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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
BUTLER LOSES
EXTENSION OF
CAR SERVICE
Board of Works ReScindS
Order for orty-Seventh
st. Line.

Transportation facilities to the
Butler University stadium and field
house at Fsirview today remained a
problem to Butler and Indianapolis
Street Railway officials following
abandonment of the proposed
Forty-Seventh st. street car extern
sion.
he board of works has rescinded
action on the order for rerouting of
the Illinois Fairview line north on
Boulevard Pl. and west on Forty
Seventh st. to the Butler campus.
Residents fought the proposed ex-
tension on Boulevard Pl. and Forty
Seventh, the Fairview Park Civic
League members leading the fight.
The boards order is attributed to
Mayor L. Ert Slack. who has voiced
objection to the Forty Seventh St.
route. The mayor viewed the dis
trict and objected to the boards
plan to use Forty-Seventh st.
Keep Present Facilities
Under present plans the Butler
student body will have only pres
ent transportation facilities this
winter to the university's new Fair
view site. The present Fairview line
runs west on Forty-Second St..
north to Fairview, looping on the
west side OF the campus. A bus
feeder is operated from Thirty
Fourth and Illinois SITS. north Oil
Kenwood to Thirty Ninth, west 10
Capitol and north TO Fifty-Second
ST..
James P. Tretton. general super
intendent, and Michael E Foley
attorney, represented the street
railway and Arthur Y. Brown and
ilton U. Brown, trustees and, j. w.
Atherton, executive secretary, rep
resented Butler University at con-
ference with the board Friday.
Merle N. A. Walker, attorney rep
resented property owners who re-
monstrated the present plan.
Tretton declared the street rail-
way company was willing to built
the line or operate busseS III ac-
cordance with the wishes of resi- :.
dents and the boards order.
Extension Cost $4,000
Tretton declared the present
four-minute service on the Fairview
line will serve the Butler student
body for the present, but provides
no transportation for the field house
five blocks away. Tretton said Serv-
ice on the old Fairview line will 0e
increased if needed.
The proposed extension of the
line was to cost about $4,000 and
was the first extensive street car
line extension considered for sever
al years.
Arthur v. Brown, Butler board
president. said the college made no
recommendations to the works
board but expected the street rail-
way to furnish transportation.
Brown estimated 1000 to $500
students will attend the Fairview
university this winter, about 80 per
cent depending on autos or street
cars to reach the school.
1t is estimated that as many as
10000 persons will attend some of
the games in the new stadium, call
ing for adequate transportation.
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Conscious that their relatives
aboar dthe ship are going on the
greatest and most risky adventure
of their lives, to the South Pole
where twilight reigns for six
months and sudden winds cut
through protective garbS bringing
the sting of temperatures nearly 100
degrees below zero, fahrenheit,
many sympathetic members of the
crews families will sail down the
bay in a second craft.
Paul Siple, Erie (Pa), member of
the expedition, will be cheered by
his parents and forty members of
the Boy Scout troop of which he
was member in Pennsylvania.
The city of New York sails from
land of coming autumn to land
of late spring. After forty to sixty
days of Atlantic and Pacific voy-
aging the craft is expected to reach
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
Loot Radio
Store; Get.
S1,514 Haul

Radio thieves looted the Stewart
Brothers radio shop 654 Fairfield
Ave, during the night and carted
away radio sets and Storeroom fur
niShingS valued at $l,5l4.50, the
proprietors reported to police today.
The burglars enter ! by jinlnlying
a front door. The loot consisted of
one Fada radio set, $187; six At
water Kent sets, $840; one wall
tapestry, $3.50: one rug, $50; one
Oriental rug, 500; ten loud speak
ers, $3.50.
The shop was opened recently and
the loot was not insured, the owners
said.
In the rear of the store police
found an abandoned radio set and
two travelling bags, one of which
bore a bill of sale for new
Chrysler automobile made out by E.
o. Whitmer, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Police believe the burglars stole
the Chrysler in Detroit and used it
to haul away the loot.
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Circuit Judge Forces Steuben County Official
to Quit-Aid Arrested After Rough
Treatment of Newspaper Men.
BELIEVE VICTIM is THOMAS BURKE
One Theory Holds He Was Gerald Chapman
Gangster-Girl, Absent While Zimmer-
man Was Away, Refuses to Talk


ANGOLA, Ind, Aug. 25.-Developments in of the
most sensational death mysteries in Indiana history
Wednesday when the charred body of found in
ruins of barn burned Fremont, are:
Resignation of Charles Zimmerman, Steuben County
sheriff.
Attacks newspaper investigating the by
deputy of Zimmerman.
Possibility that the fire victim identified partially as
Thomas Burke may be a known Turk Brennan,
Der of the notorious Gerald Chapman bandit gang.
Identification of revolver found in the dead mans
as the nronerv Of Zimmerman
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cially with annual memorial services
at p. m. Sunday, in the National
Guard Armory on N. Pennsylvania
st. The session will be open to
the public. The Indianapolis Com
munity Orchstera will play a pre-
lude and will be followed by the
maSsing of colors and Hail to the
Chief"
Strayer will open the services.
The Rev. Orien w. Fifer, superin-
tendent of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, will pronounce the invoca-
ton and the Rev. Claude G..
Beardsluee, national chaplain. will
direct the V. F. w. memorial ritual
with the assistance of national
officers Of the Ladies auxiliary and
v. F. w.
The Rev. Mr.. Beardslee will give
the opening prayer. and the Rev.
Father M. w. Lyons, of Our Lady
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Steve VIII Carry
Appeal to Coolidge
in Freedom Fight
Executive Order Will Be
Asked for Parole of
90 Days.
REVIEWS PLOT CHARGE
Conspiracy Waiting at All
Turns of Road,' Says
Brief of Lawyer Moore.
BIZ United Press

By UHitod Press
GARY, Aug. 25.-Plans for
appealing to President Coolidge
for an executive order paroling
D. G. Stephenson from State
prison for ninety days we're an-
nounced here today by Robert
Moore, one Of the battery of at
torneys seeking eventual free
dom for the former grand
dragon Of HoOsier Klansmen.
The appeal will ask Stephenson's
parole for ninety days that he may
perfect the appeal of his conviction
in the Noblesville court, which
brought him a life sentence for
murder.
1t will be based on alleged viola
ton of Stephenson's constitutional
rights, Moore said, or a claim SINH
lar to that made in the haveas cor
pus petition filed in La Porte Circuit
Court early this week and on which
action was halted by Supreme
Court writ of prohibition.
The plea will ask Stephenson's
parole under the observance of
United States marshals to secure
his safety to the Government and
his safety against conspirators," ac-
cording to Moore.
In statement today. Moore
claims lawyers not Of Stephenson's
choice have hled hostile briefs in
his case and that the former
dragons own lawyers never have
seen transcript of the Noblesville
trial. His attorneys are handicapped
by "a conspiracy waiting at every
turn in the road he alleges.
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v. r. w. COUNCIL CONVENES
TO MAP CONVENTION POLICIES

of Lourdes Church. will give the
memorial address in honor of vet
Grams of all wars. The local Con-
vention City post of the V. r. w.
composed of J. c. Shortwell, Carlos
Jones, R. w. Alfred and Carl Will
son will sing a selection.
The Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht Of
the Hebrew Congregation will give
the address in honor of Sapnish-
American War veterans. The Rev.
Homer C. Boblett of the Linwood
Christian Church, will speak in
honor of World War veterans.
Mary Traub Brch of the
orchestra will sing "Sleep, Soldier
Boy" The assembly will sing
America and DR.. j. Ambrose
Dunkel, D. D., of the Tabernacle
Presbyterian Church, will pro-
nounce the benediction. Taps by
the National Musicians viii close
the services.
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uS IhN PAOPNANJ VI HAiii iihN - IL -
Zimmerman quit at the re
quest of Judge c. G.. Carlin of
the Steuben-Lagrange Circuit
Court. The judge announced
ne acted to meet public opinion
and to "protect the Republican
party" He is directing "a
probe of the death, and also of
Zimmerman's S unexplained alb
sence from his office from Tues
day until Thursday.
Girl Aid Refuses to Talk
Miss Nellie Coleman, "a, clerk in
the sheriff's Office, who was missing
at the same time as the sheriff, re-
fuses to talk. She said when she
left Tuesday she was going to Chi
cago to attend a wedding, but it has
been learned she did not go to that
city.
Zimmerman supposedly was visit
ing his brother, Otto, at Portland,
but he was not there, and now de-
clares he was at a cottage at Colon,
Mich, a resort town, during his
absence. Zimmerman and Miss
Coleman returned here Thursday
night on the same train.
Russell Eckert, deputy sheriff,
faces hearing today on an assault
and battery charge as result of at
tacks on newspaper men Friday.
Charges we're filed by Michael Field
ing of the Chicago Journal. He was
pushed out door of the sheriff S
Office and the door closed on one Of
his hands. A photographer for the
same paper was also thrown out as
was William H. Hackett, of the FIT.
Wayne NewS-Sentinel.
Some authorities and newspaper
investigators believe Burke really is
Brennan, declaring it has been
known that members of the Chap
man gang had been in northern
Indiana recently. 1t also pointed
out that the slain man under the
name of Bliss obtained automobile
license plates at Muncie. which for
time was headquarters of the
gang.
Charges Frame Pp''
Zimmerman says frame up"
when confronted with the fact that
his revolver was found in Bliss
car, asserting the weapon must
have been stolen from his office.
The car was found in the sheriff's
garage Wednesday as was a trav-
cling bag belonging to the dead
man.
Zimmerman himself was at first
believed the fire death victim,
friends declaring he had been active
in enforcement of the prohibition
law. In some quarters it is be-
lieved the Staying was the result
of a rum runners feud, but among
those believing Burke is Brennan,
this is discredited, it being asserted
Chapman gangsters would not
'lower" themselves to dealing in
liquor.
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Train Carrying More Than 1000 New York
Workers Split Switch While Running
at High Speed in O'clock Rush.
100 INJURED TAKEN TO HOSPITALS
Terror Follows Crash in Darkened Tube When
Light Wiring Burns Out; Two Hours
Taken to Remove Lifeless Victims.
BY MORRIS DEHAVEN TRACY
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Aug. 25.-In the last twenty years millions
have ridden New York's subways.
Thousands have wondered time another, what
sort of tragedy would be should of the great trains
carrying than 1000 persons and running breaknec
speed, be wrecked.
1t happened until Friday night New York still is
dazed and timid
tencar steel train the Inerborough Rapid Transit Com
pany Lots express Brooklyn carrying
200 packed tightly into each wrecked
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could not fall, so firmly we're they
wedged in their places.
There was a hiss and curl of
blue smoke as shcrt-circuited wir-
ing burned out.
Men in the rear cars and those
ahead began smashing windows,
climbing through them. dragging
others after them.
The injured writhed and groaned
in pain.
Along the 200 feet of track be-
tween the broken Stanchion and the
spot where the tangle which had
been a big, steel car finally stopped
there we're injured men and women
and here and there the body OF one
who lived no more.
An arm, a leg-yes, even a sew
cred head-was in that shamble.
Fight Way to Safety
And along it all the hundreds Of
people who escaped uninjured but
shaken with terror, walked, ran
and fought their way back towards
the Times Square station.
Up on the station itself there
had been heard sudden crunch
ing and crashing or twisting,
breaking steel.
Then came the curl of blue
smoke and with it a terrifying
shriek-the frightened shrek of
1000 people.
The crowd surged in the direc"
ton from which the terrifying
sounds and smoke had come, after
the manner of crowds. Then it
turned and fought towards the
exits.
Squad after squad of police and
company after company of fire.
men massed in Times Square and
crowded through the throngs into
the tubes beneath the ground.
A dozen ambu1ances and then
another dozen, whtrled up.
Rescue groups were at work in a
twinkling. Five priests and police,
worked through the panic-stricken
stopping to minister here and there
to those whom they feared might
die.
Ten Blocks ROped OFF
In a moment, it seemed, ten blocks
around Times Square were roped
off. On the sidewalk a first aid
station was in operation.
About 100000 people live in thu
Metropolitan area, which includes
nearby New York and New Jersey
friend or relative who rides a sub
way between 5 and p. m. each day
When these friends or relatives
we're late in their home -comingS tel
ephones began to ring. and until 8
o'clock exchanges worked at a mad
pace to keep up with the flood o,
calls.
BY the theater hour, which IS
$3.50, the closed area around Times
Square, which is the heart of New
York'S life after the sun goes down
was reopened.
Two hours after the accident thC
last of the dead and injured haC
been removed. Then $50 men. with
picks and bars and blow torches
went underground and began cut
ting away the debris of what had
been the eighth car Of the ten-caI
train and the heavy steel stanchior
which it had struck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25

sU UHttCu EFeSS
NEW YORK, Aug. 25-An noon
today Commander Richard E.
Bryd's Antarctic expedition begins
formally when the City of New
York, ice-breaker of 500 tons dis
placement, swings away from its
Hoboken dock and starts down the
bay toward the open sea, carrying
thirty-one members of the expedi-
ton to the coldest and most dan
gerous land in the world. In the
holds of the ship are 200 tons of
supplies vital tc the expedition.
Commander Byrd will stand be-
side Capt. Frederick C. Melville un-
til quarantine is reached. Then the
ship will proceed under the COM
nander's Lieutenant, with only few
perating stops between it and its
arst base. Dunedin, New Zealand,
200 miles from New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
Heads Piano Department

BIZ UHitcd Press
CRAWFORDSVLLE, Ind. Aug.
25.-Merl Maupin, Wabash College
graduate and pianist, will leave here
early in September for Hastings,
Neb., where he has been chosen to
head the piano department at
Hastings College, Maupin has aps
peared with the Charlottesville Mu-
sic Club, He was engaged in Chau.
tauqua work during the summer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
SHIP SINKSj SAVE Il
French Steamer CoIIideS
With Barque.

By United Press
DUNGENESS, England, Aug. 25.
The French steamer Daphne sank
rapidly today after collision with
the German barque Passat.
The twenty-one members of the
crew of the Daphne were rescued.
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Escapes as Train Hits Truck

BU Unitcd Press
BLUFFTON, Ind, Aug. 25.-Mor-
ris Emrick, truck driver, escaped
death when a westbound Cloverleaf
freight train struck his truck at a
crossing north of here. The engine
hit the truck, scooping the body
from the chassis. Enlrick stopped
the chassis a few teet from the
scene Of the crash.
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The wreck occurred in Times
Square, reputed to be the
busiest spot in the world,
at 5 10 p. m.-the hour when
New York s skyscrapers pour
into the streets and send sour
rying to the subway entrances,
thousands upon thousands of
workers.
Early today the best figures avail
able from police and hospitals, re-
corded fourteen killed, four dying
and los so badly injured that they
required hospital treatment.
A report, at least partly con-
firned, says that the switch which
stands just where the lights of the
Times Square Station merge with
the gloom of the tube to the south
of it, had been reported working
badly.
An inspector was sent to look at
~. He tried running an empty
~yrain over it. The train passed with
out trouble. A filled train was
moved slowly across it. Again it
worked we'll.
It was decided the switch would
function long enough to pass the
rush hour traffic before repairs
would be imperative.
Train "Splits Switch"
So S p. m. passed and $40 p. m.
approached.
The downtown express roared into
the station. Hundreds thronged
around it's doors, jostling each other,
talking back at guards, pushing and
showing.
The roar filled the station as the
ten steel cars whirled along the
tracks gathering speed; five, ten
fifteen miles an hour.
The crowd composed of those
who could not get on and the hun
dreds pouring into the station down
every subway entrance. milled about
awaiting Jne neXC Craln.
The New Lots train was just a
twinkle of white and red lights
glowing out of the darkness of the
underground tunnel, when it hit the
switch which stands perhaps block
from the end of the platform
Seven cars passed over it in safety
Then came the eighth. 1t split
the switch"
A hundred feet farther on it
crashed into one of the great
steel pillars which keep the street
above from tumbling in upon the
tunnels.
1000 Persons in Terror
1t sneared off the pillar, tore
loose from the forward seven cars
split itself in two, and while part
of it hurled forward, tossing pas
h. sengers against stanchions onto the
Nrack, under the wheels of the cars
against the sides of the tunnel, and
piling them up in masses on what
was left of the car floor.
Some 200 feet below the stan
chion 1t finally stopped.
Behind, the rear section tele-
scoped into the front of car ano
car 10 and pounded the telescope
home from the rear.
A piercing shrek went up. Mer
fought, but hardly could strike, SC
closely we're they packed one against
another. Women tainted, but they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-25
DEMOCRAT is NAMED
Clay BrittOn Appointed to Post In
Street Commissioners Office.

Charles Grossart, street commis-
sioner, today appointed Clay Britton,
Democratic party worker, as clerk in
the street commissioners Office. The
salary is $1,000 a year. He replaced
Henry Harroll. Republican, who re-
signed,
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TWO CONFESS THEFT
OF MANY CHICKENS
He also steal potted plants and
flowers, the police allege.
Canary Birds FavOrites

Canary birds are his favorites
however, and when the deputies
went to arrest him at his home they
found a flock of them there. He
told Brown and Bell that if they
would be Intent with him he would
give them each canary bird.
Gastetter is said by police to be
a soft spoken person, who walks
with a swagger and dresses i'm
maculately, wearing many dia-
nonds.
His arrest grew out of con-
fession of Basey in which he told
the deputies that Gastetter was his
partner in a daylight chicken raid
at the Gill farm, Sunshine Gardens,
three miles south of the stockyards,
last Tuesday.
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In theAir
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tCompieu toI The Times by Government
Weather Observer H Armington and
Donald Mcconnell Government aeron-
autical observer
Ceiling unlimited; visibility miles;
barometer 50:2l; wind, east, II miles per
hour.
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prisoners will be witnesses when special congressional
committee begins testimony Cleveland Ohio charges of avorism
axy Federal prisons John G.
Ohio chairman committee Others shown
be called witnesses Cd Dorothy Knapp actress
20 Earl Carroll Broadway producers "a Ex-Governor Warren T.
witness
investigation recently from Atlanta prison
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KILLED IN HOTEL FALL
B,y United Press

Chicago Salesman Drops Ten
Stories to Death.
BB United Press
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25.-B. D.
Thomson, so, of Columbus, Ohio, a
salesman for the Mason Fiber Lum-
Der Company of Chicago. was killed
early today when he fell from the
tenth floor Of the Roosevelt Hotel.
according to a report from the AL
legheny County morgue.
Evening star., 1928-06-04
HELEN WILLS WINS
HARD COURT TITLE
Defeats Eileen Bennett at
AuteuiI-Cochet Downs
Lacoste.
BY the Associated Press.

AUTEuIL. France, June 4.-Helen
Wills ef the United States and Henri
Cochet OF France today were crowned
champions in the mems and women's
singles of the International hard court
tennis tournament. Miss Wills defeat
ed Eileen Bennett of England In
straight sets. 6--i, Ga. and Cochet's
final round victory was won over his
countsyman. Rene Lacoste. ST., 6-S,
6--1, 6-3.
Miss Wills triumph here today made
her the women's champion of France
as well as of England and the United
States. 1t was her FIRST tournament
victory at Paris since i024, when she
won In the Olympics.
Cochet now holds two of the three
big national titles-the CHAMPIONSHIPS
OF England and France Lacoste, whom
he beat today with the inspired tennis
to which Henri rises at times, holds
the American crown
Miss Wills won the deciding match,
as she has previous matches In this
tournament, with consummate ease
dropping only three games. two of
which were on her service. In the en-
tire tournament, including the final, she
AVSs but AZ sdiilSS anu never was IUTCe0
TO extra sets.
In the first set OF the match between
La Coste and Cochet games went with
service until they stood at 5-all when
La Coste broke through for the set. The
clash of these two stars of the French
Davis Cup team produced wonderful
tennis.
Cochet. one set down. began In the
second set the intensive attack which
he usually manages To produce when
trailing. Seldom. II ever. has La Coste
done so much running on the courts as
he was forced TO do In this set.
Cochet's victory was something OF an
upset, as La Coste. who holds the cham-
pionship of France and the United
States, was a popular favorite before
the match. Cochet. however, had one
Of his inspired days and played nnheat-
able tennis after dropping the first set
In characteristic manner. In the last
three sets he kept La Coste constantly
on the run With trap shots and sharply
angled returns.