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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
SCORES
BY BOOZE OUT
OF TANK CAR
Young Boys Find Mint but
Deaths and Illness
Follow.
VICTIMS MADE BLIND
Fear Epidemic Will Strike
Another Community From
Deadly Cargo.

BIZ jHifcd Press
OLD FORGE, Pa. Sept. 7.-Grave
possibility of a terrible epidemic of
alcohol poisoning somewhere in the
United States was feared today when
police learned car of poisoned
alcohol, which caused two deaths,
two cases of blindness and 155 seri-
Gus illnesses here had disappeared
completely.
Early this week a Jersey Central
freight railroad car was shunted
onto the Ontario e. Western siding
here. A group of eleven small boys
used it to play railroad" One dis
covered the tap on the tank car
open.
One Whit of the contents and the
eleven boys became business men.
There was no miStaking the alco-
holic odor.
Among those who purchased the
alcohol and drank were Aleck Hy-
dralick and Andrew Govel. They
died a few hours later.
George Machick drank a concoc-
ton whose base was made up of the
alcohol and went blind. Mrs. Mary
Knopp was partly blinded.
Then came reports from all parts
of the city Of strange sudden ILL
ness. Physicians traced all the
cases, numbering 155, to the alcohol
Peace officers descended to where
the car had been on the siding.
Strangely enough, between the time
Of the alarm and the time the po-
lice arrived. the car had been put
back on the main line and taken
away.
No Record of Car
There was no record here to whcni
and where from the car had been
consigned and there was little
chance to trace it. Authorities be-
lieved the car contained a poisonous
alcohol known as number six, :"
which contains a great quantity Of
wood alcohol and that it was being
shipped to a bootleg distillery for re-
distillation.
Inasmuch as owners of the alcohol
can not be found there was no
prosecution on that score and no
one in Old Forge wanted to prose-
cute the eleven boys who discovered
the car.
None of the 155 made i'll was IL.
serious condition today.
AS soon as the sun went down,
they slipped over to the dairy and
stole all the milk bottles they could
carry Then they went back to the
tank car and began drawing out al
cohol. They made a few sales at IS
cents and so cents a quart.
But it is not often that alcohol
can be obtained so cheaply in Old
Forge and within a few hours word
got about that some kids down by
the yards were drawing it out of
a tank car and selling it. Between
dust and dawn the boys did a land
Office business.
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Individual cases of interference
will not be serviced, as The Times
believes there is enough major
trouble, covering several blocks. in
various parts of the city to keep
the interference man busy for sew
eral months. After this is cleared,
individual cases will be taken up in
the order in which they have been
received.
Electric lines and transformers
sometimes cause interference over
large areas, and are blamed by
most listeners for giving all the
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Hourly Temperatures

ence, including the time it starts,
how long it lasts and at what fire.
quency it is received with most
volume.
These letters will be published
in the interference columns of
The Times Radio page and listen
ers living within a certain radius
of the first report will be asked
to report on the same or similar
interference.
In this way a check will be
made to find if the trouble is 10
Gated in the complainant'S re-
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ceiver or If it covers an area Of
several blocks. Then The Times
Interference Man, with his spe-
cially equipped car, will get on the
job. locate the trouble and Sug-
gest a remedy to the offender.
y Il
TINE interference man Of The
l. Times will not repair electrical
devices that he finds are causing
trouble, but he will suggest how it
can be done and leave it to the
honor of the offender to make the
corrections.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07

Scharffin says his shoulder
was dislocated and broken
when his car, in which he and
Traugott were returning to the
city after hearing of the explo-
sion while in New York,
crashed near Storeytown, Pa,
a week ago Thursday. He came
angrily out of the prosecutors
office.
Refuses to Make Statement
He declared he knew nothing
whatever about the fire and there
fore there was no occasion for him
to make a statement.
Before he went before the prose-
cutors, he had answered sharply q
question about a report that he had
burns on his shoulder as well as the
other injuries.
That's all bull" he CALCULATED.
"If you don't believe it, examine
the X-ray pictures they took of my
injuries at Methodist Hospital.
Prosecutor Renny refused to- COM
ment upon the interview with
Scharfin. which at times was so
loud that it could be heard dis
tinctly in courthouse corridors.
Remy Hints of Clews
Remy did remark that "things
will be happening around here all
day, but they will be on the quiet.
They will be of an informative ma
ture for this Office"
At various times .Pugh, Deputy
Prosecutor John l.. Niblack, Fred L
King. legal adviser Of the arson de-
partment of the fire marshals Of
fee; Deputy Fire Marshal Harry E.
Gates, Detective Brickley and John
Willis, Criminal Court investigator,
sat in on the questioning OF
Scharff1n.
Earlier in the day Pugh, Gates
and Brickley had conferred with
Detective Chief Jerry Kinney.
Sary to Get Evidence
The prosecutor plans to start pre-
senting evidence on the first to the
county grand jury about the middle
of next week, it was learned.
Detective Chief Kinney said that
progress was being made and that
things looked much brighter for an
ultimate solution of the mystery Of
how clothing in the store was soaked
with gasoline, how skylight was
broken out with a padded brick, and
how Harold Libowitz came to be in
the rear of the store.
Libowitz, %, of 80 N. jefferson
Ave, charged with arson in con-
nection with the blast, was reported
slightly improved at Methodist Hos
pital today. He is under guard
there under $4,000 bond, suffering
from burns received in the explosion.
Deputy fire marshals said they
were informed it might be necessary
to amputate one Of Libowitz's feet.
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JOB
SUSPECT TRAPS
HIMSELF IN QUIZ
Reputed Deputy Sheriff Is
Revealed as Chicago
Bail Jumper.

Possibility that st. Louis police
have second suspected member of
the Broadmoor Country Club hold
up gang in their custody grew today
when Ben Boratti, arrested Wednes-
day morning with Charles Player,
40, gave suspicious answers to con-
tinued questioning by the Missouri
detectives.
Detective Donald Tooley of Indi-
annapolis was in Jefferson City, Mo-,
to ask Governor Sam A. Baker to
honor extradition papers for Player,
issued Thursday by Governor Ed
Jackson and sent to ST. Louis by air
mail.
Player was indicted in Indian
apolis on an auto banditry charge
Thursday after four Indianapolis
business men, victims in the holdup
Of May 80, partially identified him
as one of the bandits and after E. w.
Wisher, 1840 N. Meridian ST., iden-
titled a $3.50 watch in Players pos
session as the one stolen from him
at the club.
Seek Higher Bond
Other developments at st. Louis
today included a request by st.
Louis police that the judge of the
Court of Criminal Corrections fix
Players bond at 100000. 1t now
is $4,000.
Player has declared he will re-
sist extradition, but his hopes were
given a setback by refusal today of
Sidmund Bass, leading st. Louis
criminal lawyer, to take his case.
The st. Louis authorities were
about ready to release Boratti when
word came from Chicago that he is
wanted for jumping a bond several
months ago, which he admitted. He
had said Thursday he was a deputy
sheriff from El PaSo, Texas, en-
route to Mishawaka, Ind, to visit
his mother. He said he had stopped
off in East ST. Louis to visit an old
friend, Mrs. Carrie Stevenson, and
met Player through her.
His Stories Conflict
Today he declared he was on his
way to Chicago to give himself up
on the bond. Boratti declared he
could not recall when he had been
in Indiana last.
Against this the ST. Louis authori-
ties weighed the fact that the In
dianapolis business men had all de-
clared they could not recognize Bo-
ratti as resembling on of the BAN
dts.
Boratti was wanted in Chicago on
a charge of robbing a gambling
joint, st. Louis officers said. Boratti
said this was untrue, that he had
"just been arrested with a couple
of other fellows on suspicion"
Machine Guh Seized
While Tooley was going to see
Governor Sam A. Baker at Jefferson
City, ST. Louis and East st. Louis
police continued the search for
friends of Player. Player said he
got Fishers watch when he and
seven others divided Spoils of a
craps game they operated IL East
st. Louis for several weeks. He said
the watch had been wagered by
some gambler whom he did no re-
call.
st. Louis police declared the car
in which Phayer and Boratti were
arrested belonged to Bernie" Shell
ton, member of the Shelton gang of
southern Illinois massacre fame.
They raided the Stevenson house
and found a machine gun, a thou
sand rounds of ammunition and
number of small arms in Mrs. Stew
eson's bedroom. They could not
locate Shelton nor the woman, who
is the widow of a bootlegger killed
in a gun battle year ago.
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CONTINUE MURDER QUIZ
Angola Officials Extend Search to
Neighboring Counties.

BH United Press
ANGOLA, Ind, Sept. 7.-Of1cials
today continued to probe the muir
der of a man believed to have been
Thomas Burke, whose charred body
was found in the ruins Of barn
near here more than a week ago.
Detectives, it was reported have
extended their search to nearby
counties in the hope of discovering
additional evidence in the case.
Coroner Paul HUMPHREY has con-
Quoted an inquest on the dead
mans body, but has not returned a
verdict.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
Digs for Virginia Relics

BU JUffcd Press
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Sept. T.
Charles H. Callahan, past grand
master of Virginia Masons, has won
permission to excavate around an
old school building here, which he
believes was built in 1785 and at
tended by notables including Robert
E. Lee,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
DEATH CHAIR PUTS
END TO MOSQUITOES

One Nights Toll Amounts to Quart
of Pests.
BV United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. death
sentence has been pronounced and
nightly is being carried out by cleo
trocution at the home of Mrs. Gene
We've Williams at Whitestone, L. I.
She has installed an electric ray,
invented by L. A. La Costa, Cleve-
land, which draws the mosquitoes
within it's range and then kills them.
A suction fan gathers up the dead
mosquitoes.
One nights execution was one
quart of mosquitoes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
BANDITS USE POLITICS
Object to Pictures in Cafe; Rob
PrOprietors
By United Press

NEWARK, N. j., Sept. 1.-Two
bandits used political arguments to
conceal their nefarious trade when
they entered two restaurants, OBJ.
jected to pictures of one of the pres
idential candidates, went behind
counters to tear dow the pictures
and then help up the proprieors
They obtained $35.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
FAMOUS LITER ENDS
SIND YEAR IN PRISON
Jailed at Is; Spent Thirty Eight
in Solitary Confinement.


in Solitary Confinement.
BIZ United Press
BOSTON, Sept. Jesse Pone-
roy. who probably has spent more
time behind the bars than any man
in America, today ended his fifty
second year of imprisonment.
The famous lifer entered prison
as a 15-year-old boy.
Thirty-eight of Poneroy's prison
years were passed In solitary con-
f1nement.
After Pomeroy had confessed to
the murder of two children, he was
sentenced to be hanged. Because
of his youth. however, the sentence
was committed to life imprison-
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
Delay New York Start

BIZ Z JNltCn FTCsS
ROOSEVELT FIELD. N. Y, Sept
Start of Glass B and Glass G
airplanes in the transcontinental
air derby was postponed today until
tbs a. m. Saturday, because Of I'M
favorable weather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
STARS EX-MATE WED

Constance Talmadge's Husband
MarrieS in Paris.
BIZ United Press
PARIS, Sept. miss Leila Emery
of New York and Capt. Alastair
Macintosh, former husband of
Constance Talmadge, film actress,
were married at noon today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
NOMINATED FOR SENATE
Walcott Defeats Blodget in Connec-
ticUt G. o. P. Farley.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. r.
Frederick G.. WaIcott defeated Will
liam E. Blodgett for the nomination
for United States Senator at the
Republican State convention today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
CRUSHED BY BOULDER

Dam Worker Killed When Rock
Falls.
By United Press
DEL RIO, Texas, Sept. 7.-zac
Fauenburg, q, of Valley Wells,
Texas, was crushed to death near
here today when a huge rock fell
on him. He was working on a dam
on Devils River. His wife and tive
small children survive him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
NOTIFIES SELF; ACCEPTS
Head Of New Party Alone Stages
Ceremony.
BnLnited Press

DN 1 Nitth russ
OMAHA. Neb, Sept. 7.-Occupy-
ing dual role of notification COM
mittee and nominee. DR.. Henry
Hoffman notified himself Thursday
night that he had been nominated
President on the Progressive ticket,
and then, in an address to an au-
dience consisting Of three casual
onlookers and several newspaper
reporters, accepted,
Hoffman, who organized the party
here last summer. had invited nu-
merous persons to attend.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
HOLD FOUR IN SHOOTING
Negroes Arrested at Evansville for
Danville (IIl.) Police.

ny DhtteO SFtSS
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Sept. T.
Four Negroes are held here for
questioning in connection with the
shooting in Danville, Ill, Tuesday
of Fred c. Doehring, railroad detec-
tive. The officer was seriously
wounded as he started to question
a strange Negro.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
BASEBALL TODAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE

AMERICAN LEAGUE
(First Game)
Philadelphia. 900 001
Boston ...... 900 900
(Pha.) Grove and Cochrane;
(Bsn) Ruffing and Hofmann.
(First Came
Washington 020 90
New York -. 900 90
Wash) Hadley and Ruel; IN. "
Zachary and Collins.
Detroit, st. Louis, Cleveland and
Chicago not scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CFirst Came
Boston ...... 900 90
Philadelphia. 101 90
(BSn) Edwards and Taylor
(Phal) Benge and Davis.
Brooklyn and New York not
scheduled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
4 HELD IN DEATH RING

Man Sick in Hospital Shot; Nab
Two Women.
BIZ United Press
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Sept.
-Four persons, two of them
young women, we're charged with
the murder Of E. G. Young Of Bee
vile, who was shot to death as he
lay on a hospital bed recovering
from an appendicitis operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
SAMPLES BREAK HOME
Wife Objects to Diet That Never
Cost Anything.

. Y z WItFN FTF66
UNIONTOWN, Pa, Sept. Mrs
Charlotte Walker was granted a
divorce from her husband, Vivian,
when she testified he insisted that
all the food samples in their home
should be the grocery samples left
at his store.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
Burns House to Get Dry

Burns house 10 Get Dry
WASHINGTON, Sept. Henry
Cloud, Negro, was drenched in a
cloudburst. To dry his clothes he
built bonfire on the floor in his
room. He was Jailed for arson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
RUSH PARALYSIS SERUM
Ia Die in Winnipeg Schools From
InfantiIe Epidemic.

BIZ United Press
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Sept. T.
Serum was rushed here by special
train from Toronto today to aid in
the fight against infantile paralysis,
which thus far had taken toll of
fourteen lives among school chill
dren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
BETS ODDS ON HOOVER
Two to One He'll Garry AIS State,
Wagers Denverite.

By United Press
DENVER, Setp. 7.-Clarence Ham
lin, Republican national committee
man for Colorado, said today he
had wagered $500 against 1000 that
Herbert Hoover would carry New
York State in the presidential elec-
tion this fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-09-07
CATS INHERIT $4,000
WOman's Will Provides Trust Fund
for Pets.

BIZ United Press
BOSTON, Sept. IAN unnamed
number Of cats have been provided
for life under a provision of the
will of the late Charlotte Sutton,
filed for probate today, which es-
tablished a trust fund of $4,000 for
the pets
, 1928-08-15
Ms
ST CROIX STATION.

mere despite an unexpected downturn in
Liverpool quotations and nOtWithStani.
ing an official announcement putting Ga
madam wheat condition at 107 against 108
last year 1t was current gossip that re
cent bulls Ia September delivery of corn
here were today buying wheat Of which
they were short and we're diSpOsing of
corn holdings Another stimulus to wheat
strength in Chicago was word that the
export business in wheat totaIIed 1900
900 bushels largely No 2 hard winter
wheat from the United States, Wheat clos
ed firm 3 cent to j cents net higher, corn
ranging from 4 cents decline to ) cents
advanced.
ConslantinopIe Aug 18th President
Mustapha Ke mai, emerging from the Sc
clQSi0n Of his palace appeared at a peoples
party tete at SeragljO Point and unexpec.
tedIy made his first speech IN many
months yesterday within two years" he
SAID the Latin ALPHABET will be univa--
sally used in Turkey and we shail prove
that our intelligence is equal to the ciViliz
ed world after baniShing the iDcOmpre-
hensIOie Arab characters when are res.
pOnsible for eighty per cent of the litter
ate rurk. 1t is no longer a time for speech
es it is a time for action and we shall in
stitute this Impo tant reform, which is
not our LAST.
London, Aug. 18th After a total Of
more than 70, 900 unemployed had applied
for harvest work in Canada under the
joint scheme sponsored by the British and
Canadian Governments. officials of the
Ministry of LabJur announced mere last
night that no more applications can be ac-
cepted by various agencies set up for the
purpose A thousand ~harveSters sailed
yesterday and Jhtee thousand will embark
over the weekend. ihe last sailing is set
for August 18th The number of men ask.
ed for was ten thousand.
Bombay, Aug. il3th- The Associated
Chambers Of Commerce, which claim to
represent Il, 600, 600, 900 of British capi
tai invested in India, made a move in la
vOur of self government for India. They
addressed d memorandum to the Simon
Commission which is making d political
survey of India, recommending thar self.
government should be gwen more than a
fair trial.
London, Aug. 18th British troops for
tho first time are to cOliabOrate with
French soldiers IN peace time military
manoeuvres Official acceptance was sent
last night 10 the French invitations to
have a regiment of the Royal Irish Hus-
sars, now stationed 10 the RhineIand, par
ticipate in the cavalry manoeuvres of the
French army of occupation.
Berlin, Aug. l3th--Germany's cOnstitu-
ton on the 9th anniversary Of the signing
, 1928-08-15

President Won Hi~ndenburgh postponed
his summer vacation in order to attend
the festival ceremonies in the Reichstag
Friedrisbchaven, Germany, Aug. 18th
Barring unexpected complications, the
Zeppelin II, 127. DOW being groomed for
a round the world flight, will make its
first trial flight on August 9th.
Toronto, Aug 18th. The sale Of liquor
under the Liquor Control Act of Ontario
will net the Province eight million dollars
for the fiscal year, it is estimated by the
Hon J D Montaitn, Provincial Treasurer.
The sum will accrue from the sale of IL
QuOr and permits and revenue from fines.
Lonuon, Aug 18Th The steamship
'Kitano Maru", which was in collision
with the Orient line" Otranto" on Satur-
day nishC about 30 miles off Spurn Head
at the mouth of the Humber was success
fully brought down the Humber yesterday
and taken to the King George Dock,
where she lay last night in wet dock to
be taken his morning to the stocks of
the dry dock for repairs The two YES
sells met stern to stern and then swinging
round struck a second time, but less VIC
lently, brOadside on. Botn were damaged
the "KitanO Maru" very badly. Inc
stern of the "0tranC0" was bent over.
The evening was clear ana the sea calm
at the time. Eye witnesses on the "Ot-
rantO" expressed the opinion taat d terri
BILE disaster was averted by Captain Sta.
union, of the British liner, swinging his
vessel around and taking the impact on
his stern. instead as seemed likely, of
being rammed amidships. In this case
the "Otranta" might have been sunk.
The ''KitanO Maru" was heavily laden
with cargo bound for the Far East. Most
of the five hundred and twenty passen-
gers of the ''Otranto'', which was pro-
ceeding on a pleasure cruise off the Nor.
wegiqn Fjords, were at dinner when the
collision occurred, Two women tainted
bat there was no panic and no one was
injured Five OF the Jap4n-3a vessels
crew were haze, Que seriously.
Amsterdam, August 18th, Miss NJ.
Braun, Sensational Dutch swimmer, be
came the WOmans Olympic champion in
the hundred metres backstroke here. She
swan the distance in one minute twenty
two seconds fiat, to defeat Miss Cooper
and Miss King of Great Britain, who
were second and third respectively.
New YORK, August 13th.-Five men
who were blown l20 miles to sea when a
hurricane tore their schooner from its pier
mornings in the B~4ha.nas, arrived here
on the Mallory liner Algonquin" which
picked them up off the Florida coast on
Wednesday.
London, August I3th.-L 5. Constan-
tine. star of the West indies cricket team
, 1928-08-15

Constantine is a brilliant aIIround crick-
eter.
London, August 18th. Sir Austen
Chamberlain has been ordered to take a
sea trip for the benefit Of bis health
He hopes to travel to California bv way
OF the Panama CaraI, traverse Canada.
and return to England across the Allan
TIC. Lady Chamberlain, in authOrising
the announcement, said that definite
arrangements had not been made, but
that the medical advisers believed that
the Foreign Secretary will be sufficiently
recovered from his illness to allow him to
start the tour this month. He would ex-
pect to be back in England early in Nov.
ember. The trip will have no political
significance and Sir Austin will make
no public addresses, either in the United
States or the Dominion.
London Aug. 18th The third test
cricket match, All England versus the
West Indians was won bv the former.
Scores All England 438 IVES. Indians 238
and 129.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
New York, Aug. 10th.
Flour standard export grades Sc 80.
Corn meal yellow kiln dried per bag of
1876 lbs. SIS so.
Pork heavy mess old per barrel S35.OO
Pork short GEAR medium quality per
barrel S33. SO.
Sugar c%entrif. basis SO deg. test per
100 lbs. S2.37.
Exchange sight S4 3d..
Exchange 81 days S482.
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