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WOUND 15 IN FARM STRIKE GUN BATTLE Pickets Are Fired On Near Cherokee, la., as They Guard Highways. MYSTERY MARKS AFFAIR Woman Tells of Injured Men Being Brought to Home for Aid. By l, nUr.ft Press CHEROKEE. la.. Aug. 31.—Farmers striking for higher prices were fired upon as they picketed the highways leading to Cherokee Tuesday midnight. Fifteen were wounded as the farm strike flared into major violence after having been started as a peaceful effort to boost farm prices to what was termed the cost of production. The identity of the wounded farmers and of the men who shot them remained a mystery. So complex and delicate was the situation that authorities refused to talk about it. At the scene of the violence near this small northwestern lowa town today there remained only an abandoned a”tomobile, its tires and body riddled with bullet holes. The ear bore the registration card of Ben Archer. In a nearby residence lives Mrs. Frank Phipps who said that “about fifteen injured mpn were brought to my home at, midnight aftpr having been wounded while picketing.” Violence Is Confirmed The violence likewise was confirmed by Dr. William Wise, who treated tne wounded men and derlared one was so badly hurt he may die. Dr. Wise would not identify any of the victims. Picketing had been in progress here for- more than a week in connection with the farmers’ holiday. By Tuesday night, the pickets had become so numerous and enthusiastic that they were stopping almost every car approaching the city whether it was a truck or a passenger vehicle. Sheriff Arthur H. Tijfon confirmed that the shooting occurred, but said no law enforcement officers were present. "I have only one deputy.” Tilton said, “and I know’ he W’as home in bed.” From farmers who refused to identify themselves came the report that Tuesday afternoon a man from Peterson, in Clay county, was halted by pickets on his way to a funeral. He was reported to have left the scene in a rage. Intense Exritement Prevails Then, after dark, an automobile approached a picket ramp at a garage, and when a log wes thrown across the road a tear gas bomb was thrown from the car, w'hich jolted over the log and speeded away. Reports of the gassing spread rapily through the picket camps surrounding the town, and when a passenger ear approached a picket group near the stockyards, a mile south of Cherokee, some time later, the pickets blockaded the road. It was here that the shooting occurred. There was intense pxeitement in Cherokee today. There were reports that the sheriff had called for aid from the Governor; there were reports that he hadn't. At Dps Moines, the Governor’s secretary said the Governor had received no report of the affair. 14 Injured in Clash ft" I irtril Press SIOUX FALLS. S. D. Aug. 31 Fourteen persons w’ere reported injured today after deputies clashed with farmers establishing picket lines on all highways leading into the city in their effort to raise the price of milk. Sticks, stones and barrel staves were used in the melee resulting when the farmers rolled barrels across the highways. LOVE COSTS TWO JOBS Husband's Flowers Get Wife Fired; Then He Is Discharged. By Timt •* Special DETROIT. Aug. 31.—T00 much love has spelled disaster for Mrs. Vena M. Miller and her husband. First, Mrs. Miller was fired because her husband sent flowers every day to the office where she worked, and “the Arm could not keep any one whoso husband could afford to send flowers every day.” Then Miller, an engineer, was fired because he stopped his passenger train to go and buy butter for his wife. Then his love cooled. Then her love ccoled. And the judge ended it all Monday with a divorce decree.

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YOUTH IS SLAIN AS SUSPECT IN THEFT AT FILLING STATION

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Wilbur Tomlinson, filling station attendant, who fatally shot Joseph O. Lee, early today.

MOLLISON GIVES UP RETURN HOP Scot Ace III; Yields to Pleas of Flier-Wife. B\i t tiitreJ Pr*B* LONDON. Aug. 31.—Captain James A. Mollison will return to England by steamer, his manager announced today. The Scot flier has decided to yield to the pleas of his wife and numerous prominent persons that he abandon the return Atlantic flight. “I have not been feeling too well the last few days and I now realize that I am not so fit as I ought to be to make the flight back,” Captain Mollison said. "The strain of waiting has been simply awful.” Dr. Freeman O'Neil. Captain Mollison's host here, advised the flier to rest under physician's care for a week or two. as h was in danger of a nervous breakdown. Amy Johnson, his bride of two months, one of Britain's most distinguished fliers, appealed to Mollison by cablegram late Tuesday night to gave up his return flight. She had been advised bv a physician that her husband's physical condition was such that the crossing would be extremely dangerous. It was recalled that a day before Mollison began his ocean flight, a golfing companion had called him “in no physical condition for flying.” Mollison. whose personal modesty coupled with his skill in flying has earned him the title of “England’s Lindbergh,” had planned to take off from Sydney today for Harbor Grace, then speed across the north Atlantic in the midget Puss-Moth plane which carried him safely from Ireland to New Brunswick two weeks ago. The brave little Scot was reluctant to abandon his plane for the return flight. He had contracted to make the first round trip air journey between Europe and America. DENIES VALLEE PACT Attorney Says Crooner Has Not Agreed to Pay. By I nittd Press NEW YORK. Aug. 31.—The attempt to reconcile Rudy Vallee. radio crooner, and his estranged wife, the former Fay Webb, will be continued until "I am convinced that it is hopeless." Hyman Bushel. Vallee's attorney, said today. “And I am not convinced of that yet." he added. Bushel denied published reports that the crooner had agreed to make an outright settlement of 350.000 and 31.000 monthly alimony with his wife. Missouri Veterans Want Bonus By Tim.s Special HANNIBAL. Mo., Aug. 31.—A bonus payment "as soon as it can be made with safety to the nation's financial structure" was advocated here Monday by the Missouri department of the American Legion.

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1932

Joseph 0. Lee, 20, of 1032 Gross street, irko is dead as the result of a shooting at a filling station, the climax of an all-day picnic party.

Halt to Fix Broken Cable on Auto Battery Brings Fatal Shooting. An Indianapolis youth lies dead of a bullet wound today after a strange turn of fate ended an allday picnic party in tragedy. The youth is Joseph O. Lee, 20, of 1032 Gross avenue, who died in city hospital early today an hour after being shot as a theft suspect in a filling station west of Speedway City, on the Crawfordsville road. He was graduated from Washington high school last year. Asa result, Wilbur Tomlinson, 24, of 4251 West Michigan street, the attendant, faces a charge of murder, while detectives seek to unravel circumstances of the fatal shooting. While en route home shortly after midnight following an all-day outing, two autos, containing the picnickers, halted in the filling station yard to repair a broken battery cable. A few minutes later, the cars were driven away, followed by a volley of shots from the attendant’s gun. Gaiety as Death Rides Unaware that one of their party had been shot, the car in which young Lee was riding continued on. the gaiety uninterrupted except that Lee apparently had gone to sleep. Then. Miss Hilda Moppert, 16, cf 3221 West Tenth street, riding in the rear seat, saw a pool of blcod on the floor of the car. Two versions of the tragedy were given to police and deputy sheriffs Tomlinson, whose filling station has been looted several times in the last few months, said he was awakened while sleeping in the station by sound of arriving autos. Attempted Theft Charged Looking through the window, he said, he saw Lee seize a tire from a rack, outside the station, and carry it to the car, which then was driven away. The youth was rushed to city hospital where he died in presence of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Lee. Lee's companions, however, declare the shooting resulted from a mistake. As the two cars prepared to leave the station, they told police, Lee glanced behind and saw the tire laying where the cars had been parked. “It looks like we’ve left a tire,” they quoted Lee as saying.# He returned to the scene and carried the tire to the car, they said. Didn't Know Boy Was Shot Tomlinson told deputies, however, that he heard Lee tell his companions : "Here's a good tire. Do we want it?” Tomlinson said he was not aware of having shot anybody. Another member of the party said that William Spaulding, 18. of 974 Belle View place, driver of the car in which Lee was riding, stopped at the station to repair a tire. Occupants of the other car told deputies the stop was made to repair a battery cable on their car. Other members of the party were John O'Neal Jr.. 19, and Robert O'Neal. 18. both sons of Police Sergeant Jack O'Neal; Miss Carolyn Kord. 17. of 54 North Belle Vieu place; Miss Ann Moppert. a sister cf Hilda, and William Russell, 18, of 1042 North Mount, street. Survivors of the dead youth in addition to the parents are three sisters. Mary. 16; Lillian, 6; Luella. 4, and a brother. Richard, 6. Arrangements for the funeral have not been made. Burial will be in Brooklyn. Ind., home of Mrs. Lee. DIES IN HOTEL LEAP La Torte Man Ends Life in Chicago, Leaving Note to Wife. By United Press CHICAGO. Aug. 31.—Ernest C. Probst. 50. La Porte. Ind., leaped to death today from an upper floor window of the Y. M. C. A. hotel on South Wabash avenue. He left a note for his wife, in care of W. E. Miller. 1208 Scott street. La Porte, and another to the hotel manager, directing for disposition of his belongings. Th* letter to his wife was not pending arrival of the coroner.

NEW BANK BILL HELD BLOW 10 HOMEBUYERS Building Association Warns That Foreclosures May Be Increased. LOANS TO BE TIGHTER Company in Jim Watson’s Rushville Riddles His Cheer Argument. BY BEN STERN* While Senator James E. Watson today was discussing methods of emphasizing the passage of the home loan bank bill as his principal claim to re-election, a building and loan association at Rushville, his home town, w r as pressing its borrowers for payments, declaring there would be "more foreclosures, instead of less.” A bulletin to borrowing members, issued by Building Association No. 10 of Rushville, declared that “loans will be tightened” and ‘foreclosures increased” as a result of the home loan bank bill. The bulletin presents a new’ view’ of the results to be achieved by the bill, w’hich, records reveal, reposed in Watson's custody for some time, finally appearing, according to his own statement, when he felt that it would mean ‘ 20,000 votes in Indiana.” Watson Lauds Bill The bulletin issued by the Rushville association followed Watson’s Lake Winona speech, in which he declared that “this bill does something for the little fellow and puts the grease w’here the squeak is.” Watson also is preparing an address to be delivered at French Lick Friday, when he is scheduled to describe alleged purposes of the bill, in an address to the national conference of the United States Building and Loan League. Publicity experts of the Republican state committee are preparing to make this a campaign document. Sent to borrowers by Theodore L. Heeb, secretary of the Rushville Building Association No. 10, the bulletin states "Recent experience in the matter of payments on loans leads us to believe that, with the passage of the home loan bank bill, there is an impression that the federal government is going to carry your' loan. Tighten Up a Bit “This is far, far from correct. The fact is that we are going to have to tighten up quite a bit if w’e use our mortgages as collateral to secure the bank's benefit. “This bulletin to all borrowing members is to put the situation squarely before you, in the event that w r e use your mortgage as collateral for a loan. "There is no censure in this, but we certainly do urge you to do the best you possibly can in your payments. “New’spaper reports say that foreclosures w’ill be decreased. As we see it, they will be increased. Mavbe we are wrong. We don't think so, but w’e hope we are.” Following a paragraph relating to the hours for opening and closing the association, comes the following: “Sincerely asking that your payments be made in an amount that w’ill be satisfactory to us, we are . . .” One of the directors of this association is Charles A. Frazee of Rushville, for years a close friend of Watson and his political intimate. Called 'Misunderstanding’ Attitude of a Rushville building and loan association on functions of the home loan bank is result of a misunderstanding. Fermor S. Cannon, head of the Railroadmen's Building and Savings Association, said today. Cannon also is president of the Marion County Building and Loan Association. Contrary to the common belief that the bank will aid the individual. its functions w’ill affect only closed institutions depending on recovery by realizing on good mortgages. Cannon explained. “The home loan bank will lift these mortgages from closed institutions and set them going again, and will be a long stride toward recovery,” Cannon declared.

M’ADOO HOLDS BIG SENATE VOTE LEAD

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31.—Tallant Tubbs, vigorous young state senator and repealist. will oppose the veteran William Gibbs McAdoo for election to the senatorial post now held by United States Senator Samuel Shortridge. election returns from Tuesday's state-wide primary indicated today. Tubbs led a Republican primary ticket of five candidates with 144.044 votes. Senator Shortridge was second with 116.483: the Rev. Robert ' Fighting Bob) Shuler, Los Angeles, had 84.882; Congressman Joe Grail, Los Angeles. 96,245. and Leo V. Youngworth, 29.672. The vote was from 6.823 precincts out of 10.531. McAdoo. on the political comeback trail, had 139.471 votes, giving him an apparently safe lead in the Democratic column. Justus F. Wardell, San Francisco, his closest rival, was trailing with 76.615 on the basis of returns from 6,823 precincts. DALLAS. Tex.. Aug. 31. Mrs. Miriam A. (Ma) Ferguson appeared today to have won the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas.

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Equality in Arms Asked by Germans Military Force as Strong as That of France Is Demanded. By United Press PARIS. Aug. 31.—Germany informed the French government today of her desire for military equality with France and other European nations, including the right to fortify the French and Polish frontiers and abrogate the provisions of the Versailles treaty limiting the German army strength to 100,000 men. It was understood that similar communications w’ere sent to the British and Italian governments through their Berlin embassies. The Germans stressed that they considered the military provisions of the Versailles treaty has been abrogated by the allies’ failure to reduce their own armies. The German demand culminated two years of preparation at disarmament meetings at Geneva where Count Von Bernstorff first electrified the League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission by demanding; parity in disarmament” for the reich. STEEL TERMED AROUND JJORNER Expert Sees 100 Per Cent Production Hike. WASHINGTON. Aug. 31.—Charles F. Abbott, president of the American Institute of Steel Construction, told President Hoover today that the steel industry had “turned the corner” and would increase its production schedules by 100 per cent by the end of the year. Abbott said the steel industry was operating at 15 per cent capacity now’, and should be operating "at 30 per cent or better” by Jan. 1, 1933. Under present depression conditions, Abbott said, the industry could make a profit operating at 40 per cent of capacity. Predictions that wheat would go to 70 cents and that farmers would keep President Hoover in the White House W’as made today by Stanley Washburn, Lakewood, N. J., Republican candidate for congress, after a conference with the President in the executive office. Chairma'n Will R. Wood of the Republican congressional campaign committee said he told Mr. Hoover today that Republican prospects were brighter now than at any time since the campaign started. “Business is picking up in Indiana,” Wood said. “There has been more steel business at Gary recently than in the past eighteen months.” HEAT GRIP TO BREAK Relief From Torrid Wave Scheduled Tonight. Break in the four-day heat wave was expected in the next twentyfour hours with showers and cooler w’eather predicted for tonight and Thursday. Today the mercury jumped eleven degrees to 86 at 9 a. m. and was expected to soar above 90 by noon. Tuesday the mercury hit 92 for the hottest Aug. 30 since 1881, pushing the temperature to twelve degrees above normal. Hourly Temperatures 6 a m 75 10 a. m 88 7a. m 77 11 a. m 90 Ba. m 83 12 inooni.. 90 9 a. m 86 1 p. m 92

Her lead on the basis of unofficial returns, however, was so flight that all parties agreed the result would not be known definitely until after the official canvas Sept. 12. Complete returns from 246 counties and partial returns from the other eight gave Mrs. Ferguson a lead of 1.8C9 <3Ver Ross S. Sterling, who defeated her tw r o years sgo. The tabulation showed 475.735 votes for Mrs. Ferguson and 473.836 for Sterling. It was estimated that less than 3.000 votes were yet to be counted. COLUMBIA. S. C.. Aug. 31.—Two veteran senators today were assured of a heated run-off primary Sept. 14 as a result of the Democratic primary election Tuesday. E. D. Smith, incumbent, and Cole L. Blease, defeated for re-election two years ago, were far ahead in the four-way race. Returning from all but 190 of the states 1.446 precincts gave Smith, 89,780; Blease, .74,871; Ashton Williams, 42,848. and Leon Harris, prohibitionist, 37,661. The remaining precincts were not expected to alter the count materially.

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MOOR ACCUSED IN NOTES LEFT BY SLAIN WIFE Fear of Murder at Hands of Mate Expressed to Brother. Described as containing enough evidence “to send Hubert C. Moor to the electric chair,” a letter is expected to be placed today in the hands of Victor Miller, Clark county state’s attorney, Marshall, 111., who is prosecuting the former Robinson (111.) school teacher. Moor has confessed the slaying of his wife, Mrs. Marjorie Moor The couple formerly resided in Indianapolis. The Rev. Alson E. Wrentmore. 221 South Ritter avenue, father of Mrs Moor, described the letter, w’hicli was written by her and addressed to her brother, L. L. Wrentmore South Bend. While the father refused to disclose the contents in full, it is said fear of being killed for the purpose of collecting insurance- is the theme. This is the second misssive disclosed as the grieving father endeavors to aid in sending Moor tc the chair. Refers to ‘Other Girl’ Another letter, said by the minister and his wife to have been written May 5 by the daughter, was found Tuesday in the Moor home at Robinson while the parents were collecting personal belongings of the daughter, preparatory to bringing them to Indianapolis. It refers to a third letter which has not yet been found, but which the Wrentmores say was described to them by the daughter as naving been written by a young Robinson girl and containing matter which Mrs. Moor declared she could use ‘any time to obtain a divorce.” The second letter, the parents said, was found beneath a book on a tea wagon. It discloses a fear Mrs. Moor held that she narrowly escaped poisoning May 5 at the hands of her husband. Hints at Poisoning In part, the letter is as follows: “To whom it may concern; “I feel quite certain that some suspicions which I have entertained of late relative to the safety of my life are not without foundation. In addition to information contained in the accompanying letter I will add this. This evening when H. C. Moor came home I hid behind the bathroom door as I often do playfully. “After making a search of several rooms for me, he stopped in the door of his room which leads into the kitchen. “I looked in the bathroom mirror and saw him working with some small object held between his thumbs and forefingers. In a very short time he raised the object to his mouth and blew as if to remove dust. I could not see the object.” Went to Mecicine Chest The letter then relates that Moor went to a cupboard in the kitchen and opened it. On a shelf in the cupboard, Mrs. Moor kept capsules of bicarbonate of soda which she used as medicine. Moor turned from the cupboard to face his wife, the letter continues. “I made my presence known at once,” the missive states, “and he faced me with rather a surprised look on his face. Then I asked him what he had done when he opened the cupboard and he made no reply.” Near the envelope. Mrs. Moor picked up a capsule, but says her husband would not permit her to keep it, and he twisted her wrists to force her to return it to him. He placed the capsule in a pocket, the letter states. Spend Week-End Here Moor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Moor, 24 South Irvington avenue, with his wife, was a guest of relatives here the week-end of Aug. 14. Late in the day they started for their home in Robinson by motor. Early in the morning of Aug. 15, he appeared at a farmhouse near Marshall, saying he and hts wife had been robbed and that she was slain. Confession of the slaying was signed Sunday by Moor, after he had called State's Attorney Miller. SET CAMPAIGN DATE Democrats to Fire Open Gnn in Indiana on Sept. 28. Setting Sept. 26 as the formal opening date of the Democratic campaign in Indiana, members of the state committee and candidates met today with Chairman R. Earl Peters to select the city where the opening shot is to be fired. Details of the campaign are to be worked out together with the manner in which the candidates and speakers will be routed. Campaign department heads made their reports and district chairmen discussed the sentiment in the art, s over which they preside. Heat Victim Dies From Fall SOUTH BEND. Aug. 31,-Levi J. Eaves. 66, who fell from a ladder at an ice company Tuesday when overcame by the heat, died today, the victim of a skull fracture.

Mother Nature’s Greatest Show Likely to Play to World From Stage Setting of Cloudless Skies. FAMED SCIENTISTS VIEW VAGARIES Every Aspect of Awesome Spectacle to Be Charted by Savants While Laymen Employ Smoked Glasses. Br United Pres* Today is eclipse day. Primitive man, terror-stricken in the eerie hush and murky darkness of eclipse, would have seen there, the end of all his world, the awful ang-er of the sun god. hiding his face before the evil ways of man. Today, modern science, reasoning, knowing, seeking to fit all things within its mathematical

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rath .f totality of un's octipao Sweeping- southeast with the speed of a 16-inch gun projectile, the 100-mile wide shadow belt fell next upon the barren lands of Canada, the Arctic and sub-Arctic tundra, the lowly flatlands that reach toward the top of the world. Perhaps some Mackenzie river Eskimo or Indian, beating his way toward a lonely trading station, was the first to stand amazed before the sight.

A moment more and total- | ity was gone, sweeping on | again across Hudson bay, | down upon the north woods of Canada, on to the fertile lands and thence striking the United States first at Derby, high on the Vermont-Cana-dian frontier. Just before 2:30 p. m. i Indianapolis time), the racing shadow sweeps full upon the states of Maine and New Hampshire. Mingled Weather Reports There world scientists have concentrated their hopes and plans. Batteries of cameras and telescopes are ranged about the hills and valleys. Wasp-like airplanes will soar 20,000 feet above the clouds. Packed millions will crowd the roof tops of industrial cities. Radio broadcasters will shout the news to other millions across the land. In 102 seconds, the shadow band will have raced on, out across the gulf of Maine, to open sea, disappearing in mid-ocean, 6,000 miles from its Arctic starting place. These plans, of course, depend on visibility. This forenoon there were mingled reports of clouds and sunshine in New Engalnd, but the prospects and hopes were for clear weather this afternoon in time for the great drama of the heavens. The eclipse, the only total eclipse scheduled for this country until 1963. should be visible to a hundred million persons unless drab, contrary clouds, hide the drama of the skies. Corona to Be Watched If the clouds do their worst, the work of scientists for a decade or more will be for nothing. Their equipment, costing millions of dollars, and years of labor, was scattered from football fields of Maine to golf courses in Quebec to record nature’s great phenomenon. While the scientists looked on with the costliest equipment, millions in the gallery crowd prepared colored goggles, smoked watch crystals or spectacles, fogged film or camera plates through which to watch. Others planned to listen in on static, on the tricks played by sun and moon with electricity in the air, on the story of what was happening between the earth and sun described by a radio announcer more accustomed to describing events between chalked lines on a football field. Many scientists were concerned chiefly with pictures of the sun's “growing glory,” the corona; and the flash spectrum. The corona is the brilliant, dazzling halo that breaks through the gases or atmosphere around the rim of the sun at the moment the moon hides the entire surface of the sun. The flash spectrum is the rainbow-like display which flashes just a moment before the total eclipse. Motion picture cameras were everywhere, occupying all points of vantage, towers, buildings, mountains, airplanes, so that an inquisi tive world dazzled by a sight it could not understand might see that sight again as the cameras saw it..

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patterns, trained its telescopes and cameras skyward, plotting moon mountains and solar prominences like mapping some known suburban town. The moon’s shadow struck the earth at 1:04 p. m. (Indianapolis time). Its first full contact of totality fell upon the Polar sea, north beyond Baffinland, amid the eternal ice. At that moment, its effect became visible throughout the penumbra, the great shadow belt—covering the entire United States—where a partial eclipse was observed.

Many thousands took advantage : of excursion offers to journey into i the small strip of territory to be favored by the full shadow of the moon. Even static, much maligned ac- ! companiment to most radio proceedings, was listed on the program of radio features of the day. At Conway, a bell laboratory group installed a vacuum tube amplifier to observe the atmospheric disturbances. , Other radio scientists at Frveburg, Me., Portsmouth, N. H., and other cities of New England were assembled to listen to the antics of the electromagnetic waves. E. F. W. Alexanderson, of the General Electric laboratories, was prepared to make a permanent record of the sound variations with an automatic recorder, developed by Charles J. Young, son of Owen D. Young. Astronomers from all parts of the earth gathered at Frybuig, Me., in a preparatory school football field where their intricate cameras and spectroscopes were massed. Among the scientists there were Dr. J. H. Moore of Lick Observatory Mt. Hamilton. Cal.; Dr. Herbert D. Curtis of the University of Michigan, Dr. Oliver J. Lee of Dearborn observatory associated with Northwestern university. On a golf course near Magog Quebec, Dutch, British, American and Canadian scientists waited. te nts were pitched upon the fairways. Under the canvas were a quarter of a million dollars w'orth of telescopes, camerS and scientific instruments. CERMAK PLEDGES BEER Wines, Too, Will Be Sold at World Fair. He Asserts in Paris. By if erf Prrtm PARIS, Aug. 31.—Visitors to the Chicago Century of Progress exposition next year will “find beer and French wines sold legally.” Mayor Anton J. Cermak said today at a luncheon given in his honor by the Anglo-American Press Association. .T*!? mayor held a glass of fine old Burgundy aloft as he made the promise. SPEED TESTS SLATED Nine Fliers to Compete Today for Phillips Trophy. By f rifted Preen CLEVELAND. Aug. 31.—Closed course races and further assaults on the world's land plane speed records attracted attention to the national air races today. The first closed course race of importance on the ten-day program will be staged today when nine outstanding speed pilots compete in the $2,300 Phillips trophy race for the Woolarac trophy. State Man Dies in Bos Crash By t m if erf Pm* RACINE. Wis.. Aug. 31.—Vincent Chiabia. Gary <lnd.) building contractor. died in a hospital here today after his automobile collided with a Chicago bus. The accident occurred Tuesday night when Chiabia turned out to avoid a parked car and crashed into the bus.