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ROADS GROUP FUND QUIZ TO BE DEMANDED Senator Strey, Wabash, Also to Offer Bill Calling to Abolish Commission. BROWN IN CHALLENGE Defies Legislator to Show Evidence of Murden Patronage. ~tate Senator Charles L. Strey (Rep.) Wabash, late this morning renewed demands for a challenging letter written him by John J. Brown, state highway commission chairman, to which he already has answered. The letter, wdiich Brown says will be mailed at once to the senator, defies him to disclose evidence supporting an allegation that Commissioner Jess L. Murden (Rep.), Peru, Is interested in firms selling tires, trucks or cars to the state. Senator Strey will answer Brown’s letter with demands for thorough investigation of expenditure of state highway funds this year, and presentation of a bill to the 1931 legislature to abolish the present commission. Letter Is Answered The senator was first apprised of Brown's letter by The Times. This morning he sent the following telegram: ''l wired Brown of the highway commission as follows today, which kindly arrange to publish in your next issue: “ 'I failed to receive the letter as published in the Indianapolis Star this morning. You evidently had some reason for not sending me this letter, so I am asking you now to mail it to me by registered mail today, so I may receive it tomorrow morning If you think for one minute that you or any one else can bluff me you are sadly mistaken. “ 'The best thing for you t© do is to co-operate in every possible way for the good of the commission ” “C. L. STREY, State Senator.” He w r as ready this morning with the answer to Brown’s letter. "Two Years Is Enough" ' I have stood two years of this commission and the Brown administration. and that’s enough," the senator asserted. “When the legislature convenes, I will ask that a complete investigation of the expenditure of highway funds be made. I was one of the legislators who voted in good faith to increase the gasoline tax 1 cent because the highway department, didn't have sufficient funds. “Now I want, to know what it did with the money. The highway department was to have received *22,000,000 a year, but admit it is broke and in debt.. What I want to know is what became of these tremendous sums. Wants Full Time Group “In addition to an accounting. I will introduce a bill to abolish the commission in its present form. My law will provide for creation of a full-time commission of at least three members. “Everywhere throughout the state you hear complaints regarding the present, organization. In our district, we have been trying to get the Hills and Lakes highway for two years and all we get is the answer' that the. highway department doesn't hav e any money. Well, let’s find out what it did with it. “Personally, I’ve been patient long enough. I’m ready to go after this commission roughshod.’ Tie paragraph in Brown’s letter which aroused the senator’s ire was as follows: Strey’s Ire Roused ‘ “Personally. I always shall feel that, if you fail in the disclosure of these charges, you brand yourself as wholly unworthy of holding office of public trust ." Strey’s “charges" was the request In a letter to Brown for a list of Arms selling tires and other supplies to the state highway commission in which Commissioner Murden is reported interested. Brown and Murden both denied there is any such connection and Brown challenged the senator in the above paragraph. Brown this morning said he dictated the letter Wednesday and it Will be mailed today. “Senator Strey’s principal complaint arises from his failure during the last two years to get the highway commission to pave the Hills and Lakes trail which runs past his property.” Murden declared. DETROIT IN GAS WAR Motorists Take Advantage of Cut in Price to 14.3 Cents a Gallon. Bv United Press DETROIT. Sept. 18.—Motorists of Detroit were filling the gasoline tanks of their autos today while virtually every filling station in the city became involved in the price cutting “war." Today the price was down to 14.3 cents a gallon, with the state taxpaid. the cheapest it has been in years. ANDREE DATA READY Details of Exploration to Be Made Public by Sweden. Cnited Press STOCKHOLM, Sweden. Sept. 18. —lmportant data on the Andree expedition, obtained from the White Island expedition, will be communicated to the press as soon as possible. the government announced today. A foreign office spokesman said the data need not be expected More Saturday, however,

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Famous Girl Aviator Killed as Plane Hits Side of Hill

Bu United Press SAN DIEGO. Cal., Sept. 13—Ruth Alexander, 20-year-old San Diego aviatrix, was killed at Loma Portal, near here, early today soon after starting a flight to New York. The young flier crashed into the side of a hill in the residential section just inside the city limits. Miss Alexander took off in a low wing monoplane and heading into heavy fog she was believed to have lost her bearings. Nearby residents heard the crash of the tiny plane and telephoned Lindbergh field officials. Police were called and the girl’s body was found in the plane's wreckage. Bits of the plane were strewn along the hill indicating she was traveling at a high speed when the plane struck. Department of commerce officials and Coroner C. Kelly started separate investigations into the tragedy. The body was held at an undertaking parlor here pending an inquest. Miss Alexander set a world altitude record last June and was considered one of the best women fliers in the nation. She had taken off at 3:28 (Pacific standard time) on an attempted one-stop flight to New York. Miss Alexander w'as seeking a transcontinental one-stop record for women. Miss Alexander rose to national fame when she set her altitude record of 26,000 feet. She carried an oxygen tank but despite this aid she lost consciousness at 22,000 feet. She said afterward that the rush of the cold air revived her when the plane descended. It was not learned until the plane’s barograph was checked that anew record had been established. The unguided plane had carried the unconscious

1.0.0. F. WILL GONFERDEGREE Ritual Ceremony Feature of Convention. Attendance at the Sovereign Grand lodge session, I. O. O. F. was increased here today as cities of the middle west sent degree staffs and candidates for ceremonies in the national guard armory tonight. Degree staff of Golden Harmony lodge, 917, Chicago, with seventyfive members, accompanied by one hundred candidates, will be on hand to exemplify the ritual. Ceremonies will climax a membership drive among Indiana Odd Fellow lodges, many of which w'ill send scores of degree applicants. Lodge sessions recessed at 2 this afternoon for an outing at Walnut Gardens. Horse racing will be the main attraction. Annual banquet of secretaries and scribes will be held at the Claypool at 6 tonight and Florida delegates will meet there at 9 to honor C. D. Rhinehart, Jacksonville, Fla., incoming grand sire, and Mrs. Josie Morrow, Jacksonville, newly elected secretary. Association of Rebekah Assemblies. Members of the Canadian delegation gave a. tea today for incoming deputy grand sire, Joseph Powley, Toronto. Hundreds of persons lined downtown streets Wednesday night when 1,000 uniformed members of the military unit and auxiliary paraded past, the grand officers’ reviewing stand at Monument Circle, CITY FIRE LOSS CUT Safety Board Is Praised for Six Months’ Record. Fire losses were decreased nearly one-half million dollars during the first six months of 1930, as compared with the corresponding period figure for 1929, figures released today by the safety board indicate. This year, during the first half, fire department equipment answered 2,104 alarms, with total fire loss of $575,000, while in 1929, the first six months, there were 1.907 alarms, with losses aggregating $1,009,545. Walter Myers, safety board president, received a complimentary letter from the National Board of Fire Underwriters, praising the Indianapolis department's increased efficiency this year. CHARGE KOS DRUNK State Demands Conviction in Car Death Case. Driving at the contention that drunkenness was responsible for the defendant's killing two railway workmen, prosecutors today moved toward the close of the state’s case against Max S. Kos, war veteran and insurance salesman, being tried before a criminal court jury for involuntary manslaughter. Kos is being tried a second time for the accident in which his sedan struck and fatally injured Riley Osborn and Carl Fulkerson, workmen for the Indianapolis Street Railway Company, at Linwood avenue and East Washington street New Years eve, 1928.

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pilot 4,000 feet higher before it nosed earthward and started the plunge. Miss Alexander worked in a beauty parlor to earn money for her flying instructions. Always interested in aviation, she proved an apt pupil and soon was making solo flights.

Football Tune Again With Us The ping of the pigskin and the thud of bodies against the tackling dummy resound through the air these days. Football is back. You’ll find all the football news in The Times from now on. And especially in the Pink editions. Starting Friday, Diek Miller, known all over the state as a football official and writer, will write a daily article for the Pink editions, covering all the teams of leading state colleges in his series. You’ll get all the information and gossip that can be gleaned from state gridirons in these articles. And you’ll see most of the stars in pictures, along with Miller’s stories. Put this down in your book— Miller’s series starts Friday in the Pinks and you should read them all, to keep pace with football.

BITTER AT GENEVA Cuba Delegate Resents Any Force by League. Bu United Press GENEVA, Sept. 18.- A heated debate, in which the Cuban delegate warned that the League of Nations can not act as a super-state and impose its will on any member, broke out today. At a, meeting of the first judicial commission to discuss a protocol providing for permanent session of the world court, with an increase in the number of judges and their pay. Nicholas Politis of Greece charged Cuba with failing to show good-will by not ratifying the new status of the court. Dr. Orestes Ferrara of Cuba energetically defended the right of a nation to oppose measures within the league. “We are here to co-operate, not to obey," he said. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 55 10 a. m 72 7a. m 57 11 a. m 75 Ba. m 64 12 (noon).. 77 9 a. m £3 1 p. m 77

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WARN RECKLESS AUTODRIVERS State Police Ordered to Patrol Roads. Outstate state police lieutenants were called into conference at the statehouse today by Chief Robert PHumes, who issued orders for procedure in reckless driving arrests on state highways. Customarily state police take offenders before a local court nearest the scene of the offense and the violator escapes with a small fine, Humes pointed out. In the future motorists arrested will be cited to the secretary of state, and, upon conviction, will have driving licenses suspended for varying periods of time, the state police chief dictated. He ordered his men to patrol highways more diligently, seeking motorists who weave in and out of traffic, drive dangerously on curves, and otherwise endanger highway travel. His men will not have orders to molest speeding motorists, who are not driving recklessly, he said. ‘TAKE MY WIFE, BUT TOUCH NOT MY BAR’ Husband Agrees to Give Up Everything Else in Divorce Suit. Bu United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—When the wife of Dan G. Sunderland, art dealer, brought suit for divorce, her husband agreed to give her all the furnishings of their apartment except one thing, his private bar. STEEL KING DIVORCED Vera King Lederer, Former Follies Beauty, Given Decree. Bv United Press CLEVELAND. Sept. 13.—Mrs. Vera King Lederer, former Follies beauty, was awarded a divorce decree today from Morris TANARUS, Lederer. president of the Lederer Iron and Steel Company. The plaintiff alleged extreme cruelty in the suit, which was uncontested. An alimony settlement of $25,000 was understood to have been made out of court.

2,000 MOURN AT BURIAL OF KNIFEVICTIM Feeling Runs High Among Crowd at Funeral for South Bend Girl. POLICE PLEDGE ARREST Astounding Development in Sleep Murder Expected Sometime Today. Bv Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Sept. 18.— While 2,000 persons jammed St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic church here today the Rev. Anthony Ruseweez chanted a solemn requiem mass over the body of 17-year-old Alice Woltman, slain in her bed early Sunday. Feeling was intense as the funeral rites were observed, and demands rippled through the throng that attended the funeral that police produce something for their investigations of almost a week. Meanwhile atmosphere was tense in detective headquarters as leadesr in search for the murderer of the high school girl hinted they expected to climax their probirg with an astounding development some time today. Only one suspect now is being held, police admitted. He is Gene Jarvis, on whose arrest detectives have withheld all comment. Barney Kulszynski, 18, avowed sweetheart of the slain girl, was released Wednesday night, after having been questioned a second time by detectives, running down a jealousy theory. Authorities in charge of investigations. quoted as having blamed the family of the girl for withholding valuable information, said their charges would have something to do with what they expect to accomplish today. . Henry Woltman Sr., father of the girl, arose from his sick bed this morning to attend the funeral. The girl was clad in a white gown with a veil drawn across her face and throat, which was slit by the murderer. Huge floral offerings banked the altar of the church while the service was in progress and accompanied the cortege to St. Joseph’s cemetery for burial.

ZEP STOWAWAY WILL MAKE DEBUT AS BOXER Clarence Terhune to Appear Monday in Amateur Bout. Bv United'Press • j ST. LOUIS, Sept. 13.—Clarence Terhune, who two years ago stowed away in the Graf Zeppelin and went to Germany, will make his first public appearance as a. boxer in an amateur bout here Monday. MOTHER JONES BETTER Labor Leader Is Reported a Little Stronger by Physicians. Bv United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 13,—Mother Jones, who has been ill for several months, was reported today by her physicians as being “a little stronger.” The condition of the 100-year-old labor leader, took a turn for the worse a few days ago. END HUEY LONG WAR Peace Made With Louisiana Governor. Bv United Press BATON ROUGE, La.. Sept. 18.— Seven charges c 5 impeachment against Governor Huey P. Long brought before state senate in March, 1929, were dismissed by the house of representatives in extraordinary session by a vote of 70 to 20. The move was one in a program of “political peace" inaugurated several days ago after Governor Long defeated Senator Joseph Ransdell for the Democratic nomination to the United States senate. NEW TRAIN INSPECTED Women Travelers Kept in Mind as Service Is Devised. Women travelers between Chicago and Indianapolis who occasionally reach into their purses for a cigaret instead of a compact were kept in mind when the Monon route recently devised anew type of service on its late afternoon train, the Hoosier, Club lounge cars, including every detail of luxury and intended for more comfortable travel, will be added to that train immediately. Indiana officials and business men today inspected the new car after a luncheon on a Monon diner at Union Station.

- TARTING as traveling ** evangelists with a tattered circus tent, these two women built an odd religious venture into a two million dollar business at Los Angeles , with a majestic temple seating more than 5,000 persons and a congregation of 12,000.

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SWS Found! One way one weigh will do for two! And the discovery was made today at the concluding session of the Indiana Association of Inspectors of Weights and Measures when Gean and Jane Irwin, 4, of Bridgeport, 111. (left to right in the above photo), stepped on the elephantine 1,000pound scales exhibited at the convention. The twins split sixty-seven pounds between them with Gean gathering in thirty-five and Jane thirty-two. Mrs. Clark C. McQuilkin of East Chicago, Ind., and the state’s only feminine inspector of scales, shown in the inset, placed her appro va 1 on the “one way weight."

Prompt Jimmy Bv United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 18.—For once Mayor James J. Walker was on time, but only to find that he wasn’t wanted. . He appeared in the witness room of the extraordinary grand jury investigating the Ewald case at 11:15 today. Assistant Attorney-General Thomas Penneny Jr. explained to the mayor that he wasn't wanted today. Walker left with a smLe, saying: “Apparently I am on time in hours and minutes, but wrong on days."

AMERICA’S CUP STAYSIN U. S, Shamrock Is Beaten Badly in Fourth Race. Bv United Press ABOARD U. S. S KANE, Sept. 18.—Enterprise today retained for the New York Yacht Club the historic America's cup, symbolic of yachting supremacy. The great white sloop slipped across the finish line, today for its fourth successive victory over Sir Thomas Lipton’s green challenger, Shamrock V. The challenger was more than a mile and a quarter astern. Enterprise crossed the finish line at 1:50:05. completing the course in three hours ten minutes and five seconds. Harold S. Vanderbilt, amateur skipper and sportsman, not only brought his craft to an outstanding victory, but probably ended Sir Thomas Lipton's gallant efforts to regain the cup. Lipton has announced he will not challenge again.

CORNER „ STONE LAID Barbers’ Home Services Led by Shanessy, Corner stone for new $150,000 headquarters of the Journeyman Barbers International Union was laid today at Delaware and Twelfth streets. James C Shanessy, president of the union, had charge of services at 3 p. m. marking the initial construction of a two-story structure to house official offices for the organization, comprising 53,000 members. Thirteen executive board members and the Rev. G. F. Evans, Indianapolis Church Federation, participated in ceremonies. WEBSTER CASE~STARTS Special Blackmail Judge Attorney for Plaintiff Now. Floyd Mattice, special judge who convicted Irving Webster, Indianapolis news sheet publisher, of conspiracy to commit blackmail, now is legal counsel for the chief prosecuting witness in the Webster case, it was learned today. Mattice is appearing for Thomas O. Sines, prosecuting witness against Webster, in a breach of contract case in civil municipal court, room 2. ‘VICTORY’ FOR THE MEN! Alimony Dodgers Are Not Fugitives From Justice, Attorney Rules. Bu United Press HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 13. Governor John H. Trumbull has received an opinion from the attor-ney-general's office that persons failing to pay alimony in another state are pot fugitives from justice and extradition should not be griuxtoCU

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NEOROES SLUO, ROBJIGE9 MAN Pharmacist, 81, Is Beaton by Holdup Pair, Two Negroes held up an aged pharmacist, alone in his store today, slugged him with the butt of a gun. They fled with sl6. Entering the pharmacy of Dr. G. Gahn, 81, Thirteenth street and Cornell avenue, they asked for some toilet water. “Where’s Gus?" one asked. Gus is Dr. Gahn's son. “He's downtown,’ ’the druggist replied. Then they leveled guns at him, forced him to a rear room, where they made him lie on the floor, and tok $lO from his pockets. They obtained $6 more from a stamp drawer. ’ . Before they ran from the store one stooped over the old man and hit him on the head, inflicting a gash which physicians say probably will not prove serious. One ran south on Cornell avenue and the other west on Thirteenth street, and they met in an alley eanrby, where they had parked an auto, a neighbor woman told police.

Baseball Just a Century Old Baseball, a hundred years ago, just w'as being born from the childhood game of “Aunty Over.” It strains the imagination to envision the advance made by the game over this span of years, from a few kids playing on a. back lot to the mammoth parks, wherein high - salaried stars perform before thousands of excited spectators. The history of baseball is the great romance of sport. In a series of articles, George Moreland, NEA Service writer, has written this history for The Times. The first one will appear this afternoon in the Pink editions, and will continue in the Pinks for several days. Buy the Pink today and start this fascinating series.

LEGUIA TRIAL IS SET Deposed Peru Chief to Face Court Sept. 20. Bv United Press LIMA, Peru, Sept. 18.—Former President Augusto B. Leguia will be brought to trial Sept. 20. charged with' misapplication of public funds, the tribunal investigating the Leguia administration anounced today. Leguia and his son Juan now are in prison in Lima. ILLINOIS PROBE ENDED Senate Investigation to Move to Lincoln, Neb., Monday. Bu United Press CHICAGO. Sept. 18,-The senate campaign funds investigating c6mmittee ended the Illinois phase of its inquiry today after questioning minor employes and workers for Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Republican nominee for the United States senate. Chairman Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota, announced that, he and Senator Porter H. Dale of Vermont would move next to Lincoln, Neb., where on Monday they will begin an inquiry into the Republican primary of that state. Couple in Auto Hurt COLUMBUS, ind.. Sept. 18— Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Whipple, Waterloo, Wis., were slightly injured when their automobile turned over in a ditch on United States Road 31. four miles south of here. The automobile was wrecked.

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GEISKING ON WAY TO FACE INDIANATRIAL Indianapolis Gangster Is Freed as Suspect in Killing of Take’ Lingle. TAKEN TO RISING SUN Heavily Guarded by State Police: Held on Auto Banditry Charges. Bu 7 nnrs sncnnl LOUISVILLE. Ky„ Sept. 18 Theodore Geisking, hijacker and gangster, was being returned to Rising Sun, Ind., this afternoon, where he will face auto banditry • charges, conviction on which, police assert, will ring down the curtain on one of Hoosierdom’s most notorious gangs. Authorities from Rising Sun. m company with Carl Losey, Indiana state policeman, took Geisking from the city prison shortly before noon, returning* him to Rising Sun by automobile, under heavy guard. Nine members of the Geisking gang are in prison, or are under bond facing serious charges, while their leader, Ted, has admitted the charges against him, police say. He waived extradition to Losey. The prisoner is accused of aiding in a jail break last summer in which nis brother, Alex Geisking, and another prisoner were freed. Freed of Lingle Suspicion Geisking was held here since Friday as the newest suspect in Alfred J. Lingle and Jack Zuta Chicago gang murder i, after having been sought by detectives under Pat Roche, chief investigator for the Chicago state’s attorney, since July, Then a Bertillon photograph of Geisking had been identified by Lingle slaying witnesses as that of the killer. These witnesses, viewuig Geisking in city prison here Wednesday and today, declared he was not the gunman who fired into the back of Lingle’s head in a crowded Chicago loop pedestrian subway, June 9 As he told Losey this morning that extradition papers sent hurriedly to Kentucky by Governor Harry G. Leslie of Indiana would be unnecessary. Geisking asked what sentence he would get across the river. “Probably ten years, maybe twen-ty-five,” Losey replied. Mother, Sister at Prison Geisking’s mother and Mrs May Cass, Terre Haute, his sister, were at the prison. “I can’t see why the Indiana police are laying on him," the mother moaned. Ted Geisking is the last man of a. gang he. led. which terrorized central and southern Indiana more than a. year, and which police say was responsible for most of the major gang crimes, and hijacking in the state outside the Calumet regions and northern Indiana. Losey went on their trail after two members held up Ralph Scott, Greenfield broker, and shot off Scott’s hand, Jan. 31 Member by member the gang dwindled until only four were left. Given Seven-Year Terms Thiee of these. John Gauley, Dave Hodges and Robert, Ruddell. were captured after a, gun battle with federal agents and police, which followed a hijacking in Laurel county, near London, Ky., Saturday. They were sentenced to seven years each at Atlanta federal penitentiary, on liquor transporting charges. Os the other members. George Evans, convicted in connection with the Scott shooting, is serving a life term in the state prison at Michigan City. Evans was a former St Louis gangster and machine gunner for the Joe Traum gang in Terre Haute. Harley Shelton. Indianapolis, is serving two to fourteen years in connection with the Rising Sun jail delivery. Brother in Prison Alex Geisking is serving two terms of from ten to twenty-five years in the state reformatory, Pendleton, on auto banditry charges. Gail Herrod, sought two years after jumping an appeal bond, was sent more than a week ago to state prison from one to seven years for grand larceny. Forest Whitsell, an Indianapolis hoodlum, now is under bond on auto banditry charges, in connection with the Scott holdup. Lawrence Hiatt is under bond, scheduled to appear in Rising Sun Saturday for trial on auto banditry charges in connection with the jail delivery. To Face Similar Charges Now Ted Geisking will face simi--1 lar charges in Rising Sun, but probably will not be tried before the December term of court there, since Losey expects to leave on vacation later this week. Geisking is said to have admitted the Rising Run jail delivery, and hijacking and rum running activities in Indiana. Kentucky, and Nofth Carolina, while he was held here as the Louisville suspect.

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