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CITY'S BUDGET SETS sl.lO AS 1931 TAX RATE Figure Unchanged Despite $4,000,000 Decreases in Valuations. GENERAL LEVY IS HIKED Scale Really Is Lower, If Depleted Sinking Fund Is Calculated. Despit* a $4,000,000 decrease In valuations and an increase of $159,265.18 in the general fund budget, tne 1931 budget for the city of Indianapolis calls for the same tax rate as in 1930, sl.lO. The budget will be presented to ; the city council tonight and then i will be advertised for ten days, according to the statutes, before final i action is taken. Although, according to the figures,, the proposed levy is not a decrease, j yet tn actuality is 5 cents less than j was spent in 1930. The previous council almost ex- j hausted the sinking fund to keepj within the tax levy and this use of | the sinking fund represented a .evy of $1.15 last year, it was pointed out at city hall today. Increase in Net Total The general fund budget, while showing an increase in net total over 1930. actually shows a decrease for departments from 1930 figures, if increases, interest cahrges and added departments are not considered, according to William L. Elder, city controller. Among increases in the general fund budget are included appropriations of $20,000 for operation of the municipal airport, and $32,154.96 for police radio operation. These appear in the budget for the first time. | The budget includes an additional $13,000 street lighting and water appropriation required by the expansion of the city. ... . Request of the public safety board for additional policemen resulted in the inclusion of figures for five more men and $12,000 for motor equipment. Health Levy Is Up The public health levy is increased from 9.4 cents to 10 cents, because of an increase of $48.848 21 for the city hospital, capacity of which has been increased 124 beds. No special provision is made in j the budget for a fund to care for j epidemics such as the spinal meningitis attack that took 131 lives of the 198 persons who were victims since December. Under the plan evolved, the $25,000 contingent fund for Mayor Sullivan is to be used for such emergencies. The attack in Indianapolis cost the city $35,000 and, according to medical authorities, the malady recurs the second winter. • A comparatively small sum of ' money is recommended as a con- j lingent fund out of which would be paid, in part., the cost of combating such an epidemic of spinal meningitis which visited the city during the last few months, and the city's expenses ill the gas litigation," Mayor Sullivan commented. 57.000 for Free Milk Other departments of the board of health have required slight increases which include $7,000 for free j milk and medical and dental treat- ; ment occasioned by the present de- ; pressed economic conditions. Reductions in levies are effected for the following departments: Park, from 5.74 cents to 45 cents; sanitary. from 7 to 6 cents; city streetimprovements, from 4.1 to 2.7 cents: track elevation, from 2 cents to *s rent, and street resurfacing, from 2 cents to cent. If necessary to spend more than j the available money for track ele-j vation in 1931, which, according to j Elder, does not seem probable now-.; he advocates that the city issue bonds for this purpose. Surface Bonds to Affret Issuance of $166,000 bonds in 1930 for resurfacing the streets also should minimize the effect of the levy cut for this item, he points out. To meet maturities of bonds in 1940. totaling approximately $2.000 000. the controller and budget committee decided on inclusion of sinking and bond fund levies. The tax levy as proposed will permit the addition of approximately S3O 000 to the balance of this fund in 1931. The War Memorial bond fund levy is increased from ' cent to 1.7 cents. SEES S(J ICIDE 0F M ATE Bride. Federal Agents Present as Check Suspect Kills Self. Bu United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Aug. 18In the presence of his bride of three days and federal officers who had gone to question him, James Kelly. 40. shot and killed himself in his hotel room today. Kelly was wanted in Wichita on a bad check charge, it was said, and had been posing as a secret service agent. SCORE MILK WAR RIOTS City Rural Market Feud Violence Condemned by Both Factions. Vn>t*4 Fret* KANSAS CITY. Mo., Aug. 18 marketing feud between rural producers anc city distributers in the Kansas City urea joined today in condemning Incident* of violence reported tn the wake of a boycott. Civic leaders appealed to representatives of both factions for arbitration.

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Business on Upgrade in U. S. Farm Sections, Says Babson

OMAHA, Aug. 18.—Business in the agricultural sections distinctly is on the up grade, and during the last quarter of 1930 business in this region should show a marked improvement, said Roger W. Babson, widely known economist and statistician, who gave his first public interview since the stock market crash last fall, here Sunday. Babson is en route to the west to make a personal inspection tour of business and crop conditions. "There should be a steady improvement in business in the middle west, and during the next twenty years the farmer is in for an era of constantly ;.i-

Farnous Flier Barely Misses <Chute Death Eaker Escapes With Ankle Sprained; Test Spin Causes Wreck. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Captain Ira Eaker, famous army flier, saved his life with his parachute today when the plane he was test-

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which to check his fall. Eaker barely missed the house and landed on a cement sidewalk. His only injuries were a sprained ankle and a few bruises. The plane, a Boeing pursuit ship, buried itself in the ground only a few feet from where Eaker landed, near St. Elizabeth’s government hospital. It was Eaker’s first forced parachute jump, although he has made voluntary jumps before.

SAVE 300 ON SINKING SHIP —i High Seas Pound Foundering Liner During Rescue. Bu United Press PAGO PAGO, Samoa, Aug. 18— The steamship Tahiti, on which three hundred persons sailed gaily northward from Wellington for San Francisco six days ago, sank in the South Pacific today, after rescue of her passengers and crew. Aboard the Matson steamer Ventura, the 173 adult passengers and two infants, who sailed on the Tahiti of the Union Steamship Company were safe, after many hours in which the disabled and waterfilled ship on which they left Wellington was pounded by a strongrunning sea. The Ventura, speeding from the scene of the rescue toward Pago Pago, had ended another heroic mission of the coral-reefed southern seas, and her master, Captain W. R. Meyer, wrote his version of the thrilling story. “Ventura has taken all passengers and crew from Tahiti and abandoned vessel,” was the message he handed his radio operator. “Ventua proceeding Pago Pago.” RAIN AIDS FARMERS Scattered Showers Relieve Drought Areas. Scattered rains throughout the state, totaling more than two inches in some localities, further relieved drought-stricken areas late Sunday. At Vincennes rain poured to reach 2 2 inches Sunday night. Northern Indiana also received heavy rains, with rainfall reaching 1.67 inches in some places. However, according to weather reports, areas south of Indianapolis centering around Bloomington and Columbus received only .02 to .04 of an inch. Indianapolis received .02 of an inch. Eighty-degree templratures are predicted for today and Tuesday. TWO KILLED BY FUMES Thirteen Others Overcome When Trapped in Ship's Hold. Bu United Press SAN PEDRO. Cal.. Aug. 18—Two men were killed and thirteen others were overcome today when they were trapped by gas fumes in a lower hold of the British tank steamer Tascalusa.

SI,BOO IN GOODS STOLEN FROM STORE; SAFE LOOTED OF $1 ,OOC

One alleged yegg was captured, others were successful in cracking three safes, and burglars raided a clothing store in a crime wave that swept Indianapolis over the weekend. Sawing through the basement, ceiling, thieves entered the R. C. Bennett <fc Cos , 251-253 Massachusetts avenue, and stole seventy-five suits, shirts and ties, valued at more than SI,BOO. The robbers gained entrance to the basement of Bertermann Bros.; florists, next door to the clothing store, through a window and then through a trap door to the clothiers to cut their way through the first, fioort

BILLINGS AND MOONEY CASE NEARING END Fourth, and Probably Last, Week Sees High Hopes of Bomb Pardons. BY MAX STERN Times Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16.—The supreme court Billings pardon hearing that opened here July 29 as the result of the finding of the missing perjurer, John MacDonald, today entered its fourth and probably last week, with hopes high for early release’of the famous convict, Warren Billings, and his co-victim, Tom Mooney. As Billings was last week's star, so Charles M. Fickert, former district attorney, is expected to take the stage center this week. Fickert, Mooney-Billings prosecu-tor-in-chief in 1916, is to share honors with Billings’ counsel, Edwin McKenzie, who will take the stand. Fremont Older, local editor, who obtained Estelle Smith's perjury confession, and Duncan Matheson, ex-police captain, to be recalled to deny some of Estelle Smith‘s romancing stories, are scheduled to testify. . Achievements Outlined The hearing now is in its last phase. Here, briefly, are achievements of the “trial’’ from the defense viewpoint: Not one of the many witnesses, including the entire battery of prosecutors of the old days, took the stand to urge continued incarceration of the pair. Matheson, highest police official in charge of the case against them, urged pardons on the ground that the circumstantial evidence used has proven insufficient to hold them. Jim Brennan, ex-Fickert aid, who prosecuted Billings, continued to urge pardons on grounds of “social expedience.’’ Ed Cunha, Mooney’s prosecutor, urged parole. Captain Charles Goff, Matheson understudy, urged pardon for Mooney, but thought Billings guilty. Even Fickert publicly has stated that he “doesn’t want to be asked whether he favors a pardon. The prosecution’s list of 1916-17 principal eyewitnesses all have proven perjurers, and most of them actually were absent from the scene of the crime. MacDonald Is “Bust’’ MacDonald, only “witness" beside Frank Oxman to have “seen” Mooney and Billings at the explosion scene, has been relegated to absolute limbo along with his compatriot Oxman. Estelle Smith’s conflicting stories of who placed Billings at the supposed rendezvous of the bombers have been denied by her former employer, Dr. Joseph Shane, by Matheson, Billings and others. Incidentally, her story, if true, would have provided Billings with another perfect alibi. The fact that the six judges who heard Billings at Folsom failed to go into the actual planting of the bomb, is taken to indicate that they no longer believe in the old prosecution theory or have faith in its witnesses. The tw'o alibis of Mooney and Billings have been presented and apparently accepted. Pictures showing the Mooneys on the roof of the Eiler building at 1:58, at 2:01 and 2:04, the latter two minutes before the bomb exploded 6,066 feet away, are in evidence. WESTERNER SETS~PACE Gladys O'Donnell Leads First Lap in Women’s Air Derby. Bu United Frees SAN DIEGO, Cal.. Aug. 18.—Led by Gladys O'Donnell. Long Beach, competitors in the 1930 women’s air derby left here today the second lap of their cross-country flight to the national air races in Chicago. Because of her fast time in Sunday's run from Long Beach to San Diego, Mrs. O'Donnell was the first to wheel her plane to the starting line and take off for Calexico, the noon-day st op.

ing failed to come out of a spin. Eaker’s escape was a narrow' one. He did not manage to free himself from the falling plane until a few hundred feet from the ground. When his parachute opened he was directly over a house with only about 100 feet in

Yeggs cut through a stone wall, twenty-six inches thick, to get into the Guarantee Tire and Rubber Company, 121 South Illinois street, early today and obtained SI,OOO. They cracked two safes, one of which contained ledgers and files and from the second stole a leather wallet and a money bag. The thieves made their way from the Fair building. 40 Jackson place, across a roof to a vacant storeroom at 220 McCrea street, and smashed a window to enter. They attempted to batter through the second floor into the tire company, but abandoned the plan and removed the blocks from the basement wall with a crowbar. They did &>t tamper with a safe

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creasing prosperity,” he asserted. “However, I do not care to redict there will be a general advance in 1931. THE farmer will be the first to recover from the business depression, he said. “The farmer was the first to go down and he will be the first to recover. Real estate should be the next. Manufacturing will be the last to recover because it was the last to suffer .a’ Seventy-five per cent of the corn crop will be saved, he said.

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“O. K.” After fifty cars had been examined today at the safety lane on Nineteenth street between Illinois and Meridian streets, only five of them got the “all set" sticker pasted on the windshields. But Miss Dorothy Hamilton, 19, of 517 East Forty-second streets, had no trouble having her car passed in the tests, and

Bloomin' Joke? Pink Bloomers Blossom Into Clew in Theft at Poolroom.

IT was a blooming pink bloomer of a trick that someone played on Austin Johnson, 25, of 1234 West Thirty-fourth street, he declares, and, because of it, he s held at police headquarters today on a vagrancy charge. Saturday night as he finished his work as soda-jerker in the Board of Trade billiard rooms he put his hand in his pocket and drew out a pair of pink bloomers. Robert Miller, Negro janitor of the billiard hall, saw the bloomers in his hand. Sunday the billiard room was robbed of a quantity of cigar ets. Miller found the pink bloomers on the floor. Detectives arrested Johnson, who says the bloomers don't belong to him, and that someone put them in his pocket for a joke and that he left them lying in the poolroom. His alibi on being questioned regarding his whereabout at the time of the robbery is, ‘“I was with my sweetheart.” GUSHER PERILS LIFE Oklahoma Crews Strive to Check Oil Well. B OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 18Fire hazards, accompanying oil and gas mists from a wild oil gusher in the city limits, endangered life and property today. The gusher, brought in by C. C. Julian, former figure in the defunct Los Angeles Julian Petroleum Company, developed a leak and blew wild late Sunday. Emergency crews attempted today to stop the flow by pouring cement into the hole. NEW BARRYMORE RISES Ethel Colt, Ninth Generation Member to Make Stage Debut. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 18—The stage debut of Ethel Colt, ninth generation member of th&i noted Barrymore theatrical family, will take place in Cleveland, Aug. 29, according to an announcement here. Miss Colt will play with her mother, Ethel Barrymore, in “Scarlet Sister Mary," a dramatisation of Julia Peterkin’s Pulitzer prize novel about Gullah Negroes in South Carolina.

on the first floor of the tire company and used tools and punches to crack the office safes. Fleeing into a police trap, Earl Chism, 37. Negro, 427 North Capitol avenue, was captured today after he is alleged to have attempted to crack the safe of the Lathrop-Moyer Company, 418 North Capitol avenue. The alleged thug had battered the doors of the huge strong box. knocking out most of their concrete contents, and left a collection of tools in front of the safe when he fled, police declared. Yeggs who hammered the combination off a safe in the poolroom owned by Ed Lowe, at 1615 Southeastern avenue early today, obtained $95 and two revolvers.

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"Reports of the damage have been exaggerated greatly, perhaps for the benefit of Europe. Europe has been out of the market for a long time fearing our enormous surplus. The fact that the country will produce 75 per cent of a full crop should bring Europe back into the market." According to Babson, the country is at its worst stage of depression in twenty-five years. u o a THERE is as much money as there ever was," he said. “The trouble is that it is not in circula-

she is shown here standing beside her dimimitive Austin while patrolman John Lee reached in and pasted the approval sign. Cars are being tested this week by a staff of sixteen police and traffic experts for lights, brakes, steering, wheel alignment and windshield wipers. Faulty points in any of these block full approval. The lane is open daily from 7:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m.

ENDURANCE PAIR FORCER DOWN Jackson, O'Brine Land at 647-Hour Mark. Bu United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. 18—Dale Jackson and Forrest O’Brine, once more the world’s champion refueling endurance fliers, were disappointed today because $200,000 hadn't materialized from their efforts. By making a safe landing in the monoplane, "The Greater St. Louis” at 6:39 a. m Sunday, after a flight of 647 hours, the fliers won back the title, lost to the Hunter brothers last month. They surpassed the Hunters’ time by more than ninetythree hours. Both blamed a crack in the motor crankcase for their descent. Oil splashed out over the cabin windows and motor and soaked into the magneto, short-circuiting it, Jackson said. There were contracts, either signed or offered, totaling $39,000 for advertising, movie talks and state fair appearances, but the men had gone aloft with the $200,000 idea in mind and were disappointed. Doctor examined the men and said they had not lost weight and appeared in splendid physical condition. William Quigley, chief mechanic of the flight, inspected the motor. He said he could not find a crack in the crankcase, “but if the boys said there was one, there must be.” What Oscar Parks, manager of the flight, pointed out as the crack was “only a scratch,” Quigley said. POLITICAL SLANDER HIT Knights of Columbus Form League Against Defamation. Bu United Press BOSTON, Aug. 18—The first step toward establishment of a League Against Defamation was taken at the forty-eighth annual convention of the Knights of Columbus here Sunday night. It is believed by its sponsors, according to William Cardinal O’Connell, that the new league will have a direct influence on political campaigns of the near future. Belief that the country is being deprived of the services of able leaders due to scurrilous and defamatory political orations has led Knights of Columbus officials to establish the league. LUCKNER SHIP AT CUBA Thirty-Three American Youths Get Naval Training Under German. Bu United Press HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 18—Thirtythree American boys of wealthy families are here on the yacht Mopelia, owned and commanded by County Felix von Luckner, famous "sea devil” of Germany's wartime navy. The yacht is on the last leg of a Caribbean cruise. The boys received a thorough course in seamanship under one of Kaiser Wilhelm's famous admirals. GAS STATION SUIT ENDS Special Judge Young Takes City’s Case Under Advisement. Special Judge Howard Young, of Marion circuit court, today took under advisement petition of the city for an injunction against the Lincoln Oil and Refining Company, to prevent operation of a filling station at Kessler boulevard and Lafayette street. Closing arguments in the injunction suit were heard this morning.

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tion. The only sure cure for a depression is the circulation of money.” Babyson is not in favor of curtailment of crops. Rather he would advicate the curtailment of farmers. “The farmer should be licensed like any other professional or business man. When a man signifies his intention of becoming a farmer, he should have to prove that he will be a good farmer and that he will not attempt to raise crops where crops assuredly will not grow,” he said.

LEGISLATURE FACES CALL ON DROUGHT AID Predict John J. Brown May Resign as State Highway Director. Possibility of a special session of the legislature, called by the Governor to provide drought relief funds and refinance the state highway department, loomed today. The matter was to be taken up at the first meeting of the drought commission in the Governor's office this afternoon. Another prediction, made at the statehouse, was the possibility of resignation of John J. Brown, director of the state highway department. That department has exceeded its budget almost from the beginning of the time that Brown took office, and now is paying interest on $1,600,000 of borrowed funds. Ogden Rule Bars Loan A special legislative session maybe necessary because James M. Ogden, attorney-general, has ruled the state can not borro money to match federal aid for roads, extended at this time as a drought relief measure. Under the plan, Indiana has $3,172,253 in advanced federal aid coming, in addition to $2,098,000 in unclaimed balances which the highway department has failed to collect because of failure to have plans approved and qualified by the federal bureau of roads. In an opinion to Governor Harry G. Leslie, Ogden cited the law to show that the state can not borrow money, in anticipation of automobile license and gasoline taxes, for the state highway department. When the federal aid was made available now instead of in January. federal authorities ruled each dollar advanced must be matched by the state. Since the state highway department already has exceeded its budget and borrowed $1,600,000 of the cities, counties and towns share of the state gasoline taxes, the only cash reserve of the state is wiped out. Leslie Asks Ruling Brown has asked an additional $1,600,000 be borrowed for current expenses of his department, without consideration of drought relief plans. Returning from the Governor’s conference with President Hoover Saturday, Leslie unfolded a plan of borrowing $1,000,000 for the state highway department maintenance division, and getting another $1,000,000 in federal aid. He proposed spending this money in labor and grading on state roads in southern Indiana, thus giving employment to men and teams from the burned out farms. Governor Leslie wrote to Ogden for an opinion in the matter, which was delivered today. Delegations Arrive Early Southern Indiana delegations arrived at the Governor’s office early today to report on the pitiable plight of their communities. Former Mayor Marcus Sulzer of Madison, accompanied by Joseph Cooper, former Jefferson county prosecutor, and Harry Nichols, Republican candidate for state treasurer, came to urge a special legislative session, if the Ogden opinion can not be circmnvented. A delegation from Martin county, headed by Guy C. Hanna and J. A. Wood, county agricultural agent, came to indorse the highway labor plan. It would absorb the people who are apt to become public charges if State Road 45 is prepared for construction at this time, they said. die Army Cadets Are Killed in Mid-Air Crash. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 18— Donad Dewitt Campbell and Robert Lee Scott. Kelly field cadets, were killed at noon today near Van Ormy, when their planes collided dff 1,500 feet and crashed to earth.

TOY GOLF CHAMPS TO PLAY TONIGHT

First round match play in The Times, city-wide toy golf tournament is scheduled tonight at eight courses with eight men and eight women competing in eighteen-hole matches. All first round matches will be played at 8 and all contestants are urged to make every effort to report to the manager of their match course a few minutes before the hour. In event of each winning an equal number of holes at the end of eighteen, extra holes will be played until one contestant gains a hole advantage. Complete title brackets and other tourney news may be found on page 7. Opponents and courses for women's fight matahes: Miss Virginia. Quigg vs. Miss

Plot to Slay Governor Laid to Booze War

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Control of Rum Traffic on Florida East Coast Is Believed Motive. Bu United Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Aug. 18. —Desire to gain control of gambling business and liquor traffic on the Florida east coast was ascribed today by Sheriff W. B. Cahoor. as the motive for an alleged conspiracy to assassinate Governor Doyle E. Carlton of Florida. Three men, charged with conspiracy against the life of the chief executive, were arraigned today. Their bonds were set at SSOO. They are Fred O. Eberhardt, Tallahassee publisher and long a foe of Carlton; Frank Rawls, Jacksonville, a former convict, and Henry Halseman, Jacksonville, professional bondsman, also held on a charge of violating the prohibition law. Forty gallons of liquor and a still weer found in Halseman’s home at the time of his arrest. THREE BURN TO DEATH IN CAR Vacation Party Hits Tree; Driver Believed Asleep. Bu United Press VEEDERSBURG, Ind., Aug. 18Three persons were burned to death four miles south of here today when their automobile left the pavement and caught fire after crashing into a tree. The dead are: Julia Eckhart, 16, of Buck Creek: Opal Heimback, 18, Frankfort, and Blaze Metzger, 20, Lafayette. Truman Cline, another occupant of the auto, was seriously injured and was removed to the Crawfordsville hospital where it was believed amputation of both legs may be necessary. The party was returning from a vacation spent in Nashville, Tenn., and authorities expressed the belief that Metzger, driver of the car, fell asleep at the wheel. The bodies were burned almost beyond recognition. QUAKE TOLLjS 1,475 Deaths in Italian Disaster Counted Officially. Bu United Press , ROME, Aug. 18—The total death roll in the recent earthquake in Italy was 1,475, the official bulletin of the Fascist party said today. Wife Alleges Bootlegging GARY, Ind., Aug. 18—Mrs. Mabel Smith, seeking a divorce from John B. Smith, alleges he was engaged in the liquor traffic and that it brought undesirable persons to their home. She asks SI,OOO alimony. The couple was married less than a year ago.

Jeanne Schlosser, Plaza course, j Michigan and Pennsylvania street*. Mrs. Flora Kinder vs. Miss Louise Leonard, Putt-a-Round course, 3345 Madison avenue. Mrs. Myrtle Banta vs. Miss Rosalind Pugh, Fairway Velvet Greens, Southern and Madison avenues. Mis Mary Jane Meyers vs. Miss Florence Brown, Tom Thumb, Fifty-sixth and Illinois streets. Men’s flight pairings and courses: W. A. Baker vs. Morris Mclntyre, Original Tom Thumb. Thirtieth street and Kessler boulevard. G. Abbott and John Maloney, Fairground course. Thirty-eighth street and Fall creek. Theodore Siener vs. Gilbert Malone, Mapleton course, Thirty-eighth and Illinois streets. Ted Wolf vs. Burke Whittaker. Ten-Em course, Tenth street and Emerson avenue.

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RAID MADE ON WAWASEE INN FOR GAMBLING Fifty Rich Patrons Look On as Officers Remove Devices From Resort. OPERATING FOUR YEARS Swoop Follows Protests of Sheriff That County Was Clean. Bt* Timm Special LAKE WAWASEE, Ind.. Aug. 18. —After four years of alleged wideopen operation, extensive gambling in the Wawasee Inn, exclusive summer resort, was said to have been uncovered in a raid by police of Warsaw, Bourbon and Milford, shortly after midnight. More than fifty wealthy patrons of the Wawasee Inn lined the walls of the casino, noted as the Monte Carlo of the middle west's popular playground, while raiders dumped six complete roulette wheels, Chuckaluck and other gambling equipment on the terrace facing the lake in front of the hotel. Many of the patrons will be forced to appear as witnesses against the proprietor of the hotel, Bernard CunifT, president of E. G. Spink & Company, Indianapolis. When in Indianapolis, Cuniff and Mrs. Cuniff live at the Spink-Arms. Raid Over Sheriff’s Protest Unfolding of a story by members of the raiding party in which county officials may be charged with accepting “hush money" to allow the casino to operate, was expected this afternoon. The equipment, whose operations allegedly have been responsible for exchange of many thousands of dollars since the inn was opened late in the summer of 1926, was loaded on two trucks and taken to tha Kosciusko county jail, at Warsaw, where it was placed in custody of the sheriff. The raid was led by Justice Norman Groves, Milford; Prosecutor George Bowers, and Constable Bert Mabie, Syricuse, over protests of Sheriff Frank McKrill that there was no gambling in the county. The step was looked upon by residents of Wawasee and other lake resorts comprising most of the county’s summer population, as a victory for forces of Billy Sunday, noted evangelist, with headquarters at Winona Lake, Ind., near Warsaw. Condemned by Billy Sunday For years the Wawasee amusement and recreation resorts have been condemned by the evangelist, always with the backing of Constable Mabie, but with little success. Despite his attempts to close them, motion picture theaters, dancing pavilions and the Wawasee inn, scene of many conventions, operated without restraint. Constable Mabie declared he had made a previous attempt to raid the inn, but was delayed because he was unable to obtain aid of other law enforcement officers. The first search was made June 28. The second warrant was issued Aug. 7. In the casino of the inn, which opened with the hotel in 1926, as much as $15,000 has been lost in a single night’s phy by one guest, witnesses have declared. No City Address Given The inn catered only to wealthy patrons, chiefly from Chicago, Indianapolis, Toledo and Detroit. Among the fifty guests were men who gave names and addresses: H. E. Burke, 756 North Meridian street: Seymour Seegel, 127 Campbell street, and Samuel Abel, 444 North Capitol avenue, all of Indianapolis. City directory lists no H. E. Burke and no 756 North Meridian street, site of the Hotel Antlers. There is no 127 Campbell street, according to the directory, and 444 North Capitol avenue is given as the address of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation. FORMER LEGION CHIEF LASHES AT BROOKHART Recent Charges of “Drunken Revels’* Stir McNidcr's Wrath. Bu United Press CINCINNATI, O, Aug. 18—Recent charges attributed to United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart of lowa that all American Legion conventions are "drunken revels,” came under the fire of Hanford McNider, former National Legion commander and United States minister to Canada, in an address before the Ohio department convention here today. “The American Legion," McNider said, “is one organizationa that has the right, if any has, to dictate its own behavior. I have attended many conventions and American Legion conventions are better behaved than three-fourths of the meetings which have nothing to celebrate.” DOG DIES ON GRAVE Mongrel Refused to Leave Cemetery Where Mistress Was Buried. Bu United Press MARLBORO, Mass., Aug. 18—A yellow mongrel dog was found dead today on the grave of its mistress, Mrs. Alfred W. Strange. The dog steadfastly had refused to leave the grave in Maplewood cemetery since the owner's body was buried ten I days ago. Hourly Temperature 6a. m 60 10 a. m...,. 71 7a. m 62 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 64 12 noon— W 9a. m 67 Ip. m 73

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