sign Bu Times SoeeM BLUFFTON, Ind., Aug. 14.—The last car of a freight train on the Indiana Service Corporation interurban line wrecked a large electric sign of the New Grand theater here following a derailment.