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LOOT SMALL, ANGRY BANDIT KILLS VICTIM Shoots Store Owner Who Is Lying, Face Down, on Floor. / * DIES IN BRIDE’S ARMS Holdup Man Peeved by Failure to Find More Money. i, u f nitrd Prrts CHICAGO, Sept. 11. —A bandit who became angry because his victim had only S4O, shot and killed Willis Fiddelke, 25, as Fiddelke lay face downward upon the floor of his drug store waiting for the bandit and a companion to complete their work. The holdup men entered Fiddelke's store late Wednesday night, held up Fiddelke; William Mehl, a clerk, and John F. Wolf, a customer. While one bandit searched for money, the other forced the three victims into a back room and made them lie down, the owner between the two other men. "You’ve got more money, where is it?” the guard demanded of Fiddelke after learning there was only S4O in the cash register. "Honest, I haven’t,” Fiddelkeanswered. The bandit then stooped over the three men, placed his revolver against the back of Fiddelke's head and pulled the trigger. Fiddelke died a few minutes later in the arms of his bride of eleven months, who lives near the store and was called after the bandits escaped. WOMAN FILES SUIT FOR $25,000 DAMAGES City and Construction Company Are Defendants in Case. Mrs. Helen Ragsdale, 430* Massachusetts avenue, filed suit today in circuit court for $25,000 damages against the city and a construction company for permanent injuries allegedly received in a fall on the sidewalk near her home. Charging the J. N. Morgan & Sons Construction Company with negligence, Mrs. Ragsdale alleges she .slipped on a cement block Dec. 6, 1929, when Massachusetts avenue was being widened from Delaware to Alabama streets.

SCREEN DOOR SAVES BURGLAR FROM SHOT Watchman Fires at Intruder; Finds Bullet Lodged in Frame. One Indianapolis burglar can continue his night time activities—all because a screen door saved his life early today. William Simpson, night watchman of the Indianapolis Toilet and Apron Supply Company, told police he heard a noise at the door of the plant. He said a man was working a jimmy on the door. The watchman said he sneaked to the door and fired at close range through the glass. The burglar fled. The bullet was found lodged in the frame of the screen. JUNIOR CLUB FORMED BY CITY DEMOCRATS Organization Is Assigned Room at New County Headquarters. Formation of the Junior Democratic Club, an organization of first voters and young Democrats, was announced today by Gerritt M. Bates, named chairman of the organization by H. Nathan Swaim, Democratic county chairman. The club was assigned a room at the new county headquarters, 305 State Life building, and Bates appointed the following executive committee: Clyde C. Karrer, Walter Houppert, Russell J. Dean, Robert Cunningham. Charles C. Cain, James A. Watson, Thomas O'Connor, Andrew Jacobs, Jacob Weiss, Rex Poe, Ernest Frick, Joe Shotwell, Nish Dienhart and Charles E. Walker. GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE 19-Year-Old Negro Pleads Guilty to Second-Degree Murder. Pleading guilty to second-degree murder at the start of hie criminal court jury trial today, John Gasby, 19, Negro, was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Indiana state prison. He admitted shooting Josiah Simpson, 2208 Broadway, June 2, during a domestic quarrel. Deputy Prosecutor William R. Ringer was in charge of the state's case. MOSES TO TOUR WEST Informs Hoover of “High Powered Political Listening” Trip. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept, 11.—Chairman George Moses of the Republican senatorial campaign committee called at the White House today to tell the President he is going west to “do some high-powered political listening.” Moses will visit Illinois. North Dakota, Colorado. Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming, he said. SEVEN FILIPINOS KILLED Die When Southern Pacific Train Hits Car at Crossing. r SAlSfflXsTcal.. Sept. 11.—Seven Filipino* were killed today when their automobile was struck on a grade crossing near here by a Southern Pacific train.

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PASTOR'S WIFE NO. 4 QUITS HIM Charges He Spent Her Coin for Deceased Mates. Charging her husband, the Rev. Joseph L. Sharitt, 76. Chicago, with forging a check in her name to pay for tombstones on the graves of two former wives, Mrs. Mary L. Sharitt, 51, 1716 Broadway, today was given a divorce by Superior Judge Joseph M. Milner. As Mr. Sharitt’s fourth wife, Mrs. Sharitt complained to Milner today that her husband, among other things, slept alone in the basement; failed to disclose that he was married thrice before, and that he attempted to "poison us both.” Her allegations were uncontested. Judge Milner told Mrs. Sharitt he remembered her husband. "I gave him a divorce from his third wife back in 1927,” Milner said. "He introduced in evidence a basket of dishes his wife had thrown at him,” Milner added.

LEOPOLD, LOEB END SIX YEARS IN PRISON Bobby Franks Killers at Another Milestone in Life Term Sentences. By United Press JOLIET, 111.. Sept. 11,—A bit haggard in appearance, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, slayers of Bobby Franks, today completed six years of their life imprisonment sentences. The\slayers, imprisoned Sept. 11, 1524, are kept separated. Leopold, employed as a clerk in the office of the prison chaplain, maintains his “uppish” attitude and is not a favorite with his fellow prisoners, it is said. Loeb, the attaches says, has become popular with the other prisoners. ZEPPELIN BACK HOME Big Dirigible Returns to Germany After Flight to Moscow. 8 1/ United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany, Sept. 11.—The Graf Zeppelin returned today from a flight to Moscow, landing at 11:40 a. m. BRIDGE IS FINISHED Morris Street Opening Is Set for Saturday. Morris street bridge over White river is to be opened Saturday. The bridge was lengthened and rebuilt and will be followed by widening of the river channel as part of the flood prevention program. The structure was rebuilt at a cost of $398,000. Contract was let in August, 1928. PINNED UNDER AUTO Physician Spends All Night Crushed by Wreck. Bu I'mifed Prrst* SHELBYV'ILLE, Ind., Sept. 11.— Dr. C. H. Walters, Flat Rock, is recovering from the effects of lying pinned under his auto all night in a semi-conscious condition after his machine overturned when he was returning from a call on a patient. Dr. Walters lost control of the car due to drowsiness, it was thought, and the machine overturned, was completely demolished, and pinned him under the wreckage. Burglar Makes Escape Surprised leaving the apartment of Thomas R. Kackley, 3765 North Meridian street, Apartment 306. with a bundle of clothing and draperies. Tuesday night, a burglar covered his escape with a gun and left the bundle in a lower corridor.

Tire Buyers Find Prices Are Down PUNCTURES and blowcuts are irritating things. Every automobile owner has found this out. Moreover, they irritate .he pocketbook as well. This is why car owners breathed relief when dealers announced reductions in tires and tubes a few weeks ago. The price cut on tires and tubes has continued—they are selling at Dottom prices. Rubber is cheap. Yet there is no certainty as to continuance of low prices. It is as hard to determine as to know when a tire will go bad. We suggest that car owners stock up now. The time is good and prices are right. The Indianapolis Times

tered for a good will tour, conducted burial services today for ‘Old Man Business Depression,” his wife, “Old Lady Pessimism,” and his daughter, "Miss Fortune.” The ceremony took place as the party was rn route to Cape Charles. Regular coffins, and the usual ritual for burials at sea, were used. Governor John G. Pollard of Virginia officiated at the services. “Old Man Business Depression, Old Lady Pessimism and your unhappy daughter, Miss Fortune, the United States is no place for ycu,” the Governor said. "You never had any real justification to be anyhow. You lived upon mass timidity. "Old Man Hard Work, Lady Optimism and Little Jchnny Pay Roll have already engaged your apartments. "We accept your death-bed confession

VOLCANO BLAST PERILS ISLAND Cone of Mountain Blown Off in Eruption. Bu United Press MESSINA, Sicily, Sept. 11.—The fitromboli volcano blew off its cone in a violent eruption today. Clouds of ashes and red hot stones fell in the surrounding districts causing fires The flow of lava invaded the district of San Bartolo, destroying vines and crops. A strong earthquake was felt simultaneously with the eruption at Lipari, the island penal colony, which asked for relief from Messina. A torpedo destroyer left here for Lipari, carrying the vice-prefect and a squad of firemen with supplies. One person was known to be killed and a number injured. Stromboli is a # volcanic island in the Lipari group off the northern coast of and that rises some 3,000 feet above the sea. The crater, on the northwest slope of the island, has been active almost continuously for hundreds of years. The population of the island is several thousands.

Rickenbacker Loops-Asleep By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Captain Eddie Rickenbacker attributes to sleep walking what war service against German aviators and the perils of automobile racing failed to make him and complete loop to a fall. “Since the war,” Rickenbacker said, ‘T’ve been addicted to sleep walking. Tuesday night I walked out a secondstory window and did a complete loop, landing in a courtyard twenty-five feet below.” Rickenbacker landed on his back and dislocated two vertebrae. The accident occurred at his home at Riverdale-on-Hudson.

HUSBAND KILLS SELF Salesman Tries tip Make Dp With Wife, Fails and Ends Life. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—George Harrison, prosperous machinery salesman, fired one shot at his estranged wife, missed, then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide, police decided today. They released his pretty wife, Josephine, who collapsed after telling them of Harrison’s attempts to make up, which she refused. NAMED FOR CANDIDATES Triplets Christened in Honor of Georgia Governor Aspirants. Bn T'nOrd Pre* DUBLIN Ga., Sept. 11.—Three of the five candidates for Governor, regardless of success or defeat at the polls today, will find their names recorded for the next generation. Three boys, born today to Mrs. Felton Lowery, were named George Carswell, Ed Rivers and Dick Russell, in honor of Mrs. Lowery's three favorite candidates. REED? ATTACKS BRiAND Former Senator Lashes League of Nations in Club Speech. Bu United Press _ , PARIS, Sept. 11.—James A. Reed, former senator from Missouri, attacked the League of Nations and the Briand European federation project today in a speech at the American Club. “The more we talk of organizations to preserve peace the more we put thoughts of danger into the hearts of the world,” Reed said.

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CONNECTICUT WET NAMED FOR GOVERNOR Democrats Pick Noted Educator, W. L. Cross, by Acclamation. DRY REPEAL IS ASKED Party Platform Backs V ; ews of Candidate, Dean Emeritus of Yale School. Bu United Press EASTERN POINT, Conn., Sept. 11.—Wilbur L. Cross of New Haven, noted educator and avowed “wet,” was nominated for Governor by acclamation by the Democratic state convention here today. Hailed in the nominating speech of Philip Troup, New Haven lawyer, as “more than a mere partisan candidate for Governor,” the dean emeritus of Yale graduate school was swept enthusiastically into the nomination on the first occasion on which he ever has run for public office. Dean Cross, in accepting the nomination announced his opposition to the eighteenth amendment and urged return of liquor control to the various states. The party platform, adopted without debate, urged “repeal of the eighteenth amendment; exclusion of the saloon and all other drinking places; and the vesting of control in the several states of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks and intoxicating beverages within their borders.”

RAVENSWOOD CLERK’S SUIT UP NEXT WEEK Grover Smith Seeks to Mandate Town Board’s Recognition. Ruling on the mandate suit of Grover Smith, Ravenswood, town clerk, involving his fight for official recognition by the town board, will be made some time next week by a special judge in the Hancock county circuit court, Greenfield, Indianapolis attorneys in the case said today. Smith’s election a year ago was disregarded by town board members, it is alleged, and another man was appointed in his place. Since filing the mandate action, Smith has refused to release town funds held in a bank, and the town has been without money to conduct its busings. JOE ROBINSON BOOSTED Predict Arkansas Senator Will Be 1932 Presidential Candidate. Bu United Press HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 11.— United States Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic vice-presi-dential candidate in 1928, will be the party’s presidential nominee in 1932, Harry L. Ponder predicted in his address as temporary chairman of the Democratic state convention today.

GIRL HURT IN JUMP Leaps From Window After Crossed Wires Flash. Startled by the flash when an electric stove short-circuited, Miss Laura Mae Williams, 19, leaped from a second-story window of her rooming house a, i2B West Vermont street, today. It was believed a sprained ankle was the girl’s only injury. Shp was taken to city hospital. 6 HURT IN CRASH interurban Cars in HeadOn Collision at Walton. i Bu United Press WALTON, Ind., Sept. 11.—Six persons were injured slightly when : two Indiana railroad interurban | cars crashed head-on here at 8 a. m. today. i Neither of the cars left the rails, 1 and both continued on their own ; power after the collision. Service on this line, the Logans-port-Kokomo division, will be discontinued Wednesday. The injured are: Miss Anna Rake, Walton, broken shoulder blade, cuts and bruises; Mrs. Fanny Devinney, Logansport, cuts and bruises; Mrs. Agnes Swaney, Logansport, daughter of Mrs. Devinney, cuts and bruises; Gladys Jones, Kokomo, bruises; Roy Snyder, Indianapolis, broken nose; Mrs. Mabel Fryer, Galveston, cuts and bruises. THAR’S MONEY IN PAPER! Rag and Iron Men Compute Annual Business at a Billion. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—America's biggest old rag, iron and paper men met in Chicago Wednesday and "issued figures computing their annual business at close to a billion dollars. Since the collection of waste paper has reached the big business class, representatives from thirty cities participated in organizing an association to make the nation “waste paper conscious,” to persuade citizens to save their bread wrappers and other such as val Able products. ’

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Upper Lest —Cornell Hewson, Earlham college graduate, who has been with the Columbia Conserve Company eight years. He is weighmaster. Upper Center—Packing boxes is no menial task for Miss Jean Bassett, Antioch college, Yellow Springs, 0., and Robert E. Davis, University of Tennessee. Upper Right—Morrison Handsaker, graduate of

Cast Your Vote on Home Runs The home run has divided baseball* followers into two camps. One of these factions deplores the increase of homerun hitting in the major leagues. They point out that even lefthanded pitchers have started pounding the ball over the fence, and that there are no more stirring pitchers’ battles. Another army of baseball followers takes glory in the increased number of home runs, These fans still hold the home run is a thrill, with just as much meaning now as when homers were as scarce as hen’s teeth and the scores of many ball games was 1-0. This division of opinion extends widely among the ranks of. the baseball writers and the players themselves. Even the presidents of the two major leagues are reported at odds. Prexy Barnard of the American League thinks too many home runs will hurt the game. John Heydler, head of the National League, declares the fans like to see plenty of hits, especially home runs. To find out just how the fans stand on the tremendous increase in home-run hitting The Times, co-operating nationally with NEA Service, is conducting a poll to find out what the majority thfnk about the homer. On the sport page today is printed a coupon. Cut it out, write down your opinion and send it in to Home Run Editor of The Times.

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Wet-Dry Battle Disturbs Ohio Republicans. Bit United Press COLUMBUS, 0.. Sept. 11.—Wetdry controversy promised to disturb and otherwise harmonious Republican state convention here today with announcement of George H. Bender, Cleveland congressional nominee, that he would demand that the state platform include a proposal for referendum on the Crabbe act, the Ohio prohibition law enforcement act and the Volstead act, the federal enforcement law. LASHtsTr G. 0. FHEAD Late Henry Cabot Lodge ‘Treated Like Pickpocket,’ Daughter Charges. By United Press BOSTON, Sept. 11.—Charges that her father, the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, had been “treated like a pickpocket” at the orders of William M. Butler, candidate for the Republican nomination for United States senator, were made by Mrs. Constance Williams of South Hamilton in a letter to Eben S. Draper, who is opposing Butler for thet nomination.

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Reed college, Portland, Ore., holding a crate of tomatoes. Below—On the can line (left to right) Russell Hatfield, Indiana Central college graduate; Eula McGowan, Brcokwood Labor college, Katonab, N. Y.; Edith Kowski, Brookwood graduate; Ethlyn Chrisi tensen, University of Wyoming graduate and Frank I Baldau, Antioch college student.

CATHEDRAL IS SUICIDE SCENE Tourist Leaps From Dome of St. Peter’s in Rome. Bu United Press VATICAN CITY, Sept, 11.—Marcello Nitrati, 33, Italian tourist, committed suicide today by jumping from the dome of St. Peter’s which towers 435 feet above the city. It was the first such suicide ever recorded, and the first suicide in the history of the new papal state. The suicide was witnessed by the custodian of the dome wjio found Nitrati hanging over a window ledge. Asked what he was doing, Nitrati replied “I am going away.” Then he jumped into space, his body hitting the side of the dome before it fell to a terrace below.

HARRIS EASY WINNER Scores Sweeping Victory in Georgian Senate Race. Bu United Press • ATLANTA, Sept. 11.—Senator William J. Harris, Democrat, seeking renomination in the Georgia primary election, today had Von a sweeping victory over his opponent for the senatorship, former Governor John M. Slaton. Incomplete returns from 147 of the 161 counties in the state, gave Harris 383 county unit votes, while Slaton had 4. Slaton was leading in only two counties. In the gubernatorial contest, incomplete returns gave George H. Carswell, 126 county unit votes; Richard B. Russell Jr. t 126 county unit votes; E. D. Rivers, •80 county unit votes; John N. Holder, 78 county unit votes, and James A. Percy, 4 county unit votes. ‘LITTLE TRAIN’ TO PITCH Walter Johnson Jr. to Hurl From Mound Where Dad Starred. By United Press . WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Walter Johnson Jr., completely recovered from the automobile accident in which both his legs were broken, is going to pitch a ball game in a few days from the same mound where his father starred for the senators. Young Johnson is to pitch for the Bethesda <Md.) Bearcats Saturday in a game at Griffith stadium. READY FOR PARIS HOP Captain Ammel Awaits Only Good Weather for Ocean Dash. Bu United Press ROOSEVELT FIELD. Sept. 11.— With favorable weather, Captain Ray W. Ammel of Chicago, plans to start his nonstop flight from New York to Paris or beyond, before the end of the week, he announced today.

Conserve Company’s Policy of Self-Government Fires Fancy. BY SHELDON KEY Molding thinkers out of workers and workers out of thinkers by mixing the classes in industry is not theory. It’s good business. Firm belief that education does not spoil the hand, that brains and brawn go together causes the Columbia Conserve Company of Indianapolis to garner its apostles of industrial democracy from every walk .of life. College graduates, inspired by socialized preachings of erudite professors, join the force of selfgoverned laborers each year. Applications from scores of others await openings. Extend No Privileges Workers control the business and extend privileges to none. Ther* are no financial lures; wages are on basis of needs. Yet, several college trained persons have joined the industry in a few months. They are attracted by the social experiment. They want to apply their textbook theories regarding equality of income, rights of each human being, old age pensions and such. Columbia Conserve is a melting pot for skilled and unskilled, educated and uneducated, and was started by William and Norman Hapgood twelve years ago out of a small inheritance. Interested in Sociology “Our experiment attracts a great many students interested in sociology, economics and social philosophy,” explained Jack Evans, personnel director. “We want students. Their minds are open—our theories stay with them. They are good workers,” declared Evans. In the factory workers are satisfied, distinctions are invisible. A democratic family of workers is making a financial success of textbook ideas. Students come from all parts of the country. They stir soup, stack cans and run machines. One Butler Student Among students hired this year one is from Indiana Central and one from Butler university, two are Purdue graduates, one is from the University of Wyoming, another from the University of Tennessee, four from Antioch college. Yellow Springs, 0., and one from Reed college, Portland, Ore. They are apostles of industryequality is their creed. Other students not in above photos are: Ardeth White and Mildred Whicker, Purdue university graduates; Vernon Beynon, Butler university and Leona Hall and Josephine Diehl, Antioch college. CORNBORER SPREADING Madison County Township Added to Infected Area. ! Richland township in Madison ! county was added to the corn borer infested area today, according to Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist. This makes the total infested area 310 townships in thMy-three counties. f

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BRIAND LASHES WAR IN FIERY PLEA Support Is Asked fop United Europe Plan at Geneva. BRITON BACKS PEACE Henderson Says England Wants Ban on Capital Ships by 1936. BY SAMUEL DASHIELL United Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Sept. 11.—The foreign ministers of two of Europe's great* est powers—Britain and France—* made stirring pleas before thflf League of Nations today for main* tenance of the future peace of Europe. Aristide Briand of Fiance urge<s support of his plan for a European federation and told the league assembly that only by means of such a union could peace be maintained on the continent. The British secretary. Arthur Henderson promised full support of his government for all peace measures “on the condition they lead to a general pact for reduction and limitation of all national armaments.” / “No More War Monsters’* “We hope before 1936 that agreements will be made by which no more of these monsters of war ever will be constructed,” Henderson said in referring to the London naval treaty limitations on building of capital ships. "We hope the council of the league will be able to call a great world disarmament conference next year. "My government will support all peace measures on the condition they lead to a general pact for reduction and limitation of all national armaments.”

Pays Tribute to Plan Henderson paid tribute to Briand’s Pan-Europa plan. “We hope it will lead to the most practical results which Briand hopes to obtain,” the British secretary, who has been considered cool to the project, said. “I hope that no final decision will be taken without’ the complete authority of tha League of Nations.” Henderson’s speech, like Briand’s appeal, was greeted with applausa by the crowded assembly hall. The British representative spoke for thirty-five minutes, his entire discourse being directed toward concentration of all the league’s efforts on world disarmament. Pleading in a fervent but commanding manner for the life of his Pan-Europa project, Briand told the crowded assembly hall that the “heritage of war” still bears on the continent. War Is Denounced He launched into a scathing denunciation of war and told the League of Nations .assembly delegates that :t would be “a lovers* fratricide, if with the peace organization of nations already in its eleventh year of existence, Europe could not find a pacific means of settling disputes.” “The nations always have problems,” he said, "but they must not always have war. Briand was in his best oratorical form as he brought his long-cher-ished project before the league delegates. He spoke in a gentle, persuasive voice when he referred to the hopes of European peace in the future, but clinched his fists and raised his booming voice when he brought up the danger of future wars.

GROCERY STORE IS ROBBED BY BANDITS One Holds Gun on Manager While Other Rifles Register. While a gunman held Arthur Ford, manager of a Standard grocery at Michigan and Agnes streets, at bay in a rear room late this morning, a companion rifled the cash register and fled with SSO. The gunman ran out a back door, and neighbors told police they watched him join his comrade in a green Chevrolet sedan, in which the pair escaped, driving north through an alley. Ford said the men entered the store together and ordered a cake. As he wrapped it, one man produced a gun, and levelled it at the mar* ager, ordering him into the storeroom. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 63 10 a. m 80 7a. m 65 11 a. m 82 Ba. m 71 12 (noon).. 82 9a. m 76 Ip. m 84

Shoots Blank Bert Parrott, police Bertillon expert, sheathed his head with a photographer’s black cloth early today and took a picture of a blank wall. While the officer’s vision was obscured by the cloth, Harold Harris, 17, Negro, 426 West Sixteenth street, subject o fthe Bertillon picture, dashed out of the room and down stairs leading to police headquarters door. In the stairway he was captured by Patrolman Warren Daly and returned to the Bertillon room under guard. Harris is charged with larceny.