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COX QUITS IN JURY QUIZ OF VOTEFRAUDS Special Prosecutor Blames Council Fund Denial for Resignation. THREE CASES QUASHED Stark Drpps Charge Against All but One of Four Officials. Earl R. Cox resigned today as special prosecutor in the grand jury probe of corruption In the primary election. Blaming the county council and a political faction for failure to provide funds for carrying on the probe, Cox, a Democratic attorney, submitted his resignation to Criminal Judge James A. Collins who appointed him. Cox served in the grand jury chambers diH'ing June and July after Prosecutor Judson L. Stark had been unseated by the jury- It is known Cox has not been before the grand jury since it convened last week after summer vacation. Waits Decision on Pay “The council does not desire a thorough and adequate investigation of alleged illegal voting of the primary, or it is wholly uninformed as to the method and manner whereby competent investigations are conducted,” Cox declared in a statement setting forth reasons for his resignation. “In view of this attitude of the council and the apathy and indifference on the part of the general public toward such an investigation, I do not feel anything can be accomplished by continuing this investigation.” At a hearing before Judge Collins Monday decision will be made on what pay Cox is to receive for work he has done in the probe.

Refused Fund Request Blame on the council hinged around their refusal to grant a request of the jury and Cox for $5,000 to continue the probe to an end. Without these funds the investigation could not be completed, Cox said in his resignation. When the January grand jury was discharged in June after a six weeks’ probe of election conditions, it reported to Collins that corruption, fraud and deceit dominated the primary election. The jury returned no indictments. The succeeding grand jury was charged with finishing the probe, and was in session two weeks before the summer vacation. Tire grand jurors were reported reliably as believing the probe should be dropped. Succeeding grand jurors were criticised for “passing the buck,” it was reported. Probe May Be Dropped Whether Collins will demand continuation of the probe and appoint another special prosecutor was not made known today. It was said, however, the investigation may be dropped with blame placed upon the Coffin G. O. P. group. On the heels of Cox’s resignation, Prosecutor Stark nolle prossed action against three of four poll officials charged with violation of officials’ duties. They were: E. W. Hoover, J. D. Andrews and M. C. Lyons. ... . John L. Bienz. 3425 North Illinois street, is the only member of the quartet to be prosecuted, and anew affidavit was filed against him on similar charges. Stark ?aid there was insufficient evidence to convict the others. MISSING JURIST LAST SEEN AT NIGHT CLUB Supreme Court Justice Reported to Have Visited Chorus Girl. Bu United Press . NEW YORK. Sept. 9. Arkie Schwartz, proprietor of the Club Abbey, a midtown night club, today reported that Supreme Court Justice Joseph F. Crater visited his club early on the morning of Aug. 7, a day after he was seen last by friends. Schwartz said Justice Crater came to the club shortly after midnight and stayed until 3 a. m. During his stay, he conversed with Elaine Dawn, one of the chorus girls. Schwartz said there was nothing unusual about the jurist’s appearance or his spending.

NO PARKING ABANDONED Sixteenth Now Is Restricted Only In One Block. No parking regulations in Sixteenth street have been abandoned with the exception of the area between Talbott and Pennsylvania streets, Police Chief Kinney said today. Withdrawal of the regulations followed word from the safety committee of the city council that an ordinance governing the street is being prepared. DR. FISHBEIN RECOVERS Noted Doctor Injured In Auto Crash in Kansas City. B (' l nitrd Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Sept. 9. Dr. Morris Fishbein of Chicago, editor of the American Medical Association Journal, said today that he felt completely recovered from effects of a dislocated back and slight concussion suffered in an auto accident Saturday. Dr. Fishbein writes the daily health Times. He

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Al Capone Combines With Rivals to Control Chicago Rackets

(Copyright, 1930, by United Press) CHICAGO, Sept. 9.—Scarface A1 calpone has taken his former rivals into partnership with himself in a giant co-operative organization to control the beer, vice and gambling industries in Chicago and Cook county. It was learned today that this is the gang chief’s plan to put beer running and illegal resorts back on a paying basis. At the same time Capone hopes to eliminate the many gang murders which have concentrated

Five Are Killed in Locomotive Blast PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 9.—Five persons were killed and eleven injured when a switch engine of the Reading railroad exploded in the company’s yard here bafore noon today. The dead: John Bimiler, foreman; Fred C. Spangler, engineman; John Kelly, inspector; Crawford Dunseath, assistant road foreman, and James P. Smith, shop man. The engine was known as a “pusher” used in shunting freight cars on the Neshaminy Falls and Ewing division.

BUENOS AIRES IS QUIET AFTER RIOT

Irigoyen Plotters Blamed for Terror Reign by Revolutionists. BY WILLIAM FOLGER United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1930. by United Press) BUENOS AIRES, (8 A. M. Tuesday), Sept. 9.—The government issued orders today for stem action to prevent recurrence of street fighting that broke out Monday night immediately after the inauguration of the revolutionary government headed by General Jose E. Uriburu. The city was quiet at this hour. Celebration of ceremonies installing the new government was turned into a “reign of terror” by the well-timed plot of a small group apparently in sympathy with the deposed President Hipolito Irigoyen, and by confusion that caused forces supporting the new administration to believe erroneously for a few hours that a counter-revolution had been started. Ban Gun-carrying The government ordered the arrest of former President Irigoyen and other leaders of the fallen regime, including the former VicePresident Enrique Martinez and all ministers of the Irigoyen cabinet. They were blamed for plotting to spread terror. A proclamation issued when the capital—dazed and apprehensive—calmed down today, warned that any citizen found carrying arms would be court-martialed. The plot that started the fighting, as described by government officials, began with telephone messages to the government house and police headquarters, saying a cavalry regiment had overpowered the forces at the military school. Officers began an investigation. Just then a battalion of infantry was seen marching toward the government house. Troops Open Fire A confused officer apparently mistook the troops for rebels against the new government en route to capture the government house. He ordered his men to open fire. The advancing troops returned the fire. Panic spread. The confusion increased and artillery at the lower side of the government house opened fire on the postoffice under the mistaken impression that an attack had been launched from that quarter. At the same time shooting began in other parts of the city by unidentified persons who apparently were carrying out a prearranged plot to terrorize the capital. For a time the confusion and fighting became severe. The most authoritative reports said seven persons had been killed and fifty others wounded before order was restored. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 54 10 a. m 70 7a. m 59 11 a. m 72 Ba. nv.... 63 12 (noon).. 75 9 a. m 65 1 p. m 75

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POVERTY and love—or riches and unhappiness? Pretty Celia Rogers, daughter of divorced parents, was faced with the perplexing problem of choosing between a life of poverty with her working mother and a life of luxury with her wealthy father. Celia’s mother, divorced from him, for many years, had flgrked as a.seamstress to put her daughter

unwanted attention on his operations. Police activity resulting from the murder of Alfred J. Lingle, Chicago Tribune reporter, and the expose of the slain Jack Zuta’s connections with public men, has cauesd an alarming depression in gang revenue. Returning from summer resort communities where they usually operate during the hot weather, gang leaders found Chicago all but closed.

Percy Hauls Own Baggage Bu Times ftneclal WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Sept. 9. —“A penny saved is a penny earned.” That’s how Percy Grainger, the noted

pianist, looks at things these days. Drowsy neighbors of Grainger, seated on their porches, w-ere startled Monday when Percy came trudging down the road with a wheelbarrow.

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Grainger was minus coat, hat and necktie and coolly explained that he was going to the railroad station to get his baggage. He just had returned home from a vacation at Malden, N. Y„ with Courtney Bigelow, writer.

NEW HURRICANE ROUSESJEARS Santo Domingo Relief Is Speeded by Red Cross. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Further word on the progress of the season’s third tropical hurricane was awaited by the United States weather bureau today, no reports having been received from the vicinity of the disturbance since Monday. The following storm warning was issued by the bureau at 9 o’clock Monday night. “No reports from vicinity of tropical disturbance which is probably moving west-northwestward over Caribbean south of island of Haiti. Caution advised vessels near path.” Relief Work Speeded Bu United Press SANTO DOMINGO, Sept. 9.—Tire work of relief for thousands of sufferers in the Santo Domingo hurricane was speeded today by officials of the American Red Cross. The capital is faced by pestilence. Restoration forces repaired the electric system over a small section Monday night and lights were available for the first time since the hurricane. Tile death toll continued to increase. it was certain that more than 2,000 were killed, officials said, and the total probably will pass 2,500 soon. About 14,000 were injured, but only some 3,000 of them seriously.

Then her father, whom Celia had not seen since babyhood, returned to claim her. Mrs. Rogers agreed it was best she should go with him. But Celia—well, read for yourself what happens to her in “Heart Hungry,” a startlingly unusual story of life and love, heartache and happiness, beginning Friday in The Indianapolis Times.

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New police captains were on duty in many wards. Peace officers had become difficult to deal with. Capone’s answer was to complete an “all for A1 and A1 for all” organization which he has had in mind ever since his release from jail in Philadelphia last spring. Capone himself will remain far enough in the background to be safe. Most of the actual work will be

BONDSMEN ARE ORDEREO AWAY FROM COURTS Point-Blank Edict Issued by Judges Wetter and Cameron. Professional bondsmen must confine their activities to their offices, many of which face police headquarters on South Alabama street, two municipal judges informed them Monday. Addressing more than a dozen bondsmen in municipal court three late Monday, Judges Clifton R. Cameron and Paul C. Wetter declared they would not permit them to loiter in corridors adjoining criminal and municipal courts. In January, Governor Harry G. Leslie changed Judge Cameron and Wetter to the civil division of city courts, placing Judges Thomas E. Garvin and Dan V. White on the criminal benches, with orders to rid the courts of bondsmen-attorney combinations that had been called to the Governor’s attention. Since Judges Cameron and Wetter returned to the criminal courts last spring, bondsmen and lawyers gradually have returned to their former habits, it has been rumored. Given Direct Orders Judge Cameron first spoke to the bondsmen, admonishing them to stay away from corridors near his court, explaining that while he wished to impose no hardships he wanted them to play square. Judge Wetter talked more directly than his colleague. “The time has come for drastic action. There w T ill be no loafing in halls around my court," he declared. “You have offices. Use them. From now on, tax receipts will not be honored when a bond is signed. Either bring in the deed to your property or furnish cash bond.” “Let your presence at this meeting be made known by your absence around this building, starting Tuesday. If you fail to obey these orders you won’t be allowed to sign bonds.” Wetter Amplifies Orders Judge Wetter said he would investigate a report of another lawyerbondsman combination, and indicated lawyers who frequent police headquarters will receive a similar lecture from the judges later this week. Today Judge Wetter amplified his orders, with a statement that in the future no money will be paid a bondsman or lawyer by a prisoner under arrest, except on written order of the prisoner, approved by the judge. MERCURY TO TAKE RISE Warmer Weather and Possibly Showers Predicted by Bureau. Higher temperatures were promised on the heels of a cold snap early today in the United States weather bureau’s daily forecast. At 6 a. m. the thermometer stood at 54 degrees, but began to rise later this morning. Tonight will be somewhat warmer, and may bring showers, the forecast stated. costF’fues to n. y. Reaches Roosevelt Field With Mate After Washington Hop. Bu United Press VALLEY STREAM, N. Y., Sept. 9.—Dieudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte landed their veteran transAtlantic sesquiplane Question Mark at Roosevelt field at 1:45 p- m. today after a flight from Washington.

done by a “cabinet” of department heads made up in the main of -Capone’s former enemies. He will live at his brother’s home in Cicero and spend only a small amount of time at his Lexington hotel headquarters in Chicago. As tentatively selected the cabinet will include: Secretaries of beer: Manufacturing, Joe Saltis; delivery, Klondike O'Donnell. Both of these men have been notorious Capone enemies in the

'Makeup'Art Used on Campus

Lipsticks and compacts were traded for hoes and rakes today as Technical high school’s campus beauties inaugurated a “Beautiful Campus” campaign. Custodians decided the fair ones knew a few things about “make-

PONDER ACTION ON SCHROEDER Grand Jury Asked to Vote Murder, Arson Bills. With testimony of all witnesses heard, the Marion county grand jury today began deliberating the case of Harold Herbert Schroeder, central figure in the High School road torch murder mystery, for which Prosecutor Judson L. Stark is asking an indictment charing Schroeder with murder. While the Mobile (Ala.) business man nears his hundredth day as a prisoner at the county jail, the grand jury began weighing of testimony of seven witnesses heard Monday morning and afternoon. Evidence heard Monday is said to have accused Schroeder as the man who on the night of May 31 set fire to a large sedan in a secluded spot on the High School road without- removing the body of an unidentified man who apparently was stabbed to death before flames seared the corpse beyond recognition. *

Stark is asking a second indictment charging Schroeder with arson. Witnesses heard by the grand jury included Jack Allen Clayton and Miss Ruby Blue, 715 North Delaware street, who are said to have hauled a hitchiker to the city from the neighborhood of the burning car on the night of the fire; Sheriff George L. Winkler; Detectives P. O. Stump, Fred Fouts, said to have conversed with Schroeder at the Memorial day speedway races, and Deputy Coroner Lawrence A. Lewis, who performed an autopsy on the body of the man found in Schroeder’s auto. WARNS ON EPIDEMIC State Health Chief Cites Danger of Infantile Parlysis. Danger of epidemic of infantile paralysis and steps to be taken to prevent its spread, are cited in a special bulletin sent to all city and comity health officials today by Dr. William F. King, director of the state health department. So far Marion county is free, he declared. ASKS DRY LAW REPEAL Ohio Congress Candidate Declares Enforcement Is Failure. Bu United Press AKRON, 0., Sept. 9.—Don W. Harter, former United States commissioner at Cleveland, today asked for the repeal of the eighteenth amendment in his campaign to win the election as congressman from the Fourteenth district. Harter, a Democrat, declared “the constitutional amendment add the various enforcement acts have failed of ,their purpose and will continued to fall.” - ]

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past. Saltis has been dominant on the south side and O’Donnell on the west side. Their activities have been confined largely to beer running. Secretaries of war: Ted Newberry and Jack McGurn. Newberry until recently has been identified with the northside Zuta-Moran gang, now practically defunct. McGurn has been known as a Capone gunman for years. Secretary of gambling: Ralph Capone, brother of Al. Ralph

up” even though it was on the campus lawn. Upper left photo, Miss Louise Crouch found a flower bed with a crusty tojs. Custodian David Ryker had a good laugh and rest as well when Louise Harshman (upper right), turned ditch-digger. Flowerbeds

American at 50 Is Good as Dead, Surgeon Claims Bu United Press NICE, France, Sept. 9—Doctor Serge Voronoff, monkey-gland surgeon, returned to his monkey-farm today from a world tour, from

which the most striking impression he has gleaned is that Americans “die” at the age of 50. “They do not die in the sense that life is extinct,” Dr. Voronoff said, “but they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. “It is due to the

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pace, the tempo of life in America; the price the American must pay for being ultra-modem.” GET $30,000 IN HOLDUP Bandits Rob Ottumwa da.) Savings Bank, Flee With Cash. Bn United Press OTTUMWA, la., Sept. 9.—The Ottumwa Savings bank was held up today by robbers who escaped with approximately $30,000.

‘MA’ KINNEY’S TEARS WIN; SHE KEEPS NEWS CORNER

Trembling and sobbing, Mrs. Pauline (Ma) Kinney, 72, of 1302 Le Grande avenue, news vender, today won a battle for her livelihood before the board of safety. Mrs. Kinney, who runs a stand in front of the Circle Tower building on Market street, had been threatened with removal. Although she admitted she hud no license or permit to operate the stand, she said police officers told her to move her stand across the street when the Tower building was started, and that she could return to her corner when it was completed. “The police said, ‘Mother, you wait ’til the building's done and then you

‘CAT’S MEOW’ RELIEVES TENNANT OF PAYING RENT

The McCormicks refused to pay their rent. The reason is the cat’s meow. At least, this is what Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin heard when Mr. and Mrs. James L. Beatty complained that Mrs. J. Russell McCormick wouldn’t pey. k Defending herself, Mrs. McCorluck told Judge Garvin today that Acturnal cat's meows in the base-

owns the “Ship,” famous Cicero gambling resort, and is familiar with the so-called slot-machine racket. Secretaries of vice: Jack Guzick and Hymie Levine. Maintaining disorderly houses under Capone’s regime will not require a change of occupation for either of these. Many cf Capone’s former enemies have been killed or so harrassed by the police that they have left town. Others are being assigned minor although lucrative roles in the new- organization.

took on anew hue when visited by Miss Beatrice Roehm’s schoolday smile, and (lower right photo) these would-be mowers, Misses Betty Belk, Marthabelle Bond and June Blythe, didn’t turn out such bad barbers after all.

U. S. HOSPITAL SITE SELECTED Inspector Will Recommend Tract on White River. Twenty-five-acre tract overlooking White river and adjoining Municipal Gardens will be recommended to the federal hospitalization board next week as the site for the Indianapolis United States veterans’ bureau hospital. Colonel L. H. Tripp, construction chief of the bureau, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and city officials today visited three sites proposed for the $500,000 institution. Tripp said he would present the river site as the most satisfactory of the three. The hospital, construction of which is to start next year, was to have 150 beds, but government officals now are contemplating a 500-bed institution. PERFUMES ARE STOLEN Burglars Rifle Firm Quarters, Take $l5O Worth of Goods. City detectives tuned their nostrils to the sweet scent of perfume today in an effort to apprehend the bold, bad burglars who rifled the Kingham Brothers Extract Company, 1301 Barth avenue, of $l5O worth of perfumes Monday night.

can come back,’ ” she told the board. “I’m back and I want to stay. I couldn’t make any money on that other corner. When my husband, William, and I started in business three years ago, we didn’t have shoes on our feet.” She told the board the city gave her the property where she resides in settlement for damages to another piece of property and she is buying another house. Tenants of the Tower building signed a petition favoring location of the stand on Market street at the Circle. The board held a ruling in abeyance and told “Ma” Kinney to go back to her stand.

me t of her apartment at 219 East Seventeenth street were “simply unbearable.” “The howling continued all during the night—continuous meowing, snarling, whining. It made sleep impossible,” Mrs. McCormick testified. Judge Garvin ruled against Mr. and Mrs. Beatty, proprietors, and instructed Mrs. McCormick need not wonjr further About bUL

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FIGHT TO SAVE DIVER TRAPPED FOR 24H0URS Man, 63, Wedged Between Pilings, 22 Feet From Surface of Canal. 600 BATTLE CURRENT New Orleans Rescuers Try Desperately to Build Temporary Dam. Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.—Captain Nick Danese, dived, trapped for twenty-six hours under the swirling current of a suburban canal, was rescued today at 1 p. m. Bu United Press NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.—Six hundred rescuers battled today to stem the current of a suburban canal, which was crushing N. A. Danese, elderly diver, trapped twenty-two feet below the surface. A faint tug at a life line told rescuers that Danese still is alive, after more than twenty-four hours in the current’s grip, wedged between pilings of a pumping station. The one chance that the 63-year-old diver’s life might be saved seemed to hinge on whether a pile driver could sink pilings in a temporary dam fast enough to stem the current in the next few hours. Toil Through Night Rescuers toiled during the night under the glare of torches and continue their battle through the day. A barge sunk as a basis for the dam, failed materially to lessen the current’s force. Danese w-ent below at 10:30 a. m. Monday in an effort to repair a leak in sheet piling through which Water was seeping into the pumping station.

“I’ll be up for dinner,” he said as he waved good-by to his son, who was holding the surface end of the life line. He previously had made four trips below the surface. The job was nearly done. Sons Stay on Scene A minute later young Danese, balancing precariously in a small skiff, nearly was thrown into the water by a sudden pull. Then came five tugs, the distress signal. Danese, his body battered against the piling, was calling for more air. “He has on only a helmet,” young Danese said. “He does not wear a complete suit, and the force of the current is beating him against the piling.” The diver's two sons have not left the scene since their father sank. Although unable to help himself in any way, Danese signaled from time to time through a second line sent to him down the air hose. Signals Become Fewer Cheerily and often at first he told the waiting men above, “All's well.” But today the signals were fewer. A marker and slate were lowered to him. When they were hoisted to the surface the slate held the one word, barely distinguishable, “Time.” It was eight o'clock. Danese has one gnarled finger on his left hand. The rest were crushed in a former battle with currents. That one finger is curved around the guide bne.

THREATENS RIDE FOR CAR CASE DODGERS Judge Wetter Warns Traffic Violators Who Fail to Appear. Persons charged with traffic violations, released on their own recognizance, who fail to appear before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter, may ride to court in a police patrol car, the judge intimated today. He said he will furnish Police Chief Jerry E. Kinney with lists of those failing to appear at dates set for their trials, and will request the chief to bring them in immediately. Several alleged violators daily fail to show up in court, Judge Wetter declared. LICENSE RADIO STATION 50,000 Watt “Voice of St. Louis” Is Given Federal Permit. Bn United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 9. —The federal radio commission today granted a license for the operation of the 50,000 watt station of the “Voice of St. Louis” KMOX-KFQUA at St. Louis. The station will operate without limit on a 1,090 kilocycle wave length.

School News Again The Times will take the lead in informing its readers of school activities in Indianapolis and Marion county,' with a special page each week. The first school page will be published Wednesday. Pupils, teachers and principals can obtain space for their school news by informing The Times’ school editor in time for publication on Wednesday of each week. This popular feature is printed with a view of bringing closer co-operation between parents and the schools.

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