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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
HOOVER SPECIAL
IN NEAR WRECK
Negroes Run Car on Track
in Damages Plot.

By United Press
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 24.-Two Ne
groeS who drove an automobile on to
the tracks in the path of President
Hoover'S special train at Snyder
Station, near New Albany, Ind,
Wednesday night, were under arrest
here today.
The Negroes, Ed Wright, %, and
Charles w. Burlock of Jefferson
vile, Ind, were said to have con-
fessed that they intended to wreck
the automobile to collect insurance,
but that they did not know Presi-
dent Hoover was aboard the train.
The train was delayed eighteen
minutes while secret service oper-
atives questioned the two, who later
were brought here for arraignment.
The charges to be placed against
them, if any, have not been deter
mined.
The Negroes also confessed, &C
cording to federal officers, that after
the car was wrecked they intended
to sue the railroad for damages.
The machine, a sedan, was dis
covered by nearby residents, who
pushed it from the tracks. The
train was then tagged by railroad
detective who had been summoned.
He and a secret service officer ar
rested Wright and Burlock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
Fears Increased

Bu Dnlted Press
HOLLAND, Mich, Oct. 24.-Fears
that the Grand Trunk car ferry
Milwaukee with its crew of fifty
two men, had sunk in Lake Michi-
gan were increased this afternoon
when the Holland Daily Sentinel
learned that a life boat from the
ferry had been found drifting near
Grand Haven.
The boat left Milwaukee for
Grand Haven early Tuesday after
noon shortly before the lake storm
endangered navigation and has not
been heard from since. Captain
Robert Mckay commanded the twin
screw vessel which carried twenty
six cars. The Milwaukee was 33a
feet long with f1fty-one-foot beam.
Captain William Kinkaid and five
other coast guardsmen have not
been heard from since they left
Milwaukee to search for the ferry
and apprehension also was felt for
their safety. The gravel carrier
Andaste was lost near here Sept.
19, with the loss of twenty-seyen
lives and fears are growing hourly
that the Milwaukee met the same
fate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24

'' NEW fff512 Wp'fYi; YORK, Oct. "a
Sales on the Stock Exchange
broke all records today, pass
ing 100000 shares at 1::30
p. m.
The previous record was
made on March 26, when
sales crossed the 100000
mark for the entire day.
Today's total at 1:3O of 1O,171, 300
shares brought the sales to date to
925, 1924 shares for the year. This
amount is greater than any previous
full year in the history of the
Stock Exchange.
The 100000 shares at 130 is on
the basis of a trifle more than A.
100000 shares for a full day.
Prices Are Firm
This statement helped the market
further and at 1:30 prices were firm.
Tickers were nearly two hours late,
116 minutes to be exact. Curb tick
ers were estimated to be 101 minutes
behind the market.
At 1880, steel was 2061z, up 21A
from the previous close and II
points from the carrier low. Cen
eral Motors was at 54, up 4 from
the low; General Electric, 303, up
IA from the low; American Tele-
phone, 268, up 1715 from the low;
Johns Manville, ITO, up Is from the
low; Sears-Roebuck, 1341A, up 1714
from the low, and Westinghouse
Electric, 1841a, up 1914 from it's low
Cotton Also Rallied
Cotton futures also rallied
sharply. Wheat continued to huc-
tuate irregularly over wide range.
Curb stocks also rallied, and bonds
became Steadier.
Trading on the bond market was
at a record pace, sales to l p. m.
amounting to $16,231 900, compared
with $8,572,000 in the same period
Wednesday.
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from behind the wheel and struck
him to the ground. Angry citizens
pounced on him and were ad-
ministering a severe beating before
police restored order.
The aSsailant was picked up
bodily by police and carried to a
nearby police station. He was
bleeding and bruised. His name, he
said was Fernando De Rosa. He
was 81 years old, a student from
Milan, Italy, and said he came to
Brussels from Paris on the night
train, arriving in the Belgian
capital in time to join the celebra-
ton over the announcement of the
engagement.
He told readily of his journey
from Paris and his plans. He de-
clared he wanted to kill Prince
Humbert because he de Rosa) was
anti-fascist and believed in the
principles of the second inter-
rationale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
Girl Is Attacked, Escort
Killed in Roadside
Tragedy.

BN United Press
BOWLING GREEN, KY, Oct. "a.
A heavily armed posse, augmented
by blood hounds, set out today in
pursuit of a Negro who shot and
killed George Spurlock, As, an oil
driller and assaulted and wounded
Miss Ada Price on a road near here
last night.
Miss Price, near death in a hos
pital here today, told officers she
and Spurlock were sitting in the
latter's parked car when the Negro
leaped on the running board and
leveling a gun at them, ordered
them from the machine.
Spurlock resisted and was shot
in the head. The Negro then at
tackled Miss Price and shot her in
the neck.
The two we're found later by
Robert Hardy, 10, and his sister,
Mary of Bowling Green. Young
Hardy called police and the posse
was organized quickly.
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In the automobile of King Albert
of Belgium Prince Humbert had
driven through crowded and cheer
ing lanes to the cenotaph to place
wreath on the tomb of the un-
known soldier The automobile had
come to a stop beside the edif1ce.
The band struck up the Italian ma
tional anthem.
Prince Humbert started to de-
scend from the automobile. Police,
gendarmes and troops stood at at
tention. Few saw the youthful as
sailant slip through the wooden bar
riers surrounding the Unknown Sol
dier'S tomb.
At a distance of about ten yards
the youth drew a revolver and fired
at the prince. The bullet missed
its mark. presumably because OF the
haste of the youth in firing.
Police rushed to surround Prince
Humbert and the royal ca but be-
fore they could seize the youth,
King Albert's chauffeur had leaped
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
BLOODHOUNDS HUNT
NEGRO MURDERER
YO YO Winners

Winners in the semi-finals
of the city-wide Yo Yo contest
sponsored by The Times were
selected Wednesday night in
the contests held at the Rex,
Rivoli, Irving, Belmont and
Ritz theaters.
The First district semi-finals,
the only one remaining, will
be held Saturday afternoon at
the Ritz theater.
The five district winners of
the elimination are:
District No. 2, Joseph John
son, Negro, 9o5 Fayette street;
District No. 8, Richard Din
niger, 145 North Vine street;
District No. 4, Frank Hech-
niger, 40 Kansas street; District
No. 8, George Rennick, 1916
williams street; District No. 6,
Owen Davidson, 1725 Ingram
street.
The district winners will
compete in the final contest
Saturday night. The prize list
includes money, watches and
special Yo Yo's.
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BV Tnifed Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.-Justice
william Hitz gave to the jury today
the bribery case against former In
terror Secretary Albert B. Fall. after
charging the jurors not to allow
their sympathies TO sway their ver-
dict.
The 68-year-old defendant, ac-
companied by his friend, E. L. Do
heny. whose 100000 is charged TO
have bribed Fall to give valuable
oil leases In 1922, has been Ill
throughout the trial. The trial
started Oct. 7. in District of Colurl-
bia supreme court.
Justice Hitz recalled the jurors
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
THREE Die IN WRECK
Passenger Train on L. & N.
Hits Lumber Truck.

Bp United Press
CINCINNATI. Oct. 24.-Three
men were killed and several passen-
gers injured when L. & N. passen-
ger train no. rs ploughed through
a lumber truck near Walton, KY.
today and was wrecked.
The truck was reduced to Splinters
and the impact of the crash sent
the engine, four mail coaches and
the baggage car of the train ca
reening from the rails and into a
field.
Those killed were John English
of Walton, driver of the truck, and
Tom Burns, 35, and Harry Frazier,
As. engineer and fireman, respec-
lively, of the train.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24

-Four killed in five days-be care
ful' was the slogan adopted today
by Police Chief Claude Worley
drafting an intensive campaign tc
reduce traffic hazards in the city
Caught mapping by downpours
Sunday that began a four days
rain of terror, motorists have
skidded and crashed until four are
dead and scores injured. Heavy
night fogs and snow Wednesday
added to, driving dangers.
Entire County Affected
Deputy sheriffs this morning ex-
tended the campaign throughout
Marion county, with lectures in sew
eral schools and formation of plans
for schoolboy patrols similar to
those in the city. Officials of the
Hoosier Motor Club are to confer
with county commissioners to OBJ
tain badges and caps for the youth
full safety guardians.
my first appeal for cautious
driving had little effect" the chief
said. Something must be done,
and I believe a personal warning to
every driver is the only solution of
the problem"
Standard Oil Company and Shell
Gasoline Company filling station
attendants today returned change
to customers with warning:
THANK you. Be careful. -Four
were killed in five days in Indian
apolis."
Theaters Give Warning
Downtown and neighborhood the
aters donated their screens to flash
warnings from the chief to OBJ
serve all rules of caution.
At $50 a. m. Saturday, 100 Boy
Scouts will meet at police head
quarters and receive cards to be dis
tributed in outlying districts, where
many of the serious mishaps have
occurred. They will be presented
to pedestrians whom the scouts see
disobeying safety rules, and will
bear warnings against carelessness.
John Tooley, 81, of 708 Terrace
avenue, suffered injuries to his hips
and legs when struck by a hit-and-
run motorist in safety zone at ILL.,
nois and South streets. He is in city
hospital.
Others injured in crashes were:
John Pointer, 10, 3615 East Walnut
street; Harry Asher, Bicksville, and
George B. Wells, rs, of 618 North
East street.
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Many lives were in peril in
ships on the lakes and it was
feared the Grand Trunk car
ferry Milwaukee had gone
down in Lake Michigan with
a crew of fifty-two men.
After twenty-four- hour search
for the ferry, which left Milwaukee
Tuesday afternoon for Grand
Haven, Mich, Captain C. E. Nc
Laren, in charge of the Grand Trunk
fleet, declared he believed the craft
had sunk with all hands. The ferry
carried a cargo of twenty-six freight
cars.
The steel-hulled sand boat G. w.
Caldwell, out of control on Lake
Erie near bennington, Ontario, late
Wednesday sent out distress signals.
Coast guardsmen had sought vainly
to reach her.
Radio reports said the 600-foot
Robert Hobson was in peril near
Ludington, Mich. Pounding waves
had cracked deck plates and shorn
off riVetS.
Waves were crashing over the
steamer William B. Pilkey, with
thirty-two men aboard, aground on
a reef off Detour Mich, in the ste.
Sault Marie Straits, Wednesday
night.
A great hole in its bottom, the
water-logged steamer Maple Court,
with twenty-five aboard, was
smashing against the rocks Of
Magnetic reef, near Cockburn
island, Lake Huron.
Lake Michigan, which Wednesday
hurled mountainous waves against
hundreds Of miles of shore line, do
ing damage estimated at more than
and disabling craft on its
heaving surface, was quieter today.
Six seamen on the steamer N. J.
Nesson, aground on sand bar near
bennington, Ontario, in Lake Erie,
were believed safe. Eight members
of her crew, including Alice
Humphrey, stewardess, were rescued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
II HOMES WRECKED
Lake Michigan Storm Loss
Put at $5OO,OOO.

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, Oct. "a.
Eleven beach homes in Michigan
City's fashionable summer resort
section have been swept from their
foundations and lie in twisted
heaps as a result of Lake
Michigan storm Tuesday night and
Wednesday.
Miles of concrete pavement along
the shore line have been under
mind.
At the Bartlett resort, west of
here, long gaps have been washed
in the concrete pavement. Boulevard
lamps are strewn along the beach,
and two summer homes have been
reduced to debris.
Three hundred fifty feet of a new
100000 Sheridan beach sewer has
washed out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
KIDNAPPED DETR OITLAD
RESCUED; DETECTIVES
ARREST FOUR OF GANG
Capture Comes as Father
Makes Last Payment of
of $4,000 Ransom Two
Women Held.

Bu United Press
DETROIT, Oct. 24.-Five-year- -old
Jackie Thompson was back in his
home today while police sought ad-
ditional members of the gang which
kidnapped him on Sept. 30, extorting
$4,000 from his father before the
boy was rescued by police Wednes-
day night.
Two men and two women were
being held by police, but detectives
refused to divulge details of their
investigation for fear the informa-
ton might thwart their plans to
capture others in the alleged abduc-
ton gang.
Money Found on Man
The boys father. Henry S.
Thompson, wealthy real estate deal
er, paid the last $4,000 ransom
money to two men Wednesday
night, according to police. In the
pockets of James Fernando, 80, one
of the men arrested, detectives
claimed they found the $4,000. The
other man arrested, Emil Souave,
%, has denied any part in the alb
duction and police believe he was
used only as an innocent decoy by
the kidnapers.
The two women are held for in
vestigation and police said it was
doubtful If charges would be placed
against them.
Thompson likewise refused to dis
cuss the case until detectives have
completed their investigation. The
boy was alone in the Fernando
home when he was found by a police
squad. Souave was arrested in an
other part of the house and Fer
nando captured when he returned
to the home with the $4,000 In his
pockets.
Called Police
The women we're held when they
inquired at police headquarters for
the two men. Thompson is said to
have given two men $1,000 in cash
and four $4,000 notes Wednesday
night. He had been told by tele-
phone to meet the two men at
Grand boulevard and Woodward
They told him to drive to
the Fernando home, where the
money transfer took place. Twenty
later the home was raided.
The boy was wearing the same
clothes ne had on when two men
carried him away from in front of
his home twenty-four days ago. He
was in good health, al
though Mrs. Thompson at one time
was near a nervous breakdown from
worry over his frail condition. The
boy was taken to farm for time,
he said, and had not been mistreat-
ed, although he had been warned
he would be killed If he attempted
to escare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
HE WAS HER BEST FAN
Fiutist When Not Playing Went
to Box, Applauded Singer.

Be- United Press
KANSAS CITY. Mo, Oct. a.
Kansas City music critics today
we're disposed to regard the flute
player who came here as accom-
panist to Florence Austral, Austral-
ian opera star, as a novel sort of
claque.
The critics praised the singers
work, but were amazed at the
flutist, John Amadio, who, when
he was not playing went TO a box
seat and joined the applause by
blowing shrill stacattos on his in
Strument. Amadio is the singers
husband.
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Hourly Temperatures
ONE BURNS TO DEATH AS
FIRE HITS MOVIE STUDIO

said to have been burned critically.
The immense loss was attributed
to the destruction of irreplaceable
negatives upon which major film
companies had lavished hundreds
Of thousands of dollars.
Among the films believed to have
been partially destroyed were "The
Tanning of the Shrew," the first pic
ture co-starring Douglas Fairbanks
and Mary Pickford; "Rio Alta" fea-
turing Bebe Daniels, and "Hell's An
gels" air war picture.
Destruction of the building and
its equipment caused estimated loss
OF over 100000. Two explosions
were said to have preceded the
flames.
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JURY DELIBERATES FATE
OF FALL IN BRIBE CASE

ten minutes after they retired to
explain a point of law. They re-
tired for the second time at 11:45
a. m, after the judge emphasized
that they we're the sole exclusive
judges of the facts"
Justice Hitz took occasion to make
a short speech on government and
its responsibilities and the response
bilities of citizens and jurors after
delivering his formal charge on
points of law.
Doheny may have been innocent
or guilty" of an intent to corrupt
he said, adding that the jury was
not at all concerned with any intent
save that of Fall.
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BIZ United Press
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 24-Fire
swept the Consolidated Film labo-
ratories here today, causing the
death Of at least one person, injur-
ing six others and resulting in dam
age estimated at more than $6,000,-
600.
Al Lund, employed at the labora-
tories, died af burns a few minutes
after he was pulled from the fam
ing building. Police and firemen
said they believed others perished,
but that an accurate check could
not be made for several hours.
. The injured, two Of them women,
were treated at the Hollywood
Emergency hospital. One man was
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
BELIEVE BOLD
FLIER VICTIM
OF ATLANTIC
Little Hope Held Now for
Montana Aviator, Long
Overdue.
RADIO SEARCH FUTILE
Cattle Man, If Lost, Is 28th
to Die in Attempt to
Span Ocean.

BU United Press
NEW YORK, Oct. PA two-day
silence over the north Atlantic left
little doubt today that the life of
Urban F. Diteman Jr., Montana
cattleman, had been sacrificed to
his dream of transoceanic flying.
Nearly two full days have elapsed
since Diteman set out alone from
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, on a
nonstop flight to London. His gas
oline supply. based on the most
generous estimates, certainly must
have been exhausted by noon
Wednesday.
Only the faintest hope was held
that the inexperienced pilot and his
tiny, open-cockpit monoplane, the
Golden Hind, had survived the perlls
of transatlantic flying which al
ready has claimed the lives of
twenty-seven others, all of whom
started the journey with far better
odds of experience and safety equip
ment.
Relatives Hopeful
That faint hope, held by few ex-
cept a faithful wife-mother, and
Diteman'S aged parents, was no
greater than that held for all of the
adventuresome fliers whose names
now are listed in the roll of the
missing. 1t was based mainly on
the possibility that the Golden
Hind, romantically named after the
famous galleon of Sir Francis
Drake. to whom Diteman claimed
kinship. might have been located
by vessel without wireless or land
ed in some out of the way place
where news of its safety could not
be flashed to the outside world i'm
mediately.
The latter possibility, like many
others, was remote because ex-
haustive inquiries by radio and wire
less from the British air admiralty
and officials of LIE Bourget flying
field, Paris, revealed no trace of the
flier along the coasts of the British
isles, the English channel or France.
Gas at Greenland
Another hope was raised WedneS-
day night by news that Diteman
two months ago had ordered sup
ply of gasoline stored at Julian
Shaab, Greenland. Belief that the
Gold Kinds pilot might have land
ed there was refuted mainly by the
letter he left behind at Harbour
Grace in which he said he was
bound for London" and estimated
his fuel supply on the basis of a
nonstop flight.
The lights at Croydon airport,
London, were kept on all night, but
aviation officials there held no hope
that the Golden Hind ever would be
seen again.
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Letter May Explain

BB United Press
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Oct.
PA letter written by Urban F.
Diteman Jr., to his wife in Billings,
Mont, before he started on a lone
fight to London Tuesday, may re-
veal the true story and purpose be-
hind the cattleman's futile and
apparently tragic attempt to span
the Atlantic.
The letter was left by the flier
with his associate and confidante,
Herman Archibald of Harbour Grace
with instructions that 1t be mailed
today, two days after his departure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
SCHOOL. EMPLOYE HURT
Shortridge Custodian Falls Fifteen
Feet Through Skylight.

John Cahill, SIS, Of 1543 Fletcher
avenue, Shortridge high school GUS
todian, was injured critically today
when he fell through a skylight at
the school while working on the
building roof. Cahill fell fifteen
feet, suffering probable skull frac-
ture and severe face and head cuts.
He was taken to the city hospital.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
CROWN PRINCE HUMBERT
TARGET OF ANTI-FASCIST
SLAP DRY AMENDMENT 7
Legality of Prohibition Statute
ASSailed by Two.

NEW YORK, Oct. PA claim
that the eighteenth amendment is
not a part of the United States
Constitution and violates other sec
tions of that document was made in
a letter to George w. Wickersham,
chairman of President Hoover's law
enforcement committee, from John
S. Wise Jr. and Charles Hall Davis
of Petersburg, Va.
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FIND WRECKAGE Of RAILROAD
FERRY IN LAKE MICHIGAN;
FEAR CREW OF 81 MEN LOST
Coast Guardsmen Report Discovery Of
Flotsam; Ship, Missing Since Tuesday,
Ran Into Teeth of Fierce Gale
OTHER STEAMERS ARE IN DISTRESS
Official of Fleet Expresses Belief That
Freighter Milwaukee Sunk With All Hands;
Portions Of Boat Found at Holland

United
RACINE, Wis, Oct. 24-The coast guard station here
received report today from two of guardsmen
that wreckage of the ferry steamship Milwaukee missing
since Tuesday night had been found.
The wreckage was reported found ten miles east of
Wind Point lighthouse which one mile north of Racine
The wreckage found consisted of a cabin, mattresses
and several white life boats bearing marks The coast
guard here Communicated tug boat and started for the
scene to identify, if possible, the bits of fotsam
CHICAGO, Oct. 24.-The middle west shvered in SUBJ
freezing weather today while the great lakes still tossed un
der gales and hid the fate of at least ffty-two men,
Northwest winds forced temperatures to record low
levels for late October prairie and lake states which
Wednesday and Tuesday night swept by seet snow
and chill, rain-laden Winds
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-24
STEEPLEJACKS KILLED
Four Fall 1853 Feet From Water


Four Fail 168 Feet From Water
Tank While Painting.
WINONA, Mimi, Oct. 24.-Four
steeplejack painters were killed here
today when they fell 1853 feet from
the top of the city water tank as the
steel ladder, on which they were
standing, snapped.
The dead: F. L. Taylor, 80, Grin
nell, Ia; Wayne r. Witzel, "a,
Wyneet, Okla; Fred Compton, %,
Wintset, Ia, and Harry Ellis, 81,
Laplata, Mo.
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Suicide Borrowed Weapon

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Oct. a.
A note tied to a revolver with which
Sherman Walters, SO, killed himself,
directed that the weapon be re-
turned to Martin McCoskey, from
whom he had borrowed it. Worry
over financial matters is believed to
have caused the suicide.
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Rumor Unfounded

Ru United Press
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland. Oct.
PA vague rumor that wreckage
resembling that of the missing
plane Golden Hind had been
sighted at sea appeared on investi-
CATION today to be entirely without
foundation.