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LOME THIRTY-SIX

GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7,

No. 253.

ATE WINS IN PARRISH

TRIAL TODAY

—

U FINDS LOCAL MAN Ol IE V TV OF FORNICATION

charge.

in\o elect Roi l ted INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 7-(UP)— Mr. and Mrs. Elmer 1. French arc dead a.- a re.-ult of electrocution. French was stringing a ladio aerial when it came into contact with a tension line carrying 2,000 volts. Mr>. French in an attempt to ail her husband, grasped him and also died of the shock.

WINDY CITY DETECTIVES TO TOE MARK

1 DEN I'll ^ HOD\

ITALIAN SUB SINKS AFTER HITTING BOAT

I .'IN El

INEj TWENTY

Return Verdict At 2 P. M Vnd V Iggesi Penalty To Special

\ J Judge Murphy.

EJEt TMEN I SI IT FILED Corwin & Gillen are the attorney.-

DAY TERM , in an ejectment -uit fil. Tuesday 10

' morning in the office of the county clerk. The complaint wa- filed by John P.

«hat

^ erdict of guilty was returned * Vy afternoon by the jury which the third trial of Walt' i Par yyiuth Greencu.-tle man, charged ornication. The jurors re f to the court room at 2 p. in. commended a fine of $10 and ind a jail sentence of twenty

the Federal Land Hank of Louisville against Henry Otis Batman. The suit alleges that the piaintif is enitled to a piece of property of lie de-

fendant in Putnam county. BOARD MEETS TO CONSIDER TAX INCREASE

BK KNELL, Imi, Aug. 7-(UP) Identity of the m.'tt slain in a gun duel with Patrolman Roy Horn, early Monday morning has been established as that of Spencer Cooper,

— 28, former Vincennes policeman, un-

l lilt \G( > PLAIN! LOTHES <11111 <h i parole from tl • state x toimn- si mi VKINE

GIVES Ills ASSISTANTS 1 tory at Pendleton, to which he wa

SI Rill ORDERS. interned for auto theft. Police are making an investiga-!

,, ... lion a- a result of the fatal -hoot-

’E Oil GANG WAR , , . CREW AL VE

mg, into what they believe is an

' ! auo theft ring and have taken into " Stege Jells Officers Just , u>tody, Ashel 1 ii . _’o, Hicknell, Italian Go\ernincut

believed to have bien Cooper’s aid in

stealing automobile

\M> HI > | |lu^ EK

< oLi.mi:. i ndersi: \ ( u vi t

GOES TO H<U TOM.

He Expects of Them

The Future.

AND 1IOPEIT I

rneys for Parrish announced ..e verdict that they would apOS ip case to the Putnam circuit

STATE 1 A\ BOARD RE( DMMENDS 5 PERCENT RAISE

1()n ^efore Judge James P. Hughes. IN COl N IT. case went to the jury at 11 fter both the state and the de- The Putnam County Hoard of He

•nviad pieacned arguments. Spec view met Tuesday morning at a s|>t

(Copyright 11I2S Hy United Press) CHICAGO, Aug. 7.—The 1,000 detectives who can make or break the program for ridding Chicago of the gangster, racketeer and hoodlum were told in sharp, commanding words today to get started. “More action and less words— and every man on his toes,’’ John 1’. Stege, new dcput.i commissioner of detectives, ordered, “Duty first and

always.”

That ultimatum had a familiar ring to the plainclothes men under Stege. They had heard it before af-

COURTNEY IN GRAPHIC TALE OF HIS TRIP

PILOI "i ILL-I VIED TRANS- \ 11 \N 11< Pl.ANi III St R1B1 S DLSAMKK.

Rushe- tul To

Scene of Collision In Effort To

Rescue Trapped Men.

TOI III! l I, SEt RE I V R\ O'NEILI , Neb., Aug. (i. (UP) — IVelve-year-old Dorothy McDonald is believed to be the youngest private secretary and office stenographer in the world. Dorothy i- employed by, Justice of the Peace Campbell, who j is also an insurance agent, j Dorothy doesn’t waste time powdering and primping, declared Campbell, and she i- the most efficient office j a-sistant I’ve been able to find. Mr. Campbell is 7b years old. Dorothy types her employer’s in-j surance policii's, court records, a:d testimony taken in municipal court. I Small, even for her age, she is acourjate and competent, Campbell said.

FUNERac of J. H. STRAIN HELD TUESDAY

PRUMINEM I ARMER AND FRI M GROWER "I " VSHINGs TON IMP. BURIED. < Dl. V III Oil l HR FI) ON FRIDAY

ROME, Aug. 7. (I P)— Twentyone men were trapped more than 100 feet below the surface of the Adriatic sea today in the Italian submarine F-ll which went to the bottom after ramming the cruiser .Mis

suri.

The trapped men arc believed safe for they are maintaining contact with the scout ship Hrindi i nearby. Divers succeeded this morning in in ertmg air tubes into the ubmeisihle.

MISSOURI HAS WET DRY TEST AT PRIMARIES

Mr. Strain Had Long Been A dent <M Putnam County. j Widely Known Vpple Grower.

Real.

RT I P It \( l\S VM l-PROIIIHI-I K»N < VNDID \ TE FOR in.'s

SK V I’ IN SEN V I E.

NEW TURK It IIS FLIERS

rial session to consider the five

ge Matt J. Murphy read the

instructions to the juior- ( ent raise on all taxable property reng to a case of this natur* n ntly recommended by th> State Tax

n sent them to the jury room Board.

-rerate. County Auditor Willi- K. tiill and rial was resumed at b o’clock County A -e--or Charh Marshall, y two or three witnesses were recently appeared before the state ”(Examined by the attorneys. A board in an effort to keep tin a.-sess-

was pie-- merit down a- the local board of rethe morn- view had fixed it. They bowed the

state board rases where land in this county bad sold for less than it was assessed for, and this probably influenced the state officials to recommend a five per cent rai c instead of

i) rowd of spectator# proceedings during

onday practically the cm n Wi,s spent in the choo i , t iry and the afternoon wa-

it I i ith the state presenting it

j|| I the examination and cross > h ; gjirr rate, as they did in the ma- ’’ tion of the various prosecut- joritj of the other countie

per,

the en-

h gcsulted in a hung jury and cent on all land and lot

er found the defendant guilty, j tire county.”

ir.dd not ague upon the pen,, • — o r,,.S; SEARCH RAIL

for Parrish, F’ay Hamilton, —

isted Thtodore ( raw ey la, CRASH DEBRIS

i trial.

m BUST

WRECKS SHIP

FOR VICTIMS

day was in the man who said it. Stege is no phrase-maker, no

* ,er I "newspaper talker His men know

that he spoke because he had something to say that he wanted all to

hear.

And woe to tho-e who do not listen and heed! To the last man, the oetective bureau must carry out Siege's orders •<, the letter—or reach a parting of the way. The grey haired, square jowled detective chief, who assumed his new command yesterday under the recent police “shake-up” discussed his plans in an interview with the United Press

today.

Siege is back with the police de-

nesxes. The board at this special -ession !’ artment afU ' r 1H " ,on,h ’ s of trigl was very nearly a repe- adopted the suggestion of :he state " m wn hl ' lowa farm - 1)unn « ,hat f the two previous trials one board for “an increa-c of five per l ' ent,d ’ '-a ket.'enng, bootlegging,

gambling and vice of every description flourished in Chicago until civic a.id business leaders revolted and demanded a change “to save the city

from financial ruin.’’

In the shake-up police commissioner Michael Hughes wa- succeeded by William F. Russell, whose first move was to recall Stege to command the

detective force.

The same mayor —William Hale

— Thompson — who ordered Stege reEIGHT KNOWN DEVI) IN ILLI- moved when he learner! that the de Mils < FNIRVL 'TRAGEDY ectivr chieftain in hi youth had killON MONDAY. ' d a man while protecting his mother ______ from atlark, sanctioned Russell's de-

I-ires.

’’We're going to keep after crime in Chicago with all that is in us,”

Southbound Passenger Train .Stege asserted today. “We a-k n«

nmety days to get started. Every man under my command will plunge

______ ! into the work anil ah'w results.

MOUNDS, III., Aug. 7. (UP)— A I ‘‘'l h e r *' ' s K"ing to he no general preliminary ini|u<-t opi ned today in-, ilPl,se ctemtoir Any man who does to the wreck of two fart Illinois Ccn- I hih work wil1 r ‘’' na >"- ' l ' h '’ delin ') u '' n t

l{|\ npanied by a dull n ar, here yea(

shock, which came after a "ith a death toll of eight and injury Piditie- will be aboli bed from th" «rd the -hip, was felt f», "I more I ban 60. it Fa 01 wi ' through Alihan 40 miles around. Foui Identified di id were Lewia V. Pi’otecGon id lit'' and ‘' Ll '( In i-tian-i n and bis son, lb' i.ii.m. Mat ■ . Mi , Mud .s,„ policeman undei my command will iped death by swimming to <lor. West Orange. N. J, Joe Si'cim h, favi ’|‘ ,ho " 11,1

.J..;ftti tin • .i! ' a kgM W

'' nen fought the blaze until it barn Douglas, negro porter. There , ,nil "

r ll'• ond their control. Then they ; were four unident lied bodii of ne-

overboard and swam frantic-,gio women.

ching the bank just before the Dr. (). T. Hud t, coroner of n. Mound- and district surgeon for the yfydugh showered with debt and llliii"i- ( < ntral, an a I la-t in. ht " ^Vfrom their feet, the men wen that final search "I all wreckage c ired. tabli-hisl the fait t at a human arm ■ ■ -- o j originally lielieved attached to hady

The submarine, carrying two officers and 28 men, rammed the cruiser

ter shakeups -but the diffetence to- Fire Ended Vtteinpt To Span Ocean 1 din mg tactical muneuver oil Hri id

llntish Virman ’Tells Vdniirers

In Golbam.

VE TONS OF EXPLOSIVES TRUY BOAT. TWO MEN

ESI APE.

I WO

III MIKED

IN.II RED

)

? >MA, Wash., Aug. 7. (UP) tons of explosives aboard the tin I! loat La Blanca blew up in the

Fast

Derailed and Sideswiped drain

On Parallel Track.

windows in Tacoma and

mu-t work and

show result#. Departmental bead will explain their failure to have hi odium# mid racketed sent to the

(Continued on page 4)

c , ispassing At Country Club

TOUMG MEN CAl (.111 \ I HJMD8 NEAR M1DNIGH'I MONDAY.

was a portion of

covered.

body already re-

M VKRIAGE Ll< ENSE —o Ruth Si ott to Charles Gullett, both of Greenca.-tle.

DEMOCRATS TO GO SLOWLY ON FARM RELIEF

‘V

young Gcwncastlu Hu i i. • tresspaaalag at Ukk < m shortly lielore mtftg'it Mon I member* who •ioua items at

’nc time.

.officers of the Eiy morning that i appear before Slow cau-e why t! iited for tresi proper) y. They [nless the pract and prosecutions on special occasions are even r-rs of the club at the n imd midnight and those who capthe youths Monday night were [simply because of the tres that has been going on and .Vt is being made to stop th. Ii before it get# too much of a

AUTOS CRASH; MAN INJURED

RAShOR SAYS PAH IV W ILL PRO- ( KED WITH 1 I MOST

( AUTION.

NEW YORK, Aug. 7. (UP)- Democratic leaders have derided to proi red carefully and cautiously with

the farm relief iasue.

At ( IDEM <»( < I Rs LATE MON- ( ha]rmall John j. ,; a , k ,.„ t of the DAY NIGHT ON NATIONAL Nlilio||il| c „ tI „ nlU ee ha# in.el. it idea.

that his first enthusiasm over the

■ •' — general principle of the equalization ,

Two cars were wreived and one tee did not constitute an endor-ernent jti,,,.

| man cut and bruised in an accident of that form of farm relief, lb on the National Road Monday nigh! has an “open mind" on the equalizaitbout 10:.’)0 o’clock, according to in- tion fee though Governor Alfred E.

formation received hire Tuesday Smith has rejected it.

morning. Rsskob announced last night that According to the repo'ts the two Prof E. R. A. Seligman, Columbia cars met near Stile.#ville west of the University, economist, has been c„msp it where the new briige is under missioned to investigate the w hole

construction. The cars, trie from II- farm problem.

linois and the other fron Ohio, were “I do not know his politic , ' Kasgoing in opposite directbns and met k >b .#aid. “This study will be in no in the middle of the rosi. One car sense a political study. It i# purely turned over, badly wreeling the top, economic and on account of its mag-

XEW YORK, Aug 7. (UP) -Captains Frank T. Courtney, British trains-Atlantic flier mid hi.# three companions, whose rescue in mid-ocean by the steamer MinneW'.i-ka thrilled the world, paced another round of enter tainment today after a night's rest at the Ritz-Carlton hotel. The crow of the filing bout Whale -Captain Courtney, Hugh Gilmore, radio operator; Fred Pierce, mechanic; and Elwood Ho.-iner, financial backer of the Might arrived aboard tin - rescue -hip lute yesterday and were given a typical New York wi I

come.

(’apt. Courtney, lender of the Might from Europe, via the \/.ores, told bow he landed hi- plane in a rough sea at midnight by the light of the flying boat's own Mantes. “I didn't have much feeling when it hapiiened,” said Cupt. Courtney of the sudden tertnmatiton lo two years f fllort. “It all seemed so absolute-

ly unreal.

“The whole business, from the time I #aiv the Mantes until we bit the wale ', could not havi taken longer than 20 or .’JO seconds. “Wi were Hyin at 1,500 feet and everything was dark, when I saw a faint led glow relb eted on my windsr.'Oen. I looked back. ‘ The whole rear '■tigmc wa- lilaz ing, and even a# I looked the whole thing shot up in . terrific sheet of

flame.

"I looked back f i Pierce, to p int it out I suppo-' Hut he'd already -eea tin Maine and lie shot up at once in o the engitu i m. I turned off both witch' and nosed the maebin. iver into a headlong dive to burn it m.t I'Uickly. We I'lunged toward tie wall l. 1,500 feet In low. "Pieiee bad tun' ll the petrl off ind the broken f''«l line should be no longer praying But the fire did not go out. “I tell that wn must be Hear th'wan r and .-o I Hattended out an<| th' next .-tage wa an utomatic attempt to land. The in inments were use le- . 1 had no In ne of seeing any-

thing.

' Hu ( looked d"wn and 1 saw lie glow of the burning engine reflected in the water. "With that bit of glow, 1 managed to bold the machiti' n something like a landing position uni the rest i must have done uut"iUHtically. “The tail wa# alfady burning away and I half expect'd to find that the control, had part'd “The (lames finallyt went out after we landed, Pei hap a wave flicked them out. We were i. a rather heavy

swell.

"Then we got buiy. We talked. We connected tin Vo boat book prepared for such anj emergency and intde a wirele.-# ma ^ "(iilmore sent out in SOS and gut no reply. We liecnfcd to save our power till daylight, Vhen all opera-

tors are on duty.

“At day break, sent anothei SOS. The Celtic ans^ffed immediately. I had been tryinito estimate by

and we give it to them

|lsland, which is near the southern tip | i >f the Lstria peninsula in the Adri-|

| atic.

The 150 foot underwater craft sud-| delily appeared anil struck the starboard nle of the battle cruiser. Slowly the F-14 submerged, carrying its cargo of men to the bottom about

100 feet down.

The Itrindinsi was in the same waters and immediately steamed to the spot where the submarine bad first lifted her nose after striking the miser. Efforts were made at once to find whether the men lived within

the sunken craft.

Hy signal- sent up from the found • red F-1 I it was ascertained that the men wcie still alive and it wa be lievcd thei were in no immediate langer. livery effort wa# made, how ever, t" salvage the men immediate

ly.

A rough sea wa breaking in that

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 7. (I P) A wet and dry c -i vote with the political reputation of U. S. Senator Janus A. Reed at stake.# was in proei' -# throughout Missouri today as votei# ot the state east ballots in the biennial primary. I lie issue of prohibition was sharply drawn as the most important in Missouri when Reed, on lii# return from the Houston convention where he met defeat in his quest tor the Denioi iatie presidential nom illation, publicly espoused the caust ol a wet Den oclatic candidate for tin Senate seat In now hold Janie.- A ( ollet of Salisbury, Mo. one of Rood life long friends and m sympathy with the nnti-proliibi tion idea.# Reed has held for year, won the enior senator's support 'gainst Charles M. Hay, a dr> Hem <»< ratic attorney .f St. Louis and ad mittcdly Reed’ bitterest political and

personal enemy.

"I uni not in favor of Mi.- nun tiding to the Senate another Ton

I'art of the Adriatic, momentarily | Heflin” Reed declared in a cuustical preventing the full salvage work. Ily worded statement issued in behalf Contact with the men wa- maintain- i d' (’"Hot. lb ;|.'iioum nl Hay for al ed through the night. legedlj referring To him in a earn o oaign speei h i\ years ago "in Ian

jguage that would have befouhxl th lips of denizens of the gutter." L'--e«r enmity foi Hay K „, hat I

rP\A/ vV <‘1 1 L' g I Silf# " ''chit now In in Ml ,,ui

* LtY YfULrYO LrCl IU in ], , whin Heuiii i at if tin _______ ' led by Hay, denied him a -cHt

Melon Crop Is

John 11. Strain, age K0, prominent orclianlist, of Putnam county, about ix t de# ea t of Brazil, died Sunday evening at his home. His death folI lowed a long illnr.#-. He was stricken j"ith paralysis about three years ago ; and has been almost helpless since I having been confined to his bed for uioie than a year. Tiie deceased man refused to folj ow the trend of the times by opening Ids orchards for the Sunday btis-'ao-s but steadfastly held to his rule, "f “Nothing si hi on Sunday,” which line characterized his advertisement#. The deceased man was horn in \ igo county, June is, ISIS. For more than n quarter of a century he anil h;s family have lived in Putnam county where he obtained at least local funu as u grower of fine apples. He Wits reputed for his honest lealing and tine standards of moral character and citizenship. He had studied theology extensively and was m ordained Methodist minister. He had preached since 1SS2 and for four vear prior to his marriage he sprea I ‘lie gospel in the then young and growing west. He preached before eow'lniys and Indians of Kansa and ■ taliF bed many churches there that it' till prosperous. On Sept. It), isnl hi married Nannie Vieker. The family survivors are the wid'W ; one daughter, Helen M., two sous I'urti Y. t and Warren; besides n i ter, Mi Mary Morn . of Merotn; i brother, Leroy Strain, of Okla-

homa.

Fi'tieral i t vices were conducted nt the t roy ('reck church, Tuesday afternoon, with the Rev. Wylie, of Vin- • ■niio olTit iiniiig. ffurial was made in tin cemetery near the church. — Brazil Time#.

\>H I N(, I ON 1AM’. RT.POR I S MELONS I, \’| I. \ Ml t Itop SOMI.M H \ I SHORI,

late I the

San !• i iiicisco national Detnocrati' convention, because of Reed’s anti league of nations enur e after tin

wa r.

A de from Hay and ('ollet, Democratic Kenat"ita! primary elude# Robert I. Young, St. Jo perennial candidate of little

tic inpb

polit

Reports Tuesday from sections of Wa b Reports Tuesday from sec-

tions of Washington township, which , _

is the water melon growing corner of heal following who i not expected b Putnam county, were to the effect |po|| any appreciable vote. Hi- plat bat the crop i about two wick- late form include# a demand that the na tin- y ar and will not be as heavy a j' i n il i apilol be moved from Wa-h

hi some funner years.

The cold weather and the wet

weather early in the season set the

Top bark .somewhat and had a bad •tfect on the yield. At this time th nelons are growing rapidly, but

heretofore they have been on the

market about tin time of tin

lllgtoll, I). ('. to St. Jo-opll, Mo. , Kix Repubii'ans are contesting th nomination honor of their party |, U'Teed Reed. Where Hay alone ol the Democrat- won th. endor-ement of the \titi-Saliion League, three Re publican i iiatorial ciiiididate vvei

yi'ar. endor

Ten Percent Fewer Chickens Raised

hurrii illy.

"Our ti cling whetjwe sighted the Minnewaska and kn< \| it had sighted us are hard to deserse.”

s| R\ FI ill t ill N I Id SHOWS POl LI Id R M INI. |8 NO! 18 EXTENS1V1 \ - I. \ -1 YEAR WASHINGTON, I). (!., Aug. 7. The number of ehiekens being tai-ed on farm in l!t2K is about 10 pm cent le - tbun in 11127, according U returns reicjved by the Department of Agiculture i ov iing approximati ly 22,000 Mock- representing all tali'#. The return -bowed the number of chii'ks and young chicken- of tin year', hatch in these farm flock- on July I to be !l per eent less than on July 1 last year. Returns for Jun< I bowed 12 pci cent less, fur May 1, 15 per ei nt le- , and for April 1, IM per ci nt le.- , than on the same duti last year. The leiiuetion in the North Central S'latcs, which ha- more than half if the chieki n# in the United State i - abnut 7 pel cent. The Southern state

EX-WIFE OF J. A. ALLISON FILES SUIT

\SK # TWO Mil LION DOLLARS t li YKG1NG IIUN "T ATI I • 1 Iti.vS. WIDOW IS MADE DEFENDANT vlite Ferni- I or me i Secretary Of Ind pis ( apitalist Is "Skillful Expert" m “Love Making.”

d. They are David M. Proi r, Km i City; Wdliam O. Atkin

sun, Butl' i, and Ro -cue (’. Puttm on

Kan as City.

Nathan Frank anil Bernard P. Bogy, both of St. I.oui- and udmi tedly in favor ol modiMeation of the prohibitiim law.#, failed to rereive the league’s indorsement. Henry A. Bund -ebtl, of llldependenee, i- the sixth I Republican candiilate. I nited State Senator Harry I! Hawes, Reed’s junior eolleague, ha taken no definite side in hi party’ primary tight, confining him i If to an appeal for party harmony. Hi term doe.# not expire until IM;;:;. Party harmony, hoivovor definitely wa- kicked into the di-iaid iiy Reed * -poll al of Collet’s wet candidacy against Hay’s dry platform. Hay consistently has advocated trict enforcement, endin -e<| llu- |Uin. •*- of prahibition, and atated he stisd ’‘squarely on the Houston platform.” lie differed with Keeil over the in terpretation of Gov. Alfred K. Smith’.# telegram to the convention alter Smith’s nomination. Where Reed asserted the telegram ‘‘definite ly brought prohibition into the cam pnign so that it catuu t be avoided.” Hay took the posltimi the platfoini

TO GET AllPtlKI’

WOLCOTT, Ind., Jug. 7. (UP) An airport for the us of mail planes is to he establl-heiibne-half mile west of here, the l 'led States gov-

j bending the front femlrts and axle, nltude will require many weeks if not .'rriment having just knduded nego-

.—^). Clodfelter attended the fun- The other iar did not tirn over and month- of hard work.” tiution- for leasing kty acre a- a . • ' Jo.-eph Clark at New Market wa# not damaged much, »ut one man Raskob will have at hi# ( "mntat.d it' In addition to ging# of light#,

Ith

y morning.

; in tht. car was cu and b uiot-d.

a corps of specialists

a tevolving beacon vll be installed.

show anout a II per eent reduction, wa broad enough to permit both al the Nortliea-t, 12 per eent, and the ] legianee to Smith and to the enforce West about 5 percent. Nebraska and ment stand of the Houston prohibi Kansii-, are the otdy States of large tion plunk, production that do not show a de- ,,

crease, the number of young bird# there on July I being about the same

as a year ago.

The n duct ion i# not unexpected in view of the somewhat unfavorable re lution between the prices of poultry product- and the cost of the poultry ration that existed during most of i&27 and the first half of 192®.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 7.— Dnm- " ol .'2,(MKI,()()() foi alleged alienitioo of tiie .iffeetion • of Janie# A. Illi on, capitalist, who died Friday, .i'if i-kill iii a -uit brought Monday igain t tlic widow and wife <1 five lay . Mr#, l.ucilo Mu- ett Al ', by 'lr. Allison’# foriii'i wife, M Sara Cornelius Allison. Tbo -iiit wa- tiled in Superior court Room 4, before Judge Byron K Elliot i hurt time before Mr. Alb on's funeral. Mr . Sara Allison charged that Die pn -ont Mr Allison, “systematically and deliberately” sought over a peiod of eight years to win the eupitul-i-tV affection# and destroy his Iovb for the former wife, beginning with t.er t mplnymcnt a Mr. Allison’s sec- • tary in 191!) or 1920 The present Mrs. Allison was Luille Mu "It before her marriage in Lin g I land City, N. Y., July 29, I9:.’s Mi-. Sara Allison and Mr. Alii on were divorced in Florida June 37. !9oh. The divorce action was not "ntc ted by Mr. Allison. Mr. A III -n's estate, an'onling to i he uit, i- valuerl from 0,500,000 to ",000,000.

French Birdmen Seek New Record

PARIS, Aug. 7. (UP)—The French aviators Favreas and Dcmarinier started from Li Bnurget held today in an attempt to break the world's

HOI 18 DROWNED endura light rei rd

KIRK LIN, Ind., Aug. 7 tl I') The present rei'ord is Ha hours, 14 Allan t I). Roberts, II, son of Mr. and i minutes made by the Germans, Ru« M' . Richard Roberts, wa tirowne I tjoj; and Zimmerman, on July 17. while wiinrning ju Sugar Creek af The Frenchmen are flying over a ter stepping into a deep hole. I hi- course that extends from I/eBourge 1 the first drowning in Clinton coon- t,, C tlar#. They hope to remain ty l'h* y«M. ,tho air until midnight Thursday^ t