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GRAND JURY TO HEAR EVIDENCE ON BRADFORD Narcotic, Charges Will Go Before New U. S, Quiz Group at South Bend, TIGHT-LIPPED ON CASE Federal Officers Refuse to Discuss Blasts at Reform Politician. Bu TrmH (pedal SOUTH BEND. Ind, Sept 15 Twenty-three men were chosen this morning to serve on the federal grand jury which this afternoon opened its fall Investigation of criminal matters in northern Indiana. Under questioning of Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick, the jury was selected from a panel of fifty. The selection moved smoothly upholding predictions that this session would set a record for speed and smoothness in the history of the local court, Twenty-three jurors were left after a number of others had been excused Waiting to testify Monday were several present and former police and federal officers, including Dr. M. E. Miner and Ward S. Powers, former deputy marshal in Lake county, now publishers of a weekly newspaper at Hammond: Irl Kidwell. former Gary policeman; Captain Edward Hill of the Lafayette police department and Detective Valentine Delinski of the South Bend force. Lafayette Quiz Seen The presence of a Lafayette police captain was taken as indicating that conditions in Lafayette and Tippecanoe county, subject of sensational charges of corruption by Indiana’s attorney-general, James S Ogden, would be studied by the Jury . . Alonzo Lehman, Warsaw, Ind . is foreman of the grand jury, which has the following 'members: An- a drew Alderson, Fowler, Ind.; John Becker, Rorchester, Ind., (Republican county chairman of Steuben county l, Estil Bemenderfer, Rochester, Mitchell Carothers, Plymouth. Charles E. Cline, Monroe; C. R Cummins, Hartford City; Clifford Good, Lake Cipott: Fred Haupt, West Lebanon; Homer Lyons, Ridgeville; Edward Moore, Rome City, Guy Orwig. Corunna; John D. Rusher, Huntington; Roy Savery, Plymouth; Frank O. Stuber, R. R. 6, South Bend; Charles Sattison, Larwill; George W. Seymour, Bourbon; S. E. Unrush, Valparaiso; Sylvester V. Wagner, Orland, and Harrs' D Louse, Markle. District Attorney Oliver M. Lcomis will be unable to stay with the grand jury until the end of its work He will be in charge of this week’s work, but Saturday is due in Washington for three weeks of consultation with department of justice attorneys and preparation of the'government's reply brief in the East. Chicago conspiracy appeal. Prepares for Appeal This case is an appeal taken by former Mayor Raleigh C. Hale and former Police Chief James Reagan of East Chicago from heavy prison terms and fines imposed upon them by Judge Slick for conspiracy to Violate the prohibition law's. Overshadowing in interest all the other cases on the calendar is that of Ralph B. Bradford, the “reformer" politician of Gary, w’ho was arrested a w'eek ago Saturday night on charges of conspiracy to violate the narcotics act. Bradford's arrest followed the seizure of a package of morphine by federal agents which was delivered at Bradford's office through the mails from New Orleans. Silent on Evidence Thus far the government has been tight lipped about its case against Bradford. Those intimate In court circles, however, expect development of scandal proportions when the jury returns its findings into the ramifications of the alleged narcotic conspiracy. Bradford has been In the limelight for years. Twice as the outspoken enemy of United States Senator James E. Watson. In the first case Bradford appeared before the Reed senatorial committee investigating klan activities in the state some years. He testified that the klan had received the active support of Republican factions supporting the senator. His second clash with the senator followed the federal grand jury session here last year SELECT EWALD PANEL Supreme Court to Probe Charge of Judgeship Purchase. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—A panel Os twenty-three jurymen was selected today in the first session of the special term of the supreme court ordered by Governor Roosevelt to investigate charges that former Magistrate Frank Ewald purchased his appointment to the bench. LEPER IS DISCOVERED Affliction of Connecticut Laborer Learned in Treating Cold. Bu United press WATERBURY. Conn., Sept 15 .A case of leprosy has been discovered here. The victim is an unnamed Italian laborer whose affliction was discovered when he went to a medical clinic for treatment of & cold. He has been isolated and a room-mate

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Cubs Score | Seven and Lead Phils Chicago 000 071 111—11 13 3 Philadelphia 104 000 061—12 18 0 Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 15. Staging a hurricane rally in the fifth inning of the first game of (heir twin bill with the Phillies today, the Cubs registered seven runs so overcome the early lead which the tailenders had piled up Woody j English smashed a homer during ' the wild session. i Blake and Benge were the startI ing flingers with Hartnett and Davis back of the platter. Manager Joe McCarthy shifted the Cubs’ lineup, sending Rogers Hornsby to second base and Cliff Heathoote to right field. The crowd numbered aboutj ! 12,000. The Phillies jumped into the lead in the first inning, when Thompson doubled off the right field fence and scored on Friberg's single. The Phillies added four more runs in the third- Thompson again started the rally with a short single to center and went to third on Friberg's single. Klein's sacrifice fly to Heathcote scored Thompson. Hurst and Whitney singled, scoring Friberg. English fumbled Davis’ grounder, filling the bases. Thevenow brought in two more runs with a single to center before the rally ended WHEAT REACHES NEW LOW MARI Hedging Reduces Price to Below 80 Cents. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Sept 15.—Hedging sales from the northwest carried wheat to new low levels for the season on the Board of Trade today, with September selling below 80 cents—the lowest price since 1907, with the exception of June and July, 1914, when that level was reached Liverpool closed slightly higher, but this news did not offset the decline. Corn prices averaged lower, but rallied from inside figures. The shipping demand in this grain was fair, and the country offerings small. Oats was down with the other grains. May selling at anew low for the season. GRIFFIS DUE FOR AX Gamewell Chief Slated to Lose Superintendency. Demotion or discharge of William B. Griffis, superintendent of the city Gamewell division, is expected at city hall soon, it was learned today. Griffis, who lias been in the department eighteen years, and who is a Republican, probably will be reduced to assistant superintendent, to make way for 'a Democratic appointee. According to current reports, the shift is entirely of a political nature as a further move to strengthen forces in the November election. MAPS DROUGHT AID Fortune Says Suffering to Be Slight in State. There will be little, if any, actual suffering in Indiana this winter as a result of the summer’s droughty William F. Fortune, chairman of the American Red Cross and a. member of the special drought relief commission, told Governor Harry G. Leslie today. Fortune said he had made a rapid survey of the southern part of the state and found a disposition on the part of the people to find relief for themselves without depending upon outside agencies. FLOOD BONDS ARE SOLD Two Banks Joint Bidders on County Prevention Share Issue. Sale of $202,000 bonds to finance Marion county’s share of flood prevention work, was awarded today by comity commisisoners to the Union Trust Company and *the Fletcher Savings and Trust. Company, joint bidders, at a premium of $4,913. PACIFIC HOP FAILS Bromley Returns to Japan;! Forced Back by Fog. Bu United Press TOKIO, Sept. 15.—Harold Bromley. American aviator, and his co-' pilot, Harold Gatty, returned to Japan today after being reported l lost on the Pacific ocean for m.>re than twelve hours in an attempted j nonstop flight from Aomori prefec- j ture to Tacoma, Wash. The flires landed at dawn at Cape Shira, near where they had taken off Heavy fogs, encountered 800 miles at sea, were believed to have caused Bromley to make a change in his direction that eventually forced hi~i to put back to Japan. The landing marred Bromley’s fourth unsuccessful attempt to span .the fie, _

POWER WON DY FASCISTS | M GERMANY Foes Call on Hindenburg to Protect Country by . ‘Big Coalition.’ GREAT GAIN IS MADE Party Steps From Ninth to Second Place in Reichstag Vote. BY FREDERICK KL'H United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Sept. 15.—President Paul von Hindenburg, traditional savior of post-ward Germany, was besought by political leaders today to intervene to protect the country from domination by the Fascist party, which sprang into a powerful position by making amazing gains in Sundayis general election. The Fascists and Communists, at the opposite poles of political policy, have 107 and 76 seats respectively in the new reichstag, a gain of 95 for the Fascists and 22 for the Communists. The ultimate decision was in the aged President’s hands, and the presidential palace was the scene of animated conversations all day long among the president and his advisers, including Chancellor Heinrich Bruening “Big Coalition ’ Proposed Reluctant as Hindenburg is to admit the Socialists into a coalition which would give the moderate parties a working majority, the Socialists appeared to hold the key to the situation. On latest returns, not final, they held 143 seats, having lost nine. Strong pressure was brought on the president to disignate the Socialist Prussian premier, Otto Braun, as chancellor, with Bruening as foreign minister. While Hindenburg is reluctant toaccept the proposal, it is understood he, nevertheless, is willing to consent to a “big coalition’’ rather than permit the Fascists to hold the balance of power. Menace to Parliament The fascists cffhie from ninth to second place in Germany’s political ranking in the landslide. It appeared practically impossible to form a coalition government with a parliamentary majority in the new Reichstag. It generally is believed the government would be willing to resort to a “legal dictatorship” to avoid any measure that might be regarded as a legal evasion, or possibly the abolition of parliamentarism. The menace to parliamentarism became more acute by the fading of the “big coalition,” which has been the most potent factor for political stability in post-war Germany. A coalition of the Socialists, Cath- > olics, Folksparty, Constitutionalists and Bavarian Catholics would not hold a majority in the reichstag. It still is impossible to say whether any other parties would be willing to join a still larger coalition. The government of Chancellor Heinrich Breuning suffered a crush-, ing defeat, while the gains of the Fascists and Communists exceeded even the expectations of these parties. Heavy Vote Is Cast Preliminary returns accounted for 35,790,000 votes, which was 5,000,000 more than the vote cast in the last elections, held in 1928. The new Reichstag will be composed of 573 seats, according to preliminary official returns, with the seats distributed as follows: Socialists, 143; Fascists, 107; Communists, 76; Catholics, 69; Nationalists, 41; Constitutionalist, 22; Folksparty, 26; Economic party, 23; Schieles Agrarians, 18; . Bavarian Catholics, 18; Christian Socialists, 14; German farmers, 6; Guelphs. 5; Agrarian League, 3; Treviranus party, 2. SELECT JOS JURY State to Try Second Time for Car Death Verdict. Selection of a criminal court jury to try Max S. Kos, 35, of 245 West Thirty-eighth street, a second time for involuntary manslaughter, was under way"today before Special Judge Harvey A. Grabill, The jury disagreed at the first trial. Kos allegedly was drunk when his sedan struck and killed two workmen for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company at East Washington street and Linwodd avenue New' Year's eve, two years ago troops at mob scene Georgia City Calls Guardsmen to Protect Negro. Bv United Press CARTERSVILLE. Ga , Sept. 15. Two additional guard machine gun companies from Atlanta arrived here today shortly after a mob appeared at the county jail and demanded that John Willie Clark, Negro, admitted slayer of Police Chief Joe Jenkins, be surrendered. SEES BETTER BUSINESS Cyrus Eaton, Steel Magnate, Says Conditions Are Improving. Bu United press MONCTON, N. E. Sept. 15. Cyrus Eaton of Cleveland, American millionaire steel magnate and industrial leader, foresaw improved conditions in a statement isued here today. Eaton said business is .sieadUi imjjromis,

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Choked by Clothier, | Says Helen | Bu T'nited Pres* ... _ , I NEW YORK. Sept.* 15.—ConflictI ing stories were told 4 today by Helen Kane, singer, and her former admirer, Murray Posner, at a hearing before Peter Olney, referee, in the bankruptcy proceedings of the Bond Dress Company. Testifying with regard to a visit ! he made to Miss Kane in Chicago, | Posner said the singer threw newspapers at him containing the story of their love affair, and said the publicity was injurious. Helen said, however, that no such thing happened. She said when she refused to return the money. Posner alleged he gave her, Posner choked her. Posner denied this Meanwhile, creditors of the Bond Dress Company of which Posner was a partner, seek to regain $50,009. j Posner said he gave Miss Kane. ATTEND !. 0.0. F, GRAND LODGE PARLEY Opening Sessions Held in Order’s Home and in City Hotels. Late arrivals for the sovereign grand lodge convention. I, O. O. F., registered at convention headquarters today, swelling the fraternal delegations t-o approximately 15,000 persons. Governor Harry G, Leslie, member of Lafayette lodge No. 15, I. O. O. F., and Smiley N. Chambers, former assistant city attorney, representing Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, welcomed delegates at the opening grand lodge session this morning in the Odd Fellow building, M. M. Logan, grand sire, responded and the Odd Fellows band provided music. The Rebekah assembly of Indiana held a special session in the Lincoln, conferring the grand lodge degree. Delegates Visit Home Following addresses by state officials and the grand sire. John B. Cocknim, Indianapolis, eldest living past grand sire of the world, spoke in behalf of Odd Fellow's of, Indiana. At 11 a. m. Rebekah assemblies opened their meeting at the Lincoln and the general military council convened at the Claypool at that hour. Fourteen coaches took delegates to the Odd Fellows home, Greensburg, Sunday. At night the Rev. Edwin F. Schneider, pastor of East Tenth Street Methodist church and past grand chaplain of the order, officiated at religious services in the I. .O. O. F. auditorium. Banquet to Be Held Rebekahs were to entertain visiting ladies with a tea at the home of Mrs. Ida S. Van Dorin. past president, 2154 Broadway, at 3:30 today. Past, grand sires and invited guests will attend the Pinkerton Memorial banquet at the Columbia Club tonight. Seven members of the Rebekah degree staff will confer degrees at the Atjienaeum, Massachusetts avenue and Michigan street, following the banquet at 8. Miriam Rebekah lodge, East Chicago, will exemplify degrees at 9. Delegates will be taken on tours of the city Tuesday in a caravan of 300 automobiles, led by a police escort. The convention wall close Sept. 20. RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR GAS CITY BANK Capital Impaired, Asserts State Examiner; President Suicide. Bu United Press . _ . .. _ MARION, Ind., Sept, 15.—Rome T. Calendar was appointed receiver for the Gas City State bank today and authorized to assume charge of the institution's property and assets. He posted bond of $25,000. Thomas D. Barr, state deputy bank commissioner, testified at the hearing before Judge Robert F. Murray, in Grant superior court, that the capital structure of the bank had been impaired, making inadvisable re-opening of the bank at the present time. The bank was closed following suicide of Edward Block, president, Sept, 5. 7 India Soldiers Slain PESHAWAR, India, Sept, 15. Seven militiamen have been killed and twenty-three wounded in recent operations against hostile tribesmen on the northwest frontier. 51 CHILDREN INJURED Pupils Cut, Bruised When School Bus Upsets, Bu United Press , CLEVELAND. Sept. 15.—Fifty-one children received cuts and bruises today, when a school bus was overturned on a muddy shoulder of the : Warrensville Center road near here j today. All were taken to Bedford hospital where they were given first aid treatment and released. > Residence Bums Bu Times Special RUSSELLVILLE. Ind, Sept 15.A stoiy and a half residence here owned by Charles Daniel of New Richmond was destroyed by fire of undetermined origin The house was unoccupieii having been vacat-

LINGLE DEATH SUSPECT SLIPS THROUGH NET Ted Geisking, City Hoodlum, Believed Wounded by Kentucky Police, THREE MATES CAPTUftED Hijacking of Whisky Load Leads to Raid; Zuta Angle Probed. (Pictures on Pace 2) Theodore (Ted) Geisking, 27, West Indianapolis alleged hijacker and gunman, wanted in Chicago as the accused slayer of Alfred (Jake) Lingle, Tribune reporter, was believed to have escaped police nets again Saturday at London, Ky Three other men, two of whom are known to be from Indianapolis, are held in the Kentucky town. The quartet was surprised by federal dry agents after hijacking a truck of more than 2,000 pints of whisky. Held are: Dave Hodges and John J. Graham, known in Indianapolis as Sheets and one of the west side gang, and John Gauley. The fourth man, believed to have been Ted Geisking fled, but officers said they believed he was wounded. Wanted at Rising Sun / Capture of the trio occurred after Joe (Jew) Myers and Clarence (Squint) McKee, both of Indianapolis, told Kentucky authorities they had been hijacked of the truckload of liquor after leaving Corbin, Ky. The runners were bringing the liquor from Florida, Hodges and Gauley are wanted for the recent jail break in Rising Sun, Ind., recently when Alex Geisking, brother of the murder suspect, and others made a getaway. Alex Geisking now is in the state reformatory serving a one-to-ten-year term. Carl Losey, state police officer, and Sergeant George Williams of Chicago, who rushed to the Kentucky mountain town after the arrest of the trio identified the men and said they believed Geisking was the man who fled. Two Held in Kentucky Williams is on the staff of Charles F. Rathbun, assistant state’s attorney, who has been working on the Lingle -slaying since the reporter’s murder in a Chicago subway June 9. Myers and McKee are being held by Kentucky authorities and were being questioned today along with the Indianapolis gangsters in an effort to determine definitely if Geisking was the fourth member of the hijacking gang. Geisking is said to be wanted for other slayings in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin in the last year. According to information from investigators and police in Chicago, photographs of Geisking have been identified tentatively as those of the man who fired the shot that dropped Lingle. Ex-Pal of Joe. Traum Geisking has been considered by police for years as being a paid killer. He is supposed to have been assigned to the Lingle slaying by Jack Zuta, Chicago gangster, slain in a Wisconsin dance hall Aug. 3. Zuta is alleged to have paid Geisking $5,000 as a down payment for the murder and promised him another $5,000, which is said never to have been paid, and which may have been the cause of Zuta’s murder by a gang in a Wisconsin summer resort. Geisking formerly teamed with Joe Traum, Terre Haute bank robber, hijacker and rum runner, and with Gauley and Lawrence Hiatt, comprised Traum’s crack shot squad. Hiatt now is in Rising Sun pending trial on the jailbreak.i LIFE WORTH BIG SUM Real Silk Head Insured for Million and Half. Porter M. Farrell of the Columbia Club, president of Real Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., is one of eightytwo persons and corporations who last year became insured for one million dollars or more. The list was made public today in Washington, D. C., by the National Association of Life Underwriters, and Farrell’s was the only Indiana name included. It also was one of a half-dozen outside New York City. Farrell today said he was insured for more than $1,500,000, both personal and business insurance, TOUR PLANES PUSH ON 18 on Ford Reliability Hop Leave j for Canada Control Base. Bu United Press WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. 15. j The eighteen planes in the Ford j reliability air tour left at 10:45 j a. m. for Brandon, Manitoba, the j noon control point. POPE IN GOOD HEALTH Pitts Assures French Delegation His Condition Is Excellent. Bu United Press VATICAN CITY, Sept. 15.—The pope assured a French pilgrimage of men and women Catholic teachers today that he was in excellent health Hourly Temperatures 6&. m 67 10 a. m 70 7a. m 67 11 a. m..... 70 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 74 k 9 •••• 20 Ip, jn..... 75 J

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JAPANESE WANT ARMAMENT CUT Hope for Speedy Action Is Voiced to League. Bu United Press GENEVA, Switzerland, Sept. 15. Hope for an early world conference on general disarmament was expressed before the League of Nations assembly today by Tsuneo Matsudaira of Japan. Japan, Matsudaira said, had reduced her army to seventeen divisions, or 65 per cent of its former strength. “The shortness of the duration of the London treaty does not imply our disinclination to continue the work of disarmament,” he continued. “We may say that the London treaty, combined with the Washington treaty, having succeeded in limiting all categories of ships, has laid the foundation for a complete naval agreement in the future.” Frank Brennan of Australia, who preceded Matsudaira, voiced a radical theory of peace, declaring: “Australia is entirely unprepared for war as a gesture before the world. Australia has abolished the training of youth for war. Disarmament on the principle of security is not disarmament at all.” Brennan observed that Australia, separated from the remainder of the world by vast oceans, is not self-sufficient in herself and can not fully indorse the tariff policies of Europe. He approved heartily of combining the Kellogg peace treaty with the covenant ’of the league. SCHROEDERJLEA SET Torch Man’s Arraignment Scheduled Oct. 6. Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mobile (Ala.) business man, indicted last week for first-degree murder in the High School road torch car killing, will be arraigned on the charge Oct. 6 before Criminal Judge James A. Collins. Prosecutor Judson L... Stark said today the state will ask for trial “as soon as possible" after the arraignment. JUDGE STRICKEN BY APPENDICITIS ATTACK Willard B. Gem mill Becomes 111 Suddenly at Club Quarters. Judge Willard B. Gemmill, Marion, Indiana supreme court justice, was stricken with appendicitis at the Columbia Club quarters today. Physicians said the attack was not serious, and probably would not require operation immediately- Gemmill Is a Republican candidate for re-election to the supreme court bench this fall TRAIN WRECK BURNS One Man Dies as Tank Cars Blaze; Loss $135,000. LINCOLN,” Neb , Sept. 15.—Loss from a spectacular gasoline fire which started when a freight train of forty-six loaded tank cars was wrecked was estimated today at $135,000. Several cars in the middle of the train became derailed, Burlington railroad officials said. These cars dragged the others from the track. A spark ignited the gasoline and within a few minutes flames were shooting 300 feet in the air. The charred body of a man, burned beyond recognition and believed to have who was stealing a __

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Police Are Confronted With SeconcT Mystery Killing in Three Weeks. Bu Ttmes Special , SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 15.South Bend police marshaled their forces today for the second murder hunt in three weekfe, following the slaying of Alice Woltman, 17-year-old high school girl, early Sunday morning. Alice was killed in her bed. Her throat was slashed, the wound extending from her spinal cord to a point under her chin. Richartf, Alice's 8-year-old brother, in the same bed, and two other sisters, Henrietta, 20, and Evelyn, 19, who occupied another bed in the same little room on the second floor of the family residence at 114 North Jackson street, slept undisturbed while „thg killer entered the room. The sweep of the knife or razor must have been swift. None in the household heard a cry. Staggers Into Next Room The wounded girl stumbled from her room into the adjoining bedroom occupied by her brothers, Henry, 15, and Harry, 14, There she collapsed. Mrs. Woltman, asleep in the room directly beneath, heard the thud when her daughter crumpled on the floor . She rushed upstairs, clasped Alice in her arms and started to carry her back to the bed. Alice died in her arms. Authorities today centered their attentions on intimate friends of the slain girl. In reconstructing the crime, they are following the theory that the slayer must have been thoroughly familiar with the arrangement of the rooms and furniture in the home to have committed the murder without awakening any of the eleven persons asleep in the house at the time. Crawled Through Window The killer Is believed to have gained entrance by climbing a lean-to at the side of the house. From there, it is thought he crawled through a window in the room occupied by the girl’s brothers. A bloody fingerprint oh a piece of paper caught in a corner of the window and two other prints are the concrete evidence on which detectives are working. All of the fingerprints are smudged badly. An early suspicion that a rejected suitor was involved in the case was discounted late Sunday night, when Florida authorities wired the local police that the suspected youth has been in that state for the last two weeks. Alex Pietrzak, 18, who says he was engaged to marry Alice, was questioned by, police at length. An engagement ring was found on the hand of the murdered girl. Saw Man Running Mrs. Katherine Fearkes, 109 North College street, who arises about 4, was at the front of her home, near the Woltman residence, at the time of the crime. She was conversing with George Stokes, 105 North College street, who was on the porch of his home next door. Both told police that they saw a man running down the street, turn into an alley, and steal away. Stokes had been kept up the ma - jor part of the night by a sick baby and was on the porch to refresh himself with a cigaret. Alice was employed in a grocery and market operated by her father, Henry Woltman. Meanwhile, no further progress had been made toward the arrest of the killer of Marverine Apple, 8, which horrified the city three weeks ag°. , Love Suit Asks $10,060 Bu Times Special JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Sept, 13. —Charging alienation of the affections of his wife, Tilford Floyd asks SIO,OOO damages from John Vickers in a suit on file here. The Floyd couple was married fourteen years ago. Fall Causes Death Bu United Press MISHAWAKA, Ind, Sept, 15 Believed to have stumbled while drunk, Franciszka Biel, 50-year-old railroad worker, was instantly killed when he fell down a flight of stairs at his rooming house here Sunday Afternoon* hi* skull waa^fractured.

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UPTON YACHT IS FAR BEHIND IN CUP RACE American's Enterprise in Lead by Two Miles in Second Dash of Trials. DEFENDER IS GAINING British Crew Completely Is Outmaneuvered by Shrewd Vanderbilt. BY MORRIS DE HAVEN TRACY United Press Staff Correspondent ABOARD U. S. S. KANE, Off Newport, R. 1., Sept, 15.—Harold S. Vanderbilt’s Enterprise was two miles ahead of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock at the end of the first twenty miles of their race today. Drawing rapidly away from the green hulled challenger on the second leg of the triangular course off Brenton's reef, the defender rounded the twenty-mile mark at 1:22:25 p. m. The Shamrock, moving sluggishly in the light swell which the American boat rode as lightly and gracefully as a gull, did not reach the marker until 1:31:35 p. m. She was 9 minutes and 10 seconds behind the defender. The Enterprise came down the twenty-mile mark with a bone in her teeth, as seamen say of a yacht which shows a white crest of foam, caused by the forward movement of the vessel, beneath her bow. Picture Is Brilliant The defending yacht averaged ten miles an hour on the second leg, and after sweeping gracefully around the marker was off on the final ten-mile lap like a startled deer. Outmaneuvering the rival skipper at every turn in the brisk run, Vanderbilt handled his boat magnificently. Today’s race made a brilliant picture. Sunlight sparkled on the dancing waters off Block island, and the towering sails of the contending yachts stood out brightly against sky and sea. Overhead, two baby blimps followed the course of the race. The visibility, spoiled by fog on Saturday, was excellent today. The winner,of the America's cup will be the yacht that first wins four thirty-mile races. No Luck for Briton On Saturday, as the Enterprise sailed steadily homeward, her sails filled, her trim bows cutting the water and the tall, powerful scion of the Vanderbilts standing coatless at her helm, one had a feeling that there was something unbeatable about the American combination of men and boats. Throughout Sunday there was great-activity on the Enterprise as it rode at its moorings amid 250 private yachts in Newport harbor. Contrasted with this activity was a single sailor sitting on Shamrock’s deck, reading a newspaper and basking In the sun. “We :n’t dissatisfied,’’ Charles Nicholson, the designer of Shamrock said. “It was just a. case where, if there was any luck in Saturday’s race, the Shamrock didn't have it.’i Shamrock’s Crew Complains “The Shamrock is a very good boat,” said Vanderbilt. “Saturday’s race was just one of a series. It was close and some may be closer yet.” Sir Thomas Lipton, remaining aboard his steam yacht Erin during the day, received many telegrams and a few callers, including Mayor William Sullivan of Newport. “I’m not at all discouraged,” th#’ aged sportsman said. “We lost because the other boat finished first. When our boat finishes first, then we’ll win.” Among the crew of the Shamrock there was much complaint, however, against the circumstances of the start of Saturday’s race. They claimed the signals were not given as they had expected them and also that an excursion steamer got to the windward of Shamrock, cutting off the breeze and causing the British boat to get off to a slow start, which was one of the big factors in the race. FORMER OFFICIAL HELD Man Who Served Mancie a* City Clerk Faces Embezzlement Charges. B.y Times Special MUNCIE, Ind, Sept. 15.—Maynel Dalby, former city clerk of Muncie, is arranging to give $3,000 bond, pending trial on charges of embezzlement filed here by Police Chief Frank Massey at the alleged instigation of Mayor George R. Dale. Shortages in Dalby's accounts of approximately $5,090 were reported by state board of accounts examiners, but the money has all oeen repaid. Two charges were preferred against Dalby, each citing alleged specific embezzlement acts. He served as city clerk for eight years. ADOPT SCHOOL BUDGET sl.Ol Levy for 1931 Passed Without Dissenting Vote. The 1931 Indianapolis school budget with a tax levy of $1 01 was adopted by the school board at a public hearing today, without a dissenting vote. The 1930 levy was $1.02. Church to Be Reopened Bu Times (special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Sept. 13 - Following a completion of a remodeling program at a cost of $5,000, the First Church of Christ Scientist was reopened here Sunday. The church was established twenty-six years ago by the late Mr. and Mo. S Vl&m E&m** *