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DOOLITTLE WINS AIR DERBY IN FAST DASH FROM COAST TO CLEVELAND AIR SHOW St. Louis Sky Ace Takes Off at Once for New York, in Effort to Beat Record of Hawks. CHANCES GOOD TO SET NEW MARK Eight Aviators Leave Los Angeles in Race for Bendix Trophy, With $15,000 Prize for Victor. By United Press CLEVELAND, Sept. 4.—Jimmy Doolittle won the Los Angeles-Cleveland Bendix trophy race today, landing at Cleveland airport on a rain-drenched field. The St. Louis flier brought his Laird plane down at 12:50 p. m. (Indianapolis time), refueled and immediately took off again for New York in an effort to better the transcontinental record of Captain Frank M. Hawks of 12 hours 25 minutes 3 seconds. Doolittle’s time from the coast was 9 hours 10 minutes. His takeoff at 2:01 placed him apparently within easy striking distance of Hawks’ mark.

In hurtling across the country at more than 200 miles an our, Doolittle wrested from Lee Schoenhair, Cleveland pilot, the speed record between Los Angeles and Cleveland by more than an hour. The official time of his flight was given at nine hours ten minutes and twenty-one seconds. Names of the pilots in the Los Angeles-Cleveland air derby, their machines and time of departure follow: Lou Reichers, Arlington, N. J.; Lockheed Altair; 1:20 a. m. Walter Hunter, Robertson, Mo.; Travelair Mystery S; 1:23 a. m. Ira Eaker, Washington; Lockheed Altair; 1:26 a. m. Harold S. Johnson, Chicago; Lockheed Orion: 1:30 a. m. Beeler Blevins, Atlanta, Ga.; Lockheed Orion; 1:35 a. m. James H. Doolittle, St. Louis; Laird; 1:30 a. m. James G. Hall, New York; Lockheed Altair; 1:43 a. m. Art Goebel, Los Angeles; Lockheed Vega; I:4£ a. m. Johnson Sets Record By United frees WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 4.—Harold S. Johnson of Chicago, led contestants in the Los Angeles-Cleve-land air derby into Wichita today. Johnson brought his LockheedOrion plane down on the Wichita landing field at 9:18 a. m. for a refueling stop. Three hundred gallons of gasoline were poured into the tanks. Johnson left at 9:39 a. m. for Cleveland. Johnson set anew record for the Los Angeles-Wichita hop. His time from the west coast city was five hours forty-eight minutes. The old record, set by Captain Frank Hawks, was six hours and twelve minutes. Hunter Forced Down By United Press ST. LOUIS. Seut. 4.—Wilter S. Hunter, Burbank-to-Cleveland air derbyist. landed at Lambert < St. Louis) Field at 12:32 p. m., today, refueled with fifty gallons of gasoline and took off at 12:41 p. m. Hunter said he was forced down outside Kansas City because of failure to fill the main gasoline tank of his Travelair-Mystery plane at Amarillo. Tex., but obtained 135 gallons in quick order, and continued on here. Hunter left Amarillo at 8:17 a. m. More Planes on Way Bv JOHN OWEN Vnited Pres* Staff Correspondent CLEVELAND. Sept. 4—Speeding planes were to roar over Cleveland today as they completed aerial jaunts to the national air races from three points of the compass. From out of the west, ace fliers were to flash past the finish line of the $15,000 Bendix derby. Amateur pilots were to ’’sprint” the final lap of the New York-to-Cleve-land flight, and from across Lake Erie. Canada was sending its royal air forces to celebrate "Canadian day” at the air show. In addition to the three flight arrivals, the air show program today Included army and marine planes in tactical maneuvers, the air transport speed and efficiency race for the Detroit News trophy, parachute and glider contests, and stunt flying by Dorothy Hester and the international team. The women s speed classic scheduled for today has been postponed to Sunday, race officials announced. The women s classic will be held the day before the Thompson trophy race, similar contest for men. BRITONS WORRY LESS Financial Situation Is Reported to Be Well fn Hand. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 4.—Political tension was lessened appreciably today as th cabinet adjourned until Monday after completing its list of Junior ministerial appointments. It wns understood that the cabinet had remedies for the financial situation well enough in hand to permit discussion of other matters, including the meeting of the general council of the trades union congress at Bristol Monday, the day before parliament convenes.

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MURDERS; DONS VICTIM'S GARB Hunt Hitch-Hiker in Killing of Wisconsin Official. By United Press EAU CLAIRE, Wis., Sept. 4.—A dapper hitch-hiker about 30 years old who supposedly murdered Alvin S. Marshall, New Lisbon, appraiser for the Wisconsin annuity board, and then masqueraded in the dead man’s clothes, was sought by police over the northwest today. A posse found Marshall’s body, pierced with four bullet holes, the skull crushed, and with finger nail scratches on the throat, in a clump of woods near here Thursday. His automobile, license plates defaced, was found burned near Farmington, Minn., Tuesday. Outer garments had been removed from Marshall’s body, leading authorities to believe the slayer dressed himself in his victim’s clothing after murdering him and robbing him of the $1,200 in checks he had when he left home. The hitch-hiker Marshall took into his automobile was described as a dapper young man with dark hair. He wore a light suit and a checkered cap, which he supposedly discarded after stealing Marshall’s clothing. DENIES STATENIEN’FtO COPS IN GAMING CASE Scene of Raid not Poolroom as Stated in The Times. Fred Thomas, 920 North New Jersey street, did not testify in municipal court Thursday that he had been paid in baseball tickets for marking a game scoreboard in a cigar store at 808 Ft. Wayne avenue, as The Times stated. Thomas said he made no remarks of this kind to police. Thomas did not testify in the trial. The place which was raided is not a poolroom as The Times stated. The only poolroom near is that of Charles Greenwood, at 812 Ft. Wayne avenue, which was not involved in the raid. Thomas and two other men were fined on gaming charges by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. ZEP LEAVES BRAZIL Soars Over Atlantic on Hop Toward Home. By United Press PERNAMBUCO. Brazil, Sept. 4 The Graf Zeppelin began a return flight to Friedrichshafen at 1:43 a. m. today. The ship, commanded by Dr. Hugo Eckener. arrived here Tuesday completing a 5,000-mile commercial flight from its home base. Thirteen passengers made the flight in approximately 72 hours. ENDS VACATION FLIGHT Marjorie Durant Back in U. S. After 12,000-Mile Tour of Europe. By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Miss Marjorie Durant, daughter of W. C. Durant, automobile manufacturer, returned aboard the liner Hamburg today after a 12,000-mile vacation flight over Europe, North Africa and the near east. She was accompanied by Charles La Jotte, who piloted her Lockheed Vega plane Ariel. The tour started in Paris and covered Italy. Sicily, Tripoli. Egypt. Palestine. Syria. Turkey, the Balkans and Central Europe.

Marts Closed Major financial and commodity markets of the country will be closed from Friday night until Tuesday morning, in observance of the Labor day holiday. Banks will be open Saturday, but will close Monday. Chicago and In> ianapolis livestock markets will be open Saturday.

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Walter Allen Hamilton, 15, of 207 West Ray street, was to have started a business course in an Indianapolis high school Tuesday. Today he is dead, his life sacrificed to prohibition booze that he and three companions drank Thursday afternoon. A man and his wife are held as the alleged booleggers to the teen-age boys.

FEAR WILKINS PARTYJS LOST Ice Ship Heads for Arctic Seeking Submarine. By United Press OSLO, Norway, Sept. 4—The inspection ship Fridtjof <Nansen left Harstad today on a search for the polar submarine Nautilus, missing in the Arctic. The departure was the first move in what may become a wide search through the ice-locked northern wastes for the group of men missing for days on a daring adventure. Other rescue parties were being organized. The summer season is ended, experts pointed out, and the ice is closing in rapidly. A ship from Long Year City proceeded to the uninhabited Ekmann Bay to investigate mysterious lights seen there in the last twentyfour hours. ' It was believed possible the Nautilus party headed by Sir Hubert Wilkins had landed. The Nautilus last was reported in the vicinity of Wide Bay, from where passage to Ekmann Bay is possible.

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CONFESSES MURDER Negro Admits Slaying His Wife With Knife. Edward Duncan, Negro, 1015 Maple street, this morning confessed to detectives he took his wife, Mrs. Ethel Duncan, 32, to a lonely road along White river south of Raymond street and there slew her with a butcher knife. Arguments over her relatives bringing stolen goods to their home led to the murder, he said. The body was found by two fishermen Thursday. It had lain there since Tuesday, according to Duncan’s confession. CHARGE BABY STARVED Physician Lays Death of Indiana Child to Lack of Food. By United Press COLUMBIA CITY. Sept. 4.—A physician who investigated the death of Robert Lee Johnson, 13 months, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jam2s A. Johnson, reported today that he succumbed from lack of proper food. The family of five persons, the physician said, had eaten only one loaf of bread in ten days, subsisting on fruit and vegetables. Another child in the family is suffering from malnutrition, the physician reported. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 58 10 a. m 71 7a. m 60 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 64 12 (noon).. 77 9a. m 68 Ip. m 80

CHARGES GAMBLER SUSPECTS V.’ILL TRY TO ‘FIX UP’ CASE

Charges that a group of alleged gamblers will try to “fix" state's witnesses were hurled in municipal court today by Sergeant Edwin Kruse, head of a police gaming squad. With their counsel asking Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer for a second continuance in gaining cases against James Tucker. 405 Indiana avenue; Joe Mitchell, 410 Indiana avenue, and Virgil Andrews. 4410 North Pennsylvania street, Kruse protested. “Judge, the state is ready to try these men," Kruse said. “They say they want time to prepare their cafig, but that's not true.

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POISON BOOZE TAKES LIFE OF MODEL PUPIL Lad of 15 Is Dead After i • Drinking Liquor on Fishi • ing Trip. ARREST PAIR FOR SALE Man and Wife Accused of Bootlegging to Boys; Mother Prostrated. BY IIEZE CLARK Liquor sold to teen-age boys by Indianapolis bootleggers today took grim toll, with the death of 15year old Walter Allen Hamilton. At the home of the boy, 207 West Ray street, a grief-stricken mother is dazed over the horrible death from alcohol poisoning, of her son who was preparing to enter high school Tuesday. In the city prison a man and his wife stand charged with selling liquor to four .boys who went on a fishing trip that ended in Walter’s ; death. They are Mr. and Mrs. i Frank Davis, 831 South Senate | avenue, held on blind tiger and | vagrancy counts. Walter Hamilton and three other : boys started on a fishing trip to [ near Mooresville Thursday afterI noon. Among the group was Verle Jeffrey, 14, of 835 Church street, for years a friend of Walter’s. Lies in Beating Rain The other boys were Gayle Stevens, 18, of 109 Kansas street, and Marion Hopper, 17, of 942 South Senate avenue, whom Walter only had known a week. En route to Mooresville in their topless touring car, the boys said they stopped at the Davis house, where they bought one and onehalf pints of liquor. They drank it in the car. Before they reached their des- : tination, rain began to pour. The other boys sought shelter: But Walter, ill, lay in the rear j seat of the auto, the rain beating | down on him, his only protection ! against the storm being an old ' blanket that his companions had j thrown over him. Through the rain the boys later drove back to Indianapolis and took the car to Hopper’s house. It was there that Walter was found in a semi-conscious condition. “If those other boys could have seen what my boy suffered before he died they never would touch that stuff again,” Mrs. Belle Hamilton, the boy’s mother, cried today. First Drinks Fatal Walter never before had taken a ; drink and was the outstanding boy of his graduating class at School 12, last June. He was the boy in the class who : was complimented most by teachers. ' He was the boy they urged to continue his education through college. Walter was preparing to con- ■ tinue his education. He had been working with his brother-in- j law, Herbert Costelow, on a vege- : table wagon this summer, but Mrs. Hamilton had bought his books for his business course at Manual Training high school. When Walter failed to return home during 'the rain Thursday night, Mrs. Hamilton became wor- i ried. Costelow searched for him at j Hopper’s house. Costelow said he looked in the topless car and found the youth ; huddled in a comer of the rear seat, j still covered by the rain-soaked i blanket. “When I saw my boy come through the door, I knew he had been drinking for the first time,” Mrs. Hamilton said. “I could tell by the odor on his breath. I j couldn't seem to wake him, he was semi-conscious at times. Dies in Agony “He began getting worse and had convulsions. We tried to get a doc- ; tor, but couldn't. We couldn’t hold j him on the davenport and his agony was terrible. When the doctor came he was dead. “I hate liquor—hate it. We never j had it in the house before or after prohibition. “We believe in laws. Why, my boy said the allegiance to the flag ! at his graduation.” Mrs. Hamilton said she had urged her son not to go on the trip with Hopper and Stevens on short acquaintance, but he had assured her he and the Jeffrey boy would be all right and would stay all night. Mr. and Mrs. Davis, despite identification of them by the boys as sellers of the booze, denied to police that the boys had bought the deathdealing liquor at their residence. In addition to the parents, Walter Hamilton is survived by a sister, Mrs. Beulah Costelow, of Indianapolis. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

"What they want is time to get to our witnesses. I’ve been keeping my witnesses secret, and now they hope to get their names and see them before the trial.” Sheaffer said he “didn’t know what all the talk is about” and continued the case until Wednesday morning. Kruse made the arrests, charging Tucker sold eight baseball tickets to Andrew’s. Tucker told police that he was an employe of Mitchell. Because police saw no money won or lost, Burley Rozzelle and Mike Ferguson, operators of a poolroom at 801 Massachusetts avenue, were discharged on gaming charge* today by Sheaffer. V

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CITY AGAIN WILL BE RAINTARGET Lightning Fells Man During Heavy Evening Storm. Return engagement of thundershowers this afternoon or tonight is predicted by the weather bureau, after a double-header of rain and wind Thursday evening flooded streets, wrecked trees and damaged utility lines. Walter Geiseking, 35. of 757 Olin avenue, is recovering today from injuries received during the first heavy storm Thursday afternoon, when he was burned by lightning. He and other members of his family were seated in the kitchen of the home of his aunt, Mrs. Jennie Geiseking, Drexel Gardens, when lightning struck the house. The bolt descended a chimney, passed through an iron stove, and brushed Geiseking before it grounded through a window. He sustained arm and chest bums and was treated at city hospital. Thunderstorms are due to strike the southern section of the state this afternoon. Thundershowers scheduled to hit Indianapolis later, probably will increase the record rainfall of .84 inch that fell within four hours Thursday. First and most severe part of the Indianapolis storm struck from the west and northwest late Thursday. Wind reached a recorded velocity of twenty-four miles an hour, but J. H. Armington, weather bureau chief, said it was more severe in outlying sections of the city. CITY BANDIT CAUGHT ■ Firemen Trap Robbers in Street After Bank Raid. ! By United Press CINCINNATI, Sept. 4. Two bandits who robbed the Hyde Park Savings and Loan bank of $9,500 today were captured by city firemen. Fire apparatus was driven to both ends of the square on which the bank is located, cutting off the robbers’ escape. The money was found inside the shirts of the men. The bandits said they were Carl Frost, 34, of Toledo, and Robert ' Hobson, 29, of Indianapolis. Hobson’s address was given as 2204 West Washington street. BARE COPS' SCANDAL 4 U. S. Grand Jury Indicts Five Capital Officers. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—A fed- j eral grand jury today tipped the j lid from long simmering police scan- : dais in the nation’s capital. Five police privates were indicted for third-degree brutality. A famous police trial of several years ago was denounced as a perjured sham. Reprimands were Tecommended for several high police officials who are considered by the grand jury to have been guilty of incompetence | and negligence. The indictments came after Presi- ; dent Hoover had moved vigorously | to make good his promise shortly t after inauguration that capital was to be a model municipality.

Fount Fykes, 1625 Southeastern avenue, was fined $25 and costs on a charge of keeping a gambling game after Sergeant Norvel Jones testified to watching a domino game through the back door of a poolroom at that address. Jones said he saw four players reach in their pockets and hand John Poole, winner of the game, something that rattled like money, although he didn’t see it. Poole was fined $lO and costs for gaming and judgment was suspended by Judge Sheaffer in the cases of others engaged in the game. Two onlookers were dismissed.

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Wilson Pledges Complete Probe; Suspects Held in Poison Case. Death of a 15-year old boy after he had drunk liquor alleged to have been sold him and three com--1 panions by a South Senate avenue man and his wife, today spurred law agencies in plans for a further intense drive to smash liquor joints. Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson took the first step in announcing a complete probe of the case which took the life of William Allen Hamilton, 207 West lowa street, grade school graduate. Prosecute to Limit Wilson, characterizing bootleggers who sell booze to boys and girls as "the most dangerous criminals of the age,” said his office will prosecute bootleggers of this type to the fullest extent of the law. Frank Davis and his wife Pearl, 831 South Senate avenue, are held by police today as the persons who sold the liquor to the ’teen-age boys Thursday afternoon. Walter died at his home at 10 p. m. Thursday. Police Chief Mike Morrissey, who has waged a steady war on gambling and booze joints for the last two months, said his drive will continue. Pledges No Letup “There will be no letup in our efforts to bring these criminals to ■ justice,” he said. Throughout the city, it is known, bootleg joints are flourishing, some of them solely on the patronage of boys and girls in high schools. Other places not only sell liquor to youngsters, but even deliver it to them at parties at the children’s homes. High school bootleggers have been i the target of police drives before, I but never have city law agencies ! been ablq to stamp them out en- : tirely. Recently Morrissey estimated 1.000 booze dives were operating in Indianapolis. ATTACK ITALIAN ENVOY Communist Is Captured for Assault on General De Bono. By United Press PARIS, Sept. 4.—General Emilio De Bono, Italian minister of colonies, was attacked today while on his way to visit the French colonial exposition. The assassin, Cavalini Edidio, an Italian Communist, was arrested when he leaped on to the motorcar in which De Bono was riding to the station, accompanied by the Italian ambassador and the French minister of colonies, Paul Reynaud. CAPONE TRIAL DELAYED Gang Czar to Face Court Sept. 10 on Tax Evasion Charge. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 4.—The date of A1 Capone's trial on charges of income tax evasion was postponed today until Sept. 10. Capone had been ordered to appear in federal court Sept. 8, but 1 United States District Attorney George E. O. Johnson said he had ; learned Judge Wilkerson would not be sitting that day. Robbed During Bridge Party A sneak thief who entered the bedroom of Apartment 309 at 3761 North Meridian street during a bridge party Thursday night took S9O from the purse of Miss Mary Thompson, and $26 from the purse of Miss MaiV Kline, they told police today.

Read Joan Crawford’s Life Story in The Times A true romance of the films, with all the color and glamour and fascination of the best screen story. That's the life tale of Joan Crawford, cinema darling, wife of Doug Fairbanks Jr. From a slim, elf-like little girl in a rambling brown house in a little Oklahoma town to the pinnacle in the movies is a far ,eap for any one. but Joan Crawford has achieved it. Joan’s father owned a string of little theaters in central Oklahoma and love of play acting came early to the girl. In a ram- * shackle barn back of the rambling brown house, she learned her first dance step, and there she performed in a make-believe theater to an audience that sometimes was imaginary and sometimes a group of admiring neighborhood youngsters. From there the way was long and hard, but Joan was endowed with the spirit and ambition and pluck of which heroines are made, so she climbed the path to fame. This enthralling story of one of fildom's greatest favorites will start Tuesday in The Times Pink Editions. It will run in the Pinks only. Don’t the first installment Tuesday.

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GENE ALGER, SLAYER AND BANK BANDIT, THWARTED IN EFFORT TO BREAK PRISON Indianapolis Convict Captured W ith Companion in Sewer at Michigan City, Trying to Escape ‘Pen. MISTAKE IN DIRECTIONS FOILS FLIGHT Pair Yields Without Resistance When Discovered by Guards, After Long Preparation for Liberty. By United Pres* MICHIGAN CITY, Sept. 4.—An attempt by Gene Alger. | 23, one of Indiana’s most notorious criminals, and Charles Holmes, 35, to escape from the state prison here, was re- ! vealed when the two were placed in solitary confinement today. A carefully executed plot, which tailed only because Alger and Holmes got confused in their directions while | penetrating 700 feet of an underground sewer, was disclosed.

ORDER COPS TO USE COURTESY ‘Be Models to Visitors/ Is State Fair Edict. "Hey, where d'yu think you're going? Dontcha know any better?” Have you ever had a burly police officer pull those two gags on you? If you have, then it’s the last time you’ll hear them. For, during state fair week, Indianapolis officers are going to be models of courtesy and they are to keep on being that way if the orders of Chief Mike Morrissey mean anything—which they probably do. In a special bulletin to all officers and patrolmen today. Morrissey directed them to put their best feet forward while thousand are in the city for the fair from Saturday to Sept. 12. “Many of the thousands will drive automobiles here,” he said. “Some of them will make traffic mistakes. Use courtesy and show them their errors and let there be no discour- ! teous treatment. “People have confidence in police officers. They will ask about the i location of certain buildings and ! streets. These questions may seem funny to an officer, but these people want to know. “Indianapolis officers have a reputation for their courtesy. The visitors believe policemen are their friends. Don’t let that friendship turn to hate.” DEMAND DRY REPEAL Veterans of Foreign Wars Flay Federal Snoopers. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Sept. 4. Veterans of Foreign Wars, in anj nual encampment today, by resolu- ! tion demanded modification of the Volstead act and repeal of the naj tional prohibition amendment. The vote came after arguments that American homes were being invaded by “an army of snoopers and spies because of a radical departure made in the basic principles of our government while 2,000,000 veterans were overseas fighting for principles of liberty.” SPEEDERS’ EXCUSES ALMOST GET FUNNY One Man In a Hurry to Get to Conference; Woman “Didn’t Think.” One man drove his car forty miles an hour because he was "in a hurry to get to a conference.” A woman drove hers forty-four miles an hour because “she didn’t think about it.” Consequently, E. Earl Jones, 312 North Capitol avenue, and Mrs. H. J. Elbourn, 3302 Fall Creek boulevard, each were fined $1 and costs for speeding by Judge William H. Sheaffer today. Robert Petty, 19, of 2715 North ; Gale street, paid $5 and costs for speeding. He offered no alibi for forty-nine miles an hour. Yeggs Break Into Safe Yeggs worked the combination of the safe in the National Theater Supply Company offices, 436 North Illinois street, and took SSO, D. K. Smith, manager, told police today, j

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i The attempt, made Thursday morning, was discovered when guards noted the absence of the two prisoners | while they still were wander* i ing through the sewer tunnels seeking the outlet, far outside the prison walls. Alger and Holmes entered a heat ; tunnel running between the poweri house and the shirt factory They i dug directly down through this to j a 24-inch sewer, only two feet bej neath the heat tunnel. Captured in Sewer The sewer contained six inches of j water and sewage. Alger was j naked, and Holmes clad only in his I underwear. They started in the right direction, but underestimated j the distance, and attempted to make an exit through a concrete manhole • cover inside the wails. They were engaged for considj erable time at this task, and guards finally noted the disturbance. Neither resisted capture. Alger was sentenced from Jennings county almost two years ago to fifteen years in prison for robbery of the Paris Crossing State bank, a job in which he was aided by his I bride of a few months. State police then said they held two other bank robberies on Alger, and would see that he remained in i prison the rest of his life. Shot Policeman Here His criminal career began in Indianapolis in 1926, when, still a ! Butler university student, he fatally I shot John Buchanan, a Negro poi liceman, who interrupted Alger and ] his companions as they attempted 1 to steal an automobile. Alger was sentenced on a manj slaughter charge, but was freed on parole two years later by Governor Harry G. Leslie, after the gun- | toting youth had served his mini- ! mum sentence. Free, Alger began his bank robberies, with successful holdups of the Matthews state bank, near Marl ion; Summitville, Gaston, and Lafontaine, total loot from which was about $3,000. Held Vicious, Dangerous With orders to bring in Alger \ dead or alive after his bank rob- : beries in 1929, state police, with aid of posses, finally captured him in a w’oods near Henryville in November, that year. His wife, his brother Gail and Gail’s bride were with him. A jail delivery plot was frustrated while he was held in Vernon awaiting trial, and Alger was sentenced to the reformatory. However, he was transferred to the state prison ; as a “vicious and dangerous crim--1 inal.” Holmes was sentenced from Koj komo to one to ten-year robbery J sentence in 1928. VISIONS LEGION POWER Gen. Harbord Foresees Political Leadership in Future. By United Press SYRACUSE. N.Y., Sept. 4—Members of the American Legion must “take political leadership into their own hands and assume the responsibility of shaping their country’s policies, both foreign and domestic,” Major General G. Harbord told the state convention of the legion here today. He characterized members as better qualified to have opinions on dealing "with either our late allies or our recent enemy” than any other body of citizens, and prophesied that within the next fifteen years they would "dominate both the state and federal governments, have a majority in both houses of congress, and one of your number in the presidential chair.” FLOODS TAKE 35 LIVES Ten Bodies Are Recovered at Ponce in Porto Rico Disaster. By United Press SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept. 4. Ten bodies had been recovered from the flood of the Portuguese river at Ponce today, m which loss of hf was estimated at from thirty-fly§ to 200 persons. Two additional deaths were reported from the town of Guayanilla, where the Guayanilla river overflowed. The town is fifteen miles from Ponce. Governor Theodore Roosevelt ordered the heads of government departments to co-operate with relief parties under the direction of Captain Antonio Silva. Red Cross director. The Governor opened a relief subscription with a donation of SIOO. ?

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