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DEMOCRATS, IN PARLEY,RULED BY ROOSEVELT Probable Governor Choice •Gives Them Orders’ on Wet Plank Drafting. BRAVES TAMMANY’S IRE Graft Probe Stand Virtual Defiance: Hoover Regime i Flayed. RV THOMAS b. FORD ' United Press Staff Correspondent CONVENTION HALL, SYRACUSE, N. Y..v Sept, 29.—The New York Democratic state convention met here today with the nomination cf Franklin D. Roosevelt to succeed himself as Governor practically certain. It also was conceded the platform would contain a plank favoring repeal of the prohibition laws and probably indorsing a more or less definite plan of government control of liquor sales. Famiiar personages were present for the convention. Former Governor Alfred E. Smith was active in conferences. The Governor’s control of the convention was made evident soon niter ids arrival. ' Mindful ot the fact that he is likely to be a strong presidential possibility in 1932, leaders hearkened to his vieWvS on all party affairs. Outlines His Views He outlined to them in a private conference the general tenor of his prohibition views, which will be incorporated in a plank urging repeal of the eighteenth amendment and definitely advocating state option and state control of the manufacture and sale of intoxicants. Senator Robert. F. Wagner, tempopary chairman, was escorted to the platform by a committee consisting of John F. Curry, Tammany leader; Mrs. Caroline P. O'Day, vicechairman of the state committee. And William H. Kelley, leader of Onondaga rounty. He receive* an ovation and his first, prediction of Democratic victory drew more applause. "The Democratic party,” he said, referring to charges of official corruption in New York, "has alw'ays stood for the highest probity in public office. Calls Prohibition Failure “The heart and conscience of the rank and file of the Democratic r rty demands not only that public cH dais who prove false to their trust be driven from office but aLso ’-om the party.” He pronounced prohibition a failure. There were, cries of "No, no, when Senator Wagner said. “Mr. Hoover has been in office eighteen months and I submit this candid question to men and women of all parties; Has work been made more abundant; is our prosperity extended? Points to Breadlines “Breadlines have begun to spread their haggard shadows on our city stre°ts. Unemployment is the. source of all of this. On the basis of census figures it was estimated more than 5,000.000 bread earners were without work and since then this has been increased 10 per cent. “For every dollar paid in industrial wages before the Hoover administration took office, 70 cents is paid today.” Wagner said, “resulting ".In deprivation for four million families.” _ flu United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 29.— Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, slated for renomination by the Democratic convention opening at Syracuse today, has braved the wrath of politically jnighty Tammany Hall by seeking to make its leaders waive immunity find testify before a grand jury. Bv suggesting to Mayor James J. Walker that balky witnesses in the JSwald-Healy inquiry change their sittitude. Roosevelt took action against an organization that normally furnishes about 53 per cent of the city's voting power. Roosevelt indicated he thought the action of John F. Curry, Tammany chief, and the Seventeenth district leaders, w ho apparently took their cue from him in refusing to sign waivers, was "contrary to sound public policy.” He asked Walker to “suggest” to Tammany men holding city jobs—which includes almost all of them—that they adopt a different attitude. DOMINIONS FIGHT MOVES Bitterly Opposed to Proposals for Inter-Europe Tariffs. United Press GENEVA. Sept. 29.—Bitter opposition of British dominions to proposals for inter-European preferential tariffs was voiced today before the economic committee of the League ot Nations. The Dominion representatives assailed resolutions in the economic committee's report which suggested that all members of the league sign a convention urging concerted economic action through a conference In November. Aged Woman Dies t* 7 imrs Hpertal SHERIDAN. Ind.. Sept. 29.—Mrs. Emma Dc Voss. 75. died at the home oi her daughter. Mrs. Ingle Harris, wife of the trustee oi Adams township Burial will be at Decatur, her former home. Mrs. Harris is the only child. .n* par# rr> 1. •r>r>etirfng tonic food In o minutes -quirk—eeono ejr*!—ti*W toircthrr five minute* two < •• *!-r mud two cup ugr— 3dtl t/tr pound Kvtmor I rtnbfrrlw and re--.jo** from art wfeerj cranberries stop vopjrtag,—AdisrUMißaat.

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HE WHO LAUGHED LAST

Makes Half Million From Toy Golf

he's just retired from the buslnes^ manufacturing plant valued at ’ '. 1—

Hu SEA Sen ire CHATTANOOGA, Term., Sept. 29.—Folks, meet the man who made miniature golf pay on a full-sized scale. He's Garnet Carter, a Chattanooga real estate developer, and he's just retired from the business after having cleaned up a cool half-million dollars with an invention that, he says, was "just an accident.” After making more than $300,000 on his “accident,” he has sold the trade mark, “Tom Thumb,” that cost him SI,OOO, a manufacturing plant valued at SIO,OOO and a number of patents applied for to W. H. Robinson of Philadelphia, a pickle manufacturer. for $200,000 cash. Carter’s Fairyland golf course on Lookout Moutain, near here, is the original from which came the 25,000 that have since popped up like mushrooms all over the I United States. On these the United States department of commerce places an j estimated valnue of $125,000,000, j exclusive of the real estate. a a a '-pHE Fairyland course here is J. about four times as large as I any of its 24,999 brothers and is many times as hard to play. The | greens are bigger, the hazards more difficult. The course is laid around mountain boulders on ground made historic by Civil war battles. The holes are from twenty-six to fifty feet long. Brownies and gnomes and other story-book figures are placed about the course for onamentoi purposes. Opened in 1928. it has been im-

MARTINSVILLE MYSTERY DEATH INQUIRY PUSHED

Poison Theory Followed in in Probe: Husband Is Grilled. B-u Times Special MARTINSVILLE. Ind., Sept 29 With the grand jury due to conclude Its gathering of testimony late today in the probe of the alleged poisoning of Mrs. Carrie Thelma Pryor, county officers continued to batter her husband, Ernest Pryor, with questions, in an effort to obtain a confession that he administered poison to her. Officers investigating the case are confident that an indictment charging Pryor with murder will be returned by the -grand jury Tuesday morning. The motive for the alleged crime, as built by witnesses before tbe grand jury, is that Pryor sougfc* $3,000 insurance which he took out for his wife eleven days before her death. Police officers, who investigated Mrs. Pryor's death on Aug. 19 and her husband’s relations with his cousin. Miss Elsie Ham, 20, of Brazil, were jury witnesses today. Today Miss Ham said, “I am ready to do anything to help solve the death of my cousin.” Authorities' say both she and Pryor have admitted carrying on a clandestine love affair while she resided in the Pryor home. Mrs. Pryor found out that her own home housed the love-nest of her husband, authorities say, and although she submitted, quarreled with her husband on several occasions. Pryor and Miss Ham met once since his arrest. She was brought to the county jail, where he was being questioned. She ignored him. while Pryor, oblivious of her presence, sat with bowed head. Miss Ham’s attitude toward interviewers since her detention as- a witness before the jury has been defiant, while Pryor seems constantly in a daze, with but one answer to questions, “I don’t know.” PIANO TUNING ART LOST So Veteran Asserts, Laying Decline to Growth of Jazz. Bu United Press MEMPHIS. Tenn.. Sept. 29. Piano tuning is becoming a lost art, says John Clark. 63-year-old follower of the profession, and it’s all the fault of the modern jaz.. “People have little need for a piano tuner now,” he explains. "They don’t care whether a piano is in tune or not. All they want from an instrument is noise.”

BABE STILL CAN FLING ’EM—HE FOOLS THE BOYS FOR NINE INNINGS

BOSTON, Sept. 29. —Fifteen seasons ago. a husky lefthanded pitcher won himself a regular jcb with the great Boston Red Sox. and Sunday he came back to the old town to take the hurlers’ box once more and dazzle opposing batsmen with his array of curves and hooks—but this time he was pitching against his old club. The big young fellow fifteen |

Accidents will happen and here’s one of jthem, the original miniature golf course that Garnet Carter (right) started near Chattanooga just to give summer hotel guest§ something to and which led to an industry that brought him a half million dollars. The bridge above is one of the trick hazards on this course and below is shown one of the gnomes that decorate the holes.

proved continually. Today. Carter estimates its cost at $40,000. The story behind this course is the true story of the birth of miniature golf, now played by millions. Back in 1928, Carter was president of the Fairyland inn, a real estate development company situated on Lookout mountain. He had under way a big golf course that was' about half financed. Worrying with this enterprise one day, lie conceived the idea of establishing a clock golf course. n n tt “T started building one of the Jl putting greens around the many boulders and making hazards and tunnels,” he explains. “Everybody laughed and scoffed at the idea. “My idea was to provide some-

ACCIDENTS CHALLENGE NATION. SAYS HOOVER Death Toll js Deplored by President in Message to Convention. Bu United Press PITTSBURGH. Sept. 29.—President Hoover declared the nation's yearly death toll of almost 100,000 from accidents “is a challenge to the resourcefulness of the country” to cievise accident prevention measures, in a message read today at the opening of the National Safety Congress here. The message from the president was read by Charles E. Pettibcne, president of the National Safety Council, before delegates from all parts of the United States. 40 CHANGE IN HOUSE 11 New Faces to Appear in Senate This Year. Bo T'lUtrrf Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—Election year already has resulted in forty changes in the personnel of the house of representatives, according to a tabulation just completed by William Tyler Page, clerk of the house. This combined with eleven changes in the senate's membership, makes fifty-one changes in the entire congress, or almost 10 per cent of its total membership. Twenty-four of the house changes are the results of retirements or withdrawals, and the other fourteen were caused by the primary defeats of incumbents. There have been two deaths. GAS’CONTRACTS TALKED Works Board Prepares to Take Bids on Airport Supply Members of the board of works have been conferring with officials of large gasoline firms preparatory to letting contracts for the supply of gasoline at the municipal airport. The airport will be opened in October. An air circus is planned at the opening of the port. Board members attended the opening of the Lunken airport in Cincinnati, Sunday. Highway Heads to Speak Director John J. Brown and Chief Engineer William H. Titus of the state highway department will address the Bloomfield Rotary Club at Bloomfield Tuesday noon.

years ago was Babe Ruth, who in a few years won himself renown as one of the really great left-hand-ed pitchers of his day. But that was before managers discovered the young fellow's ponderous batting ability, his skill in driving the ball over far fences. Sunday he came back to Boston as the “Big Bam.” of the New York Yankeqg, baseball's mightiest slugger of all time, maker of rec-

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thing to do for the guests who didn’t want to play big golf or fiance. Some of my friends jokingly inquired if I was building a playground for children.” But Carter kept at it. He stretched his baby course to eighteen holes. Almost before he knew it, everybody around the hotel was playing. The fame spread and inquiries about the cost of a baby golf course began to drift in from other cities. Carter was in the business before he knew it. a tt a A FEW weeks ago. while returning home from one of the company’s branch factories in Rochester, Pa.. Carter met Warren T. Godfroy, a bond expert who had been instrumental in getting the Lookout Mountain hotel bonds guaranteed. "How are you getting along?” asked Godfroy. “I'm making over SI,OOO a day in royalties,” Carter replied. “If you handled things right you’d be making ten times that,” Godfroy observed. “I told Godfroy,” says Carter, “that I didn’t want to be burdened too much and I had just , been talking about, consolidating all the different plants, since I had been offered about $1,000,000 worth of stock in such a consolidation.” Godfroy then asked Carter if he wanted to sell out. Carter dickered and finally offered the trade mark, manufacturing plant and patents applied for at $200,000. Godfroy then interested Robinson. “They kidnaped me, brought me to Chattanooga in an auto and bought me out the very next day,” Carter explains. “The deal was soon closed.” TOLD TO ‘GO JUMP IN THE LAKE': SHE DID Chicago Woman Really Is Obedient Wife; Cops Hold Her and Mate. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Mrs. Louise Loach, 29, is a woman who prides herself on always doing as her husband tell. her. Today Mrs. Loach and her husband Thcmas, 42, were motoring along thi- outer drive of the edge of Lake Michigan. 'At the same time they were quarreling over some family affair. Finally Loach, disgusted, said; “Go jump in the lake.” Always obedient, Mrs. Loach did. Loach stopped the automobile and rescued her just before two park policemen arrived and took them to the station for having a bottle of gin. BANK CALUS ISSUED Condition as of Sept. 24 to Be Stated. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The comptroller of currency issued a call today for sJie condition of national banks as of Sept. 24. The Indiana state banking department issued a call today for the condition of state banks as of Sept. 24. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 50 10 a. m 64 - 7a. m 50 11 a. m 69 Ba. m 54 12 (noon).. 70 9 a. m 61 1 p. m 76

ords and the idol of millions of fans. Twelve thousand fans, many of them old timers who can remember “way back when,” cheered Sunday as the big fellow strolled out to the mound and thoroughly tamed the current edition of the Boston Red Sox for nine full innings, the first complete game the big boy had pitched for nh_c

SIOO,OOO COPS BONUS LAID TO CAPONE'S GANG Speakeasies Taxed to ‘Take Care’ of Officials and % Police, Says Paper. PAYOFF SET WEDNESDAY Melon Is Vice and Liquor Syndicate's Answer to Cleanup Drive. Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—'The Chi- ‘ cago Herald and Examiner said to- ! day that on next Wednesday the | j underworld forces of Scarface A1 j Capone would pay approximately : SIOO,OOO to “corrupt police, poliI ticians and nublic officials.” “There will-be bonuses for those who have been especially attentive to gangland’s, interests during the , widespread attack on ‘public ! enemies,’ ” said the article. “Ah, bonuses! Answer of Syndicate “That is the syndicate’s answer to decency’s drive against the or- j ganized killers, bootleggers, vice : mongers and dope peddlers that in- j fest the city. “All of this was disclosed by' policemen who have been watching the operations of the Capone syn- j dicate and who have been offered j part of the bribery fund. i “It is predicted that by payday . an extra SIOO,OOO of graft will be ready. In the years cf its reign in Chicago the underworld has been i convinced that while money may j ; not be everything it will buy a number of persons. Taxed S2OO Apiece The Examiner explained that i about 450 speakeasies on / the near j north side, battle ground of Capone j and George “Bugs” Moran, his bit- j terest enemy, had been taxed from j SIOO to S2OO each to aid in provid- | ing the “graft fund.” “U the policeman on the beat j can’t be fixed, the sergeant can,’’ | the story continued. “If the ser- { geant can’t the captain can; if the j captain can’t be fixed, he call be j transferred —that is the under- i world’s philosophy. The gangsters j have the money. During the next | few weeks, the soundness of the half world argument will be proved or disproved. Phone Calls Threaten “Policemen who resist the temptation of quick inches are subjected to dozens of harassments. Sometimes they are threatened with death. The latter is the situation with half a dozen police of the East Chicago avenue station. Anoymous telephone calls jrave terrified their families and enraged the officers.” The Examiner gave as an example that of patrolman Jac Kratzmeyer, who was offered, said the paper, SIO,OOO to “lay off” the liquor sellers in his district. Kratzmeyer refused, the Examiners added, whereupon his life has been “threatened repeatedly, ajways by telephone.”

WAY PAVED FOR UTILITY RATE SLASHES BY BOARD

Lower Reproduction Costs Are Recognized by Commission. Possibility that utility rates may be reduced in Indiana loomed today with disclosure that public service commissioners have recognized decreased production costs in making property valuations for the MiamiWabash County Telephone Companv. Inc., anew utility. With the expenditure of huge sums and long litigation in federal courts, utilities established valuation based on ‘reproduction new.” With a high or rising market, this has been to their advantage in boosting rates. Now the effort may prove a boomerang, as the Miami-Wabash Telephone Company order indicates. After setting out company engineers’ figures on valuation new and depreciated, the order follows with this significant paragraph: “Having considered all evidence of value set out above and all such evidence as appears in this cause, the commission believes that estimated costs to reproduce, less observed depreciation, plus materials and supplies, suggests present values of the properties that are in excess of fair values as basis for the issuance of stocks and bonds. “Values such as suggested would be fictitious in some of the properties involved. "Values should be the commission’s best judgment,'based upon all the evidence of value contained in the record.” The latter paragraph paves the way for cutting valuation with a consequent decrease in rates, it was pointed out by Commissioner Frank Singleton, who wrote the order. Tt is considered likely the point

years. The Yankees won easily, 9 to 3. And perhaps one of the features of the game was the fact that only two walks allowed by Ruth were given to “Rabbit” Warstler, the flashy little shortstop, who recently came to the Red Sox from Indianapolis. And perhaps it was only right that Warstler should connect for the longest blow off Ruth's delivery—a triple.

Fire Caused by Cigaret Kills Man A cigaret smoked in bed resulted in the death of one man early today and endangered the lives of twenty-one persons when a rooming house at 56 North West street caught fire. The dead man is Lazo Manoff. 48. cook in the Corner restaurant, West and Pearl streets. At midnight Sunday a roomer smelled smoke. At 5 a. m. today a passerby saw smoke coming from Manoff’s window. He called Mrs. Lula Lair, landlady of the rooming house. With her son, Corwin Lair, 18, she went to Manoff’s room. The room was ablaze. Young pulled Manoff’s body off the bed into the hallway. The fire department extinguished the blaze. Dr. O. H. Bakemeier, deputy county coroner, said Manoff’s death was due to suffocation and not from burns. He had been dead three hours when his body was found, Bakemeier estimated. Cigaret stubs indicated the origin of the fire. A small quantity of corn whisky also was found in Manoff’s room. Bakemeier believes Manoff fell asleep with a cigaret in his hand while under the influence of liquor. Manoff’s body was sent to the city morgue. A nephew, Pete Chrishoff, 1416 Milburn street, survives him. VETERAN CITY TEACHER DEAD Mrs. Mary Bell Noel, 70, Passes of Heart Disease. Mrs. Mary Bell Noel, 70, of 2432 North New’ Jersey street, for forty years a teacher in Indianapolis public schools, died at Methodist hospital Sunday night of heart disease. She was ill only a few days. Mrs. Noel, retired as a teaeher more than a year ago. She last taught at School 61, 1223 Shelby street. Surviving her are four brothers and four sisters. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. WORK ON PLAYLOT Use of Strip of Ground Is Granted Center. A recreation center will be established between Mount street and Belle Vieu place and between Ohio and New York streets, it was announced today by the Rev. Clarence G. Baker, superintendent of the Hawthorne Community Center. The park board today granted the community center permission to use a strip of ground which has been designated as the recreation center. Parents of children at the community house cleaned the ground Sunday and this week a tennis court and playground will be built.

eventually will be thrashed out again in the courts. Utilities, facing rate reductions, are likely to come in with anew theory of value to protect their extensive securities issues, it was pointed out. The new telephone company has properties at Roann. Twelve-Mile. Mexico, Denver and Lafontaine. All are owned by former Governor James P. Goodrich. FROST MISSES CITY Low Places in Vicinity May Be Nipped Tonight. Scattered frost throughout the northern half of the state Saturday and Sunday nights was light and inflicted no damage, the weather bureau reporteu today. Indianapolis had no frost, but frost was reported this morning from Terre Haute and Cambridge city. Today’s forecast for Indianapolis and vicinity said light frost may cecur on low ground tonight. Frost is probable tonight in the north portion. Generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday was the forecast. 40,000 REDS PARADE German Communists Take Part in Anti-Fascist Demonstrations. Bu United Press BERLIN. Sept. 29.—Forty thousand Communists participated in anti-Fascist demonstrations Sunday. The Communists marched to the old imperial palace,, where they were addressed by their leaders. Fifty were arrested in minor clashes with police.

For Babe doesn’t know the players’ weaknesses as he did fifteen years ago—and a smart little rookie could get hold of one of those slants. Perhaps fifteen years ago he couldn't have done it. Old-timers in Boston will vow he couldn't. Fenway park, Ruth on the mound—and the boys in the bleachers stayed* until the last , man was out.

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MYSTERY CLOUD OVER DEATH OF HIGH MARINE LEADER AFTER WIFE IS HACKED WITH AX Family Disputes Police Theory That Brilliant Lieutenant Colonel Attacked Woman and Then Took Own Life. TRAGEDY JN FASHIONABLE HOTEL Couple in Washington on Leave Were to Have Sailed This Week for Haiti; Victim Without Aid 12 Hours. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 29.—The police theory that Lieu-tenant-Colonel Richard Bennet Creecy. distinguished marine corps officer, brutally hacked his beautiful wife to the point of death and then killed himself, was disputed by his family today, throwing a cloud of mystery over a crime which ended one of the most brilliant careers in the marine corps. Creecy’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Donald B. Creecy of Baltimore, said today it was the belief of the family that her brother-in-law was murdered and his wife brutally attacked with a hatchet in their apartment at the Mayflower hotel, Sunday.

Ch'ounded Bu United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Joseph Rinero, 32, a printer, was a student of electricity, but there was one principle of the subject he overlooked and the omission cost him his life With his wife and three small children, Rinero went into the country Sunday to gather mushrooms. They happened to stroll near a high tension electric line with steel poles. Rinero, eager to display his knowledge, explained that even though they were high tension wires no harm could come from touching one at a time. In order to better demonstrate his explanation, Rinero climbed the steel ixile and grasped one of the wires. He relaxed instantly and dropped to the ground, dead. A ground current in the steel pole had completed the electrical circuit.

LOUD SINGING MASKS JAIL BREAK ATTEMPT Police Captain Lets Melody Continue, but Takes Away Hammers. B ii l ilih 'I Press i COUNCIL BLUFFS, la.. Sept. 29. “I wish I had someone to love me ” came in song to the ears of Walter Brown, night police captain. Two prisoners in*the jail yard sent the notes trembling into the night. Captain Brown detected an extraordinary verve and vehemence in the performance even though it was in the best Sunday night manner of repentance and hope. The captain gum-shoed to the jail yard. There Joseph Zitto and Haden Hale were working furiously with hammers against the wall. As the hole they were battering became larger, the volume of their song increased The men are fugitives from a Texas prison camp. “Sing if you must,” Captain Brown told them, “but I’ll have to take the hammers.” $19,000,000 ‘WRITEUP’ IN VALUE IS ALLEGED Power Firm Estimate Inflated After Merger, Probers Told. WASHINGTON, Sept. 29. A “write-up” of 519.000.000 in the book value of the Carolina Power and Light Company of Raleigh, N. C., followed its merger with the Pigeon River Power Company in 1926, Carl M. DePue, expert accountant, testified before the federal trade ebrnmission today in the resumption of its utilities investigation. During the two years after the merger, the company increased its facilities over §20,000,000, according to DePue, who said its total book value in December, 1928, was approximately §85,000,000. DEATH BLAST CAUSED BY DOORBELL SPARK Woman Killed in Explosion as Neighbor Bears Warning Bit United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—A spark from an electric doorbell, wmg by a neighbor in an attempt to be of assistance, caused a gas explosion that killed Mrs. Nancy Perry, 45, in her north side apartment today. Mrs. Gertrude Penzin, 35. living in an apartment above Mrs. Perry's, was injured seriously. Police at first believed there had been a bomb explosion, but found the outlet from which the gas had escaped. Mrs Penzin said she had gone to Mrs. Perry’s apartment to warn her about the gas. and the explosion occurred when She rang the doorbell. Walls in the Perry apartment were torn out by the blast. SEAT COSTS $265,000 New lork Stock Exchange Place Is Arranged for Sale. Bn United Pres* NEW YORK. Sept. 29.-Arrange-ments have been made for the sale of a New York stock exchange seat at $265,009, which is less than the previous sale. *

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The injured woman was still in a critical condition at Emergency hospital today with slight hope of her recovery. She was unconscious at noon. She was prominent in Baltimore society. A board of inquest to investigate the circumstances surrounding the strangest crime in recent years here was appointed today by General Ben H. Fuller, commandant of the marine corps. Despite a series of blood transfusions, scant hope was felt that Mrs. Louise Reifsnider G’reecy would survive the three hatchet wounds. Lieutenant Colonel Creecy,' 49, assistant commandant of the marine guard in Haiti, died from a revolver bullet through the heart as he closed with tragedy a brilliant, career of twenty-seven years in the maren coips. His wife is 46 years old and socially prominent in Baltimore. Ax Purchased for Purpose The couple had been here on leave since last Thursday, staying at the fashionable Mayflower hotel, rendezvous of statesmen and distinguished capital visitors. No difficulty between them was known. They were to have sailed this week from New York to Haiti. One explanation is that Creecy might have suffered from tropical fever and been tortured by the idea of a return to the scene of its inception. The hatchet was new, apparently purchased recently expressly for the savage purpose to which it was put. .The officer had a revolver in his possession. Joseph D. Rogers, deputy coroner, wh’o issued a certificate of suicide, said there was no doubt that Creecy had attacked his wife and then killed himself. He placed the time of the tragedy as Saturday night or early Sunday. Discovered Late in Day lire bodies were not discovered until late Sunday. A maid, for a time kept away by the “do not disturb” sign hung on the couple’s door, finally called the manager when she was unable to gain admittance. Tlie body of Mrs. Creecy, clad in nightclothes, was on the floor between the twin beds. Her nusband apparently had left her for dead before going to the bathroom to end his own life. She had been twelve hours or more without medical attention, a fact which complicated the effort to preserve her life. Creecy was commissioned to the marine corps in 1903, and at one time was commandant of the marine barracks here. In 1909, when the/Wright brothers made airplane tests at Ft. Myer, Creecy tossed a coin with Lieutenant Selfridge for the privilege of going up with Orville Wright. Selfridge won and was killed in the flight. HOME PADLOCK ASKED Anti-Saloon League Attorneys Sue Lawrence Couple. Suit to padlock residence of William C. and Edna Witten at Lawrence, charging the occupants with manufacturing and selling liquor, was filed today in superior court three by attorneys for the Indiana Anti-Saloon League. ENGLISH’ NOVELIST DEAD William Pctt Ridge Passes Away at Chislehurst. Bn I nitrd Press CHISLEHURST, England. Sept. 29.—William Pett Ridge, English novelist, died here today. Democrats in Rallies Tonight Five Democratic rallies will be held tonight at the following places: 2446 Cornell avenue, 1002 North Missouri street, 427 West Twenty-fifth street, 715 Edgexnont street and 750 Roache street. Two Hotels Burned Bu United Press LACROSSE, Ind., Sept. 29 Lacrosse is without a hotel today following a fire last night which destroyed its two hostelries. The fire started in Frank Medved’s hotel and spread to that of Mrs. Bertha Mach- ; ler. Aged ?lan Killed GREENFIELD. Ind., Sept. 29 Samuel Campbell, 65. was killed when struck by an automobile at*li street crossing.