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CHINESE RIOT, STRIKE DOWN PEACE LEADER Students Clamor for War on Japan, Attempt to Kill Foreign Minister. FIGHTING IS RENEWED Thirty Reported Slain in Manchuria: Tokio Drafts Note to U. S. By United Press SHANGHAI, China, Sept. 28. Foreign Minister C. T. Wang was attacked and injured seriously today by a group of students demanding war with Japan. The attack occurred while the foreign minister was en route to his office. Students jumped on his automobile and injured him before his chauffeur was able to increase the car’s speed and escape. The students appeared to hold Wang, one of China’s most accomplished diplomats, responsible for Nanking’s foreign policy of appealing to the League of Nations to intervene in the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, rather than opening hostilities. Chinese in Mukden, on the order of the government, offered no resistance when Japanese troops occupied the city ten days ago. Climaxes Weeks of Riot The attack on Wang climaxed a week of student demonstrations demanding action against the Japanese and criticising the Nanking regime. Two thousand Shanghai students went to Nanking Sunday night and demanded immediate war against Japan. The city was thrown into confusion before police and troops dispersed the student demonstration. An attempt was made to murder Wang here several weeks ago. He arrived by train from Nanking and several assailants fired at him as he was leaving the railway station. Wang was not hurt, but one of his aids w r as killed.

Expected to Live Five thousand students were in the crowd which attacked Wang. The diplomat's personal servants came to his aid and succeeded in getting him out of the crowd. Wang was reported to be under treatment at the home of General Chiang Kai-Shek, head of the National government and Wang’s brother-in-law. His injuries were said to be critical, but he was expected to live. Fighting Is Renewed Bv l tilted Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Further hostilities in Manchuria have been reported in official cable advices to the Chinese legation here. These advices stated a train was derailed late Saturday by “Japanese agents” south of Mukden, with loss of thirty lives. Among the dead, the messages said, was an Englishman, a Russian, and an Indian. The advices asserted the Japanese looted the train and were continuing aerial bombardment of Chinese forces. Japan Drafts Note By United Press TOKIO, Sept. 28.—The Japanese government will disp.tch a note to Washington today, answering the note of Secretary of State Stimson, urging a peaceful settlement of the Manchurian situation. The note pledges withdrawal of troops from Manchuria as soon as possible, non-aggravation of the situation, and observen''" of Japans international obligations. Nine Killed in Riot B<i United Pres* HONG KONG. Sept. 28.—A state of emergency existed in Hong Kong today after rioting in which six Japanese and three Chinese were killed. , , In declaring the existence of an emergency, the government called out British troops and volunteers to aid native police. Trouble started here Saturday, when several Japanese shops were stoned and Japanese were attacked. Placards w'ere • distributed, urging attacks on Japanese at sight. The streets were not safe for pedestrians and the local police soon became unable to control the situation. AKRON IS OFF AGAIN Takes to Skies in Flight to Test Turning Ability. By United Press AKRON, Sept. 28—The U. S. S. Akron glided into the air at 10:40 a. m. today, less than eleven hours after she had cruised through murky skies on a night flight. The airships fourth voyage, as the others, was uncharted through announcement of naval officials. She rose slowly from her moorings and slid away to the northwest. The flight, of uncertain length, was designed to test the ship's turning ability. WEATHER DELAYS LINDY Relief Surveys in Flood-Swept China to Be Resumed Tuesday. By l nitrd Press NANKING, China, Sept. 28. Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh planned to fly their black monoplane to Hankow today to engage in fufther relief surveys in flood swept central China, but bad 4 weather delayed them until Tuesday. The Lindberghs, whose visit here was turned into a mercy expedition, said they planned to remain in the area several days.

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Mercy Theft By United Press DETROIT. Sept. 28.—Police arrested Harold Gough, Deckerville, Mich., for attempting to break into a wholesale drug house. At the station Gough told them his niece in Deckerville was critically ill with infantile paralysis. Failing to arouse any officials of the company and desperate, he tried to break in to obtain serum that might prevent paralysis or death. Officers verified his story and awakened a drug company official, who sent Gough speeding back w r ith the precious package.

GOLD STANDARD IS SUSPENDED Scandinavian Nations Act to Straighten Finances. BY WEBB MILLER United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Sept. 28.—Suspension of the gold standard by Norway and Sweden and increased bank rates in several European countries were effective today, a week after Great Britain suspended the gold standard for six months. The Swedish state council met at Stockholm and decided to suspend the gold standard until Nov. 30. At the same time the bank rate was increased from 6 to 8 per cent. At Oslo, the Norwegian state council decided to suspend the gold standard temporarily and prohibit export of gold. The bank rate was raised from 6 to 8 per cent. Both decisions were made Sunday, during suspension of business over the week-end. The Danish cabinet will meet at Copenhagen this morning and consider the situation, after suspension of the gold standard by the other Scandinavian countries. The directorate of the Stockholm Stock Exchange closed the exchange indefinitely. It was decided to keep the Berlin bourse closed for an indefinite period.

GANDHI LAYS TEXTILE PLAN BEFORE BRITAIN Offers to Import English Product in Exchange for Self Rule. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 28.—Mahatma Gandhi returned to London early today after a visit to the Lancashire textile district where he proposed Indian self-government as the price for reopening Indian markets for British cloth. “If India is given self-govern-ment, I will advocate prohibition of all imported cloths except the products of Lancashire,” Gandhi said. He said that if political developments and a general election caused the Indian round table conference to mark time he would return to India. “So far there has been no progress,” Gandhi said. “On the other hand tl\ere has been no retrogression.” NEW PLANT TO OPEN $500,000 Coca-Cola Building to Be Shown Public. Opening of the new $500,000 plant of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Ashland and Massachusetts avenues, will be held from 8 to 11:30 p. m.. Tuesday, James Yuncker, president of the company, announced today. Tuesday noon a luncheon attended by members of the Rotary Club will precede the formal opening for the public. The building is a two-story terra cotta structure. Since completion of the new plant, the company has increased its employes from 100 to 125. The company was founded by Yuncker in 1007 on part of the present site. Later he acquired the Coca-Cola Bottling Works andoperated this and the Yuncker Bottling Works separately. The companies were merged in January, 1929, as the present company* MELLON §LASHES~WAGE 10 Per Cent Cut In Salaries Is Ordered By Company. By United Press PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28. A reduction of 10 per cent in the salaries of all employes of the Aluminum Company of America, a Mellon interest. and its subsidiaries, effective Oct.. 1. was announced today. The action has been considered for several months, officials said, but was delayed until made necessary in the interest of economy.

STREET PETITIONER CHARGED ‘BOUGHT’

Another stumbling block in the widening and improving of West Sixteenth street, that already has been delayed fifteen years, loomed before the works board today as rumblings of a fight over materials were heard. Attorneys Robert Efroyfhson and Perry O'Neal, representing R. A. McCallum. Danville (111.) contractor, said they had information that asphalt interests “bought” signatures of persons who petitioned for this material. Although declining to name the persons, the attorneys seek to have the street opening measure delayed due tflHhe alleged irregularities.

DRYS PREPARE TO ‘BORE INTO’ LEGION RANKS Campaign Will Be Aimed at 'Wet Leaders/ Asserts Cherrington. DRIVE ON BAR PLANNED Lawyers and Doctors Also Will Be Urged to Aid Prohibition. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Prohibitionists today announced a campaign to consolidate dry sentiment within the American Legion and labor, legal and medical organizations which voted for a change in the liquor laws. The campaign was outlined by Ernest H. Cherrington, chairman of the board of strategy of the conference of organizations supporting the eighteenth amendment. Cherrington asserted the legion’s vote for a referendum on prohibition was not representative of the views of the bulk of its membership, but was an expression of its leaders’ opinion. “The great body of these exsoldiers who have not found opportunity for expression through their organization will be reached by special endeavors to be made by organizations fighting today’s battle against alcoholism and against the liquor enemies of the Constitution,” Cherrington said. “Special campaigns also will be directed toward the hundreds of i thousands of members of local labor j unions whose support of this national policy is being ignored by professional labor leaders who assume the right to speak for the workers of the country without making any serious attempt to ascertain the will of the millions who constitute the local labor groups.” Among lawyers, the dry leader said the new movement was expected to “afford the better element at the bar an opportunity for personal enlistment in behalf of respect for law and obedience to law.” The campaign among doctors will be the first major attempt in recent years to obtain their active support for prohibition, Cherrington said. Stevens Slaps Wilson By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept, 28.—Henry L. Stevens, new national commander of the American Legion, today denounced as undignified and inaccurate the charges made against members of the legion by Dr. Clarence True Wilson, prohibition leader, after the Detroit convention had voted for a referendum on beer. “The Detroit convention,” Stevens said, “was the soberest of any which I have attended.” Stevens was here today to call on President Hoover. Replying to questions about Wilson’s remarks and the vote in Detroit, Stevens said he wanted it understood the legion did not go on record as w ? et or dry. “They went on record,” he said, “for the eternal right of the American people to give their views on any question. They favored a referendum.” Dr. Wilson said after he heard of the legion vote that there had been drunkenness among the legion men at the convention and he expressed the opinion that the vote did not reflect the views of the entire legion membership. “I wish every one could have been there in the committees and on the floor,” Stevens continued. “He would have seen a very sober bunch of men working night and day on legion problems. Referring to Wilson’s attack on the convention, Stevens said he would make an effort to set an example for dignity for Dr. Wilson by refraining from further comment.

HOOVER JJITS CAMP Returns to Capital With Roosevelt, Bingham. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—President Hoover arrived at the White House at 9:15 today from his weekend holiday at Camp Rapidan. Mr. Hoover w r as accompanied by Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico and Senator Bingham (Rep., Conn.). 1 Furnace Fire Ignites Roof First furnace fires of the year took their initial toll Sunday night when sparks ignited the roof on the residence of F. W. Lewis. 720 West drive, Woodruff Place. Damage was estimated at $750.

McCallum is the low bidder on concrete for the job. Through the lawyers, he said he was informed that asphalt interests paid for one of the three signatures and a second signer for the material only recently received a deed to the property now in his possession. The works board will hear further statements of the attorneys Wednesday. The move to improve the street from Capitol to Northwestern avenues is the third of its kind recently. First bids were cast aside because of improper specifications and the second because construction costs were? oo high.

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Farm Mother Goes on Trial for Daughters Poison Death; Calmly Faces Curious Throng

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Appearing outside the Boone county jail for the first time in three months, Mrs. Carrie W. Simmons walked today to the courthouse where her trial for the alleged poison murder of her daughter, Alice Jean, 10, started. Gripping the arm of her husband, John W. Sim-

An Editorial Why Tolerate This Holdup on Utility Rates?

Any ten citizens may petition the public service commission for revision of rates paid for utility services. The public utility companies of this city still are collecting on war-time valuations. They schemed and twisted the theory of regulation around to the legal principle that they have the right to collect on a basis of the cost of reproduction of their plants. For years they so have collected on dollars never invested in poles or conduits or water pipes. They capitalized the services of the boys in France. They collected on a nation’s patriotism and its subsequent inflation. It is no injustice to demand that they now reduce their rates to fit the yardstick they manufactured for their own purposes. It is not confiscation to ask that these rates be cut at once to fit changed conditions, when labor is taking it on the jaw and the price of every material that goes into utility plants is at rock bottom. They have reaped for years where they have not sown. They have taken millions of unearned dollars from the men who have built this city and who have carried them on their backs as they built. This city can not afford longer to stand for the robberies perpetrated by the electric and water companies. The others well might be included, but these two, with their charges against the tax rolls of a million for public service, must be handled first. Hfiw long will it take an outraged and indignant citizenship to get into the fight for simple justice?

Plane Careens, Crashes; Pilot Is Held as Drunk By United Press LONG BEACH, Cal., Sept. 28.—The drunken airplane driver is with us. He appeared first over Los Angeles, zooming out of the clouds in 4angerous but beautiful dives over beaches and amusement parks. In flying over a lagoon, the plane wheels split the water. Witnesses gasped and ran for cover. Army and navy planes, with police as passengers, went up to give chase, but the careening ship eluded them. Finally the pilot landed at municipal airport here. A deputy sheriff raced toward the plane. The pilot saw him coming and gave his ship the gun again. It wobbled into the air, zig-zagged among 1,100 derricks of the Signal Hill oil field, and crashed into a guy wire, coming down in a tangled heap. Witnesses ran to the scene, expecting to find a mangled corpse. Out of the wreckage crawled Don C. Swepton. 29, a student flier. His nose was bleeding. Otherwise, he was unhurt. “You're under arrest as a drunken airplane driver,” shouted an officer. “O. K. ” said Swepton. “I had a good time while it lasted. And you'll notice I didn't hurt anybody.” As an afterthought, he added, “Did I?”

mons (right), Mrs. Simmons followed Sheriff Wilbur Small, in the foreground, to the courtroom. Her son, Dale Simmons, is shown at the extreme right of the photo. This is the first newspaper picture ever taken of Mrs. Simmons.

NEW DRY VOTE PLAN OFFERED Avoidance of Issue for 1932 President Race Urged. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—T0 avoid making partisan question of repeal of the eighteenth amendment, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill, of South Bend, the old Thirteenth district, has proposed that congress, in December session, enact a repeal resolution, with the provision that it be voted upon in 1933. Pettengill’s idea is to take the centroversial question out of the 1532 presidential election. He would have state conventions ballot on the prohibition subject after Jan. 1, 1933. The South Bend engressman was nominated and elected as a “dripping wet,” but since that time, has attempted to side-step the subject. He fears that if the 1932 Democratic convention platform would declare for light wines and beer, it seriously would affect the chances of the party that year.

AIR CRASHES KILL 5 Two Planes Are Wrecked; Motor Troubles Blamed. By United Press ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. 1., Sept. 28—Edward Diehle, 20, and Charles Lindstrom, 21, were killed Sunday when the plane in which they were fljdng stalled and crashed. The pilot, Stanley Bateman, 19, received a fractured skull, broken leg and internal injuries. He got his flying license only a month ago. By United Press FONDA, N. Y., Sept. 28.—Dr. R. Bartow Read, 33, divorced husband of Hope Williams, actress; Dr. Samuel S. Ellis, 29, Buffalo, a physician, and the latter’s brother, Joseph W. Ellis Jr., were killed in an airplane crash here Sunday, Read was piloting. Apparently he was trying to make an emergency landing when the plane crashed. G. o7p7 talking beer New Jersey Legislators Meet to Discuss Liquor Issue. By United Press NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 28.—Federal legislators from this state were to meet here today to draft what is reported to be a 4 per cent beer legislation act as a federal revenue measure. Th2y are meeting at the invitation of Representative Isaac Bacharach of Atlantic City, ranking member of the house ways and means committee.

Mrs. Carrie Simmons Sits Unmoved as Attorneys Spar for Advantage. BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT LEBANON, Ind., Sept. 28.—Her face lined by worry and her actions followed by the eyes of the courtroom curious, Mrs. Carrie W. Simmons, Hancock county- farm wife, today heard the drone of voices of attorneys and talesmen as her trial for the poison murder of her daughter, Alice Jean, 10, opened. She sat with her face on her hand during the proceedings, marked by heated outbursts of state and defense attorneys. The verbal challenges finally were quieted by Judge John W. Hornaday,, who declared he would not “tolerate” fur-*' ther skirmishes. A crowd of seventy-five farm folk and townspeople, many of whom brought their lunches, witnessed the opening of the technical proceedings to select, a murder trial jury. Few to Pass Test Twelve men were in the jury box when court adjourned at noon, but few, if any, are expected to withstand the grilling of attorneys for the next few days and finally sit in the case. The state charges that Mrs. Simmons inserted strychnin capsules in the sandwiches of members of her family who attended a reunion last June. It was a picnic that turned to tragedy with the death of Alice Jean and another daughter, Virginia, 14, and the illness of others of the party. Garbed in a Princess Eugenie hat, long tan coat, green and blue dress, tan stockings and black oxfords, Mrs. Simmons, thin and pale, took her first step out of the Boone county jail in three months as she went to the courthouse. Walks Through Crowd Preceded by Sheriff Wilbur Small and accompanied by her husband, John W. Simmons; two sons, Dale and George, and her daughter Elizabeth, Mrs. Simmons walked with her head up through crowds that gathered outside the county building. She spoke to no one until she had taken her seat at the defense table, (Turn io Page 2) ARMS PACTJEACHED League of Nations to ‘Ask’ Year Moratorium. By United Press GENEVA, Sept. 28.—The League of Nations appeared today to have reached its maximum agreement for an armament truce under present conditions—a mere request for a recommendation that there be no increase in armaments for one year beginning Nov. 1. The league’s disarmament commission was forced to limits its efforts to requesting the league assembly to recommend to states that their armaments not be increased for a year.

FIVE BLASTS FAIL; SAFE FOILS YEGGS

Binding the watchman and threatening him with guns, four yeggs Sunday night set off five blasts in a safe in the Sinclair Refining Company’s main office at 1502 Kentucky avenue, but failed to get any loot. For five hours Ed Fitzgibbons, 68, of 1328 Blaine avenue, watchman, told police he watched the burglars work, and at one time they untied him while he took a phone order for oil. They rebound him after that and worked until nearly 3 this morning. Fitzgibbons said he first faced the yeggs' guns when he investigated a noise in the front office of the company at 9:30. Ordering him to a rear room, the him and 4

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STATE FUNDS ARE SPENT TO BUY NEW AUTOS FOR HIGHWAY COMMISSIONERS More Than $6,000 Expended, Without Public Notice, to Purchase Private Cars for Board Members. OIL, GAS AND TIRES WILL BE FREE ‘Gift’ Is First of Its Kind in Indiana History; Story Leaks Out Only by Accident. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY State highway commissioners today are sporting new Studebaker President eights, costing the state $6,000 and bought without public notice by the commissioners themselves at their meeting last week. This is the first time in the history of the department that the state has purchased cars for the commissioners. They are paid $lO per diem and meet but a few times a month. Previously they also were paid mileage, ranging from 8 to 10 cents, for the use of their own cars on state missions.

GUILT DENIED DY BOYKILLER Perry Swank’s Trial Set for Oct. 12. By United Press CROWN POINT, Ind., Sept. 28Perry Swank, surly confessed boy killer, pleaded not guilty today to a charge of murdering Eugene DuckW'orth, 70, Creston (Ind.) filling station attendant. The 15-year-old boy entered his plea before Judge Martin L. Smith, whom he had characterized as a “tough guy that I’m afraid of,” in Lake county criminal court. Previously Perry had said he would plead guilty to the slaying, which he said followed robbery of $45 from Duckworth, $44 of which he gave to Alma Long, young unwed mother, and $1 which he dropped in a church collection plate. Trial was set for Oct. 12, before Judge Smith. Attorney John Haller of Chicago, representing the boy, indicated an insanity defense. Prosecutor George Estill, who had announced he would seek imprisonment if the boy pleaded guilty, said he probably would ask the death penalty.

COOL SPELL^BROKEN Warm Weather Opens Return Engagement Here. With skies clear, warm weather was opening a return engagement in Indianapolis today, the weather bureau forecasting mercury reading above 70 by Tuesday afternoon. The thermometer climbed to 64 at noon to pull away from the lowest mark since last spring. The record low was 46.9 shortly before 6 a. m. Heavy frost that did little damage was reported at Wheatfield, where the mercury dropped to 36. Light frosts were recorded in Angola and Madison, the bureau reported. Lowest temperature was 51.3 Sunday with a maximum of 63.7 and a wind that reached a maximum of twenty-one miles an hour at times. Mercury is expected to rise to about 68 today. Hourly Temperatures • 6a. m 47 10 a. m 61 7a. m 43 11 a. m 62 Ba. m 53 12 (noon).. 64 9 a. m 59 1 p. m 64 MUSEUM TO GET PLANE Amundsen’s North Pole Ship to Be Exhibited in Germany. By United Press FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Sept. 28. The Dornier airplane in which Roald Amundsen, famous explorer, flew to the north pole in 1925, was being overhauled today and will be placed in the German museum at Munich. Captain Courtney, British flier, attempted an ocean flight in the plane in 1927, and Wolfgang von Gronau flew to New York over the northern route in it in 1930.

left one of the quartet to guard him. Five times during the five hours explosives were set off in the safe, but each of them failed to spring the inner door, halting the thieves’ drive to the strongbox, he said. When the phone rang at 10:30 p. m.. Fitzgibbons said, he was untied and took the oil order. After hanging up the receiver, the yeggs retied Fitzgibbons to the chair, he told police. Fitzgibbons told* Sergeant Leo Landers that the quartet of yeggs untied him when they left the building. The outer parts of the safe were wrecked ty the explosives. V

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Now they are going to have their state cars and will be provided with upkeep, including gas, oil and tires, free. The state highway garage will take care of repairs. Previous to the meeting at which the cars were purchased, newspapermen pleaded with the commissioners to permit the public, through the press, to be let into the secrets of commission conduct. It was ; pointed out that they are expending public funds. Story Leaks Out Other commissions at the statehouse keep public minutes of the meetings and the department heads explain what takes place. But the I highway commission has a paid ; publicity man, and he doesn’t know I what goes on either. Purchase of personal cars with state money by the commissioners was mad? public today only through what might be termed “bootleg channels.” Yet one of the machines has been delivered to Chairman Albert J. Wedeking at Dale and another to Commissioner Robert Boren at ! Fountain City. Cars for Commissioners Arthur Sapp, Huntington, and Arthur P. Melton, Gary, are parked in the state highway storage garage today. Road Funds Used All w r ere purchased from the Baxter Company, 1142 North Meridian street, and paid for “from highway administration funds.” They cost $1,525 each. Under the new budget, effective Oct. 1, no more than 6 cents a mile can be paid for any car on state I use. The commissioners have been j getting 10 cents, w'ith the exception i of Boren’s Ford, which drew 8 cents, j The new method will not cause ! them any operation at a loss, it was ; pointed out. . It beats the 6-cent | budget idea. EPISCOPAL BISHOPS - OF NORTH, SOUTH NAMED Controversial Subjects Settled; Session to End This Week. Fy United Press DENVER, Sept. 28. —All the pomp of Episcopalian services was called into use today for consecration of suffrage bishops of Alaska and Mexico at the fiftieth triennial Episcopal church convention. The Rev. John Boyd Bentley was selected as bishop of the far northern country while the Rev. Efraim Salinas was selected as bishop of country to the south. The Rt. Rev. James D. Wolf Perry, presiding bishop of the church, w'as named to act as consecrator. With controversial subjects all practically settled, it appeared today the convention would end within the week. The houses of bishops and deputies were ordered to meet immediately after the conj secratiofi ceremonies, to consider J miscellaneous problems. CITY CONTROLLER JURT William L. Elder Kn6cked Down by Auto, Injured Slightly. William L. Elder, city controller, suffered minor injuries today when he was knocked down by an automobile while crossing Meridian street at New York street. The traffic light changed, he said, while he was in the street, and a car driven by Mrs. George Parker, Box 54, Broad Ripple, hit him. Elder sustained small cuts and bruises on the right hand and knee, and his clothing was torn. He was taken to his offices in the Chamber of Commerce building. school recordTooms Depression Booms Enrollment at I. U. Extension Center. Depression that ended the university careers of many men and women has resulted in their enrollment at the Indiana university extension center for continuation of college work, R. E. Cavanaugh, director, said today. With 818 persons paying enrollment fees and several hundred others preparing to enter the classes Cavanaugh said he expected the total class registration this year to exceed last year’s record of 2,000. Curriculum of the center covers cubjects included in regular uni-

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