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YUGOSLAV Kill ALEXANDER. AND FRENCH MINIS' PER SLAIN

DIZZY DEAN IN BOX FOR CARDS IN FINAL GAME Red Birds’ Star Pitcher Faces Auker, Winner of Fourth Tilt. COCHRANE BEHIND BAT Tigers Face Foes in Crucial Game With Battered Lineup. St. Louis 007 Detroit 000 By United Press DETROIT, Oct. 9.—Detroit and St. Louis met today in the seventh and final gam eof the world series, the Tigers presenting a battered front. Mickey Cochrane, announced at noon that he would start behind the bat. * The Tigers starting pitcherd was Elden Auker, winner of the fourth game. Frank Frisch announced Jerome (Dizzy) Dean would start for the Cards. This is the first seven-game series since 1931 when the Cards took the pennant from the Philadelphia Athletics. All fear that rain might prevent playing of the deciding game had disappeared. The sun was shining brightly and warmed the thousands in the bleachers and in the temporary grandstand, but there was a chilly northeast wind and spectators in the covered portion of the stands were shivering. The lineup: CARDS TIGERS Martin. :tb White, rs Rothrork, rs Cochrane, r Frisch, -b Gehrineer. -*b Mrdwick. If Goslin, If Collin*. Ih Rojell. s* Pelancev. e Greenber*. Ih Orsatti. es Owen. 3b Dnrocher. * Fox. rs J. Dean, p Auker. p Umpires Geisel iplatei. Reardon 'first). Owen isecond). Klem (third'. First Inning CARDS- Martin fanned. Rothrock doubled to center. Frisch popped to Rogell in short center. Medwick fouled out to Owen. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS. TIGERS White grounded out. Frisch to Collins. Cochrane also grounded out the same way. Gehringer filed to Rothrock. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. Second Inning CARDS —Collins singled to center. De Lancey hit into a double play. Owen to Gehringer to Greenberg. Orsatti singled to right, but was caught attempting to steal second. Cochrane to Gehringer. NO RUNS. TWO HITS. NO ERRORS TIGERS—GosIin grounded out. Collins to Dean, who covered first. Rogell was safe at first when Collins dropped Durocher's throw. It was an error for Collins. Greenberg fanned. Owen forced Rogell. Martin to Frisch. NO RUNS. NO HITS. ONE ERROR.

TODAY'S ESCAPE

Dona van Young, 19-year-old Indianapolis youth, escaped from the Indiana state farm at Putnamville Sunday, according to word received here by police today from farm authorities. Young had been sentenced in this county for vehicle taking. TWIST OF FATE SAVES ALEXANDER’S QUEEN She Would Have Been in Car With King, but for Seasickness. By l nitril Frrtt ROME. Oct. 9.—Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, was informed of the king's death by telegraph today at a station where the Oriente express was halted by signal. She was expected to continue to Dijon, where the train arrives late tonight. She had planned to join her husband there for a triumphal entry into Pans Wednesday. The queens susceptibility to seasickness. which prompted her to travel by train rather than ship, probably saved her life as otherwise she would have been in the automobile with the king. FRENCH CABINET MEETS Session Called Hurriedly After Double Assassination. By l n Ut4 Prns PARIS. Oct. 9— The cabinet was summoned to a hurried meeting today after receipt of news that King Alexandr of Yugoslavia, had been assassinated on French soil at. Marseilles.

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CROWN PRINCE PETAR NOT ADVISED AT ONCE OF FATHER'S MURDER

[ By I nitt/1 Press COBHAM. Surrey, England. Oct. . —Crown Prince Petar, who succeeds to the Jugoslavian throne, apiparently was not immediately ad- | vised of the assassination of his father. The headmaster at Sandroyd | school, which the prince attends, said that he had "not been advised” officially of the king's death. LABOR BACKS 30-HOUR WEEK A. F. of L. Acclaims Green Program; Industrial Unions Proposed. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 9 Shoulder to shoulder, mine worker John L. Lewis and textile worker Francis J. Gorman worked today to j steer the American Federation of Labor from its traditional place among craft unions into the somewhat unexplored field of union organization by industries. The problem was the next big question before the fifty-fourth annual convention which unanimously and enthusiastically committed organized labor to ask and work •eternally, immovably and uncompromisingly” for acceptance by industry and government of the thirtyhour work week. The rousing roar of acclaim the 433 delegates gave the six-hour day, five-day-week campaign sponsored by President William Green was sweet music to the ears of the federation chieftain. But not so sweet was the evidence of growing strength in the Lewis-Gorman campaign to turn the federation at least partially from emphasis on craft unions to greater activity in organizing industrial unions. The issue was approaching a showdown vote today as the convention assembled. The chances were that it will be made a special older of busines. the procedure already planned but not taken in another important controversial matter—the schism in the building trades department. YOUNG SLAYER DIES IN ELECTRIC CHAIR Coffin Jests With Guards on Death March. By United Press MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., Oct. 9. Edward Coffin. 22-year-old killer of Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick of Scottsburg. Ind., died in the electric chair of the Indiana state prison at 12:10 a m. today. The youth almost was flippant in his comments to guards who led him from the death cell at midnight and strapped him in the death chair. “Don't make this slow on my account.” he said. Coffin pleaded guilty to shooting Amick in resisting arrest after he and two companions drove away from a filling station without paying for gasoline. John Pfaffenberger. Seymour policeman, also was killed in the pursuit.

Alexander One of World’s Few Absolute Monarchs Acted as Dictator With Military Support; Only One Political Party in Country: Communism Nonexistent. Hrrr is a inscription of Yaroslavl*. whoso Kinr Alexander was slain in Paris, as contained in the “Outline of Governments.” Written this year by Kojer Shaw, foreirn editor of Review of Reviews. . a a a Yugoslavia is torn by a race question—a conflict between her two branches of the southern Slavs, the Serbs and the Croats. Serbia won her independence from the Turks in the nineteenth century, and she received kindred Cioatia from the defunct Austria-Hungary at the close of the World war. Slavonia. Mohammedan Bosnia, and Montenegro were other Serbian annexations at the time, and continuous friction resulted from the union of divergent civilizations.

Croatia was Catholic and western in its alphabet and viewpoint: while more primitive Serbia was orthodox and accustomed to the eastern alphabet and eastern ways. Croatia looked to Rome and Vienna for her culture, and Serbia to Constantinople and Moscow in matters of life and faith. Croatia, dominated by the Serbs, longed for federal autonomy, and some Croats even favored independence. Parliament became a beargarden in which violence was in general use, and in 1929 the king declared a dictatorship of national unity. Separatism was rigorously banned, and censorship under a po-

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BOYCE RESIGNS SECRETLY AS CHIEMAILER Quit Several Days Before Break, Times Probe Reveals. MARKEY 1$ GIVEN POST Spectacular Escape Could Have Been Prevented, Experts Say. The spectacular break of four of the nation’s most desperate criminals from the Marion county jail Saturday night might have been prevented. This was learned today by The Indianapolis Times in an investigation which also revealed that John Boyce, for some time chief jailer, had resigned and that news of his resignation had been kept from the public. Charles Markey, former turnkey, who was in responsible control of the jail at the time of Saturday night’s break, had been promoted to the position of jailer. The Times was told. The secrecy surrounding the resignation of Mr. Boyce was penetrated by The Times during an investigation at the jail of conditions surrounding the escape—and recapture—of Ernest (Red) Giberson, confessed sub-machine gun slayer of Police Sergeant Lester Jones; Roy Love, robber and alleged •shotgun bandit; August Cummings, small-time stickup man, and Theodore Hulbert, wanted by the goverment for aiding Theodore Blanton to escape from the army prison at Governors Island. N. Y. The jail break. The Times’ investigation indicates, might have been prevented had the executive officers in charge counted their prisoners immediately after evening mess Saturday instead of continuing the practice of making the population count only as the men filed into the jail mess hall. Failure to take jail counts after the prisoners have returned to their cells made it possible, experts declared, for Giberson and his three desperate companions to open a barred door leading to a corridor and remove* four three-quarter-inch steel bars with a hack saw before they were discovered. A count of the prisoners, after the evening mess, while they were in their cells, would have uncovered immediately the almost successful jail delivery plot. Such cell counts are taken in well regulated prisons and jails while prisoners stand rigidly in front of their cell doors, penal experts declared. Another factor contributing to the jail delivery was the complete collapse of the jail system of inspecting packages brought in for prisoners. Mr. Markey. newly appointed chief jailer, said pumice stone, used by the four desperadoes to aid in the quick cutting of The steel bars and also to muffle the sound of the three-quarters hacksaw blade as it ate its way through the bars, had been smuggled into the jail, presumably in the bottom of a bag of coffee. Mr. Markey admitted that the usual custom of inspecting packages brought to the jail inmates, wajs to empty coffee into another bag from (Turn to Page Two)

lice regime became the order of the day. There w’as only one political party permitted in Yugoslavia under the dictatorship, the Croatian nationalists and Serbian liberals being forbidden to organize in opposition. The king. Alexander I, acted as dictator with military support—and his action made him one of the few absolute monarchs left in our prosaic world. Prior to the dictatorship. Serbia had functioned as a peasant democracy similar to Bulgaria. There is no aristocracy, and bourgeois capitalism is not highly (Turn to Page Two)

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Assassinations Likely to Throw Europe Into War Bloody Scene at Marseilles May Bring New Conflict to Continent Once Again. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 9—Old-fashioned diplomacy was to have come into its own a£ain today with the ill-fated arrival in Marseilles of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia for a crucial visit to his ally, France. The assassination of Alexander and Louis Barthou may plunge Europe into another bloody and bitter war, and even though all is confusion in Europe at the moment, fear already has gripped all of the continental capitals. As prince of Serbia. Alexander lived for a time in France, where he made many friends. But this was the first the French were to havet

seen of him since he succeeded to his father's throne. Nor was it likely for him to be so far from Belgrade were it not for the fact that once more Europe is divided into armed camps and it was important for Yugoslavia to come out more definitely into the open. Italy and Yugoslavia have been ready to fly at each other's throat. Only Saturday Premier Mussolini thundered another warning at Yugoslavia, telling her that their relations, already bad, would get worse unless Yugoslavs quit calling Italians cowards. France and Yugoslavia have been allies. So have been France and the Little Entente formed by Yugoslavia, Rumania and Czechoslovakia. And only the other day word came that France was on the point of a rapprochement with Italy which bids well to be one of the most significant moves since the armistice. At Odds With Italy Unless France, therefore, could contrive to bring Italy and Yugoslavia together—at least to the extent of a truce—she feared herself forced to chose on foregoing the budding entente with Italy or suffer the estrangement of an important Balkan' ally. Yugoslavia has been convinced that Italy intends not only to attack her some day, but plans to extend the sway of Rome into southeastern Europe. Mussolini's behavior at the time of the Nazi coup in Austria was hailed/in Yugoslavia as further proof of his grandiose ambitions. When he massed his troops on the Austrian border, Belgrade quickly let it be known that Rome must keep a firm hand on those troops, while Rome intimated that the Austrian Nazis actually had done their plotting on Yugoslav soil. Since then their relations have soured steadily. Their newspapers have waged a ceaseless war against each other, culminating in the Yugoslavs blaming Italy's defeat at Caporetto on cowardice. Both Italy and the Little Entente are of vital importance to France if France is to carry out her present foreign policy, the object of which is to build a wall about Nazi Germany. All May Be Lost Without Italy and the Little Entente the wall would not be'-com-plete. French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou and King Alexander were expected to thresh out these matters. If anybody could bring peace to the troubled waters of the Adriatic, Barthou could. He was a past grand master at old-fashioned diplomacy, and old-fashioned diplomacy once more was in vogue, now that the post-war peace machinery is in a state of quasi-collapse. Already Barthou seemed close to success. His rapid visits, one after the other, to London, Warsaw, Prague, Bucharest and Budapest were not in vain. An eastern locarno which would pull Hitler's

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teeth in the east as the existing Locarna pacts do in the west was in the making. But today King Alexander and Louis Barthou were assassinated on French soil and almost everything Barthou has done may come to naught but war.

KING'S KILLING SENDS MARKETS TUMBLING Franc Falls, Pound Gains After Twin Tragedy. By United Press NEW YORK. Oct. 9.—Killig of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Foreign Minister Barthou of France had immediate repercussions in markets here today. Stocks declined on increased selling, while the pound sterling, weak in the morning, leaped ahead as traders exchanged French francs for the British unit. At noon the pound was quoted at s4.B9'* and on news of the assassination it jumped to $4.92 3 4. MILK CONFERENCE" SET Polk Company President to Attend Cleveland Sessions. Samuel O. Dungan. Polk Milk Company president, will attend the convention of the International Association of Milk Dealers Oct. 15, 16 and 17 in Cleveland, 0., as a member of the advisory council.

Assassinations Horrify State’s Foreign Experts Predictions Tragedy May Lead to War Made by Butler Professor; Dr. Oxnam ‘Amazed.’

Expressions of apprehension and amazement were made here today by persons well acquainted with the European situation when informed by The Times of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. “Yugoslavia slowly has been drawing away from France and drawing closer to Germany as result of negotiation of a friendship treaty between France and Italy,” declared A. D. Beeler, Butler university Eu-

ropean history professor. “The Yugoslavs fear their friend France is about to abandon them in favor of Italy, and they prefer an alliance with the German Nazis because Germany is against Italy. “Italy has had ambitions to expand in the Balkans and virtually has had a protectorate over Albania for several years. “In the last few months, Albania and Yugoslavia have been drawing closer together. Italian influence in Abania practically has been ended, antagonizing the Italians. “Today the Yugoslavs are about to form a union with Abania because of the fear of Italy rl ambi-

King Alexander With His Son Prince Petar. By United Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 9.—Crown Prince Petar, 11-year-old son of the slain king, will succeed his father on the throne. He is now in school at Eton, England. He probably will be proclaimed king within a few days."™

JERSEY ASKS FOR HAUPTMANN Lindbergh Identifies Alien by Voice as Ransom Collector. By United Press TRENTON. N. J.. Oct. 9.—New York and New Jersey officials were to confer with Governor A. Harry Moore this afternoon to discuss the earl of Bruno R. Hauptmann from the Bronx to this state to stand trial for murdering Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, state police head, announced today. New Jersey authorities, moving swifty to get custody of the unemployed German carpenter, held in the Bronx for extorition, invited Samuel Foley, Bronx county district attorney, and several assistants to the conference. The Bronx county men will meet with Governor Moore, Colonel Schwarzkopf, New Jersey’s attorneygeneral; David T. Wilentz and Joseph A. Lanigan, assist attorneygeneral, the police superintendent said. Hauptmann was indicted by the Hunterdon county September grand jury yesterday after its twenty three members had heard the testimony of a score of witnesses and returned several true bills not connected with the Hauptmann case. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, who identified Hauptmann by his voice as the man in St. Raymond's cemetery the night the $50,000 ransom money was paid, appeared briefly before the jury. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 57 10 a. m 74 7 a. m 59 11 a. m 76 Ba. m 64 12 (noon)., 78 9 a. m 71

tions. The Yugoslavs appear to be desperate and determined to come together with Germany. “This might lead to war. with Yugoslavia and Albania, and possibly Germany, aligned against Italy,” he added. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, DePauw university president, who has just returned to Greencastle from an extensive study of political conditions in Europe, said that he was amazed that the assassination should have occurred in France. “If the incident should have happened in Italy almost anything (Turn to Page Two).

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TWO GENERALS AND ASSASSIN ALSO KILLED Murders on Dock Front of Marseilles May Provoke Bloody New War in Europe, Is Fear on Continent. By United Press MARSEILLES, France, Oct. 9.—General Dimitriejevitch, marshal of the court of Kinj? Alexander, who was part of the king’s escort, died of bullet wounds received during the assassination. By United Press MARSEILLES, France, Oct. 9.=King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, Foreign Minister Louis Barthou of France, and General George, a French officer, were assassinated here late this afternoon. Admiral Berthelot, the French maritime prefect at Toulon, was critically wounded. The shooting occurred shortly after King Alexander had landed from a Yugoslav warship. His mis-* sion was considered so important that the harbor was filled with French warships with the greatest of pomp on all sides. The fatal shots echoed through Europe with a political repercussion that 2’ecalled the assassination at Sarajevo in 1914 of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, leading to the World war. European affairs, with France, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and the other members of the Little Entente juggling for a balance of power, undoubtedly will be affected profoundly by the assassinations. As the king took his place in an official automobile alongside Barthou, the assassin—just as in the Sarajevo incident —stepped to the running board and fired shots at the king. A chauffeur deflected his aim by a blow of his fist after the first few shots had wounded the king mortally. Barthou, his arm broken by a bullet, tried to shield the king, and was wounded fatally in the abdomen. The king fell unconscious on the floor of the car, bleeding from the mouth and chest. He was taken to the Marseilles police prefecture, where he died at about 5 p. m. Barthou died at 5:45 p. m. after a blood transfusion had failed. The assailant belonged to a group of youthful political exiles who opposed Alexander’s dictatorial methods in Yugoslavia. At least four bullets entered the king’s chest and head. The only bullet to strike Barthou penetrated his arm. About eight shots were fired. Queen Not With King The queen fortunately was not with the king, being en route to Paris on the Orient express through Italy. After the shooting, police with sabers charged the crowd, which had surged forward in maddened excitement. The throng tramped on scores, including the body of the assassin, who was brought down by sabers and a police bullet. Three women spectators and two mobile guards were wounded seriously, making the total four dead and six critically wounded, besides many with minor injuries. The dead were the king, Barthou, General George, and the assassin. Assassin of Croatian Origin The assassin was Kalem Petrus, a young Zagreb business man of Croatian origin, who belonged to a secret political society pledged to kill the king because of his dictatorial methods. The Croatians alleged the king was destroying Croatian autonomy. Much in the same manner as the Sarajevo assassination, the youth who did the killing stepped on the running board of the slowly moving car—fourth in the procession—and began pulling the trigger of his pistol scarcely an arm’s length from the king. A shot struck the youth but he continued shooting until he fell mortally -wounded by the shot and a swinging police saber. The shots came so rapidly that only by quick action did a cavalry guard reach him and bring his saber down in a slashing blow on the gunman’s head before the last bullets had been fired. The crowd, in great excitement and anger, crushed the guards and the assassin against the royal car. Scores were trampled, including the assassin, who fell under the guards’ attack.

Nearly every nation in Europe was involved directly or indirectly in the king's visit.

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