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BOOTLEG GAS BASE TRACED TOINDIANA Ring Reaps Millions Out of Product Trucked From State, Check Shows. ILLINOIS HEAVY LOSER Otter States Start Drive to Smash ‘lndustry’ on Giant Scale. Indiana is named as the fountainhead of a gigantic bootleg gasoline conspiracy, flooding Illinois and surrounding states, in a survey completed from Chicago today by the United Press. Although Floyd E. Williamson, state auditor, contends that little bootleg gasoline is being peddled in this state, it is the supply base for surrounding territory, the survey indicates. No tax is levied here on gasoline to be sold elsewhere, it is pointed out. Day and night, caravans of trucks filled with bootleg gasoline rumble over the state line from Indiana into Illinois, some fleets making four round trips in twenty-four hours, the survey disclosed. ‘Bootleggers’ Grow Rich Fly-by-night companies, with dummy directorates, grow rich from the 3 cents a gallon they pocket instead of paying tax. When official scrutiny is turned their way, they change the names of their firms, repaint their trucks another color, and the illicit traffic rumbles on. Few thrills befall drivers. One questioned at Danville, 111., said: “It’s as tame as delivering a load of coal, only cleaner. I know. Igo to Hammond, Ind., and get a load every night.” Illinois loses at least $1,000,000 monthly to gasoline bootleggers, according to semi-official estimates. United States District Attorney E. O. Johnson of Chicago said: “It appears that a condition is being created similar to that of bootleggers in the liquor conspiracies, inevitably breeding gangs and lawlessness.” Widespread Violation Shown Governor Emmerson, Mayor Cermak, Attorney-General Carlstrom and the “secret six” of the Chicago Association of Commerce are among individuals and groups aligned against the gasoline smuggler. The survey records violations of state motor fuel tax laws from Michigan to Texas and from Pennsylvania to Nebraska. In Pennsylvania, armed land and water forces are waging war on gasoline bootleggers on a 1,200-mile front. A special unit of state highway patrolmen guards the land boundaries. An armed cutter cruises waters of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Results of the drive already are apparent, said A. P. Delahunt, commissioner of the Pennsylvania liquid fuels tax bureau. Gasoline bootleggers stole tax on 10,000,000 gallons yearly until this drive started,” he said. “They robbed the state of millions of dollars. Now collections are increasing at the rate of approximately $500,000 a month.” Nebraska's problem is different. Grain growers and large scale farmers attempted to obtain gasoline for their tractors tax free under terms of the original package law. Excise Tax Imposed This interstate regulation prohibits taxing gasoline shipped into a state if delivered in the “original package” and used by the purchaser. To prevent this enormous leak in state revenues, the legislature placed a 4-cent excise tax on all gasoline. Texas, with a tax of 4 cents a gallon, also has felt the greed of the tax evader. Six inspectors now are touring the state searching for evaders. Their task was simplified when a law was passed applying the tax at the refineries. Approximately 200 suits have been filed by the attorney-general of Texas for recovery of tax. It is estimated that the new law will save about $2,000,000 a year for the state. A secret investigation of gasoline tax evasion is under way in Michigan. It is known that dilution and bootlegging of gasoline are practiced. The inquiry will determine to what extent. Wisconsin. lowa, Minnesota, and Ohio reported little or no gasoline bootlegging. 'FASTEST SPEEDEFMS PLACED ON PROBATION Judge Also Fines Him S4O For Driving at 85-Mile Clip. The privilege of driving eightyfive miles an hour may cost Delbert Rose. 1523 West New York street, heavily next time. Branded by Jacob Hudgins, motorcycle policeman, who could not pass him on East New York street between Sherman drive and Emerson avenue, as “the city’s fastest drivqr,” Rose was fined S4O and costs, but placed on probation by Municipal Judge William H. Slieaffer Tuesday. Hudgins’ speedometer clocked Rose at eighty-five during a chase that ended only when Rose slowed down after spying the officer in his mirror. RAIN HALTS AIR~SHOW Downpour Forces Cancellation of Day's Events at Cleveland. By United Pres* CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 2—Rain today forced a cancellation of the day’s program of the national air races, which were to have included several major speed events. Officials announced that double events Fill be field Thursday, I

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Famous Flier Is in \Pink of Condition * for Assault on Speed Record

BY ARNOLD MALMQUIST NEA Service Writer CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 2.—Jimmie Doolittle is in the pink for the speed classic of the national air races here the Thompson trophy race—on Labor day, when 300 miles an hour may be reached and anew world record for land planes. And when Major James H. Doolittle, one of the nation’s greatest fliers, is said to be in the pink, he is actually in the pink. He has been training for the big race as diligently as a champion boxer for a bout. His neck is now ready to withstand that ninety pounds of pressure on his head as he flashes around the pylons. His muscles are resilient and supple. Co-ordination with his qmck mind is perfect. For. says Jimmie, there is far

LOVE BROKER’S WIFE GRILLED ON MURDERS Says She’s ‘Through’ With Mate; Denounces Him as ‘Fiendish Wretch.’ By United Press CLARKSBURG, W. Wa„ Sept. 2. —Questioned for the second time by police investigating the “Bluebeard” marriage agency activities of her husband, Harry F. Powers, Mrs. Luella Strouiher Powers today denounced him as a “fiendish wretch,” but denied knowledge of his activities, police said. Mrs. Powers, who previously had reiterated her belief in her husband’s innocence, when he was arrested in connection with killing two women and three children, said today: “I realize now he betrayed me and what a terrible creature he really is. I'm through with him forever. I wouldn’t have him out of jail for 100 million dollars.’’ Police Chief Suspicious Police Chief C. A. Duckworth went to her home and questioned her concerning alleged discrepancies between her statements and those of her husband. She denied she knew anything of Powers’ oneman matrimonial bureau. Police, unable to understand how Powers carried on his correspondence with scores of women in all parts of the country without her knowing it, decided to send City Detective Carl Southern, active in the investigation, to question Mrs. Powers again late today. Duckworth intimated that unless satisfactory answers were received the woman might face charges of being an accessory. “If slu does not satisfy me that she knew nothing of her husband’s activities,” Duckworth said, “I’ll confer with the district attorney about charging her with being an accessory to the five killings.” Address Book Found An address book, which Powers attempted to destroy, was made public today by police, as they sought to determine whether any of the persons listed might be added to the five victims already discovered. The book was found in a pile of partially burned rubbish eight feet from where the five bodies were found. Although the covers had been torn off, apparently so it would burn better, the contents were intact. The addresses include those of both men and women. Names of (Turn to Page 8) Cyclone Moves on Islands By United Press HAVANA, Sept. 2—The national observatory reported a cyclone of unknown intensity near the Leeward islands late Tuesday. It was reported moving northeastward into the Atlantic ocean. Porto Rico and the Virgin islands are included in the Leeward group.

GRAF ZEPPELIN REACHES BRAZIL IN FAST FLIGHT

By United Press PERNAMBUCO. Brazil. Sept. 2. The Graf Zeppelin rode quietly at her mooring mast at Giouia airdrome here today, while preparations were made for her return flight to Germany. The Zeppelin made the flight from Friedrichshafen and across the South Atlantic in approximately seventy-two hours and delivered mail here a week earlier than it would have come by rail and steamer.

nPHE grand super-climax of the golfing season is here—the most stupendous, spectacular, superfluous, scandalous event of the 1931 links season, far outshining all the exploits of Bobby Jones, George Von Elm, Billy Burke, and Walter Hagen—The Indianapolis Times Great Goat Golf tournament. Horn in, now! It> a riot of golfing merriment and fellowship, with fame for the winner and &n galore for everybody.

more to racing a plane than piloting it. The pilot must be ready for a test of human endurance. His nerves must be steeled. For six weeks Jimmie has been punching the bag, wrestling, shadow boxing and pulling the rowing machine. He has eaten a selected diet. And has slept eight hours out of every twenty-four. Tobacco and stimulants have been taboo. He knows that he must be in the very best shape if he is to pilot his quadrangular course in the speedy 100-mile race. n an SPEED flying is an old song with him. He won the Schneider cup race for the United States several years ago, averaging 245 miles an hour. The physical strain was terrific.

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This remarkable closeup photograph clearly shows the hypnotic eyes and the vulture-like features of Harry Powers, modern Bluebeard, who lured love-seeking women to their doom, hanged them, and dropped their bodies into a subterranean chamber.

3,000 MAY BE GIVEN STATE ROAD JOBS

QUEEN MARIE IS ILL Immediate Operation to Be Necessary, Report. By United Press VIENNA, Sept. 2.—Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania is seriously ill and must be operated on as soon as possible, the Telkomp News Agency reported today in a dispatch from Bucharest. CRIPPLE NEAR SUCCESS Man With Paralyzed Legs Swims 20 Miles of 22-Mile Course. By United Press MILFORD, Conn., Sept. 2.—William O'Keefe, 17, whose legs have been paralyzed by infantile paralysis since he was 3 years old, said today he felt no worse for his attempt to swim twenty-two miles across Long Island sound to Port Jefferson, L. I. He left the water Tuesday night, when only two miles from his goal, after battling a choppy sea and cross currents for fourteen hours.

Thirteen passengers made the trip, the second time that the ship has crossed the south Atlantic. Residents of Pernambuco climbed on top of houses and buildings to welcome the Zeppelin, which dipped her nose in salute over the business district. Commander Hugo Eckener reported an excelleift trip, with the only inclement weather encountered near Fernando Noranha Island, off the Brazilian coast.

HORN IN NOW! THE GREAT GOAT GOLF TOURNAMENT IS ABOUT TO START

It's a city-wide event, with no frills or fuss, no particular schedule, no tiresome qualifying, and blessed few rules. You can compete against any other entrant at any time you please, at any place. a tt AND you keep on playing with other golfers as fast as you can mow them down, until you are crowned goat golf champion of the city. Doesn’t that make the blood riot through your veins? Think of the pride and the lame

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He’ll Get Air! NEWARK, N. J„ Sept. 2. The announcer at radio station WOR contributed his bit to the campaign against unnecessary noise Tuesday night. He asked listeners to turn down their radios a bit, as it was getting late. “I’m sure the neighbors will appreciate it,” he said.

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The value of keen physical condition has been impressed on him for years. He has trained all his life. In college—University of California—he was an amateur pugilist. In the speed classic this year, the strain on human machine will be far greater than on the airplanes, Jimmy believes. More high speed planes than ever before will compete. Training for the race is not a matter of exercising alone. Jimmy perfects his flying by flying. Last year he averaged 22.000 miles a month. He is the first pilot to take off, fly and land a ship “blind” — that is, solely with instruments, and is the first American to fly over the Andes Mountains in South America. At Santiago, Chile, he made a successful flight with both legs broken.

Highway Surplus Fund Use to Provide Work Studied by Commission. Use of a maintenance fund surplus of the state highway commisi sion, expected to total nearly ! $1,000,000 this month, to put from I 3,000 to 5,000 men at work on state ' highways as a job relief measure ; was considered today by the commission. The proposal, for which Albert Wedeking of Dale, commission chairman, said he “would take the responsibility,” is. for the state to take over an additional 250 miles of highways in Indiana. The funds are a surplus from maintenance appropriations not used last winter and additional money that has piled up in the commission’s treasury during the fiscal year, Wedeking said. With the money being placed into unemployment relief, it was indicated that the commission will buy few, if any, of the 110 trucks, purchase of which was to be acted on today. 39 Present Bids Thirty-nine truck companies have presented bids that would have cailed for expenditure of $600,000 in the commisison's new truck program. The relief program will be handled in a manner agreeable to the national unemployment relief agencies to be established throughout the nation by President Hoover this fall. Warren C. Fairbanks, publisher, is the Indiana advisory member of the commission for relief. Following the commission meeting, it v r.s learned that Governor Harry G. Leslie was at the Claypool Tuesday night in conference with Henry Marshall, Lafayette publisher and Leslie's advisor. Hundreds Would Get Work From reliable sources it was learned that the unemployment plan had been outlined either at this conference or at one between Senator James E. Watson and Wedeking, also held Tuesday night. It has been estimated that ICO.OOO working days could be provided for from 3,000 to 5,000 iran under the proposed plan, which probably would bring expenditure of about $750,000 of the commission’s funds this fall. According to Wedeking, the plan could be placed in operation in two weeks, the largest amounts to be concentrated in Indiana counties hardest hit by economic reversals.

that will be yours as you proudly step forward to receive the coveted prize! You pay an entrance fee, which is a fee in name only. You pay down sl, but you receive a 75-cent golf ball of the finest make; a beautiful book of golf instructions by one of America’s greatest golf instructors, and the right to play in the tournament, along with the golf tokens which show you are an entrant.

BUT with all this flying, you will find him in the morning walloping a punching bag—or even boxing with Jimmie Jr. Quick thinking has saved his life twice. He flew the wings off two airplanes, and is twice eligible to the Caterpillar Club. The second time, he was only about one hundred feet above ground when his ailerons broke off. He pulled his ship up to 400 feet, tipped it over on its back, unbuckled his safety belt, dropped out and landed safely with his parachute. Doolittle thinks with the rapidity of a machine gun. Dynamic, staccato—that’s his personality, but the background of it is being trained to the pink.

CHURCH USHER ADMITS HUGE BANK THEFTS Used Securities for Stock Deal Margins; Loss May Reach $2,500,000. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 2.—An officer holding a responsible position in the fourth largest bank in America today told officials of the Conti-nental-Illinois Bank and Trust Company how he embezzled between $500,000 and $1,000,000. Walter E. Wolf, 42, church usher, “model citizen,” trusted and respected until his confession of peculations at first estimated at $1,500,000, was taken today from the loop hotel where he had been under guard for questioning at the bank. Granted a brief respite, he lamented his deed, clasping and unclasping his hands. “I would give anything in the W'orld to undo what I did,” he said. “If I could only live the last ten years over again. Promises to Help “But I can’t. But I shall do everything in my power to help officials of the bank recover as much of the money as possible. I regret this occurrence more than words can say.” Wolf was then taken back into a conference room to assist auditors check over his accounts. Associates and neighbors of Wolf knew him as a respectable, upright citizen. He hurried to his attractive home evenings to tend his garden or water the lawn. Evening he sometimes took his wife and 13-year-old daughter Marjorie to a movie, or went with Mrs. Wolf to a bridge party. He neither drank nor frequented night resorts, friends insisted. That fact supported Wolf’s statement that he lost the money speculating in stock and grain markets. Margins to brokers ate away all he could abstract from the bank, he confessed. Had 50 Under Him Until the arrest, Wolf w'as manager of the coupon department of the bank. It was a comparatively minor, but important position. He had fifty men working under him. He had worked for the bank for twenty years. Officials of the bank said the institution was fully protected by insurance and would lose nothing by Wolf’s defalcations. They said he made a complete confession. Wolf, the officials said, stole securities and put them up with brokers as margin for speculation in stock and grain markets. His method, they said, was to take securities after properly giving the customer his receipt and to conceal the theft by also abstracting the records relating to the bond. When it was necessary to replace the securities, he took others to keep good his margins with the brokers.

CIGARETS BOOTLEGGED 2-Cent Ohio Tax Evaded by Purchases in Pennsylvania. By United Press YOUNGSTOWN, 0., Sept. 2. Bootlegging in anew form was reported in Ohio today. With the advent of the 2-cent state tax on cigarets, bootleggers were reported making heavy purchases in Sharon and Newcastle, Pa., and bringing them the few miles to Youngstown for sale. Whereas popular brands of cigarets selling locally at from $1.49 to $1.52 a carton, Sharon and Newcastle tobacco sellers were putting on sales 24 and 27 cents below the local quotations. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 61 7a. m,... 68 11 a. m 62 Ba. m 68 12 (noon).. 60 9 a. m 63 1 p. m 60

TTTHEN you enter, you get ’ ’ three goat tokens —a lilac and two nannies. If you are the lucky cne of every ten entrants, you also get a bUy goat token. You play to win your opponent's goat and the golfer who finishes the tourney with the largest number of goats won becomes the Chief Goat at his course and eligible for the city title play. You can challenge whoever you please. Pick on your special pet

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Did Will Wood Eat Oyster or Just a Clam? Washington, sept. 2. The first oyster to fly this season arrived by airplane from Long Island, N. Y., and was devoured by Representative

Will Wood (Rep., Ind.), in a ceremony designed to inaugurate the oyster-eating months. Dr. Lewis Rad c 1 i ffe, acting commissioner of fisheries, showed the oyster. Skip pers of oyster

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boats arriving at the Washington waterfront from Chesapeake bay beds were skeptical of the ceremony. They expressed doubt that real oysters could be obtained in the Long island area, and one tonger suggested that Wood may have eaten a large clam.

U, S, FLIERS FREED $25,000 Prize Race Looms for Pacific Hop. By United Press TOKIO, Sept. 2.—An airplane race across the Pacific ocean with a $25,000 prize to the winner was forecast today when government customs officials released the airplane of Clyde Pangbom and Hugh Herndon Jr. from custody. Pangbom and Herndon, who recently flew from New York to Instanbul and then continued to Tokio, immediately announced plans to leave for Sabishiro Beach, fifty miles from here, and prepare to start across the Pacific. Don Moyle, known as the “jail or glory” flier, plans to take off this week on an attempted flight to Seattle. It was considered likely the two flights would be started about the same time. Bandit Suspects Bound to Jury Jewell Corbin and Raleigh Munsey, held in investigation of many robberies and safe jobs, were bound to Marion county grand jury Tuesday by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer on charges of robbery, auto banditry, and burglary. Bonds were fixed at $6,000 each.

WARRANT READING MAY BE SPEAKEASY LOOPHOLE

The speakeasy found another possible legal loophole in Municipal Judge Wililam H. Sheaffer’s court today when the judge considered argument of an attorney that no policeman can enter a place before the search warrant is read to the propiretor in its entirety. Squads under Lieutenant Ralph Dean and Sergeant John Haney raided the home of George Wesley Eads, at 940 South Capitol avenue, and while Lieutenant Dean read the warrant to Eads. Haney ran inside to intercept Eads’ daughter who was pouring liquor down a drain, Haney testified today. Henry Winkler, Eads’ attorney,

peeve and win his goat. Then clean up on all your friends Special prizes will be given in the windup tourney, well worth any golfer’s time and trouble. The time is near for the start. Watch for the rules in Thursday’s Times and get in the running. Don’t miss the greatest fun-pro-ducing event of the 1931 golf season. Just watch for Thursday* Times and then get busy.

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PERRY DONATES PLANE TO CITY $20,000 Fairchild Is Gift of Tribe Owner. Through gift of Norman E. Perry, owner of the Indianapolis baseball club, the city of Indianapolis will have its own official airplane. Until the gift is approved formally by city council, the plane will be used under a lease from Perry. The lease was being drawn up today. Perry’s plane is a $20,000 Fairchild six-place cabin ship. It will be hangared at municipal airport, and Major Charles E. Cox Jr., airport superintendent, will be its pilot. First flight as the city’s official air carrier was this afternoon, when Major Cox took off from the municipal field for the national air races at Cleveland, with Gene Haynes, airport publicity director. They will return later this week. At the air races the plane will advertise dedication of the new municipal field Sept. 25-27, and Haynes and Major Cox u'ill offer invitations to fliers to participate in the program here on those dates. The plane is less than two and one-half years old, and the motor, a Pratt & Whitney 400-horse power Wasp, has 182 air hours logged on it. FOUND WITH BOOZE, BUT JUDGE FREES HIM “Could Be Proved Innocent by Attorney,” Lawyer Tells Sheaffer. Although police say he had two quarts of alcohol in his possession when arrested, George Ellis, 459 Kaufman place, was freed today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer because he “could be proved innocent if he had an attorney.” The statement of an attorney’s ability to prove his lack of guilt on a blind tiger charge was made by Relph Spann, counsel for Mrs. Pearl Shields, Negro, 212 West North street. Involved in the same case, Mrs. Shields was alleged to have sold Ellis the liquor, which Sergeant John Welch said he found on him when Ellis left the North street address. Motion of Spann’s that Mrs. Shileds be dismissed because police had no search warrant to raid her residence, was upheld by Sheaffer.

contended Haney had no legal authority inside the house until Dean had completed reading the warrant. A small amount of liquor was obtained from the drain pipe. Dean was not present in court today. Judge Sheaffer continued the case until Thursday, and asked the state to produce Dean then. Winkler promised he could cite other cases where entry of police was illegal until the warrant was read. Police officers many times are forced to rush inside suspected speakeasies and precent employes or *other persons from dumping booze, they pointed out today.

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CHARGE DYING ARE ‘DUMPED’ ON POOR FARM City Hospital Accused by County of ‘Mistreating’ Its Incurables. WOMAN’S CASE PROBED Sent to Institution Without Daughter’s Permission, Lawyer Says. BY* SHELDON KEY Charges that city hospital authorities are committing elderly, incurable patients to the county poor farm where they suffer for lack of medical treatment, were hurled today by county commissioners. County officials said the hospital is using the “poor farm as dumping ground for incurables.” Simultaneously, city and county authorities reopened an investigation into the case of Mrs. Billye Thacker, 62, sent to the poor farm, from the hospital last Wednesday. Allegations that Mrs. Thacker was removed without permission of her daughter, Miss May Lewis, 926 North New Jersey street, were presented to Charles L. Pope, attorney, by Miss Lewis. Already Had Gone Mrs. Thacker, who is suffering from partial paralysis and eye trouble, had been in the city hospital several months. According to the daughter's charges, social service workers at the city hospital called her, asking permission to take the woman to the poor farm. Miss Lewis said she asked them to wait until she reached the hospital, but when she went there found an ambulance already had taken her mother to the county institution. Miss Lewis said her mother is not being cared for properly at the poor farm. Pope said. Miss Lewis told the attorney she found her mother lying on a .raw tick and that she was not given medical attention. The girl said institution heads refused to permit her to bring blankets to her mother. Accuses City Hospital “The city hospital sends us a lot of cases,” Mrs. Byron Carter said today. “We have refused some of them. They bring patients who are half-dead out here and expect us to take care of them.” Mrs. Carter denied charges of Miss Lewis that Mrs. Thacker was forced to get into a wheel chair and

go to the dining room for meals. She also denied officials had told Miss Lewis her mother would have to “eat what the rest of us do as long as she’s out here.” “Mrs. Thacker doesn’t belong here,” Mrs. Carter said. “We have no place to care for her.” The county institution, housing 500 patients, all elderly and without financial support, has only two nurses and a doctor. Already Is Overcrowded “We can’t provide hospitalization at the poor farm,” Commissioner George Snider said. “The place already is overcrowded.” Pope said John Carter, superintendent of the poor farm, told him sick patients “are put in a room and we let the other inmates care for them, giving what medical attention is available.” And Commissioner John Shearer declared the county does not provide more medical aid at the institution “because we would 1 get many more such cases from the hospital if we did this.” However, Dr. Charles Myers, superintendent of the city hospital, said his investigation of the case revealed that social service workers had probed the case and none of Mrs. Thacker’s relatives would accept her in their homes. Myers Denies Charges He said hospital attaches obtained permission from a grandson of Mrs. Thacker, for her removal to the county institution. Myers also denied city hospital aids had sought her removal from the institution because she was “too much trouble.” Myers declined to reply to the county commissioners’ charges that the city hospital “dumped” incurable paupers at the poor farm to die.

At the city hospital it also was said Mrs. Thacker is not bedfast and can make her way around. MRS. RUDY GOES WEST Vallee Scoffs at Kidnap Threat as Wife Leaves to Visit Parents. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 2.—Rudy Vallee and his bride have parted—for six weeks while Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee visits her parents. Rudy’s wife left for Santa Monica, Cal., where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Webb live. She expects to be gone six weeks. Mrs. Vallee refused a special bodyguard on the train even though she and her husband were reportedly threatened with kidnaping. Rudy said he regarded the threat of no consequence. POLE SUB FEARED LOST Nautilus L’nreported in Arctic Wastes for Four Days. By United Press OSLO, Norway. Sept. 2.—Concern for the safety of Sir Hubert Wilkins’ submarine Nautilus was felt today. The last radio message from the Nautilus was received Aug. 29, despite nightly calls to the submarine from Bergen.

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